Good Intentions — Minus God — are Godless Intentions Without God
Good intentions, from sincere people, that are not led and fed by the Lord, have absolutely no eternal value and will eventually mislead others to live and do life without hearing first from the Lord. Good intentions, of any kind, no matter their motive, are still lies WHEN they're NOT rooted in truth. We can't let our reasoning give us a REASON to say, "We said..." rather than "God said!" Good intentions are never a legitimate excuse for failing to seek, trust and obey the Lord.
Chapter thirty-six is a chapter that's dealing with just the setting of Esau, and his family. And that's gonna play out down the road with Esau. And Esau was Jacob's brother. And he was a brother that was without the grace of God. He didn't have the promises of God upon his life. And Esau was a man that just did what was right in his own eyes. That's what humanity does as a whole. And if you noticed, I don't know if you picked up on this, but it referred to his descendants and his sons and grandsons, those, those leaders of those tribes, it referred to them as Dukes and chieftains, which was not common among the way that God would describe the breakdown of his lineage that went through Jacob, and Isaac and Abraham, these leaders, these chieftains, and which is also, when you break that down, this is in chapter thirty-six.
And Esau is that representation of a worldly man that never actually has a relationship, a life-transforming relationship with a living God, that changes the trajectory of his life. And he stays in that position, from there on out. So that's why he's a representation of humanity as
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