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Speaker: Pastor Val Watkins
Scripture Text: Hebrews 11:21, Genesis 48:8-20
Flawed: The Heroes of the Faith
Jacob: A Flawed Hero of the Faith
Hebrews 11:21, Genesis 48:8-20
They are listed in Hebrews 11 not because they had no flaws but because of their faith–even with their flaws.
It seems to me that Hebrews 11:21 teaches us what it means to look at all of life through the lens of God’s grace.
It is in this blessing of his grandsons that Jacob teaches us what it means to look at all of life through the lens of God’s grace.
Isaac, whose eyesight was extremely poor was deceived. He blessed Jacob and gave him the blessing of the firstborn.
Sometimes God allows us to go through all kinds of difficulties to show us our need for his grace.
But Jacob got a taste of his own medicine when Laban deceived him into marrying Leah rather than Rachel.
Do you have personal experience of God’s grace in your life? Or, are you just going through the motions by going to worship services and hoping that your performance will please God?
But Jacob was now looking at the world through the lens of God’s grace. And God’s grace does not operate as the world thinks it should.