Connect verse for the week.
Luke 9:25 What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit their very self
The Story of Jacob
- It’s not a ME FIRST
- Genesis 25:24-26 When the time came for her to give birth, there were twin boys in her womb. The first to come out was red, and his whole body was like a hairy garment; so they named him Esau. After this, his brother came out, with his hand grasping Esau’s heel; so he was named Jacob
- Pretenders will PAY
- Genesis 27 – Ran for twenty Years
- Matthew 25 – Sheep and Goats
- Change is a BATTLE
- Genesis 32:28 Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.
- Your new identity is in CHRIST/GOD
- Exodus 3:15 God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The Lord,[d] the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.
- II Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come:[a] The old has gone, the new is here!
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