Episode 37
Genesis Ch 26 vs 27 to Genesis Ch 27 vs 40
Jacob and Esau: The Battle for the Blessing
Pastor Bob Thibodeau dives into Genesis chapter 26 and 27, focusing on the story of Isaac and his sons, Esau and Jacob. The main takeaway is about the deception that led to Jacob receiving the blessing meant for Esau, showcasing how cunning actions can alter destinies.
Pastor Bob highlights how this narrative mirrors the way Satan uses trickery to rob us of our blessings. He emphasizes that feeling fed up with one’s circumstances can lead to breaking free from generational curses, thanks to Jesus.
The episode is a blend of scripture exploration and practical applications for personal struggles, wrapping up with encouragement to seek freedom through faith.
Takeaways:
- The podcast discusses the theme of deception, as seen in the story of Isaac and Jacob.
- Isaac's blessing to Jacob highlights the importance of familial relationships and blessings.
- The episode emphasizes how generational curses can affect families and how they can be broken.
- Listeners are reminded that through faith in Jesus, one can overcome struggles and break free from past burdens.
- The story illustrates the weight of choices made by family members and their long-term impacts.
- Pastor Bob encourages the audience to be proactive in seeking change when feeling restless in their lives.
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Transcript
Foreign hello, everyone, everywhere.
Speaker A:Pastor Bob Thibodeau here.
Speaker A:Welcome to your daily 15 minute Bible walk.
Speaker A:We're so blessed you're joining us today.
Speaker A:Last time we left off with Genesis chapter 26.
Speaker A:And we went down through verse 25.
Speaker A:So today let's begin in Genesis, chapter 26, verse 26.
Speaker A:Amen.
Speaker A:Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar and Ahuath, one of his friends, and Philcol, the chief captain of his army.
Speaker A:And Isaac said unto them, why have you come to me, seeing you hate me and have sent me away from you?
Speaker A:And they said, we saw certainly that the Lord was with you.
Speaker A:And we said, let there be an oath now between us, between you and us.
Speaker A:Let us make a covenant with you that you will do us no hurt.
Speaker A:That as we have not touched you and as we have done unto you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace.
Speaker A:For you are now the blessed of the Lord.
Speaker A:And he made a feast, and they did eat and drink.
Speaker A:And they rose up between times the morning and swore one to another.
Speaker A:And Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.
Speaker A:And it came to pass the same day that Isaac's servants came and told him concerning the well which they had dug and said unto him, we found water.
Speaker A:And he called it Sheba.
Speaker A:Therefore the name of the city is called Beersheba unto this day.
Speaker A:And Esau was 40 years old when he took to wife Judith, the daughter of Berai the Headite, and Beshemoth, the daughter of Elon the Headite, which were a grief of mine to Isaac and to Rebekah.
Speaker A:And that concludes chapter 26.
Speaker A:Let's continue now with Genesis, chapter 27, verse 1.
Speaker A: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, and said to him, my son.
Speaker A:And he said unto him, behold, here I am.
Speaker A:And said, behold, now I am old.
Speaker A:I don't know the day of my death.
Speaker A:Now therefore, take, I pray thee, your weapons, your quiver, your bow.
Speaker A:Go out to the field and take me some venison and make me savory meat which I love, and bring it to me that I may eat it, that my soul may bless you before I die.
Speaker A:And Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke this to Esau his son.
Speaker A:And Esau went to the field to hunt for venison and to bring it back.
Speaker A:Verse 6.
Speaker A:And Rebekah spoke to Jacob, her son, saying, behold, I heard your father speak to Esau, your brother, saying, bring me venison make me savory meat that I may eat and bless you before the Lord, before my death.
Speaker A:Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you.
Speaker A:So they.
Speaker A:They both understood.
Speaker A:Isaac and Rebecca and Esau, for that matter, both understood what the blessing meant.
Speaker A:Amen.
Speaker A:And now they're in cahoots together, you could say, says, going out of the flock, fetch me from there two good kids of the goats.
Speaker A:And I'll make them savory meat.
Speaker A:I'll flavor it like the way your father loves.
Speaker A:And you'll bring it to the your father so he may eat it.
Speaker A:And then he will bless you before his death.
Speaker A:And Jacob said to Rebecca, his mother, behold, Esau, my brother's a hairy man.
Speaker A:I'm a smooth man.
Speaker A:In other words, he had hair all over his arms.
Speaker A:He goes, and I don't.
Speaker A:He said, you know that's not gonna work.
Speaker A:What if my father wants to feel me.
Speaker A:And I'll seem to him as a deceiver.
Speaker A:And that'll bring a curse on me, not a blessing.
Speaker A:His mother said to him, upon me will be your curse, my son.
Speaker A:Only obey my voice and go fetch me what I said.
Speaker A:So he went fetched and brought them to his mother.
Speaker A:And his mother made savored meat.
Speaker A:Just as his father loved.
Speaker A:Rebekah took goodly raiment of her oldest son, Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob, her younger son.
Speaker A:And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, upon the smooth of his neck.
Speaker A:And she gave the savory meat and the bread which she had prepared into the hand of her son Jacob.
Speaker A:And he came to his father and said, my father?
Speaker A:And he said, here I am.
Speaker A:Who are you, my son?
Speaker A:In other words, yes, who are you?
Speaker A:He didn't recognize the voice.
Speaker A:And Jacob said to his father, I'm Esau, your firstborn.
Speaker A:I've done according as you bid me.
Speaker A:Arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison that your soul may bless me.
Speaker A:Then Isaac said to his son, how is it that you found it so quickly, my son?
Speaker A:Because the Lord your God brought it to me, man.
Speaker A:He just lying through his teeth here.
Speaker A:And Isaac said to Jacob, come near.
Speaker A:I pray that I may feel you, my son, whether or not you're Esau or not.
Speaker A:This wasn't ringing right with Isaac here.
Speaker A:And Jacob went near to Isaac, his father, and he felt him, said, the voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.
Speaker A:And he couldn't discern him because his hands were hairy and his brother Esau hands.
Speaker A:So he blessed him, and he said, are you really my son Esau?
Speaker A:He said, I am.
Speaker A:He said, bring it near to me, and I'll eat of my son's venison that my soul may bless you.
Speaker A:And he brought it near to him.
Speaker A:And he did eat.
Speaker A:And he brought him wine, and he drank.
Speaker A:And his father Isaac said to him, come near now and kiss me, my son.
Speaker A:Give me.
Speaker A:Give me a hug.
Speaker A:We do that with our kisses.
Speaker A:Come here.
Speaker A:Give me a hug.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:I don't care how old they are.
Speaker A:Well, I give my grandson a hug all the time.
Speaker A:I love my grandson.
Speaker A:And this is what Esau and Isaac were doing.
Speaker A:All right.
Speaker A:I'm so sorry.
Speaker A:Isaac was doing here with Jacob.
Speaker A:And he said, bring it near, and I'll eat my son's man.
Speaker A:My soul might bless you.
Speaker A:Brought it near.
Speaker A:Verse 26.
Speaker A:I'm sorry.
Speaker A:His father Isaac said to him, come near.
Speaker A:I'll kiss me, my son.
Speaker A:He came near, kissed him, gave him a big hug.
Speaker A:He smelled the smell of his raiment, said, okay, that's Esau's clothes.
Speaker A:He blessed him and said, see, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the Lord has blessed.
Speaker A:Therefore, God will give you of the dew of heaven and the fatness of the earth and plenty of corn and wine.
Speaker A:Let people serve you, nations, bow down to you.
Speaker A:Be lord over your brethren.
Speaker A:Let your mother's sons bow down to you.
Speaker A:Cursed be everyone that curses you.
Speaker A:Blessed be he that blesses you.
Speaker A:And it came to pass as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob.
Speaker A:Jacob, who had barely 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 to his father and said to his father, let my father rise, eat of his son's venison, that your soul may bless me.
Speaker A:And Isaac.
Speaker A:Isaac, at this point in time, see where we're at.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:Isaac, at this point in size, said, who are you?
Speaker A:And he said, I'm your first son, your firstborn Esau.
Speaker A:And Isaac said, oh, this is a good.
Speaker A:He started to tremble with great trembling.
Speaker A:It says very exceedingly, said, well, who is he that's taken venison, hunted the venison and brought it to me?
Speaker A:Already I've eaten all, all of it before you came.
Speaker A:And I blessed him, and he shall be blessed.
Speaker A:And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a great and exceedingly bitter cry.
Speaker A:And said to his father, bless me also, my father.
Speaker A:And said, and then it dawned on him what happened.
Speaker A:As Isaac said, your brother came with Satidales.
Speaker A:In other words, he came and tricked me.
Speaker A:He's taken away your blessing.
Speaker A:And Esau said, isn't he right, correctly called Jacob?
Speaker A:For he supplied me now these two times.
Speaker A:He took away my birthright, and now he's taken away my blessing.
Speaker A:He said, haven't you reserved a blessing for me, Father?
Speaker A:And Isaac answered and said to Esau, I have made him your Lord.
Speaker A:I've made him your master.
Speaker A:All his brethren I've given to him for servants, which includes Esau.
Speaker A:With corn and with wine I've sustained him.
Speaker A:What can I do now for you, my son?
Speaker A:Esau said to his father, have you only one blessing, my father?
Speaker A:Bless me.
Speaker A:Me also, my father.
Speaker A:And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.
Speaker A:And Isaac, his father, answered and said unto him, behold, your dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth and the dew of heaven from above.
Speaker A:And by your sword you shall live.
Speaker A:You shall serve your brother.
Speaker A:And it will come to pass that when you shall have the dominion that you shall break his yoke from off your neck.
Speaker A:Now, for the last couple minutes here, I want to talk about that verse right there, okay?
Speaker A:First, what we see here in this story is a type and shadow of how Satan used deception to steal our blessing.
Speaker A:Amen.
Speaker A:From the Garden of Eden.
Speaker A:But Jesus got it back.
Speaker A:Amen.
Speaker A:And.
Speaker A:And the Greek word, the NIV word translation here in verse 40 says, when you get restless, when you get restless.
Speaker A:And so when you get fed up, basically saying here, when you get fed up with your present circumstances, when you get fed up of not of having to live under his.
Speaker A:His yoke, his dominion, his blessing.
Speaker A:When you get restless, you get fed up with that, with your present circumstances, then an anointing will come upon you.
Speaker A:And you will break that dominion.
Speaker A:You will break through that dominion.
Speaker A:That's what that verse is translated as in the niv.
Speaker A:And that's a message for you today.
Speaker A:Okay?
Speaker A:You may be.
Speaker A:You may have struggled your entire life because we know, family.
Speaker A:I'll just lack a better word.
Speaker A:Family curse can be passed down one generation to another.
Speaker A:So it'd be, you know, down through the Father and to the Son, to the Son's Son, right?
Speaker A:Somebody in your family messed up, and you're paying the price for it.
Speaker A:But guess what?
Speaker A:This verse right here, through Christ Jesus can break that curse off that generation.
Speaker A:You could be the one that breaks that generational curse.
Speaker A:When you become free, fed up with living that way, Jesus can set you free.
Speaker A:And that's where we're going to leave yet today.
Speaker A:We'll pick it up there again tomorrow.
Speaker A:Till then, this Pastor B.
Speaker A:Roman be blessed in all that you do.
