Genesis 35
Repentance and Renewal

Delayed obedience is _______________________

Genesis 34 – No mention of God

Jacob _____________

V. 1 “God said…”- tragic events can improve our ability to hear from God

Donald Barnhouse, “The only cure for worldliness is to separate from it.”

V.2 “Get rid of the foreign gods”-

“repent”- metanoeo- to have a change of mind for the moral better

“change your clothes”- Sign of a new ___________

V.3-4 Repentance may require ____________________

True repentance will inevitably lead to ______________

V.5 God restrains the nations

V.6-7 Jacob and his household make it to Bethel.

V.8 Deborah- Rebekah’s nurse

“Allon Bacuth”- oak of weeping

V.9-10 God encourages

“your name will be Israel”- (Ch.32)

We are prone to forget who we are in ______________

2 Cor 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!

V.11-13
The first thing in going strong for God is _________________ who God is

1.“God Almighty”- El Shaddai

2.“be fruitful and increase in number”-

3.”a nation will come from you”-

4.”a community of nations”-



Gal 3:7 Understand, then, that those who believe are children of Abraham. 8 The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham: "All nations will be blessed through you."

All nations in heaven

Rev 7:9 After this I looked and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and in front of the Lamb.

5.”kings will come from your body”

· Saul-
· David-

From David came the ________________________

V.14-15 Jacob responds with _________________.
V.16-17 Rachel gives birth with great difficulty

Gen 3:16 "I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children.

V.18 Ben-oni- Son of my sorrow

Benjamin- Son of my right hand

V.19-20 Rachel dies

V.21-22 Reuben sleeps with Bilhah-

Reuben’s attempt to __________________ the situation is going to backfire

· See 49:3

V.23-26 Twelve tribes of Israel

God doesn’t use _____________________

V.27-29 Isaac dies

No more excuses. Repent