Mini-Mess: Changing Names 2
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
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🗓️ 13 July 2020
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Today we kick-off week number two of our “mini-mess” episodes, designed to offer quick biblical truths with lasting value. We’re studying places in the Bible where God changed a person’s name and how the new name brought new beginnings and clarity to that person’s calling.
This week, we’re looking at Jacob’s life and how an all night wrestling match changed his name from “deceiver” to Israel (because he wrestled with God and man). This wrestling passage might be one of the stranger events we read about in the Bible, but it serves as a great reminder of how much God treasures his creation. It recalls how he will go to any length to have a deep and meaningful relationship with us.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Cynthia Anoff, and you're listening to Pardon a Mess, or as we like to call these short |
| 0:09.9 | episodes, a mini-mess, quick biblical conversations with lasting truth. |
| 0:15.3 | Welcome to week two of our mini-mess series where we are studying God's Word, and we are doing it quickly on Monday |
| 0:21.8 | mornings kicking off our weeks in God's word and the places where in the Bible we've seen God |
| 0:27.1 | change names. And there's significance in that. And so if you miss last week, we talked about |
| 0:31.8 | Abram to Abraham. And you can jump back a podcast or two and catch that one when you have a minute. |
| 0:37.4 | But this week, we're talking about when God changes Jacob's name to Israel. |
| 0:41.9 | And so we're going to be in Genesis 32. |
| 0:43.6 | But before we get there, it's important to know a little bit of the background of what's going |
| 0:47.7 | on when we hit Genesis 32. |
| 0:50.2 | And so remember from Bible school all those years ago, we have Jacob. |
| 0:54.0 | And Jacob stole the birthright from his brother, Esau. And so remember from Bible school all those years ago, we have Jacob and Jacob stole the birthright from his brother, Esau. |
| 0:57.0 | And so he tricked his father, stole the birthright. |
| 1:00.0 | And because that, understandably, his brother was really mad. |
| 1:03.0 | And he fled from that whole situation and he went and lived with Laban. |
| 1:07.0 | Remember that? |
| 1:08.0 | And he ends up staying there and working the land and working for some wives. And at the end of his time with Laban, Remember that? And he ends up staying there and working the land and working for some |
| 1:11.3 | wives. And at the end of his time with Laban, they decide to split up the livestock because |
| 1:17.8 | Jacob's leaving. And so Jacob does exactly what Jacob's been known to do. And he lies and he takes |
| 1:24.5 | more than his fair share. So now Laban is mad at Jacob, and Jacob is fleeing, and he is going to his next location |
| 1:31.6 | where he's called to go, but it requires him to go back through Esau's land. |
| 1:36.0 | And so see how it's kind of circular. |
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