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[Sermon] Genesis 27:1-20, 30-37, 41-45: The Sins of the Mother

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By Annie

-What Rebekah did costed the loss of her two sons

How sin affects the family
-Breaks the family
Sins of the mother(deception)
3 things in ch 27:

1. Rebekah teaches her son to lie
v1 -Isaac was rather blind
Isaac was not only losing his physical eyesight, but also his spiritual eyesight.
v2-4
Food was all that he could see!
v28; he loved to eat, and therefore loved to eat.
v5-6
A. Rebekah; forgot her role has the HELPER of her husband.
[Notes lost]

In one way, Rebekah did the right thing, but she cheated him rather than confronting him.
v6-8

A. Rebekah followed God's plans in her own way to favour her son
B. The end doesn't justify the means
God doesn't need our help, He only needs our obedience and trust, for there is no other way to find happiness in Jesus.
C. An abuse of parental authority -teaching son to lie to his own father

2. Jacob learnt well the art of lying
v8-10
A. Rebekah teaches Jacob how to deceive his father: full to the stomach
B. Rebekah has a fool-proof plan to deceive her husband (v15-17)
C. Jacob responded well: 'How can I pull this off?' (v11-12)
D. The wrong moral lesson: Rather than upholding the truth it's best not to get caught
v18-20
How many times did Jacob lie? How many people did he lie to?
Lying has a way to lead us to sin, only it keeps going deeper and deeper.
Jacob brought down the name of God when lying.

Rebekah's own words: "Let the curse fall on me" This happened in three areas of her life.

A curse to her husband - Isaac
A. Isaac now knew that he was deceived by Jacob-his other son and his own wife.
v30-33
B. The mareiage relationship is now tested by a deliberate lie: How can he trust his wife again?
C. The curse of losing her husband

A curse to her other son
A. Can you feel the bitterness in Esah, when he cries out with a loud voice, "Bless me-me too!" (v34)
B. Can you feel the despair in Esau's eyes when his father said, "What can I possibly do for you, my son?"? (v37)
C. The curse of losing her elder son.

A curse to her favoured son-Jacob
v41-45

The lesson for us to learn
Galatians 6:7

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