Let’s Pray:
Heavenly Father, Thank You for another day full of Your Love, and Forgiveness for all wrongs done toward my family and me, please forgive me in all I have done wrong to any family member or to anyone I’ve offended! Help me Lord God to make amends to all I have hurt in Jesus Christ Name; and loose You’re Forgiveness and Peace to us all. A`-men!
Lesson: Forfeit / Stolen Birthrights
In the story about Jacob stealing Esau’s blessing it is found in Genesis 27, but if we back up a little bit and go to Genesis 25:29-34 in these verses we hear how Jacob first opened up a spiritual door that would cause Esau to forfeit his birthrights as the first born (oldest son) Esau was the oldest of his twin (Jacob). Esau was a hunter; Jacob stayed near home with Rebekah the twin’s mother; so Jacob learned to cook like his mother.
In bible days, the oldest son or “only son” was naturally the one to inherit or receive the blessings of a natural father upon the father’s death. Esau forfeits his birthrights due to over working himself as a diligent hunter! He would be on the verge of starving for a cooked meal do to his admirable desire to hold out until he returned home from the hunt of fresh wild game caught from the open country.
Esau forfeits his birthrights by coming into an agreement with Jacob due to Esau’s desire to gratify his hunger with food; so it is in the gratification of feeding the hunger that caused Esau to forfeit his inheritance. Wow! Let’s look at the twin’s parents.
Jacob and Esau’s parents; Isaac and Rebekah, often allowed the end to justify the means. In facing difficult situations, Isaac and Rebekah often lied to avoid their problems. Both of them alienated each other by playing favorites with their sons.
Father God remains faithful even in their faithless. God’s promises and plans are bigger than we can ever ask for or imagine; playing favorites is harmful in a family. Isaac loved Esau the best, while Rebekah favored Jacob. Showing favoritism split this family in two and set the stage for further conflict and deception. Now with the stage of deception being set Jacob takes sides with his mother Rebekah that plans to deceive both Esau her oldest son and her husband Isaac.
Now that the spirit of deception is set to kill, steal, and destroy the family; this spirit deceives one or the other, but in reality they only end up hurting themselves individually and collectively as a family! They took no thought to how their actions might hurt others which is very selfish and not of God our Lord and Savior at all. For we do not serve a selfish God, but we serve a giving God that gave us His Only Begotten Son Jesus Christ.
In today’s time these selfish games of deception are still being played in families a world over. Family bake offs, family game competing that opens the door to sibling rivalry that pushes a child to do what ever it takes to get the most attention and affection from a parent; and it all boils down to self gratification that ends up in hating each other with an attitude that could end up literally killing; especially if God is not found in the heart of the family.
The sad thing is in this moment of self gratification of Esau’s hungry stomach he verbalizes a yes, to Jacob which gave the okay in surrendering to a forfeiting of birthrights for “FOOD.” When these spiritual door’s come open through our actions whether in words spoken or in physical doings; we should not allow ourselves to interfere with what God intends to do through the promise He already made according to His promised WORD to Abraham. Gen.24
I’m Minister Evangelist Lorraine
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