Sermon Tone Analysis
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INTRO
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Caught up in Sin and forsaken by God
INTRO
Israel’s sin / exile
Jacob’s sin / exile
Your sin / exile
Connect illustration to present day hearers.
Transition = Show this need or similar issue was also the question behind the biblical text.
Clearly state the theme of the text/sermon.
Title & Text
Home
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Theme
The LORD brings a message to Jacob while in exile.
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Pray
God our Father there are those hearing this today who are broken and ashamed.
Some are listening to this and feel as if there is no coming back to You.
They have connived, cheated, stole, slandered, rebelled and rejected all Your ways.
We are left broken and defeated feeling as if we are in permanent exile from Your Holy presence.
LORD we are all here with baggage.
We beg therefore that You might give us a message today!
Speak to us we pray oh God.
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THE SERMON BODY
Text
He is with you.
He will keep you.
He will bring you home.
Genesis 28
First Dream Narrative in OT
Context = Significance
Jacob - leaving promised land
fugitive
toward Abrahams land...
lost?
/ down and out?
/ nothing?
Dangers on the journey?
v10 - left Beersheba and went toward Haran.
Parental obedience
reason
400 miles north
a months journey
40 miles this day
v11 - And he came to a certain place and stayed there that night, because the sun had set.
Taking one of the stones of the place, he put it under his head and lay down in that place to sleep.
Certain Place
Does not know the significance
place = repeated
place = repeated
stayed the night - why?
Jacob is in a hard place!
Exhausted!
Have you ever been there?
Emotional day
Long hours
Cold
Uneasy
Exposed
“rock bottom”
Where will he Sleep?
Who will protect him from the dangers of the night?
v12 - And he dreamed, and behold, there was a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven.
And behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it!
Bad Bed / Great Dream!
It was the best night’s sleep he ever had in his life
Any Israelite indeed would be willing to take up with Jacob’s pillow, provided he might but have Jacob’s dream
Abrahams Vision = Jacobs Dream
Interesting Topics
Angels ascending and descending
watching / protecting / reporting
Heaven and Earth Connect
The Ladder
Jesus
v13 - And behold, the Lord stood above it and said, “I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac.
God Above All
Commentators struggle with interpretation
The Majesty of the LORD!
God of His Forefathers
Sidney Greidanus =
Jacob is not looking for God, yet God meets in a dream.
Jacob has never met this God.
He had heard his grandparents and parents talk about Yahweh, the Lord, but Jacob has personally never met him.
Jacob is not looking for God, yet God meets in a dream.
Jacob has never met this God.
He had heard his grandparents and parents talk about Yahweh, the Lord, but Jacob has personally never met him.
Is that you today?
Have you heard of Jesus and yet never met him yourself?
Do you want to know Jesus as your own personal saviour?
Will you trust Him today!
What did God want with Jacob?
Context...
Punishment?
The land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring.
Patriarchal Promise Land
v14 - and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south
Gen 13.16
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