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hold you tight, so let us never let them get a hold on us. We all like to have our own way. Just like I used to help the fly out of the spider web, because I was stronger than the fly or the web, so Jesus can help us and keep us from getting caught in any of these wrong things. I wonder how you have been acting in your home each day this
week. Were you real pleasant and sweet when mother asked you to do something for her? How many of you want Jesus to help you? '(Teach mem ory verse. This is the world’s Temper ance Sunday.) dosing Prayer. Thanking Jesus for his loving care and asking Him to help us every day.
¿Wj. Æc. ÿ à ÊÈ É à NOVEMBER 10, 1918 JACOB DECEIVES HIS FATHER Golden Text.— “ Speak every man truth with his neighbor.“ Eph. 4:25. LESSON TEXT Gen. 27:18-29. (Additional material, Gen. 27:1-45; Prov. 12:17-20; Zech. 8:16, 17; Ac. 5:1-11).
(18) And he came unto his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I; who art thoji, my son? (19) And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy firstborn; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my veni son, that thy soul may bless me. (20) And Isaac said unto his son, How is it that thou has found it so quick ly, my son? And he said, Because the LORD thy God brought it to me [sent me good speed]. (21) And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou be my very son Esau or not. (22) And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau. (23) And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau’s hands, so he blessed him. (24) And he said, Art I. Isaac’s Intention. Isaac, at this time was about 140 years of age. He lived to be 180. This explains his physical condition as described in our lesson. His trembling hands, his nearly EXPOSITION blind eyes, present EESSON a pathetic figure. His request that Esau provide venison for him may have had been a sick man’s fancy, partly. It is certain, however, that it was his •intention at this time to confer the birthright blessing upon Esau. This was what he himself announced, and all
thou my very son Esau? And he said, I am. (25) And he said, B ring it near to me, and I w ill eat o f my son’s ven ison, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought it near to him, and he did eat: and he brought him wine, and he drank. (26) And his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now, and kiss me, my son. (27) And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See the smell of my son is as the Smell o f a field which the LORD hath blessed: (28) Therefore God give thee of the dew o f heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and w ine: (29), Let the people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother’s sons bow down to thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee. the parties concerned understood it so. It can hardly be conceived that he did not know that this was contrary to the will of God (ch. '25:33). It seems unlikely also that he did not know of the transaction between Jacob and Esau about the birthright. His whole con duct is a striking commentary on the length to which even a good man will go sometimes to carry out his own desires. It must not be forgotten that at this time Esau and Jacob were about 60 years old. II. Rebekah’s Intervention. As Isaac failed in trying to set aside
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