in your grace towards us each
each day and so many times we we just begin our day and and
uh don't take notice of the many blessings which you bestow upon
us oh lord but we pray that you would be glorified today and
magnified and we pray that we would see those things in our
lives that we would see your daily hand upon our lives and
and know that you are an all-wise, all-knowing, all-powerful God
and you are the one who keeps us in your hands. We love you,
praise you, thank you for your goodness and mercy and grace
that has been bestowed upon us in and through our Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ. Pray that you be glorified today
through the preaching of thy word in Jesus' name. Amen. Today, we'll be continuing our
study on the attributes of God. The attributes of God. Turn, if you would, to the book
of Daniel. The book of Daniel, chapter 2. Daniel, chapter 2. Our topic today is the knowledge
of God. Last week in our study, on the
attributes of God, we looked at the faithfulness of God and
how He is faithful to keep that which He has promised, because
as God, He cannot lie. He cannot lie. And he alone has
the ability to also carry out that which he has promised to
do. So he's ever faithful, ever faithful. And he's also all powerful. So he has the ability, the power
to do that which he has promised to do. And today I'd like us
to consider in our studies on the attributes of God, the knowledge
of God, the knowledge of God. which is the fact that our God
is all-knowing, and that nothing ever catches Him by surprise,
nothing, absolutely nothing, nothing. He knows everything,
everything possible, everything actual, all events, all creatures. He is God in the past, He is
God in the present, and He is God of the future. And He knows
all things, and He knows all that will happen, And he is perfectly
acquainted with every detail in the life of every being in
heaven, in earth, and in hell. He knows everything. He called
wise men together and, I'm sorry, let's look here in Daniel chapter
2 and for the setting of our text we're going to read that
King Nebuchadnezzar had dreamed a dream which troubled him. You
ever dreamed a dream and it troubled you? You ever wake up and you
can't remember the dream but you're troubled? Or you remember
the dream and you're really troubled. Well, Nebuchadnezzar had dreamed
the dream and it had troubled him and he could not remember
the dream. Therefore, he could not tell
them what it was. And he called his wise men together
and demanded that they give him an interpretation of the dream.
And their reply is found in verse 10. of chapter two, the Chaldeans
answered before the king and said, there is not a man upon
the earth that can show the king's matter, therefore there is no
king, lord, nor ruler that asked such things as any magician or
astrologer or Chaldean. And it is a rare thing that the
king required that there is none other that can show it before
the king except the gods whose dwelling is not with flesh. For
this cause the king was angry and very furious and commanded
to destroy all wise men of Babylon. And the decree went forth, and
all the wise men should be slain. And they sought Daniel and his
followers to be slain. So Nebuchadnezzar had a dream,
and he couldn't remember what that dream was. So he went to
his wise men, and he said, you're going to tell me what that dream
was. You're going to tell me what the interpretation is. And
the wise men are telling them the truth there, right? Because
no man, I don't know what you're dreaming. You don't know what
I'm dreaming. You can't tell me. But there
is one who knows all. There is one who knows all. And
Daniel knows that one who knows all, doesn't he? And more so,
Daniel's known by that one. who knows all, and that is God
Almighty. But for the Chaldeans, the worldly
wise men, they said, there's not a man upon the earth that
can show the king's matter, therefore there is no king, lord, nor ruler
that asketh such things as at any magician or astrologer or
Chaldean. We see that in verse 10. So Daniel
then, in verse 16, asks the king to have give him some time that
he can petition the Lord for the interpretation of the dream.
Then Daniel went in and desired of the king that he would give
him time, that he would show the king the interpretation.
Now let's read from verses 17 to verses 30, to verse 30 in
the same chapter. And we will see that our God
knows all things and he reveals to Daniel just what this dream
means. Then Daniel went to the house
and made things known to Hanaiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions,
that they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning
the secret that Daniel and his followers should not perish with
the rest of the wise men of Babylon. Then was the secret revealed
unto Daniel in the night vision, and Daniel blessed the God of
heaven. Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God forever
and ever, for wisdom and might are his. He has all wisdom and
all might. Verse 21 of Daniel chapter 2. And he changes the times and
the seasons. He removeth kings and setteth up kings. He giveth
wisdom unto the wise and knowledge to them that know understanding.
So think of this, everything you know, has been given to you by God.
All the knowledge that people have in this world has been given
to them by God. Even though they deny that, that's
the truth. And notice here, he sets up kings. He removeth kings and he setteth
up kings. He's all-powerful. He's all-wise.
He's all-knowing. He giveth wisdom unto the wise
and knowledge unto them that know understanding. He revealed
the deep and secret things. And think of that in light of
Scripture, right? I was talking to a brother the other day, and
we were talking about how we read Scripture before we were
saved, and there was nothing there for us. But after the Lord
saved us, well, my goodness. The Lord reveals to you things,
doesn't he? He reveals to you. Because the Holy Spirit is the
one who authored this book, and he illuminates the scriptures
and teaches us the things of Christ. But God is the one who
has to do that. He has to be the one who has
to reveal these things to us. He revealed the deep and secret
things. He knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth
with him. I thank thee and praise thee,
O God of my fathers, who has given me wisdom and might, and
has made known unto me now what we desired of thee. For thou
has made known unto us the king's matter. Therefore Daniel went
into Arach, whom the king had ordained to destroy the wise
men of Babylon. He went in and said thus unto
him, destroy not the wise men of Babylon, bring me in before
the king and I will show unto the king the interpretation.
Then Arach brought in Daniel before the king in haste and
said thus unto him, I have found a man of the captives of Judah
that will make known unto the king the interpretation. The
king answered and said to Daniel whose name was Belshazzar, art
thou able to make known unto me the dream which I have seen
and the interpretation thereof? And Daniel answered in the presence
of the king and said the secret which the king hath demanded.
Cannot the wise man, the astrologers, the magicians, the sea slayers
show unto the king? But there is a God in heaven
that will reveal the secrets and make known to the king Nebuchadnezzar
what shall be in the latter days. They dream, and the visions of
thy head upon thy bed are these. As for thee, O king, thy thoughts
came into thy mind upon thy bed. What should come to pass hereafter,
and he that reveals secrets maketh known to thee what shall come
to pass. But as for me, the secret is not revealed to me for any
wisdom that I have more than any living, but for their sakes
that shall make known the interpretation of the king, that thou mayest
know the thoughts of thy heart. But notice there in verse 28
too, but there is a God in heaven that reveals secrets and make
it known to the kings of Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. If you continue to read to the
end of this chapter, you see that God revealed to Daniel what
the dream meant. And then Daniel is promoted in
verses 46 and 47 because he tells Nebuchadnezzar what the dream
meant. Look at verses 46 and 47. Then the king Nebuchadnezzar
fell upon his face and worshiped Daniel, and commanded that they
should offer an oblation and sweet odors unto him. The king
answered unto Daniel and said, Of a truth it is that your God
is the God of gods, and the Lord of kings, and the revealer of
secrets, seeing thou couldst reveal this secret." So our God
beloved is all-knowing. He's all-knowing. And look at
verses 21 and 22 and think about how our God is all-knowing, how
nothing escapes His notice, and nothing can be hid from Him.
Look at verses 21 and 22, and He changes the times and the
seasons. He removeth kings and setteth up kings. He giveth wisdom
unto the wise and knowledge to them that know understanding.
He revealed the deep and secret things. He knoweth what is in
the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him. Turn, if you would,
now to Psalm 139. Psalm 139. And we'll read verses
1 to 6. Keeping in our minds the thought
that our God is an all-knowing God, and that His ways are past
finding out, we can't understand Him. We can only know what He's
revealed to us about Himself. That's the only way we know our
God, is if He reveals Himself to us. And the only things we
know about Him is what He's taught us. What He's taught us. His
ways are past finding out, beloved. He is so much higher than all
of us. Look at Psalm 139, verses 1 to 6. O Lord, Thou hast searched me
and known me. Thou knowest my down-sitting
and my uprising. Thou understandest my thought
afar off. He knows everything. He knows
everything about us. Thou can passest my path and
my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is
not a word in my tongue, but lo, Lord, thou knowest it altogether. Thou hast beset me behind and
before, and laid thine hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful
for me. So when we ponder these precious
truths, this knowledge is so wonderful. It is high and I cannot
attain unto it. Just think, beloved, how intimately
God knows you. How intimately He knows you.
The scripture says, the very hairs of your head are numbered.
Just think of how intimately He knows who we are. He knows
everything we say. He knows everything we do. He
knows everything about us. Nothing can be hid from Him.
Absolutely nothing. Nothing. And when the psalmist,
when David writes this, he's just filled with awe. He says,
such knowledge is too wonderful for me. Too wonderful for me. It is high, I cannot attain unto
it. See the way some men talk, you think they think they're
smarter than God. No one can attain to the knowledge
and position of our great God. No one at all. No one at all. And note there in verse 6, such
knowledge is too wonderful for me, it is high, I cannot attain
unto it. When we ponder the knowledge
of God and the fact that He is all-knowing, when we ponder this
and meditate upon this, that our God is all-wise, He is all-powerful,
We cannot comprehend it. And this knowledge is so wonderful
for us. So wonderful for us. And we rejoice
in the little that we know, don't we? We rejoice in the little
that we've had revealed to us. We rejoice in that and that wonderful
knowledge that he's given us. Think of how Christ the Redeemer
has been revealed to us, just like Joseph revealed himself
to his brethren, he's revealed himself to us. He's made himself
known to us. It's incredible. The one who
is the Savior of our souls, the Lord Jesus Christ, the one who
is God incarnate in the flesh, is the one who's all-knowing
and all-wise over all, over all. And look at Psalm 139 there,
verses 2 and 3. Look how our Lord is like an
ever watchful shepherd over his sheep. Thou knowest my down sitting
and mine uprising. You lay your head down at night,
He knows all about you. He knows what you're thinking.
He knows what's going on in your life. In mine uprising, you wake
up in the morning, say we're troubled about things, or say
we're just ready to face the day, He knows all that we're
going to face. He knows all that's going to
come, because He's all-knowing, beloved. He's all-knowing. So
He knows, it says there in Psalm 139, 2 and 3, Thou knowest my
down-sitting in mine uprising. Thou understandest my thought
afar off. Thou compassest my path and my
lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. Nothing escapes
His eyes, beloved. Nothing escapes His eyes. He's
all-knowing. And does this not bring comfort
to the believer's soul? Does this not bring comfort to
our soul, to you who are born again, to you who are the blood-washed
saints of God? Knowing that our all-wise, all-knowing,
all-powerful God is the shepherd of our souls, is the shepherd
of our souls, the Lord Jesus Christ, the God of the Bible.
And let's bring it home to every believer. The God of the Bible
is ever watchful over you. Oh, that brings me such comfort
to know that He is the shepherd of my souls, is ever watching
over me like a shepherd does his sheep. And He's protecting
us, beloved, He's using the crooks sometimes to pull us up with
little things that we get ourselves into. Right? A little bit of correction every
once in a while, right? Oh my. But always in love. Always
done in love. Ever watchful over us. No matter
what circumstance we find ourselves in life, He's ever watchful over
us. Whether it be in times of sorrow
and heaviness or whether it be good times. What we would classify
as good times. He's ever watchful over us. He's
ever there. He never leaves us nor forsakes
us. And take comfort in this. He's
all-knowing of the situation that you're in. There is never
a situation that occurs in our lives that God does not know
exactly what's going on. Exactly. And He's in control
of it. And that can bring us great comfort,
can it? It can bring us great comfort. And then think of the
fact that our Lord never changes. He never changes. He never makes
any error. His knowledge is perfect. It's
perfect. Oh, you know, we mess up all
the time, don't we? But His knowledge is perfect.
It's perfect. Absolutely perfect. Turn, if
you would, to Hebrews 4.13. Hebrews 4.13. All things are
before Him, too. All things. Again, there's nothing
that escapes His eyes. Absolutely nothing. All things
are before Him. He's all-knowing, all-powerful, omnipresent. Hebrews 4.13 says, neither is
there any creature that is not manifest in His sight. Nothing. And that's visible or invisible.
There's nothing that's not in his sight. And then think of
that, nothing is not in his sight, and yet he's mindful of me, the
believer says. He loves me. I'm one of his sheep. Oh, it can bring us great comfort,
beloved. All things are naked and opened unto the eyes of Him
with whom we have to do. And how incredible it is to ponder
these great attributes of God. They should fill us with wonder
and awe. They should fill us with wonder
and awe when we think of how our God is great, all-knowing. And the fact that nothing can
be concealed from Him. Nothing. and that He is invisible,
yet He is ever with us. You ever pondered that? We can't
see Him, but He's ever with us. Ever. The darkness of the night cannot
conceal anyone from His sight. All things are open to Him. All
things. Turn, if you would, to Ezekiel
chapter 11. Ezekiel chapter 11. The scriptures proclaim this
wonderful truth In the book of Ezekiel 2. Ezekiel 11 verse 5. Speak of the knowledge of God
and that He knows all things. Look at this. Ezekiel 11 5. And the Spirit of the Lord fell
upon me and said unto me, verse 5 chapter 11, Speak, thus saith
the Lord. Thus have you said, O house of
Israel, for I know the things that come into your mind, every
one of them. Oh, my. See, there's nothing
that is hidden from the all knowing God. Absolutely nothing. Think of this, the scoffing words
and thoughts of man and the intense of man toward God and towards
one another are all laid bare before our great God. are all
laid bare before our great God. How humbling this is for the
saint of God to know that our thoughts, our words, and our
actions are laid bare before the Lord. Oh my. Oh my. Now we see why the scriptures
say that the Lord looks upon men and sees that
there's none righteous. No, not one. There's none that
seeketh after God. There's none that understand
it. In our natural state, that's what we are, aren't we? And we
can see why He can, because He's all-knowing. Everything is laid
open to Him. Everything. Boy. Remember the trees of the garden?
And the fig leaves that our first parents put on themselves? They
could not conceal them from the eyes of the Lord, could they?
Remember it says they hid, but they weren't concealed. They
weren't concealed. No human eye saw Cain kill his
brother Abel, but yet our great God saw it all. He saw it all. Sarah laughed in her tent when
it was said that she would have the child of promise in her old
age, and no one was there to hear her. But Jehovah heard her. Jehovah heard her. Remember Achan,
he stole silver and a garment and a wedge of gold, when the
Israelites were told to take nothing? And Achon carefully
hid all these things in the earth, but what did God do? He brought
it to light. And he was destroyed. And how this truth of our God
being all-knowing will lead the believer to repentance before
God, because we know we're all guilty before Him, don't we?
Even after we're saved, this truth of the fact that our God
is all-knowing will lead the believer in Christ to fall before
the Lord and confess our own sinfulness, doesn't it? It does. And seek mercy and grace from
our great God and King. But always remember that the
carnal mind is enmity against God. And this is a truth that
man would strip God of. They'd strip God of this attribute
if they could. The fact that He's all-knowing.
Man could try to put this truth out of one's mind. They hate
the fact that our God is all-knowing and all-wise and that He does
as He pleases, when He pleases. They hate this because they hate
the fact of the sovereignty of God over all things. There's
people who profess to believe in Christ, but when you start
to talk to them about God's sovereignty and about His holiness and about
election, they get all bent out of shape. But then there's others. who when you preach this truth,
just embrace it and love it and are so thankful for it. God's people hear the word of
the shepherd, the voice of the shepherd, right? And we follow
him and we love his words, don't we? So people who react in the
other way prove themselves to not be lovers of God, to not
be lovers of God. Natural man does not want to
know that there is one who is the searcher of all hearts, that
there's the one who is the judge of all their deeds. But for the
believer in Christ, what comfort this can bring us. It actually
brings us comfort, beloved. To know that in times of confusion,
trial or troubles, that we can say with Job, we can say with
Job, but he knoweth the way that I take. When he hath tried me,
I shall come forth as gold. I'll come forth as gold. Turn,
if you would, to Psalm 103. And in what comfort it is for
the believer to know that even though God knows all our thoughts
and all the intents of our heart, that the believer is forgiven
in Christ. Forgiven in Christ. And that's
when it really becomes It fills us with awe and wonder because
we know what we are. We know what we are. We know
who we are. But yet to have this great forgiveness in Christ and
to have God not count those sins towards us because they've all
been bought and paid for by Christ. Oh, it's it's absolutely wonderful. Absolutely wonderful. Look at
Psalm 103. We read verses 13 to 19. Like
as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that
fear him. And what's the fear of the Lord is the beginning
of knowledge, right? But fools despise wisdom and instruction. For he
knoweth our frame, he remembereth that we are dust. He knows what
we are. As for man, his days are as grass,
as a flower of the field, so he flourishes. For the wind passes
over it and is gone, and the place thereof shall know it no
more. That's what we're like. Our life's like a vapor too,
isn't it? Just we're here one day and we're gone the next.
But the mercy of the Lord, look at this, is from everlasting
to everlasting upon them that fear Him, and His righteousness
unto children's children. Who's our righteousness, beloved?
The Lord Jesus Christ. He's all our righteousness. This
is wonderful. And the mercy of the Lord is
from what? Everlasting to everlasting. He has mercy upon His people. Oh, forever. Upon them that fear
him, and his righteousness unto children's children, to such
as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments,
to do them. The Lord hath prepared his throne in heavens, and his
kingdom ruleth over all. Oh, this is wonderful. Look at
verse 14. For he knoweth our frame. Remember,
he's all-knowing. He knoweth our frame. He remembereth
that we are dust. He knoweth our frame. Frame there
is who and what we are. who and what we are. Our great
God knows the corruption of our natures and yet he spares some
men and women, those who the scripture called the vessels
of mercy. The vessels of mercy. Our great God knows the great
and constant propensity to evil which is naturally in all of
mankind and therefore if he should deal justly with all of us He
would immediately destroy all of us, but yet he has mercy.
He has mercy on his vessels of mercy, his people, his elect. And then we see mercy here in
this verse, he remembers that we are dust. He remembers whether
he knows the weakness of our nature's belonging. He knows
the weakness of our natures. He knows how frail we are. He
knows the misery of our natural condition. And this is what's
being brought forth here. And consider this, that if he
should loose his hand upon us and pour forth his wrath, everyone
will be destroyed. Everyone. And yet he spares those whom
he has given to Christ in eternity. Why? Because it pleased him to do
so. Because it pleased Him to do so. There's nothing in us
that deserved it, is it? Because we're just as deserving
of wrath as everybody else. And yet it pleases God to have
mercy upon His people. Those who are the objects of
His eternal love. Remember there in verse 17, it
said, but the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting. We're the receivers of that mercy,
beloved. We're the receivers of that mercy.
And we are undeserving of that mercy. That which was rightfully
deserved us, that which would have destroyed us and consumed
us, the wrath of God is what? Is poured out upon our substitute
instead. Is fully poured out upon our
substitute. Fully poured out upon the sinless
Lamb of God. That which we deserve. when He died in the room and
place of His chosen people. When Christ died upon the cross
as a substitute of His people, all that wrath was poured out
upon Him. So we see how undeserving we
are of this mercy. We're undeserving of this mercy.
We're undeserving of the grace which has been bestowed upon
us in Christ. And yet it all comes to pass
according to the plan and purpose of our all-knowing, all-wise,
all-powerful God. That's incredible. That's incredible. And think, beloved of God, how
precious this truth is. How much of an encouragement
it is to God's people. As when we pray, we pray to the
all-knowing One. He knows everything about the
circumstance we're going through when we're praying to Him about
a circumstance. When we're lifting something up to Him, He already
knows all about it. He already knows all. Well, some
people say, well, then why are you praying to Him? Because He
commands us to and because we love Him and because we know
He hears us. And He's our God, isn't He? He's
our God. He's the all-knowing, all-powerful
one. He's our Savior and our Redeemer. And there's no cause
to fear that the petitions of the righteous will not be heard,
or that our tears and sorrows will not be seen or overlooked. No. No. The one we pray to is
the one who knows the thoughts and intents of the heart. Think
of that. When we're praying to Him, He
already knows the thoughts and intents of our hearts. He already
knows because he's the all-knowing. He's the all-knowing one. Turn
if you would to Isaiah chapter 65. Isaiah chapter 65. In marvel at this truth that
the all-knowing one knows before we pray what we shall pray. He
already knows. He already knows. Isaiah 65 verse 24, And it shall
come to pass, that before they call, I will answer, and while
they are yet speaking, I will hear. He already knows, beloved. He already knows. Because our
great God is great, and He is the God of all power, and of
all knowledge, and His understanding is infinite. Infinite. We know a little bit here, don't
we, what we learn and what God teaches us and what He allows
us to learn. But think of this, God's knowledge is infinite. Infinite. That's our Savior. That's our Redeemer. God's knowledge
reaches all things visible and invisible and nothing escapes
His gaze. He's ever watchful over all the
fowls of the air, over the beasts of the field. He owns the cattle
upon a thousand hills. He sees all things upon the surface
of the earth. He sees all things in the earth.
He sees all things in the sea. He sees all things in the universe.
He sees all men. He sees the thoughts of their
hearts, the words of their mouth, the actions of their lives. He
knows all things which have come to pass. All things. He knows
all things which go on right now, and He knows all things
which shall come to pass in the future. He already knows. His knowledge includes all things
past, present, and future. That's our God. That's our God. He's all-knowing. He wouldn't
be all-knowing if he didn't know everything that was going to
happen, would he? But he knows everything. And so that's the
keeper of our souls. What comfort we can glean from
that. He's the keeper of our souls. Think of this in light
of this quote from A.W. Pink. It says, God's knowledge
of the future is as complete as his knowledge of the past
and the present. And that because the future depends
entirely upon himself. That's a wonder. I'll read it
again. God's knowledge of the future is as complete as is his
knowledge of the past and the present. And that because the
future depends entirely upon himself. Were it any wise possible for
something to occur apart from either the direction, agency,
or permission of God, then that something would be independent
of him and he would at once cease to be supreme. Our God knows
all things. All things. That's why the preachers,
we can get up and we can say, God's going to get every one
of his sheep. He's going to save every single one of his sheep.
Because he's all-powerful, he's all-knowing, he's all-wise. And
again, what comfort we can glean from this, can't we? Because
we live in this world and there's things going on and we don't
understand. Everything's happening according
to his purpose and plan, beloved. The wisdom, the power and the
knowledge of God is infinite, just like Him. Just like Him. There are many devices in a man's
heart, nevertheless the counsel of the Lord shall stand. Proverbs
19.21. We know in Daniel it says that all the inhabitants of the
earth are reputed as nothing, right? And no one can stay in
our Lord's hands. And He does whatever He pleases. I'm going to paraphrase it. In
the armies of heaven and all the inhabitants of the earth
are counted as nothing. So He's all-powerful, all-wise,
all-knowing. Whatever He has purposed, it's
guaranteed to come to pass. It's guaranteed to come to pass.
It's impossible for the divine counsel of God to fail in their
execution of that which He has said shall come to pass. He's
purposed it, it shall come to pass, because no one under God
are all His works from the beginning, Acts 15, 18. This is why we often say that
God didn't go to Plan B when Adam fell. No. He knew that it would occur,
and He proclaimed that a Savior would be born, the seed of the
woman. And that which He has ordained
will come to pass. And it did. The Word of God, the Lord Jesus
Christ, became flesh. Became flesh. Born of a virgin. God knew and foretold the crucifixion
of His Son many hundreds of years before He became incarnate. And
this is because it's all in the divine purpose of God. He was
a lamb slain from the foundation of the world, yet he was delivered
by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God to die upon
the cross. So let us close with taking from
this lesson that the infinite knowledge of God is a topic that
should fill us with amazement, awe, and wonder. And it should
make us realize Just how far above us our great God is. How
infinitely wise He is. Do you know what this day will
bring forth? We don't, do we? Do you know what tomorrow will
bring forth? We have no idea. No. We don't know what the future
holds, but we know who holds the future. And that's our great
God. That's our great God. Oh, what
a precious truth this is. And think of this. Think of this. For we as believers, I'm going
to close with this. He foresaw my every fall. And if you're a believer, he
foresaw your every fall. He foresaw our every sin, right?
Nothing escapes his knowledge. Our backsliding, anything he
he sees it all. He sees it all. Yet, nevertheless,
His heart has been fixed upon us. His love has been fixed upon
us for eternity. What should that do? It should
just make us want to bow before Him, shouldn't it? In awe and
wonder of our great God. Our all-knowing, all-wise God. Heavenly Father, thank You for
the salvation which we have in our Lord Jesus Christ and through
him alone. Thank you, Lord, for choosing
us in eternity in Christ Jesus. We are so undeserving of this
mercy. You know who we are. You know we're but dust. You
know we're but sinners. And yet, oh yet, Lord, in your
infinite wisdom and in your divine counsel, you've had mercy upon
us in Christ. May we leave here today thinking
about this and pondering these wonderful truths. and be filled
with wonder and awe. And may we meditate and think
upon this through the week. And may it fill our hearts with
joy and wonder. In Jesus' name, amen.