The Omniscience of God

God sees what no man can see God sees through walls sees through the outward façade. God sees through the mass that we wear.

God sees the things that are done in darkness.

God sees into the depths of the human heart and we were studying with theologians call the incommunicable attributes of God. Those aspects of his being which we as humans do not possess. For example, God is omnipresent was no place were we can hide from his omnipotent all-powerful in the Scriptures tell us he is acquainted with all our ways and even numbers.

The hairs on our let's learn more about the fact that the God we worship is on different is all-knowing. This is another staggering truth about God that makes him incomprehensible to us really. We understand what this means, but the magnitude of this is overwhelming to us that there is nothing that God does not know about his truth, we mean that God possesses all knowledge in his mind he possesses infinite knowledge of the past, the present and the future.

God never learns anything. He certainly never learned anything from us. Nothing new ever enters God's mind. Nothing ever suddenly dawns on God. Nothing ever catches him off guard. God never has a eureka moment, he knows all things in advance.

He knows what we will say before we even say it. He knows all things eternally, perfectly, immediately, comprehensively. This is the omniscience of God as we consider this I want to lay this out in eight headings, don't think eight headings will be short.

But we want to consider something of the height and the depth and the breadth and the length of the omniscience of God.

First of all when we say the omniscience of God. He has perfect self knowledge. God knows himself perfectly. He knows himself intimately and within the Godhead. The father knows the son and the son knows the father perfectly. In Matthew 11 verse 27 Jesus says no one knows the son except the father, nor does anyone know the father except the son and anyone to whom the son wills to reveal him within the Trinity. There is this perfect knowledge. One of the other and it speaks to the unity the perfect unity that exists within the Godhead. In John 10 verse 15 Jesus makes this simple statement.

The father knows me and I know the father that there are no gaps in their understanding of each other. Sometimes I fail to say things to my wife that I should communicate, but don't end there can be gaps of information. Sometimes I know something that I haven't told her. She knows something that she has not told me. And therefore we can at times pull against one another and making plans, little realizing what were doing. The father knows the son and the son knows the father and it speaks to the perfect harmony and unity that exists as they carry out their administration over all of the affairs of Providence.

There are no gaps in their understanding with what one is doing while the other is doing this in their distinction of roles first print is to verse 11 says the thoughts of God. No one knows except the spirit of God. No one really knows the depths of what God knows except the spirit and except the son so would begin at this.

Profound entry level into omniscience that they know each other perfectly. Second, they have perfect knowledge. Not only does God know himself perfectly, but he knows all things outside of himself perfectly. God knows everything accurately as it really is. God never miss reads a situation there's never a misperception with God, Job 37 verse 16 speaks of God is perfect in knowledge, did you get that perfect in knowledge. Psalm 147 verse five. His understanding is infinite.

There is no limit to the understanding the perfection of God's understanding. He knows everything perfectly, infinitely, first John 15. God is light and in him there is no darkness at all.

One that speaks to his holiness to that also speaks to his omniscience for light is a metaphor used in the Scripture of knowledge there is no darkness in the knowledge of God. What a comfort this should be two of us as we trust God with the affairs of our lives that God knows what's around the corner. God sees what I don't see God knows the best answer to the prayers that I bring before him. God takes everything into account. As I lay before him. My petitions in my request.

We can even say praise God for unanswered prayer.

Think about the printers that you and I have prayed, little realizing what God knows and what lies around the corner.

But God knew and God protected us from ourselves because he has perfect knowledge. Third, he has eternal knowledge that is to say, everything that God knows which is everything he has known from before the foundation of the world.

There has not been a succession of acquired knowledge by God along the way you and I started off in kindergarten we receive some knowledge then we moved up to first grade received a little more knowledge, second, third, it built it kept escalating upward. Now, with God. God has always known everything from before the foundation of the world. Isaiah 46 verses nine through 10 of Artie read it in an earlier session, but so many of these verses speak to various attributes of God, and it shows how overlapping many of these character qualities of God are remember the former things long past, for I am God and there is no other. I am God and there is no one like me know what defines God as saying there is no one like me. What sets God apart as God that there is no one like him or there's a sense in which each of these attributes set God apart that there is no one like him but what follows. Now in the next verse. Specifically, in this context sets God apart from us as being totally different from what we are. I am God and there is no one like me now here it is declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times those things which have not been done.

God can stand at the beginning and does stand at the beginning and has stood at the beginning and looks all the way to the into the very in and declares what the end will be. And by implication and everything in between. If you can declare the end, you know everything that leads up to the end and all of this from the beginning. All of this from ancient times, what confidence we should have in our God that he has known all that he knows from eternity past fourth it is immediate knowledge. By that we mean that God knows everything simultaneously. He knows everything immediately or he knows everything at once and never has to calculate something to discover.

The bottom line. Parity knows the bottom line. Parity knows everything. He knows the whole process. He knows the end he knows the means to the end and he knows the end all it wants.

He never forgets something and then remembers he never adds to his knowledge, there is nothing ever subtracted from his knowledge. He does not know some things better than other things. He knows everything perfectly, immediately, eternally.

Romans 11 verses 33 and following.

We keep siding this text is kind of a one-size-fits-all texted addresses virtually every attribute of God seems to one wire another 11 verses like this O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God.

It's a bottomless depth.

The knowledge of God, how unsearchable are his judgments, unfathomable his ways for who is known the mind of the Lord is another rhetorical question. The answer is not you or me, not anyone or who became his counselor who knew something that God didn't know that needed to instruct God that needed to counsel God that needed to give God insight into something that God did not previously have the answer is no one poor who is first given to him that it might be paid back to him again interest, no one, no one is ever been God's informant. No one is ever brought a report to the throne of grace that he needed to receive this information, that he did not already have God as a know it all child knows everything. Isaiah 40 verse 13 who has directed the Spirit of the Lord is his counselor has informed him, with whom did he consultant who gave him understanding. Again, these are all rhetorical questions bagging the answer. No one in who taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge taught him knowledge and informed him of the way of understanding this will revolutionize our prayer life.

When we pray to God we're not informing him of what's going on down here as though he did not know he's been preoccupied with some other matters and and now he's ready to attend to us. This is our moment to come before the throne of grace and we are giving insider information now to God.

Now we don't have to pray that way because God already knows it all. Fifth, it's exhaustive knowledge, which is to say, God knows everything down to the smallest detail God numbers and names all of the stars, the number of which is incalculable.

He numbers every hair upon our heads. Not even a sparrow falls apart from the Lord's knowledge, he sees all the actions of men in every place he views all the paths that we trod the works that we accomplish. God sees it all. I've quoted AW toes you're a couple of times. Let me quote him one more time. God knows all that can be known.

God knows all causes all thoughts all mysteries all enigmas, all feeling, all desires every un-uttered secret because God knows all things perfectly. He knows no thing better than any other thing but all things equally well. He never discovers anything.

He is never surprised he is never amazed by what he learns because he never learns he already knows you can't learn what you Artie know, despite what your wife may tell you.

Psalm 33 beginning in verse 13 the Lord looks from heaven he sees all the sons of men from his dwelling place.

He looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth. He who fashions the hearts of them all. He who understands all their works and understands their works. He understands their part in their motives and their ambitions behind their works. He sees it all.

Psalm 147 verse four he counts the number of the stars. He gives names to all that's impossible for us. Proverbs 521 for the ways of the Manor before the eyes of the Lord. He watches all his paths. Psalm 15 verse three the eyes of the Lord are in every place. Watching the evil and the good, how exhaustive is the knowledge of God. Every minute detail.

Again, this is comforting.

It is convicting. It is comforting and that he knows me and my heart and even when others misunderstand me, and there is a mistaken perception about me. God knows the truth that is encouraging. But that's also very convicting as well because other times men think more highly of us than we ought to think God knows the truth.

Six. His knowledge is penetrating God sees what no man can see God sees through walls. God sees through the outward façade.

God sees through the mass that we wear. God sees the things that are done in darkness. God sees into the depths of the human heart.

God knows the motives God knows what is truly there. Of course, first Samuel 16 seven man looks on the outward appearance, but God looks on the heart of God does see the outward appearance, but God plunges yet deeper God sees into the secret places of our heart.

God sees it.

All he knows it all. In fact, it could be said not only does he see into us. He sees through us. He sees us so perfectly.

Perhaps the signature text of all of this is Psalm 139 Asam which we've already quoted is one of these Omni sometimes but the first four verses that they just so stand out. Listen to these verses the whole Lord you have searched me and known me this word searched was used of the spies going into the promised land to search it out firsthand to have their hands upon the terrain and to look into come back and to give a report.

So God has explored every little niche within us as word search means to spy out it means to dig deeply into a matter the ideas to explore a country. For example, God has searched me and known me.

This also speaks highly of his love for us in that he knows the worst about us and still loves us, sometimes when I'm criticized as a pastor. Yes, sometimes it does happen in the ministry. II really have the thought. I'm glad they don't know anymore. This type anymore. They would really be upset with me. I'm glad that's as far as you go okay but God is search this out. He knows the worst about us.

He knows our secret thoughts. He knows our selfishness. He knows our ego and yet he is set his eternal love upon us and it is blazing and it will never be extinguished and many waters shall not drown it out. You have searched me and known me, you know when I sit down this word for no means to know intimately is a word that usually the relationship between a husband and wife and their intimate physical relationship. It says intimate and closes it can possibly beat the psalmist. David says you know you know me intimately and personally up close. When I sit down and when I rise up. Now that's a figure of speech a way of saying the entirety of my life when I sit and when I rise up is like saying preach the word in season and out of season, but there's no other season. I mean, it just means always preach the word of God in season and out of season or not. Another category is there. You know me perfectly when I sit down and when I rise up, you know, the whole of my life. You understand my thoughts from afar got even upon your throne in heaven. You peer with penetrating insight and knowledge into the depths of my soul in my life.

He goes on to say, you scrutinize my path toward scrutinize is the word that means to sift through something to separate out to sift through and separate out the wheat from the tares. The good from the bad the temporal from the eternal God is able to sift through and scrutinize the entire at T of my life since you scrutinize my path and my lying down. When I sit and when I rise up when I lie down. I think that covers all the categories unless we can fly and you are instantly acquainted with all my ways. Even before there is a word on my tongue. The whole Lord you know it all's amazing thing.

Nobody knows me like this I would be uncomfortable for anyone to know me like this, you would love me from afar, but if you got too close. There's plenty of flaws within me.

This would make any of us uncomfortable to be known like this by another person on the earth.

Yet this is exactly how God knows us perfectly. Psalm 139 verse 12. Even the darkness is not dark to you in the night is as bright as the day God can see even in the dark is pretty good as need to give you the last two categories, knows the future. He has future knowledge, you would understand that. Of course the entire second half the book of Isaiah is just to compare the dumb idols who know nothing, and God is sees the future and the test of the one true God is that he can predict the future, knows the future, and a reason God knows the future is because God has foreordained the future and then finally possible knowledge God even knows what possibly could happen if another path had been taken in the text. I want you to hear his Matthew 11 2123 says, what would you cores and woe unto you, Bethsaida. For if the miracles had occurred in Tyre and Sidon had occurred in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes process that verse.

If the miracles that happen over there that it happened here, they would have repented long ago but it was not God's sovereign will that they happen. God knows not only the reality of what there is, but also the possibility of other things I need to bring this to a close. Our God is on vastly more so since Dr. Steven Morrison teaching on God's omniscience listening to Renewing Your Mind on this Tuesday. Thank you for being with us. We web know I continue to be fascinated by the Apollo 11 mission.

The fact that more than 51 years ago. Neil Armstrong took one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind. It took some smart people to figure out a make that happen. But one thing is clear.

There were plenty of failures before there was success but think about this when God created the universe. There were no failures. He didn't have to go back to the drawing board.

That's because God is all-knowing. His design was perfect. This and other aspects of God's being causes to stand in all of him to worship him. That's why we like to send you Dr. Lawson series the attributes of God in 16 messages. It shows us how God has revealed himself to us in Scripture. Dr. Lawson's latest book is also part of this offer is titled show me your glory.

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We read that he spoke the world existence proof that he is all-powerful God's omnipotence will be our focus tomorrow. One. Renewing Your Mind and we hope you'll join us