Wrestling For The Blessing (58 Pages) (2014)

I believe and hope to convince you that the Scriptures reveal God’s desire to offer each individual in Christ a unique expression of their personal identity. This was clearly initiated in the Garden, lost through the Fall, restored collectively to the people of God in the Old Covenant, but restored on an individual basis for each person in Christ. I also hope to communicate that the personal application of this redemption - that is, the “working out your OWN salvation in fear and trembling”, is contingent upon the individual “personalizing” the promised blessing. I will speak of that personalization process in terms of “wrestling with God”. We will look specifically at the Biblical prototype of Jacob “wrestling for the blessing”.