Lessons from the Dungeon (Part 2 of 4)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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In Genesis, we read about a man who lived with God-centered focus in good times and bad. Learn how that’s possible, and find out why truthfulness is essential—even when it’s not what people want to hear. That’s our focus on Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.
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| 0:00.0 | When you're |
| 0:03.0 | When you read Joseph's story in the book of Genesis, you learn that he lived with a God-centered focus, whether he was experiencing God's favor or enduring unjust suffering. |
| 0:38.3 | Are we able to do the same? |
| 0:40.7 | Today on Truth for Life, we'll learn how it's possible |
| 0:43.2 | and find out why telling the truth is essential, |
| 0:47.3 | even if it's not what people want to hear. |
| 0:50.5 | Alistair Begg is teaching from Genesis chapter 40. |
| 0:59.7 | Thank you. Alistair Begg is teaching from Genesis chapter 40. What does the Bible say this morning? |
| 1:02.4 | Listen, this is fabulous. |
| 1:04.5 | You exist because God made you. |
| 1:07.6 | He made you purposefully. |
| 1:09.7 | He made you with dignity. And he made you in order that you might |
| 1:14.5 | glorify him. And Joseph understood that. My brothers can do this to me. Potiphar's wife can try that |
| 1:22.2 | with me. I can end up in the dungeon here. That may be my tomorrow, but I know that absolutely today, his eye is on the sparrow, and I know he watches me. And that God-centered focus allows a man or or a woman to go to bed at night, put their head on the pillow and fall asleep, and I wake into a new day and say, this is the day that you have made. I will rejoice and be glad in it. |
| 1:48.0 | I know I don't have a job, and I know that this is not so good and that's not so great, |
| 1:52.8 | and these things have happened. But God, as long as God is God, will be okay. |
| 1:58.1 | For the name of the Lord is a strong tower, and the righteous run into it, and they're saved. |
| 2:01.4 | Joseph understood it. |
| 2:07.1 | You understand it too, unless you choose to deny it. |
| 2:09.8 | Atheism is a lie. |
| 2:13.9 | Agnosticism is confusion. |
| 2:22.4 | And I say especially to those of you who are in search of yourselves, you can go for a month of Sundays to sit and have people talk to you about who your granny was and your uncle was |
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