Spiritual Surveillance

Surveillance by Others

By Doug Hamilton, Junction City Church of Christ, Junction City, KS
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I mention this because this system is more powerful than all these others put together. This surveillance system not only sees everything you do online, on your websites, your emails, phone calls and monitors your conversations [just like these other systems do], but [it also] watches your entire life, both publicly and privately. It is called the Spiritual-Surveillance and is carried out by God. HIS technology can determine with a [perfect] rate of accuracy [even] the thoughts of a person’s mind. God’s surveillance watches all of us 24/7, monitoring everything we do. [Including the thought you have right now, "Oh, you’re taking it to extremes", God heard that! He knows that!]

You see (God is omniscient, God is omnipresent. That means, He know all, He sees all, He is wherever you’re at…​ He sees it!)

This is interesting (You might say, come on Scott, come on…​ You better wrestle with this one, because God isn’t God, if God isn’t this. omniscient & omnipresent)

(Now let’s look at a little greasy programmer somewhere, out at one of these tech places. They type up a program, they put in little keystrokes that allow them to monitor you. They write a program for that. Do you think they get a group of chimpanzees and they just hit the keyboard until something comes up? No it’s programmed to do that exact thing. Including feeding back the information to the designer of that program. That’s how it works.)

(Ok, so how does God know what we’re doing? God is a programmer too. Your DNA is likened to digital software that converts to 3D objects. That’s what they boil it down to. It’s the most complex thing ever written. And men like Bill Gates and other famous programmers, they look at human DNA, which has billions & billions of sugar, phosphate, & base nucleotides that form a double helix that makes up the code of a DNA molecule, in awe. It is a genius program, it literally does everything for your body. God made that. You don’t own the patent for DNA, nobody does, God does, He designed it. And man will scratch their head until Jesus comes back to know how that stuff runs. If man can code programs that can track you right now, you don’t think God also has stuff that report back to Him? That is just one of the ways God is tracking us right now.)

(And this surveillance system knows your exact thoughts. In fact, it even knows what you’re going to think. That’s some powerful software. "Well, I’m thinking about doing that." God doesn’t go, "ah oh"…​ You know this sound has never come out of God’s mouth: cover mouth with hand & <gasp>. You think that took God by surprise? No! He knows what you have need of before you even ask Him! And He wrote into our software, called our DNA, and it can easily report back to Him exactly what’s going on with you. And me!)
    (God sees all, He knows all. He’s watching all people all of the time.)

With Spiritual-Surveillance, God saw it all, including those websites you’ve been watching, the way you talked about your boss behind his back, that television commercial with the woman in the bathing suit that caught your eye!

Job asked in:

The answer to the question is ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY, WITHOUT A DOUBT, YES!!! He knows all that we do, all that we say, and all that we think. Because if God doesn’t see, then God is not God. God’s a liar. And God cannot lie…​ If God is going to be God.     I’m going to trust the one who wrote the program that caused my existence!

If you are a child of God and believe what the Bible teaches, then you know God is not insignificant like the NSA surveillance, but a billion times more advanced. It doesn’t matter if you are a Christian or not, for he sees all and knows all.

Do you remember that heavy person, the one that you thought negatively about when you saw them? And you’re probably overweight too, like me! Remember how you misjudged them in your heart? Hi, Spiritual-Surveillance saw you from heaven. He also knows how hard they struggled their whole life with over-eating. He knows their soul just like He knows your own, for He is always watching.

Do you remember that co-worker that you spoke badly about to the others last week? I bet you forgot that God heard what you said and He wasn’t laughing, but saddened. He wants you to know that co-worker doesn’t have a friend in this world and was hoping you might [change] that by simply being a good ear to comfort.

Do you remember that guy that you cursed on the road when he cut you off in traffic? God was with you and heard all the choice words you had for that careless driver who just happened to be made in the likeness and image of God. Would we have reacted differently had we remembered the He is always watching? Would we change the way we’re walking?

David says:

God is watching, and it doesn’t matter how we try to frame it. It doesn’t matter how much we dress up on Sunday. Or how many Hallelujahs or amens we say, the real test is, do you believe God is watching, that there is a spiritual surveillance? Because if we don’t, we’re never going to change.

Brothers and sisters, I do not write this in exemption, for we are all guilty of failing to remember this, for God is watching all of us all the time. I think that’s a primary reason why we stumble. Because we don’t think God is watching at that moment. Otherwise you would never do that. In fact, picture it this way, take your ugliest, darkest moment, that thing you struggle with. Do you invite your friends from church, your brothers & sisters in Christ, and do that in front of them? Why not? Because it would be shameful. Well, ok, but God is always there. You see the difference? If you always want to live a righteous life then we must always believe first and foremost that God is this…​ spiritual surveillance.

God is watching!

We should be concerned that all the media platforms, authority figures, and agencies (with 3 letters) are watching us. Because they’re not God! On the other hand, the information they have is nothing compared to what God has seen.

You know we got to make sure we don’t live the life of a hypocrite. Here’s how we live the life of a hypocrite. That word hypocrite [in the Greek] is hypo -for- under, & crites -for- mask…​ hupo - crites. You know how you say "actor" in the 1^st century? Hypocrites, it means under the mask. One actor would play many parts holding up a different mask for each part. You never know who the real actor was "under the mask." That why they called them hypocrites.

Well, God knows who is under the mask.

Three times in Matthew 6, the hypocrite who lived a secret double-life in his charity, prayers and fastings never fooled God. Jesus said we are to carry these out as if before the all-seeing God "who sees what is done in secret" (4, 6 and 18). God can see under the masks of men and women throughout the earth. He literally sees all. He knows what you are thinking! Hosea reminded us in

When we keep in mind that God has us on surveillance, then watch your walk change.

God is not nearly concerned about the outward man we portray in public worship, but the inward man of the private life. We never want to "outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness" (Matthew 23:28).

We are extending the invitation, now, to anyone who is subject to it. Come,…​ while we stand and sing.