Hey church family, it is time for Devo. If you've got your Bible, we're going to be in Genesis

Chapter 25. And before we gov in, I want to say thanks so much for logging on and tuning into this.

I just, I know a lot of pastors are doing this with their churches, but early on,

I just felt the Lord impress it upon me that this is what we needed to do during this time.

And the engagement has been really high, so thanks so much for diving in. And I know you feel

the same way that I do. God's word always does what God set out to accomplish in it. And so it is never a waste

of time for us to just dive into His words. We're going to be in Genesis chapter 25. I'm going to

pick it up in verse 29. Last week, I mentioned Jacob and Esau, and I know lots of you are very familiar with scripture and the accounts

recorded there, but maybe some of you are. So I had some questions about Jacob and Esau, and so we're

going to go back to tell you a little bit of who they are. So Jacob and Esau are brothers, and in the womb, they would kind of tumble and tussle and fight,

and Esau was born first. And Esau in Hebrew simply means hairy. So in the Old Covenant,

in the Old Testament, they just named people, it was either like prophetic

of who they would be or sometimes the names were just simply descriptive, more so like a nickname

for us today, you know?

And so when Esau was born, his hairy kid, and so that's what they name him.

They name him Harry.

And then grabbing on to his heel was his younger brother, and so that's what they name him. They name him Harry. And then grabbing

onto his heel was his younger brother, Jacob. Jacob means like trickster or deceitful one, or

literally means heel grabber. And so the idea here is that even from the time of their birth,

that Jacob has been trying to negotiate his way in front

of Esau. So the Bible goes on, this is in Genesis chapter 25, it goes on just to explain how they

grew up and Esau was kind of a dad's boy. He liked to hunt and fish and he was tough and he's outdoorsy. And Jacob was a bit of a mama's boy. He liked to hunt and fish, and he was tough, and he's outdoorsy.

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