🔥 GENESIS CHAPTER 33 | BASIC UNDERSTANDINGS OF SCRIPTURE FOR TRUTH (PART 32) 🔥

Mike Balloun teaches today. 01-04-25

🔥 GENESIS CHAPTER 33 | BASIC UNDERSTANDINGS OF SCRIPTURE FOR TRUTH (PART 32) 🔥
Walking in the Image of Christ

VERSES: Malachi 1:1-3,6; Hebrews 12; Matthew 5; Proverbs 3:11-13; 1st John 2:6, 4:17

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As Esau and Jacob were sons of Isaac… we, the redeemed in Christ Jesus (The First Born), then make up the “church of the first born” of God. The redeemed believers in Hebrews 12:23a are addressed as follows… “To the general assembly and church of the firstborn (sons), which are written in heaven…” (Read Hebrews 1:1-3:1 also.) Foundational understanding is that we redeemed who fear/reverance and honor His Great Name should be expecting to stand before our heavenly Father and receive the heavenly blessing of the first born. However, it’s vital to understand that though the redeemed in Christ are here referred to as firstborn and have their names written in the Lamb’s Book of Life (where in all redeemed are considered the firstborn sons of God), they may, by their actions, fall short of their heavenly Calling and lose those rights by squandering their firstborn inheritance, as Esau did. Thus, having their names stricken or blotted out for lack of faithful service, and not receiving the greater inheritance.

The Holy Spirit through Paul writes in Hebrews 12:16 of Esau being a “profane person… who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.” And again Paul writes of Esau and Jacob in Romans 9:13 “As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.” Paul there quotes Malachi 1:1-3… “The burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi. I have loved you, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the Lord: yet I loved Jacob, And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.” Paul makes a comparison of the Jews of his day with those of Malachi’s day (and how it is that God has now turned to the Gentiles as His people) although they are the seed of Jacob, in essence being guilty of the same great sin of Esau and his seed… that of despising and profaning God’s Great Name. Malachi 1:6… “A son honoreth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honor? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name.” And in Verses 11,12a… “For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye have profaned it…” The entire Book of Malachi is an exposé of the seed of Jacob not fearing/reverencing Him and profaning His Name (in 4 chapters, His Name is referred to at least 8 times).

In the 12th Chapter of Hebrews, Esau’s actions are tied to receiving or rejecting God’s discipline of His children with their maturing in ‘holiness’ in view, who are His children by redemption ‘grace’ afforded in the Atonement of Christ Jesus, and even by the greater ‘grace’ afforded in that Atonement are being sanctified in the calling to be His first-born sons. From this greater ‘grace’ of being sanctified, one may ‘fall’…
“Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.” (Hebrews 12:15-16) Compare with Paul’s statement in Galatians 5:4 “Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.”

The profaning of God’s Name by Esau and certain redeemed in Christ Jesus is a result of failing to respond to His grace.

Up until the Law of Moses was given at Mount Sinai, when the children of Abraham willingly put themselves under the Law, they were under the grace provision according to the promises given Abraham in Genesis 15. To draw back, fail, or fall from grace is to be judged according to justice and to dwell in self-centered darkness.
To be fallen is the result of falling under judgement or discipline and remaining unrepentant unto being unreconcilable. (Hebrews 6:4-9, Hebrews 10, 1st Corinthians 9:27)

The great profaning sin of Esau was that he had fallen from the ‘grace’ that was his in the Covenant calling of his father and grandfather. He did not value the calling but was satisfied with the carnal benefits of living under the favored blessing of Abraham and Isaac, without holiness. He envied the rich and powerful and sought their lot in life. (Psalm 73) Esau held....