Genesis #18 Ch. 27-29 God's Principle of Retribution — Chuck Missler

Welcome to the 18th study in the book of Genesis conducted by Chuck Missler. The subject of this tape Genesis chapter 27 through chapter 29 verse 30. Anyway.

I'm up to where you guys are I hope. So.

I've heard this tape. I've been on the tape several times. This class is known as heresy. 1A. So I'm playing a song.

As heresy 2B. I hope I can do it justice.

It was written about 10 minutes before it started.

I said son I wanna talk to you. I'm gonna make your daddy some savory stew. I heard your daddy talking to you. Your brother can't get any. So we gotta get to work right away. Go and fetch me now. A couple kids from the goats.

And go to Esau's kid and rip off one of his coats. And since your daddy's old And his eyes are grown And your chance of getting caught is quite slim. Mama made you do it. She did. I never was that kind of a kid.

I gotta bear the blame. Next to him I look and feel like I've been there. She's good looking. She's cute. I put him on my neck and my hands. I said now you are a very hairy man. To make the story short I gave his stew to old dad.

He said it was the very best stew he ever had. He blessed me He kissed me. And he sent me away. Now Esau wants to kill me today. Mama made me do it. She did. I never was that kind of a kid. Because of my name.

Mama made me do it.

Testing the Scriptures and Knowing the Author

This is the book of Genesis Heresy 1b or something As some people would accuse me of Because this is a Laboratory course In Acts 17 .11 And that's where the Those in Thessalonica were You know pretty enthusiastic.

But Acts records that the Bereans were more noble Than those in Thessalonica In that they Received the word with all readiness Of mind But searched the scriptures daily To prove whether those things be so.

So this is the Lord's way of Challenging you to do your homework. Because if you believe what I tell you You'll be in deep trouble. And the intention is To explore the book And highlight some things And have some fun And let the Holy Spirit lead.

And But I will take refuge in that approach That we're here to stimulate And intrigue Rather than teach. And the Lord commands us That we should be the salt of the earth. Which means My job is not to feed you But to get you thirsty.

Alright? Isn't that neat? Kind of sneaky cop-out. So You're here in thirst one Tonight. And I'll introduce you to where the well is. As I mentioned several times Being a businessman I can point out to you As something you all know That in business it's not what you know It's who you know.

It's the same thing with this book. It's again the whole idea Is to become acquainted with the author. But So Let's Let's go before Our real teacher And ask his blessing on the evening. Heavenly Father We praise you From the bottom of our hearts For this opportunity to gather together To explore Your word.

And Father we Would just have you open our hearts To your Spirit That we might behold Jesus Christ. That we might understand those things Which were written aforetime for our learning That through The scriptures we might have Hope.

Father we just ask you This very evening to be with each and every one of us Show us in these things Those peculiar particular things That you would have for each and every one of us That we might better know Jesus Christ That we might better understand What you have done for us And that we might more fully comprehend That unique special ministry That you have Called each and every one of us To To the end that Jesus Christ might be glorified.

In whose name we pray, Amen. Well last time If my memory serves me correctly We got up through The end of 26 Right. And While we got in a lot of other things We talked about the seven wells of Isaac And so forth.

Esau, Jacob, and the Rights of the Firstborn

The theme we want to pick up on tonight Is this whole business of the blessing. And last time We included Chapter 25 and 26. But in chapter 25 we had this famous story Episode Of the sale of the birthright.

And I won't repeat that lesson Completely. But I would like to call your attention To what was at issue. We often get a little Misunderstand What this birthright business is. And The birthright Was the precedence over one's brothers The precedence of the firstborn.

Typically Over the brothers The birthright belonged to the firstborn And it made him the head of the household Upon the father's death. Several things A double portion of the inheritance was given to the firstborn.

If there were five brothers There were six portions Two given to the firstborn And the rest equal to the others And so forth. So the idea of a double portion of the inheritance That's Deuteronomy 21, 17.

For those of you who want to track back Into the roots of that. And secondly The firstborn, or correction The holder of the birthright Would be the head of the family After the father's death And be the priest of the family.

And that's in Exodus 22, Numbers 8 Deuteronomy 21. Now There are several occasions where the birthright Was forfeited Through a heinous offense of some kind. There certainly is one here with Esau That we're dealing with.

But also Reuben forfeits the birthright That was his because of incest That's in Genesis 35 Mentioned again in Genesis 49 And recorded in 1 Chronicles 5 .1. For those of you who want to chase that stuff down Now On the one hand, Esau was Snickered out of his birthright In chapter 25 By this pottage issue.

But the real test comes When the birthright is confirmed By the father before dying. And that's what Isaac. That's the part we're going to get into tonight. And But as we do, there's several things That I'd like you to sort of keep in mind.

Is the Holy Spirit Seems to paint a contrast Right up front between Esau and Jacob. Esau was a man of the field. What is the field in Mystical or idiomatic terms? The world And the authority being Matthew 13 The seven kingdom parables Where that is repeatedly the idiom used.

And Jacob was a plain man. The word is Tom, which means upright And so forth. Esau is the type, if you will Of the unbeliever. The worldling Jacob, surprisingly enough, is the man of faith. And that may shock you.

This conniver This character Is a man of faith? Yeah, strangely enough, you'll see that he is. And we take comfort in the fact that he was justified Despite his shenanigans. Esau was a hunter Therefore a stranger to peace.

The only other hunter emphasized in Scripture Is Nimrod, and we've talked about that, I believe. And you can go through a concordance If you like, it's an interesting exercise. And study hunters in the Scripture.

1 Samuel 24, the tape. Those of you that want to chase this down 1 Samuel 24, 11, Job 10, 16 Psalm 140, 11 Proverbs 6, 26 Micah 7, 2 Ezekiel 13, 18, and so forth. They're examples where hunter is sort of Connotatively in the adverse sense.

And Jacob is a contrast to that Dwelling in tents, therefore a pilgrim As opposed to A man of the field, and so forth. Now it's interesting that what led To the sale of the birthright Was the fact that Esau could not Satisfy himself From the field.

He needed that which Jacob had Which is interesting. And it's very interesting. Over every one of our thirsts We can write That we will thirst again. And indeed Esau Is of that vein. Now incidentally, one of the things that comes up here In the sale of the birthright Is really Esau's Disparagement of the birthright in the first place It really was a relatively Casual transaction.

You get the impression reading it. And it's possible that that may There be more validity than I'm giving credit to That Esau says, gee, I'll die If I don't get some porridge. Some people believe that he really was Far more desperate for food Than we generally countenance.

It's more More broadly thought among scholars That Esau really was just disparaging Saying, what does he care about The birthright, what is that after he dies In the language Is really just again a Disparagement.

Well of course Jacob indeed does his deal Incidentally a small point that I think I mentioned Last time Esau says, I pray thee Verse 30, with that same red. He doesn't mention potage, the word potage is added Because we know it's potage from later on A lentil soup kind of thing.

But much is made of By many scholars That Esau doesn't even know the name Of what it is that He is asking of Jacob. And he's ignorant Of even the name of it. And what he's really saying To Jacob Is that he can't live on promises.

The birthright and all of that stuff Is promises. And Esau could not live on promises. Now It's interesting That we then have Chapter 26 Which we covered last time Which ends with the fact that Esau Is 40 years old.

That's the Next mention of Esau After the sale of the birthright. And one could Perhaps Suggest the hint by the Holy Spirit Of a probationary period That after 40 years are up He still is really in an Unrepentant state In the sense that He's taken two wives.

Not one, two That were Canaanite wives The ones that were prohibited. And so you do get the impression That he's not in fellowship In the sense that he's fathering Either the example or the counsel of his father.

So even 40 years later We find Esau From a spiritual point of view In bad shape. Now What we're going to find out in chapter 27 The one we're going to tackle tonight Which is perhaps the strangest chapter Of them all As we've all heard about the sale of the pottage and all that Chapter 27 is bizarre In many respects.

But one of the things that we'll be sensitive to right away Is that Isaac, the father Still Is insensitive To the will of God. He is still carnal Here. And you'll see his passions And interest Are one of getting some venison and still favoring The son after the flesh If you will The son that is appealing to him Because he's the hunter, etc.

And we're going to discover that the blessing that he gives For the birthright, the confirmation of the birthright Is given to the younger son Through chicanery Of the mother and The younger son, Jacob.

But what's interesting While we tend to Be pretty tough On Rebecca and Jacob For this shenanigan that they go through You can't help but be sensitive to the fact That Isaac is in kind of bad shape spiritually.

Or he would Have remembered the prophecies that were given To Rebecca when the two children were born That the younger would serve That the elder would serve the younger, etc. So But probably what we really ought to do Is just jump in First of all and get the narrative and then come back And take a look at some of the other issues.

Isaac’s Blessing of Jacob

Chapter 27. Book of Genesis, verse 1. And it came to pass That when Isaac was old And his eyes were dimmed so that he could not see He called Esau his eldest son And said unto him My son, and he said unto him Behold here am I.

And he said behold now I am old And I know not the day of my death. Now therefore take I pray thee Thy weapons thy quiver and thy bow. And go out into the field And make me and take me some venison And make me Savory food such as I love And bring it to me that I may eat That my soul may bless thee Before I die.

Now as you read this story it sounds like Gee you know the old man is going to give the son a blessing. You know make me some venison Make me my favorite barbecue. And I'll give you the patriarchal blessing.

What isn't obvious here Is that the blessing is far more Significant than just a pat on the head And saying you did well That the blessing here is a confirmation of the rights of the firstborn. But you also notice Here right up front it says Isaac could not see.

And it's speaking of course You know physiologically. But I think as we go here We can get a sense that it may also Be speaking spiritually Because Isaac is not Being sensitive to the will of God. And yet before the chapter Is over Before the chapter is over Isaac does one small thing That gets him recorded In the book of Hebrews in the hall of faith.

One of the strangest Episodes about the story isn't the story. It's the way the New Testament describes it. But we're getting ahead of ourselves. Okay. So this is the charge he gives the oldest son. This is the athlete.

This is our Chuck Norris type. You know. And You saw it too. Verse 6. And Rebecca spoke unto Jacob Her son Saying behold I heard thy father Speak unto Esau thy brother. Sure have the feeling she's eavesdropping at the keyhole.

And she gets the sense That something's up. Now you can begin to get the sense here. If the old man was just going to You know give Esau a pat on the back And a patriarchal blessing of which there's an unlimited supply.

There wouldn't be all this Foolishness going on. You can begin to infer that there's something big And irreversible A one shot event occurring That Rebecca is anxious for Her favorite namely Jacob. Take advantage of.

Now it's very possible. In fact I'd say very likely That Rebecca remembered The prophecy When the two sons were born That the elder would serve the younger Part of the reason She may have favored Jacob all through Jacob's life.

Is that she knew That he was the one to be blessed of God. The error is She shouldn't be taking Matters into her own hands. She's not walking by faith here. It's hard to visualize this As an evangelical enterprise.

And yet I suspect that we could Not chuckle too loudly Because I suspect all of us in this room Are guilty at one time or another Of building what some people would call a gospel blimp. If you're familiar with that particular book.

In any case she takes it under. She goes to some lengths Of scheming and skullduggery here To wrest away the blessing To deceive the old man Into blessing Jacob rather than Esau. Anyway She gets Jacob And explains that she overheard That father said to Esau That brother sang verse 7 Bring me venison and make me savory food That I may eat and bless thee Before the Lord Before my death That was before the old man died.

He doesn't have much longer. And he's going to confirm a testamentary Trust if you will Of the rights of the firstborn. Verse 8. Now therefore my son obey my voice According to that which I command thee.

Go now to the flock And fetch me from there Two good kids of the goats And I will make them savory food For thy father such as he loveth. Now right there It's kind of interesting Because I really am not A culinary expert But I really don't know how You make goats taste like venison.

It doesn't really matter. Because apparently Rebecca knew how to do that. She apparently knew how to doctor this up. So it had the right gamey flavor Or whatever it takes to convince the old man That his favorite food really Wasn't being served.

That is venison But rather it's a couple of kid goats. So I'll leave it to better experts. And I'd understand what she added A dash of this and a dash of that. But in any case She's going to Develop a synthetic substitute.

So to speak of the venison. That's just the beginning. Verse 10. And thou shalt bring it to thy father that he may eat That he may bless thee before his death. And Jacob said to Rebecca His mother Behold Esau my brother is a hairy man And I am a smooth man.

I don't see any reference to near here. But I Okay My father perhaps will field me. And I shall seem to him as a deceiver. And I shall bring A curse upon me Not a blessing. You notice Jacob's concern Isn't at all For the morality of what he's doing.

He's worried about getting caught. Okay What's sort of disturbing here is you would think That he might have a little bit of misgivings. But old Jacob is a pragmatist. His concern is one would think At least a naive pragmatist In the sense that he's saying I'm going to get caught.

I might seem as a deceiver. It's alright that I am a deceiver. I just don't want to be caught like a deceiver. Okay We're going to get into A little quick study tonight Assuming time permits. And what retribution in the scripture.

And Jacob will Be the victim Of some other deceptions For the rest of his life. That will echo back to this event. So we'll come back to that. In any case his mother Like a good Jewish mother Has the answer.

She says Upon me Be thy curse my son Only obey my voice and go fetch them. And he went and fetched and brought them to his mother. And his mother made savory food Such as his father loved. And Rebecca took the choicest raiment Of her eldest son Esau.

In other words where she got it. She must have entered into Esau's room Or area of belongings And lifted One of his His choicest coat. Okay So Which were with her in the house And put them upon Jacob her younger son.

And she put the skins Of the kids of the goats Upon his hands And upon the smooth of his neck. Now isn't that interesting. I mean you know hands are one thing. But she just figured that the old man Would grab him by the neck And so he'd feel the hair of these Kids of goats.

Now you and I have a tough time visualizing That fraud succeeding Without a lot of craft you know It obviously wasn't done in a sloppy way. She apparently fashioned it In a way that would Pull this whole thing off Especially since it apparently works Under conditions of suspicion.

So the chicanery here The facade the charade Whatever you want to call it Is a non-trivial set of deception. It isn't a casual act. As a matter of fact I would imagine Both Rebecca and Jacob would have been In deep trouble had they been caught During the process.

The old man obviously figures things out Before it's at the end of this Or at least has an inkling that he's been The victim of some False dealing. But in any case. Verse 17 She gave the savory food and the bread Which she had prepared Into the hand of her son Jacob.

Verse 18. And he came unto his father and said My father and he said here am I Who art thou my son. And Jacob said unto his father I am Esau thy firstborn. I have done according As thou badest me Arise.

I pray thee sit And eat of my venison That thy soul may bless me. Can you imagine. And Isaac said unto his son How is it that thou hast found it So quickly my son. And he said Because the Lord thy God Brought it to me.

Boy that's playing with fire. And Isaac said unto Jacob Come near. I pray thee that I may feel thee my son Whether thou be my very son Esau Or not. Now at this point you get the impression He's recognizing the voice Or a dialectal problem or something.

Because the old man smells of fish If you'll excuse the expression. Um Jacob went near unto Isaac his father And he felt him and said The voice is Jacob's voice. But the hands are the hands of Esau. And he recognized him not Because his hands were hairy As his brother Esau's hands.

So he blessed him. And he said Art thou my very son Esau. And he said I am. And he said Bring it near to me and I will eat of my son's venison That my soul may bless thee. And he brought it near to him and he did eat.

And he brought him wine and he drank. And his father Isaac said unto him Come near now and kiss me my son. As he came near and kissed him He smelled the smell of his arraignment That tells you A lot About Esau's way of life.

Yes Like designers jeans. You just stand in the corner rather than hang up in the closet Right Smell of his arraignment and blessed him and said See the smell of my son is as the smell of the field Which the Lord hath blessed.

Therefore God Give thee of the dew of heaven and of the fatness Of the earth and plenty of grain And wine. Let people serve thee And nations bow down to thee. Now here's the key line That tips you off Of what's going on.

Be Lord over thy brethren And let thy mother's sons Bow down to thee. Cursed be everyone That curseth thee. And blessed be he That blesseth thee. It came to pass As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob Had finished blessing Jacob.

And Jacob was yet Scarcely gone out from the presence of Isaac His father. That Esau his brother came in from his hunting. What a scene. He also had made Savory food And brought it unto his father. And he said unto his father Let my father arise in need of his son's venison That thy soul may bless me.

Can you imagine the old man's feeling at this point To have it start to dawn That he's been the victim Of a very very elaborate ruse. And Isaac's father said unto him Who art thou? And he said I am thy son Thy first born Esau.

Very key phrase here. And Isaac Trembled very exceedingly. Why? Why would he tremble? Expect him to be angry. Maybe He's trembling. Could it be That it dawns on Isaac That God's will Has prevailed over his own.

Very interesting thing. Apart from the methodology Which is inexcusable Isaac Probably I'll show you why I believe this In a minute Is aware of the fact. Yes he's been subject of a ruse. And he's probably upset about that.

But it also sinks in That whatever the mechanics He has been duped If you will Into blessing in the order That the prophecy before they were born Suggested as opposed to His own personal preference That would cause you To tremble To realize that God's will Had prevailed in spite of Your actions That would be terrifying.

Isaac trembled very exceedingly And said who? Where is he that taketh the medicine And brought it to me. And I have eaten of all that thou Before thou camest and have blessed him. Notice the line. Yea And he shall be blessed.

You see In other words He is now aware Maybe doesn't understand all the mechanics. But he's aware that he's been tricked. And yet he reconfirms the blessing he gave. Very, very small line. And We'll finish this.

We'll finish the thrust here And pick up what the book of Hebrews says about this. One little line, but a very profound one. Anyway, verse 34 When Esau heard the words of his father He cried with a great and exceedingly bitter cry And said unto his father Bless me, even me also, O father.

Esau missed the point. And he said Thy brother came with subtlety And hath taken away thy blessing. And he said Is not he rightly named Jacob. For he hath See Jacob means Supplanter Supplanter And for he hath supplanted me These two times Usurped, stepped in the place of Stepped before me Upstaged me For he hath supplanted me these two times.

He took away my birthright And now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said Hast thou not Reserved a blessing for me. Verse 37, Isaac answered and said unto Esau Behold I have made him thy lord. And all his brethren have I given To him for servants And with grain and wine.

Have I sustained him and what shall I do now Unto thee my son. In other words, what's left. Go in peace, a blessing in the casual sense. The real blessing. The confirmation Of the lordship of the family Has been granted, there's only one of those.

And Esau said unto his father Hast thou but one blessing my father. Bless me even me also O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice and wept. And Isaac his father answered And said unto him, behold Thy dwelling shall be The fatness of the earth And of the dew of heaven from above.

And by thy sword Shall thou live. And thou shalt Serve thy brother. And it shall come to pass When thou shalt have dominion. That thou shalt break his yoke From off thy neck. We might pause here. And we could study this Several different places, however.

God’s Prophecy Concerning Jacob and Esau

Let's pick up this thread By flipping back To chapter 25. Reminding ourselves Of verse 23. Verse 23 Was what the lord said Unto Rebekah, verse 23. The lord said unto her Two nations are in thy womb. Two manner of people Shall be born of thee.

And the one people shall be Stronger than the other people. And the elder shall serve the younger. Who's the elder? And he's going to serve the younger. How could he if he's going to have the rights Of the first born?

No, the lord had prophesied That he would not be the. He would not be the head of the family. He would not have the rights of the first born. And that of course has reversed. But that prophecy is what Rebekah Was probably trading on in her participation In this whole plot.

Now did that come through prophetically? One of the sons Of Jacob Is one by the name of David. Turn to 2 Samuel 8 .14. 2 Samuel Chapter 8. Go to 1 Samuel. Turn right 2 Samuel. Verse 8. And we'll look at verse 14.

Speaking of David it says. And he put garrisons in Edom. What's the land of Edom? The land of Esau. Edom means red incidentally. And Esau was red and hairy. Edom is the name of his land. Edom and Esau are almost synonyms.

He put garrisons in Edom. And throughout all Edom put he garrisons. And all they of Edom. That is the sons of Esau. Became whose servants? David's servants. David was a descendant of Jacob. And the Lord preserved David Wherever he went.

Terrific. That's part of the prophecy. Let's turn to 2 Chronicles 21 .8. They are to throw that. When they become strong they throw that yoke off, right? 2 Chronicles Chapter 21. Ok, this is after Jehoshaphat Jerome succeeds him.

And we have a revolt in Judah Against Judah. Verse 8. 2 Chronicles 21. In his days the Edomites revolted from under the Dominion of Judah and made themselves a king. Just a couple Little references. You can study this Great, more competently by Doing a dig on your own Of the history of Edom, sons of Esau.

But you will see that they Indeed were subjugated, but then later Broke away. And we could Spend a lot of time talking more about Edom, but I won't take the time tonight. Um. Ok. Now, uh We might turn at this point to Hebrews Chapter 11.

Isaac’s Faith and the Hall of Faith

I think there's a very Interesting passage in the book of Hebrews Chapter 11. Chapter 11 as you well know By now is the Hall of Faith. A chronicle, a history of the High points of faith. And it opens with a definition of faith and then Recounts a whole string Of the great men of faith.

And we looked at this at some length because Verses 8 through 19 deal with Abraham And offering Isaac and all of that. And um In fact verse 19 points out that Abraham knew That Isaac was a type Accounting that God was able to raise him up.

Who? Isaac. Even from the dead Which he also received From which he also received him in the figure. But verse 20 is a strange verse. If you really know the story By faith Isaac blessed Jacob And Esau concerning things to come.

You gotta be kidding. You gotta be kidding. By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau. What does that mean? I got the impression that Isaac was totally snowed. I got the impression That he was totally duped by this chicanery Between Rebecca and um Jacob.

So What does this mean here? By faith Isaac blessed Jacob. And Esau concerning things to come. Well first of all This could be built upon The simple insight That Isaac once he realized What was happening Acknowledged God's will in the matter.

That's enough. That's by faith. Okay. Very interesting that God gives him the credit. The writer of the book of Hebrews Says by faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau. Something else that we'll discover when we get to Genesis 49 Blessing the sons Is prophesying about them.

And Isaac did Prophesy about both Jacob and Esau. We just saw and that came true. And that was by faith. How did Isaac know That Esau would Live by the sword and be Serving the younger. And later threw off the yoke.

How would he know those things. He's about to die and these young bucks Are yet to live their lives. How would he know by the Holy Spirit. By the Holy Spirit. And so by faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau.

See Blessed Jacob and Esau. I would argue that the term here is used in the prophetic sense. We're going to see that Jacob Leaning on his staff at the end of his life Blesses his 12 sons. And when you read that it's the strangest blessings You ever heard.

I mean you make some of the strangest cryptic Remarks about his son. One's going to be like a donkey. Another one's going to be like a Serpent by the way that bites the Heels of the horses so it falls backwards.

And what kind of a blessing is that. And when we study Genesis 49 We'll discover there's a whole prophetic Preview of the history of the 12 tribes of Israel. And so When Jacob blesses his sons He's actually prophesying over them.

The word blessing we tend to look at In a more denotative way. And here it's used perhaps in a more connotative way. But it's an interesting passage In Hebrews 11 On our friend Isaac. Okay You might also Feel like being a little Hard on Rebecca.

This gal is really Sort of hard to figure. You might look at Romans chapter 2 Verse 1. This is just a little marginal note Before we get too hard on our friend Rebecca. Romans. Paul in his letter to Book of Romans in what we call chapter 2 Verse 1 Paul suggests.

Therefore thou art Inexcusable oh man Whosoever thou art that judges. For wherein thou Judgest another thou Condemnest thyself for thou that Judgest doest the same Things. And you can go on from there if you like Before we get too tough on Rebecca.

Now incidentally one other comment About the blessings In Genesis 28 That we're going to get into Is a chapter In which God himself Blesses Jacob directly Not through his father Isaac But directly. And we get through verses 13 14 and 15 there's the blessing That God confirms to Jacob.

And it's far more Important Broader significant Intensive than the blessing he got From Isaac. So as just an aside The blessing that he extracts From his father through the chicanery While indeed confirms the birthright to him Is a far cry From what God himself reconfirms To Jacob later in the next chapter.

Lessons from Esau, Rebecca, and Jacob

Okay I've got a couple of things I'd like to get into Before we charge on. And let's just talk about Some lessons About this. I started to jot down a long list of Observations. And I'm going to suggest these Not that they're exhaustive But to give you the flavor Of the kinds of things you might think about When you come across a story like this.

We know that what is it. Romans 15 4. All things are written aforetime For our learning That we through the comfort and patience Of the scriptures might have hope. So what's all this do with us. We're not really planning to Put on skins of goats to Con our father of a blessing right Or anything else of that matter.

I suspect that You can be cute about a lot of this. But you sort of wonder what's the real What's really going on here. Well there's several lessons. First of all Esau was guilty Of bartering Using Carnal gratification In exchange Bartering his divine privileges.

For carnal gratification That sounds heavy When you put it that way. Do we do that. Probably. Are there ways that you and I Disparage The promises of God in exchange For some worldly privilege. Do we sleep in on Sunday morning Rather than come to the morning service.

Whatever you know. You can make your own list. But when you make that list Where you're exchanging Some carnal or worldly offset Which really does Despite to one of God's promises. My suggestion is that should Show us the Esau That's in us all.

Do I do that, sure. I won't bore you with my little list. It's different than your little list. Is there Esau in all of us, sure. Because is the carnal man still inside us. You can't cast him out, it's not that easy.

Verse two Or item two, excuse me I'm going through my numbers here. Beware of doing evil That good may come. I don't know really how to justify What Rebecca did. I personally believe. I don't know if I can defend this.

I throw it out for your own thinking That if Rebecca had not Conspired That God would have found his own methods To establish Jacob as the Ruler over Esau. I really don't believe That God needed Rebecca's help To sustain the messianic line.

Now she did Some lessons for us. But I would not use this This passage as an excuse To say that the end justifies the means. I do not believe That that's what the scripture is intending To communicate to us.

Okay. Now something else that we might all do Is try to pray That we don't put ourselves in the position That Isaac was in Wherein we are blind To God's revealed will And substitute our own natural affections.

Isaac loved Esau. He was neat. He was the kind of son That that father wanted. And that shows up In perhaps its most Unvarnished form At this particular story. But Isaac was thus not sensitive To the will of God.