Sermon
Life With a Limp
Center Church
Speaker: Rich Bowman
March 12, 2023 · 43 min
God's SovereigntyRepentanceSanctificationIdentity in ChristGenesis 32:22–32Genesis 25:29–34Genesis 27:1–40
Summary
God pursues Jacob through wrestling and wounding to transform him from self-reliant deception to dependence on God alone. The painful intervention redirects Jacob's heart from chasing earthly blessings to clinging to God, resulting in a new identity in Christ that frees believers from their sinful patterns.
Highlights
Sometimes God will allow what He hates to accomplish what He loves.
Discipline is the painful mercy of a loving Father pursuing you. Wrath is the just retribution of a holy judge condemning you. Two fundamentally different things.
God, you are all that I have because you are all that I need.