Genesis - Part 46 | Pastor Paul McGee

Dear Jesus, oh, let's thank him right now for the love that he

has shown to each one of us. God, I thank you for your love,

for loving me. Oh, I don't deserve it.

I don't deserve it, Lord, but you did.

But you did, and you do Hallelujah.

He is a loving God, Amen. We're thankful tonight.

Amen for him. I know you're expecting Brother

Mason and myself, right? That was the plan.

But Brother Mason is still on his concussion protocol.

And after seeing the doctor and such on Monday and them

reviewing the markers there in his life and stuff, they even

told him to go home from work. And so he's just not supposed to

be laying low right now. And so that is rescheduled for

the month of November. All right, later in the month of

November. So guess what?

You'll never believe where we're headed tonight.

We're going to go to the Book of Genesis as you're turning there.

Tonight's so good to see Hunter and Mackenzie and Soren and Zoe

and Coulson. Coulson's going to be dedicated

this coming Sunday, all right? We'll be dedicated to the Lord.

And so we're going to do that on Sunday also starting Sunday's

revival, Sunday through Wednesday, revival 10:00 and

6:00 on Sunday, then seven night, Tuesday or Monday,

Tuesday and Wednesday. Saturday is the annual chili

supper and hayride. Okay, Cornhole tournament begins

at 2:00 if you signed up for that.

Cornhole tournament starts at 2. Bounce house for younger

children and the slide will be here already functioning AT2.

All right, four O clock will be supper like with this.

We'll have a schedule out for you folks, but between like 4

and 7, there'll be volleyball going on and our first hayride

will begin at 5:45. All right, to get them all in,

we're going to run 2 trailers this year.

Yeah. What do you think about that?

Amen. Hallelujah, exciting things.

Amen. Genesis Chapter 25.

Genesis 25 · chapter mention

Also, if you all don't know this, today is Bishop and Sister

Mcgee's 60th wedding anniversary.

Statistics tell me, and I've looked them up, only 1% of

Americans make it to their 60th wedding anniversary.

And I, I hate to say it, I dare to say as we go on, we're

probably going to see less 60th wedding anniversaries.

And it's not going to because of longevity of life, because

that's getting better. All right, Amen.

So there's a rare treasure right here for us today.

We're thankful for their leadership over the years, Amen.

They're working dedication to the Kingdom of God.

And I'll tell you this, their pre marriage isn't perfect,

never has been. They just thought that when they

got married that meant they had to go to work.

And so they've been working ever since.

And it does. Amen.

Genesis 25 and verse #22 starting.

I'll read a few verses and allow you to be seated.

Genesis 25, verse 22. Remember, Isaac has prayed to

Genesis 25:22

the Lord for a child, Rebecca's conceived member.

There's a 20 year period of time from the moment of marriage to

the time of the birth of their children.

So the Lord has answered verse 22.

She conceived in verse 21, the Bible says, and the children

struggled together within her. She said, if it be so, why am I

thus? And she went to inquire the

Lord. And the Lord said to her, Two

nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be

separated from thy bowels. The one people shall be stronger

than the other people, and the elder shall serve the younger.

And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled,

behold, there were twins in her womb.

And the first came out red all over like a hairy garment.

They called his name Esau. And after that came his brother

out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel, and his name was

called Jacob. And Isaac was 3 score years old

when she bare them. And the boys grew.

And Esau was a cunning hunter, the man of the field.

And Jacob was a playing man, dwelling in tents.

And Isaac loved Esau because he did eat of his venison, but

Rebecca loved Jacob. A little while tonight.

We'll get through chapter 25 here tonight.

When we're done tonight, we'll have been halfway through

Genesis. You may want to talk about

nature's nations and the birthright.

Nothing fancy about the title, but it's just a place to hang

your hat. Nations, nature's nations, and

the birthright, Amen. We'll pray and I'll allow you to

be seated. Father, I thank you Jesus today,

God, for another opportunity to be here.

God, as we Lord, center our lives around your word, I pray,

O God, that you have to help us in the next few moments, open

our minds and understanding God. Your word, Lord, are the words

of life and they speak of you. God, we're going to take them as

such tonight. In the name of Jesus Christ that

I pray, Hallelujah, Amen. You may be seated in Jesus name,

nature's nations and the birthright. 20 years of

marriage, 20 years of marriage. I'm not talking about Bishop

them now, I'm talking about Rebecca and Isaac.

All right, 20 years of 20 years of marriage and Rebecca

eventually conceives and the Lord has answered their prayer

that they have prayed unto him. But there's something going on

within her womb during pregnancy that kind of tips her off

brother Fred, as though this is not something that typically

happens within the womb of a pregnant woman.

For all those that she had known that had been pregnant before,

she has never known anyone to be contending with what she is

contending with right now. And as she will soon find out,

and they will soon find out, she is carrying twins.

And the Bible says the Lord speaks to Rebecca in her request

and her inquiry about what's going on.

She understands that there is a struggle that's going on inside

of her womb, A literal pressing of one against the other, A

matter of fact, the word can even mean crush.

There's a crushing, I mean, there's some, there's some

wicked wrestling going on, you know, match inside of of

Rebecca's womb. And she's a little confused

because she's thinking that she and her husband wanted this

pregnancy so badly and they waited for 20 years in order to

be able to conceive. And now if she's pregnant, if

this is not the Lord's intervention, then if this is of

the Lord, then why is this so painful?

What about all this turmoil that's going on inside of my

womb? Well, what was happening inside

of of Rebecca's womb was, was more than just indications of

sibling rivalry that that that would take place outside of the

room. But what was taking place inside

the womb was actually foreshadowing some conflict,

conflict of desires, namely #1 between the two sons that would

come from the womb, but also basically almost 2 natures that

was going to be showcased through these two sons of Jacob

and Esau. They would not both desire the

same things. They would not both have a heart

that's after certain things identically, but there would be

some differences between them. And so whenever God, though

speaks to Rebecca about what is going on, he more plainly talks

to her though about nations and about manner of people.

All right, that that's going to develop from the sons that she's

going to give birth to happening inside of this womb.

We'll find come find out in Scripture and we'll see Esau

referred to this a little later whenever he's talking about the

the pottage or the red pottage talking about he's not just

called Esau, but he's also called Edom in Scripture.

And it's where we get the nation of the Edomites in the word of

God. And so Esau would be the father

of the Edomites, but Jacob would become the father of the

Israelites, as we would know. And Jacob and Esau have their

their differences for #1 let's just look at it very, very just

practically. Esau comes forth like some red

all over Harry child. And the Bible doesn't describe

Jacob as that. And just kind of a side note

with this, some even then tend to believe as a result of that,

that that perhaps they weren't even identical twins, but

fraternal, fraternal twins as a result of that.

I don't know. We, we, I, I don't know if I can

give a, a definite sound bite on whether they were, whether they

weren't, but nonetheless, Esau as far as in some of their

practices, Esau, the Bible says is a hunter.

He's a man of the field according to verse 27.

And then Jacob is a man that dwells in tents.

The Bible says he's a plain man, which to go a little deeper on

that, in the Hebrew, it's actually he is a ishtam, which

means a wholesome man. He's a wholesome man.

He saw, as we see in Scripture and even in the story that we'll

read tonight, is impulsive. It's illustrated right here in

the verses of Scripture that we'll read.

He's impulsive. We see that he even has a a

tendency more towards the earthly mindedness or the carnal

mindedness concerning the things of life.

As a matter of fact, Speaking of him as being a hunter, there's

only one other individual in Scripture that is plainly called

a hunter. Only one other individual that's

plainly called 100%, just like direct contact, a hunter.

And that was Nimrod from Genesis chapter #10 he was called a

mighty hunter. And if you'll remember, I know

you can't think back that many weeks, but Nimrod was the one

who had the 1st Kingdom up on the earth, and his Kingdom was

Babel, where that tower was built to reach into heaven.

All right? He's the one that that is

Speaking of. And this is what the Scripture

said in that moment. I'm just going back to Genesis

10, just for a moment, just we're just going to touch it.

Genesis, Tennate and Kush begat Nimrod, and he began to be a

mighty one in the earth, and he was a mighty hunter before the

Lord. Wherefore he said, even as

Nimrod, the mighty hunter before the Lord, and the beginning of

his Kingdom was Babel and a wreck and a cod and Kalnae and

the land of Shinar. So note also that Nimrod is the

son of Kush, who was the son of Ham, who was the son whenever

his father was naked in his own tent.

Unlike the other two that went in backwards and put a garment

on their father, he's the son that went in both facely and

make some type of gesture and begins to spread the news about

the nakedness of his father in the tent.

And so we have Nimrod coming from that line.

So this, this hunter connection in scripture between Nimrod and

Esau, it's more than just, you know, their profession.

It carries A moral and a spiritual symbolism as well as

well. Because those that are hunters

like Nimrod and like Esau was they depended on their, their,

their physical, their physical power, right?

And, and the material world that they would get, you know, food

and stuff for themselves. And so that's the type of nature

are you saying. And then, Brother McGee, every

hunter is just carnal. And no, I'm not saying that at

all. I'm just saying for the basis of

Scripture here of Nimrod and Esau, that they chose those

things rather than spiritual pursuits.

All right. And so additionally, though,

even with that said, they'll say in the very last verse of this

chapter, Speaking of Esau concerning the birthright, the

Bible tells us plainly that he despised his birthright and the

birthright of the family that encompassed more than like when

dad died. Having the, the family authority

has more more to do than just that.

It has more to do than just, you know, getting portions of land

as being the, the the the first born or having that birthright

has more more to do than just that.

It also has everything to do with encompassing, having

leadership concerning the covenant promises that has

already been given to Abraham and to Isaac.

And so I think it's significant then whenever Esau sells, as the

Bible describes it sells his birthright, that he doesn't just

do that, but he even despises, despises his birthright.

So, so he's embodying then Bishop a, a worldly man here,

that by doing so, he's not just rejecting material goods,

leadership of household, he's rejecting leadership in the

covenant, right, which raises that to a whole nother land as

well. But then on the other hand, you

have Jacob, right, Jacob. Jacob seems to be very

attentive. He's very observant.

And I know someone's going to have a hard time swallowing

this, but he he's spiritual and covenant minded.

I know the way in which he went about that was not already

wasn't always good, right? The deception, the cunningness,

but he wanted the birthright. He he wanted, he wanted to keep

intact the covenant promises. He wanted to do that.

That was a desire of his. So he might not always handled

it right, but he had a hunger at hunger for those that that thing

of promises that's been handed down from father to father to

father to keep those things intact.

And so the Lord speaks to Rebecca in verse 23.

Everybody say Amen. The reason why we're going to

get just a little heavy here for a moment, OK?

I know it's the middle of the week and everything.

We're going to get just a little heavy here for a moment, OK?

The Lord speaks to Rebecca verse 23 and what he's sharing with

her. It being the Lord, it's not just

prophetic, but He is sharing with her foreknowledge that He

has. He knows something about the

future. Scripture tells.

He knows the end from the beginning.

He knows something about the future whenever he tells her

that these two nations or these two manner of people will come

forward and one nation is going to be stronger than the other

nation and that the elder nation which would be related to Esau

would serve the younger one. As pertaining to Jacob, he had

foreknowledge of this. This is what is going to happen

and this is what's going to take that take place for that matter.

And you're going to follow me here tonight.

The reason why I'm bringing this up is because in our world,

there's idea in the concept for some that there's a doctrine of

election. That means God from the very

beginning has already chose who's going to be saved and

who's going to be lost, and their choice is no play in the

matter. I want to talk about this for a

little bit because number one, that's not biblical #1 and

secondly, we do not subscribe to that.

Let me make just a few opening statements.

Just because God has the foreknowledge of something

doesn't mean that He predetermines it.

All right. I, I oftimes use the the little

illustration as I'm coming up on a a stop light and it is yellow.

I have a foreknowledge that it's going to turn red.

But me knowing that doesn't make it turn red, right?

Is everybody doing OK? So whenever God is speaking to

her about something that he knows beforehand, this isn't God

predestining either Jacob or Esau to salvation or not to have

salvation. What he's talking about here

even isn't concerning salvation, all right, but God foresees the

path of both Jacob and Esau and what they will choose and the

choices they will make and what they will take.

And so as he's sharing this information, this prophecy, this

foreknowledge as it as it is, it primarily again applies.

He's talking to her about nations and men are people.

He's talking to them about the descendants, the groupings of

people that will come from these two sons.

For that matter, we never find really in Scripture totally

where as a individual, Esau actually as an individual serves

Jacob as an individual. But we do see where the Edomites

as a grouping of people did serve and give obeyance into the

Israelites as a people, a man in Scripture.

And so again, what we are, we are not supporting

predestination as far as individuals.

I'm trying to really not get in the grass today, but let me tell

you, you can read the book of Ephesians and you can read also

the book of Romans. When you read the book of

Ephesians and the Apostle Paul speaking to the church at

Ephesus, he speaks about whom Christ did foreknow.

He did predestinate for a purpose.

Foreknowledge had to do with a grouping of individuals and

predestination had to do with a plan.

What are you saying in Ephesians?

It always speaks about the US in Him, the US in Him, the Him

being referred to as Christ. the US in Him is the church.

He said the book of Ephesians even tells us that he had the

idea and the concept of the church from the very beginning.

Not only that, He had a plan for the church from the very

beginning. God predestinates His church,

but as individuals, we have choice whether to be a part of

or not a part of the church. If you're a part of the church,

he has a predestined plan for the church, and that's glory.

If you're not a part of the church, there's another plan.

So he don't predestinate individuals, but he does have a

plan that he is predestinated, namely for the church.

And he had a plan that he had for the descendants of Jacob and

the descendants of Esau. Let's just get into this just

just a little bit, a little bit further.

Amen. And so through God's

sovereignty, He chose the Israelite nation, those that

would come from Jacob for a historical purpose and plan that

they would be the facilitators of the lineage of the Lord Jesus

Christ. Yep.

You can trace the genealogy of Jesus Christ and you're going to

trace it back through those that are in the lineage of Jacob.

He did that for them. That's what the plan was.

The plan wasn't their salvation. He wasn't determining their

salvation or or Esol's damnation.

No no no no. All of the person salvation is a

based upon their faith, Amen. It's based upon their faith.

And so God had a choice of a nation, Amen.

Of Jacob, he says, you know what, they're going to be a a

spiritual heir of the covenant of promise and they're going to

safeguard the lineage of the Lord Jesus Christ.

I choose the descendants of Jacob for that.

They're going to help facilitate the Abraham covenant and they're

going to provide a line for the Messiah.

But just because God chose his descendants does not mean then

he. Ensured that Jacob was going to

have salvation. That was a choice Jacob had to

make. And it would be a choice that

Esau would have to make. It wasn't.

He was just automatically damned from the beginning.

It was a choice that Esau was going to have to make.

God, in doing this was not tampering with Esau or Jacob's

free will. He just saw.

He saw their choices. He didn't determine them, but he

saw them. He had knowledge of them, Amen.

And so he wasn't infringing on their free will as a human

being. They would still choose as they

did, and God allowed for that. But God saw in the distance a

Jacob who was valuing as a wholesome man the covenant

things, the birthright things. And he seen a man then that was

despising with contempt the same things, Amen.

Because, listen, was not Jacob a little deceitful and we might

even call sinful early on? Again, it wasn't about his

salvation. It was about the plan he had for

the descendants, about preserving the covenant.

Amen. The Bible says.

And again, I don't want to get too deep, but I don't want to

not be deep and talk about it enough because listen, we have

people today that are living life just however they want to

live it because they're like, it's already been charted out

for me. I don't have a choice in the

matter. Anyway.

You do have a choice. And I guess that's the reason

why I'm, I'm kind of ringing the bell tonight for all those that

just have their head in the sand and they've been lied to and

tell them that this thing's already planned out.

Live your life. It's already planned.

No, you have a choice. Romans 9 and verse 10.

And not only this, that this is referring to the promise that

was given to Sarah that she would have a son, but when

Rebecca also this is Roman 9's 10 when Rebecca also had

conceived by 1 even by father Isaac.

Verse 11 for the children being not yet born, neither have done

anything good or evil right at the moment be in the womb.

They had not done anything good or bad.

They're in the womb but the Lord for Saul, he said that the

purpose of God according to election might stand not of

works, but of him that calleth so this is God's sovereignty

from the standpoint of being in the womb.

They weren't chosen by their works because they're kids in a

womb, but according to God's sovereignty.

He makes a choice and it was said unto her.

The elder verse 12 shall serve the younger as it is written,

Jacob have Here's another thing this people have a hard time

processing this Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated

because when we hear the word hated, we're thinking about

emotions, we're thinking about disgust, we're thinking about

all those type of things, but it's not the way that we think.

It's not God having hatred toward Esau or detesting Esau.

It's an expression him loving 1 and hating another is an

expression of God choosing in heaven preference.

God chose Jacob, more particularly the nation of

Israel, his descendants, and he didn't choose Esau or the nation

of the Edomites. Just to go to show you the

similarity in that language. If you go to the Gospel of Luke

and chapter #14 and verse 26, that similar hate expression is

there. This is Jesus speaking and he

says, if any man come to me and hate not his father and mother

and wife and children and brethren and sisters, yay in his

own life also he cannot be my disciples.

So let's look at it. So she's telling his disciples,

if you don't hate your mom and dad, forget it.

And some of us are like, right? But that's the way our minds

works. Jesus is not requiring his

disciples to hate or loathe their families.

He's asking them to make a choice of him first.

All of the loves and all of the relationships they have in their

life must spell in comparison to that relationship.

That's what he's conveying. This is primary, this is

prominent, this is important. Amen.

So again, what Romans speak of as God's election, it's not God

electing that individual to be saved or unsaved.

It's God has an elected plan for the Israelites, Amen.

To facilitate the covenant of Abraham and to be able to bring

and preserve a line for the Messiah, Amen.

God did not choose based upon Jacob and Esau's current works.

They've not been born, but God does foreknow everything.

But again, his foreknowledge doesn't determine it.

I'd say like this, His foreknowledge kind of allows the

interpretation of it. Jacob and Esau are still at

freedom to accept or reject God's will in their lives.

He just foresaw what they would do.

He needed though his covenant. He wanted his covenant would be

facilitated in the hands of somebody that was hungry for it,

not that would be cavalier with it.

Folks, we really see the same thing with Ishmael and Isaac.

One was per SE and those were chosen over the other.

And no, both of them, Ishmael and Isaac were biological

descendants of Abraham, but that didn't mean that they would be

heirs of the promise of God. New Testament bears it out.

Sister Sheila, again, the Gospel of Luke chapter 3 and verse #8

Luke 3 · chapter mention

I'm about done with the heavy OK, and we'll get OK.

But John chapter 3, verse 8, this is John the Baptist

John 3:8

speaking. He says bring forth therefore

fruits worthy of repentance and begin not to say within

yourselves we have Abraham to our father for I saying to you

that God is able to be stones to raise up children to Abraham.

You know what he's saying He's saying biological connection to

Abraham doesn't mean that you're one of his No, no, no, no.

He says you got to bring forth some fruits worthy of

repentance. You beyond your physical

descendancy. You you need some faith is need

some fruits worthy of repentance indices that there's obedience

that's taken place in your life. All right, everybody good.

We OK? I know that's like, you know,

going to physics when you're a freshman.

OK, let's just go. So Esau was the first to come

out according to the Scripture or was born, maybe come out a

little rude. He was the first to be birthed.

It was red all over like a hairy garment.

Jacob followed him, The Bible says, holding on to Esau's heel.

And Esau, whenever you look at this, then their names Esau, all

right, which means red Jacob, Hill, all right.

It's almost as though one is named for his appearance and the

other one is named for his activity.

But something that we don't talk a lot about is the root of

Jacob's name. That name that means hill or a

Kev in Hebrew. Again, it does refer to that

future supplanting and deceiving that he will do, but it also

pertains to this idea. Same word pertains to the idea

of a rear ward or a rear guard in Hebrew thought, which a rear

guard or a rear ward is something or someone that

follows to guard. We usually don't talk about that

aspect. We just talk about the

supplanting aspect, the deceiver aspect, but there's another

aspect to Jacob as well, that aspect that desired the

birthright to guard what the other one despised, to safeguard

what the other despised. We're always introduced as a

plane to deception. We don't think about the aspect,

but he was also going after something that was very prize

worthy in his eyes and also in the eyes of God.

Verse 28 shows a little parental favoritism.

I know we say we all love our kids the same.

Something went awry here. Genesis 25, verse 28 and Isaac

Genesis 25:28

loved Esau because he did eat of his venison, but Rebecca loved

Jacob, Isaac loved Esau, Rebecca loves Jacob, and Isaac loves

Esau. The Bible says because of his

venison taste that oh, that tastes good.

But let's look at it in this way.

He loves Esau because of what he can get, what he can taste, that

self gratification he gets for meeting venison, which is

interesting because it's that same self gratification that

gets that son that he loves. Esau in trouble right here of

wanting the pottage in the moment rather than the

birthright. Amen.

And then we read in Scripture, of course, we know, you know,

Jacob exploits Esau's passions and desires for that self

gratification in this story. But then then that that that

Rebecca would love Jacob. There's nothing really said

about the why. All that I know, and this is

total supposition on my part, all right?

All that we know is that from her inquiry of the Lord about

what was going on, she was informed about the two nations

and the two people. I'm not saying that influenced

her love for Jacob. I'm saying could have it

influenced her love for Jacob? We don't know for sure.

Going on with verse #29 is everybody doing OK?

All right, this don't sound like an interview.

I know, I'm sorry, we're interviewing Scripture.

Scripture. What do you think about Jacob

and verse #29? And Jacob sawed pottage, and

Esau came from the field, and he was faint.

And Esau said to Jacob, feed me, I pray thee, with that same red

pottage, for I am faint. Therefore was his name called

Edom, or he mentioned that earlier.

And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.

And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die, what profit

shall this birthright do to me? And Jacob said, Swear to me this

day, and he's swearing to him. And he sold his birthright unto

Jacob. Then Jacob gave Esau bread and

pottage of lentils, And he did eat and drink, and rose up, and

went his way. Thus Esau despised his

birthright. Before we get in this last

section, I think it's important to do a little explanation.

And we talked about this on surface before, that not

everything in the book of Genesis is recorded

chronologically in order, OK? And we've seen this before

already in the Book of Genesis, for instance, for our purposes

right here and what we've been studying in this chapter, it is

recorded. And verses 7 through 11, the

Abraham dies, all right. And then later it tells us that

Esau and Jacob are born to Isaac and Rebecca, all right.

But verse 26 tells us that Isaac was 3 score years when she bared

them. Isaac was 60 years old whenever

she had them. If you go back to Genesis 21

Genesis 21:5

verse 5, you read that Abraham was 100 years old whenever Isaac

was born. That means if Isaac is 60 when

his sons are born that his dad is 160 years old.

He didn't die till he was 175. That means Jacob and Esau we're

at least 15 years old whenever Abraham died.

See, the story of Scripture is if we just read it just like

it's laid out, it's like Abraham dies and then sometime later

Isaac and Jacob is born. But when you look at the

numbers, Isaac and Jacob are born with Abraham having 15

years of his life left. And let me tell you why I

believe this is important, because in verse 29, the Bible

is talking about Jacob is sodding or sodding pottage.

His walk with me for a little bit, He's sodding pottage #1

again, in a patriarchal society where it's driven by the men,

they they dispersed their rows of responsibility.

Cooking was not typically one of them among the men in that type

of society. So it's a little outside of the

ordinary. According to ancient Hebrew

culture, for a man to be sodden, pottage a man, if they went out

on a hunt away from home, they would cook them because nobody

else around that they had to do it.

But whenever you're talking about being at home, that was

not typically his role or his responsibility.

Many, most of even Jewish sages are nearly unanimous telling us

that Jacob cooking here indicates that someone's died in

the family. Possibly, I'm just saying,

Possibly Abraham. The boys are 15 years old when

he dies. Possibly Abraham.

There is and, and, and I I just say this gingerly.

There is a a more modern practice among the Jews.

When I say more modern, I'm talking like 2nd century.

That's still thousands of years ago that when a person died,

they did what was called sitting Shiva, did mourn for seven days.

It's not as though all the way back in the time of Jacob and

Esau, there was this practice because it was, it was codified,

it was placed in their law in the 2nd century.

But there were a lot of things in the times of Jacob and Esau

that compares with sitting Shiva even today.

For instance, all the way back in Jacob and Esau's day, they

still tore their clothes many times.

Whenever someone died for mourning, they would mourn for a

particular period of time. They would literally vocalize

and and then visibly show their grief.

It was an involvement of the whole community whenever one

died and their focus was primarily up on the deceased.

Listen to me now. During this time of mourning, it

was not appropriate for immediate family members to

cook. And to under score what

immediate family members means, it means one's mother, father,

sister, brother, son, daughter, or spouse.

They were not supposed to cook. But you know who cooked Cooked

since those couldn't? Grandkids.

Oh God, Jacob's sodding pottage. I don't know this for sure

concerning Bible scripture. I know this according to Jewish

custom esod in pottage. So we say, well the Jews might

be reading into the story looking back, or are they

reading from the story and coming forward?

We may never know, but nonetheless, at the very least,

at the very least, Abraham died. 2 grandsons involved in the

activity here and it starts to bring, I think to light.

Then why the birthright at this particular moment comes well

into view? Because Abraham has died, right?

And so there's something that Isaac for sure has that now one

of the sons are going to have whenever Isaac dies.

And what does Esau do? The Bible says he's, he's going

out hunting. You know, I'm saying these

terms. Esau's just doing what pleases

Esau. He's just doing his thing.

He's not staying around the morning.

He's just going out to hunt. And it almost brings a toe.

Trevor. And this helps me understand my

16 year old. I told Trevor that this week we

was going to talk about dark humor in Scripture.

This helps me understand my 16 year old because whenever Esau

comes into the situation, there's pottage there.

What does he tell to Jacob? He says I'm at the point of

death. He says I'm at the, I mean,

someone's evidently just died. And he said, well, I'm at the

point of death myself. You know, exaggeration yet?

And then maybe a touch of dark humor.

All the way back in Genesis. Grandpa thinks he's dead.

I'm about to die, you know, and he says if I'm dying, basically

what good is the birthright? But again, that is Esau self

gratifying reasoning because the only thing he's focusing on the

birthright is what good is all the possessions I would get if I

die. What good is the leadership of a

household if I die? What good is covenant promises

if I die? It's all about me self

gratifying. But if you die and you do have

the birthright, it's not just what that will do for you.

What will it do for your offspring?

But see, a self absorbed man can only think in his generation

what's going on with him. He can't think any further than

himself or beyond himself. Having the birthright make

covenant promises would pass on to your children and their

children. It does matter.

Someone say Amen. I know that you wouldn't have

nothing to do if your material inheritance or leadership and

family and all that, but it does matter.

And so whenever Esau exchanges his birthright for pottage, he

in essence also sowed every blessing then that accompanied

that birthright. I'll state this tonight whenever

we see that Jacob goes in, and we'll see this in chapters in

the beginning. Further on that whenever Jacob

goes in with, with, with the hair of the animals upon his

neck and stuff, and he feigns to be Esau to get the blessing, he

was really getting something that already belonged to him at

this point. Because when the birthright was

sold, the blessing is attached to the birthright.

The blessing is attached to the responsibility.

You don't get blessing without having to be responsible.

The blessing is attached to responsibility.

And so there's another layer here though then he's just not

selling it. He's despising it, which means

that he treated it as though it was worthless.

He held it in contempt. It was more than just don't want

to have anything to do with it. He he just thought it was

worthless. And so you see this in the verbs

of the very last of the very last verse when it describes the

actions of Esau. Look at the verbs he Speaking

of. Esau did eat and drink and rose

up and went his way. He despised his birthright.

It's like no big deal. I'm just going to turn down on

this cleaning off my face and get out of here.

No consciousness, no bearing upon him what he's doing right

there in the moment. And ladies and gentlemen, that's

the reason why God with his foreknowledge says, I want

somebody that's hungry for it. I want somebody that desires it.

I want somebody that's going to be mindful of it.

So I'm going to make sure my line comes through here in the

covenant promises are safeguarded in that because I

don't want to. I don't want it to be with so

much so self absorbed, they'll forget about it.

I want them to be mindful that there's a bigger picture than

me. There's a bigger picture than I.

That's them closing. Stay with me.

Let's wrap it up. Right, Reveal, who's even

looking back up on Esau calls him a profane man or an ungodly

man. Why?

Because due to this little flippant choice here with the

birthright and the promises in the Covenant and pottage, I

didn't come on. Seriously, Abby, I kind of bring

something up over here, you know, would you like to have

this or, you know, it's this or your family?

Uncle Paul, that red pottage. That's awesome.

Here you go. Seriously.

I mean, we'll look all that and we're kind of just, I mean,

seriously, yes, gratification for a moment compared to

something that would impact family for lifetimes.

Alan P Ross says this, and I'm closing.

He says profane people are willing to relinquish things of

lasting spiritual value because they live to satisfy their basic

appetites. Just a moment at the moment.

But there's something bigger than the moment, right?

The whole eons of time are made-up of moments, so every

moment counts. Nature's nations and the

birthright. Amen.

Someone say Amen, Amen. I know he's a little heavy there

tonight. Might need to go back to listen

that again. We could do a whole just one

lesson on this concept of predestination and election and

so on and so forth. Next Wednesday, we'll be here in

revival. OK?

So we'll be in revival. And then after that, I think we

have about 3 more weeks, I think about three more weeks of

Genesis. And then there'll be a week in

the white. My wife and I will be on an

anniversary trip and then we'll do the interview and then

there'll be National Youth Convention.

And then it'll be December. I hate to sum it up like that.

In December, we'll be going to connect groups, men connect

groups, women connect groups, youth connect groups.

And we'll do that for the winter season of January or December,

January and February. OK, All right.

And then we'll get back to Genesis.

We will finish Genesis eventually if we don't, as

again, I've splattered with some other things because I know some

people are like, oh, Genesis. Here's the thing though.

I have people asking me about things from Genesis all the

time. And then you do a series on

Genesis and then it's like, next time you ask me something about

Genesis, I will say we got a podcast with, you know, 52

lessons. Great catalog.

Amen. Honestly though, side note,

before I close, we do have, we have our live stream that on

Facebook. They only stay there for so long

and then Facebook does away with them, YouTube keeps them.

But the thing that we have the longest catalog of is podcast go

all the way back to 2011 if my memory is correct.

We have thousands folk, thousands of podcasts, and among

them are I don't know how many series I've done, but I have

done bunches on books of the Bible, characters, the Bible,

topics of the Bible. So it is a resource.

Use it as a resource. You can search on their things

and you can find 30 some odd weeks for the Book of

Revelation, 20 some odd weeks for the book of Daniel.

You understand what I'm saying? Use it as a resource, Amen.

Let's pray tonight. Father, we love you God, we

thank you, Lord Jesus, God, for your spirit.

I pray, O God, today, help us, O Lord, help us to have a

propensity, Lord Jesus, a desire, a leaning, Lord God,

toward those things, God, that are righteous and holy and godly

and Lord noteworthy. Lord Jesus, in your sight.

I pray, Oh Lord, we do have choices in our life, God, and

every day we live, we're making choices, Lord, whether they be

for good or whether they not be for good.

Help us, O Lord, to live in an appropriation and in step God,

with your purpose and your will, I pray, O God, today be with

your people, the rest of the sweet God, empower them,

strengthen them, keep their bodies safe, Lord, physically,

God, spiritually and emotionally and will not fail to thank you

for it. In the name of Jesus Christ that

I pray and the church say Amen, Amen.

Also, there is still sign up for food, bringing food for

Saturday. There's still sign up for

helping clean up and tear down on the bulletin board.

There's places there where you can sign your name next to

certain jobs. All right, that is there.

This is Wednesday. So this probably your last time

having access to those things. All right, so God bless you.

Night, Jesus.