Pastor, teacher, and author Adrian Rogers has introduced people all over the world to the love of Jesus Christ,

and has impacted untold numbers of lives by presenting profound truth simply stated.

Thanks for joining us for this message. Here's Adrian Rogers.

Many of us think that self-sufficiency is a virtue. The truth of the matter is that self-sufficiency is a virtue.

The truth of the matter is that self-sufficiency is not a virtue.

Spiritually, it is a vice.

Look at our scripture here, Hebrews chapter 11 and verse 21.

By faith, Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph, and worshipped leaning upon the top of his staff.

Worship leaning upon the top of his staff.

We talked about Jacob, and we talked about how he was a man who was a connivor.

He was a man who was always trying to rig things, to work things, to make things work together.

Our modern day equivalency of Jacob,

by his natural nature, would have been con artist.

But God is working on Jacob to make him what he wants him to be.

And God is working on me that way.

And God is working on you. God is working on us and will not

be finished with us until our total complete dependency is not on self but on him. And we are going

to be something in the Lord Jesus Christ for Philipp Philippians chapter 1, verse 6 says, being confident

of this very thing that he who hath begun a good work in us will perform it unto the day

of Jesus Christ. Now, Jacob had deceived his father and gotten the birthright that God already wanted to give him,

but he couldn't trust God for what God had promised.

And he had tricked his brother Esau into giving him the birthright

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