BACK TO BETHEL (11 OF 14)
Scripture: Genesis 35:1-4, Genesis 35:9-15
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Back to Bethel (11 of 14)
Series: God Walks with Us
Stephen Whitney
Genesis 35:1-4, 9-15
Louise Tarkington - ''I wish there were some wonderful place called the Land of Beginning Again, where all our mistakes and all our heartaches and all of our poor selfish grief could be dropped like a shabby old coat at the door and never put on again.''
The truth is that we have to live with our past - we cannot just forget it. Sometimes our past is what God uses to get us to change. God can give us a new beginning if we will put away old sins and habits that continue to plague us.
Jacob had settled in the Promised Land near the city of Shechem living with the people on land he had bought from them (33:19). The longer he lived there the more he drifted away from God.
David Roper - ''We, like Jacob, drift away from God gradually and unconsciously. The tide of culture carries us away from godly influences.'' Things in the culture such as:
- Current trend
- Latest fashion
- Popular music
- Ungodly friends
COMMAND - Obeyed :1-4 Command :1 Bethel - Heb. house of God. It was the place God had first got Jacob's attention with a staircase that went from earth to heaven with angels ascending and descending (28:12-17).
There over 20 years earlier, he had made a comment that if God would watch over him and bring him safely back again, he would give God a tenth of everything that he had (28:20-22).
He had made those vows, but for the past several years he had lived in Shechem which was 20 miles north of Bethel. God directed him to go to Bethel to fulfill the vows he had made. Application How easy it is to forget the promises we have made to God. We are busy, life moves on, we change or we just forget.
God does not forget and holds us to the promise we have made. Ecclesiastes 5:4-5 When you make a vow to God, do not delay in paying it, for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay what you vow. It is better that you should not vow than that you should ...
Series: God Walks with Us
Stephen Whitney
Genesis 35:1-4, 9-15
Louise Tarkington - ''I wish there were some wonderful place called the Land of Beginning Again, where all our mistakes and all our heartaches and all of our poor selfish grief could be dropped like a shabby old coat at the door and never put on again.''
The truth is that we have to live with our past - we cannot just forget it. Sometimes our past is what God uses to get us to change. God can give us a new beginning if we will put away old sins and habits that continue to plague us.
Jacob had settled in the Promised Land near the city of Shechem living with the people on land he had bought from them (33:19). The longer he lived there the more he drifted away from God.
David Roper - ''We, like Jacob, drift away from God gradually and unconsciously. The tide of culture carries us away from godly influences.'' Things in the culture such as:
- Current trend
- Latest fashion
- Popular music
- Ungodly friends
COMMAND - Obeyed :1-4 Command :1 Bethel - Heb. house of God. It was the place God had first got Jacob's attention with a staircase that went from earth to heaven with angels ascending and descending (28:12-17).
There over 20 years earlier, he had made a comment that if God would watch over him and bring him safely back again, he would give God a tenth of everything that he had (28:20-22).
He had made those vows, but for the past several years he had lived in Shechem which was 20 miles north of Bethel. God directed him to go to Bethel to fulfill the vows he had made. Application How easy it is to forget the promises we have made to God. We are busy, life moves on, we change or we just forget.
God does not forget and holds us to the promise we have made. Ecclesiastes 5:4-5 When you make a vow to God, do not delay in paying it, for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay what you vow. It is better that you should not vow than that you should ...
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