God Uses Imperfect People
God uses imperfect people.
God can and often does use imperfect people to accomplish his purposes.
Look at the lineage of Jesus in Matthew 1:3[->0]. “Judah the father of Perez and Zerah, whose mother was Tamar.” Read Genesis 38[->1] about how Judah fathered Perez with his daughter-in-law Tamar. She dressed up as a prostitute to get pregnant when Judah had money to spend after selling the wool from his sheep. David committed adultery with Bathsheba. (II Samuel chapter 11[->2]) David had her husband Euriah put in the front lines of battle to make sure he got killed to cover his sin. Yet God chose to have Jesus come from the “house of David.” Note that in Matthew 1:6 [->3]“David was the father of Solomon, whose mother had been Uriah's wife.” While the child David fathered while Uriah was alive died, the sinners David and Bathsheba are still in the lineage of Christ through their son Solomon!
There are other well-known examples.
Before becoming a great Christian evangelist spreading the word of Christ, the apostle Paul was called Saul and he traveled around trying to destroy Christianity (Acts 8[->4]).
Abrahm lied telling one king that his beautiful wife Sarai was his sister, because he didn’t trust God to protect him. He was afraid they would kill him to take Sarai for themselves. (Genesis 12:10-20[->5]) Later Abrahm was Abraham and he told yet another king the same lie about his wife Sarah, again not trusting God to protect him. (Genesis 20[->6]) He told the same lie twice and both time failed to trust in God’s protection!
Peter was able to walk on water until he took his eyes off Jesus and looked at the wind and waves instead. (Matthew 14:25-31[->7]) Peter also denied Christ three times.
Moses killed a man and you know how God used him. I hope you will let God use you too!
Oh boy, here we go again! In Exodus 32:26-28 we see that the Levites take the sword again to kill 3000 of the Israelites as Moses commanded them. This time, they were avenging the wrong
God can and often does use imperfect people to accomplish his purposes.
Look at the lineage of Jesus in Matthew 1:3[->0]. “Judah the father of Perez and Zerah, whose mother was Tamar.” Read Genesis 38[->1] about how Judah fathered Perez with his daughter-in-law Tamar. She dressed up as a prostitute to get pregnant when Judah had money to spend after selling the wool from his sheep. David committed adultery with Bathsheba. (II Samuel chapter 11[->2]) David had her husband Euriah put in the front lines of battle to make sure he got killed to cover his sin. Yet God chose to have Jesus come from the “house of David.” Note that in Matthew 1:6 [->3]“David was the father of Solomon, whose mother had been Uriah's wife.” While the child David fathered while Uriah was alive died, the sinners David and Bathsheba are still in the lineage of Christ through their son Solomon!
There are other well-known examples.
Before becoming a great Christian evangelist spreading the word of Christ, the apostle Paul was called Saul and he traveled around trying to destroy Christianity (Acts 8[->4]).
Abrahm lied telling one king that his beautiful wife Sarai was his sister, because he didn’t trust God to protect him. He was afraid they would kill him to take Sarai for themselves. (Genesis 12:10-20[->5]) Later Abrahm was Abraham and he told yet another king the same lie about his wife Sarah, again not trusting God to protect him. (Genesis 20[->6]) He told the same lie twice and both time failed to trust in God’s protection!
Peter was able to walk on water until he took his eyes off Jesus and looked at the wind and waves instead. (Matthew 14:25-31[->7]) Peter also denied Christ three times.
Moses killed a man and you know how God used him. I hope you will let God use you too!
Oh boy, here we go again! In Exodus 32:26-28 we see that the Levites take the sword again to kill 3000 of the Israelites as Moses commanded them. This time, they were avenging the wrong