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

Alright, we're in a series called Divinely Human. And what we're talking about is that we're all humans, we all make mistakes,

but according to the Scripture, because we have become in Christ now, the Bible says,

we're buried with an baptism, raised to walk a new life, and we're part of the body of Christ.

There's a part of us that's divine. We're using the Scripture 2 Peter 1 verse 4,

by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises that through these,

you may be partakers of the divine nature.

So we're partakers or part receivers of the divine nature.

And my burden for this series is that you don't see your humanity, and I'm talking about not only your frailties and your weaknesses,

but even your sins, that you don't see your sins and count yourself out for being used divinely by God.

So what I'm going to do is actually something that when I get to heaven, some of these great people in the Bible,

I'm going to talk about their humanity, so they might get mad at me, I don't know.

But I'm going to show you, like Moses, and his wife Zaporo, which a lot of people didn't even know her name,

and you've got Abraham and Sarah, and you've got Esther, and you've got Abraham, and you've, I mean, said Abraham,

you've got David, and you've got all these in the New Testament.

We're on about Peter today.

All these men and women who were used mightily by God, but I'm going to show you they were still humans.

And not only did they make mistakes, like in the case of Moses and David,

we're going to show you that even they sinned, and yet God still used them.

So I just want you to, I don't want you to let the devil beat you up because you're a human,

because I want you to know that the blood of Jesus covers our sins,

and we can then be used to give a word of encouragement, a divine word, a word of prophecy to someone.

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