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. Like Jacob, sinners approach the Heavenly Father wearing the clothes of their older brother, Jesus.
  4. Instead of a death sentence, those brothers hear the words of deliverance.
  5. Are you on the receiving end of freedom? Or are you trying to make yourself free?
  6. He shows up when we are at our worst to usher us back to his side, lead us to repentance, rescue us, and reclaim us as his own.
  7. Every Christian should understand what it means to have a Great High Priest
  8. Jesus is always interceding for us
  9. The legacy of Jonah is troubled with most remembering him not for what he said but for what he did: run away.
  10. Grace comes for every foolish, self-absorbed sinner, for every “Nabal,” and announces that there is one who has already taken it upon himself to shoulder all of our wrongdoing, paying the price for it through the sacrifice of himself.
  11. The Bible not only calls us to remember God’s past acts of deliverance; it also invites us to recognize that God in Christ is still in the business of delivering sinners from bondage.
  12. No matter how far away they wander, God always hears the prayers of his children.
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