Thank you. Have you ever wondered where you were before you were born or where you'll go when you die?

We'll look at these questions today on Truth for Life weekend and learn why God's

sovereignty is praiseworthy, even in confusing and difficult times.

Alistair Begg is teaching from Psalm 139, and we're focusing on verses 13 through 18.

When we began a couple of weeks ago, we said that this Psalm, along with the Bible really

in its entirety, addresses foundational questions that are asked by everybody at some point along

the journey of life. And we articulated them in a certain way. Similarly,

we could say that people are asking, where was I, if anywhere, before I was born? And where

will I be, if anywhere, after I die? Very, very important questions. We need to have an

answer to those questions,

to explain our origins and to understand our destiny. And so philosophers and scientists,

people of great worth, have answered those questions in their own way throughout history.

Now, we could go around the universe and give other answers, but let's just look at the answer

that David is providing here. David is saying, I am the result of God's creative handiwork,

I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Now, it's not uncommon when you begin to affirm such things, or perhaps get in a conversation

with friends and colleagues at work or at school, and you are brave enough to make such an affirmation

to say, well, we're studying the 139 Sam, and this is what it says.

And one of your friends says to you, but I thought you were doing science at college.

I thought you were a scientific person. I mean, why would you even suggest such a thing?

And the great pressure that comes to individuals, unless we've got a

grasp of this, is a real pressure. And at the same time, when we begin to affirm these things,

at least this may not happen to you, but it happens to me, people say, well, why does the Bible say

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