Post by charlescameron on Jun 20, 2009 7:40:56 GMT -6
Chapter 32
Jacob prepares to meet Esau (1-21), From verses 9-12, we learn some important spiritual lessons.
(a) Make sure that God is your God, and not only the God of your father and grandfather (9).
(b) Confess your unworthiness of 'all the steadfast love and all the faithfulness' of God (10).
(c) Pray to God for salvation - 'Save me I pray ... ' (11).
(d) Stand on the promises of God - 'You have said ... ' (12) ...
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Chapter 34
This chapter is about sin. The name of God is not even mentioned! We might well say of this chapter: 'the less said the better'. We may make some comment about the big disappointment Jacob is still turning out to be. Despite all the potential (28:15-17, 20-22; 32:28-30), there is still, in Jacob, a great deal of self and not very much of the Lord. We see this in verse 30: 'You have brought trouble on me by making me odious ... my numbers are few, and if they gather themselves against me and attack me, I shall be destroyed, both I and my household'. Where is God in all this? It seems that Jacob has become so preoccupied with himself and his own interests that he has forgotten all about God. Amazingly, the next chapter begins, 'God said to Jacob, "Arise ... "'. God was still calling him to higher things. What love! God doesn't give up on us. He keeps calling us back to Himself ...
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More notes at christinallthescriptures.blogspot.co.uk/
Jacob prepares to meet Esau (1-21), From verses 9-12, we learn some important spiritual lessons.
(a) Make sure that God is your God, and not only the God of your father and grandfather (9).
(b) Confess your unworthiness of 'all the steadfast love and all the faithfulness' of God (10).
(c) Pray to God for salvation - 'Save me I pray ... ' (11).
(d) Stand on the promises of God - 'You have said ... ' (12) ...
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Chapter 34
This chapter is about sin. The name of God is not even mentioned! We might well say of this chapter: 'the less said the better'. We may make some comment about the big disappointment Jacob is still turning out to be. Despite all the potential (28:15-17, 20-22; 32:28-30), there is still, in Jacob, a great deal of self and not very much of the Lord. We see this in verse 30: 'You have brought trouble on me by making me odious ... my numbers are few, and if they gather themselves against me and attack me, I shall be destroyed, both I and my household'. Where is God in all this? It seems that Jacob has become so preoccupied with himself and his own interests that he has forgotten all about God. Amazingly, the next chapter begins, 'God said to Jacob, "Arise ... "'. God was still calling him to higher things. What love! God doesn't give up on us. He keeps calling us back to Himself ...
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More notes at christinallthescriptures.blogspot.co.uk/