Thank you. Do you ever feel like the number of Christians in the world is dwindling,

or maybe that you're not good enough or smart enough or strong enough to be used by God?

Today on Truth for Life, we'll learn how God uses our inadequacy

to demonstrate his sufficiency. We're continuing the Encore 2025 series of listener favorites,

and today, Alistair Begg opens the Bible to Judges Chapter 7.

I don't know how many of you will know the name Chuck Colson.

Some of you will.

If you do, you know that he was known as Richard Nixon, the President of the United States, henchman.

He came to faith in Jesus Christ

as a result of the work of a friend

and someone whom he admired.

And he also was sentenced to jail

because of his participation, involvement

in what became known as the Watergate Crisis. He went to jail. When he left jail,

he said to the prisoners, you know, one day I will come back to you. And they said, we'll hold you to it.

And in a wonderful little book called Loving God, it opens up with an Easter Sunday when Colson

fulfilling his promise to return to the prisoners that he had left behind, finds himself seated on the

platform and about to address them. And then this is what he writes. As I sat on the platform,

waiting my turn at the pulpit, my mind began to drift back in time, to scholarships

and honors earned. Cases argued and won. Great decisions made from lofty government officers. My life had been the perfect

success story, the great American dream fulfilled. But all at once, I realized that it was not my

success God had used to enable me to help those in this prison, or in hundreds of others

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