Jacob's prayer E-Book

Charles Spurgeon

• Herausgeber: Editora Oxigênio
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Seitenzahl: 36

Beschreibung

This sermon preached by Charles Spurgeon invites us to meditate on God's presence. A true dip in the story of Jacob , a man of many faults and had a change of character after a shocking encounter with God. This sermon preached by Charles Spurgeon invites us to reflect on our character as Christians and shows us how the Lord is willing to mold us to finally have an intimate relationship with Him and full.

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JACOB’S MODEL PRAYER

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Part 2

Part 3

EXPOSITION GENESIS 32

JACOB’S MODEL PRAYER

And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD who said unto me,

Return unto your country, and to your kindred, and I will deal well with you: I am not worthy of the least

of all the mercies, and of all the truth which You have shown unto Your servant, for with my staff I

passed over this Jordan, and now I am become two bands. Deliver me, I pray You, from the hand

of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and

the mother with the children. And You said, I will surely do you good, and make your

seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.”

Genesis 32:9-12. 

You must have noticed, dear Friends, how very frequently God makes the life of a man to be the reflection of his character. There is an echo in the outward experience, to the inward character of the man.

Look at the life of Abraham. He trusted God in a very eminent degree shall I be incorrect if I say that God also eminently trusted him?

The Lord spoke with Abraham as a man speaks with his friend and when He was about to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah, He said, “Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do?” And as Abraham had trusted God in so notable a manner, the Lord entrusted his seed with the oracles of God and with the outward forms of religious worship, so that it was through the seed of Abraham that the Truth of God was handed on, from generation to generation, until the days of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Then, next, in contrast to the life of Abraham, take the case of Jacob. He begins life by cheating his brother and, however that cheating may have been overruled so as to fulfill the purposes of God, it was altogether unjustifiable. Now, as he had begun with Esau in that fashion, so he had it returned into his own bosom. When he was with Laban, he was cheated again and again cheated even in the wife who was given or sold to him. He was a great bargainer shrewd, crafty, not over scrupulous the typical father of the Jews, yet you know how he was continually being overreached by Laban who could also bargain on his own account. What a bargaining life it was all through and what a life of sorrow, although he was still favored of God. His outward experience was the echo of his inward character. As he had done to others, so was it done to him and in him was fulfilled our Lord’s declaration which had not then been uttered, “With what measure you meet, it shall be measured to you again.”

Also look at Moses, practically renouncing the throne of Egypt by refusing to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter because he esteemed the reproach of Christ to be greater riches than all the treasures in Egypt! Yet what did he afterwards become?

Was he not king in Jeshurun, with a strange and marvelous power over the hosts of the Lord and with a greater Kingdom under him, according to the judgment of all who are able to weigh things rightly, than he could ever have had if he had become the ruler of Egypt and the son of Pharaoh’s daughter?

I might give you other illustrations of this fact, but I want, rather, to attract your attention to the better side of Jacob’s character as we have it revealed in the prayer which I have selected for our meditation on this occasion.