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Category: Isaac and Jacob

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Jacob’s steps to commitment Genesis 35

Posted on November 19, 2019

It was the great theologian and sometimes tennis player Martina Navratilova who once said that the difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. In ham and eggs the chicken is involved but the pig is committed. In the life of every Christian…

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Wrestling with God Genesis 32:22-32

Posted on November 15, 2019

Think about who Jacob had been We saw in Genesis 25 how Jacob had cheated his older brother Esau out of his birthright of the family name, and the special blessing for the oldest, and the double portion of the inheritance which goes with that.…

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Jacob and Laban – God in everything Genesis 29-31

Posted on October 28, 2019

The Book of Genesis takes twelve chapters to tell the story of how God changed Jacob the cheating scumbag into the third of the Patriarchs and the Father of the twelve Tribes of Israel. We have seen how Jacob cheated Esau out of his birthright…

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The Trickster Gets Tricked Genesis 29

Posted on October 22, 2019

My object all sublime I shall achieve in time — To let the punishment fit the crime — The punishment fit the crime; And make each prisoner pent Unwillingly represent A source of innocent merriment! Of innocent merriment! I was going to sing those words…

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Stairway to Heaven Genesis 28:10-22

Posted on October 16, 2019

There’s a lady who’s sure all that glitters is gold And she’s buying a stairway to heaven And when she gets there she knows if the stores are closed With a word she can get what she came for “Stairway to heaven” by Jimmy Page…

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Jacob steals the blessing Genesis 27

Posted on October 2, 2019

The preacher Alexander Whyte wrote this about Jacob. “There was no Old Testament saint of them all who, first and last, saw more of the favour and forgiveness of God than Jacob. And yet, with all that, the great sins of Jacob’s youth and the…

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Esau and a bowl of stew Genesis 25:19-34

Posted on September 25, 2019

The God of the Old Testament, the God of the nation of Israel, is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Abraham who was called God’s friend, Isaac his son, and his son Jacob whose name God changed to Israel, were the Patriarchs. God’s covenant…

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The camels are coming! Genesis 24

Posted on September 15, 2019

“The camels are coming! The camels are coming!” There is a passage I have been waiting to preach on for more than 40 years since I first heard a sermon on it. I can’t remember who the preacher was. The passage is Genesis chapter 24…

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God tests Abraham’s faith Genesis 22

Posted on September 11, 2019

Has God ever put your faith to the test by asking you to give something up? Something so precious or so important to you that you don’t know how you would go on living without it? Sometimes God takes such things away from us –…

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