WATCH CHAPEL VIA LIVESTREAM AT 10 A.M. EACH WEEKDAY DURING THE ACADEMIC YEAR cedarville.edu/chapellive facebook.com/cedarville/live youtube.com/cedarvilleuniversity GOD KNOWS ME. GOD IS WITH ME. The following is an excerpt from a September 9, 2025, chapel presentation from Alistair Begg. Listen to his full message at cedarville.edu/BeggSeptember2025. I have two overarching headings for Psalm 139: 1–12 this morning. The first, in verses 1–6, “God, you know me.” And then, in 7–14, “God, you're with me.” First of all, you have searched me and known me. You see, David knows that the divine knowledge is knowledge of David himself. How comprehensive and how personal this is. David knows it's impossible for him to deceive God because God knows his secret thoughts. You and I may be masters of disguise before one another, but I cannot hide from a God whose knowledge of me is so wonderful, so high that the psalmist says, “I barely can get my head around it at all." Verse six serves both as a conclusion to those earlier verses and also an introduction to the verses that follow, moving from God knows me to God is with me. “Where shall I go from your spirit, or where shall I flee from your presence?" We're not unfamiliar with the idea of going to try and find a hiding place. The Bible begins with Adam and Eve hiding. Jonah wanted to make his own run for it. Let me tell you, I'm an old man now. You can't run, and you can't hide. The hounds of heaven will chase you down. It's a measure of God's grace and goodness to you. I don't think David is looking for the possibility of escape but rather comforting himself with the fact that escape is impossible. He's not looking for a place to hide except to run into the shelter of the only One who goes before him and comes behind him. Are you worried that you can't finish the race? Look what it says. “Even there your hand shall lead me. Your right hand shall hold me. Even darkness isn't dark to you. The night is as light as the day." It's a wonderful picture, isn't it? There's no corner of the universe that God is not sovereign over. What a privilege it is to awaken in the morning and turn to our Bibles and just say to ourselves as we walk out into this day, “He knows me. He's with me.” That's the story. That's the Christian testimony. That's yours. Alistair Begg is an author, former pastor, and Bible teacher on Truth for Life. CHAPEL NOTES 34
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