Class 3 from this series was used in GCT Episode 313.
Slides for this class can be found HERE
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Well, good morning brothers and
sisters.
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Well, good morning brothers and
sisters.
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Good morning.
Well, this has been a great
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Bible school.
I have thoroughly, thoroughly
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enjoyed it.
I’ve loved being here.
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So first of all, then just three
little remarks before we start,
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we start our final study.
I, I would like to thank Brother
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Paul and, and the committee for
their amazing support and making
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sure that I feel very
comfortable and happy this week.
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Mission accomplished.
And it’s been absolutely
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wonderful.
I’d like to thank all of you and
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for all the lovely conversations
that I’ve enjoyed on the
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scriptures that the spiritual
atmosphere of this Bible school,
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I can say is palpable.
And it is a really lovely,
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lovely school, a very, very
special school.
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And it’s so encouraging for me
personally to see everyone so
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excited about the scriptures.
And then the third thank you is
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for raising such a great group
of young people.
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It’s been wonderful sharing a
week with them and they have so
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many questions.
And I have to say, for me
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personally, the highlight was
spending a night with them
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during their devotion and then
singing late into the night and
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a lovely concluding prayer.
I do feel that was the highlight
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of the week for me before I tuck
myself up into bed.
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So thank you all.
I’ve loved the week and thank
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you for having me.
So then we have explored Jacob’s
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journey from wrestling an Angel
to an encounter with God at
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Bethel.
We saw a personal crisis and how
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God commanded Jacob to put away
the strange gods and get back to
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Bethel.
And when he got back to Bethel,
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he renamed it ETH Bethel Ale of
House of God, and he recognized
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that it was in that place.
There was real strength.
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The moment was life changing for
him and God there officially
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called him Israel and revealed
the Angel that had been working
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with him all his life.
God Almighty El Shaddai and El
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Shaddai had been wrestling with
him in order for him to receive
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the promises.
But what we want to do this
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morning is to jump ahead and we
want to imagine Jacob after
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years, decades in fact, of
sorrow when he finds out that
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his beloved son isn’t lost
forever, but he’s actually the
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Prince of Egypt.
It’s a twist that no one saw
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coming.
Have a look then in Genesis
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chapter 45.
And brothers and sisters, this
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story now of Jacob and Joseph is
the climax of the whole story.
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The whole story of Jacob,
Genesis chapter 45, verse 25.
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Well, first one, this moving
moment.
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Then Jacob could not refrain
himself before all them that
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stood by him.
And he cried, ’cause every man
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to go out from me.
You can, you can hear the
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emotion in those words, can’t
you?
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And there stood no man with him,
while Joseph made himself known
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unto his brethren.
And that that that poignant
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moment his whole life had been
building to this moment when he
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finally reveals himself to his
brothers.
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Then verse 25 S his brothers
then went up out of Egypt and
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came into the land of Canaan,
and to Jacob their father, and
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told him, saying, Joseph is yet
alive.
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Imagine those words.
And he is governor over all the
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land of Egypt.
And Jacob’s heart fainted, for
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he believed them not.
And they told him all the words
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of Joseph which he had said unto
them.
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And when he saw the wagons which
Joseph had sent to carry him,
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the spirit of Jacob their father
revived.
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And Israel said, It is enough.
Joseph, my son is yet alive.
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I will go and see him before I
die.
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Now I want you to notice some
little terms here.
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Notice here that they refer to
Joseph in Egypt as notice the
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governor.
See that?
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If you look in the Revised
Version, you’ll have ruler the
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governor or the ruler over all
the land of Egypt.
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Now that’s very interesting.
We need to see that because
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notice what Joseph says to his
brothers in verse 8.
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He says there at the end that he
is a ruler.
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Notice throughout all the land
of Egypt.
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So I want you just to notice
that connection.
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They repeat word for word of
what Joseph had said to them in
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Egypt.
They pass on as messengers.
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Now that is significant because
if you just flick back to
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chapter 37 here, when remember
Joseph had this dream of the
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sheaves of his brothers bowing
down, showing abeyance to his
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sheaf, remember that?
And what was said of the
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brothers here?
What did they say to Joseph?
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37, verse 8 And his brethren
said unto him, Shalt thou indeed
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reign over us?
Now that word reign, there is
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the word Malak to be king now.
Now Joseph didn’t dream that he
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was being king.
They were mocking him.
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They were making fun of him.
They altered his word.
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They took the word from his,
from his dream and they changed
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it.
But notice now when you come
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back to Genesis chapter 45, they
don’t do that.
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Now they recognise that He is
ruling.
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You see the point?
They’re picking up the language
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of Genesis chapter 37 and
they’re acknowledging that the
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dream has come true.
The dream has come true.
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Joseph now is this man of
destiny.
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They are fully accepting of that
dream so many years ago.
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Well, as we come back to chapter
45, notice that when this is
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revealed to Jacob here, it says
and Jacob’s heart fainted for he
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believed them.
Not that the word or the phrase
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there, his heart fainted
literally means he turned cold,
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he became none.
And just imagine the dreadful
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unidentified despot in Egypt,
they’re saying turned out to be
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his son.
And Jacob didn’t believe them.
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And he had mistrusted his sons
for such a long time, for 20
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years.
Now again, just go back to
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chapter 37.
It’s a little phrase here, but
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it’s a very telling phrase and
I’d like you to underline it
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because it says everything about
Jacob and everything about his
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sons.
So after they they tell Jacob
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here that Joseph had been killed
by a wild animal.
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You notice these words in verse
35.
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And all his sons and all his
daughters rose up to comfort
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him.
What’s hypocrisy, knowing what
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they had done?
But this is the phrase I want
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you to notice.
But he refused to be comforted.
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And he said, for I will go down
into the grave and to my son
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mourning.
So he refused to be comforted.
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He refused.
He mistrusted his sons.
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And now it’s 20 years later.
And Jacob was going to the grave
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with his sorrow.
And now suddenly he hears that
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his son is alive and ruler in
Egypt.
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Now what is it in Chapter 45
that changes Jacob’s opinion of
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the news?
First of all, he doesn’t
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believe.
But we do read here that things
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change.
Verse 27.
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And they told him all the words
of Joseph which he’d said unto
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them.
And when he saw the wagons,
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that’s the phrase there.
When he saw the wagons which
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Joseph had sent to carry him,
the spirit of Jacob their father
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revived.
So what they said, he didn’t
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believe.
But when he saw something and he
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saw the physical evidence of
something, his heart was
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changed.
What was he looking at?
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He was looking at ornate and and
beautiful carriages.
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Those carriages that have been
made in Egypt.
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He could see right away that
they came from a royal palace.
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This was the physical evidence.
His sons could not do this.
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This is something that the sons
could not manipulate or contrive
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and the cart notice was heavily
laden.
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It was full of gifts and there
was only one man that would do
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this for him.
There was only one man who loved
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his father like this man, and it
was Joseph.
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And everything that he saw on
that cart, he knew it was for
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him to prepare him and to get
him ready for the long distance,
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the long trip down into Egypt.
This was a gift of love and he
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knew that this came from the
hand of Joseph.
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And suddenly a man, a man now
who had no comfort, He has the
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happiest day, I would believe,
of his life and notice that
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word.
There He was revived.
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I want you to notice that word
at the end of verse 27.
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He was revived.
It literally means to live for
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20 years.
Jacob was dead.
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I want you to see this.
When Joseph died, Jacob died
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with him.
But when Joseph is alive, Jacob
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sprints to life.
I I just want you to imagine the
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picture here of this old and and
grey haired and and bearded man
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who sat in his chair and he’s
wrapped up with his own thoughts
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and his own reflections and he
hardly says a word in the
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intervening period.
And then suddenly he’s up on his
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feet.
He springs to life and he’s a
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picture of vitality.
He has a resurrection.
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Joseph is alive and Jacob is
alive too.
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Can you see that, brothers and
sisters?
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It’s so beautiful, isn’t it?
So moving.
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But there’s something missing in
all of this.
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Did you see the confession of
the brothers?
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Did they confess?
Well, we need to read carefully
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here.
Notice what we read in verse 27.
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And they told him all the words
of Joseph.
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I want you to notice that.
Underline that phrase.
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And they told him all the words
of Joseph.
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Now look back at chapter 45
there and verses four to five
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and see what Joseph said.
If it was all the words of
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Joseph.
Well, what did Joseph say?
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And, and Joseph said these words
to his brothers.
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Verse four, I am your Joseph,
your brother, whom ye sold into
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Egypt.
That’s worth underlining, whom
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ye sold into Egypt.
So therefore then the brothers
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told their father that they sold
him into Egypt.
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They did indeed confess.
Now therefore be not grieved nor
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angry with yourselves that you
sold me hit her for God did send
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me before you to preserve life.
And then again in verse 8.
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So it was not you that sent me
hit her, but God and and you can
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now imagine the feelings and the
emotion here as as as these
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words are repeated word for word
from Joseph now to this old man
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Jacob.
And look what Jacob says here in
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verse 28, a very telling phrase
here.
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He listens, he’s got the
evidence.
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He sees the cart, it’s heavily
laden, this gift from Joseph.
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And he listens to these words
and he’s looking at his sons, a
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group, a band of brothers that
he’s not believed for 20 years.
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And the evidence now, what does
he say?
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It is enough.
It is enough.
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Joseph, my son is yet alive, and
I will go and see him before I
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die.
It is enough.
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The word literally means
abundant.
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There was overwhelming evidence
now that Joseph was alive.
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But it’s interesting, brothers
and sisters, because that phrase
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there it is enough would have
jogged the memory of Jacob
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because they are exactly the
words in the Hebrew that Esau
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said to Joseph.
Remember that it is enough.
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The 580 animals, the present,
the gift, the blessing, you have
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it.
It is enough.
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You can put in your margin 33
verse 9.
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It’s the same phrase.
Genesis 33 verse 9 is a very
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it’s it’s used purposely here.
Now, why is it that that, oh,
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Jacob says it is enough, but he
doesn’t say I have all things.
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Remember what, what Jacob said.
Jacob doesn’t say that again,
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because he still wants to see
him.
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He still wants to see him.
He doesn’t have all things quite
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yet.
It is enough.
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The evidence is overwhelming,
but he wants to see his son.
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Now, brothers and sisters, if
you reflect upon this, it’s
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incredibly moving because what
we’re seeing here, just think
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for a moment, just pause and
just think.
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Just think of what we’ve just
seen.
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The love between the father and
son, between Jacob and Joseph
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covered the sins of many.
Think about that, how Joseph had
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forgiven his brothers, how Jacob
now forgives his sons, and it
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was all driven by the love of a
father and son for one another.
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Doesn’t that remind you of
something?
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How moving that is?
It covered the sins of many.
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They were forgiven through this
love of a father and a son.
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And so as Joseph forgives his
brothers in the Royal Court in
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Egypt, and now Jacob forgives
his sons in Israel, we can think
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like father, like son.
How wonderful.
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So the final meeting now between
Joseph and Jacob, this wonderful
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climax of Jake Jacob’s life is,
is building.
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And you can hear the emotion.
You can also hear the heart of
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both of these men racing as they
approach this final face to
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face.
And it’s interesting if we just
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think very quickly of how long
the intervening period was
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between this meeting and when
they finally said goodbye all
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those years ago.
So.
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So Joseph was 17 when he sold
into slavery.
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He became governor of 30.
There were seven years of plenty
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and then two years of the
famine.
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It was in the two years of the
family famine there that he
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meets his father again.
So it’s 22 years. 22 long years
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had passed since he saw his
father and he would be feeling
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it.
So with that, then come over a
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chapter now, please.
And let’s have a look at chapter
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2046, chapter 46.
Now verse 29 so this is the
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final meeting, 22 long years had
passed and now this emotional
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scene.
Just just imagine it, brothers
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and sisters, it’s hard to, isn’t
it?
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Verse 29 And Joseph made ready
as Chariots and went up to meet
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Israel, his father to Goshen,
and presented himself unto him.
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Now notice Jacob now is referred
to as Israel, and he fell on his
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neck, and wept on his neck a
good while.
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And Israel said unto Joseph, Now
let me die, since I’ve seen thy
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face.
I’d like you to note, because
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thou art yet alive.
So Jacob, Israel here says, I
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have seen thy face.
I want you just to think about
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that for a moment because that’s
the theme of this week.
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But just notice a few little
things, important things that
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happened before that because I
think they’re very important.
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Verse 29 tells us that Joseph
presented himself to Jacob and
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that the idea you would, you
would imagine, is that there was
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the overwhelming evidence.
But here Jacob had to see the
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evidence.
He had to handle the evidence.
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And so you’d imagine, wouldn’t
you, that here is Joseph as he
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presents himself to his father,
that he’s alive.
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But that’s not the meaning of
the name, although that
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obviously happened.
Although Jacob handled his son
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and loved his son, and Joseph
wept on his neck, That’s not the
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point of the word.
The word presented there is an
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interesting word, although it
means let oneself to be seen.
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When you look at the Genesis
account, you see that it relates
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to theophany, how God manifests
his glory all the way through
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the book of Genesis.
It’s the manifestation of God.
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And so I just want to plant this
word in your mind.
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I want you just to start now
imagining and we’re going to
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come back to this scene.
But there was something in this
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meeting, although Jacob was
going to handle Joseph and he’s
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going to love Joseph and, and,
and finally he sees that his son
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is indeed living and breathing
and ruling in Egypt.
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And what a wonderful moment that
was.
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That’s not the point of
Scripture here.
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There was something in that
meeting when he finally comes
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face to face with Joseph that
God also was present, that God
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also was present.
But just just think about that
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for a moment.
I want you to to imagine the
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scene here.
You could you could cut the
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atmosphere, couldn’t you?
Before the reunion, Jacob
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probably was, was overjoyed and
stunned, wasn’t he?
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He was stunned, barely believing
Joseph still to be alive.
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And for Joseph, he would be
excited, but he would be
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nervous, wouldn’t he?
He would be eager to share
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everything from his his
harrowing journey to this.
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To this rise to power, just
imagine all the things that
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Joseph wanted to share with his
father of what had happened.
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So with that, then look at what
we read there as we saw in verse
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30, that when they do meet,
Jacob says there as Israel.
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Now let me die, since I’ve seen
thy face, because thou art yet
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alive.
So we’re going to now think
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about the presence of God.
I have seen thy face, says
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Israel to Joseph.
Now, of course, when Jacob met
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Esau, you can go back to chapter
33 and verse 10.
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He says these words, isn’t he?
I have seen thy face as though I
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had seen the face of God, and
thou wast pleased with me.
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We’ve seen that, haven’t we?
That was chapter 33 and verse 10
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and the night before he wrestled
with an Angel and in the morning
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he called the place Peniel.
Because we read in chapter 32
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and verse 30 for I have seen God
face to face and my life is
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preserved.
Now we need to make those
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connections and This is why the
theme is about the face of
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Jacob.
He says there when he sees
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Joseph, I have seen thy face.
And we’ve already noted that
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this idea of presenting Joseph,
presenting himself is a a
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glorious theophany.
It is the IT is the power of
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God, the glory of God being
revealed in that individual.
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So having said that, we’ve also
seen how we’ve got these little
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echoes in the past, how when
Jacob finally met Esau and he
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was thinking about the face of
Esau, when he looks in the eyes
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of Esau, he says, you know what,
Esau, when I look at you, I see
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the face of God.
And the night before he wrestled
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with an Angel, been looking into
the eyes of the Angel all night
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and he calls the place penny up
the face of God.
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So we’ve got all these lovely
connections.
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What’s going on, brothers and
sisters?
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It’s something amazing when
Joseph finally reveals himself,
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and when Joseph is seen by his
father and his father comes up
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close and looks at him, he sees
God.
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He sees the face of God, the
Joseph that he remembers all
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those years past.
That face has been transformed.
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It’s been changed.
God was in this man, It was
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plain, it was unmistakable.
Think about that.
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God was in this man and just
think now.
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Now we can make the connections.
Why, why?
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Why is the connection important?
When he looked before at Esau,
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he swore an enemy and he sees
the face of God.
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What did he conclude?
He concluded that God was at
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work in his life through Esau.
This difficult man and all the
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challenges that Esau brought to
him.
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He saw God working in his life
through Esau.
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Now all the travail of Joseph
that have broken his heart for
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all these years, 22 young long
years, and he looks in the face
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of Joseph and he recognizes
God’s divine Providence.
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God was at work in Joseph to
bring about what salvation to
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him, his family, and to all
Israel.
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Can you see both these faces are
faces of divine Providence.
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God was in the face of Esal and
God was in the face of Joseph
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and both these men were working
in Jacob’s life to bring him to
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this point.
How amazing is that?
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Brothers and sisters, He is
recognizing El Shaddai.
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God Almighty was orchestrating
all these things to bring him
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and his people, his family to
this point in time.
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And seeing all this, he says
there in verse 30, Now let me
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die.
Jacob now knows when he looks
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into the face of Joseph and he
sees the face of God, this
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glorious theophany, just as
Moses and Elijah upon the mount
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saw the glory of God, I believe
here Jacob sees this face as the
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glorious manifestation of God
Himself, shining brightly.
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That’s what he saw.
It was over, his journey was
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completed, his heart was mended,
he was at peace, he had his son,
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and he sees that his entire life
God was at work.
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Let’s reflect upon our own
lives, brothers and sisters, as
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we think about this.
But he says something
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interesting here, verse 31.
So seeing the face of God, he’s
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now at peace.
His heart now has been stitched,
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it’s mended.
And Joseph now said unto his
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brethren, I will go up and show
Pharaoh.
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But if you come back to if you
go over to a chapter 2, chapter
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47 now and now you look at verse
31 in all this Jacob says here
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swear unto me and he swear unto
him and Israel bowed himself
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upon the beds head.
So just want to just go forward
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a little bit of time now.
So you’ve got this great moment
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where Jacob sees the face of God
in Joseph, and Joseph now goes
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to Pharaoh and makes
arrangements for Jacob and the
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family to be there in Goshen in
Egypt for 17 years. 17 years?
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That’s interesting, isn’t it?
It’s like 2 bookends.
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Joseph is here with his father
for 17 years in Egypt, and he
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was at home in the land with his
father for 17 years before he
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left divine Providence. 2
bookends there, but as he gets
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old now he makes a wish, a
request.
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He wants Joseph to make an oath.
You see there verse 29 And the
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And the time drew nigh that
Israel must die.
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And he called his son Joseph,
and says, here, if I found
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favour grace in thy sight, put I
pray thee thy hand upon my my
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thigh, and deal kindly and truly
with me.
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Bury me not, I pray thee in
Egypt, but I will lie with my
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father’s, and thou shalt carry
me out of Egypt, and bury me in
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their burying place.
And he said, I will do as thou
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hast said.
And then he says, Swear unto me,
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and he swear unto him.
And Israel bowed himself upon
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the beds head.
Why don’t you just to notice
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that phrase there.
So there he is.
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He’s about to die 17 years now.
We’re right now in the final
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days of of Jacob.
And he says there to his
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favoured son, swear unto me.
Now the last time Jacob said
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these words, swear unto me.
You can put in your margin
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there.
It’s Genesis 25, verse 33.
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They are exactly the same words.
Can you remember?
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It’s where it all began.
Swear unto me.
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And that was the moment when he
wanted Esau’s birthright.
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Remember there was that
exchange, the pottage for the
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birthright.
And Jacob says to his older
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brother, Esau, swear unto me.
Swear unto me that you’ll give
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me the birthright.
And he takes the birthright now,
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right now, at the end of his
life, he picks up the very same
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language, swear unto me, but
he’s directing now these words
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to his favoured son, Joseph.
And it’s about a birthright.
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But we have now a very different
Jacob.
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The birthright was about an
individual within a family
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taking that threefold
responsibility.
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Remember that the head of the
home, the priest, and the double
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portion.
And if you think about it, that
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responsibility is all about
people, individuals within
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families.
But that birthright now was in
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Egypt.
The people were in Egypt, and
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what Jacob wants now is to unite
the birthright back with the
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blessing.
What was the blessing?
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The blessing was a seed, a name,
a people, and a nation.
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It was in the land.
You see that?
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And so now Jacob picks up this
phrase of birthright, and he
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says to Joseph, I want you to
swear that you take my bones now
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out of this place, and you take
it now back to the land, to the
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land of my forefathers, the land
that I bear as a name.
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So he’s connecting now the
birthright and the blessing and
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brothers and sisters.
This is incredibly powerful
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because at the end of 17 years,
when he looks at Joseph and all
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the wonderful things that Joseph
has done for him and his family,
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Jacob is saying here, it’s like
an appeal.
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Joseph, listen to me.
I, I, I appreciate all the
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wonderful things that you’ve
done that you’ve saved us.
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But Joseph, my heart is not
here.
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My heart belongs elsewhere.
Swear to me, son, I want you to
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get into the emotion and feeling
it.
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Swear to me, son, that when I
die, you take my bones and you
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take them back to the land of my
forefathers.
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And Joseph, he swore.
He swore, brothers and sisters,
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so it’s all about the
birthright.
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Now when this little exchange
took place between Jacob and
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Joseph, notice how the the the
chapter concludes chapter 47.
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And at this moment here, when
Joseph swore.
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00:32:13,320 –> 00:32:20,160
I’ll take your bones, Father.
I’ll make sure that those bones
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00:32:20,160 –> 00:32:26,120
are taken.
Israel bowed himself upon the
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00:32:26,120 –> 00:32:32,200
bed’s head.
So soon as Joseph guaranteed
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00:32:32,840 –> 00:32:37,000
that those bones of Joseph of
Jacob would be carried into the
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00:32:37,000 –> 00:32:44,400
land of Israel.
Soon as that was made, Israel
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00:32:45,000 –> 00:32:47,920
bowed himself upon the bed’s
head.
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00:32:49,200 –> 00:32:55,360
That phrase there bowed himself,
means to bow down, to worship,
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00:32:56,160 –> 00:33:03,040
to prostate oneself, to fall
down flat.
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00:33:06,000 –> 00:33:08,280
And isn’t it interesting,
brothers and sisters, that it’s
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00:33:08,280 –> 00:33:12,200
here, right at the end of
Jacob’s life, when we think
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00:33:12,200 –> 00:33:15,680
about a man and all those
faithful moments, including
447
00:33:16,120 –> 00:33:18,800
wrestling with the Angel in the
power of God?
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00:33:18,800 –> 00:33:25,000
It is here at the end of chapter
47 that gets Jacob into Hebrews
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00:33:25,000 –> 00:33:26,760
11.
Why is that?
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00:33:27,400 –> 00:33:31,640
Why is it that we read these
words in Hebrews 11 verse 21 by
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00:33:31,640 –> 00:33:34,320
faith?
Jacob, when he was dying,
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00:33:35,560 –> 00:33:40,520
worshipped, leaning upon the top
of his staff.
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00:33:40,760 –> 00:33:43,760
Why is that?
Just think for a moment.
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00:33:49,300 –> 00:33:51,540
There’s been a number of things
have been building to this
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00:33:51,540 –> 00:33:54,020
moment.
Remember the dream?
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00:33:55,340 –> 00:33:56,900
I think it’s all based upon the
dream.
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00:33:57,640 –> 00:34:02,560
Remember the dream that Joseph
had and how he shared it to his
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00:34:02,560 –> 00:34:05,360
brothers.
And what did Jacob say?
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00:34:06,760 –> 00:34:08,960
Just listen carefully to these
words.
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00:34:08,960 –> 00:34:14,840
It’s Genesis 37, verse 10.
Jacob said, Shall I and thy
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00:34:14,840 –> 00:34:19,840
mother and thy brethren indeed
come down ourselves, bow down
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00:34:19,840 –> 00:34:34,560
ourselves to thee, to the earth?
Jacob had said that to this
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00:34:34,560 –> 00:34:39,159
Joseph.
Are you saying, Joseph, that
464
00:34:39,159 –> 00:34:40,880
we’re all going to bow down to
you?
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00:34:43,719 –> 00:34:48,000
The mothers weren’t there, and
the brothers had already bowed
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00:34:48,000 –> 00:34:54,000
down 17 years earlier.
They’d been in Egypt for 17
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00:34:54,000 –> 00:34:57,320
years.
And now the moment had come.
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00:34:58,480 –> 00:35:02,680
The Jacob, this old man about to
die.
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00:35:03,320 –> 00:35:05,480
Can you imagine?
He’s leaning on his staff.
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00:35:08,000 –> 00:35:11,640
He’s leaning on his staff and
his creaking frame.
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00:35:12,760 –> 00:35:18,000
He gets lower and lower and he’s
looking at his son.
472
00:35:18,960 –> 00:35:25,080
Lower and lower until his head
touches the head of the staff
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00:35:27,040 –> 00:35:38,040
and he’s prostate and he
worships his son and brothers
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00:35:38,040 –> 00:35:41,160
and sisters.
It is because of this moment he
475
00:35:41,160 –> 00:35:46,080
gets into Hebrews Chapter 11 and
I believe it is an act of
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00:35:46,080 –> 00:35:50,880
worship.
I believe it is an act of
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00:35:50,880 –> 00:35:56,440
worship.
At the end of Jacob’s life,
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00:35:57,560 –> 00:36:03,080
bearing now the name of Israel,
I believe he bowed down.
479
00:36:03,080 –> 00:36:08,400
He bows down to his son in the
full realization and recognition
480
00:36:10,400 –> 00:36:17,000
that his entire family has been
saved through this man.
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00:36:19,160 –> 00:36:23,280
The dream was true.
He was a man of destiny, this
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00:36:23,360 –> 00:36:32,920
was Joseph.
And think about it.
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00:36:33,880 –> 00:36:43,360
By doing that he is relating in
his mind, Jacob, the stone of
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00:36:43,360 –> 00:36:46,040
Bethel.
Remember that The stone that he
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00:36:46,040 –> 00:36:49,760
anointed and raised, and then
the stone that have fallen down
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00:36:49,760 –> 00:36:54,000
at Bethel, and he raises again,
and he anoints it with wine, the
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00:36:54,000 –> 00:36:56,880
drink offering, and with oil
again.
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00:36:57,600 –> 00:37:04,920
The anointed stone of Israel is
a symbol of the coming Messiah.
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00:37:06,720 –> 00:37:10,360
It finds its living embodiment
in the life and character of
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00:37:10,360 –> 00:37:13,120
Joseph.
And when Jacob looked into the
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00:37:13,120 –> 00:37:22,240
eyes of his son, he saw the eyes
of deity, the face of God, and
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00:37:22,240 –> 00:37:26,040
his heart was filled, I believe,
with with awe and reverence.
493
00:37:26,680 –> 00:37:28,880
And he now acknowledges what he
saw.
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00:37:30,520 –> 00:37:39,200
This is the stone, brothers and
sisters, This is the man that
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00:37:39,200 –> 00:37:41,840
the stone in his life was just a
shadow of things to come.
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00:37:41,840 –> 00:37:46,480
And now he recognizes that the
stone pointed forward to a man
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00:37:46,640 –> 00:37:49,400
just like this.
Can you see?
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00:37:50,280 –> 00:37:56,440
This is why he bows down.
Bethel was the place where where
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00:37:56,760 –> 00:37:59,600
Jacob had invoked Yahweh in the
name of Yahweh.
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00:37:59,600 –> 00:38:01,560
It was all pointing forward to
Messiah.
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00:38:01,760 –> 00:38:05,520
But Jacob hadn’t seen the
reality of what this man would
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00:38:05,520 –> 00:38:08,680
be like.
And this man was like Joseph,
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00:38:09,120 –> 00:38:15,200
you see, And so he worships him.
There’d been so many pointers in
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00:38:15,200 –> 00:38:17,480
his life what this one would be
like.
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00:38:17,480 –> 00:38:22,280
And it’s just like Joseph, and
here I believe This is why he
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00:38:22,280 –> 00:38:25,480
gets in Hebrews 11, because he
has a moment now of perfect
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00:38:25,480 –> 00:38:29,800
clarity.
Jacob sees what the Messiah, the
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00:38:29,800 –> 00:38:36,440
promised Messiah, would be like.
This was the one who would bring
509
00:38:36,440 –> 00:38:41,400
about new Israel, faithful
Israel.
510
00:38:41,640 –> 00:38:45,120
And how would it be done?
How would it be achieved?
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00:38:45,400 –> 00:38:48,880
How would Jacob truly be
transformed to Israel?
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00:38:49,840 –> 00:38:51,760
Through someone just like
Joseph?
513
00:38:53,400 –> 00:38:57,440
Through one who brings about
deliverance when he’s been sent
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00:38:57,440 –> 00:39:01,400
before?
One who goes from death to life,
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00:39:01,880 –> 00:39:04,920
One who goes from humility to
splendour?
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00:39:05,120 –> 00:39:10,440
One who was once hidden but is
now visible.
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00:39:10,440 –> 00:39:11,680
Can you see that, brothers and
sisters?
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00:39:11,680 –> 00:39:13,320
It’s amazing, isn’t it, when you
see it.
519
00:39:18,320 –> 00:39:21,160
And so now there is full
recognition and acknowledgement
520
00:39:23,400 –> 00:39:31,800
in Jacob the Joseph.
The Joseph is greater than him.
521
00:39:33,720 –> 00:39:39,520
And this patriarch, this
faithful man, he bowed down in
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00:39:39,520 –> 00:39:47,200
recognition of how God has
worked through Joseph in his
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00:39:47,200 –> 00:39:53,280
life.
And so again we see the elder
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00:39:54,200 –> 00:40:00,000
shall serve the younger.
The elder shall serve the
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00:40:00,000 –> 00:40:04,760
younger.
I want to finish our week
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00:40:04,760 –> 00:40:07,200
together now in Hebrews Chapter
11.
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00:40:12,320 –> 00:40:16,680
Hebrews, Chapter 11.
And we read these words in verse
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00:40:16,680 –> 00:40:23,280
22 concerning Joseph.
We’ve already read concerning
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00:40:23,280 –> 00:40:26,680
Jacob leaning upon the top of
his staff.
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00:40:27,240 –> 00:40:30,360
That’s how he gets into Hebrews
11, the acknowledgement of
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00:40:30,360 –> 00:40:36,160
Joseph the deliverer at the end
of his life after all the
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00:40:36,160 –> 00:40:40,960
travail.
But verse 22 by faith, Joseph
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00:40:40,960 –> 00:40:44,520
when he died, made mention of
the departing of the children of
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00:40:44,520 –> 00:40:50,120
Israel and gave commandment
concerning his bones.
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00:40:53,360 –> 00:40:57,680
I believe verses 21 and 22 are
related.
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00:40:58,080 –> 00:41:02,840
They are interlinked.
How does Jacob get into Hebrews
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00:41:02,840 –> 00:41:08,400
11?
Well, he says to his his son
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00:41:08,400 –> 00:41:14,760
Joseph, swear to me, swear to
me, that you will take my bones
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00:41:15,080 –> 00:41:22,520
back to the land.
And when Joseph says he would,
540
00:41:23,840 –> 00:41:27,320
then Jacob gets into Hebrews 11
by bowing down to him.
541
00:41:28,080 –> 00:41:33,640
And what is the reason for
Joseph getting into Hebrews 11?
542
00:41:35,760 –> 00:41:41,280
Because we read there he made
mention of the departing of the
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00:41:41,280 –> 00:41:44,040
children Israel, and gave
commandment concerning his
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00:41:44,040 –> 00:41:45,320
bones.
Can you see what he does?
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00:41:46,000 –> 00:41:49,720
Joseph gets into Hebrews 11
because he follows the example
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00:41:49,720 –> 00:41:55,280
of his father.
Jacob gets into Hebrews 11
547
00:41:55,280 –> 00:42:00,000
because he says swear to me
concerning his bones and then
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00:42:00,000 –> 00:42:02,120
bows down and he gets into
Hebrews 11.
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00:42:02,640 –> 00:42:06,920
Can you see and now Joseph gets
into Hebrews 11 because he
550
00:42:06,920 –> 00:42:11,240
remembers that little exchange
between swear to me and Joseph
551
00:42:11,360 –> 00:42:14,440
making the oath and his father
bows down to him and he
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00:42:14,440 –> 00:42:17,600
remembers that.
And then in his final days, he
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00:42:17,600 –> 00:42:20,640
says, I remember what my father
said and I’m going to do the
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00:42:20,640 –> 00:42:24,680
same.
You take my bones back to the
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00:42:24,680 –> 00:42:25,960
land.
You see that.
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00:42:26,800 –> 00:42:31,600
And so then in other, in other
words, 21 and 22 is the, is the
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00:42:31,600 –> 00:42:35,760
faith of Jacob and Joseph.
And they’re both there in
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00:42:35,760 –> 00:42:38,760
Hebrews 11.
But they’re both there in a way
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00:42:38,760 –> 00:42:44,800
because of Jacob.
You see, Jacob’s there because
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00:42:45,240 –> 00:42:48,280
of the recognition of how God
had been working in his life,
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00:42:48,960 –> 00:42:54,200
and he recognizes now the work
of Joseph and the heartbreak of
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00:42:54,200 –> 00:42:57,240
all those intervening years.
And Joseph’s there in Hebrews 11
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00:42:57,440 –> 00:42:59,360
because of the example of his
father.
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00:43:01,440 –> 00:43:06,320
How wonderful.
And so then Joseph, who could
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00:43:06,320 –> 00:43:11,040
have had his body preserved in
some Egyptian pyramid, he looked
566
00:43:11,040 –> 00:43:17,120
ahead with the eyes of faith.
This mighty man of Egypt bound
567
00:43:17,120 –> 00:43:22,640
his family by an oath to bury
him in Canaan, a place in a land
568
00:43:22,640 –> 00:43:24,960
that he’d only spent 17 years of
his life.
569
00:43:25,240 –> 00:43:31,040
But now Joseph wants to be
reconnected with the blessing,
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00:43:32,960 –> 00:43:40,480
with the land and the people.
So I believe, brothers and
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00:43:40,480 –> 00:43:47,400
sisters, Jacob’s words to Joseph
were truly life saving.
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00:43:48,360 –> 00:43:54,760
Jacob reaches a zenith, a
pinnacle in faith, when he
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00:43:54,760 –> 00:43:58,080
arrives in Egypt, and he’s a
constant reminder.
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00:43:58,080 –> 00:44:02,520
He serves as a constant reminder
of where the devotion of God’s
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00:44:02,520 –> 00:44:06,680
people should be.
When Jacob is in Egypt, he
576
00:44:06,680 –> 00:44:10,680
becomes the full embodiment of
the hope of Israel.
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00:44:11,360 –> 00:44:13,640
There was Joseph, and he
believed in his God and he
578
00:44:13,640 –> 00:44:17,520
believed in Yahweh, but he was
forsaking the land.
579
00:44:18,600 –> 00:44:24,080
And it was Jacob who rekindled
and reconnected Joseph with his
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00:44:24,080 –> 00:44:26,880
land and his people there.
Can you see that, brothers and
581
00:44:26,880 –> 00:44:32,840
sisters?
And so then Joseph had gone to
582
00:44:32,880 –> 00:44:40,480
Egypt to save God’s people from
death, and Jacob had gone to
583
00:44:40,600 –> 00:44:51,200
Egypt to save God’s people from
spiritual death and to show them
584
00:44:51,880 –> 00:45:01,890
the way out.
Brothers and sisters, Jacob had
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00:45:03,050 –> 00:45:05,930
his ups and downs.
We’ve seen that this week.
586
00:45:08,290 –> 00:45:13,930
But as he approached the end of
his life, he broke the tape and
587
00:45:13,930 –> 00:45:19,760
searched past the line.
He was a man of faith, a
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00:45:19,760 –> 00:45:26,760
wonderful example to Joseph and
his sons, the embodiment of the
589
00:45:26,760 –> 00:45:31,920
hope of Israel.
And when Jacob finds himself in
590
00:45:31,920 –> 00:45:37,040
Egypt, there is no stopping him.
He is roaring to the Kingdom.
591
00:45:40,240 –> 00:45:43,680
So what are the big lessons for
us at the end of this week in
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00:45:43,680 –> 00:45:50,080
the life of Jacob?
Number one, we are to set our
593
00:45:50,080 –> 00:45:54,640
hearts on Israel.
Regardless where we are,
594
00:45:55,080 –> 00:45:59,000
regardless of what circumstances
are taking place in our life,
595
00:45:59,200 –> 00:46:03,880
our heart should always be on
God’s land and people.
596
00:46:06,520 –> 00:46:15,520
We need to all hold fast to the
hope of Israel #2 we struggle to
597
00:46:15,520 –> 00:46:21,040
transform.
The transformation of Jacob to
598
00:46:21,120 –> 00:46:26,200
Israel was all about hanging on
to God.
599
00:46:27,000 –> 00:46:29,280
And brothers and sisters,
whatever is happening in your
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00:46:29,280 –> 00:46:32,920
life and will, whatever will
happen in your life and my life
601
00:46:32,920 –> 00:46:36,560
between now and God’s coming
Kingdom, we’ve got to learn to
602
00:46:36,560 –> 00:46:43,800
hold on.
Hold on for dear life until our
603
00:46:43,800 –> 00:46:55,400
Lord grants us the blessing and
lesson #3 it’s all about.
604
00:46:57,360 –> 00:47:01,400
It’s all about the destination
and not the journey.
605
00:47:02,760 –> 00:47:06,840
Of course we’re going to have
ups and downs, bumps and moments
606
00:47:06,840 –> 00:47:09,480
of discomfort as we make our way
to God’s Kingdom.
607
00:47:10,840 –> 00:47:15,200
But it’s not about the journey,
it’s about how we end it.
608
00:47:16,840 –> 00:47:21,680
And there was Jacob in Egypt
roaring to the Kingdom.
609
00:47:22,800 –> 00:47:26,720
That’s the example.
It’s how we end it, brothers and
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00:47:26,720 –> 00:47:30,520
sisters.
And how comforting it is to know
611
00:47:31,880 –> 00:47:35,200
that just as Jacob now has
clarity as he sees the face of
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00:47:35,200 –> 00:47:41,120
God, we too will have a moment
of perfect clarity in God’s
613
00:47:41,120 –> 00:47:46,680
Kingdom by God’s good grace, as
we look back upon our lives and
614
00:47:46,680 –> 00:47:53,000
we see those moments when we are
broken, when we have been
615
00:47:53,240 –> 00:47:59,160
reduced to nothing, when we feel
that we can’t hold on anymore,
616
00:48:01,200 –> 00:48:04,160
that’s when God’s at work with
us.
617
00:48:04,600 –> 00:48:06,680
That’s when we’re wrestling with
God.
618
00:48:07,040 –> 00:48:11,440
And that’s when true
transformation takes place.
619
00:48:11,880 –> 00:48:16,280
Brothers and sisters, in all the
challenges and obstacles and
620
00:48:16,280 –> 00:48:24,080
difficulties that you and I have
in this life, as we face our
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00:48:24,080 –> 00:48:33,720
problems head on, let us in
faith see the face of God and
622
00:48:33,720 –> 00:48:41,400
know this, that the journey we
take and the course that we make
623
00:48:41,400 –> 00:48:48,760
in life has been designed for us
individually so that we, like
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00:48:48,840 –> 00:48:53,040
Israel, can enter into God’s
coming Kingdom.
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00:48:54,480 –> 00:49:04,320
Let us trust with all our hearts
God’s perfect plan for you and
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00:49:04,320 –> 00:49:04,680
for me.
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