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Bro. Otis Fisher
Genesis 27 1. And it came to pass that when Isaac was old and his eyes were dim 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.
I know not the day of my death. Isaac was 137 years old. He was preparing to make his last will an act of the gravest importance especially as it included the conveyance through a prophetic spirit of patriarch blessings.
Now therefore take I pray thee thy weapons thy quiver and thy bow and go out to the field and take me some venison. Now first of all we have to see that this covenant was deemed binding or was not deemed binding unless there was the parties ate together that to convey this blessing some right of this kind was necessary and that Isaac's strength was now greatly exhausted in so much that he supposed himself to be dying and make me savory meat such as I love and bring it to me that I may eat and my soul may bless thee before I die.
The carnal affections he had for his son made him forget what God had spoken to his wife. This has been some time after the great incident of the birthright. And Rebecca heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son and Esau went out to the field to hunt it for venison and to bring it now.
Rebecca heard normally she would not hear. So this tells me that she is listening not only to this conversation but any others that Isaac might have. Rebecca knew that the blessing was intended for Jacob and expected he would have it.
But she wronged Isaac deceiving him. She wronged by tempting him to do wickedness. She put a stumbling block in Esau's way and gave him a pretext for a hatred to Jacob and his religion. All of these characters were to blame in this.
Rebecca spake unto Jacob her son saying behold I heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother saying bring me venison and make me savoury meat that I may eat and bless thee before the Lord. Before my death she prized this blessing.
Well she prized it as invaluable. She knew that God intended for a younger son to have it in her anxiety to secure it to secure its being conferred on the right person. She acted in sincerity of faith but was crooked politics with unenlightened zeal on the false principle that the end would justify the means.
Does it ever do that. No now. Therefore my son obey my voice according to that which I command thee. Now please notice she's taking putting herself first that I command thee. This trickery is worthy of blame because she would have waited.
She should have waited for God to perform this. Go now to the flock and fetch me from tents two good kids as I go of of the goats and I will make them savoury meat for that father which he loveth and thou shall bring it to thy father that he may eat and 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'm a smooth man. What do you see there. What is that's true. This tells you something of Jacob. Yes when he should have been afraid to do it.
It's remarkable that his scruples were founded on the evil of an act but on the risk of consequences of deception not founded on the evil but on the consequences of deception. My father peradventure will feel me and I shall seem to him as a deceiver.
And I shall bring a curse upon me and not a blessing. I shall bring a curse upon me. For even in those early times now the spirit of the law was understood. Deuteronomy 27 18. Cursed is he that maketh the blind to wander out of the way.
And his mother said unto him upon me be thy curse. My son only obey my voice. Go fetch them me go fetch me them. Do you think that his his mother knew what she was saying upon me be thy curse. Yes. Well we're getting in deep.
And his mother said unto him upon me be thy curse. It has been revealed to me by by prophecy that the curses which will come upon thee will not come upon thee. My son on ocus on on chaos on kalos. On kalos wrote that where he got it.
I don't know what a dreadful responsibility did this woman take upon herself at this time. And he went and fetched and brought them to his mother. And his mother made savory meat such as his father loved.
And Rebecca took goodly raiment of her eldest son. He saw which were with her in the house and put them upon Jacob our younger son. The scheme planned by the mother was to be executed by the son in the father's bedchamber.
And it is painful to think that the deliberate falsehoods as well as daring profanity he resorted to the the disguise the wanting and one thing which had nearly upset the whole plot succeeded in misleading Isaac and the goodly raiment's gonna do it.
Now what about this goodly raiment. Well mr. Ainsworth thinks that the priest in the law had holy garments to wear or to minister in. And whether the firstborn before the law had such to minister we don't really know.
It's not explained but it is probable that this was kept in the house of the mother not by his wives or in his own house. She had probably stored them away and some kind that would help drive out the malls but she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands and upon the smooth of his neck.
And she gave the savory meat and bread which she had prepared into the hands of her son Jacob and she came into his. And he came into his father and said my father. And he said here am I who art thou my son.
Who art thou my son. Although Jacob was assured of this blessing by faith yet he did evil to speak of it by lies even more because he abuses God's name through it. See how he's sinning. One sin calls for another and it calls for another.
And that yet a third. 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 thou thy soul may bless me. 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. You see how one thing leads to another. This was aggravation of a falsehood. When 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.
He had a problem he he connected the voice with Jacob but everything else was with Esau. So he wants him to come over where he can feel him and he feels of him. He sees that he doesn't see but he feels that he is his son.
This declares that he suspected something yet God would not have his decree altered. Jacob went near enough unto Isaac his father and he failed him and said the voice is Jacob's voice but the hands are hands of Esau.
How can that be. And he discerned him not because his hands were hairy as his brothers Esau's hands so he blessed him. The telling of one a lie often leads to the telling of another and another and another.
The beginning of iniquity is like the letting out of the water of a dam. You let a little out and then more and then more until finally it's all gone. And he said art thou my very son Esau. And he said yes I am he very emphatic.
Then he said bring it near to me and I will eat of it. My son eat of my son's venison that my soul may be blessed and be brought 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.
Well the smell of the garments and the goodly raiment which had been laid up in the house conveyed the right thought. The kissing was customary. But Isaac wanted to smell of him too. And he came near and kissed him and he smelled the smell of a raiment and blessed him and said see the smell of my son is as the smell of the field which the Lord hath blessed.
I don't connect this get this confused with Isaac being in the field. This is a different smell. Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven the fatness of the earth plenty of corn and wine. Let people serve thee and nations bow down to thee.
Be Lord over my brethren and let over thy brethren. And let the mother's son bow down to thee. Cursed be everyone that curses thee and blessed be he that blessed thee though the evil doing and the well-doing of men.
God fulfills his infinite wisdom. Holy and benevolent designs. Well it came to pass as soon as Isaac was gone it made an end of blessing. As soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob and Jacob was yet scarce gone out of the presence of his father that he saw his brother came in from his honey.
He came in just as though nothing had happened before. As far as he knew nothing had happened. And he saw all he had made. And he also had made savory meat and brought it unto his father. And he said unto this father let my father rise in the heat of his son's venison and thy soul that thy soul may bless me.
Isaac. His father said unto him who art thou. And he said unto thy son thy firstborn Esau. And Isaac trembled with an exceeding exceedingly and said who where is he that has taken venison and brought it me.
And I've eaten of all before thou camest. And I blessed him. Yea and he shall be blessed now the the Hebrew. Isaac trembled with a great trembling. He was very very angry that someone had taken advantage of his blindness had pulled the wool over his eyes.
He shall be blessed. In other words he couldn't retract it. It was done and therefore he could not undo it. And when Esau heard the words of his father and cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry and said unto his father bless me even me also all my father.
And he said thy brother came with subtlety subtlety and have taken away thy blessing. And he said is it not rightly named. Is he not rightly named Jacob. For he has supplanted me these two times. What other time is he referring to.
But he he didn't trick him then. But Esau now is including that in the trick. For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. And behold now he has taken away my blessing. And he said hast thou not reserved a blessing for me.
Wicked men are prone to ascribe their calamities to other men's sins rather than their own and to exercise pride envy and revenge the first thing he wanted rather than humility repentance and forgiveness.
And Isaac answered and said unto Esau behold I have made him thy Lord and all his brethren have I given to him that for servants. And with corn and wine have I sustained him. And what shall I do now unto thee my son.
And Esau said unto his father hast thou but one blessing my father bless me even me also. Oh my father. And Esau lifted up his voice and wept we're told in Hebrews for you know how that afterward when he would have inherited the blessing he was rejected.
For he found no place of repentance though he sought it carefully with tears. So just because there's tears doesn't mean true repentance. And Isaac his father answered and said unto him thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth and the dew of heaven from above and by thy sword shall thou live and shall serve thy brother.
And it shall come to pass when thou shall have the dominion that thou shall break his yoke from off thy neck. And Esau hated Jacob because the blessing were with his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart the days of mourning for my father are at hand.
Then will I slay my brother. Now Jacob's gonna run away for soon. The last words he remembers ringing in his ears is I'm gonna get you. There is an intimate connection between hatred and murder. The indulgence of one often produces the intention of the other.
These words of Esau his elder son were told to Rebecca and she said and called Jacob. Her younger son said unto him behold thy brother Esau as touching thee doth comfort himself purposing to kill thee now.
Therefore my son obey my voice and arise. Flee thou to Laban my brother to to Haran. He hopes to recover his birthright by killing you is what he wants and tarry with him a few days until thy brother's fury turn away until thy brother's anger turn away from thee.
And he forget that which thou has done to him. Then I will set and send and fetch thee thence why should I be deprived both of you in one day. You notice that she says until that which thou has done to him not we not me but you say.
And Rebecca said to Isaac I'm weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob take a daughter wife of the daughters of Heth shall all of these which are the daughters such as all of these which are the daughters of land.
What shall good would my life be. So she's embarking upon another incident to get rid of Jacob or to get rid of Jacob. She sends him to a far country and he's gonna have a great lesson to learn. As he goes into that country he thinks he's a trickster.
He's gonna be tricked. He's gonna learn from one end to the other. So we come to the close of a small incident but a great one a big one in his life. Is there any words from anyone. Yes. Yes. Because it happened.
But from man's view it wasn't like that. No anything else. Well we'll stand and be dismissed. Russell dismisses please.