God is greater than your name, your nature and your nurture. | Larger Than Likes | Week 4
Big Idea: God is greater than your name, your nature and your nurture!
The Patriarch Jacob- Grandson of Abraham /Sarah-The son of Isaac/Rebekah – to whom twin boys Jacob and Esau were born – Name/Nurture /Nature
The Patriarch Jacob-His Name:
24 When the time came for her to give birth, there were twin boys in her womb. 25 The first to come out was red, and his whole body was like a hairy garment; so they named him Esau. 26 After this, his brother came out, with his hand grasping Esau’s heel; so he was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when Rebekah gave birth to them. 27 The boys grew up, and Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the open country, while Jacob was content to stay at home among the tents. 28 Isaac, who had a taste for wild game, loved Esau, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
Genesis 25:24-28 (NIV)
The Patriarch Jacob-His Nature
The Patriarch Jacob-His Nurture
24 Then Jacob was left alone; and a Man wrestled with him until the breaking of day. 25 Now when He saw that He did not prevail against him, He touched the socket of his hip; and the socket of Jacob’s hip was out of joint as He wrestled with him. 26 And He said, “Let Me go, for the day breaks.” But he said, “I will not let You go unless You bless me!” 27 So He said to him, “What is your name?” He said, “Jacob.” 28 And He said, “Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have struggled with God and with men, and have prevailed.” 29 Then Jacob asked, saying, “Tell me Your name, I pray.” And He said, “Why is it that you ask about My name?” And He blessed him there. 30 So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: “For I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.”
Genesis 32:24-30 (NKJV)
Nature: What the Spirit is doing now, is greater than what your soul has always done!
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
2 Corinthians 5:17 (NKJV)
Nurture: What the Spirit is doing now, is greater than what your soul has always done!
9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11 (NKJV)
Name: What the Spirit is doing now, is greater than what your soul has always done!
Jacob means: “Man Contends”
Israel means: “God Contends”
God has to break a man to birth a Nation!
17 “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give some of the hidden manna to eat. And I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written which no one knows except him who receives it.” ’
Revelation 2:17 (NKJV)
You have a given name, now discover your God name, live from the photo of the hero that God knows is in you!