following program is sponsored by seattle open door church yet all open door church is committed to loving god loving people and loving life our doors are open to whomever required seattle open door church church father we come to you we thank you god that you can set us free from the past we can move beyond the past we can walk in victory that lord god you want to deliver your children from all the wounds in the scars all the damage has been done in the past we thank you that your will and if it's your will you accomplish that as we look at this concept of a face to face encounter with god that for many the only way they're ever going to get set free from the past is if they have a face to face encounter with god and jesus together working through the issues and i know that lord sometimes you circumstances trials tribulations that bring us to that face to face encounter but i pray that father god we wouldn't need to have trials and tribulations to have a face to face encounter we make the choice to spend time with you to have fellowship with you to allow you to be in our life every single day lord every moment to help us to learn from the story of jake up and apply the principles that he learned and pray this in jesus name a name in the last week we talked about the story of jake up and we got to a lot of different this is going on how many remember that jacob was manipulator a deceiver and then there's somebody else that was a greater deceived nipper later than him anybody know who it was who was it laban his father in law was even a more of a deceiver how many know that if you are dealing with issues in your life that you go into deception going to manipulation you become an enabler you take on dysfunctional traits how we know that will catch up with you sooner or later and a come back to you and so jacob is finding this out now interesting when we l off last week we seen that appear that jacob got away with something anybody remember the story he is going to stay with his father laban and he's trying to grow his flock and build riches is what i'm trying to do so when he leaves as lots of money so he turns around and says the laban you can have all the pure goats and cows and everything else those are without blemish and so that it sounds like he's blessing laban right but it does some trickery he gets the animals to eat some days and his animals become all speckled and he gets all the speckled ones and so he gets more and like i said last week i don't know if you take certain wouldn't you make goats and and lambs eat it that they'll become i don't think scientific they probably can happen but can god allow your deception to take place can god allow you to get away with evil absolutely can god allow you to believe that your getting away with  not happen jacob thinks that by the time of the seven years whatever is these they can man this worked out good my tricks worked you see when we walk in deception were deceived because why if you want to see the cycle of wounds and scars and damage your life to stop who has to do something different you do and the danger is when you've been wounded and scarred you start to come up with certain judgments you come up with val's and you think it's the other person so there's always somebody else is the problem with the reality is you sniff up people with problems is that you're attracted to people with issues so if you're a person that is walk around with the victim badge who you surround yourself with people who will make you a victim and so you have to change it to change your perspective but this see what happens to jacob because something amazing happens in his life and romano with three jacobson kind of got a letter a jacob heard the news of his brother who had stolen the birthright from by trickery was coming to meet him with four hundred men fear grips jacob because remembers his brother's threats if you know the story what jacob do he deceived his brother tricked his brother and then tricked us father so that he got the birthright he got that inheritance the everything else so he's gotten away with it appears he's gotten away with it he's gone he's done his all thing and then he hears that jake is coming with four hundred of man what do you think jacob's  of off the bat i'm gone he's coming out to get me do you know nowhere in the passage does it say that jake out to get jake up nowhere in the passage does this say he was out to attack jake up so  could it be that jacob made an assumption based upon guilt can he make an assumption based upon guilt and we see that's what was going on so this look at the passage of you go to genesis chapter thirty two verses five to seven this is this is covering everything he possibly can right how many know that if you operate out of fear or everything you decide to make decisions based upon what fear and anybody know the acronym for fear that  he knows only one thing he be doing coming out to get him well let me tell you both of them were doing well to have four hundred men that were with you for somebody that has money in the old testament times that was not enough and that was unusual because if you have a lot of riches what did you have you had servants to people that protected your riches you had army that was with you if you were rich you had something that was protect you and so he's if he's  traveling to traveling he's not going to go by himself you don't carry the money back by yourself you have some armed guards so if he's traveling he's going to have men with them but esau assumes that is the case and b s is jacobson's gives to esau hope that they may help ease the tension and find favor with his brother is there anything wrong if you wrong somebody to want to make a man's if you wrong some is not wrong to make amends but it should your man's be equal to the wrong you've gone  do you try to cover your rear and if you're doing that what happens you know what that becomes manipulation so this look at what he does so he's going to do you know he loves his brother because you know he's sorry for what he's done  to say sorry for what he's done it doesn't say anywhere that he saw it for what he's done it just says he's scared at this point there's no repentance no evidence repentance whatsoever how many know that if you if you do and wickedness are you making patches decisions bad choices and then you feel guilt that you overcompensate for the guilt instead of repenting of the guilt if you print of the guilt the bible does talk about restitution it does talk about that you do restitution out of scared him and in god have a wrestling match and there's a reason why there is a wrestling match because he was not submitted to god so if you a semitic god there be no need for the wrestling match the purpose of the wrestling match is because it wasn't submitted  fine right but if you read the context he gives two hundred twenty goats two hundred and twenty lambs he gives thirty camels but their culture gives fifty cattle and he gives thirty donkeys that's a whole lot that's called bribery so i've hurt you saw a husband hurt his wife i mean this is a perfect example the do you do understand the people of the old testament are the same people of today you know what they are people are full of human beings a husband turns around and he gets angry is right then he screams and yells at her what is the common thing that he does right afterwards he buys flowers now that he buy flowers but he says how  such a beautiful waterfall lady i love you so much and out of the clear blue sky god spoke to my heart to buy you flowers to bless you do you think that was the book of yours he knows there's a dog  kumon tries to sell that promise and does she buy it trick question if she's codependent she does buy it if she's codependent and identities based upon somebody else she'll probably buy into that ever since then our dogs will come and so out of it is what he's doing is the same that we do and again the excess think about is that what we try to do if we're not careful we do all those different things so he's trying to do the same thing so now now let her see how do we know this is the case there'd be no need for a wrestling match with god if he's in lined up with god is that true you're walking with god you don't have to wrestle a master god you're in luck with god god are in a war you're one team but right after he goes do the this and he hasn't done it yet he hasn't given the gift yet he's preparing ahead of time he says and let my brother know we got some gifts common he's preparing ahead of time and so on letter c we look at jacob's all alone goes in the egg and eyes in prayer jacob begins to wrestle with the lord our personal betters can only be resolved alone with god that is when god reveals himself to us and we look at genesis chapter thirty two verses twenty four and twenty five and jacob was a left along in the air wrestled with a man and to the breaking of don and when he saw that he prevailed not against the man he touched the hollow of us thought in the high object was not of joint as he wrestled with them who's the person is wrestling with so him and jesus are wrestling and in the end it says that jesus he can't prevail who can prevail god and he breaks now hear me out how many know we have wounds we have scars we live certain ways because those wounds and scars and a lot of damage it comes are life how many know that sometimes when god brings healing there's more that comes or winced at a less how mean sometimes god brings healing through a tragedy or through a relationship so maybe you've been a more than one relationship it hasn't worked and then you're in one relationship and it doesn't work but the person relationship loves you they really do love you and in the midst of it they say to you if you don't change if you don't stop the person are for you don't do this you don't do that i am going to divorce you and what happens to some people divorce happens to others they finally change but it took what it took a threat a took a wrestling match it took something here you have here he has a wrestling match and it changes him and we're going to see in a moment what his name is changed to but if you look at letter c it says if you want to be completely healed from the past you must with all your anger bitterness fears unhealthy coping skills your sin and rebellion everything he need to give it all to god need to let him in every secret closet of your heart you need to lay bare your heart before it takes a wrestling match so be it just let god win at the end let god rip you apart and put you back together you know a lot of people don't want to get hill they don't be ripped apart to tell you if you're going to really bottom bed rock now that rock bottom can be up here does that to be done here that's a choice but there's a something that happens that cause you that you have to face the reality my way isn't working so i'm wounded i'm scarred i've been all these th life and so i've found on healthy ways all these things that we've listed here bitterness fears unhealthy coping skills sin rebellion anger all those different things we've dealt with and they work for us to an extent do they work to an extent oh i you know what i don't trust apart and takes out to be anything that shouldn't be there and he starts replace it with good but here's the reality how many know it's painful so how many people i know that won't go to drug treatment because it's going to be painful they're going to have do what do you call it when people detox and they have to turn around and go through with drawls and they don't want that but if you go through the radar it drawls what happens you can get the victory you can get better and many people don't have to deal with their stuff so why don't you ever go to counseling because they have nothing good to tell me when you go to accounts are they supposed to just tell you good it's a trick a other job i said i absolutely will not pray for you to get another job he says what you're not going to get the job is no i'm going to pray that you stop being a jerk so you can keep a job because guess what if he's a jerk if he can hold down a job if he's going through twenty jobs what good would it pay for him to get another job he's going to do what they do the same thing so then i sat down with him i says this talk about it why is it that every job you have is the employer's problem if every job you have is an employer's problem what is a common factor do and so we set down and talk and we walk through and i says so i want you to get a job i want you to be able to keep my job and so there's ways that that people have to face that it's my behavior that's causing the issues that i have whatever happened to the past is not my fault if if my parents abuse me that's not my fault they abuse me my choices how i handle that abuse can be my fault so jacob passes rest of the match that's going on between him and god and india says perseverance and prayer brings us to face to face encounter with god it is then that deliverance or so can take place to be a place where we turn around to go to god is that god i want free and i'm not i'm not going out of this prayer closet until you do it ever you got to do and so for me it was through being suicidal for years being depressed for years winning people to christ and turning around and putting a pistol to my head how m that's messed up that's really messed up how we know that somebody living around that doesn't want to live around that how you know that somebody is a neighbor is ok living around that and still it came a point right looked at and i says i got a change so i turn around i had insurance call up the insurance to go to a christian counseling organization i was live in alaska they were in california and then sharon says we're sorry but we're not going to honor that you can't get counseling when i'm suicidal at the so i didn't get help so i just got to work harder i mean we do that i got to work hard i got to pray harder i got to go to church right got to do this i got to do that and we will if the boot staff is since the belts and then we do everything we can and we don't get better anybody know what i'm talking about because it's all about us what we do so a year later i'm operating manager for a company we have a major project project with with the very big refinery in alaska and it is really depend upon me being the project manager ruin the middle of the project and i not i'm not depressed i'm not suicidal but i fill like i'm going to go right down that path again and i go to my bosses i need to go for counseling even if i got my pocket up out of my pocket and i called my insurance up and this is yes sure will cover it all how can that be a year ago they wouldn't cover it why a year later would they cover it because can god intervene if you're ready to get free and that ten days twelve days they're changed my whole life they didn't change my life ten days you can change a life god did it you know why because i was ready jake up was ready  wrestling match with god he is ready to be a new man he's ready to change we have to that receive match with god whatever it is and here's what we do we let jesus and some of the areas of our life let him in every area but closet does not have permission to one you know this is mine i keep you're not going to get free and the way you get free is guess what you're going to have a wrestling match about that then you're holding on to you know i forgive everybody except this person will god do know put you in a wrestling match with know what to do with that person so jacob's name is changed you go to the next page page three god changes jacob's name to israel and just as thirty two twenty eight god will change your identity in your knowledge or see yourself as a victim of god change i'm no longer saying i'm rich static i'm rich the victim you know i told you before the curse that was on me that turn around and say that all the time said dover locke given that goes goes bad when jesus i have the rest of messages you know what happened i made a vow i am not going to believe that how many know i have to add to this day at the still battle and you know what i could do dover's luck what you try to do the christmas lights before the bible study they don't work out stover's luck that could easily fall right back in that quick i could fall back into what i have to do when that thought comes my mind what do i do i push through it i says that's a lie it's called either the devil makes the headlights up or the lights were just ready to break or was his fault not my fault is not what we do we're not careful we blame the other person i've got hands everywhere no it's called we need to wrap up here is that god wants to change your name and nature want you to make a completely new creation easy god that can help you make peace with those you have hurt in offended because of your decisions and actions based upon wounding he can give you the builder forgive those of abuse can i tell if he didn't have the wrestling match with god he may have had problems with his brother because what if you would have got just brother says you know what i'm going to bribe him and he went there to bribe him with his brother no it and it be and salty says that there's jacob same as always but when he showed up to his brother in garrison met with a gun is change all of a sudden he is israel and it says prince that has power with god that's what israel means princess power with what a name to give to a manipulator god gives you a new name he gives you a new identity when you change we allow god to work and he gives you a new identity and here's what happens people start to see the change in you doesn't happen overnight now most of the time i've known people as happened overnight here's i also know i've known people have changed a free from my cocaine and free from the marijuana i need totally free god you know what happened that night they got totally free to this day to this day they've never gone back to drugs but you know what happen is they also had codependency issues which is probably why they went to the drugs to deal with that so when they got off the drugs they got totally free but what started rise as ugly head stuff they had it dealt with that they got the drugs and so it has to be a place we go to god we need to close we are out of time heavenly father i pray that lord god that we would be willing to have that wrestling match with you the law we had largely value to change us most and shape us into the image of christ the lord to be willing to go through the hell and back that we may have to go through that law restart to face the wounds the scars in our life and realize that many of those scars are our fault that because we've made bad choices that maybe that a riginal wound that original scar maybe that original be used maybe that whatever it may have been that came our way along the way maybe a there was things that we had no part of it was just evilness that was coming against us but lord the problem is we take that evilness and then we start to walk in eve was a way to attack the evil that's what then us and that's where there becomes problems where we start taking on character traits that are not of you but father god if we have a wrestling match with you and we say lord i expose my whole life to you when you show me my fault my error what am i doing wrong and we allow you to work on those things in our life that you start to transform or some become a new creation in christ jesus we truly become transformed and yes we may fall at times we may go back in the old ways but lord you're trying to most and shape a similar never be perfect and to receive a glorified body but we can certainly look more like jesus as you  closing open doors breaking every curse breaking every deception and be filled with the holy spirit you will certainly live a victorious overcoming life and i want to let you know that you can li forte slash moving beyond where you accept jesus christ your lord and savior today you want to get more information you can always go to our website to learn how to accept jesus christ as your lord and savior you can go to there is hope t v dot or org also let you know if you like to talk to me person you can always give me a call toll free anytime one a six six one god you have been listening to there is so with pastor richard over through jesus christ we can live a victorious life seattle open door church located in period committed to loving god loving people and loving one seattle open door church once you know that regardless of where you've been or what you've done god you there doors are open to anyone and everyone their services are sunday mornings at eleven seattle open door church is located at six twenty five south west one 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