{"podcast":{"title":"Remsen Bible Fellowship Sermons","slug":"remsen-bible-fellowship-sermons-6744465","podcast_index_feed_id":6744465,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/1467888/s/53627.rss","website_url":"https://remsenbible.substack.com/s/remsen-bible-fellowship-sermons","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/1467888/s/53627/9bb70b7976bcbd3e5d15a3e7d26a3657.jpg","author":"Remsen Bible","episode_count":177,"summary":"Sermons from Remsen Bible Fellowship in Remsen, Iowa","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/remsen-bible-fellowship-sermons-6744465"},"episode":{"title":"God's Undeserved Favor","slug":"god-s-undeserved-favor","published_at":"2026-02-02T11:34:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/remsen-bible-fellowship-sermons-6744465/god-s-undeserved-favor","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/remsen-bible-fellowship-sermons-6744465","url":"https://remsenbible.substack.com/p/gods-undeserved-favor","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/172898516/946005e39be49f8c6d04a2eb61cc9e02.mp3","summary":"Transcript generated by AI. The Sermon Was Not. Please comment if you notice any errors. Do the ends justify the means? Now, if I phrase the question that way, you're all pre-prime to say, no, of course not, unless you're a pragmatist, in which case you say, yeah, maybe. So I'll rephrase the question a little bit. If the end of something is God's blessing, does that endorse everything that happened beforehand? If God pours out his blessing, does everything that came before that blessing represent things that are endorsed by God? We're about to look at a familiar story here in the 27th chapter of Genesis. And that question is a big question that is raised by this passage. Does God endorse the means by which Jacob acquires blessing from his father? Now, before we get going, I'm going to do something I don't normally do. Normally, I would read the passage, and then if I had comments on how it was structured, I would spell them out there. But because this is a familiar story for many of us, I'm going to talk about the structure ahead of time, just so you can kind of see what's happening here, and it's not just a familiar story washing past your ears and being ignored. This chapter, actually starting at the end of chapter 26, we're going to look at chapter 26, beginning in verse 34, and read all the way through the end of chapter 27. And this story is bracketed by two references to Hittite women. And that technique of bracketing the story is a common one in all storytelling, but especially ancient storytelling where they were mostly oral cultures not like he's writing down a final product here but this story has been passed along by means of speech for years and years and years and years and inside of those brackets i think what we actually have is also a chiasm which is if…","meta_description":"Transcript generated by AI. The Sermon Was Not. Please comment if you notice any errors. Do the ends justify the means? Now, if I phrase the question that…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2110,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/remsen-bible-fellowship-sermons-6744465/episodes/god-s-undeserved-favor/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/remsen-bible-fellowship-sermons-6744465/god-s-undeserved-favor.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}