Alright, brethren, let's turn
to Genesis chapter 27. Genesis 27. I was going to read my entire
text, but it's quite lengthy, and I'm just going to read the
very end of it, and then we'll go back and work our way through
it. In Genesis 27, verse 28, Jacob comes into the presence
of Isaac, his father, We read in verse 28, it says, God give
thee of the dew of heaven. The Father has given Jacob the
blessing. God give thee of the dew of heaven,
and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine.
Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee. Be Lord over
thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee. Cursed
be everyone that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth
thee. Now, in the matter that we're
going to see here in this text, everyone involved sinned. Everybody involved sinned. Isaac
the father let his fleshly appetite rule over him. Esau, he knew
he had sold his birthright. He had sold his birthright to
Jacob long before this. But whenever his father told
him now, go get me some venison and come and that I may eat,
that I may bless thee. Esau saw this as an opportunity
to try to get the blessing by his works. Deceive his father
and get the blessing. And then Rebecca and Jacob were
very deceptive in what they did. Everybody involved here sinned
in what they did. And yet, through it all, God
brought to pass His will. He brought His will to pass.
Back in Genesis 25-23, when Rebekah was pregnant with these twins,
God said, the elder shall serve the younger. And God brought
to pass His will. Even in the midst of all this
sin, God overrules everything. Even
using sinners to bring to pass His will, that He's determined
before the foundation of the world, His purpose. Scripture
says, Surely the wrath of man, the sin and rebellion of man,
shall praise God, and the remainder shall God restrain. If it's bringing
honor to Him, God will leave it unrestrained. But if it's
not, God will restrain it. He's going to work His will.
Now, but if the only thing we see in this passage is the sin
of those involved, we're going to miss Christ. We're going to
miss Christ. And I want us to see Christ this
morning. Adam sinned in the garden, and Romans 5 tells us Adam's
a figure of Christ. Abraham and Sarah sinned when
Abraham took Hagar to wife, but Scriptures tell us that was an
allegory of the two covenants. Likewise, in this story, we see
a beautiful illustration of how a sinner must come to God in
Christ. And here's the point I want us
to get. For a sinner to obtain the blessing of God our Father,
we must come before God our Father as Christ the firstborn. We must
come as Christ the firstborn. We looked at this passage several
years ago. The first time I heard it preached was by my pastor,
Marvin Stoniker, back in the, I guess, in the 90s, mid-90s.
And it was a blessing to me then. I hope it will be a blessing
to you now. Alright, now who does each person represent? Who
are we going to look at these pictures, each person as typifying? Isaac, we're going to look at
as a type of God the Father. And Esau, now this may surprise
you, but we're going to look at Esau here as a type of Christ
the firstborn. Christ the firstborn. And Rebecca
we see as a type of the Holy Spirit of God. And we see Jacob
representing a sinner saved by God's grace. That's who he was. Now first of all, God the Father
sent Christ into the world to accomplish His will. We begin
in verse 1. It came to pass that when Isaac
was old and his eyes were dimmed so that he could not see, he
called Esau his eldest son. And said unto him, My son. And Esau said unto him, Behold,
here am I. Before this world was made, God
the Father called His firstborn Son. He called the Lord Jesus
Christ, chose Him, called Him, and Christ said, Behold, here
am I. Here am I. And Isaac sent forth
his firstborn into the field. And he sent him forth into the
field to accomplish the Father's will. He says here in verse 3,
Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver, and
thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me some venison, and
make me savory meat such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may
eat, that my soul may bless thee before I die. Well, God the Father
sent Christ into the world to accomplish His will. Galatians
tells us, when the fullness of time was come, God sent forth
His Son. Made of a woman, made under the
law to redeem them that were under the law. That was God's
will. To redeem them that were under the law that we might receive
the adoption of sons. God sent His firstborn. God the
Father sent Christ to do for His people what we could never
do for ourselves. He sent Christ forth into the
world to fulfill the righteousness of God's holy law. He sent Him
forth to satisfy divine justice for God our Father and for His
people. To declare God just and the justifier
of all who believe on Jesus. and to justify His people from
all our sins, to make it so that God could show us mercy and be
just as He did. That's what Christ came forth
to do, and that's what He accomplished. Isaac sent his firstborn to bring
him that savory meat that the Father loved. And God the Father
sent Christ forth to be Himself that savor that Christ loved. We read in Ephesians 5, 2, Christ
hath loved us. and hath given himself for us
a sacrifice and an offering to God for a sweet-smelling savour."
That savoury venison that Isaac loved, he wanted. That's what
he wanted. And that's what God the Father
wanted, that savoury sacrifice that only Christ could provide.
And He sent him forth to accomplish that will of the Father. God
said in Isaiah 54, Behold mine elect. Behold my servant whom
I uphold. I put my Spirit upon him. He'll
bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. And God said in that chapter,
He shall not fail. And Christ didn't fail. Christ
cried out from Calvary and He said, It is finished. He finished the work the Father
gave Him to do. It pleased the Lord to bruise
Him. That doesn't mean that God got
some kind of gratification, some kind of you know, pleasure out
of bruising him, it means it satisfied the justice of God
to bruise him. Christ saw the travail of his
soul and he was satisfied. Scripture said, by his knowledge
His righteous servant, His firstborn, justified many, for He bore their
iniquities. That's what He did. Isaac sent
Esau that He might give him the blessing. This was the whole
purpose. Send him forth to accomplish
His will and come back with this offering that I delight in, that
I might give you the blessing, He said. And God the Father entered
covenant with God the Son before the world was made, that when
Christ accomplished this work, God the Father said, I'm going
to give you the blessing. I'll give you the blessing. And
Christ accomplished the work, and God the Father gave Him the
blessing. God raised Him to His right hand, and the Scripture
says, He is now Head of the Body, the Church. who is the beginning,
the firstborn from the dead, that in all He might have the
preeminence." So, if Christ has accomplished this for His people,
if He's gone forth into the field and He's made Himself the sacrifice
and the offering, and He's brought to the Father that savory sacrifice
that the Father is pleased with, what are we doing here today?
Why are we here today? What am I standing here for?
Preaching. Turn to Romans chapter 8. Turn to Romans chapter 8. We saw this last time when Esau
sold the birthright, but I want you to see this again. Romans 8 verse 29 says, For whom
God did foreknow, He also did predestinate. That's not a dirty
word, that's a good word. He did predestinate to be conformed
to the image of His Son that Christ might be the firstborn
among many brethren. That's what He predestinated. that those He chose and elected
unto salvation might be conformed to the image of Christ. Now look
down the page, look down here at verse 32. He that spared not
His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, for all those
He foreknew, how shall He not with Christ the firstborn also
freely give us all things? You see, He gave Christ the firstborn
the blessing. And He predestinated a people
that He foreknew to be conformed to the image of Christ, that
with Christ the firstborn, He might also give them the blessing.
So we're here today preaching this message because if there's
anybody that's going to get the blessing, Anybody's going to
be made to hear and see Christ in this passage, and see Christ
seated on the throne at the right hand of God, and see our need
of Christ, and be brought to faith in Christ, be conformed
to the image of Christ by the Holy Spirit. If that happens
to anybody here today, it's going to be by God the Holy Spirit
working it in the hearts of His people through this Gospel. Is
anybody here interested in the blessing? Anybody want the blessing? I want the blessing. I want the
blessing. Well, let's see how we're going
to get it. Secondly, we see the work of
the Holy Spirit here in what Rebekah did for Jacob. Now, again,
I'll tell you, there's no excuse for their sin, but now I want
you to see God glorified in this. Alright? Look here now. Genesis
27, 5. It says, Rebekah heard when Isaac
spake to Esau his son. Rebecca heard when Isaac, the
father, spoke to the firstborn son. He heard. Look at John 16,
13 real quick. John 16, 13. I had you look at
this Thursday night. Look at this.
John 16, 13. There's Rebecca. She's listening. She hears what
the Father and the Son say. She hears them enter this covenant.
The Father says, go into the field and accomplish this. Bring
this savory meat to me and I'm going to give you the blessing.
And they entered into an agreement. And the Son went forth. And she
heard that. She heard that. Now look here
what Christ said this Holy Spirit of God is going to do. He says
here in John 16, In verse 13, Howbeit when He, the Spirit of
truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth. For He shall
not speak of Himself, but whatsoever He shall hear. Whatever He hears,
that shall He speak. He will show you things to come. That's what Rebekah did. We see
a picture of the Holy Spirit. She heard the Father and the
Son. She heard the Father and the Son. The Holy Spirit hears
the Father and the Son in this everlasting covenant. And Rebecca
came to Jacob, her son, and she taught Jacob what was said between
the Father and the Son. Look here now, Genesis 27.6.
And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard
thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, and she told Jacob what
they agreed upon. In the predestinated hour, in
the hour God the Father set before the world was made, in that predestinated
hour, When God has sent the Gospel to His child and His child's
made ready by the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit enters into the
heart and the Holy Spirit tells the child what He's heard between
God the Father and God the Son. He tells us about this good news
of this everlasting covenant of grace between God the Father
and God the Son. You know what the good news of
the Gospel is? God the Father promised God the Son, and God
the Son promised God the Father, and they fulfilled their promise,
and we just get the free benefit from it. Isn't that the good
news of it? They do all the work, and we
get the benefit from it. That's good news. And that's
what the Holy Spirit tells us. Now, why did Rebecca tell Jacob
this? Why did Rebecca tell Jacob this?
Well, because back there in Genesis 25-23, the Lord told Rebekah,
the elder shall serve the younger. Now what does that mean? Let's
go to Romans 9. We don't have to guess what it
means. The Holy Spirit tells us exactly what it means. The
Lord told Rebekah, the elder shall serve the younger. God
the Father speaks to God the Holy Spirit saying, the elder
shall serve the younger. What does that mean? Romans 9.10
says, "...when Rebekah also had conceived by one, even by our
father Isaac, for the children being not yet born, neither having
done any good or evil..." Now here it is. "...that the purpose
of God, according to election, might stand, not of works, but
of him that calleth." There's the purpose. It's not of works. Not of my work and your work,
but of God that calleth. It was said unto her, the elder
shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have
I loved, but Esau have I hated. What shall we say then? Why would
Paul ask this question? Why would he ask this question?
He would ask this question because when people hear that God chose
one and not the other, when He chose Jacob and not Esau, folks
will say, well that's not fair. And so he asked the question,
is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid. There's no unrighteousness
with God. He says here, for he said to
Moses, this is my very glory. I will have mercy on whom I will
have mercy. And I'll have compassion on whom
I will have compassion. So then, this is the doctrine
of election. This is the purpose of election.
It's not of mere you that willeth or runneth. But of God that showeth
mercy. We're saved by mercy. We're saved
by grace. That's how we're saved. By grace. By God calling. Not by our works. By God calling. And God told
the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit comes and
tells us what He's heard. That God has chosen you. I tell
you what. By nature, this is what we all
do. By nature, when you hear about the doctrine of election,
Carlomine's enmity against God, and we always put ourselves in
the camp with folks who are not elect and say, well, that's not
fair. But it takes God the Holy Spirit
coming to say, you are one of the elect. When he does that, then you start
saying, oh, I like this doctrine of election. I like this doctrine
of election now. God chose me. He chose me. But it takes the Holy Spirit
to make us know that. It takes Him to make us know
that. And then look at this, back in our text, now Rebecca
commanded Jacob. She commanded Jacob, teaching
him what he must bring to his father. Verse 8, Now therefore,
my son, obey my voice according to that which I command thee. Go now to the flock and fetch
me from thence two kids of the goats. Go get two kids of the
goats. And I will make them savory meat
for thy father, such as he loveth. And thou shalt bring it to thy
father, that he may eat, that he may bless thee before his
death. two kids of the goats. She teaches
this boy, commands this boy, go get two kids of the goats.
These two kids of the goats represent the atonement Christ made for
his people. The other place where we find
two slain offerings is on the Day of Atonement. On the Day
of Atonement. One is the scapegoat. And the
scapegoat was the one that the priest puts his hand on the head
of the goat and ceremonially, in type and picture, he puts
the sins of all the world. No, the sin of Israel. The sins
of the children of Israel on the scapegoat. And the scapegoat
bears those sins away into a land not inhabited. an uninhabited
land. And that goat represents Christ
Jesus on the cross who bore our sins in His own body on the tree,
who bore the sins of all God's elect in His body on the tree,
and He bore those sins away to that uninhabited land. He died
the death His people owed to divine justice. And then that
other goat was a spotless lamb. And that spotless lamb had its
blood taken by the high priest into the holiest of holies and
had his blood sprinkled seven times before the mercy seat.
And that goat typifies Christ, who, while He bore the sins of
His people in His body on the tree, and bore away our sins,
satisfying divine justice, He also, in His holy, spotless nature,
offered Himself without spot to God, and entered into the
Holy of Holies, into the presence of God. Hebrews 9.12 says, Neither
by the blood of bulls and goats, but by His own blood, But he
entered it once into the holy place, having obtained eternal
redemption for us." That's what Christ did. She says to him now,
the Holy Spirit teaches His child, the only way you can come to
your Father is you have to come with Christ. the atonement. You have to come with Christ,
the propitiation. You have to come with Christ,
the sacrifice and the offering with which God is well pleased,
whereby all the sins of His people is put away and eternal redemption
has been accomplished. The Holy Spirit commands this
in our hearts and teaches this. He doesn't come and make a suggestion. He doesn't come and say, now,
if you're interested in this, maybe we can work out a deal.
Rebecca commanded her son. Alright, let's go on. And as
the Holy Spirit makes us behold Christ, the Lord said, when I
pour out the spirit of supplications on them, they're going to look
upon me whom they've pierced, and they're going to mourn for
me as one mourns for his own son. They're going to see their
need. They're going to see their sin. Well, as the Holy Spirit
makes us behold Christ, He also teaches us our need for Christ. He teaches us our sin. Now look
at this. Genesis 27, 11. As she's teaching
Jacob this, Jacob said to Rebekah, his mother, Behold, Esau, my
brother, is a hairy man, and I'm a smooth man. My Father,
peradventure, will fill me, and I shall seem to Him as a deceiver,
and I shall bring a curse upon me and not a blessing." You see,
Christ receives all the glory. He receives all the glory in
our salvation. Because we don't behold our sin
until we behold Christ. She showed Him how you must come
with these two goats. And the Holy Spirit shows us
Christ who's made atonement, who's made satisfaction of God
for His people and obtained redemption for His people. And as we behold
Christ, we begin to see, I'm nothing like Him. I am nothing
like Him. If I come before the Father outside
of Christ, The Father's going to see me as a deceiver and I'm
nothing like Him. I'm going to bring a curse on
me and not a blessing. And that's where we got to be brought. We
got to be brought to see we need Christ. We got to be made to
see we need Him. It's called confessing our sin
to God. And if we confess our sins to
God, He's faithful and just to forgive us our sin and to cleanse
us from all unrighteousness. Now, the Holy Spirit not only
convinces us of sin, The Holy Spirit not only convinces us
of the righteousness of Christ, the Holy Spirit convinces us
that judgment is settled by Christ. And when He does that, there's
no arm twisting, there's no dragging. When He does that, He commands
us in our heart, and it's an effectual, invincible, irresistible
command. Now look at this. Look at our
text. Genesis 27, 14 says, when Rebecca commanded Jacob, he went
and fetched. He went and fetched. You see
that? When this Holy Spirit convinces
you of your sin and of Christ's righteousness and of judgment
being settled by Christ on your behalf, you'll lay hold of Christ. That's it. You're going to do
what the Spirit says to do. Made willing in the day of His
power. Alright? Through faith in Christ, the
Holy Spirit puts Christ on us. Now look at verse 15. And Rebekah
took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which were with her
in the house, and she put them upon Jacob her younger son. She
took the goodly raiment of the firstborn, and she put that goodly
raiment upon the younger. And it says, And she put the
skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the
smooth of his neck, the skin of those slain goats. And she
gave that savory meat and the bread which she had prepared
into the hand of her son Jacob. This goodly raiment, and the
skins of the goats, and this savory meat represent Christ
Himself. Christ our righteousness Himself. And the perfection that He makes
His people, the perfection that He robes His people in. That's
who this represents. The scripture that I showed you
in Romans 8 said, Whom the Father did foreknow, He also did predestinate
to be conformed to the image of Christ, that He might be the
firstborn among many brethren, and that with Christ the firstborn,
God might also freely give us the blessing. That's why God
the Father sends the Gospel, and Christ sends forth the Holy
Spirit, and this is the work He's doing in us when He puts
this goodly raiment on us. Christ Himself. Scripture says,
we all with an open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the
Lord through faith were changed into the same image from glory
to glory by the Spirit of the Lord. This is the work He does
through this Gospel. Paul said, as many of you have
been baptized into Christ, you've put on Christ. Put on Christ. Put on Christ. Isaiah 61, 10
says, I'll greatly rejoice. I'll greatly rejoice in the Lord.
My soul shall be joyful in my God, for He hath clothed me. He hath clothed me with the garments
of salvation. He hath covered me with the robe
of righteousness. That's what He did. For He hath
made Him sin for us who knew no sin, that we might be made
the righteousness of God in Him. I gave you that illustration.
I'll give it to you again. We're going to get this. We're
going to get this. It's so hard to let go of tradition
and believe God. But this is so. This is so. When Adam sinned in that garden,
we were in Adam. All Adam's seed was in him. When
he sinned, we broke God's law and we became unrighteous. And
when we were born of Adam's incorruptible seed, we were born unholy and
unrighteous because of Adam. So that when God charges us with
sin, it's exactly what Adam made us. We're sin. He made us. He gets all the credit. He made
us sin. And when Christ fulfilled God's will and fulfilled the
righteousness of the law, all God's elect were in Christ. We
were made righteous when Christ obeyed. And when we're born of
the incorruptible seed and made partakers of the divine nature,
we're made, created in the righteousness and holiness of Christ, so that
when God charges you with righteousness, God's not pretending. Any more
than He was when He charged you with sin. You are what Christ
made you. You're righteous and holy. Well,
there's still an old man of sin with me. And that old man is
not righteous and holy. He's just Adam. And he's just
what he was. But God bought that body too.
And one of these days, I'm going to lay Adam off. And then God's
going to raise me incorruptible. That mortal's going to put on
immortality and that corruption's going to put on incorruption.
And then I'm going to be perfectly conformed to the image of Christ.
And I'll be made thoroughly righteousness by Christ the Lord. And Christ
gets all the glory. All the glory. That's what we
see pictured here. Now, notice, Rebecca did everything.
Rebecca did everything. Jacob didn't do... Jacob didn't
do anything. He just believed her. That's
all. It's all. Rebecca did everything. And when
God does this work, God does everything. He does everything.
Christ did it all. It's Christ's blood. It's Christ's righteousness.
It's Christ's holiness. It's Christ's redemption. It's
God's Spirit. It's Him. It's Him. It's Him.
We have to be made Christ. Christ was made us and we're
made Christ. He said, we're so one, it's like
God the Father and He are one. That's what he said in John 17.
That's how one we are with Christ. Explain that to me. I can't explain
that to you. This little old bitty mind, I
can't... If I could, God wouldn't be all
that big, but He's big. And I can't explain that to you.
But I can rejoice in it. I can believe it. I trust Him. That's what He's done. The Holy
Spirit's created us anew, brethren. Now, what does Hebrews 10.19
tell us? Go there and look at that. Hebrews
10.19. After all this work, then, that
Christ has accomplished, and then He says there, the Spirit
comes and bears witness in our heart. Then in verse 19 He says
this, Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter. Enter where? Now we can go into the presence
of the Father. To enter into the holiest by
the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He hath
consecrated for us. Through the veil, that is to
say His flesh, just like that priest went in through that veil
in the old tabernacle. That is to say through His flesh.
And having a high priest over the house of God, let us draw
near to God the Father with a true heart, in full assurance of faith,
having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies
washed with pure water. Alright, now let's go back to
our text. Now we can come to God the Father. Now we can draw
near. And you know how we're going
to draw near? We're going to draw near as Christ
the firstborn. We're going to come to the Father
as Christ the firstborn. It's the only way we can come
to the Father. The only way. And God our Father will receive
us and He'll give us the blessing. Look at verse 18. Genesis 27,
18. And Jacob came unto his father,
and said, My father, and he said, Here am I. Who art thou, my son? What are we going to answer?
What are we going to answer? You think I'm going to walk in
there and say, This is Clay. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, son. We dare not come to
God in our own name. Only in the name of the firstborn.
Verse 19, Jacob said unto his father, I am thy firstborn. I am thy firstborn. We come before
God our Father in the name of Christ the firstborn. Christ
said, whatsoever you shall ask of the Father in my name, in
my name, That shall He give you. And there's none other name unto
heaven whereby we must be saved. You can't come to God in any
other name but Christ the firstborn. And when we believe on Christ
through faith, we're saying this, we're saying that by Christ's
works alone, this is what faith says, by Christ's works alone,
I have fully, fully, completely done everything that God the
Father commanded me to do. Everything. Everything. Look
at this. Verse 19. He says, I've done according as thou badest
me. Arise, I pray thee, sit and eat
of my sacrifice, that thy soul may bless me. Now, please don't
misunderstand me. It's not by our works that we
have done. That's not what I'm saying. It's
not that. We're trusting in Christ. We're
trusting in His righteousness. And through faith in Christ,
through faith in what He's accomplished, we have fulfilled the whole law
of God. That's the only way that we do
not make void the law. Men who are trying to come to
God by their obedience to the law are making void the law.
The only way you do not make void the law, but establish the
law, is believing and resting in Christ the Lord. The only
way. The only way. And we come there now with the
righteous... Let's look at this, Romans 3.
I want you to see this. Romans 3. We come there now,
verse 20. By the deeds of the law there
shall no flesh be justified in its sight, for by the law is
the knowledge of sin. So we don't come by our deeds
to the law. No, no. But now we come in the
righteousness of God without the law. Without our deeds under
the law. We come in the righteousness
of God without the law. Look at verse 22. Even the righteousness
of God which is by the faithfulness of Jesus Christ Himself. That
is unto and upon all them that believe. Put on us like those
goodly garments was put on Jacob. Put on us like that skin was
put on Jacob. Put in our hands like that savory
meat was put in his hand. That righteousness that Christ
accomplished is put upon us. That's how we come. Faith's confidence
is by Christ having established the law, I've established the
law. I've done according as God made me perfectly because Christ
did it perfectly. And that's what Paul was saying
when he said, I don't want to be found in my righteousness.
I want to be found in Him. Not having my own righteousness
which is of the law. But that which is through the
faith of Christ. That righteousness which is of
God by faith. There's where I'm coming. And
then I can come into His presence and say, Father, I've done as
You've commanded. Are you trying to keep the law?
I'm not. I'm not. I've kept it perfectly. And all my sin's gone, past,
present, future. It's gone. And I've got a perfect
righteousness seated at God's right hand, accepted right there. Perfectly. Perfect. Who do we
praise and glorify for this work? The Lord God alone. Our covenant
God alone. Look at verse Genesis 27, 20. And Isaac said unto his son,
the father asked us a question now. How is it that thou hast
found this sacrifice so quickly, my son? Who are we going to praise? Who are we going to glorify?
He said, because the Lord thy God brought it to me. How did
you get this covering? How did you get this sacrifice
that God requires? Because the Lord my God brought
it to me. That's how I got it. Ravi read
that Revelation 7, 11 Thursday night. The same glorying we do
right here is the glorying we're going to do when we get to that
throne. We're not going to change our message from here to there.
And here's what it is. We're going to fall before the
throne on our faces and worship God saying, Amen. Blessing and
glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might
be unto our God forever and ever. He did it. He did it. That's
how I got it. He did it. And we're made so
one with Christ, that as we stand before the Father, one with Christ,
just like the Father and the Son are one, so that we come
before God our Father as Christ Himself, as God's very own Son. As God's very own Son. Look here
in verse 21. Isaac said to Jacob, Come near,
I pray thee, that I may fill thee, my son, whether thou be
my very son Esau or not." You're my very son. And Jacob went near
unto Isaac. His father and his father felt
him and said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the
hands of the firstborn. And he discerned him not. He
discerned him not. because his hands were hairy
as his brother's hands. And so he blessed him. And he
said, Art thou my very son? And he said, I am. I am. God the Father discerns us not
as the sinners that we are in ourselves. He doesn't. That's what the Scripture says.
You are dead. So He don't discern you anymore.
You're dead. And your life is hid with Christ
in God, with God. He says, I've blotted out as
a thick cloud thy transgressions, and as a cloud thy sins, return
unto Me, for I have redeemed thee. Draw near to Me, He says.
Your sins and iniquities I remember no more. That's what He says.
And therefore, when we believe God, that we really are as God
says we are, When God says, are you my very Son, Christ Jesus? Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. I'm one with Him. I'm one with
Him. Blessed is the man unto whom
the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is
no guile. We can draw near to God. You've
got to have a completely, thoroughly, righteous record, and you've
got to be holy within, with no guile. And that can only be by
Christ dwelling in you and you in Christ. That's it. And then
we present to the Father the one sacrifice with which He's
pleased. Christ the sweet savor which
God delights in. Look at verse 25. He said, Bring
it near to me and I'll eat of my son's sacrifice. I'll eat of his offering. I'll eat of that meat that I
love, that I delight in, that my soul may bless thee. I love
that, don't you? I will eat my son's sacrifice
that I might bless thee. I might bless thee. And he says
this, and he brought it near to him, and he did eat, and he
brought him wine, and he drank. And his father Isaac said unto
him, Come near now, and kiss me, my son. And he came near
and kissed him, and he smelled the smell of his raiment, and
he blessed him. And he said, See, the smell of
my son is as the smell of a field which the Lord has blessed. We
come to God the Father in the Son. We come with the savory
meat God delights in. We come with the wine of Christ's
blood. We come smelling of Christ whom
the Lord hath blessed. And the Lord our God kisses us
and says, Come near, my son, that I might bless thee. He's
made Him an heir and He's made us joint heirs with Him. And
there's how we get the blessing. We come as Christ the firstborn. Verse 28. Therefore God give
thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and
plenty of corn and wine, and let people serve thee, and nations
bow down before thee. Be Lord over thy brethren, and
let thy mother's son bow down to thee. Cursed be every one
that cursed thee, and blessed be he that blessed thee. We get
the blessing in Christ the firstborn. And you know Hebrews 11 says
this, it says, By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau. Whenever
it became apparent to Isaac that this was Jacob that he had blessed,
Esau begged and begged and begged and pleaded and tried to get
him to repent and turn back and give the blessing to Esau away
from Jacob. And this is what Isaac said.
This is how by faith he blessed him. Verse 33 says, Isaac said,
I have blessed him, yea, and he shall be blessed. Now believer,
you apply that to God our Father. We saw from 1 Corinthians 1 the
other night, God is faithful. By whom you were called into
the fellowship of His Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Nobody and no
thing can get God our Father to repent from the blessing He's
given to His people in Christ the firstborn. He says to you
believer, I've blessed Him and He shall be blessed. It's a done
deal. Here's our done deal. Now that's
the blessing. That's the blessing. Amen.