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Are you trying to attain or keep something because of who you think you are?
Jacob = heal grabber or he strives
Israel = God prevails
We are going to walk through Jacob’s (Israel’s) journey through both identities.
Both as ‘one who strive’ and ‘one who God prevails through’.
If you are heal grabber or one who strives, you would need to attain or keep some things.
If you are one who God prevails through, you would not need to strive, attain or keep those things.
Before Jacob was born, God spoke to Rebekah.
After the twins were born, Rebekah named them.
Esau = “hairy”.
Jacob = “heel holder” or “supplanter”.
Both Jacob and Esau were named by natural observation.
Jacob was named from an observation of what happened.
Jacob was born second of twins grabbing the heal of his brother Esau who left the womb first.
Jacob needed more then he was born with.
One who strives needs more, so he tricked his way to a birthright and blessing.
Jacob/ one who strives, met a beautiful girl who was tending to her sheep.
He had to have her, and it was fitting according to what God had spoke to the family in staying inside the family culture.
Jacob/ one who strives, would do whatever it takes to get Rachel.
If you have something beautiful you will be more.
Jacob/one who strives, always needed more to get his father and brothers approval.
When you see something you think you have to have, does it come from a place who He says you are or what you think you are?
Leah had sons
#1 Reuben = “behold a son”
#2 Shimeon = “heard”
#3 Levi = “joined to”
#4 Judah = “praised”
#5 Issachar = “there is recompense”
#6 Zebulun = “exalted”
Leah named all her children based on what God was doing in her life not on how they looked or were born.
They were a sign of Leah’s journey with God and Jacob.
After serving the 14 years agreed to, Jacob wanted to leave his father in law Laban, but Laban knew he was the reason he was so blessed.
Jacob made a deal to get all the spotted and blemished sheep and livestock.
What Jacob does here does not look like the one who strives but more like the one who God prevails.
Jacob puts these stripped branches next to the strong sheep and goats when they are mating and takes away those branches when the weak ones are mating.
After 20 years of serving his father in law, Jacob finally leaves.
God speaks to Laban and tells him not to harm or say bad or good to Jacob.
Anther confirmation that God prevails for Jacob.
Rachel steals idols and hide them under where she is sitting.
On Jacob’s way to see Esau, God wrestles with Jacob.
God is saying you no longer have to be one who strives but you get to be one I prevail through.
Jacob did not go by Isreal after this.
He approaches seeing his brother like one who strives.
He sends gifts and bows and calls his brother a lord and himself a servant.
He is right back into that place of being one who has to strive to be anyone especially to his brother.
Another letting Go in Jacob’s life.
Leave where you were and let go fo the gods you have among you.
He still keeps going by the name Jacob.
This is hard to grasp that someone could have two in person and dramatic encounters with God and still not do what He says.
Its just a name change.
Why is this so hard for Jacob?
Because one who strives had to prove he is one who strives his entire life.
He strived with his mom his entire childhood and young adult to get a birthright and blessing from his father.
He strived for over 20 years to be able to have the wife who would prove he is more.
One who strives sacrificed most of his life to get what one who strives would need in life.
But one who God prevails through would not have needed to do any of that.
One who God prevails through was given 6 gifts from heaven to prove how loved and blessed he is.
God intervened for Laban not to kill or ham him.
God turned Esau’s heart toward Israel.
God provided an abundance and a way to get an abundance to Israel.
Jacob’s son was about to be labeled like he was at his birth.
Ben- oni = son of my sorrows
Benjamin = son of right hand
Israel (one who God prevails through) stood up and named him Benjamin.
After what Jacob wanted died, he took his God given name of Isreal.
Israel did not take his God given name until what he wanted died.
Jacob wanted Rachel, but Israel was given Leah.
Jacob had to be told twice in person who he was by God.
Jacob thought his identity was in his natural father’s acceptance.
He thought it was in how beautiful of a girl he had.
Leah is buried next to Jacob in the family tomb, the Cave of Michaela, while the wife he truly loves Rachel is buried in Ephrat near Bethlehem where Leah’s descendant David (a descendant of Judah) will begin his dynasty.
Jacob asks to be buried with Leah (49:31).
This is in a sense a most surprising denouement of the conflict between the sisters.
Rachel remains the mother of exile,41 the future dream, perhaps because she died giving birth to Benjamin or because she is buried ‘on the road’, not in the Cave of Makhpalah.
Why does Jacob ask to be buried next to Leah and not next to his true wife?
And why did he not take Rachel to the Cave of Makhpelah, only a few kilometers distance from Bethlehem?
Leah is the mother of both Levi the priesthood and David descending from Judah, the monarchy and Messianism, the faithful wife who carries on the succession.
Rachel’s descendants, Joshua ben Nun and Saul, however important, are transient figures.
Leah and Rachel were never reconciled as were Esau and Jacob.
Are you trying to attain or keep something because of what you think you are?
Let go of what you want, so God can give you what you really want.
When you find a solution to your problems does that solution still fit if you receive who He says you are?
You can not go though the entrance in front of us as the old you.
You will have to let go of many of the ways you thought of yourself.
You will have to let of of the things you gathered to make your untrue self more.
Closing:
We are looking at Jacob’s life and journey to understand better what it takes to accept our true identity.
We also see why that is so hard to see and let happen.
Jacob = heal grabber or he strives
Israel = God strives
Jesus, What is one thing You want me to let go of?
Jacob #2 Letting Go
Why was it so hard for Jacob to let go of being one who strives?
If Jacobs entire life experience proves he really is one who has to strive for anything and everything, then it would be very hard to let go of that truth.
God is asking us to let go of what we know is it true from our experiences.
If you stay at the gate you die.
If you go behind the gate in the city you die.
If you go out towards danger you may die and you may live.
The news here is that we are going to die.
The good news is that we may live if we are willing to die.
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