Exploring Jacob: Trust, Promises, and God's Redemption
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### Quotes for Outreach
1. "Now, something I want to point out as we think about this, because we see this story of trust being broken, but our God doesn't break trust, does he? See, we're thinking about this story and the deal that was made and how the head of the house made the deal and he was able to re-change the deal and all of these things because Jacob was at Laban's mercy in this. And we sometimes are at the mercy of our God, but when Christ throws a wedding feast for us, he doesn't change his deals. He's there waiting. And he even says he has a room ready and his family compound for us." [22:08]
2. "Friends, Jesus is sitting here in a space that felt so familiar to him and to others because they were in a space that felt so familiar to him and to others because they It would have felt like a home he had been in a thousand times, even if he had never been in it. And he is telling his disciples, our father, a word that sounds so familiar to them because they lived in a society that was so used to the father, the head of the house, making these decisions. And he's saying, our father has a room for us." [25:26]
3. "These women all had very unperfect pasts. Can we say it that way? Not the storybook stories of women that we would expect, right? But God redeemed them. He showed that you don't have to be perfect to be used. You don't have to have the history of everything going the right way for you to be put not only in a place of honor, but for you to help be in the lineage of the Lord. And the gospel writers documented them for a reason. Because they were... They wanted history to know that these women played an important role." [18:01]
4. "So this story exists in what we call the patriarchal period in the big scheme of the Old Testament. It moves. We're going to be in different periods through. But the patriarchal period is where we have Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. These three people, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, is where the story within the patriarchal period is found. Okay? So we have the three heads of house. Abraham, who we say we are the children of Abraham. And then his son, Isaac. And his son, Jacob. And our story, of course, today is on Jacob." [08:54]
5. "So Jacob probably was given one of these spaces after he married Laban's daughter so he could have a space to live with his new wife. Now, I just want to say we shouldn't be too hard on Jacob for the fact that Laban tricked him. It was tradition then. That when they had these big old wedding feasts, that the bride would have been completely veiled. The whole extended family unit would have come and a big old party. We talked in the last series. They like to have fun, right? They would have had fun till late in the night and it would have been dark and the bride would have been given to Jacob and he wouldn't have really been able to see. It wouldn't have been, as it said in the passage, to the morning." [21:03]
### Quotes for Members
1. "And the panic and anxiety within them would have been great. But we read this in John 14. Don't let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God and trust in me. There is more than enough room in my father's home. If this were not so, I would have told, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you." [24:24]
2. "And so there's been a handful of books that have really impacted the way that I read scripture. And one of them is called the Epic of Eden. If you want to join and dig even deeper in this with me, we're going to have a Bible study starting next week. Next week on Wednesdays. And I'll have books in the back that unpack some teachings on this. And if you have questions, you can ask me about it at the end. But I want to read you a quote from this book, the Epic of Eden. It says this. We forget that this book, meaning the Bible, we forget that this book was cast upon the waters of history with one very specific, completely essential, and desperately essential. To tell the epic tale of God's ongoing quest to ransom his creation. Keep going, Bob. And to thereby give each generation the opportunity to know his amazing grace." [06:43]
3. "So this story exists in what we call the patriarchal period in the big scheme of the Old Testament. It moves. We're going to be in different periods through. But the patriarchal period is where we have Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. These three people, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, is where the story within the patriarchal period is found. Okay? So we have the three heads of house. Abraham, who we say we are the children of Abraham. And then his son, Isaac. And his son, Jacob. And our story, of course, today is on Jacob. You can click one more for me, Bob. So we can zoom in. There you go. Now you can see that a little smaller. So we don't know the timeline of Eden or Noah. But we believe that Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob was around 2,000 years before Christ. Okay? This is as best as archaeologists can figure out." [08:54]
4. "Now, oftentimes we have imagined these rooms to be big old. And we're all going to have our own big old house. But I love the idea of us all living within these personal spaces. It feels intimate and nestled and safe. It feels like our father knows us and wants us right beside him. It feels with these walls that they have to protect us from the world that we're ready for whatever comes. But we also have an openness and a freedom. Because you see. Much like Laban was bringing Jacob into his house. Jesus is saying to the disciples, our father has done the same in heaven for us. And Jesus made this promise when he left to prepare a place for everyone else. See, these are the images that we have to connect between the old and the new. Remembering that the wedding feast that Christ promised he's preparing is never going to have a deal." [25:26]
5. "And my husband's National Guard. So he leaves one weekend a month. And no matter what happens, whether he's home or he's across the country or across the world, we watch a movie every Friday night. And there's sometimes he. He has watched it with us from across country when he's been gone for months at a time. He has watched that movie from wherever he was. It has been the norm in our life. So this is very important to us. Now, how many of you have watched a movie and seen that little line that says this movie is based upon the book of such and such? You've seen that right now in my house. Other people of them may really like to read. I don't like to read as a dyslexic person. Reading. Reading is not fun. I do read a lot." [04:11]
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1. "Now, something I want to point out as we think about this, because we see this story of trust being broken, but our God doesn't break trust, does he? See, we're thinking about this story and the deal that was made and how the head of the house made the deal and he was able to re-change the deal and all of these things because Jacob was at Laban's mercy in this. And we sometimes are at the mercy of our God, but when Christ throws a wedding feast for us, he doesn't change his deals. He's there waiting. And he even says he has a room ready and his family compound for us." [22:08]
2. "Friends, Jesus is sitting here in a space that felt so familiar to him and to others because they were in a space that felt so familiar to him and to others because they It would have felt like a home he had been in a thousand times, even if he had never been in it. And he is telling his disciples, our father, a word that sounds so familiar to them because they lived in a society that was so used to the father, the head of the house, making these decisions. And he's saying, our father has a room for us." [25:26]
3. "These women all had very unperfect pasts. Can we say it that way? Not the storybook stories of women that we would expect, right? But God redeemed them. He showed that you don't have to be perfect to be used. You don't have to have the history of everything going the right way for you to be put not only in a place of honor, but for you to help be in the lineage of the Lord. And the gospel writers documented them for a reason. Because they were... They wanted history to know that these women played an important role." [18:01]
4. "So this story exists in what we call the patriarchal period in the big scheme of the Old Testament. It moves. We're going to be in different periods through. But the patriarchal period is where we have Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. These three people, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, is where the story within the patriarchal period is found. Okay? So we have the three heads of house. Abraham, who we say we are the children of Abraham. And then his son, Isaac. And his son, Jacob. And our story, of course, today is on Jacob." [08:54]
5. "So Jacob probably was given one of these spaces after he married Laban's daughter so he could have a space to live with his new wife. Now, I just want to say we shouldn't be too hard on Jacob for the fact that Laban tricked him. It was tradition then. That when they had these big old wedding feasts, that the bride would have been completely veiled. The whole extended family unit would have come and a big old party. We talked in the last series. They like to have fun, right? They would have had fun till late in the night and it would have been dark and the bride would have been given to Jacob and he wouldn't have really been able to see. It wouldn't have been, as it said in the passage, to the morning." [21:03]
### Quotes for Members
1. "And the panic and anxiety within them would have been great. But we read this in John 14. Don't let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God and trust in me. There is more than enough room in my father's home. If this were not so, I would have told, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you." [24:24]
2. "And so there's been a handful of books that have really impacted the way that I read scripture. And one of them is called the Epic of Eden. If you want to join and dig even deeper in this with me, we're going to have a Bible study starting next week. Next week on Wednesdays. And I'll have books in the back that unpack some teachings on this. And if you have questions, you can ask me about it at the end. But I want to read you a quote from this book, the Epic of Eden. It says this. We forget that this book, meaning the Bible, we forget that this book was cast upon the waters of history with one very specific, completely essential, and desperately essential. To tell the epic tale of God's ongoing quest to ransom his creation. Keep going, Bob. And to thereby give each generation the opportunity to know his amazing grace." [06:43]
3. "So this story exists in what we call the patriarchal period in the big scheme of the Old Testament. It moves. We're going to be in different periods through. But the patriarchal period is where we have Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. These three people, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, is where the story within the patriarchal period is found. Okay? So we have the three heads of house. Abraham, who we say we are the children of Abraham. And then his son, Isaac. And his son, Jacob. And our story, of course, today is on Jacob. You can click one more for me, Bob. So we can zoom in. There you go. Now you can see that a little smaller. So we don't know the timeline of Eden or Noah. But we believe that Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob was around 2,000 years before Christ. Okay? This is as best as archaeologists can figure out." [08:54]
4. "Now, oftentimes we have imagined these rooms to be big old. And we're all going to have our own big old house. But I love the idea of us all living within these personal spaces. It feels intimate and nestled and safe. It feels like our father knows us and wants us right beside him. It feels with these walls that they have to protect us from the world that we're ready for whatever comes. But we also have an openness and a freedom. Because you see. Much like Laban was bringing Jacob into his house. Jesus is saying to the disciples, our father has done the same in heaven for us. And Jesus made this promise when he left to prepare a place for everyone else. See, these are the images that we have to connect between the old and the new. Remembering that the wedding feast that Christ promised he's preparing is never going to have a deal." [25:26]
5. "And my husband's National Guard. So he leaves one weekend a month. And no matter what happens, whether he's home or he's across the country or across the world, we watch a movie every Friday night. And there's sometimes he. He has watched it with us from across country when he's been gone for months at a time. He has watched that movie from wherever he was. It has been the norm in our life. So this is very important to us. Now, how many of you have watched a movie and seen that little line that says this movie is based upon the book of such and such? You've seen that right now in my house. Other people of them may really like to read. I don't like to read as a dyslexic person. Reading. Reading is not fun. I do read a lot." [04:11]
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