Turn with me now to Genesis 27. Genesis 27. This is part three of our three-part study on Jacob and Esau. In the Bible study this morning, we saw that Esau, in this story of Jacob and Esau, is actually a picture of Christ. I would say that we shockingly saw that Esau is a picture of Christ.

The moment that he was born, he came out red with his own garment, his own hairy garment. The scripture words it. That's a picture of Christ's own blood and Christ's own righteousness. It said that as the two boys were being born, Jacob took hold on Esau's heel. And that is exactly what was prophesied that sin, the sin of the adversary, would do to Christ on the cross of Calvary, bruise his heel. Esau was a cunning hunter. That translates to mean he was an all-knowing, all-wise provider of provision, provider of nourishment. That's Christ.

We read where the scripture said, Isaac loved Esau. And that was the wording that made me start looking at this. That's what puzzled me. Isaac loved Esau, but Rebecca loved Jacob. That's the whole thing that I wonder why. I wonder why it says that. Isaac loved Esau. The father loves the son. The eldest. The elder brother, the firstborn. Isaac loved Esau, it said, because he did eat of his venison. God's word says the father loves the son because of what he provided. Because of what he provided, the savory meat offering that Christ provided. And what was that? What did Christ provide to his father? He provided himself. He provided himself. He is the Lamb slain. Christ was the offering provided.

In the morning message, by way of the definitions of these words, that's how all of this came about is by looking at the definitions of these words, we saw that Jacob served Esau pride and rebellion. That's the definition of sod pottage. Esau willingly took it from Jacob. He made a covenant with Jacob to take this sod pottage from him. He made a covenant to take Jacob's place with the father. All right, Esau had a place in a standing with the father and Jacob had a place in a standing with the father. And Esau, he made a covenant to take Jacob's place with the father and to give Jacob his place with the father.

What a covenant. And that's what Christ did for every single one of his people. It's just the more I think about it, the more amazing it becomes. David said, King David said, although my house be not so with God, he hath made an everlasting covenant with me, ordered in all things and sure.

That covenant concerning Jacob's rebellion and sin, it was laid on the platter. It was poured into the cup of God's wrath. And as a type of Christ, Esau ate it. He drank it dry. And this is what the cup of blessing in return did for sinful Jacob. This is how the covenant of substitution brought all the spiritual blessings of Christ to sinful men and women like Jacob. All right, now look right here at Genesis 27. Let's remember that Isaac represents God the Father, Rebecca represents God the Spirit, Esau represents God the Son, and Jacob represents God's elect people who were chosen to receive substitution with the Son. Genesis 27 verse 1, and it came to pass that when Isaac was old and his eyes were dim so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son and said unto him, my son.

And he said unto him, behold, here am I. And he said, behold, now I am old. I know not the day of my death. 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. He gave him the commission. He gave him the work of providing a sacrifice, providing an offering. Verse five, and Rebecca heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son. There's only one God. There's only one God. Rebecca representing the spirit of the Godhead. They three were one. When this commission was given, they three were one.

Verse 5, Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son, and Esau went to the field to hunt for venison and to bring it. And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, 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. This is what the father demanded. This was the demand.

Verse eight, now therefore my son obey my voice according to that which I command thee. Go now to the flock and fetch me from tents two good kids of the goats and I will make them savory meat for thy father, such as he loveth. These two goats are the sacrifice of Christ. They are the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, listen to this right here, okay? It is the Spirit of God that makes the offering of God Savory to God. You mind if I repeat that? It is the Spirit of God that makes the offering of God savory to God. All is vain without God's Holy Spirit blessing it.

Verse 9 says, Go now to the flock. and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats, and I will make them savory meat for thy father, such as he loveth. Go to the flock. You know, our Lord was taken from among his brethren. What the scripture says, taken out from among his brethren. Verse 10, and thou shalt bring it to thy father that he may eat and that he may bless thee before his death. And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.

My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver. and I shall bring a curse upon me and not a blessing." That sinner right there said, this is what he said, nothing about me resembles the person that the birthright is owed to. Nothing, nothing about me. I cannot stand in that presence. Verse 12, my father peradventure will feel me and I shall seem to him as a deceiver and I shall bring a curse upon me and not a blessing. And his mother said unto him, upon me be that curse, my son. Now this is the spirit of substitution. This is substitution with Christ. Verse 13, his mother said unto him, upon me be thy curse, my son only obey my voice and go fetch me them.

And he went and fetched and brought them to his mother and his mother made savory meat such as his father loved. His mother made meat that his father loved. And Rebecca took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob, her younger son. She robed him in everything that was Esau's.

That's what the Spirit of God does for every child of God. This is what the Spirit of God does for every child of God. The Spirit immerses that child, robes that child, covers that child with Christ. That's what the child of God has been robed in, everything that is Christ's.

His blood, His righteousness, His sacrifice. Verse 15, And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son. and she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands and upon the smooth of his neck. She laid the robes of righteousness on him and she laid the sacrifice of blood on him.

That's the only way that a sinner can approach the throne of God. That is the only way that sinner must be robed in the righteousness of Christ and that sinner must be covered in the sacrifice of Christ. If we are going to be accepted, we must be in him. And this is what that means. Again, pay special attention to this. What it means is we must be in the image of Him. If we're going to be accepted, we must be in the image of Him. And it is the sacrifice of Christ being applied by the Spirit of God that conforms us to the image of Him.

Verse 16 says, and she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands and upon the smooth of his neck. And she gave the savory meat she gave. Grace gave it. What did he have to pay her for that? I'm going to do it, but you're going to have to pay me. She freely gave it. She gave the savory meat and the bread.

And that word bread there means the same thing it meant when Jacob gave it to Esau. All that rebellion, that's, you know why Christ was sacrificed? He was made to be sin. That sacrifice was a sacrifice of the death of the sin of God's people, the killing of the sin of God's people. She gave the savory meat and the bread which she had prepared into the hand of her son Jacob.

And he came unto 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. I am Esau, thy firstborn. Now, I know That we always say that sinful, wicked Jacob stole the birthright from Esau and physically speaking, that's so. But spiritually speaking. Did Esau not make a covenant to give it to Jacob? Didn't he make a covenant to give it to Jacob according to a legally binding before God covenant? He swore to God, you remember that from the, he swore to Jehovah himself. And according to a legally binding before God covenant, did Jacob not have the right to go stand in that place in the very stead of Esau according to Esau's covenant?

Do we realize that according to the legally binding covenant of substitution that Christ willingly made for his people, his people now have the right to go stand before the throne of God in the very place of Christ himself? Christ hung on the cross in our place, which we're about to see. And because of that, we get to stand before the presence of God in his place. Verse 18, he said, It says he came unto his father and said, my father. And he said, here am I, who art thou my son? Verse 19. And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau, thy firstborn. I have done according as thou bathest me. Arise, I pray thee and sit and eat of my venison that thy soul may bless me.

Jacob cast his all on Esau. Jacob only pled Esau. This is what it is to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, to cast your all on Christ, to plead Christ. You know the scripture says Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness. Counted to him for righteousness. Jacob, the sinner, he didn't do what the father commanded.

Rebekah, the spirit, did it for Jacob. It was all provided for Jacob. Esau is at this moment out hunting, fulfilling the commandment of his father. Every jot, every tittle. Jacob came pleading the righteous works of Esau. That's what he came to his father pleading. Here it is. Here it is. Here's the righteous works of Esau that you commanded Esau to accomplish.

And Jacob came bringing nothing but the sacrifice of Esau, the sacrificial work that was commissioned to Esau. Jacob is standing before the father, having done nothing and having received everything. That's how he's standing there. Having done nothing and having received everything. Verse 20 says, And Isaac said unto his son, How is it that thou hast found it so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the Lord thy God brought it to me. That's the only thing that a sinner can plead before the judgment throne. God did it. God did it.

The old man, John Jasper, an old preacher, They asked him one time, they said, if you find yourself standing before the gates of heaven and the question is asked to you, what right do you have to enter in? What are you going to say? He said, I'm going to say I am not here on my right. I'm here on the right of another.

Jesus Christ, my Lord, and my God. God did it, verse 20. Isaac said unto his son, How is it that thou hast found it so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the Lord thy God brought it to me. And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou be my very son Esau or not. And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father, and he felt him and said, The voice is the voice of Jacob's. The voice is Jacob's voice but the hands are the hands of Esau and he discerned him not because his hands were hairy as his brother Esau's hands so he blessed him.

A sinner will never be accepted on the basis of his own hands. Never. He or she must have the hands of Jesus Christ. False religion says he has no hands but your hands. If that's the case, there is no hope for any of us. The only plea that a sinner can have before God is, I have no hands but Christ's hands. He gets all the glory in every work of his own hands. Psalm 138, verse eight, which I love so much, it ends by saying, Lord, forsake not the works of your own hands.

Verse 22, Jacob went near unto Isaac, his father, and he felt him and said, the voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau. And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy as his brother Esau's hands, so he blessed him. And he said, Art thou my very son Esau?

And he said, I am. This is substitution. On the cross of Calvary, the question could have been asked to the Lord Jesus Christ. Are you Gabriel David Stoniker? I am. This is substitution. It is a complete changing of places with Christ. It's not just saying, well, you stand here now and I'll stand there. It is a complete trading of places with Christ. Complete and total.

Verse 24, he said, art thou my very son Esau? And he said, I am. And he said, bring it near to me and 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 he brought him wine and he drank. This sacrifice of flesh with verse 17 said bread and here it says wine. This represents the body and blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Hebrews 9.14 says how much more shall the blood of Christ who through the eternal spirit offered himself without spot to God. Christ didn't offer the blood of goats and calves, he entered in once with his own blood. Galatians 1 says, he gave himself for our sins that he might deliver us from this present evil world according to the will of God and our father.

Verse 25 says, and he said, bring it near to me and 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 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 blessed him and said, see the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the Lord hath blessed.

Therefore 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. That's amazing, isn't it?

Isaac blessed Esau. But Jacob received that blessing in Esau. Jacob was only blessed in Esau. Verse 30 says, and it came to pass as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

And he also had made savory meat and brought it unto his father and said unto his father, Let my father arise and eat of his son's venison that thy soul may bless me.' And Isaac his father said unto him, Who art thou? And he said, I am thy son, thy firstborn Esau. And Isaac trembled very exceedingly and said, Who? Where is he that hath taken venison and brought it me?

And I have eaten of all before thou camest, and I have blessed him, yea, and he shall be blessed. And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry and said unto his father, bless me, even me also, O my father.

In order for the sinner to be accepted, the father had to cast out the rightful heir. In order for the sinner to be received, the rightful heir had to be rejected. According to the legally binding covenant, the father said the blessing is going to go to the one who you made a covenant for. For the covenant's sake, the father had to turn his back on his son.

Isaiah 53 says, for the transgression of God's people, Christ was cut off and stricken, stricken of God, smitten of God, and afflicted of God. From the cross of Calvary, the Lord Jesus Christ cried to his father, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

It's because 2 Corinthians 5.21 says he was made sin. He was made sin. Now, just listen to this, just listen to this because Just listen to this. Does God love sin? Yes or no? Does God love sin? No. Christ was made sin.

That's really all I care to say about it. But in this moment, the father loves the son, the father loved the son, but the father hated Gabriel David Stoniker's sin, and Christ was made to be Gabriel David Stoniker's sin. That's what he was made to be. It is a total trading of places. The only way God could love a sinner was if Christ was made to be that sinner's sin. That's the only way. We were made to be the righteousness of God only because he was made to be our sin. Though he was rich, yet for our sakes he became poor that we through his poverty might be rich.

The father turned his back on his son because of the glorious covenant that was made concerning us. Verse 33, Isaac trembled very exceedingly and said, who, where is he that hath taken venison and brought it me and I have eaten of all before thou camest and have blessed him, yea, and he shall be blessed.

He shall be blessed. For the substitution of Christ's sake, all of God's people shall be blessed. And I'll just say that for poor, sinful Esau, really, poor, poor old, sinful Esau, this is where him being a picture of Christ ends. This is where it ends. Isaac went on, we're not going to read it, but Isaac told him that Jacob was going to be his master and rule over him. That's not how it is with Christ. That's not how it is with Christ.

Acts chapter two says, because Christ died, was buried and rose again. Therefore, let all the house of Israel, Jacob. Know assuredly that God hath made that same Jesus whom you have crucified, Lord and Christ. Philippians 2 says, because of this humbling of himself and obedience unto death, the Father has raised Christ up and given him a name which is above every name. Every knee is going to bow. Every tongue is going to confess. He's Lord. Colossians 1 says, He, Christ, has all the preeminence. And God's people love that to be so. They do. They love it to be so.

Now let me end this whole study by telling you, okay, this is it, we're done. Let me end the whole study by telling you what the definition of Jacob was a plain man dwelling in tents is. Let me tell you what the definition is. Look back at Genesis 25. We read it in the Bible study. I told you I'd tell you later. We read it in the morning message, I told you I'd tell you later. Here it is. Genesis 25, the end of verse 27, Jacob was a plain man dwelling in tents.

Even though Jacob was such a sinner, such a trickster, and such a supplanter, the word plain means perfect, complete, one who lacks nothing, sound, morally innocent, morally and ethically pure, pious, undefiled, upright. How in the world could that be said about Jacob? It can be said of Jacob in the way the story depicts Jacob today, in Christ. in the Lord Jesus Christ. Even though Jacob is the sin that he is in the flesh, he is all of that righteousness in Christ. Jacob was a plain man dwelling in tents. That means abiding, resting in his tabernacle. Who is his tabernacle? Christ is his tabernacle. Jacob was a righteous, perfect man dwelling in Christ.

The reason I waited till now to tell you that is because I wanted to emphasize the fact that that was declared from the very beginning before we even got into that whole story. From the beginning. That's what was said about Jacob. And in Christ, That's what's said about us. That has always been said about us from before the foundation of the world in Christ. That is our standing. That will forever be our standing in the Lord Jesus Christ. To him be all the glory. Amen.