Genesis 32:1 , GENESIS 32:24 Every man lives two lives an outward and an inward. The one is that denoted in the former text: _Jacob went on his way._The other is denoted in the latter text: _Jacob was left alone._In either state God dealt with him. I. The angels of God met him. We do not know in w... [ Continue Reading ]
Genesis 32:1 I. Notice first the angels themselves. (1) Their number is very great. (2) They are swift as the flames of fire. (3) They are also strong: "Bless the Lord, ye His angels that excel in strength." (4) They seem to be all young. (5) They are evidently endowed with corresponding moral exce... [ Continue Reading ]
Genesis 32 I. God selects men for His work on earth, not because of their personal agreeableness, but because of their adaptation to the work they have to perform. II. There is something affecting in the way in which guilty persons invoke the God of their fathers. Conscious that they deserve nothi... [ Continue Reading ]
Genesis 32:7 , GENESIS 32:11; GENESIS 32:24; GENESIS 32:28 From this description of a day and a night in the life of Jacob we learn three things. (1) This is a crisis, a turning-point in his career. His experience at the ford of Jabbok is his "conversion" from the craft and cunning and vulturous gre... [ Continue Reading ]
Genesis 32:10 I. The contrast here presented between the early loneliness and poverty of life and its growing riches is universal. (1) What is life but a constant gathering of riches? Compare the man and the woman of forty with their childhood. They have made themselves a name and a place in life;... [ Continue Reading ]
Genesis 32:7 , GENESIS 32:11; GENESIS 32:24; GENESIS 32:28 From this description of a day and a night in the life of Jacob we learn three things. (1) This is a crisis, a turning-point in his career. His experience at the ford of Jabbok is his "conversion" from the craft and cunning and vulturous gre... [ Continue Reading ]
Genesis 32:1 , GENESIS 32:24 Every man lives two lives an outward and an inward. The one is that denoted in the former text: _Jacob went on his way._The other is denoted in the latter text: _Jacob was left alone._In either state God dealt with him. I. The angels of God met him. We do not know in w... [ Continue Reading ]
Genesis 32:26 Esau, with all his amiable qualities, was a man whose horizon was bounded by the limitations of the material world. He never rose above earth; he was a man after this world; he lived an eminently natural life. Jacob, on the other hand, was a man of many faults, yet there was a continu... [ Continue Reading ]
Genesis 32:7 , GENESIS 32:11; GENESIS 32:24; GENESIS 32:28 From this description of a day and a night in the life of Jacob we learn three things. (1) This is a crisis, a turning-point in his career. His experience at the ford of Jabbok is his "conversion" from the craft and cunning and vulturous gre... [ Continue Reading ]
Genesis 32:29 This is the question of all questions. For the name of God denotes His nature and His essence, the sum of all His properties and attributes. I. It is a question worth the asking. There is a despair of religious knowledge in the world, as though in God's rich universe, Theology, which... [ Continue Reading ]
Genesis 32:31 I. From the great conflict with sin none come off without many a scar. We may wrestle and prevail, but there will be touches of the enemy, which will leave their long and bitter memories. The way to heaven is made of falling down and rising up again. The battle is no steady, onward fi... [ Continue Reading ]