I don't care how long you've been down in the gutter as a man.

How long you've been defeated as a man.

Jesus Christ is standing over you today saying, get up.

Dr. Tony Evans says you've been positioned by God for a special purpose.

So it's time to take your stand and being the man and father, God has called you to be. This is the alternative broadcast

featuring the timeless biblical teachings from the archives of Dr. Tony Evans.

Blessings come from God, but not just from God. Today, Dr. Evans will touch on the importance

of the blessings we pass on, and what to do if they were

never passed on to us. Let's join him as he begins. In our passage today, we have a son begging for the

blessing of his father. Esau is begging for a blessing.

Now, you must strip your mind about the casual use of the word bless.

We say, you know, God bless you, I bless you.

We use the word fairly casually today many times. But when Esau was asking Daddy to bless him,

he wasn't just saying, Daddy, say, I bless you. No, the blessing was speaking about something else.

It was speaking about the continuity of the covenant.

A symbol for the word blessing was covenantal continuity.

It is my hope that every head of a household here has a will.

If you do not have a will, you're not operating responsibly.

A will simply says, this is what I want to happen with what I've been entrusted with to pass on to the next generation.

Not having a will is not going to keep you from dying.

Many people say, well, I don't like to deal with wills

because it reminds me a death. Well, you need to be reminded.

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