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How Great Thou Art

  Doug Post

I. God is "omniscient" = "omniscience" – all knowledge.

  1. Did you know that God has never learned anything!
  2. He never went to school and never cracked open a book!
  3. He never said, "Really, I didn’t know that."
  4. God has always known everything there is to know

II. Think about God’s knowledge for a moment:

  1. He knows everything of a physical or material nature.
  2. We know there have been genius’s among us:
  3. God has never had a theory!

III. Take Job for instance

  1. God had allowed Job to suffer, so He could demonstrate the quality of the man.
  2. But along the way, Job began to lose his patience.
  3. He says to God, "I don’t know why you are doing these things to me."
  4. And if this were a court of law, I would nail you to the wall.
  5. Finally, in chapter 38 God says, "O.K. Job I’ll let you try ME, but you must first answer My questions, if you can" (Job 38:1-11).

IV. An example of what I am talking about (ISA. 46:9-10)

  1. None like Me…I am unique, one of a kind. No one can compare.
  2. Notice how He defines that in (v.10).
  3. Before the earth was made, God knew every detail of history
  4. That does not mean God has programmed us to be robots – we have free will

V. God knows us intimately

  1. Do we really know each other?
  2. Can we know every thought of a person’s heart and mind? No
  3. You can be married for 70 years and not fully know each other.
  4. But God knows us fully – inside and out
  5. God knows our hearts, souls, minds, every thought - that’s a scary thought.

VI. He knows our every need

  1. Jeremiah 10:23
  2. We need instruction from the One who knows it all – God. How? God’s Word!
  3. In speaking about prayer, Jesus says God knows our every need even before we ask.
  4. God knows it all!

VII. Here’s His plan

  1. Before the foundation of the world, Christ was already sacrificed.
  2. He began to work it Gen. 3:15 – (Gal.4:6) Everything fell into place.
    1) This is what Paul was contemplating when he was stopped in his tracks.
    2) All Paul could say was this – "Oh the depth of God."

VIII. His Riches or Richness – what are they?

  1. Rom.9:23 declares the riches of His glory.
  2. Rom.2:4 declares the riches of His goodness.
  3. He is Rich in Mercy and in Grace (Eph.2:4-10).

Conclusion

All found in the cross and in His blood (1Jn.1:7). In order to have all these riches we need to confess Jesus as Christ, Repent of our sins and be immersed for the remission of sins (Acts 2:38; Acts 22:16; Rom.6:1-4).