Sunday, December 22, 2013

Profane and rejected

Spiritual feasting on the word of our God.

Heb 12:15  Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
Heb 12:16  Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
Heb 12:17  For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.

Fornicator, or profane person- as Esau.

Esau, let's learn about Esau.

Gen 25:21  And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
Gen 25:22  And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.
Gen 25:23  And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.
Gen 25:24  And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
Gen 25:25  And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.
Gen 25:26  And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them.
Gen 25:27  And the boys grew: and ESAU WAS A CUNNING HUNTER, A MAN OF THE FIELD; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.
Gen 25:28  And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob.

Gen 25:29  And Jacob sod pottage: and ESAU came from the field, and he  WAS FAINT:
Gen 25:30  And ESAU SAID TO JACOB, FEED ME, I PRAY THEE, WITH THAT SAME RED POTTAGE; FOR I AM FAINT: THEREFORE WAS HIS NAME CALLED EDOM.

Gen 25:31  And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.

Gen 25:32  And ESAU SAID BEHOLD I AM AT THE POINT TO DIE AND WHAT PROFIT SHALL THIS BIRTHRIGHT DO TO ME?

Gen 25:33  And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and HE SWARE UNTO HIM AND HE SOLD HIS BIRHTRIGHT UNTO JACOB.

Gen 25:34  Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and HE DID EAT AND DRINK AND ROSE UP AND WENT HIS WAY, THUS ESAU DESPISED HIS BIRTHRIGHT.

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Now let's fast forward to this…

Heb. 12:16- ... Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.

Clearly Esau was WRONG to sell his birthright for food and drink.  We all know what it means to be extremely hungry, don't we? Yet there are something's that aren't worth giving into even if it means we die, right?

Let's think about that for a moment.

What are some of the things you don't do in fact, you die before you do them? 

Murder someone.  Right? You don't kill someone ever, you die first, right?

You don't torture someone, right?

I mean we've all, or most of us, have seen horror movies about people being driven to do awful things to each other all in the name of self survival. 

It's easy to NOT be in the situations and say what we would and would not do. Get into the situation and then you know what's what. But we don't want to be put in those situations just to see either. We have to look at others situations and try and learn from them. We can't be boastful and imagine we'd do better, we can however hope and pray that we will do the right things.

Would you sell your house to someone for a bowl of food? You might if you were starving, right? What good is a house if you're not alive to live in it?  A birthright was something more than a material possession though, right?

birthright [ˈbɜːθˌraɪt]
n
1. privileges or possessions that a person has or is believed to be entitled to as soon as he is born
2. the privileges or possessions of a first-born son
3. inheritance; patrimony

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A privilege  OR possessions a person is entitled to by birth, an inheritance.

What was Esau's birthright?  It was a privilege, it was an honor. If you give away your position of privilege you are placing yourself beneath the one who takes that position. Esau put himself second to Jacob. 

Heb 12:16  Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.

Esau was a profane person. Profane.
pro·fane
prəˈfān,prō-/
adjective
adjective: profane
    1.
relating or devoted to that which is not sacred or biblical; secular rather than religious.
2.
(of a person or their behavior) not respectful of orthodox religious practice; irreverent.

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Esau was more secular than religious.
Esau cared more for things other than God.

All who CHOOSE to embrace a sinful life are profane.  All who CHOOSE sin over God, all who CHOOSE self over God, are like ESAU.  Esau cared so little for God and the things of God, including the inheritance He knew was His through His father Jacob, His grandfather Isaac, and His great grandfather Abraham. His inheritance into a family of GOD was impressive, it was amazing, it was something irreplaceable, NOT something to be squander for a bit of food! Esau's birthright was to become the head of the family of God's chosen people and He tossed it aside.

We are all called to into the family of God! Every single one of us are called to be in God's family and yet so many of us will just throw that all away as if it doesn't matter at all whatsoever!  Is it any wonder we are told NOT to be like Esau?

Heb 12:17  For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.

After Esau sold his birthright HE WAS REJECTED.

Esau rejected GOD and as a result, was rejected by GOD.

God does NOT and WILL NEVER force any one of us to accept HIM!  And if we choose NOT to accept Him, He is NOT going to accept us. He will NOT force Himself upon us!

People strangely want to believe that He will do just that. People want to believe that God will accept them, that He will drag them into His kingdom but He won't! He will reject us. We can be rejected. Remember-

Heb 12:15  Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God

We can FAIL of the grace of God!

Esau mourned what he'd done, he tried to repent, he cried to be able to repent- but it just wasn't in him to do so.  He regretted what he'd done to the point of tears, but he NEVER sought GOD, he never turned to God. He rejected God and God rejected Him. He never desired to be God's. He wanted all the importance that went with his inheritance, but He did NOT want to be God's.

We have to desire GOD!

We have to seek GOD!

We have to put self last, not first!

We have to examine our lives and in doing so, PUT GOD FIRST!

And we can ONLY do this by the grace of our LORD and SAVIOR, JESUS CHRIST!

Please LORD we would be YOURS! By YOUR LOVE.

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