EXTRA! Concepts for Adults – Navigating Household Battle – Session 4

**EXTRA helps the group plans within the Bible Research for Life chief guides.**

Date: November 3, 2024

Jacob and Esau: Household Rivalry

The Level: Displaying humility is important to restoring a damaged relationship.

Get Into the Research

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In early October, anti-Hamas speaker Mosab Hassan Yousef attended an occasion at Harvard College. Yousef spoke of the complicated nature of the present Israeli-Hamas battle and tried to diagnose why so many Harvard college students have develop into so “radically” anti-Israel, stating that the well-educated with no ethical compass could be swayed to any ideology. Actually, whereas Yousef was talking, an anti-Israel vigil was held on campus, the place individuals honored the Palestinians killed in the course of the “12 months of genocide.”

Yousef is kind of accustomed to Hamas’ workings, as he’s a former Palestinian militant often called the “Inexperienced Prince” who defected to Israel in 1997. Working with the Israeli intelligence company Shin Guess, he helped forestall terrorist assaults, together with suicide bombings. Since in search of asylum in the USA in 2007, Yousef mentioned that he has “misplaced his household and feeling of safety” after selecting to spend his life talking in opposition to terrorism and Hamas. As Yousef’s father, Sheikh Hassan Yousef is a co-founder of Hamas, his defection and subsequent fleeing of his native nation have brought on a deep familial divide.

Not all conflicts are as pronounced as this, however ideological variations and expectations can break aside even the closest familial ties. Not all divides are straightforward to bridge, however believers ought to search to observe the need of God above the need of man. Reconciliation can solely come when persons are prepared to humble themselves.

Get Into the Research [Option from the Adult Leader Guide]

Prematurely, play a video clip exhibiting some well-known siblings from films or TV. Then ask Query #1.

Reside It Out

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Amongst many different points throughout World Warfare II, Nazi troopers have been identified to applicable artistic endeavors from museums and households throughout their occupation of European cities. Many individuals who fled their properties additionally left behind paintings that was seized by German forces, together with Jewish artwork collectors Adalbert and Hilda Parlagi.

The Parlagis owned an 1865 portray by Claude Monet entitled Bord de Mer (Seaside) that they have been compelled to depart behind after they fled Vienna in 1938. Third Reich officers took the Monet and a number of other different work that the couple had left of their Viennese storage facility. Bord de Mer was later auctioned off in 1941.

In 2017, the Fee for Looted Artwork in Europe, a nonprofit group, helped the Parlagi household’ heirs monitor the portray. The FBI turned concerned in 2021, when the stolen portray was tracked to an artwork seller in New Orleans. The portray was recovered in 2023 when it appeared in a gallery in Houston. It’s going to lastly be returned to the household after 80 years.

Divisions, hatred, and rivalries can develop and trigger hurt when allowed to fester. Years of strife and going with out can observe, resulting in additional emotional or bodily harm. As believers, we must always search peace with these round us, notably our household. It’s by no means too late to revive relationships to how they need to be, and God is glorified as we search Him in righting previous wrongs.

EXTRA was written by Emily Duncan, a Southern California native at present dwelling in West Georgia along with her husband, daughter, and two canines. God saved her from Wicca when she was sixteen, and he or she now serves alongside her youth pastor husband as a women’ chief at New Hope First Baptist Church in Dallas, GA. Emily spends most of her time tangled in yarn whereas crocheting or studying exterior within the hammock.

Extra Questions

Icebreaker

Child? Oldest? “Black sheep?” “Golden little one?” – What was your “place” in your loved ones of origin?
What’s a TV household you grew up watching, and what have been their relationships like?
If the story of Jacob and Esau have been a cleaning soap opera, what would you identify it? Why?
What impact does delivery order have on sibling relationships?
Who’s that individual in your life who at all times has your again, and also you belief implicitly?
Who’re some siblings from films or TV you discovered entertaining?

Genesis 27:35-37; 41

When have you ever seen somebody’s self-centeredness result in ache for others?
When have you ever seen inside rivalry result in dysfunction in a gaggle?
Life is stuffed with unfairness, even inside our households. How will you preserve wholesome, loving relationships when what appears to be unfair persists?
How can we struggle the pull of selfishness within the essential relationships in our lives?
Why is selfishness so damaging to household relationships?
Do you end up sympathizing extra with Jacob or Esau on this battle? Why?

Genesis 33:1-4

How can we show humility to these we now have harm or wronged?
How does humility engender forgiveness?
What penalties might have resulted had the 2 brothers not reconciled?
What function can humility play in rebuilding a relationship?
The place do you see an awesome want for humility and reconciliation in our world at this time?
When have you ever needed to step exterior your consolation zone to hunt reconciliation?
When have you ever been happy to see two individuals or teams reconciled?
What function does humility play in reconciliation and rebuilding?

Genesis 33:8-11

What are the implications for somebody who refuses to reconcile?
What can we study from Jacob & Esau’s alternate?
When is a value simply too excessive to revive a good friend or household relationship?
When have you ever seen a damaged relationship absolutely restored to a spot of mutual pleasure?
In what methods does it require humility on each elements, to work by way of battle and search a restored relationship?
How does satisfaction hinder alternatives for reconciliation?