Doctrine of Knowledge
that is not theirs, and shall serve
Nine Categories of Knowledge
 What a Person Can Know
 What a Person Does Not Know
 What a Person Presumes to Know
 What a Person Pretends Not to Know
 What the Unbeliever Can Know
 What the Unbeliever Does Not
Know
 What a Person Can Ask to Know
 What God the Father Knows
 What God the Son Knows
~*~
Knowledge in the
Old Testament
What a Person Can Know
From the Books of Genesis
1. A person can know good and evil.
 Genesis 3:22 And the LORD God
said, Behold, the man is become as
one of us, to know good and evil:
and now, lest he put forth his hand,
and take also of the tree of life, and
eat, and live for ever:
2. A person can know the beauty of a
woman.
 Genesis 12:11 And it came to pass,
when he was come near to enter into
Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his
wife, Behold now, I know that thou
art a fair woman to look upon:
3. A person can know whatever future
God reveals to him.
 Genesis 15:13 And he [God] said
unto Abram, Know of a surety that
thy seed shall be a stranger in a land
them; and they shall afflict them four
hundred years;
4. A person can know by personal
desire and experience carnal sexual
perversion such as homosexuality.
 Genesis 19:5 And they [the men of
Sodom] called unto Lot, and said
unto him, Where are the men
[angels] which came in to thee this
night? Bring them out unto us, that
we may know them [sexually].
5. A person can know there is a sin
unto death.
 Genesis 20:7 Now [Abimelech]
therefore restore the man [Abraham]
his wife [Sarah]; for he is a prophet,
and he shall pray for thee, and thou
shalt live: and if thou restore her not,
know thou that thou shalt surely die,
thou, and all that are thine.
6. A person may know if God has
favored them in a given situation.
 Genesis 24:14 And let it come to
pass, that the damsel to whom I shall
say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray
thee, that I may drink; and she shall
say, Drink, and I will give thy
camels drink also: let the same be
she that thou hast appointed for thy
servant Isaac; and thereby shall I
know that thou hast shewed kindness
unto my master [Isaac].
7. A person can know the personality
and character of others.
 Genesis 29:5 And he [Jacob] said
unto them, Know ye Laban the son
 of Nahor? And they said, We know
him.
8. A person can know the hard work of
another individual.
 Genesis 31:6 And ye know that with
all my power I [Jacob] have served
your father [Laban].
9. A person can know the clothing or
garments that are associated with
another.
 Genesis 37:32 And they [the brothers
of Joseph] sent the coat of many
colours, and they brought it to their
father [Jacob]; and said, This have
we found: know now whether it be
thy son's [Joseph] coat or no.
10. A person can know the character of
another person though testing.
 Genesis 42:33 And the man [Joseph],
the lord of the country, said unto us,
Hereby shall I know that ye are true
men; leave one of your brethren here
with me, and take food for the
famine of your households, and be
gone:
Genesis 42:34 And bring your
youngest brother unto me: then shall
I know that ye are no spies, but that
ye are true men: so will I deliver you
your brother, and ye shall traffic in
the land.
11. A person can know their brothers
and sisters according to the flesh.
 Genesis 44:27 And thy servant my
father [Jacob] said unto us, Ye know
that my wife [Rachel,] bare me two
sons:
12. A person may know the future of a
child if God has placed His prophetic
word in the heart.
 Genesis 48:19 And his father [Jacob]
refused, and said, I know it, my son
[Joseph], I know it: he [Manasseh]
also shall become a people, and he
also shall be great: but truly his
younger brother [Ephraim] shall be
greater than he [Manasseh], and his
[Ephraim’s] seed shall become a
multitude of nations.
From the Book of Exodus
13. A person called of God can know the
Lord in a personal and direct way.
 Exodus 6:7 And I will take you to
me for a people, and I will be to you
a God: and ye shall know that I am
the LORD your God, which bringeth
you out from under the burdens of
the Egyptians.
14. A Christian can know for certainty
what the attitude of the unbeliever
will be towards the LORD God and
that is an attitude of non-fear and
hostility.
 Exodus 9:30 But as for thee
[Pharaoh] and thy servants, I
[Moses] know that ye will not yet
fear the LORD God.
15. A person may know the LORD by
the miracles He performs.
 There are the miracles of plagues.
Exodus 10:2 And that thou [Moses]
mayest tell in the ears of thy son
[child (children)], and of thy son's
son [grandchildren], what things I
[the LORD] have wrought in Egypt,
 and my signs which I have done
among them; that ye may know how
that I am the LORD.
There is the miracle of the non-
barking dog. Exodus 11:7 But
against any of the children of Israel
shall not a dog move his tongue,
against man or beast: that ye may
know how that the LORD doth put a
difference between the Egyptians
and Israel.
There is the miracle of being alive at
evening time. Exodus 16:6 And
Moses and Aaron said unto all the
children of Israel, At even, then ye
shall know that the LORD hath
brought you out from the land of
Egypt:
There is the miracle of manna.
Exodus 16:12 I have heard the
murmurings of the children of Israel:
speak unto them, saying, At even ye
shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye
shall be filled with bread; and ye
shall know that I am the LORD your
God.
16. A person can know the righteousness
of God by justice being rendered and
the statutes of God and His laws by
being properly instructed.
 Exodus 18:16 [Jethro] When they
have a matter, they come unto me;
and I [Moses] judge between one and
another, and I do make them know
the statutes of God, and his laws.
17. A person can know how to
empathize with someone having
been through a similar experience.
 Exodus 23:9 Also thou shalt not
oppress a stranger: for ye know the
heart of a stranger, seeing ye were
strangers in the land of Egypt.
18. An Israelite could know of their
special covenant relationship to the
LORD by keeping the Sabbath.
 Exodus 31:13 Speak thou also unto
the children of Israel, saying, Verily
my Sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a
sign between me and you throughout
your generations; that ye may know
that I am the LORD that doth
sanctify you.
 Ezekiel 20:12 Moreover also I gave
them my Sabbaths, to be a sign
between me and them, that they
might know that I am the LORD that
sanctify them.
19. A person can know how to perform
specialized works of ministry, which
God has placed in the heart.
 Exodus 36:1 Then wrought Bezaleel
and Aholiab, and every wise hearted
man, in whom the LORD put
wisdom and understanding to know
how to work all manner of work for
the service of the sanctuary,
according to all that the LORD had
commanded.
From the Book of Leviticus
20. An Israelite could know, remember
and identify with the hardships of the
Exodus Generation when the LORD
brought them out of Egypt.
.
 Leviticus 23:43 That your
generations may know that I made
the children of Israel to dwell in
 booths, when I brought them out of
the land of Egypt: I am the LORD
your God.
From the Book of Numbers
21. A second generation Israelite could
know the Land of Promise, which
the LORD brought them into safely
despite the murmuring comments of
unbelief within the Exodus
Generation.
 Numbers 14:31 But your little ones,
which ye said should be a prey, them
will I bring in, and they shall know
the land which ye have despised.
22. A person can know why God is
disciplining them. The Exodus
Generation was told plainly why
they were condemned to roam in the
dessert for forty years.
 Numbers 14:34 After the number of
the days in which ye searched the
land, even forty days, each day for a
year, shall ye bear your iniquities,
even forty years, and ye shall know
my breach of promise.
23. A person can know if a man is
ordained of God or not to lead.
 Numbers 16:28 And Moses said,
Hereby ye shall know that the LORD
hath sent me to do all these works;
for I have not done them of mine
own mind.
From the Book of Deuteronomy
24. A person can know the truth of
monotheism.
 Deuteronomy 4:35 Unto thee it was
shewed, that thou mightest know that
the LORD he is God; there is none
else beside him.
25. A person can know in a day through
deep meditation that the LORD He is
God of heaven and earth. Time and
again the sovereign of God over the
earth is affirmed which makes the
devil out to be the liar he is when he
tries to promise the kingdoms of this
world to anyone, especially Christ.
 Deuteronomy 4:39 Know therefore
this day, and consider it in thine
heart, that the LORD he is God in
heaven above, and upon the earth
beneath: there is none else.
26. A person can know the essence of
God. Particularly God’s attributes of
faithfulness, His desire to keep a
covenant and His mercy may be
known.
 Deuteronomy 7:9 Know therefore
that the LORD thy God, he is God,
the faithful God, which keepeth
covenant and mercy with them that
love him and keep his
commandments to a thousand
generations;
27. A person can know the reason for
prolonged periods of testing such as
the Wilderness Journey.
 Deuteronomy 8:2 And thou shalt
remember all the way which the
LORD thy God led thee these forty
years in the wilderness, to humble
thee, and to prove thee, to know
what was in thine heart, whether
 thou wouldest keep his
commandments, or no.
28. A person can know great spiritual
truths such as the fact that “man does
not live by bread alone but by every
word that proceedeth out of the
mouth of the LORD doth man live.”
 Deuteronomy 8:3 And he humbled
thee, and suffered thee to hunger,
and fed thee with manna, which thou
knewest not, neither did thy fathers
know; that he might make thee know
that man doth not live by bread only,
but by every word that proceedeth
out of the mouth of the LORD doth
man live.
29. A person can know when a gospel
message is deliberately directed at
their hearts and lives.
 Deuteronomy 11:2 And know ye this
day: for I speak not with your
children which have not known, and
which have not seen the
chastisement of the LORD your God,
his greatness, his mighty hand, and
his stretched out arm,
30. A person can know that God will
often test His people through various
means including false prophets to
examine genuine of love. There are
people who love God only for the
health and wealth they can receive of
Him. Many people fail this test for
when the promised health and wealth
does not materialize heart turn away
from God.
 Deuteronomy 13:3 Thou shalt not
hearken unto the words of that
prophet, or that dreamer of dreams:
for the LORD your God proveth you,
to know whether ye love the LORD
your God with all your heart and
with all your soul.
31. A person can know that God
withdraws certain legitimate foods
and beverages such as bread and
wine in order to enhance a spiritual
relation with Himself.
 Deuteronomy 29:6 Ye have not eaten
bread, neither have ye drunk wine or
strong drink: that ye might know that
I am the LORD your God.
32. A person can know God’s
faithfulness in the present by
remember His faithfulness in the
past.
 Deuteronomy 29:16 (For ye know
how we have dwelt in the land of
Egypt; and how we came through the
nations which ye passed by;
33. A person can know the future evil
individuals will think and do.
 Deuteronomy 31:27 For I [Moses]
know thy rebellion, and thy stiff
neck: behold, while I am yet alive
with you this day, ye have been
rebellious against the LORD; and
how much more after my death?
Deuteronomy 31:29 For I know that
after my death ye will utterly corrupt
yourselves, and turn aside from the
way which I have commanded you;
and evil will befall you in the latter
days; because ye will do evil in the
sight of the LORD, to provoke him
to anger through the work of your
hands.
 From the Book of Joshua
34. A person can know when their nation
is under the Fifth Wave of Divine
Discipline, which is the
disintegration of human civilization
(Lev. 26, see Doctrine of Divine
Discipline).
 Joshua 2:9 And she [Rahab] said
unto the men, I know that the LORD
hath given you the land, and that
your terror is fallen upon us, and that
all the inhabitants of the land faint
because of you.
 Ezekiel 12:15 And they shall know
that I am the LORD, when I shall
scatter them among the nations, and
disperse them in the countries.
35. A person can know the geographical
will of God.
 Joshua 3:4 Yet there shall be a space
between you and it, about two
thousand cubits by measure: come
not near unto it, that ye may know
the way by which ye must go: for ye
have not passed this way heretofore.
36. A person can know if the special
hand of God is upon their life.
 Joshua 3:7 And the LORD said unto
Joshua, This day will I begin to
magnify thee in the sight of all Israel,
that they may know that, as I was
with Moses, so I will be with thee.
37. A person can know God’s
providential will to conquer a
country if the inhabitants are driven
out. Land belongs to the Lord and to
whomever He is pleased to give it
for He is the one who establishes the
boundaries (Acts 17:26).
 Joshua 3:10 And Joshua said, Hereby
ye shall know that the living God is
among you, and that he will without
fail drive out from before you the
Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the
Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the
Girgashites, and the Amorites, and
the Jebusites.
38. A person can known and pass on
with certain knowledge spiritual
events that have become historical.
 Joshua 4:22 Then ye shall let your
children know, saying, Israel came
over this Jordan on dry land.
39. A person can know that God will not
give military victory under certain
conditions.
Victory for Joshua
 Joshua 23:13 Know for a certainty
that the LORD your God will no
more drive out any of these nations
from before you; but they shall be
snares and traps unto you, and
scourges in your sides, and thorns in
your eyes, until ye perish from off
this good land which the LORD your
God hath given you.
Victory for King Ahab
 1 Kings 20:13 And, behold, there
came a prophet unto Ahab king of
Israel, saying, Thus saith the LORD,
Hast thou seen all this great
multitude? Behold, I will deliver it in
to thine hand this day; and thou shalt
know that I am the LORD.
40. A person can know why God gives
military victory.
 1 Kings 20:28 And there came a
man of God, and spake unto the
king of Israel, and said, Thus
saith the LORD, Because the
Syrians have said, The LORD is
God of the hills, but he is not
God of the valleys, therefore will
I deliver all this great multitude
into thine hand, and ye shall
know that I am the LORD.
41. A person can know that God keeps
His word. The promises made to
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
concerning the boundaries of the
Land of Promise, a seed and a royal
descendant have all been fulfilled.
 Joshua 23:14 And, behold, this day I
am going the way of all the earth:
and ye know in all your hearts and in
all your souls, that not one thing hath
failed of all the good things which
the LORD your God spake
concerning you; all are come to pass
unto you, and not one thing hath
failed thereof.
From the Book of Judges
42. A person can and should know how
to fight for God and country. The
Lord left some of the tribal nations
of Canaan in the land to teach the
Israelites to fight.
 Judges 3:1 Now these are the nations
which the LORD left, to prove Israel
by them, even as many of Israel as
had not known all the wars of
Canaan; 2 Only that the generations
of the children of Israel might know,
to teach them war, at the least such
as before knew nothing thereof;
What God wanted to know
specifically through military conflict
was whether or not the people of the
covenant would listen to and obey
the commandments of the Law.
Judges 3:4 And they were to prove
Israel by them, to know whether they
would hearken unto the
commandments of the LORD, which
he commanded their fathers by the
hand of Moses.
43. A person can know by specifically
answered prayer the will of God.
 Judges 6:37 Behold, I will put a
fleece of wool in the floor; and if the
dew be on the fleece only, and it be
dry upon all the earth beside, then
shall I know that thou wilt save
Israel by mine hand, as thou hast
said.
44. A person can know the principle of
blessing by association.
 Judges 17:13 Then said Micah, Now
know I that the LORD will do me
good, seeing I have a Levite to my
priest.
45. A person can know if other people
are worshipping false gods and
engaging in idolatry.
 Judges 18:14 Then answered the five
men that went to spy out the country
of Laish, and said unto their
brethren, Do ye know that there is in
these houses an ephod, and teraphim,
and a graven image, and a molten
 image? Now therefore consider what
ye have to do.
46. A person can know the most vile of
sexual sins such as homosexuality
are manifested in succeeding
generations.
 Judges 19:22 Now as they were
making their hearts merry, behold,
the men of the city, certain sons of
Belial, beset the house round about,
and beat at the door, and spake to the
master of the house, the old man,
saying, Bring forth the man that
came into thine house, that we may
know him (cf. Genesis 19:5).
From the Book of Ruth
47. A person can know about and
promote the good reputation of a
virtuous woman.
 Ruth 3:11 And now, my daughter,
fear not; I will do to thee all that thou
requirest: for all the city of my
people doth know that thou art a
virtuous woman.
48. A person can know how to be
discreet in society so as to avoid
scandal for self and shame for others.
. certain sins.
 Ruth 3:14 And she lay at his feet
until the morning: and she rose up
before one could know another. And
he said, Let it not be known that a
woman came into the floor.
49. A person can know how to be patient
and wait for the outcome of a
situation.
 Ruth 3:18 Then said she, Sit still, my
daughter, until thou know how the
matter will fall: for the man will not
be in rest, until he have finished the
thing this day.
50. A person can know the mind and
intentions of someone else through
open discussion confirmed in the
presence of witnesses.
 Ruth 4:4 And I thought to advertise
thee, saying, Buy it before the
inhabitants, and before the elders of
my people. If thou wilt redeem it,
redeem it: but if thou wilt not redeem
it, then tell me, that I may know: for
there is none to redeem it beside
thee; and I am after thee. And he
said, I will redeem it.
From the Book of 1 Samuel
51. It is possible to know what one does
not know. There is a time in the life
of every person in which it can be
said, they do “not yet” know the
LORD.
 1 Samuel 3:7 Now Samuel did not
yet know the LORD, neither was the
word of the LORD yet revealed unto
him.
52. It is possible to know the origin of
 1 Samuel 14:38 And Saul said, Draw
ye near hither, all the chief of the
people: and know and see wherein
this sin hath been this day.
53. It is possible for a person to know
the LORD will save a people but not
through military force. No one
should put their ultimate trust for
national security in military
readiness or strength.
 1 Samuel 17:47 And all this
assembly shall know that the LORD
saveth not with sword and spear: for
the battle is the LORD's, and he will
give you into our hands.
54. A parent can know and should know
the friends of their children.
 1 Samuel 20:3 And David sware
moreover, and said, Thy father
[Saul] certainly knoweth that I have
found grace in thine eyes; and he
saith, Let not Jonathan know this,
lest he be grieved: but truly as the
LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth,
there is but a step between me and
death.
55. A person can know if they are lying
about their activities.
 1 Samuel 21:2 And David said unto
Ahimelech the priest, The king hath
commanded me a business, and hath
said unto me, Let no man know any
thing of the business whereabout I
send thee, and what I have
commanded thee: and I have
appointed my servants to such and
such a place.
56. A person can know when a
dangerous life-threatening situation
is present.
 1 Samuel 25:17 Now therefore know
and consider what thou [Abigail]
wilt do; for evil [injurious behavior]
is determined against our master
[Nabal], and against all his
household: for he is such a son of
Belial, that a man cannot speak to
him.
57. A person can know whey they are
lying and deceiving through clever
words designed to convey one
meaning while something else is
being done.
 1 Samuel 28:2 And David said to
Achish, Surely thou shalt know what
thy servant can do. And Achish said
to David, Therefore will I make thee
keeper of mine head for ever.
From the Book of 2 Samuel
58. It is possible for a person to know
they are being deceived or have
been.
 2 Samuel 3:25 Thou knowest Abner
the son of Ner, that he came to
deceive thee, and to know thy going
out and thy coming in, and to know
all that thou doest.
59. It is possible for a person to know
how to show kindness and grace to
one’s enemy.
 2 Samuel 3:38 And the king [David]
said unto his servants, Know ye not
that there is a prince and a great man
[Abner, the commander in chief of
Saul’s army] fallen this day in Israel?
60. A person can recognize the tongue of
the flatterer for such a one will use
excessive praise in the manner of the
woman of Tekoah.
 2 Samuel 14:20 To fetch about this
form of speech hath thy servant Joab
done this thing: and my lord is wise,
according to the wisdom of an angel
 of God, to know all things that are in
the earth.
61. A person can know when they have
acted foolishly and should confess
sin and plead for mercy as did
Shimei the son of Gera. Having once
cursed David, Shimei bows before
him.
 2 Samuel 19:20 For thy servant doth
know that I have sinned: therefore,
behold, I am come the first this day
of all the house of Joseph to go down
to meet my lord the king.
62. A person can know what position
they hold by divine design in the
economy of life. With this realization
comes responsibility and restraints.
 2 Samuel 19:22 And David said,
What have I to do with you, ye sons
of Zeruiah, that ye should this day be
adversaries unto me? Shall there any
man be put to death this day in
Israel? For do not I know that I am
this day king over Israel?
63. A person can know that certain
information gathered will only
inflame pride, and so they gather the
data as David did in numbering the
people of Israel.
 2 Samuel 24:2 For the king said to
Joab the captain of the host, which
was with him, Go now through all
the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to
Beer-sheba, and number ye the
people, that I may know the number
of the people.
From the Book of 1 Kings
64. It is possible for a person to know
the limitations of life and the
boundaries they should remain
within as part of a just judgment.
 1 Kings 2:37 For it shall be, that on
the day thou [Shimei] goest out, and
passest over the brook Kidron, thou
shalt know for certain that thou shalt
surely die: thy blood shall be upon
thine own head.
65. It is possible for a person to know
when they are violating the
principles of grace as when Shimei
violated the grace of King David, to
his own peril.
1 Kings 2:42 And the king sent and
called for Shimei, and said unto him,
Did I not make thee to swear by the
LORD, and protested unto thee,
saying, Know for a certain, on the
day thou goest out, and walkest
abroad any wither, that thou shalt
surely die? And thou saidst unto me,
The word that I have heard is good.
66. A person can know their need for the
LORD to lead and guide them.
 1 Kings 3:7 And now, O LORD my
God, thou hast made thy servant
[Solomon] king instead of David my
father: and I am but a little child: I
know not how to go out or come in.
67. A person can know the plague or
inward corruption of his own heart.
 1 Kings 8:38 What prayer and
supplication soever be made by any
man, or by all thy people Israel,
which shall know every man the
plague of his own heart, and spread
forth his hands toward this house:
68. By witnessing the attitude and
actions of another, a person may
 know if an individual is truly a man
of God or not.
 1 Kings 17:24 And the woman said
to Elijah, Now by this I know that
thou art a man of God, and that the
word of the LORD in thy mouth is
truth.
69. A person can know when God has
granted the gift of repentance to a
person for the hearts of the people
will return to keeping the law of the
Lord and loving one another.
 1 Kings 18:37 Hear me, O LORD,
hear me, that this people may know
that thou art the LORD God, and that
thou hast turned their heart back
again.
From the Book of 2 Kings
70. A person can know the day they will
lose a loved one in the providence of
God despite much sorrow of heart.
 2 Kings 2:3 And the sons of the
prophets that were at Bethel came
forth to Elisha, and said unto him,
Knowest thou that the LORD will
take away thy master from thy head
to day? And he said, Yea, I know it;
hold ye your peace.
2 Kings 2:5 And the sons of the
prophets that were at Jericho came to
Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest
thou that the LORD will take away
thy master from thy head to day?
And he answered, Yea, I know it;
hold ye your peace.
71. A person can know there is a prophet
of God in the land.
 2 Kings 5:8 And it was so, when
Elisha the man of God had heard that
the king of Israel had rent his
clothes, that he sent to the king,
saying, Wherefore hast thou rent thy
clothes? Let him come now to me,
and he shall know that there is a
prophet in Israel.
72. A person can become convinced by
conversion there is but one God, the
God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Such a person was Naamam.
 2 Kings 5:15 And he [Naaman]
returned to the man of God, he and
all his company, and came, and stood
before him: and he said, Behold, now
I know that there is no God in all
earth, but in Israel: now therefore, I
pray thee, take a blessing of thy
servant.
73. A person can know or discern what
their enemies will think and do under
certain conditions.
 2 Kings 7:12 And the king [Jehoram,
reigned 852 BC - 841 BC] arose in
the night, and said unto his servants,
I will now shew you what the
Syrians have done to us. They know
that we be hungry; therefore are they
gone out of the camp to hide
themselves in the field, saying,
When they come out of the city, we
shall catch them alive, and get into
the city.
74. A person can know the evil in the
heart of others.
 2 Kings 8:12 And Hazael said, Why
weepeth my lord? And he [Elijah]
answered, Because I know the evil
that thou wilt do unto the children of
 Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set
on fire, and their young men wilt
thou slay with the sword, and wilt
dash their children, and rip up their
women with child.
75. A person can known when disturbing
information has been delivered.
 2 Kings 9:11 Then Jehu came forth
to the servants of his lord: and one
said unto him, Is all well? Wherefore
came this mad fellow [young
prophet] to thee? And he said unto
them, Ye know the man [Elisha], and
his communication.
76. A person can know the Word of God
shall not fail.
 2 Kings 10:10 Know now that there
shall fall unto the earth nothing of
the word of the LORD, which the
LORD spake concerning the house
of Ahab: for the LORD hath done
that which he spake by his servant
Elijah.
From the Book of 1 Chronicles
77. It is possible for some people to have
political and social acumen in order
to guide the affairs of a nation.
 1 Chronicles 12:32 And of the
children of Issachar, which were men
that had understanding of the times,
to know what Israel ought to do; the
heads of them were two hundred;
and all their brethren were at their
commandment.
78. The children of believing parents can
know the God of their father.
 1 Chronicles 28:9 And thou,
Solomon my son, know thou the God
of thy father, and serve him with a
perfect heart and with a willing
mind: for the LORD searcheth all
hearts, and understandeth all the
imaginations of the thoughts: if thou
seek him, he will be found of thee;
but if thou forsake him, he will cast
thee off for ever.
79. A person can know God will test
hearts for the purpose of approval
that He might have pleasure in
righteousness.
80. 1 Chronicles 29:17 I know also, my
God, that thou triest the heart, and
hast pleasure in uprightness. As for
me, in the uprightness of mine heart I
have willingly offered all these
things: and now have I seen with joy
thy people, which are present here, to
offer willingly unto thee.
From the Book of 2 Chronicles
81. A person can know the skills that
exist in another nation.
 2 Chronicles 2:8 Send me [Solomon]
also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum
trees, out of Lebanon: for I know that
thy servants can skill to cut timber in
Lebanon; and, behold, my servants
shall be with thy servants,
82. A person can know their own
personal sorrows and griefs through
self awareness.
 2 Chronicles 6:29 Then what prayer
or what supplication soever shall be
made of any man, or of all thy
people Israel, when every one shall
know his own sore and his own grief,
 and shall spread forth his hands in
this house:
83. A person can know the reason for
national enslavement and domination
of by a foreign power.
 2 Chronicles 12:8 Nevertheless they
shall be his [Shishak of Egypt, c. 945
BC - 924 BC] servants; that they
may know my service, and the
service of the kingdoms of the
countries.
84. A person can know the term “for
ever” is used in a restricted way in
Scripture to refer to the extent of the
promise initially given.
 2 Chronicles 13:5 Ought ye not to
know that the LORD God of Israel
gave the kingdom over Israel to
David for ever, even to him and to
his sons by a covenant of salt?
85. It is possible to know that individuals
will not listen to godly counsel.
 2 Chronicles 25:16 And it came to
pass, as he [the prophet] talked with
him [Amaziah, 796 BC - 767 BC],
that the [ninth] king [of Judah] said
unto him, Art thou made of the
king's counsel? Forbear; why
shouldest thou be smitten? Then the
prophet forbare, and said, I know
that God hath determined to destroy
thee, because thou hast done this,
and hast not hearkened unto my
counsel.
 2 Chronicles 32:13 Know ye not
what I [Sennacherib king of
Assyria], and my fathers have done
unto all the people of other lands?
Were the gods of the nations of those
lands any ways able to deliver their
lands out of mine hand?
From the Book of Ezra
86. A person can know the historical
record that surrounds a particular
geographical location.
 Ezra 4:15 That search may be made
in the book of the records of thy
fathers: so shalt thou find in the book
of the records, and know that this
city is a rebellious city, and hurtful
unto kings and provinces, and that
they have moved sedition within the
same of old time: for which cause
was this city destroyed.
87. A person can know the law of the
Lord well enough to rule from it.
 Ezra 7:25 And thou, Ezra, after the
wisdom of thy God, that is in thine
hand, set magistrates and judges,
which may judge all the people that
are beyond the river, all such as
know the laws of thy God; and teach
ye them that know them not.
From the Book of Nehemiah
88. A person can know the deception
and treachery the enemies of the
church are plotting. As Christians are
not to be ignorant of Satanic
strategies (2 Cor. 2:11) so Christians
watch the sons of Satan.
 Nehemiah 4:11 And our adversaries
said, They shall not know, neither
see, till we come in the midst among
them, and slay them, and cause the
work to cease.

From the Book of Esther
89. A person can know and should want
to know about the welfare of loved
ones.
 Esther 2:11 And Mordecai walked
every day before the court of the
women's house, to know how Esther
did, and what should become of her.
Esther 4:5 Then called Esther for
Hatach, one of the king's
chamberlains, whom he had
appointed to attend upon her, and
gave him a commandment to
Mordecai, to know what it was, and
why it was.
90. A person can know the meaning of
the golden sceptre.
 Esther 4:11 All the king's servants,
and the people of the king's
provinces, do know, that whosoever,
whether man or woman, shall come
unto the king into the inner court,
who is not called, there is one law of
his to put him to death, except such
to whom the king shall hold out the
golden sceptre, that he may live: but
I have not been called to come in
unto the king these thirty days.
From the Book of Job
91. A person can know if their
possessions are safe and secure.
 Job 5:24 And thou shalt know that
thy tabernacle [tent] shall be in
peace; and thou shalt visit thy
habitation, and shalt not sin.
92. A person can know if the children
will do well in life.
 Job 5:25 Thou shalt know also that
thy seed shall be great, and thine
offspring as the grass of the earth.
93. The general lessons of life others
have learned can be known
 Job 5:27 Lo this, we have searched
it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it
for thy good.
94. A person can known doctrinal truth
as Job acknowledged the words of
his friends when they spoke.
 Job 9:1 Then Job answered and said,
2 I know it is so of a truth: but how
should man be just with God?
95. A person may know God will not
hold the guilty innocent.
 Job 9:28 I am afraid of all my
sorrows, I know that thou wilt not
hold me innocent.
96. A person can know that God does
not extract from them all of sin’s
merit. In His judgments He shows
mercy.
 Job 11:6 And that he would shew
thee the secrets of wisdom, that they
are double to that which is! Know
therefore that God exacteth of thee
less than thine iniquity deserveth.
97. A person can know that God Himself
is unfathomable.
 Job 11:7 Canst thou by searching
find out God? Canst thou find out the
Almighty unto perfection? 8 It is as
 high as heaven; what canst thou do?
deeper than hell; what canst thou
know ?
98. A person can know as much as
another about God and spiritual
matters.
 Job 13:2 What ye know, the same do
I know also: I am not inferior unto
you.
 Job 15:9 [Job, asked Eliphaz the
Temanite] What knowest thou, that
we know not? What understandest
thou, which is not in us?
99. A person can know if they are
innocent or guilty in a given matter.
 Job 13:18 Behold now, I have
ordered my cause; I know that I shall
be justified.
100. A person can know there will be
a resurrection from the dead.
 Job 19:25 For I know that my
redeemer liveth, and that he shall
stand at the latter day upon the earth:
101. A person can know there will be
a Day of Judgment.
 Job 19:29 Be ye afraid of the sword:
for wrath bringeth the punishments
of the sword, that ye may know there
is a judgment.
 Job 21:19 God layeth up his iniquity
for his children: he rewardeth him,
and he shall know it.
102. A person can know if his friends
believe in him or not.
 Job 21:27 Behold, I know your
thoughts, and the devices which ye
wrongfully imagine against me.
103. A person can know they will die.
 Job 30:23 For I know that thou wilt
bring me to death, and to the house
appointed for all living.
104. A person can know better than to
give flattering titles.
 Job 32:22 For I know not to give
flattering titles; in so doing my
maker would soon take me away.
105. A person can know what is good
and what is evil.
 Job 34:4 Let us choose to us
judgment: let us know among
ourselves what is good.
106. A person can know one of God’s
attributes is that of omnipotence.
 Job 42:2 I know that thou canst do
every thing, and that no thought can
be withholden from thee.
From the Book of Psalms
107. A person can know how pleased
the Lord is with the godly.
 Psalms 4:3 But know that the LORD
hath set apart him that is godly for
himself: the LORD will hear when I
call unto him.
108. To know someone’s name is to
know their essence. A person can
know the Lord God in an intimate
way.
 Psalms 9:10 And they that know thy
name will put their trust in thee: for
thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them
that seek thee.
 Psalms 46:10 Be still, and know that
I am God: I will be exalted among
the heathen, I will be exalted in the
earth.
109. A person can know that the Lord
God will save His anointed.
 Psalms 20:6 Now know I that the
LORD saveth his anointed; he will
hear him from his holy heaven with
the saving strength of his right hand.
110. A person can know if God has
favored them.
 Psalms 41:11 By this I know that
thou favourest me, because mine
enemy doth not triumph over me.
111. Through divine discernment a
person can know wisdom in the
deepest part of their soul.
 Psalms 51:6 Behold, thou desirest
truth in the inward parts: and in the
hidden part thou shalt make me to
know wisdom.
112. A person can know if their
enemies will be defeated because
God is present and providing
protection.
 Psalms 56:9 When I cry unto thee,
then shall mine enemies turn back:
this I know; for God is for me.
113. The generation to come can
know what the previous generation
knew about the law of God.
 Psalms 78:6 That the generation to
come might know them, even the
children which should be born; who
should arise and declare them to their
children:
114. A person can know they are
divinely created and not the product
of space plus time plus chance.
 Psalms 100:3 Know ye that the
LORD he is God: it is he that hath
made us, and not we ourselves; we
are his people, and the sheep of his
pasture.
115. A person can know the
judgments are God are harsh but just.
 Psalms 119:75 I know, O LORD,
that thy judgments are right, and that
thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.
116. A person can know there is only
one God and thereby establish the
doctrine of monotheism.
 Psalms 135:5 For I know that the
LORD is great, and that our Lord is
above all gods.
117. A person can know the Lord God
will move to help the afflicted and
the poor.
 Psalms 140:12 I know that the
LORD will maintain the cause of the
afflicted, and the right of the poor.
118. A person can know the frailty
and futility of human friendship.
 Psalms 142:4 I looked on my right
hand, and beheld, but there was no
man that would know me: refuge
failed me; no man cared for my soul.
 From the Book of Proverbs
119. A person can know what is
appropriate speech and what is not.
 Proverbs 10:32 The lips of the
righteous know what is acceptable:
but the mouth of the wicked speaketh
frowardness.
119. A person can know the meaning
of godly counsel written.
 Proverbs 22:20 Have not I written to
thee excellent things in counsels and
knowledge, 21 That I might make
thee know the certainty of the words
of truth; that thou mightest answer
the words of truth to them that send
unto thee?
From the Book of Ecclesiastes
120. A person can know God works in
the sphere of eternity and not time.
 Ecclesiastes 3:14 I know that,
whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for
ever: nothing can be put to it, nor
any thing taken from it: and God
doeth it, that men should fear before
him.
121. A person can know the value of
education.
 Ecclesiastes 7:25 I applied mine
heart to know, and to search, and to
seek out wisdom, and the reason of
things, and to know the wickedness
of folly, even of foolishness and
madness:
122. A person can know it will be
well with the righteous.
 Ecclesiastes 8:12 Though a sinner do
evil an hundred times, and his days
be prolonged, yet surely I know that
it shall be well with them that fear
God, which fear before him:
123. A person can know the certain of
a day of divine evaluation.
 Ecclesiastes 11:9 Rejoice, O young
man, in thy youth; and let thy heart
cheer thee in the days of thy youth,
and walk in the ways of thine heart,
and in the sight of thine eyes: but
know thou, that for all these things
God will bring thee into judgment.
From the Book of Isaiah
124. It is possible to know when
national destruction is pending as a
result of divine judgment.
 Isaiah 9:9 And all the people shall
know, even Ephraim and the
inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the
pride and stoutness of heart,
125. A person can know that times of
prosperity are not the product of their
labors per se but the results of divine
provisions.
 Isaiah 41:18 I will open rivers in
high places, and fountains in the
midst of the valleys: I will make the
wilderness a pool of water, and the
dry land springs of water. 19 I will
plant in the wilderness the cedar, the
shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the
oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir
tree, and the pine, and the box tree
together: 20 That they may see, and
know, and consider, and understand
together, that the hand of the LORD
 hath done this, and the Holy One of
Israel hath created it.
126. A person may know that God
alone exits. There was none before
Him and there will be none after
Him.
 Isaiah 43:10 Ye are my witnesses,
saith the LORD, and my servant
whom I have chosen: that ye may
know and believe me, and
understand that I am he: before me
there was no God formed, neither
shall there be after me.
 Isaiah 44:8 Fear ye not, neither be
afraid: have not I told thee from that
time, and have declared it? Ye are
even my witnesses. Is there a God
beside me? Yea, there is no God; I
know not any.
 Isaiah 45:6 That they may know
from the rising of the sun, and from
the west, that there is none beside
me. I am the LORD, and there is
none else.
127. A person can know that any
comprehension of spiritual truth is a
gift of divine grace.
 Isaiah 45:3 And I will give thee the
treasures of darkness, and hidden
riches of secret places, that thou
mayest know that I, the LORD,
which call thee by thy name, am the
God of Israel.
128. A person can know that waiting
on the Lord never brings them
shame.
 Isaiah 49:23 And kings shall be thy
nursing fathers, and their queens thy
nursing mothers: they shall bow
down to thee with their face toward
the earth, and lick up the dust of thy
feet; and thou shalt know that I am
the LORD: for they shall not be
ashamed that wait for me.
129. A person can know how to speak
to a person in a gracious manner in
the hour of their need.
 Isaiah 50:4 The Lord GOD hath
given me the tongue of the learned,
that I should know how to speak a
word in season to him that is weary:
he wakeneth morning by morning, he
wakeneth mine ear to hear as the
learned.
130. A person can know there is no
shame in doing what is right.
 Isaiah 50:7 For the Lord GOD will
help me; therefore shall I not be
confounded: therefore have I set my
face like a flint, and I know that I
shall not be ashamed.
131. A person can know what is right
and what is right because the moral
law is written in the heart.
 Isaiah 51:7 Hearken unto me, ye that
know righteousness, the people in
whose heart is my law; fear ye not
the reproach of men, neither be ye
afraid of their revilings.
132. A person can know the name of
God and that He still speaks to the
person who cares to listen.
 Isaiah 52:6 Therefore my people
shall know my name: therefore they
 shall know in that day that I am he
that doth speak: behold, it is I.
133. A person can know what it is to
delight in approaching God.
 Isaiah 58:2 Yet they seek me daily,
and delight to know my ways, as a
nation that did righteousness, and
forsook not the ordinance of their
God: they ask of me the ordinances
of justice; they take delight in
approaching to God.
134. A person can know the
wickedness of their own hearts.
 Isaiah 59:12 For our transgressions
are multiplied before thee, and our
sins testify against us: for our
transgressions are with us; and as for
our iniquities, we know them;
From the Book of Jeremiah
135. A person can know the bitterness
of forsaking the Lord.
 Jeremiah 2:19 Thine own
wickedness shall correct thee, and
thy backslidings shall reprove thee:
know therefore and see that it is an
evil thing and bitter, that thou hast
forsaken the LORD thy God, and
that my fear is not in thee, saith the
Lord GOD of hosts.
136. By making a public search a
person can know if there is a
righteous person in the midst of a
people.
 Jeremiah 5:1 Run ye to and fro
through the streets of Jerusalem, and
see now, and know, and seek in the
broad places thereof, if ye can find a
man, if there be any that executeth
judgment, that seeketh the truth; and
I will pardon it.
137. Through divine appointment a
person can know the ways of others
whether they be good or bad.
 Jeremiah 6:27 I have set thee for a
tower and a fortress among my
people, that thou mayest know and
try their way.
138. A person can know the
limitations of humans.
 Jeremiah 10:23 O LORD, I know
that the way of man is not in himself:
it is not in man that walketh to direct
his steps.
139. Through the spiritual gift of
divine discernment a person will
have special knowledge to know
what others have done or are doing.
 Jeremiah 11:18 And the LORD hath
given me knowledge of it, and I
know it: then thou shewedst me their
doings.
 Acts 5:3 But Peter said, Ananias,
why hath Satan filled thine heart to
lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep
back part of the price of the land?
140. A person can know by divine
pressure the name of the LORD.
 Jeremiah 16:21 Therefore, behold, I
will this once cause them to know, I
 will cause them to know mine hand
and my might; and they shall know
that my name is The LORD.
141. Through poverty and need many
come to know the Lord.
 Jeremiah 22:16 He judged the cause
of the poor and needy; then it was
well with him: was not this to know
me? Saith the LORD.
142. A person can know about and
enter into a covenant of grace with
the LORD.
 Jeremiah 24:7 And I will give them
an heart to know me, that I am the
LORD: and they shall be my people,
and I will be their God: for they shall
return unto me with their whole
heart.
 Jeremiah 31:34 And they shall teach
no more every man his neighbour,
and every man his brother, saying,
Know the LORD: for they shall all
know me, from the least of them
unto the greatest of them, saith the
LORD; for I will forgive their
iniquity, and I will remember their
sin no more.
 Ezekiel 16:62 And I will establish
my covenant with thee; and thou
shalt know that I am the LORD:
143. A person can know the
repercussion of their evil actions so
they are without excuse.
 Jeremiah 26:15 But know ye for
certain, that if ye put me to death, ye
shall surely bring innocent blood
upon yourselves, and upon this city,
and upon the inhabitants thereof: for
of a truth the LORD hath sent me
unto you to speak all these words in
your ears.
144. A person can know God has
spoken and still speaks to the human
race.
 Jeremiah 29:16 Know that thus saith
the LORD of the king that sitteth
upon the throne of David, and of all
the people that dwelleth in this city,
and of your brethren that are not
gone forth with you into captivity;
145. A person can know when God
speaks about specific situations in
life.
 Jeremiah 42:19 The LORD hath said
concerning you, O ye remnant of
Judah; Go ye not into Egypt: know
certainly that I have admonished you
this day.
 Jeremiah 42:22 Now therefore know
certainly that ye shall die by the
sword, by the famine, and by the
pestilence, in the place whither ye
desire to go and to sojourn.
 Jeremiah 44:28 Yet a small number
that escape the sword shall return out
of the land of Egypt into the land of
Judah, and all the remnant of Judah,
that are gone into the land of Egypt
to sojourn there, shall know whose
words shall stand, mine, or theirs.
146. A person can know there are
divine signs that God is acting in
grace or in judgment.
 Jeremiah 44:29 And this shall be a
sign unto you, saith the LORD, that I
 will punish you in this place, that ye
may know that my words shall surely
stand against you for evil:
From the Book of Ezekiel
147. A person can know if a prophet
has been in their midst.
 Ezekiel 2:5 And they, whether they
will hear, or whether they will
forbear, (for they are a rebellious
house,) yet shall know that there hath
been a prophet among them.
148. A person can know God keeps
His word and does not lie.
 Ezekiel 6:10 And they shall know
that I am the LORD, and that I have
not said in vain that I would do this
evil unto them.
149. A person can know they have
been spared to testify to their
abominations.
 Ezekiel 12:16 But I will leave a few
men of them from the sword, from
the famine, and from the pestilence;
that they may declare all their
abominations among the heathen
whither they come; and they shall
know that I am the LORD.
150. A person can know the meaning
of current calamities from a divine
perspective once a man of God has
revealed them.
 Ezekiel 17:12 Say now to the
rebellious house, Know ye not what
these things mean? Tell them,
Behold, the king of Babylon is come
to Jerusalem, and hath taken the king
thereof, and the princes thereof, and
led them with him to Babylon;
151. A person can know and should
know about the sins of their fathers.
 Ezekiel 20:4 Wilt thou judge them,
son of man, wilt thou judge them?
Cause them to know the
abominations of their fathers:
152. A person can know God is
blessing a nation when He
establishes them in a land.
 Ezekiel 20:42 And ye shall know
that I am the LORD, when I shall
bring you into the land of Israel, into
the country for the which I lifted up
mine hand to give it to your fathers.
153. A person can know God is
blessing a nation when He deals with
the people on the basis of grace.
 Ezekiel 20:44 And ye shall know
that I am the LORD, when I have
wrought with you for my name's
sake, not according to your wicked
ways, nor according to your corrupt
doings, O ye house of Israel, saith
the Lord GOD.
From the Book of Daniel
154. A person can know they have
dreamed a dream that is significant.
 Daniel 2:3 And the king said unto
them, I have dreamed a dream, and
my spirit was troubled to know the
dream.
155. A person can know when the
heart of another person is filled with
false gods.
 Daniel 4:9 O Belteshazzar, master of
the magicians, because I know that
the spirit of the holy gods is in thee,
and no secret troubleth thee, tell me
the visions of my dream that I have
seen, and the interpretation thereof.
156. By God’s grace the secret truths
of the Lord can be known when
revealed.
 Daniel 7:16 I came near unto one of
them that stood by, and asked him
the truth of all this. So he told me,
and made me know the interpretation
of the things.
 Daniel 8:19 And he said, Behold, I
will make thee know what shall be in
the last end of the indignation: for at
the time appointed the end shall be.
157. It is possible for a person to
know when a prophetic utterance and
its completion is realized.
 Daniel 9:25 Know therefore and
understand, that from the going forth
of the commandment to restore and
to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah
the Prince shall be seven weeks, and
threescore and two weeks: the street
shall be built again, and the wall,
even in troublous times.
From the Book of Hosea
158. A person can know they have
been married to the Lord.
 Hosea 2:20 I will even betroth thee
unto me in faithfulness: and thou
shalt know the LORD.
 Ephesians 5:25 Husbands, love your
wives, even as Christ also loved the
church, and gave himself for it; 26
That he might sanctify and cleanse it
with the washing of water by the
word, 27 That he might present it to
himself a glorious church, not having
spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing;
but that it should be holy and without
blemish.
159. A person can know if they press
on in holiness and spiritual matters
they shall be rewarded.
 Hosea 6:3 Then shall we know, if we
follow on to know the LORD: his
going forth is prepared as the
morning; and he shall come unto us
as the rain, as the latter and former
rain unto the earth.
 Hosea 8:2 Israel shall cry unto me,
My God, we know thee.
160. A person can know and
understand Bible doctrine.
 Hosea 14:9 Who is wise, and he shall
understand these things? Prudent,
and he shall know them? For the
ways of the LORD are right, and the
just shall walk in them: but the
transgressors shall fall therein.
 From the Book of Joel
161. A person can know if the Lord is
in the midst of His church.
 Joel 2:27 And ye shall know that I
am in the midst of Israel, and that I
am the LORD your God, and none
else: and my people shall never be
ashamed.
 Joel 3:17 So shall ye know that I am
the LORD your God dwelling in
Zion, my holy mountain: then shall
Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no
strangers pass through her any more.
 Revelation 1:13 And in the midst of
the seven candlesticks one like unto
the Son of man, clothed with a
garment down to the foot, and girt
about the paps with a golden girdle.
From the Book of Jonah
162. Once people could discern the
will of the Lord by the casting of
lots. Today, God speaks to His
people by His Spirit through His
Word.
 Jonah 1:7 And they said every one to
his fellow, Come, and let us cast lots,
that we may know for whose cause
this evil is upon us. So they cast lots,
and the lot fell upon Jonah.
163. A person can know if they are
the source for the suffering of others.
 Jonah 1:12 And he said unto them,
Take me up, and cast me forth into
the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto
you: for I know that for my sake this
great tempest is upon you.
From the Book of Micah
164. A person can know the
righteousness of God by remember
the Lord’s past acts with His people.
 Micah 6:5 O my people, remember
now what Balak king of Moab
consulted, and what Balaam the son
of Beor answered him from Shittim
unto Gilgal; that ye may know the
righteousness of the LORD.
From the Book of Zechariah
165. A person can know by the power
of effective gospel preaching and by
the coming to pass of any prophetic
utterance if a person has been sent of
God.
 Effective preaching. Zechariah 2:11
And many nations shall be joined to
the LORD in that day, and shall be
my people: and I will dwell in the
midst of thee, and thou shalt know
that the LORD of hosts hath sent me
unto thee.
 Prophecy fulfilled. Zechariah 4:9
The hands of Zerubbabel have laid
the foundation of this house; his
hands shall also finish it; and thou
shalt know that the LORD of hosts
hath sent me unto you.
 Both elements combined. Zechariah
6:15 And they that are far off shall
come and build in the temple of the
LORD, and ye shall know that the
LORD of hosts hath sent me unto
you. And this shall come to pass, if
ye will diligently obey the voice of
the LORD your God.
 From the Book of Malachi
166. A person can know a specific
commandment of God has been sent
to the soul.
 Malachi 2:4 And ye shall know that I
have sent this commandment unto
you, that my covenant might be with
Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.
~*~
What a Person Does Not Know
1. A person does not know for certainty
the day of their death.
 Genesis 27:2 And he [Isaac] said,
Behold now, I am old, I know not the
day of my death:
2. A person does not know how another
individual will react to an honest
responses to questions.
 Genesis 43:7 And they said, The
man asked us straitly of our state,
and of our kindred, saying, Is your
father yet alive? Have ye another
brother? And we told him according
to the tenor of these words: could we
certainly know that he would say,
Bring your brother down?
3. A person does not know how to
worship the LORD properly until
instructed.
 Exodus 10:26 Our cattle also shall go
with us; there shall not an hoof be
left behind; for thereof must we take
to serve the LORD our God; and we
know not with what we must serve
the LORD, until we come thither.
4. A person does not always know
whom God will send to assist them
in the work of the ministry.
 Exodus 33:12 And Moses said unto
the LORD, See, thou sayest unto me,
Bring up this people: and thou hast
not let me know whom thou wilt
send with me. Yet thou hast said, I
know thee by name, and thou hast
also found grace in my sight.
5. Sometimes a person will not know to
whom valuable property belongs. In
such a situation the property is to be
held and protected in a sacred trust
until the rightful owner redeems it.
 Deuteronomy 22:2 And if thy
brother be not nigh unto thee, or if
thou know him not, then thou shalt
bring it [the valuable animal] unto
thine own house, and it shall be with
thee until thy brother seek after it,
and thou shalt restore it to him again.
6. A person does not always know the
motives or the heart of another
person. Eliab was out of line when
he pretended to know what
compelled David to speak as he did
to the soldiers of Israel.
 1 Samuel 17:28 And Eliab his eldest
brother heard when he spake unto the
men; and Eliab's anger was kindled
against David, and he said, Why
camest thou down hither? And with
whom hast thou left those few sheep
in the wilderness? I know thy pride,
and the naughtiness of thine heart;
for thou art come down that thou
mightest see the battle.
7. A person does not always know the
secret dealings of God with His
people.
 1 Kings 18:12 And it shall come to
pass, as soon as I am gone from thee,
that the Spirit of the LORD shall
carry thee whither I know not; and so
when I come and tell Ahab, and he
cannot find thee, he shall slay me:
but I thy servant fear the LORD from
my youth.
8. A person does not always know the
outcome of a matter though he
speaks with confidence and with
certainty. The story of king Ahab of
Israel and the situation in Ramoth
confirms this truth.
 1 Kings 22:3 And the king of Israel
said unto his servants, Know ye that
Ramoth in Gilead is ours, and we be
still, and take it not out of the hand
of the king of Syria? (Read the rest
of the story in 1 Kings 22:4-38).
9. A person does not know how to
resolve every major crisis that faces
the nation.
 2 Chronicles 20:12 O our God, wilt
thou not judge them? For we have no
might against this great company
that cometh against us; neither know
we what to do: but our eyes are upon
thee.
10. No matter how much a person learns
there is a sense in which it can be
said they know nothing due to the
brevity of life.
 Job 8:9 (For we are but of yesterday,
and know nothing, because our days
upon earth are a shadow:)
11. A person cannot fathom eternity or
infinity.
 Job 36:26 Behold, God is great, and
we know him not, neither can the
number of his years be searched out.
12. A person does not know how many
days there are to live.
 Psalms 71:15 My mouth shall shew
forth thy righteousness and thy
salvation all the day; for I know not
the numbers thereof.
13. Sometimes it is a great challenge
trying to understand evil or injurious
behavior and how the wicked
prosper.
 Psalms 73:16 When I thought to
know this, it was too painful for me;
14. A person will never understand the
ways of a wicked woman apart from
reflection.
 Proverbs 5:3 For the lips of a strange
woman drop as an honeycomb, and
her mouth is smoother than oil: 4 But
her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp
as a two-edged sword. 5 Her feet go
down to death; her steps take hold on
hell. 6 Lest [unless] thou shouldest
ponder the path of life, her ways are
moveable, that thou canst not know
them.
15. A person cannot know the way of an
adulterous woman.
 Proverbs 30:18 There be three things
which are too wonderful for me, yea,
four which I know not: 19 The way
of an eagle in the air; the way of a
serpent upon a rock; the way of a
 ship in the midst of the sea; and the
way of a man with a maid. 20 Such
is the way of an adulterous woman;
she eateth, and wipeth her mouth,
and saith, I have done no
wickedness.
16. There are times when a person loses
sight of spiritual realities and does
not comprehend clearly the will of
God. There is a sense of being
overwhelmed by life or a given
situation.
 Isaiah 1:3 The ox knoweth his
owner, and the ass his master's crib:
but Israel doth not know, my people
doth not consider.
17. A person cannot know the depths of
deceitfulness of the human hearts.
Hell is a bottomless pit because there
are depths to sin which are deeper
still.
 Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful
above all things, and desperately
wicked: who can know it?
18. When sin saturates the soul a person
cannot know the thoughts of the
LORD nor understand His counsel.
 Micah 4:12 But they know not the
thoughts of the LORD, neither
understand they his counsel: for he
shall gather them as the sheaves into
the floor.
~*~
What a Person Can Presume to Know
1. A person can presume to know the
mind of God and His motives as Job
demonstrates in one of his
soliloquies. Job declares he knows
God intended to create him in order
to hurt him.
 Job 10:11 Thou hast clothed me with
skin and flesh, and hast fenced me
with bones and sinews. 12 Thou hast
granted me life and favour, and thy
visitation hath preserved my spirit.
13 And these things hast thou hid in
thine heart: I know that this is with
thee.
2. A person in the anguish of soul can
presume to believe that God has
completely overthrown them when
the spiritual fact might be far
different namely that God has come
to test a soul in order to establish it
in righteousness.
 Job 19:6 Know now that God hath
overthrown me, and hath compassed
me with his net.
3. A person can presume to know the
simple course of nature and nature’s
creatures, but even there such
knowledge is beyond true
comprehension.
 Job 37:15 Dost thou know when God
disposed them [the works of
creation], and caused the light of his
cloud to shine?
 Job 37:16 Dost thou know the
balancings of the clouds, the
wondrous works of him which is
perfect in knowledge?
 Job 38:12 Hast thou commanded the
morning since thy days; and caused
the dayspring to know his place;
 Job 38:20 That thou shouldest take it
[light and darkness] to the bound
thereof, and that thou shouldest
know the paths to the house thereof?
4. A person can presume to know
God’s political agenda for a nation.
 Isaiah 19:12 Where are they? Where
are thy wise men? And let them tell
thee now, and let them know what
the LORD of hosts hath purposed
upon Egypt.
5. A person can presume to know the
future.
 Isaiah 41:21 Produce your cause,
saith the LORD; bring forth your
strong reasons, saith the King of
Jacob.22 Let them bring them forth,
and shew us what shall happen: let
them shew the former things, what
they be, that we may consider them,
and know the latter end of them; or
declare us things for to come. 23
Shew the things that are to come
hereafter, that we may know that ye
are gods: yea, do good, or do evil,
that we may be dismayed, and
behold it together.
6. A person can presume to know
various deities exist besides the Lord
God. They are either self delusional
or erroneously taught this belief
illustrated by Mormon theology and
the Hindu religion.
 Jeremiah 7:9 Will ye steal, murder,
and commit adultery, and swear
falsely, and burn incense unto Baal,
and walk after other gods whom ye
know not;
7. A person can presume to be a
prophet and speak for the Lord. A
false prophet can be recognized by a
failed message and by articulating
information contrary to sound
doctrine.
 Ezekiel 13:9 And mine hand shall be
upon the prophets that see vanity,
and that divine lies: they shall not be
in the assembly of my people,
neither shall they be written in the
writing of the house of Israel, neither
shall they enter into the land of
Israel; and ye shall know that I am
the Lord GOD.
~*~
What the Unbeliever Can Know
1. The natural man can know facts and
figures about the Lord by intuition
and by empirically acquired
knowledge.
 Exodus 7:5 And the Egyptians shall
know that I am the LORD, when I
stretch forth mine hand upon Egypt,
and bring out the children of Israel
from among them.
Exodus 7:17 Thus saith the LORD,
In this thou shalt know [Pharaoh]
that I am the LORD: behold, I will
smite with the rod that is in mine
hand upon the waters which are in
the river, and they shall be turned to
blood.

Exodus 8:10 And he [Pharaoh] said
[unto Moses], To morrow. And he
[Moses] said, Be it according to thy
word: that thou mayest know that
there is none like unto the LORD our
God.
Exodus 8:22 And I [the LORD] will
sever in that day the land of Goshen,
in which my people dwell, that no
swarms of flies shall be there; to the
end thou mayest know that I am the
LORD in the midst of the earth.
Exodus 9:14 For I [the LORD] will
at this time send all my plagues upon
thine heart, and upon thy servants,
and upon thy people; that thou
mayest know that there is none like
me in all the earth.
2. Through empirical data the
unbeliever can know the earth is the
Lord’s. It is His by creation. It does
not belong to man or devil.
 Exodus 9:29 And Moses said unto
him, As soon as I am gone out of the
city, I [Moses] will spread abroad
my hands unto the LORD; and the
thunder shall cease, neither shall
there be any more hail; that thou
mayest know how that the earth is
the LORD's.
3. The unbeliever can know the
hardening of his heart and the
destruction of the wicked will serve
the glory of God.
 Exodus 14:4 And I will harden
Pharaoh's heart, that he shall follow
after them; and I will be honoured
upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host;
that the Egyptians may know that I
am the LORD. And they did so.
Exodus 14:18 And the Egyptians
shall know that I am the LORD,
when I have gotten me honour upon
Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon
his horsemen.
4. The non-Christian can know the
omnipotent power of God by hearing
of the miracles He has performed.
 Exodus 18:11 Now I [Jethro] know
that the LORD is greater than all
gods: for in the thing wherein they
dealt proudly he was above them.
5. The unbeliever can know with
certainty the reality of spiritual
religious events that have become
historical.
 Joshua 4:24 That all the people of
the earth might know the hand of the
LORD, that it is mighty: that ye
might fear the LORD your God for
ever.
6. The unbeliever can know if the
LORD God has been offended.
 1 Samuel 6:9 And see, if it [the cattle
driven cart] goeth up by the way of
his own coast to Beth-shemesh, then
he hath done us this great evil: but if
not, then we [Philistines] shall know
that is not his hand that smote us; it
was a chance that happened to us.
Note. The story surrounding this
even reveals the Philistine version of
“putting out the fleece.” What is
authentic in the Christian experience
 is often counterfeited by the
unconverted.
7. The unbeliever can know that God
favors certain nations.
 1 Samuel 17:46 This day will the
LORD deliver thee into mine hand;
and I will smite thee, and take thine
head from thee; and I will give the
carcasses of the host of the
Philistines this day unto the fowls of
the air, and to the wild beasts of the
earth; that all the earth may know
that there is a God in Israel.
On March 6, 1957 the African nation
of Ghana gained its independence
from Great Britain. The name Ghana
is an acronym meaning
G- God
H – has
A–a
N – nation
A – Ahead
The new political leaders wanted
people to know they believed God
had favored them as a nation.
8. The unbeliever knows how to stalk a
victim of their hostility.
 1 Samuel 23:22 Go, I [Saul] pray
you, prepare yet, and know and see
his [David’s] place where his haunt
is, and who hath seen him there: for
it is told me that he dealeth very
subtly.
9. The unbeliever knows if they have
been the object of grace and mercy
from those who are righteous.
 1 Samuel 24:11 Moreover, my father
[King Saul], see, yea, see the skirt of
thy robe in my hand: for in that I
[David] cut off the skirt of thy robe
and killed thee not, know thou and
see that there is neither evil nor
transgression in mine hand, and I
have not sinned against thee; yet
thou huntest my soul to take it.
10. The unbeliever can know or discern
a general sense of direction about
another person.
 1 Samuel 24:20 And now, behold, I
[King Saul] know well that thou
[David] shalt surely be king, and that
the kingdom of Israel shall be
established in thine hand.
11. The unbeliever knows what his next
course of violent action will be as the
efforts of the righteous are enlisted in
an unrighteous cause. .
 1 Samuel 28:1 And it came to pass in
those days, that the Philistines
gathered their armies together for
warfare, to fight with Israel. And
Achish said unto David, Know thou
assuredly, that thou shalt go out with
me to battle, thou and thy men.
12. An unbeliever can know that certain
structures are sacred and have been
dedicated unto the LORD God and
have been called into existence by
His name.
 1 Kings 8:43 Hear thou in heaven
thy dwelling place, and do according
to all that the stranger calleth to thee
for: that all people of the earth may
know thy name, to fear thee, as do
thy people Israel; and that they may
know that this house, which I have
builded, is called by thy name.
13. The unbeliever can know there is
only one God and all other deities do
not exist.
 1 Kings 8:60 That all the people of
the earth may know that the LORD
is God, and that there is none else.
14. The unbeliever can know themselves
to be weak and not divine.
 Psalms 9:20 Put them in fear, O
LORD: that the nations may know
themselves to be but men. Selah.
15. The unbeliever can know God has a
covenant people He will protect.
 Isaiah 49:26 And I will feed them
that oppress thee with their own
flesh; and they shall be drunken with
their own blood, as with sweet wine:
and all flesh shall know that I the
LORD am thy Saviour and thy
Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
16. The unbeliever does not fully know
the way of the Lord or the just
judgment of God.
 Jeremiah 5:4 Therefore I said, Surely
these are poor; they are foolish: for
they know not the way of the LORD,
nor the judgment of their God.
17. The unbeliever can know God in
some way but chooses not to. The
unbeliever can know God as Creator
and Law giver for even the heavens
declare His glory.
 Jeremiah 9:6 Thine habitation is in
the midst of deceit; through deceit
they refuse to know me, saith the
LORD.
18. An unbeliever can know when
someone is stalling for time in order
to feign knowledge by formulating
an answer.
 Daniel 2:8 The king answered and
said, I know of certainty that ye
would gain the time, because ye see
the thing is gone from me.
19. With divine illumination an
unbeliever can know the secrets of
the heart.
 Daniel 2:30 But as for me, this secret
is not revealed to me for any wisdom
that I have more than any living, but
for their sakes that shall make known
the interpretation to the king, and
that thou mightest know the thoughts
of thy heart.
20. An unbeliever can know they are
soon coming under divine judgment.
 Daniel 4:25 That they shall drive
thee from men, and thy dwelling
shall be with the beasts of the field,
and they shall make thee to eat grass
as oxen, and they shall wet thee with
the dew of heaven, and seven times
shall pass over thee, till thou know
that the most High ruleth in the
kingdom of men, and giveth it to
whomsoever he will.
21. So wretched can the heart of the
unbeliever become through violence
and robbery he no longer knows
Evil is normal.
 Amos 3:10 For they know not to do
right, saith the LORD, who store up
violence and robbery in their palaces.
~*~

What the Unbeliever Does not Know
1. The natural man does not know
the Lord.
 Exodus 5:2 And Pharaoh said, Who
is the LORD, that I should obey his
voice to let Israel go? I know not the
LORD, neither will I let Israel go.
2. The unbeliever does not know the
outcome of a relationship based on
the principle of righteousness
 1 Samuel 20:30 Then Saul's anger
was kindled against Jonathan, and he
said unto him, Thou son of the
perverse rebellious woman, do not I
know that thou hast chosen the son
of Jesse to thine own confusion, and
unto the confusion of thy mother's
nakedness?
3. The unbeliever does not know the
true heart or innermost character of
another person, no one does.
 1 Samuel 29:9 And Achish answered
and said to David, I know that thou
art good in my sight, as an angel of
God: notwithstanding the princes of
the Philistines have said, He shall not
go up with us to the battle.
4. The non Christian does not know and
cannot believe how terrible a matter
it is to fall into the hands of the
living God when He is moved to
anger against a people.
 2 Kings 17:26 Wherefore they spake
to the king of Assyria, saying, The
nations which thou hast removed,
and placed in the cities of Samaria,
know not the manner of the God of
the land: therefore he [God] hath sent
lions among them, and, behold, they
slay them, because they know not the
manner of the God of the land.
5. The unbeliever does not comprehend
the importance of the justice of God
or His love for holiness.
 Psalms 82:5 They know not, neither
will they understand; they walk on in
darkness: all the foundations of the
earth are out of course.
6. The unbeliever does not know the
wickedness over which they stumble.
 Proverbs 4:19 The way of the wicked
is as darkness: they know not at what
they stumble.
7. The unbeliever does not even know
enough to be ashamed.
 Isaiah 44:9 They that make a graven
image are all of them vanity; and
their delectable things shall not
profit; and they are their own
witnesses; they see not, nor know;
that they may be ashamed.
8. In the Day of Judgment the
unbeliever will never know the
ultimate origin of his clammily nor
will he be able to anticipate the
immediate instrument of source God
will use. The events of December 7,
1941 and September 11, 2001 are
historical examples of how judgment
can come to a nation quickly and
without warning.
 Isaiah 47:11 Therefore shall evil
come upon thee; thou shalt not know
from whence it riseth: and mischief
 shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be
able to put it off: and desolation shall
come upon thee suddenly, which
thou shalt not know.
9. The unbeliever does not and cannot
know the way of peace. The
testimony of time and the lack of any
ability to stop war is a testimony to
this truth.
 Isaiah 59:8 The way of peace they
know not; and there is no judgment
in their goings: they have made them
crooked paths: whosoever goeth
therein shall not know peace.
10. The unbeliever does not know God is
the ultimate source of all blessings.
 Hosea 2:8 For she did not know that
I gave her corn, and wine, and oil,
and multiplied her silver and gold,
which they prepared for Baal.
~*~
What a Person Can Pretend
Not to Know
1. A person can pretend not to know
the evil they have done.
 Genesis 4:9 And the LORD said unto
Cain, Where is Abel thy brother?
And he said, I know not: Am I my
brother's keeper?
2. A person can pretend not to know
individuals are worthy of being
helped generously.
 1 Samuel 25:11 Shall I [Nabal] then
take my bread, and my water, and
my flesh that I have killed for my
shearers, and give it unto men, whom
I know not whence they be?
3. In order to avoid becoming involved
a person can pretend not to know an
unjust verdict has been passed on
someone not worthy of execution.
 Proverbs 24:12 If thou sayest,
Behold, we knew it not; doth not he
that pondereth the heart consider it?
And he that keepeth thy soul, doth
not he know it? And shall not he
render to every man according to his
works?
4. A person can pretend not to know
the sufferings of the poor.
 Proverbs 29:7 The righteous
considereth the cause of the poor: but
the wicked regardeth not to know it.
5. A person can pretend to know there
is no value in life or the creative acts
of God.
 Ecclesiastes 3:11 He hath made
every thing beautiful in his time: also
he hath set the world in their heart,
so that no man can find out the work
that God maketh from the beginning
to the end. 12 I know that there is no
good in them, but for a man to
rejoice, and to do good in his life.
6. A person can pretend not to know
they are morally polluted.
 Jeremiah 2:23 How canst thou say, I
am not polluted, I have not gone
after Baalim? See thy way in the
valley, know what thou hast done:
thou art a swift dromedary traversing
her ways;
~*~
 What a Person Can Ask to Know
1. A person can ask to know what God
has promised as an inheritance.
 Genesis 15:8 And he [Abram] said,
Lord GOD, whereby shall I know
that I shall inherit it?
2. A person can pray and ask the Lord
to know Him in an intimate way.
 Exodus 33:13 Now therefore, I pray
thee, if I have found grace in thy
sight, shew me now thy way, that I
may know thee, that I may find grace
in thy sight: and consider that this
nation is thy people.
3. A person can ask to know the Lord’s
will in a specific matter.
 Numbers 22:19 Now therefore, I
[Balaam] pray you, tarry ye also here
this night, that I may know what the
LORD will say unto me more.
4. A person can ask how to know the
true Word, which the LORD has
spoken.
 Deuteronomy 18:21 And if thou say
in thine heart, How shall we know
the word which the LORD hath not
spoken?
Such a prayer will be answered and
the answer is this: fruit follows truth.
Deuteronomy 22 When a prophet
speaketh in the name of the LORD,
if the thing follow not, nor come to
pass, that is the thing which the
LORD hath not spoken, but the
prophet hath spoken it
presumptuously: thou shalt not be
afraid of him.
5. A person can ask for divine counsel
regarding whether or not to proceed
in a certain course of action.
 Judges 18:5 And they said unto him
[the Levite], Ask counsel, we pray
thee, of God, that we may know
whether our way which we go shall
be prosperous.
6. A person can wait and ask to know
what God will do for them.
 1 Samuel 22:3 And David went
thence to Mizpeh of Moab: and he
said unto the king of Moab, Let my
father and my mother, I pray thee,
come forth, and be with you, till I
know what God will do for me.
7. A person can ask that others may
come to know the LORD God only.
 2 Kings 19:19 Now therefore, O
LORD our God, I [Hezekiah]
beseech thee, save thou us out of his
hand, that all the kingdoms of the
earth may know that thou art the
LORD God, even thou only.
8. A person can ask to know their
iniquities and sin.
 Job 13:23 How many are mine
iniquities and sins? Make me to
know my transgression and my sin.
9. A person can ask to know why God
is placing them through the dark
night of the soul.
 Job 23:1 Then Job answered and
said, 2 Even to day is my complaint
 bitter: my stroke is heavier than my
groaning. 3 Oh that I knew where I
might find him! That I might come
even to his seat! 4 I would order my
cause before him, and fill my mouth
with arguments. 5 I would know the
words which he would answer me,
and understand what he would say
unto me.
10. A person can ask to know how frail
they are.
 Psalms 39:4 LORD, make me to
know mine end, and the measure of
my days, what it is; that I may know
how frail I am.
11. A person can ask God to reveal
Himself in His wrath to the enemies
of the church through military defeat,
national calamities and a premature
death.
 Psalms 59:13 Consume them in
wrath, consume them, that they may
not be: and let them know that God
ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the
earth. Selah.
12. A person can inquire with wonder
into the mystery of divine
omniscience.
 Psalms 73:11 And they say, How
doth God know? And is there
knowledge in the most High?
13. A person can ask to have spiritual
understanding.
 Psalms 119:125 I am thy servant;
give me understanding, that I may
know thy testimonies.
14. A person can ask God to search the
heart.
 Psalms 139:23 Search me, O God,
and know my heart: try me, and
know my thoughts:
15. A person can plead with God to be
caused to walk in the paths of
righteousness.
 Psalms 143:8 Cause me to hear thy
lovingkindness in the morning; for in
thee do I trust: cause me to know the
way wherein I should walk; for I lift
up my soul unto thee.
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What God the Father Knows
1. God knows when a person has
violated His revealed will as when
Adam and Eve ate of the forbidden
fruit.
 Genesis 3:5 For God doth know that
in the day ye eat thereof, then your
eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be
as gods, knowing good and evil.
2. God knows the disposition, heart and
future of individuals such as
Abraham.
 Genesis 18:19 For I know him
[Abraham], that he will command his
children and his household after him,
and they shall keep the way of the
LORD, to do justice and judgment;
that the LORD may bring upon
Abraham that which he hath spoken
of him.
3. God knows about the sin that takes
place in cities such as Sodom and
Gomorrah.
 Genesis 18:21 I will go down now,
and see whether they have done
altogether according to the cry of it,
which is come unto me; and if not, I
will know.
4. God knows when a person has not
sinned.
 Genesis 20:6 And God said unto him
[Abimelech] in a dream, Yea, I know
that thou didst this in the integrity of
thy heart; for I also withheld thee
from sinning against me: therefore
suffered I thee not to touch her.
5. God knows when a person truly fears
Him.
 Genesis 22:12 And he [God] said
[unto Abraham], Lay not thine hand
upon the lad [Isaac], neither do thou
any thing unto him: for now I know
that thou fearest God, seeing thou
hast not withheld thy son, thine only
son from me.
6. God knows the suffering of His
people.
 Exodus 3:7 And the LORD said, I
have surely seen the affliction of my
people which are in Egypt, and have
heard their cry by reason of their
taskmasters; for I know their
sorrows;
 Hosea 13:5 I did know thee in the
wilderness, in the land of great
drought.
7. God knows the natural strengths and
weakness of each individual.
 Exodus 4:14 And the anger of the
LORD was kindled against Moses,
and he said, Is not Aaron the Levite
thy brother? I know that he can
speak well. And also, behold, he
cometh forth to meet thee: and when
he seeth thee, he will be glad in his
heart.
8. God knows how to treat individuals
based on their response to His call to
repent.
 Exodus 33:5 For the LORD had said
unto Moses, Say unto the children of
Israel, Ye are a stiff-necked people: I
will come up into the midst of thee in
a moment, and consume thee:
therefore now put off thy ornaments
from thee, that I may know what to
do unto thee.
9. God knows individuals by name.
 Exodus 33:12 And Moses said unto
the LORD, See, thou sayest unto me,
Bring up this people: and thou hast
not let me know whom thou wilt
send with me. Yet thou hast said, I
know thee by name, and thou hast
also found grace in my sight.
11. God knows the economic strength of
a nation.
 Deuteronomy 3:19 But your wives,
and your little ones, and your cattle,
(for I know that ye have much
cattle,) shall abide in your cities
which I have given you;
12. God knows the present as well as the
future evil imaginations of the heart.
 One divine remedy to arrest sin in
the soul is to sing a song.
 Deuteronomy 31:21 And it shall
come to pass, when many evils and
troubles are befallen them, that this
song shall testify against them as a
witness; for it shall not be forgotten
out of the mouths of their seed: for I
know their imagination which they
go about, even now, before I have
brought them into the land which I
sware.
13. The LORD God knows if His people
are in a state of rebellion or
transgression.
 Joshua 22:22 The LORD God of
gods, the LORD God of gods, he
knoweth, and Israel he shall know; if
it be in rebellion, or if in
transgression against the LORD,
(save us not this day,)
14. The LORD knows His servants and
how to move in such a way they in
turn know Him.
 2 Samuel 7:20-21 And what can
David say more unto thee? for thou,
Lord GOD, knowest thy servant. 21
For thy word's sake, and according to
thine own heart, hast thou done all
these great things, to make thy
servant know them.
15. God knows the rage of men that is
directed against Him.
 2 Kings 19:27 But I know thy abode,
and thy going out, and thy coming
in, and thy rage against me.
16. God knows the heart of a person by
observing their response to His
providential circumstances in their
lives. In any given matter there is the
action and the reaction. God is often
interested in the reaction to the
pressures of life which make a
person either better or bitter.
 2 Chronicles 32:31 Howbeit in the
business of the ambassadors of the
princes of Babylon, who sent unto
him [Hezekiah], to inquire of the
wonder that was done in the land,
God left him, to try him, that he
might know all that was in his heart.
17. God knows the integrity of a
particular heart
 Job 31:6 Let me be weighed in an
even balance, that God may know
mine integrity.
18. God knows His own creation.
 Psalms 50:11 I know all the fowls of
the mountains: and the wild beasts of
the field are mine.
19. God knows the hatred people harbor
against Him in their hearts.
 Isaiah 37:28 But I know thy abode,
and thy going out, and thy coming
in, and thy rage against me.
20. God knows the works as well as the
thoughts of nations.
 Isaiah 66:18 For I know their works
and their thoughts: it shall come, that
I will gather all nations and tongues;
and they shall come, and see my
glory.
21. God knows the injustices His people
suffer.

 Jeremiah 15:15 O LORD, thou
knowest: remember me, and visit
me, and revenge me of my
persecutors; take me not away in thy
longsuffering: know that for thy sake
I have suffered rebuke.
22. God knows His own mind. There is a
divine self-awareness.
 Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the
thoughts that I think toward you,
saith the LORD, thoughts of peace,
and not of evil, to give you an
expected end.
23. God knows specific acts of evil such
as adultery, lies spoken, unjustified
anger, the taking of a bribe and the
turning away of the poor.
 Jeremiah 29:23 Because they have
committed villany in Israel, and have
committed adultery with their
neighbours' wives, and have spoken
lying words in my name, which I
have not commanded them; even I
know, and am a witness, saith the
LORD.
 Jeremiah 48:30 I know his wrath,
saith the LORD; but it shall not be
so; his lies shall not so effect it.
 Amos 5:12 For I know your
manifold transgressions and your
mighty sins: they afflict the just, they
take a bribe, and they turn aside the
poor in the gate from their right.
24. God knows the thoughts will
eventually come into the mind.
 Ezekiel 11:5 And the Spirit of the
LORD fell upon me, and said unto
me, Speak; Thus saith the LORD;
Thus have ye said, O house of Israel:
for I know the things that come into
your mind, every one of them.
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What God the Son Knows
1. In His humanity Immanuel knew
how to choose the good and refuse
the evil.
 Isaiah 7:14 Therefore the Lord
himself shall give you a sign;
Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and
bear a son, and shall call his name
Immanuel. 15 Butter and honey shall
he eat, that he may know to refuse
the evil, and choose the good.
Addendum
 Tetragrammaton. This word means
literally, having four letters. It is
derived from tetra- + grammat-,
gramma. The four Hebrew letters
usually transliterated JHVH or
YHWH form a biblical
tetragammaton and thus the proper
name of God which is translated in
the KJV as JEHOVAH but should
probably be translated, YAHWEH.
This special name for God is placed
in capital letters, LORD in the
Authorized Version. The name itself
speaks of the self-existent, Eternal
One.
 Putting out the Fleece. In Judges 6
the story is told of Gideon putting
out a fleece to discern the will of the
Lord. The question arises as to
whether or not Christians today
should use the concept of “putting
out the fleece” as a way to know the
will of God. I would discourage this
approach to knowing the will of God
and look rather to the principles,
promises and precepts in the
completed cannon of Scripture for
divine guidance combined with
prayer and providential
circumstances. James 1:5 If any of
you lack wisdom, let him ask of
God, that giveth to all men liberally,
and upbraideth not; and it shall be
given him.

An arbitrary and subjective test may

or may not fully reveal the mind of
the Lord in a given matter.

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