Attitude Is Everything (Part 1 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 19 January 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Ever wonder if difficulty happens because you’ve displeased God? Maybe life would go more smoothly if you obeyed Him better? Well, that’s not what the Bible teaches. On Truth For Life, Alistair Begg considers an example from Joseph’s story in Genesis.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you. Does faithful obedience to God somehow ensure we will lead a trouble-free life? |
| 0:33.8 | That's not what the Bible teaches. |
| 0:35.6 | Today on Truth for Life, Alistair Begg looks at an example from Joseph's story found in the book of Genesis. |
| 0:48.0 | We have only gone into this to the extent of two chapters, but already we have seen that God's servant Joseph has had a very |
| 0:56.3 | varied and checkered existence. He had previously been chucked in a cistern by his brothers, |
| 1:02.3 | and now he has been dumped in a dungeon by his boss. He had previously had the run of the house, |
| 1:08.3 | and now he's being run out of the house. The one who was in charge |
| 1:12.8 | is now being charged with the most awful crime. And as verse 20 tells us, as a result of the |
| 1:21.4 | response of his boss, he was thrown in to this dreadful and sunless hole. He refers to it himself in verse 15 of |
| 1:31.0 | chapter 40 as a dungeon. The Samist in Sam 105 and in verse 18 makes reference to Joseph's |
| 1:40.2 | circumstances. Speaking of the work of God, he says of God, he called down famine on the land, |
| 1:46.3 | destroyed all their supplies of food, and he sent a man before them. Joseph sold as a slave. |
| 1:54.3 | They bruised his feet with shackles. His neck was put in irons till what he foretold came to pass till the word of the Lord proved him true. |
| 2:07.0 | And so the picture of Joseph now at the end of 39 is particularly changed from the beginning of 39. |
| 2:14.7 | And we should imagine him enslaved in irons, both around his neck, resisting the ability to be |
| 2:24.1 | able to lift up his head and gaze, and at the same time shackled in his feet. If you pay careful |
| 2:31.4 | attention to the chapter, if you've observed it with care, you will note that |
| 2:34.7 | there is a symmetry about this chapter insofar as the opening verses and the closing verses |
| 2:40.7 | describe the same sort of scene, albeit in two locations. When we study the opening verses, |
| 2:48.9 | we noted that Joseph was protected, and then he was prospered, |
| 2:53.8 | and then he was promoted, and then we found him propositioned. I don't expect you to remember the |
| 2:58.6 | outline. But that's what we said, that the circumstances were such that he found himself |
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