Now you find in chapter 28, and I'm
reading now verse 1 of chapter 28, "...And
Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged
him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not
take a wife of the daughters of Canaan."
All the way through the Old Testament, you
find that God does not want the godly
to marry the ungodly.
And that again is my reason for believing
that in the 6th of Genesis that all
you have, when the sons of God looked
upon the daughters of man, is the godly
line marrying with the godless line of Canaan,
which finally brought the judgment of the flood
and only one man left.
Now, that in a marriage always leads to
godlessness.
And I'd say this word just of caution.
I recognize we're living in a day when
young people are not apt to take advice
from certainly an old preacher.
They say, my, what does he know?
And if you really want to know the
truth, I know a whole lot about this
particular matter.
I have seen case after case where some
little girl or some little boy, they come
to counsel, well, I've met a fellow, he's
not a Christian, I'm going with him, and
he's proposed to me, and I think I'm
going to marry him, and I can win
him for the Lord.
And little girl, if you can't win him
before you get married, you'll never win him
after you get married, you can be sure
of that.
Same thing that holds for the young man,
and God forbids it.
It always entails sorrow.
I have seen literally hundreds of cases, and
I've never yet seen a case where it
works.
Never yet.
You can't beat God.
God is put down too indelibly all the
way through the word.
When the godly marry the godless, what happens?
Look at Ahab and Jezebel, and in the
New Testament, it's strictly told Christians that they
are not to be unequally yoked, and that's
the way you get unequally yoked, not by
just sitting on the platform of somebody, but
by intermarrying.
That's the way you join up with them,
by the way, and that is the thing
that is going to happen.
Now, Isaac sends Jacob away.
He says, Arise, go to Padan-Aram, to
the house of Bethuel, thy mother's father, and
take thee a wife from Thance, of the
daughters of Laban, thy mother's brother.
Now, he sends him back to Laban, and
believe me, old Laban is quite a trickster
himself, and Jacob is in for it.
I can tell him that right now, but
he doesn't know it, but he's sure going
to find out about it.
Now, last time, we saw one of the
most despicable and ornery things that any man
could do, and that's what Jacob did, and
he did it at the behest of his
mother, and this is not a case where
I think that we can say, well, the
reason I'm such an oddball or I do
certain things and am so mean is because
my mother didn't love me when I was
a boy.
Well, believe me, Jacob couldn't say that.
Jacob was loved and spoiled and asked to
do something that is not quite the honorable
thing to do, and so he did it.
He stole the birthright from his brother.
It was already his.
The formality of his father giving the blessing
wasn't necessary at all.
Abraham hadn't given it to Isaac.
God had, and it's God that gave it
to Jacob, and this thing that he's done
was not necessary, but God will deal with
him because of it.
You can be sure of that.
Now, the thing Rebecca's thought up, and it's
very plausible, logical.
In fact, it was the thing to do
in this case was to send him back
to her brother so that he'd get away
from the wrath of his brother Esau, which
Rebecca didn't mention to Isaac, but she did
mention the fact that he could choose a
wife back there in her family, and so
Jacob now is going to be sent away
from home.