Genesis chapter number 32, Genesis chapter 32. We'll look at a man by the name of Jacob, the man who wrestled with God. The reality of it is that probably every one of us at some point in our lives have wrestled with God. Jacob just wrestled with Him in a physical way, although it also has a spiritual connotation to it. You and I wrestle with the Lord in a spiritual way. Genesis chapter number 32, find if you would verse number 22, Genesis 32. And verse number 22. We're looking at fascinating lives of forgotten people. We've learned that a forgotten life is not necessarily an insignificant life. Look, if you would, verse 22, and he rose up that night, it's talking about Jacob, rose up that night and took his two wives and his two women servants and his eleven sons and passed over the Ford Jabbok. And he took them and sent them over the brook, and sent over that that he had. So everything is passed over the brook. And Jacob, verse number 24, was left alone. And there wrestled a man. Not just a man, but a divine man. with him until the breaking of the day. You say, Preacher, how do you know he was a divine man? Because look at verse 25, And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his Jacob's thigh, and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint as he wrestled with him. And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob. And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel. For as a prince hast thou power with God, and with men, and hast prevailed. And Jacob asked him and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he, the Lord, blessed him there. And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved. And as he passed over Penuel, the sun rose upon him, and he halted, he limped upon his thigh. Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew, the tendon which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh unto this day, because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew, the tendon that shrank. Jacob is the grandson of the patriarch Abraham. He's the secondborn son of Isaac and Rebekah. He's the twin brother of a man by the name of Esau from whom the Edomites would descend. And we find that they would become the arch enemies of the nation of Israel. They were actually cousins. The Edomites were with the Israelites. They became enemies. Jacob has been called the man with two natures. Can I tell you that's not unique to Jacob? Every Christian is a person with two natures. There is an old you and a new you. There is the fleshly carnal you, the old me before I was saved, that old man that's still there, but yet, wait a minute, there is a new me who I became, the new creature that I became in the Lord Jesus Christ. And Jacob illustrates the struggle of the natures, the battle that goes on in the heart of every child of God. Jacob had come to know the God of heaven in Bethel. He was fleeing for his life. His brother Esau was going to kill him for stealing his birthright. His mom and his dad, Isaac and Rebekah, had sent him away to Paddan Aram in Syria to the family there, Laban. It's there that he's going to have his two wives, Rachel and Leah. And of course we know that they'll give their handmaids to Jacob as well, and out of that are going to come twelve sons. Twenty years of Jacob's life is spent outside the land of Canaan. Twenty years he's going to live outside the will of God, a saved man, but a backslidden man. A man who knows the Lord, but he's away from the Lord. He's controlled by his carnal, fleshly nature. He's going to live by His own terms rather than God's terms. He's going to go His way. His name Jacob, true to nature, He's a schemer. He's a trickster. He tries to scheme His way through life. But here's what I'm going to tell you. God loved Jacob too much to let Jacob stay Jacob. And God loves you and me too much to let us remain who we are before God saved us. God loves me too much to remain the old me. God's at work in Jacob's life and God's at work in our lives to keep being who we are in our own sinful nature. God is going to bring Jacob to the end of himself. He's going to put him in a place he can't wiggle and scheme his way and trick his way out of. He's going to bring him to a place of brokenness. Can I help us to understand tonight? that you and I as believers, that God will bring us to places of brokenness, that He might bring about His desired purposes in our lives. If God break us, it's but to make us. God never crushes us, but to create in us. what He desires in our lives because God knows this is the only way to bring us to the place that we need to be, which is conformity to the image of Jesus Christ. And so that's what we see in Jacob's life at this point. Arthur Pink, and I don't recommend reading everything Arthur Pink's ever written, He's gotten several books he writes on the lives of Old Testament characters. He's a dyed-in-the-wool Calvinist, and so he can't swallow everything that he says. But he said there's at least eight interesting contrasts in the life of Jacob. I'm just going to give them to you real quickly. He went out young, talking about when he left Canaan to go to Syria, he came back old. He went out single, he came back married. He went out poor, he comes back rich. He went out healthy, he comes back lame. He went out with an old name, he's going to come back into Canaan with a new name. He goes out of Canaan, he's alienated, he comes back reconciled to his brother. He goes out, when he went out, his mother Rebecca is alive. He comes back as mother Rebecca's dad. When she is a part of the scheme and the trick, the tricking and the scheming to get the birthright for Jacob rather than Esau, and she sends him away to Syria, he will never see his mother alive again. During that 20 years, Rebekah will go to heaven. He went out walking away from God. He comes back walking with God. God has a way of bringing us back to Himself, doesn't He? Tonight, I want us to see Jacob, the man who wrestled with God. And I want us to begin by noticing the crisis of his life. There was many a crisis in Jacob's life, but this was the crisis of his life that's going to bring him to the end of himself to where God can accomplish His purposes in Jacob's life. Here's what I've learned about crisis. You say, Preacher, what do they do? Crisis has prod us to God. They move us to God to accomplish His purposes in our lives. And so Jacob is now returning to the promised land. God has come to him there in Syria. He said, I want you to go back to Bethel. Go back to the place where you met me. Go back to the place where I changed your life. Go back to the place where I forgave your sin. Go back to the place when you were right with me. Can I help us to understand tonight that for every Christian who departs from God, the point of return is the point of departure. Where we leave God is where we come back to God. We come back to a place of confession. And He's going to bring Jacob to a place of confession where Jacob is going to confess who he is and what he is, and there's going to be a time of brokenness in his life. He's headed in the right direction, but he's not there yet. in spite of his waywardness, God's blessed him. He's got twelve children. He's got flocks and herds and servants. I mean, as Jacob's making his way from Syria back to Canaan, it's like a little city moving along, slowly. I mean, probably, no doubt, the servants numbered to where there was probably several hundred people here at this time that are making their way back. But when you come to verse 7 of chapter 32, here's the crisis. The messengers are going to come, excuse me, verse number 6, and they're going to let Jacob in on something. Look at verse 6, And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him. Suddenly Jacob is petrified. The last time he saw his brother, he had robbed him of his birthright and his brother had threatened to take his life. Now 20 years later he's coming back. He's not alone. He has a family. He has flocks. He has herds. He has substance. And he's coming back and the age-old grudge in Jacob's mind is still there. And here's his brother with 400 men on his way, not just to kill him, but his entire family and take everything that he's got. And Jacob is petrified. Look at verse 7. Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed. You say, Preacher, what does that mean? He was scared to death. And he divided the people that was with him and the flocks and the herds and the camels. You know what he does? He immediately starts scheming. He immediately starts figuring out, how can I save some? I'm not going to be able to save all of them, but how can I save some of them? And he begins to lean to his own understanding. He didn't acknowledge the Lord. He didn't seek God's face. He didn't bring it to the Lord. He didn't say, God, what's your plan about this? No, he began to do it his way. Christian, can I help us to understand tonight? Many of the crises in our lives come from our own causing it because we fail to come to God with the needs and the situations of our lives. Wouldn't we agree with that? And so Jacob begins to suddenly realize, you know what? I'm making a mess. I don't know what to do. So he begins to pray. Look at verse number 11. Deliver me, I pray Thee, from the hand of my brother." This is one of those last-ditch prayers. I mean, he's resorted to everything else. He's tried everything he could try. He's racked his brain to try to figure out what to do. And finally he says, God, I don't know what to do. God, You're going to have to step in on this thing. You ever notice how God, instead of being our first resource, is oftentimes our last resort? And suddenly he begins to call on God. Look at verse 11 again. "...Deliver me at the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau. For I fear him, I am scared to death of him, lest he will come and smite me and the mother with the children." And God, you remember what you said, "...And thou saidest, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude." God, you know if He kills me, you can't fulfill your promise. You're going to have to do something. And he makes a last-ditch prayer. Isn't that something? He no sooner finishes praying, and he goes back to scheming again. And he starts trying to send everybody over in the bands and divide everybody up. And that night, he sends his family, his children, over the Brook Jabba to keep them safe, maybe trying to put a barrier between them and Esau, fearful of the outcome. He's uncertain. He's faithless. Jacob is a picture of the self-life of the believer, the old flesh, the Christian who's living after the flesh rather than the Spirit, doing it our way, leaning to our own understanding, trying to figure it all out rather than bring it to God. And all the while God has been trying to get Jacob's attention all the time since he left. And for years, God's been trying to work in his life. Jacob was a saved man, but he wasn't a submissive man. He had met the Lord at Bethel, but he had never submitted his life to the Lord. Jacob was his own master. And God is going to bring a crisis in his life that Jacob can't scheme and trick and figure his way out of like he does every time before. Now we're going to see not only is there a crisis, but now there's a confrontation. It's not between Jacob and Esau. It's going to be Jacob and God. Look at verse number 24. And Jacob was left alone. That means everybody's over. He's on this side of the brook. Everybody's on the other side of the brook. He's alone. You ever notice sometimes the greatest battles in our life are not fought in public but private? They're not outward but inward. Notice the Bible said that night. Did you see that? Have you ever noticed it's in those nighttime hours of the soul when we're alone and it's quiet and it's dark that sometimes the most difficult battles are fought in our hearts and in our minds? Oftentimes in the nighttime of the soul that God meets us and wrestles with us. You can say where I'm from, can't you? Wrestles with us. and there wrestled a man. There you go. Let's just go ahead and get there. And there wrestled a man with him, and at the breaking of the day, the Bible said, Jacob, it's alone, and suddenly you think about it. Here you are. Listen, where I'm from, there's places you can go, and it's so dark you can't even see your hand. I've been times out hunting and I'll never forget my granddaddy, he'd say, now, I'll pick you up right here, right here. Well, you know, you come out and it's evening time and he's not there yet and suddenly it gets dark and you're young, you're a kid, you're a teenager and it's black and you forgot your flashlight and you can't see your hand in front of you. I mean, every time a twig snaps, you're about ready thinking you're going to die. You know what I'm talking about? And so it's dark. He can't see anything and suddenly somebody pounces on him and they start fighting with him. Can you imagine that? And that's what's happening. Suddenly a man pounces on him and they start wrestling. And there's a lot of debate about the identity of the man. I don't believe there's any debate for me, but there's people who try to come up with all kinds of different ideas of who it was. Some people believe it was Michael the archangel. Well, Michael's just an angel. He doesn't have the power to do certain things. I'm thankful for the power that he has. He's the special guardian of the nation of Israel. Some believe it's a seraphim, some other angel of God. Let me tell you who I believe it was. I believe it was the Lord Jesus Himself. This man who wrestles with Jacob is a supernatural being who possesses all of the attributes of God. We call them a Christophany. You say, I want to spell that. Well, write the name Christ. C-H-R-I-S-T. and then put a O-P-H-A-N-Y, a Christophany. You say, Pritchard, what is that? That is a pre-incarnate appearance of the Lord Jesus Christ in the Old Testament. Many times Jesus appeared to people and worked in people's lives in the Old Testament. He was called the angel, not an angel of the Lord, but the angel of the Lord. And you're going to find that it was a pre-incarnate appearance of the Lord Jesus. And up until now, Jacob had been able to outwit and scheme his way, get victory over his opponents, whether it be Esau, got his birthright. Isaac, his dad, he tricked him by making him seem like he's Esau, putting goat's hair on his hands, making his voice sound gruff, and putting stuff on his neck, putting on Esau's clothes. He tricked Laban, his father-in-law, and every time he came out on top. Jacob had resorted to whatever trickery and scheme necessary to win. And now he's going to face an opponent he can't outwit, he can't outmaneuver, and he can't outmatch. Jacob that night at the Brook Jabbok had met his match. Now, can I just stop a moment? Many a sermon. Good sermons. You ever notice how the Bible can mess up good preaching? That was supposed to be funny, but I'll explain that. Many a wonderful sermon has been preached that portrays this event as a great illustration of prevailing prayer. That Jacob wrestles with God all night in prayer and finally he pins God to the mat and makes Him blessing. And that's what you're going to do. If you want to win in prayer, you're going to have to wrestle with God and you're going to have to get along and fight with God all night long and then finally you're going to have to pin God to the mat and He'll bless you. That's not what's happening here at all. Truth is, it's not Jacob confronting God, it's God who's confronting Jacob. Jacob didn't initiate this wrestling match, God did. Jacob's not wrestling trying to overcome God, God is wrestling and trying to overcome Jacob. And the reality of it is, is that God many times is at work in the crises of our lives, to confront us in our own fleshly nature to overcome us, to prevail in our lives. Because I'm going to give you something, a truth that probably is the heart of the entire message. I'm going to give it to you now and then I'm going to say it again and again and again. In the Christian life, you win by losing. I lose, God wins. Paul said, what things were gained to me, I counted loss for Christ. That's where it's at. And Jacob is going to win by losing. We're going to find that it was not Jacob trying to get something from God, it's God trying to get something from Jacob. Notice not only is there the crisis of his life and the confrontation of his life, but I want you to note the conquest of his life. Look at verse number 25. And when he saw that he prevailed not, so verse number 24, and Jacob was left alone, there wrestled a man with him until the break. So they're fighting all night long. They're wrestling all night long. Now don't get in your mind that they're fist fighting. OK? They're grappling with one another. They've gotten a hold of one another and they're grappling like what you would think in true... We're not talking about WWE right here. OK? Y'all with me? If you've never watched that, you're the better for it. OK? When I was a kid, we had to watch that Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling when I was a kid. Anybody have to go through that when you was a kid? My dad... I mean, how many remember Wahoo McDaniel? Oh, but you know what? I knew you were in trouble. I knew hands would go up all over the room tonight. I Googled it and made my kids watch it. They said, Dad, please stop, stop, stop. I grew up with that stuff, you know. My wife's grandma, she's with the Lord. She's about Nan's age when she went to heaven. She's a feisty lady. You say, preacher, you're not preaching now, you're meddling. I know that, but anyway. I remember when I married into the family, you know, I'm going to be the good son-in-law. And so I went and picked up Miss Ninah Bell Green. We called her Grandma Granny Green or Maumau Green. That was it. And she was my wife's grandma. And I went and picked her up. And she's probably in her 80s at this point. And I'm going to be the good son-in-law. So I jump out of the car at the beauty salon, run around, open the car door, reach out, take her by the arm. I'm walking her to the door. She flung her hand at me. She said, What are you doing? I said, Grandma, Mama Greene, I'm helping you to the door. She said, I help the old people off the bus when we go on trips. I don't need you to help me. But she thought it was real. If you, hey, you told her that wasn't real, she's gonna fight you. Now listen, if I blowed your bubble like messing up things tonight on other areas, you know I understand. If you thought it was real, I'm sorry, okay? Y'all just have to forgive me, okay? We'll get right after the service. They're grappling, sort of like collegiate wrestling. They're wrestling, they're grappling. And look at verse number 25. All night long, all night long, it's persistence of God. You know what I'm glad God doesn't do? I'm glad God doesn't come our way and wrestle with us for a little bit and say, you know what, if that's the way you're going to be, you just have it and walk away. I'm glad God's persistent, aren't you? I'm glad God doesn't give up on me. And they wrestled all night long. Look at verse 25. And when he saw that he prevailed not against him... This is the Lord prevailed. He's trying to bring Jacob to the end of himself, to pin him to the mat, so to speak. When he prevailed not against him, when Jacob would not submit all throughout the night, he, the Lord, touched the hollow of his thigh. and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint. She shrunk the tendon so that his hip joint popped out as he wrestled with him. God broke Jacob at his strongest point. That tendon, that area of the body is one of the strongest areas of the body. God broke Jacob at his strongest point to bring him to his weakest point. Jacob couldn't fight. He couldn't flee. He couldn't run. Jacob was down for the count. He was at the end of himself. He knew it. This is the greatest lesson that we'll learn in the Christian life that because of our own self-will, before God can bless us, He must break us of our own self-will our own flesh, our own our way, doing it my way. God has to bring us to the end of our steps. We win by losing. You know, it's interesting to go through the Bible and look at all the broken things that God used. The lanterns of Gideon had to be broken before the light would shine in the book of Judges and win a great victory. The alabaster box of Mary filled with the ointment that Mary of Bethany had, it had to be broken before it could give forth its fragrance. The bread and fishes given to the Lord by the young lad to feed the thousands, it had to be broken before they could be fed. The body of Jesus, listen to this, had to be broken in death before we could experience the forgiveness of sins and have life. M. R. D. Hahn wrote a book called Broken Things. It was called Why We Suffer. Here's what he wrote. He said, We cast the broken things aside and call them junk, but God casts the unbroken things aside as useless. how we need to be broken, how often we bewail and bemoan the sad fact of broken lives, but find later that only broken things are used by the Lord, and that only after we are broken are we at our very best for God. God breaks us. Crisis us. Sometimes a crisis is a wrestling match with God, to deal with an area of our lives that God is trying to bring under His control, under His mastery, so that He can make us more like Jesus. We win by losing. Will you say that with me, church? One, two, three. We win by losing. Are you willing to lose to God that He might win in your life? Notice number four tonight. There's going to be a change in his life. Now Jacob starts resisting and he starts clinging. He's no longer grappling, he's just hanging on. He won't turn him loose. This is where if you want to go to the prevailing prayer, we can go there. But I believe he's clinging to God now at this point out of desperation. God has Jacob where He wants him. Look at verse number 26. And he, this is the Lord, said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. God, I've fought with You all night long. I've tried to prevail and win and trick and scheme and outwit and outmaneuver all night long. And I'm broken. I'm weary. I'm defeated. And I just want Your blessing. This word bless is not the normal word for bless. I looked it up again just before I left home to come back to the service tonight just to get it fresh in my mind again, this word bless. It's an interesting word. It carries with it the idea of kneeling before or bowing before. It means to kneel. Broken and helpless before God, Jacob crowns God as Lord of his life. He's bowing now, so to speak, in his heart, in his life, before God, and he's saying, you win, God, you win. Now bless me. Now bless me. God's going to ask him a question. Look at verse 27. And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob. Remember I told you the point of departure is the point of return? God had changed Jacob, but he was still living like old Jacob. How often do we still live like the old us? Has the old you showed up anywhere today? I know He does in my life. He said, what's your name? And he said, it's Jacob. God's not wanting information. He knew who Jacob was. He knew his name, knew everything about him. He knew about Jacob than Jacob knew. God was seeking for a confession. If we confess our sins. I'm Jacob. I'm deceiver. I'm trickster. I'm schemer. I'm manipulator. That's what Jacob means. That's who I am. You see, Jacob's real problem wasn't Esau. It was Jacob. Can I tell you the person that we have trouble with is really not our real problem. Our real problem is us. I remember I was going to preach in my former church out of Romans chapter 7 on the battle of the flesh and the spirit. And I said, now church, tonight I'm going to reveal the biggest troublemaker in our church. I said, I'm going to name them by name. I'm going to point them out in the service. You say, preached anybody show up? Sure they did. They wanted to know who it was. And I said, no, church, tonight I'm going to tell you who the biggest troublemaker in our church is. I'm going to name them by name. I'm going to point them out. And they said, well, who is it? And I said, it's me. I said, I'm the biggest troublemaker in my life. I have more problems with Kevin Broil than I do anybody else. I am my biggest enemy and the truth is you're your biggest enemy tonight. Isn't that right? I am Jacob. For the first time in his life, Jacob came to grips with who and what he really was. After years of running from God, he's now running to God. There's a radical transformation that took place. It's a picture of the crucified life of dying to Seth, living to God. Dying to Seth, living to God. There are times when the heavenly wrestler pins us to the mat to break us and bring us to the place where he can bless us. Someone said Jacob went into the match a whole man. He came out a lame man. When the bell sounded, he was a haughty man. But when the decision was rendered, he was a humbled man. God has a way of humbling us, doesn't He? God's going to bless Jacob in three ways. I'm going to give them to you real quickly and we're going to go home tonight because we're getting to the end of the service, alright? He first of all gives him a new name. Look at verse 28. And He said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob. You're not trickster, schemer, swindler, manipulator, but Israel. Wow! "...For as a prince hast thou power with God, and with men, and hast prevailed." You have won because you were willing to lose. You're no longer deceiver and planner and trickster. Now you're prince with God. God crippled Jacob in order to crown Jacob. He gave him a new power. Notice he said, for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed. As a broken man, Jacob no longer needed to depend on Jacob. He didn't need to outwit and outmaneuver and out scheme his adversaries. All he needed to do now was to depend on God. He prevailed. He had strength. When we're weak, we're strong. Paul said, Most gladly, therefore, I believe it's in your notes, 2 Corinthians 12, verses 7-10. I think they're in your notes. We're not going to look at all of it tonight for sake of time. But Paul says, Most gladly, therefore, will I glory in my infirmity, my weakness, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. When I'm weak, I'm strong. Jacob didn't need to face Esau in his power. He could face Esau in God's power. In the next scene Esau is going to ride with 400 men. I want you to notice what happens. Look over at chapter 33 verse number 4. He shows up and I want you to notice he's expecting at any moment the swords to come out, the heads to go flying, to be killed. Look at verse number 4. And Jacob's going toward him, bowing to the ground. Verse 4, And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck. And they kissed him, and they wept. Say, preacher, what happened? God changed Jacob that He might change Esau. And then not only is there a new name and a new power, but lastly, there's a new recognition. A new recognition of God. He says that, look if you would, verse number 29. And Jacob asked Him, this is back in chapter 32 verse 29, and Jacob asked Him and said, Tell me, I pray Thee, Thy name. And He said, Wherefore is it that Thou dost ask after My name? And He, talking about the Lord, blessed Him there. He blessed Him. And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel. Peniel, for I have seen God face to face and my life is preserved." Jacob had a fresh view of God. Do you know what I found that happens in the crisis moments of life and that we get a fresh view of God? No longer is Jacob in charge. Now God's in charge. Do you know that God refers to Himself as the God of Jacob no less than 25 times in the Bible? The God of Jacob. The God of Jacob. The God of Jacob. And then he's going to have a new view of himself. Look at verse 30 and I'm going to be done. He called the name Peniel, verse 31, and he passed over Penuel. The sun rose upon it and he halted. He limped upon his thigh. He walked back into camp with a limp. Jacob, why are you limping? I had a wrestling match last night. Who'd you fight with, Jacob? I wrestled with God. Did you win? Yeah. How'd you win? I lost. I lost. Do you know that limp was a forever reminder in Jacob's life of his dependence now upon God? Do you know what he was saying? That limp was saying, Jacob, you need God. The next 17 years of his life, Jacob's a different man. He is. He's a man of great faith and devotion to the God of heaven. He's going to have his moments just like we will, but he's going to rise to a new place. He's going to be enshrined in Hebrews Hall of Faith in Hebrews chapter 11. Here's what the writer of Hebrews says of Jacob. It doesn't talk about all the other things in Jacob's life. Here's what it says. By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph and worshipped, leaning upon the top of his staff. From that day forward, Jacob needs a cane. He's going to use his staff to support him on that weak side because of the limp that God brought into his life to teach him that he needed to depend upon God. Years later, Jacob the wrestler is going to become Jacob the worshiper. He's going to lean on his staff. God had touched him in a way that you never forget that night at the Brook Jabbok. He wrestled him. No doubt. No doubt. When he gave his testimony to his sons and said, fellas, later in life, I remember that night I wrestled with God. And I lost. Best night I ever had in my life. I lost. And God won in my life. I believe he thanked God for what he had done in his life. Christian, can I tell you, you're going to win by losing. When you and I come to the end of our selves, When we allow God to break us of our salves is when God wins in our lives. We win by losing. Most gladly, therefore, will I glory in my infirmity, my weakness, that the power of Christ might rest upon me. Christian, just remember tonight that in those moments that you wrestle with God, at any moment Jacob could have gave up. At any moment he could have ended the fight. At any moment, he could have said, God, You win. It took God, had to do something drastic in his life to bring him to the place he needed to be. When God wrestles with us, let's just go ahead and give up. Let's just go ahead and let God win, because when God wins, we win. Amen? Jacob, the man who wrestled with God. Let's pray together. Lord, thank You for Your truth tonight.