00:00Hello everyone, this is William Chambers. It is so good to be here with you all with people that
00:04love to hear the Word of God. Let me dive in because I got a lot to talk about. Today
00:08I've
00:08had a title for this message. I would call it, When Calling is Traded for Comfort. There are so
00:15many people that trade their calling for their comfort, for their desires, for what they want
00:21to do. They trade their calling and their purpose for that and it's sad to see Esau traded his
00:27birthright for a morsel of food. He was supposed to get a double portion of the
00:35father's inheritance, the firstborn son did, over all the other sons. The firstborn son
00:40took on the family leadership and the family authority after the father passed
00:45away and Esau traded all that over for a morsel of food. Lest there be any fornicator
00:52or profane person as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. For ye know how
00:59that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected. For he found
01:05no place of repentance, though he salted carefully with tears. Esau was careless about holy things.
01:13He traded in the blessing of God too cheaply for a morsel of food and he was repentant after
01:18he realized what he did. But he could not change anything. It could not be reversed. Many people
01:25undervalue their divine assignment. They discount it. They regard it too lightly. They don't hold it up
01:32as essential and important as it really is. This text right here is a warning to believers who fail
01:39to treasure what God has given them. The calling assignment. You should treasure it. You should
01:47value it. Is your appetite competing with your God-given assignment?
01:54Oh, that's kind of heavy. In this text, what we see is a momentary need outweighed the generational
02:01calling that was on Esau's life. This calling was going to go down through his sons, down to his
02:07descendants. Esau, through this one bad decision, he cut off the generational callings from his sons.
02:13Jacob ended up having it. That's why we call God the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
02:21If Esau had not given up the birthright, he would have been a patriarch and we would have called
02:25the, we would call God the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Esau. But Esau gave up his birthright.
02:34And what did he give it up for? He gave it up for, the Bible says, a morsel of meat.
02:41He gave it up for a morsel of meat. And if we pay attention to that, we're looking at the
02:45smallness
02:46of his reward. But he didn't give it up for a great feast. He didn't give it up for abundant
02:51of provisions. He didn't give it up for anything that would last eternally. He gave it up for a
02:57momentary satisfaction. Oh, are you giving up the calling of God in your life because you want to
03:03enjoy the moment, the moment for momentary satisfactions? Oh, you want to be cool right
03:08now. You want to satisfy your craving right now. You want to make more money right now.
03:13You want to ignore God's calling because it's less stress on you right now and giving up eternal
03:18rewards. That's what Esau did. Esau's descendants were jealous and hostile towards Jacob because
03:24they had more land. They had more power. Actually, what they really had was they had the promises
03:31of God's covenant on them. And they were hostile throughout generations because of what Esau
03:37did. Not obeying the calling of God can affect generations. Not every blessing that you see
03:44a person with is a real blessing. Some blessings that people have is evidence that they traded
03:51something in. They traded something in that was eternal. Some blessings just speak of what
03:57you forfeited, what you gave away. You're at peace now, but you gave away the calling of God.
04:04You gave away the power that could be upon your life. You gave away the ability to influence others.
04:09The last thing I want to talk about is how Esau regretted this trade-off. This is a horrible trade
04:15-off.
04:15This is a bad trade-off. Esau regretted it when it was too late. The Bible says afterwards,
04:22when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected by God. God rejected him. And Esau found
04:27no place of repentance. Esau found no place where he could undo this. He was crying for it. The Bible
04:34said that he sought it carefully with tears. He was crying, but he couldn't undo what was already done.
04:39Don't assume that you can just go back and fix it when you're disobedient to God. Some opportunities
04:46don't come back like you once had it. Sometimes the opportunity is there and it's gone and it never
04:52comes back again. In the case of Esau, that's what we're seeing right here. Esau's tears were real,
04:58but the consequences were settled. He could not go back in time. Esau recognized his loss when other
05:06people had stepped into what belonged to him. Oh, I don't want anybody else to step in what God has
05:13for
05:13me. God will have somebody else step in your calling if you don't do it. If you don't believe
05:18that, look at Saul and David. David was only stepped into what Saul had rejected. Oh, Esau rejected
05:27it because Jacob stepped into what belonged to him. Esau gave up his God-given reality for a morsel of
05:35meat. He wept when he understood the realization of his loss. Sometimes, oftentimes, we understand what
05:43we gave up after we done gave it up. And this is sad. Are you postponing what God called you
05:50to do?
05:51Are you postponing obedience under the assumption that you can go back and fix it later?
05:59Esau couldn't. Help us, God, not to trade in our calling for temporary comfort, for temporary desire,
06:07for temporary appetite. Lord, have mercy on us. In Jesus' name. Amen.
06:12Amen.
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