Northland Church

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Northland Church exists to glorify God as we participate in His mission of redeeming a people from all peoples by engaging neighbors and nations to be fully alive in King Jesus through the power of the Spirit.

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MISSION:

God is on mission to REDEEM a PEOPLE from all peoples to REFLECT His Glory in all spheres of life.

MAIN POINT:

Joining God on Mission = Journeying with Him in Redemption

SECOND LEG:

Journeying with God in Redemption involves understanding...
WRONG LOVE Wrecks, Wounds, & Wars
RIGHT LOVE Redeems, Renews, & Restores

After Jacob had stayed with him for a whole month, Laban said to him, “Just because you are a relative of mine, should you work for me for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.” 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, “I’ll work for you seven years in return for your younger daughter Rachel.” Laban said, “It’s better that I give her to you than to some other man. Stay here with me.” So Jacob served seven years to get Rachel, but they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her.

• A lovely figure
• Was in love with Rachel
• Work for seven years
• Seemed like only a few days because of his love for her
• To make love to her

• Attracted to her beauty
• Was in lust with Rachel
• Drunk with love (stupid)
• Moonstruck—dazed and living in Lala land
• Only cared about sex

When Rachel saw that she was not bearing Jacob any children, she became jealous of her sister. So she said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I’ll die!” Jacob became angry with her and said, “Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?” Then she said, “Here is Bilhah, my servant. Sleep with her so that she can bear children for me and I too can build a family through her.” So she . . . became pregnant and bore him a son.

During wheat harvest, Reuben went out into the fields and found some mandrake plants . . . Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.” But she said to her, “Wasn’t it enough that you took away my husband? Will you take my son’s mandrakes too?” “Very well,” Rachel said, “he can sleep with you tonight in return for your son’s mandrakes.” So Leah told Jacob, “I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes, so you must sleep with me tonight.”

As soon as Laban heard the news about Jacob, his sister’s son, he hurried to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his home . . . Jacob was in love with Rachel and said, “I’ll work for you seven years in return for your younger daughter Rachel.” Laban said, “It’s better that I give her to you than to some other man. Stay here with me.”. . . But when evening came, he took his daughter Leah and brought her to Jacob, and Jacob made love to her.

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, “It is because the Lord has seen my misery. Surely my husband will love me now.” . . . Then God remembered Rachel; he listened to her and enabled her to conceive. She became pregnant and gave birth to a son and said, “God has taken away my disgrace.” She named him Joseph....

WRONG LOVE:

- Looking for Mr./Mrs. Right to complete you

- Have to Work for Love

- Envious of others and what they have and you don’t

- Can’t love others, too busy loving myself

RIGHT LOVE:

- God completes me

- God loves me freely, graciously, mercifully

- In God, I have everything I need; I can be secure

- God is building my life—has freed to love selflessly

Receiving the Right LoveReleases you to Love Redemptively.