Genesis 28:10-22 – Jacob, God Builds a Man

Genesis 28:10-22 – Jacob, God Builds a Man, shows us the lengths God goes through to build His leaders. Despite Jacob’s God-fearing family, a relationship with God was not automatic. In this sermon we see how God reaches out individually to Jacob through a dream to establish a personal relationship with him. Jacob envisions a ladder coming down from heaven in his dream, where angels are going up and down the ladder. God personally comforts Jacob as He recounts the covenant promise he gave to Abraham and Isaac. In Genesis 28:10-22 – Jacob, God Builds a Man, we see how patient God is with Jacob as he still does not fully understand God plan for his life.  The same is true for us today. Our salvation does not occur by being raised in the church, attending youth group, knowing Bible stories, or having parents or a spouse with great faith. We are saved through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.   

Jacob is Tired and Weary

  God Speaks To The Humble and Broken     But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: “GOD RESISTS THE PROUD, BUT GIVES GRACE TO THE HUMBLE; Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.
James 4:6-10, (NKJV)    https://www.blueletterbible.org/nkjv/jas/4/6-10/s_1150006

 

 

 

I Will Not Leave You Until I Have Done
What I Have Spoken To You

 

We Cannot Come To God
On Our Own Ability
God Must Provide The Way

 

We Cannot Come To God
On Our Own Ability
God Must Provide The Way
God Did… His Name Is Jesus

Jesus answered and said to him, “Because I said to you, ‘I saw you under the fig tree,’ do you believe? You will see greater things than these.” And He said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.”
John 1:50-51, (NKJV)    https://www.blueletterbible.org/nkjv/jhn/1/50-51/s_998050

 

  Jacob Knows Little About
The God He Believes In

 

“But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain You. How much less this temple which I have built!
1 Kings 8:27, (NKJV)    https://www.blueletterbible.org/nkjv/1ki/8/27/s_299027     Jacob Knows Little About
The God He Believes In But God Will Build Him Into
A Substantial Man of Faith  

God Can Give Us So Much More When We
Pray What God Wants Not What We Want

  I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye. Do not be like the horse or like the mule, Which have no understanding, Which must be harnessed with bit and bridle, Else they will not come near you.
Psalm 32:8-9, (NKJV)    https://www.blueletterbible.org/nkjv/psa/32/8-9/s_510008    

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