I'll be speaking to you tonight
from Genesis chapter 46. Genesis chapter 46 and primarily from verse 4. I believe these first three verses
are just preparatory verses in the jest of what he has to say. This is God speaking to Jacob,
he says in verse 4. But before I go there, I want
to read you something from 1 Peter 1. Just hold your place there
in Genesis if you want to turn over there with me to 1 Peter
1. I've read this to you many times. But I think we need to be often
reminded of this portion of Scripture. And especially in the light of
our studies in the Old Testament Scriptures. It's my desire when
I stand up here and talk to you and teach these lessons from
Genesis or I think we're going to continue right on into Exodus
after this, but it's my desire that you that are here understand
that I'm not spiritualizing the Scriptures. I'm not going into
the Scriptures and pulling things out and trying to make them say
something that the Scriptures don't confirm. I want you to
understand that this is how these things are to be taught in Genesis. And to teach them any other way
is to rest the Scriptures. It's to rest the Scriptures.
That's what our Lord told The Jews, through Peter, when he
preached to them, not Peter, I'm sorry, Stephen, he said,
you stiff-necked and uncircumcised heart, you do always, always
resist the Holy Ghost. How did they do that? because
they took those scriptures that Stephen had preached to them
and he pretty much went back to the beginning with Abraham
and came all the way down in his message to them. And then
he told them, he said, you stiff-necked and uncircumcised and hard in
ears, you do always resist the Holy Ghost. They resist the teaching
of the Holy Ghost. That's what Stephen was telling
them. I want you to see that to present these things that
I'm presenting to you, and in any other light, if I stand up
here and try to teach these things as moral lessons, or stand up
here and try to teach these things as historic accounts or future
prophetic events that's going to take place, if I do that,
I arrest the scriptures. And I do so to my own destruction
and yours. But I want you to see this. I
want you to see that all these pictures and allegories and figures
are being rightly divided and correctly taught, and declared
to those that God has preserved them for. Have you ever thought
about that? That's what this Scripture says
here. Listen to it closely. Now in the first part of this
chapter here in Peter, he declares what salvation is, to whom it's
sent, the means to accomplish it. and the effects of it on
the lives of all them that believe. Now, that's what he says in these
first several verses. And then he gives us some encouragement
in our present troubles and trials, telling us that they are but
the refiner's fire. That's all they are. These trials
and troubles and tribulations in this life, all it is is the
refiner's fire. Nothing's getting burnt except
the dross. That's all we lose, is the dross. Look here in verse 7, that the
trial of your faith being much more precious than that of gold
it perisheth, though it be tried by fire, might be found unto
the praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ. Verse 8, whom having not seen
ye love, in whom though now you see him not, yet believing you
rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory, receiving
the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls." Now
keep in mind, they had no New Testament. All these men had
to whom Peter preached was the Old Testament Scriptures. What
Peter wrote, these epistles that he wrote and John wrote and All
these men wrote Paul, all these men. That's what made up the
New Testament. But they had no New Testament
at this time. Now watch this, verse 10. By faith we've received the end
of our faith, the salvation of our souls. Verse 10. Of which
salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently who prophesied
of that grace that should come unto you. They prophesied of
this day. These Old Testament prophets
did. I'm not making this up. These Old Testament prophets
prophesied of that grace that was going to come to them thousands
of years out into the future. Searching. Now watch this. These
Old Testament prophets. Searching what or what manner
of time the Spirit of Christ. The Spirit of Christ. See that?
What's he talking about? What he's talking about? He's
talking about these prophets' message. So this Spirit of Christ
is the message the Holy Spirit inspired them to write. That's
why He inspired them to do it. This Spirit of Christ that was
on these Old Testament prophets. Now we want to take the Holy
Spirit and we want to apply that to end time prophecies and and
things fulfilled in time, historic things and changes of government
and all kinds of things. Brethren, the message of the
Holy Spirit has always been one, just one message, Christ. And
that's what he inspired these Old Testament prophets to write.
And when he did, they searched what manner of time, what or
what manner of time the Spirit of Christ, that's the Spirit
by which all Scripture is inspired, The spirit which was in them
did signify when it testified beforehand the sufferings of
Christ and the glory that should follow. Unto whom? The Old Testament prophets. It
was revealed that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister
the things which are now reported unto you by them that have preached
the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven. The same spirit of Christ that
inspired these old men to write and testify of the sufferings
of Christ and the glory that should follow is the same spirit
that God poured out on his church after the resurrection of Christ
and accompanies that preaching of the gospel and regenerates
men through it. Now that's what Peter's saying
here. The same spirit that inspired these Old Testament prophets
to write is the same spirit that reveals them unto us. Verse 13,
wherefore, knowing who inspired these things, knowing of whom
these things testify, knowing to whom these things are sent,
wherefore, gird up the loins of your mind and be sober and
hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you
at the revelation of Jesus Christ. That is, clear your mind of worldly
cares and distracting thoughts and sit and listen to this end,
to this end, waiting on God to reveal that salvation that these
old prophets testified, that glory, those sufferings, that
glory of God in Christ. Hope to that end. Dirt up your
mind. Sit in the pew and wait on God. That's what he's saying. Wait
on God. that revelation of the glory
of God in the face of Jesus Christ our Lord. Now, I tell you this, I'm not
up here tonight to prove to you that I do read and study the
scriptures. I can sit down with you in my
house and show you books that I've underlined and books that
I've highlighted and you can and many of these other men can
where they've read this book, but I'm not up here to prove
that to you. I'm not up here to wow somebody
with some new exciting things that they never thought of or
never heard. I'm up here because I believe God, his purpose to
save a people for the glory of his name through the preaching
of the gospel. I believe that and I believe
that's what he just, I just read to you in the book of Peter.
These old prophets wrote these things. And God told them, He
said, it's not to you. They had faith. They looked forward
to that coming Redeemer. But He said, these sufferings
and these things, He said, it's going to be preached in that
day. They're going to be standing and boldly declared to men. Now, we're studying in the book
of Genesis. And this is the book of beginnings.
This is where these things are pictured in their beginnings,
all the way through the book of Genesis. And to see these
things in their beginning, I think, thrills the heart of all those
that believe because it confirms this work to be the work of God.
Don't you worry sometimes, you know, maybe... Maybe somewhere
along the line I fell out. Maybe I've been deceived. Maybe this whole thing is just
something I read in a book. Maybe when these scriptures are
talking about men being deceived and their minds being taken over,
maybe that's what happened to me. But boy, when you go back
and you see it in its beginning, And then you see it in its fulfillment. And you see it all the way through
the Scriptures. And you just keep seeing it over
and over and over. Then there can be no doubt. There
can be no doubt. Oh, I look at these and it thrills
my heart when I see these things. It does. I see them in the Scriptures. Now, if you'll turn back with
me to Genesis 46. I have three things that I want
you to see in God's revelation to Jacob. And I hope in these
three things that God will be pleased to instruct us and encourage
us and establish us in the faith. The first thing that caught my
eye in chapter 46 was the word journey. See it there? Israel
took his journey. Now this whole thing that we're
reading about and studying back here when we're talking about
Jacob being God's elect is a journey of faith. That's what faith is.
It's a journey. I think it's being publicized
wrong and men are being told lies when they talk about faith
coming about in some isolated act and it comes about and it's
over and now you just, like an insurance policy, you take it
and put it up on the shelf and if you ever need it, there it
is. That's not faith. Faith is a journey. Read that
faith chapter in the book of Hebrews. It talks about men sojourning. It talks about men never having
not received the promise but seeing them afar off and embrace
those promises and sojourned in this land as strangers. Strangers. It's a journey and that's the
way it's pictured and that's the way it's experienced. It's
a journey. It's called in scripture the
way. How many times? Go on through
the Scripture. Do you see that word, way? You'll see it a lot in the book
of Proverbs. The way. There's a way that seemeth right
unto a man, but the end thereof is death and destruction. In
the book of Psalms, in Psalm chapter 2, he said, at the end
of that chapter in verse 12 of Psalm chapter 2, he said, kiss
the son, lest he be angry and you perish from what? From the
way. from the way. And then our Lord
tells them in Matthew chapter 7, He said, broad is the way
that leadeth to destruction, but straight is the gate and
narrow is the way that leadeth unto life and few there be that
find it. And then the Lord told His disciples,
you remember I study in John chapter 14, the Lord said, I'm
going to go away But he said, don't let your hearts not be
troubled. He said, if I go away, I'll return
again. But he said, I go away to prepare
a place for you. I'm going to my father's house.
And there's many mansions there. And I'm going to make a place
for you in my father's house. And then the Lord said this to
him. He said, you know where I'm going. And you know the way. And Thomas said, whoa, wait a
minute. We don't know where you're going. And how can we know the
way? He said, I am the way. I am the
way. And old Jacob's journey, it begins
with the good news that Joseph was alive and that God had made
him Lord over all Egypt. Joseph gave to him the earnest
of his accomplished redemption. He gave to him the earnest of
his lordship in Egypt. Pharaoh accompanied him with
royal wagons and he accompanied him with good things, all the
good things. He loaded on those ashes and
sent them off that they might be nourished along the way. They're
not going to come back to Egypt hungry. He's going to feed them
and carry them the whole way. Sent with him wagons. Wagons
of grace. All of these things were the
means of accomplished redemption. So old Jacob, he crawls up on
this wagon. And he loads up everything he
has and he rides down the road of peace, I guess until it got
dark. And they was at this place called Beersheba. Now you remember
Beersheba from our studies in the past. And old Jacob, he stopped
in Beersheba and he sacrificed sacrifices unto the Lord and
he worshipped the Lord there. And then that night the Lord
spoke to him in night visions because Jacob's heart was troubled
about Egypt. Troubled about Egypt. And now
I'm going to read my text here. Listen to this. Genesis chapter
3. And he said, I am God. God of
thy father, fear not to go down into Egypt, for I will there
make of thee a great nation. I will go down with thee into
Egypt, and I will also surely bring thee up again. And Joseph,
your beloved son, shall put his hand upon thine eyes." That is,
you've seen in the old Westerns, the man's laying there dead and
his eyes is wide open. The man takes his hand and closes
his eyes. That's what he's telling him.
Here's what he's telling him. He says, you're going to die
in Egypt. That's what he's telling him. But don't fear. Joseph's
still going to be alive, and Joseph's going to close them
eyes. The journey of faith. It begins
with a hearing. of one who's risen from the depths
of Egypt, dreaded Egypt. It begins with a hearing of one
that was raised from the depths of Egypt and made Lord of all. And this journey begins with
a revelation of God concerning this one who now reigns in Egypt,
concerning the place and concerning the one who rules over the place.
It's not enough to hear my voice. You're going to have to hear
him too. You're going to have to hear from God. I can't explain
that. I'm not even going to try to
explain that. I'm just going to tell you so. If you ever experience
it, you'll do this. Every time somebody tells you
about hearing the voice of God, you say, uh-huh, I know where
you're coming from. Now, Jacob, He may have some
reservations about the witnesses, but he looks on and he sees those
wagons of grace that accompanied them, and it was enough to persuade
him, and now he receives this confirmation of God. Now watch
this. What troubles this old man's
heart? What is it that troubles his
heart? It's where God commanded him
to go. That's where he commanded him to go. The journey of faith
requires that Jacob take his place in Egypt and die in this
cursed land. That's what it says. Now this
man had spent his life ever since God confirmed that covenant to
him, hanging on to this promise of Canaan. God's going to give him Canaan. Canaan's where his hope is. Canaan's
what he desires. He's already been there. He's
already sojourned. He's already seen this place.
Now God says, you're going to go down to Egypt and die. I think his heart was troubled.
His heart was troubled. What troubles him? Where God
told him he had to go. The journey of faith requires
that Jacob take his place in Egypt and die in this cursed
land. Now here's the second thing I
want you to see. Faith is a journey. That's how God's revealing this
thing to Jacob. You're going to take this journey.
All this whole thing, this whole thing of the disappearance of
Joseph, He is going down into Egypt, and His sufferings, and
His being incarcerated in that prison, and His resurrection
out of that prison, and being made Lord, and those wagons,
and these witnesses, and your sons, conversion, and all of
these things. This has all been of me. This
has been a journey. And now you're going to get in
this wagon of grace. And God said, I'm going to take
you down to Egypt. Hmm? Ain't that what he told
him? He said, I'm going down with
you. I'm going down with you. God takes Jacob down to Egypt. What is Egypt? Egypt is the land
of Ham. Did you, when I asked you to,
did you read Psalm 105 all the way through, give it some study
that afternoon? In Psalm 105 verse 23 it says,
Israel also came into Egypt, and Jacob sojourned in the land
of Ham. Now you remember who Ham was.
Ham is the son of Noah who claimed salvation in the ark, but he
manifested no change of heart. Manifested no change of heart.
He was a man who did not want to retain God in his knowledge,
so God gave him over to a reprobate man. do what's against the very
nature of a man and the purpose of man. Egypt is the land of
Ham and Egypt is the land of idolatry and spiritual ignorance. Egypt is the land of temptation.
Everything a natural man could desire could be found in Egypt.
power and wealth and beauty and wisdom and philosophy and education,
art and science. We're still looking at it. It's
still the most popular exhibit in this country in any museum.
When they bring those things of Egypt, man, the line just
forms, goes around the block at those museums. You can't even
get in the door to go look at it. All of these things, any and
every kind of false god a natural man could desire. And even to
the very threshold of Canaan, the nation of Israel, the children
of Israel, would sit around the campfire at night. You remember
them cucumbers and leeks and flesh pots back in Egypt. Boy,
they sure tasted good, didn't they? Oh, you bet. I remember
the good old days. They sat around that campfire
talking about all the pleasures of Egypt. Everything a natural
man could desire was in Egypt. back in Egypt. These children of Israel having
been in Egypt for 400 years, their bodies crossed the sea,
wandered in the wilderness, but their hearts never left Egypt. Egypt is a place of temptation
and Egypt is the place of bondage. In Egypt, the man of faith learns
he's not a free man. That's what he learns in Egypt.
God ever took you to Egypt? You're not a free man. I used
to dream about free will. Used to think I had one. Used
to think, well, I can choose God. I told preachers and told
people who tried to get me to come down an aisle, I'm not ready.
When I get ready, I'll come down. I'll join the church. I can do
this. I can do as good as he can. I know what he was. I ain't
worse than he was. I've got a free will. You've never been to Egypt. They didn't have no free will
in Egypt. Oh, they got down there, and when old Joseph died, and
the Pharaoh rose up, that sovereign rose up who didn't know Joseph.
Boy, things got tough then, didn't they? They didn't have no free
will no more. You can talk about it all you
wanted to, but I'll tell you what you're going to do, what
the taskmaster gave you to do. That's what you're going to do. Egypt is the place of bondage.
That's where the man of faith learns he's not a free man, but
he serves a ruler down in Egypt who demands obedience without
compassion, without kindness, without love. He serves one there
who's willing to let him labor for that which brings him no
reward. That's Egypt. He serves one there
that demands his quota, but offers no help with the means. He supplies
no means. He cries, peace, peace, but there
is no peace. You want peace, you're going
to have to make it yourself. In Egypt, he loses his will. He does what he's told. He serves
the will of the God of that land, and he's free only for that purpose. Egypt is the place of restraint.
They were held in oppression, called it the iron furnace, held
in servitude, held in the power of darkness. Egypt is a picture
of this world and the God of this world and the condition
of every fallen son of Adam. That's what Egypt is. And the
first thing God requires on this journey of faith is for His elect
to go down and take His place in the land of Ham. Now, from an intellectual standpoint,
that ain't too bad. From an experiential standpoint,
it's everything. It's everything. Because when
you take your place in the land of Ham, you're saying the only
difference between you and Ham is the grace of God. That's it. That's it. And that's the first thing God
requires. The second thing I learned about this journey is that God
himself must go with us. That's what it says. He said,
don't fear to go down there. I'm going to go with you. I'm
going to go with you. You know why God went with him?
Because he wasn't going to win otherwise. And you won't either. You won't either. because this
place down here in Egypt is a place of total depravity, total despair. You can't so much as lift your
little finger to do anything for yourself down there. Everything
down there comes by the free grace of God. Before this thing's
over with, Israel's out there making bricks for the evil king,
and that evil king wouldn't even let them go to worship. No. Moses said, We're just going
to go out here a little peace and worship." He said, no you
ain't. You ain't going nowhere. You can't do nothing down there.
The only way you can do anything down there is for God to set
aside a man like Moses and send him down there and by declaration
alone command that man who runs the
place to let you go on the authority of God. That's it. That's it. Only God can and will bring His
elect into a place of total despair, total helplessness, total darkness,
and total servitude. But why on earth would the living
God lead a man into such a miserable place? Have I got your attention
yet? Why would God take His elect
into this cursed place? I told you a while ago, he took
him there to die. That's why. He took him there
to die. A fella told Barnard one time,
he said, Brother Barnard, he said, I'm not equipped to tell
a man how to preach, but he said, this looks to me like you could
kill more, catch more flies with sugar than you could with vinegar.
He said, I ain't trying to catch flies, I'm trying to kill sinners.
God took Jacob down there to kill him. To kill him. Because Jacob has to die for
Israel to live. He got to die. God leads his
leg down into this cursed place with an eye to the one who has
accomplished his redemption. It's with an eye of faith on
Joseph that Jacob is made willing to take the journey. That's it. You ain't going down there. I
hear men talking about it all the time, talking about being
sick. You ain't going to take your place in the land of Ham
until that eye catches hold of Christ. That's the only place
you know what that land means. You don't even know the depths
of that land until your eye is on Him. That man who now sits on that
throne didn't always sit on that throne. There was a time when
he was in the prison in Egypt. There was a time when he was
in the bondage of Egypt. Oh, God himself takes us down
into Egypt, down into that place of despair and darkness and bondage
and oppression. And there he sustains us with
the resurrected Christ who reigns over the dead and the living.
That's what he said. To this end, he said, was I born
into this world. And this He does so that no flesh,
that's why He takes us down there, no flesh is going to glory in
His presence. You're going to know that. And
we're going to know it here. No flesh. It's in the land of
Egypt where redemption is accomplished. Can you remember the lessons?
In Egypt. That's where redemption is accomplished.
It's in Egypt where redemption manifests. It's in Egypt where
redemption is declared. It's in Egypt where redemption
is revealed. It's in Egypt where redemption
is dispersed. And Egypt where it's received. It's in Egypt where redemption
is proved. It's in Egypt where redemption
trials. It's in Egypt where redemption
distinguishes. And in Egypt where its glory
can be seen. Where sin abounds, grace, he
said, doth much more abound. What then? Should we sin that
grace may abound? No. No, because we're dead. We're
dead. I'll tell you the reason why
men and women come in here and hear this gospel and go away
unaffected is because God has never taken them by the hand
and took them down to Egypt. That's the only place you can
see is glory from Egypt. I seen Calvinism years ago. I seen that, and I seen it from
a troubled heart. I had troubles going on when
I seen it. But he hasn't taken me to Egypt
yet. I tell you, when he takes you down to Egypt, just a whisper
of that glory, it just fills your heart. It fills your heart.
It's the only place you can see it. Only place you can see it. You know, back when this thing
was first being made known, old Abraham was commanded to take
a heifer three years old, and a she-goat, and a ram, and a
turtle dove, and a young pigeon. And he told him to divide it
up as a sacrifice and lay it all out. Do you remember the
story? And the buzzards come down. And Abraham fought off
the buzzards, the same as we do. Had to fight off the buzzards
off the sacrifice. And God caused a deep sleep to
fall on him. And it said in a horror of darkness
when he told him that his people, his seed, this gospel seed is
going to have to go down into Egypt for 400 years and going
to be afflicted in Egypt. And afterwards, they're going
to come out with great substance. Now that's what he's telling
Jacob. Everything. Everything about this thing.
It's on the black backdrop of total depravity and the evil
of a fallen world that God has purposed to show the riches of
His mercy and grace. That's how He shows it. That's
the only way He shows it. And I tell you this, we won't
lean on Him, we won't look to Him, we won't call on His name
until we take our place in Egypt. And the only way we're going
to take our place in Egypt is for God to take you by the hand
and lead you there. You're not going. And the more
you know about Egypt, the more you don't want to go. You know,
Egypt was such a place that both Abraham and Isaac, when they,
just on a visit into Egypt, don't you think about this? I remarked
on this in our studies when we went through this. Abraham, the
man of faith, the man that God singled out as the example of
faith, and Isaac, Isaac stood as the promised one, talking
about all God's elect. Abraham and Isaac both, just
on a visit into Egypt, submitted their wives to that evil king
for fornication, just in a visit. Huh? Egypt. You could go on and on and on
about Egypt. Man, he's got a lot to say in
this book about Egypt. Oh, we won't lean on him, we
won't look to him, we won't call on his name until we take our
place in Egypt. Everything that sustained Jacob
in Egypt came from Joseph. Came from Joseph. And then when
he came to die, even then, Joseph himself laid his finger on his
eyes Eyes made to see beyond the grave and beyond the bondage
and oppression of Egypt. And down in Egypt, with mature
faith, it says over in Hebrews 11 that Joseph, when he was dying
down in Egypt, leaned on that staff. God crippled him, didn't
he? God gave him a walk. He broke
that proud step. And he leaned on that staff down
in Egypt. And he blessed them two boys
of Joseph. He blessed Joseph's sons. Joseph was a picture of
Christ. He blessed all Christ's sons,
leaning on that staff, and died in Egypt, worshiping God. Worshiping God. God blessed Joseph's sons by
him, and comforted himself in Joseph's promise. carry him unto
his purchased place of rest. Now here's the third thing, and
I'll hurry. This journey of faith is a one-way
trip. It's a one-way trip. When old
Jacob began this journey back in Genesis 46-1, it says he took
his journey with all he had. He wasn't planning on coming
back. It's a one-way trip. When faith goes down into Egypt
with God, it takes all that it has. See, that's why folks don't
want to go. If it was just a matter of Jacob
going down, he might have just jumped up and went down. What
did he have to lose? He told Pharaoh his life story.
He said, my days are many and evil. That's what he had to say
about his life. That's how he summed it up. Pretty
much sums up mine. Faith, when it goes down into
Egypt with God, it takes all that it has. It takes children,
and grandchildren, and sons-in-law, and daughters-in-law, and possessions,
and herds, and flocks, and servants, and money, and everything that
is. And he boils it up in one big
lump and said, this is Egypt. This is Egypt. Isn't that what
the Lord said? He said, love not the world.
Ain't that what He said? I don't love this world. What are you going to do? Why
are you laying up treasures here? The moth gets it. The rust gets
it. The storm gets it. Taxes get it. Huh? Oil gets it. Somebody gets it.
I don't. I don't love this world. He took
everything he had down to Egypt. And he said, here, Joseph. You're
in a position to use this for the best. There he is. And here
I am. Faith puts everything it has
into the wagons of grace and commits them to the goodwill
and authority of their kinsmen redeemer to do with what he sees
fit. And I tell you this, no man can
do this apart from the living God, working in him both the
will and to do of his good pleasure. That's why when I hear folks
talking about what they do for God and begin to talk about their
faith and how they strengthen themselves and how they do it,
I just look at them and wonder, don't you know this is the work
of God? What might we do to work the
works of God? I said, here's the work of God.
Believe on me. Do that. Let's say you do that. You can't do that apart from
the living God working in you. But I tell you this, with an
eye on Christ, we load the wagon. Hold her up. Now watch this. See there on Egypt's
throne, one who already went down to Egypt with God. Huh? They shall call his name Immanuel,
God with us. He's already been to Egypt. Old Joseph, his brother, sold
him to the Ishmaelites out of the pit. Listen to what it says. But God was with him. Potiphar's
wife lied on him, and he was cast into the king's prison,
into the deepest part of the thing. And the iron, they hurt
him with the iron. They shackled the iron to him.
But God was with him. And there was a great mystery.
No man, no wise man, no soothsayer, no prophet understood this great
mystery. But Joseph understood it. And
Joseph declared the mystery. And old Pharaoh said, where can
we find a man like this in whom the Spirit of God is? God was
with him. You see what I'm saying? Sitting
on the throne is one who's already been to Egypt. That's why I don't
fear to go to Egypt. I'll tell you why, because one's
already been there. And he's seated at the right
hand of God. And he says, come on. Them's
my wagons. Get in my wagon and come down
here. Faith can go down into Egypt
with God and trust God to raise him up again. Ain't that what
he tells them here in verse 4? I'll go down with thee into Egypt.
And I will also surely bring thee up again, and Joseph shall
put his hand upon thine eyes." And Joseph himself personally
escorted his father into Canaan when he died. God raised him
up just like he promised and took him into that promised rest
and there laid him with all those that had gone before. This man has power. Our Lord has power right now
over death, hell, and the grave. And He tells us, come unto Him.
Come unto Him. Find rest for your souls. But
I tell you this, that journey begins in Egypt. That's where
it starts. And He shows it to us. He shows
us how helpless and hopeless and ignorant We're nothing. We're nothing. I told you Sunday
morning, we're the un-people. We're just the un-people. Father, take the lesson tonight
and reveal it to our hearts in an
experience of grace that we know what it is to go down into Egypt
and that we see it every day how dependent we are on your
grace. Forgive us. That's a proud notion
sometimes that we have in the grumbling and the complaining
and the mourning that we do. Forgive us these things. We're
totally dependent upon your grace. And why should we doubt it? What
grace you've already shown us. Use the message tonight For Thy
name's honor and glory we ask You for Christ's sake, Amen.