Held in Contempt!
Esau "despised" his birthright! The word means to disdain or hold in contempt. He held in contempt what his fathers held dear. He was willing to trade it away for mere morsels to feed his own desires.
As a young preacher, I find many of my generation holding in contempt things very precious and valuable to our fathers of the faith—things that some gave their lives for. I am speaking of the "faith once delivered to the saints,"(Jude 1:3) for which these great men contended. The great teachings (doctrines) of the faith are now obstacles to our ministry philosophy.
We do what is expedient in the moment, and trade away things of great value! Esau thought of the birthright as a useless tradition of the past. He despised the thought of walking in the path of his fathers. So, he traded it away for something as worthless as a bowl of soup. God spare us from making such a profane decision as did Esau.
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