Jacob Wrestles God

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0:16Well, before we begin, I want to thank our choir and our orchestra for leading us this morning, and then also Scott for reading this passage, but he's also one of our BCS seminarians and he graduated on Friday and we're thankful for his ministry to our high schoolers as well. Would you join me now as we pray? Father in heaven, if we do these things in our own strength, it is all for Naugh. And so would you come now in the power of your spirit and give us eyes to see and hearts to behold, would you cause dead hearts to come alive, dull hearts to be filled afresh? Give us attention so that we might see wondrous things here in this chapter of scripture for our good and for our everlasting joy.

1:15We pray this in Jesus' name, amen. One, one of our children who shall go unnamed because every time I use them in an illustration, I owe them $20. I've said, uh, we will ask good questions right as we put them to bed. Questions like this. Dad, what do you think God is like? Or how can God be three persons, but one God? Do you think Jesus could read everyone's mind? Or how does prayer work if God already knows what we ask? Those are great questions, just not before bedtime. Uh, I I can't figure out if these are genuine questions or if it's just a clever ploy to get dad to stay in their room a little bit longer.

2:12So, uh, I'll, I'll let you know when I figure out. But like that child, we can come to God and we can come to God's word with lots of questions, questions that sometimes get answered, but many questions that don't get answered. And you may come this morning into this service and you have questions on your mind as you look out on your circumstances, on your experiences, you have questions like, what are you doing? God, uh, why is this particular situation so difficult? Uh, what, what are you teaching me in this moment? What do you have in store for me? Perhaps you're one of these high school or college or seminary graduates, or what does the future hold that we come with lots of questions.

3:01And Genesis 32 feels a little bit like that. There's all these details, quirky details in this chapter, and we have many questions. For example, verse one opens with angels meeting Jacob. And we're not told how many angels were there. What did they look like? Did they say anything? Was Jacob afraid? Why did they show up? Or in verse six, Esau is coming after Jacob with 400 men. And so is this an army? Is he angry? Is an attack imminent later, Jacob wrestles with a man who's later revealed to be God? And we get more questions. How can man wrestle God? Oh, was this an angel? Was it the pre-incarnate Christ?

3:47Why does he not reveal his name when he's asked? Why does he give Jacob a limp? Why does Jacob wrestle God to a stalemate seemingly, and why does Israel not eat the sunu of the thigh on the hip socket? So lots of questions here in this text, and we can kind of get lost in some of the details, but I want us to make sure we see the main point, which we'll talk about in just a moment. But if you're just joining us, we're in this preaching series through the book of Genesis, and last week we saw that God was with Jacob as his protector in chapters 29 and 30 and 31. Genesis 32 now traces Jacob's return right before he's reunited with Esau.

4:35And so we can kind of put our, put ourselves in Jacob's shoes, can't we? Or sandals, if you will. We can imagine what Jacob is feeling. He's finally headed home after 20 years away, and there's this mixture of excitement and nervousness. The last time he saw his family, he had left after lying to and deceiving his own father. His brother wanted to murder him, and yet he's still excited. He, he, he, he wants them to meet his wives and children. And there's these mixed emotions. He's fearful of the consequences of his sin and he's unafraid of the unknown. And you can think of it a little bit like this for some of you, you came to faith in college.

5:23And so when you go back to your hometown where you went to high school, you might meet up with old high school friends and you're a very different person now, and it can feel a little bit awkward. You've changed a lot and you had a very different reputation in those previous days. That wasn't me. That's not me anymore. Jacob has undergone 20 years of transformation and this now Genesis 32 is this climactic point of his metamorphosis.

5:55Jake Genesis 32 marks that Jacob is now a changed man. He's not perfect, but he's gonna stumble and fall. But he's ch changed from this deceiver to this God-fearing patriarch of God's chosen people. So we're gonna look at our passage in two main parts. First we get Jacob's worry in verses one through 21, and then we get Jacob's wrestling in 22 to the end. So look with me now at Jacob's worry. Genesis 32 opens in this way. Jacob went on his way and the angels of God met him. And when saw them, he said, this is God's camp. Now we don't know what the angels were doing or whether they said anything.

6:43All we know is that angels showed up. But if you've been with us in our series, you know that the only other place that this has shown up was Genesis 28, verse 12, where the angels of God came to him as he was headed to Haran to be with Laben, and they were ascending and descending on these flight of stairs. And now as he heads back, angels show up once again. 20 years later, he gets another angelic sighting. Why? I think it's to show us that God has said, God has done as he has said, God has kept his promise. Uh, there's almost this sense that the angels have been with him for this entire 20 years as he's gone to be with Laben.

7:34God has been with him as his protector kept his promises. In a sense, it's saying, I said, I would be with you. And now look at you now, Jacob, he, he calls this God's camp names it Mahan, meaning two camps. And so I think that's pointing to, I have my camp, and then there's this angelic camp here, but it's also foreshadowing the fact that Jacob is going to separate his own camp into two as well. So this angel's presence, many of these angels confirm God's relentless grace to Jacob. Now the next verse is reveal that Jacob is very worried about seeing Esau. Verse three. You can see that there Jacob sends messengers, it's the same word as angels in verse one, to go to Esau with specific instructions.

8:24And again, Jacob, as we've seen, is this man who always has a plan self-sufficient. So first what we notice though is that Jacob truly is changed, that there's this newfound humility that we've not seen in him yet. He says, call Esau my Lord. And, and I am your servant Jacob. He tells his servants to go communicate that message that he has oxen and donkeys and flocks and servants, basically e Esau have become very rich. I've become a multi-millionaire. Now, is he bragging? Is he showing off in this moment? I don't think so. And we will find out what he is trying to say. The second thing we see is that Jacob doesn't need to send messengers to Esau.

9:11He, he's coming from Haran, which is way up here. And we know that Esau settled in Edem, which is way down here. And Isaac and the promised land is right here, kind of in the middle. And he comes down and Esau comes up. And so Esau is going out of his way to intercept Jacob. Now what we see is that Esau's on the way with 400 men, this is the typical size of what would've been a militia or a small army. And Jacob is greatly afraid. He separates his flocks into two camps, and he knows that God is with him. And that revelation came to him in chapter 31. I know that God has been with me, and yet he's still fearful and he's shrewd.

9:55Uh, we see that he has this plan to, to send his things into two different camps. So if Esau comes, one will survive and the other may be destroyed. What we see is this shrewdness be like serpents and innocent as doves. But how else does Jacob respond? He prays. We see that in verses nine to 12. This is Jacob's first prayer that's recorded, and it's the longest prayer that's recorded in the book of Genesis. This is this landmark moment, this self-sufficient schemer. And trickster has always got a plan, always working harder to figure it out. I'm gonna peel sticks. But now finally, he prays to God, and we're gonna come back to that at the end of this section.

10:45But what I wanna do is just walk through the rest of it. Next he launches into action. He's desperate. He, he wants to kill Esau with kindness. So he packages up all these animals about 580 in total, which is a very generous gift, which shows us that Jacob has grown very, very wealthy. This is just a fraction of his net worth. And he sends this to Esau from your servant Jacob, as a present to my Lord, Esau wave after wave after wave of gift present, softening him up. And then verse 20 tells us for he thought I may appease him with the present that goes ahead of me. And afterward I shall see his face.

11:32Perhaps he will accept me. Uh, I want you to look at verse 20 for a moment. There, there's a play on the Hebrew word face. So it, it reads very literally. And you can see some of the subscript kind of in your footnotes in your Bible. I may appease his face with the present that goes ahead of my face. And afterward I shall see his face. Perhaps he will lift up my face. Uh, that, that's the very literal translation. So what's up with all the faces? Well, Jacob is nervous about seeing Esau's face, but what we'll see is the twist is that he's actually going to see God face to face. What he's most afraid of is not what he should be most afraid of because if he sees God's face, he would die, which is what he says later.

12:25I've seen God's face and, and I'm alive. And later in Genesis 33, 33 10, he'll say, for I have seen your face speaking to Esau, which is like seeing the face of God, and you have accepted me. Uh, I think the lesson that we're supposed to see here is that we're supposed to keep our eyes fixed on God and so that the faces around us that cause us anxiety and fear would not have the same power. Now, Jacob is shrewd. If he saw attacks, he's gonna lose all his possessions anyways, so he goes all out in preparing this gift for Esau to dissipate his anger. And the narrative tension of this scene doesn't conclude until next me next week.

13:12And so Jared Compton's gonna look at Genesis 33 for us. But what I wanna do now is rewind to Jacob's prayer. How does Jacob pray? First, he addresses God by calling to mind God's faithfulness to Abraham and to Isaac. Second, he rehearses God's command, oh Lord, who said to me, return to your country and to your kindred that I may do. You good. Th this is a faith-filled way of saying, I'm in all this trouble because of you, God, you are the one that told me to go back. And so he's quoting God back to him. Third, we see that he's newly humbled. Verse 10, I am not worthy of the least of all the deeds of steadfast love and all the faithfulness that you have shown to your servant for with only my staff, I crossed to this Jordan, and now I have become two camps.

14:11Jacob acknowledges God's protection and provision and blessing. He finally realizes I don't deserve any of this. And yet, God, you have been so gracious, so lavish to me. Fourth Jacob makes this request. Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear him that he may come and attack me. The mothers with the children, oh Lord, deliver me, deliver me. I I'm afraid of Esau's murderous hand. And then lastly, why should God deliver him? He says in verse 12, but you said, I will surely do you good and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude what we get in this is an example from Jacob on how to pray.

15:07But you said he prays God's promises back to him. And we know that Jacob was not much of a praying man, was he? And, and when Esau wanted to kill him, he didn't pray. He, when he didn't pray, when he was looking for a wife, he didn't pray for Rebecca's. Rachel's barrenness like Isaac prayed for Rebecca's barrenness. He didn't pray for God's help with Laban's trickery. Jacob is the self-sufficient man. We see it when he first encounters Rachel, he tears off or pushes away. The stone shows his own strength. He goes out of his way to figure out all of his problem. He can either outsmart or out muscle everything that he needs in order to figure it out.

15:51But now he's desperate. 400 men are on the way. He can't trick all of them. And I think we get this lesson for us here this morning. Do we pray as a last resort when we tried everything else? Or is it our first instinct? Do we plan and scheme and seek counsel and get advice and send emails and work harder and stay up all night and try a dozen other solutions before we pray?

16:27Is prayer our first instinct? Is it our default setting? It's like when you reset your phone. Is it our factory settings? Like the way it first came Far too often? And this is true of me, and I imagine that it's true for many of us. We do lots of other things before we go to the Lord and pray. Well, can't do anything else. I guess it's time to pray. No. Prayer is the first and best thing that you can do in any and every situation. We pray and we plan, we plan, and we pray. We depend on God ra rather than striving in our own strength to fix things. And the second thing we see is not only Jacob's example of prayer, but he prays God's promises back to him.

17:25He he cites God's promises. He said, you said you said this, which means I, I'm, I'm gonna believe that and I'm trusting that you're gonna follow through on all that you said. God, you are the one who said to me, you said you are going to be true to your word because of your steadfast love and faithfulness, because you are a God who cannot lie. God, I I'm trusting you. Do we do that? Do we pray by citing God's promises back to him? It it requires that we read God's word, that we memorize it, that we know his promises to us. For example, there's probably not a Sunday that goes by where I don't pray.

18:13Isaiah 55, 10 and 11, it says this, for as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there, but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater. So shall my word be that goes out from my mouth. It shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose and shall succeed in. The thing for which I sent it almost every Sunday, I'm like, Lord, I, it's been written, it's here. But if you don't cause it to go forth, it's just gonna be useless. It's gonna land on dead hearts and deaf ears. But God, you said that you send it out and it will give bread to the eater and seed for the sower and it never returns void.

19:01And so I can have great confidence that even if I don't have confidence in my own words, I have confidence in God who will use weak words for the purpose of accomplishing it in the lives of his people. Do we pray and sight God's promises back to him? That's the first lesson. Jacob's rightly worried about his encounter with Esau, but he's going to have another encounter that is even more significant. So let's look at Jacob's wrestling in 22 to 32. This second part is this mixed martial arts match in the middle of the night. Everyone else is on the other side of the JAK River. Jacob's probably afraid, maybe a bit of a coward, but he's all alone separates himself.

19:56Maybe he thinks I'll, I'll take the brunt of Esau's wrath and maybe he won't hurt the women and children. Or maybe let's send the women and children first so that I'll hopefully be safe. And we're told that he's wrestling with a man. Now, if you've ever wrestled before or trained in like Brazilian jiujitsu, you know that grappling like just even for 10 minutes is exhausting. You're just covered in sweat. And here Jacob wrestles all night, he's strong, he's tenacious, he's unrelenting. He doesn't back down, doesn't give up, doesn't let go. Verse 25 tells us the man did not prevail. So he touches his hip and cripples him, putting his hip out of socket.

20:42So again, we get all these questions. How can Ja Jacob wrestle God to a stalemate? Like why doesn't God just overpower him? Like put him in a divine headlock and wrestle him to the ground? You know, maybe a choke hold. And Jacob would very quickly pass out, why does he permanently injure him? How does Jacob know to ask for a blessing? This encounter reveals that Jacob gets to meet God face to face. Now, this man could be an angel or the pre-incarnate Christ or, or some other manifestation of God. And later in, in Hosea 12 four, it says that he strove with the angel and prevailed others, conclude that it's Jesus.

21:29And I don't think it matters necessarily which one, but it's very clear Jacob has met the living God. And I think what we're supposed to see is that God condescends so that Jacob can go toe to toe and hand to hand with the creator and sustainer of the entire universe. God humbles himself to the point where Jacob can wrestle him, touch him, and engage him. This is like the dad who gets on the ground and wrestles his little kids and they climb all over him. And these kids are going full strength, right? And dad is big enough, strong enough that he can just play with him. God is not weak in this story, but he's willing to engage people at their level.

22:28It it, it's really an amazing picture of the glorious God of the universe. God Almighty God most high. He comes down and he goes low in order to interact with his people. Let me see if I can illustrate it a little bit. In college, my roommates and I built a relationship with a homeless man named Al and he ended up sleeping on the stoop of our, uh, apartment for about six months or so. So just outside the door, there's that little, you know, eight feet by eight feet, little spot. Uh, the person who was renting to us was not super happy about that. Um, but we would take him to church regularly. And so whenever he sat in my car, his smell was just overpowering and I had to roll down the windows.

23:17And at times I was like, I just gotta breathe through my mouth. 'cause like, I can't stand it like I would otherwise throw up. I wanted to turn my face away and hold my nose because of how bad it was. And, and the picture that I wanna paint for us is that God does not do that with his creation. He comes close. He doesn't recoil in horror at the foul aroma of the sin of his creatures. He doesn't get disgusted by Jacob, but he comes low to wrestle him, to test his strength and to engage intimately with his creation. God reveals his love by coming close and being intimately acquainted. And this morning, all those in Christ have an intimate encounter with God.

24:08We have the indwelling power of the Holy Spirit, and we've been brought into union with Christ. How amazing is that reality? Very often we think, God, if he knew what I did last week or if he could see the deep recesses of my heart, he would just recoil in horror. If my pastor would see if my spouse would see, if my children knew, if my parents knew. And yet God sees it all. And he does not recoil in horror. He says, let me go to them because they need help. Jacob won't let go until he gets a blessing. And, and the man says to him, what, what's your name? Now? It's not because God did not know his name at this point.

24:57He wants Jacob to say his name out loud. I am Jacob, I'm the heel grabber. I'm the one who supplant. I'm the one who deceives. And Es saw back in chapter 27, says, isn't he rightly named Jacob for he has cheated me these two times. Jacob is an embarrassing name, heel grabber. No offense to all the Jacobs in the room. It it, it's like being named Adolf with all of its associations with Hitler. I remember when I lived in Wheaton, we were in a small group and one family had named their dog Piper, and then another family had named their daughter Piper. It was a little bit awkward. Not that Piper's a derogatory name, but you kinda see just what the angel, what God is doing with Jacob here.

25:49Like, say your name out loud. You are the heel grabber, you're the supplanter. And then in verse 28, this is the theological center of our chapter. Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have driven with God and with men and have prevailed. God graciously, gloriously gives Jacob a new name. This signals his transformation and metamorphosis that takes place. Jacob says, I want a blessing. And in this context it's I'm gonna meet Esau in just a moment. I want to guarantee that I'm gonna survive that encounter or maybe give me a small army or maybe gimme a army of angels so that when I see Esau I can overpower him.

26:38And what he gets instead is he gets more of God. He doesn't get all those guarantees. What he gets is God. Jacob's life a as we look, has been one of wrestling, hasn't it? He was wrestling with Esau in the womb. He was wrestling away Esau's birthright. He wrestled away Esau's blessing from his father. He goes to live with Uncle Laben and he wrestles away all of his possessions and belongings and riches. Then his wives, Leah and Rachel are wrestling with one another. Jacob's life is this constant struggle, constant wrestling match. But now he is renamed Israel. God struggles or may God struggle.

27:27It signifies that Jacob has wrestled with God, struggled with God and prevailed receiving this new identity. And then he says in verse 30, for I have seen God face to face, and yet my life has been delivered. He names that place, peno, which means face of God. I, I've seen, I've looked upon the face of God. I didn't know that's what I needed, but that's what I got. And that is what transforms me. God says to Moses in Exodus 33, Exodus 33, 20, you cannot see my face for man shall not see me and live. And so what's going on here? It could be that Jacob looked upon the face of the angel or perhaps some other manifestation, or perhaps it was veiled in some sense.

28:21But it's very clear that Jacob has encountered the living God and he's been given hope and confidence. And as a result, he's handicapped but changed. He can survive seeing and wrestling with God. And, and then this chapter concludes with this weird comment about the dietary practice that the Israelites don't eat the suno or the tendon muscle from the hip socket. So what a odd detail to point out. And so what do we make of something like that? This moment gets memorialized. So imagine Israelite family, they're butchering a lamb for a feast and the dad is, you know, cutting up the carcass and he takes that little piece, cuts it out and puts it off to the side.

29:09And little Johnny comes over and says, why don't we eat in that? And the dad says, well, yeah, good question son. And he gets to put Deuteronomy six four into practice. Let, let me teach you what, why we do what we do. And he goes into this spiel about, well, it calls to mind Genesis 32, where God pursued Jacob and met him and, and even came close so that he could wrestle him. And Jacob held on for a blessing and then he touched his hip socket and permanently handicapped him. And yet that was the beginning of Jacob becoming this God fearing patriarch who would be the father of our nation. And we look back to that moment of God's great mercy, this little piece of tendon or sunu it, it highlights God is so merciful.

30:05Jacob is such a dirty, rotten scoundrel. And yet God said, I'm not gonna leave you that way. I'm not gonna cast you aside and find someone else. I'm gonna take you, but I'm gonna take you in all of your mess and I'm gonna transform you so that you will now be a vessel that is appropriate so that I could call you Israel and that you would be a father of a nation. And that a whole nation that would extend from you would look back and say, this was the moment where God met us, where God's face shined upon us. He lifted up our countenance and his blessing fell. That's what that dad would say in that moment.

30:50God crippled a man to give him a new identity and a new name. So here, here's the lesson. We live in a cursed world full of struggles. We wrestle against sin and enemies and opposition and illnesses. You have relationships that are a struggle. You have family issues that are a struggle. You have unmet expectations. We have griefs and sorrows. We wrestle and we struggle. And yet the Bible tells us in Ephesians six 12 that we don't wrestle against flesh and blood, but we wrestle against the rulers and authorities and cosmic powers and the spiritual forces of evil. So at at the surface we have sort of the struggles and trials at the surface level and, and, and yet there's another level where God, we know that Satan is at work prowling around like a lion and he orchestrates things.

31:51And there's a struggle against these rulers and authorities. The evil is at work and yet there's even one level higher isn't there? And that's what we need to see this morning, that God is in that struggle. God is at work in that wrestling and ultimately God uses our wrestling so that he might transform us and bless us. That's what I want you to see this morning. That you don't just see it at this bottom level. Let me just outsmart and out muscle my enemies and don't just attribute everything to Satan. Uh, Satan's just got it out for me. Can't fight Satan. No. God is at work over and above. We have a sovereign Lord who is ruler over all things.

32:35He's placed all things under his feet. He exerts his final authority. And so he's at work. And so even in the struggle, he's using it so that you would be transformed and conformed to the image of Christ. So you can go to him in prayer, you can trust him. You don't just say, Satan's got my number. That's why I'm sinning. It's all Satan's fault. God is gloriously at work and he's using those challenges, those griefs, those sorrows so that you might trust him more. God places those trials and obstacles and challenges in our life so that we can learn. I can't do it in my own strength. I can't just out muscle it.

33:22I can't just outsmart everybody else. He's showing us the limits of ourself sufficiency. And we live in a day and age where we are self-sufficient. Your your power goes out. Oh, I got a generator run out of food. I got another chest freezer. We're we're just so self-sufficient. We insulate ourselves. Something goes wrong. I I got an emergency fund, I got a 4 0 1 KI can borrow from and we don't learn how to trust the Lord. And so God transforms us through trials to teach us how to depend on him. And Jacobs struggles humble him, teach him to pray so that he might cry out for help. And he learns the lesson that Paul wrote about much later, my grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.

34:26And for some of you this morning, that's the lesson that God wants you to learn. Uh, you look at your life, relationships with family, parenting struggles, financial troubles, trouble at work, world troubles that make you anxious and keep you up at night. Health issues. The loss of a spouse. God is using that so that you might see His grace is sufficient for me. He wants to reveal his power and his love and his grace in the midst of my weakness so that I would stop trying to fix it all on my own. And I might thrust myself to God, citing his promises and saying, oh Lord, deliver me, help me.

35:17God is using these struggles, these wrestlings to conform you into the image of his son Jesus. Because he loves you too much to leave you the way that you are. He's transforming you, teaching you, he's weaning you off of your self-sufficiency so that we might trust the Lord. So Jacob gets more than a new name, he gets a new identity. And the same is true of us this morning for all those who are in Christ. You have a new identity, you have a new name. You are new creations, new creatures in Christ Jesus. We are now called holy and beloved sons and daughters of the most high. We're clothed in the righteousness of Christ.

36:09We're undergoing this divine makeover. You remember that show e extreme home makeover that used to be on tv? You know, they'd go in and they'd literally tear down the entire house except for maybe one wall. 'cause they kind of call it a remodel rather than a rebuild. And then they make it this crazy house and it goes way over the top. And they're yelling, move that bus. Right? Uh, God is doing that work in us, not with the same drama of the TV show, but even more astounding that he takes sinners that are so far, that fall so short that are are just so contrary to what God wants, deceiving and scheming.

36:57God could have picked a much better patriarch to start with. I I don't know if you guys know this, but like he could have gave Jacob a much better story to begin with. Like, let's not call him Jacob heel grabber. Let's call him, you know, the lovely one or whatever it is, right? The manful of integrity and giving him this wonderful story arc where he just goes up and up and up and up and up. And he doesn't. Why? 'cause he wants to show us our deep and profound need for Jesus and transformation so that you would look not just new this morning, not just a makeover, not just a, uh, look younger. He wants you to look like Jesus.

37:41Jacob gets this severe mercy to teach him how to live as one who truly trusts in God. And so for some of you this morning, you need to get to the end of yourself. You've been doing it in your own strength for a long time. Well just until you know we get enough money, well just until whatever, we're more financially stable, just until this situation sorts itself out, you've been running on your own strength. You've been laboring in self-sufficiency, just work harder. Let's just burn the oil on both ends of the wick.

38:24You you're trusting in yourself and God is trying to wean you off of self-sufficiency so that you would trust him, so that you would surrender, so that you would say, Lord, if you're real, I wanna follow you. Follow him. Trust him. He is sufficient, he is good. And for many others of us, the good news is that he's changing us. He's transforming us, and he's conforming us into the image of his son. And he's going to complete that work in the day of Jesus Christ. It will not fail. So don't lament how slow it's going. Instead look to him, gaze upon his face, pray citing his promises and trust him because he is a worthy God.

39:20Let's pray. Father in heaven, we pray that this word would indeed go forth and not return empty, falling to the ground, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater having its intended effect in the lives of your people. And I pray that it would conform us more and more to the image of your son, Jesus, that it would save some, it awaken others, and it would cause all of us to see how good our God is, how wonderful that he goes low so that we might be transformed and changed into the image of your son. Oh, make us more like Jesus. We love him. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

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