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Title: Jacob: Wrestling with God


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Jacob Wrestling with God
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Our Wrestling with God
  • Do you think you can wrestle with God?
  • Have you and/or do you wrestle with God?
  • How can you wrestle with God?

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Our Wrestling with God
  • Ignoring your Bible and Prayer
  • Overuse of the Internet/TV/Video Games
  • School Course Load, Grades, Graduation
  • Relationships - Family, Dating, Friends
  • Anxiety, Stress, Worry (Car Problems)

4
Jacobs Life of Wrestling
  • The babies jostled each other within her
  • (Genesis 2522)
  • But Jacob said, Swear to me first. So he swore
    an oath to him, selling his birthright to Jacob.
    (Genesis 2533)
  • Jacob said to his father, I am Esau your
    firstborn (Genesis 2719)
  • Then the lord said to Jacob, Go back to the
    land of your fathers and to your relatives, and I
    will be with you. (Genesis 313)

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Jacobs Life of Wrestling
  • I am unworthy of all the kindness and
    faithfulness you have shown your servant.
    (Genesis 3210)
  • But you have said, I will surely make you
    prosper and will make your descendants like the
    sand of the sea, which cannot be counted.
    (Genesis 3212)
  • So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with
    him till daybreak. When the man saw that he
    could not over power him (Genesis 3224-25)

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Jacobs Life of Wrestling
  • Then the man said, Let me go, for it is
    daybreak. But Jacob replied, I will not let you
    go unless you bless me. (Genesis 3226)

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Jacobs Response to Trouble
  • Jacob took his family and sent them across
    the stream. And he sent across whatever he had.
    Then Jacob was left alone (Genesis 3223-24a)

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Jacobs Response to Trouble
  • Jacob took his family and sent them across
    the stream. And he sent across whatever he had.
    Then Jacob was left alone (Genesis 3223-24a)
  • We tend to go inward
  • We tend to isolate
  • from people God

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God Picks a Fight with Jacob
  • Then Jacob was left
  • alone, and a man
  • wrestled with him
  • until daybreak.
  • (Genesis 3224)

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God Picks a Fight with Jacob
  • Then Jacob was left alone,
  • and a man wrestled with
  • him until daybreak.
  • (Genesis 3224)
  • God is keeping Jacob
  • engaged with Him
  • rather than allowing
  • Jacob to get lost in himself.

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God Picks a Fight with Jacob
  • A man wrestled with him until daybreak. When he
    saw that he had not prevailed against Jacob, he
    touched the socket of
  • his thigh so the socket of Jacobs thigh was
    dislocated while he wrestled him.
  • Then he said, Let me goBut Jacob said, I
    will not let you go unless you bless me.
  • (Genesis 3224-26)

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Gods Goal of Wrestling Jacob
  • Then he said, Let me goBut Jacob said, I
    will not let you go unless you bless me.
  • So he said, What is your name?
  • And he said, Jacob.
  • He said, Your name shall no longer be Jacob,
    but Israel for you have wrestled with God and
    with men and have prevailed.
  • (Genesis 3226-29)

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Results from Wrestling with God
  • Transformation of Jacob into Israel (Genesis
    3228)
  • Recognizing of God in a new way
  • (Genesis 3229-30 3320)
  • A visible change in Jacob (Genesis 3231)
  • Trusting in following God (Genesis 3317-20)

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Church Participation
  • On the Prayer section of the contact card
    (inside the bulletin) please write
  • 1 or 2 areas that you are wrestling with God
    right now in your life that we can lift up in our
    prayers.
  • Please fill out the rest of the info on the card
    and put it (and any tithes) in the baskets when
    they are passed.
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