God Is Everywhere (Part 2 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In Psalm 139, King David comforts himself by reflecting on how God is present and sovereign everywhere—even in death! Does this mean God is everything, and everything is God? Study along as Alistair Begg walks us through the answer on Truth For Life.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:01.0 | I'm going to be. |
| 0:03.0 | I'm going to be. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm |
| 0:12.0 | I'm going to Welcome to Truth for Life weekend, where we're studying Psalm 139. |
| 0:29.5 | In this Psalm, King David comforts himself by reflecting on how God is present and sovereign |
| 0:35.4 | everywhere, even in death. So does this mean that God is everything and sovereign everywhere, even in death. |
| 0:38.1 | So does this mean that God is everything and everything is God, as some people suggest? |
| 0:43.3 | Alistair Begg walks us through the answer. |
| 0:50.8 | Shale, the abhor of the dead, is described throughout the Old Testament in various ways. |
| 0:59.1 | A sepulchre-like cavern, a stronghold, a wasteland, a place of nothingness. |
| 1:10.7 | And when we read these things, we have to recognize that the language A place of nothingness. |
| 1:11.5 | And when we read these things, we have to recognize that the language is evocative language, |
| 1:17.2 | it is poetic language, it is not definitive language. |
| 1:23.3 | So that a cry, for example, as here in the fifth verse of Psalm 6, is a cry from the heart. |
| 1:31.1 | The Psalmist is saying what everybody recognizes, and that is that life is all too short, |
| 1:40.4 | that death is implacable and decisive, and it has ramifications. But at the same time, |
| 1:50.6 | although it is a cry, a cry of sadness, it is not a denial of God's sovereignty beyond |
| 1:59.3 | the grave. |
| 2:01.0 | Because if you think about it, this was so striking about this statement here. |
| 2:04.5 | If I ascend to the heaven, you're there. |
| 2:06.5 | If I were to make my abode in shale, you are there as well. |
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