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Hello and welcome to the
Middletown Baptist Church Podcast,

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where we are proclaiming the
truth to the world.

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In this podcast series, we're
going to be looking into biblical

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words that have great
significance to our faith.

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The name of this series is
called the Word of the Week, where

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once a week we will dive
deeper into these words that we are

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familiar with in Scripture.

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So come along with me.

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Let's study the Word of the week.

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Pastor Josh here.

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The Word of the Week is omniscient.

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We have started a study last
week on the attributes of God.

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We talked about the attributes
of God that we can mirror in our

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own lives and live out to a
degree in our own lives.

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Obviously not to perfection,
but to some degree follow.

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But then we also talked about
the attributes, the incommunicable

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attributes of God in which we
cannot obtain.

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And one of those would be what
we talked about last week.

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Omnipotence.

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God's all powerful nature.

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No limitations.

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He is all powerful.

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This week we're going to be
studying the word omniscient, which

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means all knowing.

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It means that God knows everything.

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He has complete knowledge of
past, present and future.

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He knows what we think.

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He knows our intentions.

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He knows the answer to every question.

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Ultimately, we know that God
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God is not limited in his knowledge.

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All of us to some degree, are limited.

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Some know more things than
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But all of us are limited in
the concept of knowing different

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ideas or solutions or even facts.

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And so we can see in Scripture
that it talks about God not just

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being wise.

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God is more than just wise,
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knowledge, but he is the God
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Over and over again in
Scripture, we see that God knows

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everything.

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I think of the passage of
Scripture in Matthew, chapter 10,

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verses 29, 30.

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Obviously, the Lord's talking
here about individuals that are worried

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or there's some anxiety about
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And Jesus is talking about the
understanding that God he knows even

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when the sparrows fall.

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He says, are not two sparrows
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And one of them shall not fall
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but the very hairs of your
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And so there's this beautiful
thought about the fact that God knows

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everything about us.

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And if he cares about the
future of a sparrow, we know that

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he cares about our own life.

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And so he's talking here about
this understanding that God knows

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everything about us.

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He knows the hair on our heads.

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He knows the thoughts in our heart.

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And so we can know that God
knows about our struggles.

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He knows about our needs.

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We don't even have to tell him now.

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He wants us to tell Him.

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In that relationship of a
father and child, he wants us to

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tell him.

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But he knows all of our needs.

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The Bible says in First John,
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For if our heart condemn us,
God is greater than our hearts and

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he knoweth all things.

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So there's another statement
here of the understanding that God

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knows all things.

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He knows our heart, he knows
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And even In Isaiah, chapter
46, it says this in verse nine, Remember

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the former things of old, for
I am God and there is none else.

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I am God and there is none
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Declaring the end from the
beginning, from the ancient times,

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the things that are not yet
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and I will do all my pleasure.

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So God knows everything in the
moment, but God also knows everything

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about the past.

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He knows everything about the future.

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He knows what's going to
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Now that doesn't mean that we.

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We are without choice and that
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It just is God's living
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knows our decisions.

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And so as, as a Christian, we
can take comfort in that, that God

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knows our heart, he knows our
failures, he knows our struggles,

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but yet he still loves us.

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And we have a God who cares
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We'll talk more about his
attribute of love later on in the

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study.

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But ultimately it's a.

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It's a wonderful thing to know
that God knows where we are.

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He understands our struggles,
even if we don't even know what our

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struggles completely are.

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He knows what's coming in our
future, and he's preparing us for

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that.

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I think of Psalm 139, 4.

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In this verse, we see that he
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we speak it out.

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Psalm 134, verse.

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Excuse me.

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Psalm 139, verse 4.

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For there is not a word in my
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it all together.

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And so what we can tell from
this passage is that God knows what

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we're going to say even before
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He knows our hearts from a distance.

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He knows our wants, our, and
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And he provides for our needs.

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And so this is just one
element of God's perfect character,

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is that he is all knowing.

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And we even see this in the
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earth.

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I mean, there are times where
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He discerns their hearts.

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And that's not just Him.

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Feeling it.

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That's him knowing it.

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And we know that God, even in
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In John chapter 1, Jesus saw
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unto him, behold, an Israelite
indeed in whom is no guile.

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Nathaniel said unto him,
whence knowest thou me?

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And Jesus answered and said
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thee.

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When thou wast under the fig
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And so Jesus is exercising his
omniscience by saying, hey, I knew

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you before you knew me.

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I saw you under the fig tree.

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And there's a lot of
speculation on what that means.

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Most people believe, most
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was probably having some kind
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to God and seeking after him
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And what Jesus essentially
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I saw you in your deepest,
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I saw you thinking through
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asking God.

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And so this is a beautiful
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Now, for some people,
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him, the fact that God knows
all can maybe even be a fearful thing.

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Because if we're hiding
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harboring sin in our lives, or
maybe we are trying to hide something

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from somebody else, or trying
to hide something for God, what we

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can tell through this
attribute is that we can't hide anything

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from God.

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We might be able to hide it
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We might even be able to lie
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there's nothing that we can
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And so instead of trying to
run away from him, instead of trying

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to hide things from Him, I
think that this truth brings us to

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a place of authenticity before
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And I think that this can,
like I said before, if this is a

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truth that makes you
uncomfortable, it might be time for

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us to inspect our own lives,
to say, what am I trying to hide

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from God?

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Is there something in my life
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If so, the Beauty is that
first John 1, chapter 9 tells us

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that if we confess our sins,
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us our sins and cleanse us
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And so Jesus knows our thoughts.

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And so therefore, and this is
another beautiful thing, that if

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you think back to Romans
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God commendeth or demonstrate
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And that while we were at
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So the beauty here is that the
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that we would rebel, but
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For our sins because of his
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So God loves us so much he
sent his only begotten Son, knowing

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that we would fail, knowing
the future, knowing that we would

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sin, but yet still because of
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Jesus for us.

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And so that plays all into the
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He knows all.

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He knows everything in this world.

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He knows what is done in private.

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He knows what's done obviously
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And so he knows not only the
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those that are surrounding our life.

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He knows what people have done
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He knows what's going to
happen tomorrow.

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He knows the outcome of, you
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of sicknesses.

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And he knows all of these things.

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But yet still we as Christians
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And understandably so, because
we are humans and so we don't know

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the future.

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But I think what we can do
with this is with many of the attributes

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of God rely on faith to know
that God has it under control, to

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rely in faith in God, that He
knows my needs and will provide my

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needs in the midst of the
loss, in the midst of brokenness,

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in the midst of confusion.

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And so we humbly have to seek
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And to know God's omniscient
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God who is not limited by circumstance.

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I can tell you that there are
many times in my life where I come

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to a scenario and I don't know
what to do.

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I don't know what the right
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And even if I sometimes know
that, hey, this decision here is

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going to go this way, or this
decision here might go this way,

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ultimately I am limited in my
wisdom because ultimately I'm not

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God.

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And what I have to understand
that as a Christian is when there

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are times in my life when I
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The Bible actually tells us
what we should do, and that's found

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in the book of James.

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I have a sermon entitled what
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And there's going to be times
in our life where we have hit our

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wall as a human, we have hit
our wall as a finite, limited creation

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of God where we don't know
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And in James chapter one,
verse, verse five, it says, if any

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of you lack wisdom, right?

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So if any of you lack wisdom,
which for me that happens quite frequently,

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he gives us what we are to do,
what we are to do when we don't know

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what to Do.

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He says, let him ask of God
that giveth to all men liberally

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and abradeth not, meaning he
doesn't get upset with us when we

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do this, and it shall be given
him, but let him ask in faith, nothing

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wavering, for he that wavereth
is like a wave of the sea driven

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with the wind and tossed.

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And so what the Bible tells us
here is that when we do lack wisdom,

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when we don't know the
answers, we go to the one who does

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know the answers.

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And the Bible says, let him.

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When we ask in faith, let him
ask of God that giveth to all men

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liberally, meaning giveth
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God pours that out to us as
generously, and he doesn't hold it

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against us.

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When we go back, and we go
back and we go back, we can go as

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many times as we want for that
wisdom that well does not run dry.

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The Bible says when we do
that, he will give it to us at the

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end of that verse, in verse 5,
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But it does tell us that we
have to ask in faith, and that's

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what we mentioned before.

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Knowing that God is omniscient
leads us to a place of faith, leads

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us to a place of trust.

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Like, if he knows what he's
doing, okay, if God knows what he's

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doing, which we must believe
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Through this process, I
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in a Tesla car.

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Now, I don't know what your
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these days, but one of the.

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One of the things that the car
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Now, you got to pay attention.

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You can't sleep at the wheel
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Your eyes have to be up on the road.

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But I had to get in the car,
and the person that was taking me

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on the ride said, okay, you
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And so I didn't have my hand
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my feet on the gas.

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And it was very interesting
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step on the brake.

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Everything in me wanted to
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But the way that the car was
designed, it handled it itself, and

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that took a lot of trust.

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I had to trust the person that
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And whether that trust was in
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I ended up safe at the end.

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But the truth is that
sometimes, as Christians, we have

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to trust our designer.

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We have to trust our creator
to go through that process and to

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say, lord, you know better
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So therefore I'm not going to
question, I'm not going to doubt,

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I'm not going to try to figure
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Like so many other folks in
scripture, we see that God tells

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them something, tells them to
trust him, but yet they try to figure

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out on their own, try to make
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Obviously a great example of
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But you know what?

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I have been Abraham in my life.

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When God has told me to go
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me to go through something,
I've not trusted in Him.

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I've tried to figure it out on
my own in my limited knowledge, my

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limited wisdom.

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And so therefore the lesson of
God's omniscient nature is this.

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I can trust in him because he
knows the outcome, he knows the answer.

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He knows what's best for me,
even when I don't know what's best.

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And so what an amazing truth
it is to know that God is all knowing

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that he sent his only begotten
Son for us.

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Knowing yes, that we would
sin, but knowing that love is this

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amazing, amazing character
trait of God.

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And we will talk about his
love later on.

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But this lesson today was
about his omniscient nature.

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So I encourage you to rest in
that wonderful truth of his omnipotence,

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his all powerful nature and
then today his omniscience, his all

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knowing nature.

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We're going to come back next
week and look at his omnipresence,

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which means he's everywhere
all at once.

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And these omniscient,
omnipotent and omnipresent attributes

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all tie in together into his
attributes and his character.

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So looking forward to studying
that with you next week.

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Thank you for listening this week.

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Remember, God is omniscient.

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He knows all.

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And that is a beautiful truth
that we can take in our lives.

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And to go to him according to
James Chapter one and ask him for

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that wisdom that he has and he
will give that to us with no limit.

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I hope you have a wonderful
rest of your week.

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Thank you for listening to the podcast.

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We look forward to talking to
you next week on another Word of

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the Week episode.

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God bless you.

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Take care.

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We'll talk to you soon.

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Hey, I really appreciate that
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Stay tuned for future Word of
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into words that impact our
life according to scripture.

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God bless.

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We'll talk to you soon.