God Knows All about Me (Part 2 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 6 August 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Scripture reveals an all-knowing, all-powerful, yet deeply personal God. He knows you better than you know yourself! Learn why this awareness can be either terrifying or comforting as the Encore 2025 series continues on Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.
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| 0:00.0 | The Bible makes it clear that God is all-knowing and all-powerful, and yet this same God is deeply personal. |
| 0:31.3 | In fact, he knows us better than we know ourselves. |
| 0:34.8 | Today, on Truth for Life, as we continue our Encore 2025 series of listener favorites, |
| 0:41.3 | we'll learn why this realization can either be terrifying or comforting. Alistair Begg is teaching |
| 0:48.9 | from Psalm 139, but he begins with an illustration from Psalm 135. |
| 1:00.5 | Music But he begins with an illustration from Psalm 135. Let's just look at verse 13. |
| 1:02.3 | Your name, O Lord, endures forever. |
| 1:05.7 | Your renown, O Lord, throughout all the ages. |
| 1:09.4 | For the Lord will vindicate his people and have compassion |
| 1:12.1 | on his servants. And then look at what he says in verse 15. The idols of the nations are silver and |
| 1:17.3 | gold. The work of human hands. They have mouths, but don't speak. They have eyes, but don't see. |
| 1:32.7 | They have ears, but they don't hear. Nor is there any breath in their mouths. Those who make them become like them. So do all who trust in them. So the contrast is vast. And what he is pointing out, |
| 1:51.6 | as he goes through and writes in this way, is the absurdity, and it is an absurdity, |
| 1:58.6 | for men and women to seek ultimate answers from substitute gods. |
| 2:05.8 | But that's what we do, because we are made in order to worship, to worship the true and living God. |
| 2:13.6 | And when the people's turn back, and when they turn aside, where do they end up? |
| 2:19.3 | The ironsmith makes his peace. The carpenter makes his peace. He shapes it into a figure of a man, with the beauty of a man to dwell in a house. He cuts down cedars, or he chooses a cypress tree or an oak, and he lets it grow strong |
| 2:35.9 | among the trees of the forest. He plants a cedar, the rain nourishes it. Then it becomes fuel. |
| 2:42.7 | He takes a part of it and warms himself. He kindles a fire, he bakes bread. So far, so good. |
| 2:49.6 | But wait a minute. Also, he makes a God and worships it. He makes it an idol and falls |
| 2:56.5 | down before it. Half of it, he burns in the fire. Over the half he eats meat. He roast it and is |
| 3:03.9 | satisfied. He warms himself and says, aha, I'm warm, great fire. And the rest, |
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