Hello and welcome back to the Scriptures Are Real.

I'm your co-host Lamar Newmire and this is Kerry Mulestein.

Hi, how are you?

Good. Great to be back with you again.

And it's a good time. It's February. We're doing a little come follow me, following along.

And I wanted to just pull this up here real quick. Well, I'm going to talk with this. We're going to talk right now.

We just talked earlier about the covenant relationship and Abraham and so forth. We're going to talk about chapter 27 now. And this is kind of a, it's kind of a weird thing. It's something that we don't

quite fully understand, but it trips up a lot of students of the Old Testament.

And we're going to talk about the birthright.

First of all, before we get into the birthright, why is the birthright so important,

especially in these ancient cultures?

That's a great question.

And it's something that I think we misunderstand as just a modern culture, partially because we let the world influence us so much.

So from the world's point of view, leadership is all about the person who's leading and their power and their prestige, whereas from God's point of view, leadership is about service

and serving others. Even the Savior,

when James and John say they want to be on his right hand, his left hand, he says, you don't get it.

This is really, you're thinking like the princes of the world who want a lot of authority,

but he that is least among you should be the greatest, right? So that's the Savior's definition of

leadership, is to be the least, to be the servant. And the birthright child has the responsibility to take care of

everyone else in the family. And that's why they're given a double inheritance. So if someone gets

sold into slavery or bondage, they're supposed to buy them back. If they lose their land, they're

supposed to buy them back. If a spouse dies, they take care of the other spouse. They take care of the mother when the father dies and all of these things. So there's a lot of taking care of that they need to do. And so the birthright becomes really the extra endowment of abilities to be able to do that.

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