The Master‘s Class, LifeChange Church Wichita
Religion & Spirituality:Christianity
Here in this story about Jacob’ dream about a ladder to heaven, we see God’s provision of salvation, we see a picture of the sinner, a picture of the Savior, and a picture of salvation.
Jacob pictures the unconverted man. He is the picture of a sinner. Incidentally, I believe this is where Jacob got saved. I believe that up until this time Jacob had known about God, but he had not known God. His father was a godly man; his grandfather was a godly man, but Jacob was not a godly man. He was religious, but he was lost. Jacob pictures every unsaved sinner surrounded in darkness, surrounded by desert, and sentenced to death. Jacob is sentenced with death, a poor, lonely old boy, without God, without hope, out there in the wilderness.
In this dream Jacob saw a ladder. The bottom of it was on the earth, and that ladder went up all the way to glory, and God the Father was at the top of that ladder. Jacob saw angels coming down, and he saw angels going up. That ladder is a picture of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Jesus is the One upon which the angels ascend and descend. He is the link between heaven and earth. Jesus Christ is the One who connects heaven and earth. He is that ladder that reaches into glory. There is the reach of the ladder: it goes all the way to heaven. There is the reliability of the ladder: God is over it. There are the resources of the ladder: God’s promises, God’s protection, and God’s presence, are all wrapped up in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Then, we see this ladder as a picture of salvation. Before this night, Jacob was separated from God. Jacob was in a place of separation, and then he saw the ladder, the staircase to heaven! He understood some spiritual truth. He understood that God had made a way for him, and that the blessings of God were to be mediated to him. And he’s now aware of God for the first time in his life. That howling desert, that wilderness, that hard place, has now become for him the very house of God. And what a blessing, what a transformation, it was in his own heart and in his own life!
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This is a live recording of The Master’s Class Bible Study at LifeChange Church Wichita, KS.
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TO WALK GOD'S PATH (Proverbs 3:23-35)
GOD‘S PROMISES (Proverbs 3:11-22)
TRUE FINANCIAL FREEDOM (Proverbs 3:9-10)
ARE YOU IN FINANCIAL BONDAGE (Proverbs 3:7-10)
WHAT IF THERE HAD BEEN NO EASTER?
LET GOD SIT IN THE DRIVER‘S SEAT (Proverbs 3:5-6)
TO KNOW THE WILL OF GOD (Proverbs 3:1-6)
HOW WISDOM LIGHTS OUR PATH (Proverbs 2:9-22)
THE INFALLIBLE PATH TO WISDOM (Proverbs 2:1-9)
THE INCOMPARABLE WORTH OF WISDOM (Proverbs 2:1-10)
WIDSOM CRIES OUT TO YOU (Proverbs 1:23-33)
TO BE A FATHER-PART II (Proverbs 1:20-22)
TO BE A FATHER (Part I)(Proverbs 1:20-22)
ARE YOU PREPARED? (Proverbs 1:10-19)
HOW TO RAISE KIDS WHO WILL COUNT FOR GOD (Proverbs 1:7-9)
INTRODUCTION TO THE BOOK OF PROVERBS (Proverbs 1:1-6)
ARE YOU A LOST CHURCH MEMBER (1 Kings 2:1-6)
WHO DO YOU TRUST IN? (1Chronicles 21:1-30)
A MIRACULOUS BIRTH (Luke 1:30; 2:8-14)
WHEN THREE ACT AS ONE (2 Samuel 23:9-20)
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