God knows all things.

He is omniscient. 

He has foreknowledge. 

He knows the outcome of the plan He is working on for the universe.

Hebrews 4:13   "And there is  no creature hidden from His sight,  but all things are naked  and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account."

God knows everything about His universe  -  to the smallest detail.

He counts the stars and He calls each star by name.

Psalm 147:4   "He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names."

He numbers the very hairs on our heads.

Matthew 10:30 "But the very hairs of your head are all numbered."

God knows about every hair that falls out.

He knows why and He subtracts it from the total. 

No wonder king David cried out, 

Psalm 139:6   "Such knowledge is too wonderful for me!" 

It is simply too wonderful for any person to comprehend.

Romans 11:33   "Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God!

 How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!"

God's ways are truly past finding out.

Oh how truly wonderful He is!

God is working His purpose out.

He is not sitting on the edge of His throne biting His fingernails, wondering what to do next. 

There is no crisis in heaven. 

God is leading the parade of His creation, and it never turns a corner until He turns the corner first. 

He is in charge of this universe. 

He does not play the stock market; 

He runs the stock market. 

He does not wonder who the winners will be; 

He decides who will be the champion.

No person can ever live fast and loose with God and get by with it.

Galatians 6:7   "Do not be deceived, God is not mocked;  for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap."

Why? 

Because God has determined it that way.

God will not ever change His mind!

He is always the same.

Yesterday. today and forever.

O how sweet the glorious message simple faith may claim
Yesterday, today, forever Jesus is the same.
Still He loves to save the sinful, heal the sick and lame
Cheer the mourner, still the tempest, glory to His Name.

Chorus.

Yesterday, today, forever, Jesus is the same.
All may change, but Jesus never! Glory to His Name!
Glory to His Name! Glory to His Name!
All may change, but Jesus never! Glory to His Name!

He, who was the Friend of sinners, seeks the lost one now
Sinner come, and at His footstool penitently bow
He Who said “I’ll not condemn thee, go and sin no more,”
Speaks to thee that word of pardon as in days of yore.

Oft on earth He healed the sufferer by His mighty hand
Still our sicknesses and sorrows go at His command
He who gave His healing virtue to a woman’s touch
To the faith that claims His fullness still will give as much.

As of old He walked to Emmaus, with them to abide
So through all life’s way He walketh ever near our side
Soon again we shall behold Him, Hasten Lord the day
But twill still be this same Jesus as He went away.

Amen!

The psalmist said,

Psalm 90:8  "You have set our iniquities before You, Our secret sins in the light of Your countenance."

You see dear reader perhaps we might think that we are getting by with sin but our sin is open scandal before the angels.

They know about everything we do.

Every person is well known to God.

God knows every thought and every word that is on our tongues  -  even the ones we started to say but refrained from saying.

As far as He is concerned He does not have to memorize; 

He never has to remind Himself of anything. 

He has no regrets of the past. 

He has no problems of the present.

And He has no forebodings about the future. 

God knows exactly, the direction He is going. 

He is the Architect of this universe.

His plan is being followed to the exact detail.

That’s the foreknowledge of God.

God knows Himself.

We do not know ourselves. 

The reason Simon Peter said, 

"I’ll not deny You"  

was that he did not know himself.

Matthew 26:32–33    "Peter answered and said unto him, Though all men shall be offended because of thee,  yet will I never be offended." 

Peter’s answer suggested that he did not trust the other disciples either but that the Lord could sure depend upon him! 

Peter’s problem was that he did not know himself, and that is the problem many of us have today.

You and I do not know ourselves. 

But God knows Himself perfectly.

I believe that He is going to be one of the subjects we will study in eternity. 

We will spend eternity just coming to know God and that is going to be a very worthwhile pursuit. 

It is going to cause us to go down on our faces repeatedly as we realize how wonderful God is. 

If right now we could comprehend just how wonderful God really is, we would be shouting 

HALLELUJAHS!

BUT OF COURSE WE DO NOT  KNOW HIM VERY WELL TODAY.

Most of mankind have forgotten all about God.

And those who have not forgotten God just include God in their own program.

God hates mankind's way!

Everything man does is false! 

His motive is never pure!

He lives in a world of pretence.

He is always trying to convince people how good he is. He constantly pretends to be what he is not.

He uses flattery to get his own way.

Sadly even in the church.

Flattery is what we need to be most careful of.

It is the devils greatest tool.

God on the other hand is pure and everything He does is done out of a pure heart.

God,  being omniscient,  also knows  all that is knowable. 

God knows the unknowable.

He knows every single motive of the heart.

God knows everything that is actual and possible. 

He knows His plan perfectly.

He knows the end from the beginning, and He chose the plan of salvation  because it was the best one;  

that is what  omniscience means.

God  knows each one of us. He is the greatest psychologist. When we have a problem, it is not necessary to climb upon the psychiatrist’s couch and tell him everything. We can climb upon the couch of the Lord Jesus and just tell Him everything?

We might as well tell Him everything because He already knows all about us anyway. The psychiatrist still won’t know you even after you have told him everything you can think of.

Psalm 139:2-4   ""Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, Thou understandest my thought afar off.  Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.  

For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, Thou knowest it altogether."

Those things we wanted to say, that was on our tongue, but we did not say it because of the presence of someone.

God knows our thoughts, exactly.

To me actually the omniscience of God is not an occasion for terror but for comfort. It is truly our greatest comfort in this world in which we live where we are constantly being accused of all kinds of evil.

People are constantly watching believers and everything they do is gossiped about. The moment they speak out they are scrutinized.

Yet our greatest joy is that God  saved me even though knew me.

That is totally amazing!

There are some people whom we accept and receive, and then in some way they disappoint us. We thought we knew them, but we really did not know them at all. 

Well God knows us and yet He will save each and every one who will simply trust the Lord Jesus to be their Saviour.

Oh how wonderful He truly is! 

He will deliver us from every evil work?

He loves us! And the God who loves us is all-powerful!

God says that He will judge the wicked, and He will hear the prayer of His people. Praise God that He is all-knowing, all-powerful, and present everywhere.

Romans 12:19–21   "Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good." 

WE CAN ENTIRELY TRUST GOD IN EVERYTHING.

WE MUST NOT BECOME BITTER!

We must not get carried away with enmity and retribution which will separate us from a walk of faith.

WE MUST TRUST GOD ENTIRELY.

WE MUST LET GO OF ALL THE HURTFUL THINGS PEOPLE DO TOO US AND TRUST GOD WHO WILL MAKE  ALL THINGS RIGHT 

God will take care of things.

IF ONLY WE WILL KEEP OUR HANDS OFF!

God will move in and deal with those who attempt to thwart and hinder His work. 

Vengeance belongs to God.

We are to turn our case over to Him and then we are to do something good for the individual who has injured us.

God puts us in an unusual place.

There is sure victory if we do not forsake the path of faith. 

1 John 5:4   "For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith."

The wicked tongue is not going to be established or survive.

Every lie will finally be made known. 

Satan was a liar from the beginning, and he has a lot of his urchins running around today following his example. 

Someday they will all be exposed as liars.

I love David so very, very much and not only for all the glorious psalms and hymns that he wrote but because He loved God with all his heart and God knew that.

What a tremendous blessing that is to every one of us.

God is truly the God of all comfort. 

God knew David, and David let Him down. But God knew something about David’s faith that we could not see. He could see David’s heart, and beneath the faith that failed was a faith that never failed. The Lord knew what Simon Peter was going to do. He even knew that Judas would betray Him. Even though we don’t understand it, that is the omniscience of God. He knows everything.

The Maker of the universe, as man for man was made a curse.

The claims of law which He had made, unto the uttermost He paid.

His holy fingers made the bough which grew the thorns that crowned His brow.

The nails that pierced His hands were mined in secret places He designed.

He made the forest whence there sprung the tree on which His body hung.

He died upon a cross of wood, yet made the hill on which it stood.

The sky that darkened o’er His head, by Him above the earth was spread.

The sun that hid Him from God’s face, by His decree was poised in space.

The spear which spilled His precious blood was tempered in the fires of God.

The grave in which His form was laid was hewn in rocks His hands had made.

The throne on which He now appears was His from everlasting years.

But a new glory crowns His brow, and every knee to Him shall bow.

                                                                                                                                           Author unknown.

He is the Creator of this universe. 

He has it in perfect control today. 

We are little creatures, but He loves us enough to die for us. 

And when anyone rejects Him they have committed the sin that makes murder, stealing and adultery look white in comparison; 

They have turned their backs on the only begotten Son of God.

Are you in Christ Jesus today  -    accepted in the Beloved?

Are you willing to make a decision to be joined to Him?

Then invite Him,  this very moment,  to come into your heart and sing

I have found a wondrous Saviour
Jesus Christ, the soul's delight
Every blessing of His favour
Fills my heart with hope so bright

Jesus is the joy of  living,  He's  the King  of  life  to me.

Unto Him  my  all  I'm   giving,  His  forever more  to  be.

I  will do  what  He commands me,  Anywhere He leads  I'll go.

Jesus is the joy of living,    He's  the dearest friend  I  know.

Life is growing rich with beauty
Toil has lost its weary strain
Now a halo crowns each duty
And I sing a glad refrain
You ask why? I say...

Heavenly wisdom He provides me
Grace to keep my spirit free
In His own sweet way He guides me
When the path I cannot see

O what splendour, o what glory
O what matchless power divine
Is the Christ of Gospel story
Christ, the Saviour who is mine.

Words and music: Alfred H. Ackley (1887)

AMEN!

God does not impute sin (or make sin over to the sinner) who trusts in Christ. 

That sin was put on Christ, 

Romans 4:25   "Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification." 

2 Corinthians 5:17   "He knew no sin, but was made sin for us, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him"  

What a wonderful thing God has done for us in Christ Jesus!

Psalm 141:8-9   "But mine eyes are unto thee, O God the Lord: 

in thee is my trust; 

leave not my soul destitute.  

Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity."

David prayed that he would not fall into the trap of the wicked. 

The Devil attempts to trip us up all the time, and he uses all kinds of devices. 

Unfortunately, we are not aware of many of his traps. 

We are not even as wise as the carnal Christians in Corinth to whom Paul said, 

2 Corinthians 2:11    "… we are not ignorant of his devices." 

Some of us seem to be woefully ignorant of Satan’s devices. 

Let us pray to be delivered from evil so that our prayers may be effective prayers.

God never would send you the darkness,

If He felt you could bear the light.

But you would not cling to His guiding hand,

If the way were always bright.

And you would not care to walk by faith,

Could you always walk by sight.

So He sends you the blinding darkness,

And the furnace of seven-fold heat.

’Tis the only way, believe me,

To keep you close to His feet.

For ’tis always so easy to wander,

When our lives are glad and sweet.

                                                               Author unknown.

The Christian life is a conflict, and in the conflict we are told to  stand -   "Stand therefore," 

The Christian life is also a a race, and we are told to 

"run the race."

But the greater part of the Christian life is just plain living, and that means walking  -  which is the most difficult.

Many of us can move out onto the arena of life and when there comes the applause from the gallery we can draw our sword and stand our ground. Or when those on the sidelines are urging us to run, we can exert great effort.

But when we get up in the morning and face a sink full of dishes and loads of ironing or we go to our place of work where waiting for us is a bunch of difficult, indifferent people with whom we have to make a team effort to get the work done, our faith fails.

It is then that we are to walk by the power of the Holy Spirit.

We are to walk by faith.

We are not to walk by sight.

Galatians 5:5  "For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith."

The whole Christian life, from the moment we are born again  until we come into His presence,  is a walk by faith  -  a faith that rests upon the indwelling Holy Spirit.

And to do this we need to stay close to the Word of God.

Our entire lives should be to know Christ and to please Him.

He reveals Himself and He reveals His will for us through His Word.

Study His Word.

See what He cautions against and what He commands.

1 Corinthians 1:28-30  "And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:  That no flesh should glory in His presence. 

But of Him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption. 

That, according as it is written,   He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord."

We need to start out each new day with God, realizing our human weakness and the presence of our old nature, recognizing and confessing to Him our inability to meet His standard, resting by faith in the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit to accomplish what we cannot do.

Beloved, if we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit  -  for the Lord Jesus’ sake.

AMEN!

"is made unto us, redemption" (1 Corinthians 1:30).

Twice over we are told:

 "In whom we have redemption through his blood" (Ephesians 1:7; Colossians 1:14).

This word, therefore, deals definitely with the future aspect of redemption.

Sin will be removed from the presence of the redeemed and from this earth.

There are two features of future redemption which must await the coming of Christ before they can be fulfilled.

These are:

The redemption of our bodies

And the redemption of creation.

We will not be completely redeemed until we have a body redeemed from sin and death. Although the redeemed are at present indwelt by the Holy Spirit, they do not have a body that is delivered from sin and death. The old Adamic nature lives on until death or until Christ translates the living believers in His second coming. The resurrection of believers comprehends a new body:

1 Corinthians 15:53   "For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality."

This old Adamic, dying body

1 Corinthians 15:42  "is sown in corruption it is raised in incorruption."

The modern method is to diffuse the physical resurrection of the body into thin air by substituting for the Christian doctrine of resurrection Buddhist or Platonic philosophies, which deny the actual resurrection of the body by making it spiritual.

Apostle Paul defended the Christian doctrine against that very system when he wrote,

1 Corinthians 15:44   "It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body."

The body will be retained in resurrection. Instead of having a body dominated by the fallen, Adamic nature, we will possess a body dominated by the Spirit of God and motivated by the Spirit of God breathed anew into it.

It is impossible to dismiss the resurrection of the body from Christian doctrine.

Redemption will not be complete until the bodies of the redeemed are raised in newness of life.

Paul contemplated that day when he wrote,

Ephesians 4:30   "And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption."

The "day of redemption" is the time of the resurrection of the saints who have died, and the translation of the living saints at the parousia of Christ.

The second prospect of future redemption is the lifting of the curse from physical creation. When Adam sinned, there was a curse pronounced upon the earth:

Genesis  3:17 -18"Cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee."

A blasted earth fittingly describes the continued condition of our planet down to the present hour, a phenomenon Paul recognized in

Romans 8:22:   "The whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now."

The earth does not respond readily to the efforts of man but it must be compelled, by persistent effort, to yield her increase. Only by the sweat of the brow does man eke out a living from the ground

Genesis 3:17-19  "And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field:  In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return."

Still, there are times when the earth overcomes the handicap of the curse and yields bountifully, filling her cornucopia to overflowing.

It is, however, a figment of the imagination and an oratorical gesture to say that man has conquered the forces of nature and has made them subservient to his beck and call.

There is a golden day in the future for this earth, for the One who created it will be here to make nature respond with her hidden treasures and possibilities, as He did when He made the fish bring a coin to Simon Peter in order for him to pay the temple tax.

The curse will be lifted from the earth during the Millennium, and then man will have his first glimpse of this planet in her original beauty.

The mind cannot conceive of the desert rejoicing and blossoming as the rose;  yet this is the happy anticipation of the earth.

If it were possible for man today to bring the kingdom of heaven to earth, which is the modern delusion of the church, this important task of restoring the fecundity of the earth and lifting the curse would be a difficulty that even the most optimistic "kingdom builder" could not handle.

The many improvements man has developed are no substitute for the ideal conditions outlined in Scripture.

Christ is Himself the great Kinsman-Redeemer.

He is the One who will deliver the bodies of believers in a physical resurrection and He will deliver the physical creation from the bondage of the curse.

Boaz delivered both the person of Ruth and the property of Elimelech.

Christ will deliver the person of the church and the property of the Jew and Gentile  -  this earth.

Then there will be freedom.

HALLELUJAH!

EVEN SO COME LORD JESUS!

AMEN!

THIS PAGE UPDATED:  22-10-2007.