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Introduction
Completion: Jacob back home, Esau to Laben to Esau
Correction: Household needed to be cleansed, Reuban
Have you ever completed a difficult time in your life in which you came out for the better?
How did that make you feel?
What corrections had to be made to get you to that point?
How did it feel to celebrate?
Jacob hears the command of God (35:1)
Arise: get up, stand up (cf.
Gen 13:17)
Go up to Bethel: place where Jacob had his first encounter with God and saw the vision of the ladder.
(cf.
Gen 28)
Dwell there: to stay, inhabit (cf.
Ps 37:29)
Make an altar: act of worship, stone altar (cf.
Abram in , Isaac in )
God calls Jacob:
To follow
Fellowship
To worship
God is still calling His people to follow and worship.
In the recent days, how has God called you to follow?
Jacob follows the command of God (35:2-4,6)
Purify yourselves: Jacob started by cleansing his household.
He literally called for a purge of his camp.
Let us arise and go: no hesitation, let’s go!
So I may make an altar: establish worship of the true God, not your false gods.
So they gave to Jacob: household obeyed Jacob’s command.
What are some of the idols we need to rid ourselves of?
Jacob receives the blessings of God (35:5,9-12)
God almighty: El Shaddai, assurance
A terror from God: supernatural protection, Dinah
Be fruitful and multiply: points to God’s supply and ability to supply, get it done for I have you covered
Israel shall be your name: proof of the promise, seal, new beginning
A nation shall come from you: Abrahamic
Kings shall come from you: Davidic, new covenant, shadow of Christ
How do God’s blessings make you feel?
Jacob worships God (35:7,14-15)
Built an altar
Set up a pillar of stone
Poured out a drink offering: libation, pouring of wine or water as a ritualistic offering, sacrifice
Poured oil on it: costly offering, Mary’s alabaster box
Name the place Bethel (house of God): established as a place of worship
Does worship cost us
Conclusion
We need to hear God
We need to follow God
We should expect God’s blessings
We need to worship God
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and wsin which clings so closely, and xlet us run ywith endurance the race that is zset before us,
2 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, awho for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising bthe shame, and cis seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
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