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! *INTRODUCTION*
· Baseball is a team sport.
– Regardless whether you are a player, a supporting coach, or a head coach.
– The success or failure of the team depends on how well each of them functions individually and corporately.
· “Pete Rose” was a professional baseball player and a coach.
– He was a National League Rookie of the Year, a (2x) Golden Glove Winner, a (3x) Batting Champion, an MVP, and a (17x) All-Star Player (involving 5 different positions).
– He was a World Series MVP, and on (3) World Series Championship Teams.
– He is Baseball’s Career Leader in Hits, Singles, At Bats, and Games Played.
· He functioned well both individually and corporately.
· He was a baseball legion on his way to the Hall of Fame.
– That all changed on March 6, 1989
– The commissioner of baseball launched an investigation that determined Rose was engaging in conduct NOT in the best interest of baseball.
– The accusation was that Rose had been betting on baseball games, which included the team he was actually coaching.
This was serious, because he was in a position to affect the outcome of the game.
– This was extremely embarrassing for Pete Rose and baseball.
It was in both of their best interest to minimize any further damage.
– Therefore, they agreed to make a deal.
The commissioner agreed to give up his rights to prosecute; BUT Rose had to agree to give up his rights to play, to coach, or to be eligible for the Hall of Fame.
· Pete Rose individually, and baseball corporately, suffered consequences because of this dysfunction.
\\ *RAISE THE NEED*
· Do you realize that your family is a team
– Regardless whether you are a single person, a married couple, or a married couple with children.
– The success or failure of your family depends on how well each person functions individually and corporately.
– Husbands, as the spiritual leader of your home, God has placed you in a position to affect the outcome of your family.
– The question is, do you want your outcome, or God’s?
· Do you realize that your church is a team
– Regardless whether you are a layman, a deacon, or a pastor.
– The success or failure of your church depends on how well each person functions individually and corporately.
– Pastors, as the spiritual leader of your church, God has placed you in a position to affect the outcome of your church.
– The question is, do you want your outcome, or God’s?
\\ *PRAY: *
· Father, speak to us through Your Word today.
Help us to hear, understand, and apply Your truth to our lives.
In Jesus’ name, I pray.
Amen!
\\ *TEXT: *
· Long before Pete Rose and even baseball, God gave us an example of how Isaac’s dysfunctional family suffered series consequences.
· Our main text is Genesis, chapter 27, verses 1-41
· BUT first, let me share with you a few glimpses of what leads up to this story
\\ *CONTEXT*
· Let us start by looking at how God built the faith of Abraham and Sarah, Isaac’s parents.
In Gen 17:4, 16-18, 21; 18:10, 12-15
– We see God telling Abraham and Sarah that at THE set time (him being 100, and her being 90), they would have a son, and call him Isaac “meaning Laughter.”
– What they do, they both laughed.
– Abraham said, “That is ok God, I have Ishmael.”
– Sarah said, “I did not laugh.”
In Gen 21:1-3
– We see God removing Sarah’s barrenness, and at THE set time, she bore a son, and called him Isaac.
– What did God do?
Exactly what He said He would.
– It is clear that God got the last laugh.
· God builds our faith, but He also tests it.
In Gen 22:1-3, 7-13
– We see Abraham (in faith) lay Isaac on an altar, pulling out a knife to slay his son, and at THE set time . . . the Lord stopped Abraham and provided a ram to be the sacrifice instead.
Isaac’s life was spared!
In Gen 24:2-4
– We see Abraham and his servant seeking God’s will as they find the forty-year-old Isaac a beautiful wife named Rebekah.
· Next, we see Isaac and Rebekah start to follow their parents’ example.
In Gen 25
– Rebekah is barren, so what does Isaac do?
He pleads to God FOR his wife.
God answers and she conceives.
– Rebekah senses something wrong because it feels like there was turmoil going on inside her.
What does she do?
She sought God’s help.
– God tells Rebekah, at THE set time, she will have twins; one is stronger than the other is, and the older shall serve the younger.
– Keep in mind this was totally against tradition and customs, but so was having a baby at 90.
– At THE set time, she had twins.
Just like God had said.
– The first came out red, and covered in hair and they called him Esau “meaning Hairy”
– The second came out holding on to the heel of the first, and they called him Jacob “meaning Supplanter or Deceitful”
– In verse 28, we begin to see dysfunction in the family when the parents start playing favorites
– There is more dysfunction when Jacob persuades Esau to make a deal
a. Esau sounded like Pete Rose – I want a meal vs I want a deal
b. Jacob sounded like the commissioner – Give up your birthrights vs give up your baseball rights
– The baseball right was very important because it entitled Rose to a lot of endorsements, and a Hall of Famer has even more benefits.
It also can lead to executive baseball positions or lucrative broadcasting jobs.
– The deal however, was legal and binding.
– The birthright was very important because it entitled the firstborn son to a double portion of inheritance as well as leadership rights.
– Once given, it was legal and binding.
· Like current day beneficiary
– If you have three children, and set it up with 50, 25, 25.
\\ *STRUCTURE*
· In chapter 27, we see a tragic story about Isaac’s dysfunctional family who knew God’s will but tampered with it in many ways.
– Isaac, tried to bypass it
– Rebekah, tried to rush it
– Jacob, tried to wrongly secure it
– Esau, tried to divert it
· Let us learn from this biblical account.
\\ *MAIN IDEA*
· Dysfunction is a sin that carries serious consequences
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**Isaac dysfunctions when he tries to bypass God’s will (vv.
1-4).*
\\ *EXPLANATION*
*Isaac and Esau*
· He acted in secret, v. 1
– Calling out only to Esau, shows he knew it was wrong
· He was impatient, v. 2
– He was 137, and the boys were 77, but he lived another 40 years
· He encouraged irresponsibility in Esau
– Obsession with hunting
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