2005-08-14 Character Issue - 7 - Being an Example

How does God transform flawed, deceptive people into examples of His grace? What does it mean that our lives inevitably serve as examples to others? This message follows Jacob from his birth as a heel-grabbing deceiver through twenty years of being deceived himself by Laban, to his desperate all-night wrestling match with God where he refused to let go until receiving a blessing. Discover how God changed Jacob's name to Israel and transformed him from someone who schemed for blessings into someone who blessed the next generation by faith. Learn that our lives will be examples—the only question is whether they'll be good or bad ones.