Genesis 27:1–4
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
The story of redemption is not a sterile laboratory experiment. It is a story that God writes straight through the middle of our messes, our sins, and our profound dysfunctions. And there are few family messes in Scripture quite as tangled as the one we find here in Genesis 27. This is not a story for a Sunday School flannelgraph, at least not without some serious editing. We have a blind and aging patriarch, a carnal and favored son, a manipulative and determined mother, and a scheming, ambitious younger son. It is a domestic tragedy in the making, and yet, through all of it, God is sovereignly working His unassailable purpose to bring about the covenant promise. They have to do with the nature of covenant, the power of the spoken word, the doctrine of election, and the way God's irresistible grace operates not just in spite of human sin, but often through it, bending our crooked actions to serve His straight purposes.