That's a good-looking bunch of
people. I've chosen a very, very simple
text tonight to read to you and preach on. It's in Genesis chapter
45. Genesis 45, and let's begin reading in verse 1. I tremble to thank the Lord Jesus
Christ is in our presence. And I tremble to thank He wouldn't
be. I guess that's what the psalmist
meant when he said rejoice with trembling, isn't it? We have
such a sovereign Lord and Savior in our midst. I'm going to read
a few verses And then, instead of reading the whole chapter,
I want to look at it as I go. So if you'll let me read a few
verses, and you'll keep your Bibles open, then we'll refer
back to this chapter as we go. Let's look at the first four
verses. Then Joseph could not refrain
himself before all them that stood before him. And he cried,
cause every man to go out from me, and there stood no man with
him. while Joseph made himself known
unto his brethren. And he wept aloud, and the Egyptians
in the house of Pharaoh heard. And Joseph said unto his brethren,
I am Joseph, doeth my father yet live? And his brethren could
not answer him, for they were troubled at his presence. And
Joseph said unto his brethren, come near to me, I pray you.
And they came near, and he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom
you sold unto Egypt. And look in verse 13. And you shall tell my father
of all my glory in Egypt, and all that ye have seen, and ye
shall haste and bring down my father hither. And he fell upon
his brother Benjamin's neck, and Benjamin wept upon his neck.
Moreover, he kissed all his brethren and wept upon them, and after
that his brethren talked with him." Now this is a very familiar
story, and most of you that have read your Bibles are familiar
with where I'm going with this. But I have broke right into the
middle of the story, you know that, so I want to go back just
for a minute and just Remind you of what has happened up until
now concerning Joseph and his brother you remember when there
was 11 of them and Joseph's brethren hated him he was the favorite
of his father his father had made him this coat of many colors
and No doubt there was envy involved they were jealous of Joseph And
this jealousy caused them to do a lot of things, caused them
to think evil against their brother. And of all things, Joseph had
the dream that he had. And he dreamed that they were
out in the field and shocking corn is what you and I would
call it. They had their grain gathered up in bundles. And he
said, your bundles came and bowed down to my bundles. And they
didn't like that. They said, you mean to tell us
that you're going to reign over us? You're going to rule us? And he had another dream that
the moon and the sun and the 11 stars bowed down to him and
did obedience to him, worshipped him. And they hated him the more
because of this dream that he had. And one day, Joseph was
sent of his father out to check on his brethren where they were
feeding the flocks. And they saw him coming and they
said, this is our opportunity. We'll get rid of him, this dreamer. So they agreed to put him in
the pit. Reuben kept them from killing him. And Reuben, Reuben,
he was the firstborn. If you want to see something
hilarious and something that'll make you chuckle, study on the
life of Reuben. And he reminds us so much of
ourselves. Everything he did, he failed
in. And he was going to try to deliver
Joseph, and he didn't. He's the one who told his father,
let me take Benjamin down there, and if I don't bring him back,
you kill my two sons. Kill my two sons. That'll solve
the problem there. And when Joseph, remember when
Jacob come to bless his sons, he said, Reuben, you're unstable
as water. And Reuben didn't deliver Joseph.
They took him out of the pit, sold him as a slave down into
Egypt. His brother went back home, soaked
his coat in the blood of the beast, and said, Dad, is this
your son's coat? He's obviously been killed and
eaten. Let their dad believe that for years. Oppress this
sin and this guilt and hid it from everybody. And as far as
they're concerned, their brother could have been killed. Let him
die, we hate him anyway. And they lived with that for
years. Joseph went down into Egypt, went to work in Potiphar's
house. His wife accused him of attempted
rape. They put him in prison, hurt
his feet in the stocks. He couldn't understand what they
were saying. He missed his dad, missed his
brother, and he often wept, just a young man. And one day, after years, Pharaoh's
butler and baker was got in trouble. They thought both of them was
going to have their head removed from the shoulders. He put them
both where Joseph was, there in the pen, in the prison, in
the dungeon. And they had dreams. Joseph interpreted
their dreams. And their interpretation was
true, come to pass. They hung the butler. The baker
exalted the butler back to his place with Pharaoh. And Joseph
said, would you do me a favor? Would you remember me? Two years
he forgot him. Pharaoh has a dream. He dreams
these healthy cows were eaten up by these poor cows. And nobody
could interpret this dream. Well, the butler was there and
he said, I do remember my fault today. There's a man, a young
man down in prison that can interpret your dream. Pharaoh sent, they
shaved Joseph's face, they gave him a bath, they brought him
up before Pharaoh, and Joseph said, God has showed you what
he's going to do. There's going to be seven years
of plenty and then seven years of famine is coming. You better
pick you out a wise man that can store up grain for seven
years. And then when the famine comes,
you'll have plenty to eat and sustain the people." And Pharaoh
said, who's wiser than you? So he puts this beautiful linen
on him. He puts the gold chain about
his neck. He puts his own ring on his finger. And he says, nobody is going
to lift a hand in my kingdom unless it's according to your
will. And he puts him in a chariot
and has his men to drive him through the communities. And
as he goes through, they command, bow the knee. Bow the knee. And he sets him over his princes. He binds them at his pleasure.
He teaches his senators wisdom. He gives him a beautiful wife.
He has two children. Manasseh, the Lord has made me
forget my toil in my father's house. He has Ephraim, God has
made me fruitful in the land of my affliction. And he was
a happy man. A happy man. And we could end
the story right there, couldn't we? But that's where I want to
begin. Right here. He said, he said in his dream,
It's going to be you fellas that are going to come down and worship
me. You're going to bow to me, and I'm going to reign over you.
That's got to take place then. It hasn't taken place yet. Joseph
is there on the throne. People come to Pharaoh and said,
we're out of feed. We don't have anything to eat.
Our animals are dying. He said, what are you doing here
with me? I can't do nothing for you. You
want bread? Go to Joseph. I put it all in
his hands. And he sustained everybody. Joseph fed the nations and nourished
them. And then the famine hit the land
of Canaan. Up there were Jacob and his ten
sons lived. And it got bad. And Jacob said,
you fellows are going to have to go get us some bread. I've
heard there's bread down in Egypt. So they come down here. That's
the first time that they come down. They don't know Joseph. He's seated on the throne. Last
time they saw him, he was in a pit. He was in handcuffs, sold
as a slave. Now he's on the throne. They
don't recognize him, but he knows them. And he says, you fellas are spies,
aren't you? No, we'd be true men. We'd be
true men. We've got a dad at home. We've
got a little brother at home. What are you doing down here? We want some corn. He filled
the sacks full of corn, put the money back in it, and said, listen,
I don't want to see your face until you bring your brother
Benjamin with you. And I want you to know how serious
I am. He calls two guards. They throw
their brother Simeon down on the ground, tie him up, and he
said, put him in jail. You'll get him when you come
back with your little brother. Well, they went home, and they
told their daddy, boy, the lord of the land, that's what they
kept calling him, the lord of the country, he dealt roughly
with us. And he told us right before we
left, don't you let me see your face, except you got your little
brother with you. And it went on like that for
some time. And you know something, they never went back. They'd
have forgot about Simon. We ain't going back down there.
I know he's our brother. Let him fend for himself. We're
not going back. But the famine Increased in the
land. And Jacob said, you go back or
we're going to die. He told us not to come back unless
we had Benjamin. You ain't taking him. I've done
lost one of my sons. I'm not losing him. Well, the
famine prevailed in the land. Go down there and get us some
bread, not unless you send him with us. Finally, he says, go. Go. They come down. That's the first time. That's
the first time. The second time is when the Lord
makes Joseph known unto them. Why did he deal so roughly with
his brother? That's a good question, isn't
it? Why did he deal so roughly with him? He loved him. It's
obvious that he loved him. I read that to you in my text
here. But why did he treat them as he treated them? Why did he
throw their brother on the ground and bind him and put him in jail?
Why did he look at them with such stern eyes and speak to
them so boldly, don't you see my face? Unless you've got your
brother. Let me give you three quick reasons.
First one has to be this. wasn't with them the first time.
Joseph's dream said, you eleven are going to bow down to me.
Eleven of you. There was only ten there. The
little pet, you see. The little pet was home. The
youngest. The one we're protecting and
looking out for. He's not coming down here. Oh
yes, he's coming. But you ain't going to know who
I am. That's the first reason. They all weren't there. That's why Joseph didn't make
himself known, and that's why he spoke roughly to them. They
wouldn't have brought him back if he'd have fell on their neck
and kissed them and said, oh, I love you, fellas. Secondly, it was this, there
was a matter also of this sin, wasn't there? They had suppressed
this sin against Joseph. All this guilt they'd carried,
these lies for all of these years. They hated him. That was going
to have to come to the surface. That was going to have to come
out. That was going to have to be owned and confessed. And thirdly was this, and I think
this is right. They had this familiarity with
Joseph. After all, he was their younger
brother. Bow to him. Worship him. On obedience to
him. Well, he's our brother. We're
familiar with him. We know him. You know him? Is that him sitting on the throne?
No, we don't know him. You will. This all had come to a head in
my text. But look back in chapter 44 and
look how it came to a head. Look in chapter 44. You remember
when Benjamin did come down with them. And they ate dinner with Joseph in
Joseph's house. He put all the corn and all the
money in their sacks, and he put his silver cup in Benjamin's
sack. And he let them head back home,
and they got just out of town, and he sent his servant and said,
you go check, and whoever you find that silver cup in, you
bring them back here. They were headed home. He went
out and got them, and said, one of you stole the governor's cup. Wow, they said, that's ridiculous.
That's utterly ridiculous. Why would we do that? If you
find that cup on us, the one you find it on, you can take
him back and he'll be his servant. He'll be his slave. Well, they
emptied all their bags, all their sacks, and lo and behold, there
was the cup in Benjamin's sack. They rent their clothes, tore
off their clothes, went back to Joseph's house, and there
he was. And look what he says in verse
14. And Judah and his brother came
to Joseph's house, for he was yet there, and they fell before
him on the ground. And Joseph said unto them, What
deed is this that ye have done? Wilt ye not that such a man as
I can certainly divine? And Judah said, What shall we
say unto my Lord? What shall we speak? How shall
we clear ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity
of thy servants. We are all my Lord's servants. We and he with whom the cup is
found. God has found out our iniquity. Didn't they know that to start
with? Surely they knew that God knew
what they had done. Reckon because God didn't bring
judgment on them so quickly for their sin against Joseph. They
thought he had forgot about it Surely he's not a just God He's
not afflicted us yet He's not brought judgment on us. I wonder
if he's a just God anyway, so they just forgot about it Until
God showed him. Yes, I'm a just God Yes, I remember
your sin. And he brings it to the surface,
doesn't he? He reminds them. He charges them. He arrests them. And they said,
God has found us out. We're guilty. We're in trouble.
Man, we're in trouble. God has found us out. Ah, we can go on when we find
ourselves out or our neighbors find us out, but let God find
us out. Oh, there's a difference, isn't
there? Joseph said, I'm going to keep
him for my slave. You fellas are going back home.
And that's when Judah came and made this petition before Joseph
and said, I told my father that I'd be a charity for him. If
I don't bring him back and set him before my father's face,
I've done told my father, I bear the shame and the blame forever. Joseph could not refrain himself
any longer. He had refrained himself before
when he saw his brother. He was weeping and he ran in
the back room and wiped his eyes and washed his face. Now he comes
back and this is the second time and he cannot refrain himself
any longer. It says here that he fell on
their necks and he kissed them and he says, I'm Joseph. your
brother. He made himself known unto them. Now what can we learn from this?
That took me a while to get to this, but what can we learn from
this? Joseph having to refrain himself
unto the point where he could refrain himself no longer. What
can you and I learn from this? Well, we learn this. We can learn
something about the emotions the heartfelt emotions, the affections,
the love that Jesus Christ has for his lost elect sheep. Don't we? There's never been an elect soul
who truly understood that when they lay dead in their trespasses
and sins, that the heart of a triune God yearned and longed after
fellowship with him. Did you understand that? Paul said, when God separated
me from my mother's womb. The Lord Jesus was there when
Paul was separated from his mother's womb. He separated him. Can you
imagine the emotion that stirred in the heart of the Son of God? This is mine. I've redeemed Him. I love Him. And don't you imagine
He had to refrain Himself from falling up on that infant's neck
and kissing him with the kisses of His mouth. Oh, you never realized that,
did you? We still can't enter into this.
I love that passage in Ephesians chapter two, where the apostle
Paul was telling us about being dead in our trespasses and sins. And he goes on to tell us about
the enmity of our mind. Our minds were full of wrath. We walked according to the prints
of this world. We fulfilled the desires of the
flesh and of the mind. We were just dead and ungodly. And then in verse 4, he makes
this statement. But God, who is rich in mercy,
for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when... That's a good place to stop. God loved us. Even when, can
you get that? He's rich in His mercy for His
great love where He loved us even when we were dead in sin. When did God love us greatly?
Even when we were dead in sin. His heart, His bowels yearned
upon us to make Himself known unto us. And to bring us in with
this sweet communion with Himself. Don't you love the story about
the shepherd going out after his sheep? He lost just one sheep. And he left the 99 in safety
and he said, I'm going after that one which I lost. He's mine. And he never quit searching until
he found Him. There's that old hymn. That says,
none of the ransomed ever knew the depths of the water's cross,
nor how dark the night the Lord passed through, or He found His
sheep that was lost. The Lord went to these blood
drops along the way, that mark out the mountain tracks. They
were shed for one who had gone astray, or the shepherd could
bring him back. But listen to this. But all through
the mountain, thunder-riven, and up from the rocky steep,
there arose a glad cry to the gates of heaven. Rejoice, I have
found my sheep." That's a Bible, ain't it? That's the Bible. He searches for this sheep, and
he finds it. And don't you know how he dealt
with it when he found it? If you had a dumb lost sheep
and he was laying there ready to fall over the edge of the
cliff and crush the life from himself and you had a staff in
your hand with a big hook on it, what would you do? Can't
you just imagine the shepherd reaching and getting him on the
edge and pulling him, jerking him to himself. And he reaches
down with those big strong hands and he gets it in that wool and
he picks him up and he shakes him. He shakes him, and he says,
what are you doing here? Why did you leave the foal? Is
he going to kill me? Is he going to throw me over?
Can he see the sheep and lend his little ears back? Oh, oh, what's
he going to do with me? And he shakes the dew out of
him. Would you do your sheep like
that? I did my old dog like that when he ran off. I went looking
for him with a stick. You'll never leave again, boy.
And then what does the shepherd do? He puts him on his shoulders,
doesn't he? Puts him around his neck and
hugs him. And he begins to whistle and
skip and he sings. And he goes back to the foal
and said, come rejoice with me. I have found my sheep which was
lost. But did the sheep know that? No. The first thing he does is
deal roughly, isn't it? Like Joseph did with his brother. Look here in Jeremiah chapter
31 quickly with me. Genesis 45. Look in Jeremiah chapter 31.
Here's a good illustration of what I'm saying. Look in verse 18. Jeremiah 31.18. I have surely heard Ephraim be
mourning himself thus. Here's what he's saying. Thou
hast chastised me. You've whipped me. And I was
chastised. As a bullock unaccustomed to
the yoke, my neck is galled. Turn thou me and I shall be turned,
for you're the Lord my God. Surely after that I was turned,
I repented. After that I was instructed,
I smote upon my thigh. I was ashamed, even confounded,
because I did bear the reproach of my youth. And look here what
the Lord says concerning Ephraim. The Lord had whipped him, chastised
him, hurt him. And then he says, Ephraim, my
dear son, Is he really a pleasant child? For since I spake against
him, I don't know for sure what he said against him, but Ephraim
did. One place, the Lord said, let Ephraim alone. Boy, if that's
what he said against him. And that got back to Ephraim.
The Lord said, for I shall let you alone, Ephraim, you are joined
to idols. Man, if that got back to him. No wonder he's humble. No wonder his neck was galled.
No wonder he began to cry, turn thou me, and I shall be turned.
But since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still. I can't forget him. I can't put
him out of my mind, my thoughts. Therefore, my battles, my emotions,
my affections are troubled for him. I will surely have mercy
upon him, saith If the Lord loves us so dearly,
and His bowels yearn upon us even when we're dead in trespasses
and sin, for this sweet communion, for us to know Him and His grace
and His love, then why does He treat us so roughly when He begins
to bring us to Himself? It goes right back to Joseph
Brethren, the very same reason. We've got all this sin, you see. We've been His enemy all of our
life. We're the enemies of God. There's this deep-seated hatred
of Jesus Christ and His gospel and His grace. And it's all going
to come to the top. It's all going to be made known. We can't hide it. We can't suppress
it any longer. We're going to acknowledge it.
We're going to acknowledge it. Then there's this matter of our
little Benjamins. Who is Benjamin anyway? This
Benjamin. Our Benjamin right there. Little
Benjamin. We'll give everything we have,
everything we possess, but ourselves. It's ourselves we're holding
back from the Lord. I'll give a lot. I'll give just
about everything. But myself, I will not give to
the Lord. When he gets through with you,
you'll give little Benjamin. When he shakes you, when he speaks
to you roughly, you'll start bowing. And then there's this
matter of this sinful familiarity. I don't know who wrote the song,
but I know who sung it. Dear old George Jones, me and
Jesus, we got our own thing going. Remember that? Why would a man,
an ungodly man, sing a song like that? He's too familiar, isn't
he? Boy, me and Jesus, we got it
all worked out. Arminianism. Free willism. He's not going to reign over
me. Who is he? Just a man. Paul the
Pharisee said, we know him. He's the son of Joseph. We know
his brother and we're familiar with him. So he sent out a message.
We won't have this man to reign over us. Oh, but when Peter was preaching
to them on the death Pentecost, after the Holy Spirit had come,
Peter said, you've taken by wicked hands and you've crucified Him,
but God has exalted Him at His right hand. And He's made Him
both Lord and Christ. He's not the little Jesus that
you think He is. He's the Lord on His throne. Thou? And what do they do? What shall we do? We're guilty. God has found us out. And down
they go before the Lord of glory. I love Psalms chapter 2 where
the Father was talking about exalting His Son. I've exalted
my Son. Called Him the King. I've exalted Him. I've set my
King upon my holy hill of Zion. Then He says what He's promised
Him. You ask of Me, My Son, I'll give you the heathen for your
herd. I'll give you the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.
You can do with them as you will. You can break them with a rod
of iron. You can dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. They're yours. And then he turns
to the mighty and says, you better be wise, all you kings. You better
be instructed, you judges of the earth. You better serve the
Lord with fear and rejoice with trembling. Why does the Lord
have to speak roughly to us? Well, you'll never be saved until
he brings you to fear him. Paul loved to begin his messages
like this. Men and brethren, and whosoever
among you that feareth the Lord, to you is the word of the salvation
prayer. The fear of God is the beginning
of wisdom. It's the beginning of God's work
in the heart. Until we fear Him, we'll never
have Him as our only Savior. and then He binds us up. He kills
us and then He gives us life. That's why He must speak brutally
to us before He ever makes His love and grace known to us. Why am I dwelling on this? Well,
because brothers and sisters, we've reached a time where men
think such silly nonsense that they can have Jesus as their
Savior, not their Lord. They did grace and did all in
their favor. All this silly nonsense. There's
only one thing. There's only one thing that occurred
all that way. That's for the Lord to make Himself
known unto them as the Lord of Glory. The Lord reigneth. Let the earth tremble. I'm dwelling on this for this
reason. The Lord can use extreme measures
in bringing His people to Himself. I'm talking about initially when
He first brings you to Himself, He can make you miserable. He
can turn your world upside down. And as He continually brings
us to Himself, sometimes He can use extreme measures. Look what
He did in Egypt. And he set the fountain. He brought
everything to a halt. The clouds were rusted out of
the shed. Their oxen were starving to death.
Probably a lot of people died. He got extreme. And it was all
for this cause. To bring Joseph's brethren to
him. That makes it extreme. Makes
it extreme. We're told one fella had leprosy.
Full of leprosy. And you know why he had it? To
bring him to Christ. One man was blind. Lived his
whole life blind. And you know why? To bring him
to Christ. I don't know what means God may use in bringing
His elect people to His dear son to be saved. Sometimes it's
extreme. Because you're something comparable.
Behind that extremity is art that yearns and loves its people. Don't we get that? Now look back
at my text. Quickly, one more time. Look
at Genesis 45. Look in verse 5. I love this. Their whole attitude has changed
now towards their brother Joseph. Before they hid what they did,
they probably hoped he was dead. Now they're mad at themselves
because of what they did. Look in verse 5. Now therefore,
be not greedy nor angry with yourselves that you sold me for
them. For God did send me before you to preserve life. These two
years have the family been in the land, and yet there are five
years in which the earth shall neither be eerie, plowing, nor
harrowing. God sent me before you to preserve
you in posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by great
deliverance. So now it was not you that sent
me hither, but God. In the last chapter in verse
20, it says this, you thought evil against me, but God made
it for good. Bring the past as it is this
day to save us people. There's something here that's
so comforting. You and I live in a Sad world, aren't we? Sin has made it that way. Our
sin. A one-man sin entered into this
world. And brothers and sisters, look
what it's done to us. It's awful. Look how devastated,
look how uncertain this world is. This is a dangerous world to
live in, and our sanity is low. And sometimes, you and I can
get so angry with ourselves that we almost despair. Did you ever
loathe yourself? You get so angry with yourself
that you're not fit to live with it. You almost despair, and it
gets out of your heart, and you direct it towards other people.
Oh, I hate myself. Oh, God, I hate myself. And it
reaches the point that you're so brave with yourself. We get
mad at ourselves. We get mad at our spouses. We
get mad at our politicians. We get mad at our school system
and everybody, and everything's going to hell in a hand basket. Just grieve ourselves to death. Well, here's something to think
about. Look outside of that. Look outside of your sin. Look
away from this awful fall, if you can. And look how God has
stepped with our sin in the fall. He's brought something good out
of it. What would we know of God and
His love in Jesus Christ if we had not of fallen? What would we know of the kindness
of the Lord and the longsuffering of the Lord if we had not of
fallen and sinned? Magic Joseph. As he sat there
on the throne, his brother went out from him. I imagine if I
would have been him, I'd have been a braggart and a catty thing.
You know that is on the throne, don't you? You've got to prove
that it's on the throne. It's supposed to be. He's my
brother. Yeah, that's my brother. Yeah,
that's him. He's never been on that throne
if his brother never told him. I think it's a way to look at
it. You know something, brothers and sisters? If we had an Apollon
in the sand, Jesus Christ would not have been on the throne in
our humanity, our elder brother. Isn't that something to brag
about? Who's on the phone? Jesus Christ is on the phone.
Yes, and he's there in our humanity. Humanity rules in heaven. Humanity rules in this earth
in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. I'm glad we're back. Would you like to be studied
here this evening, under a kind of award? Would you like to be studied
here, and fellowship with one another, and eatin' and drinkin'
and all that, and we're holy, and we're happy, and we're sinless,
we're healthy? But our first father, over there
in the garden of Eden, held our discontent in his hands. He can still see his momma reach
up and get the fruit, and still get God, and who he loves, down
with all gold. And then a sharp dart smites
our conscience, and we say, what happened? Well, our first father,
you see, we're all much better fitted out now than we were before. We ain't doing shit. It's much
better now. It's better now. Quit getting
mad at the politicians. They can have it. Who sat on
there? They're just bags of men. I feel
sorry for them. They've got a proven mess. They've
got to go to the count for a minute. Who sat on there? I ain't good
about it. Be well. One more time, my pets. Look at verse 9. Look at verse
9. He's getting it. And go to my
father and say, This death, my son Joseph, God hath made thee
mortal, but only if thou comest unto me, Jairus. Thou shalt dwell
in the tent of Goshen, and thou shalt be near to me, the God
I feel in my shoulders, my flocks, and my herds, and all that you
have, thou will nourish thee. Thou will nourish thee, Jairus. Thou shalt be my father by glory,
Jairus. They go back down, they tell
Joseph, They told me, your son's alive, and he's born. He wrote
that in the Jacobites. Thank you. He comes to Israel
and sees all the wagons that Pharaoh has seen. I will give
you a beautiful land of Egypt, a beautiful land of Canaan, a
beautiful land of Israel. And thou shalt do as thou art
commanded to do, and take your wagons out. The land will be
good for your little ones, and your wives, and thank the Father
for coming, for those who will regard and respect, for the good
of the land, and the peace of the world. And in verse 46, you can see
that sometimes during verse 3, Jacob comes to himself and wants
to sacrifice the Lord. He was so fearful about coming
down to Egypt that he had his grandfather in the night offer
himself in the company of the devil. And the Lord appeared
to Jacob and said, Jacob, don't be afraid. Go down to Egypt. I don't want to deal with you. I'm going to make you a great
nation. And Joseph, nobody's ever going
to put him on his throne. He's going to remain, and he's
going to put his hands on your ass when you die. He's going
to be there to bury you. Jacob goes down to Egypt. He meets Joseph. And he says,
I am not scared. And he said, I'm 130, and my
age is an evil. Most of them have already left. God has promised more. Man has promised less. These people, they've been tough. Now the point of getting better
down here is trying to expand. But you know something? This old man's been around for
17 years. Damn it to ya. And for the past
year, he's been up here. don't have computers, you're
going to have to take the tripper from Colorado all the way up
to the southern coast of the Mesoamerican Sea and you'll just
make the boat jump. It's not beautiful, but it's
awesome. It goes along the Navajo River and it's at least 730 miles
possible in 2575 ED. It's cattle country, it's rolling
country, and it's mountains. Spent the last $1,000,000, and
I'm nursing the last $1,000,000 of it. I can't even grab that. It's not going to grow on me. What I did, if he was a prostitute
and I hit that on to you, he's going to perish you. He's going
to perish you. In the time of your problems,
your afflictions, your loneliness, your heartaches, family problems,
he has to refrain from death. But above and above your head,
it's you that gives up death. And someday soon, he will bring you You don't realize how much I
love you and how happy I am to have you as my good neighbor
in this world. You don't spend eternity making
yourself known to me and thought like comfort to me.