Jacob’s Conquest of the World (Genesis 28:10-16) 1/23/2022
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Jacob’s Conquest of the World (Genesis 28:10-16) 1/23/2022
Jacob is a model of a person who received God’s blessings and was used by God, albeit making many failures. From spiritual perspective, Jacob is too carnal and humanistic. It was to where he exudes human instincts. Although he speaks too quickly and lies easily, he lived well. It was almost incomprehensible how someone like him could receive God’s blessings and be used by God. However, the conclusion is that God eventually made someone like Jacob into God’s masterpiece and used him to save posterity, church, and world. This is the blessing of the gospel (Romans 1:16-17). People cannot change themselves with their will and strength. Therefore, God heals and transforms them with His power. God covers them with His righteousness because they are too damaged and dirty. God healed and formed Jacob throughout his entire life (recreation).
- Why did Jacob have no choice but to live a life of failure and suffering?
What standards must we look at people like that around us? If I currently live on that level, what kind of answers must I hold onto? We must have this standard and answer to stand as one who saves me, my family, my family line, and the world. The only reason Jacob suffered and failed was that he did not have the gospel (covenant).
1) Jacob did not have the gospel when he was young. It was the parent’s responsibility as well as his own.
Simply put, he had followed his parents to church (faith from the womb), but he did not know the gospel or had the gospel imprinted.
① First, there is a parent’s responsibility. God spoke when Jacob was in his mother’s womb as a twin (Genesis 25:25).
He did not refer to the two babies in the womb as babies. God said, “two nations.” As God has promised Abraham, He would bless them and make a great nation through them. He said that one would be stronger, and the older would serve the younger. This is God’s love, plan, and power. That is how we have been saved (Ephesians 1:3-5, 1 Corinthians 1:26-31).
② Hold onto this love, plan, and power of God. That is the gospel and covenant.
There is no need to compete with anyone, lie, and use humanism. The parents were unable to relay this. Thus, rightfully, the covenant could not be imprinted in Jacob. Knowledge and imprint (the standard for decisions and actions) are different. Later, when the father blessed the two sons, he chose the firstborn. It was not God’s will but his standard and a worldly standard.
2) There was no opportunity for the gospel to be rooted during Jacob’s youth.
① My lifestyle and life’s fruit are made depending on what is rooted in my life.
First, Jacob lived holding onto his mother’s skirt (overprotection). The father liked the game his son had hunted (Genesis 25:27-28). The parents favored different children (favoritism). Only physical things and scars had been rooted.
② Furthermore, Jacob deceived his brother and father and left the household early on, so he no longer had the opportunity to be trained.
This is why it is important for children to grow under parents who have the covenant and the church system.
3) Jacob lived with a nature that bound him to fail as an adult.
① What had been imprinted and rooted when he was young had become his life’s nature.
The start was Jacob’s deception of his father and brother. He lived his entire life by deceiving and being deceived (incidents he faced with his uncle’s household). The nine snares that Satan has crafted in life create a nature of failures.
② People who receive grace and blessings have a nature that bounds them to be so.
On the contrary, people who fail have a nature that has no choice but to fail (innate, formed during upbringing, created in my current environment). God desires to change our imprint, root, and nature throughout our entire life and make us God’s masterpiece.
- We cannot change ourselves with our will and resolution. Therefore, God gave us the gospel (God’s plan, method, and power).
1) God Himself confirmed this to us through the covenant. That is the passage.
① God confirmed it to Jacob when he was fleeing after deceiving his father and brother. It was so that Jacob may hold onto this as his life’s only.
God said, “I will give you the land on which you are lying.” This is the covenant of Canaan. It is the covenant of Christ. God said, “Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and the east, to the north and the south.” It is the covenant of conquest and victory. God said, “All peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.” It is the covenant of world evangelization. God said, “I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go.” It is the covenant of Immanuel.
② Why did God repeatedly say this to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob?
Is it merely a repetition? No. God was imprinting His Word. God came to Jacob and gave him His Word. This is why the time to listen to the Word of the Gospel is important. That is when the covenant is imprinted, and faith is formed (Romans 10:17).
2) God made Jacob put down the roots of the gospel through all the problems and incidents he faced.
As we endure these times, He makes our everything (studies, work, business, pain, tears) become a blessing of uniqueness.
① There was no one else but God to look onto when he struggled for 14 years in his uncle’s household.
He received blessings through unprecedented methods (Genesis 30). When he returns, he comes back as a blessed family with 12 children.
② God sends angels when Jacob returns to Canaan with his family.
It says that they were God’s camp (army) sent to protect and fight for Jacob. This is the blessing of the throne.
③ Before meeting his brother, Jacob sent his family beforehand and knelt before God alone. It was the prayer of Jabbok River (Genesis 32:22-32).
Jacob’s hip was put out of joint, and his name changed from Jacob (he takes by the heel) to Israel (one who has prevailed with God).
④ Although a war breaks out with the Canaanites because of his daughter, he enjoys the blessing of being victorious without having to fight. This is the power of the light.
He went back to Bethel, where he had met God during his time as a fugitive, built an altar, and all fight ended (Genesis 35:1-5). There was an oath he made at Bethel (Genesis 28:20-22). It was the desire for uniqueness (My God, my worship, my finances). The covenant had already been given. If I live with a desire for God in my heart, He fulfills it (Philippians 2:13).
3) God changed all of Jacob’s nature as he went through those stages and made him a masterpiece (recreation).
In all problems and incidents, be victorious in the spiritual fight against my old internal self (scars, greed, humanism) (Ephesians 4:22-24, 1 Corinthians 15:31).
① The 12 tribes are established in his posterity. It was not merely a blessing of children. Disciples whom God would use were raised.
② Among the 12 sons, Joseph was raised as the summit of that age and works to revive the age arose.
③ Jacob was able to pray and bless the king of Egypt because of Joseph (Genesis 47:7-10).
Conclusion – God desires to heal and change my life, make it a masterpiece, and save the posterity, church, and world. May the gospel and covenant become your imprint, root, and nature throughout your whole life and stand as the witness of only, uniqueness, and recreation.