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The Right to Inheritance Sold for a Bowl of Lentil Stew

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[Genesis 25:34]

“Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and some lentil stew.

He ate and drank, and then got up and left. So Esau despised his birthright.”

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Isaac is the miracle son Abraham, the father of faith, born at the age of 100.

Isaac married at the age of 40.

Isaac's wife was a woman named Rebekah from Paddan-Aram.

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They have been married for a long time, but they have no children.

Isaac prayed earnestly to God that Rebekah could become pregnant.

God responded to Isaac's earnest prayer and made Rebekah conceive.

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Soon after, Rebekah learned that she was pregnant with twins.

Rebekah felt her twins quarreling with each other in her stomach.

It was so marvelous that the children were quarreling from her own, from her stomach,

so she asked God why.

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God told Rebekah about the reason.

“Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated;

one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.”(Genesis 25:23)

That said, there are leaders in Rebekah's womb who will rule both countries.

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Even when the two children came to the world, they came out arguing to come first.

The first child who came out was red and hairy. So he came to be called 'Esau'.

His younger brother came out grabbing his brother's heel.

The child who came out holding his brother's heel was named 'Jacob'.

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The two children were very different in how they grew up.

Esau loved to go out and hunt in the fields. On the other hand, Jacob was a quiet (godly) man.

Unlike Esau, he liked to stay quietly in the tent.

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Father Isaac liked to eat wild animal dishes that his eldest son Esau had hunted and caught.

So he loved his eldest son Esau. In contrast, her mother, Rebekah, loved Jacob,

who liked to work from home.

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One day Jacob was cooking a stew at home. Even that day, Esau went out to the field,

hunted hard, and returned.

Upon returning home, Esau saw Jacob boiling a delicious lentil stew.

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Esau, who was too hungry to hunt, said in Jacob. “Give me that red stew, I'm hungry.”

Esau's nickname was called “Edom” because Esau asked for a red one.

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Upon hearing this, Jacob offered Esau a deal. “First, sell me your birthright as the eldest son.”

Jacob told Esau to hand over the birthright if he wants to eat stew.

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When Esau listened to Jacob, he replied: “I'm hungry right now.

What's the use of the eldest son's rights?”

Esau did not take the rights of his eldest son seriously.

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Jacob again confirmed to Esau and said. “If so, swear you will give me that right.”

Esau, at Jacob's request, swore to exchange the rights of his eldest son for a bowl of stew.

He traded the right of God's glorious firstborn son for a bowl of food.

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Esau enjoyed the lentil stew and bread provided by Jacob, and left.

The Bible records this part like this.

“Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and some lentil stew.

He ate and drank, and then got up and left. So Esau despised his birthright.” (Genesis 25:34)

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In the future, God chose Jacob, not Esau, as the next person to inherit the faith after Isaac.

Esau, who lightly regarded the rights of the firstborn and sold it for a bowl of lentil stew,

did not become an heir.

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Romans says that all of us who are saved by the grace of Jesus are heirs of God.

“Now if we are children, then we are heirs - heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.”(Romans 8:17)

We, who inherited heaven with Jesus, should not take the right of heirs lightly as in Esau.

You shouldn't commit the stupidity of replacing it with things like lentilsew.

We must cherish the rights we have received and do everything we have to bear as an heir.

We know that even suffering is a great blessing for us who inherited the kingdom of heaven,

and we hope that all our friends who live by faith will be.

(This is the sample conclusion provided by CTM. Please feel free to change the conclusion to best suit the listeners of your sermon.)