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HOW IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD or DID YO COME ACROSS A "STUMBLING BLOCK"     Genesis 25:29-34 (29) Now Jacob cooked a stew; and Esau came in from the field, and he  was  weary. (30) And Esau said to Jacob, "Please feed me with that same red  stew,  for I  am  weary." Therefore his name was called Edom. (31) But Jacob said, "Sell me your birthright as of this day." (32) And Esau said, "Look, I  am  about to die; so what  is  this birthright to me?" (33) Then Jacob said, "Swear to me as of this day." So he swore to him, and sold his birthright to Jacob. (34) And Jacob gave Esau bread and stew of lentils; then he ate and drank, arose, and went his way. Thus Esau despised  his  birthright.  New King James Version "Perhaps never in all man's history has something so valuable been purchased for so little! The major flaw in Esau's character reveals itself in his careless disregard of the high value of his bi...

Hebrews 2:14-15 - "Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, and release those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage." (New King James Version) "Some religions make no mention of Satan as a reality. Others include him as a reality and enemy, yet they make little or no accounting of him actively working to destroy mankind and God's purpose. Jesus makes no bones about Satan actively working to destroy men. In John 8:44 , in accusing the Jews of unbelief, He puts Satan's nature in plain words: ""You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the fa...

Hebrews 1:10-12    And:   " You, LORD, in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth, And the  LORD  are the work of Your hands. They will perish, but You remain; And   they will all grow old like a garment; Like a cloak You will fold them up, And they will be changed. But You are the   same, And Your years will not fail." New King James Version "To us, the physical  seems  so solid, indestructible, and permanent, at least in terms of our own brief existence. But Hebrews tells us to get our attention off the immediate, the "around and about," the physical. We are to reorient our lives, our thinking, our focus, toward the eternality of Christ's dominion. "A profound reality of  God  and His Word is that  they are changeless . "You remain,"  Hebrews 1:11  says, but we grow old and die. The eternal values never change, and even more exciting, they can be taken through the grav...