God Knows All-Verses
Our
Heavenly Father wants all to love Him, all to become His Children, all to live
in Paradise with Him forever (Isa 45:22, 1Tim 2:3-6,
Ro 10:13). Our Father sends the Holy Spirit to bring us into His tender care (Jn 14:16-17). The problem is our human nature makes it hard
for us to submit to our God’s will (Ro 8:6-8). It is much easier to follow our
human desires, to rationalize as good that what we want to do, instead of being
receptive to the Spirit (Gal 6:8). Always let the Spirit come into your heart,
never turn Him away. Then follow Him
all the days of your life (Ro 8:4-5, Gal 5:25).
There is only one
way we can love our God above all else, desire to be children His children,
obey His commands, and that is by having
a free will, having a choice (Dt 11:26-28, Matt
6:24). If man and woman did not have a free will, Adam and Eve would not have
been able to sin, would not have been allowed to sin (Gen 3:16-24, Ro 8:20).
And once sin was in the world all people were born in sin, were exposed to sin,
live in sin, and are overcome by sin (Ro 5:12). Our Heavenly Father did not put
restrictions on our free will even though He knew Jesus would have to become
man and die as atonement for our sins (Ac 2:23, 1Pe 1:20,3:18). Our free will
nailed Jesus on the cross, made Him offer His blood for our sins, the sins our
free will would entice us to commit (2Cor 5:21, Ro 6:23). Jesus is the Son of
God, He became man to atone for our sins, Jesus was
both God and man (Gal 4:4-5). As a man Jesus had a free will, had choices (Heb
11:25), but committed no sin (2Co 5:21, Heb 4:15), even though tempted directly
by Satan (Lk 4:1-13). Jesus also submitted His human
will to that of His Father’s will in going to the cross (Matt 26:39+42). God
gave all people a free will, gave us all a choice (Lk
16:13). We can continue to live in sin within the confines of our own mind, a
mind that can not even comprehend our Lord (1Cor 1:18-31). Or we can accept the
Holy Spirit, let Him come into our hearts, let the Spirit rule over our
humanistic minds, show us the Lord (1Cor 2:6-16). Our Heavenly Father offers
the Holy Spirit to all that ask (Lk 11:13), we alone
have the free will to accept or reject the Spirit (Matt 12:31). And rejecting
the Spirit is the only unforgivable sin, for without the Spirit we will never
be able to know our Savior (1Cor 12:3).
Our God is all
knowing (Ps 139:1-16, Jn 21:17). Our Heavenly Father
knew from the beginning, before the world was created, who would love Him and
who would not, who would accept Him and who would reject him (Tit 1:2). A hard
concept to understand is that God knows everything from the beginning to the
end (Rev 1:8, 22:16), but there is no end (Isa 51:6,
1Jn 2;17). God knows what is going to happen tomorrow,
a 100 of years from now, a trillion years from now (1Sam 2:3, 1Jn 3:20). Only
there will be more than trillion years, for with God there is no time, only
forever (Ps 90:1-6, 1Thes 4:17). God knows what is going to happen forever (Ps
9:7-10, Heb 13:8). Our Lord knew who would be His children, who would be in
Heaven with Him forever, from the
beginning, before creation (2Ti 1:9).
The Lord knew what
each one of us would do with our lives before the creation of the world (Jer 1:5, 2Thes 2:13-15, 1Co7:17+24). Those who would
believe were predestined in the
Lord’s plan to be children of God before the beginning of time (Eph 1:4). Our Heavenly Father knew who would accept
Him, who would follow Him, who would carry out His work on earth out of love
for Him (Ro 8:28-30). He chose us not only to be His children, but to do the
specific works He had planned for us, before the world began (Eph 1:11-14). The
Lord has the right to His own plan, He is the potter we are the clay (Isa 55:8-9, Ro 9:20-21, Rev 4:11). The Lord’s ways are not
always our ways and we must always submit to His will (Is 55:8). But the Lord will guide us, sometimes with a
gentle nudge (calling of disciples, Mk 1:22), sometimes with a hard wake up
call (Paul was blinded, Ac 9:5-9). The Spirit will give special gifts to enable
us to do the specific works our Savior had planned for us to do before the
beginning of creation (1Cor 12:4-12, Heb 2:4). Believers will be given the
faith and power to accomplish that which our Lord has planned for us to do (Ro
12:3-8, 1Cor 12:12-31). But all people have the free will to follow the Spirit
and do the Lord’s work, or follow their own sinful nature (Gal 6:7-9).
God alone save us (Lk 18:26-27), alone knows
whose names have been written in the Book of Life from the beginning (Rev
17:8), alone knows who will accept Him in their hearts (Lk
16:15, Ac 15:8). We alone have the free will, the choice, to accept the grace
of Jesus that leads to eternal life in Heaven (Matt 7:21-23), or reject our God
and be cast away from Him into the torment of Hell (Matt 10:28). When
Jesus comes knocking on the door to your heart, let Him in (Rev 3:20-21).
This may be the last chance you have to meet your loving Savior (Isa 55:6).