All right, let's take our Bibles
and turn to Genesis 28, and I'd like to read the first nine verses. And Isaac called Jacob, blessed
him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take
a wife of the daughters of Canaan. Arise, go to Padan Aram, to the
house of Bethuel, thy mother's father, and take thee away from
thence of the daughters of Laban, thy mother's brother. And God
Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee
that thou mayest be a multitude of people, and give thee the
blessing of Abraham to thee and to thy seed with thee, that thou
mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which God
gave unto Abraham. And Isaac sent away Jacob, and
he went to Padan-aram unto Laban son of Bethuel the Syrian, the
brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother. When Esau saw
that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padan-Aram
to take him away from Thense, and that as he blessed him, he
gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take away for the daughters
of Canaan, and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and
was gone to Padan-Aram. And Esau, seeing that the daughters
of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father, then went Jacob unto
Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he had Mahalath, the daughter
of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nebadjoth, to be his
wife. Let's pray together. Our Father,
as we call upon you this evening, Lord only in the name of the
Lord Jesus Christ, do we know that we have access unto you. I pray that you would bless the
word tonight. Pray that you'd give us a time
of worship. Lord, let us be taught. Lord, give us understanding into
your scriptures. And these things we ask for Christ's
sake. Amen. Good evening, everybody. 258,
if you would please. 258, he hot at my soul. A wonderful Savior is Jesus my
Lord, a wonderful Savior to me. He hath my soul in the cleft,
the rock where rivers I see. Behind my soul, in the cleft
that shadows a dry, thirsty land. He hideth my life in the depths
of His love, and covers me there with His hand, and covers me
there with His hand. A wonderful Savior is Jesus,
my Lord. He taketh my burden away. He holdeth me up, and I shall
not be moved. He giveth me strength as my day. He hideth my soul in the cleft
of the river. At shadows of dry land He hides
my life in the depths of His love Covers me there with His
hand And covers me there with His hand With numberless blessings
each moment He crafts, filled with His fullness divine. I sing in my rapture, O glory
to God, for such a Redeemer as mine. Ye hide with my soul in
the cleft of the Shadows the dry, thirsty land. He hideth my life in a dance
amidst the rain, And covers me there with his hand. And covers me there with his
hand. When clothed in His brightness
transported, I rise to meet Him in clouds of the sky. His perfect salvation, His wonderful
love, I'll shout with the millions on high. He hideth my soul in
the cleft of the Shadows of dry, thirsty land. He hides my life in the depths
of His love, and covers me there with His hand. And covers me there with His
hand. Number 51. 51, if you would please. Praise the Savior, ye who know
him. Who can tell how much we owe
Him Gladly let us refer to Him all we are and have Jesus is
the name that charms us before conflict fits and arms us nothing
moves and nothing harms us while we trust in him Trust in Him,
ye saints, forever. He is faithful, changing never. Neither force nor gout can stop
the love He loves from Him. ? Keep us Lord, oh keep us cleaving
? ? To thyself and still believing ? ? Till the hour of our receiving
? ? Promise joys with thee ? ? Then we shall be where we would be
? And we shall be what we should be, things that are not, now
nor could be, soon shall be our own. Thank you. All right. Turning back to Genesis
28, Genesis 28. You know, while all men can speculate,
as we've looked at this blessed passage of scripture, and they
can question the ways, the avenues that Rebekah and Jacob may have
taken concerning Isaac, concerning Jacob receiving the blessing.
One thing stands sure. God's will is going to be done. Turn with me to Isaiah 46. Isaiah 46. Isaiah 46, verse 9
to 11. Remember the former things of
old, for I am God and there's none else. I am God and there's
none like me. Declaring the end from the beginning
and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying,
my counsel shall stand and I will do all my pleasure. Calling a ravenous bird from
the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country,
yea, I have spoken it. I will also bring it to pass. I have purposed it. I will also
do it. Now, we know that the Lord is
not the author of sin. We know that. And we know that everything that
comes to pass comes to pass according to his providential will. Concerning Jacob receiving the
blessing, was Jacob doing what he wanted to do? Yes. Was the Lord of glory doing as
he will in the army of heaven and among the inhabitants of
the earth when Jacob received the blessing? Yes. Is God the author of sin? No. God Almighty is ruling, and He
orders all things according to His will. Isaac, the father, of Jacob and
Esau has seen the will of the Lord. He has seen God Almighty
move all things that Jacob would get the blessing. And now we
pick up in chapter 28, verse one and two, and Isaac called
Jacob and blessed him. He spoke to him in a way not
of reproof or of correction, but he spoke to him in a gently,
gentlemanly way. And he charged him. And he said
unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
Arise, go to Padan Aram, to the house of Bethul, thy mother's
father. And take thee away from thence
of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother. Now, Jacob,
having obtained the blessing, was directed by his father to
flee from the country in which he was dwelling. They were in Canaan. They were
in Canaan. I had to get a map out and look
and see where they were. Where was Canaan? Where was it?
They're in Beersheba. It's in Canaan. And he tells
him, he charged him, verse 1, and said unto him, Thou shalt
not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. I want you to go somewhere
else. I want you to go to Paddan. I want you to travel To this
place that I'm sending you back to the home family place of Abraham And according to God's will Because
the Canaanites had not been cast out yet They were sojourners. Let's read. Arise, go to Padan
Aurem, verse two, to the house of Bethuel, thy mother's father,
and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban, thy
mother's brother. I want you to go to where I send
you, a place of God's choosing, and I want you to find a wife,
a wife according to God's choice. There's Rachel. At the end of
this, that's another chapter. We'll look at that later. But
there's a Rachel that's there. And this wife that he's gonna
take is gonna be a beautiful picture of God's bride for the
Lord Jesus Christ. But he's gonna have to lead Jacob
to go get her, go where she is. What a beautiful picture of the
gospel. The Lord came to this world Made
flesh, came here to, I came to do the will of the Father. He
came not to do my own will, the will of Him that sent me. But
all that He's given me, I should lose none. Well, often we find
that the Lord's providential way seems to us to contradict
our thoughts, but God's ways are not our ways. Our ways are
not God's ways. But if we were allowed to see
clearly, of his divine workings, we would surely see that all
was for the best. All was according to his will.
I think about, I've said this before, how in the world did
I get to West Virginia? I'm a kid out of South Louisiana. How did I end up here? By the
will of God. The Lord directed me to come
to this place, and that's what he's doing for Jacob. So Isaac,
forbid Jacob to take a wife of the daughters of Canaanites,
and he sent him to Padan Aurem, to the house of Bethuel, Rebekah's
father, to take a wife of Jacob's uncle, reminding him that we're
to be led of the Lord, concerning our union, spouse, 2 Corinthians
6, 14. Be ye not unequally yoked together
with unbelievers, for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness,
what communion hath light and darkness? So Jacob was to seek
a spouse that magnified the union between the Lord Jesus Christ
and his bride. That union that has fellowship
and communion with the Lord. Being one. So Isaac, he's bowed
to the revealed will of God. Isaac was gonna bless Esau. Isaac was gonna bless Esau. But
now he's seen that the Lord has ordered it. And he sees now that
Jacob was to get the blessing. So he's sending Jacob away. And
so the scripture says in verse three and four, now here's Isaac
still speaking to Jacob. He's telling him, I want you
to leave where you are. I want you to leave here, don't
take away from here. That's what Esau did, it's what
we're gonna see in just a minute. He said, but you don't do that.
Verse three and four, and God Almighty bless thee and make
thee fruitful and multiply thee that thou mayest be a multitude
of people and give thee the blessing of Abraham to thee and to thy
seed with thee that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou
art a stranger, which God gave to Abraham. Now he's just confirming
what we just said. He's in Canaan right now. He's
in Canaan. And he says in verse four, and
give thee the blessing of Abraham to thee and to thy seed with
thee, that thou mayest inherit the land. What land? The land
wherein thou art a stranger right now. God's gonna give you this
land. That's a beautiful picture, tight.
It's a gospel picture, which God gave unto Abraham. Now, the
blessing was truly rehearsed in the ears of Jacob. Now, you
remember, we just looked in 27th chapter where Isaac blessed Jacob,
and he gave him that blessing. And you said that in verse, you
know, Starting in 27, his son came close to him. He smelled
his raiment and blessed him. He said, the smell of my son's
is the smell of a field which the Lord has blessed. Therefore,
God give thee the dew of heaven. And he blessed him right there.
Gave him the blessing. That blessing that belonged to
the firstborn. The elder was going to serve
the younger here. And now here he's embellishing, he's saying
more of what he had just said back in chapter 27. And this
was a great blessing to Jacob. Why? Because when Jacob first
of all was blessed of his father, his father at first thought he
was blessing Esau. And Jacob knew that. Told his
mama, I can't go in there, my daddy's gonna know it. He saws
a hairy man, I'm not, I'm a smooth man. Put his raiment on, skins
on him, his armed hands. He comes in and Jacob knows,
Jacob knows. Dad thinks I'm Esau. He received
the blessing. Isaac later said, I blessed him
and he will be blessed, he shall be blessed. Here's Jacob now
hearing his father speak unto him again and giving him, telling
him, reiterating to him the blessing. And now Jacob knows. My dad is
now repeating this blessing with his eyes of understanding open. He knows it's me. He knows that
God has given me the blessing. And without a doubt, the hearing of that blessing
with Isaac speaking it with the knowledge of God Almighty's will
being done and Jacob knowing that his daddy is talking to
him now. Knowing that his daddy is speaking to him as the one
that has been given the blessing, that encourages Jacob. And he's
gonna need great encouragement because of the journey that he's
gonna be making to the place where his father is gonna send
him. Now, that blessing was a blessing of great, great significance. It was a gospel blessing. I want
you to look at this blessing in verse three and four for just
a minute. He said, and God Almighty bless thee, make thee fruitful
and multiply thee that thou mayest be a multitude of people. Now, knowing that Isaac is speaking
the will of the Lord, And he's speaking the will of the Lord
to Jacob, who was the chosen of God. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob. And now, what he's telling, what
Isaac now, who had also received the blessing of the Lord, that
he's talking to his son that God has chosen. He said, this
is the blessing of God upon you. Verse 3. God Almighty, bless
thee, make thee fruitful, multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude
of people. You know what he was saying?
God is going to have a people on this earth. He's going to
have a people of his choosing, a people of his love. Knowing
that the Lord had accomplished His will, the Spirit moved Isaac
to refer to the Lord as this was very significant. God Almighty bless you. That's
one of the first, if not the first, reference made by a man
of God Almighty. Isaac beheld to rule, to overrule, rule and
overrule. God Almighty bless you and make
thee fruitful. Multiply thee that thou mayest
be a multitude of people. I want you to turn to Romans
11, one to five, Romans 11. I looked just to see How big is Israel, the nation
of Israel? And I'm just talking to you now.
Now, the Lord had just told, I mean, Isaac had just told Jacob,
here's the blessing. God Almighty bless thee and make
you fruitful and multiply thee all through history. Israel has
been the subject of great oppression all through history. I mean,
in the scriptures, we see all those that warred against them
and God would bless them and sustain them and sustain them
and sustain them and all that. And then even in modern history,
and again, now listen, I'm just talking to you now. Look how
many times the Jews have been Attempts have been made to eradicate
them, obliterate them. It was done in World War II.
It was done, history has proven the war in 67, I believe this
battle, it lasted about six days, something like that, I can't
remember. But they tried to obliterate. I looked to see how big Israel
is. How big is that country? And
when I looked it up, It showed a little map of Pennsylvania
and West Virginia. It was just on, it happened to
Google. It showed Pennsylvania and West
Virginia right here. And here was Israel, just right
kind of in the middle, just a little old strip. It kind of went down
through Pennsylvania and West Virginia, I thought. You gotta
be kidding. It's just, it's not a big place. It's not a large, massive country. I thought to myself, what a picture. God Almighty, as many people
of this world that has tried to stamp out that country, eradicate
it, blow it off the map. What they're saying now, that's
what, you know, the country's over there, they're always fighting.
We're going to obliterate Israel. Spiritually speaking, not the
dirt, not the country itself, but spiritual, it's showing God's
got a people. And God's gonna have a people.
And he's gonna have a people. He's gonna have a people. The
scripture says in Romans chapter 11, verse one to five, I say
then, hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite of
the seed of Abraham of the tribe of Benjamin. God hath not cast
away his people which he foreknew. What ye not what the scripture
saith of Elias, how he maketh intercession to God against Israel,
saying, Lord, they've killed thy prophets, dig down thine
altars, I'm left alone, they seek my life. But what saith
the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself 7,000
men who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal. Even so,
then at this present time also, there is a remnant according
to the election grace as a remnant. God Almighty has a people. And now at any given time in
history, turn to Isaiah 1, Isaiah 1, 9. Any given time in history,
that number in that particular time in history, comparatively
speaking, is small. Look at what Isaiah 1.9 says. Except the Lord of hosts had
left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom
should have been like unto Gomorrah. Unless the Lord left the people,
turn to Revelation 7. Unless the Lord had left a remnant,
a very small remnant, a small group of people. Comparatively
speaking, unless the Lord had kept us here, we'd all been like
Sodom and Gomorrah, wiped out. Almighty God has been pleased
to have a people, even though at this particular time, like
all times, just a remnant here, some here, some there. Look at
the masses, just where we live, just how many people where we
live. In this one state, how many people does God have in
this state? I don't know. Comparatively speaking, it's
just a small amount. But God's got a people. Look
at Revelation 7, verse 2 and 3. And I saw another angel ascending
from the east, having the seal of the living God. And he cried
with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given
to hurt the earth and the sea, saying, hurt not the earth, neither
the sea, nor the trees till we have sealed the servants of our
God in their foreheads. Look at verse nine. And this
I beheld, and lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of
all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before
the throne, for the Lamb clothed with white robes and palms in
their hands, and cried with a loud voice, saying, salvation to our
God, which sitteth upon the throne and unto the Lamb. So back in
Genesis 20, 28, Isaac is speaking to Jacob, and
he's telling him, this is the blessing. This is the blessing
of God upon you. You're gonna be a type, a picture. You're gonna see this. God Almighty
bless thee, make thee fruitful. Those that come from you multiply
thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people. But then there was
a second part of that blessing. Verse four, and give thee the
blessing of Abraham to thee and to thy seed with thee that thou
mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger which God
gave unto Abraham. Now here, according to the blessing
of God to Abraham, there was an inheritance. There was an
inheritance for those of God's choosing. Almighty God had told
Abraham, I'm going to give you Canaan. I'm going to give you
this land. Now, to Abraham and to Isaac
and now to Jacob, there was a word of promise that they were going
to inherit the land And God was pleased to give them. And it
was the land in which Jacob and Isaac was in, right now. But again, as I said before,
the Canaanites had not been cast out. But God said, I'm going
to give you this land. I'm going to give it to you.
But here again, that's a land that promises. It's a type of
glory. Heaven, the promise of heaven. I'm gonna give you, this is gonna
be yours. This world right here, this world,
it's been cursed. The earth was cursed. But just
as Jacob would inherit the land that he was in, that his father
told him, he said, you can't take away from here. You're gonna
have to go and be you know, as the Lord directs you and gives
you, but here's God's sheep. We're in this world. We're in
a world right now. And we don't be like it. We're not to be like it. We're
in the world. We're not of the world, not of
the world's religion. Here's God's people, strangers
and pilgrims, just like Abraham was and Isaac was and Jacob was. You're sojourning, that's what
he said in verse four. And give thee a blessing of Abraham
to thee and to thy seed that thou mayest inherit the land
wherein thou art a stranger. The land God gave to Abraham.
You know what we look for? We look for new heavens and a
new earth. wherein dwelleth righteousness. We're not of this world. This
is what Isaac was telling Jacob. This is God's blessing. God's
got a people. And the multitudes, the multitudes
of the Jewish nation that will come out from your lawns, God's
gonna multiply. There's gonna be people, and
now not all that were born nationally, as Jews, were spiritual Jews. We know that. But out of your
loins is gonna come a people that God's gonna bless, a spiritual
blessing. And this land that you're dwelling
in right now, you're just a sojourner right here. You're just a sojourner
here. It's not your home. It's not
your home. God's gonna make new heavens,
new heavens and new earth. And you're gonna be there. That's
what he's telling. This is the promise that the
Lord's given to his people. So all who possess God's promise
and blessing in Christ are those who are as the stars of heaven. Abraham, look up. See the stars? Can you count them? That's gonna be those that'll
come from you. That's the stars of a heaven.
sand of the sea. You shall increase more than
the rest of the nations. You're going to be an assembly
of people. That's what the margin says. So the foundation of the
blessing of Abraham was sure. This is the way it's going to
be. How does it look? Well, it don't look very promising
right now. Well, we're not going by what looks promising. We're
going by what God said. So Abraham believed God. and it was counted on Him for
righteousness. So here's the promise. These people, people is gonna
come out of you of God's choosing, God's love, and also the Messiah
that's gonna save His people from their sins. They're all
gonna be blessed, and the inheritance that you have, these people are
heirs of God, and they're joint heirs with Christ. It said in
Isaac, verse 5, sent away Jacob. And he went to Padan Aram unto
Laban, son of Bethuel, the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob
and Esau's mother. Now, I'm going to look at these
next four verses, six to nine. But now Jacob is leaving now,
in verse 5. And I'll tell you what happens
according to the leadership of the Spirit of God. It picks up
in verse 10. Verse 10 starts off and it says,
And Jacob went out from Beersheba and went toward Haran. He left. And the Spirit of the Lord was
pleased to stop. He's telling us in verse 5 that
Jacob's leaving. He's leaving. He went out. He
was leaving. But he picks up in verse 10, and he starts to
tell us of the journey, and that's gonna be when the Lord's gonna
cross his path, and he'll wrestle with the Lord, and Lord willing,
we'll pick up that journey. But the Spirit of the Lord was
pleased to insert four verses of Scripture, six to nine, that
are very, very significant and very revealing. It'd just been
speaking, over these first five verses of God's sovereignty to
be able to give His people the blessing of God's choosing. I'm
going to bless you. I'm going to direct you. I'm
going to keep you. I'm going to multiply you. I'm going to
give you an inheritance. I'm going to give all this to
you because I've chosen to give it to you. But in these next
four verses, we're going to behold the absolute certainty of of
the actions of those that God leaves to themselves. Esau is
revealed now to have taken up a desire, a desire for a spiritual
blessing from Isaac. 6 to 9 says when Esau saw that
Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padan Aram to
take him a wife from thence. And that as he blessed him, he
gave him a charge saying, that's what he's saying, he's blessing
him. And he said, I'm gonna tell you something, I'm gonna give
you a charge. Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters
of Canaan. And Esau saw, he noticed that as his daddy was sending
Jacob away, he noticed in verse seven that Jacob obeyed his father
and his mother and was gone to Padan Arum. And there's something
else that Esau saw. Verse eight, Esau seeing that
the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac, his father, he did
something. Then went Esau unto Ishmael,
and took unto the wives which he had, Mahalath, the daughter
of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his
wife. Now, he's noticing, Esau's noticing,
that Jacob has received the blessing that Esau really never wanted. But now he's seeming to show
some interest. Hebrews 12, 17 says this, for
you know that afterward, when he, that is Esau, would have
inherited the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place
of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears. No record is made of Esau desiring
a blessing according to the glory of God. He never said that. He's
being left to his own evil ways and desires. And the Spirit of
God revealed the heart of Esau in Hebrews 12, 16, saying this,
lest there be any fornicator or profane person that is ungodly,
as Esau, who for one marshal of meat sold his birthright. But with the blessing being bestowed
upon Jacob, and with Isaac sending Jacob away to take a wife, not
of the daughters of Canaan, among whom they dwelt, as Esau had
done. That's what his daddy told him.
He said, you go, you go here. Don't take a wife from here.
Don't, don't do it. But he told him, he said, rather
go to the place of Abraham's family. And there you find God's
blessing. With all these things now being
seen of Esau, he realized, now there's something here of importance. There's something that's going
on here of importance, and whatever it was, whatever it is, now I
want you to just notice, he saw that his daddy blessed Jacob,
sent him away, take a wife, and he said he heard him, his dad
said, don't take a wife, don't take a wife of the daughters
of Canaan, don't do it, don't do it. He saw Jacob obeyed his
father, and he left, he saw that, he left, And Esau saw that the
daughters of Canaan didn't please his mom and daddy. He went over
to the family of Ishmael. He said, I think I see what it
is. I think to get the blessing, I know what I'm going to have
to do. I'm going to have to go get, I've already got two wives
that are Canaanites, but I know how to please my daddy. I'll
go over to Ishmael's family and get a wife from there. Now, in the mind, I want you
to, I said just before I started these last four verses, this
is the mindset of every man, every woman left to themselves. Esau saw that there was something
of great importance here that was going on. There was a blessing,
the blessing of God that was given to Jacob. He saw that. Didn't say that he desired the
glory of God or the blessing of God. He didn't say that. He
had shunned that. But there was a blessing to be
had. Now, here's the point that I'm going to get to before I
finish these last couple of paragraphs I've got in my nose. This world
sees that evidently there's something of importance in this thing of
God's blessing. There's something of importance
in salvation. That, you know, this thing of
being saved, I see, they see that, they got a Bible, they
can read it, and there's something that speaks of grace and salvation
and hell and heaven and reprobates There's something of importance
here. There's something. And evidently, whatever it is,
it has something to do with something that men do. That's the mindset
of this world. There's a blessing here, but
there's something going on. He saw that Jacob obeyed, and
he left. He saw that the daughters of
Canaan didn't please his father. So he deducted, I know what I'll
do. I'll go over to the family of
Ishmael, one that was rejected of God, and I'll get a wife from
that group. That'll please my daddy. That'll
give me a fair, sight, a fair showing in my dad's eyes and
mother's eyes. God's glory wasn't the issue. Evidently, to Esau, the whole
foundation of the blessing must have been wrapped up in who he
married. He didn't perceive the obedience
of God to be the issue. He merely saw that the daughters
of Canaan didn't please his father, which could easily be fixed.
I'll just go over to Ishmael's family and I'll get me a wife
there. Now this is the mindset of man
by nature. It's not, it's not necessarily,
you know, what you do, but it's your sincerity. If you're wanting
to do the right thing, if this religion is not right, then go
to this religion. We're all working for the same
thing. He failed to see, Esau failed to see what all men, apart
from the illumination of God's grace, they failed to see this.
It's not by works of righteousness, which we have done, but according
to his mercy, he saved us by the washing of regeneration and
renewing of the spirit. Esau thought as all men born
in Adam think. Esau thought that all he had
to do to please his father, Esau thought he could please Isaac
and all men and all women by nature think that they can please
God and receive a blessing and make amends by just reforming
their ways. That's all I got to do. My daddy
don't like the women from Canaan. I'll just go to Ishmael's house
and I'll get me a wife over there. And this depicts the hypocrites
in this life. This is the mindset of the carnal
heart. I'll close with this. Turn to
Romans 10. Romans 10. No place was it written that
Esau came to his dad and said, I've sinned against God. As that
prodigal did, I've sinned against heaven, I've done it in your
sight. I'm not worthy to be called your son, make me a servant.
He didn't do that, no. He just thought, I'll just reform.
I'll just reform, that's all I gotta do. He just don't like
the women from here. I'll pick this one. He just don't
like this religion, I'll go get this religion. I'll join with
this group. Romans chapter 10, verse one
to four. My heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is that
they might be saved. For I bear them record, they
have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. For they being
ignorant of God's righteousness and going about to establish
their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto
the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the
law for righteousness to everyone that believeth. The Lord moved
Isaac to tell Jacob, God has blessed you. The Lord's gonna
multiply you. God's gonna bring his people.
People from your loins is gonna come a people that is a spiritual
people. Jews and Gentiles, God's gonna
save them. God's gonna bring them to himself.
God has an inheritance for you. The Lord's gonna bless you with
the land that right now, you're a sojourner, you're sojourning
here. You're a pilgrim here. But that's not the way it's gonna
be. The Lord's gonna give you an inheritance. And Esau saw
that. All I've gotta do is just mend
my ways, turn over a new leaf, clean up my act, you know, straighten
up and fly right. and God will be pleased. God Almighty must deliver men
and women from themselves. May the Lord have mercy upon
us for Christ's glory in our