Key Thought: Because Jacob deceived his father and steals the blessing from his brother, he has to flee for his life. Jacob receives deception as well, yet he will also receive God’s blessing. God fulfils His covenant promises regardless of how often His people fail.
May 28, 2022

1. Have a volunteer read Genesis 25: 21-34.

1. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point is in this passage.
2. What qualities of Jacob predispositioned him to be more worthy than Esau of Isaac’s blessings?
3. Personal Application: Did God know Jacob would deceive his father? Is that the way God wanted Jacob to receive the birthright? How else would he have gotten the birthright and blessings if he hadn’t been deceitful? Share your thoughts..
4. Case Study: One of your relatives states, “Is it ever good to lie or do something bad in order that good may result from it?’” How would you respond to your relative?

2. Have a volunteer read Genesis 29:20-30.

1. Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. How and why does God allow for Laban’s deception? What lessons did Jacob learn?
3. Personal Application: How can we avoid justifying doing something bad so that good may come? Share your thoughts
4. Case Study: One of your friends states, “How can I learn to trust God when I don’t see justice being done, when people do evil and get away with it, or when we see innocent people suffer?” How would you respond to your friend?

3. Have a volunteer read Genesis Genesis 30:15-22..

1. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the main idea of this text is.
2. How are we to understand the meaning of what takes place here?
3. Personal Application: How does this story reveal that God’s purpose will be fulfilled despite human errors? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of your relatives states: “Why was there so much contention between the two sisters? Why does it say that God opened their wombs and remembered them? Why was Leah favored by God when she was the wife of her father’s deception? Rachel was favored by Jacob, but only had two sons by him. Was this God’s plan, or His making the best of a bad situation?” How would you respond to your relative?

4. Have a volunteer read Genesis 30:25-32.

1. Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. What is going on here, and what kind of reasoning does Jacob use? What is Laban’s response?
3. Personal Application: What evidence do we see in the story of Jacob that he was growing in his character? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: Think of one person who needs to hear a message from this week’s lesson. Tell the class what you plan to do this week to share with them.

(Truth that is not lived, that is not imparted, loses its life-giving power, its healing virtue. Its blessings can be retained only as it is shared.”Ministry of Healing, p. 148).

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The book of Genesis offers us so many vast topics from which to choose a theme hymn. As we are starting at the very beginning, I would like to give praise to our Creator of heaven and earth in singing
Hymn 320 – Lord of Creation and
Hymn 2 – All Creatures of Our God and King. The stories that follow creation will lean back toward our amazing God and what He has done for each of us in creation.

It appeared )in the first part of the week’s study) that Jacob and others needed to be asking
O for a Faith – Hymn 533, a faith that will not shrink at any time, or under any circumstances.

Wednesday shows the blessings that were given by God with the miracles in Genesis 29:31 and Genesis 30:22 when He “opened her womb”: 
Hymn 111 – It Took a Miracle. After Judah was born Leah could sing 
Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow – Hymn 694/695.

It wasn’t until after Jacob was deceived by Laban, that he would sing: 
Hymn 533 – O for a Faith that will no shrink, and 
Hymn 523 – My Faith Looks Up to Thee. It is then that we are able to sing of the great faith that has been learned in 
Hymn 304 – Faith of Our Fathers and 
Hymn 602 – O Brother, Be Faithful.

God’s abundant blessings this quarter as we study through the first book of the Bible which our gracious God has given. May we be faithful and all say “Come, Lord Jesus, come – very soon” so we are able to go to our new home in Heaven, as 
We Have This Hope – Hymn 214.

To learn unknown hymns, you will find the accompaniment music for each one at: https://sdahymnals.com/Hymnal/

Another great resource is for when there is a hymn you wish to sing, but can’t find it in your hymnal. Go to https://www.sdahymnal.org and in the search bar type a special word in that is in the hymn. I am sure you will be amazed at the help you will be given.

2 Timothy 2:15 KJV – “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”

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Read Genesis 25:21-34. Compare the two personalities of Jacob and Esau. What qualities of Jacob predisposed him to be worthy of Isaac’s blessing?

Already from their mother’s womb we understand that Jacob and Esau are different and will struggle against each other. While Esau is described as a tough hunter running in the field, Jacob is seen as a “mild” person sitting in the tent and meditating. The Hebrew word tam, translated “mild” (NKJV), is the same verb applied to Job and to Noah, translated “blameless” for Job (Job 1:8, NKJV) and “perfect” for Noah (Genesis 6:9, NKJV).

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This difference of character becomes more manifest later in their lives (Genesis 27:1-28:5). When Esau comes home tired and hungry, Jacob cooks him lentils. For Esau, the immediate visible and physical enjoyment of food “this day” (Genesis 25:31) is more important than the future blessing associated with his birthright (compare with Hebrews 12:16-17).

“The promises made to Abraham and confirmed to his son were held by Isaac and Rebekah as the great object of their desires and hopes. With these promises Esau and Jacob were familiar. They were taught to regard the birthright as a matter of great importance, for it included not only an inheritance of worldly wealth but spiritual pre-eminence. He who received it was to be the priest of his family, and in the line of his posterity the Redeemer of the world would come.” — Ellen G. White, Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 177.

For Jacob, in contrast to his brother, the future spiritual significance of blessing is what matters. Yet, later, under the instigation of his mother (see Genesis chapter 27), Jacob openly and purposely deceives his father, even using the name of “the LORD your God” (Genesis 27:20, NKJV) in perpetrating that deception. He does this terrible deception, even though it was for something that he knew was good.

The results were tragic, adding whole new layers of dysfunction to an already dysfunctional family.

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Sabbath Afternoon

Read for This Week’s Study: Genesis 25:21-34, Genesis 28:10-22, Genesis 11:1-9, Genesis 29:1-30, Genesis 30:25-32.

Memory Text: “And Esau said, ‘Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright, and now look, he has taken away my blessing!’ And he said, ‘Have you not reserved a blessing for me?’” (Genesis 27:36, NKJV).

We now pick up on the continued family history of Isaac, the miracle child and early ancestor of the promised seed. The story doesn’t start out particularly well, however. The flawed character of his son Jacob will be manifested in the rivalry between the two brothers over the birthright (Genesis 25:27-34) and consequently over the right to obtain the blessing of Isaac (Genesis chapter 27).

Because Jacob deceives his father and steals the blessing from his older brother, he will have to flee for his life. In exile, God confronts him at Bethel (Genesis 28:10-22). From then on Jacob, the deceiver, will experience some deception himself. Instead of Rachel, whom Jacob loved (Genesis chapter 29), Leah, the older daughter, will be given to Jacob, and he will have to work 14 years to earn his wives.

Yet, Jacob will also experience God’s blessing, for in exile he will have 11 of his sons, and God will increase his wealth.

Thus, whatever else we can see in this story, we can see how God will fulfill His covenant promises, one way or another, regardless of how often His people fail.

Study this week’s lesson to prepare for Sabbath, May 28.

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Support for the mission activities of the Seventh-day Adventist church has always been part of the Sabbath School program. This video is Mission Spotlight for this week.
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