God Sees You Always
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Opening Remarks
Opening Remarks
I’m very excited to be with you in service this evening.
It’s a challenging task to speak to people who are from a different culture.
Many Americans don’t understand how difficult things are in some of the other countries of the world.
We have never experienced a government that ruled against the will of the people.
What Americans think of as poverty is very different from the poverty of some African nations, for example.
It is very difficult for someone who was born here and has never left the country to know or understand some of the things people from other countries have suffered.
The good news is that the Bible speaks to all people in all places at all times and it speaks a language that everybody understands.
It tells mankind that there is a God and He loves us and takes care of us if we belong to Him.
Introduction
Introduction
God sees you all the time. He is actively paying attention to you and what is happening in your life.
He sees both the good and the bad. He sees the things that you are proud of and the things that you would not want anyone else to know.
This is something that should encourage us and also give us caution.
When we act in ways that would please Him, He knows that we have done well.
When we are tempted to sin, we should know that He knows where we are and what we are doing.
When we are in trouble or danger and it seems there is no one to help us, He sees.
When we think we have hidden ourselves from every eye that would witness our sin, He sees that also.
Scripture
Scripture
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1 O Lord, you have searched me and known me!
2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar.
3 You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways.
4 Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.
5 You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it.
7 Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence?
8 If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!
9 If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
10 even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night,”
12 even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you.
13 For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.
Verses 1 - 6
Verses 1 - 6
Psalm 139
1 O Lord, you have searched me and known me!
2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar.
3 You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways.
4 Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.
5 You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it.
He Sees the Common Things
He Sees the Common Things
He Sees Us All Day
He Sees Us All Day
Verse 1 tells us that God knows us. It means that He knows us perfectly.
He knows when we rise from bed in the morning and He sees when we lay down at night.
This would have said to the ancient reader of this text that God sees us all day every day.
God Knows our Thoughts
God Knows our Thoughts
God knows what we think.
Even when we are mad and do not tell the person we are mad at what we are thinking. God knows our thoughts.
Before we speak, He knows what exactly what we are going to say.
God Sees Us as We Go Through Our Day
God Sees Us as We Go Through Our Day
He has surrounded us. Wherever we are going, He goes before us to prepare the way.
He follows behind us to guard our back.
Verse 5 says that He lays His hand upon us. This means that God is guiding the steps of His children.
He is leading us in paths of righteousness for the sake of His name.
Praise
Praise
David ends this section of the psalm with a word of praise for his God.
The idea that God, who is holy, all knowing, everywhere present, and eternal would watch over and protect sinful, weak people is amazing to David.
It thrills his soul to know that God loves him in such a way.
Verses 7-12
Verses 7-12
7 Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence?
8 If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!
9 If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
10 even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night,”
12 even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you.
Psalm 139
There is nowhere that you are not in God’s presence.
If I attempt to run and hide from God so that I can sin without Him seeing it or if I try to escape from His justice there is nowhere to hide because wherever I go, He is already there.
He lives in Heaven, so I can’t hide there.
If I sleep in the grave He sees me.
If I try to fly with the sun along its path in the sky, He is there.
If I bury myself in the deepest part of the ocean or try to hide myself in blackest darkness, even there He is present.
There is nowhere I can be taken that He isn’t there with me.
If a government issues laws against me or if a person kidnaps and keeps me in terrible conditions, God is with me.
If I grow up in America with all of the comforts a person could ask for or if I have to escape my country because an army or a dictator would kill me, God is with me.
If I have never known a time when I did not know where my next meal was going to come from or if I had to leave everything behind to try to help my family survive, God has been with me.
Verses 13 - 16
Verses 13 - 16
13 For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.
God Has Always Known Me
God Has Always Known Me
Before I was born, God put me together inside my mother’s womb.
He even saw the stuff that I’m made of before I existed.
The way that He built me causes me to tremble at His power and to praise Him for the wonders of my construction.
God knows everything about me and He always has. Even from eternity past, He knew every thought I would ever think, every word I would ever say, and thing I would ever do.
Closing
Closing
God knew all of this before I ever existed.
He sees my sin everyday and He know all of my sins to come.
Even though He knows my flaws, He still loves me.
He still sent Christ to pay the penalty for my sins.
Perfect, Holy God loves sinful me so much that He took the penalty of my sins upon himself so that my debt might be paid in full.
God knows everything there is to know about you.
He knows that you can not help your self improve in any way.
You will never be clean enough spiritually or right enough morally for Him to accept you, so He says to you today, “Come as you are.”
Jesus said that the one who come to Him He would never refuse.
If you are here today and Jesus is not your savior, today is your day.
Don’t leave with the weight of sin hanging around your neck.
Christ loves you and He wants to set you free and give you His grace and mercy.
If you are a Christian struggling with sin the Bible says
9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
There is no reason for anyone to leave here today with guilt or shame in your heart.
God loves you and He has provided a way for your sins to be forgiven.
Confess them to God and turn away from them.
Confess them to God and turn away from them.
I promise you that He will have mercy upon you.
He will help you because He loves you.
No matter how bad you have been or what you have done He will restore you to right relationship with Him.
Come to the altar and lay your sins down.
If you want me to pray with you, I will or if you just want to seek God He is here.
This is your time. Do business with God this evening.