#1,290 - Looking Forward in Faith (Genesis 50:24–25)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 17 February 2021

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God has called all of us to live our lives and die all the while we fix our eyes on Christ in faith. View the 2021 McLean Bible Church Reading Plan here.

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0:00.0	Pray the word with David Platt as a resource from Radical.net.
0:04.3	Genesis chapter 50 verses 24 and 25.
0:09.6	And Joseph said to his brothers,
0:11.4	I'm about to die,
0:13.2	but God will visit you and bring you up out of this land,
0:18.8	to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
0:24.9	Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear, saying,
0:28.9	God will surely visit you and you shall carry up my bones from here.
0:36.8	And right after Joseph said those words, he died.
0:41.2	So why would his last words be,
0:44.4	carry up my bones from here?
0:47.2	Why is that so significant?
0:49.3	And we know it's significant because Hebrews chapter 11
0:53.5	looks back to this moment and says,
0:56.4	by faith Joseph at the end of his life
1:01.6	made mention of the Exodus of the Israelites
1:05.5	and gave directions concerning his bones.
1:11.0	Oh, don't miss the picture here.
1:12.8	Why Joseph's instructions about his bones
1:18.3	demonstrated Joseph's faith in God?
1:22.8	By this point, as we've read in Genesis,
1:26.9	the people of Israel, people of Jacob had multiplied greatly in Egypt.
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