I'm I'm As a believer in Christ, have you ever wondered if you'll really make it to heaven?

Do you ever doubt your salvation or fear that God's gift could be rescinded?

If so, you're in for a reassuring message today

on Truth for Life.

Alastair Begg is going to share the antidote

to such fears and mistrust.

The death of a family member

is one of the hardest things that any of us will have to face in our

lives. And indeed, there are few things which send shockwaves throughout a family unit

quite to the degree that the loss of a loved one does. And especially when that individual has

been, as in the case of Jacob, the head of the family over a significant number of years.

And when that most precious and important individual is removed, a number of things happen. Not least of all, family relationships

are shown up for what they really are. Crisis, coming in various forms and certainly in the form of death,

crisis does not so much create situations as reveal them. And the death of a loved one will indicate

very quickly and very clearly to a group of individuals what those people really believe,

and indeed will make it very obvious to others how these people choose to behave. And over the years, in both

experiencing and observing this fact, it's become clear to me that it is often not until after

the funeral service that the real issues, the concerns, and the conflicts come to the surface.

I've done many, many, many, many funerals over the last 21 years or more,

and have sat at all kinds of meals subsequent to funerals

and have discovered, as time has gone by, that it was only custom or good manners

that allowed the particular group of people with whom I was spending time

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