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Genesis chapter 35 verses 1 through 3

God said to Jacob arise go up to Bethel and dwell there.

Make an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.

So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, put away the foreign gods that are among you and purify yourselves and change your garments.

Then let us arise and go up to Bethel so that I may make there an altar to the God who answers

me in the day of my distress and has been with me wherever I have gone. These are such great verses in light of what we've read in the previous couple of chapters.

So you remember at the end of Genesis chapter 33, Jacob stopped short of going to Bethel, the house of God, where God had told

him to go, where he had told God he was going to go, he stopped 20 miles short in Shekham

and all kinds of sin and disastrous effects from sin flowed

from that and then God says to him now it's time to get up it's time to go to Bethel and I just read this and I just think

God I I praise you for second chances. Aren't you thankful for second chances from God?

Not just second chances, third, fourth, fifth,

a hundred chances from God.

He is so gracious.

When we have sinned against Him, when we see the effects of sin in our lives,

he comes to us and his mercy, he forgives us, he renews us he restores us and he brings us to himself

that's exactly what's happening here in jinnises chapter 35 and this is this is what happens when we confess our sin. This is first

John one now we confess our sins God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins

and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

And so I just want to encourage us as we pray today to pray in confession in turning from

sin and realizing God loves us. God has given us

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