The Sermon Open To God by David Mcgee
Sep 22, 2013
Open To God (36:02)
Referenced Scriptures: Psalm 139
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Psalm 139
1) Yahweh, you have searched me, And you know me.
2) You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.
3) You search out my path and my lying down, And are acquainted with all my ways.
4) For there is not a word on my tongue, But, behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether.
5) You hem me in behind and before. You laid your hand on me.
6) This knowledge is beyond me. It is lofty. I can‘t attain it.
7) Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence?
8) If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!
9) If I take the wings of the dawn, And settle in the uttermost parts of the sea;
10) Even there your hand will lead me, And your right hand will hold me.
11) If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me; The light around me will be night;"
12) Even the darkness doesn‘t hide from you, But the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.
13) For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother‘s womb.
14) I will give thanks to you, For I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.
15) My frame wasn‘t hidden from you, When I was made in secret, Woven together in the depths of the earth.
16) Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, The days that were ordained for me, When as yet there were none of them.
17) How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them!
18) If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I wake up, I am still with you.
19) If only you, God, would kill the wicked. Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!
20) For they speak against you wickedly. Your enemies take your name in vain.
21) Yahweh, don‘t I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?
22) I hate them with perfect hatred. They have become my enemies.
23) Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.
24) See if there is any wicked way in me, And lead me in the everlasting way. Psalm 140 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
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Today we are looking at Psalm one thirty nine open before God, and we are doing is Psalm another psalm of David and I be again. It's one of the Psalms that this kind of reach out and reach out and grab grab yourself. Psalm one thirty nine reading from the message Bible, God investigate my life get all the facts firsthand. I'm an open book to you, even from a distance. You know what I'm thinking you know when I leave and when I get back I'm never out of your sight, you know everything I'm going to say before I start the first sentence. I looked behind me and you are there, then Opera had in your thereto, your reassuring presence coming and going. This is too much too wonderful. I can't take it all in. Is there any place I can go from your BG James is a try and I take the wings of morning of the other most parts of your nose and replacing it without you. So business is there any place I can go to avoid your spirit to be out of your site. If I climbed to the sky. You're there if I go underground. You're there. If I flew on morning 's wings to the far western horizon. You find me in a minute. You're already there waiting that I said to myself oh he even sees me in the dark at night. I'm immersed in the light. It's a fact, darkness isn't dark to you. Night and day, darkness and light are all the same to you all. Yes, you shake me first inside, then out you formed me in my mother 's womb. I thank you high God, your breathtaking body and soul. I'm marvelously made. I worship and adoration. What a creation. You know me inside and out. You oh three bone in my body. You know exactly how I was may. Bit by bit, how I was sculptured from nothing into something like an open book. You watch me grow from conception to birth, all the stages of my life were spread out before you. The days of my life, all prepared before I even lived one day your thoughts. How rare how beautiful God on never comprehend them. I could even begin to count them anymore than I could count the sand of the sea, over the rise in the morning and live always with you and please God do away with the wickedness of and do away with wickedness for good and your murderers out of here all the men and women who belittle you, God, if and when saturated with cheap God imitations see how I hate those who hate you, God see how I loathe all the godless arrogance. I hate it with pure unadulterated hatred your enemies are my enemies investigate my life of God find out everything about me cross examine and test me get a clear picture of what I'm about. See for yourself whether I've done anything wrong, then guide me on the road to eternal life. The Psalm is a a is a state is a Psalm of David. And it is considered by some to be one of the most excellent song that he has written what we see in the Psalm, in any and it is amazing how that David begins to tell us about the attributes of God tells us about the qualities of God, and he tells us about them and there is this one. How do we know that how to come to this realization. There is no books, and there is no theological studies things, but we see David and how that he has in his meditation and all that he has thinking and seeking after God is able to see these concepts of God and save them in a way that is able to relate to us exactly what the audience and what God knows what God can do. We learn the doctrine. Some omniscience that God is everywhere present. These we see in verses one through six, and talks about how that God is everywhere present, and if God is everywhere present, he knows all things he made us therefore he knows us. So not only does he know all things. He knows us any notice to the point descriptors as you know, the very hairs on our head. So how does David Dan Nolte 's character, God so well. How is he you know where this comes from well. He states that God knows our hearts. He knows our motives. He knows you were thinking and he knows why were thinking it. And these are not qualities of how the goddess marking down in the book of why all the things we done wrong. Anything to get us for them. He's telling us how well that he is acquainted with every aspect of who we are, how well he is aware of every portion of our life and the lives of the people around us. The society we live in the world that we live in is always all these wonderful things about God and how how great they are and he says the strength that that David uses this knowledge then about who God is what God knows that God 's presence is everywhere. He uses this knowledge to combined with God 's love and he then brings it with into our own hearts and applies this God to our life and gives us the sense of while God is really here is really involved illness knowledge, our faith, our belief in God that this belief in God greatly influences who we are what we do so. David is saying to loss that God knows me from mine who plugged by the will morbid God knows us from our mothers will write up into the time were born right up from the bone. The bone by bone, bit by bit he knows every aspect of our being, you know that what we believe effects are political views, what we believe effects are relational views are what we believe affects how we treat other people how we treat each other how will you look at ourselves, what we believe has a direct impact upon everything in our lives and we say that people who don't have God. We see people who don't have a relationship or don't have a faith in God, how that that lack of belief affects their life. Whether such a diversity. This is a very great division between people who believe in God, and that there is a the ultimate accountability to life and those who don't believe in God, and there is no accountability only what I can achieve for my life and so there is this division that is really coming in our society. Years ago there was a great area of gray in the middle there were extremes and that our faith, people who were believers and there were those who didn't believe in that was his big group in the middle that was, you know we're gone a lot of believing in faith involved in church and involvement, religious organizations, and please call themselves religious and least claim to have a faith in God while now. It's kind of that group in the middle is becoming very small, and it's polarized and so we have artful, especially in the political system trying to pull us in one direction or the other, but our belief system or lack thereof is the one they direct this directs us, so David here. He begins by declaring that the God whom we serve has perfect knowledge of us in and as I was reading this I was thinking one. How does David know this word. Any read that God has perfect knowledge. He's the shepherd, and that I will not watching his sheep is this no young man fighting Goliath is this leader of the armies of Saul. These this man fleeing from Saul fleeing for his life, but eventually becomes King of Israel and where is all this coming from where this knowledge of God and his understanding of God coming from stemming from his relationship. It's coming through his relationship with God, so that all of the actions. David says of his inward part it is outward part, they're all naked and open before God, there is no dressing them up. You can dress up your your bad thoughts to you. He can dress up your you can put even put a gown on a pig, but it's still take enough this is going to get dirty while you can dress up our are wrong motives, and about how you dress them up there either right or wrong. The and I know that there is such a a hard way to say what's right and what's wrong as far as I society. While what you think is correct is the God who gives us his basic ten Commandments you don't lie. Don't steal you don't kill you don't bear false witness, you don't you don't do anything, God says that for what reason to protect us protect us from ourselves and protect us and our relationships with others, verse, verse one, it says, God investigate my life. God investigate my life get all the facts firsthand look to you, God and David Saint God, I want you to look at who I am and do an investigation never once limited investigation. The new enough. I don't think so. The guy I want to know all of my inward thoughts, all of my molars on the things I said and done inside the Lord, I want you to investigate and anyone signing up for that one now. Now, when I got sign up for that. Why, because we know that there things in there that we don't want if we all put in the newspaper right so will God. Now David is saying God wants you to investigate all this, and we see that God knows our imaginations, we know that we think the say goes on here. I'm an open book, even from a distance. You know what I'm thinking you know when I leave and when I get back that drives understanding of loss is so focused in and in and it is a given in the context bowl is not paying attention. Anyone else is a upbeat but me and the answer that is no Diaz, Jim and lost his undivided attention. Except there's enough of God that he can give to every person whose Amro lab. This undivided attention like us, you know I can pay, pensions and conversation enough new money can do that but I can know is unable to chew gum and walk at the same time. Why, because we just cannot know what God can can pay attention to everyone we can have the undivided attention of God. Everyone knows everyone in each individual can have the undivided attention of God, Andy and Dave is saying, God, you know me so well you know when I get up and while in the house and the like, and back you everything. I'm going to say okay the conversation you're going to have later today. God already knows before I even start the first sentence. God knows, and then we got this. I looked behind me and you are there God is behind then up ahead of me, and you're there. Your re- shoring presents this isn't about gay rooms. I will write this down. We look a plot number one okay, you normally get you for that one thought never to you and I'll read I go with that one don't you like God is telling. I only tried it marked on all the things wrong with us. He's checking out all the things right with us. God can never have a bad thought about you. What about my bad days. Doesn't matter. God doesn't have bad thoughts about there is no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. The condemning spirit doesn't come from I think David here in this relationship with God is saying that God knows everything is in front of me. He's behind me. He's ahead of me. His reassuring presence he brought me a short presence has taught me coming and going, no matter whether I'm coming or going, and some people don't know if you're coming or going right now. What am I here, I don't know while better check out what my coming RMI going while a little while, will be going home. But until that time, get your use of your. So God is reassuring presence is coming and going. David said, this is just too much for me. How wonderful. How marvelous is all this I can take it all in. I just can't comprehend all this and this is one of those places where we just need to sit down someplace and think about this, you just sit down and think about it, whether it's in your room or whether it's on the porch or whether it's in the woods, whether it's in the car just not even want to think about why you would be by your driving. But when you write some places where he solved it. We just need to sit down somewhere and read about it and think about it, meditate on it and allow the understanding of what David is telling us to soak in that card. He knows all about, and so everything investigate me, but who knows all things investigate me the the godly person wants to know everything that not only get with it. What about other developers with everything is wrong with what we were hello, the things that are wrong so that we can get rid of God. I want to know everything that is good about my life because the good about my life to God is working at will overpower and overcome that we should, you know what God is to show you all the bad things in your life and then you need to change the gifted fly our prison system doesn't work your to be punished for all the wrong things you've done a know and people need to be punished in some people need to be locked up, but being locked up in. Monday need to does it really make their needs in isolation from society, but doesn't really change them, and some people need to be isolated from society. I'm not no but the challenge is that we need to be changed and the only thing is going to change us, is Christ, and so when I'm looking abroad, investigate my life know my thoughts know my heart. Know what I'm thinking. No one brought you know what I'm going to say give me guidance and when I'm going to say so I say the right things on. They always say the right things. I'm a family thing all the right things the rest of you, don't say anything right so now José with the you bring them up here. Now you are going now. Sometimes but they were in the school band and some of the bands are for when you want to say broad authority things are wrong things. Lying is one of them assistance to you if you have a band on a new life because they go off and put on your arm. Remind yourself to do that while sometimes I'm not lying, but the items is exaggerating you are very real way. Save this with you if you are flying under the exaggerating yell, but not at the lies are yet change the bandwidth like, you can exaggerate no, that's the bearing false witness that they are just kidding. No, you still been lying on sometimes I do that not right, so David says verse seven is there any place I can go to avoid your spirit& someplace like crap live like this young changing the wristband all the time. Is there a place I can avoid your spirit to be out of your site is in place so he goes through the list I will. For the sky of the work. Why is there never what he said just a little bit ago. God is behind me. Guys in front of me. I know I'm with a lot out of the sky noise there. If I go underground. The King James as if I make my bed in hell, you are there. Now I know what I'm going to take the wings of the morning if I can travel at the speed of light from one mountain peak to the next one and get there as fast as like it's their guts already there. How does they would know this policy aware of. This is where the cause of his relationship with God is aware of it because inside of his heart business versus desire to know God inside of our lives. There is a desire to know God, and we are slotted business days like this part of who we are. This day for God and when we hear the truth of God fits right in there and what we try to do is while one part of why wild little bit it will hurt if I know them. This one thing isn't going to end this kind of tries to make God 's image, like me, and God wants to make us like him, and so you finally in a minute if I travel the speed of light and get someplace you're there you you find me in a minute. In a moment you find me. I think that I am lost and not got there. Then I said to myself oh David sees me in the dark. What is sometimes our most frightening places as always, it's when we're in the darkness. And I'm uptight about the dark of night hung about the darkness. Total darkness of darkness of being separated the park. The darkness of being alone the darkness of young, not being able to know the God is there, I said to myself, he sees me, even in the dark at night at night when I am isolated in this darkness, and can't keep my hand in front of my face. I'm immersed in the light of God. God 's light is there. An empty course, David being this shepherd out out on the hillside. I'm sure that there were nights that the sky was black and the stars were clouded over and it was just the darkness of night. He says all of this is white God is nothing here that God can see it's a fact, darkness isn't dark to you night and day, darkness and light are all the same. If the house is our belief in our understanding of God 's complete and total knowledge of us. How does that fit into our life. How does that fit into our thoughts, my yesterday 's God knows my tomorrows. He knows them. He knows my sentence before I say it, and it's a loving relational experience that holds me in the darkness. Places my knowledge of God fits into the darkest places because God is there, and there's no place I can be the goddess is when we hear the truth seat when you leave the slotted part of who we are when we hear the truth that truth fits God 's Spirit causes us to understand that truth is make it fit into the slots of my heart right. I know, and I need God. Verse twelve 's associate. See me in the dark, darkness isn't dark to you now. Darkness is in and like they're all the same all the same. There is no night there is no distance, there's no beginning to get this understanding is he's writing this and inventory form of formulating his thoughts here in the spirit is making a real to him. The David is like a cottage there everywhere behind me in front of me behind the depth, the darkness, the lights I thought tomorrow starts my next sentence for their and he loves me. Oh yes, and then that's not all of it U-shaped me first inside and then out shaped me first inside and then I'll informed me and my mother 's womb informed me and my mothers will need knitted me together than the second. I think you high God, your breathtaking body and soul. I'm marvelously made my body 's cells lining how does the mind work and out of the eyes work and how does the IC and an able to interpret housed year here and be able to interpret and understand how to solve the smart gobbler fearfully, wonderfully made. I worship and adoration water creation. What a creation he looks around he begins to see not only the beauty of the universe with the beginning of creation of us coming together as a person of you as an individual with a beautiful creation that I think all your beautiful guy with a comparable better connect with suicide on all appear, that way there is no why is your created and slotted inside abuse. Lots of these places. This piece of the puzzles that you can put together. God is its rating. You know me inside and out. You know every bone in my body know exactly how I was made bit by bit. How I was cultured from nothing into something like an open book. You watched me grow from conception to birth, all the stages of my life were shapely for you all the stages of my life. Note sometimes week we have a way of thinking of life being a stage that were performing and that we are actors and actors in the old English is a hypocrite. Someone who is playing the part of something they're not. God doesn't want us to act the part of something that we think we should be. He has created us to be the person that we are and you don't need to be someone else. We don't need to be anyone else but you. And as you develop you everything that we need to send their arrogant. We need that God is fitted together inside a bus. Everything that we needed to end their life situations are about pulling out what's already there, bringing out to bring the surface the things that God has placed their, so that we could become that person will want about this problem. What about that problem will we can do about how it would deal with it. Let's take the knowledge of God 's love with think the knowledge of his forgiveness. Let's take the knowledge of his ability to create distinctive knowledge of his God 's way of working. Let's take the knowledge of God 's power and on his presence, and I will start putting that into our life with our difficulties and begin to see God 's work, not through the rearranging of circumstances, but the rearranging, not rearrange bringing out the qualities that are already there. The qualities of tenacity of being able to hang in there. Being able to do. Being able to think being able to work, being able to make a difference in people 's lives. Verse seventeen. Your thoughts. How rare something with anyone. His is the rarity of his thoughts. He doesn't think of me very often know what that all of the minute qualities. The rare news of each individuality that. How rare is your thumb print your thumbprint is yours. Nobody else has one like you. That's a rare quality. The awareness of your qualities are there and we try to lump them together were trying to fit into a mold or someplace that makes a something that were not innocent, God is a lot that he wants the five different awareness of who we are however rare, how beautiful okay, I can begin your beautiful your beautiful for everybody to somebody when they're not very beautifully and oh God that's on the inside of rare how beautiful I couldn't even begin to count how rare a beautiful the qualities of your life. David is I can't even begin to count them anymore. The the sands of the sea. I can't begin to count the sand of the seashore. And I can't begin to count the rare and beautiful quality. The new. This is a revelation from God to David Wass or let me rise in the morning and live always with you. When I awake in the morning that my first thought to be about the greatness of God, and please God no way with the wickedness. The murderers in here all men and women who belittle you, God, their life will amount to nothing, and their criticism of you will only hinder their value in their life. Shall I hate those in David is awesome. How I hate them those people who hate you God have missed the boat. They don't see your head. They don't see you're working they don't see any of this, your enemies are my enemies. Don't get the allow me to be involved with these enemies in my life of your life that caused the verse twenty three and twenty four, says investigate my life. We start out with God. Investigate my life, even after you come to this conclusion, and gone through all of these things. He's still saying God investigate me make sure that I have this right. Okay. Find out everything about me. The good man desires to know the worst, the good man desires to know the best of his life. We build our lives on the good things of our life, not the worst things we build our lives on the good things of our life the good man desires to know the best and keeps building the best because the brass will overcome the lease what you focus on you become God help me to see to understand the best of my life and say that I want to know the best of my life ready. I want to know the best of my life. I want to know the best of my God radio, investigate me know the best of my life. The rarity of the of my life. The rare things of my life, my fingerprint. The great qualities of the Lamb was another cross examine and test me to get all the trials were to the difficulties there. The cross-examining you really believe this. David, do you really think that this is the best you really think that your rare on medium rare enough to some people are well done and then I love this one. Bonuses get a clear picture of what I'm about God. Get a clear picture of what I'm about and show me the picture. She averages seventy ever take a picture in the cell phone when you first think is actually the picture right now that's after you see the pressure after using event shall delete that one. The leader now. Though the shaman adventure all now put your time in David, you fix your hair done anything but so take a picture of my life and showed me the picture and then see for yourself. God see for yourself. Show me whether I've done anything wrong and I mean on the road to eternal life. Run the rope were on the road to eternal life. God lead me on this route behind me in front of me above me beneath me, investigate, take a picture shot with a picture along the truths of your word to guide me and revealed to me the rarity of who I am. The randomness rear. No ones like you know what has your qualities. No one has your abilities. Show me how unique I am and continue to the field continue to develop and to build these things to me take a picture of God show me a and help me on this path. So is the right ready are we ready are we ready for what I have shown live show me a picture that about balance show me the picture ready showed me the picture got taken the picture got showed to me a man father, thank you you to love us and your are qualities. Oh Lord, are very unique and very rare. We thank you Lord that you develop them. God do you show them to us, and God that we continue to do build upon our lives. What you've given us. Thank you Lord for this day. Thank you for the beauty that is in our life. Help us, O God, that we may see its the creativity of God that opens our minds and our hearts in our lives to you because what your truth is, is slotted to fit exactly into our life. We pray this in Jesus name ruin said amenToday we are looking at Psalm one thirty nine open before God, and we are doing is Psalm another psalm of David and I be again. It's one of the Psalms that this kind of reach out and reach out and grab grab yourself. Psalm one thirty nine reading from the message Bible, God investigate my life get all the facts firsthand. I'm an open book to you, even from a distance. You know what I'm thinking you know when I leave and when I get back I'm never out of your sight, you know everything I'm going to say before I start the first sentence. I looked behind me and you are there, then Opera had in your thereto, your reassuring presence coming and going. This is too much too wonderful. I can't take it all in. Is there any place I can go from your BG James is a try and I take the wings of morning of the other most parts of your nose and replacing it without you. So business is there any place I can go to avoid your spirit to be out of your site. If I climbed to the sky. You're there if I go underground. You're there. If I flew on morning 's wings to the far western horizon. You find me in a minute. You're already there waiting that I said to myself oh he even sees me in the dark at night. I'm immersed in the light. It's a fact, darkness isn't dark to you. Night and day, darkness and light are all the same to you all. Yes, you shake me first inside, then out you formed me in my mother 's womb. I thank you high God, your breathtaking body and soul. I'm marvelously made. I worship and adoration. What a creation. You know me inside and out. You oh three bone in my body. You know exactly how I was may. Bit by bit, how I was sculptured from nothing into something like an open book. You watch me grow from conception to birth, all the stages of my life were spread out before you. The days of my life, all prepared before I even lived one day your thoughts. How rare how beautiful God on never comprehend them. I could even begin to count them anymore than I could count the sand of the sea, over the rise in the morning and live always with you and please God do away with the wickedness of and do away with wickedness for good and your murderers out of here all the men and women who belittle you, God, if and when saturated with cheap God imitations see how I hate those who hate you, God see how I loathe all the godless arrogance. I hate it with pure unadulterated hatred your enemies are my enemies investigate my life of God find out everything about me cross examine and test me get a clear picture of what I'm about. See for yourself whether I've done anything wrong, then guide me on the road to eternal life. The Psalm is a a is a state is a Psalm of David. And it is considered by some to be one of the most excellent song that he has written what we see in the Psalm, in any and it is amazing how that David begins to tell us about the attributes of God tells us about the qualities of God, and he tells us about them and there is this one. How do we know that how to come to this realization. There is no books, and there is no theological studies things, but we see David and how that he has in his meditation and all that he has thinking and seeking after God is able to see these concepts of God and save them in a way that is able to relate to us exactly what the audience and what God knows what God can do. We learn the doctrine. Some omniscience that God is everywhere present. These we see in verses one through six, and talks about how that God is everywhere present, and if God is everywhere present, he knows all things he made us therefore he knows us. So not only does he know all things. He knows us any notice to the point descriptors as you know, the very hairs on our head. So how does David Dan Nolte 's character, God so well. How is he you know where this comes from well. He states that God knows our hearts. He knows our motives. He knows you were thinking and he knows why were thinking it. And these are not qualities of how the goddess marking down in the book of why all the things we done wrong. Anything to get us for them. He's telling us how well that he is acquainted with every aspect of who we are, how well he is aware of every portion of our life and the lives of the people around us. The society we live in the world that we live in is always all these wonderful things about God and how how great they are and he says the strength that that David uses this knowledge then about who God is what God knows that God 's presence is everywhere. He uses this knowledge to combined with God 's love and he then brings it with into our own hearts and applies this God to our life and gives us the sense of while God is really here is really involved illness knowledge, our faith, our belief in God that this belief in God greatly influences who we are what we do so. David is saying to loss that God knows me from mine who plugged by the will morbid God knows us from our mothers will write up into the time were born right up from the bone. The bone by bone, bit by bit he knows every aspect of our being, you know that what we believe effects are political views, what we believe effects are relational views are what we believe affects how we treat other people how we treat each other how will you look at ourselves, what we believe has a direct impact upon everything in our lives and we say that people who don't have God. We see people who don't have a relationship or don't have a faith in God, how that that lack of belief affects their life. Whether such a diversity. This is a very great division between people who believe in God, and that there is a the ultimate accountability to life and those who don't believe in God, and there is no accountability only what I can achieve for my life and so there is this division that is really coming in our society. Years ago there was a great area of gray in the middle there were extremes and that our faith, people who were believers and there were those who didn't believe in that was his big group in the middle that was, you know we're gone a lot of believing in faith involved in church and involvement, religious organizations, and please call themselves religious and least claim to have a faith in God while now. It's kind of that group in the middle is becoming very small, and it's polarized and so we have artful, especially in the political system trying to pull us in one direction or the other, but our belief system or lack thereof is the one they direct this directs us, so David here. He begins by declaring that the God whom we serve has perfect knowledge of us in and as I was reading this I was thinking one. How does David know this word. Any read that God has perfect knowledge. He's the shepherd, and that I will not watching his sheep is this no young man fighting Goliath is this leader of the armies of Saul. These this man fleeing from Saul fleeing for his life, but eventually becomes King of Israel and where is all this coming from where this knowledge of God and his understanding of God coming from stemming from his relationship. It's coming through his relationship with God, so that all of the actions. David says of his inward part it is outward part, they're all naked and open before God, there is no dressing them up. You can dress up your your bad thoughts to you. He can dress up your you can put even put a gown on a pig, but it's still take enough this is going to get dirty while you can dress up our are wrong motives, and about how you dress them up there either right or wrong. The and I know that there is such a a hard way to say what's right and what's wrong as far as I society. While what you think is correct is the God who gives us his basic ten Commandments you don't lie. Don't steal you don't kill you don't bear false witness, you don't you don't do anything, God says that for what reason to protect us protect us from ourselves and protect us and our relationships with others, verse, verse one, it says, God investigate my life. God investigate my life get all the facts firsthand look to you, God and David Saint God, I want you to look at who I am and do an investigation never once limited investigation. The new enough. I don't think so. The guy I want to know all of my inward thoughts, all of my molars on the things I said and done inside the Lord, I want you to investigate and anyone signing up for that one now. Now, when I got sign up for that. Why, because we know that there things in there that we don't want if we all put in the newspaper right so will God. Now David is saying God wants you to investigate all this, and we see that God knows our imaginations, we know that we think the say goes on here. I'm an open book, even from a distance. You know what I'm thinking you know when I leave and when I get back that drives understanding of loss is so focused in and in and it is a given in the context bowl is not paying attention. Anyone else is a upbeat but me and the answer that is no Diaz, Jim and lost his undivided attention. Except there's enough of God that he can give to every person whose Amro lab. This undivided attention like us, you know I can pay, pensions and conversation enough new money can do that but I can know is unable to chew gum and walk at the same time. Why, because we just cannot know what God can can pay attention to everyone we can have the undivided attention of God. Everyone knows everyone in each individual can have the undivided attention of God, Andy and Dave is saying, God, you know me so well you know when I get up and while in the house and the like, and back you everything. I'm going to say okay the conversation you're going to have later today. God already knows before I even start the first sentence. God knows, and then we got this. I looked behind me and you are there God is behind then up ahead of me, and you're there. Your re- shoring presents this isn't about gay rooms. I will write this down. We look a plot number one okay, you normally get you for that one thought never to you and I'll read I go with that one don't you like God is telling. I only tried it marked on all the things wrong with us. He's checking out all the things right with us. God can never have a bad thought about you. What about my bad days. Doesn't matter. God doesn't have bad thoughts about there is no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. The condemning spirit doesn't come from I think David here in this relationship with God is saying that God knows everything is in front of me. He's behind me. He's ahead of me. His reassuring presence he brought me a short presence has taught me coming and going, no matter whether I'm coming or going, and some people don't know if you're coming or going right now. What am I here, I don't know while better check out what my coming RMI going while a little while, will be going home. But until that time, get your use of your. So God is reassuring presence is coming and going. David said, this is just too much for me. How wonderful. How marvelous is all this I can take it all in. I just can't comprehend all this and this is one of those places where we just need to sit down someplace and think about this, you just sit down and think about it, whether it's in your room or whether it's on the porch or whether it's in the woods, whether it's in the car just not even want to think about why you would be by your driving. But when you write some places where he solved it. We just need to sit down somewhere and read about it and think about it, meditate on it and allow the understanding of what David is telling us to soak in that card. He knows all about, and so everything investigate me, but who knows all things investigate me the the godly person wants to know everything that not only get with it. What about other developers with everything is wrong with what we were hello, the things that are wrong so that we can get rid of God. I want to know everything that is good about my life because the good about my life to God is working at will overpower and overcome that we should, you know what God is to show you all the bad things in your life and then you need to change the gifted fly our prison system doesn't work your to be punished for all the wrong things you've done a know and people need to be punished in some people need to be locked up, but being locked up in. Monday need to does it really make their needs in isolation from society, but doesn't really change them, and some people need to be isolated from society. I'm not no but the challenge is that we need to be changed and the only thing is going to change us, is Christ, and so when I'm looking abroad, investigate my life know my thoughts know my heart. Know what I'm thinking. No one brought you know what I'm going to say give me guidance and when I'm going to say so I say the right things on. They always say the right things. I'm a family thing all the right things the rest of you, don't say anything right so now José with the you bring them up here. Now you are going now. Sometimes but they were in the school band and some of the bands are for when you want to say broad authority things are wrong things. Lying is one of them assistance to you if you have a band on a new life because they go off and put on your arm. Remind yourself to do that while sometimes I'm not lying, but the items is exaggerating you are very real way. Save this with you if you are flying under the exaggerating yell, but not at the lies are yet change the bandwidth like, you can exaggerate no, that's the bearing false witness that they are just kidding. No, you still been lying on sometimes I do that not right, so David says verse seven is there any place I can go to avoid your spirit& someplace like crap live like this young changing the wristband all the time. Is there a place I can avoid your spirit to be out of your site is in place so he goes through the list I will. For the sky of the work. Why is there never what he said just a little bit ago. God is behind me. Guys in front of me. I know I'm with a lot out of the sky noise there. If I go underground. The King James as if I make my bed in hell, you are there. Now I know what I'm going to take the wings of the morning if I can travel at the speed of light from one mountain peak to the next one and get there as fast as like it's their guts already there. How does they would know this policy aware of. This is where the cause of his relationship with God is aware of it because inside of his heart business versus desire to know God inside of our lives. There is a desire to know God, and we are slotted business days like this part of who we are. This day for God and when we hear the truth of God fits right in there and what we try to do is while one part of why wild little bit it will hurt if I know them. This one thing isn't going to end this kind of tries to make God 's image, like me, and God wants to make us like him, and so you finally in a minute if I travel the speed of light and get someplace you're there you you find me in a minute. In a moment you find me. I think that I am lost and not got there. Then I said to myself oh David sees me in the dark. What is sometimes our most frightening places as always, it's when we're in the darkness. And I'm uptight about the dark of night hung about the darkness. Total darkness of darkness of being separated the park. The darkness of being alone the darkness of young, not being able to know the God is there, I said to myself, he sees me, even in the dark at night at night when I am isolated in this darkness, and can't keep my hand in front of my face. I'm immersed in the light of God. God 's light is there. An empty course, David being this shepherd out out on the hillside. I'm sure that there were nights that the sky was black and the stars were clouded over and it was just the darkness of night. He says all of this is white God is nothing here that God can see it's a fact, darkness isn't dark to you night and day, darkness and light are all the same. If the house is our belief in our understanding of God 's complete and total knowledge of us. How does that fit into our life. How does that fit into our thoughts, my yesterday 's God knows my tomorrows. He knows them. He knows my sentence before I say it, and it's a loving relational experience that holds me in the darkness. Places my knowledge of God fits into the darkest places because God is there, and there's no place I can be the goddess is when we hear the truth seat when you leave the slotted part of who we are when we hear the truth that truth fits God 's Spirit causes us to understand that truth is make it fit into the slots of my heart right. I know, and I need God. Verse twelve 's associate. See me in the dark, darkness isn't dark to you now. Darkness is in and like they're all the same all the same. There is no night there is no distance, there's no beginning to get this understanding is he's writing this and inventory form of formulating his thoughts here in the spirit is making a real to him. The David is like a cottage there everywhere behind me in front of me behind the depth, the darkness, the lights I thought tomorrow starts my next sentence for their and he loves me. Oh yes, and then that's not all of it U-shaped me first inside and then out shaped me first inside and then I'll informed me and my mother 's womb informed me and my mothers will need knitted me together than the second. I think you high God, your breathtaking body and soul. I'm marvelously made my body 's cells lining how does the mind work and out of the eyes work and how does the IC and an able to interpret housed year here and be able to interpret and understand how to solve the smart gobbler fearfully, wonderfully made. I worship and adoration water creation. What a creation he looks around he begins to see not only the beauty of the universe with the beginning of creation of us coming together as a person of you as an individual with a beautiful creation that I think all your beautiful guy with a comparable better connect with suicide on all appear, that way there is no why is your created and slotted inside abuse. Lots of these places. This piece of the puzzles that you can put together. God is its rating. You know me inside and out. You know every bone in my body know exactly how I was made bit by bit. How I was cultured from nothing into something like an open book. You watched me grow from conception to birth, all the stages of my life were shapely for you all the stages of my life. Note sometimes week we have a way of thinking of life being a stage that were performing and that we are actors and actors in the old English is a hypocrite. Someone who is playing the part of something they're not. God doesn't want us to act the part of something that we think we should be. He has created us to be the person that we are and you don't need to be someone else. We don't need to be anyone else but you. And as you develop you everything that we need to send their arrogant. We need that God is fitted together inside a bus. Everything that we needed to end their life situations are about pulling out what's already there, bringing out to bring the surface the things that God has placed their, so that we could become that person will want about this problem. What about that problem will we can do about how it would deal with it. Let's take the knowledge of God 's love with think the knowledge of his forgiveness. Let's take the knowledge of his ability to create distinctive knowledge of his God 's way of working. Let's take the knowledge of God 's power and on his presence, and I will start putting that into our life with our difficulties and begin to see God 's work, not through the rearranging of circumstances, but the rearranging, not rearrange bringing out the qualities that are already there. The qualities of tenacity of being able to hang in there. Being able to do. Being able to think being able to work, being able to make a difference in people 's lives. Verse seventeen. Your thoughts. How rare something with anyone. His is the rarity of his thoughts. He doesn't think of me very often know what that all of the minute qualities. The rare news of each individuality that. How rare is your thumb print your thumbprint is yours. Nobody else has one like you. That's a rare quality. The awareness of your qualities are there and we try to lump them together were trying to fit into a mold or someplace that makes a something that were not innocent, God is a lot that he wants the five different awareness of who we are however rare, how beautiful okay, I can begin your beautiful your beautiful for everybody to somebody when they're not very beautifully and oh God that's on the inside of rare how beautiful I couldn't even begin to count how rare a beautiful the qualities of your life. David is I can't even begin to count them anymore. The the sands of the sea. I can't begin to count the sand of the seashore. And I can't begin to count the rare and beautiful quality. The new. This is a revelation from God to David Wass or let me rise in the morning and live always with you. When I awake in the morning that my first thought to be about the greatness of God, and please God no way with the wickedness. The murderers in here all men and women who belittle you, God, their life will amount to nothing, and their criticism of you will only hinder their value in their life. Shall I hate those in David is awesome. How I hate them those people who hate you God have missed the boat. They don't see your head. They don't see you're working they don't see any of this, your enemies are my enemies. Don't get the allow me to be involved with these enemies in my life of your life that caused the verse twenty three and twenty four, says investigate my life. We start out with God. Investigate my life, even after you come to this conclusion, and gone through all of these things. He's still saying God investigate me make sure that I have this right. Okay. Find out everything about me. The good man desires to know the worst, the good man desires to know the best of his life. We build our lives on the good things of our life, not the worst things we build our lives on the good things of our life the good man desires to know the best and keeps building the best because the brass will overcome the lease what you focus on you become God help me to see to understand the best of my life and say that I want to know the best of my life ready. I want to know the best of my life. I want to know the best of my God radio, investigate me know the best of my life. The rarity of the of my life. The rare things of my life, my fingerprint. The great qualities of the Lamb was another cross examine and test me to get all the trials were to the difficulties there. The cross-examining you really believe this. David, do you really think that this is the best you really think that your rare on medium rare enough to some people are well done and then I love this one. Bonuses get a clear picture of what I'm about God. Get a clear picture of what I'm about and show me the picture. She averages seventy ever take a picture in the cell phone when you first think is actually the picture right now that's after you see the pressure after using event shall delete that one. The leader now. Though the shaman adventure all now put your time in David, you fix your hair done anything but so take a picture of my life and showed me the picture and then see for yourself. God see for yourself. Show me whether I've done anything wrong and I mean on the road to eternal life. Run the rope were on the road to eternal life. God lead me on this route behind me in front of me above me beneath me, investigate, take a picture shot with a picture along the truths of your word to guide me and revealed to me the rarity of who I am. The randomness rear. No ones like you know what has your qualities. No one has your abilities. Show me how unique I am and continue to the field continue to develop and to build these things to me take a picture of God show me a and help me on this path. So is the right ready are we ready are we ready for what I have shown live show me a picture that about balance show me the picture ready showed me the picture got taken the picture got showed to me a man father, thank you you to love us and your are qualities. Oh Lord, are very unique and very rare. We thank you Lord that you develop them. God do you show them to us, and God that we continue to do build upon our lives. What you've given us. Thank you Lord for this day. Thank you for the beauty that is in our life. Help us, O God, that we may see its the creativity of God that opens our minds and our hearts in our lives to you because what your truth is, is slotted to fit exactly into our life. We pray this in Jesus name ruin said amen