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<div class="SSN_title">"THE MERCIES OF GOD"</div>
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<div class="SSN_intro">Intro: Jacob returning home after 20 years. He had fled from home 20 years earlier because his brother was planning to kill him. We now see him at Jordan, the border of his land praying.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. HIS MOTIVE FOR PRAYER.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. A last resort.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. His servants just brought disturbing news. Esau on his way to meet him with 400 men.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. He had just had a bad scene with his father-in-law.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. They had made a mark that neither were to pass over.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. They had departed under strained condition, restraining conditions, Laban wanted to wring his neck, but God spoke to him in a dream.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. It would seem that his conniving past was suddenly catching up with him.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. He had no place else to turn.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Esau before him, Laban behind him.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. A rather poor motive for prayer.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Fear for his life.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Fear well justified.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Feared also for his wives and children.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Fear is also a poor motive for prayer.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. Unfortunately some only pray when there is nothing else left.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. I sometimes wonder if God doesn't get a little anxious to hear from them and thus allows the calamity to fall.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">II. THE BASIS FOR HIS PRAYER.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. The Word of God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. At the beginning and the end of his prayer Jacob reminds God of His Word.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. I find this a real boost to my faith when I pray, to quote the promise of God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Lord you said "If two agree..." "If we ask in Thy name..." "If we ask according to Your will."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">3. The mercies of God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Not coming because he had been so good. He was a crook, and he knew it.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Some refuse to pray because they are not worthy, of course they are not.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. If only worthy people prayed, nobody would.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. God's mercies were evident.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. 20 years earlier when he was at this same place all he had was a staff.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Now God has so blessed him, he has divided his possessions into two companies.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. "I am not worthy the least of all the mercies."</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">III. THE PRAYER "DELIVER ME FROM THE HAND OF MY BROTHER ESAU."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. The rest was honest confession and quoting God's Word.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. He had no place else to turn, he was filled with fear. He did not deserve to be heard yet... because he came on the basis of God's Word and the mercy of God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">We read in the next chapter:</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">"And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck and kissed him and they wept." I do not believe that Esau was planning this kind of a reception, I believe he had a peculiar change of heart the night before, in answer to prayer.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">1. Attempt to penetrate into future.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">2. Attempt to create order.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">Astrology in Scripture: <a onClick="return mV('Isa',47,'13-15');">Isaiah 47:13-15</a></div>
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