brother eli can you open us with a word of prayer
thank you that we have a chance to hear it and uh to have it preached to us lord
help us to sing uh to your honor and your glory lord in jesus name amen
amen favorites tonight pick your favorites
does she have one zoe or do you guys have one
amazing grace okay does anyone know the page of amazing
one one two thirty three two forty four
two forty four amazing grace
so
amazing grace on the first amazing grace how sweet the sound
that saved a wretch like me
i once was lost but now and them was blind but now
i see evan three zero two
i don't know that one sorry bro you got another one
work on another one uh kyle
four eleven hold the fort
page four eleven hold the fort on the first
oh my comrades see the signal waving in the sky
reinforcements now appearing victory is nigh
hold the fort for i am coming jesus signal still
wave the answer back to heaven by thy grace we will
steve
19 in the blue
i need a blue hymnal
so
page 19 in the blue jesus is the joy of living
jesus is the joy of living on the verse i have found a wondrous savior
jesus christ the souls delight every blessing of his favor
fills my heart with hope so bright jesus is the joy of living
he's the king of life to me unto him my all i'm giving
is forever more to be i will do what he commands me
anywhere he leads i'll go jesus is the joy of living
he's the dearest friend i know
lots of favors tonight uh rachel in the green all right back to the
green page 65
just over in the glory land
page 65 on the first i've a home prepared where the saints abide
just over in the glory land and i long to be by my savior's side
just over in the glory land just over in the glory
land i'll join the happy angel band just over in the
glory land just over in the glory
land there with the mighty host i'll stand
just over in the glory land right here
page 40 again every i love it you guys will have the song memorized
no disappointment in heaven
page 40 on the first it's no disappointment in heaven
no weariness sorrow or pain no hearts that are bleeding and broken
no song with a minor refrain the clouds of the earthly horizon
will never appear in the sky for all will be sunshine and gladness
with never a sob nor a sigh i'm bound for that beautiful city
my lord has prepared for his own where all the redeemed of all ages
sing glory around the white throne sometimes i grow homesick for heaven
and the glories i there shall be what a joy that will be when my savior
i see in that beautiful city of gold
leilani 302 is that the is that sweet will of god
i'm sorry i don't know that one working on another one evan
202
page 202
my redeemer page 202 on the first i will sing of my redeemer
and his wondrous love to me on the cruel cross he suffered
from the curse to set me free sing oh sing
of my redeemer with his blood he purchased me
on the cross he sealed my pardon paid the debt
made me free
holly 136
master the tempest is raging age 136 sing it out out loud on the first
master the tempest is raging the billows are tossing high
the sky is or shadow with blackness no shelter or help is nigh
carest thou not that we perish how canst thou lie asleep
when each moment so madly is threading a grave in the angry deep
the winds and the waves shall obey my will peace
be still whether the wrath of the storm to see
or demons or men or whatever it be no water can swallow the ship where lies
the master of ocean and earth skies
they shall sweetly obey my will peace be still
peace be still they shall sweetly obey my will
peace peace be still liberty
188 on the third
the love of god page 188
on the third could we with think the ocean
fell and were the skies appartment made where every stock
on earth a quill and every man ascribed by trade
to write the love of god above would drain the ocean
dry nor could the scroll contain the whole though stretched from sky
to sky oh love of god how rich and pure how
measureless and strong and shall forevermore endure
the saints in angels song
amy 22
are you washed in the blood page 22
on the first have you been to jesus for the cleansing
power are you washed in the blood of the lamb
are you fully trusting in his grace this hour
are you washed in the blood of the lamb are you washed in the blood
in the soul cleansing blood of the lamb
are your garments spotless are they white as snow
are you washed in the blood of the lamb
alana
52 in the blue
found
come now found
page 52 in your blue handles come now found
on the first come now found of every blessing
tune my heart to sing thy grace streams of mercy never ceasing
call for songs of loudest praise teach me some melodious sonnet
sung by flaming tongues above praise the mount i'm fixed upon it
mount of thy redeeming love last one eli
one in the blue page one on the blue in the blue all right
join serving jesus
joy in serving jesus on the first there is joy in serving jesus
as i journey on my way joy that fills the heart with
praises every hour and every day
there is joy joy joy in serving jesus joy that
throbs within my heart every moment every hour
as i draw upon his power there is joy joy
joy that never shall depart
good singing at this time we'll have our announcements
good afternoon welcome back to your foundation
let's take our bulletins and go through some announcement
announcements announcements okay that's where we're at
that's what jet lag does for you all right we do have some bulletins so
raise your hand if you want one brother sean or brother ramona bring you
one on our front cover of the announcements we have uh the verse of
the week it says the wicked flee when no man pursueth
but the righteous are bold as a lion proverbs 28 verse 1 great scripture and
our service times are 10 30 a.m sunday morning
sunday evening 3 30 p.m and we're going to be in genesis 50 tonight we're going
to finish genesis uh and then maybe i'll do some standalone
sermons and i'll think about another book to do later on
but uh so many times or listen blow did we have
any salvations for the so many times how many we have one all right well
praise god for the one soul that got saved and uh
let's see you can look down you see the praise report so that's six so far
for the month of june six and i wanted to kind of give you an
update about the new jersey uh soul winning that we did i said we
had 15 at halftime well i ended up with 40 salvations for the day
and 82 soul winners so and eight people were baptized so this goes to show we
can pretty much go anywhere in this country
and people are going to show up to listen to preaching so the
like i said the the event was totally filled like almost every seat there was
filled i only preached one family out the door
so that was at the beginning so i think we
had we had 130 and then by the time my summer
was done we had 127 so i don't know what they're so mad about
anyway june 14th is the homeschool field trip to oaks park please let miss rachel
know if you're going i think there's a few slots left and
should be a lot of fun so they're meeting there at noon at oaks amusement
park that is in portland um let's see june
15th is the funeral service for miss mary
cornchook and that's going to be at futon rose and
hoyt funeral home 2308 pacific avenue
forest grove oregon 97116 or just you can look in the bulletin or i mean
the whatsapp group and my wife i think put the
to put the pictures of the bulletin in there anyway the burial
is going to be at union point cemetery in banks that's at 5 p.m
ish and uh you're all invited to go uh is there anybody that's planning on
going okay all right i'm gonna be there and
brother alex you'll be there at two is that right or is there are you gonna be
there
okay all right sounds good all right so yeah you can be there too if you want
and listen to the testimonies of the family members and just
if you want to be there be there to support brother alex
um you can definitely use the support and then pray for people to be saved
because the gospels the gospel the gospel is going to be
presented at uh the three o'clock portion i think
are you going to present the gospel at two or are you going to wait for me
okay all right so and i'm i'm definitely going to give it an
invitation to be saved um so but i'm also you know if
there's people there that are soul winners
then i will invite them also if they want to talk personally to somebody
that they're able to do that so hopefully
if you're there and i call upon you to like maybe talk to one of the family
members um would you be willing to do that i
hope so anyway on june 18th we have the men's
shooting event in stevenson washington we're meeting
next saturday on the bridge of the gods side
of uh or the bridge of the god side the washington side of the bridge of the
gods good night it's gonna be a long sermon
tonight you're like no if i can speak okay then
mike i might get through it quicker all right um
so that's going to be a shooting event for all men all men are invited to go
the church is providing some ammunition and
lunch at 12 o'clock so be there or be you know a vegetarian so
no i'm just kidding be there be square 12 o'clock
next saturday and there'll be a shooting competition
there'll be some prizes for whoever wins and kyle is not allowed to participate
like i said he was too good last time all right and
then father's day is going to be the next day
sunday and there'll be a gift for each dad in attendance
and you'll get a pick from a few different things
and there'll be a sermon geared toward uh dads that day fathers the fwbc
mega conference stop location for our church here is going to be june
23rd that's a thursday night at 6 30 p.m
pastor anderson will be preaching for us that night and then
in spokane on june 26 which is sunday for both services
so if you're wanting to get your fix of pastor anderson
and you want to you don't want to have to go all the way to phoenix
you can just go all the way to spokane which is almost as far as phoenix
no it's not really it's about six hours though it's a six hour trek
but you know if you want to go and hear some great sermons
and just fellowship with our brethren up there uh they're
holding it down in spokane and still soloing every week and
and preaching great sermons and uh if you want to go up there
fellowship with our brothers and sisters there and uh here's some pastor
anderson preaching then you are more than welcome to go
there i won't be offended at all so um let's see the 4th of july is going
to be at the rank the renke the renke
residence the yankee residence excuse me and uh
her baby shower is going to be july 9th i wanted to let you know that they're
uh registered at amazon for the baby registry
and what is it under your name miss alana
holl and alana renke yankee just kidding uh and then july 9th
july 14th man i'm in trouble fly 14th through 17th is red hot preaching
conference so all this other stuff we have gone
through this morning and there's no visitors here so i'm just gonna
quietly put this down and we'll take the offering up
okay let's turn to page 144
in your green hymnals page 144
the mighty fortress is our god page 144
so
a mighty fortress is our god on the first
a mighty fortress is our god
a bold work never failing
our helper he amid the flood
of mortal ills prevailing for still our ancient foe
does seek to work us woe his craft and power
are great and armed with cruel hate
on earth is not his equal
did we in our own strength confide
our striving would be losing
we're not the right man on our side
the man of god's own choosing
just ask who that may be christ jesus it is he
lord sabaoth his name from age to age the same
and he must win the battle
and though this world with devils filled
should threaten to undo us
we will not fear for god hath will
is true to triumph through us
the prince of darkness grim we tremble not for him
his rage we can endure for lo his doom is sure
one little word shall fail him on the last
that word above all earthly powers no
thanks to them abideth
the spirit and the gifts are ours
through him who will side if
let goods and kindred go this mortal life also
the body they may kill god's truth abideth still
his kingdom is forever
amen great singing at this time we'll take our offering brother sean
harrington can you bless the offering for us
dear jesus thank you so much for this day lord thank you so much lord that we
can come to your church and listen to your word
preach lord i pray that you would bill pastor tomson your spirit lord
pray that you would bless this offering lord we do a great work with it
please bless the gift and the giver in jesus name
so
i go and turn your bibles to genesis chapter 50
genesis chapter number 50 if you don't have a bible raise your hand and one of
the ushers will bring you one genesis 50
genesis 50 the bible reads and joseph fell upon his father's face
and wept upon him and kissed him and joseph commanded his servants the
physicians to embalm his father and the physicians
embalmed israel and 40 days were fulfilled for him for
so are fulfilled the days of those which are
embalmed and the egyptians mourn for him three score and ten days
and when the days of his morning were passed joseph spake into the house
of pharaoh saying if now i have found grace in your eyes
speak i pray you in the ears of pharaoh saying my father made me swear
saying lo i die in my grave which i have digged for me in the land of canin
there shall there shall thou bury me now therefore let me go up
i pray thee and bury my father and i will come again
and pharaoh said go up and bury thy father
according as he made thee swear and joseph went up
to bury his father and with him went up all the servants of pharaoh
the elders of his house and all the elders of the land of egypt
and all the house of joseph and his brethren and his father's house
only their little ones and their flocks and their herds
they left in the land of goshen and there went up with him
both chariots and horsemen and it was a very great company
and they came to the threshing floor of atad
which is beyond jordan and there they mourned with a great
and very sore lamentation and he made a morning for his father seven days
and when the inhabitants of the land the caninites saw the morning in the floor
of atad they said this is a grievous morning to the egyptians
wherefore the name of it was called abel misrium
which is beyond jordan and his sons did unto him according as he commanded them
for his sons carried him into the land of canin and buried him in the cave of
the field of mal macpella which abraham
brought with thee with the field for a possession of a
burying place of ephron the hittite before mamra and
joseph returned into egypt he and his brethren and all that went up
with him to bury his father after he had buried his father and when
joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead they said joseph will
peradventure hate us and will certainly requite us all the
evil which we did unto him and they sent a messenger unto joseph
saying thy father did command before he died saying
so shall you say unto joseph forgive i pray thee now
the trespass of thy brethren and their sin
for they did unto the evil and now we pray thee forgive the trespass
of the servants of the god of thy father and joseph wept when they spake
unto him and his brethren also went and fell down
before his face and they said behold we be thy servants and joseph said
unto them fear not for am i in the place of god
but as for you you thought evil against me but god meant
it meant it unto good to bring to bring to
pass as it is this day to save much people alive now
therefore fear ye not i will nourish you and your little ones
and he comforted them and spake kindly unto them and joseph dwelt in egypt
he and his father's house and joseph lived in 110 years
and joseph saw ephraim's children of the third generation
the children also of makar the son of menassah were brought up upon joseph's
knees and joseph said unto his brethren i die
and god will surely visit you and bring you out of this
land under the land which he swear to abraham to isaac and to jacob
and joseph took an oath of the children of israel saying
god will surely visit you and ye shall carry up my bones from hence
so joseph died being 110 years old and they embalmed him and he was put in a
coffin in egypt brother eli we pray for us
amen amen on the kids all right no i'm just
kidding all right well we're finally here
we're at the end of the book of genesis and we're in chapter number 50 tonight
and i'm going to try to preach this quickly because there's a lot of stuff
to cover i will try i will try okay uh let's look at verse number 50
and uh before i before i do that though i just uh
i want to remind everybody where we're at here or where we've come from
so of course we got the beginning where god created the heaven and the earth
and created all the animals and the people
adam and eve we have that story and how they fell
and how their children were born and one killed the other one
we have uh the generations of the families that was promised christ was
promised to be born of the seed of a woman
and noah was basically he found grace in the eyes of the lord god told
him to build an ark he destroyed the whole world after
i think around 1500 years um we've we studied about how the world
is actually only about 6200 and some odd years old i can't remember the exact
number off the top of my head here but then we have after that we have
abraham and the story of abraham and his faith
we have isaac and then we have of course jacob and
we've learned about joseph and his brothers now
and so here we are we're going to get to where this book leaves off
is about 3900 years in the past from right now so all this
stuff happened a long time ago ancient times but not
millions of years ago all right so here we are at the end and joseph of course
this story about joseph's been 10 chapters or more than 10 chapters
it's been a lot so god really focuses here on the 12 tribes of israel
and israel has passed away in the last chapter he
gave up the go he yielded up the ghost the bible says
and he pictures christ you know both joseph and
jacob of course picture christ in many different ways
and we've learned about how joseph pictures christ
i mean he he pictures christ a lot but so does jacob
and here we have in verse number one where the bible says and joseph fell
upon his father's face and wept upon him and kissed him
it's very clear that joseph really loved his dad a lot
and didn't really get to spend a whole lot of time with him in comparison
to his brothers getting to spend the time with him
and you know we've seen what's happened with his brothers and we'll get to that
here in a little bit but i just want to say this that you
know joseph respected his dad so much and we'll see that this chapter really
a lot of what this chapter is talking about is having respect
for the dead and for those that pass away and what those pictures
are for why why do why does the bible say that we should be buried why
does the bible say we embalm people i mean there's a lot of
different words in here that that we still use today
and that are still in practice today because they are biblical now
i don't want to hurt anybody's feelings i know that some people have had their
you know their families have been you know not buried they've been
what do you call it huh yeah cremated yeah cremated
and look if your family member is saved and they got cremated
god's still going to resurrect them from the dead okay
so but the picture of burial and the fact that people get embalmed is
a picture of the fact that they trust in the fact
that one day christ is going to raise that body that was put into the tomb
or grave or wherever and that you know when they embalm people
it's kind of they're trying to make that person look like
they're still you know not maybe not still alive but
not make them look like they're gonna decay very quickly
so it's a process that they do in order to make the body
look you know when you have a funeral and you see the body
you know they they have modern embalming techniques but they've been
embalming people for thousands of years and
i believe you know the children of even in jesus's time they still continued
this process and we'll see we'll take a look at that
but a lot of people don't have respect for the dead
in this country anymore and we should have respect
for the dead we should respect our parents
and go to their funerals and have funerals for them and
you know i i believe that we got to get back to
the biblical basis of burying people and unfortunately burying people is a lot
more expensive than to cremate and that's why people
use the cremation process instead and you know
the funeral business is a big business it's a business it's never going to go
out of business because people are always going to die
you know it's going to be something it's just like a hospital worker
or whatever you know these there's certain trades that you're always going
to need and so the funeral business is really
kind of you know fleecing people because you're really at their mercy to
pay and if you want to have a nice casket it's going to cost you if you're
going to have a nice headstone it's going to cost you if you're going to
have a nice burial plot it's going to cost you but just think
about this abraham paid for a burying place for his
family not and it wasn't just abraham and sarah that were buried there
it was isaac and rebecca were buried there
jacob and his and uh leah were buried there and then we'll see at
the end of this chapter that joseph is actually taking
well it's not at the end of this chapter but it's at the end of joshua actually
when they actually go back into the land and after they conquer the land
joseph is taken and buried in the same place
and so the bible you know it gives us these pictures because this is like a
pattern of what we should also be doing and so but if you can't afford it or
whatever or someone has different wishes the
last wishes of what people want or you know people have wills that they do
or they say this is what i want done with my body this is what i want to
happen i mean what can you do you can't stop
whatever their wishes are it's a legal form
so don't feel bad about things like that don't be upset and if that loved one was
saved they're going to be resurrected all right
but we should respect the dead we should respect those that pass away
and we see in this chapter that joe uh joseph i mean
good night jacob was a great man of god and there was a great
mourning made for him look at verse number two it says then joseph
commanded his servants and the physician the physicians to
embalm his father and the physicians embalmed israel
so you know the burial techniques have been around like i said for
literally thousands of years what does it mean to embalm to preserve
a corpse from decay originally with spices
and now usually by arterial injection of a preser of a preservative so
that's what embalming is it's to preserve a
dead body you know it says corpse but corpse is
not like a bad word or something it's not disrespectful
corpse just means a dead body okay so and
and the point is to to slow down that decay process for things like
burial for things like viewing and you'll see
the long periods of time go by where jacob before jacob even gets
buried you know he's he's embalmed and then
like mourn for for a long time but let's uh
go back one chapter look at verse number 29 in genesis 49
remember that jacob this is what jacob wanted
he wanted to be buried and where do you want to be buried look at verse 29 it
says and he charged them and said unto them i am to be gathered
unto my people bury me with my fathers in the cave that
is in the field of ephron the hittite this is the same cave that
abraham bought and this is the same place where he
wants to be buried he wants to be gathered unto his people
but obviously a body is just a body until it has a spirit of soul in it so
that spirit and soul once you we dot we close our eyes
and the last time we close our eyes in depth then we
go as a if you're saved you go straight to heaven if you are not saved you go
straight to hell so but he said he charged them this is
he said this is what i want this is my last will and testament basically
so that term you know what the the last will this is the last
will this is what i want you to do with my stuff with my body this is how i
want to be buried and so last wishes is a biblical
concept you know and i keep putting this off
and i really need to take care of it because i don't want my
family to have to deal with me and then all those things are divided and like
there's some kind of probate or something
that's something i really need to get done i'm just am i am i talking out loud
right now okay because i was i was about to tell you
that you need to do it but i was like i need to do it too
but it's something that we should we should try to get done
because we don't want to have people guessing what we want done with us
we don't want people to guess what who we want to have what
so last wishes are biblical and jacob charged them he said i want to be
buried here's where i want to be buried it's
already bought and paid for my plot is paid for
abraham my grandfather you know basically did this
so now verse 30 it says in the cave that is in the field of magpila
which is before mammary in the land of canin which abraham
with the field of ephron the hittite for a possession of a
burying place what would another word for burying place be
it'd be like a graveyard right so you see graveyards all over the
world i'm sure you've you know and when you go to places that are really old and
ancient you'll see lots of old gravestones and things like
that and those people are buried and that
tells who they are and uh what year they died and what year
they were born and maybe a little tidbit about them a lot of times
and but those kind of headstones and things like i said they cost a lot of
money so it's something that we should
probably try to put back or put uh away for that process because it's not
cheap so if you want to have you know a nice
funeral a nice bearing for your spouse or
whoever you know put away for that i remember my wife's mom she had all
that stuff picked out and i think she paid like a monthly payment or something
for her for years and i think it was what is it what's the cemetery
oh you can't say anyway it's a cemetery in town but
she pre did all that stuff and took care of it and so when she passed away we
didn't have to worry about all that expense and all that stuff we just had
to worry about the morning and you know all that kind of stuff so
um so a graveyard is a biblical concept also turn to matthew chapter 27 verse
58 we'll see thousands of years later
the lord jesus christ when he dies what is done with him well look at matthew
chapter 27 verse 58 keep your finger in genesis 50 because we're going to
come back to that but matthew chapter 27 verse 58 the bible
says he went to pilot this is joseph of
aramathia and begged the body of jesus then pilot commanded the body to be
delivered and when joseph had taken the body he
wrapped it in a clean linen cloth so
whatever the process was this is the first thing that joseph did
okay and laid it on his own new tomb so this tomb was made for who
it was made for joseph and it says which he had
hewn out in the rock so this is a tomb that's carved out of
probably some big huge rock carved into the side of it or whatever
and it says and he rolled a great stone to the door
of the sepulcher and departed so he put him in there it was hewn out
of rock he rolled a great stone to the door
of the sepulcher that's like the tomb and departed
so and then in john chapter 19 verse 39 go ahead and turn to john chapter 19
verse 39 so tombs are also a biblical concept
being buried you know sometimes people are buried in like stone
tombs it's okay that's fine you don't have to literally be buried
in dirt or something because jesus's tomb was carved into rock and that's
where he was laid with the stone placed in front of it john
19 verse 39 says and there came also nicodemus which at
the first came to jesus by night and brought a mixture
of myrrh and aloes about an hundred pound weight
so this nicodemus that came this is the nicodemus of john chapter 3
and he came and he brought the things for what are those things for
they're for embalming those things are for the preserving of the body it's a
mixture of myrrh and aloes and remember jesus when he was a child
the wise men came from from afar and they gave him gold
frankincense and myrrh so frankincense is also
a spice and it's supposed to represent you know the the burial of jesus or
whatever and it says it was a hundred pounds
weight so it's a lot it says they took then took they the body of jesus and
wound it in a in linen cloths with the spices
as the manner of the jews is to bury so i'm not sure if their manner of
burial is exactly the way the egyptians were
but didn't the egyptians do the same thing they were commanded to him
joseph commanded the physicians to embalm him
and basically you know we find or you know
maybe not recently but they find people that are mummified
or wrapped in these linen cloths in ancient egypt and they're
they're very preserved sometimes when they find them like of course king tut
was like a really huge discovery in the early
1900s and uh but we see that jesus they do the
same thing with him they wrap him in linen cloths with these
mixtures of myrrh and aloes and those and and spice so it's called
with spices so when i looked up the definition of an embalming it's they
embalm people with these spices now modern day they use some kind of
preservative to do to do this but it says then took they the body of
jesus verse number 40 and wound it in the linen okay i already
read that so as the manners of the jews to bury
so so the jews they buried people and
they're the point of doing this embalming is to preserve that body
right so we when we're saved we are preserved
forever in reality when god when jesus comes back
he's going to make our bodies to be everlasting bodies
so the same body that we died in is going to be resurrected
but it's going to be changed it's not going to be like the bodies we have now
that have aches and pains and dandruff and body odor
long toenails whatever you know we're gonna we're gonna look
different but we're gonna be the same so
and i think that this is a picture when the reason why people are embalmed
one of the things that it pictures is everlasting life
right so obviously it's not a perfect picture because eventually they do decay
but why do they do this so they can warn for that person so
they can have the funeral and all manner of other such things but jesus
when he was buried he was basically you know as a mummy basically that's
kind of what they do so now turn back to genesis chapter
number 50 verse number three genesis chapter number 50 verse number
three the bible says in 40 days were fulfilled
for him for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed
and the egyptians mourn for him greece score
and 10 days so i was trying to figure out like
you know because for the the number 40 appears in scripture a lot
now not too long ago i did like a study about the three score in 10 or the 70
and i kind of came to the conclusion and i still feel that this is true that
the three score and 10 or the 70 represents maybe the beginning and the
ending of something so you know it's a lot of times you'll
see that that time period 70 years or 70 years of weeks
things like that and so i believe that that does mean it's a beginning the
beginning and ending of a time period basically
but 40 years i was trying to think like what does this represent
and and basically kind of what i come up with is that it's a fulfilling of time
to complete something so it's not necessarily the beginning
or ending of something but it is the fulfilling of time to complete
something why do i think that well what does it say in verse number three
and 40 days were what fulfilled for him now if you if you just
think about all the times that 40 days are fulfilled for something
we'll look at a couple examples but i'm just gonna kind of just remind you of
some that are in the bible we don't have time to go through
all of them but turn to numbers chapter 14 verse number 34
numbers chapter 14 verse 34 the bible says after the number of
all the days in which he searched for the land
even 40 days each day for a year shall you bear your iniquities even 40
years and he shall know my breach
of promise so it's a time period that what
is has to be fulfilled right after the number of the days that they
searched the land so god or even moses sent the spies out to
spy out the land and they came back after spying out the
land 40 days later but 10 of those spies brought forth an evil
report and it made god very angry it
discouraged the hearts of the people and so even though joshua and caleb came
back with a good report god did spare them though
but the point is is i'm trying to show you is that this
40 year or 40 days turned into a specific fulfillment of time that god
is calling for and for so for 40 years they wandered
the wilderness because of what they did god counted
that 40 days and added it as years that they were
going to know the breach of promise so and then you think about
how long did it rain on the earth when in the days of noah
how long 40 days and 40 nights so it fulfilled the time
of what it was supposed to do so and then
moses how long did he fast for 40 days right and what happened at the
end of 40 days god gave him the two tables of stone
right and so that's to complete the giving of
the law elijah went on the sustenance of what
the ravens gave him and on that meet he was sustained for
how long 40 days right and then
he was to go and find out what the will of god for him was
you know he was depressed he was having a hard time and then on 40 days
he traveled to mount sinai and god you know he was spoke to him in a still
small voice now jesus
fasted for how long 40 days as a time period of fulfilling of time to complete
something what was he completing the fasting for 40 days and then
what was the what was the purpose of that well
because after 40 days you're gonna be pretty dang hungry
and he was tempted of the devil after that so
i mean you want to seriously dress someone to the to the uttermost
and then after that say hey why don't you make this rock a piece of bread
and it's like the first you know the first thing he has to go through
after start you know could he have made that rock into a piece of bread
absolutely and his physical body was hungry
but you know that's that's you know that's
how bad jesus was tempted to be tempted of the devil
and the first thing he tempts him with is food so
my point is is that 40 is a fulfilling of a of of time to complete something
and jesus stayed on the earth for how long after being resurrected
40 days right and then he went what went up to heaven
right goliath challenged israel for 40 days he came out every day just
to challenge them to a fight and then at the at the
fulfilling of those 40 days david came out and threw one rock and
hit him right between the eyes and killed him
how long was jonah preaching that it was going to take for ninova to be
overthrown 40 days right so i mean 40 days is
obviously it's you know this isn't numerology this is
just something that's god is trying to show us something with this 40 days and
i believe it is the fulfilling of time to complete
something acts chapter one verse three let's just
look at that real quick act chapter one verse number three
if you guys are freezing to death somebody can turn the ac off
brother ryan are you freezing to death is anybody else freezing to death raise
your hand if you're freezing to death i'll give one vote
it's perfect all right kids put a coat on
i got i got mixed reviews here i can't i can't count the hands
i feel great but i don't want to freeze you all to death so anyway
acts chapter number one verse number three
bible says in the show or excuse me to whom also he showed himself alive after
his passion talking about jesus by many infallible proofs being seen of
them 40 days and speaking of the things
pertaining to the kingdom of god and then they had to wait another 10
days for the holy spirit to be poured upon them
after that so back to genesis chapter 50 verse 4
the bible says and when the days of his morning were past joseph spake unto the
house of pharaoh saying if now i have found grace in your
sight in your eyes speak i pray you in the ears of pharaoh
saying my father made me swear saying lo i die
in my grave which i have digged for me in the land of canan there
thou shalt bury me now therefore let me go up i pray thee and bury my father
and i will come again so here's a lesson on doing what you're say
you're gonna do but here's the thing we should not swear to do things okay
so am i saying that joseph did something wrong
uh not necessarily i mean jacob made him swear i guess he could have said no i'm
yes dad i will bury you there but jesus did say
in the new testament that we're not supposed to swear
so and here's how let's just turn over to number chapter 30
verse number two but
so jacob or joseph's dad jacob made him swear that he would bury him
now think about this what would have happened if pharaoh would have said
no then he wouldn't have been able to keep
the word the swear that he told his dad that he would do
so like the reason why we're not supposed to swear
is because we not we might not be able to fulfill what we said
out of our mouths so and we don't want to be liars we don't want to
say something and not do it look at number chapter 30 verse 2 and i realize
that this is a vow okay it says if a man vow a vow unto the
lord or swear an oath so they are different
to bind his soul with a bond he shall not break his word he shall do
according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth so
we are supposed to when we vow a vow or whether we swear an oath
we're supposed to do it but in the new testament
you know obviously when we get married we vow to be with our spouse till death
do us part can we keep that we can keep it
but does everybody keep it no they don't but
marriages tell death do us part so that is a vow that you're allowed to make
because of the fact that god expects you to
be married and to keep the covenant that you made with your spouse
the covenant is tell death do us part right but a swearing swearing an oath
so swearing is like saying you know i put
this on my my baby mama or whatever that
i didn't do this thing or whatever it's you're
you're like and some people say i swear to god
have you ever heard someone say that i'm sure i've said it when i was a kid i'm
sure i did it's not right to do that because you're
swearing to tell the truth you know and when
people swear to tell the truth so help you god
what if you just forgot the details what if you're on the stand you're like
you know you think you're saying what the truth is
but then you kind of got something a little bit mixed up then you're swearing
to god in front of everybody that what you're
saying is true and it might not be you can't always trust your memory okay
you can't so what does jesus say well yeah turn to matthew chapter five
matthew chapter five and i know i preached about this before so i just
want to cover it quickly matthew chapter five verse number 33 the
bible says this
again you've heard that it hath been said
by them of old time thou shalt not forswear thyself
but shall perform unto the lord thine oaths but i say unto you swear not at
all neither by heaven for it is god's throne
see the difference between a swear it's saying if you swear by heaven
which is god you're swearing by god's throne
nor by the earth for it is his footstool neither by jerusalem for it is the city
of the great king neither shalt thou swear
by thy head because thou canst not make one hair
white or black see some people say you know
cross my heart hope to die stick a thousand needles in my eye
i mean you're swearing an oath that you're going to do that that's pretty
stupid a thousand needles is a lot isn't it but
it says but let your communication be yea
yea nay nay or whatsoever is more than these cometh
of evil why does it cometh of evil why is it evil
well because again you're swearing on something you're swearing
that something's going to happen if that doesn't come to pass and you can't
always what have you said you know pastor
thompson i i swear i swear on the bible that i'm going to
come to every single church service for the next
year is that a wise thing to say no because if your car breaks down
you're done you swore on the bible so it's wrong to do that
okay so that's what the bible is teaching here but
when it comes to what joseph did he already swore
he swore to do this thing which is right but like again the situation is he works
for somebody else his boss could have said
you know i don't really have i need you here
in egypt and he could have just said no and then jacob has sworn something to
his dad that he does not keep that's why we should not swear oaths
turn back to genesis chapter 50 verse number six genesis chapter 50 verse
number six the bible says and pharaoh said go up and bury thy father according
as he made thee swear so pharaoh's a good man
he allows him to do this thing and joseph went up
to bury his father and with him went up all the servants of pharaoh the
elders of his house and all the elders of the land of egypt
so think about this i mean the egyptians think just eating with
you know a hebrew is an is an abomination like they
they just don't want to eat with them being a shepherd's an abomination
but joseph commands so much respect that all the main people all the big dogs
and and princes and elders of the people all
go with him into the land of canin and so this is a
big you know kind of parade of people going
back into the promised land and think about this here's something that we do
modern day have you ever been in a funeral
procession and there's like just tons of cars and
the police come and they escort with motorcycles and
things like that so procession funeral processions are
also apparently a biblical thing now of course they didn't have
motorcycles and stuff like that back then but they had other things
it says and all the the house of joseph and his brethren
and his father's house only their little ones
and their flocks and their herds left they in the land of goshen
and there went up with him both chariots and horsemen
and it was a very great company so there's your
funeral procession in the bible and verse number 10 it says
and they came to the threshing floor of a tad
which is beyond jordan and there they mourned
with a great and very sore lamentation and he made a mourning for his father's
seven days so they've already you know the
embalming time of you know they have this 40 40 day
time for the embalming and then they had the seven 70 day time
for the morning then they all pack up and go and there's
seven more days added unto this time of mourning i mean
that's that's a funeral like no other it's it's
a great uh it's a great company of people
and they're not just mourning because it's that it's they're supposed
to because joseph's their boss or something
they literally do care and mourn for uh jacob so
it's a very sore lamentation it says that when the inhabitants of the land
the king and i saw the morning of the floor of a tad they said this is a
grievous morning to the egyptians wherefore the name of it was called
abel mizraim which is beyond jordan so that word basically means
mourning to the egyptians what it means so why
why would it be mizraim well mizraim is the name
of the father of the egyptians so he was a son of
one of the sons of ham okay so but uh it says that
they had this grievous morning so i mean think about this
jacob must have had a big impression upon them also
because jacob lived like a lot longer after he got into the land
so i'm sure people respected him a lot and cared about him i mean when's the
last time you cried for somebody that passed away that you
didn't know at all or you didn't think was a great person
or something that didn't make you set you know
so obviously these egyptians cared a lot about
both joseph and for jacob so if you want a reference for the
mizraim thing look at first chronicles chapter 1 verse 8 or just write a note
down and it'll say who mizraim was so anyway genesis chapter
50 verse 12 it says and his sons did unto him
according as he commanded them and his sons carried him into the land
of canan and buried him in the cave of the field of makfilah which abraham
bought with the possession with a field for a possession of a
burying place of ephraim the hit type before mammary
and joseph returned into egypt he and his brethren and all that went up
with him to bury his father after he had buried his father
so you know at the time of funerals a lot of times people just
put away the issues that they have with family members
and they just go to the funeral that's the way it should be
you know don't bring your drama to a funeral
all right here's a lesson for you you know all those brothers they kind of had
some adversity and obviously there was some unsaid things some some
things that probably some bad feelings that were harbored
between them but that's with any family i mean but
don't bring those issues and disrespect somebody else's
funeral now if you can't do that just don't go
i just i some people just are super dramatic
and they just want to tell you finally how they really felt about that person
or whatever like don't even go if you're going to disrespect someone like that
it's just not right so look what happens though after the
funeral verse number 15 and when joseph's
brethren saw that their father was dead they said joseph will
peradventure hate us that peradventure word means perhaps
joseph will peradventure hate us and will certainly require us all the evil
which we did unto him now in most cases people probably would do
that in most unsaved cases where people are unsaved
and sometimes even when people are saved they're not going to be
the way joseph was to his brethren you know but joseph was not out for
retribution against them he never even indicated that now he did
toy with them okay when they didn't know who he was
he did torment them some you know a little you know he tormented them
right so but it says and will certainly require us all the evil which
we did unto him verse 16 and they sent a messenger unto joseph
saying thy father did command before he died
saying so shall you say unto joseph forgive i
pray thee now the trespass of thy brethren and their
sin and they did unto the evil and now we
pray thee forgive the trespass of the servants of
god the of the god of thy father and joseph wept
when they spake unto him so part of this is a lie okay
i mean there's no record of that happening so what are they doing they're
just trying to like if he hates them if he's planning
on doing it they thought well maybe he'll just
maybe they'll he'll respect dad's wishes because he respected his wishes to take
him all the way into canin and bury him there so maybe
he's going to respect this if he thinks that this is what dad
really said to do but the other part of it
i believe is truth and sincerity from them
because you know people that aren't sorry they're not going to just say
that they messed up they're going to try to somehow make it your fault too
well you know if you had done this and i would have never had to do that
or something along those lines but look what they say
forgive i pray thee now the trespass of thy brethren that's all of them
and their sin for they did onto the evil they admit what they did
was evil they admit it was sin and it says and now
we pray thee forgive the trespass of thy servants
of the god of thy father so what are they saying
that they also are servants of god now they weren't very good examples
for a time period but it seems as if they've
amended their ways some but you know not everybody that gets saved is
immediately going to be the perfect christian
so i mean if you look at this as a picture of you know sometimes it takes
time for someone to get on the right track but
you can't really see from the time that they end up going to egypt they do care
about their dad they do care about their children they
do care they they feel bad for what they did to joseph but
what happened happened but then when they realize he's alive
they are sorry and i and i feel like they're sorry here i think they're
genuinely sorry for what they did and it says and joseph wept when they
spake unto him so joseph you know i mean why does he
cry why does he weep here well i mean things have been
forgive and forget and that's how we should be
with people that ask us to forgive also and you know they're not just his
brothers in reality they're also his brothers in christ according to their
own mouth where they say that they are the
servants of the god of thy father so even more so you know
and if anybody really asks you to forgive them
you should forgive them so joseph probably never imagined that
this day would come because when before you know before when
they they hosed him basically they hated his
guts like remember how bad they hated him
they couldn't even stand to see him when they saw him come and they started
plotting against him and they couldn't even speak kindly to
him at all and then they sold him as a slave
basically they told dad that he was dead i mean
they really did him dirty but joseph has always had the attitude
that i'm going to forgive them i think that's why he toyed with them i
think he wanted to see what they're really made of i've covered
this before but it says and his brethren also
went and fell down before his face and they said behold
we be thy servants so here we have where his dream is
is true once again that he dreamed that his brethren would fall down before him
and then joseph says something really cool here he says and it says and joseph
said unto them fear not for am i in the place of god
so you know god expects us to forgive people when they ask us to
forgive them okay that's what's happened here they came
to him and admitted what they did and then they
said they were sorry and i believe you know you can tell
when someone has a fake apology right it's like when you tell your kid
tell your brother you're sorry and they're just like
they're still pissed you know like give them a hug
you know you know they get all mad that's how that's how it is when
people don't really want to apologize you know so i i think that he realized
that they were truly apologizing look what matthew
chapter 18 says matthew chapter 18 verse 21 i don't have time to get into
the full story of this but this is what jesus said and matt and
peter asked him this question in matthew chapter 18 verse 21
it says then came peter to him and said lord how oft shall my brother sin
against me and i forgive him tell seven times he's like surely there
has to be like a limitation to this right
and jesus saith unto him i say not unto thee until seven times but until
70 times seven so that's a lot of times right
so jesus saying if they ask for forgiveness that you should forgive
them right isn't that what the bible says now look
down at verse 34 so jesus tells this story about a guy who
owed money to his lord his lord forgave him
this debt and this lord represents god and then
the the debt isn't really you know that big you know it's a big
debt actually excuse me that debt is a big debt and then the
lord forgives him for all the bad thing you know all this
debt that he owed him not bad things but debt
then afterward after he's been forgiven this big debt
his his brother or some dude owes him money
and he grabs the guy by the throat and says you'll pay everything that you owe
and so this is a picture of like hey god forgave you this
huge sin debt and look if you want to pile up all the sins and count how many
you got right now it's probably a substantial amount it's a huge debt
not including all the ones that you're gonna commit in the rest of your life
so this guy does this slight against a bro you know you know it's a brother
in christ or whatever and like this guy's just ready to
strangle this guy to death over the debt that he owes him which is
very small in comparison so god's showing us this picture to show
that hey i forgave you this great debt you can't forgive this one person for
the small debt that they owe you for the oh they gave you a
dirty look during the church service you can't forgive that they didn't
shake your hand maybe the person was having a bad day
people have bad days guess what everybody in here has a bad day
sometimes and you're not on top of your game you're
not the greatest christian on the face of
the planet and then you're going to not forgive one of your brothers and sisters
of christ that just kind of give you some kind of a little bit of a slight
or what you perceive as a dirty look or they
they burn you in front of your friend or what you know what i mean they they
roast on you a little bit like oh and then you're just mad at them
forever about it you just hold that against them to the
end of time it's not right and so joseph had a lot of bad things
done to him right what did he do he forgave them
but look what it says in verse 34 and the his lord was rough
and delivered him to the tormentors till he should pay
all that was due unto him so likewise shall my heavenly father do also unto
you if you from your hearts forgive not
everyone his brother their trespasses now
i do believe and i will caveat this a little bit
that in this instance even in the story the person
asked that person to forgive him his brothers asked for that forgiveness
you can forgive anybody you want for anything you want
but i would say this as a caveat you don't have to
if they don't ask that's what i believe so you can say i'm wrong for that all
you want but does god forgive everybody for
everything that they don't ask for forgiveness for they he does ultimately
but if so if someone doesn't ever get saved they never ask for
forgiveness for anything does god forgive them
no he doesn't but he does forgive us for all of our sins regardless of on earth
whether we ask for them or not but he still chastens us for those sins
that we don't ask for forgiveness for in this life so
i'm not saying don't be forgiving i'm not saying well they never asked and
you know sometimes you just forgive them it doesn't what does it matter
like especially if it's a small infraction just suffer yourself to be
defrauded every once in a while and let something pass by jesus did say
you know father forgive them for they know not what they do
he asked for forgiveness for people that didn't deserve it
so we should be the same way we should be ready to forgive
you know obviously if a serial killer comes in and kills your whole family
i don't think you should forgive that person you know even if they ask
because they're probably lying because they're a serial killer anyway
so let's go back to genesis chapter 50 verse number 20
genesis chapter 50 verse number 20 it says but
as for you see because he said joseph says
look at verse 19 again it says and joseph said unto them fear not am i in
the place of god but as for you you thought evil against
me but god meant it unto good
to bring to pass as it is this day to save
much people alive so really this is ultimately
what god brought to pass all this evil happened unto joseph
but then joseph was promoted because of his love for god and the fact that he
kept god's commandments god blessed him
he he he just every time he was tempted he just
refused to be tempted and and god blessed him greatly in the land
and made it to be where joseph was in the position
to help people literally survive this giant famine that hit the
whole face of the earth and this is how he's like
christ is that he saved much people alive his
what he did saved all these people but what jesus did when he he was done
dirty too wasn't he his brothers dealt with him roughly just
you know the the the he came to his own and his own received him not
these are his brothers these are the 12 tribes of israel
and well how'd they treat him they treated him roughly they
they they killed him they crucified him they plotted against them just like
joseph's brothers did to him and you know jesus god worked that out
for good for everybody in the whole world and the fact that
his death because of his death everybody is able to be alive forevermore
turn to romans chapter 8 verse 28 see god has a plan
for all of our lives you know we have different paths we can walk down in
these plans but he does have alternate plans if you
mess up here or mess up there and as long as you're breathing on this
earth god can still use a christian but you know what we have to be willing
to be used we have to actually work with god
look what it says and we know that all things work together for good
to them that love god if you love me keep my commandments
to them who are the called according to his purpose
and so look if you're saved in here today you are the called
and guess what god has a purpose for you also
and all things will also work together for good
for you because you love god and you're called according to his
purpose now if you don't love god you know you
have something wrong with you so you know some people you know the
bible jesus did say if you love me keep my commandments
so some people can be saved and really not love god that much
it's just like someone that gets free stuff
they don't necessarily love that person that gave them the free stuff because
they really didn't do anything for it you know it's just
like the people they get free food you know i was talking about that earlier
i'm not going to go into it again because i'll just start getting mad
but anyway you know not everybody you know appreciates the free gift what
i'm saying but look if you love god
all things are going to work together for you also and this this verse
encapsulates what happened with joseph right here
turn back to genesis 50 verse 21 so joseph loved his brothers he forgave
them and look at verse 21 it says now
therefore fear ye not i will nourish you and your
little ones and he comforted them and spoke kindly
unto them so here's joseph not just saying yes i
forgive you but really i'm still going to hold a grudge against you for the
rest of your life that's not real forgiveness
what what did he show how did he show he really forgave them
well he comforted them and then he spoke kindly unto them
so he obviously wasn't holding what they did against them that's true forgiveness
folks i mean that's what it's all about turn back into
matthew chapter 5 verse 38 matthew chapter 5 verse 38
and i won't go through all these scriptures but
in the new testament jesus teaches us these same principles here
matthew chapter 5 verse 38 says you have heard that it had been said
an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth but i say unto you that ye
resist not evil but whosoever shall smite thee on the right cheek
turn to him the other also and if a man will sue thee at the law and take away
thy coat let him have thy cloak also and
whosoever shall compel thee to go to a mile
go with him twain that means to give to him that asketh thee
and from him that would borrow thee turn not thou away
you have heard it that it had been said thou shalt love thy neighbor and hate
thine enemy but i say unto you love your enemies
bless them that curse you do good to them that hate you and pray for them
which despitefully use you and persecute you you know you're like
well pastor thompson that's not what you said this morning
but i didn't say to hate your enemies did i
i said god's enemies so this says love your enemies the people
that are enemies of you people that curse you people that do
you know do good to them that hate you and pray for them which despitefully use
you and persecute you so it's not god you know
and obviously some of this can spill over but
we're supposed to love our enemies we're supposed to bless them
and not hate them i was soloing in new jersey
and i walked by this guy's house and i i walked up and he was
kind of working there was like a a ramp that went down to a garage type house
and i said oh hey how's it going i'm from a baptist church we're just out
here and i'm preaching the gospel and he's
like come on pastor come on pastor
you're gonna preach me the gospel right now can't you see i'm busy
can't you see i'm working here i was like hey you know i'm really sorry
and i said have a good day and then he just like kept
he was just like jabbing me and because i was trying to be nice you
know when we're out sewing we should be nice and i'm not trying to make myself
the star of the show because i'm not always
you know i'm not always perfect out there okay
but how should we respond to people that are like that to us
hey do we have to freak out on them we don't have to
you know maybe he's having a bad day maybe he's
you know he's basically saying how he was going to have to you know because he
goes well i'm a jew you know so he's i don't
know if he's just trying to mess with me he didn't look like a jew it was the
sabbath day so i don't understand why he was working on his house
but anyway that's neither here nor there so he said that like there's a drain
that goes down and the water keeps filling up and
and flooding his garage i could see how that'd be annoying
and then all of a sudden some pastor yeah i didn't say i was a pastor
he just i was wearing a shirt and tie he said pastor but anyway
that's another sermon no i'm just kidding but anyway and so
i walk off you know just being nice he was like hey maybe i could just
have the church you know give me five thousand dollars so i could get my
stuff fixed i was like yeah we don't really have five thousand extra dollars
but you know i hope everything works out for you and
so i walk off again so we go down to the end of the street
come back again and as i'm walking back we see him again
and he's like he just like because he just keeps saying stuff to me to try to
piss me off and it was almost working i was just
having too good of a day you know he's just mocking me and and
ribbing me and saying all this stuff and i just you know i kind of was like
joe ebb's brother for a second i was just like
you know cut this guy's head off her
well this don't let this dead dog curse you you know it's just like
give him the business but then i was just like the good
angel was like no don't do that but uh so he said he's i'm walking back and he
goes he goes yeah maybe uh you know walking
around knocking all these doors you can lose some of that weight and i was just
like i was like yep that's the plan and i just
kept walking but the point is is that he just he was
just trying so hard to get me but you know maybe that guy
will realize that he mistreated me and even though he was trying to do evil
and to me and trying to say all these uh these you know he's just trying to
take shots at me the whole time i never once like showed i was mad and i
just i just was nice to him and so maybe that person someday will
end up getting saved because he said well i know i really treated this guy
bad one time he might feel bad for it later that
stuff actually happens but if we if we freak out on everybody
that acts like that to us then what are the what are we leaving
them with that here's how christians act and tell you
antagonize them and make them mad and call them fatties or whatever
then they're they're gonna freak out and and
and treat you roughly see this is why i never go to church see this is why i'm
never gonna get saved and so look when we're out knocking the
doors let's try to be as kind as we can and
let's put this stuff into place let's put this stuff into action
in our lives and and even in our just our daily lives
so you know we're supposed to turn the other cheek we're supposed to love our
enemies we're supposed to pray for them that despitefully use us and persecute
us it says that you may be the children of
your father which is in heaven for he may give his son to rise on the
evil and the good and send it to rain on the just and the
and if you love them which love you what reward have you
do not even the publican's the same don't people when you
when you like someone and they like you back
or they like you and you like them back you know what's the reward in that
it says and if you if you salute your brethren only
what do you more than others do not even the publican so
don't unsay people say hi to each other and are nice to each other
be therefore perfect as your father which is in heaven
is perfect so you know this should be how we respond you know i
know that i'm one of america's hate preachers or
whatever but i really i love people and i want them to be saved
and you know we didn't get anybody saved yesterday me and my so many partner but
we got into two really interesting conversations one
where we were invited in for cappuccino and then the other one
was you know coming at me bro
and i you know i was having a good day i you know but even if we're having a bad
day that's how we should respond okay so look
at uh verse number 22 let's finish off this
chapter verse number 22 says back in genesis 50
it says and joseph dwelt in egypt he and his father's house and joseph
lived in 110 years and joseph saw ephraim's children
of the third generation the the children also of makir
the son of manassa were brought up on joseph's knee so
he saw the blessings of grandchildren and it says and joseph said unto his
brethren i die and god will surely visit you remember joseph's a prophet
and bring you out of this land unto the land which he swear
unto abraham to isaac and to jacob so he's given him this prophecy and and we
know that that's moses moses is the one that he visits his
children through and it says and joseph took an oath of
the children of israel saying god will surely visit you and
ye shall carry up my bones from hence
so joseph wants to be buried too it says so joseph died
being 110 years old and they embalmed him
and he was put in a coffin in egypt see coffins are also
biblical all right so i mean this this chapter really kind of talks a lot about
burial and death and these different types of things from thousands of years
ago and it still hasn't changed today but one thing i noticed here that was
really interesting i just want to have you turn to one more passage and
we'll be done okay joshua chapter 24 now i wasn't even really thinking about
this but remember when i preached last week i was talking
about how ephraim uh you know he was the one that was
really blessed of joseph he was a son of joseph
he was he was the second born but was actually blessed by the right hand
of jacob okay now joshua was you know moses's
servant and the captain of the armies of israel
and after moses died joshua takes the children of israel
into the promised land right and then they destroy all their enemies
pretty much not everybody but most of them
and joshua he gives that famous speech where he says as for me in my house we
will serve the lord and he and he's like trying to admonish
them to continue believing in god and to teach
their children look what happens at the end of chapter in verse 29 it says and
it came to pass after these things that joshua the son of none the servant
of the lord died being 110 years old so he's the
same age as joseph he's also related
to joseph i mean i never really think about that you know when you're reading
the bible you just kind of who's related to who doesn't really
maybe necessarily jump out at you but when i preached sermon last uh
whatever whenever it was at camp i was thinking about this and it says and
they buried him in the border of his inheritance in timnath
sera which is in mount ephraim on the north side of the hill of ge'esh
and israel served the lord all the days of joshua
and all the days of the elders that overlived joshua
and which had known all the works of the lord for he
that he had done for israel and the bones of joseph
which the children of israel brought up out of the out of egypt buried they in
shechem and a parcel of ground which jacob bought
of the sons of hamor the father of shechem
for 100 pieces of silver and it became the inheritance
of the children of joseph so all these years later
you see the blessing of ephraim in in joshua and the fact that he
lives to be 100 years old then you see it gives this little tidbit
that the children of israel were faithful to take the bones of joseph and
do what he asked to be done with them so
that's the end of the book of genesis it's time to go
it's time to wrap it up but that's it and i hope you enjoyed the study in
the book of genesis because i really did i kind of want to start over again but
i know you don't want that it's been two years since we've been studying this
book so i really enjoyed it anyway let's pray
heavenly father we thank you lord so much for all the lessons and the great
doctrine and the great historical truths that we learned
and the great science and just lord everything about this book
and all the things that we've seen about the lord jesus christ in here
lord i pray that you would just help us to take all these things to heart and
lord as we go our separate ways i pray you watch
over us protect us and keep our churches safe keep our
church safe and all the churches that we are supporting and and just all of our
friends lord we pray for steadfast baptist church for brother dylan and for
pastor shelley and for all the people there that are
having to endure all the things that they're having to
adore lord i pray that they'd stay strong and steadfast
and lord i pray that you would come through for them and protect them
in jesus name we pray amen
a song this evening will be page 135 in your green hymnals
i know i am saved page 135
page 135 i know i'm saved
see now on the only verse i know i am saved
for christ set me free he ransomed my poor soul
on the cross of calvary and now i can't sing
for christ is my king i'll see his face in glory
by and by
i know i am saved for christ set me free
he ransomed my poor soul on the cross of calvary
and now i can sing for christ is my king
i'll see his face in glory by and by
amen thank you for coming out uh this evening i'd like to see you here next
week uh brother joe can you end us with a
word of prayer
bring us back