Buy the Future

• Jacob buys the future. He uses what he has today to acquire his future destiny. He uses the little he has today to acquire greatness in the future. He chooses what he can become over what he already is.
• When you sit to negotiate, and you are only concerned about the emergency you are in now; be assured that you will have an Esau situation thrust upon you.
• Esau cried for a reversal but it was not possible. The birthright had already been transacted away.
• Take care not to sign away something and find that you will never never recover it.
• Be very careful what you sign away.
• Esau sells the future. He mortgages his future in order to have something to eat today. He mortgages future greatness in order to have little pleasures today. He chooses what he has now over what he can become. 
• Africa is poor by choice.
• Don't negotiate when you are tired. If you are about to make an important decision under fatigue, ask for time out.
• Tired and hungry, Esau's eyes were fixed on one thing. 
• There are alternatives. If you don't like it, look somewhere else. Don't just get stuck with one thing because that is what was offered to you. If you don't like it, you can move on.
• Don't exaggerate your need. You will not die just because you missed that one deal. The sun will rise again tomorrow.
• Why pin everything on that one deal? Why allow one situation to define your entire life?
• Try not be desperate. Do not let any one situation to be too important that you can't give it up.
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The Cross

The first Adam, originally created in the righteousness of God, by his stripped us naked.
The last Adam, suffering the shame of nakedness, by his obedience clothes us in the righteousness of God.

Esau & Jacob

Things to Note:

1. Prophetic positioning
2. Productive system
3. Purpose and value system
4. Impact of the 3 on their destinies

Prophetic Positioning

• Jacob & Esau are prophetic positioning of people and nations. There are Jacob people and Esau people. There are people who run their lives after the pattern of Esau; and people who run their lives after the pattern of Jacob.
• The Jacob system and the Esau system do not have equal strength - one will be stronger than the other. They do not have equal advantage. You cannot have the same result from the two. Although of a common origin/birth, they have different destinies.
• Do you operate by the strong or by the weak system?
• The old shall bow to the  new. The one operating the old system is disadvantaged. The one operating a new system is advantaged.

Productive System

• Esau is a hunter.
• A hunter has to work very hard. Hunters rely on their physical strength to produce.
• A hunter goes after one animal at a time.
• The hunter kills whatever he gets. He goes in for the kill.

• Jacob is a cultivator. 
• Cultivators use thoughtfulness to produce.
• A cultivator works with several animals at a time.
• A cultivator grows what he gets. He doesn't kill what he has.

• One system works with diminishing returns. Whatever he has got a limited life. God may bless him with abundance but he depletes it.
• You may start with little but grow it to much. Jacob asks for seed and grows it into a forest. Esau gets a forest and turns it into a desert.
• Jacob multiplies what he has.

There are Esau nations and there are Jacob nations. Singapore is just a city state yet it's per capita income is close to all of Africa. A nation can develop from nothing and a nation can destroy everything.

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