2. Genesis Teaches Tension: Idolater Genesis 34:30-35:15

3. Genesis 34:30 Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me by making me stink to the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites. My numbers are few, and if they gather themselves against me and attack me, I shall be destroyed, both I and my household.”

4. PRESERVATION

5. PRESERVATION Matthew 16:25 For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. 26a For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul?

6. PRESERVATION Philippians 1:21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. … 27a Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ

7. PRESERVATION

8. PROMINENCE

9. PROMINENCE Genesis 35:2 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. … 4 So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods that they had, and the rings that were in their ears. Jacob hid them under the terebinth tree that was near Shechem.

10. PROMINENCE Galatians 1:10 For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ.

11. PROMINENCE

12. PROMISES

13. PROMISES “If you seek happiness more than you seek Christ, you will have neither; but if you seek to serve Christ more than serve your happiness, you will have both.” Tim Keller

14. PROMISES