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Esau gives up on his inheritance for temporary pleasure
- Inheritance included:
- A double portion of the father’s wealth (Deuteronomy 21:17)
- He would be the head of the family
- He would be in the Messianic line
- He is the domestic priesthood
- What an emblematic trade?! Esau is an illustration of every soul that yielded to the flesh at the expense of a lasting inheritance.
- Gave up on the inheritance for a piece of meat.
- Esau’s example
- A profane person who gives up what is sacred for something carnal.
- We are profane people. Why? Nothing is sacred.
- What is hallowed in your life? What does Jesus Christ own that the world can’t touch?
Esau faints
- Notice the word the Holy Spirit uses of Esau’s temptation, faint.
- If thou faint in the day of adversity thy strength is small.
- Men ought always to pray and not faint.
The bitterness takes root
- Hebrews 12:15-17. The context is bitterness. Esau was mad at God that Jacob got the blessing because he thought the way he got it wasn’t right.
- Next chapter, out of spite Esau marries to spite his parents (Genesis 26:34-35)
