JESUS SAW HIMSELF IN GENESIS II About Godıs demonstration of love for us To Know: ³Jacob said to his father, I am Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game so that you may give me your blessing.² (Gen. 27:19) What thoughts went through Jesus mind when he read that Jacob swindled Esau out of his blessing? Jacob entered the world grasping his brotherıs heel. >From the womb, Jacob seemed to be conniving to take Esauıs place. Famished, Esau sold his birthright to his brother for a piece of bread and a bowl of lentil soup. Being Isaacıs eldest son, Esau had a right to his fatherıs blessing. When Jacob subverted his brother and stole his birthright, it was the second time that he swindled his brother out of something that was rightfully Esauıs. Jesus is our elder brother. Christ told a parable to show that he was well aware that sinners were plotting to take his place. ³He went on to tell the people this parable: A man planted a vineyard, rented it to some farmers and went away for a long time. At harvest time he sent a servant to the tenants so they would give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. But the tenants beat him and sent him away empty-handed. He sent another servant, but that one also they beat and treated shamefully and sent away empty-handed. He sent still a third, and they wounded him and threw him out. Then the owner of the vineyard said, What shall I do? I will send my son, whom I love; perhaps they will respect him.² But when the tenants saw him, they talked the matter over. This is the heir,ı they said, Letıs kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.ı So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.² (Lk. 20:9-15) Jesus told this parable to his brethren. It was a warning regarding the viciousness of what they were doing by plotting his death. The heart and soul of the Bible is this that Godıs Son, being fully aware that sinners were his enemies, nevertheless gave himself to die like a defenseless lamb. Paul writes, ³God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.² (Rm. 5:8) Also, ³when we were Godıs enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son² (Rm. 5:10) 012710$-012710 <{{{{{{>< Other posts:
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