1. Genesis 27:1-38 -Jacob Steals Esau’s Blessing

2. He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths. “My brother, Esau, is a hairy man, and my skin is smooth.”

3. Genesis 27:1-38 -Jacob Steals Esau’s Blessing

4. 1. The Battle for Blessing. 2. Blessings and the Sovereignty of God. 3. Living out the Blessing.

5. As the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter. He was an outdoorsman, but Jacob had a quiet temperament, preferring to stay at home. Isaac loved Esau because he enjoyed eating the wild game Esau brought home.

6. "I'm cursed with a functional family. "

7. Then Isaac trembled very violently and said, "Who was it then that hunted game and brought it to me, and I ate it all before you came, and I have blessed him? Yes, and he shall be blessed." Genesis 27:33

9. 1. The Battle for Blessing. 2. Blessings and the Sovereignty of God.

10. 1. The Battle for Blessing. 2. Blessings and the Sovereignty of God. 3. Living out the Blessing.

11. Jesus is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. Colossians 1:14

12. But Christ has rescued us from the curse...when he was hung on the cross, he took upon himself the curse for our wrongdoing…. so that we who are believers might receive the promised Holy Spirit through faith. Galatians 3:13-14

13. No, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to countless thousands of angels in a joyful gathering. You have come to the assembly of God’s firstborn children, whose names are written in heaven. Hebrews 12:22-23 So you have not received a spirit that makes you fearful. Instead, you received God’s Spirit when he adopted you as his own children. Now we call him, “Father.” For his Spirit joins with our spirit to affirm that we are God’s children. Romans 8:15-16