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Introduction
Look at Jacob and Leah
Their own time
How they intersect with our time
How does this event draw the believer into closer fellowship with God
It is an invitation to those who think their mess keeps them far from God
Thank You Tim Keller
Cruise Ship Story
Main Point: God does not send us blessing to fix out messes, he brings about blessing from within our messes.
The Drama Unfolds
Jacob arrives to Laban
Laban’s job offer and Jacobs proposal
Jacob’s high offer absurdly high
Two Daughters
Racheal: Beautiful
Leah: Weak eyes
The high bride price
Jacob’s offer is absurd
Laban’s trickery begins
Laban begins in a place of fairness but quickly moves to a place of corruption
7 Years
Wedding
Confrontation
Jacobs Anger
Laban’s Excuse
if you have ever been the wrong end of one of these betrayals you know that the person who has betrayed you almost always has that justifying excuse.
That reason for them that is okay.
“Laban hides his treachery behind tradition.
Leah’s Children
Almost a divine justice.
Main Point: God does not send us blessing to fix out messes, he brings about blessing from within our messes.
Jacob
Jacob’s craving and the craving behind the craving
He has put all his hopes on Rachel
This is not fair to Rachel
Looks to sex to relieve his pain
Jacob the deceiver meets his match
Epilogue on Jacob
Jacob does not cure his pain until he is given more pain
Jacob wrestles with God
Main Point: God does not send us blessing to fix out messes, he brings about blessing from within our messes.
Main Point: God does not send us blessing to fix out messes, he brings about blessing from within our messes.
Leah
Leah is hated
Looks to family values to relieve her pain
Finally finds what she is looking for
Covenant keeping God
Main Point: God does not send us blessing to fix out messes, he brings about blessing from within our messes.
Application
Sexual pursuits did not save Jacob.
It did not save then it can not save now
Inside marriage vows
Outside marriage vows
Tinder - It’s a balmy night in Manhattan’s financial district, and at a sports bar called Stout, everyone is Tindering.
The tables are filled with young women and men who’ve been chasing money and deals on Wall Street all day, and now they’re out looking for hookups.
Everyone is drinking, peering into their screens and swiping on the faces of strangers they may have sex with later that evening.
Or not.
“Ew, this guy has Dad bod,” a young woman says of a potential match, swiping left.
Her friends smirk, not looking up.
“Tinder sucks,” they say.
But they don’t stop swiping.
At a booth in the back, three handsome twenty-something guys in button-downs are having beers.
They are Dan, Alex, and Marty, budding investment bankers at the same financial firm, which recruited Alex and Marty straight from an Ivy League campus.
(Names and some identifying details have been changed for this story.)
When asked if they’ve been arranging dates on the apps they’ve been swiping at, all say not one date, but two or three: “You can’t be stuck in one lane … There’s always something better.”
“If you had a reservation somewhere and then a table at Per Se opened up, you’d want to go there,” Alex offers.
He says that he himself has slept with five different women he met on Tinder—“Tinderellas,” the guys call them—in the last eight days.
Dan and Marty, also Alex’s roommates in a shiny high-rise apartment building near Wall Street, can vouch for that.
In fact, they can remember whom Alex has slept with in the past week more readily than he can.
On the other hand, the commitment to family values did not rescue Leah.
It did not save then and it will not save now
Article: Homeschool Will Not Save Them!
Article Over a decade ago, I made the life-changing decision to teach my child at home.
Our guest room became a school room, our office turned into a library, and the big wide world was our field trip destination.
I pored over homeschool catalogs, accumulating materials that onored God in all subjects.
Lovely hours were spent reading rich literature, full of timeless stories of faith and courage.
There was plenty of time to draw pictures, watch birds, and capture bugs.
She memorized Scripture verses in AWANA club and learned the books of the Bible, days of creation, and the Ten Commandments by heart.
They were beautiful days that passed into gratifying years; and together, we reveled in the joy of learning about our Creator and his creation.
Like the woman of Proverbs, I smiled at the future.
Fast-forward to my daughter’s first year at the university.
She came home one day and told me she had watched a film in biology class that showed a whale with legs.
I laughed.
She didn’t.
Instead, she said these impossible words, “Mom, I don’t believe the Bible is true anymore.
I’m not a Christian.”
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