Jacob's Deception and the Merit of Christ
Genesis 27
Speaker: Weston Brown
Series: Genesis
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This week we return to the story of Jacob and Esau in Genesis 27, where deception, favoritism, and broken family dynamics unfold. At first glance, it looks like a tragedy of human failure—but behind it all stands the sovereign hand of God. This passage confronts our cultural obsession with fairness and merit, reminding us that God’s purposes are not based on human effort, birth order, or morality, but on His sovereign mercy. Drawing from Romans 9, Ephesians 2, and Exodus 34, we see that God’s choice of Jacob was not because he was better than Esau, but because of God’s unchanging character and grace. The good news for us is the same: salvation does not rest on our merit, but on the righteousness of Christ credited to us by faith. Genesis 27 is not a manual for moral living—it’s a portrait of how grace invades our dysfunction and how the blessing comes only through the Son who took our place.
