God Knows Me
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What do I want them to know? God is personally omniscience
Why? It shows us we are fully known and loved
What do I want them to do? Believe and trust God
Why? We receive love
Feel? Loved
ME
This pass Monday I had the blessing and privilege in an event that my sons school put on for dads, called “Donuts with Dad”
As you might expect it is an event where you go to school before school starts to EAT DONUTS with your dad or father figure, which already is an awesome thing to do, I love my kids and like donuts, (it’s a good combination) and they also had games and gifts, this is all done to foster the relationships kids have with their dad or father figure.
This was great and they icing on the cake of the donut was not that I had donuts with my two sons or that we played games or that we received gifts…the best part of the day was at the end when our kids gave us a sheet a paper they filled out about their dad.
These sheets are have humor in them, encouragement in them and things I need to work on in them.
And I brought those today.
Let’s read a couple of the things they said.
You read their answers and it is funny, encouraging that you are doing a decent job as a parent, and it’s heart warming
Why is it heart warming?
Because I see that my kids know me (not perfectly) and love me.
THIS IS ONE OF THE GREATEST DESIRES OF HUMANITY
To be fully known (know every part of us) and fully loved
This is what we look for in a spouse...
We want someone to fully know us and love us as much as humanly possible
This is more important than marrying someone with a BIG BANK ACCOUNT and PERFECT body.
What does it matter if they can BUY you things (often you need to but the things for yourself because they don’t know you) but not know you or care about you??
AT FIRST IT MIGHT BE AWESOME (LOOK AT MY CAR, MY HOUSE, MY THINGS)
BUT IT IS HOLLOW BECAUSE WHAT YOU WANT MORE THAN THINGS IS TO BE KNOW AND LOVED.
ONE OF THE DEEPEST DESIRES OF THE HUMANITY (MORE THAN MONEY AND FAME) IS TO BE FULLY KNOW AND FULLY LOVED
This is what we look for in friendships, relationships, and marriage.
TENSION
BUT THE REALITY, what I am about to say it is not to downplay what we desire from friendships and marriage but to show the right perspective we are to have with relationships.
The question before us is can any human being fully 100% know us and fully love us?
NO
What does a wife say at times about her husband? “I wish he would understand me.”
What does a husband at times say about his wife “I wish she would understand me.”
What does a child say at times about their parents “You do not not know me or understand me”
The reality of our humanness is were are fallible, we are not perfect.
We cannot FULLY KNOW SOMEONE, NOR FULLY LOVE SOMEONE, even though try, even the best of us.
And we should seek to fully know and love our spouses and children and friends
Also, this is good to know if you place this expectation on your friend or spouse you are setting them up for failure and you for heart break.
I have seen this over and over
And experienced it when I put this on someone
What do we do with this desire to be fully known and fully loved that is somewhat fulfilled by friends and spouses
Is there a place we can go or person we can go to who fully knows us and loves us?
YES
WHERE DO WE GO?
GOD
GOD IS THE ONE WHO FULLY KNOWS US AND LOVES US
Last week we learned about the OMNISCIECNE OF GOD
What’s God’s omniscience?
God is omniscient. He knows everything: everything possible, everything actual; all events, all creatures, God the past, the present and the future. He is perfectly acquainted with every detail in the life of every being in heaven, in earth and in hell. Nothing escapes Hs notice, nothing can be hidden from Him, nothing is forgotten by Him. Well may we say with the Psalmist, "Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it" (Ps. 139:6). His knowledge is perfect. He never errs, never changes, never overlooks anything.....and as Tozer says God needs no teachers
God does not just everything out there (the number of stars, the truth about scientific theory, how were the Pyramids built) , He also knows you and loves you more than you know and love yourself.
THIS TRUTH, THIS REALITY IS WHAT EXPLODES DAVID’S HEART FOR JOY in PSALM 139
David is overwhelmed by the omniscience of God who loves Him and knows Him.
Look at what David says about this thought
This is why David says in Ps 139:6
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it.
Let’s read why David says about the omniscience of God and why David’s heart is overwhelmed with JOY because of God’s omniscience
Before we read several verses of this Psalm there are two things to point out.
1. The word YOU is in the EMPATIC… In the 10 verse we are going to read 12 times David says YOU…its more like YOU! love me You care about me YOU are awesome
David is praising THE LORD
2. Three times the Word YADA which means to fully know
The theme is
YOU! know me
Let’s read
O Lord, you have searched me and known me!
YOU
This word search means to investigate.
God has investigated everything about you and knows everything about you.
There is not a thing God does not know about you
He knows how many hairs on your head
Why, even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not; you are of more value than many sparrows.
87,231
No, 87,230 you just lost 1
He knows your heart beat right now and what it was 10 days ago at this same time.
123 days ago it was high because she walked in the room or he said I love you.
Computer servers and hard drives HAVE nothing on God
God knows everything about you
Then he further expounds on this in the Psalm
David wants to further explain what this means.
I want to spell this out for us.
I want to show you what this means
You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar.
You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways.
Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.
YOU
What’s is David saying?
God you know my MOVEMENTS and My Thoughts
You know my movements
You know when I wake up, you know when I sleep, you know when I eat.
There is never a moment that God does not know where you are at or where you are going?
Past, present, future.
You cannot take God for a drive on a surprise trip like I do with my sons to “ice cream”
God you are never guess where I am going to go, even if you take the roundabout way to get there.
Not only do you know my MOVEMENTS you know my thoughts
You know what I am thinking,
YOU KNOW WHAT’S ON MY MIND
SOMETIMES THIS IS WHAT WE WANT FROM OUR SPOUSES AND FRIENDS.
I wish he knew what I was thinking and needing, I wish I did not have to spell it out for them.
God news is God knows what you are thinking and what you are needing. He knows it
Matt 6:8 says He knows what we are going to ask Him in prayer before we ask Him.
Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
God is not going to say I didn’t know you needed that. that surprised me
YOU’RE NOT GOING TO OPEN YOUR MOUTH AND GOD SAY “I DIDN’T KNOW YOU THOUGHT THAT”
GOOD NEWS THAT THE GOD WHO KNOW YOUR THOUGHT IS A LOVING DAD NOT A WITHHOLDING
And He is a loving dad not a withholding dad
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.
Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?
Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent?
If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
God knows us and gives us what we need when we ask.
In His timing
Sometimes this hard because we want our prayer fulfilled now.
high paying job now
healing now
spouse now
the list goes on
This is the prayer I prayed
for most of 20’s for a wife, God please give me a wife, lead me to a wife…and for most of my 20’s the answer was NOT YET…God’s answer was keep waiting, I have someone for you, someone you will not meet until you are in your late 20’s
But God my friends are getting married!?!
Why
I didn’t know why at the time
God’s ways are not my ways
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.
Then finally in my late 20’s God brings this woman into my life…that is a Prov 31 woman who is
An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.
God knew my desires, knew what I wanted, God knew my thoughts,
God provided FAR MORE ABUNDANTLY
GOD KNOWS YOUR THOUGHTS YOUR STRUGGLES AND YOUR NEEDS
God is the omniscience God who know everything about me, knows my movements, my thoughts, and loves me
Not only that
David says God YOU
You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it.
You hem me, the Hebrew word means you set up a barricade around me.
Your omniscience is so great that you know when my enemies are coming
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.
David you protect, your omniscience knowing what others do protects me.
- David knows this so well because he was a man who ran for a lot his life from enemies
And you protect me.
IF GOD WANTS ME ALIVE, NOTHING MAN CAN DO TO CHANGE THAT.
GOD PROTECTS US
WE HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH GOD PROTECTS US BECAUSE WE DO NOT ALWAYS SEE.
THE THAT ALMOST HAPPENED MOMENTS
Even when it seems like the enemy gets in we know as Joseph said and Romans 8:28 says
As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
David is saying God you PROTECT ME, YOU know my enemies
YOU KNOW my thoughts
YOU know my movements
You know everything about me
YOU KNOW ME AND LOVE ME THAT I AM FEARFULLY AND WONDERFULLY MADE
Then in in Ps 139:13-16
For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.
My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
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.
What is David saying?
David is saying God, YOU, formed me and made me when I was in my mothers womb, a was a person then.
Side note God says life begins at conceptoin, that what is inside of a woman’s body is not her body but a another body.
David is saying God you knew me and formed me in my mother’s womb..
David did not need to be born that God knew him
God wasn’t suprised who your mom would birth, God was with you in the womb.
even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love
God knew you before your parents knew you
What an amazing God!
The most beautiful thing is this and it is going to start off as a bad story that ends WONDERFULLY
God knows us so well that he also knows something else about us, He knows, that all over
HE KNOWS US AND LOVES US SO MUCH THAT HE SAVES US
He knows and loves us so well that without a Savior we are destined for hell, separated from God, will experience the wrath of God.
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
What God knows about you and knows about me, because of His omniscience is that we all fall short of the glory of God....he knows every sin we have committed.....we canont hide or cover it up from God…many people have tried, Adam and Eve hid, , David tries to cover up an affair that then leads to murder
God knows everything about everything we have done…we cannot hid from God.
This should cause fear
Why?
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Good News, the story does not end there…the God who knows everything about us LOVE US MORE THAN EVER DREAMED, HOPED or IMGAINED
but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
MEGA LOVE, GOD knows everything about you, came from heaven to earth to save you, redeem, rescue, adopt you,
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.
Come believe
Come be strengthen
I have an announcement to make that Katie Kerr Renew’s worship leader is feeling led by the Spirit, called to step down from leading us in worship and leading the worship team.
She will be missed she has led us in worship through much of this pandemic and has led us many times in the presence of God. For this we are grateful and blessed that you have blessed us with your gifting and heart.
- We will miss you and we know God’s timing and ways are best both for Katie and Renew.
- She will be around here for a couple more weeks with her last day being October 31.