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The sermon presents God as omniscient, omnipresent, active, and personally attentive to every human being. God’s comprehensive knowledge comforts those who pray, suffer, or are falsely accused, because no distress or injustice is hidden from Him. The same doctrine sharply condemns unrepentant sin, which is committed in God’s presence and will be judged with perfect knowledge. Spurgeon directs hearers to salvation through faith in Christ, who died for believers and rose again for their redemption.
Theological center: God is omniscient and personally sees every person, while salvation comes through faith in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Applications: Repent of your sin · Believe in Jesus Christ · God sees each person fully · God’s omniscience makes sin serious
Primary texts: Genesis 16:13 · John 4:16
“Thou God seest me.” Genesis 16:13 THERE are more eyes fixed on man then he knows of. He sees not as he is seen. He thinks himself obscure and unobserved, but let him remember that a cloud of witnesses hold him in full survey. Wherever he is, at every instant, there are beings whose attention is riveted by his doings and whose gaze is constantly fixed by his actions. Within this Hall, I doubt not, there are myriads of spirits unseen to us—spirits good and spirits evil. Upon us tonight, the eyes of angels rest. Attentively those perfect spirits regard our order, they hear our songs, they observe our prayers. It may be they fly to heaven to convey to their companions news of any sinners who are born of God, for there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents. Millions of spiritual creatures walk this earth, both when we wake and when we sleep. Midnight is peopled with shadows unseen and daylight has its spirits too. The prince of the power of the air, attended by his squadron of evil spirits often, flits through the ether oft. Evil spirits watch our halting every instant, while good spirits, battling for the salvation of God’s elect, keep us in all our ways and watch over our feet, lest at any time we dash them against a stone. Hosts of invisible beings attend on every one of us at different periods of our lives. We must remember, also, that not only do the spirits of angels, elect or fallen, look on us, but “the spirits of the just made perfect,” continually observe our conversation. We are taught by the apostle that the noble army of martyrs and the glorious company of confessors are “witnesses” of our race to heaven, for he says, “Seeing, then, that we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and the sin which doth so easily beset us.” From yon blue heaven, the eyes of the glorified look down on us. There the children of God are sitting on their starry thrones, observing whether we manfully uphold the banner around which they fought. They behold our valor or they detect our cowardice. And they are intent to witness our valiant deeds of noble daring or our ignominious retreat in the day of battle. Remember that, sons of men, you are not unregarded. You do not pass through this world in unseen obscurity. In darkest shades of night, eyes glare on you through the gloom. In the brightness of the day, angels are spectators of your labors. From heaven there look down upon you spirits who see all that finite beings are capable of beholding. But if we think that thought worth treasuring…