Welcome to the InTouch Podcast with Charles Stanley from Monday, October 2nd.

Snap decisions in the heat of the moment can have lifelong ramifications.

Today we hear a warning about forsaking God's best.

Would you turn please to Hebrews chapter 12, Hebrews chapter 12, and I want us to look

at two verses, verses 16 and 17, and the title of this message for Saking God's best,

chapter 12 of Hebrews, verses 16 and 17, and after you find that, if you'll turn

over to Genesis chapter 25, and just hold that, because we'll go back to that in just

a few moments.

But in the eleventh chapter is the roll call of faith, and in the twelfth chapter, the

writer of Hebrews begins to talk about some other things, but he comes back, there's

some of those people in the Old Testament again, and he says, for example, and verse 14,

he's talking about following peace with all men and holding this without which no

man shall see God, and a better attitude in verse 15, verse 16 says, less there be any

fornicator or profane person as Esau, who for one more son of meat sold his birthright.

For you know how that afterwards, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected,

for he found no place of repentance, though he saw it carefully with tears.

Now here's the thing I want us to see, there are many people today who willing to sell

off God's best for what gratifies them for the very immediate moment.

Now the best way for us to see this is to go back to chapter 25 of Genesis, if you will.

If you look in verse 29, and let's read the rest of that chapter, chapter 25, and you'll

recall Esau and Jacob, twins who were born, and the rift that came between them, and of

course a mom got involved in this, and so we have a little problem here, but in verse 29,

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