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I've appreciated.

The unique aspect.

Of approaching teaching and going through the scriptures in the narrative sections of of God's word.

In Genesis is a very narrative section and it's exciting.

Because as as we approached God's word, as I approach God's word understanding the events, understanding what what is a prime there.

I'm always intrigued as to how God is going to to work in my heart.

To to teach me as as I come to these passages.

And I want to pose the question this morning to you.

In your life in your day today, walk.

Are you seeking blessings from God? Or ma'am.

And I know we're sitting in a church.

So everybody's going to

Let me rephrase the question or more importantly, are you seeking God's blessings?

Through the means of man.

As we look it up houses today that.

I hope we'll we'll make more sense and I hope you will be able to reflect on your heart.

Your mind, your motives as those questions are drawn out.

I have to confess as a pastor.

There are times.

When can I would never say this?

I mean, especially in the moment, but there are times where I seek man's blessing.

More than than God's, but I think man's accolades in an approval.

More than I would see God's.

Now, if my my words would never say that.

Do my heart motive?

Maybe even my actions would demonstrate that.

Are we approaching life in such a way that we are setting aside?

True to some extent maybe convictions.

2. The please, man.

or receive from Mane blessing while hoping that that God will bless us in it, especially since well, it's it's a good thing.

That were pursuing in a wrong way.

What are passage today as we look at a Jacob?

And we're looking at Jacob today.

He's going to learn.

Some life-altering lesson.

And typically life-altering lessons that you and I learned are typically learned through a difficult situation.

Are they not?

As as we look at our passage today, there is going to be some vital things that Israel would need to know and understand as they went into the promised land.

Remember they are the original audience of of Genesis as it is given to the nation.

Israel.

They're given this.

This book Genesis as they haven't you to the promised land.

Is there.

Some final things that the nation would need to understand concerning their God.

And I would say to you and either some vital things that you and I need to understand.

If?

If you and I truly grasp, what we are going to look at today.

If we're going to grasp it and understand it with our hearts and our minds, and we have to engage both.

Then.

what we learned today will impact the way you, and I think, It will impact the way you and I live.

So my prayers this week has been that the God's word would be working in in your heart in my heart.

As we approach this.

We're approaching two different chapters today.

Chapter 27 and 28.

I believe they tied together in a beautiful powerful way.

And for the sake of time, I am not going to read all of those verses.

I have made the assumption that you in in the preparation of your heart in your mind, as we come together.

Knowing that we just finished 26 would at least come with the the presumption of reading chapter 27.

As you would strive to allow God, to work in your heart and your mind as we come together as the body of Christ.

If not, I'm making the presumption that help me read through Genesis as a church body that you will at least, remember, recently the events of these chapters.

It's not.

Then I'm going to challenge you.

Do not merely sit there this morning.

Allowing me to spoon-feed you.

Take up God's word this afternoon today, this week and read through these chapters.

and discover for yourself what God is teaching you and I

I expect.

All of us, when we come together to be prepared for God to work in our hearts and our minds.

Jacob's deception.

Most of you, as you open up your Bible.

Do you turn the chapter, 27 will have a heaven above it.

That heading is not scriptural.

That is man, given whatever.

It should stay in your version of a copy of God's word.

Maybe there's no heading.

I like that better, but it probably has something to do this affect Jacobs deception.

And as we begin chapter 27, we we approach what is going to occur there and we are looking at Jacob is going to be deceptive.

I remember growing up in the church.

And, and we were there Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday, nights.

And any other time that the church doors were open.

That was the lifestyle.

I grew up in and they had this amazing technology called flannelgraph.

It was a meeting.

I was amazed to Moses to look so much like Joshua.

And so on and so forth.

You no matter what church I was in we moved a lot of Jacob's deception is always the same picture.

There was this man on his knees like this holding a bowl.

And he looks goofy because there was fur wrapped around both of his forearms, a wrapped around his neck and he was holding a bowl that has steam coming out of it.

I always wondered what was in the bowl.

It is the teacher would tell the story.

It would draw all different events that occurred in this narrative and all of that.

Did the end result, though was teaching us young children lying is wrong and I would always walk away with that picture of Jacob and what occurred with his father and he saw learning why and that is definitely something that we can learn from this but I want us to to consider this event and I would encourage you to look deeper.

as as we look at these things because while not lying is a good biblical principle for us to understand and know I think if I asked anyone here is lying wrong, all of you would answer.

Yes.

So let's look at our God closer.

And discover what we learn about him.

Where did the story is in, in case you haven't give you some premise?

Okay.

First of all, Jacob is old and blind.

He can't see Ben and he's thinking he is he's coming close to.