Men Many people think of God as a divine being who watches and listens from far away.

Today on Truth for Life, Alistair Begg takes a closer look at our majestic God,

his providence, his power, and his enduring presence in the

life of believers. Let's open our Bibles to Ephesians chapter 4.

Here we are at this final phrase. Who would have thought for a moment that we would go through

this in such a way that one would be left with the challenge and responsibility of speaking

on who is over all and through all and in all. It's large that this is actually passed over

in large measure by the commentators.

So you can go in the commentaries and look, well, I wonder what they have to say about

this. Pretty well, nothing. And they move almost directly to verse 7. But here we are,

we made a promise that we would consider it, so consider it we shall. We'll take them each

in turn, first of all, over all. This God and Father of all is over all. I tried to help

myself through this by thinking, first of all, in terms of place, and then in terms of power,

and then in terms of presence. So when we think of God, the Father, as overall, perhaps we can think in terms of His place.

Sometimes we will say to someone, and what is your place in all of this?

And the answer that the Bible gives concerning the God and Father of All is that His place is the

place of supremacy. He is over all. A good cross-reference for Ephesians 4,6, and one that

helps us is Romans and chapter 11, and verse 36, which reads very similarly. I wonder, didn't Paul have one

or the other in mind as he penned these. For from him and through him and to him are all things,

to him be glory forever.

From Him, through Him, to Him.

In other words, and very simply, but importantly, we notice that when we turn to our

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