Some of us are revilers and swindlers, but you were washed.

Jonathan Evans says your past may describe you, but God's forgiveness means it can no longer define you.

You have been sanctified and justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

That means it's gone!

This is the alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, author, speaker, founding

pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas, and president of the urban alternative.

Have you ever known something was true about you, but struggled to live like it, to hear words of hope, but still feel

weighed down by what you've been through. Today, Pastor Jonathan Evans walks us through a pivotal

moment in Jacob's life, a night that looked ordinary on the surface, but carried life-changing

significance. It's a powerful story we can all learn from. Let's listen. The setting is Jacob as a fugitive on the run.

Yes, it says that he was going from Bersheba to Heron because he was going to find his wife there, but he was also running.

Jacob was on the run because from the moment Esau and Jacob were born,

Jacob would be grabbing on the Esau's heel.

Esau went out one day to hunt, and when he came back in,

Jacob had some stew, and Jacob tricked Esau to trade his birthright to Jacob for some stew.

So now Jacob has Esau's birthright. By the time you get to Genesis 27, now Jacob is tricking his

own father, Isaac, to the degree that he put on some wool from an animal because his brother was hairy.

And he went to his father and cooked a meal that Esau would normally cook. And his father ate it.

He felt on his son just to make sure it was Esau, but it wasn't Esau. It was Jacob.

His mama was helping him. And so he ended up giving the blessing to Jacob. Esau, it was Jacob, his mama was helping him. And so he ended up giving the blessing to Jacob.

Esau came in from the field and cooked a meal for his father and went over to his father, and he said,

okay, father, here's your meal. It's time for my blessing. And the Bible says Isaac shook.

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