Thorns in Your Sides Part 5
live off of the work of others.
Copied from the sermon notes of Pastor Don Elmore
August 30, 2015
Scripture Reading: Genesis 27:34-38, 41
A People Without a Country
I remember reading in high school the short story about “A Man Without A Country.” I don’t remember all the details, as it has been over 60 years ago since I read it, but the man was convicted of some crime in the country that he immigrated to, and the country deposited him. The crime was of such a nature that the country that he left wouldn’t take him back either. So he just floated on a boat in the international waters for the rest of his life.
There is also a people that do not have a country either. They are destined to live in any country that will have them for they are able to parasitically make a good living off of them until they kill the host country. It has happened over and over in history and yet very few people are aware of it.
The Bible tells of these people. This portion of Scripture--is it just a story of what happened to one of the many families in the Bible, or is it told to give us a clue as to what is happening in the world today? Let’s take a short quiz on the family of Isaac and Rebekah: