Esau the Reprobate: A Cautionary Tale – Hebrews 12:16-17

An instance of this evil is given us in Esau: “A profane person, as Esau.” ‘That is,’ say some, ‘he was the type of a profane person; it doth not appear that he was such himself.’ But the apostle calls him expressly, a “profane person,” and declares how he evidenced himself so to be, or wherein his profaneness did consist. And the truth is, there are very few in the Scripture concerning whom more evidences are given of their being reprobates. And this should warn all men not to trust unto the outward privileges of the church. He was the first-born of Isaac, circumcised according to the law of that ordinance, and partaker in all the worship of God in that holy family; yet an outcast from the covenant of grace and the promise thereof. – John Owen