HOW TO GET PAST YOUR PAST | PAUL DAUGHERTY | JACOB SERIES PT 3

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Genesis 32:6-30 // Genesis 30:1-26 // Genesis 31:1-50 // Genesis 33:1-11
---GOD WORKS with WEAK PEOPLE
---GOD WORKS THROUGH WEAK PEOPLE
--GOD IS ATTRACTED to WEAKNESS--
---JACOB was BLESSED, BUT he was broken, afraid, stressed... We all have a BLESSED, BUT situation in our life...
• The "Rachel" Illusion: We often believe that if we just get a specific person or achievement, everything will be okay and our lives will be "fixed".
• The "Leah" Reality: When we finally obtain what we wanted, we eventually find it is "Leah"—it cannot provide the ultimate meaning or satisfaction we expected.
--Responses to the "Leah" REALITY----people typically react to this disillusionment in one of four ways:
1. Blaming the Object: Thinking you just need a "better" version (a better spouse or job), which Keller calls the "fool's way".—REPLACING IDOLS WITH MORE IDOLS…
2. Blaming Yourself: Falling into self-hatred because you feel like a failure for not being happy. TRYING TO FIND HEALING IN YOURSELF…
3. Blaming Life: Hardening yourself into a cynic and refusing to hope for anything.
4. Accept The Christian Way: Realizing that your heart's true desire is for God and that earthly things are meant to point toward Him rather than satisfy you. eventually everything that LOOKS like RACHEL---ends up still feeling like LEAH----PROMISES to FILL YOUR EVERY VOID like JACOB waiting for RACHEL only ends up being---LEAH IN THE MORNING… NO earthly thing—whether a spouse, a career, or a success—can truly fulfill the deepest longings of the human heart. -- if there’s nothing in this world that ever is RACHEL including RACHEL herself---then RACHEL MUST be BEYOND THIS WORLD---if there’s nothing in this world that will ever satisfy me, then it means that I am made for something beyond this world-- THE GOSPEL---JESUS is the greater RACHEL…
--RACHEL IS SAYING, IF I COULD JUST HAVE _______... –LEAH IS SAYING, IF THEY WOULD JUST _______....JACOB is SAYING, IF THIS SITUATION were BETTER I’D FINALLY HAVE PEACE…. ---AND GOD IS SAYING----WHEN ARE YOU GONNA LOOK AT ME---BECAUSE I ALREADY HAVE WHAT you’re LOOKING FOR…

GENESIS 30:13--- HOW HAPPY I AM--- the women will call me HAPPY…
---ANYTIME you tie your happiness to what others think or say about you---YOU WILL NEVER be happy…
JACOB's STORY is a REMINDER that we are ALL IN a PROCESS of being SANCTIFIED.
1. Justification – ONE-TIME Event (Past) --- “Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.” – Romans 5:1 (KJV)
----We are saved from the penalty of sin.

2. Sanctification – Ongoing (Present)--- “For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication.” – 1 Thessalonians 4:3 (KJV) ---This is the lifelong process of being made holy, set apart, and conformed to the image of Christ. It is NOT perfection but progression.
---We are being saved from the power of sin.

3. Glorification – Future Hope---- “Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.” – Romans 8:30 (KJV)----One day, when Christ returns, we will be transformed — no more sin, no more death, no more struggle.
---We will be saved from the presence of sin.
In Summary:
Justification → ONE-TIME event, already complete. (Past)
Sanctification → A daily, ongoing process. (Present)
Glorification → Our eternal future with Christ. (Future)
Believer, take heart: you are already justified, you are being sanctified, and you will be glorified. This is the unshakable promise of God (Philippians 1:6).

This story serves as a picture of the gospel in that, just as Jacob did not deserve Esau's mercy, humans are reconciled to God through a grace they did not earn, changing a relationship of enmity into one of reconciliation.

----Reconciliation Begins with God -----Before Jacob could reconcile with Esau, he first had to be "broken" by God.
----The thing he was afraid of was waiting to embrace him.

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