Inadequacy: The Surprising Secret to Being Useful to God (Part 1 of 2)

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Alistair Begg

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🗓️ 21 August 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Do you ever wonder if you’re “useful” to God? Listen as Alistair Begg talks to college students about what he describes as “the surprising secret to being useful to God.” It’s another listener-favorite message from Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.

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0:00.0	Is it possible for us to live our lives in a way that is
0:29.7	useful to God? Do we do it by tapping into our strengths or leveraging our
0:34.7	experiences? Today on Truth for Life, Alistair beg explains what he describes
0:40.1	as the surprising secret to being useful to God. This is another Lister favorite
0:47.4	from our encore 2023 series. Alistair is teaching from 2 Corinthians chapter 2
0:53.0	beginning at verse 12.
1:00.6	Now when I went to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ and found that the Lord had
1:06.8	opened a door for me, I still had no peace of mind because I did not find my
1:11.4	brother tight as there. So I said goodbye to them and went on to Macedonia. But
1:17.4	thanks be to God who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ and
1:21.5	through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of Him. For we are
1:26.7	to God the aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are
1:31.4	perishing. To the one we are the smell of death, to the other the fragrance of
1:37.2	life. And who is equal to such a task? Unlike so many we do not pedal the word of
1:44.4	God for profit. On the contrary in Christ we speak before God with sincerity like
1:50.2	men sent from God. Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need
1:56.0	like some people letters of recommendation to you or from you? You yourselves are
2:02.4	our letter written on our hearts known and read by everybody. You show that you
2:08.6	are a letter from Christ the result of our ministry written not with ink but with
2:14.1	the spirit of the living God not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human
2:18.9	hearts. Such confidence as this is ours through Christ before God. Not that we
2:27.0	are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves but our
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