Sunday 21st September 2025 // Evening // Genesis 28 // The God who Comes Down

Rev. Craig Lynn preaches Genesis 28 at evening worship on Sunday 21st September 2025 in First Ards. Jacob runs into exile with guilt on his conscience, a stone for a pillow, and nothing to his name. Yet it’s there, in a “certain place,” that God meets him, not because he deserves it, but because God comes down in grace. Jacob sees a stairway between heaven and earth, a vision fulfilled in Jesus Christ, the true Bethel, the living gate of heaven. And in this we see the gospel, not that we climb up to God, but that God comes down to us in Christ.