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Recap of 10/25/09:
1. From Genesis 47:28 to the end of Genesis 49 we have what constitutes Jacobs last instructions to his family. He extracts a promise from Joseph to bury him in the Promised Land rather than in Egypt; he adopts Joseph’s sons born in Egypt as his own; and he addresses his sons concerning blessings and their futures.
2. By obtaining Joseph’s solemn oath that he would bury Jacob in the land of Canaan, promised to his family by God, Jacob was demonstrating his own belief in the future fulfillment of God’s promises, and he was pointing his family in the right direction, the direction of God’s word. Despite the way they were prospering in Egypt they were not to look upon Egypt as their home. Their future lay in Canaan according to God’s promise. Jacob was keeping their focus on God’s word and God’s will. That’s what a Christian father and mother do for their children.
3. “The primary purpose of God in creation was to prepare moral beings spiritually and intellectually capable of worshiping Him…. We are saved to worship God. All that Christ has done for us in the past and all that He is doing now leads to this one end. There is a necessity for true worship among us. If God is who He says He is and if we are the believing people of God we claim to be, we must worship Him.” (A. W. Tozer)
