1. The good news for Jacob is that God humbled himself so that he could lose a wrestling match to a man with a dislocated hip so that he could give him a new name.
  2. It is Jesus himself who is the ladder by which sinners get to God, not by them climbing up but by God climbing down.
  3. If your faith is rooted in the gospel of Zion, in the good news of Jesus’s life, death, and resurrection on your behalf, you are already a member of the “heavenly Jerusalem”
  4. Like Jacob, sinners approach the Heavenly Father wearing the clothes of their older brother, Jesus.
  5. We can do nothing to warrant entry into the kingdom of God nor are we getting in if we think a seat at God’s table is something to which we are entitled.

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