Too Wonderful for Me — Bob Jones Sr.

We now present dr. Bob Jones senior Internationally known evangelist and founder of Bob Jones University who during his earthly ministry was one of God's great warriors for the faith. Oh Lord Thou has searched me and known me.

God’s Complete Knowledge of Every Person

Thou know it's my down-sitting and my uprising. Thou understand is my thought afar off. Thou accomplished my path and my lying down and art acquainted with all my ways. For there's not a word in my tongue, but Lord.

Oh Lord thou knowest it altogether. Thou has beset me behind and before one laid thine hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me. It is high. I cannot attain unto it. Now let's notice it. That's the sixth verse of the hundred and thirty-ninth song.

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me. It is high. I cannot attain unto it. You know many women as I've gone up and down the world for many years preaching the gospel. I Have really been tempted sometimes to smile and yet it's too tragic to smile about.

When I've served some little half-baked man. Intellectually some man that's really an ignorant. Talk about the things he can't understand in the universe of God. You know, I could never understand why God would do so and so.

Now isn't it strange that some man that has much sense naturally. And if he had all this sense as possible for mortal man to have he would still be limited for that man to sit down and talk about what he can't understand and Some people haven't tried to understand.

But if they did try to understand there still would be things they couldn't understand. Now I constantly come across something the Word of God. At which all these years, but I say to myself why didn't I see that before?

That is that seems to be so clear some wonderful truth. Why that's a glory of the Word of God and the glory of spiritual knowledge. You never can fathom all it. We read in the Bible who by searching can find out God.

Human Limitations and Reverence for God

Who can find God by search. You know. One time I heard of some blatant infidel. Got up and talked about the Holy Spirit somewhere. He said anybody seen the Holy Ghost around you. Terrible blasphemous statement.

Oh. How irreverent some people are and how little sense they have. He is surprising how little sense some supposedly sensible people have. I remember one time I went to school with a fellow way back in the old days and He was just an average student and he left our school after he finished and went up to New York.

That's when I was a boy over in Alabama in the same college. I attended. He went up to New York and fell in the hands of some modernistic Scholars up and went to the seminary and I met him up in New York a few years later.

He and I had been pretty good friends in college. He was absolutely crazy. He had bats in his belfry. He'd gone off put a tangent on all sorts of peculiar eccentric wild ideas. You never knew anything like in your life, and I kept thinking to myself buddy I know you you never had any too much sense in college and here you are sticking out your chest and strutting intellectually.

Humility Before the Greatness of God

Now the psalmist here said that's too far beyond me to understand. I Can't reach up that high. My mind hasn't an arm that can reach that far. That knowledge of God is too great for me. It's beyond me you know, I've never known a great Christian a great Christian theologian a Great Christian scientist that wasn't a very humble man.

That's always true of. Humility is a garment that all great Christians wear. Great man. Outstanding men big men are always humble men at heart. They have to be. Because the more men think and the more they know the more they realize our limitations.

They know so little. You watch out for these cocky folks at strut. Some little PhD that's just a baby under 30 years of age. Talks very wise. Has his own opinion and even talks about the Bible and he does know anything about that, right?

You know I've met so many fellows and if I talked about their field with his little knowledge as ain't have a Bible. They'd say that's not your field. Well neither is a Bible their field man by wisdom knew not God.

The Depths of the Human Soul

Spiritual things are spiritually designed and the more you design spiritual things the more you say God is too high for me. His knowledge is beyond me. I can't understand it. I can't grasp it now. This Amish goes on and talks about God.

He said he said. He said to me. Did you know that unexplored depths in the soul of every man? Do you know all the music and all the art and all the poetry and all the architecture and all? Human achievement is a feeble effort of a man to explore the depths of his own truth.

A Poet writes a poem and when he gets through with it, he didn't say all he felt he couldn't find the word. Express that deep something in his heart that long for expression, but it's no trouble for God the sages.

God who is infinite can walk down every Avenue of your life. Every Avenue of your soul and there's a little dark corners that he can get into and he can set you. That's what this army says. Thou has searched me and known.

God Knows Every Thought, Word, and Action

God knows all about you. There isn't anything you've ever done. He doesn't know there is anything you've ever said. He hasn't heard. There isn't any thought that ever walked across your brain that he didn't see it out of his eyes of holiness.

He knows all about. Isn't that one? But isn't it terrible to think of some day looking in the eyes of God? Holy God That knows all about us. Now. This army says our excitement and you know. Now you don't absolutely know anybody in this world.

Now you can know certain things about people for instance by their fruit. You should know. You can judge men by sometimes by what they say for words betray carrot. Now you can know the type character of person.

But you can't know all about anyone. You don't know all about your wife. She doesn't know all about you. There are things that people couldn't tell you about themselves. You can't even know your own self, but this army says God knows me.

He searched me and knows me. Now he said he knows all I've ever done. He knows my down sittings and my uprisings. Thou understandest my thoughts are far off. Man looks at the outward appearance, but God looks at the heart.

God sees the heart all the thoughts of the heart. That's God. You know, it makes you a little nervous doesn't it when you're not right? When you're not what you ought to be when your sins are not blotted out.

The Psalmist’s Conviction Under God’s Omniscience

When you're not saved you don't feel quite nice. Do you when you read words like this. Now listen thou comest my path. My lying down and are the Queen with all my ways. Well, there's not a word in my tongue, but Lord Lord thou knowest it all together.

You know why I said it. You know the meaning, you know, whether I was telling the truth or lie. You know it all. God knows it now listen and then the psalmist cries out such knowledge is too wonderful me.

It is high. I cannot attain or be it. There's no use to have that kind of ambition. I'll never be able to attain or that knowledge. You will never know all that God knows. Nobody ever will you going to be like Jesus Christ someday if you're a Christian.

You'll see him and be like him. You'll be like him in spirit. Are you'll be like him bodily because you'll have a risen body someday and you'll be like Christ. You'll have a risen bodies. He had a reason.

But you will never know all that God knows. The secrets of God, but you know many women you can know all now you need to know to live, right? There isn't anything you need to know to live the right kind of life.

Revealed Things Are Sufficient for Righteous Living

But what you can know that right now down this world. We read in Deuteronomy secret things belong to God. But reveal things belong to us and our children so we may keep his law live like he wants us to live.

Reveal things. Now there isn't anything that you need to know to live right with what God's told you first. He's told you how to be saved. Now if you don't find salvation, you'll be the blame God said if you'd receive Christ you could be saved.

The Way of Salvation Through Jesus Christ

Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ now shall be saved. He had half the son half life. Now God told you that God told you that there wasn't any other way to be saved. He said the salvation no other name except his name.

Now, you know how to be saved. Now you can't complain if you go to hell you won't have any excuse for going to hell. Because you know what to do to be saved, you know, there's never been a time when there was as much widespread knowledge in America.

About what to do to be saved is now. There's just a radio station America, but has only the gospel program some evangelical preacher telling people to do to be saved. Now if people know what to do to be saved.

Living by the Knowledge God Has Revealed

You have all you need to know. Then you know after you become a Christian if you read the Bible what you ought to do. Now we can be satisfied With the knowledge we have in this sense that God tells us what we know ought to know to live the right kind of life.

Now that's wonderful. Isn't it? Is it wonderful that God who inhabits eternity and God who? manages this universe should take a little time down here with us on this earth to tell us how to get to heaven how to be saved and To fix it.

So we couldn't be saved and then tell us how we ought to live. He's a wonderful God to take that much time with us poor, frail, blundering, weak, stumbling, sinful human beings. But now he's done that for us.

Trusting God Beyond What We Understand

Now you quit all this worry about what you can't understand what you can't understand. And get down to earth here and say well, I can understand this and I'm going to start in here. Now, wait a minute one word I want to say to you.

Now he said such knowledge is too wonderful for me. It's just beyond me. I I can't get it see it's too high it's beyond my reach. I cannot attain into it. But wait a minute as I read this this morning.

There's something flashed into my mind. I won't leave with you. I Said to myself what I can know somebody that knows that much. Isn't that one? I Can't know what he knows, but it sure is nice to know somebody knows so much, isn't it?

Knowing God as Father Through Faith

Do you know I've known a few men in this world supposed to be scholarly men and I've known some men that had some prominence and influence. And I've known most of the great preachers in America outstanding preachers.

Especially the evangelical type preachers and they are the only great preachers because they preach. Other men are great lecturers. I've known most of them. I've known some fellas pretty high up. Prominent people and I've known some prominent people that really weren't worth knowing few of them in my life.

But you know think about when I was 11 years old little country boy. Just a little boy didn't know many people never been anyway. I Came to know God who knows all things. You know, he's wonderful. What an honor that even a little child can know and call him father.

Now that's glorious if that's all is to say I'd rather know him and know what he knows. Just his knowledge. Just all he knows wouldn't Save me. I have to trust him to be saved and to know him. Many women what a privilege what an honor.

That God so loved you. He gave his son to die for you. Why don't you trust Jesus Christ? Savior. Yield yourself to you can do it right now. Our father we couldn't find God by searching but God revealed himself to us he sent his son incarnate himself in human form and Jesus Christ his son died on the cross to save.

Closing Prayer for Salvation and Humble Living

Rule is our transgression and bruised our iniquities. And we are so glad we are saved because we trust him as our savior. We accept the gift Alice given us the gift of eternal life. Help us to walk humbly in thy presence to be good sons and daughters of our heavenly father to know all we can know about spiritual things and.

Someday, we'll have the joy of seeing thee face to face. We thank thee that we can sing it is well with my soul. We praise thee in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. You have just heard dr. Bob Jones senior internationally known evangelist and founder of Bob Jones University.

Who during his earthly ministry was one of God's great warriors for the faith? This program is sponsored by Bob Jones University.