45 – The Games People Play
Sorry! Repentance/Changing the Heart
Family Feud Genesis 25:19-34
Life presents a series of questions. How you answer them determines your life’s path.
How do you treat other people?
Do you value other people?
How do you take care of your family?
If there are things in your family that prevents you from learning the right answers it affects how you proceed in life.
Adam and Eve’s children were the first in juvenile church for murder.
Abraham waits 90 years to have Isaac but he and his handmaiden had already had an outside child. Baby momma drama
Isaac’s family – Esau and Jacob – mother was Rebekah
**The Foundation of Good Parenting is Prayer
**Through prayer, God can bless everything else. Isaac and Rebekah prayed for 20 years for children. At the age of 60, Isaac and his wife Rebekah had two babies – Esau and Jacob. Un-identical twins (fraternal) couldn’t be more different as people. Gen 25: 22-23
Esau – name means hairy, hunter, loved by Isaac because Esau was a hunter
Jacob – name means heel-catcher, came out smooth and clean, completely different than his brother, stayed among the tents and was loved by Rebakah
We spend a life-time trying to do what God had already said. God had already said the older will serve the younger. Jacob from the moment of his birth was trying to cold Esau back
Know your children and let them be how they are. Learn to deal with each one. Don’t make them feel bad because they’re not like you.
The parents created a problem so when problems showed up later in life, Jacob and Esau didn’t have the right answers. They were in the midst of the Family Feud.
Parents need to be consistent in your discipline, time, love, rules, gifts. Treat them the same as best you can. Nothing good comes from playing favorites.
How does a worm get inside an apple? The worm starts inside the apple. What you plant inside the child’s heart grows out in their attitude, actions and behavior.
Jacob heard important things as he was around the house that Esau did not learn because he was in the field. This whet his appetite for being in charge. Fueled his spirit for wanting to take over.
Esau sold his birthright to Jacob for stew. Doing so gave Jacob the right to the Covenant that God gave to Abraham. Two portions of his father’s physical estate. He also became the head of the family and the spiritual head. Esau did not love the Lord like his brother did. Isaac did not put a love of God in Esau. He only put a love of physical things.
Esau became the father of Edom when he ate that soup and sold his birthright.
**Favoritism is common but breeds confusion
**How do you live in the same house and have different values? Look for the worm in your house.
What makes a brother even consider SELLING food to his brother instead of giving it to him?
Then Jacob schemes to get the blessing from Isaac…..with the help of Rebekah. This scheming is on the inside of the apple, not the outside.
Because Esau is not spiritual, he goes out and marries women he was specifically told not to marry. Jacob went to live with his mother’s brother and HE was schemed by his father in law, Laban. Worked 7 years to get Rebekah but got Leah. Had to work 7 more years to get Rebekah.
**Someone has to say I’m sorry first. Before death takes us away. They were separated 20 years because of this Family Feud.
Jacob met an angel and the angel wrestled with Jacob all night. Jacob left that fight named Israel. He had to go find those he had messed up with and make it right.
**Bad parenting habits are passed down from generation to generation.
Tamala R. Maddox, Ph.D.
Principal
R.F. Bumpus Middle School