Welcome to this weekend's InTouch Podcast with Charles Stanley.

We've all made decisions without considering the long-term consequences.

Don't want to make that mistake again?

Here's part two of protecting your future.

What is the biggest mistake you ever made in your life?

You said, well, I've made some in there. I'm not too sure I know what the largest one is.

Well, we all make mistakes. Sometimes there's small mistakes, sometimes there's big mistakes.

Sometimes they have little and no consequence. Sometimes they have very long lasting consequence.

We all make them. Now, some of them, we can just sort of say, well, forgive me and move on.

Or, I'll correct this. Some of them are irretrievable.

You can't go back. You can't make it right once it's happened.

And one of those mistakes that I want to talk about in this message is one of the mistakes that many people are making and do not even realize it.

If you ask them, do you think that's a mistake? They say no.

And so I want you to turn it if you will to the 25th chapter of the book of Genesis.

And here is a very graphic picture of a mistake that many people are making in their life.

And what they're doing is simply this. They are simply sacrificing their future for the pleasure of the present moment.

So, ESA, who is the hunter, has been out hunting and he comes in and he's tired.

And so, he says to his brother, who looking at that stew says, I'd like to have some.

Imagine this and he says to him, you want some of those stew? Sell me a birthright.

Well, that's a rather ridiculous request. And yet, Jacob was a very rude person.

And he's not in the scripture for being rude in sort of a deceiver.

And so, he makes in his proposition and he says, all right, you have the birthright? Give me some stew.

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