Again, good morning, Rhema Community Church family. If you have your Bibles, let's open up to Genesis chapter 46. We're going to jump right in. We're going to continue our study in the book of Genesis and don't know where this is going as far as the restrictions and when we'll be able to get back together and meet face-to-face and be in the worship center together. I'm hoping that we won't finish Genesis while we're separate.

But we're going to keep cruising along. And we have made it now to Genesis chapter 46. And we get to Genesis chapter 46 and the title of today's sermon is Waiting for Further Information. Waiting for Further Information. You know, it would be great if you had in your mind the ability to create this little file that was entitled Waiting for Further Information.

Because as you go through life, there are things that happen to you and you can't figure out why this is happening to you. Why am I going through this? And if God loves me so much, and I hear that He loves me, if He loves me so much, why is He allowing me to go through this painful experience?

And this is where we need to stop and be able to take that experience and to place it in the file labeled Waiting for Further Information.

And you don't have the whole picture yet. I don't have the whole picture yet. God does.

And we may never get the whole picture this side of glory, but just to be able to put it in a file.

Now, Joseph lived his life in such a way that he's got a pretty big file.

And he sees in his life that he's had to file a lot of things for waiting for more information.

This happens, things happen to him as a young boy. He's 17 years old. He's sold off into slavery.

And he's wondering, you know, why? Why on earth would God, whom I love desperately, allow this to happen in my life?

Don't know. Let's file this and for waiting for more information.

He gets taken to Potiphar's house. Potiphar's wife falsely accused him of rape.

Potiphar takes him and throws him into prison.

And so why is all this happening to me? Unjustly. Don't know why.

Waiting for further information.

And so he's there in jail and he interprets the dreams of these two guys.

And he tells one of the guys, hey, this is going to come to pass and you're going to get your position back.

And when this happens, remember me. Keep me in mind.

But the guy doesn't. And Joseph sits in prison another two years.

Why? Don't know. I need to file that away for waiting for further information.

Then one day he gets a knock on his cell door and he's brought into Pharaoh's court.

And Pharaoh has had a couple of dreams that have troubled him.

And now the further information comes as Joseph stands in Pharaoh's presence and interprets the dreams for Pharaoh

and gets in motion this plan to save the world from an upcoming famine that's going to sweep across Canaan,

sweep across Egypt and the entire Middle East.

And so now Joseph understood that because he learned to live his life through this very important lens

that we'll call the providence of God.

The providence of God simply stated is that there is a sovereign God who sees all things,

who knows all things, and has a perfect plan.

And he's not going to reveal all of his perfect plan to you and to me completely.

That's where faith comes in.

That's really where the adventure comes in.

And so you and I have to tenaciously cling to the Lord, okay,

and we put our experience that we have, our experiences, into the file waiting for further information.

And as life progresses, God is moving supernaturally naturally.

That is, he's taking natural events of life and supernaturally coalescing them, putting them together.

And you're a part of that.

So when you look back, you're able to go.

When you have these episodes in your life, I understand now what that episode was all about.

I understand why that is happening.

Waiting for further information.

If you don't have that file in your life, I want to encourage you this morning, you need to create that file.

It may get pretty big at times, I understand that.

But you need to have a place where you can file these things away for waiting for further information.

Unfortunately, Joseph's dad, Jacob, he didn't have that file.

He didn't have that place.

And he didn't have that same filing system.

And whenever bad things happen to Joseph, it was just a big bummer.

I mean, Joseph would even, Jacob, excuse me, would even pout about these things.

And he would blame others.

Okay? He's in the womb. He's struggling with his brother Esau in his mother's womb. And, and the Lord tells his mother that there are two nations in your womb. And that's why you're experiencing this, this pain, because they're struggling. There's strife in there. And towards the end of Jacob's life, he's still struggling. He's struggling with memories. He's struggling with understanding what the will of God is. We're going to see that in a few minutes. He's struggling with, how do I feed my family?

In the midst of this famine. And in between these two struggles, it seemed that he never learned how to create a file waiting for further information. Further information does come, however.

Because if you remember, and last we were in, in Genesis, one day he looks out and he sees these, these 20 donkeys coming. And just behind these donkeys is all these, these food and goods and clothing and all this stuff are these chariots and these carts, these Egyptian carts that are carrying all of his sons. And Benjamin's with them too.

This huge caravan is coming right, right into, into the camp. And, and Benjamin even has in his sack, he has 300 shekels of silver that Joseph has put in there.

And by the way, 15 times the amount that Joseph was sold off to into, into, into slavery. And so Jacob's, Jacob's going, what's all this stuff?

What's up with all this stuff? And they say, Hey, your son, Joseph, he's number two in charge. He is the prime minister of Egypt. He's over everything.

And so he's asking us to come down to his house in Egypt and he's going to take care of us. Now further information comes and he understands how God has used his son, unbeknownst to him, but God has used his son all of these years.

You know, I just, uh, I think it's a great point to just, or time to stop and say, is God working in your life?

You know, right now in your life. And I want to encourage you that God is working right now in your life.

And you might say, well, I don't, I don't feel that. I'm not experiencing that. I'm not really sensing that.

And, you know, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. Just put whatever you're going through right now in that file of, of, of further information,

waiting for further information and see what happens, whether you understand it or not is irrelevant. It really is irrelevant.

Further information will come. And I promise you, promise you, God is sovereignly at work. He's sovereignly at work.

God was even at work in the life of Jacob, this manipulator, this whiner, this blamer, you know, all throughout his life.

I mean, he changes a little bit, but not a whole lot. But all of this is coming together for Jacob.

And he, when he meets, he meets up again with his son, Joseph. As we get to chapter 46,

Jacob is about 130 years old at this, at this point. And in the last chapter, Joseph tells his brothers,

look, I want you to take all this grain and all this stuff, go back to camp,

bring it to the family and go quickly to Canaan and bring my father back to me. And that's where we

left off. And so we get to chapter 46 and in verse one, it says, so Israel took his journey with all

that he had. And he came to Beersheba and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac. So he

says Israel, Jacob, he was living not too far from Bethlehem in a land called Hebron. And to go from

Hebron down to Beersheba is about a week's travel. Okay. And Beersheba is mentioned for a couple of

reasons. Number one, it's a border town. It's the El Paso of Israel, if you will. It's the last town

before you get down to Egypt. And there is a, uh, an axiom in the Bible that says from Dan to

Beersheba. It's used a lot. Dan is the northernmost territory before you get to Syria. So the Bible

will also say from Dan to Beersheba. That means the length of the nation from, from north to south.

Okay. But Beersheba is, is a significant place because his grandpa, Abraham, if you remember back

in chapter 21, he plants a tamarind.

uh, and, and, and sacrifice to the Lord. Now, why does, why does Jacob stop here and talk to the Lord before he goes? Well, he really wants to make sure that this is the right move. He wants to make sure of that. I mean, just think about the history so far. Okay. And so it says that he offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac. And in verse two, it goes on. And God spoke to Israel in visions of the night and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said,

here I am. And he said, I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt for there. I will make you into a great nation. I myself will go down with you to Egypt and I will also bring you up again. And Joseph's hand shall close your eyes. There's a lot in these three verses here. I want to tackle here with you this morning. The first thing he says is do not be afraid to go down to Egypt.

Don't be afraid to go down to Egypt. We need to recognize that already in 45 chapters of Genesis that we have been trained in under, in the reading of the text to be afraid to go down to Egypt, right? Okay. When Abraham goes down to Egypt, all kinds of trouble, all kinds of trouble breaks loose. Now he escapes with his life, but he does not escape with his reputation.

Isaac goes down to Egypt. Isaac goes down to Egypt. Very same thing. Very same pattern. He escapes with his life, but Isaac's reputation is damaged. Of course, Joseph goes down to Egypt, but that wasn't by choice. He was sold off into slavery.

But now the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac says unto Jacob, okay? Israel, don't be afraid to go down to Egypt. In Egypt, in Egypt, I will make you, Israel, into a great nation.

This is counterintuitive, okay? And the only way it can be explained is that God is setting up Israel's survival in such a way that it can only be explained by his unilateral act.

I hope you see that. So, Egypt is going to become the womb of Israel, not Canaan.

Israel is, Egypt is where Israel is going to grow. Egypt is where the nation is going to flourish and grow in the multitudes.

Secondly, in this passage, it says that Joseph's hand shall close your eyes.

When Abraham goes down to Egypt, he comes out of it alive.

When Isaac goes down to Egypt, he comes back alive.

When Jacob goes down to Egypt, he is going to die.

But the good news is that he is going to have, as God is telling him, he's going to have the blessing of his favorite son that he loves dearly be the one who will have the honor, the blessing, the privilege of closing his eyes.

And I want you to see another part of God's sovereignty here.

Jacob had Joseph for 17 years before he was sold into slavery, all right?

And Jacob is going to be alive, he's reunited, he's going to be alive another 17 years with Joseph as the prince of Egypt.

17 years, an interruption, and 17 more, okay?

Again, the sovereignty of God, but of course there's more to the story.

And I don't want to go down this rabbit trail too much, but just a side note here.

The patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the patriarchs had a very simple, uncomplicated relationship with God.

And God would speak to them audibly.

Sometimes God would appear to them in some form or fashion.

They would build an altar, they would make a sacrifice, they would move on, okay?

That's how this came about, all right?

But it's interesting that Joseph does not have the same experience with God that they do.

There is never a time in the scriptures that's recorded that God speaks directly to Joseph.

It's a very different relationship.

Now, before you say, well, maybe Joseph wasn't as spiritual as Jacob was.

Really?

You're going to go down that path?

Joseph's not as spiritual as Jacob?

You know...

was simply through the dreams that he had, or the dreams that other people had. Even the dreams of a pagan king, Pharaoh, God speaks to Joseph. No direct speaking, okay? He spoke to him through the dreams. No apparition. None of that. But God is speaking to him through his dreams. Listen, I want to encourage you this morning that every relationship, every one of us that has a relationship with God, it's different. Every relationship with God is different.

Enjoy the one that you have with the Lord by faith. Enjoy that. Don't try to copy somebody else's. So many times I see people in their relationship with God, they will understand, or they will see, or they will hear that God is speaking to a person this way or that way, and they think, well, that's the way that God must speak to me then as well too. Not necessarily. Your relationship with the Lord is unique, and God is speaking to you,

we just have to have the ears and the spiritual insight to listen and to hear. But in these passages as well, these three verses, God makes three incredible promises. I don't want to skip over these. First is, I will go down with you to Egypt. I will go down with you to Egypt. You know, you can do anything as long as God is with you. Anything. You know, when God was sending Moses, okay, He tells him to go out. He said, go.

Moses says, I won't go unless you go with us. Man, that's a great posture to have. That's a great way to proceed, you know. I'm not going, Lord, unless you're going with us. So here we have Jacob leaving the land of God, but not leaving the God of the land. He's going with him. God says, I'm going with you. You're not going to be alone. You're not going to be alone. The second promise He gives him in this is that I will also bring you up again.

I'll bring you back up again. Now, when is this promise fulfilled? Because He's going to die in Egypt and His body is going to be carried back to the land of Israel, to the land of Canaan. He's going to be buried in the cave of Machpelah, where Abraham and Isaac are buried as well too.

But probably the fulfillment is, you're coming back. You're coming back as a nation. The whole two million plus of you are coming back as a nation. In the future, we'll be coming, as you multiply, you'll be coming back to this land to inherit the land.

The third promise that He makes in this is that Joseph's hand will close your eyes. Now, I can imagine that all these promises are coming to Jacob, because Jacob is probably feeling a little bit ambivalent about going down to Egypt.

And here's why I think he is. Aside from the fact that grandpa and dad went down to Egypt and it was a really bad thing to do, there is a promise. There is a promise that God made to his grandpa and Jacob knew about it.

In Genesis chapter 15, God says to Abraham, your descendants are going to be slaves in a land that is not theirs for 400 years.

They're going to be in Egypt for 400 years and they're going to be slaves. I'm going to bring you back, you're going to have great possessions and all this stuff, but they're going into slavery.

And I'm sure that Jacob isn't too excited about leaving the land, knowing that this is the beginning of the fulfillment of the prediction that grandpa had.

And so they're going into slavery. And so he really, Jacob, give him credit, he really wants to make sure that this is God's will. This is God's will.

And there's an important principle here. You know, we all know the we all know the scripture, Romans chapter 12, verses one and two says, Paul says, therefore, brothers, I urge you by the mercies of God to present yourselves as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God.

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to discern what the good, perfect will of the father is lays that out for us.

And so the will of God, the will of God for Abraham and the will of God for Isaac was not to go down to Egypt, but the will of God for Jake for Jacob is go down to Egypt.

they vary individually, whatever the will of God is for you, it will be good. It will be acceptable. It will be perfect. OK, Jacob wants to find out, is this the will of God for me? He's a little bit embevolent. So God assures him. That's the heart of our father. He assures him. Verse five.

Then Jacob set out for Beersheba. The sons of Israel carried Jacob, their father, their little ones and their wives in the wagons that Pharaoh had sent him. They also took their livestock and their goods, which they had gained in the land of Canaan and came into Egypt. Jacob and all of his offspring with him, his sons and his sons, sons were with with him, his daughters and his sons, daughters, all of his offspring.

He brought with him into Egypt. You know, Joseph is going to save his entire family, not just dad, because dad, you know, no, his entire family. OK, I love that. I absolutely love that. You know, do you pray for your entire family?

Do you really have a heart for everyone who is in your family? Could you possibly be the catalyst that the Lord is desiring to use to leave the rest of your family to the Lord Jesus Christ?

I firmly believe that God is still in the business of saving households.

Paul says to the Philippian jailer, he says, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you'll be saved.

OK, and your household. Now, it's not that automatically they are.

It's not what he's getting at. But God will use the one who is saved to be a catalyst for others.

And so God willing that that happens in our lives, we're willing to be the catalyst to affect those around us and our family around us.

Verse eight. Now, these are the names of the descendants of Israel who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons, Reuben, Jacob's firstborn.

Now, I want you to just glance over the next several verses.

I'm not going to read all these names on the list because I'm not going to embarrass myself with the pronunciation as well, too.

But sometimes when we come to a list of genealogy, we think, well, it's just a bunch of names, a bunch of lists out there.

And we never think that genealogy is important as it's listed unless my name's in it. Right.

And I want to see that. But but the reality is genealogies, they are important.

And the Bible has these smatterings of genealogy all throughout it for a couple of reasons.

Number one, they are all pointing to and leading and will lead ultimately to the most significant genealogy of the most significant person ever.

And that's the Lord Jesus Christ. That's the one thing we can see all the genealogies point to the Lord Jesus Christ.

But also, they're all listed as well, too, because there's no little person to God.

God takes the time to record all these names in the book, in the scripture.

But for our time this morning, we're not going to just read the list.

And I want you to skip down to verse 19 that says the sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife, Joseph and Benjamin.

And to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, who Asenath, the daughter of Potiphar, the priest of Ahn, bore to him.

Now, listen, if you remember, we have we have mentioned in the past and we'll talk about this again this morning.

We have mentioned in the past that Jesus Christ is seen in the life of Joseph, that Joseph becomes a type of Christ.

I had a whole message as Joseph was first introduced to us in Genesis, talking about how Joseph is a type of Christ, shadows, foreshadowing Jesus Christ.

What's interesting, what's Joseph, Joseph becomes a type of Christ.

But what's interesting about all of these wives that are listed by all the brothers is that Joseph is the only one that marries a Gentile bride.

He's the only one that marries a Gentile bride.

Now, that's significant because so did Jesus, the church, the church, which was largely non-Jewish and largely Gentile.

And we are called the bride of Christ.

The nation of Israel is called the wife of Jehovah.

The family is called the wife of Jehovah who is of leaders as a Gentile elder.

Thank you.

are listed. And this is wild because in terms of the family, he's still recorded. Benjamin is still recorded in the scripture as the boy. He's still given to us as the boy. Benjamin is in his mid-20s by this point. And obviously he's fathered 10 sons. He's ahead of the other brothers as far as the curve goes. But some of them may have been twins or triplets. We don't know. But he's got 10 sons. We know the

twins run in the family, right? But anyway, verses 26 and 27 are kind of the summary. And it says all the persons belonging to Jacob came into Egypt who were his own descendants, not including Jacob's sons, wives, were 66 persons in all. And the sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt were two. All the persons of the house of Jacob who came into Egypt were 70.

Now that's an important number. And that's an important number. And obviously we got a problem. Because when you get over to Acts chapter 7 and Stephen is giving the history of Israel and Stephen is speaking to the Sanhedrin who are the scholars and who know what's what and know what numbers mean what. Stephen says that there were 75 who went down into Egypt. Not 70.

And now he's following the Septuagint version, which is the Greek version of the Hebrew Old Testament. And that's what the early church would quote from in the New Testament. But there was no dispute among those he's talking to. The Sanhedrin didn't correct him when he says 75.

75. So it's believed that if you counted, and it wasn't counted, okay, and it is counted in the 75, the two children of Manasseh, the two children of Ephraim, and the grandson at this one point that Ephraim has, that's five. That's how we get the 75.

I just bring that up because somebody's going to send me an email or a message and say, see, I told you the Bible doesn't. Stephen says 75 and here says 70. That's where the five come in. Just to nip that in the bud. Verse 28.

And he sent Judah, Jacob sends Judah ahead of him to Joseph to show the way before him in Goshen. And they came into the land of Goshen. Again, we talked a few weeks ago about how this is grace.

They are getting what they don't deserve. They're getting the best of the best. 900 square miles is the land of Goshen. And that's where all the water is.

They are getting the best of the best land. I do find it hilarious that Jacob doesn't really change a lot. Remember when Jacob was going to run into Esau and he was afraid that Esau was going to be mad and might kill him?

So he sends people out in waves ahead of him to test the waters to see if Esau is going to kill him or not so he and his family can hang back behind. He's kind of doing the same. What's all this going to happen? Is this a trick? What's going on?

So he's sending Judah, everybody ahead of him. I just see it as kind of funny that some things don't change in some personalities.

Verse 29.

Then Joseph prepared his chariot and went up to meet Israel, his father in Goshen. He presented himself to him and fell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while.

Excuse me.

He is going to present himself to his father.

Father, this is a sign of respect.

A sign of respect.

I love this.

I absolutely love this.

I feel that sometimes as kids grow up into adulthood, they lose respect for their parents.

We lose respect for the older generation.

And the older generation should be respected because they have a lot of wisdom.

They have a lot of things that we could glean from them.

And there's some mentorship that takes place.

It's extremely valuable.

But so often, especially in our culture, what happens is, as we're young children, our parents are amazing.

They're brilliant.

Your dad's the strongest.

He can do anything, conquer anything.

But somewhere along the lines, your parents become really stupid.

And when you hit middle school and high school, all of a sudden, your parents are so lost.

They don't understand this present culture, this present generation.

They have no clue.

You have a great teacher.

Out of you.

And then you turn on

His father. Present himself to his father. And he could have showed up and said, now that dad's here, how about everybody bow to me now? Now we'll see the fulfillment of that dream. Remember that dream you guys made fun of me about? Now that dad's here and everyone's here, how about everyone bow? No. He goes to his dad. He shows respect for his dad. And he presents himself to him. I love it. He says he fell on his neck and he wept a good while.

Remember, there's 22 years. You know, Jacob has believed that Joseph is dead. And now he understands that he's alive. It's an emotional moment to find out that your son's alive and you recognize him. And, you know, we're going to talk about this in a moment. But we talked. I'm getting ahead of myself. So I'm going to wait on that. There we go. How's that? Verse 30.

Israel said to Joseph, Now let me die since I have seen your face and know that you are still alive. Every time I read that, it reminds me of Simeon in the Old Testament where Jesus is brought in as a baby and he recognizes that it's Jesus.

And Simeon takes Jesus into his hands and lifts him up. He says, Now you're letting your servant die because my eyes have seen your salvation.

And this is how Jacob felt as he sees his son. And he sees his son who is saving the world from a famine. Again, the foreshadowing. The foreshadowing.

And so, what I wasn't going to say a moment ago, I am going to say right now because we'll lose a little traction on this.

Because as Joseph goes and presents himself to his father, I see another foreshadowing of the heart of Christ in this.

You might not see it as apples to apples, but bear with me on this. He's going to prepare himself and he's going to his father.

Remember the parable that Jesus tells about the prodigal son and how the father doesn't wait for the son to come on.

He runs to the son. He goes to the son. I see the heart of the Lord in this, that Joseph doesn't make his dad come to him.

Joseph, you know, he prepares and he goes to his dad. Again, I see the heart of the Lord in that.

And Joseph has that heart. Verse 31.

Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's household, I will go up and tell Pharaoh and will say to him,

My brothers and my father's household who were in the land of Canaan have come to me.

And the men are shepherds, for they are keepers of livestock.

They have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.

When Pharaoh calls you and says, What is your occupation?

You shall say, Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth, even until now.

Both we and our fathers, in order that you may dwell in the land of Goshen.

For every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.

I think it's kind of interesting that he tells them that, you know, he says that,

Hey, you're keepers of livestock and you're shepherds and keepers of livestock.

But when he tells them, when flocks, flocks and livestock.

But when he says, When Pharaoh asks you, just tell him you're keepers of livestock.

He doesn't mention the flocks in there.

Because for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.

You know, a small point here.

We don't really understand just the black eye that shepherds had.

And it wasn't just in some of Israel.

It was across the board, across the world.

Shepherds were not looked upon as a favorable position.

It was the lowest of the low.

And it is so interesting how Jesus Christ comes along and says,

I am the good shepherd.

And my sheep know my voice.

For the Lord is my shepherd.

We hear that and it brings such comfort to us.

But you need to understand what God is doing in that.

Because back in this time, shepherds was not a warm, fuzzy thing to be a shepherd.

It was an abomination.

An abomination.

An abomination.

An abomination.

typology here you know joseph is a type of christ and we see the foreshadowing if you remember when

we talked about this weeks and weeks ago we said that first of all joseph was uniquely loved by his

father joseph was he had special treatment he had a special coat and jesus christ is the only

begotten son of the father for this is my son in whom i am well pleased and then secondly we said

that uh that joseph was unjustly hated by his brothers jesus was unjustly hated by his brothers

by the jewish brethren unjustly hated third um joseph was uh cruelly sold for 20 pieces of silver

jesus was sold for 30 pieces of silver fourth the first time that joseph and his brothers meet joseph

doesn't reveal himself to them but the second time that they meet joseph reveals himself to his

brothers the first time the nation of israel doesn't recognize their messiah oh jerusalem jerusalem

how i long to gather you as a mother hen gathers her chicks but you would not let me you would not let

me but the second time jesus will reveal himself to him to them and the prophecy says that they will

look upon me whom they have pierced and they will mourn as one who mourns his only son and and there

will be that recognition but here as well this morning we have a couple of other types of christ

in verse 33 and verse 34 joseph is the instructor he's telling them tell pharaoh that you are you are

keepers of of of livestock tell pharaoh that you're you're not a group of people who are coming against

egypt this will disarm pharaoh i'm instructing you and how to how to handle pharaoh so you will not

be seen as a threat jesus christ instructs us as he's left he he has left our presence he has left the

holy spirit with us and the holy spirit will instruct you in the way to go joseph also is the mediator

he's the mediator between his brothers and pharaoh this is huge he says i'm going to mediate i'm a hebrew

i'm one of you but i'm i'm actually related to the king and by all standards i'm egyptian i'm the

perfect mediator being egyptian and hebrew i'm going to bring you guys together i will mediate for you

the bible clearly says there is one god one god and one mediator between god and man and that is

the man jesus christ the perfect mediator fully man fully god the antropos the god man bringing god

and man together the beautiful mediator and he brings he brings he god jesus is bringing an unshakable

kingdom an unshakable kingdom and as i got here early i was trying to pray about how to end this

today what kind of challenge i want to make to you this that and the other i'm just going to end it

today on this i want to show you this unshakable kingdom i want you to hear the words of scripture

and i want to tell you about this unshakable scripture but you but you have come to mount zion

and to the city of the living god in the heavenly jerusalem and to innumerable angels in festal

gatherings and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven and to god the judge of all

and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect and to jesus the mediator of a new covenant and to

the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of abel see to it that you do not refuse

him who is speaking for if they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth much

less will we escape if we reject him who warns us from heaven at that time his voice shook the earth

but now he has promised yet once more i will shake not only the earth but also the heavens this phrase

yet once more indicates the removal of things that are shaken that is things that have been made in order

that the things that cannot be seen the things that cannot be shaken may

remove

do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers for there thereby some have entertained angels unaware remember those who are in prison as though in prison with them and those who are menace and those who are mistreated since you also are in the body that marriage be in that marriage be held in honor among all let the marriage bed be undefiled for God will judge the sexual immorality

moral and adulterous keep your life free from love of money and be content with what you have for he said I will never leave you or forsake you so we can confidently say the Lord is my helper I will not fear what can man do for me so through him through Jesus let us continue to offer up a sacrifice of praise to God that is the fruit of our lips that acknowledge his name do not neglect to do good and to share what you have for such sacrifices

that is the fruit of our purposes are pleasing to God and may the God of peace who brought you again from the dead our Lord Jesus as we celebrated last week the great shepherd of the sheep by the blood of the eternal covenant equip you with everything good that you may do his will working in us that which is pleasing

in his sight through Jesus Christ to whom be glory forever and ever amen God we just pray today

for this unshakable kingdom to come for this unshakable kingdom to be seen in our lives

to touch those around us thank you for the Lord Jesus thank you for the sacrifice that he has made

help us Lord help us Lord in these trying times to learn to file in our hearts

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everything unfolded to us we trust you our sovereign God we lean into you our Prince of Peace in Jesus name Amen