Can God Change A Deceiver? (1)

Genesis 27:1-46, 28:1-22
Isaac is getting near death, so he prepares his son Esau his firstborn to bless him. He tells him, " Esau go into the field with your weapon and come back and make me some venison, then I will bless you before I die."

Rebekah overhears everything Isaac has said in blessing Esau; the problem was she wanted her favorite son Jacob to receive the blessing from Isaac. She pulls Jacob over to the side and demises a plan to fool her husband Isaac into blessing Jacob instead of Esau.

Before the day is out, Rebekah has set up Isaac to give away the blessing to Jacob, whose name means supplanter or deceiver, and not the firstborn Esau.

Rebekah tells Jacob at this point to flee to her brother Laban to escape the anger of Esau. When Esau finds out that his dad has given his blessing to Jacob, he begins to weep and then becomes so angry with his brother Jacob. He purposes in his heart, the next time he sees his younger brother he will kill him.

Has anybody ever brought you so much pain and anger that you were ready to take him or her out? Jacob was boiling mad at his younger brother who had stolen what was rightfully due to him.

Jacob runs for his life, but in his fleeing he has a dream one night where he sees a ladder coming down from the heavens. The Lord God stood above him and said, "I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed."

There never has been anyone yet that God didn't love and couldn't change. Jacob has been involved in a mastermind manipulation scheme. He willingly agreed and greedily accepted the blessing from his father. That means he wrongly received all rights to inherit all of his father's possessions. God shows up to change a man's heart from being deceiver into a man of God.

Dad, mom do you have a runaway son or daughter that has wrecked their life into deception? Possibly they're strung out on drugs, or in prostitution, in jail, maybe your heart aches in the night because you don't have a clue where they are?

If God can send his angles down from heaven to overshadow a shyster like Jacob, God is no respecter of person. If God could change Jacob, he can change your child from the quagmire of sin and deception. Never, Never, Never give up on your own flesh and blood that God has a mastermind purpose and plan for their life.
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