Psalm 69:5 O God, you know my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from you. I. GOD MUST HAVE KNOWLEDGE OF MAN'S SIN. Because — 1. He is infinite in knowledge. 2. He is everywhere present. 3. He is everywhere perceiving. 4. He is ever reading the heart. 5. He knows what is yet to be.You are all books, and every page is open to the eye of the great Reader, who reads you from the first letter to the last. There is nothing which any man here can possibly conceal from God. It is so, it must be so; if God be God, He knows my foolishness, and my sins are not hid from Him. II. Now, let us just turn the current of our thought while I ask, concerning God's knowledge of man's sin, AFTER WHAT FASHION IS IT? If God knows, in what particular way does He know? 1. It is complete knowledge; the Lord knows us altogether. I must confess that I cower down beneath that thought. That the Lord should know my public service is sufficiently awe-striking; but that He should know my private thoughts, ah! this sinks me into the very dust! 2. It is the knowledge of a holy being. 3. It is an abiding knowledge. 4. It is an eternal knowledge. III. WHAT THEN? 1. How frivolous must those be who never think about it t 2. What care this ought to work in us! 3. What holy trembling this ought to put in us! ( C. H. Spurgeon.) Parallel Verses KJV: O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.WEB: God, you know my foolishness. My sins aren't hidden from you. |
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