John Pople – Class 2: Jacob – Trust My Strength

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This is the 50th New Zealand
christadelphians Bible School.

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Our third period speaker, his
brother John people on growing

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closer to God.
The subtitle for today is

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wrestling Israel.
This is the second talk in the

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series.
The introductory reading is

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Genesis 32 verses 22 to the end.
good evening, once more So, we

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started our series on growing
closer to God yesterday.

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And we saw from the example of
Ruth, how we can grow closer to

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God, my learning to spread our
wings and we interpreted that

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directly as the distribution of
Mercy different subject tonight,

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different character.
Tonight, we look at Jacob in

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particular, the nature of the
distance between Jacob and guard

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is somewhat more mental.
Somewhat more No, rather than

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the physical alienation that
Ruth had experienced Jacob,

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we’re going to be talking about
the instances of trust.

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Am I going to trust that God
will take care of me?

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Underlying, that question, of
course is the attitude.

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I want to take control of my
life myself.

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I don’t know how many people in
this room are able to identify

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with that problem.
I am.

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So if you are, then you stand
with me.

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So I will understand.
Desire to say, I trust God sort

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of, but I’d love to actually
make sure that I can run it all

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myself anyway, and that’s the
problem that Jacob had.

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He wrestled with an angel Rafa
Rafa just redis.

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That passage your name will no
longer be.

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Jacob says God or says the
angel, but Israel meaning

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strength with God because you
have struggled with God and with

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man and have overcome similar
comment is made in the prophets.

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Jacob struggled with the angel
and overcame him, he wept and

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begged for his favor.
Well, it seems like a wonderful

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crowning glory for Jacob at this
time to have overcome one of the

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almighty host and receive the
blessing from him that he strove

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for.
What does verse 25 suggest?

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If you don’t want to look down
and you don’t have that in front

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of you, don’t worry.
There’s 25 was the verse that

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says, when the angel saw that he
could not Prevail and could not

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overcome, he touched his leg and
the sinew shrink, it’s a bit of

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an open-ended question.
What does that imply?

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And I want to have a go at that.
It implies Jacob was a powerful

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man like the first half of the
verse certainly implies that

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he’s racing wrestling with an
angel all night.

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The Angels, our strength was
limited.

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He touched his thigh and a
hollow shrank.

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Okay, what else?
Might that imply?

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Now, why do you say that?
I’m interested in that answer.

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He could have done that from the
beginning, and not only that,

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but he touched the hip and made
something in there singing, I’m

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not a biologist.
I’ve no idea what’s in the made

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something shrink.
What if he touched his heart?

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and that shrink, What if he
touched his lungs and they

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shrink?
That verse implies that the

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angel could have won.
The struggle at any moment, he

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chose.
And yet, In fairness the Bible,

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clearly says, Jacob struggled
and overcame, we have an

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apparent contradiction right off
the bat.

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If contradictions, worry, you, I
I sympathize.

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I greatly enjoy them.
Because contradictions mean

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we’ve got something mysterious
and interesting to investigate

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one.
Half of that is right or perhaps

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both are.
If we view it from one angle,

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don’t know.
Something very fascinating is

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going on when we have an
apparent contradiction.

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Here’s what we’re going to need
to do.

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We’ve come in far too late.
This is later on in Jacob’s life

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Genesis 32.
So what we’re going to do is

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we’re going to back up and
approach this event again in

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context and we’re going to back
up all the way to the beginning

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of Jacob’s life back there in
Genesis 25.

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Esau became a skillful Hunter
eats or of course is Jacob’s

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twin brother.
A man of the Open Country.

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While Jacob was a quiet, man.
Staying among the tents now.

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Jacob might feel justifiably
shortchanged by that English

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translation because quiet is a
little bit lame, no pun

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intended.
In terms of describing Jacobs

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character, the Hebrew word is
Tom elsewhere.

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It’s either perfect undefiled or
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So it’s quite a compliment that
the Bible, grants him here.

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He was a good man.
In the simplest sense and he

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stayed among the tents.
He was a godly man but he has a

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significant character flaw.
And these are the people that

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God is most interested in Godly
men and women.

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And if they have any character
flaws at all, that doesn’t

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matter.
God will work with them.

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Sometimes the Sandpaper feels a
little painful, but he will work

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with them.
He will work with us and he will

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eradicate that floor.
That’s who Jacob is.

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What is the nature of this
floor?

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We don’t have to guess because
the Bible will tell us.

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At his birth, something happens
which the Bible through the

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inspiration of, God tells us was
meaningful and symbolic, we

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can’t attribute the behavior of
a newborn to actual intention.

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But the Bible says, no, this is
relevant this matters.

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After this, Esau his brother
Jacob came out with his hand,

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grasping Esau’s, Hawk, Esau’s
heel.

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So he was named Jacob or jakov
in their pronunciation and the

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fact that he’s grasping Esau’s
heel is very relevant in the

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Hebrew, ooh, culture, the
closest thing we have in any

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culture that understands rugby.
So I’m in the right place, it

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seems is the tap tackle.
Your opponent has got past you.

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He’s defeated you.
He is, he has eluded you, and

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you have one chance to LEAP out
and just slap his foot.

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So that as he’s running, his
foot will be knocked behind his

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own other leg and he’ll actually
trip himself up and fall to the

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ground.
It’s your last ditch effort to

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actually trip your opponent and
the Hebrew it.

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I’m about grasping the heel was
remarkably similar to the tap

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tackle.
Whilst the tap tackle is a fair

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and legal move in the Hebrew
culture, the grabbing of the

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heel to do much.
The same thing was seen as a

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deceptive thing to do your
friend, your colleague isn’t

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even looking and you just grab
their heel and trip them up.

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So yaakov grasping the heel,
it’s a Hebrew idiom to mean to

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deceive or to take advantage of
sometimes.

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We’ve had the word Jacob
translated as supplanter.

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So that similar one who trip
someone up is probably even

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better.
Although longer.

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So, right from the start, Jacob
had unwittingly enacted as a

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baby.
The idea of grabbing the heel

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which in Hebrew meant, he’s
someone who’s going to be a bit

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slippery in getting the better
of other people.

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That was his character flaw.
He was a politician and

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manipulator imaginator, that was
Jacob’s character flaw.

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So the Bible says, Says but
nevertheless God knew Jacob, was

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Tom upright a good man.
So he said and he prophesied two

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nations are in your womb.
He says to the mother to

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people’s from within you will be
separated.

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One people will be stronger than
the other and the older will

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serve the younger.
I’d like to suggest to you But

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that is one of the most profound
and important biblical

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principles your meat.
There it is in Genesis 25 it’s

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existed.
Even before then in Genesis for

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every single pair of brothers
that you will meet in the

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scripture with as far as I’m
aware, absolutely no exceptions.

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The firstborn will fail because
he is fleshly and the

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second-born will succeed,
because he is spiritual.

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Starts with Cain and Abel and
proceeds all the way down.

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You cannot name.
A good first born son, who is

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presented among Brethren.
Samuel, is a first ball, subtle,

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firstborn son.
He’s not presented amongst

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president.
All the other pairings, Abraham

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was the second son.
He wasn’t the eldest.

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Isaac was a second son.
He wasn’t the eldest.

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Jacob is the second son.
He’s not the eldest.

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All of them are goes all the way
through the Lord.

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Jesus Christ is probably best
seen as the younger brother of

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Adam.
The first First Son of God is

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Adam, he was fleshly and failed.
The Second Son of God, if you

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will was the Lord Jesus Christ
and perhaps the most important

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manifestation of that principle
is you You’ve all been born

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once?
That man that woman will fail

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and die and props.
Many of you have been born

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twice.
So for me, I was born in 1970

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and I was born again in 1986.
So I am 45 years old and my

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spiritual brother is 29.
I’ve done my maths right.

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So I’m a 45 year old and I’m a
29 year old twin brothers.

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And the lesson is says God that
older brother.

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He better serve that younger
brother.

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Because if that doesn’t happen,
both will die.

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Okay so it’s a massively
important principle interrupts

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here it erupts absolutely
everywhere, including the two

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Testaments, the two kings of
Israel Etc.

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You can barely find a passage of
scripture that doesn’t have that

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principle somewhere.
So it is decreed by God, the

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older will serve the younger.
Jacob gets to be in charge, but

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to what extent is Jacob allowed
to facilitate this end?

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And perhaps Jacob goes far too
far in making sure this happened

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by using his heel.
Grabbing his tap tackle style of

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working, we know these stories.
Well as is almost Sunday school

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material so we’ll move through
it.

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Pretty swiftly.
Esau came in from the Open

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Country famished.
You said to Jacob quick, let me

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have some of that, red stew.
I’m famished.

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Jacob replied.
First, sell me, your Birthright,

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as a good brother for you, isn’t
it?

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Taking advantage of the fact
that Esau was virtually starving

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and Jacob ceases.
He wrestles the birthright out

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of Esau’s.
Control In fairness, God has

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always promised that Jacob would
get the birthright.

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I get that but he has wrestled.
The birthright out of Esau’s

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control, the says the same thing
with the blessing Isaac’s

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getting ready to bless Esau.
So he gets sort of mash unites

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with his mother and he dresses
up and he puts on the goat

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skins.
And whatever else.

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And he receives the blessing
from Isaac by deception by

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grabbing the heel, may God give
you Heavens do and Earth’s

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richness.
This is Isaac blessing.

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What he thinks is his firstborn
son and abundance of grain and

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new wine May Nations serve, you
and people’s bow down to you be

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Lord, over your brothers and met
the sons of your mother bow down

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to you.
So, what were the birthright?

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And the blessing, basically,
what was the birthright that

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went to the firstborn son?
Dribble terms.

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Double portion, excellent Cold,
Hard Cash and twice as much of

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it.
Let’s be let’s be direct about

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it.
And what was the blessing?

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What’s recorded here as being
the gift?

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Sometimes we think in very
ethereal, esoteric terms is very

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tangible promises here.
You see what they are.

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Food and drink.
Yeah, absolutely.

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And food and drink in a country
where starvation was real from

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time to time if the harvest
fail.

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So I guarantee you’ll have food
food and drink so you’ll have

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twice as much money as the, the
older double portion of the, of

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the inheritance food and wine
and one of the thing, what other

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thing is that there?
Oh, that is true.

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Excellent, thank you.
That’s, there you go.

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I’ve shown a crown Authority,
seniority and Authority.

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That’s absolutely right.
So he gets double portion of the

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inheritance food and drink and
Authority including even the

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authority of the father.
That’s what it was.

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I’m going to use these pictures
throughout so we can keep track

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of what we’re doing.
That’s what Jacob was promised.

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That’s what Jacob got.
But what was the consequence of

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his wrestling?
The manner in which he obtained.

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Them also had consequences.
What was the consequence?

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He had to leave his family.
But, particularly put I would

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have said he made his brother,
homicidally angry.

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I’ve done that myself and I
noticed the difference.

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I live 6,000 miles away from my
family now but that’s unrelated

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Romans he made his brother
homicidally angry and is Henry

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pointed out.
He probably never saw his mother

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again, if we’re if everything is
in the record that we see he

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hasn’t ever seen her again.
She had passed away.

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By the time he was reunited with
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So he lost a brother effectively
to Violent anger and he lost his

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mother.
That was the consequence of the

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Wrestling.
This is relevant saw that in

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your mind and let’s press on
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So should Jacob have done that.
Of course not.

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It was God’s will for David to
be king in place of Saul.

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But notice how David the man,
after God’s Own Heart, would not

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even take the opportunities that
appeared to be handed to him on

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a silver platter.
David is now snuck into the camp

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with his trusty of slightly
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And he’s got all the way up to a
sleeping King Saul to take the

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spear in the water jug.
And abishai says today, God has

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delivered your enemy into your
hands.

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Let me pin him here to the
ground, but David said to

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abishai, don’t destroy him.
Who can lay a hand on the Lord’s

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anointed and be Guiltless.
As surely as the Lord lives.

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David said the Lord himself will
strike him.

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David new to wait upon the Lord
even in what looked like a

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gift-wrapped opportunity.
Possibly even from the Lord to

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take the matter.
Into his own hands and perhaps

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an even better example, even
beyond that of Godly.

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David is, of course, the Lord
Jesus Christ.

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It was God’s will for Jesus to
rule the whole world.

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It still is.
And so, the devil takes Jesus to

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a very high mountain and says
you can have it now.

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Few conditions, but you can have
it now and Jesus says away from

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me, Satan for it is written
Worship the Lord your God and

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serve him only the Downing
example of the man who knew to

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wait upon the Lord.
What was perhaps the prior to

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excuse me?
The presidental?

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What’s perhaps?
The first biblical example of

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someone misbehaving by applying
what you might call a shortcut

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rule?
I know God wants me to have this

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eventually, so I’ll take it now.
It isn’t Jacob.

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You see before, Jacob.
Doesn’t it?

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Maybe I’m a lot now.
We’ve already had an earlier

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example.
Genesis 3.

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Absolutely Eve.
God, always wanted for men to

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have knowledge of Good and Evil.
He had an entire plan laid out.

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God actually always wanted what
the serpent has promised.

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You will be like gods.
That is God’s ultimate plan.

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Great.
I’ll take it now.

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Then says Eve huge disaster, so
it’s clear.

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Jacob has misstepped according
to his mash and Nations, it

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doesn’t stop.
There he goes on.

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Now, he wants a beautiful wife
and so he’s told by his uncle

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Laban who’s almost as deceptive
as Jacob himself to work for the

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girl.
And he ends up with Lea and

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eventually he gets Jacob, Rachel
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How many years did Jacob?
Work for Leah.

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Button. 14.
I got a 14 out of 17.

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This is the auction already,
isn’t it?

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I got any advance on 14.
Going once going twice.

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I had a lot of sevens.
You happy with your sevens.

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Oh, 10.
It’s relevant, isn’t it?

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He didn’t work one day for Leah.
Think of the emotional backdrop

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of that comment.
He worked seven years for Rachel

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and then got Leah.
And then he worked another seven

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years for Rachel and got Rachel.
So he actually worked 14 years

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for Rachel.
By the time he and and he’s got

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Leah without having any effort
and he worked 20 years.

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What was the other six years for
Ryan hammers, Leah feel.

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I am married to a man who’s
worked 14 years to get my cute

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sister and six years for cows.
Thank you, Andrew, but sound

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like that.
But it’s but it’s heartbreaking,

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isn’t it?
We love our love to but it’s

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absolutely heartbreaking.
I don’t want to be like I have

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more sympathy, probably for
later than many others

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characters in the history of the
Bible and she left with that

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situation was faithful to her
husband.

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Even though she knew I am not
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She woke up, she can look at her
sister or even at the sheep and

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say, I am not wanted.
That is absolutely crushing.

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This is of course, the result of
Jacob’s.

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Machination of like, no, I must
have the one that I want.

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Laban has to Bear some
responsibility.

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E2 must be said, do not take
your wife sister as a rival

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wife.
Now In fairness, the law came

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after Jacob but God’s principles
are Timeless so it’s not

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something Jacob should have
done, he should have accepted

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the wife.
He was given at the hand of the

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Lord, I suggest you unfair that
may have seemed given what Laban

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did but he is the man who
wrestles Israel wrestles no I’ve

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got to have what I want.
I don’t care how its pan.

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I doubt, I’ve got to have what I
want, and I’m smart enough, and

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I’m strong enough, and I’m
cunning enough to make it

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happen, and he made it happen.
Is that good?

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Wow.
It carries on the flocks.

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I want the best flocks.
I want the healthy ones.

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Jacob, whose has Laban is as bad
as he is go into this?

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Scientific goodness.
Knows what I do this hocus-pocus

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or real.
I don’t really care and trying

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to deceive each other until
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Jacob wins.
Why?

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Because Israel, wrestles, and
Israel?

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What gets what Israel wants?
What were the consequences of

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these wrestling’s of Jacob?
We’ve considered some of them.

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Haven’t we Leah?
Is unloved?

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The wives, the sisters are now
competing with each other.

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Before they may well, have been
friends.

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We don’t know.
And the uncle Laban and his

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cousins are so angry.
They dismiss him from the

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premises, and he’s out.
So he’s now lost his brother,

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his mother, his uncle, his
cousins, and he’s got two wives,

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at least one of which is
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That’s there for the intro we
should have had as we return to

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our opening scene.
And he wrestles with the angel

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all night, and the angel wants
to leave, but Jacob won’t let

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him leave.
Why won’t Jacob let him leave?

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Because Israel gets what Israel
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And so the angel says to Jacob,
your name will no longer be

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Jacob.
But Israel strength with God

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because you have struggled with
God and with man and have

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overcome but I want you to hear
a hint of irony lying in the air

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here.
Jacob does have strength with

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God, but Jacob has completely
misunderstood where that

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strength lies, it is absolutely
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Is in those biceps that pretty
much kept an angel pinned down

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for most of the night.
Maybe the angel gave me a little

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hint, by the way.
He could have killed you.

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Any moment have a think about
that Sunday.

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But what does the wrestling
reveal about Jacobs opinion of

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God, particularly this one?
But anyway, any of them. that’s

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a way open question, I realize
That he can take from God what

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he wants.
You said that?

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Yes, that’s that’s right.
That’s that’s very right.

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That’s clearly in that I’m
stronger than God.

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And the angel says, perhaps
ironically, oh, you’ve just

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beaten God in a wrestling match.
Congratulations, I shall now

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call you strength with God, but
Jacob, still got a lot to learn

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yet.
Why would he need to wrestle it

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from God?
You can’t wrestle something.

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If you were going to get it
anyway and you trusted that

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right what it seems to me that
it reveals about Jacobs opinion

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of God, is that God isn’t really
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If he wants a blessing from God,
he’s got a mug, the nearest

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Angel, and there’s humor in
that, but I’m also deadly

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serious.
What opinion must have half of

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God.
Imagine that if you’re a parent

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and your children are going
around the supermarket, I’m sure

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they’re always perfectly
well-behaved at all times and

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these things.
But imagine that in public, your

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child is grabbing hold of your
ankle and screaming.

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Mommy, mommy.
Please feed me today, please

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feed me and I thinking, what are
you?

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Why would you ask that?
I always feed you.

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How embarrassing And Jacob is
wrestling with the angel as if

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God is.
So mean so parsimonious.

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So, unhelpful and unloving that
blessings have to be dragged out

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from the Heavenly Host, even
against their will.

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And this is something clearly
where Jacob needs to do a lot of

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work or God needs to do a lot of
work with them.

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What’s the consequence of this
wrestling?

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Very simply?
We know he wasn’t able to walk

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properly again.
Okay, that’s fairly obvious.

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But wait a minute.
We had a, we had a corroborating

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verse earlier.
Jacob struggled with the angel

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and overcame him.
He wept and begged for his

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favorite.
Doesn’t Jose appraise this as

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well from many, many years
Downstream shouldn’t Hosea.

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Sighs.
If indeed, this was the wrong

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thing to do.
Hosea, does criticize, this

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isn’t praise.
It’s an indictment context is

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relevant.
Let me put it in the other

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sentences that have been missed
out.

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God will punish Jacob, according
to his ways and repay him.

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According to his deeds in the
womb.

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He grasped his brother brothers,
heel as a man.

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He struggled with God, he
struggled with the angel and

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overcame him.
He wept and begged for his

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favor, but you must return to
your God.

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So realize even Jose has given
the correct commentary.

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This is not what Jesus Jesus.
This is not what Jacob should

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have done.
You should not have wrestled

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with God.
We still have this strange

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curious blessing though, don’t
we?

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Well, in will investigate that
we haven’t forgotten it but

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we’re getting closer to being
able to solve this problem now.

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So, just a little summary so
far, you have struggled with God

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and with men and have overcome.
What did he struggle for the

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birthright?
The blessing, Rachel, the pretty

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wife that he wanted the superior
flocks and the angels blessing.

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But even though God had promised
him all of these, well not

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Rachel, not the second.
Wife but he promised him all the

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others.
The consequence of Jacob

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snatching them out of the
almighty’s Hand by any and all

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means necessary.
We can list the consequences,

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his brother was angry, his
brother was murderous, he was

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cut off from his mother.
His first life was wife was

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unloved.
His wives arrivals and angry

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with him.
His family is angry.

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He’s cut off with them and he
can’t walk.

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That’s the catalog.
That’s what the angel knows.

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I think the angel is trying to
call attention to Jacob.

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You’ve wrestled all your life.
Jacob how’s it working out for

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you?
However, all these results

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stacking up.
Is this what you want?

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Can you not see?
It’s your own life, every time

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you wrestle, you just add a
negative consequence to the

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blessing, God was going to give
you anyway.

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And I think there can be no
bigger lesson spelled out in the

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life of Jacob than that one.
So I suspect what God is really

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saying to Jacob is he says,
okay, I’m going to call you.

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I said, boy I’m going to call
you Israel strength with God.

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And in time, maybe you’ll
realize that the deceiver has

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been given a deceptive or ironic
name that Israel is going to

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come to an understanding about
what it means to have strength

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with God.
And so far in his life, he’s got

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it absolutely wrong every single
time and yet he does have

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strength with God.
He just doesn’t know where that

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strength is.
He thinks it’s in his biceps to

437
00:26:52,600 –> 00:26:55,500
pin down an angel.
He thinks it’s in his brains to

438
00:26:55,500 –> 00:26:58,600
outsmart, and outwit just about
everyone that he’s come across,

439
00:26:58,900 –> 00:27:01,900
which he has successfully done
to his own destruction.

440
00:27:04,900 –> 00:27:07,200
But let’s resolve this
completely.

441
00:27:08,100 –> 00:27:10,800
It’s not just because I’m a man,
we have these slightly matte

442
00:27:10,800 –> 00:27:12,700
show issues who won that
wrestling match.

443
00:27:12,700 –> 00:27:15,400
Really did the angel win,
because he could have killed him

444
00:27:15,400 –> 00:27:17,400
at any moment.
Did Jacob, actually

445
00:27:17,400 –> 00:27:21,100
over-the-counter the angel as
the Bible says, when the angel

446
00:27:21,100 –> 00:27:24,800
saw, he couldn’t overpower him,
he touched his hip and his hip

447
00:27:24,800 –> 00:27:27,700
was wrenched, as he wrestled
with the man.

448
00:27:28,400 –> 00:27:32,000
So clearly, the angel could kill
him in a second.

449
00:27:32,900 –> 00:27:38,200
What then was true about Jacob,
not being able to be overcome.

450
00:27:38,800 –> 00:27:42,000
What could the angel not
overcome?

451
00:27:43,900 –> 00:27:46,900
Very good who said that.
Excellent.

452
00:27:46,900 –> 00:27:48,600
His all the way from outside.
Excellent.

453
00:27:49,600 –> 00:27:52,600
What is it?
The angel cannot overcome his

454
00:27:53,000 –> 00:27:57,300
stubbornness his will.
And so it was a very real

455
00:27:57,300 –> 00:27:59,300
wrestling match.
The angel could have killed him

456
00:27:59,300 –> 00:28:00,700
in a second.
That’s not relevant.

457
00:28:01,100 –> 00:28:03,600
He wants to see.
He wants to wait and see.

458
00:28:03,600 –> 00:28:06,900
Jacob, will you see will you
stop doing this?

459
00:28:07,600 –> 00:28:09,900
I think many parents.
Also wrestled with their

460
00:28:09,900 –> 00:28:11,100
children.
Often physically.

461
00:28:11,800 –> 00:28:14,900
I could kill you at any Mom.
I just want you to just calm

462
00:28:14,900 –> 00:28:17,900
down.
Will you stop this?

463
00:28:18,500 –> 00:28:21,400
And it gets darker and darker
and colder and colder in the

464
00:28:21,400 –> 00:28:24,000
night goes through.
And finally it comes to the

465
00:28:24,000 –> 00:28:26,200
morning and the angel realize
it’s really time for a cup of

466
00:28:26,200 –> 00:28:27,300
tea.
I’m kind of done with this.

467
00:28:27,700 –> 00:28:29,000
You’re not going to get this,
are you?

468
00:28:29,000 –> 00:28:31,500
Jacob, you just today you’re not
going to get this.

469
00:28:32,100 –> 00:28:36,700
I haven’t been able to subdue
you at all physically.

470
00:28:36,700 –> 00:28:38,300
I could kill you but that’s not
relevant.

471
00:28:38,600 –> 00:28:42,900
I haven’t been able to subdue.
You, you really have continued

472
00:28:42,900 –> 00:28:46,000
to struggle with guard to your
own continued blind.

473
00:28:46,100 –> 00:28:48,900
Honest.
The angel crippled Jacob

474
00:28:48,900 –> 00:28:51,500
physically, perhaps, as a
starting point to help him

475
00:28:51,500 –> 00:28:55,200
realize you have strength with
guard but it’s not where you

476
00:28:55,200 –> 00:28:59,100
think it is.
Did Israel learn his lesson that

477
00:28:59,100 –> 00:29:01,300
day.
It may have been the beginning

478
00:29:01,300 –> 00:29:04,000
of recovery, but I think the
answer know is better than the

479
00:29:04,000 –> 00:29:04,800
answer.
Yes.

480
00:29:05,100 –> 00:29:07,300
Why?
Because we know how much he went

481
00:29:07,300 –> 00:29:09,800
out of his way and time does not
permit us to investigate at

482
00:29:09,800 –> 00:29:14,700
length to continue wrestling
against everything to know that

483
00:29:14,700 –> 00:29:18,700
he was the one powerful enough
to protect Joseph.

484
00:29:18,700 –> 00:29:20,800
I’ll give him a special coat to
show his favor.

485
00:29:20,900 –> 00:29:23,400
I’ll do everything I can to get
out of my way to go out of my

486
00:29:23,400 –> 00:29:26,300
way to protect my own son.
Did he win?

487
00:29:26,300 –> 00:29:29,300
No.
His own son got killed.

488
00:29:29,600 –> 00:29:32,900
As far as he knows his brothers.
Actually done something else,

489
00:29:33,200 –> 00:29:35,400
but they told him.
His son was dead and he went on

490
00:29:35,400 –> 00:29:38,900
and did the same thing with
Benjamin to and lost Benjamin

491
00:29:39,000 –> 00:29:43,000
temporarily as well.
You might think I’m being very

492
00:29:43,000 –> 00:29:45,000
hard on Jacob.
I certainly don’t mean to be.

493
00:29:45,200 –> 00:29:48,900
Jacob was a Godly Man.
And God was slapping him and

494
00:29:48,900 –> 00:29:52,200
slapping him and slapping him
and slapping him because God

495
00:29:52,200 –> 00:29:54,700
loved him.
I can work with you.

496
00:29:54,700 –> 00:29:57,300
Jacob, I can get to your Godly
core.

497
00:29:57,500 –> 00:30:02,100
If you’ll just let go of your
determination to cheat and

498
00:30:02,100 –> 00:30:05,600
outwit and outsmart and out
muscle everyone on what you

499
00:30:05,600 –> 00:30:08,300
think is the road to Victory.
If you want to know what favor

500
00:30:08,300 –> 00:30:10,800
and disfavor looks like, that’s
the picture that comes into my

501
00:30:10,800 –> 00:30:13,900
mind.
Jacob is constantly on God’s

502
00:30:13,900 –> 00:30:16,700
radar screen.
And often is the beam goes past.

503
00:30:16,700 –> 00:30:19,800
It’s somewhat of a sandpapering
effect that Jacob doesn’t enjoy

504
00:30:20,100 –> 00:30:23,100
Esau.
Where’s the chapter?

505
00:30:23,700 –> 00:30:27,800
Where God reasons with, Esau?
It doesn’t even exist.

506
00:30:28,600 –> 00:30:31,500
This is what we mean by Jacob.
I have loved a Nika.

507
00:30:31,500 –> 00:30:35,700
Esau, I have not.
Loved Esau isn’t really even on

508
00:30:35,800 –> 00:30:38,400
God’s radar screen Kappa.
It’s May apply.

509
00:30:38,400 –> 00:30:40,400
But that’s, that’s what I’m
seeing.

510
00:30:40,400 –> 00:30:42,200
So don’t think I’m being too
harsh on Jacob.

511
00:30:42,200 –> 00:30:44,900
I don’t think God is either what
happens.

512
00:30:44,900 –> 00:30:49,400
Next seven years of drought, you
know that is something I didn’t

513
00:30:49,400 –> 00:30:54,700
know until vaguely recently when
I Stop to think about it is what

514
00:30:54,700 –> 00:30:58,800
that drought actually meant with
respect to the birth rate and

515
00:30:58,800 –> 00:31:02,700
the blessing and the flocks.
All those things that God said

516
00:31:02,700 –> 00:31:06,500
Jacob, I promised them to you.
Do you realize what the drought

517
00:31:06,500 –> 00:31:09,900
did?
It took them all away.

518
00:31:11,400 –> 00:31:13,400
Now, I would have thought no,
wait, God isn’t a cheat.

519
00:31:13,400 –> 00:31:16,700
No, God is not a cheat, but
those blessings, he promised

520
00:31:16,700 –> 00:31:20,200
Jacob were all taken away in the
end.

521
00:31:20,200 –> 00:31:23,200
The drought was so severe that
Jacob had to go as a foreign

522
00:31:23,200 –> 00:31:26,300
immigrant down to pharaoh and
beg for food.

523
00:31:26,700 –> 00:31:29,100
What were the things?
What was the birthright anyway?

524
00:31:30,000 –> 00:31:33,800
The birthright was or one of the
things he was promised or

525
00:31:33,800 –> 00:31:37,000
wrestled for was all those
flocks and herds, there’s a

526
00:31:37,000 –> 00:31:42,000
drought They’re dead and all
being eaten, they’re gone.

527
00:31:42,500 –> 00:31:45,600
What else was there?
There was all that food and

528
00:31:45,600 –> 00:31:47,500
drink.
No, there’s seven years of

529
00:31:47,500 –> 00:31:49,300
drought.
There is no food.

530
00:31:49,300 –> 00:31:52,200
There is no drink.
That’s why he’s going to Egypt

531
00:31:52,300 –> 00:31:55,900
to beg for food and drink.
What else was Jacob wrestling

532
00:31:55,900 –> 00:31:59,300
for and promised the power, The
Authority.

533
00:32:00,100 –> 00:32:05,300
What Authority is now a
penniless hungry, immigrant

534
00:32:05,700 –> 00:32:08,800
begging and Egyptian official.
Meal.

535
00:32:09,400 –> 00:32:13,600
That’s not power, that’s gone.
What else did he wrestle for all

536
00:32:13,600 –> 00:32:15,800
the money?
Such as he has, left is useless,

537
00:32:15,800 –> 00:32:19,000
he can’t eat it.
What else did he wrestle for

538
00:32:19,300 –> 00:32:20,600
Rachel?
The beautiful wife.

539
00:32:20,600 –> 00:32:21,900
Guess what?
She’s dead.

540
00:32:22,500 –> 00:32:25,300
She’s already died at Bethlehem
in childbirth for Benjamin.

541
00:32:26,100 –> 00:32:29,700
What else did he wrestle for to
protect his beloved Son?

542
00:32:29,800 –> 00:32:31,200
Guess what?
He’s dead too.

543
00:32:31,200 –> 00:32:36,500
As far as Jacob knows.
God took everything away.

544
00:32:37,400 –> 00:32:43,600
Why I suggest because Jacob got
it through his own, deceitful,

545
00:32:43,900 –> 00:32:47,800
cleverness, and strength.
And God knew, if I let you keep

546
00:32:47,800 –> 00:32:51,000
it under those circumstances,
you’re going to think that you

547
00:32:51,000 –> 00:32:52,800
are the author of your own
salvation.

548
00:32:53,800 –> 00:32:56,000
And that will destroy you
spiritually.

549
00:32:56,400 –> 00:32:59,700
So, let me just take everything
off you that you wrestle for.

550
00:33:00,300 –> 00:33:04,900
How do you feel now?
Jacob, Finally Israel stands

551
00:33:04,900 –> 00:33:12,100
before Pharaoh old homeless lame
bereaved and hungry.

552
00:33:14,000 –> 00:33:20,200
Finally, he has nothing left to
wrestle with and frankly, he has

553
00:33:20,200 –> 00:33:25,500
nothing left to wrestle for.
Finally, no wonder.

554
00:33:25,500 –> 00:33:29,300
He would say few and evil have
been the days of the years of my

555
00:33:29,300 –> 00:33:36,600
life, because finally strength
with God is weak and he has to

556
00:33:36,600 –> 00:33:41,500
acknowledge it, there’s nothing
I can do, my biceps don’t work

557
00:33:41,500 –> 00:33:44,800
and my brains can’t help me.
I’m in a situation where I’ve

558
00:33:44,800 –> 00:33:47,500
lost everything.
I thought my God promised me,

559
00:33:47,900 –> 00:33:51,100
and I cannot myself get any of
it back.

560
00:33:51,400 –> 00:33:53,400
Please Pharaoh’s?
Oil.

561
00:33:53,700 –> 00:33:58,900
Please may I have some food for
me and my family to eat the

562
00:33:58,900 –> 00:34:01,800
ultimate in dignity and
humility.

563
00:34:05,600 –> 00:34:15,100
What does God do next?
It’s excellent sign language

564
00:34:15,100 –> 00:34:19,600
from the back pass, superb.
He gives everything back.

565
00:34:21,699 –> 00:34:26,199
For free for nothing.
And without Jacob being able to

566
00:34:26,199 –> 00:34:29,500
do a thing about it.
Watch settle, your father, and

567
00:34:29,500 –> 00:34:32,000
your brothers in the best part
of the land, let them live in

568
00:34:32,000 –> 00:34:34,800
Goshen, which is in the Nile,
Delta, beautiful and Lush.

569
00:34:34,800 –> 00:34:38,400
There, The Authority comes back.
Joseph, also, provided his

570
00:34:38,400 –> 00:34:41,300
father, and his brothers, and
all his father’s household with

571
00:34:41,300 –> 00:34:43,500
food.
Back, comes the blessing that

572
00:34:43,500 –> 00:34:46,600
had been temporarily with hell,
the Egyptians brought all their

573
00:34:46,600 –> 00:34:50,199
livestock, to Joseph, and he
gave them food in exchange for

574
00:34:50,199 –> 00:34:52,600
their horses.
Sheep goats cattle and donkeys.

575
00:34:52,900 –> 00:34:56,500
All the flocks are back.
Joseph bought all the land in

576
00:34:56,500 –> 00:35:00,500
Egypt for Pharaoh.
He’s now the richest family in

577
00:35:00,500 –> 00:35:05,600
the land and Israel says to
Joseph, God says oh yeah, that

578
00:35:05,600 –> 00:35:07,300
beloved Son.
You thought was dead.

579
00:35:07,500 –> 00:35:09,000
Yeah.
Why don’t you have him back to?

580
00:35:09,500 –> 00:35:11,300
Why not?
I’m God I can do that.

581
00:35:11,900 –> 00:35:15,800
Israel said to Joseph in a much
happier mood, I’m sure now I’m

582
00:35:15,800 –> 00:35:20,200
ready to die because I’ve seen
for myself, you are still alive,

583
00:35:20,500 –> 00:35:24,400
God gave it all back and Jacob
will know, there’s nothing.

584
00:35:24,500 –> 00:35:29,300
That I did to make that happen
now, God has provided for me and

585
00:35:29,300 –> 00:35:31,500
I know that God has provided for
me.

586
00:35:31,800 –> 00:35:34,000
It was not my wrestling with the
angel.

587
00:35:34,000 –> 00:35:37,400
It wasn’t my sneaky sneaky
outwitting, my brother, or my

588
00:35:37,400 –> 00:35:42,400
uncle, or anybody else.
He’s given it all back or has he

589
00:35:43,400 –> 00:35:47,500
What’s missing?
You never gave back the second

590
00:35:47,500 –> 00:35:51,800
wife and fair enough, but also
underscoring, that’s not

591
00:35:51,800 –> 00:35:53,800
something that he ever should
have taken.

592
00:35:54,000 –> 00:35:55,900
This was not part of God’s
provision.

593
00:35:58,900 –> 00:36:01,000
Has Israel learned Israel’s
lesson.

594
00:36:03,200 –> 00:36:05,700
Which Israel do you think I’m
talking about?

595
00:36:09,200 –> 00:36:12,700
As his 20-foot concrete walls,
machine guns.

596
00:36:12,700 –> 00:36:17,700
Big tanks that go bang.
The world’s best Air Force barf.

597
00:36:17,700 –> 00:36:23,900
You Israel is still wrestling.
We can do it.

598
00:36:24,100 –> 00:36:28,300
We can do it by our own might if
the walls are high enough and

599
00:36:28,300 –> 00:36:31,400
the aircraft’s have got enough
missiles and enough to the

600
00:36:31,400 –> 00:36:33,600
tanks.
Have got enough technology and

601
00:36:33,600 –> 00:36:35,100
the fighters have got enough
Spirit.

602
00:36:35,100 –> 00:36:39,200
We can do it, we can do it.
We can stay alive on our own, we

603
00:36:39,200 –> 00:36:44,200
can wrestle our way to Victory.
Even amongst all of these Arab

604
00:36:44,200 –> 00:36:49,200
forces trying to destroy us.
If they read Genesis, really,

605
00:36:49,900 –> 00:36:56,800
Israel is still wrestling.
This is one of the most.

606
00:36:57,500 –> 00:37:01,200
These next few slides are, is
one of the most favorite things

607
00:37:01,200 –> 00:37:03,600
that I discovered, probably in
the last five years.

608
00:37:03,900 –> 00:37:07,900
This I find truly amazing Watch
What Happens.

609
00:37:08,400 –> 00:37:11,600
It’s just going to start off
just as a recap of Jacob’s life.

610
00:37:13,100 –> 00:37:16,300
Israel wrestles we’ve seen all
that for all that stuff.

611
00:37:17,100 –> 00:37:20,100
Israel believes the Beloved son
is dead.

612
00:37:20,300 –> 00:37:22,800
Joseph was killed by wild
animals.

613
00:37:22,800 –> 00:37:27,800
He was told actually the Beloved
son was still alive because the

614
00:37:27,800 –> 00:37:30,800
midianites sold Joseph in Egypt
to potiphar.

615
00:37:32,000 –> 00:37:35,400
In fact, not only is he alive,
he’s the second in command in a

616
00:37:35,408 –> 00:37:38,100
Mighty Kingdom, the might just
Kingdom on Earth being Egypt at

617
00:37:38,100 –> 00:37:41,000
that time and Pharaoh himself
says to Joseph.

618
00:37:41,100 –> 00:37:44,100
I hereby put you in charge of
the whole land of Egypt.

619
00:37:44,400 –> 00:37:47,900
He had Joseph riding a chariot
as his second-in-command.

620
00:37:49,000 –> 00:37:52,100
And in fact, the sun is working,
even though the family think

621
00:37:52,100 –> 00:37:56,000
he’s gone unrecognized for the
family, he loves collecting

622
00:37:56,000 –> 00:37:58,600
together all the food during the
seven years of drought.

623
00:37:59,000 –> 00:38:02,100
During the seven years of plenty
to prepare for the seven years

624
00:38:02,100 –> 00:38:05,600
of drought.
And then God takes everything

625
00:38:05,600 –> 00:38:08,000
away to teach Jacob to teach
Israel.

626
00:38:08,100 –> 00:38:12,900
His true strength and Israel.
Finally sees his weakness few

627
00:38:12,900 –> 00:38:17,300
and evil of the days of the
years of my life being At which

628
00:38:17,300 –> 00:38:22,700
point God restores everything.
Except the extra spouse, he

629
00:38:22,700 –> 00:38:25,500
wasn’t supposed to have that and
Israel.

630
00:38:25,500 –> 00:38:29,600
Finally sees the beloved Son and
the sons of Israel worshiped,

631
00:38:29,600 –> 00:38:31,100
the Sun as we’ve been going
along.

632
00:38:31,300 –> 00:38:33,400
You’ve seen the chapter numbers
as they come through.

633
00:38:34,600 –> 00:38:38,500
That’s the summary of what we’ve
just seen the history of the

634
00:38:38,500 –> 00:38:44,600
life of Israel is the history.
Excuse me, the future of the

635
00:38:44,600 –> 00:38:48,600
country of Israel, if you want
to know, if you ever wanted to

636
00:38:48,600 –> 00:38:51,800
know what’s going to happen in
the future of Israel, you might

637
00:38:51,800 –> 00:38:55,600
say yes, Ezekiel 38, Zechariah
14, Matthew 24, the Olivet

638
00:38:55,600 –> 00:38:59,900
prophecy Shore, but you never
needed to leave Genesis It was

639
00:38:59,900 –> 00:39:02,800
all mapped out there from the
start watch.

640
00:39:02,800 –> 00:39:04,500
Let’s do it again.
This time, I’m going to be on

641
00:39:04,500 –> 00:39:08,800
the other side.
Israel is a man but Israel’s

642
00:39:08,800 –> 00:39:13,100
also a nation Israel.
Wrestles we’ve seen that today

643
00:39:13,100 –> 00:39:17,100
and every day in our papers,
Israel believes the Beloved son

644
00:39:17,100 –> 00:39:19,000
is dead.
Yes, he died on a cross when the

645
00:39:19,000 –> 00:39:24,100
Romans killed him, he’s dead.
You know, pity that nice guy not

646
00:39:24,100 –> 00:39:27,500
obviously the Messiah otherwise
he’d be alive but the Beloved

647
00:39:27,500 –> 00:39:31,100
son is actually alive.
I’ve because God has appointed a

648
00:39:31,107 –> 00:39:34,800
day in which he will judge the
world with righteousness by that

649
00:39:34,800 –> 00:39:37,200
man whom he has ordained
whereof.

650
00:39:37,200 –> 00:39:40,500
He has given Assurance under all
men in that he has raised him

651
00:39:40,900 –> 00:39:44,200
from the dead.
In fact, the sun is not only

652
00:39:44,200 –> 00:39:47,100
alive.
He’s the second in command of a

653
00:39:47,107 –> 00:39:50,400
Mighty Kingdom Seated.
On the right hand side of the

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father, I see Heaven opened
testify, Steven and the son of

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man standing at the right hand
of God.

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And in fact, the sun is working.
Unrecognized for the family, he

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loves in order to feed all who
will come to him.

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Therefore, he is able to save
completely those who come to God

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through him, because he always
lives.

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How to intercede for them.
And there we are.

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There’s 2015.
What happens next?

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You want to know?
Read the rest of the chapters of

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Genesis, it’s all there.
It’s been there since the very

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beginning.
Next God, takes everything away

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to teach Israel, his true
strength, indeed.

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I will gather all the nations to
Jerusalem to fight against it.

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The city will be captured, the
house is ransacked and the women

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raped and Israel will finally
see his weakness.

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Well, might they say few and
evil of the days of the years of

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Our Lives being.
I expect those words will be

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uttered in spirit and what will
happen.

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Next will God, will restore
everything Jerusalem will be

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raised up high never again, will
it be destroyed?

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Jerusalem will be secure.
What next?

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Oh, except the extra spouse.
You weren’t supposed to have

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that.
All the nations may walk in the

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name of their gods, but we will
walk in the name of Of the one

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God the Lord, Our God forever
and ever and all of these other

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dalliances we’ve had with other
religions and other forms of

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thought will be dismissed and
they will not return.

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There’s no room for the extra
spouse in the life of the Lord

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God.
And then Israel will finally see

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the beloved Son.
They will look on me, the one,

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they have pierced and they will
mourn.

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00:41:42,100 –> 00:41:46,400
And the sons of Israel will
worship the Sun and what used to

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seem to me like a rather flat
endings the Book of Genesis.

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00:41:50,200 –> 00:41:53,300
Suddenly becomes the most
majestic picture of the Kingdom.

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00:41:54,100 –> 00:41:59,100
As the sons of Israel will Bow
Down In Worship prostrate before

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the Beloved son.
That at the name of Jesus every

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knee should bow and every tongue
acknowledge that Jesus Christ is

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Lord. well, might Jesus have
said to the Pharisees, If you

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00:42:13,400 –> 00:42:18,400
believed Moses, as you claimed,
you would have believed me for,

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00:42:18,400 –> 00:42:22,700
he wrote about me.
Where did Moses write about?

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00:42:22,700 –> 00:42:28,200
Jesus, several answers are
available, which is the most

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clear.
One of all, I suggest to you.

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These last ten chapters of
Genesis, there is much a

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description of the Latter-Day
prophecies as anything else,

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you’ll find in the pages of
scripture.

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00:42:38,600 –> 00:42:41,700
And it’s been there from the
very beginning, the history of

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Israel mapped out in the life of
the man Israel.

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00:42:45,700 –> 00:42:47,400
And that was a wonderful
Discovery for me.

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00:42:47,400 –> 00:42:50,000
I’ve never been happier than
when I saw those things for the

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first time.
Time just a few years ago.

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How can I learn from Israel’s
experience?

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I shouldn’t wrestle with my
brothers.

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What am I trying to win?
Just, what am I trying to

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wrestle out of the hands of my
brothers or the hands of my

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00:43:05,600 –> 00:43:08,000
father?
That’s going to have any value

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for.
If it had value my father, would

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bless me with it anyway, People
are often unreasonable and

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00:43:14,000 –> 00:43:17,900
self-centered forgive them.
Anyway if you are kind people

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00:43:17,900 –> 00:43:20,500
may accuse you of ulterior
motives, he kind.

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00:43:20,500 –> 00:43:23,200
Anyway if you are honest people
may cheat.

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00:43:23,200 –> 00:43:26,900
You he honest anyway.
The good you do today may be

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forgotten tomorrow do well
anyway give the world the best

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00:43:31,100 –> 00:43:32,900
you have and it may never be
enough.

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00:43:33,300 –> 00:43:37,700
Give your best anyway for you
see in the end it is between you

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00:43:37,700 –> 00:43:40,200
and God.
It was never between you and

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them.
Anyway.

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God chose Israel.
The one who insisted on trying

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to bring about his own
salvation.

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00:43:50,600 –> 00:43:54,300
His own protection.
God chose those who love him.

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Even if they struggle with that
character, flaw of failing to

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trust him failing to wait upon
his timing and try and achieve

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00:44:02,400 –> 00:44:05,600
everything themselves.
If we read the life of Israel,

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00:44:05,800 –> 00:44:10,000
the only thing the wrestling
brought was pain and fractured

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00:44:10,000 –> 00:44:12,200
family.
Nothing else.

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00:44:12,900 –> 00:44:14,800
Israel never rested anything
else.

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00:44:15,100 –> 00:44:19,700
Israel had immense strength with
God because he loved God, it

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00:44:19,700 –> 00:44:23,500
wasn’t in his biceps, it wasn’t
in his brains, he just needed to

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discover where his strength with
God, truly lay God can and will

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00:44:29,500 –> 00:44:35,200
work with this type of person.
And so it was a final slide.

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Another lesson for me, don’t
grab that God’s blessings.

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Do I need to mug the nearest
Angel to get God’s blessings.

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00:44:44,400 –> 00:44:47,100
Israel says yes grabbin rugby,
tackle him here.

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00:44:47,100 –> 00:44:52,700
And now and finally, he learned
know what strengths do.

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00:44:52,700 –> 00:44:56,200
You think that son has that with
that father?

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00:44:57,100 –> 00:45:00,900
I suggest you that son has more
strength with that father than

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he’ll ever know.
But if he thinks it’s in his

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ability to knock his father
down, he’s hilariously wrong.

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00:45:09,900 –> 00:45:12,500
But the strength is there,
nonetheless.

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00:45:14,100 –> 00:45:18,000
Fear not little flock, says the
father for it is my good

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00:45:18,000 –> 00:45:20,300
pleasure to give you the
kingdom.

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00:45:24,000 –> 00:45:25,200
No wrestling required.
No wrestling required.