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The Power of Deception and Blessing in Isaac's Family 0:10 Good morning, and welcome to Stand on the Word as we continue our journey through the book of Genesis today, chapters 27 and 28. By the way, if you've not yet, signed up, subscribed to the0:21 Stand on the Word, there's a lot of resources available for you, and we send out periodic updates. You can get that by going to f r c dot o r g slash bible or text bible to 6 7 7 4 2. We've got0:33 a lot of resources that are available to you at your fingertips there at f r c dot o r g slash bible. Verse 38 chapter 27, and Esau said to his father, have you only 1 blessing, my0:45 father? Bless me also, my father. And Esau lifted up his voice and wept. How many of you remember the, the daytime soap operas? Hopefully, you don't still watch those. I I, I assume they're still on.0:57 I don't know. I haven't had a television, in many years. But when I was a kid, before cable, television, before satellite, obviously, before the Internet, you know, we only had 3, maybe 4 channels max.1:09 And, you know, TV programming was either game show or, soap operas. And so it was sheer torture to be home sick from school. Alright?1:21 There was nothing to watch but these soap operas. And the 1 that sticks in my head is 1 that was called As the World Turns. I think a better title would have been as the world spins out of control. But the storyline1:33 for the soap operas were, you know, they were always the same. And frankly, what we're reading this morning, is the same because it is the fallen nature of mankind. In verse chap in1:45 chapter 27, Rebecca followed the example of her husband's deception, who followed the example of his father's deception, and we'll see how the grandson does the same. This1:56 deception created a a home of division and and literally hatred. Jacob, the younger of the twins, had previously gained the birthright from Esau. Remember that? He sold the,2:08 his birthright for a bowl of lentils that was in chapter 25. Now by the deception of, of both Jacob and his mother, Rebecca,2:20 Jacob took the blessing of his father from Esau as well. Let's look at verse 1 chapter 27. Now it came to pass when Isaac was old and his eyes were so dim that he could not see,2:32 that he called Esau, his older son, and said to him, my son. And he answered him, here I am. Then he said, now behold now, I am old. I do not know the day of my death. Now, Isaac2:44 was about 136 years old at this point, but he would live another 44 years. So death was actually not knocking at his door at that moment. Verse 3, now therefore,2:56 please take your weapons, your quiver, and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me, and make me savory food or tasty food such as I love, and bring it to me that I may eat, that my3:08 soul may bless you before I die. Now Rebecca was listening when Isaac spoke to Esau, his son, and Esau went to the field to hunt game and to bring it. So3:19 Rebecca spoke to Jacob, her son, saying, indeed, I heard your father speak to Esau, your brother, saying bring me game and make savory food for me that I may eat it and bless you in the3:31 presence of the lord before my death. Now, therefore, my son, obey my voice according to what I command you. Go now to the flock and bring me bring me from there3:43 2 choice kids of the goats, and I will make savory food from them for your father such as he loves. Then you shall take it to your father that he may eat it and3:55 that he may bless you before his death. So notice the the desire for the blessing. Why? Why why was there such a a desire to get this4:06 blessing from Isaac? Well, let's look at verse 24. Then he said, are you, This is when Jacob was bringing this into Isaac. He said then he4:18 said, are you really my son Esau? He said, I am. And he said, bring it near me, and I will eat of my son's game so that my soul may bless you. So he brought it near him, and he ate, and he brought4:30 him wine, and he drank. Then his father, Isaac, said to him, come near now and kiss me, my son. And he came near, and he kissed him, and he smelled the smell of his clothing. He was wearing Esau's clothes. And he blessed4:41 him and said, surely, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field which the lord has blessed. Therefore, may god give you of the dew of heaven, of the fatness of the earth, and4:53 plenty of grain and wine. Let people serve you and nations bow down to you. Be master over your brethren, and let your mother's sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you, and5:04 blessed be those who bless you. Now we might be tempted to say, alright. What's the big deal? So he blessed Jacob. He could take it back or he could say a few words of blessing over5:16 Esau and everything would be fine. Well, when I came to understand what I'm about to share with you, it changed how I, what I said5:28 to and about my wife and my children. Okay? I think we fail to understand the power of our words. I mean, think about the power of words. Jesus the the lord5:40 created. God created the earth by speaking it into being. Now we're not. We don't have the power of those type. Our words don't have that type of power, but our words have staying power.5:51 They do because they shape they have a shaping power over people's lives whom we speak them over or speak them to. The words we speak over our children, the presence of God,6:04 are not reversible statements that can be withdrawn. Oh, I was just kidding or, I'm sorry. I mean, we can repent. We obviously need to at times, but what has been spoken has been spoken.6:16 This is true of of words that we speak in blessing and affirmation, but it's also true of those words that we speak to curse or to tear down, whether intentional or not. I I just don't6:28 think we understand the irreversible nature or the power of the words that we speak. That's why Proverbs, I believe, in chapter 10 verse 19 says, in the multitude of words, sin is not lacking, but he who6:39 restrains his lips is wise. Now I cannot I'll confess, I cannot say that I've never failed in this area, but I can say that when I saw this truth in the word of God about 36:51 decades ago, that it became a focus to guard the words that cross my lips in what I spoke about or to my wife and my children. Sometimes they just7:03 don't say anything, and that's that's fine. I just I think we've had to be very careful the words that we speak. And what do I mean by that? I'm not talking about arguments. I'm talking about maybe having a conversation7:15 with somebody else, say, my wife did this or my kids did this or you know, how we we we put labels on people. I think this is and I don't wanna go too far with this, but, you know, there's a lot of labels7:27 that are put onto our kids today. Now, fortunately, when I was a kid, we didn't have all this ADD and, you know, all this other stuff. We just had BAD, you know, when we corrected our kids.7:39 But we didn't carry these labels. I'm sure I would had a ton of those labels, if they had them back then. I think we just need to be careful what we're speaking over our children. We should treat our words like we7:51 treat a loaded gun. Alright? Our words have that type of power. I mean, we a a gun, it can protect, it can defend when it's used with diligence and skill, but when8:03 it is used carelessly, it can kill. And our words are the same way. Alright. In chapter 28, fearing the loss of, both of her sons because of Esau'sJacob's Transformative Encounter at Bethel 8:15 hatred for Jacob, Rebecca appeals to Isaac for Jacob to return to her family and find a wife from her brother Laban's family. But on the way8:27 but on the way, something transformative happens. Jacob encounters the lord for himself. Verse 10. Now Jacob went out from Beersheba and went toward Haran.8:40 There so he came to a certain place and stayed there at night because the sun had set, and he took 1 of the stones of that place and put it at his head, and he lay down8:52 in that place to sleep. Then he dreamed, and behold, a ladder was set up on the earth, and its top reached to heaven. And there, the angels of God were descending and ascending and9:04 descending on it. And behold, the lord stood above it and said, I am the lord God of Abraham, your father, and the god of Isaac. The land on which you lie,9:16 I will give to you and to your descendants. Now, by the way, the location, which we see that Jacob later called Bethel, is believed to be the modern day9:28 city of Bethan in Samaria, an Arab village that is in the area described by the international community as the West Bank, which they deny Israel's right to. And what9:40 did god say here? He said, the land on which you lie, I will give to you and to your descendants. The Abrahamic covenant in this point in this inner9:52 in this interaction that god is having with Jacob is affirmed now to the next generation. Look at verse 14. Also, your descendants shall be as the dust of the earth. You shall spread10:03 abroad to the west and to the east, to the north and the south. And in you and in your seed, all the families of the earth shall be blessed. This generation this blessing is being passed to the next generation. Now10:15 we've noted this before, but this last part, and in you and your seed, all the families of the earth shall be blessed is a reference to what? To Jesus Christ, to the Messiah through10:27 whom all have been blessed with the opportunity of knowing God. Verse 15, behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this10:38 land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have spoken to you. That's a great promise. Verse 16. Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, surely the10:50 lord is in this place, and I did not know it. And he was afraid and said, how awesome is this place? This is none other than the house of god, and this is the gate of11:02 heaven. A great reverence came upon Jacob when he realized the significance of this encounter that he had with God. And as we'll read, this marks the beginning. It's not the11:14 the the the culmination, the totality of his relationship, but it begins Jacob's personal journey with God. The faith of his father was becoming his faith. And11:25 and Jacob's life is really an example of what, in in fact, many of these that we're gonna read about was like what Paul described in Philippians chapter 2 in verse 12. It says,11:37 therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God11:49 who works in you both to will and to do for his good pleasure. You see, we we encounter God in a in a personal way through Jesus Christ. That that's transformative. Our lives are transformed,12:01 but it's not the end of the journey. There's a sanctification process, working out our salvation through sanctification. So that first encounter is just the beginning.12:13 That is why being in the word of God, abiding in Christ is essential to experiencing not just life in Christ, but what he promised was the abundant12:25 life, the victorious life that comes by growing in this journey, and you're doing that by being in his word each and every day. Father, I thank you for your word. I thank you for12:37 the example. I thank you for the for the for your word that we're reading that does not gloss over or candy coat or somehow make out these12:49 individuals to be bigger than life. Yes. There were there there were some amazing individuals, but we see their flaws. We see where they faltered and where they fell. And that13:01 gives us hope because we know, lord, that you're a long suffering patient and gracious god. And that that, lord, your desire is for us. You're not against us. You're for us. And so I pray for those today13:13 that have begun that journey. That, lord, they would grow in that journey. And as we are in the word, abiding in Christ in the word of God, that we would be strengthened and we would be transformed13:25 as we are sanctified by the work of the holy spirit and by the word. And we pray this in Jesus' name. Amen. Alright. Thanks for joining me this morning. Always great to have you along. And until next time, keep standing13:37 on the word.13:40 Today's study comes from the Stand on the Word Bible Reading Plan available for free at frc dot org slash bible. By following along in just a few minutes a day, you13:52 can read through the entire Bible in just 2 years. Learn more and request the free reading guide at frc dot org slash bible.In this video 0:00 The Power of Deception and Blessing in Isaac's Family8:14 Jacob's Transformative Encounter at Bethel
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