Genesis 32, read verses 3 through
5 with me again. Jacob sent messengers before
him to Esau, his brother, in the land of Seir, the country
of Edom. And he commanded them, saying,
Thus shall you speak unto my lord Esau. Thy servant Jacob
saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban, stayed there until
now. I have oxen and asses, flocks
of menservants and womenservants. And I've sent to tell my Lord
that I might find grace in thy sight." Finding grace in God's
sight. That's the story this morning. So much is written of the life
of Jacob, and I am so glad. So glad. I feel like Jacob. All the people of God do. The
Lord says, I'm the God of Jacob. He said, I am the Lord, I change
not. Therefore, you sons of Jacob
that are just like him are not consigned. Oh happy, oh happy
is he to have the God of Jacob for his help. Jacob, you know
these things, That's what Paul said to the Thessalonians, didn't
he? See, you know these things, but I'm going to tell them again.
Jacob was loved by God. Jacob didn't first love God.
God first loved Jacob. Jacob was chosen by God. Jacob
didn't choose God. God chose Jacob, as He does all
the people of God. The Lord made a covenant concerning
Jacob. He didn't ask him to cooperate.
He just told Jacob what all he was going to do for him, in spite
of himself. He revealed that covenant. Mercy.
Covenant mercy. Covenant God. Promise after promise
was given to Jacob. Oh, Jacob. Jacob is a sinful
man. Jacob is a fearful man. Jacob
is often a worldly man. But God loved Jacob. He loved
Jacob. Jacob is slow to learn. But God
is slow to anger. Jacob, slow to change. But God is slow to anger. Every
believer, every child of God is loved by God. And those He
loves, He loves to the end. Once loved by God, you'll always
be loved by God. Every believer is chosen by God
and given to Christ in a covenant of grace before the foundation
of the world. And in all the course of our
lives, He gives us many exceeding and precious promises whereby
we might escape this world. Jacob, I believe, is the greatest
example in all the Scripture of God's great grace. Great, great, in spite of himself. But Jacob, as I said, is so fearful. He's so afraid. In spite of all
that God said to him, all the promises, God kept speaking to
him and promising him His mercy upon him. But verse 6 says they
returned to Jacob and said, Your brother is coming to meet you.
Verse 7, Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed. Our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom
Esau is a type here. He's a type. He's coming again. He's coming
again. He's coming back to this world.
What for? To destroy this world. He's going
to take his people back. Those who are accepted in him.
Those whom God gave to him in a coven. Those for whom he died.
But every believer in the back of his mind thinks, I don't know if I'm one of his
children or not. I don't know if he's going to accept me or
destroy me. Don't we? Because of our sin.
Jacob knows he's offended his brother. He did. Yes, he did.
They offended him. And he's worried. And he's troubled. In spite of all God's sin, in
spite of the many precious promises God keeps making to him over
and over again, fear not, Jacob. Fear not. I'm with you. Oh, be
not afraid. I am thy God. I'll still give
thee aid. But he's afraid. David couldn't
have been a stronger believer in all the scriptures, couldn't
he? And he said that he was afraid. He said, what time I'm afraid,
I'll trust the Lord. But Jacob goes through many troubles,
doesn't he? That's the way it is with all
the sons of Jacob. They're all whom the Lord loves. He chastens. Jacob goes through many troubles.
Many of them are of his own making, aren't they? Many of them he
brought upon himself. Of that much it is certain. And we can all say the same thing,
can't we? That much of our troubles we've
brought upon ourselves. But you know, the Lord hath not
dealt with us according to our iniquity. Oh no, the Lord doesn't
punish His people. He doesn't punish his people.
Jacob thought that Esau was going to kill all
his family. Jacob thought the Lord was going
to kill his children and take everything from him because of
his sin. That's what he thought. Well,
before this story ends, let me go ahead and tell you how it
ends. Not one of the sons of Jacob were lost. Not one. No one bears the iniquity
of another. But God hath laid on him the
iniquity of us all. God doesn't punish His people.
He chastens. Listen to this scripture. Listen.
In Psalm 71, verse 19, it says, Thy righteousness, O God, also
is very high. Who has done great things, O
God? Who is like unto Thee? Thou which
showed me great and sore troubles. David said, You've done great
things. And something that is part of
God's wonderful mercy and grace to His people is sending trouble. You wouldn't think that, would
you? The world wouldn't think that. God's people know that.
Though there are troubles, that's what they're called, aren't there?
Troubles. Deep trials. But the Lord sent them. Why? Well, by these troubles, He brought
Jacob out of Paddanaran, the heathen. He's showing him, you
have here no continuing city. I'm bringing you home to the
Father, to me. I'm bringing you home to myself.
And I'm going to send troubles and trials, deep, dark waters
you're going to have to go through, but it's all that you might call
on me. It's all that you might come
out from amongst them. It's all that you might be ready
to go. Trials within, trials without.
Our Lord said that, didn't he? He said, in the world you shall
have tribulation. He said that to his disciples. And Jacob had troubles at home,
he had troubles in the world, he had troubles everywhere. His greatest trouble was himself,
wasn't it? His greatest trouble and his
greatest fears came from his own sinful self. He knew that
all this, his family troubles, he said, it's my fault. I'm the
one to blame for all this trouble I'm in. But no, Jacob, no, no. Yeah, you're a sinner. Yes, the
Lord chastens you. But all this is God's program.
And God deals with every single person individually. Every single
one of your sons, I deal with individually. I deal with them.
I'll deal with them. And as the Lord dealt with Jacob
personally. Jacob's going to have to meet
the Lord personally. Personally. Jacob lived in a
heathen land. God was bringing him out. And
in spite of all Jacob went through, where sin abounded, grace did
much more abound. Here's the great grace of God.
Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. Here's the
great grace. That in spite of where you go
and how you wander and how much you sin and how much you forget
God, Jacob in that, we saw how very little mention of Jacob
calling on God. if any, when he was in Ben-Aram. I don't think there's one verse
where it says, he said, O God. But God. God kept coming to him. God kept speaking to him. God
kept calling him. This was the great grace that
God showed to Jacob, and it's the great grace God shows to
us, that He won't leave us alone. Though we forsake Him, though
we're in the world and appear to be of it, He keeps reminding
us. You're not up for it. You're
coming home. You're coming home. And He keeps speaking to us.
He keeps speaking to us. If the Lord quits speaking to
you, then worry. Then worry. You have cause for great fear
then. But if He keeps speaking to you, keeps calling you, and
you keep coming back to hear from Him, you're a son of Jacob.
God loves you. He loves you like He did Jacob.
He said, listen to this. He said, and this is what He
said in the beginning, and this is what He said in the end. He
said, I am with thee and I will keep thee and will bring thee
home. I will not leave thee until I
have done that which I have spoken to you of. And that's my hope, isn't it?
Is that your hope? Listen to this. I read this this
morning. You see, it's of the Lord's mercies
that were not consumed. And the greatest mercy of the
Lord is what you're doing right now. This is the mercy of God. This is the grace of God. This
is the voice of God. These are the promises of God
to His people. This is how you know you're one
of His children. He keeps speaking to you. He
keeps confirming the covenant to you. He keeps promising to
you things that He promised in the beginning. And in spite of
yourself, in spite of all you go through, in spite of your
sin, in spite of your trouble, in spite of your going far from
Him, He's not far from you. And He keeps bringing you back
and showing you. Listen to this. Psalm 146, David
said this, Oh, happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his
help, whose hope is in the Lord his God, which made heaven and
the earth and the sea and all that are therein is, which keepeth the truth forever. Keepeth covenants and mercy,
he said, for them that fear. Keepeth. He's still got it. He
leaves. Calls you back, still got it. Truth. Want the truth? Here's
the truth. He that hath the Son hath life.
Here's the truth. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ,
thou shalt be saved. Here's the truth. All power Christ
has given unto me in heaven and earth. That's the truth. Christ
is the truth. You keep the truth. All right.
But in our story here, here's the story. Old Jacob, still Jacob. He was Jacob when he left, and
he's Jacob when he's coming home. I'm just certain he never called
himself Israel. He couldn't get used to it. Prince
of God. Jacob. Jacob. And we are too. We're a sinner. We started to
sing that song. Naught have I gotten, but what
I've received. Grace hath bestowed it, and now
I believe. Boasted, excluded, pride eye-based,
I'm only a sinner. Never have been anything but
a sinner. Never will be anything but a sinner. Saved by grace. To the praise of the glory of
His grace. Old Jacob's still Jacob. He'll always be Jacob,
though God called him Israel. He's sinful. He's sinful. And he can't quit. And God restrains him, though.
God restrains his sin. He's afraid in spite of all that
God keeps telling him. Keeps promising him promise after
promise after promise after promise after promise. Sure word, sure
mercies of God. God keeps telling him, be not
afraid. I'm with you. Be not afraid.
I'm with you. But Jacob is afraid. He's afraid
for himself, he's afraid for his family. He fears his enemies. He fears everything and everyone
around him. Can anybody relate to Jacob? I might. Well, here's how a sinner
finds grace. Jacob said he'd sent all these
things to Esau, his brother, that he might find grace. He
knows he's offended Esau. And his conscience is troubled.
God gives everyone a conscience. Every single son of Adam has
a conscience, which is a good thing. That's the mercy of God.
It's a law written on the heart, excusing or accusing. It's a good thing. But after
a while, Scripture says some people have their consciences
seared like a hot iron. It doesn't bother them anymore.
The conscience doesn't bother them. Sin. God's people have
a good conscience. Remember how he told Timothy
that? Faith and a good conscience.
A good conscience, one that convicts us. The Spirit of God dwells
with God's people and takes the law of God and the Word of God
and says, you're guilty. The Holy Spirit, he's called,
convinces us of sin. You're sinful. Be holy. But I can't. and accuses us and convicts us,
and we know we've offended God. That's a good thing. It's a good
thing. You know, many people throughout
the world go through some kind of troubles and something bad
happens and they get religious. They get religious. This happens
so many times. And they go to church. And they're
afraid, a fear of death, a fear of the consequences for something
they've done, a conscience bothering them, that they've offended God. And they go to church. There
was a man we know quite well, the father of someone you know,
a brother you know. But he was playing cards one
time, sitting at the table with a bunch of his buddies, his hunting
buddies, playing cards. And his friend of many, many
years sitting right beside him fell over dead. A massive heart
attack without warning. His head hit the table and he
died. Well, that struck fear in this
man. The man never didn't worship God, didn't care about Christ. His son did. But he didn't. And, oh buddy, he started coming
to church. And he was in service after service
with it. Service after service. Until the fear started wearing
off. Until he realized he didn't have
heart trouble. Physical heart trouble. So once that fear of death subsided,
So did his religion. And he was gone. It never came
back. It never came back. God puts in his people a true
fear. The fear of the Lord. And it
never goes away. A God we've offended. Yes. Yes. Jacob was greatly afraid. And when the Lord begins to deal
with the son of Jacob, they hear about the true God. Not this
one that's supposed to love everybody, that will not punish sin. No, no, no. Sons of Jacob hear
about the living and true God, holy, holy, holy, just God, who
will by no means clear the guilty. God whom Scripture says. They
hear about the God of the Bible, and they hear it from the Bible,
from a preacher of the Word. And they hear about a God who's
angry with the wicked every day. And they realize, that's me.
They hear about a God whom Scripture says, hateth all workers of iniquity.
And they say, and they know in their heart, and they say, that's
me. And they worry. And they say,
that's me. The fear of the Lord. And you know, fear is a form
of faith. Have you ever thought about fear as being a form of
faith? It is. It comes by hearing. People at
Pentecost, They were given ears to hear. They were given ears
to hear. Life had already begun. They
didn't know it because they had ears to hear. They'd been quickened
to hear the Word. And what's the first thing that
happened to them when they heard about a sovereign Lord on the
throne that they killed, that they offended? That God had made
this same Jesus whom they crucified Lord and Christ. What's the first
thing that happened to everybody? Fear fell on them. And they all
with one voice began to cry, what are we going to do? We've
got to appease this God who's angry with us. We've offended
God, the holy God. I never thought that before.
Well, here's what you do. The first thing you do is call
on the name of the Lord. Look at Jacob's call. Now, you
don't have to tell somebody, an awakened sinner, one that
God is dealing with. You don't have to tell them how
to pray. You don't have to say it, repeat after me. It comes
from a heart, a broken heart. Jacob said, verse 9, O God of
my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, O God, from
the heart he's crying unto the Lord, whosoever shall call on
the name of the Lord shall be saved. He's calling on God. God
of Abraham. Notice this. You've got the true
God, the living God. People, there's one God. The
Lord, our God, is one God. The God of Abraham, the God of
Isaac, the God of Jacob, the God of the Jews, salvations of
the Jews. There's only one God. Not the
God of the Muslim, not the God of the Hindu, not the God of
the Buddhist, and not even the God of Southern Baptists who
has no hands but their hand. That weak God. The Lord, our
God, is one God. The God of Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob. The living, true God. The God of the Bible. God of
the Bible. Notice Jacob said, you're the
God of Abraham and you're the God of Isaac. He didn't say he's his God. He knows he's God. But he's worried
that it's his God. He thinks I'm too sinful. I'm too fearful. How can I be
one of his? He's my father's God. He's my
grandfather's God. I sure hope He's my God. I remember
this distinctly. I remember when the Lord began
dealing with me and my sin, convicting me of my sin. Coming to hear,
I couldn't do without it. I had to hear it. Though I didn't
believe that I was one of God's own. I didn't believe I was one
of God's elect. I didn't see how I could be.
But I believed He was God. I did. I really did. I knew He
was God. I believed the record. I believed
in all He said. But I just couldn't believe that
I was one of His. Ain't it about that? And I still
have trouble every now and then. But here's what He pleaded in
verse 9. He said, Verse 9, You said unto me, Return. You said,
Come. Here I am. He said, return and
I'll deal well with this. He said, come unto me and I'll
give you rest, all you that labor. No matter how sinful, come unto
me. God, you said, come. Here I am. You said, call. I'm
calling. Here I am, Lord. I'm guilty.
You know, this is a prayer sure to be heard. We're not heard
very much speaking. This is a very short prayer,
isn't it? Here's a prayer that's sure to be heard. Look at verse
10. He says, I am not worthy of the least of all thy mercies. And it's truth. I'm not worthy. Isn't that what all of God's
people say? Unworthy. Job, of whom the Lord
said, there's none like him, the righteous man. Job said,
behold, I'm thine. Joseph said, I abhor myself.
Daniel, there was no finer, there was none fairer in all the land
than Daniel. Daniel said, my company melted
to corruption. David, of whom God said, he's
a man after my own heart. God, David said, my sin is ever
before me. He said, have mercy on me, O
God, according to thy love and kindness. Blot out my transgressions. Peter, of whom the Lord said,
Thou art Peter, the rock. Upon this rock I will build my
church. Peter said, apart from me, Lord, I'm a sinful man. Paul,
of whom God said, He's a chosen vessel unto me. He's my servant. Paul said, O wretched man that
I am. I'm the chief of servants. A publican in the temple. Short
prayer, wasn't it? Perfect prayer. Seven words. God, be merciful unto me, the
sinner. That's it. And when we come to
the end of our road, in the beginning, this is our cry. I'm not worthy
of all the mercies you've shown me. And this truth, this gospel,
I'm an unworthy recipient of this gospel. I don't know if
I'm one of yours or not, but I believe it. I believe you're
God. And that's the cry of every one
of God's people. And look at this. He's thankful.
He acknowledges the mercy of the Lord in his life. He says
in verse 10, I'm not worthy of your mercies, the least of your
mercies, and all the truth which you've showed unto thy servant.
And look at me now, he said. Look where I was and look at
me now. Jacob said, I passed over this
same place. God brought him back to the same
place. And he said, I passed over this
rod by myself with a staff. And now look at me. He had this
great family with all these possessions. All these possessions. My, my. Look at you. All of you. Look at me. I came back a prodigal son all
alone. Look at me. Not worthy. Not worthy. Here's his prayer. Deliver me. Verse 11. Deliver
me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand
of Esau. I fear him lest he will come
and smite me, the mother with the children, and kill us all. Deliver me. Isn't this our prayer?
Deliver me. Deliver me. I fear him. Again, after all that the Lord
said unto him, he's still afraid. After all the promises the Lord
made him, he's still afraid. Sounds like Manoah, doesn't it? Remember Manoah and his wife?
The Lord came to him personally. He didn't come to anybody else.
He came to Manoah and his wife. And he told him how he was going
to have a son, a seed. promised him all these things.
And Manoah, they offered a sacrifice and the angel accepted the sacrifice
and ascended up to glory. And Manoah said, I'm going to
die. God's going to kill me. Because I'm such a sinner. And
his wife. His wife had to remind him. He's
not going to kill us. He wouldn't have told us all
these things. He wouldn't have come to tell us. Why would he
have told us that? Brother Cody and I were talking about Adam.
Now, it's not plainly revealed that Adam is saved, is it? No, it doesn't say Adam. In the
Hall of Faith in Hebrews 11, it doesn't mention Adam. It mentions
Abel first. But we talked about it and we
concluded that God wouldn't have told him all these things. He
wouldn't have told him. The Lord Jesus Christ came to
the first sinner, the chief sinner, the worst sinner, Adam and his
wife, and came to them and spoke to them, spoke peace to them. He convicted them of their sin.
Look at you. Look what you've done. But He
showed them a sacrifice. He took that lamb and covered
their nakedness and that blood was shed and told them about
the woman's sin. He wouldn't have told you these
things if He was going to kill you. He wouldn't have showed
you these things. You see, don't you? You see clearly.
Most people don't see. Most people are still blind to
the person of God. to themselves, blind to the salvation
that's in Christ, still blind, still trying to appease God with
this and that and the other, like Jacob. But God showed him. God shows us. The one thing that
appeases him is the good of his son. In spite of all that, the Lord
told Manoah's wife, He's not going to kill us. He wouldn't
have accepted the sacrifice. We're accepted in Him. Accepted in
Him. And our Lord keeps telling this
to His people. Be not afraid. Be not afraid.
You know, but He's repentant, isn't He? Oh, Jacob. I'm guilty. He must be. Can't wait to get
the story of Joseph and his brethren. In fact, I can't wait. I've been reading ahead. Love
it. And they all had to know, to
a man, every one of the sons of Jacob had to know, this is
coming on us, all this trouble, because we sinned against our
brother. And the Holy Spirit convinces us of sin, and number
one, they don't believe on His Son. Try to come another way. Well,
look at it. Jacob said this, and look down
at verse 20. I'll send a present if I can see his face. Perventure,
he'll accept of me. Perventure, he'll accept a present
from me. I'll appease him, appease his
wrath. He's right to be angry with me. He's right to be offended by
me. I've offended him. I'm guilty.
And I fear him. And I'll send something to appease
him. whereby mine might be accepted
of him. And so many people do that. And even we do that still. Sons
of Jacob that we are. Even we sometimes try to appease
our God because of the guilt that we feel. No one. But people, I'm here to tell
you, on the authority invested in me, that we are accepted one
way. Always have been. Always will
be. In the blood. In the blood. Look at it. In chapter 33. Now, if you're disappointed we didn't
look at the verses right before that, just come back. Chapter 33. Here's the end of
the story. Jacob lifted up his eyes and
looked. Doesn't the Scripture say, look,
look unto me, look unto me. Oh, the ends of the earth, I
am God, just God the Savior. Well, Esau came and he had 400
men with him. He had 400 men. So Jacob started
dividing things up, thinking, what are we going to do? He passed over. Finally, Jacob's
going to have to go out and confront Esau himself. He can't send messengers. He can't send messengers. Nobody
can go to Esau for him. He's sent to get to Esau. He's
the one that's going to have to go out and face him. And this
thing of salvation is between us and the Lord. Christ said,
come unto me. Come unto me. Confess your sins. Repentance toward God and faith
in the Lord Jesus Christ. Come to me. Come unto me. We've
got to go to Christ ourselves. Whosoever shall call on the name
of the Lord. And we call on Him ourselves. And we come to Him
ourselves. And Jacob, it says, bowed himself,
verse 3, bowed himself to the ground seven times until he came
near to his brethren. Bowed himself seven times. Every
knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess. But everyone that
bows now will receive mercy." Look at it. Verse 4, expecting
to receive wrath, expecting to be rejected, expecting to be
destroyed, it says, Esau ran to meet Jacob and embraced him
and fell on his neck and kissed him. And they wept. They both wept. God is merciful. A lot more merciful
than you think He is. When He's talking about His thoughts
and His ways in Isaiah 55, He said, My thoughts are not your
way, as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My thoughts.
You know what He's talking about? His mercy. David said His mercy is higher
than the heavens. Higher than the heavens. God's
not like us. He doesn't hold grudges. He's
not out for revenge. He's out for our salvation. And
this is why Esau has to be a type of our Lord, doesn't he? Esau. God is merciful. God is gracious unto all that
call on Him. He's a God ready to pardon. Esau
was coming to meet Jacob. Esau was coming to meet Jacob. Jacob didn't want to face Esau,
but Esau wanted to see Jacob's face. And he came to his brother who
offended him greatly. I hope to preach soon on Go Tell
My Disciples and Peter. And Peter. Esau came to meet
him. Does that sound like the prodigal?
The father coming running to the prodigal? The prodigal didn't
know how the father was going to receive him. But the father
had already pardoned him before he came. And the father went
running and fell on his neck. That good-for-nothing, worthless,
sinful son of his. But he's his son. He's sinful,
all right, but he's his sinful son. And he loves him. And Esau
went running out there. And here, look at what Jacob
said, and I close. He said, verse 5, he lifted up
his eyes, Esau said, and saw the women and the children and
said, who's of these? And Jacob said, the children
of God gave me. God gave me all of them. The
handmaidens came near, they and their children. They bowed themselves.
Leah also with her children came near. See, Leah's one of them.
He is too. He is one of them. Pagan woman
that she is. And bowed them. See, they all
bowed, didn't they? Whoever bows is accepted. They all bowed. After that, Joseph came near,
and Rachel. And they bowed themselves. See,
everyone bowed. They all bowed. All the sons of Jacob. All the
wives of Jacob. They bowed. And they all received mercy.
And Jacob thought, Pharaoh, would you spare us all, Esau? And he did. And he said in verse
8, What do you mean by all this drove that I've made? What's
all this about? And Jacob said, These are the fine grace in the
sight of my Lord. Just let me find grace in your
sight. I've offended you. And Esau said, Here it is. Here's the gospel. Here's the
good news. I have enough, my brother. I have enough. Keep that. See, in our hands, no price we
bring. We need not bring a thing because
God has enough. God says to His people concerning
the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ, it's enough. I'm satisfied. I've laid on Him the iniquity
of you all. He built more of the iniquity
of all of God's people And he's satisfied. He's satisfied. He says, I have enough. You're
accepted. We are complete. Where? In Him. In the Beloved. Esau's anger
was appeased. He was angry. Now he's had enough. There's no more anger in Esau.
He's not angry with his brother anymore. He's reconciled. He called him brother. He wasn't ashamed to call him
brother. That old scheming brother of his, he came out and the first
thing he said was, Brother, Brother Jacob, I'm so happy to see you. He's weeping. And that's our Lord. Oh, Jerusalem,
Jerusalem. To His people. He's not angry. He has enough. Esau's countenance was not good
at first, was it? Not good. It was changed. Friendly. He's smiling at him now. Friendly. Brother Jacob. Glad you're home. Oh, boy. See, nothing that Jacob
provided was accepted. And Esau had it all. Isn't this what Abraham told
his son Isaac on that mountain? My son, God will provide. They went up that mountain without
a lamb. They didn't have anything. God
provided. He has enough. So everyone who
comes to God this way, call him for mercy. will be accepted. Every sinner that calls for mercy,
every sinner that comes by Christ, every sinner that calls and keeps
calling and keeps calling no matter how sinful you are, no
matter how far you've roamed, no matter all your fears, no
matter all your doubts, no matter your unbelief, Christ says, come. Come. And He says, don't bring
a thing. You still don't need anything.
I have enough. I have enough. If the Father
is pleased with what Christ did, if God is not angry, but God
is pleased, has accepted him and all are accepted in him,
why don't we, believe me, why don't we say in our hearts for
our own peace and our own joy, in spite of our sins, It's enough. It's enough. God's
satisfied. Let us be satisfied. Come to
Him, and by Christ. It couldn't be a better song
to sing after that than, Arise, my soul, arise, shake off thy
guilty fears. A bleeding sacrifice in thy behalf
appeared. Before the throne thy surety
stand. Your name is written. on his
hand. Your name is written. Jacob. Sons of Jacob on his hand. Number
223. Let's stand.