God Judges Righteously
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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You’ve probably heard the saying “Love the sinner, hate the sin”—but Alistair Begg points out why that’s not always the right approach. Join us on Truth For Life as we examine King David’s prayer in Psalm 139 for divine vengeance and personal scrutiny.
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| 0:00.0 | The You've probably heard someone say love the sinner but hate the sin, but as Alistair beg wraps up his study in Psalm 139, he points out why that's not always the right approach. |
| 0:37.1 | We'll take a closer look at King David's |
| 0:39.1 | prayer for divine vengeance and personal scrutiny today on Truth for Life weekend. |
| 0:49.7 | If you remember when we began, we said that although this Psalm is attributed to David, |
| 0:54.8 | there is no historic reference that allows us to pinpoint it with any accuracy. We mentioned |
| 1:01.8 | that the closing section and the presence of these enemies in verses 19 and 20 probably provided for David the context for the way in which he then reflects |
| 1:16.1 | on the security that is his in God. And if you like, the presence of the enemies finds him |
| 1:23.9 | retreating, or if you like, advancing into the security and provision and protection |
| 1:29.9 | of God. You know, when I sit down, you know when I rise up, you hem me in. Not a word of |
| 1:37.4 | constriction, but a word by way of protection. And if the harsh reality of the wicked did give rise to the first 18 verses, |
| 1:52.0 | to all that is contained there, then I think we can also say that the first 18 verses |
| 1:59.4 | prepare the way for this closing section. In other words, |
| 2:04.1 | when we read this closing section, we need to remember that David is not bloodthirsty, |
| 2:10.8 | that the one who writes the concluding verses is the same one who has written the first |
| 2:16.4 | 18 verses, who has spoken of the intimacy and care |
| 2:20.7 | and protection and provision of God. Now, the reason that it's important for me to say that |
| 2:26.9 | is because, if we are honest, when we come to verse 19, it almost appears to be a discordant note. There's no question that of the 24 |
| 2:38.3 | verses in the Psalm, we would regard it as the most difficult, because it seems on first |
| 2:45.1 | reading to be a kind of abrupt intrusion, a strange intrusion, causing us, as we read our Bibles perhaps, or |
| 2:54.3 | the morning on our own, and we're reading through Psalm 139, and as we perhaps even every |
| 2:59.1 | so often read it out loud to ourselves, so that it might stick in our minds, and we come |
| 3:03.7 | to verse 19, and we say to ourselves, we just stop and say, well, where in the world |
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