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Today we are going to look at the story of Jacob.
Last week, we looked at the overview of Abraham’s life and saw how he is the father of our faith.
He was not perfect, but he believed God and grew in trusting the Lord instead of trying to work things out for himself.
As we saw last week, God did give Abraham a son, Isaac.
Isaac was at the center of the promise God made to Abraham, and thus the test of whether Abraham would trust the Lord in spite of the impossibility (humanly speaking) of the promise being fulfilled if Isaac died.
Abraham grew in his trust of the Lord, and was a great example to us in that test, as we saw last week.
Isaac does not get a lot of mention in Genesis.
We do see that Isaac did receive the same promise from God.
We also see that he, like his father, had to grow in his faith as well.
We see him lying about his wife, calling her his sister, as his father had done when he was living in fear of man.
However, there is not much else about Isaac.
The focus instead is on Jacob.
Today, we will look at an overview of Jacob’s life, and see what we learn about God, and what we learn about ourselves through the account of Jacob’s life.
Scene 1 - The Promise
Jacob’s history begins in Genesis 25:19.
Isaac’s wife, Rebekah, was childless, just as Sarah had been.
So Isaac prayed for his wife and she conceived.
I love the way the it is recorded in scripture:
Make note of this.
We are going to see this same theme of the Lord being the One to fulfill his promise from the conception of Jacob’s life, through the rest of his history.
What do we learn about Isaac from this passage?
God told Rebekah that it would be the younger of her twins that would be the greater.
The younger would be the one to receive God’s blessing.
The pattern of the younger:
Abel, not Cain
Seth, not Cain
Isaac, not Ishmael
Jacob, not Esau
Scene 2 - Birth
grasping the heel of his brother - his name reflected that
bad part - grasping the heel was idiom for schemer and deceiver… much like “pulling your leg”
Scene 3 - The Stew
the stew incident
Esau despised his birthright - double portion, carrying on the Father’s name, title and possession
Scheming to get what God had promised
Scene 4 - The Deception
Stealing the blessing - Genesis 27 .
Scene 5 - Consequences
Leaving home
Scene 6 - The Promise Affirmed
Scene 7 - The Vow
Scene 8 - Trials of Life
Laban - changing wages
Wives - who is the best?
The Lord gave...
The Lord gave...
The Lord gave...
The Lord gave...
Scene 9 - Scheming Again
The sheep and the sticks...
Scene 10 - God Reveals
The dream
Scene 11 - God Intervenes
3 days later, Laban finds out and pursues Jacob with his relatives.
Scene 12 - New Trouble, New Schemes, New Identity
Messengers sent to Esau.
Esau coming with 400 men.
Then, gifts to Esau
Israel - Struggles with God and Men and has overcome
Jacob - The Schemer, Manipulator, God-Follower?
Jacob feigned following God
Jacob manipulated
Isaac wanted to go against what God said
Rebekah schemed
Jacob lied
Esau fumed
Jacob had to flee because his sins caught up with him
Jacob didn’t think God was there
Jacob even tried to manipulate God
Laban used Jacob
Laban deceived Jacob
Jacob schemed
Leah and Rachel fought and strived
Jacob went along
Jacob fled in fear
Jacob tried to do it on his own
What about You and Me?
But God...
God is Present
God is Sovereign
God’s Blessing is Given by Grace
not by status, nor is it earned
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