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, Vol. 2
Special Speaker: Dr. David Seiver
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 of the Jabbok. 23 He took them and sent them across the stream, and everything else that he had.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
Genesis 32: 22-32 (ESV) Jacob’s background (a brief review of his history for the previous 20 years)
What was God’s purpose in wrestling with Jacob? B ROKENNESS 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.
What was God’s purpose in wrestling with Jacob? B ROKENNESS 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 of the Cross.
2 results of BROKENNESS 1) 2)
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.
God will often gently remind us of what we went through during BROKENNESS Story of the pastor in Nigeria.
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.”
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.
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)
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.”
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.”
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 ?”
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 of the years of my sojourning are 130 years.
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 .”
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 out from the presence of Pharaoh.
Why did Jacob wrestle with God? What did he want? (v. 26) Jacob later in life (see also Genesis 49)
Idea of a life touch and what it means
Idea of a life touch and what it means History of the holiness movement and this passage
What does all this say to us in the church? 1) 2)
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