it's not luck but it's all about god's favor
TRANSCRIPT
Text: Genesis 30:31-43
• VV 39 So the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted. 40 Then Jacob separated the lambs, and made the flocks face toward the streaked and all the brown in the flock of Laban; but he put his own flocks by themselves and did not put them with Laban’s flock.
People today were considering two kinds of luck!
• A: Good Luck• B: Bad Luck
Theme: It’s not because of luck but it’s because of God’s Favor
Story about a Farmer
• He owned a single Horse
• This Horse escaped and went to the Mountain
•Suddenly
• that it is a sign for a bad
luck that is about to
come.
• His Neighbor told him…
• The horse returned
with a herd of wild
horses from the hills
•A week later,
• His Neighbor again came to him and said
• “Congratulation your bad luck change it into good fortune”
• he fell off its back and broke his leg. Everyone agreed
that the coming of the horses was very
bad luck.
• Then, when the farmer’s son was attempting to tame one of the wild
horses,
• When they saw that the farmer’s son had a broken leg, they let him stay. Everyone
was very happy at the farmer’s good
luck.
• Some weeks later, the army marched into the village and forced every able-bodied young man to go fight in a bloody war.
Remember!•God’s Favor is active
in every circumstances.
What happened after the flocks have saw the Rod?
• V 41 And it came to pass, whenever the stronger livestock conceived, that
Jacob placed the rods before the eyes of the livestock in the gutters, that they might conceive
among the rods.
Numbers 21:9• 21:9 So Moses made
a bronze snake and put it on a pole (Rod). Anyone who had been bitten would look at the bronze snake and be healed.
When Moses raised his Rod the red sea was Divided!
• Archaeologist tried to
searched for the Rod of
Moses, they never
searched the one who
gives favor which is God.
What does it means of the Rod?
• 37 Now Jacob took for himself rods of green poplar and of the almond and chestnut trees, peeled white strips in them, and exposed the white which was in the rods. 38 And the rods which he had peeled, he set before the flocks in the gutters, in the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink, so that they should conceive when they came to drink.
Numbers 24:17• 17 “I see Him, but not now; I behold Him, but not near; A Star shall come out of Jacob; A Scepter (Rod) shall rise out of Israel, And
batter the brow of Moab, And destroy all
the sons of tumult.
• 10 Then the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring
you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people. 11 For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the
Lord.
Luke 2:10-11
What we need to do with the Rod?
• We need to know the Real Meaning of it.• We need to put it in a Proper
Place.• We need to focus our eyes on it.
After we have done these things!
1: Receive the fruit of our labor
2: Reproduction of blessings3: Reaching our Dreams
After he discover the Rod
Conclusion• Scientifically there is no explanation
that the Rod was the reason that the flocks were conceived and born a spotted young.• Moreover, the division of the red sea
was not because of the Rod. It’s because of God’s favor!