WEBVTT NOTE Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver Episode: And by his strength he had power with God part 3 Publishing Date: 2021-02-21T05:00:44-08:00 Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/and-by-his-strength-he-had-power-with-god-part-3/ 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:09.640 Yeah, so before we take a break, this is not a recap, it's a clarification of yesterday's 00:00:09.640 --> 00:00:12.520 teaching. 00:00:12.520 --> 00:00:18.120 So I can't do a recap of yesterday's teaching because it has to be part two and part three 00:00:18.120 --> 00:00:21.040 together before we can recap it accurately. 00:00:21.040 --> 00:00:24.800 But certain clarifications from yesterday's teaching. 00:00:24.800 --> 00:00:34.280 One, it is easy for us to put everything into the wrestling ring, as in anything that happens 00:00:34.280 --> 00:00:39.040 in our lives now, we might just say, oh, we are wrestling with God. 00:00:39.040 --> 00:00:41.080 That's not true. 00:00:41.080 --> 00:00:46.880 Be careful that you don't tolerate that which is ungodly or a sign to God, things that didn't 00:00:46.880 --> 00:00:53.600 originate from him and say, no, this situation that's happening, I'm just, it's God wrestling 00:00:53.600 --> 00:00:54.600 with me. 00:00:55.120 --> 00:01:01.480 Make sure that whenever something comes that you know comes to steal, kill and destroy, 00:01:01.480 --> 00:01:07.120 know that it is not something that God is sending so you can wrestle through it. 00:01:07.120 --> 00:01:12.560 Whenever things have fear in them, anything that brings fear, know that it is not God 00:01:12.560 --> 00:01:16.600 trying to have you wrestle through things of fear. 00:01:16.600 --> 00:01:20.400 Whenever it is something that Christ paid a price for, like sickness or disease, God 00:01:20.400 --> 00:01:25.520 is not sending you sickness and disease so he can teach you how to wrestle. 00:01:25.520 --> 00:01:27.160 Remember to keep that in mind, eh? 00:01:27.160 --> 00:01:34.240 Because otherwise we begin to assign everything to God. 00:01:34.240 --> 00:01:42.400 So begin every day from this end point, and the end point is that, A, God is in charge 00:01:42.400 --> 00:01:45.080 and in control of my today. 00:01:45.080 --> 00:01:47.600 These are end points that I must begin from. 00:01:48.400 --> 00:01:54.040 I must begin from the end point that today God is in charge of my day and he is in control 00:01:54.040 --> 00:01:55.280 of my day. 00:01:55.280 --> 00:01:59.280 Two, that he's a good father who delights in me. 00:01:59.280 --> 00:02:02.000 That he's a good father who delights in me. 00:02:02.000 --> 00:02:08.520 Three, that he has always had absolute authority and he always will continue to have absolute 00:02:08.520 --> 00:02:09.520 authority. 00:02:09.520 --> 00:02:16.320 And four, that I have permission to partake in the promises of God which are yes and amen 00:02:16.360 --> 00:02:17.360 in Christ. 00:02:17.360 --> 00:02:19.560 Guys, let me go over that again, eh? 00:02:19.560 --> 00:02:22.640 And you have the ability to hear and understand what I'm saying. 00:02:22.640 --> 00:02:26.600 So don't switch off because I said we're going for a break after this. 00:02:26.600 --> 00:02:33.120 Because if we don't clarify this from last week's, last evening's message, we can lump 00:02:33.120 --> 00:02:37.520 everything together and throw them into the wrestling ring and say, God's wrestling with 00:02:37.520 --> 00:02:38.520 me. 00:02:38.520 --> 00:02:42.860 If I have a sickness or disease come my way, no way I'm going to say, God sent this sickness 00:02:42.860 --> 00:02:45.960 and disease for me to wrestle through and make me stronger. 00:02:45.960 --> 00:02:48.000 God isn't my father. 00:02:48.000 --> 00:02:52.720 If I have situations come into my life that frighten me and cause tremendous fear, I'm 00:02:52.720 --> 00:02:56.320 not going to say, God sent this to me so he can make me stronger. 00:02:56.320 --> 00:03:01.100 I'll still wrestle through but it ain't coming from my dad. 00:03:01.100 --> 00:03:04.900 If I see things that are coming to steal, kill and destroy, I'm not going to say that 00:03:04.900 --> 00:03:08.360 these things are coming from God and that he's teaching me how to wrestle. 00:03:08.360 --> 00:03:09.360 Ain't true. 00:03:09.360 --> 00:03:14.240 Jesus Christ said he came to give life abundant not to steal, kill and destroy. 00:03:14.240 --> 00:03:18.500 And every day I start, I will start from this end point that my God is actually in 00:03:18.500 --> 00:03:21.440 charge and in control of everything in my today. 00:03:21.440 --> 00:03:23.680 Two that he's a good father. 00:03:23.680 --> 00:03:26.900 Three that he has always had absolute authority. 00:03:26.900 --> 00:03:32.160 Nothing happens just because powers may think it can happen, be they human or spiritual. 00:03:32.160 --> 00:03:38.680 And fourthly that I have permission every day to partake in the promises of God. 00:03:38.680 --> 00:03:44.280 I'm a divine partaker in the promises of God set and established in my life by the 00:03:44.280 --> 00:03:47.880 new covenant, by the blood of Christ. 00:03:47.880 --> 00:03:55.760 Once this is the end point you begin from, then you can wrestle into obedience, rest 00:03:55.760 --> 00:03:57.040 and the strength of God. 00:03:57.040 --> 00:04:03.660 If this is not the end of every day, then it is not possible for you to wrestle into 00:04:03.660 --> 00:04:07.400 a place of obedience, of rest and of strength. 00:04:07.400 --> 00:04:12.760 You won't be able to because you will assign to God what did not originate from him and 00:04:12.760 --> 00:04:18.400 you will accommodate in your life that which God did not send. 00:04:18.400 --> 00:04:22.040 So make sure that this is your starting point. 00:04:22.040 --> 00:04:23.800 Only then can you wrestle into obedience. 00:04:23.800 --> 00:04:25.360 You can wrestle into rest. 00:04:25.360 --> 00:04:29.960 You can wrestle into his strength through solishness, through sin, through sickness, 00:04:29.960 --> 00:04:31.820 through Satan, through systems. 00:04:31.820 --> 00:04:33.200 You wrestle into what? 00:04:33.200 --> 00:04:35.760 into obedience, rest and his strength. 00:04:35.760 --> 00:04:38.480 But you always identify where things are coming from. 00:04:38.480 --> 00:04:42.040 When things seem to be withheld, this was a question someone asked at the end of the 00:04:42.040 --> 00:04:43.480 service yesterday. 00:04:43.480 --> 00:04:47.840 When things are withheld, how do I know whether God is withholding it or whether Satan is 00:04:47.840 --> 00:04:49.480 withholding it? 00:04:49.480 --> 00:04:54.360 When things are withheld or when things seem withheld, operate by the proceeding word as 00:04:54.360 --> 00:04:59.720 in go to God and say, father, I need to see why it's being withheld. 00:04:59.720 --> 00:05:04.400 Help me see and help me stand so that I can press through in the correct way. 00:05:04.400 --> 00:05:07.720 If Satan is withholding something, I have to combat it. 00:05:07.720 --> 00:05:12.040 When God is withholding something, I have to humble myself and walk with him. 00:05:12.040 --> 00:05:19.720 The proceeding word is supposed to show us how to see and how to stand. 00:05:19.720 --> 00:05:27.040 So hearing is such a critical part of the Christian experience. 00:05:27.040 --> 00:05:29.160 And every day we get to hear better. 00:05:29.160 --> 00:05:36.160 Guys, persistence is not about saying, okay, God, I'm going to wear you out with my persistent 00:05:36.160 --> 00:05:37.160 praying. 00:05:37.160 --> 00:05:38.160 That's not how this works. 00:05:38.160 --> 00:05:43.880 I was talking to a friend of mine, a wise friend of mine who said to me, listen, persistence 00:05:43.880 --> 00:05:45.680 is not about wearing God out. 00:05:45.680 --> 00:05:50.560 Because when we read the story about the persistent widow, we think it's about wearing God out. 00:05:50.560 --> 00:05:52.560 But it's not about wearing God out. 00:05:52.560 --> 00:05:54.560 It's about the persistence of God. 00:05:55.560 --> 00:06:00.400 Because when we read the story about the persistent widow, we think it's about wearing God out. 00:06:00.400 --> 00:06:02.680 Now persistence is not about wearing God out. 00:06:02.680 --> 00:06:06.480 It's about only you can do this for me so I will cling to your faithfulness with my 00:06:06.480 --> 00:06:08.320 life. 00:06:08.320 --> 00:06:09.880 That's what persistence is. 00:06:09.880 --> 00:06:12.480 That only you can do this for me, oh God. 00:06:12.480 --> 00:06:15.040 You've already said you love doing this for me. 00:06:15.040 --> 00:06:16.360 Only you can do this for me. 00:06:16.360 --> 00:06:19.920 So I'm going to cling to your faithfulness with my life. 00:06:19.920 --> 00:06:21.740 That is how you wrestle through. 00:06:21.740 --> 00:06:26.020 So to answer the question, how do I know if something is being withheld by God or withheld 00:06:26.020 --> 00:06:27.020 by the devil? 00:06:27.020 --> 00:06:30.060 The answer is operate by the proceeding word. 00:06:30.060 --> 00:06:33.660 Go and say to God, father, things are not working out. 00:06:33.660 --> 00:06:34.660 I've been waiting. 00:06:34.660 --> 00:06:36.260 I've been standing on promises. 00:06:36.260 --> 00:06:37.620 What is happening? 00:06:37.620 --> 00:06:42.600 Show me through ways that only you can show me how I should see and stand. 00:06:42.600 --> 00:06:43.660 Do I combat? 00:06:43.660 --> 00:06:44.940 Do I wait patiently? 00:06:44.940 --> 00:06:46.060 Do I walk with you? 00:06:46.060 --> 00:06:51.700 How do I wrestle into a place of obedience, rest and your strength so that be it withheld 00:06:51.700 --> 00:06:53.800 by the enemy, I know how to combat that. 00:06:53.800 --> 00:06:59.580 Be it withheld by God, I know how to humble myself and wait for you to appear. 00:06:59.580 --> 00:07:04.180 These things need to be clarified from yesterday. 00:07:04.180 --> 00:07:07.860 I just want to pray for you before we take a break. 00:07:08.860 --> 00:07:20.540 Father, the reason I'm praying right now is because you want to increase Acts 29's capacity 00:07:20.540 --> 00:07:29.200 to handle things in the spirit. 00:07:29.200 --> 00:07:37.140 One of the disadvantages of COVID and Zoom or live stream is the luxury of switching 00:07:37.140 --> 00:07:46.200 off our ears, our minds, our spirits, turning off the switch that shifts us from being students 00:07:46.200 --> 00:07:50.920 and participants to non-students and non-participants. 00:07:50.920 --> 00:07:56.120 I just feel prompted to pray that all of us here in this studio right now, where we are 00:07:56.120 --> 00:08:04.080 live streaming and all of us at home, are being told by you, Holy Spirit, that you want 00:08:04.080 --> 00:08:09.000 to increase our capacity. 00:08:09.000 --> 00:08:10.000 Not in terms of time. 00:08:10.000 --> 00:08:14.480 We're not going to go extra time today. 00:08:14.480 --> 00:08:21.080 But in terms of being able to handle weighty matters, you want to increase our capacity. 00:08:21.080 --> 00:08:27.880 And so I say, Oh God, increase mine, increase everybody in this studio right now so that 00:08:27.880 --> 00:08:32.160 no one in the music team or the tech team or the sound team switches off because a certain 00:08:32.160 --> 00:08:34.720 portion of the event is done. 00:08:34.720 --> 00:08:39.680 No one at home affords the luxury of switching off. 00:08:39.680 --> 00:08:44.560 Father, at the end of the day, they're not switching me off or my voice off because if 00:08:44.880 --> 00:08:52.480 I'm saying stuff off you, then we are turning ourselves off from you and that doesn't do 00:08:52.480 --> 00:08:54.880 us any good. 00:08:54.880 --> 00:08:58.680 This is not negative psychology or something, Father, reverse psychology, sorry. 00:08:58.680 --> 00:09:02.320 This is just a statement you're making. 00:09:02.320 --> 00:09:06.680 Please ask Spirit of God for an increase in our capacity right now for the days ahead 00:09:06.680 --> 00:09:11.920 in the name of Jesus Christ, even though we've had two evenings continuously and we've arrived 00:09:11.920 --> 00:09:13.320 at the third evening. 00:09:13.320 --> 00:09:16.080 Come, stay the course, stay the course. 00:09:16.080 --> 00:09:18.720 I'll increase your capacity in Jesus' name. 00:09:18.720 --> 00:09:19.720 Amen. 00:09:19.720 --> 00:09:21.280 Let's go on a break. 00:09:41.920 --> 00:10:11.280 I've seen the King of glory Coming round the clouds 00:10:12.280 --> 00:10:17.200 With light Of all earth's shades 00:10:17.200 --> 00:10:21.200 Of all earth's shades 00:10:29.200 --> 00:10:34.640 I see his love and mercy 00:10:35.000 --> 00:10:39.520 Watching over all I see 00:10:39.520 --> 00:10:42.720 The people sing 00:10:42.720 --> 00:10:46.720 The people sing 00:10:46.720 --> 00:10:53.360 Hosanna, Hosanna 00:10:53.360 --> 00:10:59.280 Hosanna in the highest 00:10:59.280 --> 00:11:04.560 Hosanna, Hosanna 00:11:05.480 --> 00:11:10.480 Hosanna in the highest 00:11:15.480 --> 00:11:21.480 I see a generation 00:11:21.480 --> 00:11:25.480 Rising up to take their place 00:11:25.480 --> 00:11:29.480 With selfless faith 00:11:29.480 --> 00:11:33.480 Selfless faith 00:11:35.480 --> 00:11:39.480 Not seeing me revile 00:11:39.480 --> 00:11:45.480 Staring as we pray and seek 00:11:45.480 --> 00:11:48.480 We're on our knees 00:11:48.480 --> 00:11:52.480 We're on our knees 00:11:52.480 --> 00:11:58.480 Hosanna, Hosanna 00:11:58.480 --> 00:12:03.480 Hosanna in the highest 00:12:04.400 --> 00:12:11.400 Hosanna, Hosanna 00:12:11.400 --> 00:12:16.400 Hosanna in the highest 00:12:34.400 --> 00:12:39.400 Hosanna in the highest 00:12:40.400 --> 00:12:46.400 Heal my heart and make it clean 00:12:46.400 --> 00:12:52.400 Open up my eyes to the things I see 00:12:52.400 --> 00:12:57.400 Show me how to love like you 00:12:57.400 --> 00:13:00.400 And love me 00:13:04.400 --> 00:13:09.400 Break my heart for what breaks the earth 00:13:09.400 --> 00:13:12.400 Everything I have 00:13:12.400 --> 00:13:17.400 For your kingdom's cause 00:13:17.400 --> 00:13:24.400 As I walk from earth into eternity 00:13:34.400 --> 00:13:41.400 Hosanna, Hosanna 00:13:41.400 --> 00:13:45.400 Hosanna in the highest 00:13:46.400 --> 00:13:53.400 Hosanna, Hosanna 00:13:53.400 --> 00:13:58.400 Hosanna in the highest 00:13:59.320 --> 00:14:04.320 Hosanna, Hosanna 00:14:04.320 --> 00:14:09.320 Hosanna in the highest 00:14:09.320 --> 00:14:14.320 Hosanna, Hosanna 00:14:14.320 --> 00:14:21.320 Hosanna in the highest 00:14:21.320 --> 00:14:24.320 Hosanna in the highest 00:14:24.320 --> 00:14:29.320 Oh, Dan, I'm in the highland. 00:14:32.320 --> 00:14:37.320 Oh, Dan, I'm in the highland. 00:14:38.320 --> 00:14:43.320 Oh, Dan, I'm in the highland. 00:14:48.320 --> 00:14:51.320 Oh, Dan, I see your name. 00:14:52.320 --> 00:14:56.320 In my face in a night. 00:14:56.320 --> 00:14:59.320 Because I don't know you. 00:15:00.320 --> 00:15:02.320 I don't know you. 00:15:09.320 --> 00:15:12.320 I don't know you. 00:15:13.320 --> 00:15:16.320 Don't know you. 00:15:21.320 --> 00:15:41.820 Okay guys, before I teach we'll just sing the one verse and chorus of the song that 00:15:41.820 --> 00:15:49.320 kind of describes the teaching that we've been doing about Jacob at Peniel. So just 00:15:49.320 --> 00:15:55.320 set the teaching up with part of the song and then I'll go straight into the teaching, 00:15:55.320 --> 00:16:00.720 okay? So why Jacob can't you go straight into the teaching? Why do a song before going to 00:16:00.720 --> 00:16:04.800 the teaching? I'm not too sure why but yeah. 00:16:30.720 --> 00:16:50.040 We seek your promise, we speak your words, we ask for nothing but what your heart desires. 00:16:50.040 --> 00:17:07.720 Christ our foundation, Christ our reward. The boldness to contend comes only from knowing 00:17:07.720 --> 00:17:28.240 your goodness, oh Lord. We seek your promise, we speak your words, we ask for nothing but 00:17:28.240 --> 00:17:45.480 what your heart desires. Christ our foundation, Christ our reward. The boldness to contend 00:17:45.480 --> 00:17:59.920 comes only from knowing your goodness, oh Lord. There's nothing I have but what you've 00:17:59.920 --> 00:18:19.240 given. There's nothing I have but what you've given. But I have everything I need in a 00:18:19.240 --> 00:18:42.720 day. We seek your promise, we speak your words, we ask for nothing but what your heart desires. 00:18:42.720 --> 00:18:57.520 Christ our foundation, Christ our reward. The boldness to contend comes only from knowing 00:18:57.520 --> 00:19:13.480 your goodness, oh Lord. May this be a penny hell moment. May we not let go till you bless 00:19:13.480 --> 00:19:24.600 me holding fast for a new name and promise. Your word shapes the course of eternity. May 00:19:24.600 --> 00:19:43.800 this be a penny hell moment. May I not let go till you bless me holding fast for a new name and promise. Your word shapes the course of eternity. 00:19:43.800 --> 00:20:03.000 May this be a penny hell moment. May I not let go till you bless me holding fast for a new name and promise. Your word shapes the course of eternity. 00:20:03.000 --> 00:20:23.600 May this be a penny hell moment. May I not let go till you bless me holding fast for a new name and promise. Your word shapes the course of eternity. 00:20:23.600 --> 00:20:53.200 We seek your promise, we speak your words, we ask for nothing but what your heart desires. Christ our foundation, Christ our reward. 00:20:53.600 --> 00:21:17.200 The boldness to contend comes only from knowing your goodness, oh Lord. The boldness to contend comes only from knowing your goodness, oh Lord. 00:21:23.600 --> 00:21:53.600 Do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do 00:21:53.600 --> 00:21:56.600 do 00:21:56.600 --> 00:21:59.600 do 00:21:59.600 --> 00:22:02.600 . 00:22:02.600 --> 00:22:06.600 , 00:22:07.600 --> 00:22:10.600 . 00:22:10.600 --> 00:22:21.600 . 00:22:21.600 --> 00:22:29.760 There's someone watching this who has a yellow t-shirt on and it's almost like one of those 00:22:29.760 --> 00:22:35.800 t-shirts with the word cheers written on it like the old show. 00:22:35.800 --> 00:22:46.920 And God wants to say to you that He knows that you've reached the end of your rope and 00:22:46.920 --> 00:22:56.560 that your habits that you have begged, pleaded, lost again and again and again, God is going 00:22:56.560 --> 00:22:59.840 to deliver you out of it in a flash. 00:22:59.840 --> 00:23:04.080 It's like going cold turkey on the spot. 00:23:04.080 --> 00:23:07.560 But this is a sin, a habit that you struggle with. 00:23:07.560 --> 00:23:12.120 It's almost addictive, not almost addictive, it is an addiction. 00:23:12.120 --> 00:23:14.400 And you struggle with it for years on end. 00:23:14.400 --> 00:23:19.480 And you have these brief moments of success and during those times of success, you and 00:23:19.480 --> 00:23:25.640 God are so thick, you can't understand why you slip back into it again and again. 00:23:25.640 --> 00:23:33.960 And as you listen to this, you'll be shocked at how this addiction breaks in a flash. 00:23:33.960 --> 00:23:38.800 It's like the kind of deliverance that only God can bring. 00:23:38.800 --> 00:23:43.200 And as it happens, it sets you free for the rest of your life so that you can run after 00:23:43.200 --> 00:23:48.440 the one who you've always longed to run after but this had always gotten in the way. 00:23:48.440 --> 00:23:52.040 So just thought I'll share that with you. 00:23:52.040 --> 00:24:00.000 Okay, Hosea chapter 12 verse 4, that's what we said we'd talk about Hosea chapter 12 verse 00:24:00.000 --> 00:24:01.000 4. 00:24:01.000 --> 00:24:05.640 And here's what it says in the KJV and the NKJV. 00:24:05.640 --> 00:24:06.640 This is what it says. 00:24:06.640 --> 00:24:12.700 Yes, he, as in Jacob, had power over the angel and he prevailed. 00:24:12.700 --> 00:24:15.620 He wept and made supplication unto him. 00:24:15.620 --> 00:24:22.140 He found him in Bethel and there he spoke with us, the Lord God of hosts. 00:24:22.140 --> 00:24:24.940 One more time, Hosea chapter 12 verse 4. 00:24:24.940 --> 00:24:28.780 Yes, he had power over the angel. 00:24:28.780 --> 00:24:36.620 These verses are so not fitting together and yet they're all strung together. 00:24:36.620 --> 00:24:41.980 So it says, yes, he had power over the angel, as in yes, Jacob had power over the angel 00:24:42.220 --> 00:24:43.220 and he prevailed. 00:24:43.220 --> 00:24:50.140 But in the very next part of the verse it says, he wept and made supplication unto him. 00:24:50.140 --> 00:24:53.340 And then it goes on to say, he found him in Bethel. 00:24:53.340 --> 00:24:57.980 But we're talking about Jacob at Jabok and suddenly the verse switches to, he found him 00:24:57.980 --> 00:24:58.980 at Bethel. 00:24:58.980 --> 00:25:01.940 That happened in Genesis 28, not in 32. 00:25:01.940 --> 00:25:06.880 And there he spoke with us, the Lord, the God of hosts. 00:25:06.880 --> 00:25:08.980 So those are the verses we'll examine. 00:25:08.980 --> 00:25:15.220 So this is the third part of the series and by his strength he had power with God. 00:25:15.220 --> 00:25:17.420 By his strength he had power with God. 00:25:17.420 --> 00:25:23.140 So let me set the scene up that we've been following over the last two days. 00:25:23.140 --> 00:25:24.900 Jacob is distressed. 00:25:24.900 --> 00:25:27.420 Jacob is fearful of Esau. 00:25:27.420 --> 00:25:32.180 Jacob is fearful for what might happen to his family because Esau has 400 men coming 00:25:32.180 --> 00:25:33.180 with him. 00:25:33.380 --> 00:25:39.460 And Jacob reminds God of the promises that God had given him at Bethel where he saw that 00:25:39.460 --> 00:25:41.540 stairway going into heaven. 00:25:41.540 --> 00:25:45.140 He reminds God of those promises. 00:25:45.140 --> 00:25:52.180 And he's alone at Jabok having sent his wife and his property ahead of him. 00:25:52.180 --> 00:25:57.500 He's alone at Jabok and in the middle of the night the angel of God comes, only the angel 00:25:57.500 --> 00:25:59.540 of God comes to fight him. 00:25:59.540 --> 00:26:02.460 That's the scene, that's the setup. 00:26:02.740 --> 00:26:11.540 And even though he's at the bottom of a dark river gorge at midnight, Jacob sees the face 00:26:11.540 --> 00:26:18.140 of God, which is why in Genesis 32, verse 20, he says, I will call this place Peniel 00:26:18.140 --> 00:26:22.620 because I have seen God face to face. 00:26:22.620 --> 00:26:27.080 Which then kind of dismantles the theory that God wanted to leave in the morning because 00:26:27.080 --> 00:26:30.940 he didn't want Jacob to see his face because daybreak was coming. 00:26:31.420 --> 00:26:35.820 Jacob already saw his face, man, and how he managed to see the face of God in the middle 00:26:35.820 --> 00:26:42.460 of the night in the dark ravine is pretty amazing in itself. 00:26:42.460 --> 00:26:44.180 I don't know if you've seen real darkness. 00:26:44.180 --> 00:26:52.780 I was once with Dano and Eddie in the middle of the bush in South Africa. 00:26:52.780 --> 00:26:59.100 And after having lived in a city, man, when things go really dark, darkness has a strange 00:26:59.260 --> 00:27:03.460 kind of darkness because there are no lights, there are no lights around. 00:27:03.460 --> 00:27:05.500 You can't see city lights out in the distance. 00:27:05.500 --> 00:27:07.700 It's completely dark. 00:27:07.700 --> 00:27:11.300 You see what Abraham saw in terms of stars. 00:27:11.300 --> 00:27:14.500 There are thousands and thousands of stars out there. 00:27:14.500 --> 00:27:18.620 It's just that you don't see them in Vancouver, partly because of the clouds, partly because 00:27:18.620 --> 00:27:19.620 of the lights. 00:27:19.620 --> 00:27:28.000 And in a very dark place, both in terms of his soul and in terms of his physical environment, 00:27:28.000 --> 00:27:32.120 he begins to fight the angel of God and he knows that he has to call the place Peniel 00:27:32.120 --> 00:27:34.600 because he has just seen God face to face. 00:27:34.600 --> 00:27:41.640 Guys, there's a certainty that God wants to bring to us, bring to me that cannot come 00:27:41.640 --> 00:27:46.400 except through face to face wrestling. 00:27:46.400 --> 00:27:48.040 There are promises that we can trust. 00:27:48.040 --> 00:27:50.040 There is his faithfulness we can trust. 00:27:50.040 --> 00:27:53.620 There are words and prophetic words that we can trust. 00:27:53.620 --> 00:28:03.100 But there is a certainty that comes that God wants to bring to me by saying, hey, Jacob, 00:28:03.100 --> 00:28:16.180 can I have you engage me in face to face contending with certain issues so that you know me like 00:28:16.180 --> 00:28:17.680 in no other way? 00:28:18.680 --> 00:28:24.420 wrestling is one sport where people are in such close contact, there's no other sport 00:28:24.420 --> 00:28:26.820 like it. 00:28:26.820 --> 00:28:30.780 No other sport like it. 00:28:30.780 --> 00:28:33.020 So here's a question we have to ask. 00:28:33.020 --> 00:28:37.620 How come Jacob, it says, had the power over the angel and prevailed? 00:28:37.620 --> 00:28:41.300 How come Jacob had power over the angel and prevailed? 00:28:41.300 --> 00:28:47.580 How come the angel of God, how come this person that Jacob meets and realizes, ah shucks, 00:28:47.600 --> 00:28:56.600 this is God himself, how come that it says in scriptures that Jacob bested the angel 00:28:56.600 --> 00:29:00.360 of God or Jacob had power over the angel and prevailed? 00:29:00.360 --> 00:29:01.360 How did that happen? 00:29:01.360 --> 00:29:07.360 And yet, shortly after, the angel just touches the inside of the hollow of Jacob's thigh 00:29:07.360 --> 00:29:12.720 and Jacob is incapacitated. 00:29:12.720 --> 00:29:15.560 So how come Jacob had power over the angel and prevailed? 00:29:16.460 --> 00:29:28.420 Guys, the thing is, when God wrestles, when God wrestles, when God wrestles, he humbles 00:29:28.420 --> 00:29:38.900 himself, he humbles himself, when God wrestles, he humbles himself to meet me on my terms, 00:29:38.960 --> 00:29:47.120 he humbles himself to meet me on my terms, he humbles himself to meet me on my terms, 00:29:47.120 --> 00:29:56.160 he humbles himself to meet me on my terms, for the purpose of bringing me, for the purpose 00:29:56.180 --> 00:30:08.500 of bringing me to the end of my strength, to the end of my strength and the beginning 00:30:08.500 --> 00:30:10.980 of his. 00:30:10.980 --> 00:30:15.980 I love this line. 00:30:15.980 --> 00:30:28.520 I've seen God do this so many times with people, with me, with us, where he humbles 00:30:28.520 --> 00:30:35.160 himself, when God wrestles with you, or when God contends with you, or when God wants to 00:30:35.160 --> 00:30:41.160 bring to pass something dramatic or earth-shaking in your life, he humbles himself to meet me 00:30:41.160 --> 00:30:48.160 on my terms, so that I can dialogue with him, I can argue with him, I can contend with him, 00:30:51.000 --> 00:30:56.440 as if I were doing that with another man who had the power to release something to me, 00:30:56.440 --> 00:31:01.040 that I can demand things of, that I can point out things from the word, that I can contend, 00:31:01.040 --> 00:31:03.720 argue, he allows it. 00:31:03.720 --> 00:31:10.160 This is the king of the universe, who if he holds his breath, the entire earth collapses. 00:31:10.160 --> 00:31:13.400 If he lifts his finger, planets fly out of orbit. 00:31:13.400 --> 00:31:19.680 That same God has the ability, when he contends with man, to humble himself to meet me on 00:31:19.680 --> 00:31:21.640 my terms, and what's the purpose? 00:31:21.640 --> 00:31:26.600 The purpose is to bring me to the end of my strength and to the beginning of his, to bring 00:31:26.600 --> 00:31:28.960 me to the end of my strength. 00:31:28.960 --> 00:31:31.320 That's his purpose. 00:31:31.320 --> 00:31:33.920 So even with Jacob, that's what's happening. 00:31:33.920 --> 00:31:38.580 Okay, I'll fight with you as a man fights with another man, but my intent at the end 00:31:38.620 --> 00:31:42.860 of the day is to bring you to the end of your strength and to bring you to the beginning 00:31:42.860 --> 00:31:45.200 of mine. 00:31:45.200 --> 00:31:47.700 So he was okay with Jacob winning. 00:31:47.700 --> 00:31:52.840 He does this with Abraham, he does this with the Syrophoenician woman, contends with them 00:31:52.840 --> 00:31:55.380 on terms that they understand. 00:31:55.380 --> 00:32:02.380 And like I said earlier, it is in these kind of face to face encounters, wrestlings, contentions, 00:32:04.060 --> 00:32:08.340 fighting, that you get to know with a degree of certainty certain things about God that 00:32:08.420 --> 00:32:15.420 will never leave your life, never leave your life. 00:32:15.900 --> 00:32:20.300 You will never doubt again in those areas. 00:32:20.300 --> 00:32:27.300 Not because you have extra faith, but because you have seen the beginning of who he is. 00:32:27.540 --> 00:32:28.540 Desire this. 00:32:28.540 --> 00:32:35.540 It's not some kind of selective experience that is meant for a few. 00:32:39.100 --> 00:32:46.100 Only parents could begin to do this for their children as they draw them aside and on one 00:32:50.460 --> 00:32:55.380 hand come to terms, come to the terms with their children, but it's not so that you can 00:32:55.380 --> 00:32:59.020 have a friendly discussion, but so that you can bring the child to the end of their strength 00:32:59.020 --> 00:33:03.020 and the beginning of something new that you know because of the experience you already 00:33:03.020 --> 00:33:03.880 have. 00:33:03.880 --> 00:33:06.780 That's a different topic. 00:33:06.780 --> 00:33:10.380 When God wrestles, it is never to defeat me. 00:33:10.380 --> 00:33:14.900 When God wrestles with me, it is never to defeat me. 00:33:14.900 --> 00:33:18.300 When we wrestle, it is defeat or winning. 00:33:18.300 --> 00:33:21.380 When God wrestles, it's never to defeat me. 00:33:21.380 --> 00:33:28.380 God wrestles me not to defeat me, but to spend me so that I can have a friendly conversation 00:33:36.860 --> 00:33:43.860 so I can replenish, but to spend me so I can be replenished, so I can be replenished, so 00:33:50.060 --> 00:33:54.340 I can be replenished with something I cannot provide for myself. 00:33:54.340 --> 00:34:01.340 So I can be replenished with something I cannot provide for myself. 00:34:02.340 --> 00:34:09.340 I cannot provide for myself. 00:34:11.860 --> 00:34:18.860 God wrestles with me not to defeat me, but to spend me so I can be replenished with something 00:34:19.220 --> 00:34:23.900 I cannot provide for myself and I have to cling to him. 00:34:23.900 --> 00:34:27.540 I have to cling to him. 00:34:27.540 --> 00:34:33.280 This is in a sense what Matthew 5 verse 3 says from the message where it says, blessed 00:34:33.280 --> 00:34:38.260 are you when you have reached the end of your rope because now there is less of you and 00:34:38.260 --> 00:34:41.780 more of God. 00:34:41.780 --> 00:34:45.980 So one of the reasons he wrestles me is not to defeat me, but to bring me to a point where 00:34:45.980 --> 00:34:52.980 I have spent myself and I'm so empty that I now need to be replenished not with something 00:34:53.820 --> 00:34:55.420 that I can provide for myself. 00:34:55.420 --> 00:34:57.460 This is exactly what happened to Jacob. 00:34:57.460 --> 00:35:00.740 He realizes there's nothing left. 00:35:00.740 --> 00:35:05.260 Now he has to be replenished with something else that he cannot provide for himself and 00:35:05.260 --> 00:35:09.060 so he clings on to God. 00:35:09.060 --> 00:35:16.060 One of the things, these things can only happen when we step into things that are far greater 00:35:16.420 --> 00:35:17.540 than us. 00:35:17.540 --> 00:35:24.540 As long as you remain in a secure or relatively risk free corner, you can always manage the 00:35:24.540 --> 00:35:26.020 outcome. 00:35:26.020 --> 00:35:29.980 You can always manage the outcome. 00:35:29.980 --> 00:35:35.860 It's a question we must ask ourselves as a church and as individuals constantly. 00:35:35.860 --> 00:35:42.860 The advantage of a low risk environment is that you can always manage the outcome. 00:35:47.660 --> 00:35:53.580 Spend means to exhaust, empty. 00:35:53.580 --> 00:36:00.580 The advantages of a low risk environment is that you can always manage the outcomes. 00:36:03.860 --> 00:36:07.580 These things can only happen when you're caught in Jabok. 00:36:07.580 --> 00:36:12.020 So sometimes it doesn't matter where the threat is coming from, whether it is orchestrated 00:36:12.020 --> 00:36:15.540 by God or whether it is orchestrated by the enemy. 00:36:15.540 --> 00:36:20.800 Being in places like Jabok and throwing yourself helplessly into the arms of God will bring 00:36:20.800 --> 00:36:25.900 you into a place where you will have face to face encounters, but it has to be risk 00:36:25.900 --> 00:36:31.840 prone. 00:36:31.840 --> 00:36:38.840 For me, yeah, all my life guys, I say this with tears not with pride, all my life God 00:36:38.840 --> 00:36:45.840 has made sure, either through my own thirst or through his orchestration, that there isn't 00:36:56.520 --> 00:37:03.520 more than two or three months where I'm not risking something and stepping into shoes 00:37:04.520 --> 00:37:07.480 that I cannot fill. 00:37:07.480 --> 00:37:14.480 But it is the only way, it is the only way for a Christian. 00:37:15.160 --> 00:37:21.960 And now we're taking on a thing that's going global and we don't have what it takes. 00:37:21.960 --> 00:37:28.960 But to be able to go out and speak it, to declare it, to boast about it, to not hold 00:37:29.440 --> 00:37:36.440 back on it, puts us into a place where we're either failures, frauds or we are in a place 00:37:39.000 --> 00:37:46.000 where God will prove himself again. 00:37:47.880 --> 00:37:54.880 God wrestles with me not to defeat me, but his intent is to expend, his intent is to 00:37:54.880 --> 00:38:01.880 have me expend every ounce of strength, every ounce of strength, his intent is to have me 00:38:04.960 --> 00:38:11.960 expend every ounce of strength to lay hold, to lay hold of the high calling of Christ. 00:38:11.960 --> 00:38:18.960 It says so in Philippians 3.13, that I strain forward, reaching out for that with Christ 00:38:34.520 --> 00:38:37.040 lay hold of me. 00:38:38.040 --> 00:38:45.040 I restrain forward, reaching out for the high calling of Christ upon my life. 00:38:45.040 --> 00:38:50.080 That's what Paul says in Philippians 3.13. 00:38:50.080 --> 00:38:54.800 So his intent, God's intent through times of wrestling is, hey Jacob, as I wrestle with 00:38:54.800 --> 00:39:00.040 you can you lay hold of that which I'm inviting you to take hold of? 00:39:00.040 --> 00:39:04.120 Can you lay hold of that which I'm saying you want it, come take it? 00:39:04.120 --> 00:39:05.040 Can you lay hold? 00:39:05.040 --> 00:39:09.760 It's like that game, I forgot the name of the game where you put a handkerchief in the 00:39:09.760 --> 00:39:13.840 center of the field and you go running and you start circling and someone has to grab 00:39:13.840 --> 00:39:18.840 the handkerchief and run and you've got to be quick on your feet, grab the handkerchief 00:39:18.840 --> 00:39:19.840 and run. 00:39:19.840 --> 00:39:21.320 That is what I'm talking about. 00:39:21.320 --> 00:39:25.480 God is saying, hey here it is, but I'm not going to let go of that that easily. 00:39:25.480 --> 00:39:32.120 I mean you can imagine that night where he has just told God about the promises that 00:39:32.200 --> 00:39:39.200 God guaranteed him at Bethel and he sees a man coming towards him and he thinks perhaps 00:39:40.000 --> 00:39:42.880 this is something that God is sending his way. 00:39:42.880 --> 00:39:49.880 But as the man comes, the man like in multiple battles in the ancient Middle East, comes 00:39:52.000 --> 00:39:59.000 and says, okay put your fists up because I'm contesting you. 00:39:59.000 --> 00:40:01.240 I'm contending with you. 00:40:01.240 --> 00:40:03.760 And Jacob is thinking, really? 00:40:03.760 --> 00:40:10.760 When I need help, this is what you're coming up with? 00:40:12.520 --> 00:40:18.000 God's intent is, hey Jacob, can I expend every ounce of your strength to lay hold of the 00:40:18.000 --> 00:40:20.560 high calling of Christ? 00:40:20.560 --> 00:40:23.520 I want you to expend. 00:40:23.520 --> 00:40:27.480 Spend is exhaust, expend is invest. 00:40:27.480 --> 00:40:28.720 Can you expend? 00:40:28.720 --> 00:40:33.320 Can you invest every ounce of strength that you have to lay hold of that which I'm inviting 00:40:33.320 --> 00:40:34.320 you? 00:40:34.320 --> 00:40:39.320 But I'm not going to give it to you just because you said a simple prayer and sang a song. 00:40:39.320 --> 00:40:45.320 I'm going to give it to you because you want it so badly that you will sell all your treasures 00:40:45.320 --> 00:40:48.320 to get the pearl. 00:40:48.320 --> 00:40:55.320 That is how much I must want something that is precious. 00:40:55.320 --> 00:41:00.080 I must want something that is precious in the eyes of God. 00:41:00.080 --> 00:41:04.000 There is something to do not throw your pearls before swine. 00:41:04.000 --> 00:41:09.000 Only may you not be the end of the sentence. 00:41:09.000 --> 00:41:16.000 And in the process if you thought I called you pig, I didn't. 00:41:20.840 --> 00:41:24.360 God wrestles me not to defeat me. 00:41:24.360 --> 00:41:29.120 God wrestles me not to defeat me, but to have me acknowledge my old name. 00:41:29.120 --> 00:41:34.820 God wrestles me not to defeat me, but to have me acknowledge my old name. 00:41:34.820 --> 00:41:41.200 God wrestles me not to defeat me, but to have me acknowledge my old name. 00:41:41.200 --> 00:41:48.200 And the fact that it is unsuitable or no longer appropriate, paving the way for a new name. 00:41:49.200 --> 00:41:56.200 God wrestles me not to defeat me, but to have me acknowledge my old name. 00:42:07.080 --> 00:42:14.080 Its unsuitability, thus paving the way for a new name. 00:42:19.200 --> 00:42:24.200 And with a new name, for a new name. 00:42:24.200 --> 00:42:31.200 And with a new name comes new responsibilities, new domain, and new enemies. 00:42:48.200 --> 00:42:54.560 That's what God does with Jacob too. 00:42:54.560 --> 00:42:59.480 In the heavenlies, Acts 29's name is changing. 00:42:59.480 --> 00:43:05.920 Which doesn't mean we are going to go and change things in Ottawa, but as it becomes 00:43:05.920 --> 00:43:08.640 clearer we'll know what our new name is. 00:43:08.640 --> 00:43:13.680 And our new name then begins to define the course that we take, it defines the new enemies 00:43:13.680 --> 00:43:20.680 we deal with, it defines the new territory that's been given. 00:43:22.720 --> 00:43:29.720 God wrestles me so that once I've wrestled God face to face, I will prevail with men. 00:43:31.320 --> 00:43:38.320 God wrestles me because once I've wrestled God face to face, I will prevail with men. 00:43:39.320 --> 00:43:46.320 You see this in Jacob's statement in Genesis 32, verse 30. 00:43:49.160 --> 00:43:55.280 He says, and the New King James puts it this way, I think there's a deliberate reason for 00:43:55.280 --> 00:43:55.640 it. 00:43:55.640 --> 00:44:02.000 He says that I, he called the place Peniel because he said I have seen God face to face 00:44:02.000 --> 00:44:04.560 and my life is preserved. 00:44:04.560 --> 00:44:07.400 And my life is preserved. 00:44:07.400 --> 00:44:14.160 Many scriptures, many versions put it this way, I have seen God face to face and yet 00:44:14.160 --> 00:44:16.480 my life was spared. 00:44:16.480 --> 00:44:18.100 They always put the word and yet. 00:44:18.100 --> 00:44:21.840 In the King James and the New King James it puts it this way, I have seen God face to 00:44:21.840 --> 00:44:24.480 face and my life is preserved. 00:44:24.480 --> 00:44:29.520 I would like to suggest to you that what he's saying there is I have seen God face to face 00:44:29.520 --> 00:44:33.680 and he's already saying that it doesn't matter that I'll be meeting Esau, if I have been 00:44:33.760 --> 00:44:36.960 delivered here, I'll be delivered there. 00:44:36.960 --> 00:44:39.280 That this will preserve me there. 00:44:39.280 --> 00:44:41.920 He's talking about what he's sure of. 00:44:41.920 --> 00:44:44.160 He's not saying yet I have been spared. 00:44:44.160 --> 00:44:48.400 He's saying I have seen God face to face, I have wrestled him, now as I go meet Esau, 00:44:48.400 --> 00:44:50.640 I know my life will be preserved. 00:44:50.640 --> 00:44:55.240 It's odd how Jacob wanted a promise, he wanted comfort, he wanted reassurance. 00:44:55.240 --> 00:45:01.160 He got instead contention and a fight, but the end of the fight and the contention, he 00:45:01.200 --> 00:45:08.360 still is absolutely sure that he will be preserved. 00:45:08.360 --> 00:45:13.600 You see the end result is exactly what you wanted, but the process is usually not what 00:45:13.600 --> 00:45:15.880 you want. 00:45:15.880 --> 00:45:18.600 And therein lies our struggle, right? 00:45:18.600 --> 00:45:25.600 Give me my results the way I don't finish everything. 00:45:25.600 --> 00:45:32.600 So, sorry, that was just something that happened internally. 00:45:36.440 --> 00:45:39.960 People are just eating while I'm talking and they're just finishing everything. 00:45:39.960 --> 00:45:46.960 So God wrestled so that once I wrestled God face to face I will prevail with men. 00:45:49.360 --> 00:45:53.480 Jacob realizes this when he says my life is preserved because he knows he will be delivered. 00:45:53.480 --> 00:45:59.960 At the end of the day the results are the same, the process is different. 00:45:59.960 --> 00:46:04.840 Any questions that are coming online, Brandon? 00:46:04.840 --> 00:46:08.360 So here's another question that I would think we need to ask. 00:46:08.360 --> 00:46:11.880 Why did God wrench Jacob's hip? 00:46:11.880 --> 00:46:16.560 Why did God wrench Jacob's hip? 00:46:16.560 --> 00:46:21.520 Because that puts such an odd spin on the story. 00:46:21.520 --> 00:46:25.640 Why did God wrench Jacob's hip? 00:46:25.640 --> 00:46:27.920 Why did he dislocate Jacob's hip? 00:46:27.920 --> 00:46:33.720 So let's go with the very obvious answer which is right there in the scriptures. 00:46:33.720 --> 00:46:40.720 He wrenched Jacob's hip because the Bible says he realized, as in God realized, that 00:46:41.840 --> 00:46:48.840 he would not prevail against Jacob. 00:46:48.960 --> 00:46:55.960 Remember the first point we made that when God wrestles he humbles himself to meet me 00:46:56.680 --> 00:47:00.600 on my terms for the purpose of bringing me to the end of my strength and the beginning 00:47:00.600 --> 00:47:01.440 of his. 00:47:01.440 --> 00:47:03.080 So God lowers himself to do that. 00:47:03.080 --> 00:47:04.640 I've seen him do it so many times. 00:47:04.640 --> 00:47:08.720 There's so many times when I've gone to argue with him and I'm sometimes scared of arguing 00:47:08.720 --> 00:47:12.040 with him because I think to myself what if I get rude? 00:47:12.040 --> 00:47:15.640 What if I accuse him of things that aren't right? 00:47:15.640 --> 00:47:20.240 And so many times when I argue with him in prayer or contend with him I tell him listen 00:47:20.240 --> 00:47:24.720 at any point if I get rude can you please have your Holy Spirit point it out because 00:47:24.720 --> 00:47:26.640 I really don't want to be rude to you. 00:47:26.640 --> 00:47:27.720 I don't want to accuse you. 00:47:27.720 --> 00:47:28.760 I don't want to suspect you. 00:47:28.760 --> 00:47:31.800 But I do want to have a healthy argument with you. 00:47:31.800 --> 00:47:38.160 So can you be like a lawyer I'm putting in the dock? 00:47:38.160 --> 00:47:42.880 Let me now argue. 00:47:42.880 --> 00:47:46.400 And he brings himself to that level which is what fascinates me. 00:47:46.400 --> 00:47:48.640 We are so different from the Old Testament guys. 00:47:48.640 --> 00:47:50.840 In the Old Testament God was nebulous. 00:47:50.840 --> 00:47:52.880 No one dared say anything about him. 00:47:52.880 --> 00:47:57.560 You would always have to conclude every argument with the simple scripture. 00:47:57.560 --> 00:48:00.920 His ways are higher, his thoughts are higher and that was the end of it. 00:48:00.920 --> 00:48:05.820 And God is so different now where he allows me to contend with him. 00:48:05.820 --> 00:48:08.000 He invites me to contend with him. 00:48:08.520 --> 00:48:17.040 Isaiah 43 I think or 42 it says come contend with me bring your arguments. 00:48:17.040 --> 00:48:20.880 And so why did God rent Jacob's hip? 00:48:20.880 --> 00:48:25.760 Because the first reason is he realized that he would not prevail against Jacob. 00:48:25.760 --> 00:48:32.840 So I remember when I used to play ping pong with my dad and initially when I was getting 00:48:33.000 --> 00:48:39.480 better he would let me win and then he would have this strange serve where he would throw 00:48:39.480 --> 00:48:42.000 the ball up in the air and do something funny. 00:48:42.000 --> 00:48:46.320 But every time he served that serve I could never return it. 00:48:46.320 --> 00:48:54.200 It was like his special sauce or like turbo serve and he does that you can't return it. 00:48:54.200 --> 00:48:56.000 That's how he used to win. 00:48:56.000 --> 00:49:01.160 Just when I thought I had him at my mercy he would do those three serves and he'd win 00:49:01.160 --> 00:49:03.440 the game. 00:49:03.440 --> 00:49:10.080 Like Tooni does with all these boys except me. 00:49:10.080 --> 00:49:19.960 So the point being Tooni is scared to play me. 00:49:19.960 --> 00:49:26.560 And if he beats me he'll be in probation for eight months. 00:49:26.560 --> 00:49:31.240 So God realizes that he cannot prevail against Jacob. 00:49:31.240 --> 00:49:39.760 So he touches the inside of Jacob's hip tie and Jacob's hip is wrenched. 00:49:39.760 --> 00:49:53.680 The second reason that God wrenches Jacob's hip is to help Jacob realize that this time 00:49:53.800 --> 00:50:11.880 around, that this time around, that this time around what he sought, what he sought he would 00:50:11.880 --> 00:50:26.680 not get by his own strength. 00:50:26.680 --> 00:50:31.440 Guys what we don't realize in this story is that when Jacob initially goes into wrestling 00:50:31.440 --> 00:50:36.000 he thinks he's wrestling a man and the reason he went into it with the degree of confidence 00:50:36.000 --> 00:50:39.880 that he had was because Jacob was an extremely strong man. 00:50:39.880 --> 00:50:47.620 It says in Genesis chapter 29 verse 8 and verse 10 that Jacob had gone to meet Laban 00:50:47.620 --> 00:50:58.000 and he's sitting there at a well and the well has this huge stone over it and he asks Rachel 00:50:58.000 --> 00:51:04.600 and the women why is it that nobody is drawing from the well and they say we need the shepherds 00:51:05.440 --> 00:51:11.480 to turn up because once they turn up we need a few of them to lift the stone before water 00:51:11.480 --> 00:51:13.280 can be drawn from this well. 00:51:13.280 --> 00:51:20.040 Then it says in verse 10 that Jacob went and just one man lifted up that stone instead 00:51:20.040 --> 00:51:21.880 of waiting for the other shepherds to come. 00:51:21.880 --> 00:51:24.000 This was a strong man eh? 00:51:24.000 --> 00:51:32.640 This was a strong man and that's why one of the reasons God wrenches his hip is to help 00:51:32.680 --> 00:51:37.520 Jacob realize that this time around what he sought he would not get by his own strength. 00:51:37.520 --> 00:51:38.520 There's a question Brandon? 00:51:38.520 --> 00:51:52.120 Yeah coming up shortly. 00:51:52.120 --> 00:51:58.880 Third reason to see if Jacob would persist despite losing his foothold. 00:51:58.920 --> 00:52:11.920 To see if Jacob would persist despite losing his foothold. 00:52:23.320 --> 00:52:26.020 To see if Jacob would persist despite losing his foothold. 00:52:26.020 --> 00:52:30.580 Now that his strength was gone would this man fold or would this man still persist to 00:52:30.580 --> 00:52:38.740 receive what he knew that only this man who now he knows is God himself can give him? 00:52:38.740 --> 00:52:44.420 Would he persist or would he say no you've hurt me now I can't win I've lost. 00:52:44.420 --> 00:52:48.740 You know the resignation that you go through when things don't work out. 00:52:48.740 --> 00:52:52.500 It's been two days you've stood on a promise you've done all the things that you need to 00:52:52.500 --> 00:52:53.500 nothing is happening. 00:52:53.500 --> 00:52:54.500 What happens to you? 00:52:54.500 --> 00:52:59.220 You begin to resign you sometimes begin to slip into old sins because you think to yourself 00:52:59.220 --> 00:53:04.060 this is useless let me go back into the way I used to do or you begin to attribute to 00:53:04.060 --> 00:53:06.020 God what should not be attributed to him. 00:53:06.020 --> 00:53:08.560 You give the devil more credit than you should give him. 00:53:08.560 --> 00:53:12.700 You get resentful in your heart you get into places of self pity you come up with your 00:53:12.700 --> 00:53:22.420 own theology to either justify hold on to or comfort yourself and through all this all 00:53:22.420 --> 00:53:30.700 that we are doing is saying now that my leg is dislocated I am packing it in. 00:53:30.700 --> 00:53:36.820 Instead this man even though he's a man of strength and has just lost his footing and 00:53:36.820 --> 00:53:41.140 you lose your footing in wrestling there's nothing left you lose traction on any one 00:53:41.140 --> 00:53:42.980 of your feet and you're done. 00:53:42.980 --> 00:53:45.700 There's no wrestling anymore so what does he do? 00:53:45.700 --> 00:53:48.540 He clings. 00:53:48.540 --> 00:53:51.620 He just holds on for dear life. 00:53:51.620 --> 00:53:55.420 I like my namesake at times like this. 00:53:55.420 --> 00:54:02.580 Despite losing his foothold he now he could no longer stand and fight so what does he 00:54:02.580 --> 00:54:03.580 do? 00:54:03.580 --> 00:54:04.940 He weeps and pleads. 00:54:04.940 --> 00:54:07.860 He could no longer stand and fight so what does he do? 00:54:07.860 --> 00:54:09.580 He weeps and pleads. 00:54:09.580 --> 00:54:14.900 That's why in Hosea 12 verse 4 it says yes he had power over the angel and prevail and 00:54:15.900 --> 00:54:18.740 he wept and made supplication unto him. 00:54:18.740 --> 00:54:23.420 The same man who was wrestling now is weeping and pleading but the one thing he knows is 00:54:23.420 --> 00:54:30.180 I will weep and plead because bless me for I will not let you go even though I know you 00:54:30.180 --> 00:54:32.380 can easily break the hold I have on you. 00:54:32.380 --> 00:54:34.140 I've seen what you did with my thigh. 00:54:34.140 --> 00:54:38.940 I know that I'm clinging on to you and you can shove me away like one shoves a fly away 00:54:39.260 --> 00:54:45.660 But I am weeping and pleading and I'm saying to you oh God bless me for I will not let 00:54:45.660 --> 00:54:46.660 you go. 00:54:46.660 --> 00:54:51.500 There's something about this man that God knew ahead of time but he didn't know and 00:54:51.500 --> 00:54:53.640 God had to bring it out. 00:54:53.640 --> 00:54:57.780 This is what I meant when I said that when God wrestles he humbles himself to meet me 00:54:57.780 --> 00:55:02.140 on my terms for the purpose of bringing me to the end of my strength and the beginning 00:55:02.140 --> 00:55:08.700 of faith saying Jacob now I knew you had that you didn't know it I've shown you thank you 00:55:09.420 --> 00:55:13.020 let's go. 00:55:13.020 --> 00:55:19.540 There is this breaking out of a cocoon that must happen in our lives on a regular basis 00:55:19.540 --> 00:55:24.660 because whenever we make any progress in God what happens is that environment becomes familiar 00:55:24.660 --> 00:55:30.260 it begins to wrap itself around you and you refuse to get out of this environment you 00:55:30.260 --> 00:55:34.460 come up with excuses like I need some time to pray I need some time to prepare next time 00:55:34.620 --> 00:55:40.340 maybe two weeks from now all kinds of things will come up and the cocoon just wraps around 00:55:40.340 --> 00:55:45.820 you tighter and tighter every so often in the life of a believer sometimes two months 00:55:45.820 --> 00:55:49.620 sometimes six months sometimes three years one needs to break out of that cocoon because 00:55:49.620 --> 00:55:57.860 only then can God say look what I had in the seed but it was wrapped up all this time. 00:55:57.860 --> 00:56:08.100 This is why sometimes they keep pushing you into places that you don't want to go. 00:56:08.100 --> 00:56:17.020 I've only had mentors who were cruel to me in the nicest way they would just keep pushing 00:56:17.020 --> 00:56:30.060 me into places I didn't want to go but what happens when they do is you escalate rapidly 00:56:30.060 --> 00:56:41.500 what would take eight years you get to do in two or three years. 00:56:41.500 --> 00:56:50.420 To answer the upside down inside out question are there modern examples of contending and 00:56:50.420 --> 00:56:58.580 yes they are and rather than let me just go to the Bible itself to show pictures of contending 00:56:58.580 --> 00:57:03.980 where there were others who wrestled there was a man who contended in the plains of 00:57:03.980 --> 00:57:11.020 Mamre or the orcs of Mamre Genesis 18 where Abraham contends with God and he's contending 00:57:11.020 --> 00:57:16.420 again usually a lot of contention was for other people and so Abraham is contending 00:57:16.420 --> 00:57:21.060 in Genesis 18 and he says can we start with 50 can we start with 30 can we start with 00:57:21.060 --> 00:57:28.060 20 can we start with 10 can we he just keeps arguing with God saying listen if you do this 00:57:28.060 --> 00:57:33.580 they'll think this of you if you don't relent they what will they say about you being righteous 00:57:33.580 --> 00:57:38.980 for the sake of 10 righteous what about your own righteousness will you destroy it is it 00:57:38.980 --> 00:57:45.660 is borderline aren't you supposed to be like this how come you are willing to do this. 00:57:45.660 --> 00:57:49.660 Wrestling and contending comes in different forms in Jacob's case it was actual physical 00:57:49.660 --> 00:58:00.180 wrestling that was in Genesis 18 you go a little further and you find an 80 year old 00:58:00.180 --> 00:58:05.780 leader refusing to lead his people if God didn't go with them that's in Exodus 33 verse 00:58:05.780 --> 00:58:14.300 15 here is a man who has seen God here is a man who used to talk to him like a man talks 00:58:14.300 --> 00:58:19.220 to his friend and he's saying to God I just want you to know that if you do not go with us if you're 00:58:19.220 --> 00:58:22.740 going to send an angel with it if you do not go with us I just want you to know that I'm 00:58:22.740 --> 00:58:30.020 refusing to lead those people why because God has just said I'm gonna start a brand new generation 00:58:30.020 --> 00:58:33.980 I'm done with these people they're stiff-necked I'll send an angel with them if they have to go 00:58:33.980 --> 00:58:39.460 but Moses how about you and I we can start a new group of people because I will form my kingdom 00:58:39.460 --> 00:58:45.700 and here is a man contending Exodus 33 15 if you do not go with us please don't tell me to go because 00:58:45.700 --> 00:58:53.460 I ain't going cancel the strip it's literally the message says the if you're not going the strip is 00:58:53.460 --> 00:59:01.460 off just so you know these are guys who didn't know God like you and I did these are guys who 00:59:01.460 --> 00:59:10.140 are in the dread of God because they only saw God in his anthropomorphic brilliant glorious form 00:59:10.140 --> 00:59:24.300 you go further and you see in Matthew 15 24 a woman who has such feistiness about her and feistily 00:59:24.300 --> 00:59:32.740 refuses to accept the exclusion of the Gentiles from the grace of God despite Jesus's derogatory 00:59:32.740 --> 00:59:40.460 comments she reverses his decision and gets her request granted you should read that man it's 00:59:40.460 --> 00:59:51.500 like I mean in any culture referring to someone as a dog isn't good particularly in Jewish culture 00:59:51.500 --> 01:00:00.220 and even though she was a Syrophoenician woman she knows what that word means and it is being 01:00:00.220 --> 01:00:11.620 said in reference to children and dogs and now listen to how it goes Matthew 15 verse 24 onwards 01:00:11.620 --> 01:00:26.940 Jesus answered begin with Jesus did not answer a word 23 so the disciples came to him and urged 01:00:26.940 --> 01:00:31.580 him and it's not like she's deaf she can hear them saying send her away for she keeps crying 01:00:31.580 --> 01:00:39.180 out after us he answered and now he's talking to her and the people who said send her away I 01:00:39.180 --> 01:00:44.020 was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel the woman came and knelt before him Lord help me she 01:00:44.020 --> 01:00:51.540 said he replied it's not to it's not right to take children's bread and toss it to the dogs yes it is 01:00:51.540 --> 01:00:56.540 Lord she said even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from the master's table and Jesus said to a 01:00:56.540 --> 01:01:03.420 woman you have great faith your request is granted I can't imagine the audacity of a woman in that 01:01:03.420 --> 01:01:09.180 culture to go up against a rabbi who has a following and she's an outsider and yet has 01:01:09.180 --> 01:01:18.580 the ability to refuse despite the derogatory terms used the exclusion of the Gentiles from 01:01:18.580 --> 01:01:23.980 the grace of God because somehow she has a grasp of the kingdom that even his disciples didn't have 01:01:23.980 --> 01:01:32.500 and she reverses Jesus's decision and grants her request that is what contending looks for looks 01:01:32.500 --> 01:01:44.780 like or you go further and you see a man alone in a garden and he's sweating blood and contending 01:01:44.780 --> 01:01:50.500 for the earth hey at one point he even turns to his father and says if this cup could pass and 01:01:50.500 --> 01:02:00.340 then he immediately changes and says not not my will but yours be done he was alone too not the 01:02:00.340 --> 01:02:07.660 river of Jabok not the not the gorge of Jabok but in a garden called Gethsemane I want to make a 01:02:07.660 --> 01:02:24.620 point after having talked to you about these men and women here's the point that point one could 01:02:24.620 --> 01:02:30.780 would not prevail be rephrased as chose not to prevail what's the what's point one 01:02:30.780 --> 01:02:49.420 yeah you can rephrase that yes can we hear the first point explained again yeah why did 01:02:49.660 --> 01:02:59.180 God rent Jacob's hip he wrenched Jacob's hip because he knew that he would not prevail against 01:02:59.180 --> 01:03:05.540 Jacob that Jacob in his strength would keep wrestling he would not let go and so he knew 01:03:05.540 --> 01:03:13.140 that Jacob would not let go he knew that Jacob would prevail and God has humbled himself lowered 01:03:13.700 --> 01:03:20.540 a man and he's fighting with Jacob I said that point earlier when God wrestles he humbles himself 01:03:20.540 --> 01:03:25.620 to meet me on my terms for the purpose of bringing me to the end of my strength unfortunately Jacob 01:03:25.620 --> 01:03:29.500 was the kind who would not come to the end of the strength and therefore would not discover the 01:03:29.500 --> 01:03:35.820 beginning of God's strength that is a cool thing that God does here he's doing Jacob a favor 01:03:35.820 --> 01:03:47.300 yes so having mentioned these four people here's the point that I need to make which 01:03:47.300 --> 01:03:53.460 I think if we learn it will be super useful in wrestling with God learn to wrestle with God 01:03:53.460 --> 01:04:15.660 learn to wrestle with God and prevail from a place of meekness or in other words surrendered 01:04:15.780 --> 01:04:32.500 strength and if you do you can walk in the blessing without a limp you can walk in the 01:04:32.500 --> 01:04:50.220 blessing without a limp these four people that I mentioned be it Abraham in Genesis 18 be it 01:04:50.220 --> 01:05:00.460 Moses in Exodus 33 15 be it the Sarah Phoenician woman in Matthew 15 or be Jesus in the garden of 01:05:00.940 --> 01:05:09.700 Luke 22 you'll find that in all their cases the approach was one of listen if you please allow me 01:05:09.700 --> 01:05:17.780 to if I may say another word I know that true children should be fed first but even dogs get 01:05:17.780 --> 01:05:26.100 the crumbs and not your will not my will but yours be done if I may say so God show me a goodness but 01:05:26.100 --> 01:05:32.700 I can't lead these people please if you don't go I'm not able to go with them it's always this 01:05:32.700 --> 01:05:39.940 place of surrendered strength or meekness and even in your contention that this is why I was 01:05:39.940 --> 01:05:44.540 giving you that example of how I contend with God I just go tell him listen I really want to 01:05:44.540 --> 01:05:52.940 argue freely I don't want to be afraid but I also want you to know that you know my opening line 01:05:52.940 --> 01:05:58.220 with every time I wrestle with God argued with him contended with him is this oh God I know you're 01:05:58.220 --> 01:06:03.860 perfect you're fair you're good that you are always just there is no unrighteousness in you I may not 01:06:03.860 --> 01:06:09.460 be able to see the situation that which is why I'm willing to take up your invitation to argue with 01:06:09.460 --> 01:06:14.020 you but I want you to know that this is how I think of you and having established this if ever 01:06:14.020 --> 01:06:18.460 during this argument I veer off I'll come and repeat this again and again because you are 01:06:18.460 --> 01:06:23.780 righteous you're good you're perfect you're fair you're just you're a father and nothing 01:06:23.780 --> 01:06:26.980 about that changes but now having said that can I argue freely 01:06:26.980 --> 01:06:52.180 let me begin to end what a bad choice of words say let me begin to end never know what that means 01:06:52.180 --> 01:07:02.580 Hosea 12 verse 4b it says he found him with Bethel he found him in Bethel and there he 01:07:02.580 --> 01:07:09.940 talked with us Jehovah Elohim sabbaut or the Lord of hosts the Lord Almighty you know one of the 01:07:09.940 --> 01:07:17.700 things about Jacob was he was so accustomed almost to angelic visitors you see that in 01:07:17.700 --> 01:07:24.140 Genesis 28 where angels were ascending and descending and then in Genesis 32 shortly before 01:07:24.140 --> 01:07:30.940 this incident at Jabok it says that he camped at a place called Mahanein Genesis 32 verse 1 & 2 01:07:30.940 --> 01:07:36.220 where angels visited with him don't know whether the angels said anything to him but he called 01:07:36.220 --> 01:07:43.740 that the camp of angels but when he is wrestling he suddenly recognizes the one he is wrestling 01:07:43.740 --> 01:07:56.340 with as Elohim sabbaut Jehovah Elohim sabbaut as in the Lord of hosts the Lord Almighty so it says 01:07:56.340 --> 01:08:04.380 in the last part of Hosea 12 verse 4 that he found him in Bethel where he spoke to us or talked to us 01:08:04.380 --> 01:08:12.980 why is it that when Hosea is talking about Jacob wrestling which happened in Genesis 32 why does 01:08:12.980 --> 01:08:20.540 he suddenly make a reference to Bethel oftentimes guys Bethel was the first place that God actually 01:08:20.540 --> 01:08:26.660 appeared to Jacob in a very visible way where he sees where he's sleeping there in the place that 01:08:26.660 --> 01:08:34.340 was called Luz and while he's sleeping he sees a stairway set up from earth to heaven and he sees 01:08:34.340 --> 01:08:43.220 angels ascending and descending and he sees God and so oftentimes what you find oftentimes 01:08:43.220 --> 01:08:56.020 oftentimes what you find what you find and hear in Bethel which is the house of God or the place 01:08:56.020 --> 01:09:03.300 of God or the gateway of heaven oftentimes what you find and hear in Bethel is comprehended 01:09:03.300 --> 01:09:19.940 is comprehended and realized in flesh is comprehended and realized in flesh only through 01:09:19.940 --> 01:09:34.580 progressive wrestlings at Peniel I know the sentence sounds a little complicated but all 01:09:34.580 --> 01:09:40.540 it's trying to say is hey many of the things that God shows you in a moment of worship or in a 01:09:40.540 --> 01:09:45.220 prophetic word or when you got born again or when you were suddenly yielded and filled by the Holy 01:09:45.220 --> 01:09:51.860 Spirit or in a dream whatever God shows you to bring it to pass to make it part of who you are 01:09:51.860 --> 01:09:57.180 to comprehend and understand it the way God wants you to does not happen till you take what has been 01:09:57.180 --> 01:10:05.740 said and wrestle with it repeatedly Paul puts it this way to Timothy at one stage hey remember the 01:10:05.740 --> 01:10:12.520 prophetic word that was spoken over you and wage a good war with the prophetic word as in let the 01:10:12.520 --> 01:10:18.160 word that was spoken over you now become your sparring partner wrestle with the word spoken so 01:10:18.160 --> 01:10:25.600 that the word shapes you it's one of the things we don't necessarily do with the prophetic we hear 01:10:25.600 --> 01:10:30.480 the prophetic we wait for it to happen and that's only one part of it the other part of it is to go 01:10:30.480 --> 01:10:41.320 and wrestle with it be be be twisted by it inside and out so that your entire shape is changed by it 01:10:41.480 --> 01:10:52.840 going over it every five days ten days repeat it put it up make a poster of it sing it read it speak 01:10:52.840 --> 01:11:01.040 it boast about it that's how the word wrestles with you and so many of the things that you find 01:11:01.040 --> 01:11:10.320 in here when you were fortunate enough to be at the gateway of heaven actually can only be understood 01:11:10.320 --> 01:11:16.760 to the depth that they need to be understood or can only be realized in actual flesh when you go 01:11:16.760 --> 01:11:21.920 through multiple progressive wrestlings with God and as you do God says now do you understand what 01:11:21.920 --> 01:11:24.720 I meant by that now do you understand what I meant by that now do you understand what I meant by 01:11:24.720 --> 01:11:30.360 that see I brought it to pass now do you understand now do you understand and all wrestlings include 01:11:30.360 --> 01:11:39.600 some degree of faith it is impossible to remain in the shallows and wrestle impossible you cannot 01:11:39.600 --> 01:11:52.360 go through this without risk when God says something impossible to you part of the reason 01:11:52.360 --> 01:12:01.520 he says something impossible to you is so that your soul will wrestle to it and we lose hear me 01:12:01.520 --> 01:12:07.880 again part of the reason God tells you to do something really impossible illogical stupid 01:12:07.880 --> 01:12:17.120 with what you don't have is so that your soul will have to wrestle with it your thinking and 01:12:17.120 --> 01:12:21.880 your emotions will have to wrestle with it your spirit knows it but your spirit hasn't been trained 01:12:21.880 --> 01:12:27.680 to the point where the spirit is ruling everything and your emotions and your thinking just wrestles 01:12:27.680 --> 01:12:41.640 with it and the intent is that it should lose and like I said a risk-free environment will 01:12:41.640 --> 01:13:01.480 always produce manageable outcomes guys for us there is earth-changing legacy at stake for us as 01:13:01.480 --> 01:13:09.680 a church and when I say as a church I so absolutely mean anyone who's listening and who's hearing and 01:13:09.720 --> 01:13:18.920 believing there is earth-changing legacy at stake for us the weight of his glory is on our back like 01:13:18.920 --> 01:13:28.280 I said yesterday the weight of his glory has the ability to straighten us not to break us there is 01:13:28.280 --> 01:13:34.400 earth-changing legacy at stake there is the weight of his glory on our back and thousands of young 01:13:34.400 --> 01:13:41.520 lives in balance across battlefields there is earth-changing legacy at stake there is the weight 01:13:41.520 --> 01:13:46.760 of his glory on our backs and there are thousands of young lives in balance in the balance across 01:13:46.760 --> 01:13:53.200 battlefields and what's God saying he's inviting you he's provoking you to wrestle with him and 01:13:53.200 --> 01:13:59.000 even if your leg gives away don't let go of your grip why so that he can strengthen you he says 01:13:59.000 --> 01:14:04.600 Jacob I know this is impossible church I know it's impossible acts 29 I know it's impossible but 01:14:04.600 --> 01:14:12.160 come come wrestle with me on this I know you're helpless I know you don't know the next thing to 01:14:12.160 --> 01:14:17.960 do you don't know the next move come wrestle with me don't stand at a distance don't pray don't sing 01:14:17.960 --> 01:14:24.000 come get dirty get into the mud wrestle with me and as you do I will bring you to the end of your 01:14:24.000 --> 01:14:28.960 strength and the beginning of mine and don't let go even if your leg gives way don't let go of your 01:14:28.960 --> 01:14:35.040 grip even if your leg gives way don't let go of your grip even if your leg gives way Jacob don't 01:14:35.040 --> 01:14:41.120 let go of your grip why so that I may strengthen you so that you may be a blessing to the earth 01:14:41.120 --> 01:14:48.400 because thousands of lives are in the balance across battlefields because there's an earth-changing 01:14:48.400 --> 01:14:57.560 legacy that is at stake and that is there is the weight of my glory on your backs I think there 01:14:57.600 --> 01:15:03.640 are two questions what are they how do we wrestle from a place of rest in other words how do we 01:15:03.640 --> 01:15:11.720 rest still or more likely how do those two aspects of our relationship with God interact yeah how do 01:15:11.720 --> 01:15:17.240 you wrestle from a place of rest you can only wrestle from a place of rest you can only wrestle 01:15:17.240 --> 01:15:25.480 God from a place of rest if you know who he is in terms of his fatherhood his nature then it is 01:15:25.480 --> 01:15:31.160 possible it's the it's the points I made to clarify things earlier I must start every day 01:15:31.160 --> 01:15:36.840 from this end point God is in charge and control of my today he's a good father who delights in me 01:15:36.840 --> 01:15:42.880 that he's always in absolute authority that I have permission to partake in his covenant promises 01:15:42.880 --> 01:15:54.600 once I know his nature once I know that he never wrestles to defeat me now that I know it my 01:15:54.640 --> 01:16:00.920 wrestling comes from a place of rest because I am not anxious about the end right now as we speak 01:16:00.920 --> 01:16:06.720 I'm involved in a situation where I have done everything I need to and I'm at absolute rest 01:16:06.720 --> 01:16:14.840 it's a highly risky thing I was telling Heidi about it vaguely yesterday and yet I'm not looking 01:16:14.840 --> 01:16:19.680 at my phone I'm not checking the next message why because once you know the character of your God 01:16:19.680 --> 01:16:24.160 you know that only good can come out of this I do not need to be anxious I do not need to worry 01:16:24.200 --> 01:16:28.360 about what to do next I do not need to know whether I should compromise not compromise whether I 01:16:28.360 --> 01:16:32.720 should do this or not do this you can be at rest because you know that if God is inviting you into 01:16:32.720 --> 01:16:43.200 something it is always to bring you to a new place in him not an old place in you we're not 01:16:43.200 --> 01:16:53.280 rehashing Jacob all over again and calling him Jacob or Yakub we are changing his name man or 01:16:53.280 --> 01:17:06.640 Yakub or Jake's or Jake-o-Coo no we completely changing the name Israel he used to be called 01:17:06.640 --> 01:17:12.560 Yisra Jacob as in Jacob will rule now it is Israel as in God will rule through him