Obedience in the Face of Fear
Ngu Todd Beiswenger
Ukuze uqhubeke upheqe ngenkathi ulalele, dlala umsindo ewindini elisha.
We just completed a series on the book of Jeremiah, and the people, well, they weren't so obedient. This week we're going to compare their disobedience with the obedience of the patriarchs: Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. How did they fare when faced with real challenges?
(Izinkomba: Genesis 26:1-6, 32:6-12; Jeremiah 12:5, 26:2, 43:1-3)
Genesis 32:6-12
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The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, "We came to your brother Esau. Not only that, but he comes to meet you, and four hundred men with him."
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Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies;
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and he said, "If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape."
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Jacob said, "God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Yahweh, who said to me, 'Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you good,'
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I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.
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Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he come and strike me, and the mothers with the children.
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You said, 'I will surely do you good, and make your seed as the sand of the sea, which can't be numbered because there are so many.'"
