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Genesis 35

charlie mitchell

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You are listening to the Dope Daily Audio Bible, and I'm your guy, pastor Charlie Mitchell, and today we're looking at Genesis chapter 35. Let's roll. God said to Jacob, get up. Go to Bethel and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau. So Jacob said to his family and all that were with him. Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your clothes. We must get up and go to Bethel. I will build an altar there to the God who answered me in the day of my distress. He has been with me everywhere I've gone. then they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and their earrings, and Jacob hid them under the oak tree near Shechem. When they set out a terror from God, came over the cities around them and they did not pursue Jacob's sons. So Jacob and all who were with him came to Lus. That is Bethel in the land of Canaan. Jacob built an altar there and called it El Bethel because it is there that God had revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother Deborah, the one who had nursed and raised Rebecca, died and was buried under the oak south of Bethel. So Jacob named it Alan Buff. God appeared to Jacob again after he returned from Patam and he blessed him. God said to him, Your name is Jacob. You will no longer be named Jacob, but your name will be Israel. So he named him Israel. God also said to him, I am God almighty. Be fruitful and multiply a nation. Indeed, an assembly of nations will come from you, and kings will descend from you. I will give to you the land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac, and I will give the land to your future descendants. Then God withdrew from him at that place where he had spoken to him. Jacob set up a marker at that place where he had spoken to him, a stone marker. He poured a drink offering on it and poured oil on it. Jacob named the place where God had spoken to him. Bethel. They set out from Bethel when they were still some distance from Frith. Rachel began to give birth and her labor was difficult. during her difficult labor, the midwife said to her, don't be afraid for, you'll Have another son with her last breath for, she was dying. She named him Bename, but his father called him Benjamin. so Rachel died and was buried on the way to Frith. That is Bethlehem. Jacob set up a marker on her grave. It is the marker at Rachel's grave. Still today, Israel set out again and pitched his tent beyond the Tower of Eater. While Israel was living at that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father's concubine. Bil Hu and Israel heard about it. Jacob had 12 sons. Leah's sons were Reuben Jacobs first born Simeon, Levi, Judah, Isker, and Zein. Rachel's sons were Joseph and Benjamin. The sons of Rachel's slave Bil Ha were Dan and Naali, The sons of Leah's slave Zpa were Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Patran. Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mammary in Eth Arbor. That is Hebrew where Abraham and Isaac had stayed. Isaac lived 180 years. He took his last breath and died and was gathered to his people old and full of days. His son's Esau and Jacob buried him. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, you are the God of Jacob. You call us back, back to Bethel, back to the place where you first spoke to us, where altars were built and vows were made. When we wander, when idols creep into our hearts, you still invite us to return. So, Lord, I pray that you would help us to meet you, not just on the mountaintop, but in the morning, in the disappointment, in the moving and transitions helping us to make sense of our journey. Lord, today there are so many that feel like they're lost, that they don't have any sense of purpose or direction. But Lord, I pray that you would help us to lay down our idols and remember that you are faithful. We move forward not because of our own effort, but because of your grace. Lord, help us to trust that you are God Almighty and you are navigating our story. You are our guide. You give us a name and you give us hope. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.

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