The All-Comforting God

Introduction

Greetings…

From time to time, it is important to be reminded of “The All-Sufficient God” whom we are here to worship.

Why be reminded of our God’s omniscience, omnipresence, and omnipotence?

Because we should be comforted in such every day.

So then, how are we to be comforted by knowing these things?

Well, we should find comfort in…

God’s Omniscience

He Knows All About Us.

The God whom you and I are here to worship today knows every possible thing about us.

Psalm 139:1–3 ESV

1 O Lord, you have searched me and known me! 2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. 3 You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways.

Psalm 139:4–6 ESV

4 Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether. 5 You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it.

Summary

Our God, who created and developed us in our mother’s womb (Job 10:11), knows us best.

It’s not hard to reason that if God knows us best, we should listen to him.

Not only should we find great comfort in God’s omniscience but also in…

God’s Omnipresence

He Is Always With Us.

The God whom you and I are here to worship today not only knows every possible thing about us but is also always with us.

Psalm 139:7–9 ESV

7 Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence? 8 If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there! 9 If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,

Psalm 139:10–12 ESV

10 even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me. 11 If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night,” 12 even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you.

Summary

Our God is always with us, his faithful children, know matter the situation we find ourselves in while living faithfully for him.

Hebrews 13:5 ESV

5 Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”

Not only should we find great comfort in God’s omniscience and omnipresence but also in…

God’s Omnipotence

He Can Do All Things For Us.

When I say God “can do all things for us” I’m not suggesting God can “do anything.”

This is a very common misconception among those that believe in God and put there faith in him.

This is also a trap many fall into when studying with atheists who say things like, “if God can do anything than can he create a rock too heavy for him to lift” or something of the sort.

The reality is “God cannot do some things” like…

Sin, God cannot sin (Hebrews 6:18).

Be illogical (1 Corinthians 14:33).

So is do I mean by saying that God’s omnipotence means he can do all things for us.

By that I mean God has given each us everything we need to live godly lives.

It started with giving us life, continued with watching over us, and completed in giving us all things that pertain to life and godliness (2 Peter 1:3) to make us complete in body, soul, and spirit (2 Timothy 3:16-17).

Psalm 139:13–15 ESV

13 For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. 14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.

Psalm 139:16–18 ESV

16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them. 17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! 18 If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with you.

Psalm 139:19–21 ESV

19 Oh that you would slay the wicked, O God! O men of blood, depart from me! 20 They speak against you with malicious intent; your enemies take your name in vain. 21 Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord? And do I not loathe those who rise up against you?

Psalm 139:22–24 ESV

22 I hate them with complete hatred; I count them my enemies. 23 Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! 24 And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!

Summary

Thanks be to God that he will supply our every need.

Philippians 4:19 ESV

19 And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Conclusion

The God whom you and I are here today to worship is “our God” who knows us best, is always with us, and can do everything for us that we need to inherit the kingdom of heaven.

Let us stay faithful and true to our All-Sufficient God.

Invitation

Isaiah 59:1–2 ESV

1 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; 2 but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.

Philippians 2:6–7 ESV

6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.

Romans 10:17 ESV

17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

Hebrews 11:6 ESV

6 And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

Acts 17:30 ESV

30 The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent,

Matthew 10:32 NKJV

32 “Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven.

2 Thessalonians 1:8 ESV

8 in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

1 Corinthians 15:1–4 ESV

1 Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, 2 and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. 3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,

Romans 6:3–5 ESV

3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.

1 John 1:7 ESV

7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.