Jesus in Genesis: Gen 32.33
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Jacob has left Labon and is headed back to his childhood home.
First thing he has to confront is his angry brother.
6 And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.
7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands;
What did Jacob do?
He prayed!!!
11 Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children.
Still don’t trust God… help God out - TRIED TO MANIPULATE ESAU
Resorts to his old tricks...
Sending gift to his brother, hoping to bribe him.
While preparing to meet his brother set up camp...
24 And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
Finally, Jacob realizes that this unnamed man is God!
And before God, all tricks are revealed!
He is revealed for what he is!
26 And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
His last resort was to hold on and not let go...
Interesting: what did he want?
The blessing he stole was not good enough!
God blesses him with a name change!
Genesis 32:28 (KJV 1900)
28 And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
From Jacob to Israel.
Lier to one who strives with God or Prince of God.
Prince has authority - Jacob has power/authority with man and God.
God’s people are now also named...
God always puts us through a process of revealing what is in us!
Quicker we recognize what is in us, the quicker God can help get it out of us!
Next morning: Esau forgave him!
4 And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.
God has answered his prayer!
8 And he said, What meanest thou by all this drove which I met? And he said, These are to find grace in the sight of my lord.
9 And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that thou hast unto thyself.
More than any other, most identify with Jacobs story!
Jacob was messed up… lier, cheater, coward
Just like us!
Yet God forgave him!
Don’t need our good deeds, just our obedience!
34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Even when I was a cheater, God still loved me!
Conclusion: paper cross illustration