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Hey listen I want to welcome you if we haven't had the chance to meet. My name is Charles I think it serves as one of the pastors here and welcome to week free of our series we're calling the paradox of purpose the paradox of the word.

We've been really leaning into God's purpose for our life. Scripture says in Proverbs 1921 many are the plans.

Many are the plans of a man's heart. Many are the plans of our heart but God's purpose prevails and we've been talking about that purpose today and really about this idea that purpose is a paradox.

It's not either or it is both and Jesus was a paradox. He was fully God and fully man and he came in that paradox and really set a path and a trajectory for us to look at so we could walk in the fullness of who he's called us to be.

And today y'all I'm ready. I'm like I'm so ready. I'm more ready than being ready. So we're going to go straight to the Bible.

If you got your Bible, if you got a real Bible shout out to you if your Bible needs charging it's okay. Just hope it doesn't die in the middle of when you need it in your darkest moment.

Alright just kidding. Ha ha ha it's a joke. Genesis 24 is where we're going to be. Genesis 24 will start in verse 27. If you're at home you can look on the screen.

If you got a Bible you can look at it but we're going to be reading the scripture before we jump into the scripture. I got to give you a little context of where we're jumping into. So how many of you remember Abraham raise your hand in the room in a chat if you remember Abraham.

Okay Abraham remember when God asked him to kill a son. Remember that anybody tracking remember he tried to kill his son. Okay so he doesn't kill his son the Rams and the bush.

His son gets older has to probably go to a little bit of counseling because your dad tried to kill you at a young age. That's with anybody right. Anyways that son's name was Isaac. Isaac grows up.

He gets married to a lady named Rachel. Now Rachel her womb is barren. She cannot have children but Isaac begins to pray and one thing you need to know about our church is we believe that prayer changes things.

Come on does anybody know that prayer changes things he begins to pray and her womb opens up and she gets pregnant with twins double for her trouble. Now she went from no kids to double twins. So we're going to pick up in scripture right here and she has two boys and this is what the scripture says in verse 27.

As the boys grew up. He saw became a skillful hunter. He was an outdoorsman. He shopped a bass pro and things like that. But Jacob had a quiet tiperman preferred to stay and preferring to stay at home shout out to Jacob. He sounds like me.

I just had a sense Jacob had great style. He's just in the house chilling. He don't feel need to prove himself out there chasing wild animals. Anyways, verse 28. Isaac loved Esau because he enjoyed eating the wild game. Esau brought home.

But Rebecca loved Jacob. So he got Esau and Jacob. These are Isaac's two children. It says one day when Jacob was cooking some stew. Esau arrived home from the wilderness exhausted and hungry. Esau said to Jacob, I'm starved. Give me some of that red stew.

Maybe little Campbell's chicken noodle soup. Y'all remember little Campbell's chicken noodle. That's probably what is making verse 31. All right, Jacob said, but. Dre me your rights as the first born son. Look, I am starving. I am dying of starvation. Esau said, what good is my birthright to me now. But Jacob said, first you must swear that your birthright is mine. So Esau sworn oath there by selling all his rights as the first born to his brother Jacob.

Then Jacob gave Esau some red bread and lentil stew. Esau ate the meal. Then he got up and left. He showed contempt for his right as the first born. This is a powerful portion of scripture that we're going to go over today. Before we do, I just want to take a moment and pray and ask that God would join us. Lord, this is your word.

It was pinned by humans, but you wrote it. And so right now, Lord Jesus, I thank you that your original intention and the heart that you saw in the scripture was coming live today. Allow us to see you. Lord, I decrease so that you may increase. It's in the beautiful name of Jesus. We pray and everybody said.

Amen. Now today, I have a specific assignment. I have to address a portion of purpose that has been perverted, twisted, that has been misused. It has been this idea has been cultivated by culture and even furthered by people of faith.

I have to talk about a concept really quickly and I want to give you the framework before we really get into the scripture. Today, I want to talk to you and introduce the concept of deferred responsibility.

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