Thank you. You've probably heard it said that death is the great equalizer.

And of course, death is inevitable for all of us, regardless of wealth, power, intelligence, or influence.

But today on Truth for Life, Alastair Begg explains why death doesn't actually level

the playing field as so many claim.

The Bible explains that our natural state is spiritual death.

The idea that pervades our culture is that somehow or another we live in a middle ground

in between life and death, between truth and error and so on.

And it is up to us to decide along the way which of these

places we want to spend our time and give our energies. As if some or another, we live in some

quasi-state of equivocation. So we have the option, this one or that one. No, says the Bible.

No. We are on a broad road that leads to

destruction, and there is a road that leads to life. And the pathway from the broad one to the narrow

one is through a person. That person is Jesus. He stands at the crossroads, inviting us to

honor him, to believe him, to hear him, and to trust him.

That's why in Chapter 3, Jesus is making clear in the truly, truly, you must be born again.

You're in need of regeneration. We're in need not of doing something, but of having

something done. That the work of regeneration is not something that we do to put ourselves in a place

with God, but it is something that God is miraculously done in Jesus in order to reconcile us to himself.

Now, when you go forward into the epistles, this comes across clearly.

Ephesians chapter 2, and you were dead, he says, in your trespasses and in your sins.

We're all dead men, is the walking dead. Dead in your trespasses and your sins. You read on,

but God, who is rich in mercy, according to the great love with which he has loved us, made us

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