Monthly Archives: November 2018

God’s Blessing

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International Sunday School Lesson November 25, 2018

Then God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her and opened her womb. (23) She conceived and bore a son and said, “God has taken away my reproach.” (24) And she called his name Joseph, saying, “May the LORD add to me another son!” (25) As soon as Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own home and country. (26) Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, that I may go, for you know the service that I have given you.” (27) But Laban said to him, “If I have found favor in your sight, I have learned by divination that the LORD has blessed me because of you. (28) Name your wages, and I will give it.” (29) Jacob said to him, “You yourself know how I have served you, and how your livestock has fared with me. (30) For you had little before I came, and it has increased abundantly, and the LORD has blessed you wherever I turned. But now when shall I provide for my own household also?” (31) He said, “What shall I give you?” Jacob said, “You shall not give me anything. If you will do this for me, I will again pasture your flock and keep it: (32) let me pass through all your flock today, removing from it every speckled and spotted sheep and every black lamb, and the spotted and speckled among the goats, and they shall be my wages.


Genesis 30:22-32 

 Thus the man increased greatly and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.


Genesis 30:43

Jacob’s Dream

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International Sunday School November 18, 2018

 Jacob left Beersheba and went toward Haran. (11) And he came to a certain place and stayed there that night, because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones of the place, he put it under his head and lay down in that place to sleep. (12) And he dreamed, and behold, there was a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. And behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it! (13) And behold, the LORD stood above it and said, “I am the LORD, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. The land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring. (14) Your offspring shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south, and in you and your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed. (15) Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.” (16) Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I did not know it.” (17) And he was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.” (18) So early in the morning Jacob took the stone that he had put under his head and set it up for a pillar and poured oil on the top of it. (19) He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first. (20) Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat and clothing to wear, (21) so that I come again to my father’s house in peace, then the LORD shall be my God, (22) and this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be God’s house. And of all that you give me I will give a full tenth to you.”


Genesis 28:10-22

Jacob’s Deception

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International Sunday School November 11, 2018 

Now Rebekah was listening when Isaac spoke to his son Esau. So when Esau went to the field to hunt for game and bring it, (6) Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “I heard your father speak to your brother Esau, (7) ‘Bring me game and prepare for me delicious food, that I may eat it and bless you before the LORD before I die.’ (8) Now therefore, my son, obey my voice as I command you. (9) Go to the flock and bring me two good young goats, so that I may prepare from them delicious food for your father, such as he loves. (10) And you shall bring it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies.”


Genesis 27:5-10 

So he went in to his father and said, “My father.” And he said, “Here I am. Who are you, my son?” (19) Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done as you told me; now sit up and eat of my game, that your soul may bless me.”


Genesis 27:18-19 

Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, to know whether you are really my son Esau or not.” (22) So Jacob went near to Isaac his father, who felt him and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.” (23) And he did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau’s hands. So he blessed him. (24) He said, “Are you really my son Esau?” He answered, “I am.” (25) Then he said, “Bring it near to me, that I may eat of my son’s game and bless you.” So he brought it near to him, and he ate; and he brought him wine, and he drank. (26) Then his father Isaac said to him, “Come near and kiss me, my son.” (27) So he came near and kissed him. And Isaac smelled the smell of his garments and blessed him and said, “See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field that the LORD has blessed! (28) May God give you of the dew of heaven and of the fatness of the earth and plenty of grain and wine. (29) Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, and may your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you, and blessed be everyone who blesses you!”


Genesis 27:21-29