The The Bible reminds us regularly that life is brief, death is certain.

So how would you like to be remembered?

What kind of legacy are you hoping you'll leave?

On Truth for Life weekend, Alistair Begg offers tips on how to live

so that you'll be missed.

We're continuing a study in the opening verses

of 2 Timothy, Chapter 4.

What if they wrote our epitaph tonight?

What if we were in tomorrow morning's plane dealer

in the

obits? If there's one summary statement, what will it be and will it be harmful? Or will it be helpful?

Come to the helpful side with me and I'll go through this quickly. Helpful. Look at verse 5 of

chapter 1. What a helpful legacy was left by Lois and Eunice.

The grandmother and the mother Eunice?

I can't tell you what a wonderful thing it is to have a godly heritage.

We shouldn't think for a moment that Lois and Eunice were self-aware in relationship to this. The sincere faith

which lived in your grandmother, Lois, and in your mother, Eunice, I can't imagine that the grandmother

would come over to the house and say, Timothy, now here I am, your godly granny's here.

Come along, Timothy, and I will expound to you the great wonders of things, because after all,

I'm your godly granny. No, I think she was just granny. And his mother? Do you think his mother used to get up in the morning, say, now come along, Timothy, I'm your godly mother, and I'm here to bestow my heritage upon you. No, she just did the laundry. She just sent him off to school. She just clipped him around the ear. She just did mother things. But down through the

corridor of time, as people reflect on it and bring their photographs to recollection,

says, you know what? This was tremendously helpful having this grandmother and having this mom.

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