Answering Questions from the Beginning | Why have you deceived me?

Join Pastor Tony in this week's Journey Class, continuing the series Answering Questions from the Beginning. This week's scripture includes portions of Genesis 29:1–25, looking at the question "Why have you deceived me?" Recorded November 19, 2023.

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Introduction - 0:00
1. Do you see your life as a journey? - 8:25
2. How can we know unless we ask? - 15:09
3. Does appearance make a difference? - 21:34
4. What’s the difference between love and lust? - 40:41
5. Is love patient? - 44:48
6. Did Jacob get his comeuppance? - 46:51

1 Then Jacob continued on his journey and came to the land of the eastern peoples. 2 There he saw a well in the open country, with three flocks of sheep lying near it because the flocks were watered from that well. The stone over the mouth of the well was large. 3 When all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone away from the well’s mouth and water the sheep. Then they would return the stone to its place over the mouth of the well.

4 Jacob asked the shepherds, “My brothers, where are you from?”

“We’re from Harran,” they replied.

5 He said to them, “Do you know Laban, Nahor’s grandson?”

“Yes, we know him,” they answered.

6 Then Jacob asked them, “Is he well?”

“Yes, he is,” they said, “and here comes his daughter Rachel with the sheep.” [...]

16 Now Laban had two daughters; the name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. 17 Leah had weak eyes, but Rachel had a lovely figure and was beautiful. 18 Jacob was in love with Rachel and said, “I’ll work for you seven years in return for your younger daughter Rachel.”

19 Laban said, “It’s better that I give her to you than to some other man. Stay here with me.” 20 So Jacob served seven years to get Rachel, but they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her.

21 Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife. My time is completed, and I want to make love to her.” [...]

25 When morning came, there was Leah! So Jacob said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? I served you for Rachel, didn’t I? Why have you deceived me?”

The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), Ge 29:1–6, 16–21, 25.