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Today we are talking about forgiveness!
Whether it’s forgiving someone else or asking for forgiveness, we all have needed to forgive and be forgiven.
I can’t count how many times I’ve experienced this in my life.
From being mean to my siblings, to saying hurtful things to others, I needed forgiveness.
On the other hand, there have been times where others have hurt me, and I’ve had to forgive them.
I wish I had a specific example, but there’s so many times of this in my life that it would take forever to share them all.
In today’s Bible lesson, we are going to look at two brothers Jacob and Esau, and how Jacob needed forgiveness.
Our story begins with Isaac (the son of Abraham) and his wife Rebekah.
They were praying for children, and God answered their prayer.
He gave her twin boys.
From the very beginning, the two twins struggled with each other, so the Lord told Rebekah:
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Rebekah eventually gave birth to the twins, and the Bible gives us very descriptive details
Esau was covered in hair!
That’s right, he was a hairy man.
And his hair was red.
The Bible says he was “covered with hair like a fur coat”.
And,
Genesis 25:27–28 (CSB)
27 When the boys grew up, Esau became an expert hunter, an outdoorsman, but Jacob was a quiet man who stayed at home.
28 Isaac loved Esau because he had a taste for wild game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
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Now, there was one day when hunger got the best of Esau… let me read to you what happened.
Later on, when Isaac’s eyesight was no longer good, he called Esau to come to him.
He asked him to go out and hunt and prepare food for him.
There was somebody close by listening to that conversation… it was Rebekah.
Who was her favorite child?
Jacob, that’s right.
She devised a plan to trick Isaac into blessing Jacob with the birthright instead of Esau.
She put some of Esau’s clothes on Jacob and put the skins of young goats on Jacob’s hands and on the smooth part of his neck so Isaac wouldn’t notice that it wasn’t Esau.
Isaac could tell something was a little off… it wasn't the same voice as Esau, but everything else was right.
Later after Isaac gave in and blessed Jacob with the birthright, Esau came to his father and found out.
The Bible tells us how Esau felt about this… it says:
Because of what Esau said, Rebekah sent Jacob away to his uncle Laban until Esau’s anger cooled down.
Fast forward a bit, Jacob gets married and has many kids, and eventually leaves his uncle Laban to return back home.
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Then Jacob prayed to God:
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Jacob then stayed where he was for the night, and selected gifts to give to Esau:
-200 female goats
-20 male goats
-200 female sheep
-20 rams
-30 female camels with their young
-40 cows
-10 bulls
-20 female donkeys
-and 10 male donkeys.
That’s a lot of gifts!
Now, lets look and see Esau’s response to seeing his brother:
This was the reunion of two brothers who had been through a lot together, and this is a picture of forgiveness.
Esau didn’t kill Jacob or harm his family, he hugged him.
They wept together.
This story is a beautiful picture of forgiveness (gospel):
Esau could’ve gotten revenge and had his army of 400 men kill Jacob and all his family.
However, God promised to treat him kindly, and that He would multiply Jacob’s descendants until they become as numerous as the sands along the seashore—too many to count.
Just like Esau forgave Jacob, God has forgiven us through Jesus Christ.
God forgave us, even when we were still sinners.
We hadn’t done anything good to make God forgive us.
The Bible tells us this:
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