Abraham Was A God-Made Man

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Usually it's one of those 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:14.920 rags to richest stories. We've all heard him, read about him, 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:18.040 seen him on TV. But today I want to talk 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:24.280 about a man who became wealthy, influential, and he was 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:30.200 a legacy lever on this earth. Now, this man was 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:36.359 not a self made man. His label read God made man. 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:41.639 He was a God made man. And the reason I 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:45.920 say and describe him as a God made man is 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:49.800 because God spoke to him and said something very significant 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:50.160 to him. 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:53.560 Now, this man's name is Abraham. 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:58.280 Yeah, Abraham, the father of our faith, the one we 0:02:58.320 --> 0:02:59.760 read about in Genesis. 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:02.600 He was a God made man. 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:07.920 In Genesis twelve two, he was living in a land 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:11.360 where his father had settled. His relatives were all there 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:15.080 when God spoke to him. He said this to him. 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:18.600 He said, Abraham, I want you to leave the land 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:22.440 of your father and I want you I want to 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:26.679 take you to a land that I will show you, 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:32.440 and I want to make you into a great nation. 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:36.960 What God spoke to him was, I want to take 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:38.920 you and I want. 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:40.000 To make you. 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:48.160 That's why, Abraham, where's the label god made man? Because 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:54.360 he willingly trusted God to take him somewhere he didn't 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:57.360 know he was even going, where he was even going, 0:03:57.960 --> 0:04:03.080 and he trusted God to make him able to do 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:06.280 what God had called him to do. Now, God said 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:10.920 this to Abraham. He said, Abraham, I'm gonna make you wealthy. 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:15.480 I'm gonna make you a blessing, and I'm will make 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:19.800 you where you bless other people. He said, I'm gonna 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:25.840 make you a great nation, and all the people on earth. 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:27.640 Will be blessed because of you. 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:32.160 Listen, I'd rather wear a God made man label any day, 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:32.760 wouldn't you? 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:36.359 That sounds good to me, doesn't it. I want to 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:36.880 make you. 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:40.640 And you see, he willingly went and obeyed God, and 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:47.000 God fulfilled his promises to Abraham. And today that willing 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:51.640 God made man allowed you and I to stand in 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:55.120 the place we stand today as believers in Jesus Christ. 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:56.839 Because He told. 0:04:56.560 --> 0:05:02.520 Abraham that I'm going to make your seed great. I'm 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:07.000 gonna make your seed great. And what he did was 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:12.240 he brought Jesus Christ to this earth through the lineage 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:15.760 of Abraham. So you and I are the seed of 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:18.600 Abraham because we're born of Jesus Christ. 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:23.040 Okay, that's what qualifies us for. 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:25.320 God to say the same thing to you and I 0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:31.039 that he said to Abraham. Because we're born of abraham seed. 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:34.440 He said, I'm gonna make all the people on earth 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:39.359 be able to have this advantage in life because of 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:42.640 Jesus Christ. So today I want to say to you 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:46.120 what God said to Abraham. I want to bless you. 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:50.400 I want to take you, I want to make you. 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:54.960 I want to make you a blessing here on this earth. 0:05:56.200 --> 0:06:00.960 I want you to wear the label God may man. 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:05.480 You see, God is saying the same thing to you, 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:08.640 and I. 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:08.320 I want to bless you. 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:12.080 I want you to be over I don't want you 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:12.760 to be beneath. 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:14.720 I want you to be the head. I don't want 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:17.840 you to be the tale. He told Abraham, I'll vindicate you. 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:21.400 That means, he said, those who curse you, I'll curse 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:25.599 those who bless you, I'll bless In modern day terms, 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:29.120 he says, don't worry, Abraham, I'll justify you and I'll 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:29.960 vindicate you. 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:33.400 And that's exactly what God wants to do in your life. 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:38.479 But You've got to allow him to make you. You see, 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:43.640 God's pattern is to take us and make us. Even 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:47.479 in the New Testament, when Jesus called his disciples, you 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:50.440 know what he said to them. He said, follow me, 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:56.440 and I will make you fishers of men. I will 0:06:56.680 --> 0:07:00.440 make you, which means I will help you and will 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:06.159 enable you to become everything I've called you to be. Now, 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:11.840 Abraham was not called by God because he had complete faith. 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:16.320 Because his faith was perfect. He was called by God 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:20.480 because he was willing. And you read through his story, 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:22.520 and do read his story in Genesis. 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:24.080 It's very fascinating. 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:26.440 You could read it over and over again and God 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:30.240 will show you different things. But it says in there, 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:36.560 as he was journeying through this pilgrimage, this journey of 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:40.440 life which we all do, it said that God strengthened 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:45.080 him in his faith. So you can see he was 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:49.360 a man in the making. He was a god man 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:54.720 in the making. God strengthened his spaith, and he gave 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:59.440 praise to God. When you read his story, you'll understand 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:02.000 in many a you know that Abraham was not a 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:07.600 perfect man. Abraham made his share of mistakes. But you 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:11.120 know what, God never left him. God never forsook him. 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:14.880 When Abraham stepped out in front of God and went 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:16.480 the wrong way, guess what. 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:17.800 God was right there with. 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:23.120 Him, ease and him back on course, strengthening him in 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:27.880 his faith and his resolve. See God's pattern is a 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:33.280 great mentorship program. Many people want a mentor in their life. 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:35.160 They think, if I could just get with. 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:38.240 This person, they could tell me everything that they knew. 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:42.360 I could glean from them. Read success books, read leadership books. 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:45.040 They say, get around the people you want to be like, 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:48.240 get inspired by them. 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:52.920 And that's good. But God is your greatest manner. 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:56.080 Jesus Christ is your greatest mentor. 0:08:57.120 --> 0:09:00.200 He is the one that wants to take you and 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:01.440 make you. 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:05.400 He wants to make you a great parent, He wants 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:08.400 to make you a great leader. Listen, I would rather 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:14.000 be parented by a God made man than a man 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:16.520 who thinks he could do it on his own. I'd 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:20.840 rather be married to a God made man than a 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:25.160 man who thinks he's in control of it all. Listen, 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:29.480 we wear the label you are a man in the making. 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:33.480 We are men in the making. 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:37.360 But we have to understand God is not going to 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:42.680 disqualify us if we make a mistake. He didn't disqualify 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:46.400 Abraham and he's not gonna disqualify us. We just have 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:48.960 to dig our heels in and try to stay the 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:53.720 course as he's strengthening us in our faith. 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:58.240 He's a strengthen ear. You know it's interesting because. 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:02.880 You know I heard that saying I'm not all that 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:05.720 I want to be, but thank God, I'm not what 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:06.480 I used to be. 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:10.160 You heard that saying, if you can say that today. 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:11.200 That's a good thing. 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:14.800 It's a good thing because it means you're on the 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:19.240 road to progress. And sometimes the road to progress can 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:23.600 be messy because we're all under construction. You know, when 0:10:23.640 --> 0:10:26.000 they tear the roads here up here in Houston, and 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:27.480 you're just like, man, it's a mess. 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:31.480 It's just a mess. It's a construction site. 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:35.320 I remember when we built our house years ago, and 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:38.280 during the different phases of construction, I would go out 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:40.600 there and I didn't particularly like. 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:41.240 What I saw. 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:44.200 I was like, come on, this has got to be 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:47.520 this has got to progress faster than this. I remember thinking, 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:50.160 it is a mess. Where's a broom, I'm gonna sweep up. 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:51.320 See. 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:55.360 I didn't see always what I wanted to see until 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:59.040 it got closer to the finished product, and then it 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:01.320 got better and better and better. 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:04.720 And you know what, we're all under construction. 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:08.880 Sometimes we don't like what we see in ourselves, we 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:11.040 don't like what we say in ourselves. 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:13.520 But we are under construction. 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:18.400 We are in the phases of being completed. 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:20.439 We're in progress. 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:26.520 And so was Abraham. But God still fulfilled his promises 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:30.040 to Abraham, and God is going to fulfill his promises 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:32.680 to you. Now I want you to be encouraged with 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:36.600 this scripture because this is super important in the process, 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:38.000 in the construction phase. 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:43.239 This is so important. Philippians one to six says. 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:50.480 Be confident in this in what in the construction phase. 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:55.080 Be confident that He who began a good work in 0:11:55.120 --> 0:12:00.359 you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ. 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:07.480 Be confident in those difficult times that God is doing 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:08.160 a work in you. 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:10.880 Be confident in the challenges. 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:15.160 Listen, we don't go through difficult times and challenges because 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:18.520 God wants to punish us. We go through things because 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:22.080 it's part of the process. But God, the great mentor 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:26.760 has his hands on us the entire time. He is 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:29.640 not gonna let us fall or fail. He is going 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:33.320 to complete us and get us to the destination that 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:36.400 we were intended to. Now, you know what a great 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:38.920 if Abraham was here today and he said, look, I'm 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:41.880 gonna take you. I'm gonna mentor you. I've walked with God, 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:43.360 I can tell you all about it. 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:45.280 You know, he wouldn't. 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:48.360 Patch your hand and say, oh, it's gonna be okay. 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:55.319 Don't worry, baby, it's all right. You just sit right there. No, 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:57.439 you're a great mentor does. 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:01.559 He loves you, but he challenges you. He says, look, 0:13:01.960 --> 0:13:05.440 I've been through this before. I know God is faithful. 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:09.840 Get up, keep going, stay the course. God is a 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:15.040 faithful God. He pushes you, he sharpens you. That's what 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:18.880 God does to us in difficult times. He doesn't pat 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:20.800 us on the back all the time. He's a loving 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:24.360 and kind and gentle but he is saying, get up. 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:27.320 I am with you, I am for you. I'll never 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:30.240 leave you or forsake you. You're going to be strengthened 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:32.480 in your faith as you go through it, so when 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:35.280 you get to the other side, you're prepared for the 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:36.120 next level. 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:40.600 You're prepared for me to bring forth the promises that 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:41.640 I have in store. 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:46.280 You're prepared to be the blessing that I am making 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:51.600 you into. You are my man, you are my woman 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:55.640 of faith. You are God's man and the making. 0:13:56.320 --> 0:13:57.600 Be confident of this. 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:02.840 Remind yourself if God before you, who dare be against you, 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:05.640 and you are on the road to completion. 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:08.480 Amen. Amen, He's an awesome God. 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:15.760 Thank you for listening to the joel Ostein podcast. Help 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:18.559 us continue to share the message of hope with those 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:22.560 all over the world. 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