“Rest for Your Souls”
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 19 September 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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You’ve probably heard the slogan “Live for today!” It’s a popular motto in these restless days—but it’s not biblical. Find out why, and learn about Jesus’ far greater plan to make the most out of your life. Study along with Alistair Begg on Truth For Life.
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| 0:00.0 | You've noticed |
| 0:03.0 | You've no doubt heard the Latin expression |
| 0:26.3 | Carpe Diem, seize the day, live for today. |
| 0:30.2 | It's a popular motto, but it's not biblical. |
| 0:33.4 | We'll find out why today on Truth for Life and learn about Jesus' |
| 0:36.7 | greater plan to make the most out of life. |
| 0:40.1 | Alastairbeg is teaching from the closing verses in Matthew Chapter 11. |
| 0:49.7 | Well, let me encourage you to turn so that at least you see where our phrase, |
| 0:56.6 | Rest for Your Souls, comes this morning, the promise that in coming to Jesus, in receiving |
| 1:03.8 | his invitation, this is what we discover. |
| 1:10.3 | I'm not sure that the name Quintus Horatius Flacchus will mean much to very many of us. |
| 1:20.7 | He's better known as Horace, and even Horace might not trigger much. Now, Horatius was essentially a stoic, with a little touch of |
| 1:33.3 | Epicureanism built into him. We're aware of these people. They're alive and well today, actually. |
| 1:40.1 | Essentially, his approach to life was Carpe Diem. The idea was, you must make the most of the present |
| 1:46.7 | and give little thought to the future. Now, when Paul addresses the thinkers in Athens, |
| 1:56.8 | as I say, who have been influenced by this kind of thinking, he does the exact opposite. |
| 2:02.7 | He says that God is not someone who is inserted from outside, but God is actually the creator |
| 2:10.6 | of the universe. And far from not thinking about the future, he says you should be thinking |
| 2:17.0 | about the future. And the reason you be thinking about the future. And the |
| 2:18.9 | reason you should think about the future is because the God who made you, and to whom you are accountable, |
| 2:24.7 | has set a day, a day out in the future, a day that is fixed, a day that will be fair, and a day that is |
| 2:34.0 | absolutely final. And on that day, he will judge the world |
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