Homiletics in the Sierra Foothills: February 2021

Friday, February 26, 2021

Genesis 32-33

Homiletics Study – Genesis 2020-2021

Lesson 21 Passage: Genesis 32-33

Content (List of Topics or Events)

Jacob returns; in fear sends messengers ahead preparing to meet Esau (Genesis 32:1-21)

a. Angels of God meet Jacob at Mahanaim (1,2)

b. Messengers sent ahead with instruction to tell Esau of offering (3-5)

c. Messengers return telling Jacob that Esau coming to meet him (6)

d. Jacob in fear divides people in two groups (7-8)

e. Jacob prays with thanksgiving and to be saved from Esau repeating God’s promises (9-12)

f. Jacob selects gift for Esau (13-16)

g. Jacob instructs lead group to tell of Jacob’s gifts (17-18)

h. Jacob leads with gifts to pacify Esau instructing second group like first (19-21

Jacob wrestles, is touched and given the new name Israel at Peniel (Genesis 32:22-32)

a. Jacob sends family and possessions across Jabbok (pouring out/wrestle) (22-23)

b. A man wrestles with Jacob until daybreak (24)

c. The man could not overpower but touches Jacob’s hip (25)

d. The man asks to be let go and Jacob asks for blessing (26)

e. The man asks Jacob’s name and gives new name “Israel” and blesses him (27-29)

f. Jacob see’s face of God at a place called Peniel (face of God) (30)

g. Jacob now limps because he was touched at socket of hip (31-32)

Jacob meets Esau in peace, offer gifts and separate to own place (Genesis 33)

a. Jacob see Esau coming divides family into groups with servants and children in front (1-2)

b. Jacob in front bows as he approaches Esau (3)

c. Esau runs to meet Jacob, embraces him asking and meeting Jacob’s family (4-7)

d. Esau asks about the meaning of the flocks he met (8)

e. Esau accepts the gift and offers to accompany Jacob. (9-12)

f. Jacob reasons with Esau to go at the pace of children to Seir (13-14)

g. Esau offers to leave men to help with Jacob asking for favor in Esau’s eyes (15)

h. Esau goes back to Seir and Jacob to Sukkoth (16-17)

i. Jacob buys plot in Shechem pitches tent and set up alter El Elohe Israel (God is the God of Israel) (18-20)

Divisions (Main Blocks of Thought)

Jacob returns; in fear sends messengers ahead preparing to meet Esau	Genesis 32:1-21
Jacob’s wrestles is touched and given new name Israel at Peniel	Genesis 32:22-32
Jacob meets Esau in peace, offer gifts and separate to own place	Genesis 33

Subject Sentence (Summarizes the contents of the Divisions – No more than 10 words)

Jacob prepares to meet Esau, wrestles and is renamed Israel

Aim (Main Teaching Point of the Passage)

CTATLT to trust in the Lord with our fears and worries and He will direct our path for His glory.

Specific Application Questions

1	What things are causing fears? Why are you not releasing them to God’s hand?
2	God wants to be master of heart, what should specific thing should you do to allow God to bless you now?
3	What paths are important to you, how can God be the center of it?

Principles to Remember

1	God calms our fears
2	The face of God is seen in His own
3	God desires to set our path

Characteristic of God

Our blessing

Theme

Our fears can be used to bless as we trust in God

God’s Word - What’s happening?

God’s Heart – What does God care about?

Today’s World – How does this connect to what is happening in my world today

Saturday, February 20, 2021

Genesis 30-31

Homiletics Study – Genesis 2020-2021

Lesson 20 Passage: Genesis 30-31

Content (List of Topics or Events)

Jacob’s expanding family with sibling rivalry (Genesis 30:1-24)

a. Jealous Rachel cries out in frustration to Jacob (1,2)

b. Rachel gives servant Bilhah as wife who bore Dan and Naphtali (4-8)

c. Leah then gives servant Zilpah who bore Gad and Asher (9-13)

d. Rachel bargains for mandrakes (14-16)

e. Leah then has Issachar, Zebulun and Dinah (17-21)

f. God remember’s Rachel and she finally has her son Joseph (22--24)

Jacob’s prospers and blessed despite deceit (Genesis 30:25-30)

a. Jacob requests to Laban to go back to homeland (25-26)

b. Laban bargains to have Jacob stay (27)

c. Jacob describes bargain to Laban for spotted goats and sheep (28-33)

d. Laban removes spotted animals and hides them from Jacob (34-36)

e. Jacob builds strong flock, creating streaked, speckled, and spotted using branches (37-41)

f. Flocks delineated with strong to Jacob and weak to Laban (42-43)

Jacob flees Laban to return home with treaty and receives blessing (Genesis 31)

a. Jacob overhears Laban’s sons and see’s Laban’s changed attitude (1-2)

b. Jacob send for Leah and Rachel telling of situation and plan to go back home (3-13)

c. Rachel and Leah ask about their inheritance (14-16)

d. Jacob leaves heading back to Canaan and Rachel steals father’s household goods (17-21)

e. Laban learns of Jacob fleeing and pursues him. (22-23)

f. Laban has dream to not anything “good or bad to Jacob (24)

g. Laban confronts Jacob and searches for stolen property (25-35)

h. Jacob confronts Laban (36-42)

i. Jacob and Laban make covenant and he blesses Jacob’s children and returns home (43-55)

Divisions (Main Blocks of Thought)

Jacob’s expanding family with sibling rivalry	Genesis 30:1-24
Jacob’s prospers and blessed despite deceit	Genesis 30:25-30
Jacob flees Laban to return home with treaty and receives blessing	Genesis 31

Subject Sentence (Summarizes the contents of the Divisions – No more than 10 words)

Rivalry enlarge Jacob’s family; manipulation generates wealth for homeland return.

Aim (Main Teaching Point of the Passage)

CTATLT God’s plans are worked out even in our human weaknesses.

Specific Application Questions

1	How has jealousy impacted you? What should change to remove that jealousy?
2	What are you trying to work out on your own that should be turned over to God?
3	What are you hiding that needs to be resolved? Have you taken it to Jesus?

Principles to Remember

1	God remembers
2	God is our increase (blessing)
3	God protects

Characteristic of God

Protector

Theme

Our blessings come despite our weakness as we allow God to direct our path.