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