“But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken: for she is the man’s wife.”  (Genesis 20)

“I know thy pride and the naughtiness of thine heart…”  (1Samuel 17)

 

In our previous article we spoke about the doctrine of God’s knowledge or Omniscience. We wrote about the Godhead’s knowledge of all things, including the thoughts, feelings, and actions of both the just and the unjust. We pointed out that the just are fine, good, and happy to know that God searched their hearts. On the other hand the unjust do not know that God knows their heart, or do not concern themselves with God’s knowledge of their hearts and that is their folly.

Why do the unjust not know or care of God’s omniscience?  If unjust persons do not know that God knows their thoughts, feelings, motivations, and intenttions, it is because no one has told them, “…how shall they hear without a preacher?” If the unjust do know or have been told or taught that God knows about their everything, they repress it or they tell themselves (maybe sub-conscieciously) God does not know about this, that, or it; ignorance does not make this truth go away.

The above is true of the just as well. David knew God knows all that is in him, yet he still committed his crime against God, against Bathsheba, against Bathsheba’s husband, against Joab, and the Israeli army. Just readers, we do this too.  We do wrong, and think wrong and we know that God knows. This truth speaks to:
*The old man, the old nature, the flesh, and our carnal nature remains but is divinely and graciously restrained.
*Our will to sin.
*Our weakness
*Our trust in Christ’s work of the post and pre-emptive propitiating of God’s Holiness, Righteousness and Justice.
*Our faith and hope in God’s Fatherly forgiveness, based in Christ’s perfect, permanent precious, peculiar, and pre-emptive payment for our sin, sins, iniquities, and trespasses.
*Our sins being committed in eternity past, per God’s foreknowledge, and Christ’s sacrifice that, is said by John, in Revelation thirteen (13) was, before the foundation of the world…Think about that for a while.
*our trust in God’s Fatherly patience and longsuffering.
*God’s restraining of our sense of fear of committing sin and knowing of His Omniscience. Think about it, If God did not restrain our fear of His knowledge of our sin, we would all give up and seek death. Our weakness, our will, and the Sin nature drives us to commit sins and we fail and fall while knowing God knows and sees all; how can we do that if God does not restrain our sense of fear, and our guilty feeling (no real guilt, Christ dealt with that for us but the sorrow and consciousness of doing wrong remains until we confess)? How merciful is our Lord?

When David came to bring food to his brethren on the field of battle, his elder brother charged David with pride and naughtiness. David had no pride or naughtiness in his heart at the time, pride and naughtiness was not his motivation for being at the field of battle. We should and the unjust should draw a great truth from this. If David’s elder brother saw something that was not in Davids heart, we and the unjust should know that God does see what is present in the heart of men. In John’s Gospel, he wrote that Christ knew what was in the heart of men.

If God restrains our fear and feeling of guilt when we sin before him so that we do not give up and go mad (Ecclesiastes 7), what does that say to and about the unjusts’s carelessness of God’s omnipresence. It tells us that sin and sins have hardened their hearts and knowledge against God’s Omniscience. What can soften and cause the unjust heart to fear and tremble with the knowledge of God’s knowledge of their everything?

The only truth that can soften the unjust heart and cause that heart to fear and tremble before God is the knowledge that God knows their everything and God is Holy, and Righteous, and is against their thoughts, feelings, intentions, motivations, unrighteousness, and ungodliness.

All the Scriptures can be summed up with: *God Is,  *Man Sins,  *God Knows, *God Hates, *God Loves, *Christ is Lord and Saviour and *God forgives.  Our message, our Gospel, God’s Word and Christ is that simple.  How shall they hear and know if we tell them not.

Godspeed.