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Genesis 33
Embracing your identity as a worshiper of God
INTRO
The passage we are studying through today is Genesis 33….which is the
continuation of what Nathan led us through last Sunday.
When he and I spent
time reading through and studying the passage together,…we wrestled a bit with
how to go through it,…for chapter 32 and 33 are one account broken up into 3
parts.
We weren’t sure if we should tackle the whole account in one setting.
Covering both chapters together….Another thought was to preach through
each of the 3 parts, over the course of three separate Sunday worship service
gatherings.
JACOB wrestling with God being the middle one.
OR, if we ought
to just take each chapter individually.
Chapter 32 last Sunday and chapter 33
this Sunday.
Which is what we did.
I say all this to begin our approach to chapter 33 with the whole account in
mind,… for I believe that will help us move through it with clear direction.
SO
let’s start with an aerial view.
These two chapters together place before us the
main take home for today…and that is - Embracing your identity as a
worshipper of God.
Embracing your identity as a worshipper of God.
In chapter 32 we see JACOB encounter,…what we all must encounter if we
are to embrace our identity as a worshipper of God and that is,…our fears.
His is pretty clear here.
When he fled his home and people in the land of
Canaan 20yrs ago his brother ESAU was determined on killing him.
And now
he finds himself returning to the same very place and therefore the fear of his
brother,….weighs
heavily upon him…… for good reason.
There has been
nothing communicated to Jacob to assure him that his brother has changed his
plans to kill him.
And so, we see Jacob taking these steps of Embracing his
identity as a worshipper of God by, #1
- Prayer - There is recorded, as Nathan stated, a model prayer by one pouring
his heart out to God.
It is indeed a model prayer that opens in praise and
adoration, then moves to recounting Gods’ faithfulness to him and ends with
petitions to God on the basis of God’s faithfulness to him;….that it would
not depart but continue as he faces the deadly threat of facing his twin
brother Esau.
Following the prayer is -
- Preparation - JACOB wisely makes preparations for this.
He has a thought
-out - plan, Actively putting together efforts to essentially walk (Micah 6:8)
out.
“He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require
of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your
God?” JACOB makes great measures of preparations to rightly love his
brother Esau with kindness and to do so in a very humble manner.
And then,
right before stepping forward in faith he obtains something that is of upmost
importance when one faces their fear head on….and that is…
- The Presence of God -, the presence of God.
When facing your fear head
on it is of upmost importance to have the presence of God with you.
JACOB
wrestles all night with God without fail till rest is found by God blessing him,
or in other words, assuring him that HE - God will be present and not break
His promises to him as JACOB faces his fear head on.
And this now brings us up to where we are today….with
Embracing your identity
as a worshipper of God.
And Our First point leading up to that…Embracing
your identity as a worshipper of God….leading up to that reaching it’s
consummation is:
Obedience to God’s call on your life; found in (verses 1-2)
BODY
1)
FIRST POINT - (Genesis 33:1-2).
Obedience to God’s call on your life
Obedience to God’s call on your life…..In other words - DOING that which God
tells him to do.
JACOB could have gone all the way up to this point in this
process of Embracing his identity as a worshipper of God,….to
then, at the
sight of Esau and the 400 men with him as (verses 1-2) tell us,…to at that
point….turn
and go a different direction altogether.
What direction we don’t
know but one thing for sure - not in the direction of his fear.
NOT in the
direction of ESAU.
JACOB could have changed course, veered a different way,
by any and all means fled from his brother Esau…i.e… - Fled from his fear.
This is no doubt a temptation we have correct?
God is calling you to do this or
that and commonly what accompanies it…is….difficulty.
Difficulty to varying
degrees that we would rather not have in existence.
But this doesn’t change
God’s calling on your life?
It remains and so does the necessity of your
Obedience to it, if you are to Embrace your identity as a worshipper of God.
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