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Bad Blood | December 3, 2023Logan Holloman | Next Gen Pastor\nWe all need relationships but no human relationship can be all we need\nGenesis 25:19-34 \u2014 Isaac, Jacob, Esau\nGenesis 27 \u2014 Defying God, deceiving, lying, running\nGenesis 28:10-20 \u2014 Aha! "God is here"\nGenesis 29:16-20 (NIV):Now Laban had two daughters; the name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. Leah had weak eyes, but Rachel had a lovely figure and was beautiful. Jacob was in love with Rachel and said, \u201cI\u2019ll work for you seven years in return for your younger daughter Rachel.\u201dLaban said, \u201cIt\u2019s better that I give her to you than to some other man. Stay here with me.\u201d So Jacob served seven years to get Rachel, but they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her.\nGenesis 29:16-30 \u2014 Consumed by desire, ignored deception\nGenesis 29:21 (NIV):Then Jacob said to Laban, \u201cGive me my wife. My time is completed, and I want to make love to her.\u201d\nIf you are too afraid of love or too enamored by it, it has assumed godlike power, distorting your perceptions and your life.\u2014 Tim Keller, Counterfeit Gods\nGenesis 29:31-34 (NIV):When the Lord saw that Leah was not loved, he enabled her to conceive, but Rachel remained childless. Leah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Reuben, for she said, \u201cIt is because the Lord has seen my misery. Surely my husband will love me now.\u201dShe conceived again, and when she gave birth to a son she said, \u201cBecause the Lord heard that I am not loved, he gave me this one too.\u201d So she named him Simeon.Again she conceived, and when she gave birth to a son she said, \u201cNow at last my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons.\u201d So he was named Levi.\nGenesis 29:31-34 \u2014 Vying for love and commitment\nGenesis 29:35 (NIV):She conceived again, and when she gave birth to a son she said, \u201cThis time I will praise the Lord.\u201d So she named him Judah. Then she stopped having children.\nLeah might have had a sense that there was something special about this last child. She may have the intuition that God had done something for her. And he had. Certainly, the writer of Genesis knew it. This child was Judah, and in Genesis 49 we are told that it is through him that the true King, the Messiah, will someday come. God had come to the girl that nobody wanted, the unloved, and made her the ancestral mother of Jesus. Salvation came into the world, not through beautiful Rachel, but through the unwanted one, the unloved one.\u2014 Tim Keller, Counterfeit Gods\nMatthew 22:37-39 (NIV):Jesus replied: \u201c\u2018Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.\u2019 This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: \u2018Love your neighbor as yourself.\u2019 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.\u201d\n\u2022 Call if for what it is\u2026sin\u2022 Surrender\u2022 Choose to treat others as \u201cThou\u201d rather than an \u201cit\u201d\nReflection Questions:\n1. Create your own relationship timeline (last week, month, 6 months)? What sticks out to you?Do they have the ability to determine your eternity?\n2. Whom do you seek validation?Who\u2019s words carry the most weight?\n3. What is one specific relationship in your life that God is inviting you to patiently trust him today?\n4. What adjustments might you need to make to treat the people in your life as \u201cThou\u201d rather than an \u201cIt\u201d\nNext Steps: Complete the Connect Card to receive more information, have us pray for you, or to ask us any question: http://journeybozeman.com/connectcardWant to worship through giving and support the ministry of Journey Church: https://journeybozeman.com/giveDownload our a...