It's ok not to be ok

1 Corinthians 1:26-2926 Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. 27 But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. 28 God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are

not—to nullify the things that are, 29 so that no one may boast before him. 

PROPOSITION: WHAT QUALIFIES US WHEN GOD CALLED US?

DAVID: THE LEAST TO BE KING

“Don’t judge by his appearance or height, for I have rejected him. The Lord doesn’t see things the way you see them. People judge by outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”

– 1 Samuel 16:8 NLT 

GIDEON: THE RELUCTANT WARRIOR

JUDGES 6-8

12 The angel of the LORD appeared to him and said to him, “The LORD is with you, O valiant warrior.” 13 Then Gideon said to him, “O my lord, if the LORD is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all His miracles which our fathers told us about, saying, ‘Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the LORD has abandoned us and given us into the hand of Midian.”

14 The LORD [g]looked at him and said, “Go in this your strength and deliver Israel from the hand of Midian. Have I not sent you?” 15 He said to Him, “O Lord, [h]how shall I deliver Israel? Behold, my family is the least in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my father’s house.” 16 But the LORD said to him, “Surely I will be with you, and you shall [i]defeat Midian as one man.”

RAHAB: THE HOOKER WITH THE HEART FOR GOD

RAHAB… THE TYPE OF THE

CHURCH & GENTILE BELIEVERS

1. Rahab was converted…Romans 11; Ephesians 5:25-27

2. Rahab have FAITH in GOD…Hebrews 11:31; Ephesians 2:8

3. Rahab acted her faith…James 2

4. Rahab followed the spies’ instruction… Acts 4:12

5. Rahab turned her back away from ungodliness to God…

Romans 12:2

6. Rahab was renewed & restored…Romans 11