{"id":37155,"date":"2022-09-13T13:26:32","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/did-jacob-really-fight-with-god-and-prevail\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T13:26:32","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:26:32","slug":"did-jacob-really-fight-with-god-and-prevail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/did-jacob-really-fight-with-god-and-prevail\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Jacob really fight with God and prevail?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Bible verses you are referring to are found in Genesis 32:24-26 and 29.<\/p>\n

"And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day<\/strong>. And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him. And he said, Let me go, for the day breaks. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. …And he blessed him<\/strong> there<\/strong>."<\/p>\n

From the previous scriptures we learn Jacob earnestly prayed to God<\/strong> showing his deep reverence for God, his own humility, his request for help and his belief in His promises. Genesis 32:9-12 "And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD which said to me, Return to your country, and to your  kindred, and I will deal well with you: I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which You have showed unto your servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands. Deliver me, I pray Thee from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children. And Thou said, I will surely do you good, and make your seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude."<\/p>\n

Jacob earnestly prayed. Apparently an angel of the Lord appeared to him in human form with some communication respecting his prayers<\/strong> and his fears. In his desire to have the divine blessing Jacob laid personal hold upon the angel, urging a blessing–Jacob's experience here<\/strong> reminds us of Jesus' experiences in the Garden of Gethsemane<\/strong>, when he wrestled with strong cryings and tears.  Luke 22:41-43 "And he was withdrawn from them about a stone's cast, and kneeled down, and prayed, Saying, Father, if Thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but Thine be done. And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him<\/strong>." Our Lord agonized for long hours and finally got the blessing. And so it was also in Jacob's case: he urged, he pleaded, he wrestled with the Lord for the thing which he knew the Lord had promised.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Bible verses you are referring to are found in Genesis 32:24-26 and 29. "And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was … Continue reading “Did Jacob really fight with God and prevail?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}