1 00:00:01,520 --> 00:00:02,800 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 2 00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:05,800 Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 3 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:07,760 Speaker 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. 4 00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:10,680 Speaker 1: Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. 5 00:00:10,760 --> 00:00:12,840 Speaker 2: Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving 6 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:13,560 Speaker 2: in your life. 7 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:16,440 Speaker 1: Enjoy the message. 8 00:00:17,079 --> 00:00:22,520 Speaker 2: I want to go back to Jacob. Jacob is going 9 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:27,240 Speaker 2: to be our Valentine's date. We're going to learn some 10 00:00:27,480 --> 00:00:34,040 Speaker 2: lessons about life and love and loneliness from Jacob, and 11 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:42,440 Speaker 2: we'll pick up in Genesis thirty two nineteen. I love you, 12 00:00:42,440 --> 00:00:47,000 Speaker 2: guys man Genesis thirty two nineteen. He also instructed the second, 13 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:50,760 Speaker 2: the third, and all the others who followed the herds. 14 00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:53,319 Speaker 2: You are to say the same thing to Esau when 15 00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:55,680 Speaker 2: you meet him, and be sure to say your servant. 16 00:00:55,760 --> 00:00:59,560 Speaker 1: Jacob is coming behind us. Before he thought I will. 17 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:03,240 Speaker 2: Passify him with these gifts. I'm sending on ahead with 18 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:08,960 Speaker 2: these gifts. I am sending on ahead. Later when I 19 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:13,160 Speaker 2: see him, perhaps he will receive me. So Jacob's gifts 20 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:17,760 Speaker 2: went on ahead of him, but he himself spent the 21 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:21,760 Speaker 2: night in the camp. And that night Jacob got up 22 00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:24,920 Speaker 2: and took his two wives touch somebody say, don't get 23 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:33,520 Speaker 2: any ideas his two female servants and his eleven sons 24 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:38,399 Speaker 2: and crossed the ford of the Jabakh and crossed the 25 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:42,000 Speaker 2: ford of the Jabak. And after he had sent them 26 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:46,360 Speaker 2: all across the stream, he sent over all his possessions. 27 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:50,360 Speaker 2: So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with 28 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:53,840 Speaker 2: him till daybreak. I want to speak to you today 29 00:01:53,880 --> 00:01:59,559 Speaker 2: on the subject hidden issues, hidden issues, and I pray 30 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:01,880 Speaker 2: that the Spirit of God would help make application to 31 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:02,919 Speaker 2: the truth in this text. 32 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:04,160 Speaker 1: Let's pray to that end. 33 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:07,040 Speaker 2: Father, I lift up every need before you today and 34 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:13,880 Speaker 2: ask that you administer do surgery, provide knowledge, wisdom, insight, conviction, Yes, God, 35 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:17,400 Speaker 2: even comfort and encouragement to every heart, so that we 36 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:21,560 Speaker 2: may leave this place very different and very assured that 37 00:02:21,639 --> 00:02:23,760 Speaker 2: you are with us and for us in all that 38 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:27,000 Speaker 2: we do in Jesus' name. And everybody who loves Jesus 39 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:29,120 Speaker 2: and who wants to hear a little sermon about Jacob 40 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:32,040 Speaker 2: shouted Amen. Hey, before you take your seat, if your 41 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:34,000 Speaker 2: Mary turned to your spouse and say this count says 42 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:43,760 Speaker 2: our date got you a concert the feast on the 43 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:45,840 Speaker 2: word of God. What more could you want? 44 00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:46,280 Speaker 1: Amen? 45 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:50,400 Speaker 2: Amen, thank you worship team. You guys been enjoying the 46 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:51,200 Speaker 2: heroes and have an. 47 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:55,560 Speaker 3: Album, Well, praise the Lord, I hope. 48 00:02:55,600 --> 00:03:01,560 Speaker 2: So there's blood and sweat, tears joy in those songs. 49 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:04,639 Speaker 2: So listen to them and crank them up. Man, roll 50 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:08,280 Speaker 2: up beside somebody and a red light. Turn it up, 51 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:16,360 Speaker 2: law say this is my church. Well, it's the first 52 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:18,239 Speaker 2: weekend of our next decade. 53 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:18,800 Speaker 1: How about that? 54 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:26,960 Speaker 2: Your response is not indicative of the gravity of this occasion. 55 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:30,359 Speaker 2: It is the first weekend of our second decade as 56 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:39,760 Speaker 2: a church. Wow, And to celebrate, I want to talk 57 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:43,720 Speaker 2: about your issues. Touch your neighbors say you have issues. Now, 58 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:51,560 Speaker 2: they're not surprised by that. Depending on your proximity, you 59 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:56,760 Speaker 2: could continue that conversation in great detail, depending on how. 60 00:03:56,640 --> 00:03:57,760 Speaker 1: You see them. 61 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:01,480 Speaker 2: And it's an interesting season in a America because. 62 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:04,200 Speaker 1: Well we're in a season where. 63 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:08,920 Speaker 2: Almost every three days there are people on stages debating 64 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:17,200 Speaker 2: about issues. Have you been watching the debates? No, Stacey, 65 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:20,039 Speaker 2: don't watch them. I don't understan why you wouldn't watch them. 66 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:23,479 Speaker 2: I mean they're fascinating. Where else are you? Where else 67 00:04:23,520 --> 00:04:30,560 Speaker 2: are you going to see grown people demonstrate that level 68 00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:35,640 Speaker 2: of selective hearing and answering I mean usually you only 69 00:04:35,680 --> 00:04:37,719 Speaker 2: get this with like four year olds and five year olds. 70 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:41,200 Speaker 1: To me, it's fascinating. I watch not because I'm. 71 00:04:40,920 --> 00:04:46,040 Speaker 2: Specifically informed or patriotically inclined. I'll admit to you I 72 00:04:46,760 --> 00:04:50,680 Speaker 2: do consider myself engaged, But really I'm fascinated. I'm fascinated 73 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:55,000 Speaker 2: by the ability of some candidates more than others. And 74 00:04:55,040 --> 00:04:57,560 Speaker 2: I won't name names, but there is one candidate that 75 00:04:58,040 --> 00:05:02,520 Speaker 2: trump's all the other ones. So just as the ability, 76 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:06,440 Speaker 2: whatever you think about him, you have to marvel at 77 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:10,400 Speaker 2: how he can take any question and and pivot. They 78 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:13,200 Speaker 2: call it a pivot. That's not just for NBA. They 79 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:18,360 Speaker 2: can pivot. It's like an all star uh, watching somebody 80 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:21,680 Speaker 2: who is who is so adept at the art of 81 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:28,040 Speaker 2: pivoting from whatever issue is raised to the platform that 82 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:31,000 Speaker 2: he has established and and and they all do it, 83 00:05:31,080 --> 00:05:35,760 Speaker 2: but one candidate does it exceptionally well. This particular candidate, 84 00:05:35,880 --> 00:05:42,039 Speaker 2: who shall remain nameless, He enjoys uh. He enjoys conversations 85 00:05:42,080 --> 00:05:47,320 Speaker 2: about walls. And so if you ever watch him anything, 86 00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:50,559 Speaker 2: they ask him anything they ask him, he can put 87 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:53,720 Speaker 2: He can take it to a wall in less than 88 00:05:54,080 --> 00:05:56,840 Speaker 2: a second, just real quick, and it all comes back 89 00:05:56,880 --> 00:05:58,960 Speaker 2: to the wall. Touch somebody say, it's all about the 90 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:01,240 Speaker 2: wall with this This guy is all about the wall. 91 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:02,560 Speaker 1: So you ask him a question. 92 00:06:02,839 --> 00:06:07,039 Speaker 2: You know, mister candidate, what do you think about the 93 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:10,600 Speaker 2: education issues in our country? Well, I think that the 94 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:14,360 Speaker 2: children in our schools need to feel safe while they're 95 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:16,960 Speaker 2: being educated, and so I'm going to build a wall 96 00:06:17,279 --> 00:06:19,800 Speaker 2: so that they feel safe. It all comes back to 97 00:06:19,839 --> 00:06:23,040 Speaker 2: the wall. Anything you ask him, what's your foreign policy, 98 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:26,440 Speaker 2: I'm going to build a wall. What about women? Women 99 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:29,520 Speaker 2: love walls? Just anything you ask him, it's quick. I 100 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:31,680 Speaker 2: don't care what you believe about politics or even where 101 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:32,560 Speaker 2: your value system is. 102 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:33,359 Speaker 1: That's not my point. 103 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:39,800 Speaker 2: My point is some people can pivot from any issue 104 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:46,159 Speaker 2: to their platform. None does it better than Jacob. But 105 00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:48,200 Speaker 2: I want to keep him back there on the pulpit. 106 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:48,360 Speaker 1: For a minute. 107 00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:51,360 Speaker 2: I want to talk about how sometimes you can have 108 00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:57,880 Speaker 2: a real strong opinion and be really ignorant of the issues. 109 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:03,880 Speaker 1: Because I asked a. 110 00:07:03,560 --> 00:07:05,960 Speaker 2: Young staff member at our church the other day, if 111 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:07,520 Speaker 2: you're voting today, who would you vote for. You don't 112 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:09,200 Speaker 2: have to tell me if you don't want to, And 113 00:07:09,200 --> 00:07:10,760 Speaker 2: he told me real quick, we want to vote. 114 00:07:10,640 --> 00:07:14,640 Speaker 1: For I said why? Why? He said, uh, I like him. 115 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:23,120 Speaker 2: I like him, I said, I didn't asked you who 116 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:27,600 Speaker 2: you wanted to have wings with. I said, who do 117 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:30,360 Speaker 2: you want to be the leader of the free world? 118 00:07:32,120 --> 00:07:34,760 Speaker 1: So why do you like him? He said, I. 119 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:40,200 Speaker 2: Don't know, just something about his personality. And it baffled 120 00:07:40,280 --> 00:07:46,000 Speaker 2: me that a grown up could could could be so 121 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:51,400 Speaker 2: narrow in their thinking that you would reduce your decision 122 00:07:51,440 --> 00:07:53,440 Speaker 2: about who you want to be the president of your 123 00:07:53,480 --> 00:08:00,800 Speaker 2: country to a personality type. Don't even care where they 124 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:03,760 Speaker 2: stand on the issues, don't even really want to understand 125 00:08:03,760 --> 00:08:09,000 Speaker 2: the issues, just I like them. Seems pretty crazy that 126 00:08:09,080 --> 00:08:13,720 Speaker 2: you would put more weight on someone's personality than you 127 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:17,040 Speaker 2: would on their position on the issues. If this person 128 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:19,840 Speaker 2: is going to make decisions that will affect not only 129 00:08:19,880 --> 00:08:25,000 Speaker 2: you but your children, seems crazy to me. And it 130 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:30,239 Speaker 2: hit me on Valentine's Day that some of us inner 131 00:08:30,280 --> 00:08:36,120 Speaker 2: relationships on the same basis by which my staff member 132 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:41,000 Speaker 2: said they would pick a president, is that you connect 133 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:45,640 Speaker 2: with people based on their personality and have no idea 134 00:08:46,160 --> 00:08:56,280 Speaker 2: about their issues. Tell your neighbor again, you have issues. 135 00:08:57,720 --> 00:09:00,559 Speaker 2: You have issues, and look back at them and respont say, well, 136 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:02,240 Speaker 2: you have a subscription, so. 137 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:10,240 Speaker 1: Get off me. Issues, issues, And. 138 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:18,240 Speaker 2: I see Jacob as someone who was greatly blessed by 139 00:09:18,320 --> 00:09:23,400 Speaker 2: God even though he had the issues. 140 00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:24,920 Speaker 1: Jacob had issues. 141 00:09:26,040 --> 00:09:32,720 Speaker 2: Jacob was born with issues. Jacob started a fight in 142 00:09:32,760 --> 00:09:37,680 Speaker 2: Rebecca's womb because of his egocentric issues. 143 00:09:38,559 --> 00:09:41,680 Speaker 1: Got to be first. He was born with. 144 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:44,360 Speaker 2: A twin brother who was scheduled to come out ahead, 145 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:46,640 Speaker 2: but something within him wanted. 146 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:50,440 Speaker 1: To disrupt the birth order. Issues. Everybody say issues. 147 00:09:50,880 --> 00:09:54,520 Speaker 2: Come on, I'm a participatory preacher, say issues. We met 148 00:09:54,520 --> 00:09:56,880 Speaker 2: a guy on our Valentine's Day. You gotta do it 149 00:09:56,880 --> 00:09:58,760 Speaker 2: four days early, by the way, for all you rookies 150 00:09:58,760 --> 00:10:00,640 Speaker 2: that are trying to go out on vallence on Time's Day, 151 00:10:00,679 --> 00:10:07,439 Speaker 2: you'll learn. And the guy seated at the table, I'm like, 152 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:09,280 Speaker 2: oh my, George, I love it. He said, what's up 153 00:10:09,280 --> 00:10:12,920 Speaker 2: with to touch your neighbor stuff? I said, what do 154 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:14,760 Speaker 2: you mean? He said, you always touch your neighbor this 155 00:10:14,920 --> 00:10:17,839 Speaker 2: and touch your neighbor that. And so I told him, 156 00:10:17,880 --> 00:10:23,400 Speaker 2: I said, motion creates emotion. So I can't have you 157 00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:26,440 Speaker 2: fallen asleep in my sermon. So every once in a while, 158 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:28,280 Speaker 2: I like you to turn to your neighbor and tell 159 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:30,440 Speaker 2: them you have issues. Do it again, tell them you 160 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:34,679 Speaker 2: have issues. I noticed some of y'all are saying that 161 00:10:34,760 --> 00:10:39,000 Speaker 2: really emphatically, by the way, some of. 162 00:10:38,960 --> 00:10:39,880 Speaker 1: You are making a list. 163 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:46,120 Speaker 2: It's true, though, when you get into a relationship with someone, 164 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:50,239 Speaker 2: you often see their personality. 165 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:51,520 Speaker 1: Before you discover their issues. 166 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:57,960 Speaker 2: And this is not necessarily a relationships sermon or marriage sermon. 167 00:10:58,000 --> 00:10:59,760 Speaker 2: But I thought, in the spirit of the season, I 168 00:10:59,760 --> 00:11:02,199 Speaker 2: would just throw some little bit of advice in there. 169 00:11:02,640 --> 00:11:05,599 Speaker 2: Before you get engaged to somebody. 170 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:07,240 Speaker 3: Take inventory of their issues. 171 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:09,200 Speaker 1: I don't mean you have. 172 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:12,280 Speaker 2: To know everything about them, but don't ignore their issues 173 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:14,679 Speaker 2: because you like their personality. 174 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:16,360 Speaker 1: You see what I'm saying. 175 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:25,440 Speaker 2: And Jacob had had issues that ran so deep that 176 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:28,280 Speaker 2: when he couldn't be born first, he tried to find 177 00:11:28,320 --> 00:11:30,160 Speaker 2: a way to trick himself into the birth order. By 178 00:11:30,160 --> 00:11:31,559 Speaker 2: the way, for those of you who are new to 179 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:33,400 Speaker 2: our church and you want to study this in greater detail, 180 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:35,040 Speaker 2: you can check out a series that I did. I 181 00:11:35,080 --> 00:11:37,640 Speaker 2: did a whole series on Jacob called Death to Selfie. 182 00:11:37,679 --> 00:11:39,840 Speaker 2: The church loved it. It was a good time. 183 00:11:40,120 --> 00:11:42,280 Speaker 3: We learned. It's actually on Netflix. 184 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:43,720 Speaker 2: You can go watch it on Netflix. 185 00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:45,000 Speaker 1: It's on there. 186 00:11:45,520 --> 00:11:48,480 Speaker 2: So so instead of instead of binging on the House 187 00:11:48,520 --> 00:11:49,160 Speaker 2: of cards. 188 00:11:49,480 --> 00:11:51,880 Speaker 1: You can binge on the word of God. Amen. Put 189 00:11:51,920 --> 00:11:52,840 Speaker 1: it on the Netflix. 190 00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:01,800 Speaker 2: Jacob deceives his brother later in life, and he comes 191 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:02,520 Speaker 2: out ahead. 192 00:12:02,280 --> 00:12:02,760 Speaker 1: In a sense. 193 00:12:02,760 --> 00:12:04,800 Speaker 2: And I won't review all the material, but I was 194 00:12:04,880 --> 00:12:07,760 Speaker 2: going to a pastor's conference and I preached on Jacob 195 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:10,960 Speaker 2: to our church for several weeks, and the Lord took 196 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:13,640 Speaker 2: me back to this passage that I thought I had 197 00:12:13,679 --> 00:12:14,079 Speaker 2: worn out. 198 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:15,480 Speaker 1: So when I was looking at. 199 00:12:15,320 --> 00:12:17,160 Speaker 2: It, I was like, God, I got Jacob. I preached 200 00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:19,199 Speaker 2: in five weeks and the Spirit of God said, you 201 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:22,560 Speaker 2: haven't even scratched the surface of Jacob because you talked 202 00:12:22,640 --> 00:12:26,960 Speaker 2: to the church about his relationship with God, but you 203 00:12:27,080 --> 00:12:31,240 Speaker 2: never got to his encounter with Esau. And that's what 204 00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:34,760 Speaker 2: I want to talk about today, is there comes a 205 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:37,800 Speaker 2: time in your life where you've got to make peace 206 00:12:38,760 --> 00:12:39,440 Speaker 2: with Esau. 207 00:12:41,120 --> 00:12:43,000 Speaker 1: See Esau is the one. Let me teach you a 208 00:12:43,040 --> 00:12:43,439 Speaker 1: little bit. 209 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:47,840 Speaker 2: Esau was the one that Jacob had struggled with but 210 00:12:47,920 --> 00:12:52,360 Speaker 2: never prevailed against his whole life. Esau was the one 211 00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:55,680 Speaker 2: that Jacob pretended to be to get what he thought 212 00:12:56,040 --> 00:12:59,480 Speaker 2: he needed to have. Esau was the one that Jacob 213 00:12:59,640 --> 00:13:04,080 Speaker 2: even subconsciously and pre natally had problems with he was 214 00:13:04,120 --> 00:13:08,600 Speaker 2: predisposed to wrestle with Esau before he had a conscious thought, 215 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:12,200 Speaker 2: and now he's ninety seven and he's preparing. 216 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:13,160 Speaker 1: To meet with Esau. 217 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:16,040 Speaker 2: If you have a Bible with pages, there's probably a 218 00:13:16,040 --> 00:13:19,320 Speaker 2: heading on chapter thirty two of Genesis that says Jacob 219 00:13:19,559 --> 00:13:23,680 Speaker 2: prepares to meet Esau because there comes a time that 220 00:13:23,800 --> 00:13:27,040 Speaker 2: no matter how much God has blessed you, and no 221 00:13:27,120 --> 00:13:30,520 Speaker 2: matter how much you've grown to accumulate stuff, or no 222 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:32,760 Speaker 2: matter how good your body. 223 00:13:32,480 --> 00:13:35,000 Speaker 3: Looks, or no matter how fit you are in. 224 00:13:34,920 --> 00:13:46,959 Speaker 2: Your physique, you cannot outrun your dysfunctional relationships forever. One 225 00:13:47,040 --> 00:13:53,240 Speaker 2: of the greatest blessings that God gives is peace. If 226 00:13:53,320 --> 00:13:57,600 Speaker 2: you want to pray for anything, pray for peace, because 227 00:13:57,640 --> 00:14:00,520 Speaker 2: if all of your prayers center around provision, if you 228 00:14:00,640 --> 00:14:03,760 Speaker 2: have the provision but not the peace, you have the 229 00:14:04,040 --> 00:14:08,160 Speaker 2: external stuff without the internal infrastructure to even enjoy what 230 00:14:08,240 --> 00:14:08,920 Speaker 2: you pray for. 231 00:14:09,280 --> 00:14:10,280 Speaker 1: Pray for peace. 232 00:14:15,840 --> 00:14:20,360 Speaker 2: And the greatest blessing that God gives us often has 233 00:14:20,440 --> 00:14:23,760 Speaker 2: little to do with the resources he provides, but the 234 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:28,160 Speaker 2: relationships that he restores. And so we're looking at an 235 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:33,240 Speaker 2: Old Testament picture in Genesis thirty two of Jacob, who 236 00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:38,520 Speaker 2: has been able to pivot his whole life pivot, So 237 00:14:38,560 --> 00:14:40,960 Speaker 2: when he gets in trouble at home, he runs to 238 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:45,120 Speaker 2: his uncle Laban's house. When he accidentally marries Leah. After 239 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:48,400 Speaker 2: serving God for Rachel seven years, he's able to pivot 240 00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:49,080 Speaker 2: and get Rachel. 241 00:14:49,120 --> 00:14:51,119 Speaker 1: Anyhow, when Laban begins. 242 00:14:50,880 --> 00:14:52,360 Speaker 2: To cheat him and the Bible says that his heart 243 00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:55,360 Speaker 2: turned against him, Jacob was able to have the business 244 00:14:55,400 --> 00:14:58,200 Speaker 2: savvy and the common sense to devise a system by 245 00:14:58,200 --> 00:14:58,560 Speaker 2: which he. 246 00:14:58,480 --> 00:14:59,400 Speaker 3: Could stay ahead. 247 00:15:00,680 --> 00:15:04,440 Speaker 1: But Esau. Esau is that enemy. 248 00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:13,200 Speaker 2: Esau is that that thing that he's been fighting against 249 00:15:14,200 --> 00:15:18,400 Speaker 2: and fleeing from his whole life. By the time he 250 00:15:18,480 --> 00:15:22,960 Speaker 2: prepares to make peace with Esau, he's been hiding from 251 00:15:23,040 --> 00:15:25,760 Speaker 2: him for twenty one years now. I want to ask 252 00:15:25,760 --> 00:15:32,400 Speaker 2: a question, what are you hiding from? It is the 253 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:36,080 Speaker 2: central question of my discourse today, and I believe it's 254 00:15:36,080 --> 00:15:40,360 Speaker 2: a penetrating question if you'll really answer it in your heart? 255 00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:43,120 Speaker 1: What are you hiding from? 256 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:48,480 Speaker 2: Because no matter where Jacob turned or where Jacob went, 257 00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:53,960 Speaker 2: what Jacob did, what he accomplished, there was always Esau. 258 00:15:55,640 --> 00:15:58,240 Speaker 2: It's the battle that he was fighting when he was 259 00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:01,240 Speaker 2: nine months old. It was the battle he was fighting 260 00:16:01,240 --> 00:16:02,520 Speaker 2: when he was ninety seven. 261 00:16:03,680 --> 00:16:04,600 Speaker 1: What is your esau? 262 00:16:07,040 --> 00:16:11,840 Speaker 2: What is the thing that, no matter how many herds 263 00:16:11,880 --> 00:16:17,120 Speaker 2: and cattle and goats and relationships you acquire, there is 264 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:21,440 Speaker 2: always an esau. It's your hidden issue. It is not 265 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:23,600 Speaker 2: the thing that you mentioned to the people in your 266 00:16:23,640 --> 00:16:26,320 Speaker 2: e group. It is not the thing that you talk 267 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:29,200 Speaker 2: about to people you just met. It is the thing 268 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:33,800 Speaker 2: beneath the thing beneath the thing. It is not your behavior, 269 00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:35,520 Speaker 2: It is not your symptom. 270 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:37,040 Speaker 1: It is your issue. 271 00:16:37,280 --> 00:16:41,880 Speaker 2: Church is ineffective when preachers only address behaviors, because until 272 00:16:41,880 --> 00:16:45,440 Speaker 2: you get to the issue that creates the behavior, the 273 00:16:45,440 --> 00:16:47,760 Speaker 2: behavior will manifest because the. 274 00:16:47,760 --> 00:16:58,760 Speaker 4: Issue wasn't healed. What are you hiding from hiding from? 275 00:17:00,480 --> 00:17:03,400 Speaker 2: Your heart may be in hiding because of your fear 276 00:17:03,440 --> 00:17:05,879 Speaker 2: of rejection. Your heart may be in hiding because of 277 00:17:05,920 --> 00:17:10,920 Speaker 2: your fear of failure. I understand why Jacob had issues. 278 00:17:10,960 --> 00:17:13,359 Speaker 2: It's pretty plain in the text. 279 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:15,920 Speaker 1: Well. The Bible says that. 280 00:17:15,840 --> 00:17:21,280 Speaker 2: There was a lot of favoritism going on in Isaac's household. 281 00:17:22,119 --> 00:17:24,280 Speaker 1: In fact, I'll show you the scripture. 282 00:17:24,320 --> 00:17:27,480 Speaker 2: In Genesis twenty five twenty eight, it says that Isaac, 283 00:17:27,600 --> 00:17:30,960 Speaker 2: his father, who had a taste for wild game, loved 284 00:17:31,200 --> 00:17:32,840 Speaker 2: esau but Rebecca loved Jacob. 285 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:33,600 Speaker 1: There it is. 286 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:39,679 Speaker 2: No wonder the guy spent his whole life in hiding 287 00:17:40,920 --> 00:17:45,080 Speaker 2: because from a very early age he discovered that he 288 00:17:45,119 --> 00:17:46,000 Speaker 2: didn't have. 289 00:17:47,760 --> 00:17:49,400 Speaker 1: What his father wanted. 290 00:17:49,640 --> 00:17:53,600 Speaker 2: He didn't have the skills to be acceptable in the 291 00:17:53,640 --> 00:17:56,879 Speaker 2: sight of the ones whose affirmation meant the most. And 292 00:17:56,920 --> 00:17:59,760 Speaker 2: when that happens to you, you develop all kinds of 293 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:05,760 Speaker 2: vices to hide behind. Psychologically, they call this abandonment issues, 294 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:08,199 Speaker 2: and they say that when you have abandonment issues, it 295 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:10,920 Speaker 2: can happen through a divorce, It can happen through abuse, 296 00:18:11,160 --> 00:18:13,560 Speaker 2: It can happen through love with help. It can happen 297 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:16,000 Speaker 2: through a circumstance that is so embedded that you can't 298 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:18,200 Speaker 2: even remember what it is. But when you have these 299 00:18:18,240 --> 00:18:21,760 Speaker 2: abandonment issues, they tell us that you tend toward two extremes. 300 00:18:22,080 --> 00:18:28,159 Speaker 2: One is attachment and the other is avoidance. So you 301 00:18:28,280 --> 00:18:32,679 Speaker 2: attach this is Jacob grabbing the heel of Esau, or 302 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:35,720 Speaker 2: you avoid this is Jacob running from that same brother 303 00:18:36,080 --> 00:18:41,440 Speaker 2: that he was trying to attach himself to. One thing 304 00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:43,480 Speaker 2: I love about God's Word is that it doesn't just 305 00:18:43,480 --> 00:18:50,080 Speaker 2: address my spirituality, it addresses my psychology. In Jacob, I 306 00:18:50,160 --> 00:18:55,680 Speaker 2: see an illustrated sermon about the psyche of someone who 307 00:18:55,720 --> 00:18:59,040 Speaker 2: is running toward and chasing something that they can never get, 308 00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:01,320 Speaker 2: are running from. 309 00:19:01,080 --> 00:19:03,200 Speaker 1: Something that they don't want to face. 310 00:19:04,960 --> 00:19:09,199 Speaker 2: And I believe every person in our church can relate 311 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:17,160 Speaker 2: to Jacob hiding from an esau in your life, hiding 312 00:19:17,520 --> 00:19:23,960 Speaker 2: and hoping, hoping that no one sees you for who 313 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:29,720 Speaker 2: you really are, so you invent methods. 314 00:19:29,440 --> 00:19:34,399 Speaker 1: By which to be impressive. That's what Jacob did. He 315 00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:35,000 Speaker 1: makes a plan. 316 00:19:35,119 --> 00:19:38,000 Speaker 2: He makes a plan, He makes a plan to hide 317 00:19:38,040 --> 00:19:42,240 Speaker 2: his issues. He gets his messengers. And you got to understand, 318 00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:44,800 Speaker 2: in the last twenty one years, Jacob was not struggling. 319 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:50,160 Speaker 2: Jacob was prospering. Jacob was succeeding. Jacob was accumulating. Jacob 320 00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:53,240 Speaker 2: was working his way up. And by this time Jacob 321 00:19:53,320 --> 00:19:55,240 Speaker 2: is very rich jam He's got a lot of kids, 322 00:19:55,440 --> 00:19:56,960 Speaker 2: so he's on. 323 00:19:56,640 --> 00:19:59,280 Speaker 3: The external level, doing pretty well for himself. 324 00:19:59,320 --> 00:20:01,119 Speaker 2: So what he does, and I think we all do this, 325 00:20:01,560 --> 00:20:05,680 Speaker 2: is he tries to use what he's accumulated to hide 326 00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:06,399 Speaker 2: who he is. 327 00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:12,600 Speaker 1: You know, it's the right amount of quiet. Today. I 328 00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:13,960 Speaker 1: can tell I'm on that nerve. 329 00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:17,200 Speaker 2: I'm up in your stuff, touch your neighbors, say come 330 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:17,760 Speaker 2: out of hiding. 331 00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:19,480 Speaker 1: Come out of hiding, Come out of hiding. 332 00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:22,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, Because Jacob gets a strategy, he gets a plan. 333 00:20:22,520 --> 00:20:24,120 Speaker 2: He calls his messengers. He's got a lot of people 334 00:20:24,119 --> 00:20:26,240 Speaker 2: working for him. He got a lot of representatives, and 335 00:20:26,280 --> 00:20:28,359 Speaker 2: he calls his representatives and he says, here's what I 336 00:20:28,359 --> 00:20:31,200 Speaker 2: want you to do. Line up the goats, and line 337 00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:34,240 Speaker 2: up the rams, and line up the camels, and line 338 00:20:34,320 --> 00:20:34,760 Speaker 2: up the. 339 00:20:34,640 --> 00:20:36,600 Speaker 1: Cows, and line up the bulls. 340 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:42,320 Speaker 2: Get some donkeys, male donkeys, female donkeys. Put the servants 341 00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:47,040 Speaker 2: out there, and he arranges what's around him to hide 342 00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:56,560 Speaker 2: what's within him. Maybe Esau will accept me if I 343 00:20:56,600 --> 00:21:00,720 Speaker 2: send him a goat. Maybe Esau will accept me if 344 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:01,360 Speaker 2: I send. 345 00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:01,880 Speaker 1: Them a donkey. 346 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:05,200 Speaker 2: Maybe people will like me if I make them laugh. 347 00:21:06,280 --> 00:21:09,120 Speaker 3: So ha, I'm the life of the party. 348 00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:18,560 Speaker 2: When I get alone. What I had out in front 349 00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:22,119 Speaker 2: of me can't help me for the battle I have 350 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:32,600 Speaker 2: to fight within me. We all have herds that we 351 00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:37,000 Speaker 2: hide behind. It is those things. It is those inauthentic 352 00:21:37,080 --> 00:21:41,160 Speaker 2: personality traits that you project, fearing that who you are 353 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:44,520 Speaker 2: is not enough. How could it be enough? Isaac never 354 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:47,800 Speaker 2: loved me, How could it be enough? Nobody has asked 355 00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:50,040 Speaker 2: me to marry them. Yet, how could it be enough? 356 00:21:50,119 --> 00:21:52,920 Speaker 2: I'm the last person invited. How could it be enough? 357 00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:55,600 Speaker 2: I sound stupid when I talk. How could it be enough? 358 00:21:55,640 --> 00:21:57,800 Speaker 2: I don't know what other people know. How could it 359 00:21:57,800 --> 00:22:01,600 Speaker 2: be enough? I wasn't raised Right now, I'm hiding behind 360 00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:03,760 Speaker 2: my herds. And it can be money. Some people hide 361 00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:06,920 Speaker 2: behind money. It can be labels. Some people hide behind labels. 362 00:22:07,119 --> 00:22:09,679 Speaker 2: It can be brands. Some people can hide behind brands. 363 00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:14,919 Speaker 2: It can be language. Some of you talk in a 364 00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:22,560 Speaker 2: way that is not even indigenous to your personality, and 365 00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:25,400 Speaker 2: I'm listening to you trying to figure out who you're mimicking. 366 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:28,960 Speaker 2: I put something in my book. I'm a preaching on 367 00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:30,520 Speaker 2: my book in two weeks. You got COM's gonna be graun. 368 00:22:30,520 --> 00:22:31,080 Speaker 1: I'm appreciate it. 369 00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:34,960 Speaker 2: My mom asked me one time when she heard my 370 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:38,800 Speaker 2: band play, and she listened to the concert, and we 371 00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:41,400 Speaker 2: did all kinds of cover songs from Darius Rutcker from 372 00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:44,240 Speaker 2: Hoody and the Blowfish, and Eddie Vedder from Pearl Jam 373 00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:47,720 Speaker 2: and Kirk Cobaine from Nirvana and all these great bands, 374 00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:49,720 Speaker 2: the kind of music that you just can't get anymore 375 00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:53,920 Speaker 2: out there in the cold streets of today's modern society. 376 00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:55,919 Speaker 1: But she said, she. 377 00:22:55,920 --> 00:22:57,480 Speaker 2: Say sound good tonight because I was the least singer. 378 00:22:57,560 --> 00:22:59,879 Speaker 2: She said, I got a question, when are we going 379 00:22:59,920 --> 00:23:06,879 Speaker 2: to hear you sing? She said tonight. I heard an 380 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:13,560 Speaker 2: imitation hooting. I heard somebody trying to sound like pearl Jam. 381 00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:15,560 Speaker 2: But it's kind of hard to sound like pearl Jam 382 00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:16,760 Speaker 2: when you just hit puberty. 383 00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:18,640 Speaker 1: But see what I was doing was. 384 00:23:20,119 --> 00:23:24,800 Speaker 2: I was trying to project what I thought would impress. 385 00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:32,200 Speaker 2: And you cannot be blessed while you're projecting to be impressive. 386 00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:37,240 Speaker 2: You can't be really blessed that way. 387 00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:38,120 Speaker 1: Jacob had a plan. 388 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:41,439 Speaker 2: He said, I got issues with ESAU, but if I 389 00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:44,159 Speaker 2: send my gifts. This is why I preached it at 390 00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:46,960 Speaker 2: a pastor's conference. I told the pastors that I was 391 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:50,280 Speaker 2: preaching to in California, I said, your gift can only 392 00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:55,040 Speaker 2: get you so far, because if you're good with a microphone, 393 00:23:55,080 --> 00:23:57,880 Speaker 2: you can hide behind a microphone and suck as a husband, 394 00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:03,080 Speaker 2: hide behind a microphone and be absent as a father, 395 00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:07,760 Speaker 2: hide behind a microphone and inwardly not have a real 396 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:10,440 Speaker 2: connection with God, and be preaching stuff that God showed 397 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:14,919 Speaker 2: you thirteen years ago. Because you've mastered the technique. And 398 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:17,640 Speaker 2: I ministered that to the pastors, and it was real 399 00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:24,160 Speaker 2: tense in the room, because anytime God peels back your persona, 400 00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:27,919 Speaker 2: anytime you can't do what you do and you have 401 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:32,639 Speaker 2: to come to terms with who you are, puts you 402 00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:33,560 Speaker 2: in an awkward position. 403 00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:41,200 Speaker 1: But that's the place where God blesses you the most. 404 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:48,840 Speaker 2: Not while Jacob was lining up the cattle, not while 405 00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:51,600 Speaker 2: Jacob was configuring the cows. 406 00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:55,240 Speaker 1: But the Bible says, I got to show it to 407 00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:56,320 Speaker 1: you again. It's so beautiful. 408 00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:58,359 Speaker 2: I love the way that the scripture weaves together the 409 00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:00,680 Speaker 2: historical narrative and brings it into a alignment with my 410 00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:03,080 Speaker 2: current psychological condition to show me that there is a 411 00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:04,640 Speaker 2: way forward, no matter what I've been through. 412 00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:06,800 Speaker 1: It said. 413 00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:10,399 Speaker 2: That Jacob thought, look at verse twenty. 414 00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:13,480 Speaker 3: Jacob thought, I will pacify. 415 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:14,960 Speaker 1: Him with these gifts. 416 00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:21,359 Speaker 3: I will pacify my problem with my persona. 417 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:27,240 Speaker 2: I'm not going to make peace with it. I'm just 418 00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:31,480 Speaker 2: going to pacify it so I develop ways to get through. 419 00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:35,120 Speaker 2: You know, I'm real sarcastic. And the reason I'm sarcastic 420 00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:38,160 Speaker 2: is because if I'm sarcastic, I don't have to be sincere. 421 00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:43,200 Speaker 2: So I hide behind sarcasm and people think that I'm cocky, 422 00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:45,720 Speaker 2: but what they really don't know that what they see 423 00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:49,199 Speaker 2: is overconfidence is really just a little girl scared to 424 00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:55,840 Speaker 2: death because I'm hiding behind my herds. People think I'm arrogant, 425 00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:58,000 Speaker 2: but what they really don't know is the reason I'm 426 00:25:58,040 --> 00:26:01,280 Speaker 2: coming across so strong is because I'm scared to death 427 00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:03,280 Speaker 2: that they're gonna find out that I'm a froug and 428 00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:06,919 Speaker 2: I don't know what I need to know. So I'm 429 00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:12,639 Speaker 2: hiding behind my herds. And this he saw this, this issue, 430 00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:17,800 Speaker 2: everybody say issue. It remains hidden behind my herds. And 431 00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:25,959 Speaker 2: what I hide, God cannot heal. I cannot make peace 432 00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:32,760 Speaker 2: with what I am content to pacify. So I'm I'm 433 00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:36,160 Speaker 2: sending out my I'm sending out my best I'm sending 434 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:38,880 Speaker 2: out my stuff. I'm sending out all my stuff. And 435 00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:41,679 Speaker 2: maybe then they'll like me, and maybe then they'll love me. 436 00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:42,840 Speaker 1: And maybe then if I. 437 00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:44,840 Speaker 3: Buy them stuff, May I buy them stuff? 438 00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:47,120 Speaker 1: Maybe that's what I'll do. Maybe I'll sleep with him. 439 00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:49,400 Speaker 2: If I sleep with him, then maybe I can keep him. 440 00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:51,520 Speaker 2: If I give him my body, maybe then he'll give 441 00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:54,639 Speaker 2: me my heart. I'm a hive behind my herds. But 442 00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:57,560 Speaker 2: the only problem with this approach to life. Is what 443 00:26:57,640 --> 00:26:59,320 Speaker 2: you get them with is what you have to keep 444 00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:01,639 Speaker 2: them with. So if you get them with the fake you, 445 00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:03,560 Speaker 2: what are they going to do when they see the 446 00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:12,280 Speaker 2: real you? Man, help me breach the sermon. It's it's 447 00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:20,480 Speaker 2: those hidden issues. Yeah, I'm encouraged because the Bible says 448 00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:28,080 Speaker 2: that when Jacob sent his gift ahead, he remained alone 449 00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:35,560 Speaker 2: in the camp. And to every lonely person today, I 450 00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:41,320 Speaker 2: want to encourage you to know that the places of 451 00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:46,880 Speaker 2: your greatest isolation will often become the places of your 452 00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:52,320 Speaker 2: greatest revelation. Jacob had seen God in the form of 453 00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:55,879 Speaker 2: an angel when he was with people, but he only 454 00:27:55,960 --> 00:28:01,200 Speaker 2: saw God's face when he was all alone, separated from 455 00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:01,760 Speaker 2: his stuff. 456 00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:07,440 Speaker 1: He sent his gift a head, but he himself spent the. 457 00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:12,359 Speaker 2: Night in the camp, and God dealt with him, and 458 00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:15,560 Speaker 2: God pushed him around a little bit, and God run 459 00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:19,679 Speaker 2: him to his breaking point, so much so that the 460 00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:23,960 Speaker 2: Bible says, when he got done and he left that camp, 461 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:24,760 Speaker 2: he was limping. 462 00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:28,400 Speaker 1: He was limping, but he was blessed. 463 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:34,000 Speaker 2: His hip was dislocated, but his identity was now securely 464 00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:37,920 Speaker 2: in place because he found out who he was. God 465 00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:40,960 Speaker 2: said today through the preaching of his word. He was 466 00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:45,160 Speaker 2: going to restore unto you and awareness of your identity, 467 00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:49,720 Speaker 2: because you've gotten so enmeshed and entangled with your stuff 468 00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:53,560 Speaker 2: and your skills that you lost your sense of substance. 469 00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:56,920 Speaker 2: But today is today that the hand of God is 470 00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:59,600 Speaker 2: applaud you heavy to show you who you are. 471 00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:07,360 Speaker 3: Wow. 472 00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:11,480 Speaker 2: So he crossed the ford. Look at verse twenty two. 473 00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:16,280 Speaker 2: He crossed the ford of the Jabbak. Say what. 474 00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:19,280 Speaker 3: The who now. 475 00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:21,600 Speaker 1: The Jabbab? 476 00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:32,120 Speaker 3: Jacob crossed the Jabbak. 477 00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:35,120 Speaker 1: Let me try it like this. 478 00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:41,560 Speaker 2: All his life he thought he was fighting against Esau. 479 00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:46,120 Speaker 2: For twenty one years. He thought he was running from Esau. 480 00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:53,600 Speaker 2: But God showed up to show him that the only 481 00:29:54,800 --> 00:30:00,600 Speaker 2: real enemy that he was ever fighting against. I've learned 482 00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:03,160 Speaker 2: this because I want to digress for a minute, that 483 00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:06,959 Speaker 2: the real enemy is not the issue. 484 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:09,040 Speaker 1: I see. 485 00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:15,120 Speaker 2: Your life will change, your marriage will change, your relationships 486 00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:17,640 Speaker 2: will change when you stop trying. 487 00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:18,560 Speaker 3: To fix Esau. 488 00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:30,440 Speaker 2: Jacob crossed the Jabbakh. Do you think those two sounds 489 00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:34,080 Speaker 2: similar on accident? Do you think that there's a sense 490 00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:37,320 Speaker 2: of poetic justice in the mind of God that he 491 00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:39,920 Speaker 2: wants to show us that all the time you were 492 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:43,760 Speaker 2: running from Esau. All the time, you were running from issues, 493 00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:47,400 Speaker 2: all the time, you were running from relationships, all the time, 494 00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:48,680 Speaker 2: you were running from fears. 495 00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:51,520 Speaker 1: The only issue is you. 496 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:55,560 Speaker 2: And if you can get right with you, you can get. 497 00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:58,480 Speaker 1: Right with God. And if you can get right with. 498 00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:01,720 Speaker 5: God, God can make your right with a Saul. That's 499 00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:06,680 Speaker 5: three people. Tell them, get over yourself. That's the real enemy. 500 00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:10,600 Speaker 5: It's the enemy in me. It's such bac I gotta cross. 501 00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:14,440 Speaker 5: It's my pride I gotta get over. It's my regret I've. 502 00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:15,040 Speaker 3: Gotta get over. 503 00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:16,440 Speaker 1: It's my scars. 504 00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:17,440 Speaker 3: I gotta get over. 505 00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:20,440 Speaker 6: It's not your issue that's holding me back. 506 00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:22,680 Speaker 3: It's me, God, it's me. 507 00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:23,840 Speaker 1: It's me. 508 00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:28,560 Speaker 3: I won't let him vol to you. 509 00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:27,840 Speaker 1: Bless me. 510 00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:38,240 Speaker 2: The practical implications of this revelation are staggering. If the 511 00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:42,680 Speaker 2: only thing you really have to cross over is your 512 00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:47,080 Speaker 2: own misconceptions of what it means to be accepted by God, 513 00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:53,400 Speaker 2: you're gonna be all good, Single, You're gonna be all good, Mary, 514 00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:56,400 Speaker 2: You're gonna be all good. Touch them again, say get 515 00:31:56,440 --> 00:32:00,880 Speaker 2: over yourself. Get over yourself. That's my message today. Get 516 00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:04,360 Speaker 2: over yourself, Jacob. If you can get over your conniving 517 00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:06,680 Speaker 2: scheming dysfunctional ways. 518 00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:08,720 Speaker 3: God will fix your relationships. 519 00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:10,440 Speaker 2: On the other hand, if you don't get over yourself, 520 00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:13,200 Speaker 2: you're gonna carry your issues into your next relationship. And 521 00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:15,080 Speaker 2: your issues are only going to increase when they are 522 00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:17,720 Speaker 2: multiplied by the human interaction that is required for you 523 00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:19,760 Speaker 2: to connect with another person. When you have not even 524 00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:23,880 Speaker 2: learned to correctly connect with yourself, that's free. 525 00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:30,760 Speaker 1: The issue is you. 526 00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:36,720 Speaker 2: I am not responsible for fixing Esau because when I 527 00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:42,400 Speaker 2: do battle with the enemy in me, the insecurity in me, 528 00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:51,440 Speaker 2: it starts with an eye. People issue starts with I. 529 00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:54,200 Speaker 2: I'll try to get an Apple endorsement here. You need 530 00:32:54,240 --> 00:33:00,520 Speaker 2: to start sending more I messages not you need and 531 00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:02,440 Speaker 2: you need to and if you would just and if 532 00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:04,120 Speaker 2: they would just, and they don't want you to, and 533 00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:05,760 Speaker 2: I don't want they don't want. No no no, no, 534 00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:10,720 Speaker 2: no no no. I will bless the Lord at all times. 535 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:15,200 Speaker 2: I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me. 536 00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:19,480 Speaker 2: I am the hand and not the tale. I am 537 00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:23,960 Speaker 2: a child of God. I will not fear full the darkness, 538 00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:27,760 Speaker 2: beset me full the enemy and raise around me. I 539 00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:35,920 Speaker 2: I I I. How can I make peace with Esaul? 540 00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:43,160 Speaker 2: If I can't even make peace with me. And God 541 00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:49,680 Speaker 2: is so good because if you will devote yourself to 542 00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:55,200 Speaker 2: the issues within your he'll handle the issues around you. 543 00:33:56,280 --> 00:34:01,959 Speaker 2: You do it, but I'm approven. You got nine minutes. 544 00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:04,880 Speaker 2: I can prove it in nine minutes. When Jacob finally 545 00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:07,440 Speaker 2: met Esau after he left the Jabbak, touch somebody say 546 00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:10,320 Speaker 2: it's you. It's us us us us us u, s usu. 547 00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:12,520 Speaker 2: It's you. You got to wrestle with. It's you you 548 00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:15,280 Speaker 2: got to contend with. Is you you're misinterpreting people? 549 00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:15,719 Speaker 1: Is you? 550 00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:17,920 Speaker 2: You're blowing things out of proportion? And even if it's not, 551 00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:19,960 Speaker 2: what can you do? If it's them? I can only 552 00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:25,719 Speaker 2: do me. So Jacob crossed the Jabbab. He was preparing 553 00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:29,520 Speaker 2: to meet Esau, but Esau wasn't even his enemy anymore. 554 00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:32,360 Speaker 1: Can I show you? Can I show you? 555 00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:34,960 Speaker 2: Because I didn't get to this in depth of selfie, 556 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:35,799 Speaker 2: I'm the one to get to him. 557 00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:36,440 Speaker 1: Wait a year and a half. 558 00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:39,480 Speaker 2: So you let's just that night when Jacob got ready 559 00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:42,480 Speaker 2: to set out, it says in verse what is it? 560 00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:44,719 Speaker 2: I think it's actually later than that guy's is verse 561 00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:48,399 Speaker 2: thirty three, Verse one. Jacob looked up and there was Esau. 562 00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:49,120 Speaker 1: There was Esau. 563 00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:51,440 Speaker 2: This is the god, this is the thing, this wing, 564 00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:52,839 Speaker 2: this is it, this warming womb. 565 00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:53,680 Speaker 1: Here comes Esau. 566 00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:56,000 Speaker 2: He thinks Esau is going to kill him because when 567 00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:57,920 Speaker 2: he saw him twenty one years ago, the last thing 568 00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:00,400 Speaker 2: that was echoing was Esau said, our ca him if 569 00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:01,400 Speaker 2: I ever get my hands on him. 570 00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:03,520 Speaker 1: And Jacob was fast. So Jacob got out of there. 571 00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:05,600 Speaker 2: And now Jacob's got to come back. Because you can 572 00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:11,640 Speaker 2: only run for so long, you can only. 573 00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:12,640 Speaker 1: Hide for so long. 574 00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:18,200 Speaker 2: He's eventually gonna catch up with you. Eventually, I have 575 00:35:18,239 --> 00:35:19,880 Speaker 2: to deal with the real issue. You can only pivot 576 00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:27,120 Speaker 2: so much fighting against people. That's gonna wear you out. 577 00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:30,680 Speaker 2: Jacob's ninety seven. He can't run anymore. Now I got 578 00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:35,640 Speaker 2: a bad hit. So he's limping up. The Esau in 579 00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:40,479 Speaker 2: a compromised position, in a vulnerable state. And here's Esau 580 00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:45,000 Speaker 2: with four hundred men, Esau, the skilled hunter. Esau still 581 00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:47,600 Speaker 2: steady with a bow, even though his hands have arthriders. Esau, 582 00:35:47,719 --> 00:35:50,080 Speaker 2: I'm filling in some details for the imaginem at the time. 583 00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:54,759 Speaker 2: So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel and the 584 00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:58,800 Speaker 2: two female servants, and he put the female servants in 585 00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:02,759 Speaker 2: their children in front, her children next, and Rachel and 586 00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:04,600 Speaker 2: Joseph in the rear, because that's the ones he loved 587 00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:12,000 Speaker 2: the most. But he himself, that's my phrase, He himself 588 00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:20,120 Speaker 2: went on ahead and bowed down. He himself before he 589 00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:24,640 Speaker 2: had sent his stuff out ahead, but now he sent himself. 590 00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:32,200 Speaker 2: Before he had surrounded himself with the appearance of success. 591 00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:34,280 Speaker 1: But now he steps. 592 00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:36,600 Speaker 3: Out from behind all of that and bows down. 593 00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:41,120 Speaker 2: And it is in that weakened state that a limping 594 00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:46,719 Speaker 2: Jacob meets his enemy of ninety seven years, and as 595 00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:50,080 Speaker 2: he lays prostrate, all of the pain that he's caused 596 00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:54,480 Speaker 2: now accumulating in this moment. The Bible says that when 597 00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:56,839 Speaker 2: he went out ahead of his stuff, when he came 598 00:36:56,880 --> 00:36:59,800 Speaker 2: out from behind his persona, when he came out behind 599 00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:02,480 Speaker 2: the appearance of having it all together, when he came 600 00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:05,479 Speaker 2: out behind his need to look cool and look right 601 00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:09,440 Speaker 2: and sound right, when he came out from behind. It 602 00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:12,560 Speaker 2: is when you come out from behind that God can 603 00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:13,080 Speaker 2: bless you. 604 00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:17,799 Speaker 3: It is when you stop hiding that He can heal you. 605 00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:20,840 Speaker 2: What are you hiding from? 606 00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:22,520 Speaker 1: What are you hiding behind? 607 00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:27,480 Speaker 2: And do you want to be healed bad enough to 608 00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:32,520 Speaker 2: step out in front of it? And say it's me God, 609 00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:41,040 Speaker 2: it's me Esaul, and present yourself in a position of vulnerability. 610 00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:45,799 Speaker 2: I haven't been the husband I aughto have, Bet, I 611 00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:49,040 Speaker 2: haven't been the friend I aughto have. Bet. You want 612 00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:54,239 Speaker 2: right relationships, it's going to require the right posture, And 613 00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:57,080 Speaker 2: the right posture is for not for you to try 614 00:37:57,120 --> 00:38:00,800 Speaker 2: to make yourself appear impressive. If you really want to 615 00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:04,440 Speaker 2: connect with people and stop pivoting from issue. 616 00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:08,319 Speaker 1: To issue, you gotta deal with what's with them. 617 00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:15,719 Speaker 2: Come out from behind your herds and stand before he 618 00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:22,400 Speaker 2: saw and face your fears, and face your failures, and 619 00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:28,440 Speaker 2: face your frustration. And when he saw Jacob on the ground, 620 00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:33,560 Speaker 2: he took out his buck knife and. 621 00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:34,560 Speaker 1: Put it in there. 622 00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:36,840 Speaker 2: Wouldn't that be crazy if that happened next and Jacob 623 00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:40,719 Speaker 2: died right there? Wouldn't that be crazy? In that just 624 00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:43,279 Speaker 2: what you expect is going to happen. If you ever 625 00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:46,080 Speaker 2: get real and come out from behind what you're hiding behind. 626 00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:48,799 Speaker 2: Come on, be honest, you are scared to death that 627 00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:51,319 Speaker 2: if you ever show the real you, if you ever 628 00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:54,600 Speaker 2: get out from behind all the religious talks, Because one 629 00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:56,920 Speaker 2: of the things that people hide behind more than anything 630 00:38:56,920 --> 00:39:06,240 Speaker 2: else is their religious pretension. Spiritual sounding and seeming stuff. 631 00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:08,400 Speaker 2: But he comes out from behind that and watch what 632 00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:10,440 Speaker 2: he saw. The This is like the father in the 633 00:39:10,440 --> 00:39:14,200 Speaker 2: prodigal son's story. This is how God treats every every son, 634 00:39:14,239 --> 00:39:17,319 Speaker 2: every daughter that comes running home with no excuses, but 635 00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:18,240 Speaker 2: just an admission. 636 00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:18,800 Speaker 3: I have said. 637 00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:27,120 Speaker 6: He saw, ran to meet Jacob and embraced him. 638 00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:32,319 Speaker 2: The thing that he had been hiding from for two 639 00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:35,360 Speaker 2: decades was handled. 640 00:39:36,360 --> 00:39:41,319 Speaker 1: The whole time. I came with an announcement. 641 00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:48,440 Speaker 7: What you're hiding from has already been handled. The same, 642 00:39:49,239 --> 00:39:55,680 Speaker 7: the guilt, the disgrace, the disappointment, the uncertainty. I need 643 00:39:55,719 --> 00:39:57,840 Speaker 7: you to turn to your neighbor and tell him in 644 00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:00,960 Speaker 7: your best Olivia Hope voice, it is handled. 645 00:40:01,239 --> 00:40:04,960 Speaker 6: It's handled, it's handled, it's handled. On top five people, 646 00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:11,920 Speaker 6: it's handled, it's handled, it's handled, it's handled. 647 00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:14,200 Speaker 1: Well, that's the. 648 00:40:14,239 --> 00:40:18,360 Speaker 6: Gospel that he already took my sin. He already took 649 00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:19,000 Speaker 6: my sin. 650 00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:20,200 Speaker 1: He already. 651 00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:24,520 Speaker 5: Now it's to the cross, my sin on the bliss of. 652 00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:26,000 Speaker 1: This glorious song. 653 00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:28,960 Speaker 3: My sin not it, but but. 654 00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:32,719 Speaker 2: No, it is now to the cross. 655 00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:37,400 Speaker 3: It's handled, it's handled. 656 00:40:39,640 --> 00:40:46,359 Speaker 2: It's handle, it's handled, and you don't have to flee it. 657 00:40:47,239 --> 00:40:47,799 Speaker 1: Anymore. 658 00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:52,839 Speaker 2: You don't have to fight it anymore. All you have 659 00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:57,879 Speaker 2: to do is face it. Face it. 660 00:41:00,239 --> 00:41:04,799 Speaker 8: I'm not running from relationship to relationship to relationship, from 661 00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:10,640 Speaker 8: job to job to job, from church to church to church. 662 00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:22,600 Speaker 1: With my hidden issues unhealed. 663 00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:31,480 Speaker 2: He blessed him when he came out of hiding and 664 00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:36,839 Speaker 2: opened his heart. Now, if you will open your heart, 665 00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:39,440 Speaker 2: God can handle your issues. 666 00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:43,439 Speaker 1: The only thing that. 667 00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:46,760 Speaker 2: Has kept God from doing a maturing work in your life, Jacob, 668 00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:51,920 Speaker 2: is that you've been so busy collecting herds and the 669 00:41:52,040 --> 00:42:00,399 Speaker 2: appearance of blessing that you've never made yourself vulnerable. When 670 00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:04,080 Speaker 2: you make yourself vulnerable, when you lift your hands to 671 00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:13,920 Speaker 2: God and you're not ashamed to say, honey, oh he 672 00:42:14,080 --> 00:42:19,799 Speaker 2: need Thank you for joining us special thanks to those 673 00:42:19,840 --> 00:42:22,840 Speaker 2: of you who give generously to this ministry. Is because 674 00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:25,799 Speaker 2: of you that this ministry is possible. 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