Trading Tomorrow for Today
Robert Dawson
Genesis 25:19
I heard about a frog that was desperate to know his future so he decided to go to a fortune teller. As he told her about his curiosity concerning his future she began to gaze into her crystal ball. As she looked into his future she began to smile and he said what is it? She said, you are going to meet a very beautiful woman. From the moment she lays eyes on you she will have an insatiable desire to know everything about you. She will be compelled to get close to you and discover what makes you tick and you will fascinate her. The frog, excited at this prospect, asks, where will I meet her, where am I a singles club?' to which the fortune teller responds..... NO, BIOLOGY class.
Poor fellow did not have a bright future. Today I want to talk, not just to our graduates, but all of us on how we can keep our futures bright.
In order to do this we are going to look at a negative example and learn a couple of positive truths on how to keep our future's bright. We are going to learn these truths from a man who ruined, sacrificed and threw away his future by mishandling the present.
SCRIPTURE
Before these two boys where even born it was evident there was going to be trouble. Even in the womb tension was building between these two brothers. Rebekah was having such a great struggle and difficulty in her pregnancy that she went to inquire of the Lord what was wrong, she knew what was taking place in her was not natural.
God tells her that two nations would emerge from her womb. That may not strike us as odd to begin with but these two men were brothers - heirs - grandsons of Abraham to whom it was promised would become the father of a great and mighty nation. It would have seemed more logical to assume that in Rebekah's womb were two leaders of one great nation --- after all they are brothers.
In birth the differences were immediately obvious.
1. Esau - red and hair - it was a sign of his rebel ...
Robert Dawson
Genesis 25:19
I heard about a frog that was desperate to know his future so he decided to go to a fortune teller. As he told her about his curiosity concerning his future she began to gaze into her crystal ball. As she looked into his future she began to smile and he said what is it? She said, you are going to meet a very beautiful woman. From the moment she lays eyes on you she will have an insatiable desire to know everything about you. She will be compelled to get close to you and discover what makes you tick and you will fascinate her. The frog, excited at this prospect, asks, where will I meet her, where am I a singles club?' to which the fortune teller responds..... NO, BIOLOGY class.
Poor fellow did not have a bright future. Today I want to talk, not just to our graduates, but all of us on how we can keep our futures bright.
In order to do this we are going to look at a negative example and learn a couple of positive truths on how to keep our future's bright. We are going to learn these truths from a man who ruined, sacrificed and threw away his future by mishandling the present.
SCRIPTURE
Before these two boys where even born it was evident there was going to be trouble. Even in the womb tension was building between these two brothers. Rebekah was having such a great struggle and difficulty in her pregnancy that she went to inquire of the Lord what was wrong, she knew what was taking place in her was not natural.
God tells her that two nations would emerge from her womb. That may not strike us as odd to begin with but these two men were brothers - heirs - grandsons of Abraham to whom it was promised would become the father of a great and mighty nation. It would have seemed more logical to assume that in Rebekah's womb were two leaders of one great nation --- after all they are brothers.
In birth the differences were immediately obvious.
1. Esau - red and hair - it was a sign of his rebel ...
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