Let God Handle Them

Introduction

We all have some critics.

The Bible tells us this beautiful story in Genesis about a man name Isaac. Isaac is the son of Abraham, who is known as the Father of Nations. In this story Isaac is married to the beautiful lady Rebekah. For a period of time Rebekah could not have children. So Isaac prayed to God for her. The bible says that the Lord heard Isaac’s prayer and Rebekah became pregnant. In fact, she was so pregnant that two nations were being birthed in her. The story has it that while she was pregnant the babies struggled inside of her. And as a mother would, she became worried about the babies and asked the Lord why is this happening to me? The Lord said to her, “Two nations are in your body, and two groups of people will be taken from you. One group will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.”

The story goes on to say, when the time came Rebekah gave birth to twins. When the first child was born the bible say he came out with red skin and he was hairy. So Rebekah named him Esau (hairy). The story goes that when the second child was born he came out hold the heel of the first born. Because he was holding on to the heel of his brother, Rebekah named him Jacob (heel). The story has it that Isaac loved Esau, while Rebekah loved Jacob. This happens in Genesis Chapter 25. Toward the end of the chapter, we find the boys all grown up and serving in their respected places. Jacob is a mommas boy so he spend his time hanging around the tent. On the other hand, Esau spend most of his days in the fields hunting. The story has it that one day Jacob had cooked a stew and Esau came in from the field, and he was weary and hungry. So he asked his brother Jacob to serve him a helping of stew. However, Jacob being the trickster that he was, He say’s to Esau, Sell me your birthright. As it goes, Esau sold Jacob his birthright as the first born. Don’t make me bore you with the details but if you speed up to Genesis chapter 27 you’ll find where Isaac their father was tricked into blessing Jacob with Esau’s birthright.

From that day on these two boys, these two nations, were at odds with each other. From that day Esau promised that he would kill his brother Jacob. Esau became so enraged that Jacob had tricked him out of his birthright that he vowed that once Isaac dies he would not rest until he kill Jacob.

If you jump ahead to the text, we find that these two sister nations (Israel the descendants of Jacob and the Edomites the descendants of Esau) are at odd with each other and God has had to intervene.

1. Edom Had A God Size Problem.

What led God to this position with Edom?

What you will find when you read the bible is that from the time Esau lost his birthright all the way through the history of Isreal they struggled to get along with the Edomites. Isreal being Jacob’s decendents and the Edomites being Esau’s decendents had problems with each other. Two brothers children at odds with each other and carrying on for generations a feud that the brothers had.

I came to tell you this morning that Edom were ate up with what Esau was ate up with.

They struggled with pride.

They struggled with selfishness

They struggled with arrogance

Esau was bitter, so the Edomites was prideful. Esau was selfish so the Edomites was selfish. Edom was arrogant, so the Edomites was arrogant. Edom had a God size problem. And I need somebody in this place this morning that the only thing that can help a God size problem is a God size solution.

Heres the big Idea:

A. When you have a problem with God’s people you really have a problem with God.

What Esau and his desendants failed to realize was that Jacob was God’s choice. Jacob didn’t come out of their mother’s womb holding on to Esau’s heel by his own doing. He was acting out of instincts, because God has spoken that the last shall be first. And when God make you first can’t nobody make you last. I don’t care how much they stress you. I don’t care how hard they press you. I don’t care what they say or do. When God make you first can’t nobody put you last.

B. A fight with God is a loosing fight.

This is what I want every one of your enemies to understand. A fight with God is a loosing fight. I promise i’m not making this up. It’s in the text. Look at verse 2. God said, “Behold, I will make you small among the nations; you shall be utterly despised.” Verse 4 says, “Though you soar aloft like the eagle, though your nest is set among the stars, from there I will bring you down.”

2. Edom Met A God Sized Plan.

When you read the rest of this chapter what you will discover is that if God has a plan to destroy you nothing can save you. But same is the case when God have plans to save you nothing can destroy you.

You want to know why you survived what killed them. God had a plan.

you want to know why what ran them crazy gave you a since of purpose. God had a plan.

You want to know why you still standing when folk counted you out. God had a plan.

here’s what I love about God’s plan:

A. God’s plans out perform all other plans.

I don’t what plans your enemies have for you they will never out perform God’s plans for you.

Jeremiah 29:11 11 For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.

B. God’s plans Elevates you to a whole other level.

3. Edom Was Defeated Because of A God Sized Promise.

The New King James Version Psalm 91

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High

Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

2 I will say of the LORD, “He is my refuge and my fortress;

My God, in Him I will trust.”

3 Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler

And from the perilous pestilence.

4 He shall cover you with His feathers,

And under His wings you shall take refuge;

His truth shall be your shield and buckler.

5 You shall not be afraid of the terror by night,

Nor of the arrow that flies by day,

6 Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness,

Nor of the destruction that lays waste at noonday.

7 A thousand may fall at your side,

And ten thousand at your right hand;

But it shall not come near you.

8 Only with your eyes shall you look,

And see the reward of the wicked.

9 Because you have made the LORD, who is my refuge,

Even the Most High, your dwelling place,

10 No evil shall befall you,

Nor shall any plague come near your dwelling;

11 For He shall give His angels charge over you,

To keep you in all your ways.

12 In their hands they shall bear you up,

Lest you dash your foot against a stone.

13 You shall tread upon the lion and the cobra,

The young lion and the serpent you shall trample underfoot.

14 “Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him;

I will set him on high, because he has known My name.

15 He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him;

I will be with him in trouble;

I will deliver him and honor him.

16 With long life I will satisfy him,

And show him My salvation.”