The Lord may graciously help
me. I'll turn your prayerful attention to Genesis chapter
45 and read for a text, verse 28. Genesis 45 and read for a
text, verse 28. Although as the Lord helps, I
do want to go through, continue to go through this precious narrative
of Joseph as a type of Christ, being that one that provides
for his brethren. Genesis 45 verse 28, and Israel
said, it is enough. Joseph, my son, is yet alive. I will go and see him before
I die. The words of Israel, or Jacob. Well, when I was last with you,
we spoke of Joseph revealing himself to his brothers. You see, before, whenever he
talked to them, he talked to them through an interpreter.
He hid his identity. There was not that plainness
of communication and speech. Picturing, as it were, as we
seek to come to know the Lord, there seems to be that barrier.
But when the Lord, as it were, reveals, brings us into the banqueting
house, and his banner over us is love, then there is an intimacy
and a fellowship that outstrips those early comings of a Christian
to his saviour. There is something of union and
fellowship and we have that pictured in Joseph causing all the Egyptians
to go out. There was no Egyptians present
when Joseph made himself known unto his brethren. There was
no reporters to report it to the newspapers, exactly what
Joseph's brothers had done in kidnapping him and selling him
and all their sin. Joseph wisely hid that. He confronted them with it. But he did not use this as a
publicity against them. And so God, you see, he deals
with sin, not for the good of those, his people, in love. He confronts sin in love. Very, very different than perhaps
the media would confront sin to ruin the person. But not so with Joseph, and not
so with the greater than Joseph, the heavenly Joseph. He deals
with sin for the good of those sinners, to bring them into union
with himself. That's what Joseph wanted. They
were happy to carry on with food in the land of Canaan, but he
wanted them with him. He wanted communion, and so does
the greater than Joseph. He wants communion with his people.
Well, you see, he revealed himself, I am Joseph. They were terrified.
They couldn't understand that this one that they had thought
was dead for 22 years, now suddenly they realize he's ruler of the
whole land of Egypt. Oh, their terror. Oh, their fearfulness. But you see, he spoke friendly
to them. Come near to me, I pray thee.
And they came near and he said, I am Joseph, your brother whom
you sold into Egypt. Joseph hadn't forgotten. but
he dealt with the anger, he dealt with the sin. When he named his
son Manasseh, God hath made me to forget all my father's house
and all my toil. But he hadn't forgot the facts,
and he was going to deal kindly with them. Well, if we look then
at verse 7, in Genesis 45, And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in
the earth, and to save your lives with a great deliverance. Perhaps
better at verse 5 first though. Now therefore be not grieved,
nor angry with yourselves that ye sold me hither, for God did
send me before you to preserve life. in the Sunday school this
morning we had that subject was before us was the Lord's Prayer
and one of the aspects of that was Thy Kingdom come, Thy will
be done and there were some very good questions from the children
regarding the will of God and what that was and there was talk
about the sovereign will and the the revealed will of God. And
here you see, I believe in this example of Joseph, you have a
clear separation. It was totally wrong of Joseph's
brethren to sell their brother as a slave to Egypt, totally
against God's revealed will, totally against it. But it was
part of God's sovereign will. He was sovereignly going to overrule
it for a greater good. And as Joseph can see it now,
for God did send me before you to preserve life. You see, God
had a purpose in allowing this evil to take place. Not that
he's the author of sin. He left them to their own wicked
hearts and devices. And you see, of course, this
is a picture of what was going to take place on a far greater
scale in the New Testament. Ye meant it for evil, but God
meant it under good. The apostle Peter confronted
them in Acts chapter 2 on this very point, you see. The difference
between what they were thinking and what God was dealing with. In Acts 2 verse 23 it says, Him
being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of
God. We have the sovereign will of God. And then we have the
breaking of the revealed will of God. Ye have taken and by
wicked hands have crucified and slain. They've broken God's revealed
will and they were wicked in doing so. God overruled it. whom God hath raised up, having
loosed the pangs of death." Isn't that a wonderful comfort to Christians
today? That whatever evil is going on,
that God is above it. You see, this gives us comfort.
It doesn't mean that we love evil. Evil is still evil. But
God is able to turn that bitter into sweet. He's able to bring,
out of the most difficult circumstances, able to bring a great deliverance. And of course, in the case of
the Lord Jesus being put to death at Calvary. That is the whole
subject and the whole reason why the Church of God can come
to glory, is because wicked, and it was brought to pass by
wicked hands, doing wicked things, telling wicked lies, and wickedness was so much prevalent
at that time. And yet God was sovereignly still
in control. And that's a comfort. It's a
comfort. Men did their worst. Satan stirred
them up, the chief priests. But God was over it all. Therefore
be not grieved nor angry with yourselves. And I think I pointed
that out before. Joseph never said don't be grieved nor angry
with yourselves while they were happy with themselves. But now
he saw their contrition. Now he saw their sorrow. He spoke
comfort. comfort. And God sent me before
you to preserve your posterity in the earth and to save your
lives by a great deliverance. So now it was not you that sent
me hither, but God. You see, God's sovereign will
was in it. Your wickedness was involved,
and there will be great need of repentance for that wickedness.
But there's a way back to God from the dark paths of sin, and
there's a way back. from those who had been involved
in the very crucifixion of Christ. We read that a great company
of the priests believed. We read that in the Acts of the
Apostles, I think. Those who had shouted out for his death,
they came to receive the blessings of his death. When Jesus said
on the cross, Father, forgive them, for they know not what
they do. You see there were those that
were going to be benefiting from that very what was taking place
at Calvary and had no idea that that was going to be for their
eternal salvation. Well then you see they're given
a commission. You see they had this place and
they were with Joseph and it was a a place of blessing in
a sense, but they weren't going to stay there. There was something
more to be done. And we think of that when Jesus
rose from the dead and revealed himself to Mary Magdalene, and
she would just like to stay with him always, but she was given
a commission. And you see these brethren are
given a commission in verse 9, haste ye and go up to my father
and say unto him, thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made
me Lord of all Israel, Egypt. Come down unto me, tarry not.
They had a commission. They weren't just going to say,
well, now we're just staying in this palace area with Joseph. No, they had a work to be done.
And you see, When the Lord has blessed us and revealed himself
to us, there's a work to be done. There's others that need to be
told of the one that has blessed us. That woman at the well, you
see, with her waterpot. When the Lord revealed himself,
that he was the Messiah, she said, come, see a man that told
me all things that ever I did. Is not he the Christ? She had
a mission, she had a commission, she had a concern. And so these
brethren, you see, were told in verse 13 of chapter 45, and
ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt. Here we think
of as Jacob, that tried man. For 22 years, he had thought
that this son would be a blessing. We read that he looked at these
dreams, you see, when the dreams were told, but his father observed
the saying, just like Mary, the mother of Jesus, when the shepherds
came, She pondered these things in her heart. She thought, what
do these things mean? And Jacob thought, what do these
things mean? And then the next, very soon
after, the son who he thought these things of gets taken. And as far as he was aware, was
killed. His coat was in the blood of
the goat. And as far as he concluded that
Joseph was dead. But you see, he's now going to
be told that Joseph is yet alive. You see, of course, Joseph didn't
actually die. But how this pictures something
of the Lord Jesus Christ, he did really die. And then there
was that time, you see, when the resurrection morn came. This
was a really a time for the disciples to really grapple with what had
taken place. They couldn't really cope with
it. It was it was too great for them. It was a wonderful blessing. Well, they were to tell his father
of all my glory in Egypt. And there was a commission then. And then Pharaoh gets involved. And Pharaoh gives this commission
that they should take wagons to bring Joseph's family back. And in verse 20 of Genesis 45, there's this precious
statement, also regard not your stuff for the good of all the
land of Egypt is yours. Regard not your stuff. My mind
goes to Philippians chapter three. and the words of the Apostle
Paul where he says Philippians 3 verse 7, But what things were
gained to me, those I counted loss for Christ, yea, doubtless,
and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge
of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss
of all things, and count them but done that I may win Christ. They could have hung on to those
possessions that they had back, the farming equipment and things
like that, that they had back in the land of Canaan. But Joseph
and Pharaoh is saying, don't regard those things. In Egypt,
we've got such a plenty, relatively speaking, that don't get worried
about what's back in your native land. And surely there's a picture
here of those coming to the Savior. Yes, you might think, oh, but
if I make an open profession, I'll lose this. I'll lose that. I won't be able to do that. These things, these hindrances.
But you see, there's this clear command, also regard not your
stuff. For the good of the land of Egypt
is yours. Compared to what they had back in Canaan, it was nothing
compared to the riches, you see, that there was in Egypt. They
were going to have the good of the land of Egypt, Goshen, the
best land to dwell in. And how you see this, a picture
of the Lord's people and how Paul saw it, that he lost in
one sense so much, all his pharisaical upbringing and all the blessings
that came to him from that. But Paul said, it's nothing. It's nothing compared to knowing
Christ. to being part of his kingdom
and may you young people and each one of us realize that to
be part of God's people, we spoke of that on Tuesday, part of being
the children of God is a tremendous blessing. You might say, but
I won't be able to be a child of Satan then, I won't be able
to do his dictates. Ah, but it's nothing, you won't
lose anything for not doing that, to gain. inheritance incorruptible
that fadeth not away. Then in verse 22 we have this
account given that Benjamin again receives 300 pieces of silver
and five changes of raiment. Here we have the sole I believe
in this account it still shows God's sovereignty that Joseph
was giving showing favor to to to Benjamin. And we never hear
of a negative reaction of the brethren against Benjamin. And
this, you see, I believe is so important in the Church of God.
We're all individuals before God, and God sovereignly gives
us each different capabilities and different pathways, different
family situations, so many differences. But you see, They came from Joseph
and it was just fine because Joseph had done it. God's hand,
God's sovereign. We live in a world that everything
has to be such equality, but God is sovereign. He's in control. Keep silence all creative things
and wait your maker's not. God is sovereign and we are to
bow under it and to say His will is best. His will is best. Well, we then come to verse 24. So he sent his brethren away,
and they departed. And he said unto them, See that
ye fall not out by the way. You see, Joseph had forgiven
his brethren, and they were all guilty, weren't they? Really,
Benjamin wasn't, because he wasn't part of the original pack. But
all the other ten were guilty. And he didn't want, as they had
done earlier, Reuben had said, didn't you? I told you not to
sell him. And he didn't want a big argument
breaking out amongst his brethren on the way home as to who was
most responsible or who was most guilty of selling Joseph. He didn't want that. It would
be very sad, wouldn't it, to Joseph? Joseph would have been
heartbroken if there had been a great big fight going on on
the way home. Between these brethren, see that
you fall not out by the way. It would have been so heartbreaking
to Joseph, wouldn't it? And beloved friends, that's the
same with Christians today. If our fellow Christians we can't
speak to, we can't get on with, Surely what of that would have
been in the heart of Joseph? Surely we should endeavour to
keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. We should
go back and say sorry to those people we've upset. We should
confess that we've said the wrong thing and done the wrong thing
and acted the wrong way. We should realise that we're
all on one level playing field. We're all unworthy of God's grace. All of us. And so how can we
say, well, that Christian over there, he's done more damage,
I think, to the church than I have. Well, we're all guilty. We're all sinners. See that you
fall not out by the way, but lay hold upon the wonder that
we have received mercy from the prince of the land of Egypt,
even Joseph. Well, then they come, you see,
these brothers come back to tell Jacob, that Joseph is yet alive
this man who is now 130 years old and we know that when people
are old they take it they find it harder to process things don't
they it's harder to process what's going on when you're older and
this man who for 22 years had been told that Joseph was dead
now is suddenly going to get told that Joseph is not dead
but actually governor of the whole land of Egypt. It was a
tremendous shock. And they told him all the words
of Joseph. This is sorry. And verse 26 and
he and told him saying Joseph is yet alive and he is governor
over all the land of Egypt. And Jacob's heart fainted for
he believed them not. cross-reference to this is in
Luke 24 verse 41 when it was those disciples in the upper
room when he came peace be still and it then they believe not
run that they believe not for joy surely it was a it was it
was a tremendously joyful thought that he was being told but he
he couldn't grasp it he couldn't grasp that this is really had
taken place. He had been deceived many times
before by his sons, for he believed them not. And
when they told all the words of Joseph which he had said unto
them, and when he saw the wagons which Joseph sent to carry him,
the spirit of Jacob, their father revived. So these wagons that
were sent by Pharaoh, the most modern transport of their day
that was sent to carry Jacob, all those, that 130 year old
man back into Egypt in his old age. He knew those brothers,
his sons didn't have such wagons. When he saw the wagons, a providential
thing that happened. it had an effect on his faith.
And you see when the Lord works for us in Providence perhaps,
doesn't it sometimes strengthen our faith? as the Lord appears
in providence in a practical matter, perhaps, in our pathway.
And we say, well, that's amazing. And it strengthens our faith.
And then you see, in verse 28, there's a name change, talking
about the same person, but referring to them in a different name.
In verse 28, which is our text, we named as a text this morning,
and Israel said. So it was Jacob, their father,
was fainting. But we read that Jacob's, the
spirit of Jacob, their father, revived. Now Jacob means supplanter. That's the meaning of Jacob.
But God, when they were at that meeting time at Peniel, he was
the touch, the hollow of his thigh, and given another name.
And that other name was Israel. As a prince, hast thou power
with God. And this second name is used.
And Israel said, it is enough. Joseph, my son, is yet alive.
You see, it's the going forth of faith. Faith. The strengthening of his faith.
And you see, it was strengthened, we're specifically told, by the
wagons. These practical things, these
providential things in the pathway of Jacob caused his faith to
be strengthened and he then lay hold of a tremendous thing. It is enough. Joseph, my son,
is yet alive. It enabled him to lay hold on
the greater thing. I will go and see him before
I die. And this is a great thing. You
see, the Lord blesses his people with providence. But if all we
have in our life is providence, then we have no laying hold of
eternal life. Providence is really precious.
And as the Lord provides things for us, it's really important.
But don't stop at the provision. If God provides you with a new
car, be thankful for the new car, but the car will rot out
after a while. It won't last forever. But if
you go back to the God that gave you that car, gave you that house,
gave you that wife, gave you all that he has given you, go
back to the God that gave it. Because that God is the one that
will never wear out. That is the God. So Israel then
goes back to Joseph. And it is enough. Joseph, my son, is yet alive.
I will go and see him before I die. So there's this going
forth of faith to the object of his faith, thinking about
spiritually Christ. And that's what we need to go
forth when we receive these lower blessings, which have their great
value, and we're not despising them in any way, but we can't
stop at those things. If he stopped and said, well,
we've got all these wagons, what more do we need? We've got wagons
now. You'd say, Jacob, you've missed the point. You've missed
the point. You ought to go and see Joseph. He wants union. He wants fellowship. He wants
you to go and see him. Israel said, it is enough. Joseph,
my son, is yet alive. And may there be the strengthening
then of our faith. Strengthening to go out and to
go unto the Lord ourselves. Thinking of it like with Ruth,
as she was gleaning in the field of Boaz, many tokens, many providential
blessings. But she was still a widow. She
was still without a redeemer. She needed to go to Boaz himself. to lay at his feet, and she needed
to ask that he would be a redeemer for her. Not just give her handfuls
of purpose, precious though they were, she needed Boaz herself. And how, as you come in your
spiritual experience, that you may come to need to go to Joseph
himself, the heavenly Joseph, the one who is able to give all
these things for time and for eternity. And then we come into
chapter 46, and God graciously blesses Jacob with a visit and
encouragement. He was fearful. You see, so often
going down into Egypt was a negative thing in the past for Abraham,
Isaac. It had been a negative thing
when they'd gone to Egypt. But God appears in verse 3. He said, I am the God, the God
of thy father. Fear not to go down into Egypt.
For I will there make of thee a great nation. There was a purpose
of God in this going down into Egypt. I will go down with thee
into Egypt, and I will surely bring thee up again. And Joseph
shall put his hand upon thine eyes. This was a fulfillment
of the promises of God. And Jacob then goes. He goes
on these wagons. He puts, as it were, his faith
that, yes, he'll go. He'll do that what the Lord has
commanded him. And then if we come to verse
28 in Genesis 46, we have this, and he sent Judah before him
unto Joseph. The very man who had been instrumental
in separating Joseph from his father, now was the one that
was gonna guide Joseph, guide, sorry, his father Jacob,
to go and see Joseph. He was gonna be involved in reuniting. And we'd already mentioned earlier
how that Judah had changed his character from being one that
was very ungodly. He was prepared to stand in Benjamin's
place. And of course, Judah became that. Obviously, the Lord Jesus sprang
from the tribe of Judah, the lion of the tribe of Judah. And
yet, Judah had earlier on been so ungodly. You read it in Genesis
38. Well, and Joseph made ready his
chariot and went up to meet Israel, his father, to Goshen, and presented
himself unto him and fell on his neck and wept on him a good
while. So we have this reuniting of Jacob and Joseph after these
22 years. 22 years of thinking that his
son Joseph was dead, devoured by some wild beast. And now God
graciously brought them together. It was like a resurrection, wasn't
it, for Israel as far as his son was concerned. And then we
have, interestingly, we have that as a hymn about the, I shall
be satisfied with thy likeness. But here we have a satisfaction
in Israel. In verse 30 of chapter 46, and
Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die. It was not in the
sense that he wanted immediately to pass away. What I believe
this was saying, I've looked for this. This is something I've
been longing for and now I've received it. I'm satisfied. And
you see, the cross-reference to that is in Luke chapter 2.
Who else was satisfied? And who else said, Now lettest
thou thy servant depart in peace? For mine eyes have seen thy salvation. It was Simeon. Simeon, who waited
for the consolation of Israel. He was looking for the Saviour.
And when he took up the Lord Jesus in his arms, he said, Now
lettest thou thy servant depart in peace. A satisfaction. He wasn't looking for anything
else. He was satisfied. And you see the Lord's people
are satisfied with himself. Not with the wagons. Wagons are
very important. They were very helpful to get
Jacob to the land of Egypt, but we don't end in wagons. We don't
end in providences. If we do, we'll be very sad. We'll come very short. We'll
be following Christ for the loaves and the fishes, won't we? And
the Lord didn't encourage people for that. He wanted them to follow
him for himself. And that's what you see Jacob
was given that. And Israel said unto Joseph,
Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou art
yet alive. Oh, the satisfaction that his
Joseph was still alive. graciously preserved his life. He didn't understand all how
it had taken place. Later on he would understand
how it was all taking place, but at this time no doubt he
didn't. But he was so thankful that he
was able to see his beloved Joseph. And how, you see, the people
of God are satisfied when they have, as it were, their glimpses
of Christ. They're satisfied with Christ.
You see, in his old age of 130 years, he had one now in a time
of famine, and there was going to be five more years of famine.
He had one that was the most powerful man in Egypt that was
his son. and he would look after his father
in his old age. In all his needs, in all his
weakness, in all his frailty, he had one that was in a higher
position to look after him. And you see, when we think of
that spiritually, when we have a father in heaven, when we have
an elder brother as the Lord Jesus Christ, we have those to
look after and care for us that are in a mighty position of power. Well, So they come. So Joseph and his brethren come. And Joseph gives them instructions
as to what they should do when they come to Pharaoh. He wanted
them to say the right things. And they're told that they should
declare that they were shepherds or that their work was about
cattle. And it's interesting if you look
at Genesis 46, verse 34, that so he's saying what shall
happen perhaps I'll start in verse 33 and it shall come to
pass when Pharaoh shall call you and shall say what is your
occupation that ye shall say thy servants trade have been
about cattle from our youth even until now both we and also our
fathers that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen for every
shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians. And here we have
a clear, whilst Joseph was so favoured in Egypt, there was
still a separation between Joseph and the Egyptians. And this was
maintained, they had to go and live in the land of Goshen, although
that was the best of the land, it was a separate area. They
were not to be mingled across the face of Egypt, they were
to be together. They were to be in Egypt, but
not of Egypt. Now this is a picture of us spiritually,
you see. There was something that was
an abomination. The way the Hebrews carries on
was something that was hateful to the Egyptians. There was something
hateful about the Hebrews. Though they respected Joseph
and they were very thankful for what Joseph had done for them,
there was something abhorrent about the Hebrews as far as the
Egyptians were concerned. And if I look, cross-reference
that with John's Gospel, chapter 17. John chapter 17. John 17
and verse 14. I have given them thy word and the world, have hated them, because they
are not of the world. They were going to go and live
in Egypt, and it was God's purpose that they should live in Egypt. Jacob was not wrong in going
to Egypt. God was not angry with Jacob
for going to Egypt. It was God's purpose that they
should go to Egypt, but it was also God's purpose that they
should not become Egypt, that they should not become like Egypt. I have given them thy word, And
the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even
as I am not of the world. I pray not that thou shouldst
take them out of the world. God had appointed and told in
Genesis 15 that there would be this time when they would go
down into Egypt and they would become a great nation. even though
they were amongst people who basically didn't like them in
one sense. Although I appreciate that Joseph
was highly respected and Pharaoh was very good to him, there was
something deep down that they were an abomination to the Egyptians. And that's something you see
that's deep down, that we are separate from the world. The
way the world carries on, its aims, its ambitions, its desires,
what it looks forward to, what it glories in, is fundamentally
different than the people of God. You take the hymn that we
just sung, I shall be satisfied when I awake with thy likeness.
Now that's not the language of the world. The world wants the
lust, the pomp, the pride of life, but the child of God, you
see, has something different. And that's a great thing we see
as we carry on in this account of Joseph and Jacob and Joseph
as Jacob dies and then Joseph dies. There's a pointing away
from Egypt. They're not immersed. You see,
they're in the world. They're in Egypt, but they don't
become Egypt. They don't take on the glories
of Egypt. We don't have Joseph building
his own pyramids so that he can be like a pharaoh. No, we have
something very different. Joseph stood against it and he
said, no, I'm not building a pyramid. Carry my bones. Carry my bones
when you leave Egypt. This is not my rest. absolutely
opposite to what the pharaohs were saying. They'd build their
pyramids, they'd have their gold, they'd have everything round
their body when they die, so that that would be heaven to
them in Egypt. But Joseph and Jacob, no. That's
not what we're looking for. And you see, that's what's picked
up so strongly in Hebrews. What was so different about God's
people compared to the world is that there's a gracious separation.
I can pick up Hebrews, Hebrews chapter 11. By faith, Abraham, when he was
called to go out into a place which he should after receive
for an inheritance, obeyed. He went out, not knowing whether
he went. By faith, he sojourned in a land of promise, as in a
strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob,
the heirs with him of the same promise. Not heirs of a portion
in Egypt, not heirs of the glories of Egypt, no. For he looked for a city which
hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God. You see, you can have this health
and wealth gospel, as it said. You serve God and then you'll
have everything here below and you'll have everything you want.
But you see in the midst of the plenty that Jacob and Joseph
came into in their latter end, they never lost sight of the
fact that they were not Egyptians. And that they looked for a city,
and may that be whatever the Lord gives us here below, whether
much or little. The vital thing is that we use
what God gives us and not abuse it, that it doesn't become our
God, that it doesn't become our home and say, this is us, this
is what we possess, this is what really identifies me. No, they're
saying no, not here. For he looked for a city whose
builder and maker is God. The faith, you see, Hebrews picks
up in that hall of fame of those who by faith They served the
Lord. They walked by faith. And may
we be then amongst those in our life that the Lord can bless
us and the Lord can make us a blessing in the world. Joseph was a wonderful
blessing to the natural world around him. He was a wonderful
blessing, a natural saviour to millions of people. But he never
became the world. He never became one of them intrinsically,
in terms of their maxims, in terms of their love, in terms
of their ambition. He never lost sight of the fact
that he was a pilgrim and a stranger in the earth, doing each day
what God told him to do, looking for that blessed hope and the
glorious appearing of the great God. And may that be true whatever
the Lord blesses us with here below, whether much or little.
The vital thing is that it doesn't become us. It doesn't become
what we glory in. But it becomes as nothing to
us, not that we don't be thankful for what God gives us. But I
think one of the Puritans made this statement. He said, he asked
the Lord that the world may hang in his mouth as a loose tooth
that if you just take it away it wouldn't much bother you.
That's what the world was. It's just, it's there but if
it was pulled away when your tooth is nearly coming out, if
it's taken away it wouldn't be much of a problem. It's not a
rest. Well, may we be then like dear Israel. It is enough. My son is yet alive. I will go
and see him before I die. The faith that goes out and says,
this is the one I want to serve. All this Egypt, all these other
things have their place and they have value in their place. But
this is what I'm looking for. This is the city I'm looking
for, not made by hands. I'm looking by faith. to this
one who is able to save his people from their sins and able to save
them by a great deliverance, not just from a famine, but from
eternal damnation due to the fact that we're sinners.