Plainness and honesty and intelligence are why I love to listen to Begg.

I am so so blessed that God let me to listen to your program on the radio while I was driving to work. I wish we have had more of you pastor. I cannot thank God enough for having you. You are a gift and please continue the good work and let us grow all together. I have seen many churches and many preachers, but I also have seen not all are preaching the truth. Our society needs to have more of you and I pray God gives us more. God bless you and your ministry. Father please bless more and more my dear brother and his family and his church and protect him and give him more and more your guidance, in the name of Jesus...Amen

The love of Christ in its sweetness, its fullness, its greatness, its faithfulness passes all human comprehension

"God in Jesus breaks the dominion of sin in our lives."

i HATE THIS WORLD that we are living in but love you people

It is nice to hear a pastor speak the truth. The apostasy is alive and well and preaching in many churches. I notice only 9,561 subscribe to Alistair here on KZfaq, the path is very narrow. Many subscribe to the apostasy....enjoy the wide open path. Truth is, its actually very narrow.

I appreciate these messages! Praise God for ministers who speak the truth and challenge my heart.

I am so thankful for this brother. The Spirit uses him.

Thank you Pastor Begg for your service. I am guilty for not taking responsibility and not being honest with myself during my spiritual walk. I did not take worldly distractions very seriously and now you are teaching me to not only learn about the truth but also be mindful to temptation and spiritual wars with the world, flesh and the Devil. Thank you Jehovah God for your Grace

a blessing thank you

Excellent message and challenge to avoid sinful worldly temptations and to live a life pleasing to God!

Sow a thought reap an action, so an action reap a Habit, so a habit reap a character, so a character reap a destiny

Going through all of Begg’s sermons on the book of James. Great stuff in the book, and great expounding on the book by Begg. Learning a lot.

This is the 'Truth'.... I don't want to be a slave... My conscience convicts me... Don't allow your conscience to be seared, don't allow it

Fantastic message!

Excellent Sermon, I love this brother he's spot on!

very encouraging.

Beautiful- l love the truth for Life

Tempted I have been.I shall not give in with the Lord's help.

fantastic all praise and glory to holy God !!

Below are notes I made of Alistair's key points, with my edits and a few additions, all of which are, I hope, wholly within the framework of the message. Long ago I had the privilege of meeting Alistair at a breakfast buffet before he spoke at a Ligonier Conference. He is just the same delightful, joyous person away from the pulpit, and wise. So all of the below is respectful of his teaching here. Sow Reap Thought An Action An Action Habit Habit Character Character Destiny Sinclair Ferguson’s 6 Step Descent: #1-3 re “Thought” then #4 is re “Action,” etc. Attraction Deception Preoccupation Conception Subjection (enslavement) Desperation (the Satan says: “might as well give in and give up”) Satan's message is always: “There are so many wonderful experiences that God does not want us to enjoy.” This was his appeal in the Garden: that there was something better for them to enjoy than God had given what God does not want you to know about. "There is a way that seems right to man, but it is a road to death." (Prov. 14:12) Satan makes it appear that, instead, there is an another road, an exciting & better one, that leads to our near & ultimate satisfaction. As for God, His Way is perfect. James 1:16 is the fulcrum, the danger point “Do not be deceived [Gr. planaoo*] dear brothers” *[planaoo is related to “plain,” as a expanded place into which one could roam, as opposed to staying on “the road;” commonly translated “wander.”] But, even at "Desperation," there is a way back: Calvary’s Cross is where it begins. The antidote to the lies of Satan: James 1:17, 18 17: we are to enjoy a deep seated conviction of the absolute unchanging goodness of God even (especially) at the Communion Table-that shows us the infinite and unchanging Goodness. He freely gave us Christ, how will He not also freely give us all things? I need to seek out such Goodness to bring it to front of my mind. To marvel again at His Goodness to us. 18: every good and perfect gift is from God He chose us, unprompted by anything in us, not because of our ‘goodness’ (or even because of our ‘badness'). Hearing comes from the Bible, and God enables the bringing to completion of the work He has begun, as a kind of first fruits of the harvest, which we are, as in the OT, to be set aside entirely for God. Thus, this Work is that we might be utterly holy, under God’s Sovereign control over our thoughts and purposes. In Jesus we are delivered from the reign and dominion of sin: “Be of sin the double cure, Save me from its guilt and power.” (Augustus Toplady’s eighteenth-century hymn “Rock of Ages) Cleansed both from the penalty AND power of sin. Westminster Confession: We are in a continual and umreconciliable war. Sin does not reign, but it remains. Not one of us is immune. “The seed of every sin known to man is in my heart.” ― Robert Murray McCheyne We cannot live in perfection, but we can live in increasing victory, otherwise the message of the Gospel is a farce and the power of the HS is a ridiculous notion. 1 Cor 11:10 all these were written as examples 12: if you think you’re standing firm, careful that you don’t fall. 13: no temptation has seized you except is common to man and God is faithful that you will not be tempted beyond what you can bear, and will provide a way out This is a promise from God. {So, we can never say, when we sin, that we did not have an alternative, a way out}. Deal with sin immediately, ruthlessly, consistently (not just the pride of a little solitary victory). It’s gotta be “no!” every time. The phrase we never want to say: “I don’t know I could have done that but…” …But we do know how… But God’s welcome is when we come in penitence to Him. Our Christian experience is life of new beginnings and fresh starts. _______________________________ McCheyne (d. 1843) He lived in constant awareness of the "abyss of corruption" in his heart led him into continual dependence on Christ. "Our wicked heart taints all we say and do ; hence the need of continual atonement in the blood of Jesus. We must have daily, hourly pardons." “What a man is on his knees before God, that he is, and nothing more.” “Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little In comparison to eternal realities.” “If nothing else will do to sever me from my sins, Lord, send me such sore and trying calamities as shall awake me from earthly slumbers. It must always be best to be alive to Thee, whatever be the quickening instrument.” “[Suffering] brings out graces that cannot be seen in a time of health. It is the treading of the grapes that brings out the sweet juices of the vine; so it is affliction that draws forth submission, weanedness from the world, and complete rest in God. Use afflictions while you have them.” “You will never find Jesus so precious, as when the world is one vast howling wilderness.” “Ah! believers, you are a tempted people. You are always poor and needy. And God intends it should be so, to give you constant errands to go to Jesus. Some may say, it is not good to be a believer; but ah! see to whom we can go."

Amen and Amen best regards from Anita from Norway.

The thumbnail made me think he was playing the drums without sticks

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Temptation is no bueno

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was there, at that time when James wrote his letter to that church (presumably the one in Jerusalem), a paradigm amongst the Jews that it was "ultimately" God who was behind the tempting?

So who got to eat the first fruits, @13:15

12:14 "...Beef 🐄 Turkey 🦃 " #BeefJerky? 😎 Love it!

Sow Reap Thought An Action An Action Habit Habit Character Character Destiny

"And desire is an expression from within. The very word itself 'desire' or the word De-Sire comes from the Latin meaning "of theFather," to mean that it is of Spirit/God/Source that our desire springs forth from and in that there is a sacred aspect to our desires

What does the bible say regarding the origin of the original desire to sin in man's heart? If God created all...everything...nothing before...who created the desire to sin?

"God is not in the business of tempting his children"....if you read Job...he certainly used Satan as an agent to do exactly that Brother.