5:16 Podcast
A media production of Community Bible Church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. A church dedicated as a Community of Christ to reach the Community for Christ. This podcast aims to provide biblically based sermons, commentary, topical studies, interviews, and conversations on a 5:16 foundation with a 3:16 mission.
5:16 Podcast
Rededication According to God | Genesis 35
This week we will be exploring Genesis 35 together, Rededication According to God.
Jacob's life is filled with ups and downs. One victory in his life seems to be followed immediately by a failure. Right after he wrestles with God and reconciles with his brother, Esau, he finds himself in a place of complacency, hanging out in Shechem longer than he should and exposing his family to great danger.
God finally has to wake Jacob up and tell him to get out of Shechem and go to Bethel.
In modern words, God would be telling him, "Get out of your complacent, apathethic, self-pitying, half-hearted commitment to Me and do what I have called you to do!"
We all need this reminder.
Complacency is easy. Half-hearted commitment comes naturally. Mindless, passionless apathy seems to always invite us into its comfortable doldrums.
But God calls us to more.
He calls us to wake up! He calls us to set aside our idols! He calls us to remember who we are! He calls us to remember Who He is!
God calls us to live for Him no matter what happens around us.
The world likes to lull us to sleep and conform us to its image.
May we have the courage and strength to get out of Shechem and go to Bethel, the house of God!
This Sunday we will also celebrate communion together as fellow partakers of God's grace and members of His body!