DEEPER Semester 1, 2010 South Perth Church of Christ Lifestreams Discipleship (Brochure at Info Desk)
Genesis 12: Abraham & Sarah
Genesis 24: A remarkable un-named Life
Genesis 24: Isaac & Rebecca
Genesis 25:19 Jacob’s story begins
Genesis 28: Jacob runs away from home
Genesis 28:10-21 Jacob has a dream & bargains with God
Genesis 28:20-22 “Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and will watch over me on this journey I am taking and will give me food to eat and clothes to wear so that I return safely to my father’s house, then the LORD will be my God and this stone that I have set up as a pillar will be God’s house, and of all that you give me I will give you a tenth.”
Genesis Jacob meets the King of Manipulation
Genesis 32 “Pivot Point”
Genesis 32:7-8 “In great fear and distress Jacob divided the people who were with him into two groups, and the flocks and herds and camels as well. He thought, “If Esau comes and attacks one group, the group that is left may escape.”
Genesis 32:9-12 “The Jacob prayed, “O God my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, O LORD, who said to me, ‘Go back to your country and your relatives, and I will make you prosper...”
Genesis 32:9-12 “I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness you have shown your servant. I had only my staff when I crossed this Jordan, but now I have become two groups.”
Genesis 32:9-12 “Save me I pray from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid that he will come and attack me, and also the mothers with their children.”
Genesis 32:9-12 “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 32:24-32 God picks a fight with Jacob “Why?”
“What’s your name?”
“What’s your name?” Jacob answered, “Jacob” The man said, but no longer. Your name is no longer Jacob. From now on its Israel (God-Wrestler): you’ve wrestled with God and you’ve come through”
“What’s your name?”