The Future

INTRODUCTION

Religious bondage makes people stop thinking.

That you are excited about this message does not mean you are free of religion. That you even accept it does not mean you are free. You are only free when it makes you think, question and appropriate it to your life.

Even though you think what I am saying is a revelation for the now or that it really makes sense, if it does not raise a personal quest in you to know more and critically think, it will make you depend on me for more revelations, waiting for another preacher to speak again and touch you like never before. That is another kind of bondage.

What you are hearing should make you say something like:

If this is like this, then I need to reflect Christ more

If this is like this, why is this happening?

If this is like this, what am I still where I am?

If this is like this, then the devil can’t hurt me no more. Etc.

It was from the questions of the Corinthian Christians that we learn from till today.

1 Cor. 7, 8, 16.

God always wants us to think deeply. Treasures don’t stay at the surface. You need to go deep to get it.

Because of laziness to think, we now push back to God what he created us to do with the common phrase “knows and controls everything”

It is wrong to think that whatever happens to us is the will of God.

Whatever happens to us is not necessarily the will of God.

Simply because God is Eminent and "All Knowing" does not mean He micromanages man.

The reason why he gave us his IMAGE and LIKENESS at creation is so that he doesn't have to micromanage us. What this means is with His Image and Likeness, we are complete.

This is what Adam lost, this is what Christ came to restore.

The title of my message today is: The Future

Being poor is more of a mindset than not having money.

That is to say, when you have a positive mindset, if you don’t have money you see it as a temporal setback therefore you plan and work to improve it but when you have a negative mindset, you see it as a permanent situation, you stop thinking and start looking for sympathy.

Because the state of your mind determines what you see, even how you understand the word of God.

Text: Gen 25:20 – end.

By our Character, actions and what we say, we prophesy to our future

This is the story of Esau and Jacob. This two kids came from God. The Bible said they are their father answered prayers.

So they both came from God.

God called them two (2) nations or two (2) people. In other words there are Esau nations and there are Jacob nations. There are Esau people and there are Jacob people.

1. The twins in this passage will have characteristics of two kinds of people or kinds of nations.

2. One relied on physical strength, the other relied on mental strength

Two different people, two different nations, one is relied on brute strength, the other relied on the wisdom of the mind.

One of the things that surprises me about Esau is that he goes to the field to hunt yet he came home hungry and asks food from the one who did not hunt. He is skillful, yet he came home hungry.

Esau provides Raw Materials

Jacob processes raw materials.

Jacob made a stew, where did he get the meat he cooked with?

This paradox represents nations today

The Esau nation have a lot of raw materials yet they are always hungry

The Jacob nations on the other hand do not have a lot of Raw materials but they are always satisfied.

The Esau nations speak this way: we have oil, we have cocoa, we have gold. Having natural resources in abundance does not mean you will have something to eat.

Esau goes out to the field every day to chase after animals, hunt them down, kill them and brings them home. But you know, if you kill an Antelope, you cannot eat it raw, they can never be eaten in their raw state. Therefore your ability to have raw materials will not guarantee your success in life.

Prov. 12:27.

He is a good hunter but after hunting he does not go the next step of processing what he got from the hunt, because if you want to eat meat, you must process it, you must add value to it, and it becomes consumable and also marketable – you will never eat it raw.

So Esau came back from hunting probably with an animal but he does not have the patience to roast it so he wants already made food.