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Sermon:

God Knows You

Intro

Does God known you and I personally?

• There are approximately just over 7 billion (The U.S. census bureau estimates the world population passed 7 billion on March 12, 2012)people on this planet and how can we be assured that He thinks of us or even knows us personally?

To answer this question lets look at the Word of God in Psalm 139

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[[Psalm 139: 1-18]] Message

1 A David psalm.

GOD, investigate my life; get all the facts first-hand.

(O Lord, You have searched me and known me.)

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2 I'm an open book to you; even from a distance, you know what I'm thinking.

3 You know when I leave and when I get back; I'm never out of your sight.

4 You know everything I'm going to say before I start the first sentence.

5 I look behind me and you're there, then up ahead and you're there, too-- your reassuring presence, coming and going.

6 This is too much, too wonderful-- I can't take it all in!

7 Is there any place I can go to avoid your Spirit? to be out of your sight?

8 If I climb to the sky, you're there!

If I go underground, you're there!

9 If I flew on morning's wings to the far western horizon,

10 You'd find me in a minute-- you're already there waiting!

11 Then I said to myself, "Oh, he even sees me in the dark!

At night I'm immersed in the light!"

12 It's a fact: darkness isn't dark to you; night and day, darkness and light, they're all the same to you.

13 Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out; you formed me in my mother's womb.

14 I thank you, High God--you're breath taking!

Body and soul, I am marvellously made!

I worship in adoration--what a creation!

15 You know me inside and out, you know every bone in my body; You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit, how I was sculpted from nothing into something.

16 Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth; all the stages of my life were spread out before you, The days of my life all prepared before I'd even lived one day.

17 Your thoughts--how rare, how beautiful!

God, I'll never comprehend them!

18 I couldn't even begin to count them-- any more than I could count the sand of the sea.

Oh, let me rise in the morning and live always with you!

Body

1 How much does God care about you?

• He truly knows you, knows when you sit, when you rise, knows your every thought, knows when you go out, when you sleep and is familiar with all your ways.

• God not only gave His only Son Jesus to die in our place and give us life He also sent us the Holy Spirit to fill our heart and life with His love and to be our helper and guide.

[[John 3:16]] For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever[fill in your name] believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

• We are so significant to the Father that He indeed calls us by name.

[[John 10:3]] says: “He calls His own sheep by name and leads them out.”

God saw to every detail of your birth before , in and after the womb.

• Medical Fact: A foetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months

[[Psalm 139 : 13-17]] For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother's womb.

I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvellous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well.

My frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret, And skilfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed.

And in Your book they all were written, The days fashioned for me, When as yet there were none of them.

How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them!

2 How much care has God taken to plan your life?

[[Acts 17:24-26]]

God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands.

Nor is He worshipped with men's hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and all things.

And He has made from one blood] every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their pre-appointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings,

 [[Job 10:11]] You have clothed me with skin and flesh and have knit me together with bones and sinews.

 You were assigned your name at birth by your parents and your name has a meaning and is descriptive of who you are Just like God gave Jesus His Name which is above every Name

 The day you became a born again child of God the angels rejoiced in Heaven

[[Luke 15:10]] Likewise, I say to you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents

 Your life has a blue print similar to a new house being built has a blue print or plan from which all the details (from foundation to roof) can be determined.

God took great care in creating your body, emotions, character, talents, gifting’s and calling.

He is not in the’ Cookie Cutter’ business.

You have been fashioned by God very uniquely:

[[Psalm 33:15a]] He fashions their hearts individually;

 When Jesus died on the cross at Calvary for you He had to know everything about your life PAST, PRESENT and FUTURE in order to fully atone for you.

God knows everything about you inside and out:

[[Ephesians 1:4-5]] just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love,

having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,

[[John 1:1-4]] In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

He was in the beginning with God.

All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.

In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.

[[Psalm 139: 16]] Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed.

And in Your book they all were written, The days fashioned for me, When as yet there were none of them.

[[John 6:39]] And this is the will of Him Who sent Me, that I should not lose any of all that He has given Me, but that I should give new life and raise [them all] up at the last day.

 Your life was planned by God before time began.

Just like He planned and mapped out the lives of Jeremiah and Paul so God has planned, purposed and called you:

[[Jeremiah 1:5]] "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations."

[[Galatians 1:15-16]] But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb and called me through His grace,

to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood,

[[Ephesians 2:10]] [AMP]For we are God's[own] handiwork (His workmanship), recreated in Christ Jesus, [born anew] that we may do those good works which God predestined (planned beforehand) for us [taking paths which He prepared ahead of time], that we should walk in them [living the good life which He prearranged and made ready for us to live].

3 How valuable are you to God the Father?

• When we think of the value of something from a human viewpoint, we tend to measure value in monetary terms (what it is worth) and the benefit it can bring us (what can it do for me).

• When God looks at us He sees in an entirely different light: His point of reference when looking at us is love and compassion

[[Psalm 8:3-5]] When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have ordained,

What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit him?

(Then I look at my micro-self and wonder, Why do you bother with us?

Why take a second look our way?

MESSAGE)

For You have made him a little lower than the angels, And You have crowned him with glory and honour.

 [[Matt 6:26]] declares that you are of more value than the birds of the air and look how well they are taken care of by God HE LOVES YOU!!!!

 From birth to old age God carries you:

[[Isaiah 46: 3-4]] (MESSAGE) "Listen to me, family of Jacob, everyone that's left of the family of Israel.

I've been carrying you on my back from the day you were born,

And I'll keep on carrying you when you're old.

I'll be there, bearing you when you're old and grey.

I've done it and will keep on doing it, carrying you on my back, saving you.

4 How much does God care about the salvation of one soul and to what extremes will He go in order to ensure that someone He created will be saved?

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