Esau’s philosophy was made clear when he sold his birthright to Jacob for a plate of stew: immediate satisfaction of his appetite for food with no sense of the importance of his intangible birthright. Hebrews talks about Esau in the context of sexual immorality, which also is characterized by the same attitude—satisfaction of the appetite now, no matter what the consequences, no matter what parameters God may have set down about it. Nothing is sacred for the man who is driven by immediate satisfaction of his desires.
