Message Notes

YOUTH WORSHIP SERVICE 29 January 2022

Scripture Text: Genesis 28:1-9

Message: “May God Almighty bless you” Genesis 28:3

INTRODUCTION

1. Rebekah’s concern

a) That Jacob may end up marrying a Hittite woman

b) This would be a devastating blow to her Genesis 27:46

2. Isaac’s agreement

a) Isaac saw how Esau married 2 Hittite women

b) This had brought grief to his heart Genesis 26:34

ISAAC’S DECISION

1. He gave a solemn charge to Jacob

a) He must not marry a Canaanite woman Genesis 28:1

b) He is to go to Padan Aram

i) To the house of Bethuel
Rebekah’s father Genesis 28:2a

ii) He may take a wife from Laban’s home
Laban was Rebekah’s brother Genesis 28:2b

2. A Prayer for Jacob

3 “May God Almighty bless you,
And make you fruitful and multiply you,
That you may be an assembly of peoples;

4 And give you the blessing of Abraham,
To you and your descendants with you,
That you may inherit the land
In which you are a stranger,
Which God gave to Abraham.”

Genesis 28:3-4

a) A deeply meaningful prayer

b) It was a prayer for God’s blessing

i) That Jacob would become fruitful

ii) That he would multiply

iii) That he would become an assembly of peoples Genesis 28:3

c) That God would give the blessing of Abraham

i) God’s blessing to Abraham would be his as well

ii) That his descendants would be blessed

iii) That he may inherit the land

iv) In which he is a stranger (Canaan of the future)

v) This Land had been promised to Abraham Genesis 28:4

3. Sending Jacob away

a) Jacob was then sent away Genesis 28:5a

b) He would make the long journey
to Padan Aram

c) He would seek to locate:

i) The home of Bethuel the Syrian

ii) And Laban his son

ESAU’S OBSERVATION

1. Esau saw how Isaac blessed Jacob

a) There was no anger in Isaac against Jacob

b) There was genuineness in his prayer for Jacob

c) This was a wonderful prayer of blessing Genesis 28:3-4

2. Esau also heard what Isaac said

a) He is not to take a wife from among the Canaanites Genesis 28:6

b) He understood that the Canaanite women
did not please his parents Genesis 28:8

ESAU’S DECISION

So Esau went to Ishmael and took Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife in addition to the wives he had.

Genesis 28:9

1. He went to Ishmael’s family

2. Ishmael was technically, his uncle

3. He married Mahalath, the daughter of Ishmael Genesis 28:9

4. This was in addition to the 2 wives that he had

a) Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite Genesis 26:34a

b) Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite Genesis 26:34b

REFLECTION ON THE FAMILY OF ISAAC AND REBEKAH

1. Commencement of Marriage

a) God’s hand was there to lead and to bless Genesis 24

b) There was love when they were married Genesis 24:67

2. Continued blessing of God

a) Amidst Famine Genesis 26

b) Great wealth given Genesis 26:13

c) God’s manifestation of Himself to Isaac Genesis 26:24-25

CONCLUSION

1. A Dysfunctional Family

a) Father and mother
A strained relationship

b) Brother and brother
Growing apart

2. The Deterioration

a) Of Faith

b) Of Family

3. The Disaster that threatens

a) Esau’s anger

b) Jacob’s departure

4. The Deliverance that only God can give

a) What if God does not deliver?

b) What needs to be done?