In this sermon on Jacob wrestling with God, Al Bain (St John’s Presbyterian Church, Hobart) draws out parallels between Jacob’s birth and Jacob wrestling with God: Both involve some kind of struggle, both involve a new name, both involve a promise…
It is as if in Genesis 32 we are witnessing the Jacob’s new birth!
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