BIBLE VIEW: EYES OF GOD (2)

(Message by Tanny Keng)

1. Introduction

Proverbs 15:3 New Living Translation (NLT)

³ The Lord is watching everywhere, keeping his eye on both the evil and good.  

2. Hiding from GOD... 

a) When we sin, our natural reaction is to hide from GOD.

b) Adam and Eve hid from GOD after they ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

c) One of the marks of apostasy is a dread of being in GOD's presence.  

d) Apostasy is when people experience a dramatic change in their convictions.  

e) Sin does that!  

f) Something becomes more attractive to them, and to justify embracing such a belief or practice - they hide from GOD and His word knowing that they cannot flourish together...  

Psalm 10 New Living Translation (NLT)  

¹ O Lord, why do you stand so far away?
    Why do you hide when I am in trouble?
² The wicked arrogantly hunt down the poor.
    Let them be caught in the evil they plan for others.
³ For they brag about their evil desires;
    they praise the greedy and curse the Lord.  

⁴ The wicked are too proud to seek God.
    They seem to think that God is dead.
⁵ Yet they succeed in everything they do.
    They do not see your punishment awaiting them.
    They sneer at all their enemies.
⁶ They think, “Nothing bad will ever happen to us!
    We will be free of trouble forever!”  

⁷ Their mouths are full of cursing, lies, and threats.
    Trouble and evil are on the tips of their tongues.
⁸ They lurk in ambush in the villages,
    waiting to murder innocent people.
    They are always searching for helpless victims.
⁹ Like lions crouched in hiding,
    they wait to pounce on the helpless.
Like hunters they capture the helpless
    and drag them away in nets.
¹⁰ Their helpless victims are crushed;
    they fall beneath the strength of the wicked.
¹¹ The wicked think, “God isn’t watching us!
    He has closed his eyes and won’t even see what we do!” 

g) The ungodly try to forget that GOD sees everything... see verse 4 above.

i) GOD does see the wicked and all that they do.

 
ii) His eyes are in every place.

iii) Men try to hide from GOD but they cannot do so.

iv) GOD sees everything going on in heaven, hell, the secret places of the earth.

Psalm 139:8 New Living Translation (NLT)

⁸ If I go up to heaven, you are there;
    if I go down to the grave, you are there.

h) This is the secret root of atheism,

Psalm 14:1 New Living Translation (NLT)

¹ Only fools say in their hearts,
    “There is no God.”
They are corrupt, and their actions are evil;
    not one of them does good!  

 

The End ...