The Omnipotent God Made Me

In Psalm 139, David is meditating on God’s penetrating knowledge of him, His inescapable presence with Him, and His sovereign purposes for him. In the opening section (vv. 1-6), David meditates on God’s omniscience.

The totality of his life—everything he would ever say, do, think, feel, was not only known by God but had always been known by God, and evaluated by God according to His perfect standards. In the second section (vv. 7-12), David mediates on God’s omnipresence.

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The Omnipresent God Sees Me

Remember the context from last the last post. In Psalm 139, David is meditating on God’s penetrating knowledge of him, His inescapable presence with Him, and His sovereign purposes for him. In the opening section (vv. 1-6), David meditates on God’s omniscience.

The totality of his life—everything he would ever say, or do, or think, or feel, was not only known by God but had always been known by God, and evaluated by God according to His perfect standards. At first, David’s reaction is holy fear.

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The Omniscient God Knows Me

The longing for relationship is one of our most basic desires as human beings. God is a relational God. Within the Trinity from eternity past, there has been perfect fellowship and communion between the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Being made in the image of God means that we’re hard wired for relationships.

Humanity was created to be in relationship with God, which is why worship is one of our most basic drives.

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God’s Saving, Sacrificial Love

Firstly, it describes God’s gift to the world: “God…gave his only Son”. Among the mass of humanity that has walked the earth, Jesus Christ is utterly unique: He is one Person with two natures. On the one hand, He is fully human. In His human nature He was born to a human mother, He lived, and He died.

On the other hand, He is fully God. In His divine nature He is eternal and uncreated, the same in substance and equal in power and glory to God Himself.

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Church-Planting Q&A with Paul Washer

In these videos, Mario and Quinton Maneville had the privilege of quizzing Paul Washer for over two hours on a variety of topics ranging from his pesonal life to church-planting. 

Mario and Quinton are pastors of Reformed Faith Mission Community Church in Bellville South, Cape Town, South Africa. They have a remarkable witness among the gangs and drug dealers of their community.

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