God’s Immeasurable Grace—Psalm 139 (Hank Unplugged Short)

Hank Unplugged: Essential Christian Conversations

The Christian Research Institute

Education, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 30 August 2021

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Hank Hanegraaff, the host of the Bible Answer Man broadcast and the Hank Unplugged podcast, shares a profound letter from his sister Jobje as she continues through the arduous trial of pancreatic cancer treatment. Psalm 139 has been Jobje’s favorite Psalm—what she describes as a spiritual birth certificate summarizing what each of us can expect as we travel from the start of life to its very end. Jobje’s name in the Dutch language means “God is gracious.” “Search Me O God, and know my anxious thoughts. All the days ordained for me are written in your book before even one of them came to be.”

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Hank Hanegraff, president of the Christian Research Institute and host of the Bible InSaman broadcast with another Hank Unplug Short.
0:21.5	Today I want to focus on a letter that my sister, Joby, sends to those who are friends and family
0:33.5	praying for her as she goes through the arduous journey of cancer treatment.
0:41.3	Joby writes,
0:44.3	I sit in my chemo chair,
0:47.3	graced by his presence.
0:51.3	During my many sleepless nights, Psalm 139 has been my favorite psalm.
0:58.1	It is as if this Psalm itself is, well, a spiritual burst certificate.
1:07.3	Psalm 139 has been my favorite song.
1:22.6	It is as if this Psalm itself is a spiritual birth certificate given to each of us as we emerge into this world from our mother's wombs. It summarizes very succinctly what we can expect as we travel from the start of life to its very end.
1:33.4	It is also rather daunting to know that in each day, in each night,
1:41.3	God's holy eyes continue to search me and he knows me in whatever I do and whatever I think.
1:50.6	Twice the Solnist writes about God's searching eyes,
1:56.8	beaming laser-like into my very form, the form that he himself has created.
2:07.1	My heart will be under his holy microscope for as long as he gives me life.
2:16.7	This is a comforting psalm giving to each one of us many promises,
2:22.5	but it is also a reminder of how I have failed him,
2:28.3	forgetting that he is always watching.
2:33.4	How often I have brought sorrow to his holy, righteous, all-seeing
2:39.4	eyes brought sorrow in things that I have said, thought, done, and failed to do. As I surrender
2:48.8	myself to the all-seeing laser beams of the CT machine, the CAT scan machine.
2:57.0	My praying lips utter in angst the words, but Lord, you are hemming me in from behind and before.
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