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Scripture: Genesis 30:25–31:21 I. God blesses you to bless others. A. It is clear to both Laban and to Jacob that God has blessed Laban because of Jacob. Laban wants to keep Jacob on the farm (Genesis 30:27), “I have learned by divination that the LORD has blessed me because of you.” Laban was not rich…
Scripture: Genesis 29:31 30:24 I. God is faithful to give justice to you. A. These chapters tell the story of the birth of Jacob s first 12 children. Genesis 29:31, “ When the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren. barren.” Clearly, there is a connection between Leah being unloved…
Scripture: Genesis 29:1-30 I. God is at work in your happy times. A. There are no coincidences in God’s world. There are only the providences of God. And God in His providence had directed Jacob step by step to his family in Haran (vs. 1-6). Jacob was so overcome with emotion by seeing the beautiful Rachel and…
Scripture: Genesis 28:10-22 I. The grace of God surprises you. A. On his way to Haran (vs. 10), Jacob goes to a certain place in vs. 11 that appears to be the middle of nowhere. He falls asleep. But then God shows up in a dream. The same word is used three times in verses 12 and…
Scripture: Genesis 27 Trust God for Blessings “But Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Behold, my brother Esau is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man’.” (v11) “Jacob said to his father, ‘I am Esau your firstborn. I have done as you told me; now sit up and eat of my game, that your soul may…
Scripture: Genesis 26:1-33 I. God gives promises to ordinary people. A. Genesis 26:1 says there was a famine in the land in the days of Isaac like the famine in the days of Isaac’s father Abraham that is recorded in Genesis 12. While Isaac was thinking about where to go to escape the famine, God appears to him and makes…
Scripture: Genesis 25:19-34 I. In trouble God answers prayer. A. Jacob’s parents, Isaac and Rebekah, are in trouble in Genesis 25. God Himself had given Isaac’s father Abraham a promise in Genesis 12:2 that from his family line would come a great nation. But Rebekah was barren (Gen. 25:21). So Isaac prayed for his wife (vs. 21) that she…
Scripture: Acts 9:1-31 We Are Bold Because We Have Seen the Light “Now as he went on his way, he approached Damascus, and suddenly a light from heaven shone around him. And falling to the ground, he heard a voice saying to him, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’” (v3-4) “Jesus spoke to them, saying,…
Scripture: Acts 4:32-37 We Encourage Each Other To Be Generous “Thus Joseph, who was also called by the apostles Barnabas (which means son of encouragement), a Levite, a native of Cyprus, sold a field that belonged to him and brought the money and laid it at the apostles’ feet” (Acts 4:36-37) “. . . have overflowed…
Scripture: Acts 1:1-14 We Are United by Our Zeal “Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot and Judas the son of James. All these with one accord . . .” (v13-14) “All who believed were together and had all things in…