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Steven Furtick — Beware of the Bowl



I've got this bowl from Gingus Grill, one of my favorite eating establishments; I love that Mongolian house of glory. I fill my bowl when I go because you fill your bowl and then you give it to the cook...

But I found out that when your life is empty you let people just fill your bowl with anything, it's like an empty bowl. It doesn't have to be that way. I was thinking how all Esau really needed in this story, all he really needed and the whole story could have been different, was just one friend.

Just if he would have had one person there with him, the whole story could have been different. Like just one friend to say, Esau, this is ridiculous, and I know you're hungry right now, let's go find your mom, I know she doesn't like you that much, but she certainly won't deny you a meal.

Come on, bro, you don't have to do this. Not like this. Walk away from the bowl. Let me be that friend to you today, okay? There's somebody here, and you're about to trade your birthright for a bowl. You've been trading your birthright for a bowl, and God brought you to church today, I know that he did, so that his Spirit could say to you walk away from the bowl.

Walk away from the bowl. The bowl isn't worth it. I know you're being tempted to compromise, but your integrity is worth more than the bowl; walk away from the bowl. It says that in verse 33, it says, "That after Jacob got him to swear to him an oath selling his birthright to Jacob" — listen how sad this sounds, okay?

Listen to the end of when you take the bowl and when you make the decision based on your internal appetite rather than on the principles and the promises of God, it says that Jacob gave Esau some bread and some lentil stew and he ate and drank, and then he got up and left. That's it. It doesn't even say he enjoyed it. No candlelight. He ate, no silverware; ate, drank and got up and left. And he despised his birthright. That's so sad to me. Ate; I didn't feel like I thought I would feel.

Let me ask a question, just go here with me, this might be a little inappropriate, but I'm not going to answer the question, I'm just going to ask it. After Esau ate the beans, where did they end up? It's just a question. Just the stuff I think about during the week while you're doing a real job.

Where did the — ate, drank; you see how quick he got up? He was in a hurry, that's why he got up. I'm just saying where is this going to end? My third warning to you is the most powerful of all. Beware of the temptation to give up what you want most for what you want now. That's what happened to Esau; that's what happens to us.

We give up what we want most for what we want now. Oh I really do want to stay around and raise my kids, but right now she looks real good. But be very careful that you don't give up what you want most, birthright, for what you want now, a bowl of beans. Birthrights for bowls.

I'm seeing Christians everywhere, not just in our church, in all churches, I'm seeing us sell out our birthright for a bowl. I'm seeing us give up our legacy and our impact and our power and our purity for bowls of beans. Bowls of beans for birthrights is a bad deal y'all. It's a bad deal.

That bowl isn't going to satisfy you. That bowl isn't going to fulfill you. Don't do it. Do it. I know somebody's thinking like this is interesting and all but I don't really have a birthright. So your sermon, while relatively entertaining, is not entirely applicable under my circumstances.

I know you're thinking it. But I'm going to let you know, I don't know if any preachers ever told you this, but you do have a birthright. Yes, every believer has a birthright. A birthright; scripture says that we have an inheritance that has kept for us that will never perish, spoil or fade. It is reserved for us and it is shielded by faith. You have an inheritance, a spiritual inheritance.

Every spiritual blessing in Christ, you have an inheritance. You have an inheritance. Would you notify somebody like you're an attorney and tell them you have an inheritance, just let them know because they might never have heard this before. You have a birthright. You have an inheritance.

As a child of God there are things that God has set aside for you and purposed for you and intended for you and designed for you that have your name on it. Come on, you have an inheritance. You have a birthright. See, the devil can't take away your birthright; he has to get you to give it up. He can't take it; it's not in his power.
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  1. JONI BUTRIM
    5 April 2018 20:21
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    Amen, Steven has touched me as a temple of God that his word has made me see and hear and feel again!
  2. Mark
    Mark
    7 June 2018 19:00
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    Just listened 3 times in a row, can’t get enough.