Unlikely Vessels

 Hebrews 13:2

Our text passage encourages us to be good to people, for some have entertained angels as they showed hospitality to strangers, these strangers were angels unaware.

When angels come to the earth they often come in unexpected ways and forms, sometimes angels walk among us in human form, our text passage confirms this.

These messengers of God come as unlikely vessels.

Treat people well, especially strangers. You never know, you just might entertain an angel one day.

You are blessed if you end up showing kindness to angels of God.

Jesus came to the earth as the Savior unaware to many people, He was an unlikely vessel.

He didn't come to the earth the way the Jews thought their Messiah would come or should come.

The Jews want and expect their Messiah to come from an aristocratic noble home, they didn't expect or want a savior born in a manger, they imagined a powerful and political savior who would rise, show leadership, probably lead the nation into battles and wars and dominate their enemies.

They didn't expect that the Messiah that they have been hoping for and received prophecies about would come as a carpenter who would start preaching about a spiritual kingdom.

Matthew 13:54,55

When we consider the lives of men like Gideon, David, king Saul, Paul the Apostle, the disciples of Jesus, and Jephthah the Gileadite we see they were unlikely vessels used by God, raised up by God for a purpose.

Some of them were 'underdogs' in life.

Many people who are in the faith today are no different, God had mercy on them.

God specializes in using unlikely people, unlikely vessels for His glory.

1 Samuel 2:8

God is the God of the underdog, He is the one who gives the underdog a chance in life and a place in His kingdom.

1 Corinthians 1:27,28

You might look at your life today and feel there is nothing special or spectacular about it.

You may feel there are better qualified people for God to use.

God is the one who qualifies the unqualified and qualifies the called.

He is the one who can make an unworthy vessel worthy and use man's reject.

I believe we are in a time and season God will raise up some very unlikely people to glorify Himself.

May you be one of them.

John 9:1-3

God has a way of picking up unlikely people, those who men have despised, those men have thought nothing good or nothing more can come from their lives, and He makes something of them.

The town of Nazareth was an unlikely vessel in a sense.

Nazareth was an unlikely place for the Messiah to come from, many didn't think anything good could come from her but the best person ever came through Nazareth.

John 1:46

God uses unlikely vessels.

He does so because He doesn't look at people and issues the way man does.

He looks into the heart and qualifies the heart.

1 Samuel 16:7

If your heart is right, God can use you.

If your heart is right, mercy can locate you.

If your heart is right, God can raise you up.

Proverbs 4:23

Olutosin Ogunkolade shares this teaching message.