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Introduction:
Introduction:
Is it not a noble thing to pursue God’s blessings?
By all means, go after the blessings of God, but as one can see from the unfolding drama surrounding Jacob’s home, the real danger that each pursuant of God’s blessings faces is that of the undoing of his or her own family!
The fabric of society is failing today due in large part to the failure of the family!
Gen. 27
The lessons to us from this drama
(1) The practice of favoritism destroys family unity.
(2) The end does not justify the means.
(3) The almighty God needs no help in fulfilling His promises.
(4) The telling of one lie calls for the telling of more lies.
(5) The acts of life often cannot be undone.
(6) The decrees of God cannot be frustrated.
[Roy E. Gingrich, The Book of Genesis (Memphis, TN: Riverside Printing, 1998), 52.]
[Roy E. Gingrich, The Book of Genesis (Memphis, TN: Riverside Printing, 1998), 52.]
I. Mama Bear Plots to Protect Her Cub ()
A. The Threatening Thunderstorm of Looming Anger ()
Note - The destructive power of unbiblical anger
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As we read this story, there is a danger that we will sympathize with Esau, the opposer of God’s revealed will, rather than with Jacob, the promoter of God’s revealed will.
On the other hand, there is a danger that we will condone Jacob’s method just because it promoted God’s will.
We must be careful to commend his desire but to condemn his method of fulfilling this desire.
[Gingrich, 51.]
Note - The importance of a pure thought-life
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Esau’s sin of hatred developed and grew in his thought life (“said in his heart”) to the extent that he wanted and plotted to murder Jacob.
He was unsuccessful, of course, in murdering Jacob.
But the point we stress here is that the thought of evil precedes the deed of evil.
This is always the case.
Our thoughts always precede our deeds.
Our meditations become foul before our manners do.
Wicked contemplations lead to wicked conduct.
Esau’s thoughts of murder were leading to the deed of murder.[John
G. Butler, Jacob: The Sower and Reaper, vol.
Number Seventeen, Bible Biography Series (Clinton, IA: LBC Publications, 1999), 76.]
John G. Butler, Jacob: The Sower and Reaper, vol.
Number Seventeen, Bible Biography Series (Clinton, IA: LBC Publications, 1999), 76.]
B. Seeking Cover from the Pending Storm of Murder ()
Gen. 27:42-46
Note - who told Rebekah?
Note - “comfort” - breathing heavily, console, repent...
Note - “a few days” - She’ll never see him again.
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Rebekah’s attitude reflects a mild view of sin.
Many are like Rebekah in that they do not comprehend the real cost and harm of sin.
People often say about some sin, “It won’t hurt.”
But that is the “few days” attitude about sin, and it is a tragically wrong attitude.
In estimating the hurt of sin, most people only see the tip of the iceberg if they see that much; and so they play down the great seriousness of sin.
Sin hurts us more than most realize.
When temptation promises great gain and little loss, do not believe it.
It is only a lie.
It is the pleasure of sin, not the punishment of sin, that is only for a “few days” (see ). [Butler, 80–81.]
John G. Butler, 80–81.]
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That Rebekah suffered in all those after-years is evident from the words with which she sent him away.
Her plan was that he should tarry with Laban a few days only, and she distinctly declared her intention to send for him again.
This she never did.
We constantly attempt to comfort our hearts with the idea that we can manipulate the results of sin, so as to make them less hard to bear; and then we have to prove, through long and bitter experiences, that this is not so.
There is only one moment in which we can save ourselves from sin, and that is before we commit it.
[G.
Campbell Morgan, The Analyzed Bible: The Book of Genesis, vol. 9 (New York; Chicago; Toronto; London; Edinburgh: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1911), 177–178.]
G. Campbell Morgan, The Analyzed Bible: The Book of Genesis, vol. 9 (New York; Chicago; Toronto; London; Edinburgh: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1911), 177–178.]
Note - Selfishness - “why should I be deprived...”
Note - Playing to dad’s disdain - “if Jacob” does what Esau did...
II.
Papa Bear Plans a Wedding ()
A. Dad Counsels on How to Choose a Wife ()
Note - The differences between what Abraham did for Isaac and what Isaac is doing for Jacob
Note - Connect the context of not taking a wife of the Canaanites
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This charge is like the one Apostle Paul gave in which says, “Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers.”
It is the forbidden unequal yoke.
God’s people are not to marry what the Canaanites represent in creed and conduct.
The Canaanites were heathen in creed (unbelievers in our terminology), and they were corrupt morally in their conduct.
If you want a good marriage with the blessing of God upon it, you must never take the inferior spiritually or morally.
Marriage is no place to take something that is borderline, doubtful, secondhand, or tainted.
The choice of your spouse is extremely important, for it will greatly affect your happiness, your service for God, and your character.
Barnhouse rightly said, “A man can never be truly judged until you meet the woman he loves.
One glance at her will reveal much of his character.”
[Butler, 88.]
John G. [Butler, 88.]
B. Son Sent-Off with Blessing ()
Note - God Almighty = El Shaddai (see )
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There are important lessons in the scriptural record of this family’s life, and one of the most obvious is that the will of God and not the will of man will be established ultimately.
The will of God is like an anvil.
It is there for us to be conformed to, just as a bar of metal can be bent on an anvil and thus be molded into something useful.
But if we do not want to be conformed to the wise and holy will of God, then it is like us beating a piece of wood against the anvil.
It is the wood—ourselves—and not the anvil that will be broken.
[James Montgomery Boice, Genesis: An Expositional Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1998), 760.]
James Montgomery Boice, Genesis: An Expositional Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1998), 760.]
Note - Abrahamic Covenant = Land, Seed, Blessing
Note - Jacob’s Obedience
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This account is another remarkable demonstration of God’s ability to use the sins of men and women to accomplish His purposes and at the same time punish the sinners for their sins.
“What man intends for evil God utilizes for good.”673
[673 673.
Davis, p. 238.
Tom Constable, Tom Constable’s Expository Notes on the Bible (Galaxie Software, 2003), .]
III.
Angry Bear Rebels in Spite ()
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