Welcome to Gateway Church's podcast. Wherever you're tuning in from, we hope you're encouraged by today's message.

Alright, so we are in a series called Divinely Human.

And I've already preached two messages on it, and I really, if you didn't get to hear those two,

I'd really like for you to go back and listen so you can catch up, but especially the first one.

I'm taking it from second Peter 1, 4, where it says we are partakers of the divine nature in the context it's talking about through Christ, obviously.

We're partakers, part receivers of the divine.

In other words, we are divinely human, human now that we've accepted Christ.

But here's my burden for this series, and I believe it's the Lord's burden.

And that is that so many times we see our humanity, our fears, our frailties, our faults, and even our sins,

and we count ourselves out forever being used divinely by God.

Well, God can use Pastor Robert and that person over there in my spouse because she's really, she's godly, but I'm just not godly enough.

And you need to know that the men and women of God in the Bible that we look up to and rightly so were humans.

So last week we talked about Peter, and we saw he went from human to divine to human to divine.

You know, thou art the Christ of Son living God, then he took him aside, began to rebuke him, divine human.

So this week we're going to look at Abraham and Sarah, and I'm going to do the exact same thing I did last week in the sense that we're going to go through a lot of scripture.

And we're just going to tell the story, but I do have three points, but I'm just going to give them to you at the end of the message.

So, and I have some headings throughout the message that we'll talk about.

All right. First of all, I have to give you a little bit of history.

Everyone thinks that Abraham appears first in scripture in Genesis 12, but actually he's at the end of chapter 11.

And I'm going to actually show you that God, everyone thinks God spoke to him in Genesis 12, but God actually spoke to him before that, and I'll show you the scripture.

Okay, but I have to give you some background about him. Okay.

So Genesis 11, verse 27, this is the genealogy of Tehran. That's his father, Abraham's father.

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