Are you ready for Christ's return?

Typically, when we get ready for a big event, we have a to-do list or some deadlines in place.

But today on Truth for Life, Alastair Begg explains why the Bible says we need to be ready right now

for the second coming of Jesus.

I invite you to turn again to Luke chapter 17 and as you turn there, we'll pause and ask for

God's help as we study the Bible together.

Father God, with our Bible's open before us, we pray that the Spirit of God might be our teacher.

We come to this immense mystery that through the words of a mere man, we may hear the very word of God,

believing that when your word is really preached, that your voice is truly heard. So we look to the word of God alone by the spirit of God in order that we might meet

the Son of God. For it's in his name we pray. Amen. This week in a eulogy for the singer Alaya,

who died quite tragically in a plane crash about a week ago now,

Janet Jackson, in quoting somebody else,

said, we have not lost a leya, we have gained an angel.

And then as an aside, she paused and she said in a very

breathy kind of way, that's so true. Watching this as I was flicking through the channels,

I stopped to say, what? Pardon? Why is that so true? And what makes that true? There is nothing like death to reveal the manifold

confusion which exists in the minds of men and women regarding life in our contemporary world.

Absent any kind of explanation regarding the origins of life

that really meets the needs,

and without any concept of where life all ultimately ends, men and women are forced just to get on

with it, to push on through their days. Some of them embracing a form of full-hardy optimism,

essentially saying to one another, at least to themselves, well, nothing dreadfully bad has happened so far,

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