Episode 60: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 26

Episode Summary:

And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint: 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. And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright. And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me? And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob. 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. (Genesis 25:29-34)

59 Look at Esau. Esau was a good man, moral, a good church member today. What did he do? He was a hunter. He went out…Course then, that’s how they made their living. He’d taken care of the herds for his father. His daddy was blind. A prophet, a prophet of the Lord was blind and deceived by his own son, a prophet, Isaac; through him come Christ. You can call him prophet, Bible said he was. And was blind? Why didn’t he heal himself? And why didn’t he know that that was Esau—that that was Jacob instead of Esau? See? God don’t tell His prophets everything. He just tells them what He wants them to know. See?

60 God was working out a plan then, and he had to work in it. God…If you’ll submit yourself to God, God will make you work right into His plan.

61 Now, notice what he did, what this fellow did. Esau went out and tried to take care of his poor, old, blind daddy; and Jacob, seemingly, he didn’t care what happened to him. But there’s one thing Jacob wanted, that was the birthright. Regardless of what come, how he had to get it, what level he had to come on, that birthright was all he cared for. And Esau, the Bible said, despised his birthright; the Bible said that. And the Bible said, “Except there come some vain fornicator among you, like that evil person Esau who despised his birthright and sold it for a mess of pottage…”

62 Now, what is a birthright? It’s the right. That’s what I’m trying to tell you now. This Holy Spirit is your Birthright; that’s your Birthright. That’s your God given right. Now, people say today, “I’ll go to church. I’m just as good as the next fellow. But me, act like one of them holy rollers? Not me.” Well, you Esau! See? It’s just the same thing, despising the birthright. Why, he swapped it for a mess of pottage. And you sell it ma-…I don’t say you, but the world sells it for a lot less than that.

63 Esau was hungry. But, you see, if goodness would be counted…If somebody…If we walked up there and stayed around the tent for a—a few days, we’d find out that Esau was…We’d have picked Esau. See? But in his heart he wanted that birthright. He didn’t care about anything else; he wanted that birthright. That’s all he wanted.

59-1223 – “Questions And Answers”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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