We pick up in our text immediately following the birth of Joseph. In our last message on the life of Jacob we looked at how Jacob laboured for Laban for 14yrs for his two wives Leah and Rachel. This polygamous relationship resulted in a family feud that pitted Leah and Rachel against each other in […]
Jacob Labours for Laban Jacob’s experiences with Laban illustrate themes of deception, rivalry, and the complexities of love and service in a lost world. I. Jacob’s Wages Negotiated 29:15 – 24 Jacob negotiates his wages with Laban, requesting Rachel in exchange for seven years of labour. (Vs 15-18) Laban agrees, seeing profit in the arrangement, […]
Last time we were studying the life of Jacob we looked at all the problems that had arisen in Jacob’s life due to the deceitfulness and selfishness of the family. Today we are going to see how God is able to catch Jacobs’s attention while he’s on the run from Esau and bring him to […]
Text: Genesis 25:19-34 & Genesis 27:1-46 Theme: The error of attempting to earn God’s blessing The life of Jacob began on difficult grounds. God had chosen Jacob to be the next of Abrahams sons to continue the line of the Messiah. Jacobs older brother Esau had been rejected by God because he despised spiritual things […]
Romans chapter 4 opens up for us the blessing of having the righteousness of Christ imputed to our account, by faith and without works.
The Apostle Paul gives us the examples of Abraham and David as Old Testament examples of men who were justified by faith.
When the principles in these two accounts are applied to the New Testament Christian we find that, like a man drowning in a rip tide can only reach out to the lifeguard, trusting the lifeguard to rescue him, the sinner can only hold out the arms of faith and receive the gift of salvation, trusting Christ to save him.
I. In the early part of I Samuel 15, Saul was commanded to utterly destroy the Amalekites and everything that belonged to them; however, Saul and the children of Israel spared the best of the sheep and cattle, and spared the life of Agag, the king of the Amalekites. II. In the Exodus 32, Israel […]
As Christians, we are running a race which God has set before us. Each individual must run his/her own race and we are all responsible for the way we run our race. So, run a worthy race.