Inadequacy: The Surprising Secret to Being Useful to God 

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.

We are nothing in and of ourselves- all is from God, by His grace

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, Pastor Begg, for your faithful service. This is so, so good.

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

In Christ alone I put my trust. Praise God pastor Alistair 👏

In Christ alone, Amen!

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.

Thank you Lord. This was so exposing and so helpfull.

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!!

I saw “Inadequacy” and thought how I certainly feel that way. Thank you for reminding me of the good in realizing we are.

I like this message.

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 ...

Takes me back to my Presbyterian upbringing; Thy Word is Truth Father. An excellent sermon/discussion.

Exelent Word!!! For Each and Everyone alike AMEN!!No one's exempt-.NO ONE-NONE!!!!

Incredible, Incredibly TRUE.... The Lord Jesus only wanted to glorify his Father... My food is to do my Father's will

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. Blessed be the Name of the LORD!

I'm not above you I am less than you a servant to all that some might be saved.

This man is awesome I love listening to how he word the bible..good stuff

Thank you for the message ♥️

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 for this message pastor Begg.

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 !!!!!! 🇨🇭

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.

Lord forgive me for my pride and confidence in myself. My sufficiency is from you.

Thanks you for the amount of time you spend in studying God’s word. From Athens GA

amen. thank u.

Thank you.

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'

Every car needs to have the wheels realignment. This Word of God is realignment of the soul. Blessings

Glory to God for shaping the life, heart and communication skills of this Pastor. Am blessed listening to his sermons.

Funny guy! I love this man😄

Loved this message 🙏 Change me Father God for your glory ! In Jesus Christ name I pray !

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.

"... to make the gospel merely an occasion for advancing ourselves"--that's the OPC in a nutshell

Thank you

❤ !

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!

Watched.

WOW .. Great message

Fire, Sword, Hammer, Axe

Were it not for the Holy Trinity, where would I have been?? Holy holy holy is our God.

New King James Version is much better than niv translation.

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Wow

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

Who is his reference from the book toward the end of this sermon?

It's 2024 anyone?

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.

Are you god

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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.