Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 85 ｜ You're Not Enough

00:00:00.000 Hello, relatable listeners. Happy Wednesday. I hope you guys are having a great week. And I hope

00:00:05.800 that this just gives you the motivation that you need to get you through your week. So it's Wednesday.

00:00:10.860 We are going to talk theology. I hate that it's not theological Thursdays because that sounded so

00:00:16.180 good. But you can think about this as like a midweek motivation. I don't really know if that's

00:00:23.320 what I want to say. But like Wednesday, you know, if you grew up Baptist like me, you went to church

00:00:28.140 on Wednesdays and Sunday nights. And so you could think of this kind of as church, but of course,

00:00:32.340 not as church because I'm a woman. So I wouldn't be preaching in front of the mixed congregation. 1.00

00:00:36.260 You know what I'm saying? But Wednesday is just going to have to be theological Wednesdays, 0.67

00:00:41.180 even though it doesn't sound nearly as catchy as theological Thursdays. So today on this

00:00:46.680 theological Wednesday, we are going to talk about a video that Hillsong put up with Haley Bieber in it.

00:00:53.460 Now, this is the second time that we have used something by Haley Bieber as the foundation or

00:00:58.700 the impetus for a conversation about theology, really about wrong theology. I don't want it to

00:01:04.620 seem like I am singling her out at all. I think that she is beautiful. She is talented and she

00:01:10.480 might just be kind of navigating what it means to be a Christian in the public eye. Maybe she's 0.66

00:01:14.720 working through some of her theology and she is being sanctified in that. I think that's great.

00:01:19.200 I don't want it to seem like I'm bullying her or that I'm singling her out and harassing her bad

00:01:24.060 theology. I am not. I imagine that it would be really hard to be sanctified and coming to terms

00:01:31.040 with what it means to have your identity be in Christ in such a public sphere, because then people

00:01:35.640 like Hillsong interview you as if you're some theological expert. And then all of your views

00:01:40.920 are out there when really maybe you're still trying to figure it out. Maybe you are still working

00:01:45.380 through your salvation with fear and trembling, which is something that we are all called to do.

00:01:48.620 Unfortunately, what we have seen and this is only a tiny, tiny snippet from a longer interview that

00:01:55.720 I didn't fully watch because I had to give my personal information in order to watch it and I

00:02:01.000 didn't want to do that. So I just watched the snippet and we're just going to talk about the idea

00:02:05.080 behind this snippet and we're going to use that as a jumping off point. This really doesn't have

00:02:10.080 very much to do with her at all. We're not even going to get into Hillsong, which has its own set of

00:02:15.840 problems. It's just the idea that she said. A lot of you guys sent me this video. We're going to use

00:02:20.760 the idea that she talked about as our jumping off point. So let me play you that really short clip

00:02:26.740 really fast. I think that every person have had that feeling that they're not enough for

00:02:34.140 something, for someone. And I questioned that myself about being enough for people, for someone, for

00:02:42.820 this industry, for my job, for what I do. It's like you are because God took his time to create me and

00:02:52.920 put me in this place. Right. That's your answer right there. Wow. You're enough because he created

00:02:57.820 you because you are existing and living and breathing on this planet. Okay. So what you heard

00:03:04.020 from her was that you are enough because God created you. And that sounds really good. I mean,

00:03:12.100 a lot of what she is saying, I think relates to people because it's legitimate. Everyone struggles

00:03:16.440 with insecurity. Everyone struggles with feeling insufficient. Everyone struggles with the opinions

00:03:22.380 of other people. And if that does dictate our worth and define how valuable we are. And so what she's

00:03:29.080 saying relates probably to a lot of especially young women, because we kind of deal with all of these

00:03:35.680 standards in our head that we think that we have to reach. And so it sounds very comforting. It's like

00:03:42.060 a bomb for our soul when we hear you are enough because God created you. And as a Christian, you might

00:03:48.220 hear that and think, yes, that's absolutely true. I'm so glad that she gets that, that you are enough

00:03:53.920 because God created you. I'm not going to overanalyze what she meant or what she didn't

00:03:59.160 mean by that. Because like I said, this is a small part of a larger interview, but I'm going to take

00:04:06.580 that one line that a lot of Christians, I think would probably agree with that you are enough because 1.00

00:04:12.400 God created you. And I am going to talk about why that is fundamentally untrue. It sounds really good

00:04:21.680 because we're heard, we're told, uh, other people's opinions. If you don't define your worth, you should

00:04:28.940 be looking at God. You should ask God, how valuable that you, how valuable you are. And it's true that

00:04:35.680 because you are a human being, you are made in the image of God. And because you are made in the image

00:04:42.160 of God, you are more valuable than any other creature on earth because you are the only part of

00:04:48.840 creation. You are the only kind of creation that has a soul. Because you have a soul, you have an

00:04:55.260 eternal destination. And because you have an eternal destination, you have a purpose. And that purpose is

00:05:00.700 found in Christ. So yes, as a human being saved or not, you are valuable and you are worth more than

00:05:09.180 any other creature, any other part of creation that exists in this universe. So it is true that because

00:05:17.520 you are made by God, you are valuable, you are different. You are set apart from the animals,

00:05:24.300 from the plants, from the other parts of creation. But it is not true that because you are a human being

00:05:30.740 made by God, that you are enough. That is not true. Uh, if you are enough because God created you,

00:05:38.660 then there is no need for Jesus. Uh, God made you incomplete. He made you insufficient. He made you

00:05:50.140 to be dependent. If that were not true, if that were not true, if you were enough simply because God

00:05:57.940 made you, then there is no need for Christ. All you would have to do is lead a moral life, find what makes

00:06:04.500 you happy and do that. And unfortunately, that's what a lot of Christians think. That as long as 0.60

00:06:10.380 you can look to God and remember that you are enough, that you are loved and you can feel good

00:06:16.300 about yourself, then you can go on living and it's all good. As if that was the only reason why the

00:06:22.720 Bible was written. As if that's the only reason that God exists for us. That's the only reason why

00:06:27.680 Jesus came to die. So we could feel good about ourselves and remember that because we are made

00:06:32.840 by God, that we are enough. But quite frankly, we are not. Like I said, we were made incomplete.

00:06:39.980 Uh, we see throughout the Bible time and again, when men and women thought that they were sufficient 1.00

00:06:46.920 without God, that when they thought that they were sufficient in and of themselves, when they thought

00:06:52.100 that they were independent, uh, that destruction ensued, uh, when they insisted that they were enough,

00:06:59.540 things did not end well. Think about the garden of Eden. Uh, Eve wandered from God's commands. She

00:07:06.740 lingered too close, uh, to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. She was tempted by Satan to eat

00:07:12.980 the forbidden fruit. And what did the serpent say? If you eat this, you will be like God. You will have

00:07:19.720 his power. You will have his wisdom. You will know the difference between good and evil. Therefore you

00:07:25.760 will be independent. You won't need him anymore. You'll be self-sufficient. You will no longer be

00:07:29.800 reliant. You will no longer be lacking. You will have everything. And then we know what happens after

00:07:35.380 that. Things did not end well, not only for Adam and Eve, but also for humanity. I'm reading through

00:07:40.700 the book of Judges right now, which is a beautiful book that makes so clear, just like many other books in

00:07:48.300 the Bible, if not every book of the Bible, just how, just how needy we are of God, that whenever

00:07:54.320 people turn from God, whenever they disobeyed, whenever they insisted that they were enough,

00:07:58.840 that they knew better, that destruction ensued, that people suffered, that people died. Uh, they

00:08:04.560 learned the hard way that yes, indeed they are made to be dependent on God, that they are not enough.

00:08:10.660 So Haley Bieber is right in that we do all feel that at times we are not enough, but the comfort for

00:08:19.560 that nagging feeling of insufficiency that we all have, that nagging feeling of inadequacy that we all

00:08:26.360 feel is not that yes, you are sufficient, inadequate, and worthy simply because you're a human. If that's,

00:08:33.760 if, if that's true, then we don't need Christ. The truth is, is that I am completely empty. I am

00:08:41.560 completely useless. I am completely inadequate and sinful and depraved and have no capacity for 1.00

00:08:47.220 righteousness, but God, but God being rich in mercy because of the great love with which he loved us

00:08:53.880 made us alive together with Christ by grace. You have been saved. That's Ephesians two. Uh, Jesus died

00:08:59.700 because you and I are not enough. Jesus suffered a gruesome death on the cross and rose again three

00:09:06.200 days later because you and I are not enough. We are wicked sinners in need of a savior. We are not

00:09:12.960 enough. Ephesians two says that we are dead apart from Christ. We talk about that line a lot on this

00:09:19.080 podcast. Dead means dead. You are nothing apart from Christ. Romans five, eight says that while we were

00:09:25.880 yet sinners, Christ died for us. Romans five, 10 says for, if while we were enemies, we were

00:09:31.120 reconciled to God by the death of his son, much more now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved

00:09:37.200 by his life? So that means that before Christ, we were nothing. We were dead. We were enemies of God.

00:09:45.400 No, we were not enough. We were completely insufficient and we were bound for hell. As Psalm 14, two through

00:09:51.380 three says, the Lord looks down from heaven on the children of man to see if there are any who

00:09:56.400 understand any who seek after God, they have all turned aside together. They have become, become

00:10:02.740 corrupt. There is none who does good, not even one. So what makes you and I enough is not simply that

00:10:10.920 we are human, not simply that we are here, not simply that we exist, but it's Jesus, not the fact

00:10:16.620 just that God created us, but Jesus completes us. Jesus makes us whole. Jesus makes us worthy.

00:10:23.400 Jesus gives us our identity. Jesus gives us salvation. He gives us righteousness. He makes

00:10:28.520 you and I enough. So with a non-Christian, if a young non-Christian woman is, is struggling with 0.57

00:10:35.860 insecurity, she's struggling with inadequacy. It does no good for me to say, you are enough.

00:10:44.000 You're enough. You're enough. As you are, you don't need to worry about anything. You're fine. As is

00:10:48.860 you're enough. Just because God made you know that, that, that leaves out the best part that leaves out

00:10:56.080 the hope of the gospel. Yes, you are made in God's image, but that means, as you've said, we have a soul

00:11:02.620 that soul is eternal. It has an eternal destination, which means you've got an eternal purpose. Uh, that

00:11:09.620 purpose, your eternal salvation is found in Jesus. You want security that lasts. You want stability that

00:11:15.940 lasts. Look to Jesus. So the line that you are enough because God made you is almost this very

00:11:24.960 subtle, this very indiscernible, almost symptom of this me first Christianity of the self love

00:11:31.580 Christianity. If you are enough because God made you and that's it, then you have no need for real 0.98

00:11:39.860 biblical Christianity outside of just what it does to make you feel good about yourself. Jesus becomes, 0.70

00:11:47.060 as we've talked about this gal pal, who was just here to remind you that you're fine, that everything

00:11:52.500 you want to do is good, that whatever happiness you want to pursue is, is okay by him. He's just here to

00:11:58.960 tell you that you're good enough, but that's not who Jesus is. That's not what the Bible says.

00:12:04.140 Nowhere in the Bible does God tell someone that you are enough. In fact, we see God a lot saying,

00:12:09.840 you can do nothing without me. You're not good enough without me. You don't even know how to be

00:12:14.540 holy. You don't even know how to seek me. That's, that's not even your choice. You can't even think

00:12:20.200 about doing something truly good without me because all of you are corrupt to your core. The Bible does not 0.90

00:12:26.940 describe Jesus as a gal pal who is here to tell you that you are enough to make you feel good about 0.89

00:12:33.500 yourself and to condone whatever pursuits you have. Jesus is Lord of your life. He's not here to coddle

00:12:40.120 you. He's not here to make you feel pretty. He is here to completely wreck shop, to completely tear it

00:12:47.920 all down. He opens up your heart. He looks around and he says, this is mine. All of it. There is not a

00:12:54.840 single part of this life that I am not going to claim as my own. As C.S. Lewis says, Jesus does not

00:13:02.180 come into your life to torment the natural self, but to kill it. Colossians 3, 3 through 5, your old 0.88

00:13:08.460 self has died and your new life is kept with Christ in God. Jesus comes in and says that nothing in your

00:13:15.240 life is going to come untouched. No, nothing in your life is going to go unexposed. No sin is not going to

00:13:22.920 be made light. No darkness is not going to have light shed upon it. You can't hide. You cannot fake

00:13:27.740 it. You can't pretend. I am laying claim on everything. Jesus says, he says, you're mine now.

00:13:33.100 And it's time to get to the hard work of sanctification. Oh, you thought that I was just

00:13:37.280 going to come in and save you. You thought that I was just fire insurance. You thought that this was

00:13:40.780 only about salvation. Just sit back and get ready because we have a lot of work to do. And he also says,

00:13:46.880 this is going to hurt. He says, I'm going to ask you to do things that you didn't think were possible.

00:13:51.680 You're going to go through things that you think are unbearable. I'm going to ask you to give things

00:13:55.680 up that you thought that you could never give up. I'm going to ask you to talk about that sin that

00:13:59.620 you never thought was going to be out there. I'm going to tell you that you need to share that

00:14:03.620 struggle, even though it's embarrassing for you, even though it's shameful for you. And he says that

00:14:08.820 no one said that dying to yourself was going to be easy. No one said that self-crucifixion was going to

00:14:13.860 feel good. But the Jesus of the Bible, aka the only Jesus that exists, does not promise us comfort.

00:14:21.680 He does not promise us ease. He does not promise us that we are going to always feel good about

00:14:27.480 ourselves. He's not going to promise us that we are going to feel enough just because we were made

00:14:32.140 by God. What he promises us without fail is himself. He says that when I save you, that when I sanctify

00:14:40.380 you, when I lead you through this life, that is at times going to be filled with suffering,

00:14:45.440 that is at times going to be filled with sacrifice and even anguish, the one thing, the only thing

00:14:52.880 you, Allie, you, whoever is listening to this can count on is that I will not leave you. That's what

00:15:01.220 Jesus promises us. When I told you that you are mine, I meant it. I made you mine when you didn't

00:15:07.540 want to be mine. I made you mine when you didn't deserve it. You think that I'm going to give up on you

00:15:12.400 now? Jesus says to us, he promises us himself. He says, I am sufficient. You're not, but I am.

00:15:20.220 I'm your security. You might be insecure, but I'm your security. I am your shepherd. I left the flock

00:15:26.560 to go after the one lost sheep. I left the 99 to come after the one. He says, remember the father

00:15:32.040 and the story of the prodigal son. He says, that is me. When you squandered everything, when you

00:15:38.160 dishonored me, when you were at your, your lowest, your darkest points, I saw you at a far off distance

00:15:44.160 and I ran to you. I didn't turn my back on you. I didn't chastise you. I ran to you. And Jesus says,

00:15:50.400 I didn't, I didn't run because you were lovable. I ran to you because I am love. The gospel of

00:15:57.140 self-sufficiency misses this. It misses the best part of the whole glorious exchange of the gospel

00:16:05.160 that without Jesus, we're nothing, that the beauty and the miraculousness of the gospel is just how

00:16:10.600 wretched we are apart from God, how incomplete we are apart from God, who being rich in mercy decided

00:16:16.620 to save us anyway through Christ. And that Christ has given us his righteousness. He's imputed his

00:16:23.160 righteousness that against all odds, against all probabilities, all, uh, all of anything that we can

00:16:30.660 understand. He made us holy, that he has wiped our slate clean. That means that we had a slate

00:16:36.120 that needed to be wiped clean. Uh, I don't believe, I just don't believe that it is possible

00:16:44.200 to understand the gravity of the gospel without understanding just how depraved all of us are

00:16:53.180 apart from Christ. We've talked before. I think a lot of, a lot of times we think of the really bad

00:17:00.140 people as enemies of God, as dead in their sin, you know, the Hitlers of the world, they're really 0.95

00:17:06.900 bad. They are the enemies of God. And then you've got the kind of moral people in the middle who, 0.98

00:17:11.880 they're not enemies of God. They're not dead in sin. They're, they're living a good life. Sure.

00:17:15.600 They're, they don't believe that Jesus is the only way, the only truth, the only life, but

00:17:19.100 they're fine. And then we've got, you know, the really good Christians that know God really well,

00:17:24.240 but we kind of got this scale of evil to good and enemies of God. Really? Are you going to call

00:17:30.340 some good charitable people enemies of God? And the Bible says, yes. The Bible says that not one

00:17:35.320 of you is righteous without me, that you can't even think a righteous thought without me. Not

00:17:39.900 really, maybe by worldly standards, but not by mine. I think we've completely lost sight of the

00:17:45.920 absolute holiness of God. Like we don't understand what perfection is. We kind of measure him by our

00:17:52.520 standards of good. And so we assume that he measures us by our standards of good as well.

00:17:57.640 And he doesn't, he measures us by his standards of good. And because we couldn't reach that,

00:18:02.460 he sent us Christ, the only one who has been able to reach that standard. I think we've completely

00:18:08.260 lost sight of God's holiness. And because of that, we are unable to see our own unholiness.

00:18:16.820 And therefore we don't understand any justification for his wrath. And so we paint God as this live and

00:18:25.340 let live moral relativistic guy who just wants you to be happy and just wants to make sure that you

00:18:31.660 feel beautiful and that you remember that you're actually really good at your job, that you're

00:18:36.020 actually a really good mom. And that, you know, you're not so bad when you look into the mirror and

00:18:41.820 that it's okay that you've gained a few pounds, not to say that God doesn't have something to say

00:18:46.400 about those things, but we pretend like that's why he exists, that he is the engine for our self-love,

00:18:53.140 that he is the justification for our self-care, not a wrathful, holy God who has every reason,

00:18:58.880 every reason to be done with us, to cut us off forever and to let us spend eternity in the 0.96

00:19:04.620 damnation that all of us deserve. We've completely forgotten about that. And we think that he's just one

00:19:09.580 of us, that he's the power behind all of the selfish pursuits that we want. And that's not who he is.

00:19:15.160 Jesus says that, uh, when I come into your life, everything is mine. Everything. There's not one

00:19:22.560 thing that I am going to let go untouched. Not one part of your heart that I'm not going to explore.

00:19:28.720 Not one part of you that I'm not going to expose and you're not going to be able to fake it anymore.

00:19:34.040 And the thing is, is that insecurity is real. Inadequacy is real. Looking in the mirror and

00:19:41.880 feeling ugly, feeling bad about yourself is real. I have gained weight while I have been pregnant.

00:19:49.180 I don't look the same as I did before. And I look at old pictures of myself. I'm like, wow,

00:19:54.040 I really took for granted how skinny I was back then. I look really, I do not look like I've ever

00:20:00.600 looked before. And part of it is pregnancy. Part of it, let's be honest, is the waffle fries that I

00:20:04.780 eat every day. There is certainly insecurity that I have about my body. There's certainly insecurity

00:20:09.320 that I have when I step on the scale, when I put on certain clothes that should fit, even though I'm

00:20:14.420 pregnant, when I look at myself in pictures, whether it's on TV, whether it's speaking, I certainly have

00:20:19.800 insecurity. I do. But the bomb for my insecurity, the answer to my insecurity is not just that I'm

00:20:27.640 enough. It's that I have an eternal purpose that is so much bigger than this body that I have.

00:20:34.040 And yes, of course, discipline is important and managing your behavior in a healthy way and being

00:20:38.140 a good steward of your body is important. But when insecurity comes because it's inevitable for all of

00:20:43.640 us, the answer to that is that you have an eternal purpose and an eternal identity in Christ who is

00:20:50.420 enough on our behalf when we are not. It's not really that we're beautiful just because God made us

00:20:56.800 beautiful. That is a wonderful thing to think or that's a wonderful thing to know that yes, God did

00:21:02.700 form us all in our mother's womb. We are wonderfully made. Of course, we are supposed to take comfort in

00:21:08.820 that. But the belief that we are sufficient apart from our salvation in Christ is simply wrong. And it

00:21:15.340 only comforts us for so long when we forget about that. Because the truth is, the truth is that the hope

00:21:23.140 and the help for all of our very real insecurities is, is that Jesus is enough, that he has a purpose

00:21:29.860 for you that transcends the image that you see in the mirror, that is bigger than the number on the

00:21:34.460 scale, that is more important than your nine to five job. He's bigger than what you're going through.

00:21:40.320 A lot of times we think that our tragedies define us, that our struggles define us, but he's bigger than

00:21:45.540 that. He's bigger than your miscarriage. He's bigger than your broken marriage. He's bigger than your

00:21:49.960 bankruptcy. He's bigger than your breakup. He's bigger than your failing grades. He's bigger than

00:21:54.200 the death of your mom. He's bigger than your diagnosis. The answer to all of these very real,

00:22:00.560 very hard things is not you and your sufficiency. It is God's. And there's freedom in that.

00:22:09.560 A lot of people say, I've gotten this recently. Oh, you're being pharisaical. You're being legalistic.

00:22:15.640 Just let people find their way to God as if the truth of the gospel somehow can be subjectively

00:22:25.580 applied to people based on how they feel. And this comes from not a place of nitpicking,

00:22:32.420 not a place of criticism, not a place of wanting to put anyone down or to say that anyone's wrong and

00:22:37.880 I'm right, but a place of not wanting people to miss out on what the Bible tells us the gospel is,

00:22:45.500 which is this beautiful freeing reality in which we recognize our inadequacy. And instead of convincing

00:22:53.300 ourselves that we're enough, we depend on and count on Jesus's adequacy. And I don't want people to miss

00:23:02.320 out on the freedom of self-forgetfulness, the freedom that comes along with realizing how

00:23:08.280 depraved you are, how unholy you are, how unable you are to muster any strength, any goodness, any

00:23:15.420 true morality whatsoever, how unable you are to save yourself, to sanctify yourself and rely fully on 0.58

00:23:22.900 Christ and allow him to do the work that he wants to do in your life. I don't want people to miss out

00:23:28.160 on that. That is the beauty of Christ. A lot of people are going to call you a Pharisee for caring

00:23:35.200 about good theology. A lot of people are going to call you legalistic for saying, okay, the self-love

00:23:41.720 stuff isn't cutting it. Okay, here's what the Bible says about this thing. I know you want to feel that

00:23:47.760 way, XYZ person, but here's what the Bible says. Of course, there's a way to do it with grace and with 0.80

00:23:53.280 truth and with love, of course. But being silent about these things isn't an option. People call

00:24:00.840 you a Pharisee because they don't want to hear what you have to say, because they don't want to hear 0.86

00:24:04.400 what the Bible has to say, as if believing in the Bible and speaking biblical truth is somehow

00:24:10.280 Pharisaical. The problem with the Pharisees is that they didn't have any faith in their hearts.

00:24:15.140 They were whitewashed tombs. They looked good on the outside. They didn't have anything on the inside.

00:24:19.000 Of course, if that's any of us, we need to examine that and we need to repent from that

00:24:23.020 and we need to ask God to save our wretched souls, of course. But if you have a conviction of what the

00:24:28.740 Bible says and you want to speak biblical truth and you care about good theology, do not let anyone 1.00

00:24:33.640 bully you into being silent by calling you a Pharisee. They don't want to hear it. Of course not,

00:24:39.520 because it is so much more comforting and it is so much easier. It is so much more culturally

00:24:44.900 convenient to say, God is fine with however you are. He just wants you to remember that you're

00:24:51.080 enough. That is so insanely unbiblical. It is so untrue. It is so counter to the gospel and the people

00:24:59.100 who believe that are missing out. They are missing out on the truth that Jesus offers us. But in today's

00:25:06.660 day and age, when we are placed in the center of our own universes, when we are told that we are the

00:25:11.300 only prism through which any kind of truth should travel and we decide how we want to apply it to

00:25:16.560 our own personal lives and however other people want to decide it is fine too, it's very hard to

00:25:21.880 push back against that and say, no, there's actually an absolute truth. And the absolute truth isn't

00:25:26.380 found in me. It's not found in you. It is found in God's word. The only tool that we are given for

00:25:33.500 knowing any kind of objective truth. And of course, we look at the natural world for scientific truth,

00:25:39.000 but nothing is ever going to contradict God's word. You also hear a lot of people saying, well,

00:25:44.560 the justification for my theology is the Holy Spirit. Well, the Holy Spirit is never going to

00:25:51.320 go against what God's word says. The Holy Spirit is God. So it's not going to change based on culture.

00:25:57.440 I remember in college having conversations both where I said this and where other people said this, 0.98

00:26:02.480 I feel okay with doing what I'm doing right now, whether it was like a stupid relationship, 0.99

00:26:07.120 hooking up with a guy, drinking too much, whatever it was. I feel okay about doing this because I 0.99

00:26:11.120 don't feel any conviction. And I think that if this was wrong, God would probably convict me that this

00:26:16.540 was wrong. Not so much, not so much. It's very easy to get hard into our own sin and hard into our own

00:26:23.740 bad theology by, by kind of putting the blame on God and saying, we've got no responsibility for our

00:26:29.360 actions. And of course you get numb to the, to the bad things that you believe in the bad things that

00:26:33.860 you do, the longer that you do them. Uh, the Holy Spirit is never going to contradict the Bible.

00:26:40.400 It is always going to be a messenger and a convictor, uh, of, uh, not of God's word, but, uh,

00:26:47.560 it's going to use God's word to, to convict us and to tell us what is true and to remind us of the

00:26:54.480 truth and the power of the gospel. So again, the comfort for all of the things that you are going

00:27:00.660 through for the struggles that you have is not that you are enough. It's not that you're enough

00:27:05.820 because God made you. It's because it's that you are inadequate. You are insufficient. You are not

00:27:11.560 enough. And yet Jesus is. So that's the message that I have for you today. I hope that you guys

00:27:17.880 enjoyed it. I hope that you have a wonderful Wednesday, a wonderful rest of your week.

00:27:23.660 Please give me any feedback that you would like. Please feel free to write me a review. Um, and if

00:27:31.180 you have any questions, if you have any questions, since I'm probably going to be answering questions

00:27:36.460 this Friday or next Friday, please feel free to email me, Allie at the conservative millennial blog.com.

00:27:41.720 You can message me on Instagram. I love that. I just can't get to all of the messages. So it's a

00:27:46.420 little bit difficult sometimes. Um, so email me, Allie at the conservative millennial blog.com. And I

00:27:51.340 will try my best to answer them. If you keep them like just a few sentences, then that helps me. It

00:27:57.580 helps me understand what is being asked and what is being said. And if you have, um, any criticism

00:28:03.860 or anything like that, obviously feel free to reach out to me about that as well. And we will be having

00:28:10.500 a fun conversation on Friday. And I hope you guys are looking forward to that. And thank you so much

00:28:16.460 for listening. I will see you in a couple of days.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - March 13, 2019

Ep 85 ｜ You're Not Enough

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