Happy Riches answers question by anonymous.
Why would a person be rejected by God? God even hates the death of the wicked, so He simply says, “Repent, so you may have live!” If people do not have eternal life, they do not have life. It is really an oxymoron to say that having a temporary life is being alive. One may as well be a mournful optimist or an optimist who mourns. Nevertheless, the God of happiness grieves for those who reject life.
- Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked, says the Lord God, and not rather that he should turn from his way and live? (Ezekiel 18:23)
As for Esau, the New Testament teaches us that he preferred the ways of the flesh rather than seek the ways of God.
- See to it that no one fail to obtain the grace of God; that no “root of bitterness” spring up and cause trouble, and by it the many become defiled; that no one be immoral or irreligious like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal. For you know that afterward, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no chance to repent, though he sought it with tears. (Hebrews 12:15-17)
Notice how a root of bitterness can cause people to become defiled and separate themselves from God; not to mention immorality and being irreligious. Those who are bitter become unforgiving. Immorality is lusting after the flesh and giving no heed to the value of relationships in accord to the Ten Commandments. The irreligious disregard the value of what belongs to them as an inheritance, which is found in the first commandment with a promise from God (Ephesians 6:1-3).
Esau was rejected only when it came to receiving the inheritance that he forsook and devalued. For the Christian, this means not truly seeking to understand the will of God for one’s own life, but disregarding bearing fruit to the glory of God for personal pursuits. Think about the gospel messages known as “blab and grab”, “name and claim”, and, of course, “deceive and receive”.
The good news is that if we are to find favor with God, we are told that we need to forgive others so that our Heavenly Father can forgive us.
- For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father also will forgive you. (Matthew 6:14)
When Jacob returned to meet up with His brother Esau who had sought to kill him, he was ever so surprised. For Jacob had discovered that his brother had forgiven him. Naturally, Jacob was relieved.
- But Esau said, “I have enough, my brother; keep what you have for yourself.” Jacob said, “No, I pray you, if I have found favor in your sight, then accept my present from my hand; for truly to see your face is like seeing the face of God, with such favor have you received me. Accept, I pray you, my gift that is brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough.” Thus he urged him, and he took it. (Genesis 33:9-11)
- And Isaac breathed his last; and he died and was gathered to his people, old and full of days; and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him. (Genesis 35:29)
If Esau had not forgiven Jacob it is doubtful that they would have reconciled. Those who promote the evil gospel of Calvinism which supplants the true Gospel of Lord Jesus Christ, do not believe Esau and Jacob reconciled. The evil gospel of Calvinism (NB Galatians 1:7-8) which teaches that we have no freewill, and do not have to forgive others, so that God can forgive us, because this is a work of righteousness, leads many away from the securing their salvation through faith in Christ Jesus (2 Timothy 3:15). The evil Calvinists preach that the Creator God hated Esau before he was even born. These people do not understand the truth because if they did, they would know that God is love.
- He who does not love does not know God; for God is love. (1 John 4:8)
- In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the expiation for our sins. (1 John 4:10)
Of course, only the god of this world would insist that God hated Esau before He was born and would always hate the man. For the god of the Calvinists delights in people being punished for eternity, and deceives people to believe they were chosen before they were born. Only the god of the Calvinists is not Lord Jesus Christ. Their god is the god of this world. The god of this world is the liar (John 8:44) who would deceive people into believing that people are predestined before they are born to be punished for eternity in hell. Those who follow the god of this world, even though they falsely claim to be Christians, do what he did. The crypto-Jew John Calvin justified killing his theological opponents using texts from the Bible. Yet the Bible states:
- Any one who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. (1 John 3:15)
The Good News is the Bible teaches that whosoever believes in the name of Lord Jesus Christ has eternal life.
- Every one who believes that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God, and every one who loves the parent loves the child. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome. For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that overcomes the world, our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? (1 John 5:1-5)
If we believe Jesus is the Son of God and that He died to pay the price for the sin of the world, before rising from the dead, we overcome the world. However, we also have an inheritance that is ours, which we claim by faith, after having repented of our dead works (Hebrews 6:1).
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