Sermon Title: OPEN TO BEING KNOWN
Sermon Text: PSALMS 139:1-12
Sermon Series: OPEN: A PSALMS SERIES ON THE POSTURE OF ENCOUNTER
By: PTR NIC SY
Psalm 139:1-12 ESV
O LORD, you have searched me and known me!You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar.You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways.Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O LORD, you know it altogether.You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me.Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it.Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence?If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the seaeven there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me.If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night,”even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you.
SERMON NOTES
I. SEARCHED AND SEEN
“know” | yada (יָדַע) | “to know, to perceive, to understand, to acknowledge.”
People can know a little and misread a lot. God knows everything and misreads nothing.
You have nothing to hide and nothing to prove before the God who fully knows you.
Reflect: Are you still trying to show God an edited version of yourself?
II. HEMMED AND HELD
“hem me in” (tsuwr | צוּר) | “to bind, besiege, confine, cramp.”
God is not cornering David to trap him. God is surrounding David to keep him.
God’s nearness is not a cage; it is a covering.
Reflect: Where have you interpreted God’s nearness as pressure instead of protection?
III. FOUND AND NOT FORGOTTEN
Darkness may change what we can see but it does not change what God can see. Darkness may change how we feel but it does not change what God can do.
Our dark seasons are never dark for God.