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<h2>220. JACOB</h2>
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<h3><a id="fem220-si10" onclick="return mV('Gen',25,27);">GENESIS 25:27</a></h3>
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<p>In thinking of Jacob as a supplanter, we have not given him credit for many good things about him.</p>
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<p>1. <b>The plain man.</b> "Jacob was a plain man." The margin of the Revised Version gives it that he was "quiet, or harmless, Hebrew perfect." The Hebrew word is generally rendered elsewhere "perfect." It is thus given in speaking of the "perfect man" in <a id="fem220-si2" onclick="return mV('Psa',37,37);">Psa 37:37</a>; <a id="fem220-si3" onclick="return mV('Psa',64,4);">Psa 64:4</a>. It is not always the most skilful or cunning that have the most character about them. Very often the quiet, studious boy who plods away at his lessons, and is called a "muff," has the most character in him. A big drum makes plenty of noise when it is beaten, but it is empty for all that. So with many who make a loud noise as to acquirements. The fishermen that Christ chose to be His disciples were obscure and unlearned men, but filled with the Spirit of God, they were the men that God used to "turn the world upside down."</p>
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<p>2. <b>The separate pilgrim.</b> "Dwelling in tents." The dwelling in tents was always the sign of a separated life (<a id="fem220-si4" onclick="return mV('Hbr',11,9);">Hbr 11:9</a>). The patriarchs confessed that they had no city here, but that they looked for one. We show we are pilgrims and strangers on the earth, as we live a life separate from evil and walk in fellowship with God (<a id="fem220-si5" onclick="return mV('1Pe',2,11,12);">1Pe 2:11-12</a>).</p>
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<p>3. <b>The wily Jacob.</b> We certainly cannot justify the means by which Jacob obtained the birthright. To say the least, it was unkind and mean for Jacob to take advantage of his brother's hunger, even though he knew the Lord had said, "The elder shall serve the younger." Jacob's scheming is the blot upon his life, the spot in the sun of his character, and he had to reap what he sowed. He deceived Isaac, and Laban deceived him. It never pays to seek to hurry the hand of God. Men say, "the end justifies the means." That is a principle God never recognises. The end was the same when Moses disobeyed God in smiting the rock, but God did not justify the means, for he shut Moses out of the land for his disobedience.</p>
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