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Genesis chapter 35, verse 2.

Put away the foreign gods that are among you and purify yourselves and change your garments.

Now, in order to understand the significance of this verse, you have to understand the story that's led up to it this is

Jacob coming back home and in chapter 33 he stops short of where God had told him to go

he stops short of Bethel in a place called Shechem so it's a picture of spiritual compromise in Jacob's life,

stopping short of doing what God had told him to do. And there in Sheckham, it's a disaster.

We see the effects of sin and compromise. And once you get to Genesis chapter 35, God comes to Jacob, after Jacob and his

family have experienced massive consequences to sin, and he says, I'm calling you to go to Bethel.

And so Jacob turns to his family, and he says, put away the foreign gods that are among you.

Along the way, he picked up foreign gods that they were worshipping.

He says, purify yourselves, change your garments.

And basically the picture is God gives Jacob a second chance.

I say second chance.

This is like, I don't know how many chances

God has given Jacob to this point, but many more than two. But that's the beauty of God's grace,

is that he gives second, third, fourth, fifth, hundredth chances to us. We continually are prone to sin, to stop short of what God is

calling us to do. We're continually prone to compromise in our relationships with God and our

obedience to God. And God comes to us and says, no, go all the way, do all that I'm

calling you to do. And each of us in those moments needs to have a Genesis 352 kind of reaction

that says, by God's grace, yes. I mean, leave behind these areas where I'm compromising. And by the grace of God,

experience his purity and move forward in obedience to him. So I would just ask you the question,

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