Faith on the Go: Ep 8: The Cost of Instant Gratification: Esau's Story

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Hello, and welcome back to Diary of a Black Woman podcast with our Faith on

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the Go series. We're at episode seven.

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I'm your host, Connie Morris, and the title of this episode is Trading the Promise

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for a Plate, Esau Instant Gratification and the Loss of Spiritual Inheritance.

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We are still on our Curse of Familiarity series, and I'm, again,

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your host, Connie Morris. So let's get going.

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Today's episode is about giving up an inheritance for a plate of food.

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Let's just talk about it.

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Today's episode in our Curse of Familiarity series is about a man who has something

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sacred and gave it up for something quick.

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We're talking about Esau, Jacob's older twin brother, the firstborn,

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the one who carried the birthright, the one who was in position for a promise,

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but traded it all for a plate of stew.

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The episode is titled Trading the Promise for a Plate. He saw instant gratification

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and the loss of spiritual inheritance.

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So let's break down how familiarity with favor made him forfeit something eternal

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for something temporary.

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This is Faith on the Go, real talk, real growth, wherever you are.

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And I'm your host, Connie Morris.

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So let's go to Genesis chapter 25, verses 29 to 34.

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And it reads, it says, Once Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the open country famished.

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He said, Jacob, quick, let me have some of that red stew.

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I am famished. Jacob replied, first, sell me your birthright.

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Esau said, look, I'm about to die.

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What good is the birthright to me? So he swore an oath to him,

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selling his birthright to Jacob.

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So let's take a pause here.

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When you're hungry, is it almost death? I don't think so.

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Esau gave up his spiritual inheritance because he was hungry.

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Not dying, not desperate, but just unwilling to wait.

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That's what familiarity will do.

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It'll have you treating what's holy like it's optional. Like it's something you can trade off.

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Like you have a spiritual inheritance because you are hungry famished saying I was about to die,

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you are willing to trade it off for a temporary

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satisfaction of food

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think about that think about

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that the Lord tells you to fast and you know every time you try to fast you

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notice what happens everybody start having buffets people want to buy you dinner

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people who you haven't called tomorrow I'm going to take you out to dinner it

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becomes a fight for sure we have to begin to like,

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it's a promise,

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it's a spiritual inheritance God said it, it's holy we have to say can I take

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a rain check you know so let's talk about this curse of familiarity,

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here with Esau and his brother.

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Esau didn't steal, he didn't kill, but he did something just as dangerous.

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He despised the birthright. He's following verse 34.

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He didn't value what he carried. He traded long-term blessings for a short-term relief.

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And the worst part, he didn't even hesitate.

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He just says, give me food or I'm dying.

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What was the value of the inheritance?

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It was valuable not to Esau. It was more valuable to his brother.

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Come on now. So how does that work today? It's everywhere today.

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Choosing the hookup over holiness. Ouch. Wow.

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Choosing a hookup. In today's language, it's called a booty call over holiness.

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Choosing gossip over grace. Choosing ambition over assignment.

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Choosing right now over what's right. We throw away peace, purpose,

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and purity, all because we can't endure a moment of discomfort.

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Esau didn't lose the birthright by force. he gave it away because he was too

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familiar with it to recognize its weight and its worth.

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I just want to pause here. What have you given away that you thought wasn't worth it?

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You know, since we talked about the hookup over holiness, we talk about giving

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away our virginity because you thought everybody else is doing it.

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Everybody else is doing it. And so you give away your virginity.

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So now, remember once you give it away, you can't get it back.

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Just the way Esau gave away his spiritual inheritance, once he gave it away,

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he can't get it back, right?

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Gossip over grace. The Holy Ghost is telling you to be quiet and you still run in your mouth.

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Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but you're still over

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there running your mouth.

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Choose an ambition over assignment.

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You want to look good to the man instead of God.

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God's giving you assignment, but that assignment for now may be like a low-profile assignment.

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Nobody knows you're doing it. Nobody.

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But your ambition wants to be seen like right now.

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It wants to be seen right now you

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know and that just brought me up to this dream I had right

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and so I'm gonna share it I wasn't planning on it but I prayed and Lord want

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me to share it now so I had this dream I was kind of in the in these tall grasses

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and I was kind of working on my podcast I'm in the tall grass in the middle

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of wilderness you know how dreams can be very symbolic.

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So middle wilderness, I had these lynx, these kind of wild cats,

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they were kind of protecting me in this barrier.

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So they were kind of killing these large rats that were kind of causing distraction

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for me. So I thought that was interesting.

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So I'm working really hard on my podcast.

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But in my mind, in the middle of this high grassy space,

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there was a shiny microwave, right and

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you know we always want to be famous fast and

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so I'm like damn why is

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this microwave it didn't fit this scenario because I'm

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in the wilderness but why is this microwave out here you know and so I you know

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so what I did was I kind of put my my my I don't know what I did I pretty much

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put my podcast information trying to fast forward it put it into the microwave

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And when I pushed a button on the microwave, the microwave blew up.

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And then I woke up. And the Lord says, we are not going to be fast-forwarding the assignment.

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And I say, what you're doing now is going to continue at this pace until I decide

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when to fast-forward it.

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And a lot of times we get an assignment from God. And God is telling us that we're doing it.

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But we want to go at, we're going maybe at a pace of 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3.

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And that's how much as we can do.

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And we want to go from 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3 to 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2.

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We want to go super, super, super fast and get over, like, I don't know,

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we want to do a million downloads, 2 million downloads.

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And he's like, whoa. And then you're going to be trying to blow up,

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literally, you know, because you're trying to blow up, blow yourself up.

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You know what I'm saying?

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People say, I'm going to blow up. I'm going to blow up. Blow up is like become famous.

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And what you're going to do when you become famous? Are you ready for that?

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Right? What you're going to do when you become boss? That's choosing ambition over assignment.

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What am I learning in this whole process? A lot. I'm learning a lot.

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When God tells you to do an assignment, he got a bigger plan for you, right?

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So don't be an Esau and sell out your assignment, your purpose for what God

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has called you to do, to go try to be a superstar before your time.

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And if you really look at the superstars now, the ones who jumped ahead of God,

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maybe I ain't saying they were all Christians.

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I'm saying like the ones who thought it was a good thing to do what they did.

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I mean, we're starting to find

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out, you know, P. Diddy is on trial and all the secrets are coming out.

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And what they did to these kids who wanted to be a star, mom sent them ahead to, quote, blow up.

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Come on now. And so the assignment that God has given us is a process that we

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have to, he's taken us through a process.

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It's a purpose. It's designed for long-term growth, long-term growth.

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People don't want long-term growth.

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They want instant satisfaction, instant satisfaction, instant satisfaction.

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And if you go through instant satisfaction, you will not be happy.

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You will get to the top and you'll wonder, okay, I made it. What's next?

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And he said, you made it to the top. That's where you want it to go. Yeah, there. Enjoy.

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You see what I'm saying? You're there. Enjoy.

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So that's what I want to talk about. So we talked about the hookup.

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Keep your virginity. Keep it tight. Keep it tight. Gossip.

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Remember, if you're gossiping about someone, then we're gossiping about you.

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Choose God's purpose over your ambitions.

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Use that ambition into your purpose and your assignment.

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You're going to have some fun, and you're going to have long-term growth.

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And long-term, you're going to be out there for a while. It's going to be a while.

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You'll be 60, 70 years old, still in your purpose and still growing and still

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bringing in the money, right?

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And then let's choose right now over what's right.

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Sometimes we, like I said, the microwave, sometimes we want things too quick, right?

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We need to slow it down, slow it down, you know.

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So we throw away peace, purpose, and purity, all because we can't endure a moment of discomfort.

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Esau didn't lose his birthright by force. He gave it away because he was too

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familiar to recognize the weight, to recognize the purpose, to recognize that

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it was holy, that it came from God.

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Four warning signs you're trading the promise for a plate.

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Number one, you justify a shortcut.

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I am about to die. You over-exaggerate the moment to excuse disobedience.

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You ever had somebody do that?

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You over-exaggerate so you can excuse disobedience. I'm about to die.

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You know what? Okay, you're not about to die. Or people say,

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I can't breathe. You're talking, so you're breathing pretty good.

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Number two, you treat sacred things casual.

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When church, prayer, and purpose becomes just another thing, right?

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When you're treating the holy as common, then there becomes a problem.

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And you'll know that. You treat the holy as common.

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Number three, you prioritize feelings over faith.

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What's good is a birthright if I'm hungry. Letting flesh dictate decisions.

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Is that you?

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Letting flesh dictate decisions. Sometimes that's me.

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You know, you start a fast and then all of a sudden your stomach.

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Next thing you know, you find yourself going through a drive-thru.

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You'd be like, why am I in this drive-thru? I'm on a fast. Come on now. We know.

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You know, instead of pulling your backing up and getting out,

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you commit to the whole process and you start over, right?

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So I'm just keeping it real.

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So you have to pray. Lord, I need help today to finish the fast.

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I need help tomorrow to finish fast.

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Like using your faith so that you do not sell your birthright,

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right, for a hamburger or a fry or whatever, an ice cream cone.

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Those all sound good right now, don't they?

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Number four, you act without prayer or a pause.

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Esai didn't consult God. He just moved on impulse.

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You know, I don't know if you are, I used to be an impulse buyer.

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I do, I did. You know, whatever I feel, I just go get it. But now I'll pause.

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Then I will, like, leave it in the, I'll put it in the, you know,

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you put it in the checkout.

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And then I'll, if I remember it the next day, I'll go get it. If I don't, I don't.

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And sometimes I just, that's pretty much a good thing.

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I'm not at the mall gathering a whole bunch of stuff that I'm not going to use.

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All right, so let's go over the warning signs that you're trading a promise for a plate.

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You justify shortcuts or you exaggerate the moment to excuse disobedience. Is that you?

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You treat sacred things casually or common as common, right? Right?

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Church, prayer, you know, you're not expecting God to move in your prayer group

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or at church. You're just kind of doing your thing.

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And so he's not moving because you're not expecting him. So it's so casual. Right?

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You prioritize your feelings over faith.

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We talked about that, letting your flesh decide when you're mad,

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when you're sad, when you're glad, when you're on a fast, and when you're not

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supposed to be eating something, right?

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Not supposed to be watching TV, whatever your fast is. Your flesh seems to cry

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out louder than your spirit.

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That's when you know you need to be fasting, right?

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Become too familiar with the sacred.

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And then number four, you act without prayer or pause.

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You just move on impulse. Those are powerful. So you saw walked into the house

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with an inheritance, and he walked out full but empty.

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How many of us has made permanent decisions on a temporary hunger,

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on a temporary basis, on a temporary situation?

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That's powerful, right? He walked in with an inheritance. He left without an inheritance.

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Don't let the urgency of your flesh rob you of the destiny of your life.

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Because here's the truth.

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That stew will satisfy you for a moment, but will cost you something eternal.

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This section probably can go a little bit longer.

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How many things have we thought that it was just a flesh, but we also put some

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marks on our eternal little checklist in heaven, right?

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So we want to make sure that we don't treat what's holy as common.

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I must be saying that a lot because that's something that we seem to do.

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He walked in the house with his inheritance, but then he left without his inheritance.

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And so don't let the urgency of your flesh rob your destiny.

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Hebrews 12 verses 16 to 17 warns us not to be godless like Esau,

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who for a single meal sold his inheritance.

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And later, when he wanted it back, it was too late.

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We talk about that. We talk about losing something valuable,

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our virginity, valuable, our spiritual inheritance, valuable.

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And once you lose it, you cannot get it back.

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Pause for a fact here. You cannot get it back.

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And that's that curse of familiarity, because we may, not saying that we do,

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we may begin, we've had the games we play with God series.

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We had eyes wide open, back to back.

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And now we're trying to figure out, like, why is this curse of familiarity here?

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Because we play games and then

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we see it like God shows us and then we're back to playing games again.

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So let's really begin to take God seriously.

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Let's not lose our inheritance.

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Let's keep everything. Let's walk in holiness.

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Let's keep our holiness, right? Let's not sell our soul for some food.

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Let's not sell our holiness for just a moment. of a temporary pleasure, right?

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Let's not do that. Let's walk in divine holiness and righteousness all the way through.

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Let's not be like Esau this year, 2025.

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Let this be a year of holiness. Let's hold our birthright, right, with honor.

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And our birthright is like, when you decided to have Jesus as your Lord and

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Savior, You started a new life with Jesus.

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And so that's your birthright. And so when you start to trade that life with

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worldly things, like we mentioned earlier in the podcast,

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then you're losing that whole point of that new birthright, the spiritual inheritance

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that he's given us for being his son and his daughter.

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And so you always want it. You don't feel nothing happening,

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but something happened.

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There was a shift in the heavenlings when you accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior.

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Your position has shifted, right? Now you have access to not just a natural

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world, you have access to the spiritual world.

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That's why you can hear Jesus, right?

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That's why you can actually say, I have access to heaven now.

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But many people sell out their access to heaven.

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And still, come over with spirit being, we're going to live forever regardless.

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You just get to choose your position, your location.

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We chose heaven.

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And so remember, you want to hold on to your birthright.

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You want to hold on to that, to your Jesus right.

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You want to hold on to that spiritual inheritance and not sell it out to just something, to someone.

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Amen. So let's pray. when it says, Father, don't let me trade my eternal for the immediate.

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Open my eyes to the value of what you have given me.

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Give me strength to wait, to endure, to obey, no matter how hungry my flesh may feel.

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Keep me from impulse.

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Keep me from Esau's decision.

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In Jesus' name, amen.

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This has been Faith on the Go with your host, Connie Morris.

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Don't sell what's sacred.

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Don't sell what's holy. Don't give away what God gave you.

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Stay patient and stay hungry for the right things.

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Subscribe, review, and share. You can connect with me at the Diary of Black

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Women LLC.com and follow Diary of Black Women podcast on X and Instagram.

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Until next time, protect your promise, value your birthright,

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and keep walking with me with faith on the go.

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Thank you. Until next time, bye-bye.