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Genesis chapter 31, verse 19.

Laban had gone to shear his sheep,

and Rachel stole her father's household gods.

This is a really humbling verse when you think about it and you think about its effects long after this moment.

So Jacob and Rachel and their family are fleeing from Laban at this point who has, in a sense, held them captive.

And as they are fleeing, and there's all kinds of deception going on, so much we could talk about here.

But this verse, while Laban is out shearing his sheep tells us that Rachel stole her father's household gods.

So the picture is here in this family,

there's a father who is set up gods,

little G gods in the house, to be worshipped, prayed to, sought,

leaned upon, trusted in. And the effect of those household gods doesn't extend just to the

father, but to his daughter, who adopts those household gods

to the point of stealing them and taking them with her in a way that they will show up again

in Jacob's tent as he is traveling.

And God will say, what are you doing with these gods in your presence?

Why are you worshipping these household gods?

And it's this picture just from one generation to the next, from one household to the next,

idolatry being passed down.

And so I just want to encourage you as we pray, according to Genesis chapter 31, verse 19,

to consider one, what are the idols in your house?

What are the idols in your life? What are the idols in your life?

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