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Min. Calvin Chappell Jr.                                                                April15, 2007      
11:00Am
\\ Title: “I need a limp” - a life changing limp.
\\ Text: Genies 32:22-32
  \\ I have told you we need it but I have not shown you how.
\\ \\ Today I would like to take that one step further and show you how we can get a limp by wrestling with God, then it’s up to you.
\\ \\ Unfortunately too many Christians spend very little time with God, let alone pressing in to God or wouldn’t even think about wrestling with God.
\\ \\ A leadership magazine survey of pastors in the Australia found that the average pastor spent less than ten minutes a day with God.
Too many Christians have not learned to press in to have a genuine encounter with God.
\\ \\ Fifteen minutes of prayer may be the maximum they have ever prayed, and the idea wrestling with God, seems impossible to them.
I know it is difficult.
I like to rise early in the morning to pray.
I find that is the best time for me.
But the flesh rises up every time.
Why not stay in bed a while longer?
Its too much effort to pray this morning; its too dark; too cold; and I’m too tired.
That flesh continues to rise up.
I have to deal with it daily and so will you.
\\ \\ Paul talks about putting to death the old man - and that’s not your father or ladies he’s not talking about your husbands - he’s talking about taking the flesh by the throat and not letting it dictate to you.
\\ \\ \\ This passage talks about him wrestling with a man yet God.
This speaks of a Christ - which is the appearance of God in the form of a man.
It was actually the pre-incarnate Son of God.
He wrestled with God the Son.
\\ \\ Jacob wrestled with God.
This was a life changing event.
From this time on Jacob was never the same again.
He had a new walk, and soon a new name, and a new character.
\\ \\ But before that happen Jacob had to go through stuff first, how many people know before a move of God comes in our lives we have to do some stuff first?
\\ \\ 1. Jacob Needed to Face the Past \\ Jacob had to face the past.
\\ His past had been one of trickery and deceit.
In his early life he had sown deceit - tricking his brother Esau out of the Father’s blessing - by deceit.
Jacobs’s very name means trickster, supplanter, and deceiver.
In those days of course names meant so much more than they do now.
Names were often expressions of the person’s character.
They were a constant reminder to the person’s family, to his friends and to his colleagues of the type of person he was.
\\ \\ Whenever Jacob’s mother called out his name, she was making a statement about her son.
Whenever Esau thought with hatred of his brother who had stolen his birthright and his blessing and then run away to preserve his life, he thought of him not only by the name of a deceiver, but it showed in his character.
How many of us know that if we sow deceit, we reap deceit?
\\ \\ In that far away country he fell in love with Rachel, one of Laban’s two daughters.
The arrangement was that he would work for seven years and then marry Rachel.
But Laban tricked him by substituting his less pretty daughter Leah, and Jacob only found out after the wedding night and the marriage had been consummated.
\\ How many people know that it’s a good idea to check that the person you are marrying is the right one, at least before you take them to bed for the night.
JACOB DIDN’T - he was deceived and had to wait another 7 years in order to marry Rachel.
\\ \\ But eventually Jacob decides that he has to go back.
So he leaves Laban and takes his two wives, his family and all of his possessions and heads back toward the Promised Land and back Esau whom he had cheated.
\\ If something is stopping you from being what God wants you to be then you have to come back to the right place to deal with it.
Often when things have gone wrong, when dreams and visions have not been fulfilled, when sin has entered the picture, or fear or just general slackness, when character has been tainted or hurt has crippled, we often have to go back to where the trouble started and deal with it before God.
\\ \\ Elijah had to do it.
Remember the great victory he had \\ on Mt.
Carmel.
450 prophets of Baal and 400 prophets of Asherah defeated.
He prayed for rain and it came and Ahab took off for Jezebel and Eiljah was supernaturally empowered and ran ahead of the chariot all the way.
\\ \\ Jezebel swears to kill Elijiah.
Fear grips Elijiah and he flees.
Next thing we find him hiding in a cave depressed and suicidal.
How could this be?
fear drove him to it - fear held him in the cave - then God spoke to him and what did God tell him to do - "go back the way you’ve came" \\ \\ Fear of Jezebel held Elijah back.
Fear of Esau held Jacob back.
Fear has held back so many men and women of God.
But that’s not the only thing.
Maybe some of you are carrying fears from the past - things that have happened to you that hold you back, \\ maybe some of you have been badly hurt.
Or even abused your father or an authority figure
that you loved.
Maybe you have sinned and are still carrying that sin.
\\ \\ Or that habit - whatever it is, God says go back the way you’ve came.
Travel those roads again by bringing the light of the Holy Spirit into the sins of the past that you have kept secret, the hurts the rejections, the abuse, the fears, the disappointments.
\\ \\ Have you got the courage to wrestle with God over these issues until their effect is broken, until victory is achieved?
\\ \\ 2. God will not let you face the past alone \\ If you are willing to face these things God will not let you face these things alone.
\\ \\ With Jacob when he made the decision to go back and face the issues with his brother, we read in Gen 32:1 "As Jacob and his household started on their way again, angels of God came to meet him.
When Jacob saw them, he exclaimed, ’This is God’s camp!’ so he named the place Mahanaim."
\\ \\ The Hebrew word for "meet" or "met" in some translations is PAGA (paw-gaw), which is meeting of great significance, or an encounter of great purpose.
\\ Unfortunately Jacob didn’t see the great significance of why the angels came.
The angels came to comfort him and protect him from his brother Esau.
He was going back to confront his past.
Jacob knew who they were but missed the fact that they were there for his protection.
\\ \\ Too many times we too can miss the significance of God’s dealings in our lives - maybe through fear like Jacob, maybe through sin, or maybe just by being careless or being slack, or maybe even lack of prayer or discernment to know what God is doing in our lives.
\\ God is doing something in the body of Christ at Mt. Carmel Baptist Church.
Don’t let God’s dealings go by you.
You are not here by accident, you are here for an encounter of great purpose.
\\ God has sent his angels to care for you today, for the bible says in Heb 1:14, But the angels are only servants.
They are spirits sent from God to care for those who will receive salvation.
\\ \\ Don’t miss this significance.
They are here to protect you through the whole life changing, and for some even character changing experience.
\\ So instead of seeing God’s protection, he is still scared to death of Esau - so he makes a plan.
He selects choice goats, camel’s donkeys and oxen.
He was still trying to win his brother over by diplomacy by sending presents and appease his brother like he done all of his life.
These habits were ingrown into his very being and character.
\\ \\ Some people would say that Jacob was a counsellor’s nightmare.
Nothing could change him, NOTHING, NOTHING BUT A FACE TO FACE ENCOUNTER WITH GOD.
\\ You see Jacob couldn’t do it by his planning and diplomacy anymore.
What God had in mind was too big for Jacob.
A nation is about to be brought into existence through this man.
\\ Before that can happen the old Jacob had to die, not physically, but spiritually.
What we are about to witness is the death of a trickster and a deceiver and the birth of a prince of God.
\\ \\ 3. Jacob came to the place of emptying \\ After making his preparations to meet Esau the next day we take up the Story from verse 22-24.
\\ But during the night Jacob got up and sent his two wives, two concubines, and eleven sons across the Jabbok River.
After they were on the other side, he sent over all his possessions.
This left Jacob all alone in the camp, and a man came and wrestled with him until dawn.
\\ \\ The river is the Jabbok River, Jabbok means pouring out - emptying.
He sent his wives and family away, and verse 24 says that He was alone.
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