The Sins of Jacob and Esau

This interaction between these two brothers who were fraternal twins, has much to teach us about sin, and hopefully we will take it to heart, and pray about ourselves and our own way of thinking, so that God will be pleased to hear our prayers, and give us the grace and ability to lovingly interact with our closest relatives and with each other. All of us are sinners, but sometimes we do not perceive that there are consequences to our sins that will affect our eternal destiny if we are careless sinners like Esau. And sometimes even as Christians we can sin in such a way that it causes others to stumble and fall as well. And so God must discipline us for that. He will not look the other direction when his own Elect children sin. So the question that we will ask this morning is this: What kind of men were Esau and Jacob and how can we learn from their sinful mistakes? I think that we can learn from these men the following important lessons.