Transcript The All-knowing and All

The All-knowing
And All-Seeing
God
Ps. 139:1-18
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• This Psalm is a marvelous
tribute to God
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•I. The All-knowing
God (Omniscient)
Verses 1-6
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Verses 1-3
• [1] O LORD, thou hast
searched me, and known me.
[2] Thou knowest my
downsitting and mine uprising,
thou understandest my
thought afar off…
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• [3] Thou compassest
(comprehend –NKJV) my path
and my lying down, and art
acquainted with all my ways.
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• How many times do you sit
down and get up in one day?
• God knows!
• God knew the writers
meditations when lying in bed
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Verses 4-6
• [4] For there is not a word in
my tongue, but, lo, O LORD,
thou knowest it altogether.
[5]Thou hast beset me behind
and before, and laid thine
hand upon me…
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• [6] Such knowledge is too
wonderful for me; it is high, I
cannot attain unto it.
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• Not only does God know when
we sit down and when we get
up – He also knows every
word we speak
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Col. 4:6
• Let your speech be alway with
grace, seasoned with salt, that
ye may know how ye ought to
answer every man.
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Col. 4:6 (ESV)
• Let your speech always be
gracious, seasoned with salt,
so that you may know how you
ought to answer each person.
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• Verse 6 refers to the
knowledge of God
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Is. 55:8-9
• For my thoughts are not your
thoughts, neither are your ways
my ways, saith the LORD. For as
the heavens are higher than the
earth, so are my ways higher
than your ways, and my thoughts
than your thoughts.
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•II. God is every
where present
(Omnipresent)
verses 7-12
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Verses 7-10
• [7] Whither shall I go from thy
spirit? or whither shall I flee
from thy presence?[8] If I
ascend up into heaven, thou
art there: if I make my bed in
hell, behold, thou art there.
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• [9] If I take the wings of the
morning, and dwell in the
uttermost parts of the sea. [10]
Even there shall thy hand lead
me, and thy right hand shall
hold me.
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• You cannot elude nor evade
God – His is a limitless
presence
• Even the remotest parts of the
universe are under His allseeing eye
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• Jonah tried to run from God
but failed
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Heb. 4:13
• Neither is there any creature
that is not manifest in his sight:
but all things are naked and
opened unto the eyes of him
with whom we have to do.
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• There is no getting away from
God’s Spirit – even those who
are in Hades are not hidden
from God
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Verses 11-12
• [11] If I say, Surely the darkness
shall cover me; even the night
shall be light about me.[12] Yea,
the darkness hideth not from
thee; but the night shineth as the
day: the darkness and the light
are both alike to thee.
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• The darkest night earth has
ever known cannot hide the
one who tries to run away from
God
• Darkness makes man almost
helpless – but has no effect
upon God
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Jer. 23:23-24
• [23] Am I a God at hand, saith
the LORD, and not a God afar
off? [24] Can any hide himself
in secret places that I shall not
see him? saith the LORD. Do
not I fill heaven and earth?
saith the LORD.
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•III. God – The
Great Searcher
and Knower
Verses 13-18
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Verses 13-15
• [13] For thou hast possessed my
reins: thou hast covered me in
my mother's womb.
• [14] I will praise thee; for I am
fearfully and wonderfully made:
marvellous are thy works; and
that my soul knoweth right well…
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• [15] My substance was not hid
from thee, when I was made in
secret, and curiously wrought
in the lowest parts of the earth.
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Verse 13 from NKJV
• For You formed my inward
parts; You covered me in my
mother’s womb.
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• The Psalmist says “God
‘formed my inward parts’
• The writer knew he was a
human being while he was a
fetus in his mother’s womb!
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• Man says that man evolved
• The Bible says God made man
• Gen. 1-2
• Mt. 19:4-5
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• While man’s view of many
things in life is very limited --God’s eye was upon the one
who wrote Ps. 139 (most likely
David) from conception
onward
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• In verse 16 “curiously wrought”
in the KJV means literally
“embroidered”
• God’s handiwork in designing
man was beautiful and precise
The average person performs each
of the following in a day of 24 hours
• Your heart beats 103,689 times
• You breathe 23,040 times
• You eat between 3 and 4 pounds
of food and drink 3 quarts of
liquid – and perspire about 2
pints through your skin
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• Men speak about 4800 words
• You move over 700 muscles
and use 7,000,000 brain cells
• --- And walk 7 miles (women
only) in the home
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• If your are a Christian –this
body as described above,
belongs to God (Rom. 12:1-2)
• Adapted --- Author unknown
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Verse 16
• [16] Thine eyes did see my
substance, yet being
unperfect; and in thy book all
my members were written,
which in continuance were
fashioned, when as yet there
was none of them
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• “From the time that conception
occurred and even before the
fetus began to take definite
shape and form God saw
David and knew exactly what
he ultimately was to be.”
Robert R. Taylor
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Verses 17-18
• [17] How precious also are thy
thoughts unto me, O God! how
great is the sum of them!
[18] If I should count them,
they are more in number than
the sand: when I awake, I am
still with thee.
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• All of God’s thoughts were
precious to the Psalmist and
should be precious to you and
me
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• These great characteristics of
God are marvelous – on these
we can and should hang our
very lives