what do we learn from joseph’s bones? 1. mortality - everyone must die
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What Do We Learn From Joseph’s Bones?
1. Mortality - Everyone must die
What Are You Putting Your Effort Into?
- Investments?
“He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves abundance with its income. This too is vanity.” Eccl. 5:10
“He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves abundance with its income. This too is vanity.” Eccl. 5:10
What Are You Putting Your Effort Into?
- Family?
- Investments?
“He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves son or
daughter more than Me is not
worthy of Me.”
Matt. 10:37
What Are You Putting Your Effort Into?
- Investments - Family
- Knowledge
“The words of wise men are like goads, and masters of these collections are like well-driven nails; they are given by one Shepherd. But beyond this, my son, be warned: the writing of many books is endless, and excessive devotion to books is wearying to the body…Because in much wisdom there is much grief, and increasing knowledge results in increasing pain.” Eccl. 12:11-12; 1:18
“The words of wise men are like goads, and masters of these collections are like well-driven nails; they are given by one Shepherd. But beyond this, my son, be warned: the writing of many books is endless, and excessive devotion to books is wearying to the body…Because in much wisdom there is much grief, and increasing knowledge results in increasing pain.” Eccl. 12:11-12; 1:18
What Are You Putting Your Effort Into?
- Investments - Family- Knowledge
Are you a “barn builder”?
What Do We Learn From Joseph’s Bones?
1. Mortality - Everyone must die
2. Dispensability - No one is indispensable
“Now as to the love of the brethren you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another; for indeed you do practice it toward all the brethren
who are in all Macedonia. But we urge you, brethren, to excel still more.1 Thess. 4:9-10
What Do We Learn From Joseph’s Bones?
1. Mortality - Everyone must die
2. Dispensability - No one is indis.
3. Hope - Everybody wants some
Hope is a result of
DESIRE +
EXPECTATION
Hope is a result of
DESIRE +
EXPECTATION
“For in hope we have been saved, but hope that is seen is not hope; for why does one also hope for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, with perseverance we wait eagerly for it.”
Rom. 8:24-25
“For in hope we have been saved, but hope that is seen is not hope; for why does one also hope for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, with perseverance we wait eagerly for it.”
Rom. 8:24-25
The Christian is the Real Possessor of Hope
saved in it laid up for us
“But since we are of the day, let us be sober, having put on the
breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the
hope of salvation.”
1 Thess. 5:8
The Christian is the Real Possessor of Hope
saved in it
laid up for us
protects as a helmet
anchors one’s soul
a living hope
does not disappoint
What Do We Learn From Joseph’s Bones?
1. Mortality - Everyone must die
2. Dispensability - No one is indis.
3. Hope - Everybody wants some
4. Limitations - Can’t control everything
“And which of you by being anxious can add a single cubit to his life’s span?”
Matt. 6:27
“And which of you by being anxious can add a single cubit to his life’s span?”
Matt. 6:27
- my tongue
“Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification according to the need of the moment, that it may give grace to those who hear. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were
sealed for the day of redemption.” Eph. 4:29-30
my tongue
- my attitude
“Do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others. Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus.” Phil. 2:4-5
“Do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others. Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus.” Phil. 2:4-5
my tongue
my attitude
- my obedience
What Do We Learn From Joseph’s Bones?
1. Mortality - Everyone must die
2. Dispensability - No one is indis.
3. Hope - Everybody wants some
4. Limitations - Can’t control every.
5. Security - God will do His part
Make Christ your hope of
glory
“He who has believed and has been baptized shall be saved; but he who has disbelieved
shall be condemned.” Mk. 16:16