A Pilgrim’s Progress (Part 2 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Are you satisfied with your life? Have you done enough, learned enough, accumulated enough, achieved enough? On Truth For Life, Alistair Begg points out how the right focus can help you find satisfaction in life—as well as peace with the prospect of death.
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| 0:00.0 | Are you |
| 0:03.0 | Are you satisfied with where you are in life? |
| 0:27.8 | Have you done enough, learned enough, accumulated enough, achieved enough? |
| 0:32.7 | Today on Truth for Life, Alistair Begg explains how having the right focus can help us find satisfaction in life |
| 0:39.5 | and be at peace with the prospect of death. Let's open our Bibles to Genesis chapter 46 and 47. |
| 0:53.5 | This is what Jacob is affirming here, that no matter how excited he was about seeing Joseph, |
| 1:00.9 | no matter how much that meant to him in terms of his earthly pilgrimage, a good conscience |
| 1:06.6 | towards God was ultimately more important to Jacob than ever seeing his son again. |
| 1:14.5 | In other words, you see, he allowed eternity so to fill his mind that time took its place |
| 1:20.7 | where it should. Rather than they allowed time so to fill his perspective that eternity |
| 1:27.2 | had to fight for a place. |
| 1:29.1 | Ah, we need to learn from his attitude that we might be pilgrims in need of guidance, |
| 1:33.0 | worshippers before the only true God and sinners in need of pardon. |
| 1:36.6 | And then we can rejoice, as did Jacob, not only in the attitude that he revealed, |
| 1:41.3 | but in the assurance that he received, in the assurance he received, I am God, the God of your father, he said. Why does he say the God of your father? He said, because I was true to your father all the days he lived his life. You know that, don't you? And Jacob would have looked back and said, yes, I know that. And he could have added to that his grandfather, and he saw his grandfather |
| 2:01.0 | through. And he said, well, I am the God of your father. Don't be afraid to go down to Egypt. |
| 2:05.3 | In fact, I'm going to make you into a great nation there. A great nation there? I mean, get serious. |
| 2:11.0 | There's only 66 of them. When you roll in a few extras, we get it up to 70. Seventy in a bunch of borrowed carts, used clothes, few donkeys, and bits and pieces. |
| 2:24.3 | And God says, hey, Jacob, I'm going to take you down into Egypt and I'm going to make you a great nation. |
| 2:30.3 | What was the nation about which he was speaking? |
| 2:32.3 | What was the ultimate fulfillment of the promise to Jacob? |
| 2:36.3 | It's revelation, a great company that no man could number from every tribe and background and |
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