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Genesis 32:27-29

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob. And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed. And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? Holy desires will be...

Genesis 32:28

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: That is, a prince of God. Gen_32:28. For as a prince hast thou power with God and with men and hast prevailed. Jacob was the prince with the disjointed limb, and that is exactly what a Christian is. He wins, he conquers, when his weakness becomes supreme, and he is conscious of it.

Genesis 32:28-29

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

For as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed. And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there. He received what he sought for his necessity, but not what he merely asked out of curiosity.

Genesis 32:28-29

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

For as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed. And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. That has often been the request of God’s people, they have wanted to know God’s wondrous name. The Jews superstitiously believe that we have lost the sound of the name of Jehovah, — that the name is...

Genesis 32:29

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there. There are limits to all human intercourse with God. We must not go where vain curiosity would lead us, else will he have to say to us, as he did to Jacob, “Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after...

Genesis 32:29

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there. He did not give him what he asked for, but he gave him something better, and, in like manner, if the Lord does not open up a dark doctrine to you, but gives you a bright privilege, that will be better for you.

Genesis 32:29-30

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

And, he blessed him there. And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved. Thus did Jacob the wrestler overcome his God. Now turn to the thirty-second chapter of the Book of Exodus, where we find a description of the sin of idolatry into which the Israelites fell while Moses was absent in...

Genesis 32:30

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved. How he must have trembled to think that he had the daring perhaps his fears made him call it the presumption actually to wrestle with God himself, for he was conscious now that it was no mere angel, but “the Angel of the covenant,” the Lord...

Genesis 32:30-32

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved. And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh. Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of...

Genesis 32:30-32

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved. And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh. Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of...

Genesis 32:31

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh. The memorial of his weakness was to be with him as long as he lived. People would ask, “How came the halting gait of that princely man? “And the answer would be, “It was by his weakness that he won his princedom, he became Israel, a prince of God, when his thigh was...

Genesis 32:32

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob’s thigh in the sinew that shrank. Some touch of human weakness must always accompany the divine strength that God may give to us. If we are allowed the high honour of carrying the untold...

Genesis 33:1-2

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids. And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost. He placed them in the order of his affection...

Genesis 33:3-4

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

And he passed over before them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother. And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept. God had been very gracious to him, and all his fears were gone, so he met Esau as a brother, not as an enemy, and the four hundred men were...

Genesis 33:5

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who are those with thee? And he said, The children which God hath graciously given thy servant. There was a considerable number of them altogether, more than enough, I expect most of you would think if you had them; but Jacob did not speak of them disparagingly, but he...

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