<TITLE>11. Par -</TITLE>L-482-58 Now, looky here, let me show you examples to be sure now. We want to keep it in the Scriptures while we're on these spirits. Esau was a far better man in every way you wanted to take it than Jacob was. Now, Esau (God forgive me for this remark.), he was just a little sneaker. That's all. Now, if you notice him, what was he? A little tattletale and a big liar. Now, if--if I'm saying wrong, God forgive me, but he did lie. And a cheat--there never was one like him hardly. When he took them speckled sticks even and put them in the water to cause those pregnated cattle and sheep over there to bring forth speckled sheep and speckled cattle, to get them on his own--own hands... What did he do? He put Esau's coat on him and a piece of sheepskin and everything else, and went up there and impersonated Esau before his blind father which was a prophet. That right? Why, he was a little shyster; he really was. And Esau was a...
I oughtn't--maybe I oughtn't to have said it that way. See? I don't mean it that way. I--I'll take that back. He--he was a--he was a... I don't know; you know what he was. See? You just think in your mind; I'll... He was a--he was a great man of God, and I don't want to say nothing bad about him (See?), but I'm just trying to point out a little--little things that he did. Just look how sneaking he was. Liar? Sure, he was just--he was terrible. But what was he trying to do?

L-482-59 Look at Esau. Esau was a good man, moral, a good church member today. What did he do? He was a hunter. He went out... 'Course then, that's how they made their living. He'd taken care of the herds for his father. His daddy was blind. A prophet, a prophet of the Lord was blind and deceived by his own son, a prophet, Isaac; through him come Christ. You can call him prophet; Bible said he was. And was blind? Why didn't he heal himself? And why didn't he know that that was Esau--that that was Jacob instead of Esau? See? God don't tell his prophets everything. He just tells them what he wants them to know. See?
God was working out a plan then, and he had to work in it. God will... If you'll submit yourself to God, God will make you work right into His plan.

L-483-61 Now, notice what he did, what this fellow did. Esau went out and tried to take care of his poor, old, blind daddy; and Jacob, seemingly, he didn't care what happened to him. But there's one thing Jacob wanted, and that was the birthright. Regardless of what come, how he had to get it, what level he had to come on, that birthright was all he cared for. And Esau, the Bible said, despised his birthright; the Bible said that. And the Bible said, "Except there come some vain fornicator among you, like that evil person Esau who despised his birthright and sold it for a mess of pottage..."
Now, what is a birthright? It's the right. That's what I'm trying to tell you now. This Holy Spirit is your Birthright; that's your Birthright. That's your God given right. Now, people would say today, "I will go to church. I'm just as good as the next fellow. But me, act like one of them holy rollers? Not me." Well, you Esau. See? It's just the same thing, despising the birthright. Why, he swapped it for a mess of pottage. And you sell it... Now, I don't say you, but the world sells it for a lot less than that.


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