Let’s Pray:
My Lord God and King! Thank You for this day in our daily portion of our daily bread! Help my minds eye to see in Scripture and understand Your Word according to Your Will and Way for me to live a life full of the Lord’s Knowledge and revelation in Jesus Name A`-men and a`-men.
Lesson: “Stolen Birthrights” or are they really stolen?
Look at Gen. 25:32 from the NLT bible “Look, I’m dying of starvation!” said Esau. “What good is my birthright to me now?” v.33 So Jacob insisted, “Well then, swear to me right now that it is mine.” So Esau swore an oath, thereby selling all his rights as the first born to his younger brother. In v.34 “Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and lentil stew. Esau ate and drank and went on about his business, indifferent to the fact that he had given up his birthright.”
So often a time in today’s society we see in our homes, our neighborhoods, at auction where people are literally forfeiting what was left to them after a love one has died; or we see how family’s begin to fight and quarrel over who’s getting what after the death of a father or a mother. We allow all to be stolen; maybe taken or it all simply becomes forfeited by a desired hunger or thirst for something that will be passed through our temple and put in the toilet or become trashed because it really holds no sentimental value at all as it held to the one whom elected and gave the gift to a certain person.
As we look on down the family generational line of Jacob; we find Jacob’s son Joseph; his favorite son of twelve sons because Joseph had been born to him in his old age. So one day he gave Joseph a special gift a beautiful robe.
Joseph’s brothers hated Joseph because of their father’s partiality. They couldn’t say a kind word to him. Joseph would always tell on his brothers when they were doing wrong; so yes! Jacob saw Joseph as a wonderful child full of honesty, love and was anointed by God almighty with the gift of prophecy.
Then came one day Joseph was sent to see what his brothers were doing and was told by his father Jacob to report back to tell what they were up to. The brothers saw Joseph coming and planned to kill him, but instead they sold him to a bunch of traders for twenty pieces of silver, and the Ishmaelite traders took him (Joseph) along to Egypt; and Joseph became a slave. Q. Did Joseph lose his birthrights or rights to being chosen?
That was then and this is now! There comes a time when a person’s soul comes up for trade; going against all morals of just and right. Children are still being sold off in slavery to this day! Due to sexual porn desires and drinks of alcohol, or a hit of crack, or whatever their drug of choice is. An addictive personality causes abuse to a person that forces them to forfeit all their goods of having a well balanced life. Some people are so bad off that they lose homes, cars, jewelry; stolen items are taken when they’ve run out of things they once owned all for the “SINFUL NATURE OF SELF GRATIFYING THE STARVING ADDICTION.
ADULTS ARE LIKE CHILDREN, WHEN THEY ARE IN TRADE OF THEIR SOUL FOR SIN. THEY ARE WEAK AND DEPENDENT ON A SUBSTANCE; BUT THEIRS A FATHER IN HEAVEN WE CAN DEPEND ON IS STRONG, LOVING, JUST, AND PERFECT. We have to stop allowing the desire of drugs being our favorite choice over God Almighty, stop choosing sex, over salvation, stop choosing death over life. Stop allowing your birthrights to be stolen when God has already PRE-ordained your destiny.
I’m Minister Evangelist Lorraine Munerlyn, until next week for the closing part of this lesson “Stolen Birthrights” may you all be richly blessed in God’s grace and peace in Jesus Name. Please study the Scriptures given in this lesson. Much love for you all.