Text: Genesis 29:21-27

Introduction
 

- Let’s us understand the text.
- Isaac married Rebekah and she was barren.
- They prayed to God and Rebekah had twins. Jacob and Esau were born.
- Isaac liked his son Esau more.
- Rebekah liked her son Jacob more.
- Hate entered the family and Jacob needed to run away from home. ( Genesis 29:1-20 )
- In the house of his uncle Laban, he worked for 7years to have his wife Rachel.
- His uncle Laban tricked him the same way he tricked his father.
- Genesis 29:23. Jacob receives Leah as his wife and not Rachel as it was agreed.
- So Leah’s drama began. She now had 3 problems.

  01. Leah was ugly.

- Genesis 29:16,17. She was compared to his sister Rachel.
- Comparison in a tragedy in the home.
- Back then, there was the “service of the body”
- Illustration: “The cosmetic industry”
- Who chose the way of your being?
- Who chose which country I would be born in?
- Who is satisfied with your body?

02. Leah didn’t have the love of her father.
 

- Laban was a father who only thought about money.
- Illustration: “Salary was not necessary; it was only for him to have responsibilities”
- Laban tricked Jacob, he sold his daughter. He had children for his own business.
- He didn’t think about his daughter’s happiness.
- He wanted someone to work in his farm for free for 14 years.
 

03. Leah married a man who didn’t love her.
 

- The three basic need of children”
- Be noticed (it is important)
- be loved (by words and attitudes)
- Be known (praised for his character)
- It is in the marriage, the second opportunity to reach that.
- Illustration: “You are everything to me”
- Leah didn’t have these needs reached in her home or marriage.
- In her “hunger for love” she began to have children.
- Genesis 29:31: Rejected= hated
- Reuben. “the Lord has seen my misery” v. 32
- Simeon. “I was heard” v 33
- Levi. “united” v.34
-Judah “I will praise the Lord” v.35
- Issachar “God has rewarded me” Genesis 30:18
- Zebulin. “Honor” Now my husband will be with me. Genesis 30:19,20
-Even though she gave herself, fought for love, and begged for love, her dream of being loved by her husband was never fulfilled.
 
Conclusion
 
 
-Leah was ugly, didn’t have the love of her father nor she had the love of her husband.
- Genesis 29:18. Jacob knew that he loved Rachel.
- The birth of the 5 children had bitterness sign.
- Rejection is the worse of all feelings.
- We need to be loved. We throw ourselves in the arms of everyone, we beg for attention.
- We want to be noticed, loved and known.
- So we are ignored and treated with rejection.
- That’s why forgiveness is so important (Forgive others)
- Forgiveness: An anti-natural act in us. We can only do that through Christ.
- Genesis 29:35: Judah: This time I will praise the Lord”
 “Leah decided to praise in the midst of disgrace”
- So, Jesus was born from the tribe of Judah
- Many times in our lives God doesn’t change the situation, but he walks with us.
- He can make a “Judah” to be born, some blessing, from my story.
- From Leah’s drama, Judah was born
- What is your “Judah”?