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life, and Jacob was very happy to think his father did not find out how wrong he had done, but We are never happy very long when we do wrong, for when we tell stories that are not true, it is soon found out, and next Sunday you be sure to come and see what happened to Jacob when it was found out that he had told his father a story. God looked right down into Jacob’s heart and knew all the time he was not telling the truth, and he felt sorry for Jacob for He knew he would have to suffer for telling his father that which was not
Desson Story. We are to hear about a young man who deceived his father, that means }ie did not tell his father the truth. The name of this young man was Jacob, one of the brothers in our story last week. You remember the two brothers Esau and Jacob. A long time has passed by arid these boys are now grown men, and their father is getting old, his eyes are dim, and he can not see very well. There was a kind of food that the old father loved very much, so one day he asked Esau to get some of this food for him and
true. Now Jesus loves us and wants to help us to always speak the truth, and we do need Him to help us, for it is so easy to tell wrong stories, and we know how we have told some, and if we really are sorry when we have done wrong, we can tell Jesus so, and ask Him to forgive us. Jesus always knows when we tell a story, so let us say our memory verse, and do just what it says. Closing Prayer. Dear Jesus we ask you to forgive us, and help us to always speak the truth.
bring it to him, and when he had eaten he would bless Esau. Now Jacob, the brother to Esau heard the father ask for this particular kind of food, so he hurried up and fixed some food for his father, dressed up in his brother Esau’s clothes, and went to his father with the food. You know the old father was nearly blind, and Jacob had on his brother’s clothes, so when he put his hands out to feel him, he asked if it was Esau, and Jacob said yes. Jacob told his father a story and made him believe he was Esau. You see Jacob was doing two wrong things. He told his father a story, and he was cheating his brother out of the blessing his father was going to give him. The /father ate his food and then put his hands on Jacob’s head and wished him many blessings and good things for his
If a man is not familiar with the Bible, he has suffered a loss which he had better make all possible haste to correct..—Roosevelt.
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