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Let's stand up.

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The

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humble poor believe.

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The

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triumphs

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of His grace.

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The triumphs of His grace.

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Let's come to our great God in prayer.

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Lord, we have just been singing some of

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the most choicest verses of praise ever written

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in the history of hymns.

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The honors of the name of your beloved

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Son we would want to bring to you

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as we link together in an anthem of

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praise and holy worship.

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Lord, we're a congregation of differing units.

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Some have known you for many a long

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year.

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More qualified than the preacher to proclaim the

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message.

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Some are just at the beginnings of the

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Christian faith.

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Hardly able to walk, let alone run.

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Some are inquirers into truth, having not yet

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placed their hands in the nail-pierced hand

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of the Lord Jesus.

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Some are utterly cynical and skeptical.

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Whatever category we find ourselves in this night,

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we ask, Lord, that you will deal with

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us according to our need.

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Around your word, many of us gladly come.

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But for others, the concentration count is a

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difficult one to rise to when we pray

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for help.

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Many of us are convinced that it is

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through preaching that you proclaim your word today.

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We ask that the authority of your word

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may come through and hold each one of

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us spellbound.

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Lord, we just offer this service and all

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of us with all our great needs.

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And we ask, O Lord, that you will

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suit a blessing accordingly.

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We thank you for one another.

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We thank you for the privilege of gathering

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together.

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And now we pray for 94% and

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probably more of worthy.

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Lord, we thank you for a blessing that's

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not in church this evening, that was not

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in church during the Lord's day at all

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today.

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Lord, be with the church of the great

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unchurched, those who have not rejected you and

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yet have failed in the area of the

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discipleship that you want from them.

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And enable us to reach those who are

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sensitive by the power of your spirit to

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the claims of the gospel.

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And may such be brought into a knowledge

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of salvation through Jesus Christ, our Lord.

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So hear us and do us good during

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this next hour and a half or so.

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In the name of the Savior, Amen.

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Well, let me take you to Genesis.

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Because there, tucked away in the 47th chapter,

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are some interesting instructions.

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And they're fleshed out further in other verses

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in Genesis 49 and 50.

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We've been making our way through the life

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of Jacob.

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He may not be meaningful to you, but

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he was a great historical figure.

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And you can actually, if you're prepared to

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concentrate, see a great deal of yourself and

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therefore a great deal of relevance in his

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life as we look into it.

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But I want to show you not only

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about Jacob this evening, but also about one

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who was greater than Jacob.

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Jacob became a prince with God because, well,

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God astonishingly decided that Jacob was a fit

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companion for him.

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But a more wonderful prince was our beloved

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Lord Jesus.

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And there is a sense in which Jacob

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anticipates, prefigures our Lord.

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Well, here is this aged man at the

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end of his life, and he's in Egypt.

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And we pick up the reading from the

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47th chapter of Genesis and the 28th verse.

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Jacob lived in Egypt 17 years, and the

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years of his life were 147.

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When the time drew near for Israel, that's

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another name for Jacob.

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Israel means prince with God.

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And when the time drew near for Israel

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to die, he called for his son Joseph

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and said to him, If I have found

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favor in your eyes, put your hand under

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my thigh.

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That's a euphemism.

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To do what was being asked was actually

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to put the hand on the reproductive organ,

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which was a very solemn and a very

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sensitive and a very intimate thing in which

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to engage in the culture of that day.

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If I have found favor in your eyes,

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put your hand under my thigh and promise

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that you will show me kindness and faithfulness.

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Do not bury me in Egypt, but when

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I rest with my fathers, carry me out

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of Egypt and bury me where they are

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buried.

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I will do as you say, Joseph said.

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Swear to me, Jacob said.

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Then Joseph swore to him, and Israel, that

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is Jacob, Israel worshipped as he leaned on

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the top of his staff.

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Same context.

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Jacob, Israel, said to Joseph, I am about

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to die, but God will be with you

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and take you back to the land of

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your fathers.

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And to you, as one who is over

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your brothers, I give the ridge of land

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I took from the Amorites with my sword

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and my bow.

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The 49th chapter.

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Jacob's now got all his sons together, and

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he predicts the pilgrimage, the sort of career

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that they will have.

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We pick out one.

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He speaks to Judah.

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You are a lion's cub, O Judah.

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You return from the prey, my son.

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Like a lion he crouches and lies down,

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like a lioness who dares to rouse him.

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The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor

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the ruler's staff from between his feet, until

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he comes to whom it belongs.

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And the obedience of the nation is his.

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He will tether his donkey to a vine,

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his colt to the choicest branches.

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He will wash his garments in wine, his

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robes in the blood of grapes.

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His eyes will be darker than wine, his

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teeth whiter than milk.

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When Jacob had finished giving instructions to his

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sons, he drew his feet up into the

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bed, breathed his last, and was gathered to

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his people.

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Then we read in the 50th chapter how

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they set off.

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They contacted tribes of Alexandria, or maybe it

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was Dilestans, and they went off in a

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party to the land from which Jacob had

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come.

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When they reached the threshing-floor of Attad

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near the Jordan, they lamented loudly and bitterly,

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and there Joseph observed a seven-day period

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of mourning for his father.

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When the Canaanites who lived there saw the

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mourning at the threshing-floor of Attad, they

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said, The Egyptians are holding a solemn ceremony

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of mourning.

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That is why the place near the Jordan

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is called Abel Mitzrayim.

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So Jacob's sons did as he had commanded

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them.

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They carried Jacob to the land of Canaan

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and buried him in the cave in the

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field of Machpelah near Mamre, which Abraham had

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bought as a burial place from Ephron the

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Hittite, along with the field.

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After burying his father, Joseph returned to Egypt

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together with his brothers and all the others

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who had gone with him to bury his

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father.

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Somebody has said, in fact, it was J

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.I. Packer, a great Anglican theologian, that your

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philosophy is not worth tuppence if it does

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not teach you how to die.

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I like the way the French say goodbye.

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Au revoir.

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I like the way the Germans say goodbye.

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Auf Wiedersehen.

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Because within those two terms is the idea

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that your farewell is not final, that you

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will actually come that way again and you

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will continue the friendship that you have enjoyed.

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C.S. Lewis, who was a great professor

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at Oxford in the 1930s, he once said

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to a student of whom he had grown

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particularly fond, as the student left Oxford courtesy

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of British Railways and pulled out of the

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station, Christians do not say goodbye.

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And Lewis meant that Christians invariably on this

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earth or in heaven meet again.

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Here we feature the story of Jacob saying

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goodbye to his sons.

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But there is a sense, as I've already

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indicated, in which Jacob gives us some idea

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about the character of our Lord Jesus Christ,

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inasmuch as, par excellence, the Lord Jesus was

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a prince with God.

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In fact, he was the Prince of Peace.

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And what I want to try and show

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you, albeit with brevity as my goal, is

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how Jacob and our Lord Jesus approached death.

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So there is some correspondence between what I

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was sharing with our congregation this morning and

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also our subject matter this evening.

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How did Jesus say farewell?

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How did Jacob say farewell?

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Well, if you die at 70 or 80,

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or if you die, as some people do

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prematurely, in your teens or in your 20s,

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what would be the most ideal way of

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saying au revoir?

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Well, Jacob died in the company of his

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family.

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He brought together all his brothers, or rather

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all his sons.

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That's why I gave you just a little

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selection of readings.

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You see this old man, he is very

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old, well beyond the age that most people

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here live to, and doubtless there's an element

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of senility as far as his body is

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concerned, if not his mind.

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And as his sons are around him, he

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asks specifically Joseph to ensure that when he

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passes away, he will not be buried in

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Egypt, but he'll be buried in the land

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of promise from which he came.

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And most mysteriously, when Jacob died, not only

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did he give a blessing to Joseph, but

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he called one of his sons, in fact

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all of his sons in front of him,

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and he suggested to them the sort of

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character that they would develop, and if you

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like, the sort of things that they would

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do.

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Some of his anticipation was most unpleasant.

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But the Bible is an honest book.

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It'll paint its portraits, what and all.

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It'll tell you the truth.

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But it's especially when Jacob has Judah's ear

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that things really become exciting on Jacob's deathbed,

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because Jacob predicts that one day from Judah

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will come someone who is quite unusual.

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Here is a prophecy that is messianic.

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It speaks of the coming into this world

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of our Lord Jesus.

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It talks about the authority of God being

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located in the tribe of Judah, and from

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the loins of Judah will come one who

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according to the authorized version shall bear the

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name of Shiloh.

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Now, isn't it interesting, those of you who

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know the New Testament, that our Lord came

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from the tribe of Judah, our Lord Jesus

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Christ, and in a very wonderful way, it

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seems as though Jacob, even though his eyes

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may have been dimmed with age, had spiritual

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perception and realized that one day coming into

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the world, not only for the benefit of

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his descendants, of the nation that he and

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Abraham have established, but for the benefit of

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mankind totally, would come one who was called

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Shiloh.

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Do you remember Tim and I speaking on

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one occasion about Jacob wrestling with God?

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And during that encounter, Jacob says to his

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divine assailant, What is your name?

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Now, the Scripture doesn't say that the name

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was not supplied, and it doesn't say that

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it was.

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And F.B. Meyer, a preacher in the

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1930s, says, He wonders if God whispered into

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the ear of Jacob, Shiloh.

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One day, Jacob believes that coming into the

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world will be someone who will bring a

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great deliverance, not only for his descendants, but,

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as I say, for all mankind.

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Now, turn the pages of history over.

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It's no longer Jacob on his deathbed with

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the family.

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It's the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Now, when he died, he had with him,

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some days previously, his, quotes, family.

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He had his disciples.

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And around a table, like the one under

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my pulpit here, they were gathered.

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And Jesus took bread and wine.

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They had a feast, far more sumptuous than

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the small piece of bread that we'll offer

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you and the small goblet of wine, for

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that's just symbolic.

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But when Jesus was speaking to the family

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on that occasion, he, too, made a prediction.

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Almost on the deathbed of Jesus, he says,

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Look, I want you to get out your

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diaries, because I want to write an appointment

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in the diary because I am going to

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see you again.

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One day we will eat of bread and

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we will drink of wine in my Father's

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kingdom.

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Now, it's not often that a man on

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his deathbed makes an appointment to see somebody

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else after he's died, assuming that his mentality

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is intact.

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But the Lord Jesus, you see, he never

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spoke about his death without also speaking about

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his resurrection.

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The Lord Jesus dies, and just prior to

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his death on the cross, he has spoken

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to the family, as Jacob prior to his

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death spoke to his family.

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And what is more, they were both conscious

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of some great inviolable promises.

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Inviolable means something that cannot be broken.

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We are told that when Israel Jacob died,

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he was gathered to his people.

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He did not believe, apparently, that death was

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the end of his existence.

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It's interesting in the Old Testament how although

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you don't get the full realization as in

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the New, nonetheless there is this indication that

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when a man died physically, it was not

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the end of him.

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In other words, death is not like blowing

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out the flame of a candle.

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Jacob says that when he dies, he will

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be gathered to his people.

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When you go to the 11th chapter of

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the book of Hebrews, which of course is

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in the New Testament, you find a comment

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made about Jacob and others who lived at

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his time in history.

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It says, all these people were still living

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by faith when they died.

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They did not receive the things promised.

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They only saw them and welcomed them from

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a distance.

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But as the years went by, the promises

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that God made to Abraham, the grandfather of

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Jacob, became more and more precious to Jacob.

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And he lived believing that those promises were

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utterly inviolable.

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And even though he did not himself live

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to physically inhabit in terms of being an

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owner of the promised land, he nonetheless believed

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that his future and the future of the

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nation that he would be the ancestor of

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would be covered by the promises of God.

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Our Lord Jesus, when he was on earth,

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said this, speaking of God, I am the

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God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Jacob.

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He is not the God of the dead,

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but of the living.

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When Jesus comes on earth and he referred

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to Jacob, he did not refer to Jacob

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as though his total remains were a molding

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in the grave in some cave in the

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promised land.

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Jesus spoke of Jacob as though he were

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still alive.

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When a man dies, it is his body

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that dies.

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It is not his spirit that is taken

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into a state of annihilation.

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The spirit goes on to the Lord who

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gave it.

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Jacob is gathered to his ancestors.

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His ancestors, Isaac, Abraham, all the righteous dead

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in the Old Testament, they did not lose

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a consciousness in the sense that their souls

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were held in some suspended state.

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They went into the very presence of God.

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And the New Testament describes them as being

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the community of the redeemed, the community of

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the firstborn who are in heaven.

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Now, when our Lord Jesus faced death, how

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did he face it?

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Well, of course, he's immersed in the Old

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Testament Scriptures.

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He knows what is contained there.

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He was the inspirer behind them.

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And speaking of the Lord Jesus Christ, the

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psalmist says, You will not leave my soul

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in hell.

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You will not allow Shiloh, your Holy One,

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to see corruption.

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Now, don't misunderstand me.

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The threats upon Jesus' life were very real.

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And the bloody sweat which you see on

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his brow in the Garden of Gethsemane was

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real sweat because our Lord Jesus was truly

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human.

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He's also truly divine.

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And he knows full well that he is

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not a pawn in the hands of Herod

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and Caiaphas and all those who would deal

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damnably with him.

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He is part of the eternal purposes of

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his Father.

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He is Shiloh, who has come into the

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world not only to bless the descendants of

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Jacob, but I tell you again, to bless

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all the descendants of Adam.

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Our Lord Jesus dies conscious of the great,

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inviolable promises of Scripture.

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As Jonah was three days in the belly

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of a fish, so shall the Son of

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Man be three days in the heart of

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the earth.

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And then, then he will be raised from

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the dead.

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You see the point?

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Jacob understands that the promises of God are

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bound to remain intact.

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They are inviolable.

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A greater than Jacob remembers this.

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And both, so to speak, on their deathbed,

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slip into eternity with the promises of God

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at the forefront of their mind.

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What's more, Jacob, I put it to you,

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dies with the utmost dignity.

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Look at the 33rd chapter, sorry, the 33rd

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verse of the 49th chapter.

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When Jacob had finished giving instructions to his

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sons, he drew his feet up into the

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bed, breathed his last, and was gathered to

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his people.

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Here is not appalling fright.

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He is not dragged away as a criminal.

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He does not go struggling into that dark

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night, swearing and blaspheming.

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He goes quietly, calmly, manfully.

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Can you see the scene?

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Here is this wizened old Jew in some

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Egyptian room adorned with its hieroglyphics, attended by

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his sons and also by the Egyptian courtiers.

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The latter have seen men die.

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They know something of the stigma of death.

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You may know very little about Egyptian history,

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but you know about the pyramids.

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What are the pyramids?

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A glorified cemetery.

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What was it that occupied the minds of

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the pharaohs?

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How they could continue after death.

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Egypt was almost obsessed by this.

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But here is a man, a man of

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nobility.

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Oh, yes, once he was Jacob the worm,

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once he was like a corkscrew, once he

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was the sort of Arthur Daly of the

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Old Testament, but God in his grace lifts

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him out of the shell in which he

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was, and he breathes into him his spirit,

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and Jacob has a nobility, which, incidentally, God

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can give to you.

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And on his deathbed, that nobility comes into

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full play, as having done all, he brings

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his legs up to his chin, almost in

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the prenatal position, and he's called into eternity,

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gathered to be with his people.

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At a funeral, we bury something, not someone.

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It is the house, not the tenant.

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Tuesday, I will not be burying a person.

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I will be officiating as the earthly remains

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of a man who lived in Worthing are

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dealt with respectfully and with dignity.

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When the man dies, he leaves his body,

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but he goes on.

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Jacob recognized this.

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And there is an even greater dignity that

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you see in the person of our beloved

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Lord.

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The bloodiest death that man could ever have

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invented is his, tormented to degrees that are

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almost unimaginable.

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The pain in the nervous system to describe

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the punishment of our Lord is more than

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my emotions would allow me to do, let

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alone my vocabulary have words to accurately delineate.

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But you don't find there the death of

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a man who's crushed.

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There are not the oaths and the obscenities

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that often echoed around that part of Jerusalem

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when Romans did criminals to death.

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Why was the one alongside our Savior on

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the cross so impressed?

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Because of the dignity of Jesus at the

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point of his greatest human need.

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Why was the centurion so impressed to the

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extent that he said, surely this is a

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man like unto one of the gods?

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Because our beloved Lord, when he died, he

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died with dignity.

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If anyone lost control, it was the priests,

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especially the high priests.

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But never, our beloved Lord, never once did

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he renege upon his manhood, for he was

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truly man, the perfect man.

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Never once did he let the Father down.

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He's in utter control, utter poise is his,

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even on the cross.

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What's more, Jacob and the greater than Jacob

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died with an uncompromised citizenship.

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Remember?

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Jacob is in Egypt.

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Alas, I am old enough to remember the

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funeral service of Winston Churchill.

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That doesn't make me too old.

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It was only in the 1960s, which for

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some of you is ancient history.

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You know, Churchill was a remarkable man.

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They gave to Churchill in England what they

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have not given to anyone else outside of

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royalty.

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They gave him a funeral that was worthy

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of a man who had roared like a

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lion and brought courage to England and the

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United Kingdom and terror into the hearts of

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the Nazis.

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And Churchill was buried with all the pomp

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and the circumstance that he deserved.

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There's a simple inscription on a flagstone in

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Westminster Abbey, Remember Winston Churchill.

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I tell you that there never was, up

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to this point in biblical history, on the

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part of a Hebrew, a funeral like that

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of Jacob's.

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All the courtiers of Egypt in attendance, the

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chariots there, the wealth of Israel, the wealth

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of Egypt, the authority of Pharaoh at the

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disposal of Joseph.

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00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:27,300
Here was a man, Pharaoh, who spends time

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constructing pyramids.

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Here is Joseph, who has been the savior

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of Egypt.

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Do you think it is going beyond the

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bounds of imagination, of reasonable imagination, to believe

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00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:41,100
that Pharaoh suggested to Joseph, your father, a

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00:32:41,100 --> 00:32:44,340
pyramid, say the day, choose the spot, and

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00:32:44,340 --> 00:32:45,080
it's yours?

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00:32:46,620 --> 00:32:51,020
But Joseph will not have Jacob in a

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pyramid in Egypt.

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Why?

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Because Jacob is a Hebrew.

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And Jacob may be in Egypt, but Egypt

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00:33:00,980 --> 00:33:02,380
was never in Jacob.

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00:33:03,180 --> 00:33:05,820
And though Joseph spent his professional life in

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Egypt, Egypt never got into Joseph.

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Joseph, like his father Jacob, was a child

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of the promise, a descendant of Abraham, and

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Abraham was promised the land, the land that

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God had counted special in this world.

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Theirs was a remarkable race.

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Theirs was a unique nation.

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Theirs were promises that were utterly inviolable.

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So see this Egyptian retinue as it sets

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off in the process of this cortege, as

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it makes its way back to Palestine, and

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00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:42,360
see the Egyptian courtiers with eyes that are

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wide open and jaws that are gape as

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they witness a cave and the ledge of

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a cave in which the body of Jacob

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is placed.

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For Jacob prefers to be in the sepulchral

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vault which houses the remains of Isaac and

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Abraham because this was Jacob in effect expressing

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in his last wish his certainty, his belief

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in the promises of God.

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00:34:15,659 --> 00:34:19,260
He dies with an uncompromised citizenship.

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00:34:19,780 --> 00:34:20,780
He is a Hebrew.

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00:34:21,100 --> 00:34:22,060
He is a Jew.

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00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:24,000
He is not of this world.

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And see the beloved Christ on the cross.

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If you be the Son of God, come

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down, show yourself.

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00:34:30,159 --> 00:34:34,500
So often that thrust, that torment, that temptation

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was dangled in front of him and so

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often he refused it.

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And when Jesus went to the cross and

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died, he died offering an uncompromised life to

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00:34:45,159 --> 00:34:45,739
the Father.

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For though he was in the world, he

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00:34:48,219 --> 00:34:49,480
was not of the world.

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00:34:49,739 --> 00:34:52,179
Though he is representative man, he does not

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participate in the sinfulness of humankind like you

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00:34:56,180 --> 00:34:56,540
and me.

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00:34:56,740 --> 00:34:59,200
That's what makes his death so very special.

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00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:05,410
Three things.

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00:35:05,530 --> 00:35:08,470
Jacob died with his heart right with God,

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00:35:09,250 --> 00:35:14,270
with his affairs straightened out, with his sons

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00:35:14,270 --> 00:35:16,610
well warned and instructed.

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00:35:18,270 --> 00:35:21,870
Somebody has said, be sure that when you

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come to die, that is all that you

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00:35:25,230 --> 00:35:25,870
need to do.

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00:35:27,050 --> 00:35:28,210
What do they mean?

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00:35:28,870 --> 00:35:32,510
That your house is in order, that you

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00:35:32,510 --> 00:35:35,250
have told people what you want done with

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00:35:35,250 --> 00:35:39,810
your remains, but even more importantly, that your

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00:35:39,810 --> 00:35:43,970
soul has been placed in the possession of

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00:35:43,970 --> 00:35:47,330
God the Heavenly Father, as you have committed

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00:35:47,330 --> 00:35:50,370
yourself to him and believe that the saving

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00:35:50,370 --> 00:35:53,110
death of Jesus Christ is the means whereby

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00:35:53,110 --> 00:35:56,070
your sins are forgiven and you are destined

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00:35:56,070 --> 00:35:58,670
for, not a city on this earth, but

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00:35:58,670 --> 00:36:02,190
rather that Jerusalem in heaven itself until heaven

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00:36:02,190 --> 00:36:04,530
and earth become one in the new era

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00:36:04,530 --> 00:36:07,510
when the new Jerusalem comes down from heaven

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00:36:07,510 --> 00:36:11,110
as a bride and when God is all

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00:36:11,110 --> 00:36:13,010
and in all.

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00:36:15,050 --> 00:36:19,250
Your future is dependent on your responding to

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00:36:19,250 --> 00:36:23,370
the inviolable promises of God which state this,

628
00:36:23,770 --> 00:36:26,010
that if you confess Jesus Christ as your

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00:36:26,010 --> 00:36:31,930
Lord and Savior, you will be saved, that

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00:36:31,930 --> 00:36:36,630
commands you to live in the world, but

631
00:36:36,630 --> 00:36:37,630
not of the world.

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00:36:38,590 --> 00:36:42,430
The possibilities of being a prince with God

633
00:36:42,430 --> 00:36:47,770
are yours through the offer of salvation which

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00:36:47,770 --> 00:36:50,710
Jesus Christ makes to you on the cross

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00:36:50,710 --> 00:36:51,390
of Calvary.

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00:36:52,230 --> 00:36:53,310
Let us pray.

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00:36:58,810 --> 00:37:03,150
In a moment, Brother Tim takes over, leading

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00:37:03,150 --> 00:37:09,940
us in praise and in thoughtful meditation upon

639
00:37:09,940 --> 00:37:13,300
the cross and the resurrection of our glorious

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00:37:13,300 --> 00:37:13,660
Lord.

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00:37:16,140 --> 00:37:18,520
But just a moment for your own silent

642
00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:21,300
response to what you have heard and thank

643
00:37:21,300 --> 00:37:22,500
you for listening so well.

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00:37:23,980 --> 00:37:26,060
As we have seen a greater than Jacob

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00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:29,840
and as we have had evidence brought to

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00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:31,700
us that both from Old Testament and New

647
00:37:31,700 --> 00:37:37,800
Testament literature, God remains true to his promises,

648
00:37:38,820 --> 00:37:42,700
will act on his word, and makes it

649
00:37:42,700 --> 00:37:46,540
therefore possible for you and me to be

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00:37:46,540 --> 00:37:49,040
his children.

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00:39:12,720 --> 00:39:20,800
Lift up the throne of God above I

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00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:28,040
am a son of God to praise my

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00:39:28,040 --> 00:39:37,020
Creator He is

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00:39:37,020 --> 00:40:00,620
holy but what

655
00:40:00,620 --> 00:40:17,590
can be bigger than

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00:40:17,590 --> 00:40:25,670
Satan's death be to despair and to see

657
00:40:25,670 --> 00:40:35,290
all the guilt with him and see

658
00:40:35,290 --> 00:40:45,470
him there He sinned because

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00:40:45,470 --> 00:40:55,150
the sinless they denied My sinful soul is

660
00:40:55,150 --> 00:41:02,950
now set free For all the justice that

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00:41:02,950 --> 00:41:25,720
is right to the fallen and meek And

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00:41:25,720 --> 00:41:39,160
the church

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00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:06,700
by His blood my life is saved with

664
00:42:06,700 --> 00:42:13,440
Christ on high with Christ my Saviour This

665
00:42:29,990 --> 00:42:33,830
is what scripture says We lived in malice

666
00:42:33,830 --> 00:42:37,110
and envy being hated and hating one another

667
00:42:38,150 --> 00:42:40,630
but when the kindness and love of God

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00:42:40,630 --> 00:42:44,890
our Saviour appeared He saved us not because

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00:42:44,890 --> 00:42:48,150
of righteous things we had done but because

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00:42:48,150 --> 00:42:52,070
of His mercy He saved us through the

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00:42:52,070 --> 00:42:55,050
washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy

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00:42:55,050 --> 00:42:58,730
Spirit whom He poured out on us generously

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00:42:58,730 --> 00:43:03,850
through Jesus Christ our Saviour so that having

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00:43:03,850 --> 00:43:07,430
been justified by His grace we might become

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00:43:07,430 --> 00:43:13,650
heirs having the hope of eternal life Father

676
00:43:13,650 --> 00:43:15,350
we want to thank you for those words

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00:43:15,350 --> 00:43:17,770
and for the reality that we have found

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00:43:17,770 --> 00:43:22,390
in them in our own lives kindness love

679
00:43:23,410 --> 00:43:29,250
mercy and grace all poured out on us

680
00:43:29,930 --> 00:44:15,320
through your dear Son Amen Faithful

681
00:44:15,320 --> 00:44:22,540
Jesus on the abundance of your heart and

682
00:44:22,540 --> 00:44:31,860
drink from your river of delight with

683
00:44:31,860 --> 00:44:41,200
you is the fountain of life in your

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00:44:41,200 --> 00:45:04,480
life we love we

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00:45:04,480 --> 00:46:32,220
are the

686
00:46:32,220 --> 00:46:45,350
shepherds of love with you is heaven

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00:46:50,890 --> 00:47:19,640
faithful in

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00:47:19,640 --> 00:47:20,640
your life