Now, today, friends, our study brings us to
the 27th chapter of the book of Genesis,
and if you have your Bible, and we'll
turn there, it'll make it more meaningful to
you, and if you use our notes and
follow along with them.
Now, this chapter has as its theme Jacob
and Rebekah conniving to get the blessing of
Isaac for Jacob, which blessing old Isaac intended
for Esau.
But you see, Jacob wanted the blessing of
his father, and he knew God had promised
his mother that the elder would serve the
younger, and the blessing was his already.
He did not believe God, Rebekah's mother did
not believe God, and evidently Isaac, the father,
didn't believe God.
He would never have attempted to bypass Jacob
and to give the blessing to Esau.
He followed his feelings and appetite in contradiction
to the distinct word of God.
The method of Jacob in obtaining this birthright,
it cannot be supported on any grounds whatsoever.
He used fraud and deceit.
His conduct is despicable.
You can't condone him at all anymore, and
you could condone the conduct of Sarah and
Abraham in the matter of Hagar and Ishmael.
God could not use the trickery and cleverness
of Jacob.
And we're going to see that God deals
with this man in a very definite way.
He's going to pay Jacob for his sin
in the same coin in which he sinned.
And you will note that as we get
now into this chapter here.
That gives us a preliminary that will enable
us to understand.
Now, last time we concluded in chapter 26
by saying that Esau was about 40 years
old, and he took to wife Hittite, and
it was a great grief to Isaac and
Rebekah for him to do that.
And now they recognize that if Jacob is
not to marry Hittite or Philistine, that he
must be sent down just as Isaac got
a bride from the family of Abraham, that
is, from the same spot.
Now will you notice chapter 27, verse 1.
It came to pass that when Isaac was
old and his eyes were dim so that
he could not see, he called Esau his
eldest son and said unto him, My son,
and he said unto him, Behold, here am
I.
And he said, Behold, now I am old.
I know not the day of my death.
Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons,
thy quiver, and thy bow, and go out
to the field, and take me some venison,
and make me savory meat such as I
love, and bring it to me that I
may eat, that my soul may bless thee
before I die.
Now this man Isaac, we've already seen, he
was an outstanding man, a great man.
He's no weakling by any means because we
saw in the last chapter that Abimelech and
the Philistines, they wanted to make a treaty
with him because they feared him and he
was that type of a man.
That is, he was an outstanding man of
that day, very prominent.
Now he reveals here, though, that weakness of
the flesh.
All during his life, this boy Esau, and
Esau was his favorite, and Jacob was the
favorite of Rebekah, and Esau was the outdoor
boy, and he'd go out and he'd bring
in a deer or some animal and he'd
fix it, barbecue it for his father, and
the old man enjoyed it.
And now he's old, and he wants to
bless the boy.
Now he knows God has said the older
will serve the younger, but he bypasses that
because he wants to bless the boy.
And he says, now go out and bring
me in something and I'll bless you because
of it.
My, what a revelation this is of this
family.
And if you notice the strife that's in
the family since we have come into this
last major section of Genesis, there was strife
in the family of Abraham because of Hagar.
There's strife now in this family, these twins.