GRACE IN THE GENEALOGY OF CHRIST
Sunday, 8th November 2026
Pastor Victor

1 Corinthians 15:10 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Rahab was a prostitute in the city of Jericho. Tamar had an unholy affair with her father-in-law, Judah, that produced Pharez, from where David and the patriarchs came from in the lineage of Judah.

Bathsheba – was Uriah’s wife who David committed adultery with her. Ruth was a Moabitess – a foreigner with no connection with Israel, and according to the law should not enter into the congregation of Israel.

All these women had one thing in common – dark backgrounds. But they were ancestors of our Lord Jesus Christ. The story of these women in the genealogy of Christ is indicative of the grace of God. Only grace could place these women strategically in the lineage of Christ, the sinless man that ever walked the earth.

How these women became ancestors of our blessed Lord Jesus Christ baffles the mind and rattles every religious theology.

If it were left for man to choose the people for the genealogy of Jesus, I don’t think anyone will choose them.

Divine election is by grace. God chooses undeserved men to reveal His abundant grace and mercy. The day you see yourself qualified to be used by God, you become disqualified.

Grace qualifies the unqualified. Grace is for the undeserved. If you feel you are not qualified to be used by God, you are God’s sure candidate. You don’t need to have it all together to be called and used by God. All God wants from you is to say yes to His call. Hallelujah! Let the scripture below encourage you if you don’t have it all together:

1 Corinthians 1:26-29
[26]For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
[27]But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
[28]And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:
[29]That no flesh should glory in his presence.

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