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Va-yetzeʾ ויצא
Sermon Purpose: Beth Messiah will embrace God’s discipline as a necessary ingredient for spiritual growth and the spread of the gospel.
Homiletical Purpose: If you want to see the world rescued, be the conduit of God’s blessing to the world, discipline is a necessary spiritual ingredient.
Introduction
1. (Image)…With Thanksgiving in the rear-view mirror I can tell you I am glad for all the “prep” meetings I had with my wife and children before we jumped in the deep waters of extended family fun time.
These were training meetings and discipline 101 on what to say and what not to say.
2. (Need)…We all know how important discipline is to succeed in life and not just thanksgiving.
a. Work
b.
School
c. Finances
d.
Health
e. Relationships
3. (Subject)…God’s discipline of his children is a necessary ingredient for the rescue of the world.
Ha-Foke-Bah
4. (Text) …
5. (Preview)… show you an odd problem, an uncomfortable solution and a simple but hard application.
Body
I.
An Odd Problem: The odd problem of God’s love for Jacob.
A. God, for the first time, Discloses His Love to Jacob ().
1.
The LORD Shows Himself to Jacob ().
2. The LORD Ratifies Covenant with Jacob ().
3. The LORD Assures Jacob of Personal Protection ().
B. Jacob’s Right Response to God Self-Disclosure ().
1. Jacob Confesses Blindness ().
2. Jacob Fears the LORD ().
3. Jacob Commits His Life ().
C. Why is the Love of God such an odd problem for Jacob?
1. Jacob’s life so far, is a perfect reflection of Jacob’s name: crooked.
1. Jacob’s life so far, is a perfect reflection of Jacob’s name: crooked.
a. Illustrate: EgyptAir Flight 990 (See Appendix A).
b.
We know something Jacob does not know but will learn, “Those whom God loves, He disciplines” ()
2. Validate: We have a one-sided definition of the word discipline.
a. Everybody Loves Raymond, “Do you always uses threats?
No, sometimes she yells.”
b.
Our limited definition.
c.
The Biblical definition.
d.
The Biblical Promises
i.
It Can Save a Marriage ()
ii.
It Can Protect Your Children ()
iii.
It Can Make You Prosper ()
iv.
It Can Make You Wise ()
Transition: At Bethel Jacob encounters the God of his Fathers, a God of covenant and love but that is the problem for Jacob.
Because God loves Him He is going to discipline Him as a son, or if you like coach him like a son.
For most of us in this room, I think we can handle the idea of God coaching me.
God disciplining me one-on-one.
Here is the thing, 99% of the time God does not train you in an empty gym.
He fills the gym up with all kinds of stuff and people to get you coached up.
II.
An Uncomfortable Solution: When self-discipline is found wanting, God uses other-discipline to grow us.
Most people think they are self-disciplined but you really don’t know how undisciplined you are, best by sin, until all the normal restraints are taken away.
A. You reap what you sow, more than you sow, later than you sow (Laban)
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2. The Scorpion and the Frog Illustration (See Appendix)
3. The one who tricked his nearly blind father, has the wool pulled over his own eyes by Laban.
4. God will protect Jacob but he will also allow him to reap what he sows.
A relationship with God is not an escape from the consequences of sin.
B. As a child of your Sovereign Father, you know there are no accidents (Leah).
Leah wants her husband to love her, seen through boys names
C. What is highly esteemed among men is detestable to God (Rachel).
Rachel wants to be exalted above her sister.
Dan (dān) was the first son born to Bilhah.
The sentiment expressed at the naming was “God has vindicated me [dānannî].”
The name itself could be a perfect tense (“he judged, vindicated”) or a participle (“judge”) and is thus very closely related to the explanation.
This birth indicated to Rachel that God was beginning to set things right for her, that he was vindicating her cause.
The name of the second son, Naphtali (naptālî), emphasizes the conflict motif more than any other of the names (vv.
7–8).
Rachel said, “A mighty struggle [naptûlê ʾĕlōhîm] have I waged [niptaltî] with my sister.”
According to this explanation, the name carries the meaning “my wrestling.”
D. You grow more in your valleys, than on your mountaintops (Jacob).
1.
He has grown close to God in the valley (, ).
2. He has grown character in the valley ()
3.
He has prospered in the valley (; also Paul’s thorn).
4.
He has been protected in the valley (, ).
5. The Name Changing of Jacob to Jeshurun
a. Jacob (crooked) to Jeshurun (upright one).
b. word play on Jacob and Jeshurun
Transition: We said the odd problem Jacob faced was the amazing love of God.
The solution to that problem is that when self-discipline is found wanting, God uses other-discipline us to grow us.
III.
Simple but hard application: If you want to grow spiritually, you have to embrace God’s disciplining.
A. People pay lots of money to get discipline in their lives.
B.
Here are some things you might need to embrace in order to grow.
1. Difficult People
2. Difficult Problems
3. Difficult Prosperity
4. Difficult Pain
C.
Here is one spiritual truth you must embrace to grow during this time.
1. God is with you in an even deeper way than Jacob, if Messiah Yeshua has become your Bethel.
2. – Yeshua has become our Beth-el so that we could be little Beth-Els.
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