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Genesis chapter 30 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Genesis chapter 30. Let us pray.
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  Oh Lord, God, we thank you. We thank you today for waking us
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  up and putting us on our feet. But we thank you that you have
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  given us a reason to live. We thank you, God, that you are
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  the most high, the supreme. You are the highest and loftiest
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  idea in all of literature. God, you are unstoppable and
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  unquenchable and immutable. Lord, you are the breath in our
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  lungs. You're closer than the skin on
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  our bodies. God, I pray that you will
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  rapture us. God, capture us.
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  Father, ravish us, Father, with your presence, with who you are.
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  God, I pray we'll have the mind of Christ.
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  Lord, I pray that you will make all of our feelings and all of
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  our emotions subject unto the reality of the weight of your
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  glory. Father, I pray you'll heal us
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  today. Heal our minds, Lord.
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  Heal our bodies, God. Heal all of our past, Lord, all
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  of our future is in you, Christ Jesus, and we know that we are
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  seated with you in heavenly places.
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  And so God, I pray that you'll make us more than conquerors.
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  God, we place our heel on the head of the serpent.
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  Lord crush and bruise his head. Father, I pray God for a
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  complete annihilation of all opposition to your word and for
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  your will for this world, Father, I pray against all
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  demonic entities, all demonic strongholds.
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  God, tear them down in the name of Jesus Christ and let light
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  flood in. Father, I pray, Lord God
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  Almighty, who reigns on high, that you and you and you alone,
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  Father, will get all the glory and all the honor all throughout
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  this entire world, entire Galaxy, the entire universe.
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  God, it all screams your holy name.
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  Father, all of your creative acts, God, are good.
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  And so, Lord, we step into the goodness today.
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  Lord, we step into the grace today.
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  We thank you for the covering today.
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  Thank you, God, that you have covered us with the blood of
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  Jesus Christ and we can come to you, Lord, unashamed, gird up
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  our loins. Father, let us stand in your
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  presence, God, for you are worthy to be praised.
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  I don't know. You are worthy to be praised,
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  Elohim. You are worthy to be praised,
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  Yahweh everlasting. We love you, Father.
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  We pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
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  God, I pray that you'll raise up righteous leaders unto
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  yourselves. God, I pray that you, Father,
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  will be well pleased with the reading of the text today.
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  I pray God, that you will come in.
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  Flood us, God, with your presence so that we cannot even
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  speak. Lord, give us the Shekinah
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  glory, the weight of your glory. Father, in this room I pray,
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  Lord Jesus Christ, that you, Lord, will be magnified in the
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  teaching, that you, Jesus Christ, will be well pleased.
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  So yes, Father, we cry out, Maranatha, the Spirit and the
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  Bride say come. We speed the day, we see the
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  leaves. God, we know that you are closer
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  today than you were yesterday. So God help us to wait.
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  Well, thank you Jesus for another day.
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  Thank you Jesus, for giving us life and clean drinking water.
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  We enter your gates with praise and Thanksgiving.
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  We run into the strong tower. God, you are our fortress.
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  We hide your word in our heart. God, help us not to sin against
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  you or help us to forgive those who have sinned against us.
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  God, forgive us for all of our many trespasses.
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  Keep us from the enemy. Give us Our Daily Bread today,
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  God, Yours is the Kingdom and the power and the glory and the
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  honor, forever and ever and ever worthy to be praised, Yeshua.
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  And it's in your holy and precious and powerful and
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  awesome name that I pray, Amen. Well, let's start in verse one.
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  And when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel
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  envied her sister and said unto Jacob, give me children or else
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  I'd die. Look at how she is acting very
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  immature, like a little kid. Here she is acting as if her
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  entire life is dependent upon her ability to be able to
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  conceive. And look at how she has envy for
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  her sister. And envy is not a small matter,
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  friends. It's envy that put Jesus Christ
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  on the cross, friends, and we must master it before it masters
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  us. Verse 2 And Jacob's anger was
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  kindled against Rachel and he said, Am I in God's stead who
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  has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?
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  So he's saying, am I God? Can I determine if you have a
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  child or not? It's God who opens the womb, and
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  it's God who closes the womb. And by the way, friend, if you
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  are one who cannot conceive, perhaps God is pushing you
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  towards adoption. Perhaps he's pushing you towards
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  fostering. Friends, you just never know the
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  ways of the Lord. And I've seen in my own eyes
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  people who step out in faith and they adopt and then they
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  conceive afterwards. Friends, the mind of Christ,
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  friends, the ways of God are so incredibly rich.
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  And his heart is for children. His heart is for the family,
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  friends. And he sees them in those
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  orphanages. He sees those kids in their
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  deplorable state. And we are the answer.
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  We are plan A friends verse 3 And she said, Behold, my maid
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  Bilhah, go in unto her, and she shall bear upon my knees, that I
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  may also have children by her. It's very interesting, friends,
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  that this is the same context that we saw whenever Sarah had
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  convinced Abraham to go and conceive with Hagar.
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  And we see the mess that that has caused and still is causing
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  today, this stepping out in disobedience.
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  And you're going to see here that this bearing upon my knees,
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  this is not just putting the child upon the knees after it is
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  born. This is a picture of what a
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  surrogate would look like. And this was a practice of that
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  time. And it would show that the one
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  who had the handmaid, one that had the servant, would actually
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  adopt the child after it is born.
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  And there was a position that is referenced here that is
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  explaining the passage that says on my knees, let's keep pushing.
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  And she gave him Bill Ha, her handmaid to wife, and Jacob went
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  in unto her. So this is a very dysfunctional
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  scene. And you can see that they put
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  the fun in dysfunctional. And we see that the same sins
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  that were brought upon by Abraham and Hagar are being
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  visited upon the children and the grandchildren here.
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  You see that this is the same model that whenever Abraham
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  stepped out in disobedience, friends, out of the perfect and
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  pleasing will. And we see that God can use it
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  without excusing it, and it's going to cause a whole lot of
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  strife. And we can trace it back to
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  Jacob whenever he was deceiving his father Isaac with the goat
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  hair and listening to his mother Rebecca as she prodded him to do
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  so. And all of this is the
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  manifestation of getting out of line with the perfect and
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  pleasing will of God. And you see it here in reference
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  to Rachel's womb being closed. You see it here in reference to
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  Leah being given to him on his wedding night.
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  You see it here with him laying with Bill.
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  Ha. These are not the purposes and
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  plans of God, but He can use it without excusing it.
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  Don't ever forget that. And it was not that that Bill Ha
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  became his wife, but he did things with her that were only
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  to be done with his wife. 5 And Bill Ha conceived, and she bore
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  Jacob a son. 6 And Rachel said, God has judged me, and has also
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  heard my voice, and has given me a son.
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  Therefore she called his name Dan.
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  We know that Dan's name gets erased out of the genealogy, and
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  you're going to see here that perhaps even the line, the
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  Antichrist comes through this Dan, and you see the
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  disobedience here. And it is not what God had in
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  mind, but He's going to use it. He's going to use the 12 sons.
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  Their names are going to be written on the gates in the New
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  Jerusalem. And it's not as if God had
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  willed all of this, but He's going to use it.
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  And we know from Romans chapter 8, verse 28 that God will use
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  everything for the good of those who love Him and who are called
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  according to His purposes. And so this is the depths of
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  God's heart and wisdom, friends, is that he has a perfect and
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  pleasing will for our lives. But whenever we step out of line
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  for that, we see the discipline come in.
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  We see the dysfunction come in. We see all of the troubles come
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  in and all of those things that what they do is they refine us
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  and they pull out the things that don't belong.
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  And it's a process of sanctification.
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  And it's not for us to look back and wag our fingers, because all
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  of our righteousness is nothing but filthy rags before a holy
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  God. And He can use all of them for
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  His purposes and His plans. And He'll take your misery and
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  He'll turn it into a ministry. Friends, never forget that 70
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  bilhah Rachel's made conceived again and bore Jacob a second
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  son. So what in the world is going
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  on? Here it is again.
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  He is stepping out and he is conceiving with her handmaid.
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  What a deplorable sight that we see, Aidan, Rachel said.
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  With great wrestlings I've wrestled with my sister and I
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  have prevailed. And she called his name
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  Nephtali. So here we're getting to see
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  these 12 tribes, the 12 sons of Israel mentioned here.
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  And these are strong, mighty warriors in the land.
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  These are all of the descendants of the nation of Israel.
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  And we look back to them and we are honored to be connected to
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  them. But you can see how they were
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  born in all kinds of strife. What an amazing thought. 9 And
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  when Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah, her
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  maid and gave her Jacob to wife. So now she's following the she's
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  following the practice of Rachel.
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  She saw Rachel was able to provide more sons for Jacob by
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  giving him her handmaid, so now Leah gets the bright idea to
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  give him hers. 10 And Zilpa Leah's made bore Jacob a son. 11
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  And Leah said a troop comes and she named she called his name
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  Gad. 12 and Zilpa Leah's made bore Jacob a second son. 13 And
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  Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed.
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  And she called his name Asher. 14 And Reuben went in the days
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  of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and
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  brought them unto his mother Leah.
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  Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray you of your sons man
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  Drake. So here is some very interesting
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  passages when you really sit and think about it and meditate upon
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  it. And when you look at the context
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  of what it all is pointing towards, you're going to need to
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  know that these mandrakes are these roots that look somewhat
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  like a human when you pull them up.
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  And they were and considered an aphrodisiac.
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  And perhaps she was getting a little jealous at the fact that
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  her son had found this aphrodisiac that would help her
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  to conceive more sons for Jacob. And you can see here that she is
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  begging her for these mandrakes that her son had found.
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  Let's see how it all turns out. 15 And she said unto her, Is it
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  a small matter that you have taken my husband?
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  And would you take away my son's mandrakes also?
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  And Rachel said, therefore he shall lie with you tonight for
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  your son's mandrakes. So she's saying I will allow
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  Jacob to come and to lie with you this evening if you give me
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  the mandrakes. And perhaps she was thinking
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  that she needed them for an aphrodisiac.
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  And you're going to see here that this is just so completely
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  ridiculous in the sense that all of it is happening in the manner
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  that it is. And this is preposterous in all
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  accounts, Friends, we see the handmaids involved.
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  We see that Laban was giving Leah 1st.
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  And we see that Leah considered Jacob to be her husband, as she
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  referenced here. And it's just dysfunction,
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  friends. And we think that we've got it
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  bad. Go back and look friends, it's
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  just as dysfunction dysfunctional back then.
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  Because humankind does not change over time.
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  We don't get better, friends. It is only the grace of God that
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  can cover all the multitude of our sins and give us the
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  forgiveness. Because in the reality, friends,
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  we're all jacked up. 16 And Jacob came out of the field in
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  the evening, and Leah went out to meet him and said, You must
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  come in unto me, for surely I have hired you with my son's
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  mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.
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  It seems to me that Jacob really didn't have a whole lot of
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  opposition to all of these encounters. 17 And God listened
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  to Leah, and she conceived and bored Jacob, the fifth son. 18
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  And Leah said, God has given me my hire because I have given my
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  maid to my husband and she called his name.
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  It's a car. So she has, she was not able to
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  conceive prior to this. And then now she's thinking that
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  because she'd given Jacob her handmaid, that Jacob bore this
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  child through her. And she's thinking that God has
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  reopened her womb because of her generosity.
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  What an amazing thought. 21 And afterwards she bore a daughter
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  and called her name Dinah. So this is the only girl so far
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  in this lineage. 22 And God remembered Rachel, and God
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  listened to her, and opened her womb. 23 And she conceived and
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  bore son, and said, God has taken away my reproach. 24 And
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  she called his name Joseph, and said, The Lord shall add to me
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  another son. So this was the only natural son
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  that was born to Rachel, and all the rest of them so far have all
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  been from Leah or from the handmaids, because Rachel's womb
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  was closed and all of a sudden it is open and she's able to
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  bear him a son. And this is Joseph, who we're
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  going to learn a lot about very soon. 25 And it came to pass,
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  when Rachel had bored Joseph, that Jacob said unto Laban, Send
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  me away, that I may go into my own place to my country. 26 Give
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  me my wives and my children, for whom I have served you, and let
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  me go, for you know my service, which I have done you. 27 And
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  Laban said unto him, I pray you, if you have found favor in your
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  eyes, Terry, for I have learned by experience that the Lord has
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  blessed me for your sake. So we're going to find out that
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  old Laban is a idol worshipper, and perhaps by occult practices,
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  by divination, he was, he was educated in the fact that the
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  only reason that he was as blessed as he was is because the
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  hand of Almighty God was on Jacob.
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  And by way, he was blessing Laban in his entire household,
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  because the God of Jacob, the God of Isaac, the God of
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  Abraham, the God of the universe was there with his hand upon
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  him, prospering him in everything that he did. 28 And
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  he said, Appoint me your wages and I will give it.
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  He's saying, Tell me what you want, and I'll give it to you,
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  but just stay. 29 And he said unto him, You know how I have
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  served you, and how your cattle was with me, 30 For it was
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  little which you had before I came, and it is now increased
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  unto a multitude. And the Lord has blessed you
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  since my coming, and now when I shall provide for my own house
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  also. 31 And he said, What shall I give you?
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  And Jacob said, You shall not give me anything.
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  If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed and keep
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  your flock. He's saying.
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  So let's. And here he is.
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  He's striking up a deal. And that is what Jacob is known
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  for. He's always looking for an
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  angle, friends, and this is what he wants.
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  He says in 32, I will pass through all your flock today,
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  removing from there all the speckled and spotted cattle and
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  all the brown cattle among the sheep and the spotted and
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  speckled among the goats, and of such shall be my hire.
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  So here is what he's this is what he is wanting.
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  He's wanting to separate all of the speckled, all of the spotted
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  and put them in a pasture away from all of the cattle and allow
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  Laban's sons to keep them so that they so that Jacob cannot
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  claim them as his own. He's giving Laban all of the
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  solid colored animals as his own and any that are born from this
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  point forward that are solid in color will go to Laban.
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  But all from this point forward, all of the speckled and dotted
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  and spotted will go to Jacob, and that is what he is saying
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  here. That's the offer for his wages.
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  Let's see how Laban approaches it. 33 So shall my righteousness
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  answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire,
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  before your face, everyone that is not speckled and spotted
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  among the goats and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted
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  stolen with me. 34 And Laban said, Behold, I would, it might
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  be according to your word. So he liked this idea because it
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  was in Laban's favor. And apart from the outworking,
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  the manifestation of God's provision for Jacob, this would
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  have blown up in his face. This would have been a deal that
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  was completely in Laban's favor. So Laban took it hook, line and
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  sinker. And here Jacob is moving on
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  faith, friends, he's operating in the spirit of faith on a holy
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  God that can literally do anything.
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  And there is nothing that is outside of God's abilities.
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  Friends, he can literally do whatever he pleases.
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  He can raise up sons to Abraham from the stones and even the
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  rocks will cry out if we do not give him his due honor and
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  praise. Friends and so you need to
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  understand that walking on water is nothing.
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  Friends, that raising the dead is nothing to God, that pulling
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  coins out of a fish's mouth is nothing for God, and Acts head
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  floating is nothing. Sending Chariots of angels and
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  fire to encamp around us to protect us is nothing to a holy
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  God, friends. It is as easy as blinking and
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  breathing to him. And so you need to understand
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  that Jacob here is operating in the spirit of faith and he knows
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  that God is going to take care of him.
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  And here Laban is operating as the worldly wise man and he sees
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  that this is like Lot whenever Lots tried to take the lush
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  place and Abraham was left with the bog.
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  And you need to understand that this is the way of God as we
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  trust, even when all of our senses are going against what
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  our emotions and feelings are saying, we go with what God has
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  to say. We go with faith.
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  And it is impossible to please God without faith.
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  And that is what he's operating in here.
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  And God's going to reward him. Let's see how it goes. 35 And he
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  removed that day the he goats that were ring striked and
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  spotted, and the she goats that were speckled and spotted and
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  everyone that had some white in it and all the brown among the
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  sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.
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  And he sat there three days journey between himself and
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  Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.
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  So there was no way for the intermingling of Laban speckled
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  and spotted with the payment of the speckled and spotted for
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  Jacob. That is what is referenced here.
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  37 And Jacob took him rods of green Poplar and the Hazel, and
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  the chestnut tree, and he peeled white strikes in them, and made
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  the white appear which was in the rods. 38 And he set the rods
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  which he had peeled before the flocks and the gutters in the
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  watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should
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  conceive when they came to drink. 39 And the flocks
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  conceived before the rods and brought forth cattle ring,
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  straight, speckled, and spotted. Look at this.
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  This is absolutely preposterous. It's ridiculous, this notion of
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  these branches placed in the watering troughs actually being
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  able to produce these characteristics inside of the
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  genetic code of these animals. It's absolutely unthinkable.
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  And you can see here that this is the way of God.
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  And if you miss it, and if you're looking at it from a
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  critical angle and you're thinking to yourself that this
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  is not the way that things work, you're absolutely right.
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  But you're discounting the reality of a God who put it all
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  into existence and He spoke it, and everything is subject unto
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  him, and He can break in. He could breakthrough into what
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  we know of as the natural. And that is where you experience
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  miracles. Because God lives outside of
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  time, and He can interject himself into time any time that
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  He wants to any particular point that He wants to, and He can
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  perform whatever miraculous manifestation of materialism
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  that he wants to, friends. And we sit back in awe and
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  wonder because of this mighty God who can literally do
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  anything that he pleases. 40 Jacob did separate the lambs,
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  and he set the faces of the flocks toward the ring straight,
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  and all the brown, and the flock of Laban, And he put his own
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  blocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban's cattle. 41
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  And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did
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  conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the
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  cattle and the gutters, that they might conceive among the
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  rods. 42 But when the cattle were feeble, he did not put them
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  in. So the feeble were Labans, and
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  the stronger were. Jacobs will end on, 43 And the
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  man increased exceedingly, and he had much cattle, and
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  maidservants, and men, servants, camels and asses.
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  This is the way of God, friends. This is the way that the Lord
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  works, friends, and it is unpopular because God is not the
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  God that we have formed in our own minds that has to behave and
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  He has to do things on our own terms, and that we will call him
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  into the courtroom and ask him, what are you doing?
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  And you're going to see that the hand of God was upon Jacob, and
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  Jacob increased all the more. And it does not mean that Jacob
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  was perfect, but he was inside of the will of God, and the
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  promises of God never fail. And he had made a covenant with
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  Abraham because of his faith. And you could see it, friends,
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  that God is taking care of Abraham's grandson here and old
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  Laban, the idol worshipper is being diminished.
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  What an amazing thought. Keep yourself attached to the
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  God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and you will see greater things
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  than these. I hope you've been blessed by
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  this amazing chapter in God's Word.
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  I know I sure have. I'm praying for every single one
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  of you. I love you.
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  We'll see you back here tomorrow.
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  God bless you.