Famous Last Words (Part 1 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 3 March 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Will your faith stand the test of time, remaining vibrant into retirement and even beyond your death to future generations? Find out how it’s possible as we examine the unwavering faith of a man who lived 110 years, on Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm I'm Will your faith stand the test of time? |
| 0:29.6 | Will it remain vibrant in your retirement years, and will it extend even beyond your death to future generations? |
| 0:35.9 | We'll find out how that's possible today on Truth for Life |
| 0:38.9 | as Alistair Begg examines the unwavering faith of a man who lived 110 years. |
| 0:51.7 | Can I invite you to take your Bibles and turn with me to Genesis chapter 50 and to verse 22, |
| 1:01.4 | and to follow along as I read. Joseph stayed in Egypt along with all his father's family. |
| 1:08.5 | He lived 110 years and saw the third generation of Ephraim's children. |
| 1:14.1 | Also the children of Makir, son of Manasse, were placed at birth on Joseph's knees. |
| 1:21.3 | Then Joseph said to his brothers, I am about to die. But God will surely come to your aid and take you up out of this land |
| 1:30.2 | to the land he promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And Joseph made the sons of Israel |
| 1:38.1 | swear an oath and said, God will surely come to your aid. And then you must carry my bones up from this place. |
| 1:47.1 | So Joseph died at the age of 110, and after they embalmed him, he was placed in a coffin in Egypt. |
| 1:57.9 | Amen. |
| 2:00.5 | Well, the young man of 17, to whom we were introduced in... Amen. |
| 2:01.1 | Well, the young man of 17, to whom we were introduced in Genesis 372, is now 110. |
| 2:12.2 | He has lived long enough to see his great, great grandchildren. |
| 2:16.9 | Indeed, he lived so long that in the Egyptian mind, |
| 2:21.3 | he was a man uniquely blessed. There are significant writings in Egyptian history that pinpoint |
| 2:29.3 | this very age and beyond as being a distinction of the signal blessing of God. And God in his providence |
| 2:37.7 | recognizing this marks Joseph out here at the very end of his life as in his middle years and |
| 2:44.5 | as in the beginning. With his great-great-grandchildren able to meet him and respond to him, and then to pass |
| 2:53.6 | the word on to their children and to their children's children, you have a period of about |
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