Roger Lewis - Class 3: Why were the Bones of Joseph Buried at Shechem

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   this one is an interesting one because well Genesis chapter 50 in those last few verses, are they start a journey really, which begins a set of Bible passages, which Bible meditation is all about The funny thing is, you start in a place in scripture, brothers and sisters and suddenly there’s a whole lot of streams that come together. Are they not?

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   I think it was rather Harry. Tina that said that when you find what you think might be a golden thread, give it a good pull because you never know what other verses will move when you do so and it’s in the finding of those Golden Threads, perhaps more than anything else. That we know that this is the inspired word of God. So, our study begins with this matter of Joseph’s, impending death here in chapter 15 and verse 24. Joseph said, unto his Brethren, I die. I’m about to die says the revised Standard Version, but in the context of knowing that their death was coming upon him, he said, nevertheless, God will surely, visit you, and bring you out of the sling?

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   Now, here’s the question. Where did Joseph have that conviction from that? God would surely visit them. Well, actually it’s what his father had told them, because if you come back to Genesis chapter 46, we’re told this just a few chapters earlier. And this is, of course, after the meeting of Jacob, with his son, Genesis 46, season verses 3 and 4. He said, I am God the god of thy father, fear, not to go down to Egypt for.

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   I will make the make of thee, a great nation, I will go down with the into Egypt and I will also surely bring the up again. Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes and that phrase that I will surely We bring them up out of the Elder. Circumstances of Jacob’s own education is part of the substance of Joseph’s words here.

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   In Genesis chapter 50. But I think Joseph was thinking of another episode as well in his family’s history that shaped his thinking we shocked ended up. But you know what? Well it’s Genesis chapter 15 verses 13 to 16. Do you remember when God said to Abraham know of a certainty that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land? And that is not theirs and afterwards, shall they come out? Remember with great substance in the fourth generation, they shall come to their again, was the promise of God to Abraham in Genesis 15 think that promise has been passed through the family, Joseph had her dead so Joseph about to die himself. And here’s the interesting thing, knew that when Abraham was told that they would be brought out again. It says that they would first serve the nation and to which they did come and be under great Affliction. They would be in servitude for a long period of time. And when Joseph’s dying here in Genesis chapter 50, he knew that the time of bondage and servitude had not even yet begun a long time.

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   Still stretched out ahead of the nation before, they would return to the land, and it would be so easy. Once Joseph died to forget the promises and Joseph was determined that his people would not forget what God had promised. And these words and Genesis chapter 15 and verse 24 are the outcome of that.

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   You see he wants to remind Find his people in fact, so much. So that verse 25 of Genesis 50 Seekers and Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel saying, God will surely visit you, and you shall carry out my bones from from thins, he took an oath. now, brothers and sisters, the only reason to take an oath about Your bones. Is because we believe in a future Resurrection, you wouldn’t take an oath about your bones for any other reason that the you believe that those Burns had a future. Would you, you took an oath about his bones and he said, God will surely visit you?

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   And he saw carry out my bones from hints. Do you notice the parallel, by the way, verse 24, God will surely visit and he shall bring you out. Verse 25. God will surely visit and you shall carry me up. He said he wanted a journey with his Brethren. God is going to bring you out this 24 but I want you to carry me up verse 25 so he took an oath. Don’t you forget?

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   Now he says and just see how remarkable that’s through. It was well, you see what verse 26 years? Joseph died. Being 110 years old and they embalmed him and he was put in a coffin in Egypt. Now notice the first words in verse 22. Joseph dwelt in Egypt and these last words and verse 26 and he was put in a coffin in Egypt, you see the reality brothers and sisters, the actual reality of Joseph’s, life was he’d been the governor of all Egypt for 80 years.

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    He guided and protected the interests of the pharaoh of Egypt, he had Married, An Egyptian wife, he’d witnessed three Nations of his family born in Egypt. He spend 85% of his life in Egypt. He was embalmed in a coffin in Egypt and all he could think of was being taken back to Israel. Yeah, there’s a spirit.

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    You see no present circumstance in his life ever deviated him for a moment, from his burning Zeal to be linked to the promises made to the fathers and to be found ready for their fulfillment by being buried in the land of promise. You see his whom was in Egypt. But his heart. Was in Israel. And that should be a skirt.

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    Wherever our home is. Our hearts should be in the creature. Our hearts should be towards the kingdom. But Joseph is ever wanted to inspire his Brethren with his hope. You see. That’s really why did he didn’t? He didn’t make this request. Notice of his own family, he took an oath of the nation. When does worried about his own children? He said, no, no, no, the whole nation, don’t you forget now the promises of God.

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    It’s a marvelous Spirit, really, isn’t it? But ancestors, you see why this is such a remarkable request is that? Win, death draws nigh in any person’s life. I need the most important things from a. And this was Joseph’s dying, wish it related to his deepest faith in his strongest desire, he wanted with all his heart to be back in the land and to rest in peace in that place many years would pass before.

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    God would visit them. But Joseph knew that it would come to pass. And he wanted to make sure that when he was dead. They would not forget.

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    So he took a nose and that takes us to Exodus chapter 13, does it not? Because Exodus chapter 13 tells us about the performance of the Earth. The remembrance of the Earth, the accomplishment of the oath that he had taken off them. When the record tells us this in Exodus 13 at the very moment of the departure of the children of Israel from the land of Egypt. Exodus 13 verse 17 says it came to pass when Pharaoh had let the people go.

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    That God. LED them not through the way of the land of the Philistines. Although that was near for God said, lest peradventure the people repent when they see war and they returned to Egypt. So you see the direction of the Wilderness Journey was chosen by God not Moses. And he did it by means of the guidance of the fire and the cloud. You see, God knew the elec of Faith. He knew that time was needed to develop that Spirit within them. No Verse 18, see is that, by Divine intention. God led the people about through the way of the Wilderness of the Red Sea, which is very interesting when you think about it, because of instead, instead of leading Israel, in a direction, where opposition lady just ahead, the land of the Philistines, he guided them, Into a place where opposition lay just behind.

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    The imperative was to move forward, not back. And the record says Verse 18, the children of Israel went up, harnessed out of the land of Egypt, harnessed from Roush, was the margin Sears and rightly. So by 5 in a rank, it’s only used four times that word and elsewhere, it’s always translated as armed. It sort of Echoes, the meaning of Leviticus 26, verse 8, which says five of you shall chase.

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    Some hundred you see five men were a basic military unit and what it tells us is that Israel did not depart from Egypt as a disorganized. His Rebel. They came out as an oddly host. They came out armed for battle revised. Standard Version says they came equipped for battle and marching by 5’s, indicated order and control and discipline and a sense of purpose when they came out of the land of Egypt by the sisters, they marched, as an Ecclesia, in divine order. And part of their sense of purpose. Was what first 19’s is that, as they came Moses, took the bones of Joseph with him.

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    Yeah, the theme of Exodus chapter 13. Incidentally is about the role in the work of the firstborn. And Joseph stood related to the firstborn promise and the story of his bones will be found in the chapter, about the matters of firstborn things. Now, when it says that they took the bones, who do you think carried the bones of Joseph, their father? Or I’ll give them the clue away, haven’t I probably his own household as own children.

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    They marched just behind the sons of kohath. The sons of Joseph. And Co has board the Ark of God. But, you know, the very words that are canned, numbers 3, verse 31, the numbers 4 verse 5 and elsewhere, but we weren’t for Arc, the KOA thoughts boar. Is the same word for Joseph’s coffin. Genesis 50 verse 26.

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    There are actually two arks being born in the midst of the tribes. One had the tokens of a Resurrection Life. And the other ball, the bones of a dead man. Interesting, isn’t it brother and sisters? Matt’s through the Journey with two arcs in the midst. But the Journey Only begin with The Arc of Joseph. The Arc of life would come later. Life would come out of death, you see? Well, whoever was responsible for the actual bearing of the bones.

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    The records clear that it was Moses, really, who took them. Because that’s what verse 19 says that Moses took the bones of Joseph with him. So he took chat, he looked after the matter of their transportation and Moses did so because he considered that a matter of national responsibility and because as the record says that he Joseph and straightly sworn the children of Israel saying.

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    God I will surely visit you and you shall carry up my bones away. Hints with you. He had straightened lease. Warn the children of Israel is he, the native nation was under pledge. Joseph wanted to Journey with his people and his belief in the resurrection and the hope of inheritance and the land were firmly linked together. So when it says in verse 21 of that chapter, that the Lord went before them by day, in a pillar, to lead them the way. And by night in a pillar of fire to lead them by the, to give them lied that this pillar of cloud and the pillar of fire were the proof that God in.

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    He’d had surely visited them. He would be with them on this journey just as the bones of Joseph gave witness to the same truth. And so at the very least at the very time that the Exodus begins, we’re told that the bones of Joseph, start the journey with them. So the oath of the exact Genesis chapter 50 or fruit, did it?

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    Not? And then takes us to the book of Hebrews chapter 11 because it doesn’t Hebrew. Say something about those bones. Hebrews 11 Min terms, this precise met at again. Doesn’t not in a very interesting context. Hebrews chapter 11 which of course is the honor roll of the faithful. We’re told in Hebrews 11 and verse 22.

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    It says by faith Joseph when he died made mention of the departing of the children of Israel and gave commandment concerning his bones. Well it says in the authorized version, he made mention about the die, God sees he reminded the sons of Israel. Robert him says concerning the Exodus of the sons of Israel. Cold to remembrance and that’s certainly what the word means, memorandum, manure, 0 means to call to mind. So this was not just a mention, this was a specific recollection to his people of an earlier promise, which had been made to them.

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    He deliberately brought it to their remembrance see. Joseph, never forgot. But he was worried about, is that is real nice. So, Joseph made sure that he would bring up to remembrance to the remembrance of his people before, he died. In fact that says he doesn’t, but he gave commandment concerning his bones and that phrase in Hebrews, he gave commandment concerning his bones. Is the New Testament equivalent of what we read. In Genesis 50 verse 25.

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    He took an oath of the children of Israel or what we read in Exodus 13 verse 17, he’d straightly sworn the children of Rail the word commandment here means to charge to, and to enjoy and to order it captured the focused of Joseph’s intention. He asked his Brethren to promise that they would take up his bones. You thought about this in Hebrews 11? Brothers and sisters.

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    We expect Hebrews 11 to be the most outstanding examples of Faith. Do we not in the lives of these people, all these men and woman of extraordinary, faith?

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    So what we would have expected was the most amazing example of faith and all the life of Joseph and of course Joseph’s life was an astonishing life. It was filled with moments of special Faith, was it not? And yet the record Will only mention out of all that Joseph ever did or experienced.

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    Just but one thing bear was bones. why this one example of Faith taken from Joseph’s life, when his whole story was full of X of Faith, as a type of Christ, And the answer must be.

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    Because the promise concerning his bones. Illustrated a faith that was strong enough to last a lifetime. That’s why. The faithy head is a boy. Was the Faith Hill’s are dying then. A faith that lasts a lifetime of faith that chimed over his country and present circumstances and had a burning confidence in the future and an absolute certainty in the Fulfillment of God’s promises for yes. That was a special Faith.

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    Was it? Not but ancestors, our faith in our hearts that will take us right from the beginning to the end of life. That is a faith worthy to be mentioned in Hebrews 11. Is it not? And that’s what Joseph did you see? The Commandment concerning his bones which was given right at the end of his life was a testimony to the spirit of faith that burns. So brightly in his heart well that takes us to Joshua chapter 24 because adjusters, Exodus 13 tells us that at the start of the Wilderness wanderings, the bones of Joseph were dealt with and looked after.

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    So when we come to the Book of Joshua and chapter 24, we know something about how the story ends at the end of the Wilderness wanderings, you see? And actually Joshua chapter 24, when maybe reading from verses, 29 and 30 to start with, it’s ears. It came to pass after these things that Joshua, the son of nun.

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    The servant of Yahweh died being and hundred and ten years old and they buried him in the border of his inheritance and Tim Nets Iran, which is in Mount. Ephraim on the north side of the hill of Gaius. Now, Joshua, of course, was the Civil leader and the captain of the host. So he dies.

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    He’s buried in Mount. Ephraim, says verse 30, but do you notice in the last verse in verse 33, it says Eleazar, the son of Aaron died, and they buried him in a hill that pertain to Phineas his son, which was given him and multi-frame. So, Eleazar is the spiritual leader, and the high priest, and he’s also buried in Mount Ephraim. And when these two died, the Civil leader, and the spiritual leader in a very real sense, the story of The conquest of the land and the granting of inheritance comes to an end. But in between those two stories, Lies. Another one that’s also associated with conquest and inheritance.

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    And verse 32 C is and the bones of Joseph which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt buried! They in chicken. So, Exodus 13, gives us the beginning of the journey and Joshua 24 gives us the end. Moses took the bones out of Egypt and Joshua brought the bones into the land and notice this when Israel arrived in the land, they didn’t just bury Joseph anywhere.

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    They didn’t just bring them to the land. No, no, they took his bones to shechem. It seems and buried them there and they buried them. They’re no doubt. Because that’s exactly where Joseph had asked them to bury his bones. I don’t just want you to take my bones to Israel. You I must bury them in shechem was the event that he had taken and we told him severely and Joshua chapter 20 and verse 7 that she can also was in Mount Ephraim.

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    In fact, we’re told here that to be more precise. It was a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of hamor. The father of shechem from hundred pieces of silver, and became the inheritance of the children of Joseph. So, Not only was Not an evil word, Joseph’s bones, buried and shit.

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    But they were buried in a specific place in shaken. In a particular, parcel of ground. So this must be one of those rare places in the land where the Patriarchs had obtained that piece of land by purchasing their lifetime. There weren’t many of those were the above and sisters Joseph was buried in a special field which his father owned the title Deeds to.

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    So now we know that chicken is the place where Joseph was be. But we still don’t quite know why. And before we can answer that, we need to add one more piece of the puzzle. If you come back to Deuteronomy chapter 21 in the law of the firstborn, we’re told this and Deuteronomy 21 when the record says in verse 16, then it shall be when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he had.

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    You may not make the son of the Beloved first form before, the son of the hated, which is indeed the firstborn official acknowledged. The son of the hated for the firstborn by giving him a double portion of all that he hath for what he is the beginning of the strength, the right of the firstborn is his now you see right at the end of that verse 17 minutes is about the right of the first born in the Hebrew, the word bakura, relaxed relates to the right of inheritance.

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    And in particular, to this double portion that’s mentioned in verse 17, the extra portion which was the mark of the status of the first ball. One. So that was a lure and Israel, the bakura. All right of the firstborn was related to their extra portion that the firstborn would enjoy. And remember also, if you come to the first 2 Chronicles chapter 5, as that story was outward in the history of the nation and of the tribes in particular, we’re told in the first of Chronicles and chapter 5 and in verses 1 and 2, With the record says in that place.

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    Now the sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel for he was the first born, but for as much as he did Father’s father’s be in his Birthright was given Unto the Sons of Joseph. The son of Israel in the genealogy is not to be reckoned above the birthright for Judah, prevailed above his Brethren and of him came the chief rule about the birthright was Joseph’s and that would Birthright and verse 1 and Birthright and verse 2.

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    The same word. But Cora that relates to the right of the firstborn and Deuteronomy chapter 21, the double portion belong to the firstborn son. So Joseph, it C is as he that was separate from his brother, his Brethren was Rick. And here is the first born because he conducted himself with all the spiritual decorum, worthy of the office of being first born, among his brethren So now come back to Genesis chapter 33 and now we can start to tie this reads together in terms of the thinness of the story. In Exodus chapter 33 after the meeting of Jacob with Esau, as he returned to the link and Genesis chapter 33 says right at the end of the chapter verse 18.

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    It is and Jacob came to Shalem. A city of shechem which is in the land of Canaan when he came from padanaram. And he pitched his tent before the city, it says he came to Shaylen, but Robert him says And Jacob came in, peace. To the city of shechem. And I think that’s probably a better translation. He came and peace to the city of shechem and the word coelom. Incidentally means to be made perfect or whole. That the suggestion has been made that perhaps this was the place where Jacob’s thigh was healed. Now whether that be true or not, it was certainly going to be the place where he would begin his life again in the land. After having been a Way for many years. So he comes in peace.

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    Nice to shake him to begin life, all over again. And verse 19 says, and he brought a passel of a field where he had spread his tent at the hands of the children of hamor, shechem’s, Father for 100 pieces of money. When it says 100 pieces of month either. Madge and C is 100 Layin eggs, maybe it was 100 Liam’s, or maybe it was money to the value of 100 length, but it’s the same word, Good in Joshua chapter 24, verse 32, bought for 100 pieces of money. A chosen field bought with a price of Liam’s. Now, here’s the question brothers and sisters. Why would Jacob seek to buy this particular parcel of a field? We answers, he needed to buy it so he could own it. But he needed to own it.

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    Because of what what he wanted to put on. And what he wanted to put on. That is verse 20, when it says and there he erected an altar and called it LL. Oh, hey, yesterday, he needed to have ownership right to build an altar to God to worship him. So Jacob, haven’t got back into the land. Immediately declared his separation from the surrounding Nations and his loyalty to the god of Israel Elohim of Israel. All the strength of the powerful ones of Israel. So he bought that piece of land precisely. So he could declare his loyalty to God and build an altar in their place.

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    But Jacob, don’t you think was consciously and deliberately following an example that already been set in his family of old because when we come back to Genesis chapter 12, you remember that when I Ibrahim, first comes into the Lend, that the record tells us That he also built an altar. And somehow the circumstances are strangely similar to Jacobs purchase in Genesis chapter 33 back.

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    Notice the parallel of thought here, Genesis 12 verse 6, and 7 C is and Abram passed through the land under the place of chicken and to the plane of moray. And the Canaanite was, then in the land and Yahweh appeared unto him and said unto thy seed, will I give this land and there builded? He an altar unto Yahweh, who appeared unto him. Now notice the connections, the place is the same. He’s in shechem where Jacob comes the circumstances of the same.

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    He’s amidst the Gentiles where Jacob finds himself and the response has the same. He builds an altar and probably the action of purchase is the same because Abraham most likely needed to buy this block in Genesis chapter 12 and verse 7. Also to put his otter and it’s here right here at shechem that Abraham was told for the very first time verse 7 unto thy seed, shall I give this land this land right here?

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    You Wonder Don’t You button sisters wind Jacob got there in Genesis 33 whether they might have still been signs of Abraham’s original altar in that place. So Jacob comes and what he really does. He pitches his tent not just and chicken but he says I want what that piece just their right. They want they want to buy that piece. I want that field in particular.

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    You see that’s the ground that was made Sacred By Its link to Abraham. That’s the piece that Jacob eyes. Genesis 33. It was his declaration that he stood related to the promises made to his father’s and he awaited their fulfillment through the strength of the powerful ones of Israel.

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    Oh yes, there was nothing. Accidental. Was there about that. Purchase of that piece of land and shaken by Jacob. And then suddenly brings us back to Genesis chapter 48 and to a little phrase that brings us full circle to where the story began, you see?

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    because in Genesis 48, the record series. This is 21. And Israel said unto Joseph behold. I die that God shall be with you and bring you again into the land of their fathers. Ah but that’s the very story of Joseph in Genesis 50:20 for I die and God will surely visit you and bring you out of this land where we really did. Joseph get those words from.

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    He’s quoting his father. It’s getting what his dad told him and Genesis 48:21. I die but God shall surely be with you. And bring you again. And now we’ve got the basis for Joseph urgency about the matter of his bones when he calls the nation to make oath concerning them unto him. and verse 22 says, moreover says, Jacob to Joseph in what incidentally must have been a private conversation between just these two. He says, moreover I’ve given to thee one portion of a vibration, which I took out of the hand of the Emirate with my soul. And with my bow, I’m giving one portion. All that’s interesting about thy brethren That’s the birthright inheritance, isn’t it of the firstborn? The extra piece.

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    The right of the firstborn is yours. My son, the double portion. And the portion referred to is the parcel of ground in shechem, which Jacob brought in Genesis chapter 33, and that unique site, associated with the promises made to the father’s is the one special extra portion that Jacob Awards to Joseph his son on this occasion.

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    And when he bequeathed it to Joseph, as his spiritual birth, right? He was really making Joseph his ear to the promises. Wasn’t he? The one who would inherit the hope of the promises that would run through Joseph? But interestingly verse 22. He doesn’t say I’ve given the one parcel.

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    Would pass all those used in Genesis 33 and wood. Parcel was used in Joshua 24 but Jacob, doesn’t call it a passel. He says, I’ve given you a port, one portion.

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    And the word portion here. In the Hebrews, why the word chicken? Oh yes, it’s that piece. That Jacob promises to his son. In fact, he says verse 22, I took her out of the hand of the Emirate with my sword. My bow. But this is this, the PC board and Genesis chapter 33 is it was But you see, I think the terrible events in shechem that were Unleashed by Simeon and Levi. In Genesis, 34 led to his removal from Assyrian at some states.

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    The amorites took their parcel deck, He bought up but he lost it because of the bad behavior of his sons. But so important was it status in Jacobs mind that he forcibly claimed back what was already his by purchase. That’s something that Patriarchs as strangers and sojourners would not normally have done, would they?

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    But this time he do. He said, no, I must have that piece of land. Becky took it by force and it’s that piece of land that he bequeathed to Joseph. Now brothers and sisters. I That action set Joseph’s have a light, absolutely see it as fart a lot. That piece of all pieces, Joseph news story that piece. now that was a private interview, wasn’t that really between the father and just this one son but it comes just before the public blessings of Genesis 49, when Jacob leases all the boys and I think that in the public policing Jacob will now till all the other brothers, that that’s the PC gave to Joseph, they’ll all know before Jacob dies. That all know.

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    We know that because you see what it says. Genesis 49 verse 22. He said Joseph is a fruitful bough. Even a fruitful bough by a well whose branches run over the wall.

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    So Jacobs blessing on Joseph pictures him as residing beside the well at chicken. That’s how he captures. The terms of the blessing to Joseph. Joseph will be a fruitful bough by the well at second. Now you might say, well chickens, not there in verse 22, I think it is, I think it really is.

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    How by the way? Well, let me ask you a question, you know, that some Wills when they board them in Old Testament times, will they found water? That was good to have a well with water, but some special Wills Struck a spring below, they were permanently filled with fresh water. Those were the very best Springs because of spring well fed by a spring enabled permanent habitation in their place and the word used here in the Hebrew.

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    When it says he it’s a Well the Hebrew word iyan means really a spring. So Young’s literal says, Joseph is a fruitful son of fruitful Son by a fountain. Mmm question. Who would know that the well at second was a fountain spring? Well, The answers the man who dug it. Which was Jacob himself.

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    And all the other boys knew to what Jacob their father was referring. When he promised that that future for Joseph, what he was really saying is I’ve given Joseph above you, she come with its spring. Will you see? Now why that’s interesting is because if we come now to the Book of John, the Gospel of John and chapter 4, you know that that story suddenly turns up again, does it not have the New Testament record and in such a marvelous way that verifies all that, we’ve seen them, those Old Testament passages. Because well, John chapter 4 says this John. Fathers five concerning our Lord, Sears then cometh. He to a city of Samaria, which is called sychar near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. So here it is near to the parcel of ground, by the way, seike is really shaken.

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    As an adverse five, there might be some argument about whether was another little village nearby, but the Sigh care of John 4, verse 5 as effectively shikun. And we know that precisely because it goes on to say it’s near to the parcel of ground which Jacob gave to his son so that’s the parcel of Genesis 33 that’s the parcel of Genesis 48 that’s the parcel of Joshua chapter 24.

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    Well here it is in the New Testament brothers sisters near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son and what was associated with their parcel. Verse 6. Now Jacob’s. Well, was there Jacobs will ask so Jacob didn’t dig that. Well, didn’t he? It was Jacob’s, Well, which is why he knew that it was a spring when he gave the promise in Genesis, chapter 49, you know, what’s interesting about the Greek of John for In verse 6, when the sisters, is that the word for well here in the New Testament is Piggy.

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    That means a well fed by a spring. Robert him says, now Jacobs Fountain was there. Oh, yes, this is the same place, exactly the same place, exactly the same parcel, exactly the same. Well, now, think about it answers. Just how remarkable that 1500 years after Joseph was buried in this place. The nation could still identify the parcel of ground which belonged to Joseph the place of a simple occur and The Well of Jacob, if there was one place in Israel that everyone knew it was the parcel of ground that belonged to Joseph remarkable. And by the way, don’t you think that John chapter 4 must confirm for us that the world must have been a spring? Because 1500 years later, they’re still drawing water from that same.

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    Well, So you see when the time for his death June, I Joseph who had spent almost all his life and Egypt said to his people, I want you to carry up my bones with you when God visits you and takes you home. And when you get there, I want you to bury my bones in the field that belongs to me.

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    So that, when the moment comes to fulfill those promises, the promises made to the father’s I’ll be right there in chicken when I awake. now, you promised me by solemn oath, that, you’ll take my bones, that he sees, and you see, he is an amazing thing, but this is just that embedded in this remarkable story, The scripture records for secret passages about a dead men’s bones. Genesis chapter 50, Exodus chapter 13, Joshua chapter 24, Hebrews chapter 11, the bones, the bones, the bones, the bones of Joseph.

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    Why they didn’t business? Because brothers and sisters in a very real sense. Joseph was at as most influential and as most inspirational in his death, his own desire was so strong that he sought his Birthright, even in death And his bones were buried in claim of his firstborn right of inheritance in the past of the grounders.

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    Father, gave to him and Shake him and that burial of the bones of Joseph and their proper resting place, was the final salute to Joseph that he might sleep in peace in the portion of the of the firstborn, what she valued, all his life, but never had all his lifetime. A dead men’s bones.

75. 40:08

    Buried near living Spring. Or the parable of the truth and it’s hope and sisters. Don’t you think? A dead men’s bones. Beside the living Spring and that Faith, which he hits. So Zyliss, so burning so fervent, his faith in the future actually carried them, through the Wilderness. A man who’s positive indomitable Spirit. Lifted them up and cause them to look forward in faith. All they might have carried his bones But he was their burden beer, wasn’t he?

76. 40:45

    He inspired the nation to complete that Journey. And that’s where he was buried. In the place of the burden, Bearer. Which is what she can. And perhaps really means, remember these words and the second of Corinthians and chapter forward, Where the record says this? and perhaps there’s a touch of the story lying in the apostles wounds, In the book of Corinthians in 2nd Corinthians, 4 and verse 8.

77. 41:26

    Is this not the spirit of Joseph of old, we are troubled on every side yet, not distressed. We are perplexed but not in despair persecuted, but not forsaken, cast down, but not destroyed. Always bearing about in the body, the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus. Might be manifest in our body but we were to live the alway delivered unto death for Jesus sake. That the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

78. 42:03

    They Carried the dead, men’s bones brother and sister they bought, they bought the dying of Joseph about them. But what really what really inspired and helped that generation was that in a sense, They Carried with with them, a man, whose life scope. Encourage them to continue in the way of the truth. That was the spirit of Joseph brothers sisters. May we all have a faith.

79. 42:28

    So deep, so real. And so food. That it will be with us from the beginning to the end. and that even if we die before, our Lord shall come, But we will pledge ourselves in death that we sleep likewise in Hope of the promises made to the father’s if we do that. We will offer our own salute. When we do the bearing of the bones of Joseph, as one of our hymns see is God, who cheered?

80. 43:10

    The faithful Joseph in his loan distress, he who bade the shepherd, Moses, leave the Wilderness salmon Israel from the darkness of Egyptian night. He by Moses freed. As people with a hand of might God who led his chosen people. All the Red Sea Road through the wilds and over Jordan to their blest Abode scattered them although he loved them.

81. 43:35

    He will draw them, hear it. For his promise to their fathers. People not forget.