“I Am Praying for Them” (Part 2 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Scripture is clear that God doesn’t assemble an A-team—a group of the brightest and the best that He uses to do the “really important work.” Listen to Truth For Life as Alistair Begg explains why we don’t have to be perfect to serve and glorify God.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm |
| 0:02.0 | . The Bible makes it clear that when God calls us to do his work, he's not assembling an A-team, looking for the best and the brightest to do the really important work. |
| 0:36.6 | Today on Truth for Life, |
| 0:37.9 | Alastair Begg explains why we don't have to be perfect to serve or glorify God. Let's turn in |
| 0:44.0 | our Bibles to John Chapter 17. |
| 0:51.9 | The testimony of a disciple of Jesus is not, I've decided to turn over a new leaf and |
| 0:57.1 | clean up my act. |
| 0:58.2 | I've decided to get involved in church. |
| 1:00.9 | I want to get involved in a community. |
| 1:03.0 | The issue on all these things is all about community, as if community is the answer. |
| 1:08.7 | It's what kind of community that you're in is the question, |
| 1:11.7 | because we want to abide in the Word of God. Who else would you go to, he says? Who else |
| 1:17.0 | they say to him? There's nobody else we could go to, because this is what has happened to us. |
| 1:24.1 | The certainty that they express, that the disciples express, is no mere emotional fancy. |
| 1:33.1 | The Bible is clear. Jesus told the story. The Word of God is sown, and the response |
| 1:38.0 | to the Word of God is various. In some cases, it is instant bloom, followed by instant |
| 1:43.7 | fade. |
| 1:44.8 | Then others, when they hear the Word of God, they can't wait to get out at final hymn, |
| 1:50.6 | because there is a scratching at their ears, and they fear it might be God himself, calling |
| 1:54.9 | them to himself, and the devil says, get out while you can, get out fast. |
| 2:00.0 | Those are those amongst the stones, where the seed fell. |
| 2:04.6 | It had a little bit of a movement, but it was gone. And then the others, who along the journey of life, choked, |
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