The Mississippi enterprise., 1963-08-24

Chestnut, 1907 Early Street. G
information.
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
AUGUST rs, 49,
By Rev. George A. Harper,
511 Avenue G.,
Greenwood, Miss.
VISION AT BETHEL
Scripture r e a d n g-Gene-
sis 1928 Plint-Genesis 28: 10
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MEMORY SELECTION -
Behold, I am with thee, and
viii keep thee in all places
whittier thou goest.-(Genesis
28:15) 1t was a night never to
be forgotten when the God of
Abraham and Isaac also be-
came the God of Jacob. There
is beauty in the term, "the
God of your fathers. This is
the way it should be in life.
When God came into the heart
and life of Jacob, He gave
him assurance of His pres
ence and keeping power.
Jacob very much needed this
promise because Satan siren
uously attempted to defeat
Jacob because he was in the
Messianic line. When God be-
comes our Saviour He also be-
comes our Keeper. 1t was nec-
essary for Jacob to flee out
of the and and later to return
into the land, that is, 60 from
Canaan to Mesopotamia and
back again into Canaan, then
in the latter part of his life
to depart from Canaan into
Egypt. One time Jacob said,"
All these things are against
me-" When Jacobs sun set in
his life, He could see Gods
Faithfulness.
THE DREAM OF JACOB:
When night had overtaken
Jacob, he stopped travelling
and prepared as best he could
to get some rest. He was tir-
ed physically and upset men,
tally. The day had been a day
of strain and stress. He really
needed a good nights rest.
When Jacob had taken some
stones and improvised them
for a pillow he laid down and
went to sleep. While asleep he
had a dream. He dreamed he
saw a ladder set up on earth,
and the top reached to heaven.
On this ladder were angels
ascending and descending.
Above the ladder stood the
Lord who said. 81 am the
Lord, the God of Abraham
your father and the God of
Isaac: the land on which you
lie l will give to you and to
your descendants; and your
descendants shall be like the
dust of the earth, and you
snail spread abroad to the
west and to the east and to the
north and to the south; and by
you and your descendants
snail all the families of the
earth bless themselves. Be-
hold, / am with you and will
keep you wherever you go and
will bring you back to this
land; for ] will not leave you
until / have done that of which
| have spoken to you''.
WHEN JACOB AWOKE:
ALI dreams come to an end.
So did Jacobs dream. When
Jacob awoke he realized that
he had just had an encounter
with the Lord. He knew that
he was not alone. He sud-
denly came to know that the
place where he had stopped
for the night was holy ground
and he said, "Surely the Lord
is in this place; and l did
not know it, Jacob learned
that God was every place,
that God was not just a ma
tional God. The whole uni
verse belonged to God and He
was in His universe at all
times. This made Jacob know
that He could not 60 where
God was not; that at all times
God was keeping His eyes on
him. Ait first this was no
doubt very encouraging and
consoling to Jacob, but after
a moment of sober and realis-
tic thinking Jacob realized
what this RELY meant from
another point Of view. He
began to retrace his life and
the things that he had done to
his father and his brother. He
saw his wrongs. He knew that
he was running away from