Here are four of the numerous stories of men who were used by God and what we can learn from their lives. Abraham. The one who would be later known as the father of the nation of Israel, Abraham's life was far from perfect. We often highlight Abraham's faith that God would give him a child, but Abraham was not perfect in keeping the faith.
To reach the world God uses people whom He has given to His Son, who know and obey Him, whom He keeps while they’re in this world. As we work through these verses, note how God-centered they are.
You don’t have to have impressive qualifications for God to use you. Rather, truly believe in Jesus as your Savior and Lord. Grow to know God and obey His word.
The Bible is full of stories of people who were used by God despite their unfaithfulness and failures. Here are four of the numerous stories of men who were used by God and what we can learn from their lives. Abraham. The one who would be later known as the father of the nation of Israel, Abraham's life was far from perfect.
To reach this lost world, God uses people who know Him through Jesus Christ and who keep His Word. 3. To reach the world God uses people whom He keeps in holiness and unity while they’re in this world (John 17:11-12).
His aim is ( John 17:21, 23) that the world may believe in Him. But at this point, although Jesus had come into the world which He Himself made, the world did not know either Him or the Father ( John 1:10; 17:25 ).
In John 17:1-5, Jesus prays for Himself, that He would be glorified through the cross so that in turn He would glorify the Father. In John 17:6-19, He prays for the disciples, that they would be kept and set apart from the world as they remain in the world.
In verse 10 Jesus claims to share all things with the Father. The object of the first clause, “all things that are Mine are Yours,” “is to show that the Father assuredly will listen to him” (John Calvin, Calvin’s Commentaries [Baker], p. 173). Jesus is pleading for those whom the Father acknowledges to be His already.
It was because God loved the world that He sent His only Son ( John 3:16 ). In John 17:18, Jesus says that He is sending these men into the world, just as He had been sent.
He has already ( John 17:2) referred to believers as those whom the Father had given to Him. He mentions it again three times in our text: John 17:6: “I have manifested Your name to the men whom You gave Me out of the world; they were Yours and You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word.”.
John 17:11-12: “I am no longer in the world; and yet they themselves are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep them in Your name, the name which You have given Me, that they may be one even as We are. While I was with them, I was keeping them in Your name which You have given Me; and I guarded them and not one of them perished but the son of perdition, so that the Scripture would be fulfilled.”
The Bible is full of stories of people who were used by God despite their unfaithfulness and failures. Here are four of the numerous stories of men who were used by God and what we can learn from their lives. Abraham. The one who would be later known as the father of the nation of Israel, Abraham's life was far from perfect.
Despite this, God stayed faithful and gave Abraham and Sarah Isaac, who would then later on after many generations result into the nation of Israel. Samson. Of all the men that God would use in the Old Testament, there was probably no one more hard-headed and arrogant than Samson.
At one point as Jesus was being tried, the disciple denied his Master three times. But he would later be restored by Jesus back into ministry and would be filled with the Holy Spirit, becoming an anointed apostle of the church who did mighty miracles and preached powerfully in public.
Once called Simon, Peter was one of Jesus' disciples who would later on become one of the apostles of the early church. Peter wasn't always bold, but he was always impulsive and often acted before thinking. At one point as Jesus was being tried, the disciple denied his Master three times.
The one who would be later known as the father of the nation of Israel, Abraham's life was far from perfect. We often highlight Abraham's faith that God would give him a child, but Abraham was not perfect in keeping the faith.
Have you ever felt that you were too weak, too inexperienced or too imperfect to be used by God to fulfil His purposes? If you have , then it's time that you know that it is not our faithfulness, but God's faithfulness and the presence of Jesus in our lives that empower us to live out the greatness God has meant for us.
Zephaniah highlights the judgment of God by detailing how God will reverse his work of creation and destroy all living things. True. In his first vision, Zechariah saw a flying scroll that measured thirty feet by fifteen feet and was covered with written curses against those who had broken God's commandments. FAlse.
The Immanuel prophecy depicts one whose government is noted for peace without end. True. The extended message of salvation at the center of the book of Micah, as well as the emphasis on salvation at the end of each section, reflects Micah's focus on the hope of Israel's future salvation. True.
According to our textbook, the overall theme of Daniel is God's sovereignty over the people of Israel and the nations of the world. True. Eventually, King Nebuchadnezzar would go temporarily insane and behave in an animal-like manner. True.
The Würzburg psychologists upset a longstanding idea about the mind—that all ideas are sensations or copies of sensations—with their apparent discovery of: imageless thought. Wundt criticized the Würzburg experiments on the grounds that: a. the results of their experiments were not stable and replicable.
According to Thomas Kuhn, most eras in science are dominated by a single Weltanschauung called a (n): paradigm. In terms of two scientific theories clashing with each other to explain phenomena, which of the following is an example of reduction: Mendelian genetics to molecular genetics.
Morgan's Canon is the rule that in attributing mental processes to animals we should: infer the simplest mental process possible. The rule that in inferring an animal's mental processes from behavior one should infer the simplest level of mind needed to explain the behavior is called: Morgan's canon.
A somewhat controversial aspect of Thomas Kuhn's picture of science is the idea: that science can undergo radical change in short periods of time resulting in "revolutions" of thought. The "New History" criticizes the "Old History" for: often excluding women, minorities and ordinary people.