<TITLE>12. Par 121-127</TITLE>L-121 Now, look at Joseph, seeing it, then when he knowed that everything that he did... He seen his brothers that betrayed him finally come to him, not knowing who he was and bow before him  reverently. And those who had crucified him, as it was, throwed him in the ground, those who had sold him to the Egyptians, all those who mistreated him, stood before him, and him the great prince. And they trembled. And they said, "Oh, that..." Trembled because, said, "We have slain our brother." And all about that, and how that it was to be in a foreshadow.
Joseph, he knew that that would be the conditions of the world at the coming of the Lord Jesus, so he made mention of his bones. He said, "Don't bury me here. But I want to leave every testimony I can, that I believe that someday there'll be a resurrection up yonder, where those who's had that same inspiration has gone on..."

L-123 And so could the Church say this morning. Though fanatically, as we are called, though because we believe in a power of the resurrection, though we believe in Divine healing and all the supernatural signs that Christ promised, we have to take the side of the illiterate, or the fanatic, and so forth. Don't makes any difference what we have to take, as long as we know our Redeemer lives, and has brought forth the evidence in our heart that He lives and reigns.
Joseph said, "I want to make every testimony against the devil that I can." So he throwed his bones out there, and they laid there for four hundred years. Amen. For it looked beyond that. People say, "What a fanatic." It looked like then a fanatic, but it proved out to be the truth. Amen. So will it be to every one who has this blessed hope of this text this morning, "I know my Redeemer liveth. I know it, no matter what."

L-127 They say, "Oh, we are prospering here. The whole Egypt has prospered while we're here," all these things. But that didn't make any difference. He knowed they were going out of there, as sure as the world. He said, "Now, take my bones up there, and bury them up in Egypt--up in the promised land, up in Canaan land, out of Egypt."
So when they... Moses come in, another inspired prophet, and he taken the bones of Joseph, and took them up and buried them in the same field, the same place where the rest of them was buried. He took his way with the rest of them. Why? There was something in him. Something in him. No matter...
You don't hear the rest of the people down there saying anything about it. "Well, anywhere is all right." They just fall anywhere they will. But there was something in him, something that had the same vision that Job had, the same vision the rest of them had. No matter what the rest of the world thought, what they done, that had nothing to do with Joseph, that had nothing to do with Abraham, with Isaac, with Jacob, with all the rest of them. Something pressed to that promised land. Seemed fanatically, but they wanted it because there was something in them: Deep calling to the deep.
That's the way it is today with every believer. There's something in them, that presses to it. No matter, you can try this, that, or the other, but there's something presses. You know beyond a shadow of doubt, that there's a city whose Builder and Maker is God. You know that there's something there, so you press to It.


<A HREF="P13">Next Page</A>