2. What Do We Learn From Joseph’s Bones? 1. Mortality - Everyone must die

3. What Are You Putting Your Effort Into? - Investments?

4. “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

5. What Are You Putting Your Effort Into? - Family? - Investments?

6. “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

7. What Are You Putting Your Effort Into? - Investments - Family - Knowledge

8. “ 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

9. What Are You Putting Your Effort Into? - Investments - Family - Knowledge Are you a “barn builder”?

10. What Do We Learn From Joseph’s Bones? 1. Mortality - Everyone must die 2. Dispensability - No one is indispensable

11. “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

12. What Do We Learn From Joseph’s Bones? 1. Mortality - Everyone must die 2. Dispensability - No one is indis. 3. Hope - Everybody wants some

13. Hope is a result of DESIRE + EXPECTATION Hope is a result of DESIRE + EXPECTATION

14. “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

15. The Christian is the Real Possessor of Hope g saved in it g laid up for us

16. “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

17. The Christian is the Real Possessor of Hope g saved in it g laid up for us g protects as a helmet g anchors one’s soul g a living hope g does not disappoint

18. 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

19. “And which of you by being anxious can add a single cubit to his life’s span?” Matt. 6:27

20. - my tongue

21. “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

22. my tongue - my attitude

23. “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

24. my tongue my attitude - my obedience

25. 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

26. 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