“ It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.”
The everlasting covenant is according to the purpose of God so that election might stand. The elect are a body, collectively called the church. However each man so called before the worlds began has to make sure his election is according to the Word. So word of his grace as St Paul says,”I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified”(Ac.20:32) has a part. He also exhorts in another place,”We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.”(2 Co.6:1) Each received grace for grace from Jesus Christ and by him also sanctified so he is our brethren. (He.2:11) . So purpose of the covenant is that we may receive as heir of promise our blessing. Our ministry is according to his grace and varies one from another. But the blessing is all the same. “that God may be all in all.”(1 Co.15:28).
In order to illustrate this truth we have the blessing Isaac near blind confers on whom he thinks is Esau. Jacob and his mother practise a pious humbug to help the son whom God favoured more. God is not fooled but shall teach him a hard lesson in due course. But Isaac prompted by the word of God sent before before the worlds recites according to the Spirit, “because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.”(Ro.8:27). Isaac’s blessing is given in Ge.27:26-29.
“And Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.” (25:27). The terms given in his blessing is intended for Esau, “See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the Lord hath blessed:”. Alas Esau made his choice for a mass of pottage. So it is Jacob who gains from it.” Had Esau chose life he would not have despised his birthright. In short Esau did not make his election sure. Free will is to be exercised as matter of life and death.
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