Genesis 27:1-33 – Spiritual Imposters, teaches us about the detrimental effect of man’s lack of spiritual leadership in his family. Isaac had ignored God’s instruction to him about which one of his sons he was to pass on the family’s spiritual blessings. Esau was Isaac’s favorite son, a manly man, but he was not the son God had chosen. Isaac’s sin of not following God’s instruction promotes dysfunction in his family. His wife Rebekah and son Jacob fall into the trap of becoming spiritual Imposters as they try to receive the spiritual blessing through their own craftiness and deception. Genesis 27:1-33 – Spiritual Imposters, show us an example of what lengths we, like Jacob will go to, pretending to be someone we are not.

 

 

 

 

“Oh LORD, You have searched me and known me. You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought afar off. You comprehend my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word on my tongue, but behold, O LORD, You know it altogether.”
Psalm 139:1-4, (NKJV)    https://www.blueletterbible.org/nkjv/psa/139/1-4/s_617001

 

 

Isaac QUIT LEADING HIS FAMILY in his old age

 

 

Men, your family 

NEEDS YOUR LEADERSHIP

 

 

If a man fails to lead 

HIS OWN WALK WITH GOD IS ADVERSELY AFFECTED

God may not remove temptation but 

HE ALWAYS GIVES US A WAY OUT

 

 

“No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man. But God is faithful, He will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation (God) will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.”

1 Corinthians 10:13, NKJV    https://www.blueletterbible.org/nkjv/1co/10/13/s_1072013

 

 

 

THE MORE WE SIN
THE MORE WE SIN

 

 

 

Jacob attempts to gain a SPIRITUAL BLESSING by pretending to be someone he’s not

 

 

BEING AN IMPOSTER IS TOXIC TO OUR SOUL

 

 

RIGHTEOUSNESS can only be received as A GIFT FROM JESUS

 

 

For all (of us) have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness.

Romans 3:23-25, NKJV    https://www.blueletterbible.org/nkjv/rom/3/23-25/s_1049023

 

 

“Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith. Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law.”

Romans 3:27-28, NKJV    https://www.blueletterbible.org/nkjv/rom/3/27-28/s_1049027

 

 

“Abraham was, humanly speaking, the founder of our Jewish nation. What did he discover about being made right with God? If his good deeds had made him acceptable to God, he would have had something to boast about. But that was not God’s way. For the Scriptures tell us, “Abraham believed God, and God counted him as righteous because of his faith.”

Romans 4:1-3, NLT    https://www.blueletterbible.org/nlt/rom/4/1-3/s_1050001

 

 

Jacob schemed to earn THE SPIRITUAL BLESSING GOD HAD FREELY GIVEN HIM

 

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