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Introduction:
Illustration-
Forgiveness, Difficulty of
Many reconciliations have broken down because both parties have come prepared to forgive and unprepared to be forgiven.515
A man named John Oglethorpe, in talking to John Wesley, once made the comment, “I never forgive.”
Mr. Wesley wisely replied,
“Then, Sir, I hope that you never sin.”516 [Michael P. Green, 1500 Illustrations for Biblical Preaching (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2000), 152.]
Jacob’s return to Canaan showed divine intervention with both reconciliation and a peaceful return.
God is fully capable of carrying out His promises in spite of our shortcomings.
Let God take of His “Yea”, you just worry about your own “Yea’s & Nay’s”
How faithful and gracious is God; how selfish and sinful are we!
Sub-intro- Continuing the saga of Isaac & Jacob, this story teaches both moral and theological lessons while recounting how Israel came to settle into Canaan prior to the sojourn in Egypt.
I.
A Reconciled Reunion (Gen.
33:1-11)
A. Facing Danger (Gen.
33:1-7)
1. Faith Brings Courage (Gen.
33:1-3)
a. Jacob’s Favoritism (Gen.
33:1-2)
Note - on Esau...
Esau is mentioned by name more than eighty times in the Bible, and he is a more major actor in Genesis than we tend to realize, being named sixty times in the book.
A number of important archetypes converge in Esau: he is the wild man, the dupe (dimwitted victim), the villain (a would-be murderer), the problem child, the elder child supplanted by the younger, the progenitor of a nation and the profane person who is insensitive to spiritual values.
The images linked with him include his hairy skin and ruddy complexion, a proverbial “mess of pottage,” the field, the hunting of game, a cry of protest when he discovers a lifechanging deception and an embrace of a guilty brother in a famous reconciliation scene.
[Ryken, Leland, Jim Wilhoit, Tremper Longman, Colin Duriez, Douglas Penney, and Daniel G. Reid.
Dictionary of Biblical Imagery.
Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2000.]
b.
Jacob Out Front Now (Gen.
33:3)
Note - the change in Jacob from prior to Peniel...
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