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Amen, well we're back in Genesis chapter 27 now, and it's been a couple of weeks since we've gone through the book of Genesis, but here we are Sunday night, and looks like y'all are tired to wake up, all right? This is kind of a teachy sermon, so you're going to need to pay attention to what's going on. All right. Is anybody here ringing? Is everything, does it sound okay? I think it does, okay. Well, let's look at verse number one, the Bible says it came to pass that when Isaac was old and his eyes were dim so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son and said unto him, my son, and he said unto him, behold, here am I. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, we thank you, Lord, so much for this congregation, Lord, pray that you would just bless each and every single person that decided to be in church on a Sunday afternoon. Pray, Lord, that you would fill me with your spirit, and I pray that you would let people hear what your spirit says to the church tonight, in Jesus' name we pray, amen. Okay, so I'm going to take a look at some spiritual pictures tonight while we go through this chapter. Now, obviously I believe that everything in this chapter happened exactly as the Bible says it did, but a lot of the things in the Old Testament are pictures for us to see and truths that teach us, that are taught for the New Testament. So the New Testament is what's actually supposed to shed light on the Old Testament, but there's a lot of pictures of Christ in the Old Testament, and I want to look at a few of those tonight. So we're going to look at the spiritual pictures, and like I said, obviously I believe that all this stuff actually happened, but I think it is here for our admonition and for our learning. So you see that Isaac is old, he can't see, and he's asking Esau, his eldest son, a question here. What are you saying in verse 2? It says, and he said, Behold, now I'm old, and I know not the day of my death. Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver, and thy bow, and go out to the field and take me some venison. So he's wanting some deer meat, right? It's about to be hunting season here next month, so this is a good chapter for that. But anyway, it says, Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons. So he wants Esau to go out with his weapons and get, you know, because Esau was a man of the field. He was like a hunter type guy. That's what, he was kind of an outdoorsy type of a person, and it says, And make me savory meat, such as I love, and bring it to me that I may eat, that my soul may bless thee before I die. So and I just want to point you to go back to a couple chapters to Genesis chapter 25 verse 27. It kind of explains a little bit about Esau and Jacob. I just want to lay a little background here real quick. Genesis chapter 25 verse 27, it says that the boys grew, and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field, and Jacob was a plain man dwelling in tents. And Isaac loved Esau because he did eat of his venison, but Rebecca loved Jacob. So I would submit to you that in this chapter, these people that are human beings are representing things for us in the Scriptures. And Isaac is obviously, in my mind, a picture of God the Father, and Esau, the children of Israel after the flesh, or the Old Testament children of Israel. And then, so in the Old Testament, they were asked to go to war, right? When the children of Israel were taken out of Egypt, what did he say? Take your weapons and go conquer the promised land. And so I believe that Esau is a picture of the children of Israel that were supposed to keep the law of Moses, and obviously, I believe Isaac represents God the Father, and I'll show you why as we go along here. But in the Old Testament, the children of Israel were supposed to go to war, take and sacrifice animals, and keep the law of the Ten Commandments, right? Now obviously, I don't believe that you're saved in a different way, but there are differences between the Old and the New Testament. We don't have to do animal sacrifices anymore, because why? Because Jesus Christ is our Passover. Jesus Christ is the Passover lamb, and so we don't have to keep those commandments in that way. There's no more Levitical priesthood anymore. Jesus Christ is the high priest. So look at verse number five, it says, And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son, and Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it. So you see Rebekah listens in on the conversation, finds out what's going on here. It says, And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying, Bring me venison, and make me savory meat, that I may eat and bless thee before the Lord before my death. Now, I'll just say this also, just as a side note, that you see them, and obviously for the picture that it's showing, these are things that are helping us see the picture. But in real life, I don't think it's right to just sit there and favor one child over the other. I don't think that you should favor and show direct favoritism like that to your children. And so I don't think that that's right. I think it's something that's wrong. I'm still getting a ringing from this microphone. Can you guys fix that, please? Thank you very much. All right. Don't make me come in that booth. So anyway, so where was I at? Let's see, verse number seven. Bring me the venison, and make me savory meat, that I may eat and bless thee before the Lord before my death. So Isaac is wanting Esau, his favorite son, to go out and get his favorite meat and cook it and prepare it for him so that he can bless Esau. Now, we've learned about Esau and Jacob a couple chapters ago, and it's been a while. But one of the things that I showed in the scriptures is there's not really a lot of positive mentions about what Esau is or who he is or the things that he's done. It says he's a profane person in the New Testament. It doesn't say anything positive about him in the New Testament. And I know that people think that Esau was saved. I don't personally think that he necessarily was. I'm not dogmatic about it. Obviously, I'm not the judge of his salvation. But usually, the New Testament doesn't say anything positive about someone. It doesn't say anything positive about Balaam, does it? It says a lot of negative things about Balaam. And also the pictures, God hates Esau and loves Jacob. Now obviously, we know when they were being born that he said these two nations are in thy womb and Jacob if I love, Esau if I hated. So he's talking about two different types of people. But even as the children themselves, Jacob, he kind of wasn't really that great of a guy. I mean, he did commit some sins. He obviously tricked his brother, or he sold, he made him sell his birthright while he was starving to death apparently from hunting. And he sold his, so what this chapter doesn't show, we've already been through that, but Esau gave up his birthright for a bowl of soup basically, for lentils, for lentil soup. And lentil soup is gross anyway, but he had the chili, he had the chili with the beans but anyway, don't even get Pastor Shelley started on that, the chili stuff. But yeah, I mean to sell your birthright for a bowl of soup is just, it doesn't show that he really cared or valued the things of his family. And then in this chapter, we already read it together, and you see that he gets tricked out of his spiritual blessing also. The blessing of his dad. But it says in verse 8, Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command thee. Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats, and I will make them savory meat for thy father, such as he loveth. So I would submit to you that Rebecca pictures Christ in this situation here. And you're like, Jesus as a girl, it's a type. Just like Jeff was supposed to sacrifice the first thing he saw, and what was the first thing he saw? His daughter, his virgin daughter that came forth to him. That's a picture of Christ also. And so also Jacob would represent spiritual or saved Israel. And so it says in verse 8 again, Obey my voice according to that which I command thee. Go now to the flock, and fetch me. So this is Rebecca talking to her son, two good kids of the goats. And who's going to make it? She says, I will make it. So and it says, I will make them savory meat for thy father, such as he loveth. So Isaac picturing God the father, you know, he wants us to keep his commandments. He wants us to bring, you know, he wants, you know, in the Old Testament they were supposed to bring forth the animal sacrifices, but the thing is that Christ is the one that died for us, right? Christ is the one that lived that perfect life. Christ is the one that gave that savory sacrifice, didn't he? Christ is the one that was the sacrifice for all of our sins. So she says she's going to make it. So Jacob wasn't the one that was supposed to make it, Jacob was supposed to just go and get it, and his mom was going to prepare it, right? So Christ is the one that does the works, Christ is the one that does the sacrifice, and we have to put on the Lord Jesus Christ, don't we? Isn't that what the Bible says? Put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and verse 10, look what it says, and thou shalt bring it to thy father that he may eat, and that he may bless thee before his death. And so what did he have to do? Make it to Isaac, who's the father, and I believe again he pictures God the father in this. And so another picture to think about in this chapter also, I mean, the Bible is just like an onion, you know, a really good onion, like a Walla Walla sweet, right? But it has layers. There's lots of layers in the Bible, and there's lots of pictures you can get just out of this chapter alone. Another picture is that he would represent, you know, Esau would represent Old Testament, and then Isaac, the New Testament. But the first son is usually supposed to be the one that inherits, right? But what is the better testament? It's the New Testament, isn't it? Who's the better son? Jacob's the better son. And so Jacob, you know, in the New Testament, you know, obviously we still preach out of the New Testament. I mean, now the Old Testament, we're preaching out of that right now, and a lot of it still applies, you know, a lot of it still applies. But there are things that don't. There are things that have been changed, like the priesthood, you know, like what else, for instance, the Holy Days, you know, the Lord's Supper is replacing the Passover. But I would say to you that, you know, this is also a picture of the New Testament being better or replacing the Old Testament as what we're, because we're supposed to, this is a New Testament Christian church. We're not an Old Testament Christian church, because the Testament is the covenant, the covenant with God. So and the Old Testament was given by the law of Moses, right? So and then look at verse 11, it says, And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau, my brother, is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man. So he's going to have to do this with subtlety, because remember when Esau was born, he was born all hairy and red like a garment. And so, and then Jacob is a smooth man. So obviously, there's some pretty cool things that you can apply with that, like, you know, back in the Old Testament, things were a little more hairy than they are in the New Testament, right? There's some pretty, there's some pretty hairy laws back in the Old Testament that obviously are still in effect today, but like the Old, they're in the Old Testament, right? Like Leviticus 20, 13, for instance. But there's a lot of hairy stuff in the New Testament too, you know, Revelation is still yet to happen. So judgment coming to mankind, and it's going to be worse than everything that happens in the Old Testament. But it also could represent the difference between hairy preaching and smooth preaching, you know? I don't have time to go into that tonight because it's just too much, but, you know, we could actually use some hairy preaching in 2021 though. Because we get a lot of smooth preaching out there, don't we? You know, smooth like a salesman, smooth like Joel Osteen, you know, with his big smile. Someone showed like a picture of him looking like Martin Short or something. What does it say, Brother Sean? It says someone says that Joel Osteen looked like Martin Short doing a Tim Allen impression. That's what it was, yeah. Some of you guys will even know who that is. But Martin Short was a comedian that did Saturday Night Live, and that picture looks just like him. But doing a Tim Allen, and Tim Allen was obviously a big star too. And it says I can't unsee that. Well, I can't unsee it either, so now I just think of Joel Osteen as Martin Short and makes it with Tim Allen. But anyway, there's a lot of smooth preaching going on out there today, and we need hairy preaching. Amen? We need some preaching that, you know, and men need to have hair on their legs and get up and preach the truth instead of, you know, being, you know, shaving their legs or whatever, like swimmers. Anyway, moving on here. My father, Peradventure, will feel me, and I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I shall bring a curse upon me and not a blessing. So he's thinking he's going to get cursed by his father for coming and pretending to be Esau. And it says, and his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son. So isn't that true, like the Lord Jesus Christ became a curse for us? He was cursed by God the Father, and he took the curse of all mankind upon himself, just like Rachel, or I mean not Rachel, but Rebekah is saying that she'll do for him also. So you see how she is a type of Christ, and it says only obey my voice and go and fetch them. So, you know, we have to obey the gospel, right? Some of the terms that's used in here are used in the New Testament, and, you know, we are supposed to obey the gospel. And that's not a work of salvation, that's believing the truth. Believing the gospel. And turn to 2 Thessalonians chapter 1 verse 8, 2 Thessalonians chapter 1 verse 8. So people will get this confused, but the obeying the gospel is simply believing the truth and getting saved, right? So it says in 2 Thessalonians chapter 1 verse 8, it says in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. So Rebekah said that she would do the works and that Jacob may present them, right? So when we get saved, we're taking the works that Jesus did for us and applying those to our lives. And so we're not saved by the works we do. We're not saved by good works in any way, shape, or form. We're saved by the good works that Jesus did for us, and then when God looks at us, He sees the righteousness of Christ in us. He sees the blood that covers our sins that Jesus shed for us. Look at 1 Peter chapter 4 verse number 17, 1 Peter chapter 4 verse number 17. The Bible says, For the time has come that judgment must begin at the house of God. And if it first began at us, what shall the end be of them that, what's it say? Obey not the gospel of God. So the picture in our story is that Jacob is supposed to obey the voice of God, obey the voice of Jesus, and do what? Take and let her do the works for Him. Just like Jesus had to do the works for us. See, we can't take any of our works to God in order to be saved. The Bible says our righteousness is as filthy rags. So anything that we do that we can try to present to God and say, hey, you should let me in. You know, there's a lot of jokes about St. Peter meeting people at the gates, right? You've heard a lot of those jokes before. You can't take your dirty, filthy, stinking, soullied rags to God and expect that He's going to let you in. It's never going to happen. He's going to curse you and throw you in the lake of fire. But what was Esau told to do? You go and do it yourself and then bring me that meat and bring me that sacrifice. So you see the difference? She's trying to, she's saying, hey, obey my voice and let me do the work for you. Then you can present my work to your Father, right? That's the picture of the gospel that you have here. First Peter chapter 4, verse 17, did I already have you turn there? First Peter chapter 4, verse 17, the Bible says, for the time, oh, I already did read that, I'm sorry. Galatians chapter 3, verse 13, Galatians chapter 3, verse 13, Galatians 3, 13. The Bible says, Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. For it is written, cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree. So that verse fits this story perfectly because she says, your curse be upon me, my son. And it's the same thing, we have to accept, Christ was the curse for us so that he could cover us of our sins. So he became the curse for us so we don't have to bear that burden. We don't have to pay for that sin, Christ paid for it for us. Now let's go back to our text in chapter 27, verse number 14, the Bible says, and he went and fetched and brought them to his mother and his mother made savory meat such as his father loved. So here's again the picture is that he went and obeyed, like you're supposed to obey the gospel, and brought that stuff back and who made the savory meat? His mother, Rebecca, right? Such as his father loved. See, the father loved the son. The son did all the things that pleased the father, didn't he? Christ pleased God the father in all those ways. And so this is the picture that we see of her making the savory meat and making sure that it's something that the father loved, right? Just like in the New Testament. So now turn to 2 Corinthians chapter 2, verse 15, and just keep your finger or bookmark back in Genesis chapter 27 because we're going to keep going back there. But 2 Corinthians chapter 2, verse 15 says, for we are unto God, what's it say? A sweet saver of Christ. A sweet saver of Christ and them that are saved and in them that perish. So we are unto God a sweet saver of Christ. So God, when he smells us, what does he smell? The sweet saver of Christ. If you're saved, Christ has covered you with that sweet savor of Christ in them that are saved and in them that perish. So Christ was the savior of all men, right? Especially them that believe. So Christ wasn't just the savior of, you know, like the Calvinists like to teach that Christ has just saved the people that are the chosen ones, the special chosen ones. No, Christ died for all mankind and everybody has a chance to be saved. It's whosoever will, it's not what the Calvinists believe, it's whosoever God picked for salvation. That's not what the Bible teaches. It's whosoever will may take the water of life freely. It's a free gift. Now turn to Ephesians chapter 5, verse number 2. So I think that's a very clear scripture that really correlates with that last one that we are a sweet saver of Christ. He makes us to smell sweet through his sacrifice and he can make anybody smell good. Even Josh, no I'm kidding. Even Remy. So when God smells the smell, so to speak, of a saved person, he smells something sweet. He smells something. He smells the scent of his son who's blessed forever, right? Ephesians chapter 5, verse 2 says, And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for, what's it say? A sweet smelling saver. A sweet smelling saver. So that's the picture that we're seeing in Genesis chapter 27 of Rebekah preparing the savory meat for God the Father. And what does savory mean? It means, when you're talking about food, belonging to the category that is salty or spicy. A lot of times today people like to go, oh that's spicy. But it says rather than sweet. I thought that was pretty interesting as a definition. God wants us to be salty, not sweet. That's a savory smell that God likes. He doesn't say if the sugar, he doesn't talk about the sugar, he's talking about the salt. He wants us to be salty if the salt has lost its savor, not if the sugar stops being sweet. Now what else does it mean? It also means morally wholesome or acceptable. Morally wholesome or acceptable. So that savor that God smells is a morally wholesome or acceptable smell to him concerning how we are right with God. Because we still sin everyday, but here's the thing, God doesn't see that sin anymore. When he looks down upon us, he sees the blood of Christ, he smells the sweet savor of Christ who died and sacrificed himself for us. He's the end of the burnt offerings, is he not? He's the lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world. When John saw him, that's exactly what he said, he said, behold, the lamb of God which taketh away the sins of the world. And he was that last sacrifice, and he was a savory smell to God the Father. He was an acceptable sacrifice. Now let's look back in Genesis chapter 27, it says in verse 15, it says, and Rebecca took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob, her younger son. Well what's that a picture of? Well let's turn to Revelation chapter 3 verse 15, I didn't have this in my notes, but I was reading through it and I was like, wow, that's just a perfect picture. It actually says, goodly raiment, right? That's good clothing. Look what it says in Revelation chapter 3 verse 5, it says, he that overcometh, that's someone that gets saved, right? The same shall be clothed in white raiment, and I will not blot his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my father and before his angels. So that clothing is white raiment that it's talking about that we get when we get to heaven. And so, and we're also clothed with Christ. So that's a picture of being pure, a picture of being sinless, and one day we're going to be able to say we got through a day without sinning, which is going to be really nice. So let's see, let's look at verse 16, it says, and she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands and upon the smooth of his neck. So here's another picture, so Jesus Christ was that sacrifice, and what had to be sacrificed in the Old Testament? Goats, cattle, lambs, things like that. So here's another picture of that sacrifice, and that sacrifice clothes him with the clothes that God, that you know, Isaac, aka God the father in this story, and he's going to come to him and he's going to feel and make sure he smells right, he feels right, and that he's pleased with the savory meat that he provides for him. Look at verse number, let's see, let's turn to 1 John chapter 2, verse 2, 1 John chapter 2, verse 2. So this pictures, you know, the imputation of Christ and the sacrifice being imputed to the sinner by obeying the gospel, which is overcoming. And so verses, Esau obeying the law. So Esau went out to do the same, something different, but he went out to do the work. There's a picture here also of someone that lets Christ do the work for him, or someone that wants to try to bring their own works to the table to try to get to heaven. Look at 1 John chapter 2, verse 2, it says, and he is the propitiation for our sins and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. And so that word propitiation is a pretty big word in the Bible, but what it simply means is, it means the appeasement or satisfaction or atonement. So he, that's Christ, is the appeasement, satisfaction or atonement, propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but again, also the sins of the whole world. So the Bible is very clear that Jesus died for everybody, not just certain people. Now look at verse 17 back in our text. So God's wrath, so the Bible talks about how the wrath of God already abides on the people that are not saved. If you're not saved in this room today, the wrath of God is already abiding upon you. And so Jesus appeased the wrath of God by being that perfect sacrifice, by being that burnt offering, by being that sweet-smelling saber. And so he appeased the wrath of God for all mankind, because what's going to happen to the people that don't take that propitiation? They don't accept it, because he might have died for everybody, but not everybody is going to heaven, are they? In fact, the Bible teaches that very few are going to be in heaven, in comparison to the rest of the population. There's 7.9 billion people in the world right now, and how many of those people do you think are actually saved? Do you think a billion people are saved? Do you think 500 million are saved? I mean, it's possible. I mean, 7.9 billion is a lot of people. But the last time I checked, nobody's knocking down the door of soul winning in these other countries. China, which has, I think, a billion people, and India, which has a billion people. That's 2 billion out of the whole bunch. It might be more than that now. I'm probably going off of old numbers, but that's just what I had off the top of my head. But do you think that the gospel is just going crazy, and people are just getting saved by the droves in China right now? What about North Korea? What about, I mean, what about India? There's places you go to India, and you preach the gospel, and you're going to get killed. Same thing with China. They won't even let you preach the gospel in China. It's funny, we have missionaries that try to come around, and they're like, yeah, I'm the missionary to China. We actually had one come to the last church we went to before we started the church here. And the guy gets up and tells us how the gospel's illegal in China. But if someone asks you during Christmas that it has to be on the Christmas holiday, or what was the other one? It was about the creation story. If someone just mentions, oh yeah, what a beautiful day, that it's okay for you to kind of say, well, what do you believe about how the world came to be, or whatever. Then you can share some coloring book about Adam and Eve with them, or something. I mean, they said, we got one person saved last year, didn't they? Can I get a witness back there, Ms. Sherry? Yeah, we got one person saved last year. Woo, you're just tearing it up. And the person, I highly doubt that person actually got saved. But anyway, that's just my personal opinion. I mean, why would you go to a mission field where you're only getting one person saved? I mean, it's just ridiculous. We need to go where the people actually want to hear it, where they want to get saved, obviously, before we go off into places that are not receptive. Let's get the places that are receptive first. You know, these people always want to go to China, they always want to go to Africa. And I think Africa is probably very ripe for the gospel in certain places. But there are places in Africa that you'll get killed for preaching the gospel. Also, you know, we got to go to the receptive places that are allowed to have the gospel preached there. So, I don't know how I got off on that. But verse number 17, she gave the savory meat, and what does it say? And the bread which she had prepared into the hand of her son, Jacob. Now, in Hebrews chapter 10, it talks about a body being prepared. And I was kind of, I don't know, I just had a hard time understanding what, I mean, obviously, I know the body of Jesus or whatever. But this scripture kind of helped me figure it out. Look at what it says, look at it again, verse 17. And she gave the savory meat and the bread. So what does the bread represent in the Lord's Supper? The body of Christ, right? Which she had prepared into the hand of her son, Jacob. So see how it's, that stuff is given to someone. So Jacob didn't make the meat, he didn't make the bread, his mom did, Rebekah. And so it says which she had prepared. Now look at Hebrews chapter 10, verse 4, Hebrews chapter 10, verse 4. And keep your finger, again, in Genesis chapter 27. I know I'm skipping back and forth around, but it's good stuff, right? And if you're falling asleep, just when you get home or on your way home, just re-listen to it. All right, so Hebrews chapter 10, verse 4 says, for it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins. See, in the Old Testament, people gave those sacrifices as a picture of what Christ would do, as an atonement, so to speak. But they never took away their sins. They had to wait, you know, Christ is the one that took away the sins. His blood is the thing that took away the sins. That all was just a picture, and something that they were supposed to obey and do because God said to, right? And it says, wherefore, when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me. So you see how that kind of goes with verse 17, not Exodus, but in Genesis chapter 27? Because it said, the bread which she had prepared, so the bread represents the body of Christ, and it was prepared. And so it says, but a body hast thou prepared me. In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin, thou hast had no pleasure. Then said I, lo, I come. In the volume of the book, it is written of me to do thy will, O Lord. So the will of the Lord was for that body to be prepared, and Jesus Christ was a human being, born in Bethlehem. His mother was married. He was a human being. God was his father. So Jesus Christ was the God-man, right? And so that body was prepared in order to be the sacrifice for our sins, because we're not bulls, are we? We're not goats the last time I checked. We're not animals. We're human beings. So that body that was prepared, just like the picture of the bread being prepared, the body being broken for us, that body was Christ. It couldn't be an animal that atones for our sins, because it had to be a human being. That makes sense to you. So Genesis chapter 27 verse 18, it said, and he came unto his father and said, my father, he said, here am I, who art thou, my son? And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau, thy firstborn. I have done according as thou beatest me. Arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that my soul may bless me. And Isaac said unto his son, how is it that thou hast found it so quickly, my son? And he said, because the Lord thy God brought it to me. So obviously, I'm not condoning the fact that Jacob, obviously for the picture this works good, but it's not right to lie to your dad, right? It's not right to trick people. And obviously Jacob, you'll see later on that Jacob pays at reaping, that concept of reaping what you sow comes to fruition in his life later on, because he gets tricked by somebody else. But we'll get into that as we move on. I don't want to have a spoiler alert, okay? So verse 21 says, and Isaac said unto Jacob, come near I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou be my very son Esau or not. And Jacob went near unto Esau his father and felt him and said, the voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau. And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy as his brother Esau's hands. So he blessed him, and he said, art thou my very son Esau? And he said, I am. And so that word Jacob, the name of Jacob, actually, anybody know what it actually means? Any men in the church know what Jacob means? No, well it means supplanter. And so Jacob, representing believing Israel, took the works of Rebecca, which represents Christ, and presented himself with the works and sacrifice of Christ to Isaac, which is God the Father. You all following me so far? You up to speed here? And like I said, if you don't understand something, just go back and re-listen to it, okay? John 1 12 says, but as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name. So this also represents the spiritual Israel replacing Israel after the flesh. So the Gentiles got to get in on the plan. And so what happened when Jesus came, his own received him not, right? He came to the Jews, they didn't want to hear him, they wanted to kill him. And so the people that wanted to believe, the believing remnant got saved, and then the people that were of Gentile stock were able to be saved also. So Matthew 21, verse 43, see the Bible teaches over and over again replacement theology. And I don't preach about this a lot, but it's just a fact, okay? And you can find it over and over again in the Bible about that replacement of physical Israel being replaced by spiritual Israel. Matthew 21, verse 43 is very clear, okay? It says, therefore I say, this is Christ talking to the Pharisees after he kind of breaks down in a parable how that he sent prophets to him. They stoned him, they killed him. He sent, least of all, his only son, and they killed him and threw him out of the vineyard. And then Jesus said, what do you think he's gonna do to those people that killed his son? Miserably destroy those wicked men, is what he says, if I'm paraphrasing that. But anyway, it says in Matthew 21, verse 43, therefore I say unto you, the kingdom of God shall be taken from you and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. And so Christ just flat out told them, what does that entail to you? He's taking it from them and giving it to somebody else. If your boss got fired and replaced by somebody else, that's replacement, right? That's taking that person out of their position and putting somebody else into it. That's what replacement, it's called replacement theology by theologians or whatever, but it is the supplanting of the nation of Israel after the flesh by the spiritual children of Israel, right? And Jesus flat out says, he's gonna give it to somebody else. He's gonna give it to a nation, bringing forth the fruits thereof. And also, the picture here is the New Testament replacing the Old Testament. Turn to Hebrews 8, verse 13, Hebrews 8, verse number 13. So the New Testament is better than the Old Testament. And what do I mean by that? I mean the covenant. The covenant is a better covenant. Otherwise, there would be no reason to get rid of the old covenant. We would still be under the Old Testament, under the Old Covenant. We're under the New Covenant. In Hebrews 8, verse 13, it says, and that he saith a new covenant. He hath made the first old. So that's where you get that term, the Old Testament and the New Testament. So it's a new covenant because the first one's old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away. So I'm not saying that the scriptures don't hold any bearing. Of course I don't believe that. All scripture is given by inspiration of God. It's profitable to us, right? But it's still the covenant itself. What we are saved by is by the covenant of the Lord Jesus Christ. And he was the testator of that covenant. He's the one that shed his blood for this covenant. And what was shed in the Old Testament? The blood of bulls and goats and rams and sheep, right? So this is a better covenant, a better testament. It was put in place because of transgressions so that people would know how to, eventually the law's a schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ. So back in our text, verse number 25, it says, and he said bring it near to me and I will eat of my son's venison that my soul may bless thee. And he brought it near to him and he did eat. And he brought him wine and he drank. So here you got the picture. So before she brought the bread and the sweet smelling savor, the sweet smelling meat, which was salty by the way. And he brought him wine. So what does the wine represent? The blood of Christ, the precious blood of Christ. And it says, and his father Isaac said unto him, come near now and kiss me, my son, and he came near and kissed him. And he smelled the smell of his raiment and blessed him and said, see the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the Lord hath blessed. So again, talking about the smell that God smells of us is a sweet smelling savor. I already shared that scripture with you earlier. But Revelation chapter three, actually we'll skip that. Let's just go on to the next verse, verse number 28. It says, therefore God give thee dew of heaven and the fatness of the earth and plenty of corn and wine. 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. Curse be everyone that cursed thee, and blessed be he that blessed thee. So what did he just inherit? He inherited the Abrahamic blessing. What he promised to Abraham, that blessing went to Jacob now. In Genesis chapter 12, you don't have to turn there, but Genesis chapter 12 verse 2 says, and I will make of thee a great nation, talking about Abraham. And I will bless thee and make thy name great, and thou shalt be a blessing. And I will bless them that bless thee and curse him that cursed thee. And in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. But what Isaac just blessed him with was that same blessing. So that blessing went to Isaac from Abraham. And then now Isaac is blessing Jacob with the same thing. So you're still in chapter 27, verse 30, it says, and it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out of the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting. So remember Esau represents the physical Israel, all right? And he went out and made his own savory meat. Look what it says in verse 31. And he also made savory meat, and brought it to his father, and said unto his father, let my father arise and eat his son's venison that thy soul may bless me. And Isaac his father said unto him, who art thou? And he said, I am thy son, thy firstborn Esau. I think it's very interesting that God the Father is saying, who art thou? Because when someone tries to come in a spiritual picture, someone tries to come to God through any other way, he's gonna cast them out, isn't he? And he's like, who are you? Who are you? I don't know you. I never knew you. That's what he's gonna say to people that try to come in and say, Lord, Lord, we did all these wonderful works. See, people that think, people think they're going to heaven and they use those verses to try to say, see? You know, see, there's certain people that God's gonna just say, depart from me you that work iniquity, I never knew you. And it's like, yeah, it's you. It's like explaining someone to that concept at the door. They just don't get it because Satan has blinded their minds to the truth. So this is the case in Esau, who art thou? And he said, I am thy son, thy firstborn Esau. Verse 33, and Isaac trembled very exceedingly and said, who? There is he that hath taken venison and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before thou camest, and have blessed him. Yea, and he shall be blessed. And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his father, bless me, even me also, O my father. And this is how the Jews after the flesh, even today, act. They act like they have something coming to them because of their birthright. You see how Esau represents the physical nation? Because they think that because of their birthright, well, I'm a Jew. When you knock on someone's door and they say, I'm a Jew, they think they're just automatically going to heaven because they still think they're God's chosen people. But they're not still God's chosen people because only those that have put their faith in Christ are God's chosen people. And so now, not only has he stolen his birthright, but he also stole the blessing that he was supposed to be blessed with. And so it's just kind of like the Jews modern day. They don't have a blessing left. They don't have that blessing anymore. That blessing, their mind, their eyes have been blinded. You know, and they're not gonna get that back until, you know, the time, what am I trying, what consequence am I trying to think of? Yeah, what'd you say? The fullness of the Gentiles become in, that's right. Thank you, brother Bill. But yeah, so they're gonna be blinded until that time. So Esau represents that, you know, that person that would be a physical Jew that thinks that they're still getting in. And what happened when Christ came and supplanted the Pharisees and the Sadducees? Well, they got pretty mad, didn't they? They got real mad. And actually, while he was there preaching, and while he was there teaching them for those three and a half years, they hated him then too because he had basically kind of just moved them out of the way and everybody was seeking after Christ. Everybody went to John the Baptist and got saved and baptized. And then everybody followed after Christ. And it really, they got jealous. Well, they got envious. Not jealous, they got envious. And so let's see, what verse are we in, 34? And Esau heard the words of his father. He cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry, and said to his father, Bless me, even me also, O my father. And he said, Thy brother came with subtlety, and hath taken away thy blessing. And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. So that's what it means, supplanting someone means to replace them. He took his place and took his birthright with that subtlety and took his blessing. It says, He took away my birthright, and behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me? And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord. And all his brethren have I given to him for servants. And with corn and wine have I sustained him. And what shall I do now unto thee, my son? And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice and wept. And the Bible talks about in the New Testament how he sought repentance with tears, but he didn't get it, did he? So he represents, even in the New Testament, it kind of makes a picture of him not, even though he sought for that repentance, he didn't get it. He didn't get saved. So, and that's the picture here. In my mind. So, anyway, look at Galatians chapter 2 verse 16. Galatians chapter 2, 16, you guys are doing very well, I'm almost done. I always say that, but then I keep going for a long time. But this time I really mean it. Galatians chapter 2 verse 16 says, and this is the problem with the Jews or anybody that believes in a workspace salvation or believes, you know, a lot of people out there say they're Christians, but they're really not. Because they put their trust in their own works, or what they continue to do for God, and they just can't get it. Yeah, I mean that's the number one thing I would say that we deal with without soul winning, is people that believe that they're saved, but they really aren't because they just think that they're a good person. Most men will proclaim his own righteousness. Everybody thinks they're a good person, don't they? But it's not true, according to God. See, they might be a good person in their own standards, but that's the problem with people. Is everybody wants to have their own standards in place for what they think God is gonna do, or what they think that God should be like. And that's why they'll say, you know, well, my God wouldn't do that. My God wouldn't hate homosexuals. My God wouldn't condemn people. My God wouldn't judge people. But they're wrong about that because this book is filled with judgment. It's filled with mercy, too. But the only way to get to mercy is to get it the way God told you to do it. It's not however we want to do it. It's not whatever your pastor says. It's not whatever your friends say. It's not what the Roman Catholic Church says. It's what God said in the Bible. There's only one way to get to heaven. Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the Father but by me, period. Straight is the gate, and narrow is the way that leadeth unto life. And few there be that find it. Isn't that what the Bible says? And broad is the way that leadeth unto destruction. See, all these people think that there's all these ways to get into heaven, but it's just not true. I've run into them for the last couple weeks. I've run into the people that think that they're saved. They think that everybody's saved. Just like, no, not everybody's saved. Do you know that that's what the Mormons teach? That basically everybody's saved, and there might be like one or two people here and there that go to hell. But it's like if you have all these second chances, why not just live your life how you want and do whatever you want? Well, you don't get your pyramid scheme up to the top, according to the Mormons. Mormon's religion is just like a big, giant, stupid, idiotic pyramid scheme that's not true. So when you're like, wow, you're being really mean to the Mormons, well, they're straight out of hell. That's why I'm mean to the Mormons. They teach a false doctrine, they teach a false gospel. They might look real cute and nice with their little white shirts with the elder badge on, and they're hey, they got their braces on, they're riding their little bikes with their little helmets on. But they are wicked false prophets. They don't believe the truth. And once they're going out spreading lies, they might look nice and innocent, but wolves with sheep's clothing. Hello? Same thing with the Jehovah's Witnesses. You know how you tell the difference on the street between us and Jehovah's Witnesses? This is how the Jehovah's Witnesses walk. Real slow, trying to get that time in, you know? And we're just like, let's go to the next door. Let's get to that next door. Let's get, you know, you don't want to hear? Okay, we'll go over here. That's how you should be. We're trying to find that diamond in the rough. We're trying to find that pearl of great price. We're trying to find that person, that gem that just wants to be saved. And so why sit there and waste your time with someone that believes lies and you can't even admonish them at all with the scriptures? Look, if they don't believe the Bible, then move on. Because if they don't believe the Bible, no matter what you say, they're not going to get saved. So where am I at here? Okay, Galatians chapter 2 verse 16 is where I had to turn. Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ. And not by the works of the law, not by the works of the law. You know, you'll show that to people out, and they just ignore it. They just act like it didn't happen. You know, you prove them over and over again with Bible scriptures, and they act like they didn't even see it. You know why? Because they can't see it because there's scales over their eyes. They're blinded to the truth. It says, for by the works of the law, shall some flesh be justified? Is that what it says? No, it says, by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified, period. No flesh, nobody. So that's the problem with Esau in this story, is he went out and made his own venison. You know, just like Cain brought forth the works of his own righteousness to God, and God said, hey, if you do well, I would accept you. But you have to do it in the will of God and how he wants you to do it, not in the way you want to do it. Let's go back to our text in verse number 39. It says in Isaac, his father answered and said unto him, behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of the heaven from above, and by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother, and it shall come to pass. When thou shalt have dominion, thou shalt break the yoke from off his neck. And I kind of think that's talking about later on in the story. I don't think that that necessarily applies to, maybe I'm wrong, maybe someone else sees it differently, but look at verse 41. It says, and Esau, what does it say? Hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him. And that's the way people, that's the way the Jews after the flesh today hate Christ even today. They spit on the ground three times, they just simply hate Christianity. But you have millions of evangelicals that are just like, hey, let's get the temple built. It's like, do you realize what you're asking for? Do you realize what you're trying to do? That temple's the temple the Antichrist is gonna walk into and declare himself to be God. But yet the evangelicals have their Israeli flags and everything. They're not God's chosen people anymore. They've been replaced. And anybody that tries to come in with their filthy rags and their good works is gonna be rejected on the day of judgment, period. But Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him, and Isaac said in his heart, the days of mourning for my father at hand, then will I slay my brother Jacob. So here's the picture. The Jews after the flesh, they hated the Christians. They're always, after they killed Christ, which they did kill Christ. After they did that, well, who'd they persecute? The apostles. Who'd they persecute? Christians. I mean, they compass land and sea to make one more child of hell, twofold more of the child of hell than they are themselves. But then they also compass land and sea to try to capture and kill Paul, the apostle, and to kill other Christians. And they've been doing it for a long time. But this is the picture, the Jews hated Christ and the brother rejected him and went about to kill him. Verse 42, in these words of Esau, her elder son were told to Rebecca. And she sent and called Jacob, her younger son, and said unto him, behold, thy brother Esau, as touching me, doth comfort himself, purposing to kill thee. What a weird psychopathic way to look at things. He doth comfort himself. Who comforts themselves in the fact that they'd wanna kill somebody? I mean, do you think that's normal? I'm gonna kill him, you know? But does he kill him? He doesn't kill him. He actually gives him a pass. But you gotta think about something, and I'll give you a little precursor here. Jacob was afraid that Esau was gonna kill him, because he said he was going to, and he gave all these offerings and gave him all this stuff. And Jacob came with a humble attitude to his brother. But if Jacob was like, I'm the ruler now, Esau, Daddy gave me the blessing, you sold your birthright. He would have killed him in a heartbeat. You know he would have, but Jacob, he just wanted to get along with him. So it says that Esau, let's see, where am I at? So he's purposing to kill him, verse 43. Now therefore, my son, obey my voice, arise, flee, thou to Laban, my brother to Haran. Now in the Bible, in the New Testament, in Matthew chapter 23, you don't have to turn there, because I'm running out of time here. It says, but when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another. So what's she telling him? Go, get out of here, he's gonna try to kill you. It says, for verily I say unto you, ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel to the son of man become. So when you're being persecuted, it's okay to flee, it's okay to run, you're just not supposed to fight back. So if you can get away, get away. You don't have to sit there and let someone kill you, but when it comes down to it, and you have your AR-15 in your hand, and all these reprobates are trying to kill you, if you shoot them and if you kill them, I mean, are you gonna go to hell for it? No, you're not gonna go to hell for it. We're not saved by works, okay? But, you know, you're basically stealing your own blessing. Run, you know, run. That's what it says, it doesn't say fight. Because if you live by the sword, you're gonna die by the sword. I'm not saying don't protect your family against someone that's coming in and trying to murder you or something like that. Kill them, okay? Kill them quickly. You know, if someone comes to your house at night, the Bible says you can kill them. So I know California doesn't say that. They're like, if you can even get out of the small window, you should, you know, jump out. That's why serial killers, a lot of serial killers down there. But anyway, let's finish up. Verse 44, and tarry with him a few days until thy brother's fury turn away, till thy brother's anger turn away from thee, and he forget that which thou has done to him. Then I will send and fetch thee from thence. Why should I be deprived also of you both in one day? And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me? So she's lamenting again the fact that Esau has married these, you know, women, these hussies from other nations. So just to recap everything else, you know, these pictures, I mean, I think that these pictures are accurate. You know, but obviously I still believe that this story actually happened. The Bible isn't just a book that's meant to, like the Methodists believe, that the Bible isn't even really true. It's just a bunch of stories that are supposed to teach us moral things and stuff like that. No, these things actually happen. The Bible is the Word of God. These things actually happen when it's talking about things in the Old Testament. It's talking about the things that actually happen. Like Elijah literally prayed that it wouldn't rain for three and a half years. And guess what? It didn't rain for three and a half years. And that was talked about in the New Testament, that the fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. So we can't just take stories from the Old Testament and not say that they're not true. That's a slippery slope to go down. So the story actually happened the way it says, but there is pictures for us in the New Testament and truths that we can pull out of Old Testament scriptures that will help us with our faith today. These are great pictures of Christ, salvation, the two covenants, and Israel after the flesh, and Israel by faith. So let's pray. Heavenly Father, we thank you, Lord, so much for Genesis chapter 27. Great chapter in the Bible, Lord. I pray you'd help us to just let these things sink down in our heart. And Lord, just the Bible is true. Lord, I pray that each and every person in this room would just have that faith, have that understanding, Lord, and just help us to apply these things to our life. Help us to learn the deep doctrines of the Bible. Help us to peel back the layers and show us something great and wondrous out of thy law as we read your word every single day. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.