Trouble
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Is it better to be forewarned of trouble or to remain unaware until it happens? Opinions vary on this subject—but learn why at the Last Supper, Jesus warned His disciples about dark days to come. That’s our focus on Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.
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| 0:00.0 | We're going to be. Would you rather know that trouble is on the way, or would you prefer to remain unaware until it happens? |
| 0:31.5 | Opinions vary on this subject, but today on Truth for Life weekend, Alistair Begg explains why at the Last Supper Jesus warned |
| 0:39.1 | his disciples about dark days to come. Let's open our Bibles to Luke chapter 22. |
| 0:49.6 | Let me read again the paraphrase of these verses is the section from 35 to 38. |
| 0:57.5 | Then Jesus said, when I sent you out and told you to travel light, to take only the bare necessities, |
| 1:05.3 | did you get along all right? Certainly they said, we got along just fine. |
| 1:13.1 | He said, this is different. |
| 1:15.2 | Get ready for trouble. |
| 1:17.4 | Look to what you'll need. |
| 1:19.3 | There are difficult times ahead. |
| 1:22.3 | Paw on your coat and get a sword. |
| 1:29.6 | What was written in scripture, he was lumped in with the criminals, gets its final meaning in me. |
| 1:33.0 | Everything written about me is now coming to a conclusion. |
| 1:37.1 | They said, look, master, two swords. |
| 1:42.6 | But he said, enough of that, no more sword talk. |
| 1:45.0 | Trouble. |
| 1:52.2 | Now, these words that Jesus speaks are set against prior words that he has spoken, |
| 1:55.7 | which gives substance to the question that he asks. |
| 1:58.2 | Namely, when I send you out before, how did you get on? |
| 2:00.5 | And they said, well, we got on really fine. You can just turn |
| 2:02.0 | back if you want to remind yourself of these occasions. Luke chapter 9 and verse 2, he sent them out |
| 2:09.8 | to preach the kingdom of God and to heal the sick, and he told them, take nothing for the journey, |
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