Genesis 48:1-22

Introduction

“No one gets out of here alive” —Jim Morrison

I. Amazing Grace

A. The Blessings of the Faith

 • I will make you fruitful and multiply you
 • I will make of you a company of peoples
 • I will give this land to your offspring after you for an everlasting possession

…the promise to Abraham and his offspring was that he would be heir of the world. Romans 4:13

…according to His promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells. (2 Peter 3:13)

B. The Blessings of the Family

“These two events represent Jacob’s life as a whole, which from beginning to end was lived in the tension between God’s wonderful promise and the bitter reality of life’s pain and struggle.” Iain Duguid, Living in the Light of Inextinguishable Hope (p. 159)

II. Amazing God

A. Works in the Natural World

 • The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked
 • The God who has been my Shepherd all my life long to this day
 • The Angel who has redeemed me from all evil

B. Works in Unconventional Ways

Conclusion

“And this is eternal life; that they know You the true God and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.” (Jn. 17:3)

"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose" Jim Elliot