WEBVTT 00:00.200 --> 00:01.040 You know? 00:01.040 --> 00:04.080 That's called explosive diarrhea. 00:04.080 --> 00:06.320 It's not necessarily a spiritual thing. 00:06.320 --> 00:07.160 Okay? 00:07.160 --> 00:08.440 A burning in the, what are we talking about? 00:08.440 --> 00:10.120 Like you got heartburn? 00:10.120 --> 00:11.460 Because you know what? 00:11.460 --> 00:13.360 Yeah, the Bible does say of the disciples 00:13.360 --> 00:15.120 when speaking to Jesus, they said, 00:15.120 --> 00:16.800 did not our heart burn within us 00:16.800 --> 00:19.200 while he talked with us in the way 00:19.200 --> 00:21.240 and while he opened to us the scriptures? 00:21.240 --> 00:22.080 But you know what? 00:22.080 --> 00:23.500 Their heart wasn't literally on fire. 00:24.200 --> 00:25.280 And you know what? 00:25.280 --> 00:28.480 There's times where the disciples heard the same Christ 00:28.480 --> 00:30.920 and their heart did not burn. 00:30.920 --> 00:33.200 It doesn't mean what he said wasn't true. 00:33.200 --> 00:35.400 It was still true. 00:35.400 --> 00:38.480 So the sensation and the feeling that you get 00:38.480 --> 00:41.480 does not lend veracity to the message 00:41.480 --> 00:42.880 that's being preached or taught. 00:42.880 --> 00:45.560 If it's not in the Bible, then it needs to be disregarded. 00:45.560 --> 00:46.060 Why? 00:46.060 --> 00:48.480 Because the Bible says that the heart is deceitful above all 00:48.480 --> 00:50.720 things, desperately wicked. 00:50.720 --> 00:51.640 Who can know it? 00:52.200 --> 00:54.160 It's untrustworthy. 00:57.940 --> 01:01.140 If I hear a certain piece, a certain song, 01:01.140 --> 01:04.440 it can make my hair stand up. 01:04.440 --> 01:08.480 You guys ever get that when you hear a certain song? 01:08.480 --> 01:11.480 It makes you all nostalgic. 01:11.480 --> 01:14.880 All my reels, I'm getting a lot of Christmas videos right now. 01:14.880 --> 01:17.160 And the hairs are just at the goosebumps. 01:17.160 --> 01:18.360 It's just like, hmm. 01:18.360 --> 01:18.600 you 01:19.400 --> 01:22.840 100 degree weathered, I'm just like, mm. 01:22.840 --> 01:23.800 Right? 01:23.800 --> 01:25.260 Feelings don't really mean anything 01:25.260 --> 01:27.460 when it comes to determining whether something is true 01:27.460 --> 01:28.440 or not. 01:28.440 --> 01:29.320 OK? 01:29.320 --> 01:32.640 So it's just like, oh, but what if they 01:32.640 --> 01:35.260 feel like they're connected to God? 01:35.260 --> 01:36.800 It doesn't matter. 01:39.200 --> 01:42.400 Because at the end of the day, what does the Bible say? 01:42.400 --> 01:44.080 What is it actually teaching? 01:44.080 --> 01:48.520 Don't you realize that the prophet in the Mormon Church 01:48.520 --> 01:52.120 is simply someone who's masquerading as he saw? 01:52.120 --> 01:52.880 Not really hairy. 01:52.880 --> 01:54.480 They're a smooth man under. 01:54.480 --> 01:55.200 OK? 01:55.500 --> 01:58.800 They may talk the same, they may say the same vocabulary, 01:58.800 --> 02:01.840 they talk about Jesus, they talk about faith, 02:01.840 --> 02:05.300 they talk about grace, they may have all the terminology there, 02:05.300 --> 02:08.500 but at the end of the day, they're false apostles, 02:08.500 --> 02:13.700 deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ, right? 02:13.700 --> 02:18.340 Which is what Jacob is doing, he's transforming himself into his brother 02:18.340 --> 02:19.900 in order to deceive his father. 02:21.300 --> 02:24.020 Look at verse 21, and Isaac said unto Jacob, 02:24.020 --> 02:28.320 come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, 02:28.320 --> 02:31.420 whether thou be my very son Esau or not. 02:31.420 --> 02:34.980 Now this is interesting because again, it demonstrates 02:34.980 --> 02:38.980 that Isaac's discernment is off. 02:38.980 --> 02:41.340 Because how is he trying to determine if it's the son, 02:41.340 --> 02:44.420 if he can feel him? 02:44.420 --> 02:45.500 You understand? 02:45.500 --> 02:49.180 Like instead of visually seen with his spiritual eyes, 02:49.180 --> 02:49.200 you 02:49.600 --> 02:51.080 Why didn't you just like, come close, 02:51.080 --> 02:52.440 let me look at you real quick. 02:52.440 --> 02:54.240 Oh yeah, that's a horrible mustache. 02:54.240 --> 02:55.320 You're not. 02:55.320 --> 02:57.320 You have no mustache. 02:57.320 --> 03:00.160 He's just kind of like feeling him. 03:00.160 --> 03:03.600 And this demonstrates here that Isaac 03:03.600 --> 03:06.520 is walking by his feelings. 03:06.520 --> 03:10.560 He's walking by his sensations, right? 03:10.560 --> 03:11.920 What he feels. 03:11.920 --> 03:15.460 He's determining situations based upon his feelings, 03:15.460 --> 03:16.200 and so forth. 03:16.500 --> 03:19.500 We need to make sure that we don't do the same. 03:19.500 --> 03:26.060 That's why we need spiritual discernment, not how we feel. 03:26.060 --> 03:28.940 Well, I just see things a certain way. 03:28.940 --> 03:30.180 I just see this. 03:30.180 --> 03:34.460 It's just like, yeah, but what's the truth, though? 03:34.460 --> 03:36.620 You can't feel around for the hairiness 03:36.620 --> 03:38.900 and expect to say, OK, this is Esau. 03:38.900 --> 03:42.620 Because look, he felt him, and it felt like Esau, 03:42.620 --> 03:43.700 but it wasn't Esau. 03:46.000 --> 03:49.440 What he should have done is just question him. 03:49.440 --> 03:50.680 You know what I mean? 03:50.680 --> 03:53.680 Ask him something that only Esau knew and that his dad knew. 03:56.640 --> 04:00.000 So he says, verse 22, and Jacob went near unto Isaac, 04:00.000 --> 04:03.120 his father, and he felt him and said, 04:03.120 --> 04:10.000 the voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau. 04:10.000 --> 04:11.800 So you know, the. 04:11.800 --> 04:11.900 you 04:12.700 --> 04:15.020 He has Esau's garment on. 04:15.020 --> 04:18.260 So obviously, if he's feeling it, he has the coat. 04:18.260 --> 04:20.060 And then if you remember earlier, 04:20.060 --> 04:24.140 the mom took a couple of the hairs from the goats 04:24.140 --> 04:27.460 and kind of made it, possibly glued it on his hands 04:27.460 --> 04:31.260 and on his neck in case he kind of felt them around. 04:31.260 --> 04:34.020 So as he's listening to him, he actually discerns, 04:34.020 --> 04:37.340 oh, this voice sounds like Jacob, but he feels like Esau. 04:37.340 --> 04:38.880 You should have gone with how you're 04:38.880 --> 04:40.460 listening to him, his voice. 04:40.800 --> 04:43.280 Because he was right. 04:43.280 --> 04:45.240 OK? 04:45.240 --> 04:47.280 And so it's like us. 04:47.280 --> 04:53.080 When we are discerning a preacher, a pastor, 04:53.080 --> 04:56.960 they may look like one. 04:56.960 --> 05:00.720 We may feel like they're a righteous person. 05:00.720 --> 05:02.400 But what does their voice sound like? 05:03.200 --> 05:06.800 I don't mean do they sound K or something like that or you're feminine like does he have a lisp? 05:07.120 --> 05:12.160 I'm saying like what are the doctrines that are coming out of his mouth because out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh 05:13.040 --> 05:17.280 An evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth evil things 05:18.000 --> 05:23.540 God says by thy words thou shall be justified and by thy words thou shalt be condemned 05:24.300 --> 05:28.540 So you know what, maybe your eyes are a little dim 05:28.540 --> 05:31.420 because you're still a spiritual babe in Christ. 05:31.420 --> 05:33.300 Well, read between the lines. 05:33.300 --> 05:34.740 Listen to the voice. 05:34.740 --> 05:37.620 Is it the voice of the shepherd? 05:37.620 --> 05:40.180 Is it the voice of Christ? 05:40.180 --> 05:44.380 Well, you need to disregard how the preacher feels, right? 05:44.380 --> 05:47.500 How he makes you feel, OK? 05:47.900 --> 05:49.980 Like, whoa, you know, I've heard these pastors. 05:49.980 --> 05:51.500 And I just felt like the presence. 05:51.500 --> 05:54.580 I felt like the presence of God was there. 05:54.580 --> 05:55.080 OK? 05:55.080 --> 05:58.340 I feel like God was in that place. 05:58.340 --> 06:00.580 Hey, you hear that word that's constantly being used? 06:00.580 --> 06:02.100 Feel, felt? 06:02.100 --> 06:04.260 What did they say, though? 06:04.260 --> 06:06.940 Well, I don't remember what they said. 06:06.940 --> 06:11.740 But I just feel like God was there. 06:11.740 --> 06:12.420 Yeah, real cute. 06:12.420 --> 06:14.060 But what did he say, though? 06:14.060 --> 06:14.100 you 06:14.900 --> 06:16.460 Because if he's teaching a false gospel, 06:16.460 --> 06:18.260 it doesn't matter how he makes you feel. 06:18.260 --> 06:21.020 You can watch a movie, and people will 06:21.020 --> 06:23.340 make you feel a certain way. 06:23.340 --> 06:24.740 Right? 06:24.740 --> 06:28.100 I mean, It's a Wonderful Life makes you feel a certain way. 06:28.100 --> 06:29.900 You guys ever seen It's a Wonderful Life? 06:29.900 --> 06:31.700 OK, man, no one's seen it. 06:31.700 --> 06:32.460 What? 06:32.460 --> 06:33.580 Make it a tradition. 06:33.580 --> 06:35.380 It's a Christmas tradition. 06:35.380 --> 06:36.500 It's a black and white movie. 06:36.500 --> 06:37.000 OK? 06:37.900 --> 06:42.600 My wife got me into that on Christmas, and at the end of the movie, I'm just like in tears 06:43.980 --> 06:49.700 I'm serious. I am it just makes me because you know it just it makes me feel a certain way, okay? 06:49.900 --> 06:51.340 You know that's what it's supposed to do 06:51.340 --> 06:52.860 It's supposed to evoke emotion 06:52.860 --> 06:58.280 And you know what the Bible tells us that these men have men's persons in admiration because of advantage 06:58.280 --> 07:05.020 They speak with great swelling words of vanity because they're trying to listen to this allure through the lust of the flesh 07:06.100 --> 07:09.140 They try to appeal to your feelings, to the way that you feel, 07:09.140 --> 07:12.740 because they know that people are sensual. 07:12.740 --> 07:15.100 They will make decisions based upon how they feel, 07:15.100 --> 07:18.460 instead of actually listening for the voice of the shepherd. 07:18.460 --> 07:21.420 Well, it feels great here. 07:21.420 --> 07:25.860 I feel like the music's great, and everyone looks so nice, 07:25.860 --> 07:27.220 and it just looks great. 07:27.220 --> 07:30.020 But why not actually discern the voice, though? 07:31.200 --> 07:33.500 Okay, is he actually, you know to us, 07:33.500 --> 07:35.160 we'd go to a place like that and be like, 07:35.160 --> 07:37.960 ah, you know, he looks like a lamb, 07:37.960 --> 07:40.560 but he speaks as a dragon though. 07:40.560 --> 07:44.200 Okay, because what he's saying is false. 07:44.200 --> 07:46.120 So this is Isaac's problem. 07:46.120 --> 07:48.720 He's feeling his way towards determining 07:48.720 --> 07:50.760 whether this is Esau or not, 07:50.760 --> 07:53.760 and obviously his feelings fail him, 07:54.820 --> 07:57.300 they deceive him, and he makes the wrong decision, right? 07:59.200 --> 08:03.840 Verse 23 says, And he discerned him not because his hands were hairy as his brother Esau's hands. 08:03.840 --> 08:07.760 So he blessed them. And he said, Art thou my very son Esau? And he said, I am. 08:08.560 --> 08:11.840 And he said, Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, 08:12.720 --> 08:17.600 that my soul may bless thee. And he brought it near to him. And he, he did eat and he brought 08:17.600 --> 08:19.300 him wine and he drank. 08:20.100 --> 08:25.460 And his father Isaac said unto him, Come near, come near now and kiss me, my son. 08:25.460 --> 08:29.380 And he came near and kissed him, and he smelled the smell of his raiment, 08:30.100 --> 08:36.100 and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son is that the smell of a field which the Lord has 08:36.100 --> 08:36.900 blessed. 08:37.200 --> 08:43.000 Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven and the fatness of the earth and plenty of corn and wine 08:43.480 --> 08:50.380 Let people serve thee and nations bow down to thee be Lord over thy brethren and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee 08:50.760 --> 08:54.480 Cursed be everyone that cursed thee and blessed be he that blessed thee 08:54.480 --> 09:01.080 So he ends up blessing him thinking that it's Esau and what is the major principle that we can learn from this part of the story? 09:01.480 --> 09:04.120 You know, you can't always trust what 09:05.100 --> 09:06.600 you seek kind of thing, right? 09:06.600 --> 09:10.180 You can't really trust how people portray themselves to be. 09:10.180 --> 09:12.780 So the Bible says that there's wolves in sheep's clothing. 09:12.780 --> 09:17.340 And often, it requires some crazy thing 09:17.340 --> 09:19.140 to come out in order for people to realize, 09:19.140 --> 09:22.100 oh, man, this person is actually horrible. 09:22.100 --> 09:27.860 This morning, I just got news of a fundamental Baptist 09:27.860 --> 09:29.340 by the name of Kenny Baldwin. 09:30.600 --> 09:33.320 who has been a pastor for quite some time. 09:33.320 --> 09:36.860 His father was a pastor, major church planner, 09:36.860 --> 09:39.820 and very well known in the old IFB. 09:39.820 --> 09:41.820 But his son Kenny Baldwin has been pastoring. 09:41.820 --> 09:43.400 This guy's a pedophile! 09:46.400 --> 09:52.240 a stinking sexual pervert, twice dead, plucked up by the roots. 09:52.240 --> 09:56.880 And we knew of this guy, an old IP, as in like he was known. 09:56.880 --> 09:58.880 People admired him. 09:58.880 --> 10:00.000 They liked him. 10:00.000 --> 10:01.840 He was a dynamic preacher. 10:01.840 --> 10:04.320 I can't think of a time that I actually heard of his sermons, 10:04.320 --> 10:05.760 but I knew of him. 10:05.760 --> 10:07.360 I definitely knew of his father. 10:07.360 --> 10:10.080 But this guy is an absolute. 10:10.900 --> 10:13.460 pervert pedophile. 10:13.460 --> 10:18.300 They arrested him because he was exposing himself to minors 10:18.300 --> 10:19.100 and whatnot. 10:19.100 --> 10:21.260 And it's just like, well, didn't he just fall into it? 10:21.260 --> 10:25.300 No, he's Jacob wearing Esau's clothing. 10:25.300 --> 10:26.820 I'm not calling Jacob a pedophile. 10:26.820 --> 10:28.220 Obviously, I'm using the principle 10:28.220 --> 10:31.340 that we're learning here that he's masquerading as someone 10:31.340 --> 10:33.980 and he's not that person. 10:33.980 --> 10:34.860 OK? 10:34.860 --> 10:37.020 This person, you know, the Bible says that they 10:37.020 --> 10:38.260 shall proceed no further. 10:40.200 --> 10:43.880 that they will be made manifest. They went out from us for they were not of us for if they had 10:43.880 --> 10:49.080 been of us they would have no doubt continued with us the Bible says. This guy's an apostate, 10:49.080 --> 10:54.920 he's a reprobate and you know what I hope they convict him and he rots in hell or I hope he gets 10:54.920 --> 11:00.280 arrested in the Los Angeles prison because you know what they do to pedophiles in California 11:00.280 --> 11:06.040 prisons amen because he deserves to be publicly executed for being a wicked person. 11:07.100 --> 11:09.740 You know, you're like, oh man, you shouldn't just talk down 11:09.740 --> 11:11.740 about other pastors like that. 11:11.740 --> 11:13.380 First of all, he's a fake and he's a phony. 11:13.380 --> 11:14.700 He's a reprobate. 11:14.700 --> 11:16.580 He's an infiltrator. 11:16.580 --> 11:17.300 OK? 11:17.300 --> 11:19.100 He's not a righteous person. 11:19.100 --> 11:21.740 It's not like this is not a David situation, first 11:21.740 --> 11:23.300 and foremost. 11:23.300 --> 11:25.660 We were like, well, David fell into this. 11:25.660 --> 11:28.940 You know, find me the verse where David sexually 11:28.940 --> 11:30.740 molested a 15-year-old boy. 11:30.740 --> 11:30.900 Thanks for watching! 11:33.100 --> 11:34.220 I'll wait. 11:34.220 --> 11:36.180 Doesn't exist. 11:36.180 --> 11:37.720 Yeah, what David did was super wicked. 11:37.720 --> 11:39.580 He committed adultery. 11:39.580 --> 11:42.500 He took another man's wife, extremely wicked. 11:42.500 --> 11:43.420 But you know what? 11:43.420 --> 11:47.020 It's a far cry from pedophilia, though. 11:47.020 --> 11:50.580 And it's a sin that is common to man, unfortunately. 11:50.580 --> 11:54.100 But it's not reprobation. 11:54.100 --> 11:55.260 When you have these. 11:55.600 --> 11:59.940 You know men coming into positions of authority in a church 11:59.940 --> 12:05.540 They're doing it in order to take advantage of the innocent to beguile unstable souls. These are 12:06.400 --> 12:09.020 godless wicked children of the devil 12:10.120 --> 12:12.920 Masquerading as Esau, but they're deceivers and 12:13.920 --> 12:16.920 You know, they're twice that plucked about the roots that guy's gonna split hell wide open 12:17.840 --> 12:18.800 Okay 12:19.000 --> 12:21.240 And you know it's unfortunate because I'm sure a lot of old IEPs are like, 12:21.240 --> 12:26.040 well he just needs to be restored and we just need to pray for him. 12:26.040 --> 12:28.120 And yeah, pray some imprecatory prayers for him. 12:29.240 --> 12:34.760 You know, I love the old IEP but man they need to get on board with the reprobate doctrine 12:35.480 --> 12:38.360 and recognize that these people are irredeemable. 12:39.320 --> 12:44.760 They're disgusting perverts and they're the reason why a lot of these kids are being molested in churches. 12:45.400 --> 12:49.000 You know, this happens in all types of churches. 12:49.000 --> 12:51.500 You know, and I'm not standing up here thinking, oh yeah, 12:51.500 --> 12:52.440 it's only the Catholic Church. 12:52.440 --> 12:55.280 No, it happens in fundamental Baptist churches too. 12:55.280 --> 12:57.160 It's not the fact that they're Baptist pastors. 12:57.160 --> 12:59.840 It's the fact that it's infiltrators coming into 12:59.840 --> 13:03.560 Baptist churches, taking on positions of authority with the 13:03.560 --> 13:06.720 intent to take advantage of the innocent, such as what's 13:06.720 --> 13:07.960 happening with Kenny Baldwin. 13:09.500 --> 13:12.940 disgusting, wicked, but it's a clear example here. 13:12.940 --> 13:15.140 This guy looked like a fundamental Baptist, 13:15.140 --> 13:16.800 he looked like a righteous person, 13:16.800 --> 13:20.780 preached hundreds and maybe even thousands of sermons, 13:20.780 --> 13:23.340 you know, pastor at a Baptist church or whatever, 13:23.340 --> 13:25.220 and look, he's a complete pedophile. 13:25.220 --> 13:26.040 You know what? 13:26.040 --> 13:28.220 Every time a pedophile gets exposed in a church, 13:28.220 --> 13:30.080 we need to say something about it. 13:31.100 --> 13:33.380 and not just be like, well, you know. 13:33.380 --> 13:37.500 People are sick and tired of other people just backing up 13:37.500 --> 13:39.940 these pedophiles just because they're pastors. 13:39.940 --> 13:42.820 Those people need to be publicly executed 13:42.820 --> 13:45.820 because they're wicked and vile. 13:45.820 --> 13:46.540 And you know what? 13:46.540 --> 13:51.020 This is not a church that will try to reform pedophiles. 13:51.020 --> 13:52.340 It's not going to happen. 13:52.340 --> 13:53.180 You're a pedophile. 13:53.180 --> 13:54.300 Don't come to our church. 13:54.300 --> 13:54.500 Amen. 13:56.300 --> 13:58.300 Unless you want to come out looking differently 13:58.300 --> 14:01.260 than the way you came in. 14:01.260 --> 14:04.540 I got no love for pedophiles. 14:04.540 --> 14:08.660 And so there are individuals who are deceivers masquerading 14:08.660 --> 14:09.540 as Esau. 14:09.540 --> 14:12.380 You're like, oh, man, you're talking so bad about Jacob. 14:12.380 --> 14:13.740 Well, here's the thing. 14:13.740 --> 14:17.260 There's just a lot of applications. 14:17.260 --> 14:20.020 And he is rightfully named Jacob. 14:21.000 --> 14:25.000 He is a supplanter, and God is using the bad mistakes 14:25.000 --> 14:28.240 that he made in order to help us preachers in the future 14:28.240 --> 14:30.040 have some illustrations to give regarding 14:30.040 --> 14:32.840 biblical principles of false prophets, deception, 14:32.840 --> 14:34.800 and so forth. 14:34.800 --> 14:37.000 So he receives the blessing from his dad. 14:37.200 --> 14:39.860 And, you know, mission complete, apparently. 14:39.860 --> 14:40.860 Verse 30. 14:40.860 --> 14:44.760 And it came to pass as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet 14:44.760 --> 14:49.100 scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in 14:49.100 --> 14:49.820 from his hunting. 14:51.000 --> 14:54.680 And he also had made savoury meat and brought it unto his father, and said unto his father, 14:54.680 --> 14:59.080 Let my father arise, eat of his son's venison, that thy soul may bless me. 14:59.080 --> 15:06.040 So it says basically that once this was done, as soon as Jacob leaves, Esau comes in. 15:08.600 --> 15:10.040 Just scarce. 15:11.000 --> 15:18.120 And he brings them to venison and brings them the food and he says hey it's time to eat dad verse 33 and isaac trembled 15:18.520 --> 15:21.400 very exceedingly and said who 15:22.240 --> 15:29.560 Where is he that hath taken venison and brought it to me and have eaten of all before thou came is and have blessed him 15:29.560 --> 15:31.560 Yay, and he shall be blessed 15:31.900 --> 15:37.020 And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry, 15:37.020 --> 15:44.060 and said unto his father, Bless me, even me also, O my father. And he said, Thy brother came with 15:44.060 --> 15:49.100 subtly, and hath taken away thy blessing." So, you know, I don't know what you're crying about, 15:49.100 --> 15:52.540 Esau. Like, you literally sold your birthright two chapters before. 15:53.400 --> 15:56.900 All of a sudden though, now that your dad is officially 15:56.900 --> 16:01.500 blessed, your brother, now it's a big deal to you, huh? 16:01.500 --> 16:07.160 And so he weeps, he cries, and the father here recognizes, 16:07.160 --> 16:09.940 like, Jacob came with subtlety, meaning 16:09.940 --> 16:11.880 that he came with, he was cunning, 16:11.880 --> 16:13.980 he was deceptive, and so forth. 16:13.980 --> 16:15.420 He says in verse 36, and he said, 16:15.420 --> 16:17.020 is not he rightly named Jacob? 16:17.800 --> 16:19.500 For he hath supplanted me these two times. 16:19.500 --> 16:21.160 He took away my birthright. 16:21.160 --> 16:25.160 You sold your birthright, first and foremost. 16:25.160 --> 16:27.160 But yeah, you're right, halfway. 16:27.160 --> 16:29.800 And behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. 16:29.800 --> 16:33.400 And he said, hast thou not reserved a blessing for me? 16:33.600 --> 16:42.240 And Isaac answered and said unto him, Esau, behold, I have made him thy lord and all his brethren I have given to him for servants and with corn and wine and so forth. 16:42.240 --> 16:45.480 So he kind of lays out the blessings that he's given to his brother. 16:45.720 --> 16:48.280 And then he begins to explain to him the blessings that he's going to receive. 16:48.480 --> 16:53.760 Now, here's the thing, folks, is that, again, none of this really overrides what God was going to do. 16:55.160 --> 16:57.040 Because Esau is making this big deal. 16:58.040 --> 16:59.520 But read the rest of the story of Esau. 16:59.520 --> 17:00.480 He is blessed. 17:01.500 --> 17:05.900 He's blessed tremendously of the Lord. 17:05.900 --> 17:08.100 Like even to the point where, spoiler alert, 17:08.100 --> 17:10.100 when they end up reconciling because Esau wants 17:10.100 --> 17:12.900 to kill Jacob, which is why Jacob ends up 17:12.900 --> 17:14.900 fleeing into a foreign land. 17:14.900 --> 17:17.100 When he comes back to reconcile with his brother, 17:17.100 --> 17:18.540 he wants to bring him gifts. 17:18.540 --> 17:19.580 And what does Esau say? 17:19.580 --> 17:21.380 He says, I have enough. 17:21.380 --> 17:22.900 God has blessed me. 17:22.900 --> 17:25.540 I have all of these possessions and wealth. 17:25.540 --> 17:27.700 God was with Esau as well. 17:27.700 --> 17:28.200 OK? 17:28.900 --> 17:33.700 So it's demonstrating that all this is just all drama. 17:33.700 --> 17:37.220 You're just making a big deal about nothing. 17:37.220 --> 17:38.900 Yeah, he supplanted you. 17:38.900 --> 17:40.060 Yeah, he did wrong. 17:40.060 --> 17:44.100 But keep in mind, you did sell your birthright, and so forth. 17:44.100 --> 17:47.180 Now, I do want to mention here that one of the reasons 17:47.180 --> 17:50.020 the Bible is highlighting Esau weeping 17:50.020 --> 17:52.300 is because it's supposed to illustrate a spiritual truth. 17:53.300 --> 17:56.340 You know, because although he did get blessed thereafter, 17:56.340 --> 18:01.140 this is essentially demonstrated that we need to make sure that Satan doesn't steal the blessings from us 18:01.140 --> 18:03.460 by our disobedience to God. 18:05.460 --> 18:07.060 Go to Hebrews chapter 11 if you would. 18:07.060 --> 18:08.260 Hebrews chapter 11. 18:10.500 --> 18:11.780 Hebrews chapter 11. 18:12.660 --> 18:14.340 I'm sorry, Hebrews chapter 12, excuse me. 18:14.340 --> 18:15.460 Hebrews chapter 12. 18:17.460 --> 18:18.740 Hebrews chapter 12. 18:20.100 --> 18:24.500 Look what it says in verse number 16, verse 15, excuse me. It says, 18:24.500 --> 18:30.660 Look indiligently, lest any man fail of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness spring 18:30.660 --> 18:37.140 it up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled, lest there be any fornicator or profane person 18:37.140 --> 18:42.340 as Esau who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. 18:42.700 --> 18:48.520 For ye know how that afterward when he would have inherited the blessing he was rejected 18:48.840 --> 18:53.060 For he found no place of repentance though. He sought it carefully with tears 18:53.440 --> 18:58.540 You know obviously God has certain blessings that he wants to give to you certain things that you know 18:58.540 --> 19:03.380 He wants to show himself strong on your behalf, but you can forfeit those blessings by your sin 19:04.060 --> 19:08.620 You know the Bible tells us in Jeremiah that your sin has withholding good things from you 19:10.000 --> 19:12.120 Yeah, you know, God has a lot of blessings 19:12.120 --> 19:13.280 that he wants to give you. 19:13.280 --> 19:15.480 He wants to show himself strong on your behalf. 19:15.480 --> 19:17.240 He wants to demonstrate his power 19:17.240 --> 19:18.560 and his might in your life. 19:18.560 --> 19:21.400 But you can actually forfeit those blessings 19:21.400 --> 19:25.360 by your disobedience, by your sin. 19:25.360 --> 19:26.040 And you know what? 19:26.040 --> 19:27.800 When you forfeit those, it doesn't 19:27.800 --> 19:29.200 matter how much you cry for it. 19:29.200 --> 19:30.300 You won't get it back. 19:32.000 --> 19:36.600 So, you know, one strong motivator for us to stay right with God is what? 19:36.600 --> 19:42.920 We need to make sure that we obey the Lord and keep serving God and be honest and not 19:42.920 --> 19:50.460 sell our birthright and not allow the supplanter, Jacob, the deceiver, the man who is subtle 19:50.460 --> 19:52.480 to come and steal the blessing from us. 19:52.480 --> 19:54.640 Yeah, make no mistake about it. 19:54.640 --> 19:59.280 Jacob holds a large responsibility for what took place, but so does Esau. 20:01.100 --> 20:08.180 So you can you can seek it carefully with tears you can beg you know Isaac for it 20:08.180 --> 20:15.460 But you know certain things it's just too late. It's too late because of your sin you can forfeit the blessings of God 20:16.140 --> 20:18.680 Okay, go back to Genesis if you would 20:19.620 --> 20:20.500 27 20:23.200 --> 20:30.400 So from verses 39 through 40, we have the blessings that Isaac is giving Esau. 20:30.400 --> 20:34.600 Verse 41 says, Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing, wherewith his father blessed him. 20:34.600 --> 20:41.000 And Esau said in his heart, the days of mourning for my father at hand, then will I slay my brother Jacob. 20:41.000 --> 20:43.600 So this guy is already looking for revenge. 20:43.600 --> 20:46.000 He's like, my dad's about to die soon. 20:46.000 --> 20:50.000 And once he dies, I'm going to exact revenge on my brother. 20:50.000 --> 20:51.000 He wants to kill him. 20:51.800 --> 20:53.880 It says in verse number 42, 20:53.880 --> 20:57.320 and these words of Esau, her elder son, 20:57.320 --> 21:00.440 were told to Rebekah, and she said and called Jacob 21:00.440 --> 21:01.800 her younger son and said unto him, 21:01.800 --> 21:06.240 Behold thy brother Esau, as touching thee doth comfort 21:06.240 --> 21:08.000 himself purposing to kill thee. 21:08.000 --> 21:10.160 Well, Rebekah, this is your fault too. 21:12.400 --> 21:13.040 And you know what? 21:13.040 --> 21:16.360 This kind of shows you that when you practice to deceive, 21:16.360 --> 21:16.600 Thanks for watching! 21:16.800 --> 21:19.000 You have to keep coming up with different solutions 21:19.000 --> 21:22.160 because there's always consequences to your actions. 21:22.160 --> 21:24.280 You deceived your husband. 21:24.280 --> 21:25.640 Your son played along. 21:25.640 --> 21:29.440 And now your other son wants to kill your other son. 21:29.440 --> 21:32.560 So now she has to construe another plan to save his life. 21:32.560 --> 21:35.280 Verse 43, now therefore my son obey my voice. 21:35.280 --> 21:38.880 Well, yeah, look how that word that got you, Jacob. 21:38.880 --> 21:41.400 Jacob should have been like, mom, I love you. 21:41.400 --> 21:44.520 But we need to just go ask for forgiveness. 21:44.520 --> 21:44.700 you 21:45.100 --> 21:49.900 You know, ask Dad for forgiveness, ask Esau for forgiveness. 21:49.900 --> 21:53.500 But, you know, it seems that Jacob is a little mama's boy. 21:53.500 --> 21:58.100 Okay, and he's just listening to mom here. 21:58.100 --> 21:59.500 He says in verse 43, 21:59.500 --> 22:01.900 Now therefore my son obey my voice and arise, 22:01.900 --> 22:04.900 flee thou to Laban, my brother to Haran, 22:04.900 --> 22:07.100 and tarry with them a few days. 22:07.100 --> 22:09.900 Obviously a few days ended up turning to years. 22:10.500 --> 22:16.140 Okay until thy brother's fury turn away until thy brother's anger turn away from thee and he forget 22:16.460 --> 22:20.620 That which thou has done to him then I will send and fetch thee from thence 22:20.860 --> 22:25.660 Why should I be deprived also of you both in one day and Rebecca said to Isaac? 22:25.660 --> 22:30.580 I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth 22:30.740 --> 22:35.860 Such as these which are of the daughters of the Lamb. What good shall my life do to me? 22:35.860 --> 22:38.500 So what is she saying? You know, she's lying to her husband again 22:38.500 --> 22:43.360 Okay, she's like all these daughters we need Jacob to marry them 22:43.360 --> 22:45.600 I'm gonna send him over to my brother's place 22:45.820 --> 22:49.960 But the reason she's sending him over there is to save his life from the vengeful 22:50.420 --> 22:53.620 Actions of Esau so Rebecca, you know 22:54.180 --> 22:59.660 We praise you for having so much faith leaving your homeland to go marry Isaac 23:00.280 --> 23:01.600 but sister 23:02.100 --> 23:05.220 You know, get your stuff together, OK? 23:05.220 --> 23:07.820 Stop being such a deceiver and a liar. 23:07.820 --> 23:09.940 And look, you know, sometimes people 23:09.940 --> 23:14.380 grow up in a home where lying is just a normal thing to do. 23:14.380 --> 23:16.900 They call it little white lies. 23:16.900 --> 23:18.340 What if I don't lie about it? 23:18.340 --> 23:19.940 How am I going to get this? 23:19.940 --> 23:22.300 It's called just being honest. 23:22.300 --> 23:25.020 It's called who cares what the result is. 23:25.020 --> 23:26.540 Just be a person of integrity. 23:27.100 --> 23:29.600 Yeah, but if I don't lie about this, 23:29.600 --> 23:31.420 then I'm not going to get this deal. 23:31.420 --> 23:34.580 If I don't lie to this person, then this is going to happen. 23:34.580 --> 23:37.760 Well, let it happen. 23:37.760 --> 23:41.340 It's better to tell the truth and suffer the consequences 23:41.340 --> 23:44.660 because of it than just build up the reputation of being just 23:44.660 --> 23:48.420 a complete deceiver, a dishonest individual, a person who lacks 23:48.420 --> 23:50.740 integrity completely. 23:50.740 --> 23:53.540 But obviously, Rebecca, she didn't, you know. 23:53.800 --> 23:55.800 No one was there to tell her that. 23:55.800 --> 24:02.800 And so she sends Jacob away and then we will continue that story next week and see how that goes with him. 24:02.800 --> 24:04.800 Let's pray. Father, we thank you so much for your word. 24:04.800 --> 24:08.800 Lord, help us as your people to have faith in you, Lord. 24:08.800 --> 24:14.800 When our feelings deceive us, help us to go according to the voice of the shepherd. 24:15.100 --> 24:18.940 And may we internalize the truths of God's Word, 24:18.940 --> 24:22.140 the convictions of the Bible, help us to familiarize ourselves 24:22.140 --> 24:24.340 with what the Bible explicitly says, 24:24.340 --> 24:27.980 so that we're not deceived by trickery, 24:27.980 --> 24:32.340 by the cunning craftiness, whereby people lie in wait to deceive, by subtlety. 24:32.340 --> 24:34.300 And Lord, we can't always trust our feelings. 24:34.300 --> 24:36.260 We obviously know that you want us to love you 24:36.260 --> 24:39.700 with all our heart, soul, mind and strength. 24:39.700 --> 24:41.100 Emotions are good. 24:41.400 --> 24:45.320 but sometimes they can be deceptive and lead us astray. 24:45.960 --> 24:49.640 And it's at that point that we need to make sure that we gird our loins with truth 24:50.280 --> 24:56.440 and that we go according to what the word of God says and not lean into our own understanding. 24:56.440 --> 25:00.440 Bless us as we go on our way, Lord. Give us a great weekend. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. 25:09.100 --> 25:13.580 All right, we have one last song this evening, song number 355.