SLIDE 1 Here are the songs we sang this Sunday. This shows the song name, the artist who performed the song, and the cd that contains the song.
We Believe – Newsboys – Restart The Lion and The Lamb – Big Daddy Weave – Beautiful Offerings Holy – Vineyard Music – Come Now is the Time: Platinum Collection So Will I (100 Billion X) – Hillsong Worship – There is More How Great is Our God – Shane & Shane – The Worship Initiative,
SLIDE 2 Special Speaker:
Seiver
SLIDE 3 Genesis 32: 22-32 (ESV)
22 The same night he arose and took his
two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford
- f the Jabbok. 23 He took them and sent
them across the stream, and everything else that he had.
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Genesis 32: 22-32 (ESV)
24 And Jacob was left alone. And a man
wrestled with him until the breaking of the day. 25 When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he touched his hip socket, and Jacob's hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with him.
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Genesis 32: 22-32 (ESV)
26 Then he said, “Let me go, for the day
has broken.” But Jacob said, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.” 27 And he said to him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Jacob.”
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Genesis 32: 22-32 (ESV)
28 Then he said, “Your name shall no
longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed.” 29 Then Jacob asked him, “Please tell me your name.” But he said, “Why is it that you ask my name?” And there he blessed him.
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Genesis 32: 22-32 (ESV)
30 So Jacob called the name of the place
Peniel, saying, “For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life has been delivered.” 31 The sun rose upon him as he passed Penuel, limping because of his hip.
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Genesis 32: 22-32 (ESV)
32 Therefore to this day the people of
Israel do not eat the sinew of the thigh that is on the hip socket, because he touched the socket of Jacob's hip on the sinew of the thigh.
SLIDE 9 Genesis 32: 22-32 (ESV)
- Who was the man Jacob wrestled with?
(vv. 29-30)
29 Then Jacob asked him, “Please tell me
your name.” But he said, “Why is it that you ask my name?” And there he blessed him.
SLIDE 10 Genesis 32: 22-32 (ESV)
- Jacob’s background (a brief review of his
history for the previous 20 years)
SLIDE 11 What was God’s purpose in wrestling with Jacob? BROKENNESS
- Can come slowly or quickly. It can come while not yet a
Christian or for a young Christian or even a more mature
- Christian. It occurs all through the Bible to different key
leaders in the Old and New Testament.
- God uses such things as money, reputation, job,
ministry, health and family to bring brokenness.
SLIDE 12 What was God’s purpose in wrestling with Jacob? BROKENNESS
- God does not generally actually cause the brokenness but
he gives space to Satan to bring about the suffering.
- Brokenness is a major theme in the history of Christian
- spirituality. A classic work is Dark Night of the Soul by John
- f the Cross.
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2 results of BROKENNESS
1) 2)
SLIDE 14 God will often gently remind us of what we went through during BROKENNESS
- Jacob’s hip was out of joint and he
walked with a limp the rest of his life.
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- Story of the pastor in Nigeria.
God will often gently remind us of what we went through during BROKENNESS
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Why did Jacob wrestle with God? What did he want? (v. 26)
26 Then he said, “Let me go, for the day
has broken.” But Jacob said, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”
SLIDE 17 Why did Jacob wrestle with God? What did he want? (v. 26)
- Jacob surely wanted to know that their
would be a fulfillment of the promise given to his grandfather & father. But he also seem to want something more.
SLIDE 18 Why did Jacob wrestle with God? What did he want? (v. 26)
- God changed his name and said he was a
prince with God and man (vv. 27-28)
SLIDE 19 Why did Jacob wrestle with God? What did he want? (v. 26)
- God changed his name and said he was a
prince with God and man (vv. 27-28)
27 And he said to him, “What is your
name?” And he said, “Jacob.”
SLIDE 20 Why did Jacob wrestle with God? What did he want? (v. 26)
- God changed his name and said he was a
prince with God and man (vv. 27-28)
28 Then he said, “Your name shall no longer
be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed.”
SLIDE 21 Why did Jacob wrestle with God? What did he want? (v. 26)
- Jacob later in life (Genesis 47:7-10)
7 Then Joseph brought in Jacob his
father and stood him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. 8 And Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How many are the days of the years of your life?”
SLIDE 22 Why did Jacob wrestle with God? What did he want? (v. 26)
- Jacob later in life (Genesis 47:7-10)
9 And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days
- f the years of my sojourning are 130
years.
SLIDE 23 Why did Jacob wrestle with God? What did he want? (v. 26)
- Jacob later in life (Genesis 47:7-10)
Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojourning.”
SLIDE 24 Why did Jacob wrestle with God? What did he want? (v. 26)
- Jacob later in life (Genesis 47:7-10)
10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh and went
- ut from the presence of Pharaoh.
SLIDE 25 Why did Jacob wrestle with God? What did he want? (v. 26)
- Jacob later in life (see also Genesis 49)
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Idea of a life touch and what it means
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- History of the holiness movement and
this passage
Idea of a life touch and what it means
SLIDE 28
What does all this say to us in the church?
1) 2)
