We can give this story of Esau. Like so many other times, if
we don't see Christ in something, you've lost it all. If you go
read those requirements of a bishop, and you think that's something
you gotta do, and you don't see Christ in that, that's proof
you ought not be a bishop. That's Christ. He's our high
priest. He's our bishop of ourselves.
If we see this just as a story, what to do, what not to do, Now
if you do bad, you're going to get chastened. That's so. The
Lord chastens those that He loves. His children will be chastened.
Sin is not okay. To deceive is not okay. But Esau here, we saw last time
there in Genesis 25, verse 34, Jacob gave Esau bread and a pottage
of lentils. He didn't eat and drink and rose
up and went his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright. There's about to be a blessing.
from the father, from Isaac, his eldest son Esau. And this
birthright that no one's mentioned since, probably a family seeker,
maybe only him and Jacob. He despised that birthright.
He despised what's about to happen. Well, we know the story. Rebecca
teaches Jacob what to do. And Jacob goes in and receives
the blessing. Lives up to his name, deceiver,
supplanter. But there was consequences. This
is going to be a picture of Christ. This is a picture of how God
saves sinners. If it ain't that, you don't need to be hearing
it. Go get you a football ticket or something. Go to a concert.
It'll be better for you. But for his children, there's
a lesson. Esau hated Jacob. He's going
to kill him. He said, the day that my father's buried, as soon
as we're through mourning, I'm going to kill him. And Rebecca
heard that, and she said, my son, Run, go away. He said, go to where my brother
is. You go up there and live with Laban and my brother Teheran. And tarry there a few days until
Esau calms down. We read over in Genesis 31 that
Jacob stayed there 20 years. He said, I've been with you 20
years. Come on. That was the last time Rebekah
saw him. She was a picture of the Holy Ghost in this. how God
saves sinners. But physically, in this world,
what she did was wrong. God chastened her. It was the
last she saw of her son. There's a lot to learn here for
us. Believers who deceive, that's without excuse. Believers who
sin, you're without excuse. We know that. It's not excusing
sin. We don't sin more that grace
may abound. But if we miss the grace, you ain't got nothing.
So let's look at the gospel picture here. Throughout the Scriptures,
there's types and anti-types. Adam stood as a type of Christ,
and he failed. Man thinks they're so holy. We're
just going to claim, oh, well, you've got to start living right.
Adam was morally innocent, had one thing to do, donated that
tree. What'd he do? Went and ate the tree, didn't
he? As our federal head, or he represented us, seminal head,
he represented us. He failed. He died in sin right
then. That's why we died now. He was
a picture of Christ as representation. Christ was that second Adam that
came in. There's types and anti-types. Abraham was a picture of Christ.
You know what? He was a bad husband. Twice he
gave his wife away. Isaac's a picture of Christ.
He's a bad husband. He was a bad father. He preferred
one child over the other. See where I get you? God's not
a respecter of persons, is he? There was a time he was a type,
and there's a time he's an anti-type. This is the one that's loved,
the one that's chosen of God. And what's his name? Deceiver.
That's what he does. That's what he is, isn't it?
What good can come from this family? You think about that?
Here's Abraham, here's Isaac, and here's Jacob. Not good people. They're sinners. They're sinners. There was a time they had a war
with God. They have an old flesh. What good can come of that? This
is how God saves sinners. I'm going to give you the characters
real quick we're going to look at. We got the Father. That's
Isaac. He represents our Heavenly Father.
We have the firstborn son, Esau. This is Christ. Christ is the
firstborn among many brethren. We have the Holy Ghost. That's
Rebecca. She hears something and she tells
what she's heard. And we have that recipient of
grace, Jacob. Us who did not merit grace, who
did not earn grace, We ain't nothing but liars and cheats
and no good reckless heathens. And we received all the blessing
because of another. That's the picture. That's the
story. Well, here we look at the father. All blessings come from the father.
Isaac was the father. All blessings come from him.
Turn over Ephesians 1. I'll have you turn just to one
thing on each one of these characters we're looking at, and then we'll
read our text. Again, verse 3. Blessed be the God and Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual
blessings in heavenly places in Christ, according as He hath
chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should
be holy and without blame before Him in His presence, in love,
having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Christ
Jesus, Jesus Christ to himself according to the good pleasure
of his will. He chose to bless us. He chose
to put us in Christ. To the praise and the glory of
his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. How is Jacob going to be accepted?
He's going to be in his older brother. This cannot be unjust. Did you know that? The father
is going to bless his children. But this can't be through deceit.
This can't be as if. Can't be. That's unjust. That's
an unholy God. The Gnostics say, well, it's
only as if, because they know better than God does, doesn't
it? This God requires a sacrifice. He put us in Christ. What does
Isaac require? Savory meat. He requires a sacrifice. Blood's going to be shed. He
requires the perfect work of his son to go out and get said
sacrifice. He requires it. And you know
what? He loves it. Isaac loved his firstborn. He loved Esau, didn't he? He
loved the sacrifice he brought him. He loved the meat, the strong
meat. Oh, it tasted so good. He loved
the smell of him. He loved the feel of him. He loved everything
about that firstborn. He loved it. This father who
put us in Christ loves the firstborn. But this ain't show. This ain't
smoke and beer. This ain't pretend. This ain't as if. It's in a figment
of our imagination. It's real, because blood's got
to be shed. You can get away with all that as if junk. Just
get rid of the blood. Say it was a hologram. I don't
know what to tell you. No, that's it. This is the father. Isaac represents the father that
blesses all, that requires a sacrifice to bless. Esau represents the
firstborn. This is the rightful and lawful
eldest child that's going to receive double the portion from
the father that all the other ones. He's the rightful heir. Esau is. He was the first one
to come out of the womb. God says the first one that comes
out of the womb, I don't care if it's a beast. I don't care if it's a cat. I
don't care what it is. It's mine. That's what the Father
said. Esau's right to be the one that's
blessed. But it's more than just a legality.
Doctrine ain't gonna save nobody. Christ's gonna save somebody.
You get that? It's not just a legality that this is the one that's rightfully
so. It's the work of hunting. He
said, you get your arrows. You get all the tools that you
need to go out and make that sacrifice. Everything's required.
And you go out and you labor. You're going to track that sacrifice
down. You're going to work for it.
You're going to do whatever it takes, sweat, sit in the sun, sit still,
be diligent, be disciplined. And you're going to get that
sacrifice. You're going to bring it back to me. And there's a
result. What's the result of this? We learned that in seminary.
Not the legalities that he went out and sacrificed and worked
and got this, and he is the sacrifice. There's something else that goes
with it. Those are facts. I can tell you all the facts
about a Thanksgiving dinner and your belly still be hungry. What
happens? That son's to bring back this
acceptable, bloody sacrifice. What's that mean? Is there another
word for that? Appropriation. And that father's gonna consume
that. He's going to take it all in and it's going to satisfy
Him. Savory. Savory meat. Meat that satisfies. Sacrifice that satisfies. And He's going to pour out the
blessing on the firstborn. Now Esau, we were reading Hebrews,
he's profane. He's profane. Do you know what
that means? We think we just get so up and on our high horses
of religion. We think, oh, to take the Lord's
name in vain. That's a curse word, isn't it? God tries. God wants. That's profanity.
That's me cursing right now. Do you understand that? That's
horrible. People that mean that. That's
profane. Esau was profane. He took the
things of God and made light of them. That's what I was talking
about informal worship the other day. There's no such thing. We're
in the presence of the holy God. What's informal about that? This
is the king. Esau was profane in the flesh, but who did he
represent? The firstborn. That's love. That brings a sacrifice. We're reading there in Romans
8. Go over there. Romans 8, verse 28. This speaks of Christ. Romans 8, verse 28. We know that
all things work together for good to them that love God, to
them who will be called according to His purpose, for whom He did
foreknow, those He loved before, those He knew before and put
them in Christ. He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image
of his son. He's gonna make him just like
him. Why? That he, Christ, might be the firstborn among many brethren. He's the firstborn. We read in
Psalm 89, the Lord says, also I will make him my firstborn,
higher than the kings of heaven. My mercy will I keep for him
forevermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him. Covenant's
made with the firstborn. His seed also will I make to
endure forever. Those in Him. And His throne
as the days of heaven. His throne, the throne of this
firstborn be without end. There's no end to it. We'll see
the Father, Isaac. We see the firstborn, that's
Christ. We see Rebecca, the wife, knew the elder shall serve the
younger. That's what God told her, wasn't it? And just like
Sarah, she put her hand to it. She figured out a way to make
this work. And God blesses us in spite of ourselves, doesn't
he? She knew the elders won't serve the younger. She knew the
Lord hated Esau and loved Jacob. She represents the Holy Spirit,
the one that knows this covenant perfectly. We see through a glass
dimly, don't we? These things are perfectly known
with the Holy Spirit. Between the Father and the firstborn,
the Spirit has sent a God to speak to us Jacobs. If you can
do this on your own, the Spirit ain't there to talk to you. The
Spirit comes and speaks to those that are loved of God before.
And the Spirit tells Jacob only to bring the meat that the firstborn
can get and make and cook. You just bring that. You come
to the Father only in the garments that smell like the sun. You
come to the Father only in the covering that feels like the
sun. And when you come with all this,
don't you dare tell about your previous covenants. I've traded
some lentils years ago, many, many years ago. I had lentils
and I gave them to my brother and he gave me his. Hush! You
say the words I tell you to say. But I, I, I, no, you don't want
to be you. Trust me. You don't want to be
you or you'll be cursed. You can come in all that religion
you played years ago and you'll go to hell eternally. That's
what the spirit says. I'm just the redneck that looks
you in the eye and says, knock it off. That's what he speaks to the
heart of. Turn over to John 15. John 15. Rebecca represents that
Holy Spirit that speaks to us. John 15, 26. Our Lord speaking, He says, But
when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the
Father, even the Spirit of truth which proceedeth from the Father,
he shall testify of me. He's going to bear witness of
me. What does Porter Beck say? You'll
be like his brother. Be like your brother, your first born
brother. A man told me one time, he said, I don't think you got
the Holy Spirit down there at your church. That's what makes
you think that. I didn't have any feelings. I
said, we just sat and talked about Christ. If the Spirit's
there, it's going to speak of Christ. It's going to witness
of Christ. And we're going to bear witness of that. Look at
verse 27. And ye also shall bear witness. because you have been
with me from the beginning. This covenant has took place
before time. We've been in Him for eternity.
He's revealed Himself to us, and we just say what we've heard.
Turn over to John 16. Just a page there, verse 7. John 16, 7. Nevertheless, I tell
you the truth, it's expedient for you that I go away. For if
I not go away, the Comforter will not come to you. But if
I depart, I will send Him to you. And when He has come, He
will reprove the world of sin, And of righteousness and of judgment,
for reproof of sin, because they believe not on me. We're going to see that in a
minute. Jacob's going to be reproved of sin. Of righteousness, because
I go to my father and you see me no more. Those go hand in
hand. And of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged. I have yet many things to say
unto you, but you cannot bear them, Now, 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,
that shall he speak, and he will show you things to come. And
we have Jacob, a sinner saved by grace, one who cannot come
on his own. Turn over to Isaiah chapter one.
There's a whole lot I could turn to, and you know many of these
things, We must be recipients of something
that we did not merit, or it wouldn't be grace. Our good works
cannot make grace come. That's called wage. And all the
wage we earn is debt. We're nothing but sin. Makes
grace essential. Isaiah chapter 1, verse 2. Hear, O heavens, and give ear,
O earth, for the Lord hath spoken. I have nourished and brought
up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox know of his
honor. And they ask his master's crib,
but Israel doth not know, nor people doth not consider. Ah,
sinful nation! A people laden with iniquity,
a sea of evildoers, children that are corruptors, that have
forsaken the Lord, that have provoked the Holy One of Israel
unto anger, they are gone away backward. Why should ye be stricken
any more? Will ye revolt more and more?
The whole head is sick, and the whole heart fainteth, from the
sole of the foot even, To the head there is no soundness in
it, but wounds and bruises and putrefying sores that have not
been closed, neither bound up nor mollified with ointment."
We're dead in sin. Dead in sin. Dead in sin. Let me ask you something. Is
there degrees of deadness? Our dead sin nature thinks so.
Well, I'm not as dead as them. And they're deader than I am.
There's either life or there's death. There's either the truth
or a lie. Do you get that? There's either
saved or damned. There's either Christ or nothing.
And we're dead in sin. That's what we are. We do sin
because we are sin. It's our nature. And you know
what? All of our iniquities, that's
our good stuff that we do for Jesus. This mankind's got billboards
all over the place and it's disgusting to me. And I read what I think
and I do and I think, Lord, save me. That's the only cry I can
have on my iniquities, all the good things I think I do. Lord,
save me. Keep me from myself. Read on.
Look here in verse 9. Except the Lord of hosts had
left us unto a very small room, we should have been as Sodom,
and we should have been like unto Gomorrah. If the Lord didn't
make this covenant and bless us, we all would die eternally. That's what we earn, and we'll
willfully do it. Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom.
Give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. To
what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? What's
the stuff you're bringing? This ain't what we was told to
bring, saith the Lord. I am full of the burnt offerings
of rams and the fat of fed beasts, and I delight not in the blood
of bullocks or of lambs or of he-goats. When ye come to appear
before me, who hath required this at your hand to tread my
courts? Who told you to do that? We do
things, don't we? We got a bunch of religion. ceremonies
and our forms and this is what we say and when we say it. Who
told you to do that? Did God tell you to do that?
Bring no more vain oblations. That's the sacrifice of our mouth.
Vanity. Bring no more vain oblations.
Incense is an abomination to me. There's a whole bunch of
people, I grew up with a bunch of them, they got a little thing
that looks like a bell they're swinging around, incense. Incense
is an abomination to me. Let's not get down on them yet.
New moons and Sabbaths. Well, it's Christmas, Kevin,
ain't you gonna bring a Christmas message? I'm gonna bring a Christ
message, if the Lord be with me. The calling of assemblies, public
meetings. We're gonna have prayer meetings.
We're gonna get together and we're gonna bend God's arm until
he does what we want. We'll gang up on it, that's called
a mutiny. Not a prayer meeting, that's a mutiny. He says, the
calling of assemblies, let's all get together. That's all
God says, he hates it. I don't think that's right. I
don't care what you think. And it don't matter what I think. I'm
telling you what God says, the calling of assemblies. He said,
I cannot away with. It's an equity, even the solemn
meetings, even when we put on our best clothes and we haul
and we speak in old Irish accents. He said, it's abomination. Your
new moons and your appointed feast, my soul hated. They are
trouble unto me. I am weary to bear them. And
when you spread forth your hand, We do it when we're saying, and
people wave in the aisles. Oh, they got the Holy Spirit.
No, they don't. He said, put your hands down. We're in the
house of God. I will hide mine eyes from you. Does that make
God hear you? Whenever you get your book and you hold your hands
out over it and you pray over the book, he said, I'll hide
my eyes from you. Yea, when you make many prayers,
I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood. I don't want to come to our church.
I don't want to come to my church. I don't want to come to my worship.
I don't want to go to your worship. I don't want to have my prayer
or your prayer or somebody else's prayer. I don't want to have
no assemblies. I want to have heathens. Where does that leave
me? I'm the preacher. I'm the one
holding the reins of this stagecoach, ain't I? That leaves me one thing. Cry out to God for mercy. God
be gracious to us. Make us put away these dead,
grave clothes. Unwind us. Wouldn't it be unwound? That's what we looked at Wednesday
night, isn't it? I'm supped tight. Lord, unwind me. Make me rest
in your Son. All right, Genesis 27. I'll go
quick. I got five minutes. I can do it. No, I can't. I'm gonna try. The Father blesses. All blessings come from Him,
but there's a requirement. It must be blood. The firstborn
is right. The rightful heir and the works
that the firstborn does is all I think excepted. Rebecca, the
Holy Spirit's the one that speaks. And Jacob, sin. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Genesis 27 verse 1. Knowing who
these people represent, let's read this story again. And 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, He said unto him, behold, here I am. He said,
now behold, I am old. I know not the day of my death. He's about 140 years old when
this happened. You know, he lived another 40 years. He did. He was old, wasn't he? Old. Now,
he was just a sinner. Saved by grace, Isaac was. This
is the eternal Father at His chosen time when He saw fit to
make a covenant with the Son. Now, therefore, verse 3, I pray
thee, Then I therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy
quiver, and thy bow. Take the gospel message, and
go out into 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,
and that my soul may bless thee before I die. That's the covenant
made. Make yourself a lamb. He's the
lamb, and that's what God God required, God provides. He's the firstborn, the only
one that could be. And it's the meat that he loved,
not somebody else's meat. This ain't stovetop. The son
made it. Verse five, when Rebekah heard,
the Holy Ghost heard. It says it was to speak to us
things that he heard, wasn't it? Rebekah heard when Isaac
spake unto Esau his son, and Esau went to the field to hunt
for venison and to bring it back. When he left, there was a comforter.
When Rebekah spake to Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard,
I'm just telling you what I heard, thy father speak unto Esau thy
brother, saying, Bring me venison, and make me savory meat that
I may eat, and bless thee before the Lord before my death. Now
therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command
thee. You do exactly what I say. Don't
you bring up them lentils. Don't you bring up them works
of the past. Don't you bring up your little conniving things.
You just hush and do what I tell you. Now go to the flock and
fetch me from thence two good kids, young, delicious kids,
of the goats, and I will make them savory meat for thy father,
which such as he loveth. And thou shalt bring it to thy
father, that he may eat, and that he may bless thee before
his death. Now, this is what's gonna happen. I'm gonna tell you what I heard.
You go to the father, and the requirements of the firstborn.
You're gonna go in front of a holy God, and you go in Christ, the
first one. Now, does that make you a little
bit on the inside? Do you go, am I going in name
only? Am I going in because it's what
mom and daddy did? Am I going because it's what
the preacher said? Am I going or am I truly going in Christ?
Does that make you nervous? Look here, there's conviction
of sin and of righteousness that go together. Verse 11, and Jacob
said unto Rebekah his mother, behold, Esau, my brother, is
a hairy man, and I'm smooth. I don't have the covering he
has. I'm not like him, and my father perventure will feel me,
and I shall seem to him as a deceiver, and I shall bring a curse upon
me and not a blessing. I can't go in the presence of
a holy God, I'm sin. I know what you're saying, but
you know what I am? He's convicted of sin. And he's
convicted, his elder brother's the only one that's accepted
of the Father. How can we be convinced of judgment? How can
we know that this work is done? There's the conviction of sin
and righteousness. I'm not the elder brother. I'm me. I'm a
deceiver. I can't be in the presence of
the Father. He's holy. How do we know this work of judgment's
done? Look here in verse 13. His mother said unto him, Upon
me, upon the holiness and the glory of the triune God, be thy
curse, my son. Curse is to every man that hangs
on a tree, isn't it? This is all in the Lord's hand. What
did he cry from a tree? It's finished. It's finished. Upon me be the curse, my son,
only. What's left for us to do if the
Lord saved us? If he gives us all these things
as covering and he's died for us, all the works he has done,
what are we to do? Well, now we've got to get real holy. Hogwash. That's self-righteousness. What
are we to do? Obey my voice and go fetch them. Worship him. What
does the Lord tell us? What's his new commandment? Believe
Christ, love the brethren. How are you going to do that?
Well, you've got a new nature that does it instinctively. You can't keep
from it. Quit believing on Christ. I can't. Quit loving the brethren. I can't. I love them. Can't keep
from it. Just obey my voice and go fetch
them. What's faith? Go hand in hand with obedience,
doesn't it? We believe and we follow. Look at verse 14. He
went and fetched and brought them to his mother. She made
a savory meat such as his father loved, just as he requires. Intercession's been made, hasn't
it? Everything we brought, it's been fixed and cooked the way
that the Father accepts it. All our prayers, our vain oblations,
it's been made just as the Father will accept. And Rebekah took
goodly raiment of her eldest son. Those clothes had been sitting
in the house. It was in the house with her.
And put them upon Jacob, her younger son. And she put the
skins of the kids and the goats upon his hands and upon the smooth
of his neck. Why'd she put both? He just said, just grab my forearm,
daddy. Isaiah 61 says, I will greatly rejoice in the Lord.
My soul hath been joyful in my God, for he hath clothed me in
the garments of salvation. We've been put on the garments
of salvation, the sacrifice, the work of Christ, and hath
covered me with the robe of righteousness. We have a life that he lived
for me, for you. Both are necessary. Sin must
be put away. We have to be saved from sin.
And we have to have a holy life lived on this earth, and we have
to have a holy nature that that holy life came from. Who's our wisdom? Christ is.
What about our sanctification? Christ is. He's everything, isn't
He? He's everything. Verse 17. She
gave the savory meat and the bread which she had prepared
into the hand of her son Jacob. We was going to be looking at
the Psalms this morning, And David was speaking about lifting
up his holy hands. And Paul wrote to Timothy about
lifting up holy hands. We just read in Isaiah, we don't need
to be worried about our holy hands. What's our holy hands? That publican in the temple,
did he lift up his hands? Scripture said he didn't so much
lift up his eyes unto heaven, didn't it? We have empty hands. Lord, I'm nothing. But what do
we bring to the Father? A hand of bread, cross the lie.
I'm the bread of life. That's what's necessary for a
lot of people. What's the other thing? Meat. Sacrifice. Everything required. Both hands are full, isn't it?
Christ is in both. She gave him the meat and the
bread that she prepared into the hand of her son Jacob. Verse
18. He came to his father and said,
my father? And he said, here am I. Who art thou, my son? And
Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau, thy firstborn. He said,
I'm Jacob. And remember, I had some lentils
and Christ. I'm Christ. I'm the person. Is
that okay with you? Can you forego your name? Can you let that go? Can you
be nothing and just be in Him? Can you forego your titles, and
your positions, and your knowledge, and your wisdom, and your understanding,
and your learning, and your pedigrees, and who you was born to, and
what you know, and this sin-cursed earth? Can you forego all that?
Sell everything you got and give it to the poor. Jacob said to his father, I am
Esau, thy firstborn. I have done according as thou
hast bade me. Arise, I pray thee, and sit and eat of my venison,
that thy soul may bless me. And Isaac said unto his son,
how is it that thou hast found it so quickly, my son? How did
you go get this sacrifice so fast, in a vapor? How did we
get in this vapor of our life? How did we get Christ? Because
the Lord thy God brought it to me. How do you know these things? It is not from your studying. It is not from your just big
ol' intellect and you figured it out. It is not from you seeking
God and you just know something ain't right and I'm gonna figure
it out. No, it ain't. If you know Christ, God brought Him
to you. All glory will be His. A-double-L. All. Man's nothing. And Isaac said unto Jacob, verse
21, Come near, I pray that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou
be my very son, he saw or not. It's gonna be proven. And Jacob
went near unto Isaac his father, and he fell on him and said,
The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.
The voice is Kevin's voice. That's coming out of your mouth.
Everything's Christ. Won't that be a blessed day?
Can you imagine it? Your voice. God gave you that
voice. And that's everything. Verse 23, And he discerned him
not, because his hands were very hairy, as his brother Esau's
hand, so he blessed him. And he said, Thou art my very
son, Esau. And he said, I am. And he said, bring it near to
me. I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless thee.
And he brought it near to him, and he did eat, and 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 blessed him. He smelled the sweet savor. and blessed him and said, See,
the smell of my son is the smell of a field which the Lord hath
blessed. A field which the Lord hath blessed.
Therefore, here's the blessing. What did it take? You want a
blessing from God? You come dressed like his son.
You come with the skin of his son, the life lived and the sacrifice
of the son. You come with his bread. You
come in his name. That's it. Completely. T totally. You come plumb in Christ. Totally. Totally. And Lord bless you.
Come declaring His name. We say things when we say our
prayers in Christ's name. It's just repetition, isn't it?
How do you say that? The only hope we have to stand on and
petition our holy God is the blood and person of Christ. That's
it. You want to bless the God? Come
to Him. What's the blessing going to be? Verse 28, here's our blessing. Those that are in Christ, robed
in His righteousness. Therefore God give thee the dew
of heaven and the fatness of the earth and plenty of corn
and wine. Corn and wine, that's necessary
for life. That's what you make bread out of, you gotta drink
it. The fatness of the earth, the fullness thereof. You see
His providence throughout, His creation throughout, His sovereignty
throughout. We see all those things, why? Because of the dew
of heaven. Before we read over Deuteronomy, Because that's what
the prophet went to the rulers and said, there's going to be
a famine in the land. It ain't going to rain. The former or the latter,
and you ain't even going to have the dew. That's the word of God
from heaven, isn't it? What blessings you want to get?
You want to win a lottery? You want to get that $2 billion? Ha, that's
a curse. But to hide them kids. We're
going to have the word of God. Word of God. Where's the gospel? I hope there's a whole lot of
gospel in this county. I do. Where do we know it is? Where do I know the gospel is
in New Jersey? I hope there's a lot of people preaching the
gospel. But I know where it is. Now let me give you, let me put
that shoe leather for you. If I went sit on a park bench, I
could go down here in San Diego County and spend 40 hours a week
telling you all the women that are qualified to be my wife that
are not. Or I could go right there. I
don't care about that. I got that one. God gave me that
one, didn't he? We have the word of God, the dew of heaven, the
fatness of the earth. You don't like anything? Plenty
of corn and wine. Plenty of corn and wine. The
bread ain't gonna fail. The cruise oil ain't gonna fail. And the
wine ain't gonna fail. That's our blessing. We have the gospel
in this life. And earthen vessels. What a privilege
it is. The Lord's come and told us these things. The Lord's come
and told us these things. We ought to thank Him. That's
a peculiar people. That ain't running the mill.
That ain't dining store salvation. That's a peculiar people, a remnant.
What about the Lord? We're in Him. He's blessed too,
isn't He? We're blessed in Him. Joint heirs. Look here, verse
29. Hear the Father speaking to the Son. Let the people serve
Thee, and the nations bow down to Thee. Be Lord over Thy brethren,
and let Thy mother's sons bow down to Thee. All hail the King. Cursed be every one that cursed
at Thee, and blessed be he that blessed Thee. Kiss the Son as
He beheld Him. Christ is Lord. He's God. We know that. He's
Lord. That's the Lordship of Christ. People talk about Jesus,
get bumper stickers and all that stuff. It's nonsense. This is
the Lord. King Jesus said, he's blessed,
we're blessed in him. We have the dude we know about.
We can see him in these stories. Is that a good moral lesson to
teach kids in Sunday school? This is how God saves sinners.
There's more good news. You know there's more good news
than that? That's good news. If you're a Jacob, you ought
to be tap dancing in the streets over that one. That's good news. It gets better than that. Look
down at verse 33. Esau finds out. He says, twice
this has happened. He's deceiving. He didn't deceive
you the first time. You sold that birthright on purpose.
You didn't want it. You didn't care about the dew from heaven.
You can take it or leave it. You ain't going to pack up and go
where there is dew. You don't want nothing to do with it. You despise
it. But anyway, they was getting into it. Verse 33, and Isaac
trembled very exceedingly and said, who? Where is he that hath
taken the venison and brought it to me? And I have eaten of
all before thou camest, and have blessed him. Yea, he shall be
blessed. That blessing that went upon
Jacob cannot be undone. The blessing that the Lord put
on his people in Christ cannot be undone. It don't matter what
you do. No matter what. You can't undo
it. How do we know that? What's the
context of Romans 11, 29? Well, the Lord was speaking of
salvation. He was speaking of his elect. And he said the gifts
and calling of God are without repentance. It can't be undone.
You have to believe on him to receive this blessing. You have
to come to the Father solely in him and absolutely not a molecule
or nothing else. All him. All him. And you have to come to God and
Him alone. And to do so, you have to believe in Him. Who's going to get all the glory
for that? Christ is. To the praise of His Lord. What
grace that is, isn't it? The Lord gave us this. Let us
see these things. Oh, that we can thank Him. As
He ought to be thanked. Not in a sin-cursed body, but
a dead body. Lord, haste the day. When our
faith may be made sight, we'll see Him as He is, see Him face
to face, worship Him as He ought to be worshiped. Let's pray together. Heavenly Father, we come only
in Your Son. You've put us in Him, Lord. You've
spoke to our hearts through Your Spirit. We'll put down this flesh,
decrease this flesh, that we're born with, this old man that
just wreaks havoc and there's a war going on in us. Lord, subdue
our enemy, that's ourselves, and increase Christ. Allow us
to see more of Him and praise Him more and truly have a heart
that worships Him. Make us that way, Lord. You have. We see Him. Oh, grow
us in grace. Grow us in knowledge. Grow us
in understanding of the person of our salvation. Make us thankful. Make us rejoice. Make us walk
through this world as people that believe in you and that
believe on your son. Thank you for this day. With
our brothers and sisters that are suffering, the trials that
you've I like having a 30-minute break.
I don't have to cut into Rick's time. We'll meet back at 1030.