Davar Kingdom Of God

In this sermon, we will compare the lives of two brothers, Esau and Jacob. Unlike Ishmael whose father was Abraham, but mother was not Sarah, both Esau and Jacob were the sons of Isaac and Rebekah, the grandsons of Abraham and Sarah, and were eligible to be an heir of the blessings God promised to give through his covenant with Abraham. Of the twins, in a natural sense, Esau was the first candidate to be the heir because he was older, but in exchange of a bowl of stew he sold his birthright to his younger brother Jacob, who later came to inherit the blessings through deception. This naturally made Esau very furious, and Jacob, upon his parents’ suggestion, was literally forced to flee to a distant land to live with his uncle, Laban, leaving all the wealth and the land behind, which he was promised to inherit. The story of Jacob’s dream at Bethel is very significant because it happened right after he was blessed by his father as the heir. In a sense, it corresponds to the story of Abraham’s counting of th