Stephen Whitehouse – From Jacob to Israel – Class 1 – Two Faces Two Paths

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Oh, good morning, brothers and
sisters.

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Oh, that was good.
That was good.

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Jacob, a man transformed the
namesake for God’s people and

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God’s land.
So right at the outset of a week

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of studies together, we see in
that name a name that is changed

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to Israel, that there is
something about this man’s life

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that we as brothers and sisters,
followers of the Lord Jesus

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Christ, need to follow.
There are lessons to glean if we

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are to become part of new Israel
now.

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Now the the study started in the
very natural way.

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We were doing the readings as a
family a few years back and when

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we were looking at the life of
Jacob, we stopped in our

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readings and we just couldn’t
understand why he was a

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patriarch.
This is a man who deceived his

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father.
This is a man who took the

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birthright and stole the
blessing of his older brother

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Esau.
This is a man who showed

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preference to Rachel over Leah.
This is a a man who favoured

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Joseph over his sons.
There are so many things, aren’t

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they, when we think about the
life of Jacob, that it’s not,

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it’s not, it’s not an obvious
thing, is it?

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It’s not a an obvious thing to
think that this is a man who is

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indeed blessed by God.
So I set out to prove that Esau

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was much better than perhaps we
first realized and to understand

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why God loved Jacob.
And can I just say at the

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beginning of our studies this
week, at the outset, I can say

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that Jacob turns out to be one
of the great men of faith and

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Esau a lot worse than I first
thought.

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So with those thoughts in mind,
I’d like you just to open up

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your scriptures and we’re going
to start in Genesis chapter 25

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because to understand Jacob, I
believe, and this is what we’re

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going to look at this morning, I
believe to understand Jacob, we

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have to understand Esau.
And we’ve got to go back to

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Jacob’s formative years as a
child growing up with his Big

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Brother.
And we’re going to see the deep

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psychological impact that Esau
has upon him.

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And I believe from the, the
study that we’re going to look

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at this morning, that I, I
believe Esau profoundly shaped

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Jacob.
So when we think about Jacob and

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all the things that he did, I
would like us to remember this

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class and the context of how all
things started for Jacob.

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So when we come to Genesis
chapter 25, we we see there as

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we we pick up the narrative here
in verse 21 that Isaac and

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Rebecca, they’ve been together
for 20 years and Rebecca had

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been barren for all this time.
Look at these words.

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And Isaac entreated Yahweh for
his wife, because she was

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barren, and Yahweh was entreated
of him.

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And Rebecca his wife conceived,
and the children struggled

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together within her.
And she said, If it be so, why

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am I thus?
And she went to inquire of

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Yahweh.
And Yahweh said unto her, Two

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

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separated from thy bowels, and
the one people shall be stronger

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

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So there’s a number of things
I’d like you to notice in those

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few verses there, it says the
children struggled together with

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an I want you to notice that in
the womb there they were.

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They were struggling to such an
extent that Rebecca inquired of

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the Lord.
It says, why am I thus?

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In other words, why is this
happening to me?

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I want you just to note that
brothers and sisters, at the

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beginning of this week, the
wrestling between Jacob and Esau

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in the womb, they were wrestling
to such an extent that it was

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painful for the mother, it was
painful for Rebecca.

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And she now entreats of Yahweh
and says, why is this so?

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In other words, if I’d known, if
I’d known that the blessing of

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these children would bring so
much discomfort, I’m wondering

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whether I would have asked.
This is the extent to which

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Rebecca was enduring the pain of
these two boys wrestling within

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her.
And so right at the beginning,

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we’ve got this, this hint, this
hint from Scripture of Jacob

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wrestling with Esau before
they’re even born.

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And remember, Jacob is going to
commence a journey, a journey

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that’s going to bring about a
new name, the name of Israel.

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And so in other words, it’s
telling us that through much

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tribulation we enter into the
Kingdom of God.

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Acts chapter 14.
Can you see that Bible

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principles are always consistent
in Scripture.

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And and this is what we’re
seeing this journey now for, for

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Jacob begins in the womb, the
wrestling with his older

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brother.
The other thing I’d like you to

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notice, verse 23, it says that
the elder shall serve the

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younger.
So it wouldn’t be a natural

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order, wouldn’t be a natural
order here.

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This order would be brought
about a struggle.

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A struggle would bring about
this order of the elder serving

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the younger.
And then we’ve got a few other

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additional details.
Notice here the two nations are

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in thy womb and two manner of
people.

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So not only are they two nations
that they’re two manner of

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people, they are all together
different.

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They are, they are opposed to
one another and they’re

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different to such an extent that
he says there shall be separated

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from thy bowels.
They’re going to be so different

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that the very moment that these
children are born, they’re going

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to set off on two different
journeys.

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That’s the idea that they’re
separated as soon as they’re

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born.
These two opposing forces in

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Esau and in Jacob.
That’s interesting, isn’t it?

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When we reflect upon that two
manner of people, as soon as

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they’re they’re born, they’ll be
different that the the elder

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shall serve the young.
And we’re going to see this

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throughout our studies this week
that I really believe that this

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became a driving force in the
mind of Rebecca.

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You imagine that you’re Rebecca
and, and, and you are the heir

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of the covenant and God speaks
to you and says that the, the

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elder shall serve the younger.
This then becomes a driving

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motivation, a driving force in
her life.

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And I believe it’s these verses
here that begin to help us to,

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to understand and to explain the
actions of Rebecca in the life

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of Jacob.
Well, twins, don’t they?

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They, they share very deep
connections.

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They have genetic similarities
and they have common

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experiences.
That’s helpful to think about

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because it begins to frame
Jacob.

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They were twins.
And so, in other words, then

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there was something of Esau in
Jacob.

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Want you just to think about
that.

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There was something of Esau in
Jacob, and Jacob’s life was a

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transformation.
It was going to be a journey

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that would bring about a new
name, and that new name was

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about enduring and tribulation
and removing that Esau from

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within him.
Can you see that?

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There was something there in
birth of Esau within Jacob and

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his life was about removing the
Esau from within and his name

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was Israel.
And that’s exactly the lesson

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for you and for me, isn’t it?
Brothers and sisters, if we are

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to to become new Israel, then
human nature and natural

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propensities, the Esau within us
has to be destroyed.

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It is the the journey of
overcoming.

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It is the hour of
transformation.

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Now this difference here was
seen at birth.

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It’s going to become even more
acute as they grow older.

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But I want us to pick out some
of the details here in their

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birth.
It illustrates the differences

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here.
Let’s just note verse 24 of

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chapter 25.
It says there, and the first

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this is Esau came out red all
over like a hairy garment, and

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

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

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called Jacob.
And Esau Isaac was three school

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years old when she bare them.
Just want you to know, since

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these details here, it tells us
that Esau first came out and was

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read.
I’d like us all to notice that

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that’s a that’s a very important
hint of the type of life this

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man would lead.
The Hebrew for the word read

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there is Admani, which you could
even hear in the Hebrew is the

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roots of the name Adam.
It means red or Ruddy.

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And so the idea here that when
Esau was born, his complexion

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was red.
He was a picture of health and

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vitality.
So I just want you to imagine

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that Isaac here and Rebecca,
they’re naming their children

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and they see this son and he’s a
picture of vitality.

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And it says that in verse 25.
He has this distinctive feature

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here.
He’s all over like a hairy or a

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rough.
You may have, in a more modern

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translation, a rough garment.
And the name Esau means hairy

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one, hairy 1.
And so with this skin around

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him, it’s as if he was wearing
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Can you see that?
It’s as if at birth he was

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wearing an animal skin.
This was a a a a young a young

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man or a baby here that was
being born that looked like a a

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hunter, a hunter in the making
right from birth.

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And the root of the name Esau
the hairy wand is the idea of

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being fully made and that that
makes sense.

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There he was.
He’s all hairies hairy over.

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He looks like this baby hunter.
He’s going to grow up as a a

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great hunter.
But here the idea of the name

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Esau is fully made.
He’s all grown up at birth.

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He was all grown up.
Just just picture that.

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He’s all grown up and and it
literally means there to do to

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fashion and to make.
And these are all important

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details because he’s telling us
here that the name Esau,

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although he was the hairy one,
the idea expresses that this man

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is strong and will be strong in
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He’s all grown up at birth.
He’s fully made.

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He even looks like a bearded man
at birth.

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All right, that’s the whole
idea.

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So, so you can imagine then the
the muttering amongst the

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mothers as they looked at Esau
and they go, oh, he looks so

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healthy and red.
You can see his whole life is is

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charted ahead.
He’s going to be strong.

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He’s destined for greatness.
Can can you can you hear those

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words that that are resounding
around the the the birth really

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of Esau?
So at birth he resembled a a a

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mini hunter, a person who was
going to enjoy wild game and a a

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great sense of adventure that
this was Esau at birth.

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But but Jacob was altogether
different.

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It says there in verse 26 that
Jacob took hold of Esau’s heel.

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Now this is very important.
I know you know these details,

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but sometimes we forget them.
The name Jacob here is to grab

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the heel, heel catcher and
that’s what his name is and

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nothing else.
Grab the heel and heel catcher.

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So just like Esau was this hairy
man and he was destined for

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greatness.
He was all grown up.

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He was he was fully made.
That’s the whole idea here in

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the name Jacob, the heel
catcher.

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In this name, in this name is
Jacob’s destiny.

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And Jacob’s destiny was to let
go of the heel.

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Can you see that?
To become Esau, he had the to

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become Israel, he has the Esau
within him.

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He has to remove the Esau, and
to remove the Esau he has to let

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go of Esau’s heel.
So in his name we see his

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destiny.
Now the names were given in the

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way that they appeared.
Esau was was fully haired and so

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he was the Hairy 1.
And similarly, Jacob was holding

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onto Esau’s heel and he was the
heel catcher.

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Now come over to a chapter to
chapter 27.

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And I just want to illustrate
this because I think it’s

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important.
Sometimes we say that Jacob was

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the supplanter and I want to
erase that from your minds

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because the Scriptures do not
say that he was a supplanter.

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The scriptures tell us that he
was the heel catcher because

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those names were given on their
physical appearance.

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And notice verse 36 concerning
here.

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How, how, how Esau Now we’re
going to come to this a little

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later, God willing this week.
How how Esau had lost out on the

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blessing and he says to his
father is not he rightly named

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Jacob or he has supplanted me
and this is where we get the

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idea of the supplanter.
But notice who says that Esau

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and we’re going to see that this
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We we can’t trust any words that
Esau says Esau called his

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younger brother supplanter, but
we are not to to trust those

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words at all.
The scriptures God says that he

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was a heel catcher and that’s a
really, really important

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distinction.
Let’s not say that Jacob was a

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supplanter because he wasn’t.
He was the heel catcher and he

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had to let go.
Now it’s interesting, isn’t it,

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when we think a little bit about
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So, so here then was Esau and he
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And there’s something then if
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path, an opposite path, then it
would mean then, wouldn’t it, by

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deduction that that Jacob wasn’t
fully made, he had to become God

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made.
Can you see that?

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And to become God name made
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This is a really powerful lesson
for you and for me brothers and

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sisters.
We have to grow, we have to

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develop, we have to become like
the Lord Jesus Christ in order

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to become Israel.
If we are fully made now, then

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we are not growing spiritually
through our Heavenly Father.

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Really important lessons, things
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Well, the difference was
certainly seen in their adult

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lives.
Come back to chapter 25 then and

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look at verse 27.
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physically very different when
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And those names that were
assigned to these children had

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incredible meaning as they begin
their lives.

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But but notice as they’re
growing up now, look how

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different they are.
It says in verse 27 that Esau

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boys grew and Esau was a cunning
hunter, a man of the field, and

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Jacob was a play man and he
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Want you to again notice a few
of these details here because

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they really reveal quite a vivid
picture of Esau.

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It tells us that he was a
cunning hunter.

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Now you know that word cunning,
It means knowledgeable, not only

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knowledgeable, intimate
knowledge.

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It’s the same knowledge that
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And she can see we, we all
understand the import of that

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word.
No, And it’s the same word.

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He knew how to hunt inside and
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He was an exceptional hunter
with a sword and the bow.

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He was a man who went out into
the forest and he trapped and he

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killed every single day with
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I want you to to imagine this
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There he is on his horse out
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He was a formidable man.
He was a destroyer.

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So when Jacob becomes a haunted
man now we begin to imagine the

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fear that Jacob had concerning
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But it says also that he was a a
cunning hunter, A cunning

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hunter.
And when we look at that word

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hunter, we only find that word
hunter used one other time in

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scripture.
And it tells us that there was a

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mighty hunter before Yahweh.
Remember him.

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It was Nimrod there in Genesis
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I’m sure we all know that that
before Yahweh is the idea of

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against Yahweh.
He was an adversary of Yahweh.

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He was the the first adversary
of Yahweh in the earth where he

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where he he challenged Yahweh
and his status as supreme ruler

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with a following.
This was the man who was

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defiant.
This was the man who established

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the Babylonians who were the
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Now isn’t it interesting that
that word hunter is first picked

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up of Nimrod and his name means
we will rebel.

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The same word is used of Esau.
I’m trying to paint a picture

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for you.
Painting a picture of Esau helps

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us all understand why Jacob
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And think about Esau.
Not only was he a mighty hunter,

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he too founded the Edomites and
the Edomites were the enemy, the

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swore enemy of Israel.
Can you see the similarities

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between those two?
Yet in contrast, in stark

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contrast, we read there yet
Jacob was a play man dwelling in

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tents.
In verse 27, so suddenly we see

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that in stark contrast of the
the predator out there in the

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forest tracking the animals.
Jacob was a shepherd who knew of

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the flock.
Think of all the shepherds we

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know in Scripture, brothers and
sisters, and that’s what Jacob

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was doing.
And notice there he was a play

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man.
See that he was a play man in

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verse 27.
And it’s worth just putting in

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your margin.
That word plain Job one verse,

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one which says concerning Job
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upright and one that feared God
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We remember those words and the
word perfect there in Job.

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One verse, one that describes
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uprightness of Job, is the name.
That is used to describe Jacob.

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Whilst Esau was this cunning
hunter, really important to

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note.
This really establishes their

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positions in their journeys in
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That was Jacob and here we see
what Esau was doing.

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Now as we reflect upon this and
we we think about becoming new

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Israel, this is our journey,
isn’t it?

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This is a name that we’re
associated with the name bearer

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of God’s land and God’s people.
We, we begin to see as we, we

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look at these details that the
life of Esau and the life of

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Jacob is all about priorities,
isn’t it?

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It’s all about priorities.
We’re, we’re beginning to see

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that Jacob was a man who was
obsessed, obsessed with the

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covenant and the promises.
This is what he focused his

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entire life on.
Yet Esau, his twin brother, was

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a predator and he was focused
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You see that just as we reflect
upon those two men, we see 2

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paths, 2 choices revealed in
these two faces and these two

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characters.
And so then we’re beginning to

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see that Jacob and Esau and
their lives are challenging you

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and me.
And it’s asking us rhetorically

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what, what character do you best
identify with?

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Do I, are you an Esau or are you
a Jacob?

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And brothers and sisters, young
people, we cannot be both.

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I want you to notice here.
So just imagine in your minds

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there’s Esau, and he’s out there
on his horse, the great cunning

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hunter, while Jacob was quiet in
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So with that thought, let’s just
go and have a look at Hebrews

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Chapter 11.
Because when we make that type

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of picture in our minds, we
might conclude that Jacob was

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being overshadowed.
But we’re going to see that all

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appearances are very deceiving
because something was happening,

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something incredible was
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So look at these words here in
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You can see here that we’re
reading about the life of

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Abraham.
It’s there by faith.

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Abraham sojourned in the land of
promise, as in a strange country

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dwelling in tabernacles.
You’ll notice in your margin the

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word tense with Isaac and Jacob,
the heirs with him of the same

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promise.
Can you see there was Esau fully

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made?
And Jacob was with his father

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and his grandfather in a tent
with their scriptures open and

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he’s learning.
Can you see that there’s Esau

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fully made and there’s Jacob
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And when we go through the time
period, we we know that Jacob is

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15 years of age when Abraham
departs the scene when he falls

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asleep.
You, you think of your own

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children and your own
grandchildren, your children in

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your your meetings and how much
you can, you can put in their

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minds and hearts by the time
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You imagine the excitement and
the the spiritual appetite of

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Jacob when he goes.
Granddad, tell me again about

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the story of earth.
Granddad, tell me again about

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Mount Moriah with dad.
What were you thinking?

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Can you imagine that?
And there was Esau out there in

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the forest as the predator, and
there was Jacob there with Dad

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and granddad with his scriptures
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But there’s something else I
want you just to notice here.

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It’s a lovely phrase.
I want you to try and at least

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try and remember it this morning
that these three men, that they

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were heirs of the same promise.
What a lovely, lovely phrase

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that is, that they were heirs of
the same promise.

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That’s what we are.
That’s what we are.

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We belong in this tent.
We’re the heirs.

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Hebrews, one tells us, the heirs
of salvation.

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We’re in this tent with Abraham,
Isaac sitting there along Jacob.

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But I want you to think now
about Jacob.

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There’s Jacob with his Bible
open.

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He’s listening to to his father
and grandfather and he looks at

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these two great men, these great
men of history, the great

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patriarchs, and he looks at his
granddad and he sees Abraham.

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And what does he think about
Abraham?

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Well, I’m sure when he looks at
Abraham, he thinks about his own

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life.
The the, the great enemy in in

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Jacob’s life, which we’re going
to see in a moment was, was

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Esau.
And think about the challenge

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that Abraham had.
Think about the big decision

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that Abraham had to make with
Lot, his nephew, where the

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choice was the land of Canaan
and the, the flush and fertile

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planes of Jordan close to Sodom
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Can you remember that and the
tension between those two men

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and the strife it brought within
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So, so when Jacob looks at
Abraham, he sees his grandfather

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and he knows that Abraham made
big decisions in his life of

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separation.
And then he looks at his father

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Isaac, and he knows all the
stories about Isaac and the

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challenge he had with his half
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Can we just look at that because
we might not know that one.

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So well, come with me to to
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And as we go here, I want you to
try and imagine the the the

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thoughts and the feelings of
Jacob and the comfort he must

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have had being with his father
Isaac, knowing the decisions

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that Isaac had made.
Well here then we see a contrast

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with Isaac and Ishmael.
Notice here Genesis chapter 25

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verse 16.
These are the sons of Ishmael,

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and these are their names by
their towns and by their

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castles. 12 Princess according
to their nations.

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So here then you can notice that
word castle is the idea of

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fortress.
So here notice then Isaac saw

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Ishmael.
There’s Isaac and he’s in a tent

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with his dad Abraham, while
Ishmael because of the blessing

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of Hagar, he has this great
fortress and he has towns and he

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has the nations.
Can Can you imagine that, that

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you’re living in a tent, you’re
the one who’s received the

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blessing and you’re half
brothers out there, so

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prosperous as a ruler of his own
Kingdom, but Isaac stays within

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the tent.
See that?

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Now with that, then, it’s even
more pronounced in the life of

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Jacob.
Let’s have a look at Genesis

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chapter 36, Genesis chapter 36.
Then let’s just let’s just pick

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up verse 31.
And these are the kings that

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reigned in the land of Edom
before there reigned any king

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over the children of Israel.
Verse 40.

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Just begin the the the verse
here.

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These are the names of the Dukes
that came of Esau and you can

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see a long list there.
And then verse 43, where we’ve

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got Duke Magiel, Duke Eram,
these be the Dukes of Edom

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according to their habitations
in the land of their

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possessions.
He is Esau, the father of the

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Edomites.
Now.

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Now, just think about that.
There was Esau, and there in

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contrast is Jacob with his
father and his grandfather,

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certainly his father at this
stage.

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And there was Esau.
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He had his own Kingdom, he had
sovereignty, he had political

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power, he had military power, he
had his own police service, he

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would have had his own group of
CEOs.

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We’ve got to get into the shoes
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And there’s Jacob holding on to
the promises whilst he sees his

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Big Brother living the high
life.

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Life is all about choices, isn’t
it?

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Brothers and sisters, do do you
feel that your your career is a

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00:29:09,360 –> 00:29:11,560
little bit on ice?
Do you feel that you’ve made

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decisions in your own life that
that have held you back and you

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00:29:15,840 –> 00:29:18,560
see others getting on in life
and doing so well?

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00:29:19,520 –> 00:29:22,600
Did you not go for that job
promotion when you were offered

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00:29:22,600 –> 00:29:25,080
a job elsewhere?
You, you, you chose not to do it

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00:29:25,640 –> 00:29:29,680
because you knew for the benefit
for the truth and your family,

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00:29:29,680 –> 00:29:32,520
it was the wrong thing to do.
They are the right decisions to

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make.
Brothers and sisters, young

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people.
We see this in the life of Jacob

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and Esau was a very, very
powerful man.

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And and look at this, that
there’s no chapter break, of

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course, between chapter 36 and
37.

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So you’ve got the long list
there of the status of Esau.

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And then in contrast, as if we
needed to be reminded and Jacob

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verse 1 of chapter 37 dwelt in
the land whereon his father was

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a stranger in the land of
Canaan.

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And you can put in your margin
by verse 1, Hebrews 11, verse 9,

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Imagine family gatherings.
Imagine family gatherings.

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And there’s Esau.
And he, he powers up in his

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sports car, right?
And he’s flanked by his many

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wives, and he’s draped in the
most expensive jewelry.

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This is real.
And Jacob gets out of his tent

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and greets his Big Brother.
That is the reality of the

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situation, brothers and sisters.
But they lived in faith because

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they were waiting for something
greater.

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So by looking at really the
character and the disposition of

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these two boys, it’s very
obvious, isn’t it, why Rebecca

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loved Jacob?
But why is it that I said Isaac

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loved Esau?
Let’s try and decipher this one

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because this is quite a puzzle.
Come with me to Genesis chapter

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25, Genesis chapter 25, and
verse 28.

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This is more than a clue.
Isaac loved Esau because he did

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eat of his venison.
That’s the important word there.

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It’s the word venison.
But Rebecca loved Jacob.

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Now just notice the the
different translations we’ve got

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on the screen here.
Eight of his gain, the ESVA

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taste for gain, the NASB and
Young’s renders it for his

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hunting is in his mouth.
And the reason why those

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translations are translated in
that way is because venison

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perhaps is a an inaccurate
translation.

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The idea of venison is is to
hunt.

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It comes from the root to hunt.
It comes from the root to hunt.

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Now that’s interesting, isn’t
it?

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Because that word venison comes
from the root to hunt.

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And we’ve already read here in
verse 27 that Esau was a cunning

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hunter.
Can you see that?

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So we’ve got an association.
He was a a cunning hunter and he

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brought back the venison and the
venison has the root to hunt.

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And so then what we’re seeing
here is that the meat is

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associated with the hunter.
So when Isaac tasted of the

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food, when he ate of the meat,
it was this association of Esau

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that he loved.
You see that it was the

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00:32:26,160 –> 00:32:34,560
association of the hunt, Esau
being a predator, Esau being a

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great man of the forest, and
this is what he loved.

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In other words, brothers and
sisters, it brings very directly

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00:32:43,480 –> 00:32:48,720
to all of us a very important
lesson, the dangers of living

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vicariously.
And when I say vicariously, I’m

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sure you know what that means.
We mustn’t, whatever the

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00:32:59,200 –> 00:33:05,240
temptation is, we mustn’t live
through our children.

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What, what do we do with our
children?

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00:33:08,920 –> 00:33:12,160
I know so many of your children,
grandchildren, and they’re very

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00:33:12,160 –> 00:33:15,760
talented.
And many times I’ve told you

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about your children and and
grandchildren.

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You know how much I love your
children and grandchildren.

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00:33:19,960 –> 00:33:22,320
I’ve known many of them for
many, many years.

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00:33:24,360 –> 00:33:28,400
What happens if your child has
talents, abilities, aptitudes

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00:33:28,400 –> 00:33:33,040
that you don’t have?
What seeds do you plant in that

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00:33:33,040 –> 00:33:35,600
child’s mind?
What dreams do you nurture

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00:33:35,600 –> 00:33:37,520
within their hearts?
You see that.

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00:33:39,880 –> 00:33:45,200
And we’re beginning to see that.
Isaac, he loved macho Esau.

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00:33:46,600 –> 00:33:50,160
He loved the power of this man,
very natural.

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00:33:51,160 –> 00:33:54,960
And that was the danger we must
always remember when we’re

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00:33:54,960 –> 00:33:57,240
raising our children.
And I’m in the midst of this,

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00:33:57,240 –> 00:33:58,920
brothers and sisters.
So don’t think I’ve got the

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00:33:58,920 –> 00:34:00,480
answers.
I’m just looking at Scripture.

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00:34:01,040 –> 00:34:06,520
I’ve got three teenagers, but
the scriptures are telling us

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00:34:06,920 –> 00:34:11,120
seek ye first the Kingdom of
God.

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00:34:11,440 –> 00:34:15,360
And that’s always the most
important principle.

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So that’s the danger of living
vicariously.

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But the real story, I believe,
begins with the birthright.

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And this birthright is going to
reshape their lives and it’s

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00:34:26,199 –> 00:34:29,679
going to cast a long shadow on
everything that follows

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00:34:29,679 –> 00:34:32,400
thereafter.
So let’s just read then verse 30

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of chapter 25.
And, and, and so then Esau had

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00:34:35,480 –> 00:34:38,360
been out there asked the
predator and perhaps

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00:34:38,360 –> 00:34:43,400
opportunistically, Jacob had got
this, this pottage.

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00:34:43,760 –> 00:34:46,800
And we read there and Esau said
to Jacob, feed me, I pray thee

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00:34:47,120 –> 00:34:49,880
with that same red pottage, for
I am fate.

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00:34:50,080 –> 00:34:52,719
Therefore was his name called
Edom.

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00:34:52,719 –> 00:34:54,679
Now there’s a number of things I
want you to notice.

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The first thing as Bible
students that we that we notice

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00:34:58,280 –> 00:35:01,320
right away is that verse 30
tells us that the pottage was

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read.
And it also tells us in verse 25

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00:35:05,240 –> 00:35:07,720
that Esau was read.
So we’ve got a connection worth

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just putting that there, making
the connection between verse 25

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00:35:11,640 –> 00:35:17,200
and verse 30, and that word red
is the word Edom, Adam.

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So that’s an interesting
connection.

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00:35:19,200 –> 00:35:22,640
It’s taking us right back to the
beginning, right back there into

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00:35:22,640 –> 00:35:24,120
the garden.
In other words.

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00:35:24,120 –> 00:35:27,400
Then what we’re being told here
is that when Esau saw this food,

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00:35:27,760 –> 00:35:30,920
the red stuff, that’s our idea
of the Hebrew, the red stuff, it

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00:35:30,920 –> 00:35:38,040
is his kind of food.
It’s his kind of food, this

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00:35:38,080 –> 00:35:41,360
reddish Stew.
It was something that was

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00:35:41,440 –> 00:35:44,000
earthly.
It was something that was going

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00:35:44,000 –> 00:35:48,320
to give an immediate reward.
It was something that was going

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00:35:48,320 –> 00:35:54,960
to satisfy a man who was
impulsive and carnal, Adam, and

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00:35:54,960 –> 00:35:56,880
the food was associated with
him.

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00:35:57,080 –> 00:36:01,320
Now, there is no, no reason to
believe that this man was on the

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00:36:01,320 –> 00:36:04,040
verge of death because he eats
just some soup and then he’s off

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00:36:04,040 –> 00:36:07,600
on his way.
This was just impulsive.

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00:36:08,160 –> 00:36:11,520
This is someone who just wants
something and demands something

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00:36:11,720 –> 00:36:14,360
and he’s going to lose
everything for the sake of

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00:36:14,360 –> 00:36:18,280
having that thing.
He’s Karnal.

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00:36:18,960 –> 00:36:24,240
He is Adam now.
Now notice, it’s interesting,

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00:36:24,240 –> 00:36:26,520
isn’t it?
At the end of verse 30, because

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00:36:26,560 –> 00:36:32,120
he took of this red pottage and
because we read at the end of

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00:36:32,120 –> 00:36:35,000
verse 34, he was prepared to
give away his birthright.

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00:36:35,000 –> 00:36:45,360
Because he hated his birthright,
he was renamed in God’s sight as

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00:36:45,360 –> 00:36:50,160
Edom, which means red.
Now that’s fascinating, isn’t

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00:36:50,160 –> 00:36:51,960
it?
We should, we should always just

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00:36:51,960 –> 00:36:56,360
pause when we we see these
little repeats in Scripture and

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00:36:56,360 –> 00:36:59,520
just reflect for a moment.
So there is a man who is red.

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00:37:00,720 –> 00:37:04,760
He exchanges his birthright for
the red stuff, and because he

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00:37:04,760 –> 00:37:08,080
lost his birthright for the red
stuff, he’s called Edom Red.

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00:37:11,080 –> 00:37:14,800
So the color of his skin was
like a hanging prophecy.

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00:37:14,800 –> 00:37:17,360
Can you see that?
It was like a hanging prophecy.

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00:37:17,360 –> 00:37:23,440
It was almost as if that he was
declaring in his physical

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00:37:23,440 –> 00:37:28,480
appearance that he was going to
give everything away for some

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00:37:28,480 –> 00:37:30,840
red stuff.
And so he would be called the

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00:37:30,840 –> 00:37:33,240
Red 1.
And when he was called the Red

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00:37:33,240 –> 00:37:37,400
born, he looked red.
He becomes like Cain.

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00:37:38,640 –> 00:37:42,720
He carries this mark of his
redness, of what he did.

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00:37:42,720 –> 00:37:45,080
Can you see that?
Really powerful right at the

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00:37:45,080 –> 00:37:46,440
beginning.
God knew.

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00:37:47,120 –> 00:37:50,440
God knew, although it was up to
Esau to make the decisions that

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00:37:50,440 –> 00:37:54,240
he did, God knew.
And what a comfort that is

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00:37:54,280 –> 00:37:57,480
brothers and sisters in our own
lives, when when we find life

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00:37:57,480 –> 00:38:02,160
hard, that God knows everything
that is going on in our life.

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00:38:06,760 –> 00:38:09,160
Have you ever really thought
about that at the end of verse

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34 that he despised the
birthright.

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00:38:15,720 –> 00:38:17,440
These, you can see the table on
the screen.

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00:38:17,440 –> 00:38:20,840
These were two very different
men, weren’t they?

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00:38:20,840 –> 00:38:25,680
They were, they were polar
opposites, although we know that

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00:38:25,680 –> 00:38:28,000
he despised the birthright that
they are polar opposites.

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00:38:28,000 –> 00:38:30,560
And I don’t know how many of us
came to Bible school this week

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00:38:30,560 –> 00:38:33,640
and just thought that Esal was a
bit of a, a lovable rogue.

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00:38:33,640 –> 00:38:37,720
He was a, a force of nature.
He was this relentless man,

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00:38:37,880 –> 00:38:40,840
impulsive, yes, someone who
didn’t listen to Sunday school,

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00:38:41,840 –> 00:38:44,360
but your heart went out to him.
I, I don’t know, brothers and

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00:38:44,360 –> 00:38:46,920
sisters, And it’s interesting if
that’s our natural inclination,

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00:38:46,920 –> 00:38:51,880
isn’t that the way the world
pushes us to focus on the

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00:38:51,880 –> 00:38:55,120
external, on the achievements,
on the performance of

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00:38:55,120 –> 00:38:57,040
individuals and not to look on
the heart?

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00:38:57,280 –> 00:39:01,960
And this is a, a real lesson for
you and for me because however

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00:39:01,960 –> 00:39:06,120
the world looked upon Esau, God
was very clear the kind of man

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00:39:06,120 –> 00:39:11,560
this was.
Let’s just reveal in the, the

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00:39:11,560 –> 00:39:14,560
final few minutes now how
different these men really were.

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00:39:14,800 –> 00:39:17,800
And so I want us to think a
little bit about what it means

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00:39:17,840 –> 00:39:21,640
to despise the birthright.
There were three aspects of the

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00:39:21,640 –> 00:39:25,160
birthright here.
The first one was that the

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00:39:25,160 –> 00:39:28,040
birthright meant that the one
who received the birthright was

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00:39:28,040 –> 00:39:31,440
dedicated to God.
So in other words, then in the

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00:39:31,440 –> 00:39:35,160
family, they became the priest.
They became the priest.

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00:39:35,160 –> 00:39:39,360
They were the one who was to to
bring propitiation to the

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00:39:39,360 –> 00:39:42,600
family, right?
They were the ones who would

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00:39:42,600 –> 00:39:46,600
handle the sacrifices, an
incredibly important

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00:39:46,600 –> 00:39:49,760
responsibility.
The the, the second aspect was

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00:39:49,760 –> 00:39:51,560
that they were given authority
over the family.

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00:39:51,560 –> 00:39:56,120
So they’re imagine the family as
a little ecclesial unit and the

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00:39:56,120 –> 00:40:00,360
birthright established the
recording brother within that

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00:40:00,360 –> 00:40:04,080
little family unit and, and and
that brother then would care and

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00:40:04,080 –> 00:40:07,240
make sure.
That the flock, like a shepherd

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00:40:07,480 –> 00:40:10,560
was well looked after.
And then there’s a third aspect,

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00:40:10,560 –> 00:40:12,520
which I’m sure we all know
about, which, which was all

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00:40:12,520 –> 00:40:15,480
about the double portion that
when the, the father died, the

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00:40:15,480 –> 00:40:18,840
one who was the recipient of the
birthright would also receive

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00:40:19,080 –> 00:40:20,960
the double portion.
Now, when you look at those

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00:40:20,960 –> 00:40:23,720
three things on the screen, if
you were to summarize those

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00:40:23,720 –> 00:40:25,280
three things, what would you
say?

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00:40:25,280 –> 00:40:27,640
What, what, what are those three
things associated with?

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00:40:28,560 –> 00:40:30,560
Well, well, I, I, I believe that
these three things are

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00:40:30,560 –> 00:40:37,920
associated with responsibilities
to God and family and blessings

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00:40:38,480 –> 00:40:43,280
to be received in the future.
Because you had to wait till

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00:40:43,280 –> 00:40:47,160
father died.
Now, when you think about Esau,

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Esau didn’t care for anything of
God.

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00:40:50,720 –> 00:40:54,240
Esau didn’t care for anything of
his family, and Esau wasn’t

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00:40:54,240 –> 00:40:56,360
prepared to wait for his father
to die.

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00:40:56,560 –> 00:40:58,720
He was a man who lived in the
present.

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00:40:59,320 –> 00:41:02,840
He said that in the here and
now, it’s the attitude of the

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00:41:02,840 –> 00:41:07,760
world.
It’s the attitude of the world,

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00:41:07,760 –> 00:41:14,160
isn’t it?
Let us eat and drink and be

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00:41:14,160 –> 00:41:18,640
merry, for tomorrow we die.
You see that.

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So we’re beginning to see now
that Esau is more than just a, a

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00:41:21,680 –> 00:41:24,840
lovable rogue.
He’s now beginning to symbolise

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00:41:24,840 –> 00:41:29,120
quite, quite powerfully the
mindset of the world.

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00:41:30,080 –> 00:41:34,080
But perhaps we’ve seen some
shortcomings of Esau.

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00:41:34,160 –> 00:41:36,440
But there’s more to reveal.
Come with me to Hebrews chapter

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00:41:36,440 –> 00:41:39,640
12.
Now Hebrews chapter 12.

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00:41:39,680 –> 00:41:46,240
And we’re doing all this to help
us to understand Jacob and the

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00:41:46,240 –> 00:41:53,280
decisions that Jacob made.
I believe Jacob was shaped by

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00:41:53,400 –> 00:41:56,200
Esau.
So Hebrews chapter 12, just one

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00:41:56,200 –> 00:41:57,920
verse here.
We could quickly read over it,

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00:41:58,160 –> 00:42:00,400
but it’s absolutely packed with
information.

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00:42:00,480 –> 00:42:04,800
Hebrews 12, verse 16, It tells
us lest there be any fornicator

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00:42:05,000 –> 00:42:09,720
or profane person as Esau, who
for one morsel of meat saw his

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00:42:10,440 –> 00:42:12,240
birthright.
So we’ve seen that birthright

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00:42:12,240 –> 00:42:16,320
today, this morning, haven’t we?
But I just want to look at those

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00:42:16,320 –> 00:42:19,000
two words.
They’re very important words for

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00:42:19,000 –> 00:42:22,720
us all to note.
He’s a fornicator and he was a

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00:42:22,720 –> 00:42:25,000
profane person.
Now, the the word profane means

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00:42:25,000 –> 00:42:27,760
that he was devoid of religion.
There was no religious feeling

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00:42:27,880 –> 00:42:31,440
that that the kind of picture
was, if you you had Esau under a

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00:42:31,440 –> 00:42:35,240
microscope, you’d see nothing
religious in him.

650
00:42:36,520 –> 00:42:40,560
There’s not one redeeming
quality in Esau.

651
00:42:41,240 –> 00:42:42,760
So he’s not a lovable rogue at
all.

652
00:42:43,960 –> 00:42:48,640
He’s someone who is an adversary
to God entirely.

653
00:42:51,400 –> 00:42:52,840
The other word is just as
strong.

654
00:42:52,840 –> 00:42:56,680
That word fornicator is the
Greek word pornos, which means a

655
00:42:56,680 –> 00:43:01,920
male prostitute, someone who
indulges in unlawful sexual

656
00:43:01,920 –> 00:43:06,320
intercourse.
Now I’m doing this to help us

657
00:43:06,320 –> 00:43:10,760
understand Jacob.
This was his Big Brother, his

658
00:43:10,760 –> 00:43:14,960
twin.
I want to go now, I just want to

659
00:43:14,960 –> 00:43:17,280
consider this word pornos
because I think it’s really

660
00:43:17,280 –> 00:43:21,640
important to, to decipher
whether this is true, whether

661
00:43:21,920 –> 00:43:24,680
Esau was a fornicator.
So we’re going to go on a very

662
00:43:24,680 –> 00:43:27,680
short journey now.
Come back to Genesis chapter 26.

663
00:43:27,960 –> 00:43:31,000
I’m going to paint a picture for
you now, and it’s not a nice

664
00:43:31,000 –> 00:43:40,440
picture at all.
Genesis chapter 26, verse 34.

665
00:43:41,400 –> 00:43:46,320
It tells us here.
Genesis chapter 26 and verse 34

666
00:43:46,680 –> 00:43:49,560
it tells us and Esau was 40
years old when he took his wife

667
00:43:49,560 –> 00:43:52,360
Judith, the daughter of Biri the
Hittite.

668
00:43:52,360 –> 00:43:56,360
So I want you to notice that
it’s a, a Hittite and Bashima

669
00:43:56,360 –> 00:43:58,880
the daughter of Elam the
Hittite.

670
00:43:59,360 –> 00:44:02,400
Now so, so we see here that Esau
marries into the Hittite family,

671
00:44:02,400 –> 00:44:07,200
yet God told explicitly Abraham
to bury within the family.

672
00:44:08,200 –> 00:44:11,960
This is the family, and he goes
out of the family and he marries

673
00:44:12,240 –> 00:44:15,520
the Hittites.
Now, I also want you to notice

674
00:44:15,520 –> 00:44:19,200
these names because I don’t know
whether you’ve ever appreciated

675
00:44:19,200 –> 00:44:22,800
that the names of these Hittite
women in verse 34 are Hebrew

676
00:44:22,800 –> 00:44:25,520
names.
They appear as Jewesses.

677
00:44:26,080 –> 00:44:29,400
So the name Judith, the Hebrew
name is Jewess praised.

678
00:44:31,000 –> 00:44:33,640
But how do you have a Hebrew
name with a Hittite woman?

679
00:44:33,880 –> 00:44:37,600
And I believe Esau gave this
woman her name.

680
00:44:38,560 –> 00:44:41,280
And then you’ve got Bashima,
which again is a Hebrew name,

681
00:44:41,280 –> 00:44:46,320
which means sweet or smelling.
And I believe Esau gave her this

682
00:44:46,320 –> 00:44:53,480
name too, to disguise her.
I believe here that Esau was

683
00:44:53,480 –> 00:44:56,760
covering his tracks.
Now it might seem a little more

684
00:44:56,760 –> 00:44:59,200
positive.
If you go to chapter 28 and look

685
00:44:59,200 –> 00:45:02,640
down at verses 6 to 9, you see
now that he marries again and he

686
00:45:02,640 –> 00:45:04,600
marries into the family of
Ishmael Now.

687
00:45:04,760 –> 00:45:05,920
Now think about what I just
said.

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00:45:06,000 –> 00:45:08,160
Marry within the family.
So he marries into Ishmael.

689
00:45:08,240 –> 00:45:09,920
But that’s the wrong family,
isn’t it?

690
00:45:11,200 –> 00:45:12,560
But that’s not the seed of
promise.

691
00:45:12,560 –> 00:45:15,280
The heirs of promise were there
in the tent, Abraham, Isaac and

692
00:45:15,280 –> 00:45:17,280
Jacob.
Ishmael was not.

693
00:45:17,280 –> 00:45:24,440
So again, he demonstrates,
doesn’t he, in this foolish

694
00:45:24,440 –> 00:45:27,680
action.
He’s misunderstanding of

695
00:45:27,680 –> 00:45:30,160
Scripture.
And now suddenly when you come

696
00:45:30,160 –> 00:45:36,400
to chapter 36 and verse 2, that
his wives now are unveiled,

697
00:45:36,400 –> 00:45:39,200
their their true names are
unmasked.

698
00:45:39,280 –> 00:45:43,000
Look at this and and we’re going
here to connect what we thought

699
00:45:43,000 –> 00:45:47,600
about that word pornos remember
in in Hebrews.

700
00:45:48,080 –> 00:45:52,480
So chapter 36 now and verse 2
Esau took his wives are the

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00:45:52,480 –> 00:45:55,480
daughters of Cain and Ada, the
daughter of Elam the Hittite and

702
00:45:55,480 –> 00:45:59,440
the holy Bama, the daughter of
Ana, the daughter of Zibina the

703
00:45:59,440 –> 00:46:01,800
Hivite.
Now the name I want you to

704
00:46:01,800 –> 00:46:08,040
notice there as on the screen is
a holy Bama and a holy bomber is

705
00:46:08,040 –> 00:46:13,400
made-up of two root words a ho
which means tent and bomber high

706
00:46:13,400 –> 00:46:17,440
place.
So her name means tent of the

707
00:46:17,440 –> 00:46:24,520
high place and bomber refers to
high places of worship and is

708
00:46:24,520 –> 00:46:27,000
associated with Pagan worship
and idolatry.

709
00:46:27,000 –> 00:46:30,720
Now this is the time of canine
worship, and the canine worship

710
00:46:30,720 –> 00:46:33,160
was all associated with Baal and
Ashira.

711
00:46:33,840 –> 00:46:36,360
And if you know anything about
that, that terrible, that evil

712
00:46:36,360 –> 00:46:43,160
worship, that there were temple
prostitutes, that there were

713
00:46:43,160 –> 00:46:49,360
temple prostitutes in the high
places, is this name telling us

714
00:46:50,000 –> 00:46:53,960
that one of the wives of Esau
was one of the temple

715
00:46:53,960 –> 00:46:58,200
prostitutes of the false worship
of Bail and Ashira?

716
00:46:58,680 –> 00:47:01,800
So then the scriptures are
absolutely accurate in Hebrews

717
00:47:01,800 –> 00:47:04,880
Chapter 11 that he was a
fornicator.

718
00:47:05,160 –> 00:47:08,360
Can you see this?
Can you see this brothers and

719
00:47:08,360 –> 00:47:12,200
sisters?
And I believe if we don’t see

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00:47:12,200 –> 00:47:15,040
it, Rebecca did come back to
chapter 27.

721
00:47:15,880 –> 00:47:20,280
And I know I can say this
because of sister Lindsay.

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00:47:20,320 –> 00:47:23,480
Mothers have an uncanny ability
to discern what’s going on in

723
00:47:23,480 –> 00:47:25,760
the family.
They they have that ability to

724
00:47:25,760 –> 00:47:27,640
put their fingers right on the
problem.

725
00:47:28,200 –> 00:47:30,560
I see a lot of mothers just
nodding their heads and no

726
00:47:30,560 –> 00:47:33,960
father’s kind of shaking theirs,
but they do they do and and look

727
00:47:33,960 –> 00:47:36,840
here Genesis chapter 27 and
verse 46.

728
00:47:36,840 –> 00:47:43,800
Look at Rebecca’s assessment
here Rebecca said to Isaac, I am

729
00:47:43,800 –> 00:47:47,040
weary of my life.
Verse 46 because of the

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00:47:47,040 –> 00:47:50,000
daughters of Heth.
If Jacob take a wife of the

731
00:47:50,000 –> 00:47:53,120
daughters of Heth such as these
which are of the daughters of

732
00:47:53,120 –> 00:47:57,880
the land, which what God shall
my life do to me.

733
00:47:57,880 –> 00:48:04,800
So, so here as we’ve got on the
overhead, she says when she

734
00:48:04,800 –> 00:48:08,880
looks at the wives of Esau, she
says these are the daughters of

735
00:48:08,880 –> 00:48:14,240
Heth, the daughters of the land.
Now the land is the land of

736
00:48:14,240 –> 00:48:16,800
Canaan.
So what she was saying is when

737
00:48:16,800 –> 00:48:20,440
she looked at these women, even
though they were camouflaged

738
00:48:20,680 –> 00:48:25,560
with these names that Esau had
given them, she looks at them

739
00:48:25,560 –> 00:48:28,240
and she says these are daughters
of Heth.

740
00:48:28,920 –> 00:48:39,520
These are daughters of Canaan,
and Canaan had a son, Heth, and

741
00:48:41,040 –> 00:48:52,600
his name meant terror, terror.
And when Esau brought these

742
00:48:52,600 –> 00:48:58,680
women into the tent, Rebecca
could see that this was a terror

743
00:48:59,240 –> 00:49:04,000
to the seed and to the promises.
They were the worst of the

744
00:49:04,000 –> 00:49:07,960
worst.
They were of the Hittites.

745
00:49:08,320 –> 00:49:11,440
Our final reference, come with
me to Deuteronomy chapter 20.

746
00:49:12,320 –> 00:49:16,920
I just want to show you this.
Deuteronomy chapter 20.

747
00:49:16,920 –> 00:49:18,400
We’re going, we’re going to
finish here.

748
00:49:20,000 –> 00:49:22,720
But I want you to see this,
because the Hittites were so

749
00:49:22,760 –> 00:49:28,560
evil that in Deuteronomy chapter
20, when when Joshua leads the

750
00:49:28,560 –> 00:49:32,040
children of Israel into the
land, we’re told these words,

751
00:49:32,040 –> 00:49:34,880
and when Yahweh thy God hath
delivered it into thine hands,

752
00:49:34,880 –> 00:49:36,920
thou shalt slight every male
thereof with the edge of the

753
00:49:36,920 –> 00:49:38,560
sword.
But the women and the little

754
00:49:38,560 –> 00:49:41,040
ones, and the cattle, and all
that is in the city, even all

755
00:49:41,040 –> 00:49:43,680
the spoil thereof, shall thou
take unto thyself.

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00:49:43,800 –> 00:49:47,480
OK, so they, they were to go in
and destroy all the men but the

757
00:49:47,480 –> 00:49:50,280
women and the children and that
the cattle, they, they weren’t

758
00:49:50,280 –> 00:49:54,560
to do that with the exception
verse 17, but thou shalt utterly

759
00:49:54,560 –> 00:49:59,920
destroy them, namely.
And the first name that were to

760
00:49:59,920 –> 00:50:05,360
be destroyed, man, woman and
child and cattle was the

761
00:50:05,360 –> 00:50:11,240
Hittites was the Hittites
because of their abominations.

762
00:50:11,240 –> 00:50:16,400
And the abomination of the
Hittites was idol worship, it

763
00:50:16,400 –> 00:50:23,120
was child sacrifice and it was
temple prostitution.

764
00:50:25,480 –> 00:50:29,920
And the whole lot had to be
destroyed, the Hittites.

765
00:50:31,480 –> 00:50:37,520
And Rebecca, she looks at these
women that have been brought

766
00:50:37,520 –> 00:50:44,160
into her home and she says these
are the worst of the Hittites.

767
00:50:44,960 –> 00:50:53,800
These are the sons of Heth and
the sons of Canaan or the

768
00:50:53,800 –> 00:50:57,960
daughters of Canaan.
And so brothers and sisters,

769
00:50:58,400 –> 00:51:03,280
that’s where we’ll finish here.
We have two faces.

770
00:51:03,280 –> 00:51:06,280
We have two choices here with
Jacob and Esau.

771
00:51:08,120 –> 00:51:12,680
And imagine Jacob and he sees
his Big Brother having this kind

772
00:51:12,680 –> 00:51:18,640
of life.
And for Jacob, it was

773
00:51:18,640 –> 00:51:22,560
unthinkable that this Big
Brother was in line for the

774
00:51:22,560 –> 00:51:25,640
blessings and the promises and
being in the line of the

775
00:51:25,640 –> 00:51:30,280
Messiah.
And he also had the love of his

776
00:51:30,280 –> 00:51:35,080
father.
And it is because of this talk

777
00:51:35,120 –> 00:51:38,360
today and all the things I’ve
shared, it’s for this talk.

778
00:51:38,480 –> 00:51:41,600
This then becomes the motivation
of Jacob.

779
00:51:41,600 –> 00:51:46,960
I believe in everything he now
does because it was an

780
00:51:46,960 –> 00:51:50,160
impossibility in his mind that
this was the one who would be

781
00:51:50,160 –> 00:51:52,000
the recipient of all these
things.

782
00:51:52,200 –> 00:51:54,840
Now, now, brothers and sisters,
as we we conclude now that

783
00:51:54,840 –> 00:51:57,360
that’s a very, very interesting
thing, isn’t it?

784
00:51:57,360 –> 00:52:02,520
Because what we’re seeing here
is that Jacob goes on a journey.

785
00:52:03,640 –> 00:52:06,600
All the things that Jacob does
is because of Esau.

786
00:52:06,680 –> 00:52:21,840
I believe Esau sets him off.
Esau becomes Jacob’s refining

787
00:52:21,840 –> 00:52:29,640
fire.
Esau becomes Jacob’s catalyst

788
00:52:30,560 –> 00:52:33,360
for transformation.
Can can you see that?

789
00:52:33,440 –> 00:52:36,120
And, and by doing this and going
through this journey, he becomes

790
00:52:36,120 –> 00:52:41,720
the new Israel.
So all of us, brothers and

791
00:52:41,720 –> 00:52:45,120
sisters, when we’re following in
the footsteps of Jacob, we will

792
00:52:45,120 –> 00:52:47,720
have our own Esaws.
They’re there for a reason.

793
00:52:49,760 –> 00:52:54,640
They are there for our
refinement and for the catalyst

794
00:52:54,640 –> 00:52:58,800
for our transformation.
We will have Esaws in our lives.

795
00:52:59,080 –> 00:53:01,880
They’re there.
God’s planted them, as He did

796
00:53:01,880 –> 00:53:08,320
with Jacob for a reason.
Without an esau, there is no

797
00:53:08,320 –> 00:53:12,680
growth.
Without Esau, there is no

798
00:53:12,680 –> 00:53:17,840
spiritual transformation.
So the question I leave you this

799
00:53:17,840 –> 00:53:23,000
morning, what or who is your
Esau?