Hope to the End

1Pe 1:13  Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

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When you gird up your loins, what are you doing? You're protecting your body.  You're preparing for action. We are told this--

Eph 6:14  Stand therefore, having girded your loins with truth

We are told this is part of the whole armor of God.

Armor protects us in battle.  The truth protects us in our spiritual battle.

Here in 1 Peter we are told to gird up the loins of our MINDS.

We must protect our MINDS.

We protect our minds by remaining sober. We protect our minds by HOPING to the END for the GRACE that is TO BE BROUGHT unto us at the REVELATION of JESUS CHRIST.

Hope protects us.  We can understand how remaining sober would protect our minds, can't we? Anyone who has ever been drunk can understand how they're not in their right minds when they are under the influence. People do things and say things they don't mean to do and say and would NEVER do or say if they weren't drunk. Our guards are down when we are drunk. At least in remaining sober we are NOT opening ourselves up to evil influences and yes, this protects us.

Can we understand how hope protect our minds?

Without hope …

Heb_11:6  But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

Hope is faith, isn't it?

Heb_11:1  Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Without hope it is impossible to please God.
Without hope we have NO hope.

We must hope and we must NEVER lose hope.

This is the devil's chief goal, to make us lose hope. Hope offers us the best protection ever.

1Pe 1:14  As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance

We must be OBEDIENT children of God.
We must NOT fashion ourselves according to our former lusts that we held in ignorance.

This all ties into striving, to resisting unto blood, to fighting the good fight, to being active spiritually.

1Ti_6:12  Fight the good fight of faith

We aren't to be passive in our spiritual life. We are to FIGHT, we have ARMOR. If we truly believe these are mere words without any substance, words that are said in metaphor without any practical application to our spiritual life, then we are lost.

It is a battle, it is a fight, and it's one that we all are taking a part in.

Some of us choose to remain at home on the sidelines keeping off enemy territory, staying out of the real fight, keeping far away from the front lines- but in doing that we are placing ourselves at risk.  We are acknowledging there is a spiritual battle going on, but not one that we really have to be a part of. We'd like our part to be one that doesn't see any action. We want our part in this battle to not require us to put on any armor at all.

But it isn't enough to sit out this battle.  We are all on the front lines daily, and satan will gladly destroy your spiritual life while you sit back believing all the while you are fighting a good fight. Satan deals chiefly in deception and he'll use every means at his disposal to keep us deceived.

God give us TRUTH. God takes off our blinders. God wants us to fight the good fight, to be in the spiritual battle with all our armor on.

God has call us to be holy in all things, are we?

1Pe 1:15  But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;
1Pe 1:16  Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

Do we set aside our Christianity and tell ourselves we are only human, and can't help but live in our humanity first and foremost?  Do we make all manner of excuses so we can keep from fighting the spiritual battle, so we can live a life of spiritual ease?

Be holy as God is holy.

We tell ourselves this is impossible.  And it is impossible for us, but not for God.

We are called to be holy and we can be holy only through the hope we have in Christ Jesus our SAVIOR.

Hope.

More tomorrow all by the GRACE of our God.

Please LORD be our HOPE in all things!  Help us to HOPE to the END for the GRACE brought to us by JESUS CHRIST, the REVELATOR.

Serve God Acceptably

Heb 12:28  Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
Heb 12:29  For our God is a consuming fire.

Receiving a kingdom which CANNOT be moved…

We just talked about the heavens and earth being shaken and things being removed, and now we are talking about a kingdom which cannot be moved. It's that simple isn't it?

What can be moved and cannot be moved.
Things not of God and things of God.

If we are God's we will NOT be moved, we will not be removed from all existence. All things that are not God's will be removed it's that simple.

We are told- we who receive the kingdom- receive Jesus Christ as our Savior, cannot be moved and then we are told to have grace- grace so we may SERVE God ACCEPTABLY with REVERENCE and GODLY FEAR.  Why? Because our GOD is a CONSUMING FIRE.

A consuming fire.

Believing God is a big ol' softy who will not harm anyone or anything is wrong. What He will never do, is harm anyone or anything UNJUSTLY.

Let us have grace.

Grace is not forced upon anyone. No one will be forced against their will to receive the grace of God.  Those who refuse the grace of God will one day cry out that they should have been forced, but force is not love.

We are not forced but we are chastened. We are shown the errors of our ways. We are guided lovingly, if strictly and at times painfully- because God says no chastening for the present seems pleasant, but accepting the chastening and learning from it, learning the lesson we are being taught is necessary.

Let us have grace.

Having grace is accepting Christ as our Savior, accepting He and He alone can save us through that grace of His.

1Pe_5:10  But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

Oh, please, let us have grace!

Let us serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear.

Serve, please let us serve You, let Your will be done in us. Help us to revere You as we should, help us to have godly fear as we fully comprehend that You are a CONSUMING FIRE. You are not one who will compromise any of what You are, You will never compromise Your love, never. You have laid ALL Your cards on the table plain for all to see. You have explained Your plan of salvation leaving nothing out, nothing whatsoever. You leave it for every human being to decide whether or not they want You and accept Your plan of salvation.

Lord, we choose You.
Lord, we serve You, help our serving be acceptable to You.
Lord, help us to revere You.
Lord, help us have a godly fear of You.
Lord, help us to comprehend that You are a consuming fire, never forgetting, never soft-selling You. Never believing that sin will not be eradicated fully in every aspect by Your consuming fire.

All by Your love.

Savior or Self?

Heb 12:26  Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
Heb 12:27  And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
Heb 12:28  Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
Heb 12:29  For our God is a consuming fire.

Heb 12:27  And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.

'Whose voice'- a voice speaks.
'And this word'- what a voice says.

And this word, ONCE MORE- SIGNIFIES the REMOVING of those things that are SHAKEN.

When did this word remove shaken things in the past?

Psa_18:7  Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.

Psa 46:6  The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
Psa 46:7  The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
Psa 46:8  Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the earth.

God's word is powerful, so incredibly powerful. The world could end at His word. One word from our Creator we could be blotted out of existence.  The power is there, the power ruled by love which cannot blot us out because Christ sacrificed Himself to save us from ourselves.

There are many things that can be shaken, many things that can be removed, but there are things that CANNOT be shaken and those things will remain.

God's love cannot be shaken. God's law cannot be shaken.  Evil will be shaken and all the things attached to evil, all things that are a result of evil will be removed.

Satan- once Lucifer- a covering cherub took one third of the heavenly angels with Him, not by force but by lies and deception. He deceived the angels and they chose to follow him over their Creator, God. Yes, the heavens will be shaken…

Heb 12:26  Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.

Everything will be shaken and for a final time and only the things that CANNOT be shaken will remain.  Only the things that are GOD'S will remain.

Our Savior, our Mediator, the One who stands between us and God is the One we MUST cling to! Our lives, our allegiance must be to our SAVIOR.

Savior or self.

Savior or self.

This is truly what we decide between.

We can be shaken, we can be removed if we are not God's, if Christ is not in us, if we are not known by Christ, and the way we are known, the way He is in us, the way we are God's is by choosing to let self DIE and choosing DAILY to let self die, not yielding to self, but yielding to God. Willing to strive against sin, strive unto blood, resist unto blood knowing we are battling self.  All the powers of Satan will encourage us to not resist sin, not to resist ourselves. All the powers of Satan will convince us that sin is good, and good is sin, so our conscience will be quiet.  Please, Lord, let our conscience never be silenced by our giving into Satan's deceptions. Live in us! Let us live in You. Let us be YOURS always!  Guide us, help us, teach us, love us!

Let us choose YOU, our SAVIOR, over ourselves.

All by YOUR GRACE, YOUR LOVE! Let us be Yours so we will not be removed, not be shaken.

I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.

Heb 12:24  And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.

Yesterday we studying the above verse. There is so much meat on that verse's bone -so to speak. We are feasting on meat now and not milk, we are no longer babes but we've grown up into Christ, haven't we? We have to believe we will grow up, by the grace of God, into spiritual adults because we aren't supposed to forever remain babes needing feeding, needing milk.

Ultimately the above verse is telling us that our Savior is a MEDIATOR of a new covenant, the old one involved sacrificial services that included the sacrifice of animals. This new covenant only needed Jesus' blood, His blood being the only blood that could redeem us, blood that is holier than even Abel's, the first to die- murdered by his brother.

Continuing on...

Heb 12:25  See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven

Remember this from just a short bit ago--

Heb 12:18  For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
Heb 12:19  And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
Heb 12:20  (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
Heb 12:21  And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)
Heb 12:22  But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,

Moses spoke upon earth. The people wanted Moses to speak to them, not God because they were afraid.

Exo 20:18  And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.
Exo 20:19  And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.

Now read this-

Heb 12:25  See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven

They escaped NOT who refused him that spake on earth.

People did NOT escape the law through Moses. People were given the truth of God's love, a love that is so incredibly amazing, a love that is beyond them to know on their own. They were shown their sin- the reason for their separation from God and His love, and then shown a way to be reconciled as much as would be possible until the time for the Messiah would come.  No one escaped that life, no child of God, no chosen of God, no one whose heart went after the TRUE GOD.

And if NO one could escape from the ceremonial law of God, why does anyone imagine they can escape the voice of the Son of God, the heavenly voice of the Redeemer?

It's truly amazing that people have the audacity to NOT believe. They have the freedom of choice and they choose to disbelieve, they choose to look away, they choose a path of their own divination, they walk according to their own wills as if they had a hand in their own creation. NONE of us have created ourselves, not a single one of us had ANYTHING at all to do with our own creation!  NO ONE!  Not the smartest, not the dumbest, not the prettiest, not the ugliest, not the skinniest, not the fattest, not a single person has ever had a hand in their own creation. And, if not a single person has EVER had a hand in their own creation why do they imagine they were not created by God?  I know, I know there are all sorts of theories to explain away our existence, but none of them make complete sense except our being designed by a Creator as beings who could propagate. And each being that has a hand in creating another being does so only by the fact the original parent was created by God.

So I ask again, if no one could escape from the ceremonial law of God, why does anyone imagine they can escape the voice of the Son of God, the heavenly voice of the Redeemer?  Not a single one of us will escape the truth it confronts us all.  The heavenly voice of our Savior-- God becoming a Man-God; a Man-God dying, a Man-God resurrected, a Man-God to save all who would be saved, all who would be His, all who would know His love, all who would hear His voice and be known by Him.

His--

Heb 12:26  Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
Heb 12:27  And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
Heb 12:28  Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
Heb 12:29  For our God is a consuming fire.

And by the grace of God we will study more tomorrow, feasting on the word of our Lord, filling our spiritual bellies full with the meat of His word, growing strong in the LORD.

All by HIS LOVE!

Jesus, our Mediator

Heb 12:24  And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
Heb 12:25  See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
Heb 12:26  Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
Heb 12:27  And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
Heb 12:28  Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
Heb 12:29  For our God is a consuming fire.

Truly this is a very amazing spiritual meal here. The spiritual meat here is very filling. To be able to discern between good and evil we must study, and study means more than merely read the words and let them pass over us. We have to study to … well, read this…

2Ti_2:15  Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Study to show yourself approved unto God.
A WORKMAN who isn't ashamed.
RIGHTLY DIVIDING the WORD OF TRUTH.

A workman, we are workmen! We are working, and to NOT be ashamed we must study diligently because only by studying diligently can we divide the word of truth.  Dividing the word- comprehending the word of truth.

So let's take the above six verses and study them one by one, slowly.

Heb 12:24  And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.

Jesus the MEDIATOR.  Jesus, God's Son, our Savior- a MEDIATOR.

me·di·a·tor
1. One that mediates, especially one that reconciles differences between disputants.

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One who mediates.
One who reconciles.

1Ti_2:5  For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus

Jesus the mediator, the reconciler- OUR mediator, yours and mine!

We comprehend this, don't we? We know we need Jesus Christ our Savior to reconcile us to God. We have all chosen self and sin over God and all of us are in need of forgiveness so we can be reconciled with God.  Jesus alone can reconcile us to God.

Continuing with the verse.. 'to the blood of sprinkling'

Heb 9:18  Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.
Heb 9:19  For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,
Heb 9:20  Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.
Heb 9:21  Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.
Heb 9:22  And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
Heb 9:23  It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

Blood used to purge sin, to make clean. The HEAVENLY things are purged not with the blood of animals but the BLOOD of the SON of GOD!

We have to realize that our Savior changed things by His death.

Heb 12:24  And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.

Jesus' blood is better than any other blood ever shed. The most innocent of human beings whose blood is spilled cannot measure up at all to Christ's blood. Forever the human beings have tainted their blood by sin. The son of our first parents, a good son, a son that pleased God in His devotion and in His sacrifice to God- a son with innocent blood, righteous blood. 

Mat_23:35  That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.

As innocent as Abel was, as innocent as any human being can be, His blood was no match to the blood of our Savior, Jesus Christ.

Heb 12:24  And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.

Jesus our mediator of the new covenant.  The NEW covenant. No longer were people to be under the ceremonial law, the ceremonial covenant that pointed to the Savior who would make perfect that which NO man can make perfect.  Once our Savior's blood was shed, no other blood has EVER been needed to be shed. Not a single drop of animal blood signified anything any longer.  The only sacrifice ever needed would be Christ's.

Remember this…

Psa_51:17  The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

Truly God want us to be HIS and we can only be HIS through Jesus Christ our Mediator who shed His innocent blood, blood that is more worthy than any other blood.  A price paid so we could be reconciled to God once more.

This is what it is ALL about, a reconciliation between God and man.  God and man together as intended, with LOVE.

Please LORD, help us to comprehend Your love for us in the perfect Sacrifice of Your Son! We are not worthy and can never be worthy, Jesus and Jesus alone is worthy. 

More on this tomorrow ALL by the grace of our SAVIOR!

Help us LORD, help us to understand, to comprehend all we need to comprehend in YOU.

We would love as You would have us love. Please, Lord, all by YOUR GRACE and MERCY, all by YOUR LOVE!

The Living God

Today's spiritual feast is going to include history.

Heb 12:18  For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
Heb 12:19  And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
Heb 12:20  (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
Heb 12:21  And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)

We are being told that we are not in the same circumstances as God's chosen people were in the days following their escape from slavery.  Physical slavery, spiritual slavery, both.  Today most of us are NOT living as captives of others. We have a freedom that those who are slaves of others do not. Moses by God's hand freed God's people.  Here we read that we are not like those slaves. It isn't Moses who has brought us spiritual freedom but our Savior.  We are not being called into a situation filled with fear. We are not being called into a situation where we can claim we really don't know the Lord's will, the Lord's way.  We know and have known, we come with the history of knowing God's will. With all that history we are not like those slaves newly freed from Egyptian rule, slaves who knew of the faith of their forefathers, slaves who knew there was a prophesized deliverer, but beyond that not incredibly much. These slaves would be delivered and taught.  The result of all that teaching produced a people who could know God.  However, people are hard hearted, people are in love with their evil, even God's chosen people often choose to worship self over God.

God's plan wasn't for just a lull in evil, but an end to all evil while saving the humanity that He created, the humanity that He intended to exist.

Every step of the way the end game has always been in mind.

We live in a time beyond  focusing  on the earthly Jerusalem.

Heb 12:22  But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
Heb 12:23  To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,

We are come to the heavenly Jerusalem.
We are come to mount Sion.
We are come to the city of the living God.
We are come to an innumerable company of angels.
We are come to the general assembly and church of the firstborn.
We are come to God the Judge of all.
We are come to the spirits of just men made perfect.

We are come to JESUS.

We are come to the TRUTH.

We are come to SALVATION ETERNAL.

We have been brought to the WAY, the full WAY.

Imagine it, we are living in a time of knowing God. 
We do NOT live in a time of shadows but of revelation. 

We are come to the SPIRITUAL truth!

Think about it, we don't have a God who has hidden truth from us, a God who leaves us guessing His will. Our God has made His way plain before us.

We are blessed to know His will, blessed to know His way.

More tomorrow all by HIS WILL, HIS GRACE, HIS LOVE!

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.