SERMON: By the Waters of the Jabbok
This is another audio of a sermon for commissioning. The text is from Genesis 32:22-31 and is the very familiar story of Jacob crossing the Jabbok and the dark night of the soul. It was preached on 27 Jul 2014 at Trinity UMC in Lebanon. Lessons learned from posting two of these - I talk too long. Way too long. Not that I haven't been told that before, and I have tried, but maybe it's time to try harder. Also, please forgive the first minute or so of the recording. I did not yet have my mic turned on.
Genesis 32:22-31 (NRSV)
22 The same night he got up and took his two wives, his two maids, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. 23 He took them and sent them across the stream, and likewise everything that he had. 24 Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him until daybreak. 25 When
the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he struck him on the
hip socket; and Jacob’s hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with
him. 26 Then he said, “Let me go, for the day is breaking.” But Jacob said, “I will not let you go, unless you bless me.” 27 So he said to him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Jacob.” 28 Then the man said, “You shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with humans, and have prevailed.” 29 Then Jacob asked him, “Please tell me your name.” But he said, “Why is it that you ask my name?” And there he blessed him. 30 So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, “For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved.” 31 The sun rose upon him as he passed Penuel, limping because of his hip.
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