Selling Our Birthright For A Morsel Of The World

It is amazing to me how the plan that God has for mankind, includes us being partakers of the birthright of his only begotten Son, Jesus.  But it is also sad that most people don't even realize this sacred inheritance through Christ.  And as human beings, we don't value the things that we are unaware that we even have.  

But just as Esau saw no value in his birthright inheritance, he sold it for a morsel of meat.  In his eyes, his birthright was the value of a bowl of red pottage, but God saw it as him hating and despising something which was given him which had great value and sacredness.

Have we sold our birthright for a bowl of the world's sinful morsels?  Will we hate and despised our God given birthright which we have through Christ Jesus?

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Pastor Rickey D. Dixon 0:00

Praise God. We thank God this morning. I'm so glad for all of you who have joined me this day with the Holy City Spirit of Truth Ministries and also to our bearing witness to the truth podcast. I'm your host, Pastor Teacher Ricky D. Dixon. I want to get into the word this morning. So let us enter to the word. Listen, let me tell you something. The Holy Ghost always amazes me when He teaches me something. Sometimes, as out of the blue, he'll speak something to my spirit. And as I was meditating on this week, what he put into my spirit was that he said, Remember that thing in the Bible about becoming joint heirs with Christ. Being joint heirs and being adopted by faith through Christ Jesus our Lord. But what he went on to, as I was meditating to listen to him and speak to my spirit, he began to tell me that it's more into that joint heirs. When it says joint heirs with Christ, he said, What a lot of us don't know is that in that joint heirs is a birthright. Now, here's the thing that got me. Nowhere in the Bible, if you knew about biblical uh in biblical times, the firstborn, especially the firstborn son, he would get the major part of his father's inheritance. Now, all his other children, they got some too, but they just got a potion. But that eldest son, he got the inheritance. And there was no such thing as being joint heirs with the firstborn, because the firstborn was the firstborn. And and and his Holy Ghost says, What did he took me spiritually? Because he got to tell him it is do we not know when we do certain things in our lives that we go against our birthright? And this morning we're gonna talk about a man who did the exact same thing. He did not realize what he had in his birthright. And many of us don't know what we got in our birthright. See, when we accepted Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior through God, allowing him to do what he did for us through Christ Jesus, that made us something that was unheard of, being a joint heir. And here's the thing about it: to be a joint heir with Christ is a high honor. Joint meaning, the same thing that Christ has. God, because we have Christ in our lives, God will grant unto us the same inheritance, eternal life. But so many of us are jeopardizing that because we know not the value of our birthright. We know not the meaning of what it means to be a joint heir in Christ. And so a lot of us are gonna wind up being like this young man in the Bible called Esau. You don't want to be like Esau. And as we get into the word this morning, you're gonna find out why. Because, like I said, on this week when I've been meditating, on the time in the Bible is what a spirit took me. When Esau, Jacob's twin brother, sold to Jacob his birthright inheritance. As I was meditating and studying, I realized that back then that the birthright of the firstborn son was extremely valuable. You got a high honor. It not only included the majority of the father's wealth left to him, but it also included a spiritual blessing from the father to the firstborn son. Stay with me. In the case of Esau being the grandson of Abraham, Abraham was the friend of God and was called the father of faith. Abraham, when when it came time for his departure, he passed the blessing on to Isaac. And Isaac, when it came close to time for his departure, was supposed to pass the blessing on to Esau. Because Esau was, even though him and Jacob were twin, he was born first. But Esau never saw the true value of this blessing. But his twin brother Jacob did see it. But Jacob knew that it would never come to him because he was not the firstborn son. However, he also knew that his brother Esau did not value what was to come to him through by God blessing his grandfather Abraham. He sold it easily for a bowl of food. Listen at that. A marsel of lentils. There's a bowl of beans, a little bit of beans, which Jacob was cooking. Now, I'm sitting here thinking with the Holy Ghost talking to me when I'm listening, the birthright of which we have been given, hallelujah, hallelujah, through Christ. Have we sold it to have a morsel of the world? Because some of us fail to see the value of having Jesus as our spiritual blessing and our godly inheritance. So many people don't see Jesus as something valuable, and they don't see him as a blessing or the reason for our godly inheritance. Have we sold our birthright, which is Jesus, for a bowl of sinful indulgence and worldly satisfaction? Have we ever even thought about the birthright that we have through Jesus and what this birthright means? Jacob was cooking parallel beans. Esau was gonna come out the field. He was so hungry, he'd been out there all day and they ate nothing. And he was ready to eat, and he'd come by his twin brother, Jacob was cooking. He said, I pray he said, feed me with some of that red pot. For I'm faint and I'm about to die. And a lot of people don't know that's what Esau got his nickname from. His nickname was Red, but they called him Edom. Edom meaning red. And when he went to Jacob to ask him for some of the pot, Jacob already been he's he was slick, don't get me wrong. Jacob was slick, but we need to stop, people need to stop teaching that Jacob stole it. No, he did not. Esau sold it. Jacob is still nothing. Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright. This is what Esau did not understand, and what Esau did not value. The birthright came to a person because of how they were born. Because they were born first. That blessing of being uh of having the birthright of the family included you would believe the one that leads the family when father died. Leadership and worship, leadership and headship in the family. You, as the firstborn, will get a double portion of the inheritance left by the father. You would hold the title to the covenant blessing that God had promised to Abraham. That means you were gonna be extremely blessed. But see, we got something better now than what the blessing of Abraham was. We today got the blessing of Christ, and so many of us still don't value it. The fact that Esau sold this birthright reveals just how little value he placed on God's blessings and covenant promises. Now, I'm reading about Esau, but I want us to see ourselves. This is us today. We put little value on the blessings of God and what he has promised us if we just live according to his word. This spirit is also revealed among us as our lives show just how little we value God's blessing for us through Christ Jesus. Should our name be Esau as well? Does God need to start calling us Esau? See, he foolishly chose to trade future long-range blessings for present momentarily pleasures. But see, Jacob looked at the long term. Esau just saw right now. I'm just hungry right now. He could have gone there and found him something to eat with or got something to eat without selling his birthright. See, thus, this is what God considered him. When he did that, God considered him to have despised his birthright. Have we despised our birthright through Christ? Counted for nothing. See, Jacob on the other hand, see, he he valued it. He knew the value of the birthright and desired the spiritual blessings of the future. And from him, this is how God blessed him. From him came the 12 tribes of Israel. That could have been Esau. See, these blessings that some us gonna bypass and other people gonna get, you're gonna look back and say, that could have been me. I could have had that. But see, because we don't see the longevity or the long-range blessings of staying with the Lord and living for the Lord like we're supposed to, a lot of blessings are gonna bypass us because we want to live in the moment and we didn't look long term just by staying with God, how we will be blessed. Esau talking about, I'm at the point to die. What profit shall this birthright do me? In other words, see how he said it ain't no good? What is it gonna do me? I'm about to die, I'd rather eat. And Jacob said, Swear to me. Remember this, I'm gonna come back to that swearing. I'm gonna come back to that. And Jacob said, Swear to me this day. And Esau swear to him, you can have it. And he sold his birthright unto Jacob by swearing, made a solemn promise, made a vow. You can have it if you just give me some of this food. Then Jacob gave bread and porridge to Esau of the lentils, and he did eat and drank, and he rose up and got his belly full and went his way. This is what the word of God said in that last 34th verse. Thus Esau despised his birthright. Because if he had value on it, he wouldn't have sold it for nothing. He'd have died hungry before he sold it if he knew really what the value was. And some of us done sold out to the world and done sold out to the devil, despising what Jesus has done for us in making us join ass with him to share his birthright as being the firstborn and only begotten Son of God. It's gonna come back on us. Trust me on this. So when Jacob, the one thing he could not do was even though Esau had swore to him that he could have it, it still had to be passed to him by the one who was holding the blessings of God at that time, which was Isaac. Isaac had the blessing, and it had to be passed from Isaac deliberately to the firstborn son. But now Jacob, knowing he got the firstborn son, how I'm gonna get it from my father. How I'm gonna get Isaac to bless me with it, what Esau done sold to me. Esau might have sold it, but you got to get it from the father. That's what his mama came in. I ain't finna go in there, but I'm gonna tell you about Rebecca. She figured out the plan of how Jacob should get it. And he listened to his mama and he went into his father, Isaac. Now Isaac had gotten old, and his eyesight was bad, real bad. Couldn't seem good at all. And his wife, Rebecca, knew this. Long story short, Jacob went in, put on some of Esau's clothes, put some hairy stuff on his own, because Esau was a hairy red man. And when he went in to Isaac to get the blessing, Isaac himself, even though he couldn't see that it was Jacob, he said, You got the voice of Jacob, but you smell and feel like Esau. So his mind he didn't think twice. He said, Well, it got to be Esau then. You smell like him, and you have it just like him. And he went on to bless who he thought was Esau. He says that this is the blessing. Listen to the blessing. Jacob. Isaac said, Come near to me so he can touch it. And Jacob went through close to him, so thinking that his father was thinking that he was Esau. And he came near and he kissed him. Isaac kissed him. And he smelled the smell of his ramen because Jacob had put on Esau's clothes. And Jake and Esau's clothes smelled like the field, and I dove. And he blessed him and said, See, the smell of my son is as the smell of the field, which the Lord has blessed. He thought it was Esau, so he felt a blessing. Therefore, hear the blessing. Therefore, God give thee of the dew, hallelujah, 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 be everyone that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee. And Jacob got the blessing, and he left out of the presence of his father. A little while later, here come Esau. And Jacob said, Who are you? He said, I'm your son, your firstborn, Esau. He said, Well, who would that just been in him? See, where he said, Where is he that has taken venison and brought it to me out of the eight and got full? And I've blessed him. And here's the ten part I want you to remember in verse 33. When Isaac says this unto Esau, even though he knew now that Jacob had tricked him, he says, I have eaten of all before that came and have blessed him. He says this, he says, Yea, and he shall be blessed. Even though he tricked me, he's gonna be blessed because Adam released the blessing that God gave Abraham, and what Abraham gave to me, I have put now upon Jacob. And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a great, the Bible said, a great and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his father, Bless me, even me also, for bless me too, oh my father. And if you know the story, you have to go back and read that in Genesis. He blessed him, but it was a little small blessing. Because he had already gave, he had released the spiritual blessing, the bulk of the blessing upon upon Jacob. See, I'm gonna tell you why God, you're gonna see why God allowed this to happen. But Jacob didn't steal nothing. Esau sold it and he swear. See, back then when you swear something, that was almost like a vow. And when Esau did that, he swore before God. God heard that and God honored that. I'm gonna show you in a minute. According to see in Hebrews, Paul wrote about it in Hebrews the 12th chapter. He said, Esau lost his blessing because he was a godless person. He did not regard the God of his father or his grandfather. He was a godless person who had disdain for the sacredness of the blessing. See, now he wanted to change his mind now and sought the blessing with tears. Just because he was crying, God. Let me tell y'all something. Let me side by here. All y'all that think tears move God, they don't. When they that don't come from a sense of heart, or when you crying behind something that ain't godly, when you cry behind something you did or call for yourself, tears don't move God. We gotta stop thinking stuff that move people move God. No, it don't. God just didn't let you snot all day. And it still won't change what He will do or won't do. And He sought that because you crying loud and hollering and snotting and tears come out your eyes, that did not move God. He done now He wants to change His mind and He sought the blessing with tears. Yes, his tears were not tears. That's another thing. His tears were not, I'm gonna show you, his tears were not tears because of the blessings of God. His tears were tears of disappointment and anger because he was mad. Not because of being sorry for his own sinful choices, because he the one that swore to say it. He was crying because he was mad and disappointed, mad at Jacob, and mad because he didn't like he can't get the blessing. Esau's experience should warn us about our wrong choices. Come on now, finna get it to you. Esau's experience should warn us about our wrong choices in life that bring terrible consequences that cannot be undone. I'm just gonna tell you something, brother and sister, let me tell you something. Listen to me. We need to know and understand that there are some things in our lives of which we have done which we cannot go back and undo. I need to understand that. Now I never said you can be forgiven. I never said you can't repent of it. Yes, you can. You can repent and you can be forgiven. But we need to know something about repentance and forgiveness. Though we have repented, though we have asked God to forgive us, that still won't change the consequences or the results of what you did. You still gonna have to live with that pain. You still gonna have to face that thing because you made that choice. You made that decision. Though you are forgiven and have repented, you still gonna have to suffer the consequences of that act or that choice that you made. There are things that cannot be undone once you have done them. That's why we should be careful in what we do, how we live, and be careful of the choices we make. Because you just might be having to suffer the consequences of them for a lifetime. We must be exceedingly careful, especially if those things are connected to God, like the blessing of our birthright, that we have not foolishly sold what we are supposed to have through Christ, and have not despised what God was trying to bless us with. Isaac had to tell Esau, your brother, he done came in here subtility. That means he done came in here slick and slight and has taken away thy blessing, and I gave it to him, and he's gonna be blessed. But I want y'all to know in all of this, this God allowed this to happen. And just like Esau was crying and hollering, you know the Bible says unto us? He said, This Luke wrote about this, but this he wrote what Jesus said it, but Luke wrote it. Luke said this when he wrote something that Jesus said. He said, There shall be weeping. See, when we shall see Abraham, this Jesus said that. He said, There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. That's hollering and crying. When we shall see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and you yourself thrust out. You done rejected the birthright. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. See, that's some of us ain't never seen that before. But you're gonna see it in that day if you live to see it. And you're gonna see somebody, he said, you're gonna see, you're gonna see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, but you're gonna see a whole lot of other people too. But you're gonna see other, you're gonna be to see yourself thrust out, and somebody else is gonna be able to take your place because somebody else is gonna be done value the birthright that you rejected. They're gonna have value the blessings of God, which you rejected. See, just like Esau, if we fail to see the value of our birthright in Christ, there will be many more of us who will be seen weeping and crying and gnashing of teeth and regretting the reasons that we despised our birthright in Christ and can't get it back. Can't get it back. So Paul writes in that fourth chapter, Hebrews said, he said, let us fear. Let's that reverential fear, let us fear and have reverence to what God done said. He said, let us therefore fear, lest a promise being left us of entering into his red, that means into heaven. Any of you should seem to come short of it. Some of us are gonna come short of heaven. I don't I don't mean no harm. Some of us are gonna come short of heaven because we're gonna have despised the key element of us getting into heaven. We're gonna be have despised our being joint heirs and our birthright through Christ Jesus. It's got you can't get through in heaven without Christ. You can't come in there without Jesus. See, if you don't want the birthright, you don't want Jesus. If you don't want the blessings of the promise, you don't want Jesus. And if you don't want Jesus, God consider you don't despise my son. You sure can't come up here if you don't despise my son. After all that he done did, he said, this is what Paul tells him. He said, For unto us was the gospel preached. As well as unto them, he said, but the word preached did not profit them. And some of us, the word ain't profited. I'm gonna tell you why it ain't profited. Well, I'm gonna let let me let Paul say it. He said, not being mixed with faith. The reason a lot of us don't profit from hearing the word of God, because we don't believe it. The reason a lot of us don't profit after we have heard the gospel preached unto us and taught unto us is because we do not mix what we just heard with faith in God, that this is true and that it's the will and the word of God. It's bad not to believe what God said after you've done heard it. How can you be blessed with the with the blessings of the birthright if you don't believe what you just heard? See, ceasing to persevere in faith and in obedience to Christ Jesus results in the failure to reach the eternal promised rest of heaven. Perseverance in faith requires that we continue to draw near to God through Christ with the utmost determination. You got to seek God with a purpose. You got to live for Jesus with a passion because you know the value of having Jesus in your life. You know the value of the birthright, you know the value of the promise, and you know you got to have it in order to live and be a part of the kingdom when it comes time for us to leave him. Paul also tells the church in Hebrews at 12th chapter, he said, looking diligently lest any man or woman fail of the grace of God. So many of them failed of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled. And many of us today don't realize the reason that a lot of us won't get close to God is because there has something, has caused some bitterness in our lives toward believing, toward life, toward people, toward our situations. We don't let a root of bitterness spring up, mean grow up in us. And that root of bitterness has got our spirits troubled. That root of bitterness got our soul troubled, got our minds messed up because bitterness defiles us. A root of bitterness refers to a deep-seated resentment in one's heart that continues to grow. I'm gonna tell you why, I'm gonna tell you why it grow. Because some of us don't really, all we know is we don't have bitterness for the last 10, 15 years, but we don't realize, we don't understand why it has been there that long. I'm gonna show you the word of God gonna tell you. It don't say bitterness, it said a root of bitterness. And any of y'all who done done any kind of plan know if anything got a root, or as the old folks say, if anything got a root, it can spring up and keep growing. Because if that if it's got a see, if that bitterness you got a root, it's gonna keep growing. Now, they're also gonna tell you how you can get rid of it. If you want to get rid of it, you got to get rid of, you got to kill the root. And some of us have not killed, allowed the Lord, the power of God, to destroy that root that's causing bitterness to stay alive, to keep growing in our hearts and in our minds. We can sometimes develop a resentment even towards God when it comes to us told to live a certain way before God. Don't let nobody tell you you got to live right root, I don't want to get it. Because that ain't what we want to do. That's that root of bitterness, that root, that root of rebelliousness, that root of stubbornness against God. Now, don't that sound bad? Somebody telling you right and you get mad because they're telling you right? Now you know that's messed up. Living an unholy lifestyle instead of humbling ourselves to his word or his will will show in our ways and actions. You ain't gotta ask nobody that just watch how they live. It'll show up in our ways and actions that we would rather live our lives unto ourselves and unto the world. And it ain't doing that, but destroying our lives and defiling us, keeping us that more far away from our birthright blessings and the blessings that God wants us to have. See, this is a sure sign that we have sold our spiritual birthright and how we should look how the person lives. Because if you knew you had the birthright and the blessing of God, you would be living your life a whole nother way. See, now our hearts and minds have become defiled against God when that bitterness is in us. Because we ain't got what we thought we were supposed to have. Because you done sold it. Esau's heart and mind now have become defiled and bitter. Not only did he despise Jacob and his birthright, but now was his ways despising God. And if you don't let yourself sit up and unconsciously, well, you unconsciously do it or consciously doing it, let yourself despise God, you are in a bad way. In this state of defilement, of bitterness, we become unfit. Listen to me on this now. I mean this. When you let this spirit is resting on you, when you let yourself continue to live in this state of defilement and bitterness, you become unfit to approach God even in prayer. Because you ain't gonna hear no God. You think God's gonna hear bitter prayers, or prayers laced with bitterness behind it, defilement behind it? You think God's gonna hear prayer where there's resentment of your birthright of my son before you you done resented me, my son's birthright, and becoming joined as through him? You really think God's gonna hear them prayers? Oh, you can say all the words you want to, but that don't mean that they're rising up to heaven unto God. Because you ain't gonna just put that, give God no bit of prayers, no resentment prayer, or no, no prayers of because you're mad and upset and angry. Oh, you don't come to God like that. You go to the men's like that. We foolishly go to God like that and thank God done here, and He has not. We approach God, you cannot come to God like that. That's unfit spiritually. You can't come unfit approaching God unfit in your prayers. If not dealt with this route of bitterness, can also spread and defile many others in our lives. You you some of us so laced with bitterness and resentment toward the birthright and our blessing that even the people around us' lives is messed up because they have to live with you. That's that that just this bitterness doesn't spread and defile many others in our lives, simply by them being around us. And that's just how roots do. Them roots spread in the ground, they go which all which way, and they branch out and come up in other places. You should not want the bitterness that's in you to come up through your children, to come up through your spouses, to come up through your loved ones because they're around you, and now you done made their lives bitter because you were you the king bitter and you the queen bitter. This is called the nature of apostasy. Apostasy means to turn from God, it is falling away from the grace of God. God's grace does not fail. God's grace does not fail, but it is us which fall away from the grace, not the grace falling for us, we left the grace. We find ourselves coming short of a principle of true grace in our soul, and so coming short of the great love and favor of God here and now, and also be in the hereafter. We don't come short of it. The consequences of a posthy of falling away from God, of what the what theology calls turning away from God could very well be the cause of a root of bitterness springing up in our lives, which causes corruption to prevail and break forth. A bitter root produces bitter fruit to ourselves and to others. Your bitter life can only produce bitter fruit. My Bible tells me, He said, good trees bear forth good fruit. Them rotten trees and bitter trees, they can't bring them but rotten fruit and bitter fruit. And that's what a lot of us have been doing. But we got to change that. Many of us have been defiled and tainted ourselves with these bad principles and have allowed ourselves to be drawn into defiling practices so that many of us will suffer both in our purity. I'm gonna tell you something else, we suffer, and we suffer in our peace of mind. That's why some of us don't have that peace of mind. Brutal bitterness won't let you have peace of mind, rejecting your birthright won't let you have peace of mind. Esau never, he didn't have no peace of mind. That bothered him. And this is what Paul said about Esau. He said, Lest there be any fornicators, fornicating, and living your life any kind of way, thinking that you're gonna be blessed. He said, Lest there be any fornicator or profane person as Esau. That's how Esau, that's the spirit of Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. That's verse 16. That's the Bible talking. Lest there be any fornicator, meaning Esau lived his life any kind of way, but he thought he was gonna be blessed. He was a profane person. What is a profane person? That's a person who lives ungodly, don't have no godly lifestyle, live like the world, live disrespectful and in contempt for the sacred way of the things of God. Don't even take God's sacred things seriously. That's a profane person. That's how Esau was. This is why he couldn't be blessed. This is why he didn't value what he had and realized he thought so little of his birthright, he sold it just for a bowl of beans, porridge, for one, Paul said, for one marsel of meat sold his birthright. Come on now. That's not valuing at all. Is that all it took for him to sell out? Come on now. Think about it. Esau, he done had this point, but let's think about yourself. Some of us don't sold our birthright for less than that. And now you need to ask yourself, is that all it took for you to sell out, to sell out to from Jesus, to sell out from God? Paul tells says this in that 17 verse. He said, For we know how that after, this Esau, a whole lot of us realized after the fact. Oh Lord, now I wish I hadn't done that. No, no, I wish Lord didn't, I should have known better than that. But here this is what Paul said in verse 17. For you know how that afterwards, when he would have inherited, if he just waited on the Lord, if he just stayed content and realized what he had, he the Bible said he would have inherited the blessing. He was rejected by God. This is what he's talking about. For he found no place of repentance, though he tried, though he sought it carefully with tears. That's the word of God. He's talking about Esau. See, the apostle, the apostle Paul bags up this caution with an awful, truthful example. That is, of Esau, who thought born within the pale of the church, grandson of Abraham, son of Isaac, and having the birthright as the eldest son, so entitled to the privilege of being prophet, priest, and the king, the leader, the head of his family once Isaac died, was so profane, so ungodly, so worldly as to despise these sacred privileges and to sell his birthright for a morsel of meat. When will we learn, y'all? When will we learn that when it comes to the blessings of God, you can never put a price tag on what God gives us through Christ. They put no price tag on that. And some of us have sold our birthright in Christ for something much more cheaper than a marsel of meat. We don't did worse than Esau. Esau sin. He profanely despised and sold the birthright and all the advantages he would have had with it. And some of us don't know the advantage that we have of making it to heaven through Christ. So do we, as apostates today, who to avoid persecution and to enjoy sensual ease and pleasures, though we supposedly have the character of the children of God, supposedly, and have a visible right to the blessing and inheritance, we give it up for the world, which feeds meat to the desires of what our flesh wants. Esau's punishment, which was suitable and just to his sin, he got what he deserved. His conscience was convinced of his sins and folly. His conscience, his mind wouldn't let him forget the decision he made or the foolishness he had done. When it was too late, though, that's when a lot of our conscience kick in a lot of times. When it's too late to do anything about it, to change it, he was condemned by his own conscience. He now saw that the blessing he had made so light of was worth having, worth the seeking, worth the holding on to. Though now he wanted it back with much hollering and crying and with eyes gushing out, miniatures, he still could not get it back or do it. He was rejected of God for despising something as valuable. I gave this to your grandfather Abraham. This was something to hold, something to have, and you just don't throw it away just like that? He found no place of repentance in God or in his own father. The blessing was given to another, somebody who valued it, even to him to whom he sold it. For a cereal bowl, a red lentil pot. Esau, in his great wickedness, had made the bargain, and God in his righteousness judgment ratified and confirmed the bargain. What are you talking about? When we sit up and bargain with sin and sell out to sin, God gonna honor that bargain you done made. See, is that what you made? In other words, he's gonna let you live with it. By see, God confirmed that bargain because he heard when Esau swear. By which Esau swear, God heard it. And God would not suffer his daddy Isaac to reverse it. He didn't let Isaac reverse that blessing. He had prayed and he had given it to Jacob, who valued it. And some of us who don't value what we have, somebody who sees the good that you could have had, they're gonna see the value of it, and God gonna let them have it. He's gonna let them have it. Let me tell you why we should, before I let you go, let me tell you why we should value this, this birthright that we got today. Because it's through Christ Jesus. Here, let me show you the mystery of the birthright. The birthright goes to the firstborn, like I told you in the beginning, the firstborn son, okay? Ain't none of us in the eyes of God, God his firstborn son. Jesus is only begotten Son. Okay, Jesus is the firstborn. But here's how God done fixed it that if we but believe through him who is the firstborn, we will get just as the firstborn get. Who is Jesus? Let me read it to you. Paul says this in Romans 8 29. He said, This God, for whom he did foreknow, this from God, talking about who God first knew. He also did predestinate to be conformed. This is why God wants us all to be conformed to the image of Jesus. I tell y'all that all the time. God wants us to be just like Jesus. So he will be able to give us what he's gonna give Jesus to be conformed to the image of his son. We gotta let our lives spiritually talking to him. I'm telling y'all. Be spiritually conformed to the image of Jesus, his son. Why we need this? This is this is now you can see the blessing. That he might be the firstborn. That is that firstborn, the birthright go to the firstborn, that he might be the firstborn amongst many brethren. That means through Jesus being the spiritually firstborn of all of us, we're gonna get the firstborn blessings through him, who is the Bible calls him the firstborn amongst many brethren. Many of us are gonna get blessed through Jesus, who is the firstborn, simply because we believe in what he did. We have been conformed to his image, and God predestinated whoever be conformed to the image of my son, he's gonna be blessed with the blessings of the firstborn. That I have proclaimed that anybody who would be conformed to his image will be blessed among many brethrons. Through the firstborn brethren, our firstborn brethren is Jesus. God purpose from eternity to love and redeem the human race through Christ, the firstborn among many brethren. Paul says this also in chapter 8 of Romans. But if ye through the spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. Otherwise, you change your life. If you change your life and start valuing what you can have spiritually, what you can have eternally, what you can have through Christ, if you just change your life, if you just mortify, means to change, means to put to death those deeds that are ungodly, those ways that are not pleasing in the eyesight of God. If you just change your life and give your life to Christ, you shall live. And this live is talking about eternal life. Paul emphasizes the necessity for continual spiritual warfare. Yeah, it's gonna be a fight in your in your life. Your spirit is gonna fight against the flesh. Look for that. It's gonna be a warfare. Go always be that a continuous spiritual warfare against all that would limit God's word in our lives. For sin is always striving to regain control back over us. You're always trying to get, the devil always trying to get back in. But you can't let him in. You got to know how to keep him out. And the only way you give them out is through Christ, living a holy lifestyle, living the life that God wants you to live. You cannot keep the devil out living how you want to live. It ain't gonna work. Talking like you want to talk, thinking like you want to think. You ain't gonna keep the devil out, you're gonna let him in. The results of failing to put to death the misdeeds of the body are spiritual death and loss of our birthright inheritance in God's kingdom. For as many, this this Paul said this, for as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. And that means sons and daughters. If you allow your life to be led by the Spirit of God, that's a sign that you his son and you his daughter. For we have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear. We shouldn't want our life to go back to being in bondage to sin. But you have received the spirit of adoption. See the spirit of adoption through Jesus, whereby we cry Abba, Father. And that word Abba means Father in the Greek. We cry for, we can cry Father, Father, because we are his sons and his daughters. In the spirit of adoption, is the spirit of our birthright. This birthright comes to us by God when we have been born again in Christ Jesus. This is why you got to be born again, so that you can now be attached to the spiritual birthright through Christ Jesus. Because the spirit itself bears witness with our spirit. There's a connection now. When you live a spiritual life, now the spirit of God can connect to you because the spirit bears witness with our spirit. And what he does when he bears witness to our spirit. Let me bear with me, God's Spirit now knows your spirit. That we are the children of God. Because now we have a connection, because we have been born again, because we now are joining us with Christ. And the spirit of adoption now has connected us to the birthright that God meant us to have through Christ. And now his spirit bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God. And if children, this is what Paul said, if we children, if you know you're a child, that means you're an heir. I know some of us know what an heir is, but we've been poor all our lives. But trust me, we better get used to this. We have become heirs. And if children then heirs, and not just any heirs, the Bible says, heirs of God. Come on now, that's value. I hope y'all value this. Who you are, Jesus, who you are before God. It says heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ. If so be that we suffer with him, if we live for him, you gotta live for him, you gotta take some things, you gotta suffer the bag. I suffer for if this means I'm gonna be heir to God and a joint heir with Christ, I suffer. Come on with suffering, come on with it. Because what I got in God and will I Mohammed later in his kingdom is gonna be well worth it. Heirs of God, join heirs with Christ, if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. Because we also have valued the birthright, and we have refused to sell our birthright for just a morsel of the world and what it's got to offer. God bless you. God bless you.