Who sees us? Who will know?

(Charles Simeon)  LISTEN to audio!

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"The fool says in his heart: There is no God!" Psalm 14:1

"Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him? And what profit do we have if we pray to Him?" Job 21:15

"Yet you say: What does God know? Does He judge through such darkness?" Job 22:13

"The wicked think: God is not watching us! He has closed His eyes and won't even see what we do! God will never call us to account!" Psalm 10:11, 13

"They say: How can God know? Does the Most High have knowledge?" Psalm 73:11

"They say: The Lord does not see. The God of Jacob does not pay attention!" Psalm 94:7

"They are saying: The Lord does not see us. The Lord has abandoned the land!" Ezekiel 8:12

"They think: The Lord will do nothing, either good or bad!" Zephaniah 1:12

"You have said: What is the use of serving God? What have we gained by obeying His commands?" Malachi 3:14

Most people suppose that God has no concern about what is happening on earth, and that He will neither punish the wicked, nor reward the godly. Therefore they imagine that it is both unnecessary and foolish to make Him an object either of our hope, or our fear.

Yet God continually sends us warnings in His Word, that a time is coming when He will clearly make a separation between the wicked and the righteous, by the awful judgments which He will inflict on the one, and the unspeakable blessings which He will confer on the other!

Yes, how different the states of God's friends and God's enemies will be in the eternal world!

The day of judgment is called "The day of God's wrath, when His righteous judgment will be revealed!" Romans 2:5

Alas! alas! where shall the wicked, the objects of God's vengeance, flee?

How shall they "dwell with everlasting burnings?"

Who can conceive the anguish with which they will weep and wail and gnash their teeth for all eternity!

Then they will call to the mountains and the rocks: "Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb! For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?" Revelation 6:16, 17

View, on the contrary, the godly . . .
  when God will wipe every tear from our eyes,
  when there will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain,
  when we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is,
  when we shall be in His presence, where there is fullness of joy, and pleasures forevermore!

Who can conceive the transcendent bliss of such a state?

But though "we know not yet what we shall be," so far as respects the degrees of the misery of the godless, or the happiness of the godly, we know that the distance between the righteous and the wicked will be immeasurably great.

O that we would ever contemplate it—that we might all fear the Lord, and walk in His fear to the last day of our lives!

"Then the King will say to those on His right: Come, you who are blessed by My Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world!"
"Then He will say to those on His left: Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels!" Matthew 25:34, 41

"Woe to those who go to great depths to hide their plans from the LORD, who do their work in darkness and think: Who sees us? Who will know?" Isaiah 29:15