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The Type of Person God Uses
Hebrews
The question I have for you this morning is this: Why did God choose Noah?
When God destroyed the world with a flood, archaeologists tell us there were approximately one million people living.
So Noah was really one in a million.
Why did God choose Noah?
Imagine if you were God, what kind of person would you choose to start the human race all over again?
Who would you choose if you were God?
If God were to make the decision again to destroy the world and start over, would God choose you?
That makes me uneasy.
Why did God choose Noah?
God looks at your heart.
Why did God choose Noah?
Let's look at that this morning.
I want us to see four things -- characteristics -- of the type of person God uses.
The story of Noah is in Genesis, the very first book of the Bible.
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From it we glean four characteristics of the type of person God uses.
The first characteristic we find in and following.
gen 6:5-8
God looked down and He found one man that He was going to use.
Why did God use Noah?
God Uses People Who Are Available
That's pretty obvious!
He was available.
The fact is, here's the entire population but God can only find one available person.
In God's eyes, availability is much more important than ability.
Your attitude is much more important than your aptitude.
Most of us use our aptitude as an excuse -- "Oh!
I can't do that!
God could never use me.
I can't do anything."
It's simply being available.
I heard a great story this week.
Anthony Coppola, professor of sociology back in the east was invited to speak at a college in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
He drove to the college and before he was to speak, several men took him in the back room and began to pray for him that God would use his speech.
While these men were praying, one man, off the cuff, prayed, "And Lord, about Bert Harris.
Bert Harris needs You really badly.
He lives in that trailer down the street and he's considering leaving his wife and family and, Lord, if You could just get through to Bert Harris that would be great."
And then he went on with his prayer.
Anthony Coppola thought that's strange to pray that.
He went out and spoke and finished and got in his car and was driving home.
On his way home he picked up a hitchhiker.
He said, "I know you're not supposed to pick up hitchhikers but being a Baptist preacher, anytime I can get a captive audience I'll take advantage of it."
So he gets the guy in the car and is talking with him.
He says, "By the way, what's your name?"
The man says, "My name is Bert Harris."
Anthony Coppola stopped the car, turned it around and immediately headed the opposite direction.
The man said, "What are you doing?"
He said, "I'm taking you back to your wife and family who you're trying to leave!"
The man went white!
He didn't say another word.
They drove straight up to the guy's trailer.
He said, "How do you know where I live?" Anthony Coppola said, "God told me."
And in a way He really had.
Anthony took the man inside.
The family was put back together, the marriage restored and God did an exciting thing.
You say, "How come God doesn't do that to me?
How come I don't have those exciting experiences?
Why doesn't God use me like that?"
Anthony Coppola would tell you, "If you will make your life available, God will wear you out."
It's simply being available.
If you will be available, and stop focusing on what you can't do, let God decide what you can't do.
You just get available.
I think that when we get to heaven you're going to be amazed at the people God uses.
They're not superstars.
They're not super gifted.
They're not super talented people.
They're ordinary people with faults and hang ups and fears.
They're not necessarily brilliant.
They're of average intelligence.
They are simply available.
And Noah was available.
The longer I'm a Christian, the more I realize God does not need superstars.
He simply needs ordinary people who'll say, "I'll be used by God.
Look at the disciples.
They were a bunch of losers.
They were even poor fishermen.
Every time Jesus goes to see the disciples, they're mending their nets.
They couldn't even keep their nets in good shape.
But God uses people who are available.
God Uses People Who Dare to be Different
Underline the phrase, " blameless among the people”
- Noah was blameless among the people of his time.
- Morally, Noah was a man of deep conviction.
- He dared to be different.
- He was not afraid to stand out.
- He was not afraid to stand alone.
- He was not afraid of what other people thought.
- He wasn't out to win a popularity contest.
At this point in the world's history, the society was morally bankrupt.
Genesis 6:
It was the pits!
Yet Noah was not influenced by all those things.
In spite of the fact that he lived in a terrible society, it says he was blameless among the people of his time.
He was not afraid to stand alone.
In America, we have a tendency to think that the majority is always right.
If everybody's doing it then it must be ok.
If it's popular then it must be kosher.
But
Noah refused to go with the majority.
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