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Last week we left Jacob after he had worked for his uncle Laban for 20 years and received wives and children and many flocks. God told him to go back to the land of his fathers and that He would be with him.

He sent word to his brother Esau that he was on the way, but then heard his servants that Esau was coming out to meet him and 400 men were with him. Fortunately, this part of the story ended well as in turned out to be a touching reunion.

But upon entering the land he was called to, he didn’t go to Bethel where he had the dream of a ladder or stairway extending from earth to heaven. He woke up and said, “God is in this place and I didn’t know it. How awesome is this place, this is the house of God, this is the gate of heaven!”

Instead of going to Bethel, he went to Succoth and even built a house there, though God had called him to live in tents as a sojourner in that land. Later, he pitched his tent near Shechem, a worldly city, and even bought some land there.

And that’s when things took a turn for the worse. Dinah, Jacob’s daughter went into town to make some friends and a young man, also named Shechem, found her and forced himself on her. Shechem’s father came to Jacob asking for Dinah to given in marriage to Shechem.

However, when her brothers heard what happened they convinced the men of the city to get circumcised and then on the third day when they were in pain, Simeon and Levi came to the city and destroyed every man and plundered the town, talking everything of value.

Jacob was greatly troubled at what they had done and he said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble by making me to odious among the people of this land.”

And that’s where we start our study today. The flesh stinks! Wouldn’t it be great if we smelled like the great outdoors? But no, the flesh stinketh. Why? To make it clear that we need help! Here God speaks to Jacob and brings the help he needs; here are lessons we all need.

I. Get to the House of God

 Verse 1, “Get up and go to Bethel, and live there” God said to Jacob. That was the place where God revealed Himself to Jacob and showed him a ladder from earth to heaven; and God blessed him there.

 It was also the place that Jacob, in awe of God’s presence, said was God’s house, and that there he would build an altar.

A. Now stay there

 It’s absolutely vital that we see the words, “and live there!”
 We are the ones that make a mess of our lives, but God makes it so clear what we are to do, get to the house of God and stay there!
Proverbs 18:10, The name of the Lord is a high tower, the righteous run into it and are saved.
 Jacob had told God that he would come back to that place, yet he had been back in the land for 8-10 years. He wasn’t living in the center of God’s will at all; he had pitched his tent toward a worldly place and even bought land. He was getting comfortable in the wrong place!

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