Title: Modern Version of Jacob
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Bible Text: Genesis 30:29-30
modern day Jacob
《New edition 1st daughter-in-law chapter 13》
“Even if you talk to your mother-in-law with a pretty face and charming words, if you do not have love, you will become a copper and a wildcat. Even if you have learned English and have the ability to make money, if you do not love your mother-in-law, it is nothing if you do not have love for your mother-in-law. Even if you buy a gift for your mother-in-law, it is of no use if there is no love in it. Love for your mother-in-law, even if her mother-in-law makes unreasonable demands, is patient with her harsh words, but is gentle; if her husband is with her mother-in-law, she is not jealous, not arrogant. , she does not behave rudely, even when her anger rises to her throat, she is healed. Even if she is hard to support her, she endures to the end. Therefore, beauty, power, and love will always be present in a daughter-in-law, and the greatest of these is love for her mother-in-law.”
This was the new version of 1 daughter-in-law, chapter 13, and today I want to talk about the modern version of Jacob.
“As it is written, I loved Jacob, but I hated Esau” (Romans 9:13). Who is the modern-day Jacob whom God loves, whom God blesses?
I am a dreamer.
Jacob was a dreamer. “dream jacob” This is the modern-day Jacob. I had a dream while lying on the ground and sleeping on a stone as a pillow. “In my dream, I saw a ladder standing on the ground, and its top reached to heaven, and I saw angels of God ascending and descending on it; and behold, the LORD stood on it and said, “I am the LORD... I will give it to you...” (Genesis 28:12-13) The land he dreamed of lying down is the land of Israel today.
The German idealist Schiller said, “To live is to dream. To be wise is to dream beautifully.” To have a dream means to have hope. It means you have an ideal, you have a vision, you have a goal. Dreams are only for the dreamer. A vision belongs to those who embrace it. You need a dream to create vitality. A lively enthusiasm surges. Why is there no energy and boredom? It's because I don't have a dream.
Jacob saw a ladder in a dream. A ladder was above the ground, and its top reached the sky. The earth is reality and the sky is an ideal. Ideal and reality, reality and ideal are connected by a ladder. The modern version of Jacob is the ladder that connects heaven and earth.
The modern-day Jacob is a man who dreamed and fulfilled his dreams. It is Jacob who strives to make his high ideals and brilliant dreams come true. The tragedy of modern man is the lack of dreams. Nihilism is the loss of a dream. “Where there is no revelation, the people are permissive” (Proverbs 29:18). -no vision the people perish- People without a vision perish. The nation needs a vision, the church needs a vision, and the individual needs a vision.
Jacob achieved wealth through a dream. I had a dream when the beasts were hatching. I saw that every male goat that cared for the young was striped, spotted, or spotted. An angel of God said in a dream, “Jacob!” He called and said, “Yes!” and answered. said the angel Look, everything that cares about a baby is striped, dotted, or stained. I have seen all the evil Laban did to you (Genesis 31:10-12).
As he had dreamed, Jacob took off the bark of the branches and set them up by the water where the livestock were drinking. The cattle gave birth to spotted and spotted young, increasing Jacob's possessions. In this way Jacob prospered more and more.
Deep in the human brain, there is something called the “reticulum nervous system,” which is incapable of distinguishing between imagination and reality. If you give negative information, you become negative, and if you give positive information, you develop positively. Jacob looked at the striped, dotted babies with his imagination to see if he understood these brain characteristics. If you imagine a thriving self, a successful self, you will actually succeed and prosper. I hope you will become the modern Jacob, the dreaming Jacob.
A person who is loyal.
There is a saying that “there is no one to trust in the world”. To say that there is no one to trust is a word that a person who has been betrayed by a disrespectful person is stabbed in the foot by an ax that he trusted. Even in the Bible, there is God's lament for a world without righteousness. “Why did the faithful city become a prostitute, and justice was full of it, and righteousness dwelled in it, and now there were only murderers” (Isaiah 1:21).
One of the leading companies in Korea has been investigated by the prosecution. Prosecutors' investigations are said to dry people's blood. All the executives of all sorts have confided the company's secrets. All of them raised their hands in front of the investigators' persistent persuasion, pressure, and conciliation. However, it was the female secretary in her 20s who endured to the end and did not open her mouth. He did not make any statements against the president until the end. His consistent response was, “How do I know, who is doing little errands? I do not know"
It's just that he didn't open his mouth. The investigator said he saw loyalty and loyalty in the female employee. Lack of loyalty and loyalty means that you can't be trusted. No matter how talented you are and how good your interpersonal skills are, if you don't have loyalty, you will be disqualified.
“I have been with you for 20 years, and your ewes or goats have not aborted, and I have not eaten the rams of your flocks, and the bark ... , so have I endured the heat by day, the cold at night, and no time to close my eyes” (Genesis 31:38-40).
Loyalty requires someone who is loyal. The modern-day Jacob is to be a royalist. People say that they are competent and incompetent, but in reality, ability is an acorn sizing. They usually go back and forth from the average. You can borrow the ability, or you can scout it. But loyalty cannot be borrowed or bought. As civilization develops, people become weaker, and the more modern they become, the faster they calculate, the more egocentric and selfish they become. The words “loyalty” or “loyalty” are ignored. However, as the world gets smarter, you will miss people who are righteous. It's like a star shining on a dark night. In a world without loyalty, people with loyalty are rarer, and the rarer they are, the more valuable they become.
“Many boast of their kindness, but who can find a faithful man?” (Proverbs 20:6) Moses was God's entourage. You put it next to it. I met you in person. The person your boss wants to have by your side is someone you can trust. The standard of humanity is loyalty. The one with the royalty is the modern-day Jacob.
“Jacob said to him, “Your uncle knows how I served you and how you slaughtered your beast” (verse 29).
A person who blesses.
There is a saying called vampire. It means vampire. I'm talking about a blood sucker. It refers to a bewitching and cruel woman who sheds men's blood and leads to ruin. These days, our country is worried about unscrupulous people, such as those who murder and mutilate family members, and those who kill elementary school students and bury them in the dark. There are people who expose company secrets and make them conduct a special prosecutor.
The modern-day Jacob is a blessing. Laban, who did not have enough money, became rich when Jacob came into the house. “Before I came, your maternal uncle had little, but multiplied and became a herd. According to my work, the LORD has blessed you” (verse 30). What is “work”? A public servant, a rewarder. Achievements are built with 'work force'. It is the ‘strength of effort’. It is a sincere effort. It's the best you can do.
Sincerity is doing all you can and doing your best. There is a saying, “When devotion is extreme, grass will grow on stones” “If devotion is extreme, flowers bloom even in the winter solstice and New Year’s Eve.” “Will the tower collapsed?
Jacob is a powerful man. Japanese people are famous for taking the family business seriously. Even after graduating from a first-class university and getting a job at a large company, they run a bakery and noodle restaurant for generations. I saw on the news the other day that a bakery owner said that to make good bread, you have to be a character. We should imitate the craftsmanship that even making one bread should support our personality. “Geongseong” means to work with the backing of your personality and to work with your soul.
One thing that gomtang restaurants have in common is that kkakdugi is delicious. People remember the taste of kkakdugi better than gomtang. It goes without saying that gomtang is delicious at the gomtang house, and we take kkakdugi as a bonus. That's where you have to work. To do it with work is to do your best until the end. Lawyers and doctors who are not supported by character cannot perform their duties properly.
Pharaoh met Joseph and said, “How can we find a man so moved by the Spirit of God?” “You shall rule over my house, and all my people will obey your commands. 38-40) did. Joseph was a man with God. He was a blessed man. If you enter a home, the house will prosper, and if you are hired by the state, the country will prosper. Because of him, Potiphar became rich, Pharaoh became a good leader because of Joseph, and Egypt became rich.
The modern-day Jacob is a dreamer. Successful people are dreamers. A dream is a dream come true.
The modern-day Jacob is to be trusted. A person with the ability and loyalty to trust in anything. A person must live with faith. Loyalty and loyalty are required. In a world where there is no one to trust, I want you to be someone you can trust.
The modern version of Jacob is a channel of blessing. That person should be blessed because of me. Jesus said that no one comes to the Father except through me. Unbelievers cannot come to church without going through a believer, and they cannot believe in Jesus without going through me. Let him believe in Jesus because of me. Because of me, our church must receive God's blessing. I must become the way of salvation and the channel of blessing.
Become a Dreamer.
Be a loyalist with Loyalty.
Be a Bless person.