Title: Irreversible Regret/Genesis 27:1-45
Content Title: Irreversible Regret
Text: Genesis 27:1-45
Key Verse: (Genesis 27:34) When Esau heard his father's words, he groaned and mourned and said to his father, "My father, bless me, and do the same to me."
We are standing in front of an event that resonates with the hearts of modern people who simply think of momentary mistakes. It is an event that tends to occur when you do not know the value of the precious thing you have.
The lesson the writer of Hebrews learned from this event is that past choices can have irreversible bad consequences for all of our futures. The writer of Hebrews identifies him as a “wanderer,” reminding him that he later sought with tears to inherit the stolen blessing, but never had an opportunity to repent.
(Hebrews 12:16) Fear the fornicators, and perhaps there are some who have gone in vain like Esau, who sold the birthright for a single meal. They shed their prayers, but they were rejected, and there was no opportunity for repentance.
1. Watch your appetite.
Esau sold his birthright to satisfy his appetite. But it was only later discovered that the choice of this moment was irreversible. How much do we need to watch and pray lest we fall into temptation? If we remember these four things well, we will not fall into this sudden lust.
2. We are already dead in our sins.
We can't go back to the rotting morgue again. Since the wages of sin is death, it is clear that we ourselves were already dead bodies for our sins. We who died because of our sins cannot become slaves again, can we?
3. In Christ for us, we died for our sins.
In Jesus we have fulfilled the requirements of God's holy law. But it must have been a frightening thing for our Savior to make a costly sacrifice. Isn't it only the bodies that were saved by the atoning death of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross?
4. We died to sin with the Lord Jesus.
With him we have come to the resurrection, and now we belong to a new heaven and a new earth in which righteousness dwells. So we are not children of sin, but children of God. Only because we are waiting for the glorious glory of the resurrection, we cannot allow the approach of sin.
5. We are called dead to sin and are called to live on this earth.
The closer we are to God, the more sensitive we are to the slightest temptations of evil, so we must shun evil, close every hole through which evil can seep, and present our body members as instruments of God's righteousness.
apply.
1) Think in front of the temptations and sins that have come upon you in an instant! Look! How serious will the aftereffects be in the future?
2) Don't stop thinking about who made us free here when we were burdened with the yoke of sin leading to death.
3) What must we do so that we do not commit the mistake of making Jesus Christ the atonement for the cross again?
4) Burn your spiritual heart and faith only in the creation of stories belonging to the resurrection.