FAITH LOOKS TO ITS
FULFILLMENT

Song;
This world is not my home--

Text:
Heb 11:22 By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the
departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning
his bones.

Scripture
readings; Gen 50:24 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and
God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the
land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

Gen
50:25 And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God
will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.

Gen
50:26 So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they
embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

Exo
13:19 And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had
straitly sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit
you; and ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you.

I.
Faith in the future is essential for a child of God.

1
Cor 15:19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all
men most miserable.

A
.Death held O.T. Saints prisoners of hope. Zec 9:12 Turn you to
the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that
I will render double unto thee;

B.
Yet that hope gave them courage.

Job
19:26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my
flesh shall I see God:

Isa
33:17 Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold
the land that is very far off.

C.
Death now FREES US! 2 Cor 5:8 We are confident, I say, and
willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the
Lord.

Remember
the freedom felt in salvation? Multiply it. Free from ALL
constraints. Time, lust, pain, sorrow, etc.

D.
This Hope and Assurance gives meaning to present service.

II.
Our Hope is based upon the FACT of the resurrection of Christ.

Acts
17:31 Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge
the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof
he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from
the dead.

Let others be concerned with the lord of the underworld and the
powers of death, we have the Prince of Life! Acts 3:15 And killed
the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we
are witnesses.

III.
This truth is so important that God used many ways to teach it.

A.
Sheaf of Firstfruits.

B.
Feast of Tabernacles.

C
.Even Joseph's burial in Shecham wasn't the end of the story!

Josh
24:32 And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought
up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which
Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an
hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the
children of Joseph.

Buried
with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob;

Mat
22:32 I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of
Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.

Mat
8:11 And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and
west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the
kingdom of heaven.

Conclusion;
Consider the joyous departure from the land of toil and sorrow.