Through Brokenness to Power With God — Zac Poonen

The Suffering Servant in Isaiah 53

There is a amazing word concerning Jesus in Isaiah 53. You know, Isaiah is divided into two parts. Just like the Bible. Bible has got 39 books in the Old Testament and 27 in the New Testament. Isaiah also, first 39 chapters are all about Old Testament stuff.

And the remaining 27 chapters are all New Covenant prophecies. The first, of course, is Isaiah 40 about John the Baptist. And all the way up to the coming Kingdom of God in chapter 60 onwards. So in chapter 52, it talks about Jesus.

Verse 13, That, everybody can understand. For a servant of God to be lifted up and exalted. But then, there is something that astonishes people. Verse 14, This servant of God, his appearance is marred more than any man, his form more than the sons of men.

See, the Malayalam is much clearer than the English here. That his face does not look like the face of a human being. Is that how a servant of God is supposed to be? The one whom God exalts, is his face not like the face of a human being?

Is he supposed to have a face that does not look like the face of a human being? There are many movies about Jesus Christ, where they show him crucified. But there is one movie of Jesus Christ that I saw called the Passion of Christ.

That is the only movie I have seen of Christ. What it was like when it was beaten and hammered and the crown of thorns on his whole body. It's terrible. When it was beaten and hammered and the crown of thorns on his whole body.

I saw his body and face was so different. Lord, it would have been better if he had died on the cross for our sins. But before he died, why was he nailed to the cross? All this that your face is no longer looking like a human being before you die.

So many people can't understand this. Verse 13 everybody can understand. Verse 14 people are astonished. How is this? Verse 14 people are astonished. How is this? When Isaiah is writing this, he says in chapter 53 verse 1, Lord, who will believe this message?

Even today, how many people understand what a true servant of God must be like? Most people do not understand what a true servant of God is like. Because all the famous servants of God that you see on television, Christian television, 90 of them are Americans.

They are all like film stars. Their face and their appearance and their dress and all the light shining on them and the money they collect also is like film stars. Where do you see someone like Jesus?

Very rare. In my life, I have found very very few true servants of God. Let me tell you my opinion. You don't have to accept it. This is my opinion. I don't have a respect for any of these preachers who come on Christian television in India or Kerala.

American Pentecostals or Indian Pentecostals? Men or women? They all preach wonderful things. They pretend to heal people. I am not deceived. I will tell you why. I have seen Jesus. I have seen true servants of God in the scripture like Paul.

Those are the ones I follow. Not today's preachers and servants of God. And if you don't have a clear picture of a true servant of God, you may follow the wrong person also. You will be fooled by all these film star evangelists on television.

But see how it was with Jesus. Says 53, who has believed our message? Who has really got a revelation on the arm of the Lord, the mighty power of God? Very few people. Most people don't understand what the mighty power of God is.

They think it is in all these people on the platform doing all types of, I call it a magic show. They call themselves healers. It's a magic show. And people are fooled. You know there are magicians who on the stage they cut a woman into two and separate and you think it is really happening.

It's all a trick. And same way these preachers who pretend that they are healing people. It's all a trick and so many Christians are being fooled. People are being fooled. If you want to see the power of the Lord, see it in people like Jesus.

He did not look like a film star. He was not popular. Verse 3, he was despised and forsaken of men. And men hid their face from him, verse 3. And he was despised. And we did not esteem him. This is a true servant of God.

Paul’s Suffering and the Marks of a True Servant

And Paul said, I follow Christ, you follow me like I follow Christ. There are only two people in the Bible who said follow me. Jesus and Paul. Nobody else. I take that seriously. Paul followed Christ.

Really looked for his footsteps and followed. So he was also despised and rejected. Paul did not look like a film star. His physical appearance is not described in the New Testament. But there are other books written in the 1st century that describe his physical appearance.

And they say he was less than 5 feet tall. Like one of these short girls. Shorter than that. Thin. Because he was fasting so much and he was not even eating proper food many times. But he was healthy because he walked hundreds of miles regularly.

He was not physically attractive. He was bald. Just like Elisha. He had a hooked nose. And he had eyes that were always dripping with some type of infection. You know the Bible says that, Paul says that in Galatians chapter 4.

That once his eye problem was so bad. Sorry, Acts 16. Please turn to Acts 16. His eye sickness was so bad. That Acts 16 .7. They were passing through the Galatian region. And the Holy Spirit stopped them from going to Asia.

No. Verse 6. Forbidden by the Holy Spirit to preach the word in Asia. And then they tried to go to Bithynia but they were not allowed by the Spirit of Jesus. Yes. Now it doesn't tell us how the Holy Spirit stopped.

In the case of Balaam, it was an angel in front of the donkey. But here, the Holy Spirit stopped Paul by making him sick. Because he didn't want him to go away from Galatia. He said, you stay in Galatia.

So when you turn to Galatians 4. You see Paul says that. Verse 13. In Acts we read the Holy Spirit forbade him from going from Galatia. Beyond Galatia. Beyond Galatia. But here it tells us how. Galatians 4 .13.

It was because of a bodily illness that I stayed and preached the gospel to you the first time. Otherwise he would not have stayed there. He was trying to go somewhere else and the Holy Spirit stopped him with the sickness.

And my physical trial in my body, you did not despise it or loathe it. Why would you despise a person if he is sick? You know, if he has got cancer or TB or something, you can't see it. You don't despise it.

You don't loathe it because there is no physical outward appearance of sickness in TB or cancer. But when a person has got leprosy, there is a physical revulsion because you see it. And when you see a person sitting here with eyes dripping with pus, you really feel a little hesitant.

Keep wiping it. There he said, you do not loathe me for that. But you accepted me as an angel of God even though I looked so repulsive. And verse 15 in the middle, I bear you witness that you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me to replace my bad eyes.

That's how much they loved Paul. That's how we know that Paul had this problem. Why should God make his greatest servant look like this? Not good looking like a film star. With weaknesses, sickness. I believe this was the thorn in the flesh that Paul prayed and prayed, Lord take it away, take it away.

Because it is a visible thing that was repulsive to other people. You don't like to shake hands with such a person because he may have wiped his eyes with that. And you don't want to get infection. This is the mightiest servant of God in the first century.

God's ways are not our ways. Do you know why he did it like that? Because Paul had the mightiest ministry in the first century. He had such revelation that he was taken up to the third heaven. And he was in danger of becoming proud.

I'm sure Paul knew how not to compare himself with others, only compare himself with God. And that way you'll never become proud. But in spite of that, because he was writing scripture, he had such revelation from heaven, he had raised the dead, no demon could stand before him.

He planted so many churches. He was a father to so many elders. He could become proud. So God gave him a permanent sickness. It did not hinder his ministry, no. He says, I labored more than all the other apostles who did not have my sickness.

He never said, oh, this type of ailment, I better sit in Tarsus and get my family people to look after me. No, he would travel. He had such a passion to plant churches everywhere. And he was despised and rejected just like Jesus.

Suffering, Ministry, and the Rejection of Religious Commercialism

And we read an amazing word in Isaiah 53. See, all these are crushing, breaking experiences. Paul, we read in 2 Corinthians 11, some terrible things Paul experienced. He was stoned three times. Beaten with rods.

And whipped. Many, many times. 195 times. And many times hungry. Sometimes shivering in the cold because he didn't have a blanket. In prison, in Rome, he writes to Timothy, please bring my blanket. I don't have one here.

In dangers when he was traveling, robbers and all that. I don't know how many times Paul's things were robbed by robbers. He was once shipwrecked. And for 25 years, he was in prison. And for 24 hours he was in the sea, we read in 2 Corinthians 11.

And you read all that and say, is this how God treats his greatest servant? The greater the servant of God you are, the more God has to take you through suffering. The highest was Jesus who suffered the most.

Paul was pretty close to him. Through the years, there have been many others, great servants of God who have gone that way. These film star types are all down at the bottom. I have zero respect for all of them.

Most of them are not even servants of God. They are professional preachers, just like a man goes into business to make money, they go to preach to make money. And that applies to most Pentecostal pastors as well.

Who are so interested in your money. That is a mark of a businessman. There is a great verse, the last verse of Zechariah. How when the Lord comes, Zechariah chapter 14. He is speaking about the day, verse 9, when the Lord will be king over all the earth.

And his name will be the only one exalted then. And in that day, verse 20, even the bells of the horses will have holy to the Lord written on it. There will be holiness everywhere, even the cooking pots in Jerusalem, verse 21, will be holy.

Listen to this wonderful verse. There will no longer be any businessmen in the house of the Lord. See the margin of my Bible says, it is not Canaanite, it is businessman. There will be no merchant in the house of the Lord.

You have an NASB, it is written there in your margin, that is what it actually says. In the Hebrew. There will be no merchant in the house of the Lord. Jesus drove out the money changers in the temple twice.

At the beginning of his ministry in John chapter 2. He drove them out. But within three and a half years, they came back. And we read in Luke's gospel, he drove them out a second time. And in these two thousand years, they have come back again.

They have all come back. There is hardly anybody to drive them out. There is hardly anybody to speak against them. They all want to follow them and make money themselves. But we are coming to a day when there will be no businessmen in the house of the Lord.

Shepherding, Eldership, and Spiritual Fatherhood

Today we are building a church which is going to be a picture of that final church which Jesus will marry. Where servants of God are not like film stars. Where servants of God are like shepherds after God's own heart.

We have people like that in our churches, CFC churches. Not everybody, but a number of our elders are like that. Shepherds after God's own heart. When I meet with our elders, more than a hundred elders we have now in many of our churches.

I tell them, if you do not treat every person in your church as your own son and daughter, you are not fit to be an elder. If you cannot care for them like your own son and daughter, when you discipline them, do you discipline them like you discipline your son and daughter?

I had to write to one elder once. Brother, the way you scold people in the church, do you scold your children like that? Yeah, we have to correct our children. But ask yourself, the way you speak to the people in your church, is that the way you correct your children also?

Or you treat these people like some strangers and hit out at them? Then you are not a spiritual father. You are not fit to be an elder then. I have scolded my children, corrected them, I mean, and disciplined them.

And I will discipline people in the church the same way. And correct them the same way. And I encourage them the same way. And that is how I expect every elder to be. But we have to go through a lot of suffering in order to fulfill our ministry.

Christ’s Hidden Sufferings and the Pattern of Brokenness

And God has taken me through many many things, even before we started CFC. And after we started CFC too. To break me and humble me. To be rejected by people like a false prophet or false teacher. All that has been good for me.

But I think of this word. Isaiah 53 10 It says about Jesus. The father was pleased to crush him and put him to grief. No, people crushing Jesus I can understand. People, people crushing Jesus, I can understand.

But the Lord is pleased to crush him, how is that? It says, Jehovah was pleased to crush Jesus. That is how our savior walked on this earth. God did not allow him to be born in a king's family. But in a poor carpenter's family.

I have often thought about the type of home Jesus must have grown up in. I have often thought about the type of home Jesus must have grown up in. He had four brothers and two sisters. We read that in Mark chapter 6 verse 3.

Isn't he the father of Mary's son and Jacob, Joseph, Judas, and Simon? You know, whenever they wanted to insult Jesus, they would call him, not son of Joseph, verse 3, son of Mary. When they were happy with him, they would call him son of Joseph.

Yeah, you read that in Luke's gospel. We read that in Luke's gospel. They were very happy with him. Luke 4 .22. They were all speaking well of him and they said, isn't this Joseph's son? How they suddenly changed in Mark 6 to call him Mary's son.

How they suddenly changed in Mark 6 to call him Mary's son. That means, he is the son of Mary and his father doesn't know who he is. If someone tells you, I don't know who your mother is, who your father is, I can imagine Jesus walking through the streets going to school with other children.

People sitting by the side and pointing to him. You see that boy there? That boy in the middle. That is Mary's son. We don't know who the father is. All those other children, we know the father. This is a small village.

We all know everybody. And all his life he heard that. He is Mary's son. We don't know who the father is. Imagine if your child had to grow up like that. You think Jesus suffered only when he was 13? The time he started going to school at the age of 5, he was suffering.

And we read about the 4 brothers and 2 sisters. And Jesus said in Mark 6 ,4, A prophet does not have honor in his own hometown. And he does not have among his relatives and his family. Among his family members.

And we read in John 7. And verse 5. Even his brothers did not believe in him. See these 4 little boys growing up, younger to Jesus in the house. And The mother was the same, Mary. And Mary tells those 4 boys of hers.

This older brother of yours is not an ordinary boy. He was not born through Joseph like all of you. He was born from God coming upon me. He is the son of God. You would have thought all these 4 brothers would have respected him tremendously.

No. They didn't believe it. Mummy is telling us that God came upon her. He is trying to cover up her sin by putting some good holy language for her. This is how Jesus grew up. With 4 brothers in the house who irritated him, didn't believe in him.

And it was a poor carpenter's house. Nowadays, there are rich people who give one bedroom to each of their children. Not Jesus' house. They probably all slept on the floor in the sitting room. All of them.

Poor carpenter's house. This is how he grew up. Why did God allow his son to come into such a house? Why did he allow his son to suffer such reproach? All his life. Why did he allow him to have such brothers who would irritate him and not believe in him all his life?

Why did he allow him to have such brothers who would irritate him and not believe in him all his life? Because he had the greatest ministry that any man on this earth ever had. The greater the ministry God has for you, the more private, unseen suffering he will take you through.

The greater the ministry God has for you, the more private, unseen suffering he will take you through. The greater the ministry God has for you, the more private, unseen suffering he will take you through.

I am reading about the coming of the soul in John 16. I am reading about the coming of the soul in John 16. When the Holy Spirit comes, he will take away the things of mine and show it to you. When the Holy Spirit comes, he will take away the things of mine and show it to you.

When the Holy Spirit comes, he will take away the things of mine and show it to you. I don't need the Holy Spirit. This is talking about something else. The Gospels declare the three and a half years of Jesus' ministry.

You don't need the Holy Spirit. Just read it. But what is the Holy Spirit going to show me about Jesus? But what is the Holy Spirit going to show me about Jesus? What he endured in the things that are not written in the Gospels.

Or some things written in the Gospels, you have to read between the lines, the things that are not written. Or some things written in the Gospels, you have to read between the lines, the things that are not written.

And I have asked the Lord to show me, Lord show me some of those hidden things in Jesus' life. And I have asked the Lord to show me some of those hidden things in Jesus' life. What he went through when he was at home in Nazareth for 30 years.

How he obeyed his mother. Even when it was difficult. How he never got irritated with his brothers when they were irritating him day and night. How he never got irritated with his brothers when they were irritating him day and night.

Why do I want to see that? Because looking unto Jesus, I can also run that race with patience. I can submit to authority above me just like Jesus submitted to Mary and Joseph. I can submit to authority above me just like Jesus submitted to Mary and Joseph.

To imperfect authority. Jesus was perfect, Joseph and Mary were imperfect. It requires tremendous grace to submit to an elder in whom you see some imperfection. It requires tremendous grace to submit to an elder in whom you see some imperfection.

For more than nearly 34 years, up to the age of 34, For more than nearly 34 years, up to the age of 34, for about 16 years of my Christian life, from the time I was born again, 19 to 35, God made me submit to so many imperfect elders.

God made me submit to so many imperfect elders. God made me submit to so many imperfect elders. Not one or two years. Not one or two years. For 16 years. I was never an elder. I was in different churches.

And I had to submit to others who did not know the Bible like me, who did not overcome sin, but they were my elders. And the Lord said, submit to them. And if I had not submitted in those 16 years, I know one thing, God would not have given me any ministry.

I would not be sitting here today. Maybe God would have used somebody else to start CFC, but not me. I see many people today who find it very difficult to submit. Young people, even young elders, I know God will never give them a ministry, not in 50 years or 100 years.

Because they have never learned to submit to imperfect authority God has placed over them. They think they are so important. My parents were not perfect. But I honored them and submitted to them. Your parents are not perfect.

Learn to submit to them if you want God to use you. Because that is the way God breaks you. My father did not give me everything I wanted. I never owned a cycle. I didn't even have a watch. I had to borrow his watch for my examination time.

And I never asked for anything. I submitted. And I want to see that it says, honor your father and mother, it will go well with you. I can testify, it has gone well with me. I have not only lived long on the earth, but God has preserved me in health all these years.

Few minor sicknesses here and there, everybody gets. But never anything that has hindered my ministry. In 41 years, I have never missed a conference due to illness. God has been good to me. But he broke me for many years before those 41 years.

Some of you are going through that initial period and you are not submitting. Young people, younger elders, if you are like that, I can tell you straight to your face, I have no hope for you. You will drift along and along and along and finally the Lord will come.

Following Christ Through Suffering and Nonretaliation

Has it pleased the Lord to crush you like it pleased the Lord to crush Jesus? Whenever any crushing comes, do you immediately rise up and defend yourself? Do you know what it means to follow Jesus? It says in 1 Peter chapter 2, verse 21, Jesus suffered leaving you an example to follow in His steps.

Jesus suffered leaving you an example to follow in His steps. Verse 21, it doesn't say Christ cast out demons giving you an example. That's good. Christ preached powerful sermons giving you an example.

Christ suffered giving you an example to follow in His steps. Who wants to do that? Today when you talk about following Jesus, they say you must heal the sick and cast out demons and do miracles. I say no, you must follow in His steps in suffering first.

And not only that, follow in His steps verse 22, who committed no sin. Suffering, committing no sin and no deception in His mouth, no lie in His mouth. These are the areas we have to follow Him. And when He was reviled, He did not revile in return.

Somebody reviles you, you don't revile in return, then you are following Jesus. And when you suffer, He uttered no threats. He didn't say wait and see, when I come in judgment, how I will treat you people.

He didn't say to people if you hurt me, a servant of God, God will judge you. He kept His mouth shut. But He committed Himself to the Father who judges everything righteously. His attitude was, forgive them, they don't know what they are doing.

They called me prince of devils, forgive them, they don't know what they are saying. This is the Christ we have to follow. And then if He wants, He will give you a mighty preaching ministry. He will heal the sick through your hands.

He will cast out demons. He will plant churches through you. But your duty is to follow Him in these areas. Many people don't think of this. They say Lord, I want to heal the sick, I want to preach, I want to go and plant churches.

But here is the preparation for it. Follow Him who committed no sin. Follow Him who never said a lie with His mouth. And there was no deceit in His life. Means no hypocrisy. Follow Him who when He was reviled did not revile and return.

Follow Him who when He suffered never threatened anybody. But kept on committing His cause to His Father. Is this the Jesus you are following? Every servant of God whom God has used, He has had to break first.

Jacob’s Wrestling With God and the Blessing of Brokenness

When did Jacob become a prince of God, Israel? How did Jacob become Israel? How did he become a prince of God? Turn to Genesis chapter 32. This is where God told him, you will no longer be Jacob, but your name will be Israel.

Because you have striven with God and you have prevailed. Can you strive with God and get victory? That's what He says. You strove with God and you won. Very important to understand how we can win when we strive with God.

It's a wrestling match between God and me. And I win. It's amazing. Think of it. You strove with God and you won. Now I will show you how to win in your wrestling match with God. First of all, verse 24, Jacob was left alone.

You have to take time to be alone with God. If you are so busy that you have no time to be alone with God, forget it. You will never be able to win with God. If you don't find any other time, be alone with God when you are sitting in the toilet.

There you are alone. Spend time with God. Be alone with God on your bed before you go to sleep. Be alone with God if you wake up in the middle of the night. Be alone with God when you wake up in the morning.

Before you get out of bed. There are opportunities to be alone with God. When you are travelling in a train, when everybody is looking around and watching all the rubbish and listening to all the gossip, you can sit there in the train and be alone with God.

Or in a bus. There are plenty of opportunities to be alone with God but you don't take them. You are doing what everybody else does in the bus and train. Looking around and seeing all the useless things.

Listening to what other people are talking. What a waste of time. Most of the Bible that I learnt, I learnt in buses and trains when I was travelling. I used to keep a pocket Bible in my pocket. There are plenty of times you can get.

If you want to be alone, God will show you. But He sees you are not interested. You will never find it. Secondly, you have to say to the Lord, verse 26, I will not let you go until you bless me. Not that you try little while and nothing happens and you say okay we will try again tomorrow.

I prayed for something, it didn't come okay, next week I will pray again. I will not let you go Lord until you answer me. I remember the days when I prayed for the fullness of the Holy Spirit. I would pray, nothing would happen.

Again I would pray the next day. I would pray with others. I would fast and pray. I would again and again and again seek God. Lord I don't want any cheap counterfeit like these other Pentecostals have.

I want the real thing. And if I don't get the real thing, I am willing to wait 10 years. They wait 10 days, I will wait 10 years. But I will not let you go unless you bless me. You show me somebody like that here, I tell you that person will be filled with the Holy Spirit.

Then thirdly, the Lord asked what is your name? And he said my name is Grabber. That's the meaning of Jacob. You know why they called him Jacob? Jacob is a twin with Esau. And he wanted to come out first and be the elder twin.

But he saw Jacob, he saw Esau going out. He grabbed him by his leg and said get back I want to go out first. But Esau was a strong person, he got out. So Jacob missed it. The elder position. From that day he was thinking how to get this elder position back.

So one day when Esau was tired, he said I will give you some soup. Just give me your birth right. And he grabbed it. He was a grabber. He went to his uncle's house and he saw a pretty girl and he wanted to grab her.

But his uncle was cleverer than him. I don't have time to show you. He told Jacob let's have a feast before the wedding. A feast is usually after the wedding. Let's have a feast before the wedding. And he got Jacob thoroughly drunk.

And Jacob comes to the wedding like this. He can't even see properly. And here is this girl with a veil on her face. Hold hands. This is Rachel. Hold hands and marry her. Ok Rachel I promise to be true to you till the end of my life.

He is happy. They go to the tent to sleep. He is so drunk he is fast asleep. Next morning he got up and said who is this. This is not Rachel. This is Leah. I never wanted to marry her. But yesterday you held hands with her and you married her.

Honesty Before God and the Experience of Being Broken

So he had to work another 7 years to grab the second daughter. He was a grabber, grabber, grabber. And he said Lord that's what I am. You have to be honest with God. Tell him what you are. I remember the day God filled me afresh with the Holy Spirit in 1975.

I was defeated in my life when I was preaching in the church. It was a Baptist church those days before CFC was born. I preached there for one year. 6 months. But I was a hypocrite. And the Lord said to me that Sunday morning.

January 12, 1975. I will never forget it. The Lord said will you stand up in the church today and say I am a hypocrite. There was another preacher preaching that day. He was going to preach on the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

And I knew he always gives an invitation for people to come forward. Because I heard him in other places. So I knew he would give an invitation. And I decided I would go forward and tell everybody, God has told me to tell you I am a hypocrite.

Like Jacob, I am a grabber. And that day I was waiting for the end of the meeting. He finished the message and he went and sat down. He didn't give an invitation. I said Lord what will I do now? Afterwards the Lord told me.

The people sitting in the church are bigger hypocrites than you. So I didn't want you to say that in front of them. I just wanted to see if you were willing. I saw you lay the Isaac on the altar. Your reputation.

I gave it back to you. I didn't want you to kill that Isaac. That day, a few hours later, God filled me with the Holy Spirit. And suddenly I found myself speaking in tongues unexpectedly. I switched back to English.

And again I found myself speaking in tongues. I did not want to. That was the day God turned my life around. But I learned another thing that day. You have to be honest with God and stop being a deceiver.

And I decided from that day onwards I will never deceive any group of people I preach. I will never preach what is not true in my life. I have followed that for 41 years. And that is the day God said to Jacob.

What did he do to him? It says here that God touched the hollow of his thigh, verse 25, and broke it. He broke him. And he was living with, walking with a limp for the rest of his life. So, it says here that God wrestled with him in verse 24.

Till the morning. And Jacob was not giving up. So, God broke his thigh. And he could have said to Jacob, now I have won. But he told Jacob, you have won. Have you understood that? When does God win? When do you win the wrestling match with God?

When he breaks you. When he makes you lame. Not when you are strong. I have seen many brothers, they are not broken. That's why their name is still Jacob. They will never be Israel. Because they are still wrestling with God and God is not able to break them.

They want a mighty ministry or they want to do something great. It says in Hebrews chapter 11. Hebrews 11 is a chapter full of miracles. How Abraham had a son when he was a hundred. How Moses split the Red Sea and took the Israelites out.

How the walls of Jericho were pulled down, verse 30. How people shut the mouths of lions, verse 33. How the dead were raised, verse 35. In the midst of all these miracles, you see another miracle. Jacob, verse 21, leaning on the top of his star.

What type of miracle is this, leaning on the top of his star? Is this same category of miracle as splitting the Red Sea and pulling down the walls of Jericho? It's a greater miracle. Because God succeeded in breaking a deceiver and a grabber.

That star was a picture of God. Jacob said, I will lean upon him for the rest of my life. What is the difference between Isaac and Jacob? Isaac was never broken. He got everything on a plate. He got all the wealth of his father.