There are any number of popular theories attempting

to explain our existence, why the world is the way it is. Today on Truth For Life we

find out why it's impossible to make sense of our lives and everything that's

going on in the world unless we start with a sovereign creator.

Alistair Begg is teaching from the Book of Ephesians chapter 3 and we're

looking at verse 9.

I think we've said on a number of occasions before that we can't really grapple

with history without a Bible. It's pretty difficult to read the newspaper to

listen to the news to watch the events of human history without your Bible

because you see the Bible gives to us the great scheme of all of humanity. The

Bible tells us that it is into a dark world that the Messiah came, that he is the

true light who gives light to everyone in the world, that the words of the

prophet are being fulfilled, that the people who walked in darkness have seen a

great light and it is into a dark world that the story of God's plan of

redemption comes to shine. Now if you think about this it is it is wonderfully

helpful isn't it? Because I was intrigued that I mentioned this morning in

passing, I was intrigued that Dylan got the Nobel Peace Prize for literature.

I'm fine with that, not that anybody cares what I am or not, but that's

all right. He wrote some bizarre stuff but some really really good stuff, you

know? It's old now. The decades have passed. Where are we? The observations, the

challenge, the songs of the sixties, the cries for peace, for reformation, for

transformation. Last night I had the strangest dream I ever dreamed before. I

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