{"id":6404,"date":"2021-02-14T16:13:27","date_gmt":"2021-02-14T20:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/?p=6404"},"modified":"2021-02-21T16:36:31","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T20:36:31","slug":"the-crippling-that-crowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/?p=6404","title":{"rendered":"THE CRIPPLING THAT CROWNS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sermon By Rev. Richard Jones<\/strong><\/p>\n

rec 02-14-21<\/a><\/p>\n

Jacob’s Journey Series:<\/strong><\/h1>\n

THE CRIPPLING THAT CROWNS<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Genesis Chapter 32<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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JACOB BEHOLDING Genesis 32: 1-8<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. 2 <\/strong>And when Jacob saw them he said, \u201cThis is God’s camp!\u201d So he called the name of that place Mahanaim. 3 <\/strong>And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother in the land of Seir, the country of Edom, 4 <\/strong>instructing them, \u201cThus you shall say to my lord Esau: Thus says your servant Jacob, \u201d\u02dcI have sojourned with Laban and stayed until now. 5 <\/strong>I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, male servants, and female servants. I have sent to tell my lord, in order that I may find favor in your sight.\u201d\u2122\u201d6 <\/strong>And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, \u201cWe came to your brother Esau, and he is coming to meet you, and there are four hundred men with him.\u201d 7 <\/strong>Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed. He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks and herds and camels, into two camps, 8 <\/strong>thinking, \u201cIf Esau comes to the one camp and attacks it, then the camp that is left will escape.\u201d<\/span><\/h3>\n

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JACOB PRAYING Genesis 32: 9-12<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

And Jacob said, \u201cO God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O Lord who said to me, \u201d\u02dcReturn to your country and to your kindred, that I may do you good,\u201d\u2122 10 <\/strong>I am not worthy of the least of all the deeds of steadfast love and all the faithfulness that you have shown to your servant, for with only my staff I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two camps. 11 <\/strong>Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear him, that he may come and attack me, the mothers with the children. 12 <\/strong>But you said, \u201d\u02dcI will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.\u201d\u2122\u201d<\/span><\/h3>\n

Psalm 56: 3-4<\/span><\/h3>\n

When I am afraid, I put my trust in you. 4 <\/strong>In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust;\u00a0I shall not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?<\/span><\/h3>\n

Psalm 112: 6-8<\/span><\/h3>\n

For the righteous will never be moved; he will be remembered forever. 7 <\/strong>He is not afraid of bad news; his heart is firm, trusting in the Lord. 8 <\/strong>His heart is steady; he will not be afraid,<\/span>
\nuntil he looks in triumph on his adversaries.<\/span><\/h3>\n

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JACOB SCHEMING Genesis 32: 13-21<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

So he stayed there that night, and from what he had with him he took\u00a0a present for his brother Esau, 14 <\/strong>two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, 15 <\/strong>thirty milking camels and their calves, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys. 16 <\/strong>These he handed over to his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, \u201cPass on ahead of me and put a space between drove and drove.\u201d 17 <\/strong>He instructed the first, \u201cWhen Esau my brother meets you and asks you, \u201d\u02dcTo whom do you belong? Where are you going? And whose are these ahead of you?\u201d\u2122 18 <\/strong>then you shall say, \u201d\u02dcThey belong to your servant Jacob. They are a present sent to my lord Esau. And moreover, he is behind us.\u201d\u2122\u201d 19 <\/strong>He likewise instructed the second and the third and all who followed the droves, \u201cYou shall say the same thing to Esau when you find him, 20 <\/strong>and you shall say, \u201d\u02dcMoreover, your servant Jacob is behind us.\u201d\u2122\u201d For he thought, \u201cI may appease him with the present that goes ahead of me, and afterward I shall see his face. Perhaps he will accept me.\u201d 21 <\/strong>So the present passed on ahead of him, and he himself stayed that night in the camp.<\/span><\/h3>\n

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JACOB WRESTLING Genesis 32: 22-32<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

The same night he arose and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. 23 <\/strong>He took them and sent them across the stream, and everything else that he had. 24 <\/strong>And Jacob was left alone. And a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day. 25 <\/strong>When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he touched his hip socket, and Jacob’s hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with him. 26 <\/strong>Then he said, \u201cLet me go, for the day has broken.\u201d But Jacob said, \u201cI will not let you go unless you bless me.\u201d 27 <\/strong>And he said to him, \u201cWhat is your name?\u201d And he said, \u201cJacob.\u201d 28 <\/strong>Then he said, \u201cYour name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed.\u201d 29 <\/strong>Then Jacob asked him, \u201cPlease tell me your name.\u201d But he said, \u201cWhy is it that you ask my name?\u201d And there he blessed him. 30 <\/strong>So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, saying, \u201cFor I have seen God face to face, and yet my life has been delivered.\u201d 31 <\/strong>The sun rose upon him as he passed Penuel, limping because of his hip. 32 <\/strong>Therefore to this day the people of Israel do not eat the sinew of the thigh that is on the hip socket, because he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip on the sinew of the thigh.<\/span><\/h3>\n

Hosea 12: 4<\/span><\/h3>\n

He strove with the angel and prevailed; he wept and sought his favor. He met God at Bethel,<\/span>
\nand there God spoke with us\u201d\u201d<\/span><\/h3>\n

2 Corinthians 12: 7-10<\/span><\/h3>\n

So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. 8 <\/strong>Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. 9 <\/strong>But he said to me, \u201cMy grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.\u201d Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 <\/strong>For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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