Wakeboard Church June 14, 2007
This week we discuss God’s Omnipotence or God’s Knowledge
Defined: God fully knows himself and all things actual and possible in one simple and eternal act.
God is “perfect in knowledge” (Job 37:16)
God “knows everything” (1 John 3:20)
“For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. For what person knows a man’s thoughts except the spirit of the man which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God” (1 Cor. 2:10-11)
God knows the future, for he is the one who can say, “I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done” (Isaiah 46:9-10)
He knows the tiny details of every one of our lives, for Jesus tells us, “Your Father knows what you need before you ask him” (Matt 6:8)
“Even the hairs on your head are numbered” (Matt 10:30)
This thought process rocks me.
The fact that God knows all things possible can also be deduced from God’s full knowledge of himself. If God fully knows himself, he knows everything he is able to do, which includes all things that are possible. The fact is indeed amazing. God has made an incredibly complex and varied universe. But there are thousands upon thousands of other variations or kinds of things that God could have created but did not. God’s infinite knowledge includes detailed knowledge of what each of those other possible creations would have been like and what would have happened in each of them! “Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain it” (Ps 139:6). “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts” (Isa. 55:9)
Taken from Wayne Grudem’s Systematic Theology pg 191
When we bring this home it’s amazing because “while we were still sinners Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8)
And
Christ is “the bright radiance of the glory of God” he is “the exact representation of his nature”
It’s comforting to me to know that God knows what is going to happen to me at work in the next two weeks, cause I don’t. It’s comforting to know that God knows what is going to happen a year from now, cause I don’t. It’s comforting to me to know that God is in control of these and all situations, because I trust Him.
I challenge you to trust Him with more than you are trusting Him with now.
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