<TITLE>14. Par 48-51</TITLE>L-48 And then he left his body for a memorial. He said, "Don't bury me." I'm supposed to put my hands on that old lead casket he laid in, supposing to been in a museum in England here not long ago, but in this bod--and these bones laid there. He said, "Don't take my bones out until you go out of here." For he believed that God would visit the people like He said. He was Abraham's seed so he took God at His promise.
And every man, Jew, with his back beaten from the cat-of-nine-tails and the switches and the rods of Egypt, would pass by and look at that body of Joseph and say, "Someday we're going home." That's right.
And today we can look at our Joseph, a empty tomb when we bury our loved ones and say, "Someday we're going home." And when we get there, we were born for this earth. We'll never be Angels. God never made us Angels. He made us men and women. We'll always be that. We'll have a celestial body there.

L-49 It doesn't appear yet what kind of a body we will have when we're there, but why, I wouldn't be able to eat and drink and sleep like I do here, but it'll be a--a--a body, but not the resurrected glorified body. And the souls under the altar were crying, "Lord, how long?"
And every time they were under the altar and looked up there, there was a actual glorified, resurrected Lord Jesus setting there representing that someday he will move off of His Throne there, coming to the earth and everyone that's dead in Christ will come with Him and receive a body like His own glorious body. We'll see Him as He is. Oh, Bible ties together one big, beautiful picture.

L-50 Said, "Abraham, that's what I'm going to do. That's how I'm going to do it." And he walked out. Now, look. He said, "Now, Abraham, number the stars of heaven if you can. They're without number."
Here some time ago I stood Mount Wilson out there where you could see through this big observatory, big glass, see a hundred and twenty million years of light space. Why, how many nines would that take to break it down in miles? A hundred and twenty million years of light space, and beyond that was still moons and stars and on and on, the great solar system. And I stood there amazed. I said, "Think of it. My heavenly Father just, "Whew." Blowed them off His hand like that, put them into a place, and they obey Him.
He was big enough to do that and came little enough to save me. He became me that I could become Him. Christ became a sinner, that through His poverty we might receive His riches and to be sons and daughters of God. Amen. Wouldn't that make a Methodist shout, almost to think of that? Sure it would. Think of it. It's not a fictitious story. It's not Santa Claus. It's God's Eternal Holy Bible, and it's just as true as we're setting here.

L-51 Notice. He said... Now, watch, in Genesis 13, He said, "Your seed is like the dust." After He give him the promise, He was going to confirm the promise, He said, "Your seed is like the stars." From the dust to the stars. Oh, do you see it? The resurrection, from the dust to the stars (Amen.), from a mossy, slimy, glittering dust till the shining star. And what's ahead of the stars, the greatest, the Morning Star which was Christ, the firstfruits are those who slept. Hallelujah.
Look at what a little forty years has done for me. Getting an old man, stooped shouldered, wrinkled face, bald-headed, but, oh, my. The Morning Star hasn't lost one glitter since the day that God placed it in the sky, and the Bible said we'll outshine the stars someday, and every...?...
What you scared about? God promised and swore to it by the death of Christ He would do it. And He called you by sovereign grace and elected you before the foundation of the world. Amen.


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