Returning with me to Genesis
35. Genesis 35. What we see here in this chapter
is that the walk of the child of God is a walk of faith. It's a walk of faith which is
taught to us and given to us by the true and living God. He's
going to lead us. He leads all his children by
faith. The way we follow Christ is by
faith. This is why it says numerous
times in the scriptures that the just shall live by faith. We're going to walk by faith.
We're going to be taught of God by faith. Now this is our second
time coming back to Genesis 35. And this time, I want to notice
with you first the Lord's calling of his child, that as he's drawing
us to himself, he is the one that's separating us from the
world. We see his hand in separating
us from the love of this world, which we have by nature in this
flesh. He's going to separate us from
this world. He also repeats his promises
here. The Lord in gathering you, his
church, each week as he assembles his people and calls us to worship
him, he repeats his promises to us. And he gives us assurance
fixed upon him, his hand to do it. He's the one that brings
to pass these promises. He does this. Also then, in that
work that He does, that's where He reveals faith in us. He gives
us faith in our hearts to believe the Word of God. believe him,
and he continues with his provision of grace. And the people of God
are settled more and more in the word of God, believing him.
This is how he grows his people in the grace and knowledge of
the Lord Jesus Christ. And so what we see here with
Jacob As our picture, we see what the Lord does for us. And
there's a relationship here between Jacob and the Lord. And that's
what the Lord does in saving us by Christ. He establishes
a relationship with the Lord. You're going to know that Christ
is the Savior, that he is the Lord and Savior, and that he
keeps his word unto us. And he demonstrates the things
we read here in our own hearts, in our own lives. We're going
to know God in this way. So just a little bit of reminder
here. The Lord had commanded Jacob
to go to Bethel, to worship God in Bethel. Verse 1 says, and
God said unto Jacob, arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there. and make there an altar unto
God that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of
Esau thy brother. And so Jacob at this time was
afraid. His two sons, Levi and Simeon,
had used deceit and slew Shechem and all his house. All that town
of those people were slain by Levi and Simeon and pillaged,
plundered. And Jacob was fearful for his
life. He said, this is it. The enemies
of God are going to come upon me and destroy me and all my
house. And so that's what he was looking
at. He was looking at the things of this flesh and God said to
him, God turned his heart to look upon the Lord and to worship
him, to worship God. What we're doing here in praising
the Lord and reading his word and praying to the Lord and hearing
his word preached is the worship of God. It's the worship of God. And he turns Jacob's heart. Worship me. Stop looking at the
flesh. Stop looking at the things that
you're fearful of. Look to me. Worship me. That's where you'll find peace.
That's where we find peace. We find comfort not in looking
at the things of the flesh, not in looking at the things troubling
us. That just breeds more and more anxiety and worry and doubt. And we just fall apart under
those things. But what a comfort when the Lord
says, come to me, you that labor and are heavy laden. I will give
you rest. Worship me. Trust me. Hear my
word. That's what he does. He turns
us back to himself. to hear him, to look to him.
Come and praise the Lord. Come and hear his word. Worship
the Lord with your brethren. That's what the Lord does. And
so we see it in the Lord turning Jacob. And the Lord blessed it
to Jacob's heart. His word was made effectual to
Jacob so that Jacob rose up And he preached that word, that gospel,
that word that the Lord communed to his heart. And he went and
told his household and all that were with him, put away the strange
gods, put away those things that you're trusting in, put away
the things of this world. Stop looking to those things
that are among you and be clean and change your garments. Which
is a picture of what Paul said to us, put off the old man, put
on the new. That's the changing of the garments.
Believe Christ, walk by faith in him and let us arise and go
up to Bethel, the house of God and I will make there an altar
unto God. He's saying let's go worship
God. God has called me to worship Him. Here I am looking at my
enemies, worried about them, and God says, stop and come. Worship Me. Come and worship
the true and living God. Worship Him. And that's what
the Lord does. He turns us from this world to
worship God. He calls his people, stop playing
around in the world, stop trusting the things of this world, stop
the things that you're doing to find comfort and peace in
this world, come and worship the Lord. That's what he calls
us to do. And so through our Lord Jesus
Christ, we're taught, he tells us this, love not the world,
neither the things that are in the world. If any man loved the
world, The love of the Father is not in him. For all that is
in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes,
and the pride of life is not of the Father, but is of the
world. It's of the world. And the world
passeth away, and the lust thereof, and the lust thereof. But he
that doeth the will of God abideth forever. And where do we learn
this? Where are we strengthened to
walk before the Lord in light, in the face of Christ? That's
where we're taught this. That's where the Lord strengthens
us. That's where the Lord shows us, He's what I need. I love
the Lord. Lord, save me. Lord, have mercy
on me because I'm just looking to the world. I'm just living
in the world. And it's filled with anxiety. It's filled with trouble. It's
everywhere I look, there's problems here and problems there and everywhere.
Look to the Lord. That's what he shows us. It's
for our good. And the Lord Jesus Christ, he
called us out of this world of darkness. Our walk previous to
Christ is described in Ephesians 2, verse 2 as, we walked according
to the course of this world, according to the prince of the
power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children
of disobedience. That's what we did by nature.
That's what we do by nature. That's what we do in the works
of the flesh. In carnal ways, we're in darkness and in ignorance
to the things of God. But Christ continually turns
us from this flesh. And even after we come to him,
he's constantly turning us from trusting this flesh, walking
in this flesh, walking in the old man, and trusting those things. And that's where we become overwhelmed
by this world, by constantly looking at this world and thinking
that we're going to fix it or improve it. It is what it is.
Worship the Lord. Trust the Lord in it. Believe
his word to you in Christ. You know, Martha, here's a picture. Martha was cumbered about. She was weighed down with much
serving. That seems like a good thing,
right? She's serving all the people in her house. And she
came to the Lord and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister
hath left me to serve alone? Bid her to come and help me.
Tell her to get up off her lazy rear and come and help me. Come
and help me. And so what did Christ say? I mean, well, think about this
for just a moment. There's Christ in her presence and she has no
joy. She's finding no comfort, no
fellowship, and Christ is right there. I mean, think about that,
that our Lord is here. He says, where two or three are
gathered, there I am in the midst. Are gathered in my name, there
I am in the midst. And how often do we find no comfort? No joy in Christ because we're
just cumbered about with the things of this world. And so
here she is and she says, tell her to come and help me. And
Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art
careful, thou art full of care and troubled about many things.
But one thing is needful. And Mary hath chosen that good
part. which shall not be taken away
from her." And so that's what the Lord is showing us. There's
so much in this world that could overwhelm us and consume every
bit of us. Well, I got to do this, and I
got to take care of that, and I got to fix this, and I got
to go secure that, and I got to do all these things. Jacob
could have focused on fortifications, and sharpening some spears, and
helping to protect himself against his enemies. But instead, the
Lord said, no, no. Go to Bethel and worship me.
Go and worship. And that's what the Lord does.
He turns us. to worship him. I was saying to Brother Gary
that while I was away in Florida and the weather was changing
and all this stuff, I asked the Lord, Lord, please let me come
home to just a quiet house. And I got home and it's six degrees
out there. And I was thinking, you know,
maybe the vehicles in the airport parking lot won't start up. Boom
just started right up and they fired up Michelle Park there
I parked there because we left on different days and so that
both vehicles started right up Got us home come to the house.
Not a pipe broken. Nothing was wrong. Everything
was quiet the Lord provided And that's what he does, he shows
us trust the Lord. That doesn't mean troubles don't
come, but trust the Lord to provide. And to provide for you and to
keep you, and go and worship the Lord, go and worship him.
And so the Lord tells us, and I believe this is what he means
when he says, seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness,
and all these things will be added unto you. What is the righteousness
of God? It is Jesus Christ the righteous. Worship Him. Seek Him. Believe Him. And so, we're troubled
about many things, but everything is put into place in the face
of Jesus Christ. And that's where even if things
are turned upside down and ruined in this life, what a joy and
a peace to know that our eternal inheritance where rust doesn't
destroy, thieves don't break in, moths don't chew it up and
destroy it, it's all there for us in Christ, in Christ Jesus. So, having said that, I'm not
gonna review everything that we saw, all that fruit, that
the Lord, the workmanship of Christ in Jacob, but I do wanna
come back to verse nine. Genesis 35, verse nine. It says,
and God appeared unto Jacob again. So he goes up to Bethel, does
all that he said he's gonna do, and God appeared unto Jacob again
when he came out of Paddan Aram and blessed him. Now, Jacob,
it says, when he came out of Paddan Aram. And he blessed him.
That's where he appeared to him. But think about this. Jacob had
left Paddan Aram, what, about a decade earlier? Somewhere around
10 years-ish before? He had already come out physically
from Paddan Aram? What it's talking about, well,
when Jacob came out, we saw many manifestations of God's grace
to him. God appeared to Jacob many times
when he came out of Paddan Aram. The thing that happened right
before, he's looking at Laban's sons, he's seeing their angry
faces, hearing their words, and he says, we got to go. The Lord
told him, it's time to go. Don't stay here any longer, you
need to go. And he gathers his wives, Leah and Rachel, and they
hear him declare the word that God spoke to his heart. And they
believed. They said, all that the Lord
told you to do, do it. A picture of the church, right? Hearing Christ and His word.
All that the Lord has told you to do, do it, Lord. Bless us
in you, Lord. Just do what is necessary to
bring us safely to the promised land. Get us out of here. So
they heard, and then as he's going out, Laban pursues him,
and he thinks, uh-oh, Laban's coming. And what happened? The
Lord delivered him from Laban. The Lord severed that tie completely
from Laban so that Laban did not take his daughters back and
his grandsons from him. They were all safe. And then
he sees Mechanaim, which is the camp of the angels of God. He
saw one there right when Laban was turned away, the Lord showing
up. I'm with you. And then the next
one leading up to Esau coming, the Lord provided. The Lord was
providing right there with him. And then he's fearful of Esau,
and he wrestles with God, and what, the Lord wrestles with
him till the break of day, right? We continue in the Lord until
the day star rises in our hearts and the Lord shines unto us,
till we see Christ in his face and hear him. We continue in
the Lord that way. And then Esau comes, and all
that he feared was just not even there, wasn't even there. The
Lord delivered him from Esau perfectly and fully. And then
this whole thing with Shechem comes up and the Lord delivers
him out of the hand of his enemies up to Bethel to worship the Lord. And so All these provisions,
right, these are the things touched on in Jacob's life. All these
provisions were given by God in bringing Jacob out of Paddan
Aram. Not just physically, but all
that corruption that clung to him, that was in his heart and
mind of Paddan Aran. All that time the Lord is stripping
those things from him, demonstrating to him the true and living God
that he provides. That's what the Lord does for
us. As we go through this life, He's stripping us of this love
of this world, this confidence in the flesh, and the things
of death that we by nature love and cling to and hope in and
trust in and think this is life. And the Lord says, no it isn't.
But He does it. by stripping these things, by
taking these things from us in learning of Him. And so that's
why it says, God appeared unto Jacob again when he came out
of Paddan Aram and blessed him. Here's Jacob finally comes to
Bethel He's he's brought to Bethel and the Lord has blessed him
so many so many ways But all that time he was just anxious
and fearful. I mean every time we see him.
He was worried and made afraid. And then after Bethel, you see
him being settled, settled in the Lord, trusting the Lord more
and more because the Lord has been stripping him of those things
and giving him more and more confidence in what the Lord does
for his people. And that's what Christ is showing
you. Trust Him. He is our blessing. He is our surety. He is our salvation. He does not fail to comfort us,
to keep us, to turn us from dead things and wicked things and
this world and to keep us looking to the Lord Jesus Christ. And so at Bethel, what did the
Lord do? He repeated the promises. to
Jacob. He repeated those things to Jacob
that he had told him when he was wrestling him. When he changed
his name, he told him again, your name is Jacob, it's now
Israel. And the one who does this for
you is El Shaddai, God Almighty, able to do whatsoever I desire
to do. Because all power and authority
is Christ's. He has all power and authority,
able to do whatsoever He wills to do for your good and mine. He's able to do it, brethren.
And so that's what he told Jacob, which, by the way, is exactly
what he said to Abraham. In Genesis chapter 17, if you
read it, the first nine verses, he starts off to Abraham, I am
God almighty. El Shaddai. And he says the same
thing to Jacob in verses 12 through 14. Same exact thing. And then he changed the name
from Abram to Abraham there. That's what he did for Jacob.
Your name is Jacob. It's now Israel. A new name will I give
you, a new name. We are Christ's. We are his bride. We are his people, not the people
of this world. We're his people. And he's sovereign
God, able to do whatsoever is needed to be done to separate
us from this world, to deliver us from death, and to give us
life in himself. Even Nebuchadnezzar, king of
Babylon, was brought to say all the inhabitants of the earth
are reputed as nothing. And he doeth according to his
will in the army of heaven and among the inhabitants of the
earth, and none can stay his hand or say unto him, What doest
thou? We don't talk to the true and
living God that way. God teaches us. He turns us from
death for our good. Now it says in verse 13, and
God went up from him in the place where he talked with him. And
this is something that, again, we identify with. There's wonderful
times when we are blessed of the Lord on the mountaintop,
and we think, this is wonderful. I'm just delighting in the Lord.
Everything he says, I hear, I receive his word. It's wonderful. And
then you come down off that mountain, and you're back into trouble
again. Do we see that? Do we see that in our own lives? How that those blessed times
where they come to an end in the scriptures, did our brethren
go through that? Yes, they do. The Lord shows
you. It's not that you're strange. It's not that, I mean, you're
strange in this world, but in the people of God, you are a
peculiar people that he blesses in this way and does these things
for. And so we see this with, Well,
we see, okay, yeah, Peter, James, and John, right? Peter, James,
and John, they go up to the mount called the Mount of Transfiguration
with the Lord, and they see Christ in his ascension glory. The humanity
of Christ was lifted, the veil was lifted for a moment and they
saw the ascension glory of Christ before them shining bright so
that they couldn't even look upon him and their faces hit
the ground and they hear and see wonderful things, wonderful
things. But then that time came to an
end where they had to go down the mountainside. And they get
down the mountain, and what happens? They get smacked in the face
with a brick that, here's life going on, right? And there's
all this commotion and arguing and disagreements with the Pharisees
to the disciples. And there's a man there with
his son who's sick and possessed with the devil. And you just
see all this commotion and trouble. And it's like us, when we leave
here, the Lord communes with us. He blesses us in His Word. He shows us that He is God. And then we go out those doors
and all the trouble starts to hit us again. It does happen.
It does happen, but the Lord doesn't leave you. The Lord doesn't
leave you, he's with you. We see with Cleopas, we see an
example of that on those men on the road to Emmaus, and the
Lord's speaking to Cleopas and the other disciple, and it says
that it came to pass as he sat at meat with them. Just as the
Lord does with us here right now. He sits at meat with us.
He took bread and blessed it and break it and gave unto them.
He gives you His body to feed upon, His blood to drink, to
feed upon the Lord Jesus Christ, to hear that He has accomplished
your redemption. He has put away our sins. He
has saved us, delivered us from death, and given us, freely given
us, eternal life. It's ours in Him. We're just
struggling through this life here, but it's all for our good.
It's all to keep our eyes upon Christ. And it says when he did
that, their eyes were opened and they knew him. Just as the
Lord does when he comes and blesses you with his word and comforts
your heart and takes your eyes off of dead things to see Christ
Jesus, our Lord. And then it says he vanished
out of their sight. Then he left them. He left them. And they
said one to another, did not our heart burn within us while
he talked with us by the way and while he opened unto us the
scriptures? Isn't that sweet when the Lord
communes with you and blesses you in that way? And then it
comes to an end. It does come to an end temporarily. in in this this time of of flesh
in this this difficult time that we have but he does this brethren
until the season closes but from that blessed time with his god
that we see here with with jacob here in verse 14 now in genesis
35 14 and 15 From that time where the Lord
gave him the bread and broke that bread to him, blessed it
and break it to him and communed with him and he saw God, he heard
from the true and living God there in the worship of God at
Bethel, what does it say? And Jacob set up a pillar. in the place where God talked
with him, even a pillar of stone. And he poured a drink offering
thereon, and he poured oil thereon. And Jacob called the name of
the place where God spake with him, Bethel, which is the house
of God." What we see there in the Lord visiting Jacob and repeating
the promises of God to him and saying, I'm doing it. I'm El
Shaddai, God Almighty, able to do what I'm telling you. I'm
doing it, Jacob. I've done it, and I am doing
it. Well, now spiritual fruit is born in Jacob. And he believes
that word. This pillar that he puts there
is a picture of the fruit of faith, which the Spirit of God
gives you. you hear his word in Christ Jesus. He is our salvation. He is our
savior. And he gives you faith that you
plant on that word of promise, believing that Jesus Christ is
the son of God, that he has saved me, that he has put away my sins
by the death of himself, and that the father loves me and
receives me. through Christ the Son and has
blessed me and called me out of this darkness and broke this
bread to me and fed me with this and showed me these things. And
he gives you faith to believe that word, just as we see Jacob
believing that word. That pillar is the pillar of
faith, brethren. It's the faith which the Spirit
of God bears fruits of righteousness in you. It's that fruit, faith.
which he gives to his child concerning the promises of God. Believe
the Lord. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
and thou shalt be saved. He shall continue to deliver
you from this world and dead things. That cannot save. He promises to do it. It's resting
on Christ's shoulders. And so we see here how that God
has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places
in Christ Jesus our Lord. He said from the cross, it is
finished. It is finished. All that was
needed for you to be delivered from death and given life is
finished in Christ. And what he's doing now is continuing
to work these things out just as he said. It's all dependent
on him. And he does not fail. He cannot
fail. And so you that believe him and
trust him, following him by faith, you shall not come short of that
blessed hope that you seek. We seek a city whose building
and foundations are not of this world, but God has built them
and he will not fail. It's yours. You shall rise again,
brethren. When this body is laid in the
grave, turns back to dust, you shall rise again, just as he
said, because he said it and he's doing it without fail. He he will not fail. And so directly
after this blessedness of Jacob, which God brought obedience in
his heart, he went and worshiped God. He he he was called of God
and he did it. He heard the word and he obeyed
the word all by the grace and power of God Hear God worship
him come with your brethren be assembled to hear these promises
week after week It's for your good, and it says verse 16 We
read of a great trial that follows after. It says, verse 16, and
they journeyed from Bethel. And there was but a little way
to come to Ephrath. And Rachel travailed, and she
had hard labor. And it came to pass, when she
was in hard labor, that the midwife said unto her, fear not, thou
shalt have this son also. Now Rachel, we know, was the
wife whom Jacob loved. She was beautiful. And he served
for her. He wanted her. She was his wife
there. And now she's going through a
hard labor. This is a trial for Jacob and
for Rachel, both there. And she dies. She dies. And it
reminds me of something she said back, what is it? Genesis 30,
30 verse 1. Rachel speaking, and we're told
of Rachel, and when Rachel saw that she bared Jacob no children,
Rachel envied her sister and said unto Jacob, give me children
or I die. You give me children or I'm dead. And it's rather ironic that the
very thing that she dies of isn't the fact that she didn't have
children, but she died giving birth to children. And it just
shows that by nature, we're full of folly. We have no power. We don't even understand the
darkness that we speak of and think of. And she died. But it is here that the eye of
faith sees the gospel. We see a picture of the gospel
here in the believer. The believer, right? We have
that old man and that new man. And we see a picture here of
the believer in the old man being put to death, being laid to death. And the new man, born of Christ,
believing and trusting the Lord, walking by faith in the Lord. And this great trial here, Rachel,
is a picture of that old man of flesh, which dies. which must die, which died with
Christ, and must be laid to death in Christ Jesus. And that's what
Rachel pictures here. And the new man we see in Jacob,
which believes and trusts the Lord through this trial. And
their view on the birth of Benjamin is very different. It says here
in verse 18 that it came to pass So Genesis 35 verse 18, it came
to pass as her soul was in departing, for she died, that she called
his name Benoni, but his father called him Benjamin. And the
margin tells us that Benoni means the son of my sorrow. And Benjamin
means the son of my right hand. And Rachel died and was buried
in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem. And so the picture
here, brethren, is that the Lord who called you in Christ has
appointed every trial and every difficulty. We see His faithfulness
in keeping Jacob, that whole life, even when he was polluted,
right, had all that sin still, that the garments of Pat-Anoram
still on him, and you see all these problems, yet the Lord
provided for him, very graciously, always leading him, always bringing
him along and calling him to worship God and revealing himself,
repeating the promises, continuing to bless his people. Keeps doing
that throughout Jacob's life. And here he brings this difficult
trial in which that which he loves is put to death. Right? She died. Rachel, whom he loved,
died in childbirth. And yet he's given a gracious
insight, a gracious understanding to trust the Lord in this. And
it shows us that what we know, the believer knows that all things
work together for good to them that love God, to them who are
the called according to purpose. The old man of flesh doesn't
delight in it, but the new man born of Christ loves what the
Lord does for us, how he provides for us and keeps us. And so this
old man in the trial complains, finds fault, and sees it as something
that ruins my happiness. I don't have time for this. And
this is difficult. Why is this going on? And we
look at it in a very fleshly manner. by nature, by nature,
and we see it as sorrowful, as sorrowful. The son of my sorrow,
this thing is causing me trouble. This thing's a problem. I don't
need this right now. And that's how she sees it, the
old man of flesh, right? I must die. But these trials
serve to put to death our pride, our arrogance, our self-confidence
in the flesh, from loving this world, embracing this world,
pursuing this world the way we would if we had it our way by
nature. But these trials bring us down
and low in ourselves and destroy that which is of the flesh that
we might live unto God by his grace and power, so that we're
humbled by them, but our God raises us up in Christ. in drawing us to worship Him,
to trust Him, to hear His Word, and to establish that pillar
of faith in His Word of promise, not in what we would do for ourselves
out in the world. And so the new man, born of his
grace, is encouraged in what he sees. He sees the son of my
right hand, the son of God's right hand, the Lord Jesus Christ,
seated on the throne of God, who came in the flesh, laid down
his life, the put away my sin to give me life in him to turn
me from this death and give me life in him and rose from the
dead just as he said he would and is now seated on the right
hand of the throne of God working all things according to the very
promise of God. He intercedes for us and provides
all things for us. And so the new man sees Christ
in the trial working all things together for good. They're a
picture of one. Husband and wife are one. One
flesh. Bone of my bone, flesh of my
flesh. And they're one. And it says there that Jacob
was on his way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem. The birthplace
of our Lord in the flesh. All right, as this old man's
dying, we see a picture of Christ's birth, of his work, even established
in Jacob's heart. And what does it say, verse 20?
And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave. That's amazing. All this time, Jacob was always
so anxious, always so troubled by the things that he was going
through. And here this man settled. in Christ, blessed of the Lord,
now sets a pillar upon her grave, a pillar of faith, trusting that
the Lord is good, is right, is perfect, has done all things
well. He sets this pillar up, a pillar
of faith, that this old man of flesh, though it lie in the grave,
shall be raised again. with a heavenly body in and by
the Lord Jesus Christ just as he promised. You ain't giving
up nothing in this world that is anything. Trust the Lord. You keep looking to Christ, follow
him, look to him, trust him. Don't worry about what you're
missing out on this world because you ain't missing out on nothing.
shall be raised again at the coming of Christ just like he
said believe him trust him who stores up all things for us in
heavenly places now this trial was hard right Jacob but in that
trial the Lord brought the fruit of faith in him, the fruit of
faith. It reminds me of what the Lord
says about childbirth when he said in Genesis 3, 16, I will
greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception. In sorrow thou
shalt bring forth children. And what does the exhortation
say to us? Continue in faith. and that we, through much tribulation,
must enter into the kingdom of God. Your sorrow in this life,
in this flesh, shall be multiplied. You shall have difficulty in
this life in the flesh. But believe the Lord, for we
must, through much tribulation, enter the kingdom of God. The
children, that fruit which is born in us of Christ's seed,
is brought forth in sorrow to this flesh. But it glorifies
Christ. It glorifies our God and Savior
and what He is doing effectually for us by His grace. By His grace, He's doing it.
And it reminds me of what John said in 1 John 5, 4 and 5. Now
whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world. Just like Jacob, he
overcame the world. And this is the victory that
overcometh the world, even our faith. Even our faith, which
is given to us by Christ, by his Spirit. Who is he that overcometh
the world? But he that believeth that Jesus
is the Son of God. And so we see how that God called
Jacob and blessed him with promises and assurances providing for
him through every trial. He called him to worship him,
and there blessed him, revealed faith in him. As God broke the
word to him and blessed that word to him, faith was set upon
that word. And brethren, that's what the
Lord does for us. Though the seasons may be short
at times, though the world comes in again, rushing in with troubles
and trials and things that take our eyes off of Christ, just
keep worshiping the Lord. Believe his word. Trust him. He's able to bring to pass all
that he promises to do in his word. He does it. He does it.
So believe him. Your faith, which he gives, overcometh
the world. Pray the Lord bless that word
to our hearts.