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Because Jacob's fight didn't start on the mountaintop in the dog. No, no, no, no,
Jacob's fight did not start there. Jacob's fight started in
the womb when his mother burst him into the world.
He was in a fight when she was pregnant. There
(00:20):
was such fighting going on in his mother's womb that
she had to pray and ask God, what is going on?
Take a look at this text? I want I want
you to look at this. I want to I want
to look at this. Take me to a genesis twenty five, Yeah,
twenty five twenty one. Isaac prayed to the Lord on
(00:42):
behalf of his wife because she was childless. Wait a minute,
isn't that funny his mama was to isn't it funny
he he married a woman like his mother. I ain't
gonna bother that. Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf
of his wife because she was childless. He had the
(01:03):
faith to pray for a barren woman, because he was
born out of a barried woman. The Lord answered his prayer,
and his wife, Rebecca, became pregnant. The babies jostled each
other or wrestled with each other within her, and she said,
why is this happening to me, what's going on inside
(01:24):
of me? What's going on in my stomach? This is
just a kick and a jab. These folks is fighting.
Can you imagine being a woman being pregnant with twins
and they're in a fight and your belly is going
from side to side and they're kicking, martial arts and
everything in the world. They are fighting, and she says,
(01:46):
what's going on? So she went to inquire of the Lord,
and the Lord said to her, two nations are in
your womb, and two people from within you will be separated.
One people will be stronger than the other, and the
(02:07):
older will serve the younger. Now that is interesting, the
older will serve the younger. It's interesting because it's not
normally like that. Normally, the younger would serve the older,
(02:34):
because the older one would be the first born, and
the blessing is on the first born. But God says,
when all of this is over, the older will serve
the younger. That alone switches the birth older. When the
(02:56):
time came for her to give birth, there were twin
boys in her home. The first to come out was red,
and his whole body was like a hairy garment. So
they call his name Esau. After this, his brother came
out with his hand grasping Esau's heill. So they call
(03:21):
him Jacob, trickster, supplanter, con man. That's what Jacob means.
Isaac was sixty years old. Look at that. Isaac was
sixty years old when Rebecca gave birth to them. These
are the children of his old age, much like he
(03:43):
is the child of an old man. He is sixty
years old having a baby. Now I'm over sixty, and
the last thing I want my wife to come home
and tell me. The doctor said, you don't want to
(04:05):
start raising children at sixty. But this is what has
come up under his lot to do. On the other hand,
there's a certain amount of pride in being sixty and
birth in a child, the same kind of pride that
Abram had when he had Isaac, the pride of saying,
(04:28):
even in this season of my life, I am yet fruitful.
Jacob is born in this environment. And they named him
because of how they found him. And they found him fighting,
and the Bible said, because he was snatching at he
saw coming out of the womb, they called him Jacob.
(04:54):
Until you understand that part of the story, then you
want stand the rest of the story, because what happens
next is the fight not only for the birth order,
but the birth right to understand who has the right
(05:16):
to reign. Nature teaches, History teaches, the period teaches that
the first born should have the right to reign. And
so when they brought Esesault to his father Isaac, Isaac
loved Esaul, but God hated him. Put a pin right there.
(05:40):
Why does God hate Esaul? That's a strong word. Why
does God hate Esau? We'll add that to Jacob is
pulling at him coming out of the womb, and they
called him Jacob because he had his hand on the
(06:02):
heel of the firstborn child. And the old man has
purpose to bless his first born, but the prophecy said
that the blessing would be on the younger of them.
Have you ever been in a situation where you weren't
even in line for the blessing, where it didn't look
(06:26):
like it was going to be you. You were not
the favorite, You were not the most likely, You were
not the preferred. You were not the one not only
in your family and your neighborhood, in your school, in
your house, in your life. Have you ever believed God
for something, and the odds were against you. The odds
are against Jacob. The odds are I guess him. But
(06:49):
they forgot that old Jacob is a fighter. And the
fight started in the womb. And what we do not
know is what happened in the womb. We don't know
who was supposed to be first. We only know who
(07:12):
came out first. That's all we know. We know who
came out first. Now, when we look at this next
deposit that we're gonna make, then this next phase we're
gonna get down to the birthright in Genesis twenty five,
twenty nine to thirty four, we're gonna begin to understand
(07:33):
that the fight that started in the womb now continues
outside the womb. Because Jacob say it ain't over, somebody
say it ain't over. Once, when Jacob was cooking some stew,
Esau came in from the open country. Famished. He said
to Jacob, quick, let me have some of that rich stew.
(07:55):
I'm famished. That is why he was also called edom.
Jacob replied, first, sell me your birthright. Let's finish what
we started. Look I am about to die. Esau said,
what good is some birthright to me? It's still fighting,
(08:16):
but Jacob said, swear to me first. So he swore
an oath to him, selling his birthright to Jacob. Then
Jacob gave Esau some bread and some lentils, and some
corn bread, and some collar greens, and some rice, and
some potato salad and some sweet potato pie. He ate
(08:37):
and drank and then got up and left. So he's
all despised his birthright. He gave away his birthright, but
the Bible said that it wasn't his in the first place.
(09:00):
I wonder why the Bible says east Sau sought repentance
with many tears and found it not. See, sometimes somebody
else has got something that is rightfully yours. You're gonna
get it in a minute. Let me put it in
(09:22):
biblical terms. I'll give you houses that you didn't build.
I'll give you vineyards that you didn't grow. Somebody may
be living in what's gonna be your house. Somebody may
be driving what's gonna be your car. Somebody may be
in an office that's gonna be yours. They just don't
know it yet. You may have to fight for it.
(09:43):
But God said it's rightfully. I don't know. I don't know.
I don't know. All I know is what the way
Jacob handled it is totally opposite to what the Angel
said to Rebecca. For the Angel said to Rebecca that
(10:06):
the younger one, that the older one would serve the
younger one, and that reverse the order. Hear me right now,
God is getting ready to reverse the order. You got
to be careful in this season who you walk past,
(10:31):
because God is getting ready to reverse the order. You
gotta be careful who you look down on, because God
is getting ready to reverse the order. Just because I
don't seem like I have it doesn't mean that I'm
not about to get it. The last shall be first,
and the tail shall be the head. God is about
(10:54):
to reverse the order. And I mean, I've never I
never really liked Jacob. I think Jacob was an embarrassment
to the family. I always preach Jacob from a negative
perspective because Jacob, because of this tricky pull, him and
(11:16):
his mama got together and scammed the old man out
of the birthright. She had him dressed like he was airy,
She had him changed his voice and come into the room.
An old man couldn't half see, and he fooled around
and blessed the wrong son or was it the wrong sir?
(11:40):
Isn't it funny how God will move whatever he has
to move and manipulate whatever he has to manipulate to
put you in the place to line you up for
what's next in your life. I want to talk to
some folks. They got a strange testimony. I want to
talk to some people that wasn't born to be what
you ended up being. But God just kind of started
(12:03):
moving things around and switching things up, and you ended
up someplace and you said, I don't even know how
I got here. Jacob Jacob finds himself in a place
(12:25):
with his brother that even though he has the birthright,
it doesn't feel right. He has the birthright, but it
doesn't feel right because Esau hated Jacob over what happened,
(12:46):
which put a cloud over the birthright. And he also
got the blessing. And the problem with the blessing is
Jacob was dying when he gave him the blessing, and
he gave him the blessing and he told Esau I
only had one. So the Jacob that we see in
(13:14):
our texts has the birthright and the blessing, but he
hasn't lost the struggle
Because Jacob's fight didn't start on the mountaintop in the dog. No, no, no, no,
Jacob's fight did not start there. Jacob's fight started in
the womb when his mother burst him into the world.
He was in a fight when she was pregnant. There
(00:20):
was such fighting going on in his mother's womb that
she had to pray and ask God, what is going on?
Take a look at this text? I want I want
you to look at this. I want to I want
to look at this. Take me to a genesis twenty five, Yeah,
twenty five twenty one. Isaac prayed to the Lord on
(00:42):
behalf of his wife because she was childless. Wait a minute,
isn't that funny his mama was to isn't it funny
he he married a woman like his mother. I ain't
gonna bother that. Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf
of his wife because she was childless. He had the
(01:03):
faith to pray for a barren woman, because he was
born out of a barried woman. The Lord answered his prayer,
and his wife, Rebecca, became pregnant. The babies jostled each
other or wrestled with each other within her, and she said,
why is this happening to me, what's going on inside
(01:24):
of me? What's going on in my stomach? This is
just a kick and a jab. These folks is fighting.
Can you imagine being a woman being pregnant with twins
and they're in a fight and your belly is going
from side to side and they're kicking, martial arts and
everything in the world. They are fighting, and she says,
(01:46):
what's going on? So she went to inquire of the Lord,
and the Lord said to her, two nations are in
your womb, and two people from within you will be separated.
One people will be stronger than the other, and the
(02:07):
older will serve the younger. Now that is interesting, the
older will serve the younger. It's interesting because it's not
normally like that. Normally, the younger would serve the older,
(02:34):
because the older one would be the first born, and
the blessing is on the first born. But God says,
when all of this is over, the older will serve
the younger. That alone switches the birth older. When the
(02:56):
time came for her to give birth, there were twin
boys in her home. The first to come out was red,
and his whole body was like a hairy garment. So
they call his name Esau. After this, his brother came
out with his hand grasping Esau's heill. So they call
(03:21):
him Jacob, trickster, supplanter, con man. That's what Jacob means.
Isaac was sixty years old. Look at that. Isaac was
sixty years old when Rebecca gave birth to them. These
are the children of his old age, much like he
(03:43):
is the child of an old man. He is sixty
years old having a baby. Now I'm over sixty, and
the last thing I want my wife to come home
and tell me. The doctor said, you don't want to
(04:05):
start raising children at sixty. But this is what has
come up under his lot to do. On the other hand,
there's a certain amount of pride in being sixty and
birth in a child, the same kind of pride that
Abram had when he had Isaac, the pride of saying,
(04:28):
even in this season of my life, I am yet fruitful.
Jacob is born in this environment. And they named him
because of how they found him. And they found him fighting,
and the Bible said, because he was snatching at he
saw coming out of the womb, they called him Jacob.
(04:54):
Until you understand that part of the story, then you
want stand the rest of the story, because what happens
next is the fight not only for the birth order,
but the birth right to understand who has the right
(05:16):
to reign. Nature teaches, History teaches, the period teaches that
the first born should have the right to reign. And
so when they brought Esesault to his father Isaac, Isaac
loved Esaul, but God hated him. Put a pin right there.
(05:40):
Why does God hate Esaul? That's a strong word. Why
does God hate Esau? We'll add that to Jacob is
pulling at him coming out of the womb, and they
called him Jacob because he had his hand on the
(06:02):
heel of the firstborn child. And the old man has
purpose to bless his first born, but the prophecy said
that the blessing would be on the younger of them.
Have you ever been in a situation where you weren't
even in line for the blessing, where it didn't look
(06:26):
like it was going to be you. You were not
the favorite, You were not the most likely, You were
not the preferred. You were not the one not only
in your family and your neighborhood, in your school, in
your house, in your life. Have you ever believed God
for something, and the odds were against you. The odds
are against Jacob. The odds are I guess him. But
(06:49):
they forgot that old Jacob is a fighter. And the
fight started in the womb. And what we do not
know is what happened in the womb. We don't know
who was supposed to be first. We only know who
(07:12):
came out first. That's all we know. We know who
came out first. Now, when we look at this next
deposit that we're gonna make, then this next phase we're
gonna get down to the birthright in Genesis twenty five,
twenty nine to thirty four, we're gonna begin to understand
(07:33):
that the fight that started in the womb now continues
outside the womb. Because Jacob say it ain't over, somebody
say it ain't over. Once, when Jacob was cooking some stew,
Esau came in from the open country. Famished. He said
to Jacob, quick, let me have some of that rich stew.
(07:55):
I'm famished. That is why he was also called edom.
Jacob replied, first, sell me your birthright. Let's finish what
we started. Look I am about to die. Esau said,
what good is some birthright to me? It's still fighting,
(08:16):
but Jacob said, swear to me first. So he swore
an oath to him, selling his birthright to Jacob. Then
Jacob gave Esau some bread and some lentils, and some
corn bread, and some collar greens, and some rice, and
some potato salad and some sweet potato pie. He ate
(08:37):
and drank and then got up and left. So he's
all despised his birthright. He gave away his birthright, but
the Bible said that it wasn't his in the first place.
(09:00):
I wonder why the Bible says east Sau sought repentance
with many tears and found it not. See, sometimes somebody
else has got something that is rightfully yours. You're gonna
get it in a minute. Let me put it in
(09:22):
biblical terms. I'll give you houses that you didn't build.
I'll give you vineyards that you didn't grow. Somebody may
be living in what's gonna be your house. Somebody may
be driving what's gonna be your car. Somebody may be
in an office that's gonna be yours. They just don't
know it yet. You may have to fight for it.
(09:43):
But God said it's rightfully. I don't know. I don't know.
I don't know. All I know is what the way
Jacob handled it is totally opposite to what the Angel
said to Rebecca. For the Angel said to Rebecca that
(10:06):
the younger one, that the older one would serve the
younger one, and that reverse the order. Hear me right now,
God is getting ready to reverse the order. You got
to be careful in this season who you walk past,
(10:31):
because God is getting ready to reverse the order. You
gotta be careful who you look down on, because God
is getting ready to reverse the order. Just because I
don't seem like I have it doesn't mean that I'm
not about to get it. The last shall be first,
and the tail shall be the head. God is about
(10:54):
to reverse the order. And I mean, I've never I
never really liked Jacob. I think Jacob was an embarrassment
to the family. I always preach Jacob from a negative
perspective because Jacob, because of this tricky pull, him and
(11:16):
his mama got together and scammed the old man out
of the birthright. She had him dressed like he was airy,
She had him changed his voice and come into the room.
An old man couldn't half see, and he fooled around
and blessed the wrong son or was it the wrong sir?
(11:40):
Isn't it funny how God will move whatever he has
to move and manipulate whatever he has to manipulate to
put you in the place to line you up for
what's next in your life. I want to talk to
some folks. They got a strange testimony. I want to
talk to some people that wasn't born to be what
you ended up being. But God just kind of started
(12:03):
moving things around and switching things up, and you ended
up someplace and you said, I don't even know how
I got here. Jacob Jacob finds himself in a place
(12:25):
with his brother that even though he has the birthright,
it doesn't feel right. He has the birthright, but it
doesn't feel right because Esau hated Jacob over what happened,
(12:46):
which put a cloud over the birthright. And he also
got the blessing. And the problem with the blessing is
Jacob was dying when he gave him the blessing, and
he gave him the blessing and he told Esau I
only had one. So the Jacob that we see in
(13:14):
our texts has the birthright and the blessing, but he
hasn't lost the struggle
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