Genesis 25:27–34
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
Every story, if you trace it back far enough, is a story about a choice between two ways of living in the world. Scripture is filled with these choices, these rivalries between brothers that represent two rival worldviews. We have Cain and Abel, Ishmael and Isaac, and here, in our text, we have the foundational story of Jacob and Esau. This is not simply a family squabble over inheritance. This is a collision between the man of faith and the man of sight, between the covenant man and the carnal man, between the man who lives for the future promise and the man who lives for the immediate gratification of his belly. It is an entire civilization built on the principle of the red stew. Our politics, our entertainment, our education, our economics, it is all geared toward satisfying the immediate, growling appetite.