Sunday, March 26, 2006
Godless Esau
“See that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his inheritance rights as the oldest son.” (Hebrews 12:16 NIV)
How we know Esau was godless?
1. “’Look, I am about to die,’ Esau said. ‘What good is the birthright to me?’ … So Esau despised his birthright.” (Genesis 25:32, 34c)
What was connected to the birthright? “I [God] will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you [Abraham] and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.” (Genesis 17:7)
2. “When Esau was forty years old, he married Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and also Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite. They were a source of grief to Isaac and Rebekah. … Now Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and had sent him to Paddam Aram to take a wife from there, and that when he blessed him he commanded him, ‘Do not marry a Canaanite woman,’ and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and had gone to Paddam Aram. Esau then realized how displeasing the Canaanite women were to his father Isaac; so he went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Ishmael son of Abraham, in addition to the wives he already had.” (Genesis 26:34,35 28:6-9)
3. Esau speaks in Genesis 25, 27, 28, 33, and 36. But to the best of my knowledge, Esau does not once mention God.
How we know Esau was godless?
1. “’Look, I am about to die,’ Esau said. ‘What good is the birthright to me?’ … So Esau despised his birthright.” (Genesis 25:32, 34c)
What was connected to the birthright? “I [God] will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you [Abraham] and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.” (Genesis 17:7)
2. “When Esau was forty years old, he married Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and also Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite. They were a source of grief to Isaac and Rebekah. … Now Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and had sent him to Paddam Aram to take a wife from there, and that when he blessed him he commanded him, ‘Do not marry a Canaanite woman,’ and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and had gone to Paddam Aram. Esau then realized how displeasing the Canaanite women were to his father Isaac; so he went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Ishmael son of Abraham, in addition to the wives he already had.” (Genesis 26:34,35 28:6-9)
3. Esau speaks in Genesis 25, 27, 28, 33, and 36. But to the best of my knowledge, Esau does not once mention God.
# posted by Wesley Son of Cornelius @ 11:07 PM 
