A Lesson in Dying (Part 2 of 4)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 24 February 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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In Genesis, Jacob gives a helpful illustration of how to prepare for death and bless others in the process. Perhaps you’d like to follow Jacob’s example, but you just don’t know where to begin? Hear some practical tips on Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.
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| 0:00.0 | In the book of June, the book of Genesis, Jacob gives us a helpful illustration of how to prepare for death and bless others in the process. |
| 0:33.5 | Maybe you'd like to follow Jacob's example, but you're not sure where to begin. |
| 0:38.0 | Today on Truth for Life, Alastair Vegg offers some practical tips that will help us adequately prepare for our own death as we lighten the burden on our loved ones. |
| 0:57.1 | Have you visited elderly people much? |
| 0:59.9 | It's not easy to deal with. |
| 1:05.5 | Because in the moments of lucidity, you cherish great hope that this is what it's all about. |
| 1:14.2 | You endure the frequent reminiscing, and you're disappointed by the obvious disorientation. |
| 1:23.5 | But it is an indication. It is a God-given indication. That time is passing, that life does not go on forever, that we will not always be together in this way. And God, in his grace |
| 1:29.1 | and in his mercy, provides for some in going into old age, these indications which they may |
| 1:35.5 | cherish to themselves, which they may make a matter of prayer, which they may share with those |
| 1:40.0 | who are nearest and dearest to them, but which are signal blessings from God to prepare us for |
| 1:45.6 | the fact that there is a dimension that is different from this, so that we will not hold on |
| 1:51.2 | unduly to that which represents life now. You can't see the way you want. I was talking with |
| 1:57.9 | a friend the other day. The other day is a euphemism for in the last few months, and as we got out of the car to play golf, this chap said to me, he was about 56, he said, you know, I'm seeing it in my legs. I said, seeing what in your legs? He had shorts on. I looked at them. He wasn't seeing much in his legs. But that is the pot calling the kettle black, believe me. |
| 2:19.0 | And he said, you know, just in getting out of the car, I'm starting to see it. I would just |
| 2:27.1 | always get up from chairs, I get out of the car, but now when I go to get up, it's different. |
| 2:33.2 | Now there's just a dimension that I never knew. |
| 2:37.9 | And the Lord is saying, hey, Bill, you're closing down, buddy. |
| 2:44.9 | You're not going to be here forever. |
| 2:47.6 | You're not supposed to be here forever. |
| 2:50.1 | Don't worry about it. It's better where you're going. You're going |
| 2:54.3 | to get new legs. The fading you see of our physical frame, the diminishing of our mental powers |
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