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Baby animals are pretty much the cutest things in the world.
Pet stores with puppies in them aren’t as popular as they used to be.
I remember going to the mall and always wanting to go by the pet store.
And in the window of the store there’d be those puppies, and you’d always want one.
It’s hard to say no to a puppy.
When I was in high school, I really wanted a dog, but my mom said there was no way we were getting one.
One morning, my dad and I found a whole litter of puppies, about 7 weeks old, out in a field.
The perfect age to bring home a puppy.
They were abandoned in the field in a box.
But remember, my mom had said I couldn’t get a dog.
A couple of my brothers and sisters were with us when we found these puppies.
So what we did, was have each sibling held onto a puppy.
Then when we came home, there’d be all these cute puppies that we were attached too.
There’s no way my mom could say no to all these puppies.
It’s hard to say no to puppies.
Kittens are so cute.
Soft.
Loveable.
Even if you don’t like cats, you have to like kittens.
There’s a pet store that I go to every few weeks, and in this pet store, occasionally, they have kittens for sale, or for almost free.
I’ve already got a cat, but sometimes I see them and I think, “I could use one more.”
But as cute as baby animals are … if you’re a pet owner, you don’t want to have baby animals forever.
Puppies are cute, but when you have a puppy, what you want more than anything else is for that puppy to turn into a dog.
You look forward to him being housebroken.
You look forward to being able to trust him.
God certainly loves us.
And when we are first saved, we are kind of like that puppy.
We love the attention we receive from God.
He’s chosen us.
We love the great love He has for us in His Son.
We are like a puppy, in that we stumble around.
We act immature.
We make mistakes that immature people do.
But no one wants a puppy forever.
And God doesn’t a puppy forever.
But He doesn’t want us to remain a puppy.
He expects us to mature and to grow up.
We are continuing going through the book of Genesis.
Today we will cover 3 chapters of Genesis, .
And in this passage, we are watching God mature Jacob.
It’s time for Jacob to grow up.
It was cute watching him stumble around when he was younger
Trick his brother.
Put on goat skins.
But obedience school has started.
It’s time for him to grow up.
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As we begin our time with Jacob, things are going well for him.
He’s a puppy.
He’s just had an incredible experience with God.
A vision of a ladder.
God communicating with him.
God making promises to him.
God promising to be with him.
Can you relate to this time?
Often it comes when you are first converted or after a weekend away.
You have spent this great time with the Lord.
Sometimes we call it a Mountaintop Experience.
And now Jacob’s on his way to his mother’s homeland.
He was always a momma’s boy, and perhaps his mom had told him the story about how she met his father, Isaac.
Abraham had sent a servant to her homeland to find a husband for Isaac.
He had said a prayer, that the woman God had in mind for Isaac would be made clear.
He prayed that Isaac’s future bride would come out and water his camels.
And that she would be the one.
And now, Jacob is going to the very town that Rebekah, his mom, came from.
He’s most likely, at the very same well.
Maybe he’s even prayed the same prayer as that servant did, a generation before.
“God bring my future wife here.”
And while there at the well, a group of shepherds show up to water their sheep.
He asks if they know Laban, that’s his uncle.
They say they do.
Then what do you know, Rachel shows up with her sheep!
Jacob sees Rachel.
Rachel sees Jacob.
This is literally, a match made in heaven.
They just met, but Jacob kisses her and weeps, because he knows she’s the one.
This is probably one of the most romantic spots in the Bible.
Jacob’s love for Rachel is no fly by night kind of thing.
He meets her father, his uncle, Laban.
Laban’s not so sure about Jacob.
He was probably out on the front porch cleaning his gun, and he found out some random man ran up and kissed his daughter at the well.
Laban wants to know what kind of person Jacob is, so Jacob stays with Laban for a month.
At the end of the month, Laban says that it is okay for Rachel to marry Jacob.
Notice the dowry.
The dowry, the price for marrying Rachel.
Men, I know we don’t have dowries, but looking back on your own marriage, this is a dangerous question, what would you have paid to marry your wife?
Jacob says he would work for 7 years to marry Rachel.
7 years.
7 years, and his wage was marrying Rachel.
7 years is a long time.
But he’s in love.
In it says, “So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.”
Those words seem straight out of Shakespeare.
Jacob’s a puppy at this point.
Puppy’s enjoy life.
They wag their tales.
They chase butterflies.
Nothing can go wrong for a puppy.
Then there’s the Marriage
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