Sermon Tone Analysis

01-20-08

 

/Hebrews 4:12-13 (NASB95) \\ 12 //For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.//

\\ 13 //And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do./ \\ \\

Christ knows us.

He sees us as we really are.

Christ is God, and as God possesses all the divine attributes of God.

As God, He sees through any and all pretense of righteousness to our depravity and helplessness, and it is for /that/ that He went to the cross.

All through scripture we see that God has revealed this truth about himself:

 

/Proverbs 15:11 (NASB95) \\ 11 //Sheol and Abaddon lie open before the Lord, How much more the hearts of men!/ \\ \\

/David’s prayer in Psalm 139:23 (NASB95) \\ 23 //Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me and know my anxious thoughts;/ \\ \\

/Through Samuel, God rejected all of David’s older brothers, saying,/

/“Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”/

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A.W. Tozer in his classic book “The Knowledge of the Holy” says– “In the divine omniscience we see set forth against each other the terror and fascination of the Godhead.

That God knows each person through and through can be a cause of shaking fear to the man that has something to hide…

…And to us who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope that is set before us in the gospel, how unutterably sweet is the knowledge that our Heavenly Father knows us completely.”