Living With A Limp
Opening
Japanese artwork called Kintsugi “Golden Injury” is broken pottery put back together and dust it with powder gold.
It points to the fact that its beauty comes from its brokenness and imperfections. The imperfections is something to celebrate and not hide
People are hiding and running from their imperfections. Instead of experiencing God’s radical transformation in our lives we tend to present to others something that we are not
God pours his life through your cracks and God will sometimes to break you to add meaning to your life
Sermon Key Points
Jacob is the grandson of Abraham (Father of many nations) and his father is Isaac
Rebekah is pregnant with twins. Receive a word from God about how the younger will rule over the elder child (Genesis 25:23)
Rebekah made Jacob the center of her world because of what God told her
Jacob is a man on the run stealing when:
-He steals his brother’s birthright (Genesis 25:28-34)
-He tricks his father to give him a once in a lifetime blessing (Genesis 27:5-38)
- On the run from Esau who pledges to kill (Genesis 27: 41-45)
- On the run to find a beauty wife and gets tricked into marrying the not so attractive
sister. Then on the run again to marry the beautiful sister (Genesis 29)
- He tricks his uncle (Genesis 28:30)
We may sometimes be on a run and not taking time to slow down to hear from God
Jacob wants power to run the family. God wants for Jacob is even more than what Jacob wants for himself
God wants more for you than what you want for you but If you will only do it God’s way
In Genesis 32, you find Jacob on the run with his family from his brother Esau & his uncle Labon
Jacob wrestles with God when he is alone while on the run (Genesis 32:24-32)
God will wait to do the best work in your life when you are alone
The only way you fight God is that you hold on to God
You can not hold onto your sins and God at the same time. The will of God is always stronger than your will
God is at war with Jacob and has to beat Jacob’s self-reliance, self-centeredness, egocentric
Jacob says I’m not going to let you go unless you “bless me”
God is not out to destroy you but to develop you so you can be worth more broken than put together