been saying hallelujah salvation and glory and honor and power unto the Lord
our God for true and righteous are his judgments for the judge the great whore
which did corrupt the earth with their fornication at the venge the
blood of his servants at her hand and again they said hallelujah and her
smoke rose up forever and ever and the four and twenty elders and the
four beasts fell down and worshiped God that sat on the throne saying
amen hallelujah and a voice came out of the throne saying praise our
God all ye his servants and he that fear him both small and great and I heard as
it were the voice of a great multitude as the voice of many waters as a voice
of mighty thundering saying hallelujah for the Lord our God omnipotent reigneth
let us be glad and rejoice and give honor to him for the marriage of the
Lamb is common his wife had made herself ready and her was granted that
she should be arrayed in fine linen clean and white for the fine linen is
the righteousness of Saints and he saith unto me right blessed are they
which are called under the marriage supper of the Lamb and he saith unto me
these are the true sayings of God and I felt his feet to worship him and
he said unto me see thou do it not I am thy fellow servant and of thy
brethren that have the testimony of Jesus worship God for the testimony of
Jesus is the spirit of prophecy and I saw heaven opened and behold a white
horse and he that sat upon him was called faithful and true and in
righteousness he doth judge and make war his eyes were as a flame of fire and
on his head were many crowns and he had a name written that no man knew but
he himself and he was clothed with the vesture dipped in blood his name is
called the Word of God and the armies which were in heaven followed him upon
the white horses clothed in fine linen white and clean and out of his mouth
go with a sharp sword that with it he should smite the nations and he shall
rule them with a rod of iron and he tread at the winepress of the fierceness
and wrath of Almighty God and he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name
written King of Kings and Lord of Lords and I saw an angel standing in
the Sun and he cried with a loud voice saying to all the fowls that fly
in the midst of heaven come and gather yourselves together under the
supper of the great God that you may eat the flesh of Kings and the flesh
of captains the flesh of mighty men and the flesh of horses and for them
to sit on them and the flesh of all men both free and bond both small and
great and I saw the Beast and the kings of the earth and their armies
gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse and against
his army and the Beast was taken and with him with the false prophet that
wrought miracles before him with which he deceived them that had to
receive the mark of the Beast and then that worshiped his image these both
were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone and the
remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse with
sword proceedeth out of his mouth and all the fowls were filled with
their flesh. Let's pray dear Lord God thank you for just this
opportunity to come hear your word being preached Lord just please fill
Pastor Mejia with your Holy Spirit Lord as he preaches unto us Lord and
please soften our hearts for the message that he is prepared for us
Lord. We pray this all in Jesus name amen. Amen. Okay we're in Revelation
chapter 19 this evening look down at your Bibles at verse number five it
says and a voice came out of the throne saying praise our God all you
saints and ye that fear him both small and great and I heard as it were the
voice of a great multitude and as the voice of many waters then as the voice
of mighty thundering saying hallelujah for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth
and what I'm gonna preach on this evening is the subject of omnipotent
omniscient omnipresent the title of the sermon is omnipotent omniscient
omnipresent of course these specific descriptions are what we use to describe
the Godhead the divinity of the Trinity and that prefix omni means all
right and these terms here are really good to describe God obviously there's
many characteristics and virtues that we could exalt and highlight and look
at the Word of God to describe the Lord Jesus Christ God the Father and
God the Holy Spirit but this essentially encompasses everything that
he is right the God the Godhead is that he's all-powerful all-knowing and
that he's all present everywhere at all times and it is a great description of
the Trinity and let me just say this is that when it comes to the
Trinity we have to realize that the Trinity is obviously one God in three
persons but that doesn't mean that they are essentially the same exact
person because they're the same God obviously we know that they have
separate wills you have God the Father God the Son God the Holy Spirit but
there is a certain level of subordination that each of them
experiences particularly of course God the Son and God the Holy Spirit but
they are in unity one with another they submit themselves one to
another for the will of God and so I want to go over these three
particular descriptions of the Godhead starting off with the term omnipotent
we saw there in Revelation 19 verse number six towards the latter end it
says hallelujah for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth and this is a great
time to use that particular phrase because of the fact that Revelation 19
is the description of the Battle of Armageddon and the Battle of Armageddon
is the battle between the Lord Jesus Christ his armies and the Antichrist
in his armies representing the New World Order the Lord Jesus Christ
defeats the Antichrist a false prophet and his armies and he sets up the
millennial reign right and the Bible tells us elsewhere in the book of
Revelation that at this time the kingdoms of this world are become the
kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ and this is why he says that
the Lord God omnipotent reigneth he is almighty and he's reigning over all
the world at this particular time and so he is all-powerful almighty
referring to the fact that he possesses all might go with me if you
to Jeremiah chapter 32 and then we're gonna go to Isaiah chapter 59 and we're
gonna look at some verses regarding his might his power his strength the fact
that he is almighty and how that would apply to us as Christians what is
it that we can do with this particular information that's given to
us in the Bible Revelation 1 let me read to you from in verse number 8
you're going to Jeremiah chapter 32 Revelation 1 verse 8 says I am alpha
and Omega the beginning and the ending saith the Lord which is and which was
and which is to come the Almighty first Timothy chapter 6 and verse 15
says which in his times he shall show who is the blessed and only potent it
the king of kings and the Lord of Lords now that is a great passage there
because of the fact that it describes the Lord Jesus Christ as being the
only potent it you say why is that important well because you have a group
of 1.3 billion people that refer to themselves as Catholics and they
believe that they have a potent in by the name of the pope right who
possesses power and authority on this earth but according to the Bible it
says that Jesus Christ is the only potent in he's the one who possesses
all power not some you know vicar of hell known as the pope who dresses
like a woman the Bible also says in Matthew 28 verse 18 when giving power
to his disciples authority to his disciples he says in Jesus came and
spake unto them saying all power is given unto me in heaven and in earth
that power referring to authority Romans chapter 1 and verse 19 says
because that that which may be known of God is manifest in them for God
had showed it unto them for the invisible things of him from the
creation of the world are clearly seen being understood by the things
that are made even his eternal power the Bible says and God had
so that they are without excuse and said how is it that I can
experience the omnipotence of God well one way to experience
just look outside if you were to just observe the cosmos the
stars the heavens you observe the planets the solar system you
observe creation you can't you know help yourself but recognize
the omnipotence of God the fact that he's all powerful and that he created all of
these things and in fact you know observing creation and all that exists
is part of what led us to salvation right recognizing that there is a
creator that made all these things in the beginning was the word the word
was with God in the word was God by him was not anything made that was
made the Bible says so it's showing us that God is responsible for all of
creation and it says the invisible things of the creation so you think
about your cells you think about the certain solar systems that we can't
see with the naked eye he's responsible for not just the visible things but
even the invisible essentially showing us how powerful God is Hebrews 1 verse 3
says who being the brightness of his glory referring to Jesus and the
expressed image of his person and upholding all things by the word of his
power now I don't think a lot of people understand how powerful of a
statement that is it's saying here that Jesus Christ upholds everything by
the word of his power what does that mean essentially everything is running
because he's allowing it to run the planets are going around the Sun we
are experiencing night and day your blood is pumping your heart is pumping
your brain is able to function your lungs are able to expand and breathe and
you're able to function why because God allows it and in fact the Bible
says that it's upheld by the word of his power okay when he had by
himself purged our sins sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high
what does it say it's saying that God is Almighty he's powerful he's
strong it says in Psalm 115 verse 1 now unto us O Lord not unto us but unto
thy name give glory for thy mercy and for thy truths sake wherefore should
the heathen say where is now their God but our God is in the heavens he
hath done whatsoever he hath pleased only someone who is Almighty is capable
of doing that which he pleases to do Matthew chapter 19 and verse 26 the
Lord Jesus Christ says this but Jesus beheld them and said unto them with men
this is impossible but with God all things are possible how so well because
he's omnipotent look at Jeremiah 32 verse 17 it says here our Lord God
behold thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and
stretched out arm listen to this and there is nothing too hard for thee you
say what's the point of even learning that God is Almighty what is the point
of learning that God possesses all strength and that he is omnipotent well
because it increases our faith in him that's why it helps us to realize
that there's nothing too hard for God and it means nothing to you until you
come to a point where you might come to a dead end in your life some sort of
barrier in your life something that seems like it can't be resolved something
that seems like you can't overcome and then you realize well nothing's too
hard for God that means it's hard for you it may be hard for me it may
be hard for us as a church but it's not too hard for God why cuz he's
omnipotent he's all-powerful possessing all might now let me explain
something here because you know it's it's important to explain what this
means here because you have a lot of scoffers out there little does that mean
that God can create a rock so big that he can't move or something that's a
stupid question you know and I'm sure you know you have your you know
Christian philosophers out there you know these these people who claim to
be Christians and they claim to know the Bible they like to give all of
these intellectual answers and then you know at the length of their at the end of
their 15-minute dissertation you just walk away you don't even know what he
said you know what's the guy that I'm thinking of right now Peter yeah
Jordan Peterson you know if you were to ask him is anything too hard for
God he would spend like 30 minutes explaining to you nothing just full of
vain jingling and you would be very impressed with this answer but you
wouldn't know exactly what side he stands on so if you were to tell him
like hey can God create a rock so big that he can't move he would say well
first we gotta ask yourself what kind of rock you know and it's just kind of
like just vain babbling vain jingling not dissolving doubts but creating
more doubts let me just give you the answer no he can't God cannot create a
rock so big that he cannot move it okay simple as that because if he did create
a rock so big that he can't move then he's not God it's not that hard okay
and so when the Bible says there's nothing too hard for God it's obviously
referring to the parameters of his word because we obviously know that God
can't sin you know God is not a man that he should lie he's not a man
that he can commit iniquity or that he can sin this is obviously referring to
his might his power his capability of performing supernatural miracles and
feats to show himself strong on the behalf of his people when in need to
fight our battles on our behalf to perform great miracles in our life to
increase our faith in him and he's all powerful in the sense that he's
able to create something out of nothing okay but let me say this this just
because the Bible says that he is omnipotent and he is it doesn't mean
he's not limited because at the end of the day we can limit God you say
really yeah go to Isaiah 59 Isaiah chapter 59 you see there's nothing too
hard for God but at the end of the day we can actually make it hard on
ourselves and God can't use us to perform some of these incredible
miracles it reminds me of a song we used to sing back in the old IFP and
the lyrics went I can do all things through Christ which gives me strength
but sometimes I wonder what he can do through me why because at the end of
the day no matter how omnipotent God is I kind of stand in the way of that
you can get in the way of that we can actually limit God and hinder God
from doing great and mighty works which we know not look what the
Bible says in Isaiah 59 and you have to excuse me I'm losing my voice here
and so if I crack don't laugh look at verse number one of Isaiah 59 behold the
Lord's hand is not shortened that it cannot save you know can God save
anyone yes he can because his arms not short that it cannot save right
neither his ear heavy that it cannot hear can he listen to our
prayers absolutely there's not a prayer that he won't listen to that
he can't listen to should I say but but your iniquities have separated
between your iniquities have separated between you and your God and your sins
have hid his face from you that he will not hear for your hands are
defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity your lips have spoken
lies your tongue hath muttered perverseness the Bible says what is
it saying you know God is not incapable of performing miracles he's not
incapable of saving or listening to prayers or answering there's prayers but
you know what people can limit God though based upon what the iniquities
they commit the sins that they do they can keep you back from actually
having God show himself strong on your behalf go to Mark chapter 13 Mark
chapter 13 while you're turning them are reaching from Psalm 78 you can write
this down for later it says in Psalm 78 verse 39 for he remembered that they
were but flesh a wind that passeth away and cometh not again how oft did
they provoke him in the wilderness and grieve him in the desert yay
listen to this they turned back and tempted God and limited the Holy One of
Israel you know the last thing I want to do is limit God what he can do in
my life in your life in our church right and your family but it's
absolutely 100% possible that we can limit the almighty omnipotent God not
because he's limited in strength and in power but because our sins
unconfessed sins unrepentant sins can keep him from blessing us you know
the Bible says no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly
and that is absolutely true but if you're not walking uprightly if you're
not exercising faith if you're not living righteously you can obviously
hinder God and limit him from doing things in your life what my greatest
fears as a pastor even as a Christian is that I would limit him and what he
can do in our church I don't want to look back 20 30 years from now and
say man I truly limited God on what he can do I want to be able to
give God free reign to do as he wills and as he pleases and not to have
any hindrances or barriers to those blessings look at Mark chapter 13 and
verse 54 it says that when he was coming to his own country he taught them
in their synagogue in so much that they were astonished and said whence had
this man this wisdom and these mighty works is not this carpenter is not
this the carpenter's son is not his mother called Mary and his brethren
James and Joseph and Simon and Judas wait a minute Jesus didn't have
brothers and you know what's this talking about Catholics say there it is
right well it's referring to his brothers in Christ or something like that yeah
can I get one of those commercial break here it's a halls don't worry my
voice must sound really bad if someone just offered me this look at
verse 56 little paper never hurt anybody and his sisters are they not
all with us whence then had this man all these things and they were offended
in him but Jesus said unto them a prophet is not without honor saving his
own country and in his own house and I want you to notice this and he
did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief now is Jesus
capable of doing mighty works absolutely is he omnipotent absolutely
but he could not do the wine he works there why not because he's limited
not because he's not supernatural not because he's not God it's because of the
fact that they didn't believe and so this is a good principle for us to
learn that if we don't want to limit God's omnipotence in our lives we
need to make sure that we're exercising our faith and not have this
attitude of well I think I'd do it for someone else but I just don't think
it can be done with me okay then he's not gonna do it for you well I
know God can perform miracles for people he can restore marriages he can you know
restore children back into church and help people get back in the church
then help people get right with God but I'm a different situation yeah
you're right you're so different that you're not gonna see the mighty works
in your life because of your unbelief because nothing's too hard for God
why cuz he is omnipotent he's capable of doing all things that which he
pleases and he's capable of answering our prayers his hands are not sure that
it cannot save nor his ears heavy that it cannot hear but it's the iniquities
and it's also the unbelief that will hinder us from seeing great things in
our life call unto me and I will answer thee and show thee great and
mighty things which thou knowest not the Bible says but if you don't believe
that then why even show you you understand what's the point that I'm
making the point that I'm making is you know as Christians we need to make
sure that we not only believe right but that we have we're constantly
increasing our faith in the Lord and not limiting what God can do in our
lives or in our church in your family and say well you know I've seen him do
it in other churches but you know I just don't think it could be done here
yeah then he's not gonna do it here and you know don't be the person to
limit what God's hand can do in your life in your family and in our
church go to Isaiah 40 if you would Isaiah chapter 40 we're talking about the
omnipotence of God he is Almighty he is all-powerful he's capable of doing
all things at all times and he's even capable of not only fulfilling that
which is reasonable to do but even fulfilling the supernatural performing
miracles doing great and many things and you know what if that's my god I
want to see that in my lifetime you know if God is capable of doing those
things and he's showed me in his word that he can perform the supernatural in
my life I want to see it I want to see it now obviously we're not gonna
see like a Red Sea miracle because at the end of the day we're not
necessarily looking for signs and wonders right we're looking for God to
perform his promises to fulfill his word so that we can you know do works
for God and he can refine us and perform miracles in our lives use this
in a supernatural way so he can show himself strong on our behalf that's why
it's good folks listen to me it's good to have problems in your life it's
always good to have problems in our life we don't like it but it's always
good to have trials tribulations problems conflicts afflictions why
because it gives us an opportunity to see God show himself strong on our
behalf it's another opportunity for God to display his omnipotence in our life
it's good to have health problems I mean obviously to a certain extent right
it's good to have financial problems it's good to have any kind of problem
it's obviously grievous we know it makes us uncomfortable we don't like it
but it's necessary because it's an opportunity for God to show himself
strong on our behalf and unfortunately you know a lot of Christians waste
that they waste the trials they waste the afflictions they waste the pain
and not seek after the Lord their God not seek after the supernatural not seek
after the miracle when really that's the reason God brought it in the first
place you understand what I'm saying he's omnipotent and so recognizing
God's omnipotence motivates us to rely on him especially in times of
weakness so when we look at the omnipotence of God the fact that he's
all-powerful almighty it helps us to rely on him when we feel like we're at
our wit's end look at Isaiah chapter 40 and verse 28 has thou not known has
not heard that the everlasting God the Lord the creator of the ends of the
earth fainteth not neither is weary there is no searching of his
understanding he giveth power to the faint and to them that have no might he
increase its strength even the youth shall faint and be weary and the young
men shall utterly fall but they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their
strength they shall mount up with wings as eagles they shall run and not be
weary they shall walk and not fail we talked about this morning sometimes you
can grow weary and well-doing and that is very common where people burn
out in the service of the Lord because they're just doing a lot they
get discouraged they don't see the results that they want to see
immediately and they get tired of just living the Christian life they get
of just doing right with no immediate recompense to show for it and you know
what I understand that I get that but the Bible says here that God is not
weary he does not faint and in fact he could renew the strength of those who
are weary as long as we're willing to wait on him what does that mean we
keep serving God keep coming to church keep reading the Bible keep
fulfilling your Christian duty and the Bible says that he can renew that
strength he can make you strong in the Lord and the power of his might to
continue to go forward and you know what if you're not discouraged today
you will be discouraged one day you will experience disillusionment
discouragement depression discontentment you know being a dead
all the D's and it's in that time you're gonna recognize I'm depleted I'm
tired I'm discouraged I don't really want to keep going forward I don't feel
like serving God I don't really feel like opening my Bible yes you can get
so tired then in the morning you don't want to wake up to read your Bible
but the Bible says to wait on the Lord and he can renew your strength
why because he's omnipotent he is Almighty he can increase your strength
go to Psalm 147 if you would Psalm 147 recognizing or viewing God's
omnipotence also increases our faith in the face in the face of
opposition the Bible says in Psalm 33 you're going to Psalm 147 Psalm 33 verse
8 says let all the earth fear the Lord let all the inhabitants of the world
stand in awe of him for he spake and it was done he commanded in his
steadfast the Lord bring it the council of the heathen to not meaning
to nothing he make it the devices of the people of none effect the council
of the Lord standeth forever the thoughts of his heart to all
generations so because God is omnipotent he is able to override and overpower the
evil devices of the wicked against God's people and that's important to know
because yay that all the will of God in Christ Jesus shall suffer
persecution and you know I think of you know three years ago what was it
three and a half years ago when we were protested and the church was
bombed and all that you know there's a lot of councils against us and I
remember we were just kind of reminiscing about this my wife and I that you know
they were planning that drag queen parade or contest or whatever it was
right and man I was like racking my brain I was like what are we gonna do
I don't want my kids to see that's gross they're literally gonna have a
drag queen contest in front of our church and it literally said like let's
make them throw up that's what the flyer said they had flyers and you know they
had this wicked device these wicked councils they had these wicked agendas
and it just came to naught it never even happened say well what happened
well the church was bombed so there's nowhere to protest you know and we
didn't have a building but we just met somewhere else the point that I'm
making is that you know God's omnipotent while we were thinking like what are
we gonna and I remember like let's buy speakers because I said you know
because I was brainstorming with Pastor Anderson and I was like what do you
think I should do because this is like this is vile like I'm kind of out
of ideas he was like maybe you should like put speakers out there with
preaching you know face it towards them or something or maybe we could
build a wall like right now we want to tear down walls back then we want to
build walls you know to kind of keep them out and we were coming up with
all these ideas and at the end of the day it was just like you know what we're
just gonna have church and we'll figure it out and I think the only practical
thing that we did is we bought blinders for our kids you know we you
know those blinders that people used to go to sleep like we'll just buy
blinders for the kids so they don't have to look at it but you know all
that stuff came to not because at the end of the day none of it was needed
because he brought those devices and those councils to nothing it didn't
prosper and in fact it helped our church grow in fact it blessed our church in
fact you know we were still able to preach God's Word the church grew more
people got saved I was able to get on the news I was able to preach the
gospel to hundreds of thousands of people I mean it was it was the
omnipotence of God okay you're in Psalm 147 Psalm 147 last thing I want to say
here before we read to Psalm 147 is that you know when you recognize the
omnipotence of God you basically have confidence in his divine justice
and you recognize that all things will work together for good and that's
necessary because you know sometimes you're in a situation where it just
seems like there's no solution you know there's just how is this gonna be
fixed it's not gonna be fixed because you know we're very much solution
oriented people where it's like well let's look at all the variables and
what is the worst case scenario what is the best case scenario but there's
like a God scenario though and he did often doesn't use worst case or best
case he just has another case and sometimes we think well you know this
is what could possibly happen this is in my favor this is what could possibly
happen that's not in my favor and then we just get discouraged and we throw our
hands up but the reality is this is that no matter what happens God is so
powerful he saw Almighty they just come up with another solution that you
didn't even think about but you know what people don't really think about
that because they don't think about the good fact that God is all
powerful and almighty and even if they do take that into consideration they
think to themselves well I just don't think he'll do it for me and you know
what he ends up not doing it for you why because of unbelief the point that
I'm making with the fact that he is omnipotent is to increase our faith
in the fact that God is mighty he's strong he's able to fix your
situation and in fact he's able to make it better okay he can bless you in
the long haul he could bless you in the long run and you know what I know
you can contrive and come up with an imagination of what possibly could take
place but you know there's something even better than that and you have to
you're like well how how I don't know how I just know that God's omnipotent
he's almighty and he's capable of doing so I mean think about Job's
situation right where if you're to talk to Job in the midst of his trial
he'd probably think like I'm just gonna die I just rather just die and you
know Christians can get to that point where it's just like I've lost everything I
mean he lost his kids he lost all his resources lost his house lost the fall
the the the respect of his wife to a certain extent his wife's over here
curse God and die well thank you for that wonderful instruction you know
and then his idiot friends are giving him just the worst type of counsel ever
I mean the guy's just probably thinking I rather just die and he's cursing the
day that he was born but could he really have come to the conclusion that
God was gonna bless him in his ladder and considering what he was going
through at that particular point no it required the Almighty God to perform a
supernatural thing in his life where his ladder and was greater than even his
beginning you understand what I'm saying and so let's not get so caught
up well let me rephrase that because you know I was gonna say let's not
get caught up and believe in the right things because we need to get caught
up and believe in the right things but in conjunction with that you know we
need to make sure that we take the omnipotence of God into consideration
you know because when we recognize how big God is our problems become
very small when we recognize how big God is the challenges become smaller
when we recognize how big God is you know those barriers don't really seem
like barriers anymore why because God can do all things and nothing is
impossible with God okay the second thing we're gonna look at tonight is
God's omniscience and what that means is that he knows all things and has
perfect understanding okay look at Psalm 147 and verse number four he telleth
the number of the stars telleth means he counts them he numbers them
he calleth them all by names by their names great is our Lord and of
great power his understanding is infinite go to Psalm 139 Psalm 139 and
actually hold your place in Psalm 139 because we're gonna we're gonna revisit
that chapter it has a lot of verses and passages dealing with God's
omnipotence omniscience and omnipresence but in Psalm 147 we see
that it says that his understanding is infinite meaning that his ways are
unsearchable now why is that important it's important because of the
fact that it's all right here and we can read this all the days of our
life for years on end for decades and still barely scratched the surface of
the Bible why because his understanding is infinite and you know that is great
news for us because of the fact that we never want to get to a point where
we think we just know everything that there is to know and Christians can
get that way where they feel like well I already arrived I already know
everything that needs to be known of the Bible and then they start you
know going to sources outside of the Bible to kind of tickle their fancy a
little bit whereas a little prayer a little of open down mine eyes that I
may behold wondrous things out of thy law a little recognition of the
omniscience of God can help you to see greater things in the Bible that
you previously have not seen and you know a lot of pastors think themselves
why you know I know the Bible you know Genesis and Revelation I know it
but here's the thing is that the Bible so layered in knowledge and wisdom and
understanding it's infinite that you will never reach the bottom of the
knowledge and understanding of the Word of God okay look at Psalm 139 in verse
number one it says here Oh Lord thou hast searched me and known me thou
knows my down sitting in my uprising thou understand it's my thoughts are far
off so why is it important for us to know the omniscience of God because it
helps us to know that God knows us better than we know ourselves and helps
us to realize that God knows the inner recesses of the heart he knows
our imaginations he knows our thoughts and you know I don't know about you
but there's a certain level of security that I feel knowing that God knows me
better than I know myself you know he knows my thoughts therefore I don't have
to act like I'm hiding something from him I'm just completely vulnerable to the
God of the Bible he sees everything that he knows when I sit down he knows when
I get up he understands my thoughts are far off look at verse 3 thou
compasses my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways so
this is very much a personal God right the omniscience of God helps us to
realize that God is not just an omnipotent God who created the heavens and the
earth who created all the populations and all of creation that exists but he's
also very much interested in what's going on with you which is powerful
if you think about it the fact that he is very much concerned with your
grief because you know sometimes we all have a level of grief that we don't
share with everyone right even those who are closest to us we don't share with
there's certain thoughts that we have certain ways that we feel certain things
that we think about that we would either be ashamed of or just we can't
really share that with everyone because we feel like people wouldn't be
acquainted with that type of grief or those types of thoughts but you know
what God is though he is acquainted with our grief he's acquainted with our
thoughts he knows our discouragements he knows our fears our doubts our
anxieties you know the things that will run us into the ground the things
that causes us to fear he knows us he knows us he's acquainted with all of
our ways he says there is not a word in my tongue but lower but lo o Lord
thou knowest it all together let me read to you from job 42 verse 1 says then
job answered the Lord and said I know that thou can't do everything and that no
thought can be withholding from thee who is he that hideth counsel without
knowledge therefore have I uttered that I understood not things too wonderful
for me which I knew not to go to Hebrews chapter 4 hold your place here
in Psalm 139 if you would and then we're gonna go to Matthew chapter 6
Hebrews chapter 4 Hebrews chapter number 4 now why is it important to know or
be acquainted with the omniscience of God well it'll prevent us from thinking
that we can hide things from God right you know if you're regarding
iniquity in your heart and you think you're hiding it from the Lord if you
think you're being like Adam if you if you think you're just getting away
with certain thought patterns or sins you know God knows it all this is why
you know the concept of confessing our sins doesn't mean we're confessing
something that God doesn't know about he we're coming into agreement with
something that he does know about we're telling them we've sinned against you
and God is basically saying yeah I know I just want you to admit it
because God knows it all okay the Bible says in Hebrews chapter 4 verse
12 for the Word of God is quick and powerful sharper than any two-edged
sword piercing even to the dividing of sunder of soul and spirit and of the
joints and marrow and is it a certain of the thoughts in the intense of the
heart neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight but all
things are naked and open into the eyes of him with whom we have to do
what is the same what's tying in verse 13 to verse 12 with the Word of
God and it's saying that the Bible is so powerful that it's able to look
into the inner recesses of the heart and basically see all the contents
that are in this is why when you read the Bible sometimes you read the Word
of God and it resonates with what you're going through at that moment
you'll hear preaching and it resonates with something that's going on at that
moment why because God knows all our ways and is by and his word is so
powerful that it can relate to the current circumstance that you're in you
know the Quran can't do that the Book of Mormon can't do that you walk
away from those books more confused than ever whereas when you walk away
from the Word of God from your daily devotionals from the preaching of God's
Word you understand you know God knows my ways he's dealing with my sin he's
dealing with this struggle that I'm going through or he's confirming
something he's confirming my confidence in him he's increasing my
faith and this is why it's important to have a daily devotional time because
it reinforces the omniscience of God that God knows exactly what's taking
place in your life I mean how many times have you open up the Bible and
let's just say this you know you open up the Bible you read something and
something speaks to you it resonates with your spirit then you come to
church and I preach on it you're like whoa that's crazy like I just read
that that's because God is omniscient and he knows the inner recess of the
heart you're like well then is that sermon specifically for me no it's for
everyone but everything's naked to the eyes of God so they're just it'll just
apply all across the board and there's something in the Word of God that can
apply to you in every sense of the way because God knows it all go to
Matthew chapter 6 Matthew chapter number 6 as you turn in I'm gonna reach you
from first Chronicles 28 verse 9 it says that in thou Solomon my son know
thou the God of thy father and serve him with the perfect heart and
willing mind for the Lord searcheth all hearts and understandeth all the
imaginations of the thoughts if thou seek him he will be found of them
but if thou forsake him he will cast thee off forever the Bible says let me
skip some verses here look at Matthew chapter 6 now why is it important for
us to understand the omniscience of God well because he knows our needs
before we even know them he knows our situation better than we know our
situation and in fact look at Matthew 6 verse 20 it says but when you pray
use not vain repetitions as the Catholics do or it says here heathen
of course for they think that they shall be heard for their Hail Mary's
right for their shall be heard for their much speaking be not ye therefore
like unto them for your father knoweth what things he have need of before
ye ask him the Bible says so he knows the needs before the need even arises
he knows what you need he knows the the provision that you're gonna ask
for before you even ask it he said that why even pray for it because
prayer is an act of faith it's asking him to provide for that specific need
even though he already knows what you need and what you're gonna ask for go
to chapter 10 if you would chapter number 10 chapter number 10 now this is
important because of the fact that you're gonna go through a trial and
it'll catch you off guard it'll blindside you and in your fleshly
nature you almost think like God didn't know about it either it's like
how can God allow this to happen to me he already knew before the
foundation of the world he already knew these things were gonna happen to us
he's already taken that into account it doesn't catch him off guard he allowed
it because he knew and in fact he allowed it to happen because he knows
that you can handle it right look at Matthew 10 verse 29 are not two
sparrows sold for a farthing and one of them shall not fall on the
ground without your father how many birds die a day around the world right
like all around the world how many birds just hit the ground every single
day and you know what I mean probably in the hundreds of thousands probably I
mean that's probably like a conservative number but let's just say
like hundreds of let's say five hundred thousand that might be a little
excessive but let's just say 500 does God knows every single one of them
as soon as they hit the ground he knows he keeps account of all these
birds to hit the ground look at verse 30 but the very hair of your head are
all numbered so he's saying that I keep track of the birds that fall and I
keep track of the hairs on your head now I understand some people it's not
very hard to do so I get it it's like one right this is the very hairs
of your head all numbered you know that tells me he's omniscient you know
he knows he knows when you have a full set of hair he knows when you're balding
okay and obviously verse 30 what it's trying to get across here is the fact
that God pays attention to the very details of our life and he knows them
intimately he's omniscient regarding our physical well-being our spiritual
well-being he knows it all okay go back to Psalm 139 so recognizing the
omniscience of God motivates us to seek him for wisdom and knowledge you
see a lot of Christians already know about the omniscience of God they
recognize that that is a fact that it is a true statement but in spite of
that they still read commentaries in spite of that they don't pray to
understand the Bible in spite of that they don't seek after God when in the
situation that's difficult why cuz you know they may they may know that he's
omniscient but they don't really believe it or so to a certain extent
because believing in his omniscience motivates us to seek him for wisdom
and knowledge and you know what I hope that as a Christian every single
day when you wake up or whenever it is do you read the Bible you ask God
Lord give me knowledge give me wisdom Lord grant me wisdom today help me to
have wisdom you like I already have wisdom well ask for more wisdom ask for
the wisdom to not tell God that you already have wisdom and if you're
already saying you have wisdom then you don't have wisdom you're you're
foolish ask God for wisdom and knowledge and the Bible says that he
abraded not right meaning that because he's the source of wisdom and because
we're asking for it he's not gonna chastise us he's not gonna get angry
with us he's not gonna discipline us he's gonna give it to us liberally
he's not gonna abrade us he's gonna just pour his wisdom upon us
when needed and why ask for it why ask him for that wisdom cuz he is the
source of wisdom he is the omniscient one he understand things better than we
know ourselves it increases our faith in times of instability and
uncertainty and there's a sense of security and knowing that God knows us
better than we know ourselves lastly is his omnipresence meaning that he is in
all places at all times now this doesn't mean that because God is
omnipresent that everything is God you know this is Eastern mysticism
type of teaching so well this is God you know and that's God I'm God
everything is God that's a stupid doctrine okay when we talk about the
omnipresence of God referring to the fact that his presence his eyes are in
every place beholding the evil and the good okay look at Psalm 139 in verse
number 5 that says thou has beset me behind and before and laid thine hand
upon me such knowledge is too wonderful for me it is high I cannot
attain unto it whither shall I go from thy spirit or whither shall I flee
from thy presence if I ascend up into heaven thou art there if I make my bed
in hell behold thou art there if I take the wings of the morning and dwell in
the uppermost uttermost parts of the sea even there shall the girls pay
attention over here no more no more playing in church okay sit up straight
pay attention if I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the
uttermost parts of the sea even there shall thy hand lead me and thy
right hand shall hold me now it would have been good of Jonah knew about
this passage right when he fled from the presence of the Lord is like you
can't flee from God's presence now why is this important to know well because
of the fact that you know even today there's a lot of weird false
doctrines about the presence of God okay you know they'll often describe
in fact they'll often describe the punishment of eternal damnation that is
also referred to as hell as being what a separation from God and you know I
don't really know where that comes from or who even invented that but it
had to be some like poet or something trying to romanticize hell or something
because here's the thing here's my personal opinion and I can't prove this
beyond a shadow of a doubt this is just my judgment is that whoever
invented that doctrine was probably a major holier than thou you say well
how so why would you think it's a holier than thou well because of the
fact that what they're implying is like hell isn't eternal fire and torment
it's never being able to be in the presence of God again basically
implying like the one most wonderful things to be in the presence of God and
hell and not having that presence is hell no you're burning bro just that's
just basic you're just being tormented day and night that's what
hell is okay so they'll often say no hell is a separation because what true
hell is it's being away from God forever no you're good because you won't
be away from God forever he's actually gonna watch your roast
forever you're good why because the Bible tells us that hell and
destruction are before the Lord how much more the hearts of the sons of man
the Bible says and you know I hate the bursts the romantic this this
romantic view of hell if there is any but you know what let me just let
me just break it to you let me burst the bubble that God is literally
watching people burn for all of eternity well how can a loving God do
well you know I'm all for exalting the quality of God's love but not at the
exclusion of his other qualities as well and his other characteristics
divine characteristics is righteousness and judgment and you know what God is
angry with the wicked every day well we'll prove it hell you know hell's
hell's is a major proof that he is angry with the wicked every day because
how is he displaying that anger by burning them for all of eternity and
you know you have these people you know who teach annihilationism and
whatever other form or variants of that is just like oh no there is no
such thing as burning eternally because God is loving and God will
never just burn you for all of eternity you know an unsafe person just
kind of burns up and ceases to exist wrong my friend because in order for
someone to fulfill their debts or to pay for their debt should I say of sin it
requires all of eternity in hell to do so people go to hell to pay for
their own sins and the debt has never paid off and you know hell's not a
place where it's just like well you know that's just God's little other
room over there and no one goes in there God doesn't go there no he's
watching them and in fact the Bible says that he that they're burning before
the lamb David said if I make my bed in hell they aren't there God sees it
all he's omnipresent he's in heaven but he's also in hell watching people
pay for their sins for all of eternity go to Revelation 14 the eyes of the
Lord in Proverbs 15 verse 3 says are in every place beholding the evil and the
good let me read to you from Jeremiah 23 mmm verse 24 says this can any hide
himself in secret places that I shall not see him safe the Lord do not I
fill heaven and earth saith the Lord I have heard what the Prophet said that
prophesy lies in my name saying I have dreamed I have dreamed how long
shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies yea they
are prophets of the deceit of their own heart what is he saying I'm in your
dreams you didn't dream I didn't give you that dream you didn't even dream
it you lied about it no one can hide in the secret places and he shall not
see him and you know this verse makes me think of something personal
how many you've ever had those we were just talking about those dreams
what are those things called when you feel like you're being a can't wake
up not lucid dreams sleep sleep paralysis how many you've ever had that it's
the worst experience ever okay you guys know what does anybody know what
I'm talking about raise your hand if you know what I'm talking about sleep
paralysis okay where you're just like you know you're just trying to
like and they're not listening and then you get up and you're mad at them
you're like I was calling out to you and you didn't wake me up you guys
know what I'm talking about okay if you don't you'll get it tonight sleep
paralysis well I've had sleep paralysis and you know if you don't wake
up from sleep paralysis it's almost as if you go into like this really deep
dream or something it's a little scary actually yes I'm talking about my
the only one who experiences that thank you I see that hand you're
acquainted with my grief well I've been there like multiple times right
where you just have that sensation that you're just like in that dream it's
scary I mean it is it's here to me but you know what over the last
whenever I don't remember the last times I've had it but I vividly
remember thinking of myself because just I was terrified I remember
thinking myself like I'm so scared because I'm just not waking up but then
I think to myself wait a minute God can hear me I literally think like I'm
not too far from God like God is literally listening to my thoughts right
now because you know like dreams are like the most inner recesses of our of
our mind and our heart it's like it's the only place that God can it
God's the only one who can hear what's going on there and as soon as
I think that like I'm just at peace because I think to myself like God is
listening to me speak right now and I begin to like worship the Lord in my
dream and just like pray to him you say well that's a little exactly you're just
you're that's too much no it says there can any hide himself in the secret
places I shall not see him he sees it all even the immaterial parts of your
dream of your heart no man can hide anywhere because he is omnipresent the
Bible says in Amos 9 1 though they dig into hell then shall my hand take
them though they climb up to heaven that's will I bring them down he's
basically saying he's so present in all places you can run but you cannot hide
like you can you can dig all the way to China if you wanted to he will
pluck you up you can go all the way to the stars he will bring you
down you can go with Elon Musk to Mars if you want he'll he'll pluck you
from there too look at Revelation 14 verse 10 it says the same shall drink of
the wine of the wrath of God which is poured out without mixture into the cup
of his indignation and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in
the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb so the
Bible is saying here that people will burn and torment in the fire before the
presence of God go to second Thessalonians chapter 1 second
Thessalonians chapter 1 you know we don't need to romanticize hell we need
to just recognize that yes they will be tormented before the presence of God
because the very essence of him being omni present is that he's in all places
including hell itself he's beholding the punishment of evildoers look at
second Thessalonians 1 verse 8 it says in flaming fire taking vengeance on
them that know not God and that obey not the gospel of the Lord Jesus
Christ who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the
presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power now people who
often teach this doctrine that hell is being away from God's presence will
often use this text to prove that because of the wording right it says
that they will be punished with everlasting
destruction from the presence of the Lord like away from the presence of
God but that's not what it's saying at all what it's actually teaching
based upon other scriptures in conjunction interpreting this through
other scriptures it's saying the destruction is coming from God's
presence which is extremely powerful if you think about it and we don't have
time to develop it we can go to Daniel chapter 7 and see how a lake of
fire proceeds forth from the presence of God it's coming from him because
here's the thing folks where does hell come from hell is an expressed
image of God's wrath he didn't just like you know he didn't just like
created hell is from God because hell is God's judgment hell is his
chastisement it's his punishment it is his eternal damnation for people
who reject the gospel so it proceeds forth from him this is why you know in
Daniel chapter 7 it's not a lake that proceeds forth from it says like a
river of fire that proceeds forth from him and a river feeds a lake so it goes
from him to the lake of fire you understand and this is why people burn
eternally in hell before the presence of God go to act chapter 17 and we're
done act chapter 17 now why is it important for us to know about the
omni presence of God well because number one it keeps you from doing
stupid stuff right keeps you right with God think about Joseph how can I do this
great sin against God even though he was in Egypt he was raised in Canaan
land he's in a foreign land he knows he's still in the presence of God and
in fact the Bible repeatedly says of him that the Lord was with him he had
God's presence with him so knowing the presence of God is always with us
it keeps us out of trouble because we know that God is always watching right
so it keeps us from committing sin it keeps us from getting into trouble but
you know it also comforts us when we're afraid yay though I walk to the
valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil for thou art with me thy
rod and thy staff they comfort me right you know when you are you know
when you're a kid and it was your turn to go turn off the lights everyone
knows what I'm talking about it's just like and now they have like reals
right we're like they actually manifested these demons it's like they
turn off the lights and someone's actually chasing them or something I
you know you as a kid you feel like someone's chasing you know and ever
growing up as a kid just like terrified right because you just like
feel it behind you just like that sounds like right there but obviously
you know as a Christian you know and obviously people get over that after a
while hopefully no nightlights for adults here amen it's funny because now
as an adult now I'm afraid of like physical light now because you know the
light bill I make sure all the lights are turned off and the only thing I fear
in the dark is Legos stepping on a Lego is the worst possible thing you
could ever experience okay or splitting my toes on a chair or something as
I'm walking you guys all I'm talking with that's the only thing I fear now
okay but you know other instances when you feel alone fear maybe grips your
heart and since it that's why it's important for us to know about the
omnipresence of God that God is with me right that the Lord is with you and
even if you're not alone but you feel alone you know when you have for
example you know you may have your church here and you have your brothers
and sisters in Christ you have people around you but you know you might be
going through something you feel alone in here I'm not trying to get poetic
here but you know you know but then we realize you know the Lord says I will
never leave you no forsaken so no Christian could ever say I feel alone or
I am alone because the Lord said I will never leave you no forsaken why cuz God's presence will
always be with us in fact we have God in us the hope of glory and if you
feel that way then you need to get acquainted with the omnipresence of
God and practice excuse me this is what they used to say back in the day
they used to say you need to practice the presence of God so what does that
mean practice being conscientious of the fact that God is present like
actually think about it that he's here with you right that's called
press it's not like you're manifesting God's presence it's
recognizing that it's there you understand you're not alone that he's
there he's with you you're not alone ok look at Acts chapter 17 verse 26 it says
and he it and hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on the
all the face of the earth and have to determine the times before appointed
and the bounds of their habitation that they should seek the Lord if
happily they might feel after him and find him though he be not far from
everyone of us now in its context referring to unsaved people right unsaved
people don't necessarily have the presence of God the way we have it but
it's nigh unto them even in their mouths though and in their hearts if
they're willing to call upon the name of the Lord meaning that a person
doesn't have to be in a specific geographical location to be saved they
can get saved anywhere we don't have to go to Jerusalem to go worship we don't
have to go to a mosque we don't have to definitely don't have to go to a
synagogue that's the only place where the presence of God is not okay but
you know God people can get saved anywhere because he is not very far
from every one of us the Moses his presence is there and his the word is
90 even in my mouth and in my heart that is the word of faith which we
preach the point that I'm making here is that you know it's important for us to
recognize and be mindful of these divine characteristics of God recognize
that he is omnipotent you're gonna need that one day because you're gonna
be without strength without power and you'll end up decreasing your faith
because of it but when you are in recognition that God is all-powerful
and that nothing's too hard for the Lord he can do all things and we can do
all things to Christ with strength in with us then nothing's impossible we can
exercise total faith in God that God can create something out of nothing he
can perform the miraculous in our lives not only that but we also need
to recognize the omniscience of God that God knows all things and because
we esteem the fact that he knows all things it makes us read the Bible
it makes him seek it makes us seek after his wisdom and his knowledge and
it makes us make sure that we have the right type of thinking too because he
can see our thoughts right and then lastly of course we need to be we need
to recognize the omnipresence of God because it keeps us right with God
and it provides a sense of security when we feel alone amen let's pray
father we thank you so much for your word thank you for your divine
characteristics God we're thankful that you are omnipotent that you're
almighty all-powerful you're capable of doing all things at all times Lord
and I don't want to just have mental assent of that truth I want it to I want
to be able to see it in my life I want to be able to experience the power of
God in my life Lord as I win people to Christ as I turn people to
righteousness as I lead my family my wife and my children our church and just
in my personal needs Lord I want you to show yourself strong on my behalf I
want to be able to call upon you with the specific need and have you
mean it in a special way and I believe you want us to ask you of those
things I believe you want to show yourself strong on behalf of those
whose heart is perfect with you and I pray you help us to think about the
omnipresence omnipotence of God but also the omniscience of God that
you know all things and that no thought could ever be hidden from you
and lastly of course help us to recognize your omnipresence that where
two or three are gathered together in your name there you are in the midst
that you're always with us and the bad and the good and I pray that you would
comfort us as we take those things into consideration and remember those
things as we go about our week we love you we thank you pray these
things in Jesus name amen
turn your handles to song number 356 I must tell Jesus