Salvation’s Rich and Certain Coming

What counts is not what man says, unless it is our God speaking through him. And what Jacob had said to his father, namely, that he was Esau and that he was seeking the blessing which his father had promised him, was a lie which called for God's holy wrath upon him. But because Isaac, the father of Jacob and Esau, in his blindness declared God's blessing upon Jacob - even though he planned to bestow it upon Esau, the first of the twins born unto him- we with Jacob must hold on to the truth...