Andrew Fountain - God Uses Messed-up People
- Artist: Andrew Fountain
- Title: God Uses Messed-up People
- Album: Newlife Church, Toronto
- Year: 2019-03-31
- Length: 37:21 minutes (15.01 MB)
- Format: MP3 Stereo 44kHz 56Kbps (VBR)
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God Uses Messed-Up People This is one of the oddest stories in Genesis, but it has a powerful and encouraging message for us.
Sermon Outline - God Uses Messed-up People
Genesis 20
”Genesis 20”
- Abraham journeyed from there to the Negev region and settled between Kadesh and Shur.
While he lived as a temporary resident in Gerar, 2Abraham said about his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.”
So Abi-melech, king of Gerar, sent for Sarah and took her. - But God appeared to Abi-melech in a dream at night and said to him, “You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken, for she is someone else’s wife.”
- Now Abi-melech had not gone near her. He said, “Lord, would you really slaughter an innocent nation?
- Did Abraham not say to me, ‘She is my sister’? And she herself said, ‘He is my brother.’ I have done this with a clear conscience and with innocent hands!”
- Then in the dream God replied to him, “Yes, I know that you have done this with a clear conscience. That is why I have kept you from sinning against me and why I did not allow you to touch her.
- But now give back the man’s wife. Indeed he is a prophet and he will pray for you; thus you will live. But if you don’t give her back, know that you will surely die along with all who belong to you.”
- Early in the morning Abi-melech summoned all his servants. When he told them about all these things, they were terrified.
- Abi-melech summoned Abraham and said to him,
“What have you done to us?
What sin did I commit against you that would cause you to bring such great guilt on me and my kingdom?
You have done things to me that should not be done!” - Then Abi-melech asked Abraham, “What prompted you to do this thing?”
- Abraham replied, “Because I thought, ‘Surely no one fears God in this place. They will kill me because of my wife.’
- What’s more, she is indeed my sister, my father’s daughter, but not my mother’s daughter. She became my wife.
- When God made me wander from my father’s house, I told her,
‘This is what you can do to show your loyalty to me: Every place we go, say about me, “He is my brother.”’” - So Abi-melech gave sheep, cattle, and male and female servants to Abraham. He also gave his wife Sarah back to him.
- Then Abi-melech said, “Look, my land is before you; live wherever you please.”
- To Sarah he said, “Look, I have given a thousand pieces of silver to your ‘brother.’ This is compensation for you so that you will stand vindicated before all who are with you.”
- Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abi-melech, as well as his wife and female servants so that they were able to have children.
- For the LORD had caused infertility to strike every woman in the household of Abi-melech because he took Sarah, Abraham’s wife.
based on NET Bible
- What on earth are we supposed to learn from it?
Updated on 2019-03-31 by Andrew Fountain
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