Living with Significance (Part 2 of 3)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 21 October 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Jesus told a parable about a nobleman who entrusted ten servants with equal sums of money to use wisely in his absence. Listen to Truth For Life as Alistair Begg applies this parable to believers awaiting Christ’s return. What’s been entrusted to you?
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you. In the parable of the ten minas, Jesus tells a story of a nobleman who is going on a long journey, |
| 0:33.0 | and in his absence he entrusted ten servants with an equal sum of money to be put to good use until he returned. |
| 0:41.3 | Today on Truth for Life, Alistair Begg explains how this parable applies to believers as we wait for Christ's return. |
| 0:50.0 | What has Jesus entrusted to us and how are we to invest it? |
| 0:55.4 | We'll find out. |
| 1:08.5 | We continue from where we left off this morning. We began to consider verses 11 through 27 of Luke Chapter 19 under the heading living with significance. I recognize that only a |
| 1:15.5 | handful at most of the congregation will recognize the name Tony Hancock. I'm not going to embarrass |
| 1:21.5 | you or me by asking how many do. Suffice it to say that he was a very fine comedian in the 50s and 60s in Great Britain. |
| 1:31.9 | I happened to be just old enough to have been able to laugh at his humor. His last television |
| 1:39.9 | monologue took place when I was 12, that is 1964. It proved to be profoundly ironic. |
| 1:48.9 | It was very sadly humorous, no one realizing just quite how much it expressed this man's |
| 1:56.7 | existence. I'm going to quote it for you. You can imagine him standing and simply doing a soliloquy, |
| 2:06.1 | as it were. It's a monologue. There's no one else around. And he's talking to himself and he says, |
| 2:12.7 | what have you achieved? What have you achieved? You lost your chance, may old son. |
| 2:22.7 | You contributed absolutely nothing to this life. A waste of time you being here at all. |
| 2:30.9 | No place for you in Westminster, Abbey. The best you can expect is a few daffodils in a jam jar. |
| 2:39.7 | A rough-hewn stone bearing the legend, he came and he went, and in between nothing. |
| 2:48.4 | Nobody will even notice you're not here. After about a year afterwards, somebody |
| 2:54.6 | might say down the pub, where's old Hancock? I haven't seen him around lately. Oh, |
| 3:00.6 | he's dead, you know. Who is he? I write raison d'etra, that is. Nobody will ever know I existed. Nothing to leave behind me. |
| 3:13.8 | Nothing to pass on. Nobody to mourn me. That's the bitterest blow of all. That was 1964. |
| 3:29.3 | In 1968, the British newspapers carried the headline, |
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