New Name, New Walk

We have before us a very unique passage in a couple respects. We’ve never seen God, before or since, physically wrestle a man! Usually God is in the business of revealing Himself rather than hiding Himself. There are a lot of parts to this story that seem strange and confusing.

Yet for those who have known God for a while, there is actually something strangely familiar about this text. It isn’t just because you’ve probably read it before, but because you’ve probably experienced it before, albeit in a more spiritual sense, less dramatic.

Today we are going to unfold what this text is getting at by looking, as we usually do, at two points today. God changes your identity and God changes your behavior.