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 I think I need to pray before we jump into the word. Is that okay? Let's do that.

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 God, we thank you. We thank you that we get together.

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! We thank you that we are able to have so many different spaces together.

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 But there really is only one purpose to our gathering, and that is to glorify and worship you.

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 And so now we open up your word. We ask that you would speak.

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 May the words that we hear today come straight from your heart and cut straight into ours.

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 Let's speak. We are listening. In your name we pray. Amen.

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 Can I invite you to stand for the word of the Lord?

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 Amen.

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 These are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son. We are in Genesis 25, verse 19.

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 Abraham fathered Isaac, and Isaac was 40 years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel, the Aramean of Paddan Aram,

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 the sister of Laban, the Aramean, to be his wife.

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 And Isaac prayed to the Lord for his wife, because she was barren.

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 And the Lord granted his prayer, and Rebekah, his wife, conceived.

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 The children struggled together within her, and she said,

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 If it is thus, why is this happening to me?

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 She went to inquire of the Lord.

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 And the Lord said to her,

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 Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you shall be divided.

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 The one shall be stronger than the other. The older shall serve the younger.

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 When her days to give birth were completed, behold, there were twins in her womb.

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 The first came out red, all his body like a hairy cloak, so they called his name Esau.

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 Afterward, his brother came out with his hand holding Esau's heel, so his name was called Jacob.

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 Isaac was 60 years old when she bore them.

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 When the boys grew up, Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field,

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 while Jacob was a quiet man, dwelling in tents.

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 Isaac loved Esau because he ate of his game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

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 Once when Jacob was cooking stew, Esau came in from the field, and he was exhausted.

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 And Esau said to Jacob,

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 Let me eat some of that red stew, for I am exhausted.

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 Therefore, his name was called Edom.

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 Jacob said, Sell me your birthright now.

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 Esau said, I am about to die. Of what use is a birthright to me?

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 Jacob said, Swear to me now.

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 So he swore to him and sold his birthright to Jacob.

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 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew,

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 and he ate and drank and rose and went his way.

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 Thus Esau despised his birthright.

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 This is the word of the Lord.

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 Please take a seat.

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 So we continue into the journey of Genesis,

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 and Gabe last week spoke to us,

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 and he really kind of spoke this one phrase over us

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 that I think just perfectly sums up what the faith really is about,

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 and that is God is sovereignly for you.

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 God is sovereign.

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 He's in control.

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 But it's even more than that.

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 He's not just sovereign and in control of everything.

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 He's not just got the whole world in his hands.

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 He is for you.

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 He cares for you.

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 And we were just presented with this truth,

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 and we wondered whether we can even just sit in that truth and go,

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 Wow, God is in control of my life.

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 And not only that, he is for me.

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 For God works for the good of those who love him.

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 What the enemy sometimes means for evil always,

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 God turns for good.

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 So he controls, he orchestrates everything so that I am loved and good

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 and living in this favor,

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 and that his promises will be carried out through me and my family

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 and will continue.

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 Isn't that just a beautiful truth?

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 But here's the problem with that truth.

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 That's theology, and it's correct, and it's true, and it transforms lives.

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 But the reality often is it's really hard to live out.

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 You hear that kind of promise spoken over you one day,

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 and you're lifted, and you're inspired, and you're encouraged,

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 and you're comforted, and then you go home,

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 and then you go to work,

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 and suddenly you're just crushed with the reality.

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 And so even though that promise still remains somewhere in our psyche,

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 the moment we walk back into our broken workplaces,

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 the moment we walk back into our broken families,

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 suddenly we're like,

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 Well, God, how are your promises even going to come about?

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 Because my family, my life, my work is pretty messed up.

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 And so you have this tension between theology and reality

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 that actually is something that I want to talk about.

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 And here's my line for today,

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 which is God's perfect plan will be carried out,

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 but it will be carried out through imperfect people.

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 It will be carried out through imperfect families that are broken.

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 We all sit and go,

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 Wow, we have problems in all of our lives.

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 We all have different challenges and problems,

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 and you often wonder,

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 How is God going to fulfill those promises?

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 You see, even though there is this incredible scene

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 where Isaac's waiting for a wife,

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 and just magically at a well, prepared for him,

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 this beautiful lady that he's been waiting for all these years.

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 Boom.

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 God's timing.

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 It's perfect.

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 He knows way more than we do.

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 Sadly, Genesis doesn't just finish there,

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 and then says,

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 Isaac, Rebecca lived happily ever after,

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 and God's promises were forever fulfilled in their lives.

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 What you see, the next chapter,

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 is a broken family.

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 If God's promises are going to actually pass on,

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 you wonder,

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 Oh, how is he going to pass that on?

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 And what you wouldn't have guessed

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 is that he passes that promise on

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 through a family of four,

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 filled with dysfunction,

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 two brats of sons,

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 who actually don't even really prioritize God at all.

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 And then you've got a father and a mother who,

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 actually, they each choose their own favorite,

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 and then it leads to dysfunction in the family.

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 And you're like, wow,

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 God's perfect plan gets carried out

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 through imperfect people.

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 And we're going to unpack a little bit of that today

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 because chapter 25,

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 suddenly you see this plan,

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 this promise played out,

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 and it's filled with grief,

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 it's filled with deceit,

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 and it's filled with sin,

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 and it's filled with pride.

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 And that's all pretty jarring,

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 but I'm hoping as we get to the end of this,

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 we will realize that actually that's encouraging as well.

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 There's a group of guys,

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 we've been reading 2 Peter,

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 and 2 Peter chapter 1, I think,

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 says this about,

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 actually, what we believe

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 aren't just cleverly devised,

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 they're not just myths,

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 they're not just things,

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 they're not just fairy tales

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 that we've tried to believe

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 to help us feel better about our lives.

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 These are real stories about real people.

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 Why?

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 Because it's just so messed up.

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 It's just so messed up.

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 If you were going to make something up,

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 you wouldn't make it up like this.

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 And yet, here you see a family

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 that is completely broken,

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 that is used by God.

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 So, unfortunately,

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 this is going to be the last time

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 we hear of Abraham

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 because we are seeing here,

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 chapter 25,

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 you can just follow along with me.

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 So, after Sarah dies,

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 Abraham actually takes another wife,

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 and actually,

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 she bears lots of children for him.

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 Verse 5,

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 Abraham still, though,

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 gives all that he has to Isaac

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 because he knows the covenant

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 is going to go through this one boy.

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 He's going to go through Isaac.

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 All these other concubines

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 and their children,

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 he actually still gives gifts,

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 but then he actually sends them away.

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 So, he's still focusing.

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 God's going to fulfill his promise

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 through the covenant

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 that is going to go through

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 this one boy, Isaac.

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 So, verse 6,

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 But to the sons of his concubines,

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 Abraham gave gifts,

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 and while he was still living,

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 he sent them away

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 from his son Isaac

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 eastward to the east country.

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 These are the days of the years

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 of Abraham's life,

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 175,

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 and then Abraham breathed his last

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 and died in a good old age,

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 an old man,

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 and full of years,

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 and was gathered to his people.

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 I was just stuck there

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 for a little bit

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 as I was preparing this week

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 and go, wow,

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 Abraham,

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 the founder of the faith,

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 he dies.

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 And this week,

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 for whatever reason,

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 I've been surrounded

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 by death myself.

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 I went to a funeral yesterday.

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 Joe and I have a beloved aunt

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 who's getting very,

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 very close to the end,

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 and she was a superhero

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 to us growing up,

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 and we saw her this last week,

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 and we were like,

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 oh, this is the end.

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 And it makes you think,

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 especially if you're young,

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 maybe you don't think about death.

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 I can tell you I think about death

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 all the time,

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 because it will happen

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 to every single person

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 in this room.

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 So even though there are promises

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 that God gives us,

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 isn't that reality

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 just sobering?

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 That all of us,

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 at some point,

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 will die.

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 Genesis 5 has this list

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 of people who will die,

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 almost just to repeat

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 that there are consequences

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 to our actions,

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 and death was the thing

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 that was introduced

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 into creation.

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 And now you see Abraham,

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 Abraham,

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 still dies.

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 It makes you think

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 about what this life

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 really is about,

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 but then even though

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 you see Abraham dies,

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 the God of Abraham

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 continues to live on.

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 It's not just about

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 Abraham either.

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 In fact,

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 the Bible kind of gives him

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 his credit and says

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 he dies at a good old age,

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 and then he gets buried,

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 and actually at that moment,

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 Isaac and Ishmael

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 get back together

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 to bury their dad.

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 They bury dad

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 in the same place

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 where mom is,

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 and verse 11,

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 it just almost casually

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 says,

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 after the death of Abraham,

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 God blessed Isaac,

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 his son.

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 So the legacy continues,

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 and it goes into

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 this next passage

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 about Isaac.

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 Isaac's a really

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 interesting character.

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 Dad Abraham,

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 son Jacob,

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 both guys get a lot

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 of time,

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 get a lot of time

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 in this book.

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 Isaac himself

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 doesn't really get

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 that much time.

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 We don't know that much

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 about Isaac,

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 but we get a little bit here.

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 But before I talk about Isaac,

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 verse 12 to 18

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 tells you a little bit

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 about Ishmael.

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 Ishmael was the son

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 who came from Hagar,

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 the Egyptian,

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 remember that,

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 and he was sent away.

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 It's really interesting

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 because actually

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 he didn't treat Isaac

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 very well,

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 and he wasn't part

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 of the covenant,

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 he wasn't part

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 of the promise,

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 he wasn't going to be

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 part of God's plan,

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 so he gets sent away,

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 but it's interesting

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 because the writer here

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 kind of gives you

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 a little bit of an update

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 about how Ishmael's doing.

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 And Ishmael has these sons,

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 and actually these sons,

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 in verse 16,

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 these are the sons of Ishmael,

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 and these are their names

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 by their villages

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 and by their encampments,

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 12 princes.

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 So Ishmael has 12 sons,

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 but they're not just sons,

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 they're princes.

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 They're actually wealthy.

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 And it's really interesting

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 because even though

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 he's not part of God's plan,

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 even though he doesn't fear God,

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 even though he doesn't love God

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 or follow God,

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 yet God is still good

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 for his promise.

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 Because remember what we said?

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 That he will still

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 look after Ishmael.

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 He's not going to be part

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 of the plan,

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 but he's still going

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 to look after him.

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 Even though Ishmael

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 was mistreating Isaac,

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 yet God still was good

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 for his promise.

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 It makes me think,

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 well, I don't know

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 where you guys are

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 in your faith,

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 but for those of you

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 who are like,

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 I don't know if God loves me,

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 I don't know if God,

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 actually if God knows

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 everything that I do,

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 then actually I wouldn't

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 be part of this promise.

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 Isn't it interesting

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 that even Ishmael

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 still gets the blessing,

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 still gets looked after,

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 and if God is going

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 to care for Ishmael,

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 he's going to care for you.

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 He's going to care for me still.

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 But that's not going

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 to be the main part

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 of our story

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 because after that,

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 he gives an update

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 on Ishmael.

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 We then move into the part

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 that I just read,

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 which is here.

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 These are the generations

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 of Isaac, Abraham's son.

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 So Isaac is 40 years old

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 when he took Rebecca

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 and they married.

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 And that's where you think,

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 oh, God blesses Isaac.

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 God blesses Isaac.

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 And of course,

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 Isaac's like,

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 look, I remember

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 that there was this

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 traumatic incident

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 where dad walked me

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 up the mountain

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 and he tied me up.

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 But actually,

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 God then replaced me

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 and so I got to continue living.

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 So God's going to carry out

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 his promises through me.

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 So what's the next thing

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 that you expect to happen?

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 Isaac's living his life,

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 growing up,

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 finds a wonderful wife,

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 gets married,

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 and he's like,

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 well, my baby's coming soon.

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 Because that's got to be the way

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 because that's what God promised.

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 And what happens here?

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 Because she was barren.

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 Wow.

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 Almost just again.

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 Just like his dad

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 and just like his mom.

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 Rebecca is barren.

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 And so what does he do

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 as a 40-year-old man

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 who's just married his wife,

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 waiting for God's promises to come?

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 He waits.

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 He waits.

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 And he waits.

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 And how does he wait?

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 He waits through prayer.

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 You can see what he does here.

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 Whereas dad did not do this.

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 Dad waited

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 and then decided to take matters

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 into his own hands.

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 Or rather,

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 mom then offered

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 a bit of a dodgy plan

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 to do it.

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 Whereas Isaac here

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 actually prays.

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 So his default

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 when he's waiting

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 is to pray.

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 And I asked a few months ago

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 how well do we wait?

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 And so I'm not going to labor

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 on that topic

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 because what we see here is,

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 again,

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 God's chosen one,

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 the one that God blesses,

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 still has to wait.

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 It makes me think

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 as I struggle with waiting,

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 and again,

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 it's in the 2 Peter passage

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 and in the book of James,

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 where we've been reading

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 about just patience.

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 We think that when God blesses us,

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 when we follow God,

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 then everything will happen

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 immediately, instantly.

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 Yet that is never the case.

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 Rarely ever the case.

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 There is beauty in the waiting.

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 God uses the waiting.

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 God sees whether we're waiting well

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 and through the waiting,

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 and that's when he's really

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 molding us,

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 molding our desires.

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 And so you see Isaac here waiting,

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 and how long does he wait for?

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 God's chosen one

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 who God blessed

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 waits for 20 years

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 for a baby.

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 The Bible almost

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 says it casually.

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 If we just take a peek

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 later on,

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 same chapter,

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 verse 26,

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 Isaac was 60 years old

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 when she bore them.

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 Just casually.

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 They got married at 40,

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 they had their first baby at 60.

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 20 years of waiting.

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 So quick question here,

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 what are we waiting for?

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 How well are we waiting?

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 And in our waiting,

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 do we go to God?

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 Do we pray?

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 God doesn't answer

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 always with yes,

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 immediately,

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 now.

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 And we have to be prepared

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 that sometimes God's answer

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 is not what we want.

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 That's when you go back

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 to that truth.

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 But God is sovereignly for me,

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 sovereignly for me.

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 So I wait

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 with that kind of trust.

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 So he waits,

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 and it's waiting,

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 and it's forcing him

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 to surrender.

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 And finally,

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 as if this is just

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 such a casual bit,

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 verse 21,

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 he's praying,

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 and the Lord granted his prayer,

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 and Rebecca,

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 his wife,

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 conceived.

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 So God is sovereign,

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 he's completely in control.

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 But yet he still ordains

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 the means,

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 which is prayer.

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 He ordains the means,

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 which is prayer,

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 and also the ends,

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 which is the final conception.

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 So you see,

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 even though we are waiting

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 and God is in control,

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 he still hears,

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 he still listens,

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 and he still wants

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 this communication,

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 he still wants

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 this relationship with us.

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 And so,

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 of course,

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 it says it casually

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 here in one sentence,

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 we now know

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 that that's 20 years

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 of waiting and praying.

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 And I hope that's

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 of comfort to someone

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 who has been waiting

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 for a loved one

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 to come to Christ,

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 waiting for the job,

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 waiting for the spouse,

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 whatever it may be,

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 wait well,

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 and pray whilst you wait.

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 And of course,

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 they have the baby,

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 they conceive,

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 the children struggle together

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 within her,

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 and she said,

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 if it is this,

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 why is this happening to me?

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 So,

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 I've never bought twins before,

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 personally,

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 but she wouldn't have known that

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 because there were no ultrasounds

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 at that moment in time.

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 So she finally gets pregnant,

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 and she's getting pretty big,

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 much quicker

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 than she expected.

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 And actually,

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 I'm guessing she's in a lot of pain.

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 Why?

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 Because the twins are wrestling

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 inside her.

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 And so she's like,

00:15:22.480 --> 00:15:22.700
 God,

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 why is this happening to me?

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 I'm guessing she's also thinking,

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 maybe it's because I'm too old,

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 maybe it's because I'm 60,

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 maybe it's because I'm past the age,

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 maybe this isn't going to go well.

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 And so she's waiting

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 and she's wrestling,

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 and what does she do?

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 She does the same thing

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 that her husband does.

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 She goes to the Lord.

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 So she went to inquire of the Lord,

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 and the Lord actually responds to her.

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 Wouldn't that be just amazing

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 when we go and inquire of the Lord,

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 and we hear just clearly

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 what the Lord says to her.

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 And here we go.

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 Two nations are in your womb,

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 and two peoples from within you

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 shall be divided.

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 The one shall be stronger

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 than the other.

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 The older shall serve the younger.

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 So her first point of contact

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 is to pray as well.

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 He's not getting what he thinks

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 he wants or needs.

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 He goes to pray.

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 She gets it,

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 but it's not quite what she's expecting,

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 and it's confusing.

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 It's scary.

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 So what does she do?

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 She goes to pray,

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 and the Lord responds and says,

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 what's actually happening

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 is the curse from Genesis 3

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 where we said that there will be

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 two groups of people.

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 One will trust in God,

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 and one will follow,

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 and one will not.

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 Now they're happening in your womb,

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 that these two people

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 in your womb

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 are going to represent two nations,

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 and it's going to be a little bit different

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 to what you think

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 because the one shall be stronger

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 than the other.

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 The older shall serve the younger,

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 which goes completely against

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 the ancient tradition.

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 Actually,

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 this is not hard

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 for us Chinese people

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 to understand

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 because the firstborn

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 was the one

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 who gets the double blessing,

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 and the others

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 just get whatever's left,

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 and so this would have been

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 the same here,

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 but God's saying,

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 hey,

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 I'm going to change

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 human tradition upside down.

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 It's not going to be

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 what you think.

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 It never is what you think

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 when it comes to the kingdom of God.

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 You think one way,

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 the world thinks one way,

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 and that's just foolishness

00:17:00.639 --> 00:17:01.360
 to the kingdom of God,

00:17:01.399 --> 00:17:01.860
 and it's going to be

00:17:01.860 --> 00:17:02.559
 this other way,

00:17:02.819 --> 00:17:03.980
 and this time you see

00:17:03.980 --> 00:17:04.680
 it's going to be

00:17:04.680 --> 00:17:05.299
 the younger one

00:17:05.299 --> 00:17:06.779
 that actually comes out

00:17:06.779 --> 00:17:08.519
 with the blessing,

00:17:08.839 --> 00:17:09.379
 but of course,

00:17:09.559 --> 00:17:10.379
 how it all happens

00:17:10.379 --> 00:17:11.279
 is very interesting.

00:17:11.619 --> 00:17:12.460
 When her days to give birth

00:17:12.460 --> 00:17:12.940
 were completed,

00:17:13.079 --> 00:17:13.299
 behold,

00:17:13.359 --> 00:17:14.460
 there were twins in her womb.

00:17:14.720 --> 00:17:15.839
 The first came out red,

00:17:16.160 --> 00:17:16.720
 all his body,

00:17:16.799 --> 00:17:17.480
 like a hairy cloak,

00:17:17.539 --> 00:17:19.200
 so they called him Esau,

00:17:19.379 --> 00:17:20.859
 and then his brother came out

00:17:20.859 --> 00:17:21.899
 with his hand

00:17:21.899 --> 00:17:22.759
 holding Esau's heel,

00:17:22.839 --> 00:17:24.960
 so his name was Jacob,

00:17:25.720 --> 00:17:27.119
 and the boys grew up,

00:17:27.299 --> 00:17:27.779
 and then they have

00:17:27.779 --> 00:17:28.779
 two very different boys.

00:17:29.460 --> 00:17:30.160
 One's a jock,

00:17:30.559 --> 00:17:31.339
 and one's a nerd.

00:17:32.500 --> 00:17:33.200
 One's a jock.

00:17:33.259 --> 00:17:34.099
 He likes to go out

00:17:34.099 --> 00:17:34.519
 and hunt.

00:17:34.519 --> 00:17:36.160
 A man of the field,

00:17:36.920 --> 00:17:37.579
 skillful hunter,

00:17:37.900 --> 00:17:38.559
 and while Jacob

00:17:38.559 --> 00:17:39.539
 liked to sit at home

00:17:39.539 --> 00:17:40.759
 in quiet,

00:17:40.920 --> 00:17:41.480
 in solitude,

00:17:41.680 --> 00:17:42.099
 and read,

00:17:42.879 --> 00:17:43.440
 and game,

00:17:43.759 --> 00:17:45.160
 and one actually goes out

00:17:45.160 --> 00:17:48.559
 to cause destruction,

00:17:48.700 --> 00:17:49.519
 and the other just simply

00:17:49.519 --> 00:17:50.400
 just stays at home,

00:17:51.019 --> 00:17:51.740
 and here comes

00:17:51.740 --> 00:17:52.440
 that special line

00:17:52.440 --> 00:17:53.220
 that maybe some of us

00:17:53.220 --> 00:17:53.779
 in our families

00:17:53.779 --> 00:17:54.819
 have also experienced.

00:17:55.519 --> 00:17:56.400
 Isaac loved Esau

00:17:56.400 --> 00:17:57.519
 because he ate of his game,

00:17:58.099 --> 00:17:59.200
 but Rebecca loves Jacob.

00:18:00.460 --> 00:18:02.879
 Oh, the destructive outcomes

00:18:02.880 --> 00:18:04.580
 that come with favoritism.

00:18:06.020 --> 00:18:07.480
 When a parent favors

00:18:07.480 --> 00:18:08.920
 one child over the other,

00:18:10.060 --> 00:18:11.180
 and the emotional

00:18:11.180 --> 00:18:11.880
 and mental

00:18:11.880 --> 00:18:13.680
 and sometimes physical trauma

00:18:13.680 --> 00:18:14.720
 that comes with that,

00:18:16.300 --> 00:18:17.220
 God's perfect plan

00:18:17.220 --> 00:18:17.920
 happens through

00:18:17.920 --> 00:18:18.900
 an imperfect family

00:18:18.900 --> 00:18:21.020
 that is dysfunctional,

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 and what you see

00:18:22.579 --> 00:18:24.139
 of Isaac and Rebecca

00:18:24.139 --> 00:18:24.900
 are not quite

00:18:24.900 --> 00:18:25.480
 these godly

00:18:25.480 --> 00:18:27.559
 founding father,

00:18:27.819 --> 00:18:28.539
 mother material.

00:18:29.160 --> 00:18:30.960
 You see just a dad

00:18:30.960 --> 00:18:32.000
 who starts to lose his way

00:18:32.000 --> 00:18:33.079
 and who prefers the son

00:18:33.079 --> 00:18:33.660
 who will actually

00:18:33.660 --> 00:18:34.859
 bring him back

00:18:34.859 --> 00:18:37.099
 that Wagyu steak

00:18:37.099 --> 00:18:38.579
 just the way he likes it,

00:18:38.579 --> 00:18:41.740
 and you see this other son

00:18:41.740 --> 00:18:42.960
 who is favored by mom

00:18:42.960 --> 00:18:44.039
 because he likes

00:18:44.039 --> 00:18:44.960
 to stay at home with her

00:18:44.960 --> 00:18:45.579
 to talk

00:18:45.579 --> 00:18:47.079
 and to hang out

00:18:47.079 --> 00:18:47.480
 and listen,

00:18:49.079 --> 00:18:51.079
 and yet God's perfect plan

00:18:51.079 --> 00:18:52.119
 continues through this.

00:18:52.899 --> 00:18:54.099
 The interesting thing is

00:18:54.099 --> 00:18:54.919
 Jacob,

00:18:55.079 --> 00:18:55.839
 we always think

00:18:55.839 --> 00:18:56.359
 is just this,

00:18:56.439 --> 00:18:56.619
 again,

00:18:56.720 --> 00:18:57.199
 this patriarch,

00:18:57.339 --> 00:18:58.279
 this guy who is holy

00:18:58.279 --> 00:18:58.720
 and perfect,

00:18:58.839 --> 00:18:59.079
 but no,

00:18:59.159 --> 00:18:59.879
 what we actually see

00:18:59.879 --> 00:19:00.980
 if you look into his story

00:19:00.980 --> 00:19:02.599
 is he's a scheming,

00:19:03.379 --> 00:19:05.399
 manipulative man.

00:19:05.400 --> 00:19:07.440
 Of course,

00:19:07.800 --> 00:19:08.780
 Esau just seems dumb,

00:19:10.180 --> 00:19:12.120
 but Jacob kind of knows

00:19:12.120 --> 00:19:13.180
 exactly what he's doing.

00:19:14.360 --> 00:19:15.600
 And then we head into

00:19:15.600 --> 00:19:16.920
 a really interesting passage,

00:19:17.220 --> 00:19:18.000
 which I think is where

00:19:18.000 --> 00:19:18.940
 we'll probably just spend

00:19:18.940 --> 00:19:19.720
 a little bit of time

00:19:19.720 --> 00:19:21.140
 just to focus on,

00:19:21.480 --> 00:19:22.580
 which is this little,

00:19:22.660 --> 00:19:23.100
 little passage

00:19:23.100 --> 00:19:24.580
 from verse 29 to 34.

00:19:24.759 --> 00:19:25.360
 So, you know,

00:19:25.420 --> 00:19:26.440
 these five verses here

00:19:26.440 --> 00:19:28.920
 actually gets quoted

00:19:28.920 --> 00:19:29.620
 later in scripture,

00:19:29.720 --> 00:19:30.340
 which we're going to go

00:19:30.340 --> 00:19:31.160
 on a little bit of a journey

00:19:31.160 --> 00:19:31.920
 in a bit,

00:19:31.980 --> 00:19:33.320
 so bear with us for now.

00:19:33.319 --> 00:19:36.399
 So, Esau goes out to hunt.

00:19:37.339 --> 00:19:37.899
 He hunts,

00:19:38.019 --> 00:19:38.779
 and he hunts a lot,

00:19:39.099 --> 00:19:40.039
 and he's very good at it,

00:19:40.299 --> 00:19:41.799
 and he's exhausted from it.

00:19:42.500 --> 00:19:42.819
 Meanwhile,

00:19:43.439 --> 00:19:44.539
 Jacob has just finished

00:19:44.539 --> 00:19:45.299
 the book that he's reading,

00:19:45.399 --> 00:19:45.819
 and so he's like,

00:19:45.859 --> 00:19:46.379
 I'm going to start

00:19:46.379 --> 00:19:47.059
 cooking some food.

00:19:47.700 --> 00:19:48.779
 And so he's cooking this stew,

00:19:48.939 --> 00:19:50.079
 and then Esau comes in

00:19:50.079 --> 00:19:50.439
 from the field,

00:19:50.480 --> 00:19:51.159
 and he was exhausted,

00:19:51.359 --> 00:19:52.279
 and Esau said to Jacob,

00:19:52.379 --> 00:19:53.679
 let me eat some of that red stew,

00:19:53.819 --> 00:19:54.980
 for I am exhausted.

00:19:55.319 --> 00:19:55.579
 Therefore,

00:19:55.679 --> 00:19:57.159
 his name was called Eden,

00:19:57.220 --> 00:19:58.139
 which means red.

00:19:58.319 --> 00:19:58.839
 Imagine this,

00:19:58.859 --> 00:19:59.779
 you make one mistake

00:19:59.779 --> 00:20:00.359
 in your life,

00:20:00.359 --> 00:20:01.319
 one little mistake,

00:20:01.379 --> 00:20:02.439
 because you were hungry that time,

00:20:02.440 --> 00:20:04.320
 and then for the rest of your life,

00:20:04.380 --> 00:20:05.940
 you are named and mocked

00:20:05.940 --> 00:20:07.120
 because of that one mistake.

00:20:07.180 --> 00:20:07.740
 So that's exactly

00:20:07.740 --> 00:20:08.320
 what it says here.

00:20:09.259 --> 00:20:10.240
 And Jacob said,

00:20:11.100 --> 00:20:12.580
 he's probably planning this already,

00:20:12.799 --> 00:20:13.880
 because this happens every day.

00:20:14.720 --> 00:20:15.860
 Esau with all his muscle

00:20:15.860 --> 00:20:16.799
 and all his masculinity,

00:20:17.279 --> 00:20:18.820
 goes out and hunts this beef for us,

00:20:18.840 --> 00:20:19.279
 and it's great,

00:20:19.640 --> 00:20:20.320
 but he comes home,

00:20:20.360 --> 00:20:20.880
 and he's exhausted,

00:20:21.000 --> 00:20:21.440
 and he's grumpy,

00:20:21.519 --> 00:20:22.259
 and he's hungry.

00:20:24.420 --> 00:20:24.779
 Meanwhile,

00:20:26.200 --> 00:20:27.220
 Jacob is at home

00:20:27.220 --> 00:20:28.340
 reading novels,

00:20:28.339 --> 00:20:30.799
 and he's seen this before

00:20:30.799 --> 00:20:31.240
 in a book,

00:20:31.519 --> 00:20:32.159
 and he realizes

00:20:32.159 --> 00:20:33.139
 this is the moment

00:20:33.139 --> 00:20:33.879
 where you get

00:20:33.879 --> 00:20:35.000
 to the heart of a man

00:20:35.000 --> 00:20:36.339
 through his stomach,

00:20:36.839 --> 00:20:38.699
 and he wants the birthright.

00:20:39.599 --> 00:20:40.019
 And remember,

00:20:40.139 --> 00:20:41.599
 mom's probably whispering to him,

00:20:42.119 --> 00:20:42.259
 hey,

00:20:42.319 --> 00:20:43.559
 do you know when I was pregnant

00:20:43.559 --> 00:20:44.299
 with the two of you,

00:20:44.480 --> 00:20:45.480
 God actually spoke to me.

00:20:46.599 --> 00:20:47.839
 He told me

00:20:47.839 --> 00:20:48.779
 that you're actually

00:20:48.779 --> 00:20:49.240
 going to be better

00:20:49.240 --> 00:20:49.740
 than your brother.

00:20:50.559 --> 00:20:51.319
 You're actually going to

00:20:51.319 --> 00:20:52.519
 rule over your brother.

00:20:53.679 --> 00:20:54.279
 So you see,

00:20:54.359 --> 00:20:54.639
 Rebecca,

00:20:54.839 --> 00:20:55.859
 this image that we had

00:20:55.859 --> 00:20:56.379
 at the beginning

00:20:56.380 --> 00:20:57.500
 where she was so kind

00:20:57.500 --> 00:20:58.180
 and hospitable

00:20:58.180 --> 00:20:58.780
 at the well

00:20:58.780 --> 00:20:59.640
 in the last chapter,

00:21:00.260 --> 00:21:01.100
 you see her turning

00:21:01.100 --> 00:21:01.920
 a little bit,

00:21:01.960 --> 00:21:02.420
 and no doubt,

00:21:02.560 --> 00:21:03.520
 that would have been part of

00:21:03.520 --> 00:21:04.560
 maybe why Jacob

00:21:04.560 --> 00:21:05.260
 was the way he was.

00:21:05.700 --> 00:21:06.060
 So anyway,

00:21:06.120 --> 00:21:07.280
 Esau comes charging in,

00:21:07.540 --> 00:21:08.200
 he throws his axe

00:21:08.200 --> 00:21:08.740
 on the side,

00:21:09.140 --> 00:21:09.920
 and then he comes in,

00:21:09.960 --> 00:21:10.160
 he says,

00:21:10.240 --> 00:21:10.420
 oh,

00:21:10.480 --> 00:21:11.440
 that smells so good.

00:21:12.040 --> 00:21:12.860
 And we find out later

00:21:12.860 --> 00:21:13.840
 that it's actually lentil.

00:21:14.280 --> 00:21:15.140
 Does anyone like lentil?

00:21:16.400 --> 00:21:16.600
 Yeah,

00:21:17.100 --> 00:21:17.360
 lentil.

00:21:17.720 --> 00:21:18.140
 It's great,

00:21:18.140 --> 00:21:18.540
 it's cool,

00:21:18.740 --> 00:21:19.400
 I'm good for you.

00:21:23.520 --> 00:21:24.440
 It's got to be lentil

00:21:24.440 --> 00:21:24.940
 and avocado.

00:21:25.180 --> 00:21:25.920
 Avocado was definitely

00:21:25.920 --> 00:21:26.539
 on the side there.

00:21:28.779 --> 00:21:30.360
 And then so Esau says,

00:21:30.440 --> 00:21:30.640
 oh,

00:21:30.660 --> 00:21:31.259
 I'm so hungry.

00:21:31.920 --> 00:21:33.240
 Give me some of that stew.

00:21:33.539 --> 00:21:34.259
 And then Jacob says,

00:21:34.320 --> 00:21:34.560
 sure,

00:21:34.900 --> 00:21:35.759
 you have to give me

00:21:35.759 --> 00:21:36.380
 your birthright.

00:21:37.500 --> 00:21:38.600
 Straight out of nowhere,

00:21:38.960 --> 00:21:39.820
 you have to give me

00:21:39.820 --> 00:21:40.420
 your birthright.

00:21:41.180 --> 00:21:42.680
 And then Esau responds to him,

00:21:42.740 --> 00:21:43.800
 I'm about to die.

00:21:43.940 --> 00:21:45.779
 What use is a birthright to me?

00:21:46.100 --> 00:21:46.840
 Can you see

00:21:46.840 --> 00:21:48.300
 just the melodramatic nature

00:21:48.300 --> 00:21:50.060
 of this older brother here?

00:21:51.180 --> 00:21:52.380
 But before we talk more

00:21:52.380 --> 00:21:52.759
 about this,

00:21:53.000 --> 00:21:53.960
 don't we all have that?

00:21:53.960 --> 00:21:54.960
 What we're talking about here

00:21:54.960 --> 00:21:55.680
 is actually an idol.

00:21:55.680 --> 00:21:56.580
 And what we're talking about here

00:21:56.580 --> 00:21:57.740
 is actually when we put something

00:21:57.740 --> 00:21:58.799
 that is supposed to be God,

00:21:58.880 --> 00:21:59.400
 that isn't God,

00:21:59.700 --> 00:22:00.860
 we all have this.

00:22:01.080 --> 00:22:02.460
 When we don't have something

00:22:02.460 --> 00:22:04.140
 that we really want,

00:22:04.980 --> 00:22:06.160
 it almost messes up

00:22:06.160 --> 00:22:07.160
 the way we approach life

00:22:07.160 --> 00:22:07.519
 altogether.

00:22:07.980 --> 00:22:09.200
 If I don't have that girl,

00:22:09.740 --> 00:22:11.500
 my life is just

00:22:11.500 --> 00:22:12.420
 not worth living.

00:22:12.539 --> 00:22:12.700
 It's just,

00:22:12.779 --> 00:22:13.400
 I'm just going to be living

00:22:13.400 --> 00:22:13.980
 in black and white

00:22:13.980 --> 00:22:14.759
 for the rest of my life.

00:22:14.799 --> 00:22:15.480
 I won't see color

00:22:15.480 --> 00:22:17.279
 until I'm in that relationship.

00:22:17.660 --> 00:22:19.080
 Unless I get that job,

00:22:19.440 --> 00:22:20.680
 my life is completely

00:22:20.680 --> 00:22:21.440
 meaningless.

00:22:21.440 --> 00:22:24.559
 There's no point in living.

00:22:24.559 --> 00:22:27.000
 If I don't have that soup,

00:22:27.600 --> 00:22:29.539
 I'm about to die.

00:22:29.600 --> 00:22:31.519
 That is the lie of idolatry,

00:22:32.059 --> 00:22:34.740
 where you think that you really

00:22:34.740 --> 00:22:35.440
 need something,

00:22:35.900 --> 00:22:37.000
 and it affects the way

00:22:37.000 --> 00:22:38.120
 you look at everything.

00:22:39.059 --> 00:22:40.180
 And I'm just going to pause there

00:22:40.180 --> 00:22:40.900
 for a second,

00:22:41.240 --> 00:22:43.580
 because I know for a fact

00:22:43.580 --> 00:22:44.440
 that there are idols

00:22:44.440 --> 00:22:45.860
 in this room.

00:22:45.859 --> 00:22:47.899
 John Calvin says,

00:22:48.039 --> 00:22:48.819
 the human heart

00:22:48.819 --> 00:22:50.399
 is a factory of idols.

00:22:51.000 --> 00:22:51.919
 We all have them.

00:22:52.019 --> 00:22:52.719
 What is the thing

00:22:52.719 --> 00:22:53.659
 that you have,

00:22:54.699 --> 00:22:55.139
 well, sorry,

00:22:55.199 --> 00:22:56.059
 that you want,

00:22:56.979 --> 00:22:58.199
 and that if you don't have,

00:22:58.259 --> 00:22:59.519
 your life is just not perfect?

00:22:59.659 --> 00:23:00.639
 Well, I'm here to tell you

00:23:00.639 --> 00:23:03.279
 that even if you have it,

00:23:04.240 --> 00:23:05.099
 it won't be perfect.

00:23:05.759 --> 00:23:06.179
 But actually,

00:23:06.299 --> 00:23:07.699
 your very thirst for it,

00:23:07.719 --> 00:23:08.859
 your very hunger for it,

00:23:10.359 --> 00:23:11.259
 actually stops you

00:23:11.259 --> 00:23:12.199
 from enjoying the goodness

00:23:12.199 --> 00:23:13.619
 that God actually has for you.

00:23:14.719 --> 00:23:15.679
 I had a little bit of this

00:23:15.680 --> 00:23:16.400
 happened to me,

00:23:16.460 --> 00:23:17.680
 and I have a few friends

00:23:17.680 --> 00:23:18.259
 in this room

00:23:18.259 --> 00:23:19.940
 who talked to me about tech.

00:23:20.000 --> 00:23:20.460
 I like tech,

00:23:20.500 --> 00:23:21.019
 and I like gadgets,

00:23:21.160 --> 00:23:22.019
 and this week,

00:23:22.100 --> 00:23:23.820
 there was the latest iPhone

00:23:23.820 --> 00:23:24.539
 that was released.

00:23:25.900 --> 00:23:26.420
 Of course,

00:23:26.759 --> 00:23:27.880
 I have been waiting

00:23:27.880 --> 00:23:28.580
 for many years

00:23:28.580 --> 00:23:29.320
 for the new iPhone

00:23:29.320 --> 00:23:29.840
 to come out.

00:23:30.259 --> 00:23:31.220
 And so last Saturday,

00:23:31.620 --> 00:23:33.140
 I think it was 8 p.m.,

00:23:33.140 --> 00:23:34.100
 was the day

00:23:34.100 --> 00:23:35.320
 that pre-orders began.

00:23:36.000 --> 00:23:36.259
 Come on,

00:23:36.320 --> 00:23:36.880
 any nerds,

00:23:36.940 --> 00:23:37.880
 just nod with me,

00:23:37.920 --> 00:23:38.259
 just tell me

00:23:38.259 --> 00:23:39.120
 that I'm not alone in this.

00:23:39.680 --> 00:23:40.820
 Okay, I am really alone.

00:23:40.940 --> 00:23:41.700
 I'm the only one

00:23:41.700 --> 00:23:42.140
 with this idol.

00:23:42.299 --> 00:23:42.799
 All right, fine.

00:23:44.360 --> 00:23:44.940
 8 p.m.

00:23:44.960 --> 00:23:45.440
 last Saturday,

00:23:45.680 --> 00:23:46.920
 my kids were supposed

00:23:46.920 --> 00:23:47.460
 to go to sleep,

00:23:47.519 --> 00:23:47.940
 but I was like,

00:23:48.380 --> 00:23:48.980
 Daddy's got something

00:23:48.980 --> 00:23:49.980
 really important to do.

00:23:50.519 --> 00:23:52.740
 If I don't make this pre-order now,

00:23:52.900 --> 00:23:54.840
 I won't get the phone next week.

00:23:55.620 --> 00:23:56.240
 And it's funny,

00:23:56.320 --> 00:23:56.779
 I made the order,

00:23:56.960 --> 00:23:57.940
 and praise the Lord,

00:23:58.019 --> 00:23:58.400
 it happened,

00:23:58.740 --> 00:23:59.680
 internet connection

00:23:59.680 --> 00:24:00.080
 and everything.

00:24:01.900 --> 00:24:02.500
 And you know what?

00:24:02.560 --> 00:24:04.200
 Then I spent the last week

00:24:04.200 --> 00:24:04.960
 waiting for it,

00:24:05.200 --> 00:24:05.920
 and I was just looking

00:24:05.920 --> 00:24:06.799
 at my old phone

00:24:06.799 --> 00:24:08.000
 with more and more disdain.

00:24:08.779 --> 00:24:09.600
 Just as it was going,

00:24:09.660 --> 00:24:09.860
 I was like,

00:24:10.019 --> 00:24:11.220
 you are so slow.

00:24:11.680 --> 00:24:13.380
 You are so dumb.

00:24:13.720 --> 00:24:14.840
 And now you're overheating.

00:24:15.400 --> 00:24:15.820
 I don't,

00:24:16.060 --> 00:24:16.220
 like,

00:24:16.300 --> 00:24:16.980
 you are affecting,

00:24:17.180 --> 00:24:18.220
 you are just killing my vibes,

00:24:18.260 --> 00:24:18.880
 and I'm not living

00:24:18.880 --> 00:24:20.000
 my full life with you.

00:24:21.200 --> 00:24:21.900
 Don't we have that?

00:24:21.960 --> 00:24:22.120
 Oh,

00:24:22.180 --> 00:24:22.760
 but then the moment

00:24:22.760 --> 00:24:23.460
 the new phone came,

00:24:24.420 --> 00:24:25.620
 it was fun for about 60 seconds,

00:24:25.720 --> 00:24:26.020
 and I was like,

00:24:26.020 --> 00:24:26.760
 I can't tell the difference

00:24:26.760 --> 00:24:27.560
 between the cameras anyway,

00:24:27.660 --> 00:24:27.960
 and I'm like,

00:24:28.000 --> 00:24:28.160
 okay,

00:24:28.220 --> 00:24:28.540
 here we are.

00:24:29.800 --> 00:24:30.460
 And that's exactly

00:24:30.460 --> 00:24:31.240
 what happens with an idol.

00:24:32.200 --> 00:24:32.940
 You're just yearning for it.

00:24:32.940 --> 00:24:33.660
 If only I get it.

00:24:34.120 --> 00:24:34.820
 If only I get it,

00:24:34.840 --> 00:24:35.680
 my life will be complete,

00:24:35.840 --> 00:24:36.380
 and I'll be happy,

00:24:36.440 --> 00:24:37.140
 and I won't be dying.

00:24:38.800 --> 00:24:39.420
 But you get it?

00:24:39.420 --> 00:24:41.880
 And it's really casual

00:24:41.880 --> 00:24:42.600
 in the way he says it.

00:24:42.620 --> 00:24:43.259
 Verse 34,

00:24:44.480 --> 00:24:45.900
 Jacob gave Esau bread

00:24:45.900 --> 00:24:46.480
 and lentil stew.

00:24:46.800 --> 00:24:48.100
 He ate and drank and rose

00:24:48.100 --> 00:24:48.800
 and went his way.

00:24:50.300 --> 00:24:51.060
 And that was it.

00:24:52.160 --> 00:24:53.060
 He pre-ordered,

00:24:53.420 --> 00:24:53.980
 he ordered,

00:24:54.220 --> 00:24:54.800
 he traded in,

00:24:55.279 --> 00:24:55.840
 he collected,

00:24:56.620 --> 00:24:57.180
 he activated,

00:24:57.740 --> 00:24:58.080
 restored.

00:25:00.840 --> 00:25:01.580
 And that was it.

00:25:01.579 --> 00:25:05.579
 I wonder how we are

00:25:05.579 --> 00:25:06.179
 with our idols.

00:25:06.980 --> 00:25:07.980
 The things that we're chasing

00:25:07.980 --> 00:25:08.259
 and saying,

00:25:08.359 --> 00:25:08.559
 God,

00:25:08.639 --> 00:25:09.319
 please give me that.

00:25:10.059 --> 00:25:11.220
 And I wonder whether actually

00:25:11.220 --> 00:25:12.599
 we really in some ways

00:25:12.599 --> 00:25:13.199
 are the same.

00:25:13.480 --> 00:25:14.259
 And it's this idea

00:25:14.259 --> 00:25:15.460
 of just instant gratification

00:25:15.460 --> 00:25:16.139
 that we all want.

00:25:17.159 --> 00:25:18.179
 You see in scripture,

00:25:19.199 --> 00:25:20.159
 eating is a problem.

00:25:21.199 --> 00:25:22.299
 And it all started

00:25:22.299 --> 00:25:23.980
 because there was a fruit

00:25:23.980 --> 00:25:25.240
 that looked good.

00:25:26.339 --> 00:25:27.319
 Reminds me of Philippians

00:25:27.319 --> 00:25:27.859
 where it says,

00:25:28.099 --> 00:25:29.019
 their end is destruction,

00:25:29.179 --> 00:25:30.220
 their God is their belly.

00:25:31.579 --> 00:25:32.619
 They glory in their shame

00:25:32.619 --> 00:25:35.079
 with minds set on earthy things.

00:25:36.299 --> 00:25:37.159
 I wonder whether we

00:25:37.159 --> 00:25:38.119
 have those things

00:25:38.119 --> 00:25:39.799
 where our minds

00:25:39.799 --> 00:25:41.220
 are set on earthy things,

00:25:41.460 --> 00:25:42.319
 where we actually glory

00:25:42.319 --> 00:25:42.759
 in our shame,

00:25:42.859 --> 00:25:44.059
 where actually our God

00:25:44.059 --> 00:25:44.720
 is our belly.

00:25:45.619 --> 00:25:46.779
 That's why a spiritual discipline

00:25:46.779 --> 00:25:47.859
 like fasting is so good

00:25:47.859 --> 00:25:48.599
 because you're actually

00:25:48.599 --> 00:25:49.919
 telling God actually,

00:25:50.839 --> 00:25:51.500
 all I need is you.

00:25:51.899 --> 00:25:52.519
 All I want is you.

00:25:52.599 --> 00:25:53.819
 This hunger that I feel,

00:25:54.099 --> 00:25:54.980
 this hunger strike that I have,

00:25:55.019 --> 00:25:55.899
 this hunger that I feel,

00:25:55.960 --> 00:25:57.039
 I want to direct all of that

00:25:57.039 --> 00:25:58.480
 hunger and thirst for you

00:25:58.480 --> 00:25:59.399
 because blessed are those

00:25:59.399 --> 00:26:00.179
 who hunger and thirst

00:26:00.179 --> 00:26:00.779
 for righteousness,

00:26:00.779 --> 00:26:02.420
 for they shall be satisfied.

00:26:04.460 --> 00:26:04.859
 It's funny,

00:26:04.940 --> 00:26:06.660
 the moment we get that job,

00:26:06.759 --> 00:26:07.359
 get that person,

00:26:07.500 --> 00:26:08.160
 get that phone,

00:26:08.379 --> 00:26:09.000
 get that thing,

00:26:09.420 --> 00:26:10.740
 it's good for a little bit

00:26:10.740 --> 00:26:11.299
 and then suddenly,

00:26:12.200 --> 00:26:12.579
 it's gone.

00:26:13.899 --> 00:26:14.980
 That satisfaction is gone

00:26:14.980 --> 00:26:15.700
 and that yearning

00:26:15.700 --> 00:26:17.559
 then goes somewhere else.

00:26:18.180 --> 00:26:19.240
 Not knowing that really

00:26:19.240 --> 00:26:20.339
 that yearning points us

00:26:20.339 --> 00:26:20.879
 to a place

00:26:20.879 --> 00:26:21.799
 which is called eternity.

00:26:22.200 --> 00:26:23.680
 Ecclesiastes 3.11 says

00:26:23.680 --> 00:26:24.920
 that God has planted eternity

00:26:24.920 --> 00:26:25.799
 in the heart of man

00:26:25.799 --> 00:26:27.539
 and we just try and fill

00:26:27.539 --> 00:26:28.180
 that gap

00:26:28.180 --> 00:26:29.519
 that only eternity

00:26:29.519 --> 00:26:30.139
 can fill

00:26:30.139 --> 00:26:31.559
 with all the things

00:26:31.559 --> 00:26:32.440
 of this world.

00:26:34.339 --> 00:26:35.039
 C.S. Lewis says

00:26:35.039 --> 00:26:36.799
 that we are half-hearted creatures.

00:26:38.559 --> 00:26:40.379
 We just fill ourselves

00:26:40.379 --> 00:26:41.700
 with money,

00:26:41.859 --> 00:26:42.480
 sex and power

00:26:42.480 --> 00:26:43.440
 and whatever the latest,

00:26:43.599 --> 00:26:44.180
 newest thing is

00:26:44.180 --> 00:26:46.180
 and actually,

00:26:46.639 --> 00:26:47.619
 what we deprive ourselves

00:26:47.619 --> 00:26:48.539
 is infinite joy.

00:26:48.539 --> 00:26:50.940
 He talks about it

00:26:50.940 --> 00:26:51.299
 in his book,

00:26:51.379 --> 00:26:52.019
 The Weight of Glory

00:26:52.019 --> 00:26:52.639
 where actually,

00:26:53.059 --> 00:26:53.920
 that stops us

00:26:53.920 --> 00:26:54.619
 from enjoying

00:26:54.619 --> 00:26:55.519
 what we're supposed

00:26:55.519 --> 00:26:55.980
 to enjoy

00:26:55.980 --> 00:26:56.680
 because we are so,

00:26:57.019 --> 00:26:57.599
 it's actually,

00:26:58.000 --> 00:26:58.980
 we're not yearning

00:26:58.980 --> 00:27:00.059
 for the right things.

00:27:02.159 --> 00:27:03.059
 That's what we're supposed

00:27:03.059 --> 00:27:04.980
 to be going for here.

00:27:05.319 --> 00:27:06.200
 But then this comes

00:27:06.200 --> 00:27:06.960
 a really harsh quote

00:27:06.960 --> 00:27:07.359
 and this is where

00:27:07.359 --> 00:27:08.240
 we'll kind of land

00:27:08.240 --> 00:27:09.579
 and spend some time on

00:27:09.579 --> 00:27:10.940
 before I finish.

00:27:11.639 --> 00:27:11.859
 Thus,

00:27:12.000 --> 00:27:13.940
 Esau despised

00:27:13.940 --> 00:27:15.099
 his birthright.

00:27:16.519 --> 00:27:17.119
 I was like,

00:27:17.180 --> 00:27:17.339
 whoa,

00:27:17.339 --> 00:27:19.079
 that's a strong word.

00:27:20.500 --> 00:27:21.679
 My man was hungry

00:27:21.679 --> 00:27:23.379
 and he was exhausted

00:27:23.379 --> 00:27:24.179
 because he was hunting

00:27:24.179 --> 00:27:24.859
 for his family

00:27:24.859 --> 00:27:25.759
 because he has a nerd

00:27:25.759 --> 00:27:26.159
 of a brother

00:27:26.159 --> 00:27:26.859
 who doesn't go out

00:27:26.859 --> 00:27:27.579
 to feed the family.

00:27:28.379 --> 00:27:28.559
 So,

00:27:28.899 --> 00:27:29.279
 therefore,

00:27:29.639 --> 00:27:30.279
 he's got to go out

00:27:30.279 --> 00:27:30.779
 and get the food

00:27:30.779 --> 00:27:31.379
 and he's exhausted

00:27:31.379 --> 00:27:32.720
 and he chooses

00:27:32.720 --> 00:27:33.659
 the soup

00:27:33.659 --> 00:27:35.959
 and yet what we see here

00:27:35.959 --> 00:27:37.720
 is he despised

00:27:37.720 --> 00:27:38.399
 his birthright.

00:27:39.899 --> 00:27:40.619
 Worse still,

00:27:41.079 --> 00:27:42.599
 this little interaction here

00:27:42.599 --> 00:27:43.240
 ends up

00:27:43.240 --> 00:27:45.079
 being recorded

00:27:45.079 --> 00:27:46.259
 and retold

00:27:46.259 --> 00:27:48.480
 through many places

00:27:48.480 --> 00:27:48.940
 in scripture

00:27:48.940 --> 00:27:50.819
 and this is what

00:27:50.819 --> 00:27:51.400
 we're going to do today.

00:27:51.480 --> 00:27:51.559
 So,

00:27:51.660 --> 00:27:52.339
 if you have your Bible,

00:27:53.140 --> 00:27:53.900
 you can go with me

00:27:53.900 --> 00:27:55.279
 to the final book

00:27:55.279 --> 00:27:57.440
 of the Old Testament

00:27:57.440 --> 00:27:58.539
 which is Malachi

00:27:58.539 --> 00:28:04.660
 because we're going

00:28:04.660 --> 00:28:05.140
 to look at that

00:28:05.140 --> 00:28:05.720
 because it didn't

00:28:05.720 --> 00:28:06.420
 make sense to me.

00:28:06.920 --> 00:28:07.619
 He was hungry.

00:28:07.740 --> 00:28:07.900
 Yes,

00:28:07.940 --> 00:28:08.400
 I get it.

00:28:08.799 --> 00:28:09.460
 His birthright

00:28:09.460 --> 00:28:10.259
 was something

00:28:10.259 --> 00:28:11.140
 that was very important

00:28:11.140 --> 00:28:12.259
 but in that moment,

00:28:12.379 --> 00:28:13.539
 his God was his belly

00:28:13.539 --> 00:28:15.039
 and he gave it up

00:28:15.039 --> 00:28:16.079
 and then from then on

00:28:16.079 --> 00:28:16.639
 it was recorded

00:28:16.639 --> 00:28:17.759
 that he despised

00:28:17.759 --> 00:28:18.500
 his birthright

00:28:18.500 --> 00:28:20.180
 and later it gets

00:28:20.180 --> 00:28:20.659
 even worse.

00:28:20.759 --> 00:28:21.059
 Malachi,

00:28:21.259 --> 00:28:22.279
 so the last chapter,

00:28:22.480 --> 00:28:23.019
 the last book,

00:28:23.079 --> 00:28:23.220
 sorry,

00:28:23.319 --> 00:28:24.799
 before the New Testament,

00:28:25.799 --> 00:28:26.619
 chapter one,

00:28:26.920 --> 00:28:27.799
 the oracle of the word

00:28:27.799 --> 00:28:28.139
 of the Lord

00:28:28.139 --> 00:28:29.119
 to Israel by Malachi,

00:28:29.639 --> 00:28:30.259
 verse two,

00:28:30.259 --> 00:28:32.500
 I have loved you,

00:28:32.599 --> 00:28:33.019
 says the Lord,

00:28:33.099 --> 00:28:33.700
 but you say,

00:28:33.960 --> 00:28:35.059
 how have you loved us?

00:28:35.659 --> 00:28:36.440
 Is not Esau

00:28:36.440 --> 00:28:37.319
 Jacob's brother,

00:28:37.539 --> 00:28:38.220
 declares the Lord.

00:28:38.619 --> 00:28:39.980
 Yet I have loved Jacob

00:28:39.980 --> 00:28:41.259
 but Esau

00:28:41.259 --> 00:28:42.779
 I have hated.

00:28:44.900 --> 00:28:45.259
 Whoa.

00:28:47.279 --> 00:28:48.539
 Esau gave his birthright

00:28:48.539 --> 00:28:49.359
 up for a bowl of soup,

00:28:50.140 --> 00:28:51.240
 probably not the best idea

00:28:51.240 --> 00:28:52.099
 or at the very least

00:28:52.099 --> 00:28:52.980
 a very bad deal

00:28:52.980 --> 00:28:56.220
 and yet you get to the point

00:28:56.220 --> 00:28:57.420
 where now it's recorded

00:28:57.420 --> 00:28:58.400
 that not only did he

00:28:58.400 --> 00:28:59.359
 despise his birthright

00:28:59.359 --> 00:29:01.079
 but then God hates him.

00:29:02.480 --> 00:29:03.599
 Is that confusing to you?

00:29:04.259 --> 00:29:05.579
 It's a little bit overwhelming

00:29:05.579 --> 00:29:06.740
 for me

00:29:06.740 --> 00:29:08.819
 and let's just carry on

00:29:08.819 --> 00:29:09.160
 a little bit

00:29:09.160 --> 00:29:09.579
 and bear with me.

00:29:09.640 --> 00:29:10.539
 We're going to keep going now

00:29:10.539 --> 00:29:11.379
 towards the end of

00:29:11.379 --> 00:29:12.420
 the New Testament

00:29:12.420 --> 00:29:13.420
 in the book of Hebrews

00:29:13.420 --> 00:29:15.599
 so see if you can find that.

00:29:18.319 --> 00:29:19.139
 Chapter 12.

00:29:23.680 --> 00:29:24.319
 Bear in mind,

00:29:24.399 --> 00:29:25.139
 Hebrews chapter 11

00:29:25.139 --> 00:29:26.180
 is the hall of faith,

00:29:26.379 --> 00:29:26.759
 hall of fame.

00:29:27.240 --> 00:29:28.299
 These people who were trusted,

00:29:28.460 --> 00:29:29.259
 who weren't perfect either,

00:29:29.720 --> 00:29:30.799
 who didn't really get

00:29:30.799 --> 00:29:31.579
 what God promised them

00:29:31.579 --> 00:29:32.500
 but they saw something,

00:29:32.599 --> 00:29:33.279
 they saw a city

00:29:33.279 --> 00:29:34.139
 much further,

00:29:34.240 --> 00:29:35.000
 a country much further

00:29:35.000 --> 00:29:35.799
 than they were yearning for

00:29:35.799 --> 00:29:38.000
 and then the beginning

00:29:38.000 --> 00:29:38.599
 of chapter 12

00:29:38.599 --> 00:29:39.500
 talks about Jesus

00:29:39.500 --> 00:29:41.000
 and then

00:29:41.000 --> 00:29:43.599
 with all these famous people

00:29:43.599 --> 00:29:44.039
 in the Bible

00:29:44.039 --> 00:29:44.859
 in Hebrews 11

00:29:44.859 --> 00:29:46.339
 and then talking about Jesus

00:29:46.339 --> 00:29:47.680
 and guess who shows up

00:29:47.680 --> 00:29:49.299
 in the middle of Hebrews chapter 12?

00:29:50.039 --> 00:29:50.660
 Poor Esau.

00:29:51.579 --> 00:29:52.559
 Redhead guy.

00:29:53.940 --> 00:29:54.799
 The skillful hunter.

00:29:56.039 --> 00:29:56.880
 And it says this.

00:29:59.079 --> 00:30:00.420
 Hebrews chapter 12

00:30:00.420 --> 00:30:01.759
 verse 16.

00:30:01.759 --> 00:30:05.180
 That no one is sexually immoral

00:30:05.180 --> 00:30:06.099
 or unholy

00:30:06.099 --> 00:30:07.200
 like Esau

00:30:07.200 --> 00:30:09.319
 who sold his birthright

00:30:09.319 --> 00:30:10.519
 for a single meal.

00:30:11.700 --> 00:30:12.519
 For you know that afterward

00:30:12.519 --> 00:30:13.140
 when he desired

00:30:13.140 --> 00:30:13.960
 to inherit the blessing

00:30:13.960 --> 00:30:14.640
 he was rejected

00:30:14.640 --> 00:30:15.740
 for he found no chance

00:30:15.740 --> 00:30:16.200
 to repent

00:30:16.200 --> 00:30:17.119
 though he sought it

00:30:17.119 --> 00:30:18.319
 with tears.

00:30:19.359 --> 00:30:19.579
 Whew.

00:30:21.259 --> 00:30:21.720
 Trust me,

00:30:21.720 --> 00:30:22.440
 I didn't really want to

00:30:22.440 --> 00:30:23.379
 kind of go into all this

00:30:23.379 --> 00:30:24.920
 because it doesn't seem

00:30:24.920 --> 00:30:25.480
 the most pleasing

00:30:25.480 --> 00:30:25.960
 and doesn't seem

00:30:25.960 --> 00:30:26.819
 the most kind of cushy

00:30:26.819 --> 00:30:27.379
 and lovey-dovey

00:30:27.380 --> 00:30:28.380
 but here we have

00:30:28.380 --> 00:30:29.220
 someone who chose

00:30:29.220 --> 00:30:29.940
 a bowl of soup

00:30:29.940 --> 00:30:30.420
 an idol

00:30:30.420 --> 00:30:32.140
 for instant gratification

00:30:32.140 --> 00:30:34.560
 but then you end up

00:30:34.560 --> 00:30:34.960
 in a place

00:30:34.960 --> 00:30:35.800
 where it's recorded

00:30:35.800 --> 00:30:36.180
 in scripture

00:30:36.180 --> 00:30:36.880
 that not only

00:30:36.880 --> 00:30:37.720
 does God love his brother

00:30:37.720 --> 00:30:38.980
 but he actually hates Esau

00:30:38.980 --> 00:30:40.260
 and then you see here

00:30:40.260 --> 00:30:41.060
 in Hebrews 12

00:30:41.060 --> 00:30:42.260
 that he is not only

00:30:42.260 --> 00:30:43.740
 just choosing a bowl of soup

00:30:43.740 --> 00:30:45.320
 he's also sexually immoral

00:30:45.320 --> 00:30:46.460
 or unholy

00:30:46.460 --> 00:30:47.860
 like Esau.

00:30:49.100 --> 00:30:50.240
 And here we have again

00:30:50.240 --> 00:30:51.260
 the slippery slope of sin

00:30:51.260 --> 00:30:53.120
 because that was one

00:30:53.120 --> 00:30:53.940
 isolated event

00:30:53.940 --> 00:30:54.960
 of him deciding

00:30:54.960 --> 00:30:55.720
 that actually

00:30:55.720 --> 00:30:57.020
 actually so the word hated here

00:30:57.019 --> 00:30:57.900
 the word despised here

00:30:57.900 --> 00:30:59.240
 was actually a Hebrew idiom

00:30:59.240 --> 00:30:59.960
 that I want to unpack

00:30:59.960 --> 00:31:00.400
 a little bit

00:31:00.400 --> 00:31:01.019
 and that word

00:31:01.019 --> 00:31:01.879
 doesn't actually mean

00:31:01.879 --> 00:31:02.920
 I hate you

00:31:02.920 --> 00:31:04.400
 that it's not quite

00:31:04.400 --> 00:31:05.359
 the modern interpretation

00:31:05.359 --> 00:31:06.700
 what it really meant

00:31:06.700 --> 00:31:07.460
 at that time

00:31:07.460 --> 00:31:08.379
 the readers would have understood

00:31:08.379 --> 00:31:09.180
 was actually

00:31:09.180 --> 00:31:10.440
 he just passed over it

00:31:10.440 --> 00:31:12.440
 he just didn't choose it

00:31:12.440 --> 00:31:13.839
 he rejected it

00:31:13.839 --> 00:31:15.160
 so in some ways

00:31:15.160 --> 00:31:16.079
 when it says that

00:31:16.079 --> 00:31:16.799
 thus Esau

00:31:16.799 --> 00:31:18.259
 despised his birthright

00:31:18.259 --> 00:31:18.980
 it actually just meant

00:31:18.980 --> 00:31:20.519
 he just didn't choose it

00:31:20.519 --> 00:31:21.940
 that's all it meant

00:31:21.940 --> 00:31:23.480
 okay so it wasn't

00:31:23.480 --> 00:31:24.299
 hate or despise

00:31:24.299 --> 00:31:25.079
 he didn't grow up

00:31:25.079 --> 00:31:25.859
 at school going

00:31:25.859 --> 00:31:27.139
 man I hate the fact

00:31:27.139 --> 00:31:27.659
 that I have this

00:31:27.659 --> 00:31:28.539
 double portion inheritance

00:31:28.539 --> 00:31:29.419
 I hate the fact

00:31:29.419 --> 00:31:29.839
 that I'm going to get

00:31:29.839 --> 00:31:30.619
 so much more money

00:31:30.619 --> 00:31:31.699
 than the rest of my siblings

00:31:31.699 --> 00:31:32.740
 it wasn't that

00:31:32.740 --> 00:31:33.619
 it was simply

00:31:33.619 --> 00:31:34.259
 he was saying

00:31:34.259 --> 00:31:34.779
 actually

00:31:34.779 --> 00:31:36.779
 I just don't choose it

00:31:36.779 --> 00:31:37.919
 it's not important

00:31:37.919 --> 00:31:38.579
 to me

00:31:38.579 --> 00:31:40.619
 which in one hand

00:31:40.619 --> 00:31:41.559
 if you say it like that

00:31:41.559 --> 00:31:42.559
 doesn't sound as serious

00:31:42.559 --> 00:31:43.519
 as despise or hate

00:31:43.519 --> 00:31:45.279
 until you are talking

00:31:45.279 --> 00:31:46.799
 about God

00:31:46.799 --> 00:31:50.119
 think about us

00:31:50.119 --> 00:31:51.479
 think about the times

00:31:51.479 --> 00:31:52.519
 that we pass over

00:31:52.519 --> 00:31:53.059
 God

00:31:53.059 --> 00:31:54.720
 think about the times

00:31:54.720 --> 00:31:55.480
 that we know

00:31:55.480 --> 00:31:56.359
 that we want to spend

00:31:56.359 --> 00:31:57.240
 time with God

00:31:57.240 --> 00:31:58.039
 and read our Bible

00:31:58.039 --> 00:31:58.879
 and do our prayers

00:31:58.879 --> 00:31:59.679
 and be in devotion

00:31:59.679 --> 00:32:00.039
 with God

00:32:00.039 --> 00:32:01.220
 and then yet we choose

00:32:01.220 --> 00:32:02.139
 to pass over him

00:32:02.139 --> 00:32:03.200
 to do something else

00:32:03.200 --> 00:32:03.679
 like what

00:32:03.679 --> 00:32:04.419
 like scroll

00:32:04.419 --> 00:32:05.919
 on Instagram instead

00:32:05.919 --> 00:32:11.399
 in some ways

00:32:11.399 --> 00:32:12.599
 it isn't that different

00:32:12.599 --> 00:32:14.099
 this guy who

00:32:14.099 --> 00:32:14.759
 is hungry

00:32:14.759 --> 00:32:15.639
 choosing a bowl

00:32:15.639 --> 00:32:16.139
 of soup

00:32:16.139 --> 00:32:17.700
 ends up being described

00:32:17.700 --> 00:32:18.879
 as sexually immoral

00:32:18.879 --> 00:32:19.839
 and unholy

00:32:19.839 --> 00:32:20.359
 the word there

00:32:20.359 --> 00:32:20.940
 another version

00:32:20.940 --> 00:32:21.340
 would be

00:32:21.340 --> 00:32:22.880
 he spoke profanity

00:32:22.880 --> 00:32:25.539
 over this birthright

00:32:25.539 --> 00:32:26.539
 what was he saying

00:32:26.539 --> 00:32:27.320
 what does profanity mean

00:32:27.320 --> 00:32:27.700
 we all know

00:32:27.700 --> 00:32:28.799
 it's actually

00:32:28.799 --> 00:32:29.340
 it just means

00:32:29.340 --> 00:32:29.880
 it's the opposite

00:32:29.880 --> 00:32:30.299
 of holy

00:32:30.299 --> 00:32:31.759
 it's common

00:32:31.759 --> 00:32:32.380
 it's

00:32:32.380 --> 00:32:33.200
 so basically

00:32:33.200 --> 00:32:33.720
 what it's saying

00:32:33.720 --> 00:32:34.440
 is that Esau

00:32:34.440 --> 00:32:35.000
 had something

00:32:35.000 --> 00:32:35.920
 that was so holy

00:32:35.920 --> 00:32:36.660
 so precious

00:32:36.660 --> 00:32:38.600
 that represented

00:32:38.600 --> 00:32:39.700
 God's covenant love

00:32:39.700 --> 00:32:41.400
 and yet he just

00:32:41.400 --> 00:32:41.920
 dismissed it

00:32:41.920 --> 00:32:42.080
 and said

00:32:42.080 --> 00:32:43.320
 whatever

00:32:43.320 --> 00:32:45.039
 he treated it

00:32:45.039 --> 00:32:45.960
 like a thumbs up

00:32:45.960 --> 00:32:46.820
 like on Facebook

00:32:46.819 --> 00:32:50.460
 with the added context

00:32:50.460 --> 00:32:51.139
 that no one uses

00:32:51.139 --> 00:32:51.839
 Facebook anymore

00:32:51.839 --> 00:32:55.159
 that's what he

00:32:55.159 --> 00:32:55.779
 treated it like

00:32:55.779 --> 00:32:58.480
 he decided

00:32:58.480 --> 00:32:59.599
 I don't want

00:32:59.599 --> 00:33:00.919
 this unconditional

00:33:00.919 --> 00:33:02.339
 covenantal love

00:33:02.339 --> 00:33:03.399
 and promise

00:33:03.399 --> 00:33:05.259
 fulfilled by God

00:33:05.259 --> 00:33:06.639
 and I'm going to

00:33:06.639 --> 00:33:07.279
 choose this

00:33:07.279 --> 00:33:08.539
 thumbs up

00:33:08.539 --> 00:33:09.720
 on a website

00:33:09.720 --> 00:33:10.339
 that no one uses

00:33:10.339 --> 00:33:10.619
 anymore

00:33:10.619 --> 00:33:12.399
 that's why

00:33:12.399 --> 00:33:13.019
 it was unholy

00:33:13.019 --> 00:33:14.159
 that's

00:33:14.160 --> 00:33:15.460
 he chose

00:33:15.460 --> 00:33:16.440
 the other

00:33:16.440 --> 00:33:17.300
 he chose

00:33:17.300 --> 00:33:18.140
 to pass over

00:33:18.140 --> 00:33:19.560
 was what he was saying

00:33:19.560 --> 00:33:20.380
 and actually

00:33:20.380 --> 00:33:20.960
 it's interesting

00:33:20.960 --> 00:33:21.500
 he says

00:33:21.500 --> 00:33:22.120
 sorry

00:33:22.120 --> 00:33:23.480
 in Hebrews 12 17

00:33:23.480 --> 00:33:24.140
 for you know

00:33:24.140 --> 00:33:24.540
 that afterward

00:33:24.540 --> 00:33:25.160
 when he desired

00:33:25.160 --> 00:33:26.040
 to inherit the blessing

00:33:26.040 --> 00:33:27.000
 he was rejected

00:33:27.000 --> 00:33:27.540
 for he found

00:33:27.540 --> 00:33:28.400
 no chance to repent

00:33:28.400 --> 00:33:29.380
 though he sought it

00:33:29.380 --> 00:33:29.759
 with tears

00:33:29.759 --> 00:33:30.600
 because there comes

00:33:30.600 --> 00:33:30.900
 a moment

00:33:30.900 --> 00:33:31.540
 where it's too late

00:33:31.540 --> 00:33:33.740
 now scholars

00:33:33.740 --> 00:33:34.120
 are here

00:33:34.120 --> 00:33:35.000
 very clear

00:33:35.000 --> 00:33:35.340
 here saying

00:33:35.340 --> 00:33:36.200
 what he's doing

00:33:36.200 --> 00:33:36.980
 he's not saying

00:33:36.980 --> 00:33:37.640
 actually later

00:33:37.640 --> 00:33:38.480
 we'll find in Genesis

00:33:38.480 --> 00:33:39.259
 he gets very angry

00:33:39.259 --> 00:33:39.680
 that he's lost

00:33:39.680 --> 00:33:40.180
 his birthright

00:33:40.180 --> 00:33:41.120
 because suddenly

00:33:41.120 --> 00:33:41.779
 that bowl of soup

00:33:41.779 --> 00:33:42.960
 wasn't worth it

00:33:42.960 --> 00:33:43.320
 right

00:33:43.320 --> 00:33:43.740
 and we've all

00:33:43.740 --> 00:33:44.319
 had that before

00:33:44.319 --> 00:33:45.319
 where we've given

00:33:45.319 --> 00:33:45.920
 into some kind

00:33:45.920 --> 00:33:46.299
 of temptation

00:33:46.299 --> 00:33:46.740
 some kind

00:33:46.740 --> 00:33:47.160
 of desire

00:33:47.160 --> 00:33:48.019
 made a choice

00:33:48.019 --> 00:33:48.620
 and chose

00:33:48.620 --> 00:33:49.519
 to pass over God

00:33:49.519 --> 00:33:50.240
 and then later

00:33:50.240 --> 00:33:50.519
 we're like

00:33:50.519 --> 00:33:51.400
 oh my goodness

00:33:51.400 --> 00:33:53.019
 now I'm feeling

00:33:53.019 --> 00:33:53.400
 the pain

00:33:53.400 --> 00:33:55.220
 but what it's saying

00:33:55.220 --> 00:33:55.740
 here isn't

00:33:55.740 --> 00:33:56.599
 that he was repenting

00:33:56.599 --> 00:33:57.460
 what he was sad

00:33:57.460 --> 00:33:57.700
 about

00:33:57.700 --> 00:33:58.339
 and what we know

00:33:58.339 --> 00:33:58.900
 that he was sad

00:33:58.900 --> 00:33:59.079
 about

00:33:59.079 --> 00:33:59.720
 wasn't the fact

00:33:59.720 --> 00:34:00.279
 that he lost

00:34:00.279 --> 00:34:00.940
 his birthright

00:34:00.940 --> 00:34:02.279
 or rather

00:34:02.279 --> 00:34:03.140
 it wasn't the fact

00:34:03.140 --> 00:34:03.680
 that actually

00:34:03.680 --> 00:34:04.579
 he lost God

00:34:04.579 --> 00:34:05.140
 it was simply

00:34:05.140 --> 00:34:05.440
 the fact

00:34:05.440 --> 00:34:05.920
 that he lost

00:34:05.920 --> 00:34:06.980
 the riches

00:34:06.980 --> 00:34:07.559
 that came

00:34:07.559 --> 00:34:08.500
 with the birthright

00:34:08.500 --> 00:34:09.320
 the blessings

00:34:09.320 --> 00:34:10.940
 so he wasn't

00:34:10.940 --> 00:34:11.739
 actually upset

00:34:11.739 --> 00:34:12.659
 that he was

00:34:12.659 --> 00:34:13.260
 distanced from God

00:34:13.260 --> 00:34:13.640
 he was just

00:34:13.640 --> 00:34:14.200
 simply upset

00:34:14.200 --> 00:34:14.680
 that he didn't

00:34:14.680 --> 00:34:15.620
 get the material

00:34:15.620 --> 00:34:16.060
 things

00:34:16.060 --> 00:34:17.420
 that he was

00:34:17.420 --> 00:34:17.980
 supposed to have

00:34:17.980 --> 00:34:19.660
 this tells me

00:34:19.660 --> 00:34:20.200
 something else

00:34:20.200 --> 00:34:21.300
 Isaac

00:34:21.300 --> 00:34:22.780
 and Rebecca

00:34:22.780 --> 00:34:23.780
 were part of the covenant

00:34:23.780 --> 00:34:25.120
 they had two boys

00:34:25.120 --> 00:34:25.520
 twins

00:34:25.520 --> 00:34:26.340
 Esau and Jacob

00:34:26.340 --> 00:34:27.300
 this was a covenant

00:34:27.300 --> 00:34:27.900
 family

00:34:27.900 --> 00:34:29.920
 what does this tell me

00:34:29.920 --> 00:34:30.920
 it's very possible

00:34:30.920 --> 00:34:31.680
 for you to live

00:34:31.680 --> 00:34:32.220
 and grow up

00:34:32.220 --> 00:34:32.920
 in a covenant family

00:34:32.920 --> 00:34:33.820
 and still lose

00:34:33.820 --> 00:34:34.340
 your inheritance

00:34:34.340 --> 00:34:36.080
 I don't know

00:34:36.080 --> 00:34:36.680
 whether that sends

00:34:36.680 --> 00:34:37.640
 chills down the spine

00:34:37.640 --> 00:34:38.160
 of someone who

00:34:38.160 --> 00:34:38.600
 has grown up

00:34:38.599 --> 00:34:39.039
 in church

00:34:39.039 --> 00:34:41.339
 who thinks

00:34:41.339 --> 00:34:41.860
 well as long

00:34:41.860 --> 00:34:42.480
 as I go to church

00:34:42.480 --> 00:34:43.420
 because my parents

00:34:43.420 --> 00:34:43.900
 went to church

00:34:43.900 --> 00:34:44.619
 because my grandparents

00:34:44.619 --> 00:34:45.259
 went to church

00:34:45.259 --> 00:34:46.759
 I'm going to be okay

00:34:46.759 --> 00:34:47.440
 I'm going to get to heaven

00:34:47.440 --> 00:34:47.719
 well

00:34:47.719 --> 00:34:50.219
 Esau was part

00:34:50.219 --> 00:34:50.739
 of the covenant

00:34:50.739 --> 00:34:51.559
 family that God

00:34:51.559 --> 00:34:52.099
 was going to use

00:34:52.099 --> 00:34:53.000
 to save mankind

00:34:53.000 --> 00:34:54.199
 and yet he still

00:34:54.199 --> 00:34:55.339
 lost it

00:34:55.339 --> 00:34:58.699
 what that does

00:34:58.699 --> 00:34:59.400
 I hope it doesn't

00:34:59.400 --> 00:35:00.039
 fill you with fear

00:35:00.039 --> 00:35:00.679
 but I hope that

00:35:00.679 --> 00:35:01.599
 fills you with humility

00:35:01.599 --> 00:35:02.460
 that oh gosh

00:35:02.460 --> 00:35:04.380
 salvation belongs

00:35:04.380 --> 00:35:04.719
 to God

00:35:04.719 --> 00:35:06.439
 I'm only here

00:35:06.439 --> 00:35:07.379
 I'm only here

00:35:07.379 --> 00:35:08.219
 because of him

00:35:08.219 --> 00:35:09.679
 and so let me not

00:35:09.679 --> 00:35:11.099
 pass over him

00:35:11.099 --> 00:35:12.359
 let me choose him

00:35:12.359 --> 00:35:13.000
 because otherwise

00:35:13.000 --> 00:35:14.599
 I choose all those

00:35:14.599 --> 00:35:15.019
 other things

00:35:15.019 --> 00:35:15.519
 it does

00:35:15.519 --> 00:35:16.599
 when it comes to God

00:35:16.599 --> 00:35:17.699
 it amounts to hate

00:35:17.699 --> 00:35:18.539
 because God says

00:35:18.539 --> 00:35:19.719
 I don't want to just

00:35:19.719 --> 00:35:21.039
 be your first priority

00:35:21.039 --> 00:35:22.119
 I want you to be

00:35:22.119 --> 00:35:23.579
 your only priority

00:35:23.579 --> 00:35:24.379
 I don't just want

00:35:24.379 --> 00:35:25.279
 to be your number one

00:35:25.279 --> 00:35:26.099
 on the top of your list

00:35:26.099 --> 00:35:26.579
 and then have all

00:35:26.579 --> 00:35:27.139
 your other things

00:35:27.139 --> 00:35:28.179
 I want to be

00:35:28.179 --> 00:35:29.699
 your only one

00:35:29.699 --> 00:35:30.739
 I want to be

00:35:30.739 --> 00:35:31.639
 your list

00:35:31.639 --> 00:35:32.759
 and if you don't

00:35:32.759 --> 00:35:33.839
 choose me

00:35:33.839 --> 00:35:34.539
 essentially

00:35:34.539 --> 00:35:35.199
 you are

00:35:35.199 --> 00:35:36.079
 passing over

00:35:36.079 --> 00:35:36.559
 me

00:35:36.559 --> 00:35:37.380
 because the earthly

00:35:37.380 --> 00:35:38.619
 things will pass away

00:35:38.619 --> 00:35:40.639
 they are so small

00:35:40.639 --> 00:35:41.920
 the joys that we

00:35:41.920 --> 00:35:42.480
 think we have

00:35:42.480 --> 00:35:43.079
 are so small

00:35:43.079 --> 00:35:43.920
 as C.S. Lewis

00:35:43.920 --> 00:35:44.440
 in that book

00:35:44.440 --> 00:35:45.320
 Way of Glory continues

00:35:45.320 --> 00:35:45.880
 it's like us

00:35:45.880 --> 00:35:46.659
 playing with mud

00:35:46.659 --> 00:35:50.000
 depriving ourselves

00:35:50.000 --> 00:35:51.719
 of the true joy

00:35:51.719 --> 00:35:52.420
 that we're going to get

00:35:52.420 --> 00:35:54.880
 that is the problem

00:35:54.880 --> 00:35:57.119
 of idolatry

00:35:57.119 --> 00:35:59.480
 Jesus later

00:35:59.480 --> 00:36:00.800
 says in Luke 14

00:36:00.800 --> 00:36:01.639
 hey if you don't hate

00:36:01.639 --> 00:36:02.860
 if you don't despise

00:36:02.860 --> 00:36:03.659
 your father, mother,

00:36:03.779 --> 00:36:04.300
 brother and sister

00:36:04.300 --> 00:36:05.240
 you can't follow me

00:36:05.240 --> 00:36:06.580
 and those are strong

00:36:06.580 --> 00:36:07.420
 words but now we know

00:36:07.420 --> 00:36:08.160
 that that was a Hebrew

00:36:08.160 --> 00:36:09.140
 idiom not necessarily

00:36:09.140 --> 00:36:10.680
 for actual negative

00:36:10.680 --> 00:36:11.100
 sentiment

00:36:11.100 --> 00:36:11.760
 it was simply

00:36:11.760 --> 00:36:14.080
 if you pass over me

00:36:14.080 --> 00:36:14.880
 if you choose others

00:36:14.880 --> 00:36:15.480
 if you choose other

00:36:15.480 --> 00:36:16.380
 things before me

00:36:16.380 --> 00:36:17.200
 then it's not going to

00:36:17.200 --> 00:36:17.460
 work

00:36:17.460 --> 00:36:19.880
 the only way it works

00:36:19.880 --> 00:36:20.820
 is for people who

00:36:20.820 --> 00:36:21.800
 not only believe in me

00:36:21.800 --> 00:36:22.860
 but then choose to

00:36:22.860 --> 00:36:23.340
 follow me

00:36:23.340 --> 00:36:24.160
 one final passage

00:36:24.160 --> 00:36:24.620
 and this is where

00:36:24.620 --> 00:36:25.060
 we'll finish

00:36:25.060 --> 00:36:26.700
 is Romans chapter 9

00:36:26.699 --> 00:36:30.139
 because poor guy

00:36:30.139 --> 00:36:31.259
 gets another mention

00:36:31.259 --> 00:36:33.960
 Hebrews 11

00:36:33.960 --> 00:36:34.639
 is pretty famous

00:36:34.639 --> 00:36:35.859
 and he gets mentioned

00:36:35.859 --> 00:36:36.539
 in Hebrews 12

00:36:36.539 --> 00:36:36.960
 poor guy

00:36:36.960 --> 00:36:37.879
 Romans 8

00:36:37.879 --> 00:36:38.939
 is probably the most

00:36:38.939 --> 00:36:39.279
 famous

00:36:39.279 --> 00:36:40.519
 and Romans 9

00:36:40.519 --> 00:36:41.460
 he gets another mention

00:36:41.460 --> 00:36:44.299
 so Romans 8

00:36:44.299 --> 00:36:45.879
 this is the most

00:36:45.879 --> 00:36:47.199
 highlighted chapter

00:36:47.199 --> 00:36:47.699
 of my Bible

00:36:47.699 --> 00:36:48.039
 by the way

00:36:48.039 --> 00:36:48.960
 just to show you

00:36:48.960 --> 00:36:49.439
 just to have a look

00:36:49.439 --> 00:36:50.159
 so if you're like

00:36:50.159 --> 00:36:50.879
 oh what should I read

00:36:50.879 --> 00:36:51.079
 today

00:36:51.079 --> 00:36:51.819
 go to Romans 8

00:36:51.820 --> 00:36:53.320
 and if it's a little bit

00:36:53.320 --> 00:36:54.140
 like kind of confusing

00:36:54.140 --> 00:36:54.640
 to understand

00:36:54.640 --> 00:36:55.820
 use the NLT

00:36:55.820 --> 00:36:56.420
 use the message

00:36:56.420 --> 00:36:57.059
 use whatever it is

00:36:57.059 --> 00:36:57.840
 start there

00:36:57.840 --> 00:36:58.600
 and this

00:36:58.600 --> 00:37:00.360
 this is it

00:37:00.360 --> 00:37:01.220
 okay

00:37:01.220 --> 00:37:02.280
 but then

00:37:02.280 --> 00:37:03.539
 after this

00:37:03.539 --> 00:37:04.420
 because this is the big part

00:37:04.420 --> 00:37:05.120
 and actually a lot of our

00:37:05.120 --> 00:37:06.039
 worship songs come from

00:37:06.039 --> 00:37:06.519
 this passage

00:37:06.519 --> 00:37:07.260
 if God is for us

00:37:07.260 --> 00:37:08.160
 who can be against us

00:37:08.160 --> 00:37:09.539
 nothing can separate

00:37:09.539 --> 00:37:10.500
 from the love of Christ

00:37:10.500 --> 00:37:11.900
 for God works for the good

00:37:11.900 --> 00:37:12.720
 of those who love him

00:37:12.720 --> 00:37:13.660
 I am a new creation

00:37:13.660 --> 00:37:14.880
 there is now no condemnation

00:37:14.880 --> 00:37:15.940
 for those in Christ Jesus

00:37:15.940 --> 00:37:17.260
 Romans 8 has everything

00:37:17.260 --> 00:37:20.059
 and Esau

00:37:20.059 --> 00:37:20.860
 my man Esau

00:37:20.860 --> 00:37:22.320
 shows up in Romans 9

00:37:22.320 --> 00:37:25.519
 verse 10

00:37:25.519 --> 00:37:26.840
 and not only so

00:37:26.840 --> 00:37:27.559
 so actually

00:37:27.559 --> 00:37:28.640
 just a bit of context here

00:37:28.640 --> 00:37:29.599
 Paul's writing

00:37:29.599 --> 00:37:30.420
 to the Jews

00:37:30.420 --> 00:37:30.940
 who are saying

00:37:30.940 --> 00:37:31.180
 well

00:37:31.180 --> 00:37:32.720
 just because you're a Jew

00:37:32.720 --> 00:37:33.380
 doesn't mean you actually

00:37:33.380 --> 00:37:34.360
 get into the kingdom of heaven

00:37:34.360 --> 00:37:35.420
 you can actually be a Jew

00:37:35.420 --> 00:37:37.280
 and still miss out

00:37:37.280 --> 00:37:38.460
 you can grow up

00:37:38.460 --> 00:37:39.120
 in a covenant family

00:37:39.120 --> 00:37:39.940
 but still miss out

00:37:39.940 --> 00:37:40.640
 because it ultimately

00:37:40.640 --> 00:37:41.579
 still comes down to

00:37:41.579 --> 00:37:42.380
 what are you choosing

00:37:42.380 --> 00:37:43.680
 and so he carries on

00:37:43.680 --> 00:37:44.200
 and this is where

00:37:44.200 --> 00:37:44.920
 he gives the example

00:37:44.920 --> 00:37:45.940
 and not only so

00:37:45.940 --> 00:37:47.240
 but also when Rebecca

00:37:47.240 --> 00:37:48.300
 had conceived children

00:37:48.300 --> 00:37:49.039
 by one man

00:37:49.039 --> 00:37:50.340
 our forefather Isaac

00:37:50.340 --> 00:37:51.019
 verse 11

00:37:51.019 --> 00:37:52.780
 though they were not yet born

00:37:52.780 --> 00:37:53.680
 and had done nothing

00:37:53.680 --> 00:37:55.019
 either good or bad

00:37:55.019 --> 00:37:56.559
 in order that God's purpose

00:37:56.559 --> 00:37:57.100
 of election

00:37:57.100 --> 00:37:57.980
 might continue

00:37:57.980 --> 00:37:59.260
 not because of works

00:37:59.260 --> 00:38:00.039
 but because of him

00:38:00.039 --> 00:38:00.600
 who calls

00:38:00.600 --> 00:38:01.700
 she was told

00:38:01.700 --> 00:38:02.720
 the older will serve

00:38:02.720 --> 00:38:03.120
 the younger

00:38:03.120 --> 00:38:03.920
 as it is written

00:38:03.920 --> 00:38:04.900
 Jacob I loved

00:38:04.900 --> 00:38:06.100
 but Esau

00:38:06.100 --> 00:38:07.220
 I hated

00:38:07.220 --> 00:38:09.079
 he was quoting Malachi

00:38:09.079 --> 00:38:10.100
 which is where we

00:38:10.100 --> 00:38:10.900
 just read

00:38:10.900 --> 00:38:11.620
 and you're like

00:38:11.620 --> 00:38:12.640
 oh that's really

00:38:12.640 --> 00:38:13.240
 unfair

00:38:13.240 --> 00:38:15.480
 that's really unfair

00:38:15.480 --> 00:38:16.480
 that's really sad

00:38:16.480 --> 00:38:17.400
 that this guy

00:38:17.400 --> 00:38:18.519
 in that one moment

00:38:18.519 --> 00:38:18.940
 of anger

00:38:18.940 --> 00:38:20.000
 and hunger

00:38:20.000 --> 00:38:21.519
 gives his birthright

00:38:21.519 --> 00:38:22.340
 and now it's forever

00:38:22.340 --> 00:38:22.780
 recorded

00:38:22.780 --> 00:38:24.559
 that he is unholy

00:38:24.559 --> 00:38:25.480
 sexually immoral

00:38:25.480 --> 00:38:26.500
 and hated

00:38:26.500 --> 00:38:27.980
 by God himself

00:38:27.980 --> 00:38:29.720
 but what it means

00:38:29.720 --> 00:38:30.260
 is that he was

00:38:30.260 --> 00:38:31.360
 passed over by God

00:38:31.360 --> 00:38:31.920
 that he wasn't

00:38:31.920 --> 00:38:32.720
 chosen by God

00:38:32.720 --> 00:38:33.940
 because he didn't

00:38:33.940 --> 00:38:35.139
 choose God

00:38:35.139 --> 00:38:36.300
 himself

00:38:36.300 --> 00:38:39.019
 a lot of people

00:38:39.019 --> 00:38:40.039
 look at the Jacob

00:38:40.039 --> 00:38:40.760
 Benesau story

00:38:40.760 --> 00:38:40.980
 and go

00:38:40.980 --> 00:38:42.260
 that's harsh

00:38:42.260 --> 00:38:42.860
 that's a little bit

00:38:42.860 --> 00:38:43.300
 unfair

00:38:43.300 --> 00:38:45.420
 but that's where

00:38:45.420 --> 00:38:46.400
 the gospel comes in

00:38:46.400 --> 00:38:48.120
 that's where we need

00:38:48.120 --> 00:38:48.780
 to understand

00:38:48.780 --> 00:38:49.960
 what the gospel is

00:38:49.960 --> 00:38:51.780
 in some ways

00:38:51.780 --> 00:38:52.560
 Paul here

00:38:52.560 --> 00:38:53.320
 is being

00:38:53.320 --> 00:38:54.160
 a pastor

00:38:54.160 --> 00:38:54.820
 in that time

00:38:54.820 --> 00:38:55.360
 as a scholar

00:38:55.360 --> 00:38:55.860
 of that time

00:38:55.860 --> 00:38:57.039
 and he's doing

00:38:57.039 --> 00:38:58.060
 an exposition

00:38:58.060 --> 00:38:59.620
 of Genesis chapter 25

00:38:59.620 --> 00:39:00.200
 and he's trying

00:39:00.200 --> 00:39:01.300
 to explain to people

00:39:01.300 --> 00:39:02.340
 what that whole

00:39:02.340 --> 00:39:03.300
 interaction meant

00:39:03.300 --> 00:39:04.400
 yes it looked like

00:39:04.400 --> 00:39:04.960
 it was just about

00:39:04.960 --> 00:39:05.600
 a bowl of soup

00:39:05.600 --> 00:39:06.340
 but it was about

00:39:06.340 --> 00:39:06.960
 so much more

00:39:06.960 --> 00:39:07.440
 about that

00:39:07.440 --> 00:39:09.000
 and what it really

00:39:09.000 --> 00:39:09.440
 was about

00:39:09.440 --> 00:39:10.140
 was this concept

00:39:10.140 --> 00:39:10.440
 called

00:39:10.440 --> 00:39:11.700
 unconditional election

00:39:11.699 --> 00:39:13.939
 what it's really

00:39:13.939 --> 00:39:14.719
 about is this topic

00:39:14.719 --> 00:39:15.899
 called predestination

00:39:15.899 --> 00:39:17.839
 what it's really

00:39:17.839 --> 00:39:18.659
 about is this

00:39:18.659 --> 00:39:19.219
 idea

00:39:19.219 --> 00:39:19.939
 this concept

00:39:19.939 --> 00:39:20.859
 called radical

00:39:20.859 --> 00:39:21.799
 grace

00:39:21.799 --> 00:39:23.019
 if you're here

00:39:23.019 --> 00:39:23.679
 sat going

00:39:23.679 --> 00:39:25.679
 that's unfair

00:39:25.679 --> 00:39:26.179
 we all have

00:39:26.179 --> 00:39:26.619
 different children

00:39:26.619 --> 00:39:27.099
 they all make

00:39:27.099 --> 00:39:27.839
 different mistakes

00:39:27.839 --> 00:39:28.879
 why does he

00:39:28.879 --> 00:39:29.980
 one gets recorded

00:39:29.980 --> 00:39:30.339
 as loved

00:39:30.339 --> 00:39:30.659
 and the other

00:39:30.659 --> 00:39:31.079
 gets recorded

00:39:31.079 --> 00:39:31.500
 as hated

00:39:31.500 --> 00:39:32.500
 that just doesn't

00:39:32.500 --> 00:39:33.319
 seem fair

00:39:33.319 --> 00:39:33.980
 for Esau

00:39:33.980 --> 00:39:34.839
 but here's

00:39:34.839 --> 00:39:35.659
 the thing

00:39:35.659 --> 00:39:37.639
 when we're talking

00:39:37.639 --> 00:39:38.579
 about radical grace

00:39:38.579 --> 00:39:39.460
 verse 11

00:39:39.460 --> 00:39:40.179
 though they were

00:39:40.179 --> 00:39:41.460
 not yet born

00:39:41.460 --> 00:39:42.240
 and had done

00:39:42.240 --> 00:39:42.659
 nothing

00:39:42.659 --> 00:39:43.400
 either good

00:39:43.400 --> 00:39:43.960
 or bad

00:39:43.960 --> 00:39:46.360
 it tells you

00:39:46.360 --> 00:39:46.880
 salvation

00:39:46.880 --> 00:39:49.119
 isn't based

00:39:49.119 --> 00:39:49.820
 on what we do

00:39:49.820 --> 00:39:51.539
 and this gets

00:39:51.539 --> 00:39:51.920
 a little bit

00:39:51.920 --> 00:39:52.360
 uncomfortable

00:39:52.360 --> 00:39:53.240
 and churches

00:39:53.240 --> 00:39:53.740
 don't often

00:39:53.740 --> 00:39:54.659
 like to spend

00:39:54.659 --> 00:39:55.280
 too much time

00:39:55.280 --> 00:39:56.139
 on this

00:39:56.139 --> 00:39:56.440
 but there's

00:39:56.440 --> 00:39:56.960
 this concept

00:39:56.960 --> 00:39:57.559
 that actually

00:39:57.559 --> 00:39:59.119
 the very fact

00:39:59.119 --> 00:40:00.820
 that we are saved

00:40:00.820 --> 00:40:02.840
 is not by

00:40:02.840 --> 00:40:03.760
 our own doing

00:40:03.760 --> 00:40:05.360
 the very fact

00:40:05.360 --> 00:40:06.280
 that we are saved

00:40:06.280 --> 00:40:07.059
 is not by

00:40:07.059 --> 00:40:08.360
 our own

00:40:08.360 --> 00:40:09.000
 doing

00:40:09.000 --> 00:40:09.579
 it is

00:40:09.579 --> 00:40:10.199
 God

00:40:10.199 --> 00:40:11.299
 who saves

00:40:11.299 --> 00:40:12.339
 it is

00:40:12.339 --> 00:40:12.779
 God

00:40:12.779 --> 00:40:13.819
 who chooses

00:40:13.819 --> 00:40:14.460
 it is

00:40:14.460 --> 00:40:14.779
 God

00:40:14.779 --> 00:40:15.179
 who is

00:40:15.179 --> 00:40:15.839
 sovereignly

00:40:15.839 --> 00:40:16.779
 for us

00:40:16.779 --> 00:40:19.159
 this wasn't

00:40:19.159 --> 00:40:19.799
 about a bowl

00:40:19.799 --> 00:40:20.299
 of soup

00:40:20.299 --> 00:40:22.799
 St. Augustine

00:40:22.799 --> 00:40:23.359
 said this

00:40:23.359 --> 00:40:24.199
 that actually

00:40:24.199 --> 00:40:25.299
 if both

00:40:25.299 --> 00:40:26.299
 Esau and Jacob

00:40:26.299 --> 00:40:26.799
 got what they

00:40:26.799 --> 00:40:27.199
 deserved

00:40:27.199 --> 00:40:28.000
 neither would

00:40:28.000 --> 00:40:28.539
 have the blessing

00:40:28.539 --> 00:40:30.639
 both

00:40:30.639 --> 00:40:31.799
 would be

00:40:31.799 --> 00:40:32.480
 cast out

00:40:32.480 --> 00:40:34.599
 Charles Spurgeon

00:40:34.599 --> 00:40:35.419
 says the mystery

00:40:35.420 --> 00:40:36.659
 isn't really

00:40:36.659 --> 00:40:37.960
 why

00:40:37.960 --> 00:40:40.320
 Esau

00:40:40.320 --> 00:40:40.860
 got left

00:40:40.860 --> 00:40:41.119
 out

00:40:41.119 --> 00:40:41.840
 the mystery

00:40:41.840 --> 00:40:42.500
 is why

00:40:42.500 --> 00:40:42.820
 Jacob

00:40:42.820 --> 00:40:43.440
 got chosen

00:40:43.440 --> 00:40:45.039
 that's the

00:40:45.039 --> 00:40:45.360
 mystery

00:40:45.360 --> 00:40:46.940
 because you'll

00:40:46.940 --> 00:40:47.320
 see that

00:40:47.320 --> 00:40:47.619
 Jacob

00:40:47.619 --> 00:40:48.340
 doesn't really

00:40:48.340 --> 00:40:48.900
 have that much

00:40:48.900 --> 00:40:49.500
 good about him

00:40:49.500 --> 00:40:50.039
 and yet he

00:40:50.039 --> 00:40:50.500
 still gets

00:40:50.500 --> 00:40:50.820
 chosen

00:40:50.820 --> 00:40:51.139
 why

00:40:51.139 --> 00:40:51.980
 because God

00:40:51.980 --> 00:40:52.780
 is sovereignly

00:40:52.780 --> 00:40:53.159
 for us

00:40:53.159 --> 00:40:53.760
 and he has

00:40:53.760 --> 00:40:54.320
 chosen

00:40:54.320 --> 00:40:57.000
 his way

00:40:57.000 --> 00:40:57.400
 to save

00:40:57.400 --> 00:40:57.700
 mankind

00:40:57.700 --> 00:40:58.240
 and it's

00:40:58.240 --> 00:40:58.820
 through people

00:40:58.820 --> 00:40:59.240
 who are

00:40:59.240 --> 00:40:59.619
 imperfect

00:40:59.619 --> 00:41:00.180
 and you carry

00:41:00.180 --> 00:41:00.579
 on in

00:41:00.579 --> 00:41:02.059
 Romans 9

00:41:02.059 --> 00:41:03.099
 what shall we

00:41:03.099 --> 00:41:03.460
 say then

00:41:03.460 --> 00:41:03.759
 is there

00:41:03.759 --> 00:41:04.139
 injustice

00:41:04.139 --> 00:41:04.659
 on God's

00:41:04.659 --> 00:41:04.880
 part

00:41:04.880 --> 00:41:05.340
 by no

00:41:05.340 --> 00:41:05.639
 means

00:41:05.639 --> 00:41:06.219
 for he

00:41:06.219 --> 00:41:06.519
 says to

00:41:06.519 --> 00:41:06.739
 Moses

00:41:06.739 --> 00:41:07.059
 I will

00:41:07.059 --> 00:41:07.179
 have

00:41:07.179 --> 00:41:07.500
 mercy

00:41:07.500 --> 00:41:07.860
 on whom

00:41:07.860 --> 00:41:08.119
 I have

00:41:08.119 --> 00:41:08.440
 mercy

00:41:08.440 --> 00:41:08.960
 I will

00:41:08.960 --> 00:41:09.119
 have

00:41:09.119 --> 00:41:09.619
 compassion

00:41:09.619 --> 00:41:10.179
 on whom

00:41:10.179 --> 00:41:10.820
 I have

00:41:10.820 --> 00:41:11.599
 compassion

00:41:11.599 --> 00:41:13.779
 this speaks

00:41:13.779 --> 00:41:14.759
 directly against

00:41:14.759 --> 00:41:15.239
 this culture

00:41:15.239 --> 00:41:16.059
 of meritocracy

00:41:16.059 --> 00:41:17.000
 where you're

00:41:17.000 --> 00:41:18.380
 saying I

00:41:18.380 --> 00:41:18.820
 will get to

00:41:18.820 --> 00:41:19.059
 heaven

00:41:19.059 --> 00:41:20.119
 because of

00:41:20.119 --> 00:41:20.559
 what I do

00:41:20.559 --> 00:41:21.699
 because of

00:41:21.699 --> 00:41:22.059
 how good

00:41:22.059 --> 00:41:22.579
 I can be

00:41:22.579 --> 00:41:23.360
 because of

00:41:23.360 --> 00:41:23.799
 how much

00:41:23.799 --> 00:41:24.279
 the Bible

00:41:24.279 --> 00:41:24.799
 I read

00:41:24.799 --> 00:41:25.820
 or how many

00:41:25.820 --> 00:41:26.460
 sailors I can

00:41:26.460 --> 00:41:26.960
 show up to

00:41:26.960 --> 00:41:27.579
 how much

00:41:27.579 --> 00:41:29.460
 serving I do

00:41:29.460 --> 00:41:30.000
 in church

00:41:30.000 --> 00:41:31.139
 this goes

00:41:31.139 --> 00:41:31.619
 completely

00:41:31.619 --> 00:41:32.039
 against that

00:41:32.039 --> 00:41:32.480
 the gospel

00:41:32.480 --> 00:41:32.980
 is saying

00:41:32.980 --> 00:41:33.400
 that actually

00:41:33.400 --> 00:41:34.239
 none of us

00:41:34.239 --> 00:41:35.279
 deserve it

00:41:35.279 --> 00:41:37.239
 none of us

00:41:37.239 --> 00:41:37.679
 deserve it

00:41:37.679 --> 00:41:38.360
 not even one

00:41:38.360 --> 00:41:38.860
 Romans 3

00:41:38.860 --> 00:41:39.880
 says we all

00:41:39.880 --> 00:41:40.500
 fall short

00:41:40.500 --> 00:41:41.380
 of the glory

00:41:41.380 --> 00:41:42.239
 of God

00:41:42.239 --> 00:41:44.159
 all of us

00:41:44.159 --> 00:41:45.779
 even the holy

00:41:45.779 --> 00:41:46.279
 ones who know

00:41:46.279 --> 00:41:46.579
 the Bible

00:41:46.579 --> 00:41:47.099
 very well

00:41:47.099 --> 00:41:48.340
 even the ones

00:41:48.340 --> 00:41:48.759
 who are going

00:41:48.759 --> 00:41:49.259
 out serving

00:41:49.259 --> 00:41:49.659
 the poor

00:41:49.659 --> 00:41:51.759
 that's a

00:41:51.759 --> 00:41:52.179
 different thing

00:41:52.179 --> 00:41:53.079
 do you ever

00:41:53.079 --> 00:41:53.820
 worry when you

00:41:53.820 --> 00:41:54.320
 get to

00:41:54.320 --> 00:41:55.219
 heaven and

00:41:55.219 --> 00:41:55.420
 you're like

00:41:55.420 --> 00:41:55.800
 oh I wonder

00:41:55.800 --> 00:41:56.179
 whether I've

00:41:56.179 --> 00:41:56.599
 done enough

00:41:56.599 --> 00:41:58.619
 or if you

00:41:58.619 --> 00:41:59.119
 stand at

00:41:59.119 --> 00:41:59.619
 heaven's gate

00:41:59.619 --> 00:42:00.000
 and you

00:42:00.000 --> 00:42:00.820
 imagine God

00:42:00.820 --> 00:42:01.199
 the creator

00:42:01.199 --> 00:42:01.619
 looking at

00:42:01.619 --> 00:42:01.839
 you and

00:42:01.839 --> 00:42:02.059
 saying

00:42:02.059 --> 00:42:02.659
 why should

00:42:02.659 --> 00:42:02.920
 I let

00:42:02.920 --> 00:42:03.319
 you in

00:42:03.319 --> 00:42:05.319
 do you

00:42:05.319 --> 00:42:05.599
 ever look

00:42:05.599 --> 00:42:05.859
 back and

00:42:05.859 --> 00:42:06.079
 go oh

00:42:06.079 --> 00:42:06.359
 did I

00:42:06.359 --> 00:42:06.839
 do enough

00:42:06.839 --> 00:42:08.819
 that time

00:42:08.819 --> 00:42:09.139
 that I

00:42:09.139 --> 00:42:09.480
 spent

00:42:09.480 --> 00:42:11.139
 I did that

00:42:11.139 --> 00:42:11.599
 reading plan

00:42:11.599 --> 00:42:11.859
 and I

00:42:11.859 --> 00:42:12.559
 finished it

00:42:12.559 --> 00:42:12.920
 all the way

00:42:12.920 --> 00:42:13.400
 to the end

00:42:13.400 --> 00:42:13.980
 maybe that'll

00:42:13.980 --> 00:42:14.400
 get me in

00:42:14.400 --> 00:42:15.839
 well that time

00:42:15.839 --> 00:42:16.400
 that I did

00:42:16.400 --> 00:42:17.079
 kind of

00:42:17.079 --> 00:42:18.279
 take a sabbatical

00:42:18.279 --> 00:42:19.299
 and go to

00:42:19.299 --> 00:42:19.759
 the Philippines

00:42:19.759 --> 00:42:20.759
 and serve

00:42:20.759 --> 00:42:21.420
 maybe that'll

00:42:21.420 --> 00:42:21.839
 get me in

00:42:21.839 --> 00:42:24.239
 we all are

00:42:24.239 --> 00:42:24.880
 tempted by that

00:42:24.880 --> 00:42:25.779
 we all are

00:42:25.779 --> 00:42:26.319
 tempted by this

00:42:26.319 --> 00:42:26.940
 idea that maybe

00:42:26.940 --> 00:42:27.539
 God will be

00:42:27.539 --> 00:42:27.980
 pleased with what

00:42:27.980 --> 00:42:28.259
 we do

00:42:28.259 --> 00:42:28.799
 and what we

00:42:28.799 --> 00:42:29.259
 see here

00:42:29.259 --> 00:42:29.859
 in the story

00:42:29.860 --> 00:42:30.220
 of Esau

00:42:30.220 --> 00:42:30.620
 and Jacob

00:42:30.620 --> 00:42:31.340
 is that it's

00:42:31.340 --> 00:42:31.820
 nothing to do

00:42:31.820 --> 00:42:32.200
 with what we

00:42:32.200 --> 00:42:32.300
 do

00:42:32.300 --> 00:42:32.740
 God has

00:42:32.740 --> 00:42:33.120
 preordained

00:42:33.120 --> 00:42:33.460
 God has

00:42:33.460 --> 00:42:33.840
 chosen

00:42:33.840 --> 00:42:34.440
 now that

00:42:34.440 --> 00:42:34.880
 doesn't mean

00:42:34.880 --> 00:42:35.280
 that we

00:42:35.280 --> 00:42:35.880
 don't have

00:42:35.880 --> 00:42:37.420
 our agency

00:42:37.420 --> 00:42:38.039
 to do what

00:42:38.039 --> 00:42:38.460
 we need to

00:42:38.460 --> 00:42:38.579
 do

00:42:38.579 --> 00:42:39.200
 God's sovereignty

00:42:39.200 --> 00:42:40.039
 doesn't go

00:42:40.039 --> 00:42:41.160
 against human

00:42:41.160 --> 00:42:41.480
 freedom

00:42:41.480 --> 00:42:42.400
 and Esau

00:42:42.400 --> 00:42:42.880
 made his

00:42:42.880 --> 00:42:43.120
 choice

00:42:43.120 --> 00:42:43.640
 he chose

00:42:43.640 --> 00:42:44.000
 to pass

00:42:44.000 --> 00:42:44.800
 over the

00:42:44.800 --> 00:42:45.079
 birthright

00:42:45.079 --> 00:42:45.460
 he chose

00:42:45.460 --> 00:42:45.760
 to pass

00:42:45.760 --> 00:42:46.280
 over God

00:42:46.280 --> 00:42:46.820
 and choose

00:42:46.820 --> 00:42:47.099
 to live

00:42:47.099 --> 00:42:47.480
 this way

00:42:47.480 --> 00:42:48.000
 but what

00:42:48.000 --> 00:42:48.340
 you see

00:42:48.340 --> 00:42:49.420
 his grace

00:42:49.420 --> 00:42:49.660
 when it

00:42:49.660 --> 00:42:49.900
 comes to

00:42:49.900 --> 00:42:50.079
 grace

00:42:50.079 --> 00:42:50.400
 is God

00:42:50.400 --> 00:42:50.720
 chooses

00:42:50.720 --> 00:42:51.079
 himself

00:42:51.079 --> 00:42:52.360
 and he

00:42:52.360 --> 00:42:52.640
 will have

00:42:52.640 --> 00:42:53.019
 mercy on

00:42:53.019 --> 00:42:53.260
 whoever

00:42:53.260 --> 00:42:53.519
 he has

00:42:53.519 --> 00:42:53.820
 mercy

00:42:53.820 --> 00:42:54.300
 and the

00:42:54.300 --> 00:42:54.700
 very fact

00:42:54.700 --> 00:42:54.980
 that we're

00:42:54.980 --> 00:42:55.420
 sat here

00:42:55.420 --> 00:42:56.139
 is actually

00:42:56.139 --> 00:42:57.240
 a beautiful

00:42:57.240 --> 00:42:57.519
 thing

00:42:57.519 --> 00:42:57.980
 it actually

00:42:57.980 --> 00:42:58.460
 strips you

00:42:58.460 --> 00:42:58.880
 of pride

00:42:58.880 --> 00:42:59.760
 because if

00:42:59.760 --> 00:42:59.940
 you say

00:42:59.940 --> 00:43:00.180
 oh I'm

00:43:00.180 --> 00:43:00.440
 going to

00:43:00.440 --> 00:43:00.559
 heaven

00:43:00.559 --> 00:43:00.740
 why

00:43:00.740 --> 00:43:00.980
 because

00:43:00.980 --> 00:43:01.159
 I'm

00:43:01.159 --> 00:43:01.320
 this

00:43:01.320 --> 00:43:01.480
 good

00:43:01.480 --> 00:43:01.740
 person

00:43:01.740 --> 00:43:02.119
 no that's

00:43:02.119 --> 00:43:02.380
 not what

00:43:02.380 --> 00:43:02.700
 the gospel

00:43:02.700 --> 00:43:02.960
 is

00:43:02.960 --> 00:43:04.900
 and we

00:43:04.900 --> 00:43:05.220
 all know

00:43:05.220 --> 00:43:05.480
 we all

00:43:05.480 --> 00:43:06.019
 met people

00:43:06.019 --> 00:43:07.019
 who are

00:43:07.019 --> 00:43:07.720
 religiously

00:43:07.720 --> 00:43:08.340
 very prideful

00:43:08.340 --> 00:43:10.220
 if we truly

00:43:10.220 --> 00:43:10.720
 understood the

00:43:10.720 --> 00:43:11.300
 gospel we would

00:43:11.300 --> 00:43:12.000
 empty ourselves

00:43:12.000 --> 00:43:12.740
 of that pride

00:43:12.740 --> 00:43:13.500
 and we would

00:43:13.500 --> 00:43:14.019
 be wow

00:43:14.019 --> 00:43:14.500
 we are

00:43:14.500 --> 00:43:15.019
 completely

00:43:15.019 --> 00:43:16.380
 undeserving

00:43:16.380 --> 00:43:17.960
 that is

00:43:17.960 --> 00:43:18.360
 the gospel

00:43:18.360 --> 00:43:20.900
 and this is

00:43:20.900 --> 00:43:21.139
 where I'll

00:43:21.139 --> 00:43:21.380
 finish

00:43:21.380 --> 00:43:23.159
 you see

00:43:23.159 --> 00:43:23.400
 here

00:43:23.400 --> 00:43:23.840
 Esau

00:43:23.840 --> 00:43:25.900
 whose

00:43:25.900 --> 00:43:26.200
 God

00:43:26.200 --> 00:43:26.559
 is his

00:43:26.559 --> 00:43:26.760
 belly

00:43:26.760 --> 00:43:28.700
 who doesn't

00:43:28.700 --> 00:43:29.260
 deprive his

00:43:29.260 --> 00:43:29.539
 body

00:43:29.539 --> 00:43:30.320
 of the

00:43:30.320 --> 00:43:30.579
 hungers

00:43:30.579 --> 00:43:30.800
 that it

00:43:30.800 --> 00:43:31.100
 wants

00:43:31.100 --> 00:43:32.960
 this

00:43:32.960 --> 00:43:33.460
 firstborn

00:43:33.460 --> 00:43:33.880
 that

00:43:33.880 --> 00:43:35.200
 loses

00:43:35.200 --> 00:43:35.620
 everything

00:43:35.620 --> 00:43:38.100
 and yet

00:43:38.100 --> 00:43:38.700
 all of that

00:43:38.700 --> 00:43:39.180
 is just a

00:43:39.180 --> 00:43:39.740
 foreshadowing

00:43:39.740 --> 00:43:40.500
 setting up

00:43:40.500 --> 00:43:40.980
 for a later

00:43:40.980 --> 00:43:41.280
 thing

00:43:41.280 --> 00:43:41.680
 which is

00:43:41.680 --> 00:43:41.900
 that

00:43:41.900 --> 00:43:43.059
 because

00:43:43.059 --> 00:43:43.579
 we all

00:43:43.579 --> 00:43:43.880
 can't

00:43:43.880 --> 00:43:44.079
 save

00:43:44.079 --> 00:43:44.539
 ourselves

00:43:44.539 --> 00:43:45.700
 the only

00:43:45.700 --> 00:43:46.019
 one who

00:43:46.019 --> 00:43:46.240
 can

00:43:46.240 --> 00:43:46.640
 comes

00:43:46.640 --> 00:43:47.120
 to save

00:43:47.120 --> 00:43:47.539
 us

00:43:47.539 --> 00:43:49.760
 as I

00:43:49.760 --> 00:43:50.140
 was walking

00:43:50.140 --> 00:43:50.800
 here to

00:43:50.800 --> 00:43:51.800
 church

00:43:51.800 --> 00:43:52.019
 I was

00:43:52.019 --> 00:43:52.260
 holding

00:43:52.260 --> 00:43:52.660
 Micah

00:43:52.659 --> 00:43:54.279
 who's

00:43:54.279 --> 00:43:54.480
 now

00:43:54.480 --> 00:43:54.799
 two

00:43:54.799 --> 00:43:55.279
 and really

00:43:55.279 --> 00:43:55.539
 funny

00:43:55.539 --> 00:43:56.319
 he says

00:43:56.319 --> 00:43:56.859
 loads of

00:43:56.859 --> 00:43:57.059
 funny

00:43:57.059 --> 00:43:57.739
 and really

00:43:57.739 --> 00:43:58.019
 stupid

00:43:58.019 --> 00:43:58.379
 things

00:43:58.379 --> 00:43:59.719
 two year olds

00:43:59.719 --> 00:44:00.119
 are the best

00:44:00.119 --> 00:44:00.500
 because they

00:44:00.500 --> 00:44:00.980
 just show you

00:44:00.980 --> 00:44:01.480
 who humans

00:44:01.480 --> 00:44:01.719
 are

00:44:01.719 --> 00:44:02.519
 there's no

00:44:02.519 --> 00:44:02.839
 filter

00:44:02.839 --> 00:44:04.699
 and of course

00:44:04.699 --> 00:44:05.079
 he's at that

00:44:05.079 --> 00:44:05.539
 place where

00:44:05.539 --> 00:44:05.879
 he's getting

00:44:05.879 --> 00:44:06.319
 independent

00:44:06.319 --> 00:44:07.079
 so he's like

00:44:07.079 --> 00:44:07.739
 no I'll do

00:44:07.739 --> 00:44:08.219
 it

00:44:08.219 --> 00:44:08.779
 I'll climb

00:44:08.779 --> 00:44:09.059
 into the

00:44:09.059 --> 00:44:09.259
 car

00:44:09.259 --> 00:44:09.659
 and then his

00:44:09.659 --> 00:44:10.000
 butt's like

00:44:10.000 --> 00:44:10.399
 hanging off

00:44:10.399 --> 00:44:10.779
 just off the

00:44:10.779 --> 00:44:11.099
 seat and he

00:44:11.099 --> 00:44:11.480
 can't actually

00:44:11.480 --> 00:44:11.859
 climb in

00:44:11.859 --> 00:44:12.639
 and then he's

00:44:12.639 --> 00:44:13.019
 stuck there

00:44:13.019 --> 00:44:14.480
 or he's

00:44:14.480 --> 00:44:14.879
 walking with

00:44:14.879 --> 00:44:14.960
 me

00:44:14.960 --> 00:44:15.139
 he's like

00:44:15.139 --> 00:44:15.659
 oh no I'll

00:44:15.659 --> 00:44:15.899
 walk

00:44:15.899 --> 00:44:16.440
 and then I'll

00:44:16.440 --> 00:44:16.719
 hold his

00:44:16.719 --> 00:44:17.199
 hand and

00:44:17.199 --> 00:44:17.839
 we'll go

00:44:17.839 --> 00:44:18.420
 and every

00:44:18.420 --> 00:44:18.799
 I don't know

00:44:18.800 --> 00:44:19.000
 why

00:44:19.000 --> 00:44:19.280
 I mean

00:44:19.280 --> 00:44:19.620
 maybe his

00:44:19.620 --> 00:44:19.920
 head's too

00:44:19.920 --> 00:44:20.100
 big

00:44:20.100 --> 00:44:21.720
 so he's a

00:44:21.720 --> 00:44:21.940
 little bit

00:44:21.940 --> 00:44:22.300
 imbalanced

00:44:22.300 --> 00:44:22.720
 so basically

00:44:22.720 --> 00:44:23.120
 he's walking

00:44:23.120 --> 00:44:23.580
 and then every

00:44:23.580 --> 00:44:24.160
 ten steps

00:44:24.160 --> 00:44:24.720
 he'll like

00:44:24.720 --> 00:44:25.100
 trip and

00:44:25.100 --> 00:44:25.300
 fall

00:44:25.300 --> 00:44:27.060
 and then

00:44:27.060 --> 00:44:27.360
 thankfully

00:44:27.360 --> 00:44:27.820
 I'll catch

00:44:27.820 --> 00:44:27.980
 him

00:44:27.980 --> 00:44:28.500
 you know

00:44:28.500 --> 00:44:28.840
 at the risk

00:44:28.840 --> 00:44:29.440
 of spraining

00:44:29.440 --> 00:44:29.740
 his wrist

00:44:29.740 --> 00:44:30.260
 but I'll

00:44:30.260 --> 00:44:30.680
 catch him

00:44:30.680 --> 00:44:31.940
 and I was

00:44:31.940 --> 00:44:32.320
 like oh

00:44:32.320 --> 00:44:32.620
 I think

00:44:32.620 --> 00:44:33.160
 all of us

00:44:33.160 --> 00:44:33.460
 are two

00:44:33.460 --> 00:44:33.820
 year olds

00:44:33.820 --> 00:44:35.740
 insisting

00:44:35.740 --> 00:44:36.340
 to God

00:44:36.340 --> 00:44:36.660
 that we

00:44:36.660 --> 00:44:37.160
 can do it

00:44:37.160 --> 00:44:37.840
 that we

00:44:37.840 --> 00:44:38.160
 can climb

00:44:38.160 --> 00:44:38.580
 those stairs

00:44:38.580 --> 00:44:38.800
 that we

00:44:38.800 --> 00:44:39.160
 can jump

00:44:39.160 --> 00:44:39.780
 that gap

00:44:39.780 --> 00:44:42.560
 insisting

00:44:42.560 --> 00:44:42.760
 that we

00:44:42.760 --> 00:44:42.980
 can do

00:44:42.980 --> 00:44:43.200
 it our

00:44:43.200 --> 00:44:43.600
 own way

00:44:43.600 --> 00:44:45.480
 and every

00:44:45.480 --> 00:44:45.740
 now and

00:44:45.740 --> 00:44:45.900
 again

00:44:45.900 --> 00:44:46.140
 we'll be

00:44:46.140 --> 00:44:46.480
 like okay

00:44:46.480 --> 00:44:47.700
 God you

00:44:47.700 --> 00:44:48.300
 hold my

00:44:48.300 --> 00:44:48.539
 hand

00:44:48.539 --> 00:44:48.940
 let me

00:44:48.940 --> 00:44:49.280
 do it

00:44:49.280 --> 00:44:50.960
 and the

00:44:50.960 --> 00:44:51.360
 beauty of

00:44:51.360 --> 00:44:51.800
 it is

00:44:51.800 --> 00:44:52.780
 the father

00:44:52.780 --> 00:44:53.420
 in heaven

00:44:53.420 --> 00:44:54.320
 holds our

00:44:54.320 --> 00:44:54.620
 hand

00:44:54.620 --> 00:44:55.260
 and every

00:44:55.260 --> 00:44:55.560
 time we

00:44:55.560 --> 00:44:55.880
 slip and

00:44:55.880 --> 00:44:56.080
 fall

00:44:56.080 --> 00:44:56.420
 actually

00:44:56.420 --> 00:44:56.820
 it's not

00:44:56.820 --> 00:44:57.240
 us holding

00:44:57.240 --> 00:44:57.460
 on to

00:44:57.460 --> 00:44:57.620
 him

00:44:57.620 --> 00:44:58.660
 Micah

00:44:58.660 --> 00:44:59.039
 doesn't

00:44:59.039 --> 00:44:59.480
 get saved

00:44:59.480 --> 00:44:59.980
 because he's

00:44:59.980 --> 00:45:00.360
 holding on

00:45:00.360 --> 00:45:00.680
 to me

00:45:00.680 --> 00:45:01.280
 tight enough

00:45:01.280 --> 00:45:03.519
 Micah

00:45:03.519 --> 00:45:03.920
 is spared

00:45:03.920 --> 00:45:04.300
 a fall

00:45:04.300 --> 00:45:04.860
 because I'm

00:45:04.860 --> 00:45:05.220
 holding on

00:45:05.220 --> 00:45:05.519
 to him

00:45:05.519 --> 00:45:06.539
 does that

00:45:06.539 --> 00:45:06.920
 make sense

00:45:06.920 --> 00:45:08.560
 I stop

00:45:08.560 --> 00:45:08.820
 him

00:45:08.820 --> 00:45:09.700
 from falling

00:45:09.700 --> 00:45:11.220
 now he

00:45:11.220 --> 00:45:11.440
 has to

00:45:11.440 --> 00:45:11.920
 choose to

00:45:11.920 --> 00:45:12.120
 come and

00:45:12.120 --> 00:45:12.380
 hold my

00:45:12.380 --> 00:45:12.580
 hand

00:45:12.580 --> 00:45:13.800
 but ultimately

00:45:13.800 --> 00:45:14.440
 I choose

00:45:14.440 --> 00:45:16.480
 to protect

00:45:16.480 --> 00:45:16.720
 him

00:45:16.719 --> 00:45:18.359
 that is

00:45:18.359 --> 00:45:18.699
 how God

00:45:18.699 --> 00:45:19.019
 deals with

00:45:19.019 --> 00:45:19.239
 us

00:45:19.239 --> 00:45:19.919
 and so

00:45:19.919 --> 00:45:20.159
 imagine

00:45:20.159 --> 00:45:20.539
 yourself

00:45:20.539 --> 00:45:20.779
 as a

00:45:20.779 --> 00:45:21.179
 two-year-old

00:45:21.179 --> 00:45:21.739
 you've

00:45:21.739 --> 00:45:22.039
 chosen

00:45:22.039 --> 00:45:22.299
 one

00:45:22.299 --> 00:45:22.799
 on one

00:45:22.799 --> 00:45:22.959
 hand

00:45:22.959 --> 00:45:23.099
 you're

00:45:23.099 --> 00:45:23.299
 holding

00:45:23.299 --> 00:45:23.579
 God

00:45:23.579 --> 00:45:23.899
 and kind

00:45:23.899 --> 00:45:24.199
 of loosely

00:45:24.199 --> 00:45:24.519
 because you

00:45:24.519 --> 00:45:25.459
 keep trying to wander away

00:45:25.459 --> 00:45:30.119
 and kind of go into a shop and be distracted by all these other things which kind of my wife does as well

00:45:30.119 --> 00:45:34.599
 but then on the other hand you're trying to grab all these other things

00:45:34.599 --> 00:45:36.859
 that's your idol that's your bowl of soup

00:45:36.859 --> 00:45:40.279
 those are the oh I'm going to be satisfied by this I want to be satisfied by this

00:45:40.280 --> 00:45:45.120
 but all the time this is what this is what radical grace is that God is still holding on to our hands

00:45:45.120 --> 00:45:50.440
 despite our distractions despite the fact that we keep yearning for something else because we are half-hearted creatures

00:45:50.440 --> 00:45:52.320
 and yet God is that good

00:45:52.320 --> 00:46:06.780
 knowing that we can't save ourselves he then sends his firstborn not Esau he sends his firstborn who when he comes to creation he then willingly walks into the wilderness and deprives himself of hunger and fasts for 40 days

00:46:06.780 --> 00:46:20.660
 why? because God works for the good of those who love him he sends his firstborn son so that we would then be conformed and called and predestined to be in the same image and so that we would be perfect just like him

00:46:20.660 --> 00:46:26.440
 that is the only way when you meet your creator and you're wondering will I get in

00:46:29.320 --> 00:46:36.560
 someone has said this famously that if your answer to that response is oh I did this I did that it's not going to work

00:46:36.559 --> 00:46:41.039
 the only response that will get you in is because Jesus did

00:46:41.039 --> 00:46:46.579
 because Jesus the firstborn son starved himself climbed onto a cross for me

00:46:46.579 --> 00:46:51.299
 so that I would receive the radical grace that Jacob received

00:46:51.299 --> 00:46:55.239
 even as a scheming manipulative thinker

00:46:55.239 --> 00:46:57.460
 I still get saved

00:46:57.460 --> 00:46:59.059
 praise be to God

00:46:59.059 --> 00:47:01.820
 what I don't want to do I still do

00:47:01.820 --> 00:47:03.279
 what I should do I don't do

00:47:03.279 --> 00:47:04.659
 what a wretched man I am

00:47:04.659 --> 00:47:06.659
 yet praise be to God

00:47:06.659 --> 00:47:11.699
 through Jesus I am saved because of what he did on the cross

00:47:11.699 --> 00:47:14.000
 God's perfect plan

00:47:14.000 --> 00:47:15.739
 carried out

00:47:15.739 --> 00:47:17.299
 through imperfect people

00:47:17.299 --> 00:47:19.659
 through dysfunctional families

00:47:19.659 --> 00:47:22.279
 this leads you to

00:47:22.279 --> 00:47:23.799
 two likely responses

00:47:23.799 --> 00:47:26.799
 the first is one of repentance

00:47:26.799 --> 00:47:28.699
 God I'm sorry

00:47:28.699 --> 00:47:30.739
 I am like Esau

00:47:30.739 --> 00:47:33.199
 my God has been my belly

00:47:33.199 --> 00:47:33.899
 my appetite

00:47:33.899 --> 00:47:36.039
 my yearnings for the things of this world

00:47:36.039 --> 00:47:37.539
 I repent

00:47:37.539 --> 00:47:38.759
 I do not reject you

00:47:38.759 --> 00:47:39.699
 I do not despise you

00:47:39.699 --> 00:47:40.299
 I do not hate you

00:47:40.299 --> 00:47:41.659
 I do not pass over you anymore

00:47:41.659 --> 00:47:42.779
 those things are fleeting

00:47:42.779 --> 00:47:43.879
 and they will be gone in a moment

00:47:43.879 --> 00:47:45.899
 I repent

00:47:45.899 --> 00:47:51.359
 for those of you who have been in the Christian faith for a long time

00:47:51.359 --> 00:47:53.119
 you might not feel as though those are your things

00:47:53.119 --> 00:47:54.500
 though I'm here telling you

00:47:54.500 --> 00:47:56.599
 we all probably have a bit of Esau in us

00:47:56.599 --> 00:48:00.719
 but your second likely response will be of Jacob

00:48:00.719 --> 00:48:01.760
 where you go

00:48:01.760 --> 00:48:02.420
 I am Jacob

00:48:02.420 --> 00:48:04.679
 I have received the promise

00:48:04.679 --> 00:48:06.260
 I think I'm good

00:48:06.260 --> 00:48:07.719
 but really I've been scheming

00:48:07.719 --> 00:48:12.679
 actually Esau doesn't deserve to be with you

00:48:12.679 --> 00:48:13.559
 to be a fair

00:48:13.559 --> 00:48:14.320
 neither do I

00:48:14.320 --> 00:48:18.639
 and so your first response being repentance

00:48:18.639 --> 00:48:20.280
 your second one is just of gratitude

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 and humility

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 and going

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 why?

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 why would you do that for me?

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 why did you not spare your son

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 for me?

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 brothers this is the good news

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 is that

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 radical grace

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 it doesn't make sense

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 and yet we are here

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 let's spend a moment now

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 just in reflection

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 as I pray over us

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 and invite the team to come

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 maybe just to spend a minute

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 here in this space

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 and just ask

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 the Holy Spirit to lead you

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 as it says in John 16

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 that the Holy Spirit is the one

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 who comes to convict

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 us of sin and righteousness

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 and whether you feel

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 as though you are Abraham

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 or Lot

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 or Isaac

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 or Rebecca

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 or Ishmael

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 or Esau

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 or Jacob

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 the word of God

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 the Bible is merely just a mirror

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 showing us who

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 who we truly are

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 and whether it is today

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 you feel the Spirit

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 calling you to repentance

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 or just celebration

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 spend a moment just to

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 allow him to work and speak

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 may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may

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 . . .

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 I'll share one final thing before we sing.

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 Growing up, there was this book that I read called What's So Amazing About Grace.

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 Of course, we've sang the song.

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 And it really makes me think our challenge is my own understanding of what grace is.

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 If we don't think it's amazing, then we've actually missed the point of what grace is.

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 That we sit here as Esau's and Jacob's and grace has been poured out over us, completely undeserving.

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 And I used to love that book.

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 I admired the author that wrote that book.

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 And then it was recently we found actually the author himself was in deep need of grace.

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 And it reminds me again, it's not about human legacy.

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 It's not about Abraham and Isaac.

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 Or whoever God uses in this life.

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 There's only one who is good.

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 There's only one who is great.

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 There's only one who is perfect.

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 And he took to the cross for us.

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 God's plan is perfect.

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 He is sovereignly for us.

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 But the beauty is that he uses broken people, dysfunctional families to carry out his perfect plan.

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 And we are all just broken vessels.

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 may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may may