Wresting with God (4 of 6)
Series: My Crazy Family
Scott Maze
Genesis 32:22-32
We continue our series, My Crazy Family, the story of Jacob. Jacob is a complex character - we would say in our day, ''He's a piece of work.'' Jacob's life is a Russian nesting doll with one conflict inside conflict inside yet another, conflict. What begins as a conflict with his twin brother Esau, moves to a vow with his father-in-law Laban. Both his brother and his father-in-law want to kill Jacob. And you thought your family had its problems?
Laban and Jacob place a heap of rocks down on the ground as a line in the ground (Genesis 31:51). If either one of them crossed it, it would an ancient version of Hatfield's and McCoy's. Yes, Jacob's family life is almost continual strife.
Today, we see Jacob head toward home with his family. He has children from four different woman, ranging anywhere from preschool to a maximum of thirteen years old. After twenty long years away, Jacob is about to meet his brother again. Though it had been more than twenty years before, Jacob can still remember the anger of his brother that led Esau to vow to kill him. Little did Jacob know it but heaven was about to meet earth and Jacob's life would never be the same.
This morning, I invite you to consider with me, ''How do people actually have a life-changing encounter?'' Is it near death experience that causes us to change? What would cause you to change? For real change to happen, three things need to occur ...
Your Divided Attention is Captured
Your Stubborn Will Collapses
And Your Inner Nature is Laid Bare
Today's Scripture
''The same night he arose and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. He took them and sent them across the stream, and everything else that he had. And Jacob was left alone. And a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day. When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob ...
Series: My Crazy Family
Scott Maze
Genesis 32:22-32
We continue our series, My Crazy Family, the story of Jacob. Jacob is a complex character - we would say in our day, ''He's a piece of work.'' Jacob's life is a Russian nesting doll with one conflict inside conflict inside yet another, conflict. What begins as a conflict with his twin brother Esau, moves to a vow with his father-in-law Laban. Both his brother and his father-in-law want to kill Jacob. And you thought your family had its problems?
Laban and Jacob place a heap of rocks down on the ground as a line in the ground (Genesis 31:51). If either one of them crossed it, it would an ancient version of Hatfield's and McCoy's. Yes, Jacob's family life is almost continual strife.
Today, we see Jacob head toward home with his family. He has children from four different woman, ranging anywhere from preschool to a maximum of thirteen years old. After twenty long years away, Jacob is about to meet his brother again. Though it had been more than twenty years before, Jacob can still remember the anger of his brother that led Esau to vow to kill him. Little did Jacob know it but heaven was about to meet earth and Jacob's life would never be the same.
This morning, I invite you to consider with me, ''How do people actually have a life-changing encounter?'' Is it near death experience that causes us to change? What would cause you to change? For real change to happen, three things need to occur ...
Your Divided Attention is Captured
Your Stubborn Will Collapses
And Your Inner Nature is Laid Bare
Today's Scripture
''The same night he arose and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. He took them and sent them across the stream, and everything else that he had. And Jacob was left alone. And a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day. When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob ...
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