We live in a very mobile world.

Everyone is in a hurry to get somewhere.

Throughout Scripture, God often taught people the greatest lessons along the journey.

Today, we continue with Scott Pauli, our study through the great journeys of the

Bible. Our prayer is that you will rediscover the adventure of walking with God.

It doesn't matter how nice your stuff is. In the end, stuff doesn't matter. We've began an

amazing journey with Jacob. It will be his last trip, in fact, as God leads Jacob and all of his

sons down into the land of Egypt so that he can provide for them and meet their needs there. Now, we

know there's a larger picture, and they're going to be there for a certain number of

years, then God will lead Israel back out of Egypt. But at this time, God is using Joseph, his son,

and the goods and resources of Egypt to provide for his people. God can do anything he wants to

anywhere he wants to. And so we've come to Genesis

chapter 45 where Pharaoh sends word for Jacob and his family to come and he says to them in verse 20,

also regard not your stuff for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours. Did you know stuff was in

the Bible? It is. In fact, it's throughout scripture,

numbers of places. I'll show you one of the New Testament when we're finished today.

But I want to go back to the story in Genesis to show you some things that matter more than our stuff.

If you come to the next chapter in Genesis chapter 46 and verse 1, it says,

in Israel, that's Jacob, took his journey with all that

he had and came to Bershiba and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father, Isaac. And God

spake into Israel in the visions of the night and said, Jacob, and he said, here am I. And he said,

I am God, the God of thy father. Fear not to go down into Egypt, for I will there make

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