The Lord Jesus Christ who knows all things, including our secret sins, calls us to turn from them in repentance and believe in Him with faith for salvation. How can the righteous omniscient God who knows every wretched thought of our minds allow sinners with such sins on their record to go free and not bare their guilt? Isn’t a payment required for sin? Doesn’t the Scripture say the wages of sin is death? Yes a payment is required and the payment is death. The message of Isaiah and the gospel is this: Jesus made the payment for sin. Jesus Christ came into the world 2,000 years ago to make that payment to God the Father and He made that payment when He suffered and died on the cross for sinners.
And one of his servants said, “None my Lord, O King; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedroom.” II Kings 6:12 NKJV
Where do our worst sins take place? Are they the actual deeds of our hands, or are they the thoughts of our minds and words of our mouths? If all your thoughts were printed on paper for all to read, would your friends and family remain close with you? The imaginations and thoughts of men can be exceedingly wicked. In our minds we can desire great evil against others, curse our neighbors, speak against our God, and imagine vain things.
The Lord warned in Matthew 5 of looking on a woman to lust after her and said it was committing adultery with her in his heart. In Isaiah 29:13 the people were rebuked because they honored God with their mouth but their heart was removed far from God. The wicked in Psalm 10 said in his heart that the Lord had forgotten his sins and would never see them. In Genesis 6 before God sent the flood, “God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually” (Gen. 6:5).
Every wicked thought and idea of our hearts, even those we have never spoken out loud – the Lord knows them all. He revealed the secret plans of Ben-Hadad to Elisha because He knew every word and thought that proceeded from Ben-Hadad and He knows the same about you and me. When a child grumbles in his mind at the instruction of his parent, the Lord knows it. When a curse is muttered under the breath and outside of the earshot of any other, the Lord hears it clearly. The Lord knows all things.
Given this knowledge of the Lord, what can one do? We stand condemned before the infinite, eternal, unchangeable God who is holy in all His ways, perfect in all of His judgements, and will in no way let the guilty go unpunished. If God knows all things, even the secret sins of our mind, shouldn’t we flee from His presence?
Consider these words from Isaiah 1:16-18 given by the omniscient God: “Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes. Cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, rebuke the oppressor, defend the fatherless, plead for the widow. Come now, and let us reason together, says the Lord, Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.”
The Lord Jesus Christ who knows all things, including our secret sins, calls us to turn from them in repentance and believe in Him with faith for salvation. How can the righteous omniscient God who knows every wretched thought of our minds allow sinners with such sins on their record to go free and not bare their guilt? Isn’t a payment required for sin? Doesn’t the Scripture say the wages of sin is death? Yes a payment is required and the payment is death. The message of Isaiah and the gospel is this: Jesus made the payment for sin. Jesus Christ came into the world 2,000 years ago to make that payment to God the Father and He made that payment when He suffered and died on the cross for sinners.
