Especially now, you know
You that's called explosive diarrhea. It's not necessarily a spiritual thing
Okay, a burning in the book. What are we talking about? Like you got heartburn?
Because you know what?
Yeah, the Bible does say of the disciples when speaking to Jesus
They said did not our heart burn within us while he talked with us, you know in the way and while he opened to us
The scriptures, but you know what their heart wasn't literally on fire
And you know what? There's times where the disciples heard the same Christ and their heart did not burn
It doesn't mean what he said wasn't true. It was still true
So the sensation in the feeling that you get does not lend veracity
To the message that's being preached or taught if it's not in the Bible then it needs to be disregarded
Why because our you know the Bible says that the heart is deceitful above all things
Desperately wicked who can know it?
It's it's it's kind of it's untrustworthy
You know
If I hear a certain piece a certain song it could make my hair stand up, you know
right you guys ever get that when you hear a certain song is just like
Makes you all nostalgic and you know, you know all my reels
I'm getting a lot of Christmas videos right now, and I'm just like the hairs or just the goosebumps are it's just like
100 degree weathered I'm just like
Right
Feelings don't really mean anything when it comes to determine whether something is true or not
Okay, so it's just like oh, but what if they you know, they feel like they're in connect they're connected to God
It doesn't matter
Because at the end of the day, what does the Bible say?
What is it actually teaching don't you realize that the
Profit in the Mormon church is simply someone who's masquerading as he saw
Not really Harry. They're a smooth man under okay
They may talk the same they may say the same vocabulary. They talk about Jesus. They talk about faith
They talk about grace. They may have all the terminology there, but at the end of the day, they're false apostles
The seeful workers
Transforming themselves into the Apostles of Christ right which is what Jacob is doing
He's transforming himself into his brother in order to deceive his father
Look at verse 21 and Isaac said unto Jacob come near I pray thee
That I may feel thee my son whether they'll be my very son Esau or not
Now this is interesting because again it demonstrates that
Isaac's discernment is off
Because how is he trying to determine if it's a son if he can feel him?
You understand like instead of you know visually seen with his spiritual eyes
You know, why don't you just like come close? Let me look at you real quick. Oh, yeah, that's a horrible mustache
You're not you have no mustache
You know, he's just kind of like feeling him and
You know this demonstrates here that Isaac is walking by his feelings
He's walking by his
Sensations right what he feels he's determining situations based upon his feelings and so forth
You know, we need to make sure that we don't do the same. Okay. This is why we need spiritual discernment
Not how we feel okay. Well, I just see things a certain way
I just see this it's just like yeah, but what's the truth though? Okay?
You know, you can't feel around for the hairiness and expect to see like okay
This is he saw because look he felt him and it felt like he saw but it wasn't he saw
What he should have done is just question him
You know what I mean like ask them something that only Esau knew and it is that new okay
So he says verse 22 and Jacob went near unto Isaac his father
And he felt him and said the voice is Jacob's voice
But the hands are the hands of Esau
so, you know
He has Esau's garment on so obviously if he's feeling he's like okay
He has the coat and then if you remember earlier
The mom took a couple of the the hairs from the goats and kind of like made it
Possibly like glued it on his hands and on this neck in case he kind of felt them around
So, you know as he's listening to him he actually discerns like oh this voice sounds like Jacob
But he feels like Esau you should have gone with how you're listening to him his voice because he was right
Okay, and so you know he it's like us when we are
You know discerning a preacher a pastor, you know, they may look like one, right?
We may feel like they're a righteous person
But what does their voice sound like I don't mean do they sound k or something like that or you're feminine like does he have a
Lisp I'm saying like what are the doctrines that are coming out of his mouth because out of the abundance of the heart the mouth
Speaketh an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bring his fourth evil things
By thy words thou shall be justified and by thy words that shall be condemned
So, you know, maybe your eyes are a little dim because you're still a spiritual babe in Christ
Well, you know read between the line listen to the voice. Is it the voice of the shepherd?
Is it the voice of Christ?
Well, you need to disregard how the preacher feels right how he makes you feel
Okay, like well, you know, I've heard these pastors and I just felt like the president
I felt like the presence of God was there
Okay, I feel like God was in that place
Hey, you hear that word this constantly news feel felt
What do they say though?
Well, I don't remember what they said I just
But I just feel like
God was there
Yeah, real cute, but what did he what did he say though?
Because if he's teaching a false gospel doesn't matter how he makes you feel you can watch a movie and
People will make you feel a certain way
Right. I mean, it's a wonderful life makes you feel a certain way
You guys ever seen it's a wonderful life. Okay, man. No one's you know, what make it a tradition
It's a Christmas tradition. It's a black-and-white movie. Okay. I
My wife got me into that on Christmas and at the end of the movie. I'm just like in tears
I'm serious. I am it just makes me because you know, it just it makes me feel a certain way
Okay, you know, that's what it's supposed to do
It's supposed to evoke emotion and you know what the Bible tells us that these men have men's persons in admiration because of advantage
They speak with great swelling words of vanity because they're trying to listen to this allure through the lust of the flesh
They try to appeal to your feelings to the way that you feel because they know that people are sensual
They will make decisions based upon how they feel instead of actually listening for the voice of the shepherd
Well, I feel it's great here. You know, I feel like the music is great and
Everyone looks so nice and it just looks great. But why not actually discern the voice though?
Okay, is he actually you know to us we'd go to a place like that be like
You know, he looks like a lamb, but he speaks as a dragon though
Okay, because what he's saying is false
So this is Isaac's problem. He's feeling his way towards
Determining whether this is Esau or not and obviously his feelings fail him
They deceive him and he makes the wrong decision, right?
Verse 23 says and he discerned him not because his hands were hairy as his brother Esau's hands
So he blessed them and he said art thou my very son Esau and he said I am
He said bring it near to me and I will eat of my son's venison
Then my soul may bless thee and he brought it near to him
And he he did eat and he brought him wine and he drank
And his father Isaac said unto him come near
Come near now and kiss me my son and he came near and kissed them and he smelled the smell of his raiment
And blessed him and said see the smell of my son is that the smell of a field which the Lord had blessed
Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven and the fatness of the earth and plenty of corn and wine
Let people serve thee and nations bow down to thee be Lord over
Thy brethren and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee cursed to be everyone that cursed at thee and blessed to be
He that blessed thee so he ends up blessing him thinking that it's Esau
And what is the major principle that we can learn from this part of the story, you know, you can't always trust what
You see kind of thing, right? You can't really trust how people portray themselves to be
So the Bible says that there's wolves in sheep's clothing, you know and and
Often it requires some
Crazy thing to come out in order for people to realize like oh man. This person is actually horrible, you know this morning
Just got news of a fundamental Baptist by the name of Kenny Baldwin
Okay, who has been a pastor for quite some time
His father was a pastor major church planner and you know, very well known in the old IP
But his son Kenny Baldwin has been pastoring this guy's a pedophile
A stinking sexual pervert
Twice dead plucked up by the roots and we knew of this guy of the old IP as in like like he was known
You know people admired him. They liked him. He was a dynamic preacher
You know, I can't think of the time that actually heard of his sermons, but I knew of him
I definitely knew of his father, but this guy is in an absolute
pervert pedophile
They arrested him because he was exposing himself to minors and whatnot and it's just like well
Didn't you just fall into it? No, he's he's Jacob wearing Esau's clothing
I'm not calling Jacob a pedophile. You see I'm using the principle that we're learning here that he is
Masquerading as someone and he's not that person
Okay, this person, you know, the Bible says that they shall proceed no further
But they will be made manifest they went out from us for they were not of us for if they had been of us
They would have no doubt continued with us the Bible says
This guy's an apostate. He's a reprobate and you know what?
I hope they convict them and rots in hell or I hope he gets arrested in the Los Angeles prison
Because you know what they do to pedophiles in California prisons. Amen
Because he deserves to be publicly executed for being a wicked person
You know, you're like, oh man, you shouldn't just talk down about other pastors like that
First of all, he's a fake and he's a phony. He's a reprobate. He's an infiltrator
Okay, he's not a righteous person. It's not like this is not a David situation first and foremost
People are like, well David phones. Oh, you know, find me the verse where David
Sexually molested a 15 year old boy
I'll wait doesn't exist
Yeah, what David did was super wicked. He committed adultery
You know, he took another man's wife
Extremely wicked, but you know what? It's a far cry from pedophilia though
And it's a sin that is common to man unfortunately
But it's not reprobation
You know when you have these
You know men coming into positions of authority in a church
They're doing it in order to take advantage of the innocent to be guile unstable souls
These are godless wicked children of the devil
Masquerading as Esau, but they're deceivers and
You know that they're twice dead plucked up by the roots that guy's gonna split hell wide open
Okay, and you know, it's unfortunate because I'm sure a lot of old IP is like well
He just needs to be restored and we just need to pray for him and yeah, pray some impregnatory prayers
You know
I love the old IP but man they need to get on board with the reprobate doctrine
And recognize that these people are irredeemable
They're disgusting perverts and they're the reason why a lot of these kids are being molested in churches
You know this happens in all types of churches, you know, and I'm not standing up here thinking. Oh, yeah
It's only the Catholic Church. No, it happens in fundamental Baptist churches, too
It's not the fact that they're Baptist pastors. It's the fact that it's infiltrators
Coming into Baptist churches taking on positions of authority with the intent to take advantage of the innocent
Such as what's happening with Kenny Baldwin, okay
Disgusting wicked, but it's a clear example here. This guy looked like a fundamental Baptist
He looked like a righteous person preach hundreds and maybe maybe even thousands of sermons
You know pastor to Baptist church or whatever and look he's a complete pedophile
You know what every time a pedophile gets exposed in a church. We need to say something about it
And not just be like well, you know people are sick and tired of other people
Just backing up these pedophiles just because they're pastors those people need to be publicly executed because they're wicked and vile
Okay, and you know what this is not a church that will try to reform pedophiles
It's not gonna happen. You're a pedophile. Don't come to our church
Unless you want to come out looking differently than the way you came in
I got no love for pedophiles
And so, you know, they're individuals who are deceivers masquerading as he saw you like, oh, man
You're talking so bad about Jacob, you know, well, here's the thing, you know, there's just a lot of applications
Okay, and you know, he is named. He's rightfully named Jacob
He is a supplanter and God is using the bad mistakes that he made in
In order to help us preachers in the future have some illustrations to give regarding biblical principles of false prophets deception and so forth, okay
so he receives the blessing from his dad and
You know mission complete apparently verse 30 and it came to pass as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob and
Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father that he saw his brother came in from his hunting
And he also had made savory meat and brought it into his father and said into his father
Let my father arise eat of his son's venison that thy soul may bless me
So it says basically that once this was done as soon as I as soon as Jacob leaves
Esau comes in
okay
just scarce and
He brings him to venison and brings him the food and he says hey
It's time to eat dad verse 33 and Isaac trembled very exceedingly and said who
Where is he that I've taken venison and brought it to me and I've eaten of all before thou came is and I've blessed him
Yay, and he shall be blessed
When Esau heard the words of his father
He cried with the great and exceeding bitter cry and said unto his father bless me even me also
Oh my father and he said thy brother came with subtly and had taken away thy blessing
So, you know, I don't what you're crying about Esau like you literally sold your birthright
two chapters before
All of a sudden though now that your dad is now officially blessed your brother now. It's a big deal to you, huh?
and so he weeps he cries and
The father here recognizes like you know Jacob came with subtlety meaning that he came with he was cunning
He was deceptive and so forth. He says in verse 36 and he said is not he rightly named Jacob?
For he has supplanted me these two times he took away my birthright up you sold your birthright first and foremost
But yeah, you're right halfway and behold now
He had taken away my blessing and he said has thou not reserved a blessing for me and Isaac answered and said unto him
He saw behold I have made him
Thy Lord and all his brethren I have given to him for servants and with corn and wine and so forth
So he kind of lays out the blessings that he's given to his brother and then he begins to explain to him the blessings
That he's gonna receive now. Here's the thing folks is that again none of this really overrides
What God was gonna do?
Because Esau is making this big deal
But read the rest of the story of Esau he is blessed
He's blessed
tremendously
Right of the Lord like even to the point where you know spoiler alert when they end up reconciling because Esau wants to kill Jacob
Which is why Jacob ends up fleeing into a foreign land, you know when he comes back to reconcile with his brother
You know, he wants to bring him gifts and what does he saw say? He says I have enough
Like God has blessed me. I have all of these possessions and what like God was with Esau as well
Okay, so it's demonstrating that you know all this is just all drama
You're just making a big deal about nothing
Okay, yeah, he supplanted you yeah, he did wrong but keep in mind you did sell your birthright and so forth
Okay, now I do want to mention here that one of the reasons the Bible is highlighting Esau
Weeping is because it's supposed to illustrate a spiritual truth
You know because although he did get blessed thereafter
This is essentially demonstrated that we need to make sure that Satan doesn't steal the blessings from us by our disobedience to God
Okay, go to Hebrew chapter 11 if you would Hebrew chapter 11
Hebrew chapter 11, I'm sorry Hebrew chapter 12, excuse me Hebrew chapter 12
Hebrew chapter 12
Look what it says in verse number 16 verse 15 excuse me
It says looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God
Let's let's any root of bitterness springing up trouble you and thereby many be defiled
Lest there be any fornicator or profane person as Esau who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright
For you know how that afterward when he would have inherited the blessing
He was rejected for he found no place of repentance though. He sawed it carefully with tears
You know obviously God has certain blessings that he wants to give to you certain things that you you know
He wants to show himself strong on your behalf, but you can forfeit those blessings by your sin
The Bible tells us in Jeremiah that your sin has withholding good things from you
Yeah, you know God has a lot of blessings that he wants to give you
He wants to show himself strong on your behalf
He wants to demonstrate his power in his might in your life, but you could actually forfeit those blessings by your disobedience
by your sin and
You know what when you forfeit those it doesn't matter how much you cry for it. You won't get it back
So you know one strong motivator for us to stay right with God is what we need to make sure
That we obey the Lord and keep serving God and be honest and not sell our birthright and not allow the
Supplanter Jacob the deceiver the man who is subtle to come and steal the blessing from us
Yeah, make no mistake about it. Jacob holds a large
responsibility for what took place, but so does he song and
So you can you can seek it carefully with tears you can beg
You know Isaac for it, but you know certain things is just too late
It's too late because of your sin. You can forfeit the blessings of God
Okay, go back to Genesis if you would 27
So from verses 39
Through 40 we have the blessings that
Isaac is giving he saw verse 41 says he saw hated Jacob because of the blessing
We're with his father blessed him and he saw said in his heart the days of mourning for my father at hand
Then will I slay my brother Jacob? So this guy is already looking for revenge
He's like my dad's about to die soon and once he dies. I'm an exact revenge on my brother
He wants to kill him
It says in verse number 42 and these words of Esau
Her elder son were told to Rebecca and she sent him called Jacob her younger son and said unto him
Behold thy brother Esau as touching D touching D
Duth comfort himself purposing to kill thee. Well, Rebecca, you know, this is your fault, too
You know, this kind of shows you that when you practice to deceive
You have to keep coming over with different solutions because there's always consequences to your actions
You deceived your husband
Your son played along and now your other son wants to kill your other son
Okay, so now she has to construe another plan to save his life
Verse 43 now therefore my son obey my voice. Well. Yeah, look how that word I got you Jacob
You know Jacob should have been like mom. I love you, but uh
We need to just go ask for forgiveness
You know ask dad for forgiveness as Esau for forgiveness
But you know, it seems that Jacob's a little mama's boy
Okay, and he's just listening to mom here
He says in verse 43 now therefore my son obey my voice and arise
Flee thou to lay been my brother to Heyran and Terry with them a few days
Obviously a few days ended up turning to years
Okay, until thy brother's fury turn away until thy brother's anger turn away from thee and he forget that which
Thou has done to him then I will send and fetch thee from fence. Why should I be deprived also of you?
Both in one day and Rebecca said to Isaac
I am weary of my life because of the daughters of heth if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of heth
Such as these which are of the daughters of the lamb. What good shall my life do to me?
So what is she saying? You know, she's lying to her husband again
Okay, she's like all these daughters. We need Jacob to marry. So I'm gonna send him over to my brother's place
But the reason she's sending him over there is to save his life from the vengeful actions of Esau
So Rebecca, you know
We praise you for having so much faith leaving your homeland to go marry Isaac, but sister
You know get your stuff together
Okay, stop being such a deceiver and a liar and look, you know
Sometimes people grow up in a home where lying is just a normal thing to do
They call it little white lies
What if I don't lie about it? How am I gonna get this? It's called just being honest
It's called what who cares what the result is just be a person of integrity
Yeah, but if I don't lie about this then I'm not gonna get this deal
If I don't lie to this person then this is gonna happen. Well, let it happen
It's better to tell the truth and suffer the consequences because of it then just build up the reputation of being just a complete
Deceiver a dishonest individual a person who lacks integrity
completely
But obviously Rebecca she didn't you know no one was there and tell her that and so she sends
Jacob away and then we will continue that story next week and see how that goes with him
Let's pray father. We thank you so much for your word. Lord. Help us as your people
To have faith in you Lord when our feelings deceive us help us to go according to the voice of the shepherd and
May we internalize the truths of God's word the convictions of the Bible help us to familiarize ourselves
with what the Bible explicitly says so that we're not deceived by
trickery by the cunning craftiness whereby people lie and wait to deceive by subtlety and
Lord, we can't always trust our feelings. We obviously know that you want us to love you with all our heart soul mind and strength
Emotions are good
But sometimes they can be deceptive and lead us astray
And it's at that point that we need to make sure that we gird our loins with truth and that we
Go according to what the word of God says and not lean unto our own understanding
Blessings has begun our way Lord. Give us a great weekend in Jesus name. We pray amen. All right
We have one last song this evening song