Just marvelous. I hope you're
hungry. Read with me verses 5 through
7 and then verse 28. We'll read that also. Genesis
46. Jacob rose up from Beersheba,
and the sons of Israel carried Jacob, their father, and their
little ones, and their wives, and the wagons which Pharaoh
had sent to carry him. And they took their cattle and
their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came
into Egypt. Jacob and all his seed with him,
his sons, his sons' sons with him, his daughters and his sons'
daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt. Verse
28, And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph. the surety,
Judah, to make sure they got there, to direct his face unto
Goshen, the appointed place. And they came into the land of
Goshen. They made it. The father is about
to see the son again. And the son is about to see the
father, literally. The brethren are about to see
their brother. A brother's about to see his sister, Dinah. Hadn't
seen her in a long time. This is a wonderful and glorious
family reunion. Such as never before, but there's
going to be a greater one than that. Now let me say this for our comfort,
for our joy, for God's glory. God is a God of emotion. God is a God of emotion. It is written of the Father,
it is written of the Son, and even the Holy Spirit, that they
love with a great love. They joy and rejoice over their
people. They laugh, laughter. They grieve. They sorrow. God is angry. God is pleased. God smiles. Though known unto
God are all His works from the beginning of the world, at the
time of suffering and sorrow and trouble and pain and suffering
of His people, When there's a separation, he's touched with feeling. Isn't that what the Scripture
said? Because modern religion has made
God to be such a weakling, they've made God to be such an emotional,
pathetic, pleading, wanting, wishing, weeping fellow, you
know. But let's not go to the other
extreme and make God out to be an austere, unfeeling, hard and
insensitive God. Nothing could be further from
the truth. Whatever emotions we feel, we got them from Him. The Scripture says, our Lord
said this, they testify of Me. He wrote the story of Joseph
and his feelings for his brother, because that's him. The story of Joseph whose bowels
yearned for his brother. He wept. That's our Lord. And the Lord
told the story of the prodigal son, of the father, didn't He?
who was waiting, ready to pardon, didn't he? Waiting on the Son
to come home. And our God is not waiting in
the sense to see what we will do, but knowing we will come,
and yet, because He will bring us. But nevertheless, it says
the Father ran to meet that Son and fell on His neck. And we're
going to see another Father and Son falling on each other's neck. See, true love must show emotion. True love must express itself. I know some are more emotional
than others. I know some show more emotion than others, some
little, and there's no comfort, there's no virtue in emotion. My father preached a message
one time, one of the greatest I've ever heard, on when our
Lord said, Weep not for Me. When He was going to the cross,
carrying His cross, and the women were weeping. They loved Him. How could you not? How could
you not? Weep or be touched when seeing
what the Lord was doing for you. You can't. You don't love Him
if you are unemotional. But yet He turned to them and
said, Weep not for Me, but He said, Do weep. for yourselves
and for your children. If you really love your children,
weep for them. He that goeth forth weeping,
bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing,
bringing his sheaves with him. Maybe that's our problem. Where's
Mr. Wet Eyes? I hope he'll show up
today. To lose someone you love, how could
you not to see someone you love in pain
and suffering. That's not love, is it? Scripture talks about a cruel
man. It says a righteous man is tender. He even regards the life of his
beast. But a wicked man is cruel. His mercies are cruel. There's
no feeling. Our Lord one time, Matthew 11 I believe it was,
said, We've piped unto you and you haven't danced. Told you
the most wonderful story in the world and you haven't rejoiced. And He said, We've mourned unto
you and you haven't lamented. But He said, Wisdom is justified
over children. They do. Our Lord did. Now, this story will evoke emotion
in everyone. There's no way it cannot. But
I hope it will be a tearful joy for those who know the Lord at
the thought of seeing Him and at the thought of seeing those
you love again after so many years. Chapter 42. Go back there. Let's do a little review. Chapter
42, verse 7. Chapter 42, verse 7. Joseph,
it says, saw his brethren. Now, he hasn't seen them in 23
years. I haven't seen my brother since
1969. That's 46 years. What's it going to be like? He hasn't seen his brethren in
23 years. How did he feel? This is our Lord now. Joseph
is a picture of our Lord. How did he feel? How did Joseph
feel toward these brethren of his? Well, he was not like them. You see, they're yet in their
sin. They're yet in their pride. They're
yet unbroken. They do not yet feel any remorse
for what they've done. They have not yet repented over
their despising and rejecting their brother Joseph. But they're
going to. And Joseph being a wise man,
knowing the Lord sent them to him, he knew this all along.
When he saw them, he said, there they are. I prayed for this day,
and here they are. But they've got to be brought
down. They've got to be humble. They've got to be broken. They've
got to repent. They've got to see what they've
done to their brother. And they've got to feel sorry
for it. They've got to feel everlastingly unworthy of the least of His
mercies. And that's the mercy of God.
That's the mercy of the Holy Spirit. to break proud sinners. It's not hard. It's not a hard
thing. It's the most loving, tender, kind, and wonderful thing
that God can do to a proud, hell-bent, hell-bound sinner is to break
their proud heart. I told you about our brother
praying in the study one Wednesday evening. He said, Lord, break
our children's hearts. There's no parents on earth praying
that but believing parents. All believing parents know exactly
what he meant. But Joseph loved them at that
time, even in their proud, unbending, unbroken, sinful, rebellious
state. He loved them then. How could
he? Well, let me read you this, something
much greater. When we were yet without strength,
in due time Christ died for the ungodly. Scarcely for a righteous
man will one die, yet perventure for a good man some would dare
to die. But God commendeth His love toward
us while we were shaking our fist in His face, while we were
yet sinners, while we didn't give Him a thought, while we
didn't care if He lived or died. He loved us. Isn't that something? How could that not move you? Unless you don't know Him yet.
Unless you haven't broken yet. And they did. Oh, they realized
their guilt. Verse 21, they said one to another. All of them, every one of these
sons of Jacob, they all said, we're verily guilty. How were
they saying that? With a broken heart. Finally,
they had realized. Finally, by the grace of God
and the mercy of God, they realized, and they all to a man said, we're
guilty concerning our brother. And our Lord said, when the Spirit
comes, He'll convince the world of people out of every tribe,
kindred, nation and tongue of unbelief, because they believe
not on Me. Look what we've done to our Lord. And look at Joseph's reaction.
Verse 24, He turned Himself from them and
wept. He saw their broken hearts and
He wept. Oh, those were tears of joy.
Those were tears of compassion. Weren't they tears of pity? Tears
of thankfulness? God's breaking them. We're going
to be reunited. These brethren that hated me,
we're going to be reconciled. God's done this and He sent me
to do it. Reconcile us. Chapter 43, he sees Benjamin. Benjamin is his blood. First,
his true brother. Chapter 43, verse 16 says, when
Joseph saw Benjamin. You can't. You can't. Unless
you have missed your brother for a long, long, long, long
time. Twenty-three years. We can't enter into this. He
saw him. And he wanted to hug him. He wanted to call on his neck
right there. And then look at verse 18. The
men were afraid. These broken sons of Jacob they
brought in. And here's their confession to
the interpreter. And this is a confession of every
son of God, that He breaks their heart over sin and unbelief.
And they pray and they confess to the Father of all this. The
men were afraid, the fear of the Lord at the beginning of
the wish. They said, oh, verse 20, O sir, O sir. Can you hear the word, O sir?
We came down to buy food, yes. Verse 21, when it came to pass,
we came to the inn, opened our sack. Oh, and look at all that.
Look at what was given to us. Look at all that was done to
us. Look at all the mercy. Look at all the grace. Just filled
our sacks up. In our sacks, mouth was redemption. Oh, my. Verse 22, it says, we
can't tell who did this. We just don't know who did this
and why they did this. We can't tell. And Joseph's listening
to this. He's hearing them. They don't
know he understands it, but he is. He's listening to every word.
David one time says, Are not my tears in thy bottle? Every one of them. Turn them
off. What does the Lord feel toward
His poor, broken-hearted, grateful brethren when they're finally
grateful? When they're finally broken? Repentance toward Him. Verse 23, He told this steward
of His, verse 23, He told them that when He hears this repentance,
He said, tell them, peace be to you. This is the first time
He's said this. This is the first time. He told His steward, tell them
those broken-hearted, repentant sinners that are grieving now
and feel unworthy and are so thankful their sacks are full
and their hearts are full. You tell them, please be unto
them. Don't go out in the world to God-hating sinners and tell
them God loves you. That's a lie. Don't tell them,
peace, peace, when there is no peace, when God is angry with
the wicked every day. But you tell that broken-hearted,
repentant sinner. You tell them all. It doesn't
matter what they've done or where they've been. You tell them.
If they come to me pleading for mercy in Christ, you tell them,
peace be unto you. Tell them, smile. God loves you. Fear not. You tell them who did
this. Tell them who had their money.
And deliver that brother who's in bondage. How do you feel toward your rebel
children? When you look on your rebel children,
how did you feel? How do you feel? Every emotion, don't you? You
feel some anger, but mostly pity. Guilt, your own. You feel compassion, knowing
their frame. You know, that's me. You look
at that rebel son, you think that rebel daughter. You say,
that was for me. She just doesn't know. And you
pray to the Father what Christ prayed to the Father. Father,
forgive them. They don't know what they're doing. Don't you? Would you break their heart like
you did mine? If you love, we feel discouraged,
we feel exasperated, we feel helpless because there's nothing
we can do but pray. Our Lord never felt that way.
He'll not fail. He will never even be discouraged. And yet, He feels these emotions.
Yes, He does. How did our Lord feel at that
Last Supper? Here in chapter 43, when they
dined with Joseph, verse 26, Joseph came home and they brought
him their present. Now this is Joseph, ruler over
Egypt, all the treasures of Egypt at his disposal. All the gold
and silver of the richest country in the land, and these sons of
Jacob bring him a present. Like the Queen of Sheba coming
to Solomon. I brought you something. You shouldn't have. But how do
you feel? Did your little children ever
bring you mothers? When Lauren was a little girl,
did she ever go out and pick a daisy and bring it in to you?
Here, Mom, I picked this for you. Thank you, honey. That's all she could do. Thank
you. Even your kids at times have
left little pictures and notes on my desk. Abby and Daisy and
Emma and Olivia. Little notes on my desk. One
of them said, you're the greatest preacher. P-R-I-C-H. Preacher. I pray, Lord. May, when they
get 16 or 18 or 20, may they think I'm their greatest preacher. Not me. You don't understand
what I'm saying. But that's endearing, isn't it? What about us? What do we bring to the Lord
that doesn't belong to Him? What do we bring that He didn't
give to us? But He loveth the cheerful giver. And they came to eat in his house,
and verse 33 down there, they sat before him, the firstborn
down to the youngest, and they marveled one another. Look where
we are. They don't know it's Joseph yet.
And he loves them dearly. What does he want to do? His bowels are yearning to make
himself known. to have them with Him forever.
But no, they've got to go back home. They've got to continue
to be tried. All of chapter 44 is one great
trial. I thought about the last supper
that our Lord had with His disciples. How do you think He felt at that
time, knowing What he was going to go through, well, he would
weep and sweat blood in the garden, and yet knowing what sorrow they
were going to go through, the worst days of their life, two
or three of the worst days of their life, the saddest, most
downcast, depressed, sorrowful, they thought their world had
ended when Christ died. And he knew they were going to
go through that. How do you think he felt at that last supper? In fact, he did say, the world's
going to rejoice and you're going to sorrow. Oh, you're going to
sorrow. But you've got to go through
this. And I've got to go through this. But he said, brethren,
your sorrow's going to be turned to rejoicing. And that rejoicing's
never going to stop. the greater the sorrow, the greater
the rejoicing. And our joy and rejoicing is
going to far. I tell you, Paul said, I reckon
that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared
with the glory that shall be revealed. Our light afflictions,
he said, which are but for a moment, worketh for us in an everlasting,
exceeding weight of eternal glory. Just wait, you'll see. This is
just for a moment. Weeping and do it for a night.
Joy cometh in the morning, and that morning will never end.
Never end. Never end. But it's necessary. They had to go through the fire.
They had to go through the trial. The trial of their faith. Though
it be exceedingly difficult, heavy, tried by fire, it's going
to be found. praise, honor, and glory. He
is at His appearing. Chapter 44 is a great trial. They had to bring them all to
repentance. Complete, utter brokenness and
repentance because He's not willing that one should perish. That's
what 2 Peter 3.9 says. God is long-suffering. He's not willing that one should
perish, but that all should come to repentance in the knowledge
of Him. And that's talking about His
Son. And He's got to bring us all through the trial, trial
of our faith. And the one great trial, the
one thing that breaks all the hearts of the sons of Jacob is
seeing Christ crucified. Do you remember the story of
Benjamin, that they found the cup in his sack? Do you remember
that? That's what finally, the straw that broke their all back. That's it. When they saw their
innocent brother, and to a man they all said, he didn't deserve
this, we deserved it. He didn't deserve this. Benjamin
was not in on this, rejecting our brother. But we all did.
We all did esteem him, despise and reject him. Not Benjamin.
He was faithful and true and loving and with the Father. And
yet, God made him guilty in our stead. And buddy, they're broken
now. And this is why only Christ crucified. The terrors of hell, not the
terrors of the law, that won't bring a person to repentance.
False religion does that. I get mail all the time from
these places, and it angers me. It's an abomination to God, all
their tactics and all that. Liberty University, I wrote them
one time and said, do not send me anything else. But they've got what's called
scare mail. Every single Halloween, they
had this scare mayor. It's a religious Christian haunted
house. And they bring children and people
and adults and walk through this haunted house and try to scare
them with hell. And they said, 26,000 people
confessed Christ last year. No, they didn't. They were just
wanting a fire escape from hell. He just scared them to death.
It was nothing to do with sin. It was nothing to do with their
unbelief. It has nothing to do with their need for Christ and
His righteousness. I wrote them. I said, do not
send me one more thing. This is an abomination. Is that
too hard? They don't know hard when God
comes down on them. We don't scare our kids into
a profession of faith. God puts His fear in them, yes,
through the preaching of the gospel. And the thing that breaks
the proud hearts of sinners is Christ and Him crucified. That's
it. That's it. That's the thing,
where a sinner's got to hear the gospel and see a holy God,
that he's sinned against this holy God, sinned against a merciful
God, a gracious God, a kind God. And he's been unthankful, ungrateful
all his life, has never acknowledged this God, lived all his or her
life, never gave God a thought, never thanked Him. And sent Christ down here to
do what He did for such an ungrateful, unworthy person. And God in grace
and mercy and love and kindness breaks that rebel's heart and
shows them, And they've got a good heart
and now it's broken. Their eyes have been opened to see themselves.
Their eyes have been opened to see Christ. Their eyes have been
opened to see the world for what it is. Their ears have been opened.
They didn't hear a thing before. Now they do. He says, talking
to me, that I'm the guilty one. And then the man says, peace,
peace. And they can't wait to get in that baptismal pool, to
confess this Christ, to say with the loudest voice what he would
not do, that he was silent for them. And now like that Joseph
of Arimathea, he said, I've been silent too long. I can't keep
silent. How could I? He who kept my deepest,
darkest secrets silent, kept them to himself and died in my
stead. How in the world could I deny him? And they can't wait to get in
there. And our Lord God says, if they don't, I'm going to turn
my back. When it's over, I'm going to
turn my back. They go through a time of great
trial. And that Judah, now in our text, they've got to go home,
and the Lord sent, and I told you to get the message for last
Sunday. I didn't see a request down there, but I'm going to
tell you again, okay? If you didn't hear it, it's all about
the son sending wagons to fetch them. He sent wagons to fetch
them. Seventy-two of them. Seventy-two
of them. Long journey, all the way from Beth, we've got the name of the
place now, where Joseph came from, and all the way to Egypt. Long way in wagons. In wagons. Long journey. Joseph's an old,
old man. Old man. And his young people. And we read all those names.
We read all those names. You may read them again Wednesday
night as we conclude this. But we read all those names. And every one of them came. Every one of them made it safely. Why? Why? We read all those names. We found
our names there. I found my name there. Simeon. Here's the word. Reuben and Simeon.
Jacob said they're instruments of cruelty. Judah. What was Judah? Bad son. Dinah. Defiled. Rebel. She's there. She said, why? Why? Because Joseph gave the
command. Pharaoh gave the command. And
Joseph gave the orders. And they sent wagons and said,
they're not going to walk. They're not going to drive. We're
going to carry them. They kept saying over and over
again, carry them. Go down and get my father and
my brethren and carry them all the way back to the land of Goshen. And buddy, they were all there.
All the seed of Joseph. All the seed of Jacob. Not one
missing. Not hiding their hair. Not a
hoof left behind. And I bet you a dog didn't bark
on the way. Well, how'd they get there? They
were carried. That's what Isaiah 46 says. Well, how amazing. We're in chapter
46 of Genesis. They were carried. They were
carried all the way. And to make sure they got there,
Jacob, Joseph, had Judah go before them. Joseph heard Judah say,
I'm held accountable. If they don't make it, if Benjamin
doesn't get there, back to the Father, he's going to hold me
accountable. His life's wrapped up in the
land. Send him with me. So Joseph said, Judah, you've
been the surety before, you're still the surety. You make sure
they all get there. Verse 28, so he sent Judah before
him unto Joseph to direct his face unto Goshen. Make sure they
all get there. Did they? They surely did. Because
they've got a surety. They did. They all made it. My,
my. And they journeyed. And the reason
they made it? because they were under command.
He giveth His angels charge over you. He giveth His men charge
to nourish you. He giveth His angels charge to
protect us. As we said, Joseph surely didn't
leave them unprotected. You know good and well that he
sent his finest men to hide in the hills and among the rocks
watching over his little ones, his unarmed brethren. He said,
oh, they're watching over them and there's nobody going to touch
them. We're talking about Joseph. We're talking about the Lord
of the land. And I'm talking about the Lord of heaven and
earth, whose king's heart is in the hands of the Lord, let
alone all of his little underlings. Oh, nobody can touch us. except
what the Lord allows according to His purpose. And they watched
over these sons of Jacob all the way to make sure they were
brought all the way home. They were under command. They
were under protection. And you know, they carried each
other. Joseph said, you go home and you get a wagon, you brethren,
and you carry your father. And you carry your little ones.
And the Scriptures tell us, bury one another's burdens. Doesn't
it? If a brother be overtaken in
a fault, you that are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit
of meekness, considering your own self. Knowing that you fell
and somebody picked you up, and you're weak, Paul said, who's
weak and I'm not weak? Bear me up. I'll bear you up.
Let's bear one another. Carry one another. We're to carry
one another. And all this journey, what do
you reckon they were talking about? Huh? What do you reckon
they were talking about? Who won the chariot race? We're going to see the sun. This is what carried them. This
is what sustained them. And it says, brethren, let us
exhort one another so much more as you see the day approaching.
What day? We're going to see the sun. I don't care. I'm going to holler this until
somebody gets a hold of this. We're going to see the Son of
God, Stephen. We're going to see the Son. He's
not the only one we're going to see, buddy. He's not the only
one. Our brethren, Dad, Mom, if she
knows Him, can we get a hold of this? Anybody
want to see? Anybody want to see? If they know Him, and you know
Him, you see why this is so desperate that they know Christ? You see
why we need to have our little ones here? Because if they don't
know Him, they'll never see Him again. And this is a mystery,
though. There may be no disappointments
in glory. There are no relationships as we know them. We will know
even as we've been known. We're going to know that that
man was my dad. We're going to know that. He's going to know
that you were his son. He's going to know that. But
it's not the same. We're not going to be any more
happy to see them than we are my sister Ellen Phelan. I'm not
going to be more happy to see my sister Becky than I am my
sister Ellen Phelan. Because the Lord begins that
here. Hereby we know we've passed from death unto life that we
love, who? Our family, our brethren. We're going to be sober joy. I told John and Irene yesterday
riding home, I said, John and Irene, you don't realize how
much you're loved. I said, there's no two people
on the face of the earth loved by more people than you. All
the brethren in every church, when you mention the name John
and Irene, they just light up like you just did. You know David
is going to come running and fall on your neck, Joseph. Abraham,
John, John, I've been waiting on you, brother. You believe
that? Oh, yeah, it says you're going
to come from the east and the west to sit down with Abraham. Sit
down with... I can't wait to hug Mary Magdalene's
neck. Rahab. Honey, darling, my dear
sister, I've esteemed you so highly all year. Me? Rahab the
harlot? Yes." We'll see in the next story that
it goes… There's no old and new Bible. It's all the same. We're going
to see in the very next story, two most unlikely women that
are the closest of companions at the foot of the cross and
at the grave. They're all there. They're all
going to be there from A to Z. Asher to Zebulun. From Abel to
Zerubbabel. Why? You see why we meet here? Why are they going to be there?
Why are we going to make it? Joseph sent the command. Pharaoh, the
God and the Father, sent the command. And Joseph went to prison. And Joseph bore our sin. And
Joseph paid the penalty. And Joseph reigns and rules and
makes intercession for us. And Pharaoh accepts us who are
an abomination to God. Pharaoh accepts us because of
Joseph. made us accept it. This is the greatest story ever
told. They were all numbered. They
were numbered. Seventy sold. Two more waiting. There were two there they didn't
know were there. Jacob had two grandsons he'd
never seen before, didn't know were there. Any ladies in here
lost a child at birth or maybe even an abortion? It's the worst
thing, you know, you suffer with guilt over that all these years.
God's so merciful. God sent that child to glory.
And you're going to see him. And you're going to fall on his
or her neck. And you're going to thank God that he did it just
like he did it. The surety was sent. For those who really want to
see the Son and dwell in His house forever and behold His
beauty and be with Him and inquire into His temple, when we see
Him as He is, when we look on His face, the One who saved us
by His grace, when He takes us by the hand and leads us into
the promised land, what a day! What a glorious day that will
be. Look at it. Verse 28 in our text. So they came into the land of
Goshen. It was like a big fold. You know
that Goshen? Pharaoh said, I'm giving them
the best land in all of Egypt. The land of Goshen. He said,
you put who down there? Just the sons of Jacob. Just
the family of Jacob. Like a big old fold. Jacob's
fold. Jacob's family. This is not the
Egyptians. Jacob's family. Jacob's house,
his elect, the ones that God loved. You put them all in that
fold. Put them there and watch over
them. Hedge them about in this land. Nourish them, feed them.
Joseph's coming to get them all. Look at it, verse 29. Joseph
made ready his chariots. Joseph said, Joseph got up from
his throne one day and said, ìItís time. My brethren are coming. The cruelness of time has come. My brothers and sisters are coming.
Make ready my chariots.î He said, ìThe clouds are the dust of His
feet.î You know, our Lord said, ìIím at the door.î When you see
all these things, Heís at the door. ìMake ready His chariots.î
Chariot, not a wagon. Chariot. He said, I come quickly.
Lo, I come quickly. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. Are we of God ready to pardon? Anxious to see us. That's why
I started this whole message. Was Joseph anxious to see them?
No. Get my chariot ready. I can't
get to them fast enough. People, I can't tell you how
many, well I can, because many of you know the feeling. But
our children, our families are gone. They're not far away. And
neither are we, really, from our Lord. He said, I'm not far. But, you know, there are times
when our hearts ache to see them. So what do we do? I said, not
long, I said, Mindy, get in the car. I've got to see those children. I don't care if it's been an
hour. And we do, don't we? And we run, and I haven't got
a ticket yet, John. I haven't got a speeding ticket
yet. Got one coming home. But can't
get to them fast. Joseph said, make ready my chariot. And the Lord Jesus Christ said,
I'm coming quickly. Wait on me. Those that love Him
are waiting on Him. Those that love Him, those that
want to see Him, that's why they're met together. They want to see
Him. That's why we come. We want to see Him. And he says,
verse 29, And he went up to meet Israel his father, to Gosheh.
And he presented himself unto him, Dad, Son. And he fell on his neck, and
they wept, and they wept a good while. Turn with me to Revelation 21.
Revelation 21. I'll close this out. Revelation 21. They wept a good
while. No words were spoken when they
saw each other for the first time in 23 years. No words were needed were there.
Like that woman, that fell at our Lord's feet and bathed His
feet with her tears, she never said a word. No words were needed. Like the woman caught in the
act of adultery brought in before the Lord in the midst and everybody
else was talking and spouting off and she wasn't saying a word.
No words were needed. The Lord listened to her heart. Right then and there when that
woman was standing with our Lord guilty, vile, helpless, ashamed,
thinking perhaps she might be stoned, the Lord fell on her
neck. Everybody is hard. Our Lord fell on her neck, and
she fell on his neck, and they both wept a good while. You know, it says here in Revelation
21, verse 3, I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold,
the tabernacle of God is with men. He was. That's Christ, people. It's Christ who tabernacled among
us, isn't it? He was and He is. He is with
men. His delights are with the sons
of men in the habitable parts of the earth. Right? He's still
with us. We're going to see in the next door. He said, I'll
never leave you. And it says, God Himself shall
be with them. He was. He is. He shall. And
be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears
from their eyes. It says He shall wipe away. Maybe. Maybe. We're all going to have a good
long weep. Fall on each other's neck and weep a while. Reckon? Some of you right now are thinking
about that. How can you not when you see someone you love?
Dad. Lord. Oh, how we'll fall on each other's
necks. And you know, think about this.
We'll fall on our necks and there'll be no regrets. There'll be no
shame. There'll be none of this. I can't
explain it. And yet, we will know, as we've
been known, we'll know all the sin we committed against our
brethren. We'll know all the bitterness
we had, all the suffering and pain we caused. We'll know all
of the misunderstanding because we were so foolish. Because we
didn't know them if the Lord knew us. And we'll know all the
trouble we cause and all the suffering we cause. And yet all that will be gone.
It will all be gone. All of us completely and 100%
pardoned freely by the Lord Himself and one another. Completely.
Understanding one another. Understanding ourselves completely
as what we were. And we'll fall on each other's
necks. Oh, brother. Oh, my brother. Why don't we do that now? Why don't we humble ourselves
before the Lord now? Why don't we go humble ourselves
before our brother and make sure our brother now? So there won't be regrets. But thank God, it's going to
wipe away those tears. Turn that morning to smile and
joy and forever. We're not going to cause any
more pain. We're not only not going to feel any pain, we're
not going to cause it. We're going to be like Him. We're
going to love. We're going to love Him and one
another forever. Maybe we'll have a good long
weep. There'll be silence in heaven,
I know that, for thirty minutes. Scripture says so. But we're
all just dumbfounded, speechless, joy unspeakable. at His unspeakable
gift and His undeserved mercy and love and grace to us and
see in one another. And most of all, we're there.
The Lord bless them.