Sermon Tone Analysis

Who are you walking with?

THAT THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE LAW MIGHT BE FULFILLED IN US, WHO WALK NOT AFTER THE FLESH, BUT AFTER THE SPIRIT.

FOR THEY THAT ARE AFTER THE FLESH DO MIND THE THINGS OF THE FLESH; BUT THEY THAT ARE AFTER THE SPIRIT THE THINGS OF THE SPIRIT.

FOR TO BE CARNALLY MINDED IS DEATH; BUT TO BE SPIRITUALLY MINDED IS LIFE AND PEACE.

INTRODUCTION

Well good evening, it is great to be back home and to be here in worship with you guys.

But can I tell you that our family in Idabel is on fire for God.

We have a wonderful weekend with them.

We had a great Saturday training and our team here did an excellence job.

Thank you guys who went and pour into our family at Idabel.

Sunday Morning was great, their worship was awesome and we have one of the biggest crowd, I think we had around 80.

Three saved and altar full.

Sister Becky was there and God strength her Saturday after our prayer with her.

She was feeling great and looking good.

Praise God, He is the healer!!!

I got to be in worship with one of my old staff member, 90 years old.

Brother McDonald.

I am excited about where God is taking us here at Southpointe!

Now let’s get into the Word of God tonight!!

And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.

FOR THEY THAT ARE AFTER THE FLESH DO MIND THE THINGS OF THE FLESH; BUT THEY THAT ARE AFTER THE SPIRIT THE THINGS OF THE SPIRIT.

And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob.

FOR TO BE CARNALLY MINDED IS DEATH; BUT TO BE SPIRITUALLY MINDED IS LIFE AND PEACE.

You know the story, look at me just a minute, these boys were competitive.

Each of them were wanting the birthright.

The birthright belonged to Esau.

One was a hunter, one was a momma's boy.

One was a manly guy, the other was a sissy.

You know the story, look at me just a minute, these boys were competitive.

Each of them were wanting the birthright.

The birthright belonged to Esau.

One was a hunter, one was a momma's boy.

One was a manly guy, the other was a sissy.

One was hunting and came home one day and he was hungry and even starving.

He smelled the beans that Jacob was cooking, and he said, "I would sell my birthright.

I would give everything, everything, for this pot of beans you have."

He said, "You promise?"

He said, "I promise."

So he grasped it, that is why Jacob means grasper.

He received the blessings of the father.

You know the story of how later he went in, and his father was old and blind, and he deceived him into thinking he was Esau, and he took the inheritance that belonged to the older brother for himself.

And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.

In Genesis chapter 27 and verse 41 again, because of this, we read there was strife and there was tension, there was bad blood between them.

Ultimately all of this led to the threat of death by Esau to Jacob.

Jacob had to flee from his wrath.

The years have passed, Jacob becomes wealthy, very prosperous.

He meets his wife Rebekah and wife Leah, and the handmaidens that work for him.

He has many, many children and flocks and herds.

He is wealthy and powerful, but one day something begins to say, "You need to restore your union with your brother.

You need to make reconciliation with Esau."

Now, even as wealthy and powerful as Jacob was, he still is not a man of war.

He knows that his hunting brother is coming at him with a 30-30.

Jacob is still kind of a quiet little tricky nerd of a kind of guy.

Esau is a quarterback on the local football team, he has a gun on the gun rack on the back of his pickup truck - now that is what it says, just read your Bible.

That is the trouble, you don't read it.

In we read of their meeting.

There is a hug, there is an embrace, there are tears, there is weeping, there is emotion.

Please, my lord, go ahead of your servant.

We will follow slowly, at a pace that is comfortable for the livestock and the children.

I will meet you at Seir."

Now they depart from one another and Esau said, "Look you go back home, and I will go back later and I will come to see just a little bit later on."

As far as the scriptures are concerned he never went to Jacob's house.

They never really saw each other again.

In truth they were never reconciled together.

That is the story.

I am telling you that I believe there is an element which we have simply failed directly, in our preaching and in our teaching and in our ministry in the contemporary church, to such an extent that we have not counted the power of it to destroy us.

It is simply the issue of my own flesh.

You see we don't want to face up to the capacity of my humanity for tremendous evil.

For example, A man came into a Pastor’s office who had had affair after affair and affair after affair in his married life.

Some of them were caught, some of them were not caught.

Now it was to the point of a divorce.

Now tears are streaming down his cheeks and finally he turns to the Pastor and says, "Pastor, I believe I have a spirit of adultery.

I want you to cast that spirit out."

Here you have the great Charismatic cop-out.

When the spirit of adultery may be nothing more than an undisciplined, uncrucified flesh.

Esau is the flesh man.

In studying his life we can see some ways of our self in his life.

Now it may make us uncomfortable.

It may be like the four year old boy who said to his dad, "Hey dad, you want to see a clown?

There is a clown in our yard."

His dad said, "No, you are kidding."

It was nighttime.

Kid said "There is a clown in our yard.

Come and look at our clown.

Quick dad, do you want to see it?"

and the dad said "Yeah."

So he took him to the kitchen window, it was night outside, of course the light was shining inside.

He pulled back the curtains and of course what he saw was himself, he was the clown.

Now, nobody likes that.

Come on, say a good "Amen".

Now listen to me, even in Esau's weeping, even in his remorse he could not change.

He was listed in the Bible as a failure.

I ask you, why couldn't he change?

Why does a guy go on and on in drugs knowing that he is going to burn his mind out, he is going to burn his body out, or he is going to end up in jail?

Why does a person continue having an affair, time after time knowing it is going to destroy their marriage, it going to hurt their family, and completely destroy their life.

I ask you, why does a lady who is causing trouble, confusion, and discontent, unrest in the church, why is she unable - in spite of her weeping and praying at the altar - to find a place of repentance?

I ask you, why does this exist in the great American church?

Listen to me closely.

I am going to tell you Why?

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The flesh person idealizes his own appetite.