BIRTHRIGHT A Priceless Gift

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BIRTHRIGHT(A Priceless Gift)

• 15 Oct
• (Pages 27 to 44)
• Genesis 25

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Memory Verse
For though the twins were not yet born and had
not done anything good or bad, so that Gods
purpose according to His choice would stand,
not because of works but because of Him who
calls Romans 911
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For though the twins ___ ___ ___ ____ and had
not done anything good or bad, so that Gods
purpose according to ___ _____ ____ _____, not
because of works but because of ___ ___ ____
Romans 911
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Memory Verse
For though the twins were not yet born and had
not done anything good or bad, so that Gods
purpose according to His choice would stand,
not because of works but because of Him who
calls Romans 911
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For though the twins were not yet born and ___
___ ____ ______ ____ __ ___, so that Gods
purpose according to His choice would stand,
___ _______ __ _____ but because of Him who
calls Romans 911
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Memory Verse
For though the twins were not yet born and had
not done anything good or bad, so that Gods
purpose according to His choice would stand,
not because of works but because of Him who
calls Romans 911
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Memory Verse
For though the twins ___ ___ ___ ____ and ___
___ ____ ______ ____ __ ___, so that Gods
purpose according to ___ _____ ____ _____, ___
_______ __ _____ but because of ___ ___ ____
Romans 911
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Memory Verse
For though the twins were not yet born and had
not done anything good or bad, so that Gods
purpose according to His choice would stand,
not because of works but because of Him who
calls Romans 911
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Memory Verse
For _____ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ ____ and ___ ___
____ ______ ____ __ ___, so that ____ ______
according to ___ _____ ____ _____, ___ _______
__ _____ but because of ___ ___ ____
R_____ ___
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Memory Verse
For though the twins were not yet born and had
not done anything good or bad, so that Gods
purpose according to His choice would stand,
not because of works but because of Him who
calls Romans 911
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Memory Verse
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Memory Verse
For though the twins were not yet born and had
not done anything good or bad, so that Gods
purpose according to His choice would stand,
not because of works but because of Him who
calls Romans 911
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Referring back to Genesis 25-34 (Page
170) Genesis 2523 What does the Lord tell
Rebekah is in her womb? ______ __________
are in your womb What does it say about one
people? _________________________________________
___________ Who will serve whom? _______________
_______________________________ Genesis 2524
What did Rebekah have in her womb? _____________
Two Nations
One people shall be stronger than the other
The older shall serve the younger.
Twins
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first
second
holding
red
hairy
heel
serve
stronger
peaceful
field
hunter
tents
Isaac
Rebekah
Edom
birthright
birthright
birthright
bread
despised
birthright
lentil
stew
Israel
Edom
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Now look at Genesis 2526. How old was Isaac
when his twin sons were born? _____ years
old How long Isaac wait for God to give him his
sons? _____years Did you notice how Rebekah
loaved Jacob, and Isaac loved Esau? Is it right
to have favorites? ________ Have you ever felt
like like your mother or father loved your
Brother or sister more than you?
__________ How did it make you feel?
__________________________
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No
Yes / No
angry, sad, jealous, etc
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Page 34
Last week we discovered that Rebekah has two sons
who will be two different nations, and that the
older would serve the younger. Who is the older,
the firstborn? _____________ Who is the
younger? _____________ What did Esau sell to
Jacob? His ______________
Esau
Jacob
birthright
What is birthright? Lets find out what it is
and if it is important.
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Page 34
Let turn to Page 170-171 and make a list of what
we learn about birthright
Esau
Jacob
Hebrews 1216 (page 35) that there be no immoral
or godless person like Esau, who sold his own
birthright for a single meal.
sold
birthright
birthright
Jacob
despised
birthright
sold
single
meal
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Now look at Hebrews 12 16-17 (page 35) Hebrews
1216 How is Esau described? ___________________
Hebrews 1217 What did Esau desire
afterwards? ___________________ What do we see
happen? Did Esau inherit the blessing? _________
__________ What you think the birthright
is? _____________________________ Do you think it
was valuable? _______ Why or Why not?
_________________________ Which brother thought
the birthright was valuable? _________ Which
brother despised it? _________
Godless
to inherit the blessing
No
A blessing inherited by birth (the right of the
firstborn)
Yes
Given by parent (and controlled by God)
Jacob
Esau
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Genesis 49 2 Gather together and hear, O sons
of Jacob And listen to Israel your father. 3
Reuben, you are my firstborn My might and the
beginning of my strength, Preeminent in dignity
and preeminent in power. 4 Uncontrolled as
water, you shall not have preeminence, Because
you went up to your fathers bed Then you
defiled it he went up to my couch.
What do we learn about the firstborn by looking
at Reuben 1. (Across) My _______ and the
beginning of my 2. (Down) ___________ . He is
preeminent in 3. (Down) ________ and 4. (Down)
________ .
might
strength
dignity
power
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2 Chronicles 21 1 Then Jehoshaphat slept with
his fathers and was buried with his fathers in
the city of David, and Jehoram his son became
king in his place. 2 He had brothers, the sons
of Jehoshaphat Azariah, Jehiel, Zechariah,
Azaryahu, Michael and Shephatiah. All these were
the sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel. 3
Their father gave them many gifts of silver, gold
and precious things, with fortified cities in
Judah, but he gave the kingdom to Jehoram because
he was the firstborn.
What did Jehoshaphat give Jehoram, his
firstborn? 5. (Down) The ____________ What did
he give the other children? 6. (Across) Many
________ of 7. (Down) ___________ , 8. (Down)
__________ , and precious things with fortified
cities in Judah.
kingdom
gifts
silver
gold
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Exodus 422-23 22 Then you shall say to
Pharaoh, Thus says the LORD, Israel is My son,
My firstborn. 23 So I said to you, Let My
son go that he may serve Me but you have
refused to let him go Behold, I will kill your
son, your firstborn.
Who is Gods firstborn? 9. (Across) ___________ .
Israel
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Exodus 13 2 "Sanctify to Me every firstborn,
the first offspring of every womb among the sons
of Israel, both of man and beast it belongs to
Me." 11 "Now when the LORD brings you to the
land of the Canaanite, as He swore to you and to
your fathers, and gives it to you, 12 you
shall devote to the LORD the first offspring of
every womb, and the first offspring of every
beast that you own the males belong to the LORD.
Exodus 132 What belongs to God? 10. (Across)
The ____________ Exodus 132 What are they to
do with the firstborn? 11. (Across) __________
to Me Exodus 1312 What is the firstborn, male
or females? 12. (Across) _________
firstborn
Sanctify
male
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Deuteronomy 2115-17 15 "If a man has two
wives, the one loved and the other unloved, and
both the loved and the unloved have borne him
sons, if the firstborn son belongs to the
unloved, 16 then it shall be in the day he
wills what he has to his sons, he cannot make the
son of the loved the firstborn before the son of
the unloved, who is the firstborn. 17 "But he
shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the
unloved, by giving him a double portion of all
that he has, for he is the beginning of his
strength to him belongs the right of the
firstborn.
Deuteronomy 2117 What does the firstborn
receive? What is the firstborns right? 13.
(Across) A ___________ 14. (Across)
__________ of all that he has.
portion
double
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Colossians 115-18 15 He is the image of the
invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
16 For by Him all things were created, both in
the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible,
whether thrones or dominions or rulers or
authorities all things have been created
through Him and for Him. 17 He is before all
things, and in Him all things hold together. 18
He is also head of the body, the church and He
is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so
that He Himself will come to have first place in
everything.
Colossians 115 Who is the firstborn of
creation? Who is the He in this verse? 15.
(Down) ___________ Colossians 118 What else is
Jesus also the firstborn of? 16. (Across) The
firstborn from the ___________
Jesus
dead
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Summary on what we had learnt about BIRTHRIGHT
and Firstborn

• Birthright belongs to the firstborn
• Beginning of the fathers might and strength
• Receive a double portion of inheritance
• Receive the kingdom, if the father is a king
• Very very important
• Esau despised this for his needs of the moment
• (Immoral and godless)

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Jesus is the Firstborn from the deadWe share in
His Inheritance if we believe

• Do you value your inheritance in Jesus Christ?
• Or do you despise this for the things of the
  world?
• Do you obey God and do what His Word says?
• Do you share the gospel, even if others laugh and
  make fun of you?
• Do you have self-control? Do you do things that
  you are not suppose to do?
• Do you live for the moment?