Background check

 

Real quick… start naming all the reasons God could’t use you… Ready… Go! 

 

he could never use me… not the way I would like him to…

 

it included Women (women! women! women!…)- which is rare because ancients traced lineage through males

 

Now, the woman the author included weren’t princesses or social royalty, they were pretty much downright scandalous.
Tamar came up with a scheme disguising herself as a prostitute and waited for her father-in-law, Judah, by the road… Judah seen a
32-26-38 and fell for her deception. Out of this came twin sons. The first born, Perez, became an ancestor of Jesus.
Rahab was a “lady of the night” or what some called “the Madame of Jericho”. She was also a Canaanite who worshiped a false god.
But later risked her life to protect God’s people and abandoned the false god for the true God. She ended up becoming the great-great-grandmother of David and ancestor of Jesus.
Tamar, Rahab, and Bathsheba committed the ‘serious’ kinds of sexual sins (incest, fornication, adultery), yet God, in his grace,

Abraham sold his wife out twice to kings… uh she’s just my sister… you can have her! 

Somomon a polygamist

Manasseh a pagan worshiper

David an adulterer and murderer and lousy father and husband.

 

 

Your past doesn’t matter in Jesus… only your future. Think of the story you will tell from today on! Believe it, live it, trust him and go for it.