God's Perspective - Omniscience Series

Matthew 5:27-28 You have heard that it was said, 'Do not commit adultery.' 28 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Pornography is a 40 billion dollar a year business. A few years ago Chuck Colson died. I remember a story I once heard about him. Chuck had appeared on a television program, talking about criminal justice reforms. A few days he got a call from Jack Eckerd, a businessman from Florida, the founder of the Eckerd Drug chain, the second largest drug chain in America. He saw him on television and asked him to go to Florida. He felt Florida had a criminal justice crisis, and wanted Chuck to help him to do something about it. So he did. They took Jack Eckerd’s Lear jet all over the State of Florida advocating criminal justice reforms, and everywhere they went Jack Eckerd would introduce Chuck to the crowds and say, "This is Chuck Colson, my friend; I saw him on a television program. He’s born again, I’m not. I wish I were." And then he’d sit down. They would get back on the airplane and Chuck would tell him about Jesus. Over and over he told him. They went through a book by R. C. Sproul and C. S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity. Still he used the same greeting. Finally a year later Jack Eckerd was reading the story of Watergate and Chuck’s book Loving God, and decided that Jesus was who He claimed to be and gave his life to Christ.

The first thing he did was to walk into one of his drugstores and walked down through the book shelves and he saw Playboy and Penthouse. And he’d seen it there many times before, but it never bothered him before. Now he saw them with new eyes. He went back to his office. He called in his president. He said, "Take Playboy and Penthouse out of my stores. The president said, "You can’t mean that, Mr. Eckerd. We make three million dollars a year on those books." He said, "Take ’em out of my stores." And in 1,700 stores across America, by one man’s decision, those magazines were removed from the shelves because a man had given his life to Christ.

The story did not end there. Jack Eckerd began calling the CEOs of other retail store chains asking that those magazines be removed. No one was willing, until they noticed that Eckerd Drugs began to get floods of people coming in to buy things at Eckerd’s because they’d taken Playboy and Penthouse out. Over the next year 16,000 retail outlets stopped selling pornography because one man recognized that sin isn’t just what you do, it is also what you think.

c. God Knows What We SAY - Before a word is spoken, You know it completely

Because God knows what is in our minds as well as what is in our hearts, he knows the words we speak before we even speak them because what comes out of our mouths is first birthed in our minds and hearts. Even before it comes out, God knows it. That is amazing! I don’t always know what I’m going to say before I say it, do you? But God does!