1. Lentils, Birthright and Self- Control

5. “… [a] profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright…” Hebrews 12:16

6. Birthright Inheritance of wealth Spiritual Leader Patriarch of Family

7. Love Joy Peace Patience Kindness Goodness Faithfulness Gentleness Self Control

8. Romans 7 We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. 15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good.

9. Romans 7 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. Romans 7:14-18

11. Romans 6 What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? 2 By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?

12. Romans 6 3 Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

13. Romans 6 4 We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.

14. Romans 8 3 For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh,

15. Romans 8 4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.