Frail as Summer’s Flower
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Death is an uncomfortable and scary topic that many of us would prefer to ignore in the hope that it will just go away. But find out why it’s necessary to keep our mortality in mind. Study along with us on Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.
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| 0:00.0 | The You're going to do you. |
| 0:13.0 | Do you do you do you do you do |
| 0:15.0 | do you do Death is a topic that is uncomfortable, even frightening, something most of us would prefer to ignore, hoping it might go away. |
| 0:35.0 | But today on Truth for Life, we'll find out why it's so necessary for us to keep our own mortality in mind. |
| 0:42.0 | Alistairbegg is teaching from the opening verses in Psalm 90. |
| 0:47.0 | For all our days, writes Moses, pass away under your wrath. We bring our years to an end like |
| 1:00.9 | a sigh, the years of our life are 70 or even by reason of strength 80 |
| 1:06.0 | yet their span is but toil and trouble. They are soon gone and we fly away. |
| 1:14.0 | Who considers the power of your anger and your wrath according to the fear of you? |
| 1:20.0 | So teach us to number our days that we may gain a heart of wisdom. |
| 1:25.5 | Return, O Lord, how long have pity on your servants? |
| 1:29.8 | Satisfy as in the morning with your steadfast love that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. |
| 1:37.2 | Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us and for as many years as we have seen evil. |
| 1:43.0 | Let your work be shown to your servants |
| 1:46.0 | and your glorious power to their children. |
| 1:49.0 | Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us |
| 1:52.0 | and establish the work of our hands upon us. |
| 1:55.0 | Yes, establish the work of our hands. |
| 2:00.0 | Amen. |
| 2:02.0 | The writer of Ecclesiastic says it is better to go to a funeral than a party |
| 2:08.0 | because the living should always remind themselves that death is waiting for us all. The living should |
| 2:16.5 | always remind themselves. We have to be honest and say, quite honestly it is the case that we, by and large, seek to avoid any thought of death |
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