you you you By way of the internet, we have
several folks who are out sick. And we remember them and we pray
for our shut-ins, those who are unable to come and worship with
us any longer. And we miss them and we ask for
God's grace upon all of those of our congregation who are ailing. And we pray that the Lord will
continue to bless our labors here in the gospel. And that
those who come and listen to the word will be blessed, be
brought to faith in Christ by the power of the Spirit. And
that many who watch will be blessed. I received a very encouraging
email from a gentleman, which I do quite often, especially
one yesterday that meant a lot to me and it was quite lengthy. He expressed his appreciation
for him, his wife, and his children who watch us on a regular basis. So it's always good to be reminded
that the Lord blesses our efforts and there are people who are watching and the Lord uses the
word of God to touch them. And we rejoice in his goodness
in using us to bless his dear people. Brother Joe and Sister
Faye are still sick. Somebody emailed me late Sunday
and said, you make a pretty good song leader. And I said, well,
I'm actually third string. And I said, the next position
is water boy for the song leader. But I always enjoyed music and
appreciate the opportunity to have a part. leading the singing, and we'll
sing 266 tonight. 266, Fade, Fade, Each Earthly
Joy. This was one of my mother's favorite
songs. And, in fact, we sang it, we
had it sung at her funeral service many years ago. It was written
by Jane Bonar. And she wrote it shortly after
her husband had passed away, who was himself a good writer
of hymns and also a preacher of the gospel. Fade, Fade, Each
Earthly Joy, 266. Fate, fate, each earthly joy,
Jesus is mine. Break every tender tie, Jesus
is mine. Dark is the wilderness. Earth has no resting place. Jesus alone can bless. Jesus is mine. Him taught my soul away, Jesus
is mine. Here would I ever stay, Jesus
is mine. Perishing things of clay, Born
but for one brief day, Pass from my heart away, Jesus is mine. Farewell ye dreams of night,
Jesus is mine. Lost in this dawning bright,
Jesus is mine. All that my soul has tried, left
but abysmal void, Jesus has satisfied. Jesus is mine. Farewell mortality, Jesus is
mine. Welcome eternity, Jesus is mine. Welcome, O loved and blessed. Welcome, sweet scenes of rest. Welcome, my Savior's Jesus is
mine. That's a good hymn, isn't it?
It's got such good words to it. All right, let's get our Bibles,
and we'll go to the book of Genesis again tonight. And we'll go to
Genesis 36. The book of Genesis chapter 36.
This entire chapter is about the genealogy of Esau. And quite honestly, I was tempted
just briefly to kind of jump over 36 because I'm anxious to
get to Joseph who becomes the main character in the book of
Genesis from the 37th chapter virtually to the end. But I read
36 and then I saw some things that I wanted
to share with you. And of course, if this weren't
necessary, the Lord would not have put this in here for us. And so we'll kind of give you
an overview of Genesis chapter 36 this evening. All right, let me read the first
eight verses to you. Now these are the generations
of Esau. Who is Edom? Esau took the wives
of the daughters of Canaan, Ada, the daughter of Elon, the Hittite,
and Aholibamah, the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibion,
the Hivite, and Bashamath, Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nabodjoth. And Ada bare to Esau Eliphas,
and Bashamath bare Ruel, and Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jalem,
and Korah. These are the sons of Esau, which
were born unto him in the land of Canaan. And Esau took his wives, and
his sons, and his daughters, and all the persons of his house,
and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his substance, which
he had got in the land of Canaan, and went into the country from
the face of his brother Jacob. For their riches were more than
that they might dwell together. And the land wherein they were
strangers could not bear them because of their cattle. Thus dwelt Esau in Mount Seir. Esau is Edom." And we'll stop
our reading there with verse eight. Let's ask the Lord to give us
an understanding of his word tonight and bless that which
I believe he has for us. Our Father, we do give thanksgiving
for your great and glorious grace given to us in our Savior even
before the world began. We rejoice in Him who is our
salvation, for by Him we have been pardoned and made righteous
through His sacrificial atonement upon the cross of Calvary. We
bless You, Father, for Him who is our life, for Him who is our
righteousness, for Him who is our justification, for Him who
is our sanctification, and for Him who is our glorification. Lord, we read that we are complete
in Christ the Lord. We thank You for Him and we worship
Him, whoever lives, who represents us, who is our advocate, Father,
before you, the very one who takes our attempts at worship, and they are poor attempts, they're
feeble attempts, they're sinful attempts, but our Lord Jesus,
He takes these efforts to honor you, Father, and He makes them
presentable unto you. And therefore in Him, we can come nigh unto you and
present our attempts at worship. Thank
you for the blood of the Lord Jesus that goes on cleansing
us from all sin. We certainly are mindful, Father,
of those of our number who are ill, those who have difficulties,
trials, and afflictions of the flesh. We ask that you administer
to them according to your will. These who are sick, we pray,
Lord, that you would give a restoration of physical health We recognize
and we appreciate that physical well-being is a gift from you,
and we tend to take for granted good health until sickness brings
us down. And we know that both health
and sickness are from you, and we honor you no matter what you
bring into our lives, knowing that You're causing all things
to work together for the good of your children. We ask that
you would continue to bless the ministry of our church. It is an honor, Lord, to be numbered
among your people, to be associated with a congregation of long-standing
faithfulness, and to be, have a part and be a part of a ministry
that you are using to bless people from many parts of this world. And that which we ask for ourselves,
we ask for all of your faithful assemblies, faithful preachers
of the gospel that you would bless and use them, Lord, to
give give abundantly of the goodness of your spirit, that the word
preached might go forth in great power, and we're thankful that
you have said that your word will not return unto you void. It will accomplish that which
you purpose. And so as we get into our study
this evening, we ask for the enablement of the Spirit of God
that he would be our helper, that he would be our strength,
and give us all an attentiveness to the word of God. And may we
say when the service is ended, it has been good to be in the
house of the Lord. Honor your gospel, exalt your
son, For his sake we ask these things, amen. My subject this evening is Esau
is Edom. Esau is Edom. Now this is kind of the theme
that runs right through the 36th chapter of Genesis. Look at verse one again. Now
these are the generations of Esau who is Edom. Again in verse eight. Thus dwelt
Esau in Mount Seir, Esau is Edom, verse nine. And these are the
generations of Esau, the father of the Edomites in Mount Seir,
again in verse 19. These are the sons of Esau, who
is Edom, and these are their dukes. And once again, in verse
43, go all the way over to the end of the chapter. Duke Magdiel,
Duke Iram, these be the dukes of Edom, according to their habitation
and the land of their possession. He is Esau, the father of the
Edomites. By the way, The word Duke signifies
a leader. It is not an order of nobility,
but rather the head or the leader of a tribe of people. So Esau is Edom, that's the subject,
and obviously that's the theme of the chapter. Now, the name
Esau means Harry. When he came forth from his mother's
womb, He was a hairy little fella, and they named him Esau. Edom means red. That's taken from when Esau came
in and he was very hungry, and Jacob had a pot of lentils, a
pottage of lentils going, red lentil soup of some sort, And
Esau cared not for the birthright. And he said, give me some of
that red. That's what he said, give me
some of that red. And Jacob said, well, then give
me the birthright. And to Esau, the birthright meant
nothing. The scripture says he despised
it. And in despising the birthright, he despised the things of God.
He was not indifferent toward God. He was not indifferent toward
worship. He was not indifferent toward
those things that have to do with eternity. The scripture
says he despised them. It wasn't merely that he had
no interest or even that he had a little interest. No, he thought
nothing of them. They were nothing to him. God
was nothing to him. The God of Abraham and Isaac
and his father Jacob meant absolutely nothing to Esau. Esau was a hairy man. And he was a man, the scripture
says, who is Edom, which means red. He was the elder of the
two sons, being older than Jacob. And being the elder, he was legally
the head of the family to take over when Jacob passed. He was
the one to whom the birthright was entrusted. He would lead
the family in worship. But because it meant nothing
to him, He readily sold it for a bowl of soup and a piece of
bread. He had no real virtues, this
man Esau. He despised the worship of God. Look with me in the book of Hebrews. I want you to go over to Hebrews
chapter 12. and see what this has to say.
Here in Hebrews chapter 12 is a warning about departing
from or leaving the gospel of the grace of God. Now, I remind
you that Esau had many opportunities, many advantages, I suppose we
would say, over lots of other young lads because he grew up
in a family where God was worshipped, where they looked for the seed
of the woman to come, Christ the Lord, the Messiah. He was
brought up worshipping or at the feet of a father who worshipped
God and a mother who worshipped God. He knew what it meant to
that if you're gonna have a worship service, there had to be bloodshed. There had to be an innocent victim. There had to be an animal dying
for the guilty. He had a head knowledge of all
of those things because he grew up under the very close eye of
Isaac, his father. And Isaac knew personally the
doctrine of substitution. Because when Isaac was a young
lad himself, Abraham took him up on Mount Moriah to offer him
as a burnt offering to God. It was Isaac who said to his
father, behold the fire and the wood, where's the lamb? We're going to worship God, I
heard you tell the two servants. Well, where's the lamb? And Abraham
said to Isaac, my son, God will provide himself a lamb. And Isaac knew firsthand of the
very important truth of substitution because he's on the altar ready
to be executed at the hand of his father in obedience to God. And God told him to stop. He
said, there's a ram caught in the thicket by its horns. Take
that ram and kill it in the stead of Isaac, in the stead of. And
you know, Isaac taught Esau and Jacob that truth. He learned
in his head the doctrine of substitution, the satisfaction of God's justice,
Messiah is coming. All of those things were drilled
into his mind. But, when he got old enough to leave
a home, the scripture says he had no use for the things of
God. He despised the things of God. Here in Hebrews chapter 12 then
is a warning about departing from the truth of the gospel
that you've been taught. Hebrews 12, 15, watch this. Looking diligently, lest any
man fail of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing
up trouble you and thereby many be defiled. Know this now, the
grace of God cannot and will not fail. It reads here, look
indeligently lest any man fail of the grace of God. Men fail
of the grace of God, but the grace of God doesn't fail. Now
let's understand that. The word fail means to come short
of. Word fail means to lag behind. The word fail means to lack. In other words, it's the picture
of one who seems to be within grasp of the grace of God and
the things of God, but he lags behind. And he uses, if the Apostle
Paul is the human writer of this book, and I suppose he was, certainly
the Spirit of God inspired whoever wrote it, the Spirit of God then
goes into, verse 16, Esau. He's a good example of this.
He's a good example of a young man who learned or who was taught,
instructed in the gospel of God's grace, but he lagged behind. He lacked the grace of God. Grace
didn't fail him. Grace never lags behind. But
Esau lagged behind grace. He just wasn't interested. Wasn't
interested. So he says in verse 16, lest
there be any fornicator or profane person, that is an ungodly person
as Esau. The reason I say he had no virtues.
The scripture says he's a profane man who for one morsel of meat,
he sold his birthright. And with that, the blessing.
For you know, verse 17, how that afterward, when he would have
inherited the blessing, he was rejected. for he found no place
of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears." Now,
let me clarify that. The one that he sought repentance
from, he wanted his dad to repent. He wanted his dad to have a change
of direction and take the blessing away from Jacob and give it to
him. It isn't Esau who sought to repent
himself, but he went crying to his dad and said, please dad,
bless me, bless me also. And Jacob said, or Isaac said,
I have blessed your brother and he shall be blessed. There's
no reversal of this. Esau lived and died godless,
graceless, hopeless, faithless. And he perished forever. There's
no hope for him. There never was any hope for
him. For the Scripture says, God hated
him. And God loved Jacob. And he loved
Jacob and he hated Esau. God loved Jacob and he hated
Esau before those two sons had done anything. That's what it
says in Romans chapter nine. Now go back to Genesis again,
36. Look back at Genesis chapter
36. Let me show you what Esau did,
verse six. Esau took his wives, he took
all of his family. He was a fornicator, had three
wives. That's contrary to the word of
God. He took all of his family, all
of his substance that he got in the land of Canaan and he
left, he left Canaan. to get away from the face of
his brother. He left Jacob, Esau left Jacob
and refused to associate with him anymore. The God of Jacob, the worship
of Jacob, the family of Jacob, Esau despised them all. And he
left them all behind in the land of Canaan. He left, get this,
he left the only place in all the world where the truth of
the gospel was. That is for sure a fatal mistake. Where is the gospel to be found?
To be found in the land of Canaan. You know what the word Canaan
means? It means the low country. The
root word would be humility. He left the low. He left the
humble state. And where does he go? Verse eight
says he goes to Mount Seir, where he had been living anyway. He went to Mount Seir and that
means cave dwellers. He went to where the cave dwellers
were. Cave dwellers dwelt in darkness
that fit Esau. He had no light. He had no understanding. He loved darkness because his
deeds were evil. He would have nothing to do with
the light. Esau, why didn't you stay in
Canaan? The lowland, the place of humility,
where the truth was. And his answer is, I despised
it all. Where are you going? I'm going
to Mount Seir, among the Hittites, the cave dwellers, who lived in darkness. That's
Esau. He is born in spiritual darkness. He loves spiritual darkness.
He died in spiritual darkness, and he went out into eternity
in the land of darkness, where the fire is not quenched
and the worm doth not. Let me give you three things
real quick. Number one, God's promise concerning Esau was fulfilled. Go back to chapter 25. Now, everyone, God has a purpose for
every person, everything that ever exists. I know the false
religionists say things like, well, God's got a wonderful plan
for your life. I would put it this way, God's
got a purpose for your life and it will be fulfilled. What most
preachers say, God's got a wonderful plan. If you cooperate, it's
come to pass, it'd be good for it. God has a perfect, perfect
purpose regarding everybody. And his purpose for every single
person is going to be fulfilled. It's got to be because he's God. that which he has predestinated
his divine omnipotent providence will bring to pass. For good
or ill, for life or death, for salvation or damnation, that's
God's business, but his purpose will come to pass. In Genesis
chapter 25, The mother of these two men became pregnant. She's pregnant
with these two young boys that'll grow up to be heads of peoples,
of great families. And it says in verse 22, the
children, these two, Esau and Jacob, they struggled together
within her. within the womb of Rebekah. And
she said, if it be so, why am I thus? And she went to inquire
of the Lord. And the Lord said unto her, two
nations are in thy womb. God said there's two nations. Esau represents a nation. And Jacob represents a nation. and two manner of people, two
different kinds of people. Boy, that is absolutely accurate. Two manner of people, two altogether
different kinds of people are in your womb. One of them's a
sheep and one of them's a goat. You can't get any more opposite
than that. One of them's a man who's gonna
grow up and by the sovereign grace of God, he's gonna love
the Lord. The Lord's gonna meet him and
show him a ladder that reach from earth to heaven, even Christ
the Lord. And the other one, the Lord is
purposed to just leave him in his natural spiritual darkness. Two manner of people. as though they were two representative
men of all people. And in a sense, that's true.
Because from Jacob, God changed Jacob's name to Israel and true
spiritual Israel, that's the people of God. And the Vesau, He, as it were,
he is the representative of all men who live and die with their
fist in God's face, hating God, dying in unbelief and in wickedness. Two manner of people shall be
separated from thy bowels. The one people shall be stronger
than the other people, and the elder shall serve the younger.
Two nations Two nations. And as we get to Genesis chapter
36, we see the purpose of God fulfilled regarding Esau. And one of the reasons, not the
only reason, I'm sure, but one of the reasons why Genesis 36
is in the Holy Scriptures is to show that that's the faithfulness
of the Word of God. God said, I'm gonna make of him
a nation. I'm gonna make of him a people. And he did. And Genesis chapter
36 shows how quickly, how quickly the family of Esau grew and multiplied. And while Jacob's family is just
kind of struggling along, You know, when we get to the end
of the book of Genesis, that is when they go over into Egypt,
you know how large Israel is? They say, well, it must've been
a great big nation. 70 people, that's it. And all the time,
all the while that Jacob and his family are kind of slowly,
slowly multiplying. Esau's family, whew, boy, it's
growing like wildfire. And he grows into a great nation. Go back over there to chapter
36. In fact, here's how fast it grew. Chapter 36 and verse 31. Now these are the kings that
reigned in the land of Edom before there reigned any king over the
children of Israel. Before Israel had any king, Edom
had eight kings. Man, they're really growing fast. While the true people of God,
that family that has the gospel, they seem to be struggling. That's
kind of the way it is in this world, isn't it? With truth and
error. It seems sometimes that the truth of God is small. the
family of God in any one location, not very large. And then you
look out there at the mega churches in false religion. Man, they're
growing like gangbusters. But like David said in the Psalms,
he said, I was envious of the wicked till I saw their end. See the end of Esau. He's got
wealth. He's got prosperity. He's got
a lot of things concerning this world. He's got a big family
and lost his soul. He had nothing. He had nothing. See, God reigns over all things. He reigns in grace. God said,
I'll be gracious to whom I'll be gracious. Those are the words
that follow up what the Lord said about Jacob and Esau in
Romans 9. But God also reigns over those
who have power and authority in the world. God gave Esau power. He did. He gave him a great nation,
Edom, the Edomites. They're Arabs! But He didn't give him life. He didn't give him righteousness.
He didn't give him salvation. But He did give him, God gave
Esau power. You remember Pilate. Our Lord
stood before him and our Lord refused to answer him. Pilate
said to him, where did you come from? Whence art thou? Our Lord
Jesus, like His lips were sealed, He didn't even answer him. Pilate said, speakest thou not
to me? Do you know who I am? Don't you know I have power to
crucify you? And I have power to release you. You know what our Lord said? You could have no power at all,
except it were given to thee from above. See, God controls
all these things. Yeah, He controls all that goes
on in grace, but He controls all the physical
things, the world things, political things, nationality, He controls
all things. Our God is not limited in his
authority. He has absolute authority over
everything. Nothing excluded. That's good
news to the people of God. So God's promise concerning Esau
was fulfilled. God made a great nation of him.
Number two, God's purpose pertaining to Esau was fulfilled. We learned here in chapter 36
of the posterity of Esau. And then Esau is basically, he kind of fades into insignificance. Oh, he arises every once in a
while. And certainly he and his offspring
have momentary glory. as being a great people, and
of course, they'll be mentioned again, but the Word of God, right
from this, from the end of chapter 36, the Word of God ceases to
follow closely the lineage and the genealogy of Esau, and rather
follows the genealogy and the lineage of Jacob. It's almost
like, think of it this way. There's a fork in the road. And
here goes Esau, here goes the Edomites off this way. Maybe
I better put it this way, because it's the exact top. They go this
way. And Jacob, Israel, and the very truth of God goes this way. Well, which way is the word of
God gonna follow? It's going this way. Because Esau, one of the purposes
of God in bringing Esau into the life of Isaac and Rebekah
and into the life of his brother Jacob was to show the difference
that God makes. God made the difference. Here's
a man God humbled, Jacob. I know he was a trickster, he
was a deceiver, he was crooked in many ways, but bless his heart,
God loved him and God saved him. The Lord Jesus came and redeemed
him. And here's another man Esau.
He's a mighty hunter, a mighty hunter. He reminds me in many
ways of Nimrod way back earlier in the book of Genesis. He was
a mighty hunter, which means he was a persecutor of God's
people. And that's what Esau became.
Because you see, the Edomites, the family of Esau, they become
violent opposers of the children of Israel. And they were a thorn
in the flesh of Israel for many, many years. When Israel was traveling
toward the promised land, they have to go through the land of
Edom. And Moses made overtures of peace to them. He went to
the king of Edom then, of course Esau's dead by then, but he went
to one of the heirs of Esau, who was a king, said, listen,
we want to pass through, but we're not going to turn to the
right hand or to the left. We're not going to touch anything
of your, we just need a passageway. You know what the king of Edom
said? No way. And Moses said, listen, if you'll
let our cattle drink water and our family have some water as
we pass through, we'll pay you for it. He said, no way. You
cannot come to Edom. Persecutors of God's people.
You get to the book of 1 Samuel and King Saul is found to have
to fight against the Edomites. And then in the book of 2 Chronicles,
and if you want the reference, I can give it to you later, but
in 2 Chronicles, the Edomites rose up against Israel and they
were at that time devil worshipers. Are you talking about just, they're
spiraling out of control. And you think, where did all
this begin? How did they go from, how did
Esau, and then of course his descendants, how did Esau go
from sitting under the truth and then begin to go down to
where they won't even let the children of Israel, the people
of God, walk through their land. And then they fight against King
Saul of Israel. And then they become devil worshipers. How did this all begin? Esau, he leaves that place of truth. You leave the gospel of God's
sovereign grace to sinners in Christ Jesus, you got nowhere
to go but down. That's the truth. You just gonna
spiral down till you wind up in hell. That's what happened
to him. They just degenerated through
the years. And it really, it kind of reminds
me, and we don't have time to turn there, but it reminds me
of that passage of scripture in Romans chapter one. When they
knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful,
became vain in their imaginations, and they go down and down and
down till finally, they're a bunch of sodomites. Men with men and
women with women. Well, thank God it was his purpose
to send his son into this world to save his people from their
sin. Because you see, if it wasn't
for the grace of God to us in Christ Jesus, we'd be spiraling
out of control. That's where we'd be going. Esau, he became a wealthy man. But all of those temporal blessings
or mercies, whatever you want to call them, all that prosperity
that God gave him, they were like so many streams of water
just going into a hole. Didn't do him any good. And you know, God shows mercy
upon the good and the evil. upon his people and his enemies,
upon his Israel and upon the Edomites, and upon his people
that bear fruit for his glory, upon the wicked that just don't really do him any good.
Brings me to my last point, God's punishment of Edom. And God's
gonna have vengeance on all of his enemies. You may rest assured
of that. And the Edomites were the enemies
of Israel. And God's gonna deal with them.
He's gonna deal with them. And I want you to look at one
more scripture with me, and it's in the book of Malachi chapter
one. The book of Malachi chapter one. We have God's promise to Esau,
and they make of you a nation. We have God's purpose regarding
Esau. God's going to raise him up and
use him. And this is what God does. He
uses Esau until he has no more use for him. Then we won't read
much of them anymore. And then God's punishment of
Edom. Malachi chapter one. Look at
verse one. The burden of the word of the
Lord to Israel by Malachi. I have loved you, saith the Lord. Yet you say, wherein hast thou
loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the Lord, yet I loved Jacob
and I hated Esau and laid his mountains and his heritage waste
for the dragons of the wilderness. God took it all away from him. Whereas Edom saith, we are impoverished,
but we will return and build the desolate places. We'll come
back. Thus saith the Lord of hosts,
they shall build, but I will throw it down. And they shall
call them the border of wickedness. And I hear the Edomites, hear
Esau and his descendants, his family. Here's what God calls
them. The people against whom the Lord
hath indignation, how long? Forever. Indignation is anger. Abhorrence. These were a people
who had no use for God. Let me tell you something. God
had no use for them. Cast them away. There's coming a day when all
of true Israel will stand at the right hand
of our Lord Jesus in glory, washed in His blood, robed in the garments
of salvation, the righteousness of Christ. And on the other side
will be spiritual Edomites, people who hated God, who had no use
for the worship of God, And here's how God summed it up in verse
five. Your eyes shall see and you shall
say, here's what you'll say. The Lord will be magnified from
the border of Israel. He's not, look at verse four
again, the border of the wickedness. He's not at the border of the
wicked. He's not standing with the wicked. He's standing with Israel. He's
standing with his people against, against the Edomites. And what's
the result of all of this? The Lord's gonna be magnified.
And get this, I'll quit. The Lord is going to be magnified
in both salvation and damnation. Now that's a fact. That's a fact. If you die in
your sins, and I hope that doesn't happen to anybody who's under
the sound of my voice, Christ is the only Savior. May God the
Spirit give you grace to come to Him. May He draw you effectually
to Christ Jesus. But if you die without Him, if
you die without Him, God will cast you away into everlasting
darkness and He will be magnified in getting justice on you. But if you're saved, if we're made the righteousness
of God in Jesus Christ, the Lord will be magnified in our salvation. After this, after Genesis 36,
don't hear too much more about Esau. It's Israel. Because you see,
all of the Old Testament is pointing to and prophesying about and
picturing the Lord Jesus and his people. And the Edomites of this world, God'll get vengeance on them.
You don't want to be in opposition to Christ. Surely you don't. May the Lord be gracious and
merciful to each of us. Keep us under the sound of the
gospel and keep us loving the gospel. And indeed, God's grace
won't ever fail. And I don't want us to fail concerning
the grace of God. Hope nobody here comes up short. I hope nobody lacks the grace
of God. Let's pray. Lord, we recognize
Your greatness, Your majesty. You're the God of sovereignty. This is Your glory, You're merciful
to whom You'll be merciful and whom You will Your heart. Esau. You just left him where you found
him. Lord, don't leave us where you
find us. You find us in our misery. You
find us in our sin. You find us in spiritual death.
Oh God, don't leave us there. Bring us to newness of life in
Christ. Bring us to him who is our salvation. And Lord, with the rest of your
saints, we'll say now and we'll say in glory, the Lord be magnified
in all things. So bless your word to glorify
yourself and bless your word to help and bless us, your people. For Jesus' sake I pray, amen.