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Genesis chapter 35, verses 10 through 12.

And God said to him, your name is Jacob.

No longer shall your name be called Jacob,

but Israel shall be your name.

So he called his name Israel. And God said to him, I am God Almighty.

Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations shall come from you and kings shall come from

your own body. The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give to you,

and I will give the land to your offspring after you. These are amazing verses when you think about

who God is speaking to. Jacob, the deceiver, Jacob, the sinner at the core, just like all of us.

But we have seen, as we read through the book of Genesis, Jacob's sin on so many different

levels. As we read through the book of Genesis, we see Jacob's sin over and over and over again,

yet here is the holy God of the universe who hates sin, who judges sinners, pouring out his

blessing on Jacob, renaming him, transforming him, and promising him a company of nations that

will come from his line, a land that just as he promised to Abraham, he's now promising to Jacob,

just as he promised to Isaac, he's now promising to Jacob. It is startling when we sit

back and think about the grace of God, not just toward Jacob, but in each one of our lives.

Like, I was thinking just this week when I was preaching somewhere and I'm about to preach,

and it just hit me in a fresh way.

I should be in hell right now.

But here I am.

I was singing in worship, worshiping God for the salvation I know, surrounded by brothers and sisters in this particular

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