Inadequacy: The Surprising Secret to Being Useful to God
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- čas přidán 25. 06. 2024
- www.truthforlife.org || By: Alistair Begg - 2 Corinthians 2:12-3:6) Reliance on Christ is crucial in the life of a Christian, yet we like to depend on our own abilities instead. In this sermon Alistair Begg asks us to contrast our modern view of self-reliance with the truths of Scripture. When we face our inadequacies and admit our absolute need of God’s help, we display His glory to those around us.
I thank God that He directed me to this message. What a marvelous and wonderful God we serve 🙏
May God forgive us to our lack of humility and pride.
My hope is in the finished work of the cross. I need Jesus more than the air I breathe. I can't live one minute apart from his grace. In the World we have sadness and sorrow. In the cross we have joy, mercy, and peace. Thank you for this message Pastor Begg God bless you.
I consider my visual impairment as a gift from my God. With my inadequacy I see Christ’s all sufficiency more clearly.
@@lynnwood8807 Amen
We are nothing in and of ourselves- all is from God, by His grace
I thought I could "do it" but found out that I am nothing but the "clay pot" God is my "Potter" ... He is in control, I am not ...
I have NEVER heard a sermon where a minister goes after the "ME GENERATION" and include the ministry. How many ministers are EXTREMELY visible YET they have left GOD behind or outside the message?
What a blessing to hear it's okay to be incomplete as long as GOD is in charge.
Thank you. May GOD bless.
Thank you. I find such genuine truth and humility from your talks. I listen every night in bed to several.
I love your accent as my mom is from Scotland. That is what drew me to listen at first. I thank the Lord Jesus
For you his servant. You remind us that despite our indoctrination’s... The chief end of man is to glorify God...not self. Thank you for the much needed reminder. Lois
Pastor Begg, you are speaking of my heart being broken so bad, God got my attention. I am a new person in Christ. He changed me. My likes changed. Interests in silly things disappeared. I no longer had interests in TV. Gone. Writing I half heartedly did, losing interest had exploded into mass writings. I have lost my depression and all that went with it. I am calm. I do not freak out easily anymore, and yet I have plenty of reason to. He did leave me with my disabilities, to tame the beast within. I began studying the Bible 18 months ago. I went to church, sang in gospel choir, and just now, over a decade later, comprehending the real meaning of those words. My career was what drove me. College gave me opportunities, and raising a family and teaching on the weekends took up all my time. God, removed all of it, and most of me with it. Why, why would He allow this to happen? Now I see that the problem was me. I did not make time for God. So He made it for me. A decade later, I understand all the signaling me in unusual ways, Waving me down with supernatural ways. I never knew it was Him. All my life , He never gave up on me. He saved my life several times. I guess God was not done with me yet...
Thank you Father and Lord Jesus Christ for shining a light on the shores before I crashed.
_ABSOLUTELY‼️_ .... I've been trying to communicate this very thing to family members for several years now, but just like most people, they stubbornly grasp their pride & self-sufficiency like a drowning man.... And, I too have to be repeatedly reminded of this Truth, not just intellectually, but in practice, as God's Fatherly discipline lets me see the depths of my inadequacy, causing me to cry out for mercy & cast myself upon His all-sufficient grace.
said so well.
Thanks to you Pastor Begg! Your teachings are helping me understand and giving my heart solace! My mom, dad and sister have always told me that I am inadequate. I’m 62 yrs old and just realizing that I’m a victim of emotional abuse causing much emotional pain. The tongue is a very leather weapon. Now I must heal. I have also realized that although I love Jesus, when I pray I hope my prayers will be answered but I don’t believe he has already answered them. I am learning that I am adequate, I am not all the mean things my mother, father and sister have tried to make me believe I am. Mom passed recently. My sister is the personal representative for mom’s very small estate and she acting like Mussolini! Anyway, if any of you all are so inclined, pray for my sister and me. Thank you Pastor Begg!! May God always bless you and you ministry!!
Thank you, Pastor Begg, for your faithful service. This is so, so good.
In Christ alone, Amen!
In Christ alone I put my trust. Praise God pastor Alistair 👏
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One clay cracked pot to another, we recognize and rejoice in The Spirit who fills and refills as we with weakness point to God’s Word, (Numbers 21: 4-9) and the crucified Lord Jesus Christ (John 3:14-15) the supply of our hearts as we point to Jesus.
one beggar to another point to the Bread of life, Jesus alone. He must increase and we must decrease.
Amen
I like this message.
Incredible, Incredibly TRUE.... The Lord Jesus only wanted to glorify his Father... My food is to do my Father's will
I saw “Inadequacy” and thought how I certainly feel that way. Thank you for reminding me of the good in realizing we are.
WE are not good but our saving righteous savior Jesus Christ that we serve is! We can do all things through Christ who strengthens us. Blessings to you
Aurora571000 Amen!
Can God’s LOVE be so painful?? Can His LOVE so break my heart, humble my spirit, strip me of all „Self“and leave me in the end with nothing but a „joyful tremble at His all-sufficient WORD“? What AMAZING GRACE !!!!!! 🇨🇭
Living in Switzerland without being to write one of the official languages..... The Lord God will use my weakness to further the Lord God's Kingdom... The Lord God is Sovereign and His Providence always prevails ALWAYS
I like that the pastor addresses the fact that the cheerleaders were saying...."you can do it" even though they were losing. The schools in America teaches students that even though they have lost a game that they are still winners by rewarding them with a trophy for losing? 🤔
This is so wrong because they are not teaching them that life is hard work and there are winners and those who lose. This is why children believe that they have a right to have everything? Which is so wrong because this is not teaching them that he or she has to try harder and be humble at the same time. The teachers are teaching that even though he or she has lost, she or he will always be a winner in society and this is not real life. 🤔
Thank you Lord. This was so exposing and so helpfull.
Takes me back to my Presbyterian upbringing; Thy Word is Truth Father. An excellent sermon/discussion.
I'm not above you I am less than you a servant to all that some might be saved.
Yea & A-men'
Lord forgive me for my pride and confidence in myself. My sufficiency is from you.
Exelent Word!!! For Each and Everyone alike AMEN!!No one's exempt-.NO ONE-NONE!!!!
This man is awesome I love listening to how he word the bible..good stuff
thank you for this message pastor Begg.
AMEN. Blessed be the Name of the LORD!
Thank you for the message ♥️
Thanks you for the amount of time you spend in studying God’s word. From Athens GA
What an awesome message. Food for thought indeed. Thank you Alistair for your time in study to bring this sort of clarity to the gospel. I appreciate more than you will ever know. Thank you. Chris Barrett, Mandurah, Western Australia.
The Lamb of God, he did guide by the Holy Spirit, this member of his body to the arrows.
Greetings with a holy kiss from east of a bend in the bow,that Abba Father God alone has bent;a river of water.
The blessedness of forsaking all,and casting thy crown at the foot of his throne.
To God be all the glory
In Jesus mighty name
A-men'
HABAKKUK 3:9
As a baby boomer, one could have an idyllic childhood in a loving and God fearing home like Alistair Begg had or one could have a living hell in an abusive family that is destructive. I am happy for Begg and his life that God gave him. We didn't all have that life. I am grateful to God for the life he gave me. My father made sure that I knew how incredibly inadequate and useless I was, and if I wasn't properly demonstrating how inadequate I was, he made sure he beat into me how stupid and inadequate I was. I am so grateful for pastors like Begg, MacArthur and Lawson but I am struck at how they can assume how their lives are the norm and that you can group and lump all people in a group by age or some other immutable characteristic like it's a given of similar experience or life. I am grateful to God for everything. I am grateful that God never let go of me even at my worst. I know what I am but God knows infinitely better than I do. Narcissism is nothing new or modern.
I don't think he does assume everyone has an idyllic upbringing. Like you I had an abusive upbringing where I felt I was never enough....left as soon as I could and spent years on the 'self-improvement' train, that caused misery even as a Christian...carrying the need to be 'perfect' into it. Before I finally got that my WORTH to God had NOTHING to do with what I DID for him or how 'good' I was, I too would have reacted to the message like you. Today I am in tears of gratitude, in retirement and depressed as all my 'learning' isn't 'productive' or seemingly 'useful'. I'm reminded...yet again...my worth is NOT in what I do or the 'knowledge' my ego says I've acquired....but in who I AM...a child of GOD, joint heir with Christ, who HUMBLED himself to take on flesh and die for me.
Years ago, in recovery (as a Christian), I was tasked with writing an advert for a God/Higher Power. I'd always wanted the 'daddy' I never had....and if course ALL the characteristics were right there in the Bible....He promises to never leave me nor forsake me; comfort me; guide me...and even when I rebel, welcomes me when I drag myself back....Abba/daddy.....nothing like the earthly 'father' I sometimes got him mixed up with.
Every car needs to have the wheels realignment.
This Word of God is realignment of the soul.
Blessings
Thank you.
the church today needs this message desperately. but is anyone listening? too much entertainment in the American church today. too much name dropping in the church
amen. thank u.
Glory to God for shaping the life, heart and communication skills of this Pastor. Am blessed listening to his sermons.
"... to make the gospel merely an occasion for advancing ourselves"--that's the OPC in a nutshell
Funny guy!
I love this man😄
Loved this message 🙏 Change me Father God for your glory ! In Jesus Christ name I pray !
❤ !
I LOVE THE WAY GOD LOVES TO USE THE LITTLE GUY,! MOSES. DAVID. GIDEON. THE NO ONE WHO DOESN'T WANT TO BE USED, HALF THE TIME!
Thank you
Watched.
Fire, Sword, Hammer, Axe
WOW .. Great message
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Were it not for the Holy Trinity, where would I have been?? Holy holy holy is our God.
Wow
New King James Version is much better than niv translation.
It's 2024 anyone?
Who is his reference from the book toward the end of this sermon?
He was quoting John Stott: I am simply a beloved child of …
Pity about the backdrop .
Alistair Begg is dead-right why the marginalized are not flocking to our churches--this is certainly true of my own experience in the OPC in Crystal Lake and Wheaton, Illinois, and "smugness" is ABSOLUTELY the right word. Thr OPC is no place fot a converted sinner--I didn't have the right credentials or resume to be a part of the OPC. "You can't exalt yourself and Jesus at the same time"--ABSOLUTELY. OPC "preachers" are more preoccupied with advancing themselves academically than in saving souls, and anyway, nobody in the OPC "needs" to be saved from anything--it is little different than the Roman Catholic Church from whence I came, only nominally Protestant.
wOW! Quite a statement. Im not sure what youre saying. Of course im just starting the sermon. explain? please!
Are you god
No
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Any preacher that eliminates the free will of man to choose God is a false teachers! God DID NOT CREATE mindless robots! Ask your wife if she loves you from her own free will? Or may you got her locked up in the basement and take her out when you want her to say, 'I love you'? Free will is God's greatest gift AFTER SALVATION IN CHRIST. WHY? BECAUSE HE DESIRES TRUTH IN THE HEART.
That is not true.The scripture says we are dead in our trespasses and sins.How can a dead man repent? The Lord must do the work.He quickens us and gives us repentance and faith.