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George Lichtenberg said this about vows: “To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.” The reason making the vow is the greater sin is that we couldn’t break a vow if we didn’t make it in the first place. And most vows somehow end up broken. In today’s lesson, the Lord is going to remind Jacob of the vows he made when he first met Him at Bethel. And as we will see in our study, […]

The purpose of Chronicles is to bring hope in the future Messiah who will come from David’s line. While the history of God’s people is marred, it does not lead to despair. Chronicles helps us to look to the King of Kings, trust in His word, seek Him with all our heart, and let Him fight our battles.

It’s been said that “despair ruins some, presumption many!” Jacob was a man who often was presumptuous in his walk with God. He would do what he wanted to do and then ask the Lord to bless it, and that practice almost resulted in his ruin. But in today’s text, in his despair, he will do the right thing and get God’s help, and do as he is instructed to do, and he will be greatly blessed! We all can […]

The purpose of Chronicles is to bring hope in the future Messiah who will come from David’s line. While the history of God’s people is marred, it does not lead to despair. Chronicles helps us to look to the King of Kings, trust in His word, seek Him with all our heart, and let Him fight our battles.

In this week’s text, we will witness the birth of eleven of Jacob’s twelve sons. Six of them will be born to Leah; four will be born to Leah and Rachel’s handmaids; and one will be born to Rachel. When we get to chapter 35, we will read about the birth of the twelfth son born to Rachel. I like to refer to these twelve sons as the “dirty dozen,” not because they were physically filthy, but because of the […]

In Scripture, the Christian is often likened to a soldier fighting in a war. But before any soldier goes to war, he must complete his basic training in boot camp. Jacob, the main character of today’s text, spent years in his basic training, and from his experience, we’ll learn a lot about our own boot camp, and why it lasts as long as it does, and why it’s more difficult for some than it is for others. George

The purpose of Chronicles is to bring hope in the future Messiah who will come from David’s line. While the history of God’s people is marred, it does not lead to despair. Chronicles helps us to look to the King of Kings, trust in His word, seek Him with all our heart, and let Him fight our battles.

In this week’s study we will see how Jacob, after seeing the glorified Lord in a dream, will make a vow to make Jehovah his God. But as we will see, his vow is based on some bad theology that the Lord is going to have to correct. A lot of us have some pretty bad theology when we first get saved, too. But just like He did for Jacob, God will use His word and His Spirit and our […]

The purpose of Chronicles is to bring hope in the future Messiah who will come from David’s line. While the history of God’s people is marred, it does not lead to despair. Chronicles helps us to look to the King of Kings, trust in His word, seek Him with all our heart, and let Him fight our battles.

Today we will be taking a peak at the vision Jacob saw in his dream of a ladder or staircase that reached from heaven to earth. As we will learn in our lesson, the ladder he saw is the one that serves as a bridge between God and man and heaven and earth. And not only is the story rich in theological symbolism, it has great application for all of us who from time to time find ourselves feeling all […]