Chapter 46. It's good to be back. I lost track of time. I had no
cell phone. I had no internet. Just me and
Melinda. And even if you can't get on
a cruise, I'd recommend just cut off the phone and cut off
the internet for seven days. If they hadn't put the day of
the week in the floor of the elevator every day, I wouldn't
have known what day it was. Seriously, I'd recommend it for
anybody All right, brother Cody was gonna I asked him to teach
the Bible class, but I think he's got something He's chomping
at the bit to preach. So he's gonna take the second
hour and I'm gonna take the Bible class and so I prepared this
to preach to you in the second hour, so We may go a little longer
this hour, but I think his message will probably be a little more
the length of the Bible class. So let's go now to Genesis 46,
and I'm going to just read my text as we go to save a little
time. Genesis 46, verse 30. Israel
said unto Joseph, that is Jacob, Israel. Jacob is Israel. He said
unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I've seen thy face, because
thou art yet alive." Now when sinners come to Christ, brethren,
through God-given faith, that's when a sinner's prepared to die. It's all of God's grace, it's
all through the Christ Jesus and His righteousness, and it's
It's all by the work of the Holy Spirit worked in our heart that
brings us to Christ. But when a sinner comes to Christ,
that's when we are prepared to die. We can say, let me depart,
I've seen thy face. Now, can you say that? Are you
prepared to die? If you've not come to Christ,
you're not prepared to die because you're not prepared for judgment.
Only the sinner that's come to Christ. When I say come to Christ,
I mean come and believed on Christ. Put all your care, all your trust
in Christ. For all salvation, beginning
to end. When you come to Christ, then
you're prepared to die. Now, are you prepared to die?
Well, somebody might say, well, I'd like to know what happens
when a sinner comes to Christ. Well, let's talk about that.
This is what we see something of in our text today. What happens
when a sinner comes to Christ? That's our subject, when sinners
come to Christ. When a sinner comes to Christ,
believing on Christ, God's given him faith, God's given him a
new heart, and he comes to Christ, casts all his care on Christ.
Through faith, Christ teaches you everything that He will do
for you. and save for you as your mediator,
as your prophet, as your priest, as your king, on your behalf
before God. And He makes good on everything
He teaches you. This is what you learn through
faith. But now you only learn this through faith. You only
learn this through faith. The Lord, the man that doesn't
believe, the man that doesn't cast his care on Christ, he'll
never, he'll hear this declared in the Gospel. You'll hear Christ
declaring what He's going to say and do for His people, what
He has done for His people, but He'll never enter into it because
He doesn't believe. It's only through faith that
God comes into the heart and teaches you and makes you to
really see these things and understand these things, makes them real
to you, makes them life to you. It's through faith. Through faith. The Lord told Martha, Remember,
she was there at the tomb and Lazarus, her brother, was dead.
And she was telling all the things that she knew theologically.
I know Christ is going to rise to the last day. He's going to
rise to the last day. And all these things, she had
some theology. And the Lord looked at Martha
and He said, Did I not say to you, if you'd believe, you'll
see the glory of God? Throw all your All you know out
the window and all you've learned out the window, believe on Christ. Look to Christ and you'll see
the glory of God. It's through faith. Alright,
now in our text, Joseph's brethren have come to Joseph, just like
a sinner comes to Christ. And we're going to see here,
Joseph teaches his brothers everything that will happen. what he'll
say, what they'll say, and he makes good on everything. Everything
comes to pass just like Joseph said it would. And in all this
we see an example of what happens when sinners come to Christ.
Now let's start first of all. When a sinner comes to Christ,
then Christ teaches you what he will do and what he will say
before God on your behalf. When you come to Christ through
faith, that's when you're going to begin to understand, truly
understand and enter into this and believe because Christ will
teach you through faith what He will do and what He will say
on your behalf before God. Now watch this, verse 31, Genesis
46, 31. And Joseph said unto his brethren
and unto his father's house, I will go up and show Pharaoh
and say unto him, My brethren, and My Father's house, which
were in the land of Canaan, are come unto Me." Now do you see
here, Joseph taught his brothers. They didn't know what's going
to happen. Here they stand, they've come now to their brother Joseph,
and here they are, and there's a man who rules this whole land
named Pharaoh, and he's more powerful than anybody, and they
don't know what's going to happen. And Joseph is the one who is
acting as mediator between his brethren and Pharaoh. And he
calms his brethren. He settles the hearts of his
brethren. He teaches his brethren what's going to happen. What's
going to happen? Joseph said unto his brethren,
to his father's house, I'll go up and show Pharaoh. Now here's
the lesson. Through faith, Christ teaches
each believer who comes to Him And he teaches us that he is
our only mediator with God. He's the one that does the teaching.
And what he teaches is, I will go up for you. I will go up to
God for you. That's what you learn. You come
to Christ, trust in Christ, and he settles you to know, I am
indeed your mediator. I will go up for you. Now there's
only one God. And there is only one mediator
between God and men, and that's the man Christ Jesus. There's
no coming to God except through this mediator. Can you imagine? Just put yourself here in the
shoes of Joseph's brethren. Imagine them just deciding, we
don't need Joseph. We just march on in there and
talk to Pharaoh ourselves. What do you think would happen
to these boys? They get thrown right out. You
don't have any business in the king's palace, but Joseph could
go right on in there, because Joseph is the favorite of Pharaoh.
Well, Christ can come right into God's presence because He's the
favorite of God the Father, and we need Him to mediate for us,
to mediate for us. When a sinner comes to Christ,
Christ teaches us that He'll declare to God that we've come
to Him. He'll declare to God, they've
come to me. That's what Joseph did. Look,
he said, I'll go up and I'll tell Pharaoh, my brethren in
my father's house are coming to me. They're coming to me. That's why God sent Joseph to
Egypt. God sent Joseph to Egypt so that
Joseph could make all his brethren come to Egypt to Joseph. That's why God sent Joseph to
Egypt. And that's why God sent His Son,
Christ Jesus, into this world. It's to make all His people come
to Him. That's why He sent Him. That's
why He sent Him. And so when the Lord spoke on
this earth, He said, They're going to come to Me. He said,
All that the Father giveth Me shall come to Me. We're talking
about when sinners come to Christ. The Lord said, All the Father
gives to Me shall come to Me. And Him that cometh to Me, I
will in no wise cast them out. Do you think Joseph, for one
minute, when his brethren came to him, do you think for one
minute he's going to turn them around and cast them out and
say, get out of here? No, his whole purpose was to
make them come to him. And so it is with Christ. Christ
said, now this is truth as well. No man can come to me except
it's given him of my Father. You see, all the glory in bringing
these brethren down there to Joseph goes to Joseph. He did
everything to bring them there. God sent the famine and Joseph,
he gave Joseph the bread and he said, now Joseph, you bring
them down there. Christ, God sent the famine of sin into this
world. He ruled everything that took place in the garden so that
the famine of sin entered this world and you and I are starving
to death in sin. And he sent Christ the bread
and he said, now you bring them. And the Lord, God, gives the
heart to come to Christ. And Christ is going to get the
glory for that. God is going to make sure He gets all the
glory. And the way that He draws sinners to Him is He makes you
thirsty. He makes you hungry. He makes
you see you have no bread in you, no food in you, no water
in you, because you are nothing but sin. And He makes you see
that it is all found in Christ. That's why Christ stood up there
at the last day. He had said that all the Father
gives me shall come to me. And he said no man can come to
me except my Father. Draw him. But then he stood up
at the last day and he said if any man thirst, let him come
unto me. See there's nothing keeping you
from coming to Christ. Men will talk about God's election
and God's predestination and everything God's doing and they'll
say, and that's prohibiting me from coming to Christ. No, that's
not what's keeping you from Christ. What's keeping you from Christ
is your own unbelief and your own self-righteousness. You think
you're too darn good to come to Christ. You're not thirsty
and you're not hungry. You think you've got plenty of
bread and plenty of food. You're in a famine and you're
too blind to even see it. That's the problem. The Lord
said, he that believeth on me. When I say when a sinner comes
to Christ, I'm talking about believing on Christ. He said,
he that believeth on me, out of his belly shall flow rivers
of living water. Believers can't account for this.
When you trust Christ, within you, it's like a well
of water springing up. It's life. Because now, You have
the bread of life. You have life. You have righteousness. You have sanctification. You
have redemption. You have him who is all these
things to you. And it's rivers of water springing
up. It's life to have Christ and
know Christ and trust Christ. Those that don't have him, I
watched people this week, you know, and after a little while,
I got ready to leave that boat. I was tired of being But there's
folks talking on the way back. We're talking to folks and they're
talking about how they couldn't wait to get back. That's all they
got. That's all some people have is
this world. And they just go from one pleasure
to the other trying to get some pleasure out of this life. You
know, but the Lord's people, you can go back to just everyday
stuff, but still you got this river of life in you. I might
not be camped out beside crystal clear blue waters every day,
but I got something better than that. I got Christ. Rivers of
water. Rivers of water. And look here,
when a sinner comes to Christ, through faith, Christ teaches
us to confess our sins to God. Christ will teach you. You know,
you don't, you're sitting there, I can remember this, and you
didn't, you're here, come to Christ, come to Christ, You're
thinking, well, what's going to happen when I come to Christ?
What about my sin? Because God makes you see your
sin. God's going to make you see, oh, he won't receive me. But Christ is the one who asked
this. I'm just preaching the words.
I'm telling you what Christ has said to tell the, that's what
he said. You just tell them what I've commanded you. And I'm trying
to tell you what Christ says. And as you look at this book,
you see a picture here of what Christ teaches you. And Christ
teaches His child exactly what to say before God. He teaches
you to confess your sin to God. And when He teaches you to do
that, that's when you'll feel comfortable coming before God
and confessing everything you are. Let's see it in Joseph here. Look here, Genesis 46, verse
32. The men are shepherds. He said, you go and this is what
you're going to tell Pharaoh. He said, this is what I'm going
to tell Pharaoh, and this is what you're going to say. He
said, the men are shepherds, for their trade hath been to
feed cattle. And they've brought their flocks and their herds
and all that they have. And it shall come to pass when
Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, what is your occupation?
That you shall say, this is what Joseph's teaching his brethren
to say to Pharaoh. He says, when you come there,
don't lie to Pharaoh. Don't make up something. You
come there and tell Pharaoh what you are. And he says this, you
say, thy servant's trade hath been about cattle from our youth
even until now, both we and also our fathers. Now here's the reason.
That you may dwell in the land of Goshen. You come tell them,
your shepherds, to tell them what you are, that you may dwell
in the land of Goshen. Because, now here's the reason
why by confessing this they would end up in Goshen. Because every
shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians. Isn't that strange? Isn't that strange? Joseph would go in first, he
said, and he would tell Pharaoh these were his brethren and that
they were shepherds. These are my brethren, and these
men are an abomination to you, Pharaoh, and to everybody in
Egypt. But they're my brethren. They're
mine. And the Scripture says, Christ
enters in before the Father and it says, both he that sanctifieth
and they that are sanctified are all of one, for which cause
he is not ashamed to say, these are my brethren. These are my
brethren. And then these brethren themselves
were called before Pharaoh and they were to confess the same
thing that Joseph just said about them. And when you are called
before God, Christ teaches you, declare the same thing that he's
declaring about you. They come in there and they said,
we're an abomination. We're an abomination. And this
confession was a must. It was a must. And the reason
that they had to confess, I'm an abomination, is because then
Pharaoh would separate them and give them the very best land. the very best land. Now how on
earth does that equal that I'm going to go in and tell Pharaoh
I'm an abomination and Pharaoh's going to give me the best land?
How does it equate that I'm going to go before God and say I'm
an abomination and God's going to give me the best land? Turn over to Luke 18. I'll show
you how. You remember the Lord's parable
of the Pharisee and the publican? You see, when that Pharisee came
before God, He lied. He didn't say what he was. He
lied. He said, I'm thankful I'm not
like other men are. He talked about all the good
things. He just lied. He completely lied about what
he was. But when that publican came before
God, he confessed he was nothing but an abomination. Look at this. He came, verse 13, the publican,
standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto
heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God, be merciful to me,
a sinner. I'm an abomination. And Christ
said, and I tell you, this man went down to his house, possessing
the very best land. He went down to his house justified. Justified, rather than the other. Because everybody that exalts
himself, you can lie to God all you want to. You're going to
be abased. You can exalt yourself before
God, God will abase you. Or you can come and humble yourself
before God, and God will exalt you. God will exalt you. And Christ teaches us that we've
got to confess our sin to God. He teaches you that. And He makes
you willing. Makes you willing to come and
confess what you are. And He gives you the best land.
Now look at this. Next thing, secondly, so we see
here when a sinner comes to Christ through faith, Christ teaches
us and He teaches us everything He'll do and say and what we'll
do and say before God. Alright, then secondly, when
a sinner comes believing on Christ, he finds that Christ makes good
on everything that He's taught us in His Word. Now you see,
this is a little subtle difference, but it's not in the Word of God
for no reason. Joseph just told everything that he would say
and do and what they would say and do, and then we turn around
here and he shows us that's exactly what came to pass. But that's
important. Because not only does Christ
teach you what He's going to do for you, and what you're going
to say, and what's going to take place, Christ makes all good
on every bit of it. Let's see that. Look here now,
verse Genesis 47, verse 1. Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh,
and said, My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds,
and all that they have are come out of the land of Canaan, and
behold, they are in the land of Goshen. Now you remember before
he said, I'm going to go tell him my brethren are come unto
me. Here he says, he goes up there and he tells them they've
come unto the land of Goshen. Well, the land of Goshen is a
picture of Christ. The picture of sinners coming
to Christ, that's what it is a picture of. So He went, just
like He said He would, He went up to Pharaoh. And Christ, He
draws near to God on behalf of His people just like He says
He will. That's why the scripture says,
if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father. Jesus Christ
the righteous, He's our advocate. The scripture says, He makes
intercession for us. He ever lives to make intercession
for us. The same One who went to Calvary and laid down His
life and justified His people from all our sins has risen into
the presence of God and He goes into the inner chamber where
God is and He makes intercession for us. So He's able to save
to the uttermost all who come to God through Him, seeing that
He lives to make intercession just for us. That's what Joseph said He'd
do that. Joseph did it. Christ teaches
his child he'll do this. Christ does it. Joseph told Pharaoh
they'll come out and they'll now come into the land of Goshen.
That land of Goshen was the best land. That's the lush green pasture
where the king's cattle were kept. And when a sinner comes
to Christ, Christ declares to God, they've come to me. Your
irresistible grace has once again succeeded. All the power of God
and all the power and wisdom that's put into Christ's hand
has once again triumphed over a hard-hearted rebel and he's
made them come unto me. They've come into Goshen, they've
come to Christ the green pasture, they've come to Christ the king's
land. That's where they've come. And Christ declares this. This
is like, you know, you and I can't come to God glorying in anything.
We can't come to God boasting in our anything we've done, but
Christ can come to God boasting and glorying and look at what
triumphant grace has done. They've come into the land of
Goshen. They've come to me. That's what Christ can do. It's
all about God getting all the glory in Christ. And so then
look at this, as Christ promised, when we come to Christ, Christ
presents us to God. Christ presents us to God. Now
Joseph had told his brethren he'd do this, and he did it.
Now look at Genesis 47 and look at verse 2. And he took some
of his brethren, even five men, and he presented them unto Pharaoh. Presented them unto Pharaoh.
Listen to this scripture from Colossians 1.21. It says, You
that were for some time alienated enemies in your mind by wicked
works, Now Christ has reconciled, brought you into friendship with
God in the body of His flesh through death. That means by
what He did on Calvary's cross. Brought you into friendship with
God to present you. To present you. Just like Joseph
took those five brethren and he walked up there to Pharaoh.
You reckon those brethren were talking? You reckon they were
saying anything? I bet they had their mouths shut. I bet the
only one talking was Joseph and Pharaoh. Well, Christ presents
His children. You know how He does it? He presents
Himself. He presents all for whom He died
when He presents Himself. And He presents Himself holy
and unblameable and unreprovable in God's sight. And that's how
He presents you if you continue in the faith. You see, Emphasizing
today is believing on Christ and continuing to believe on
Christ because all this is when a sinner comes to Christ and
keeps coming to Christ and doesn't stop coming to Christ these are
the blessings God gives through faith through faith All right
look here now this third thing. I'm gonna. I'm skipping over
some stuff for you. It's third day When a sinner
comes to Christ through Christ we come to God and Confessing
our sins just as Christ commanded. Now, we saw before that that's
what he told you to do. Go and confess your sin. Now
watch what they do now. Genesis 47 verse 3. He makes
you obey is what I'm trying to show you. Look at verse 3. Pharaoh
said unto his brethren, What is your occupation? And they
said to Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we and also
our fathers. They said moreover unto Pharaoh,
For to sojourn in the land ere we come. For thy servants have
no pasture for their flocks. For the famine is sore in the
land of Canaan. Now therefore we pray thee, let
thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen. You see, Joseph taught
them this. And so they come and they confess
they were an abomination. They confess they were Pharaoh's
servants. They confess themselves to be sojourners. They confess
they had no pasture and no food. They confess that they wanted
to dwell. in Goshen. And that's what we
come. We come and we confess that we're
God's servants. We're no longer the servants
of sin. We're no longer the servants of the devil. We're God's servants
by His grace. And we come confessing we're
sojourners in this land now. We're not putting down roots
in this earth anymore. We're just sojourning through
it now. We don't have here. We have no pasture. We have nothing
but famine. We have no food. We have nothing
here. And we want to dwell in Goshen. We want to dwell in Christ. That's
where we want to dwell all our lives. Now, I can urge you to
do that. I can tell you this is paramount,
that you must do this, that there's no other way to come to God than
through faith in Christ. And I can urge you to go and
confess to Christ what you are. I can't make you do it, but when
Christ teaches you this is what you're to do, He makes it effectual,
just like Joseph did right here. They went and did everything
He said. And that's what He'll do. He'll make you, not only
will He teach you to do it, He'll make you do it. And you'll do
it. Alright, now fourthly. When a sinner comes to Christ,
then, through Christ, God, our Father, communes with us and
blesses us. Now this is so important. Men
are always thinking they're praying and having communion with God.
You don't have any communion with God except through Christ.
God's not communing with you and He's not blessing you except
through Christ. That's all. And it's only when
you come through faith in Christ that God's going to speak to
you, commune with you, and bless you. Watch this now. Verse 5,
Genesis 47, 5. And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph,
He didn't speak to them. He spoke to Joseph. Pharaoh spoke
unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto
thee. You see there, Pharaoh communicated to Joseph. God,
our Father, speaks to His Son. He's the mediator. And it's through
Christ that God's going to give the blessings to His people.
Christ is the mediator. You're going to get the glory
for being the mediator. Now watch what happens. Pharaoh gave all
the land to Joseph. Every bit of it. Look at verse
6. The land of Egypt is before thee. He's talking to Joseph. He's not talking to these brethren.
He's talking to Joseph. Pharaoh says the land's before
thee. And now for Joseph's sake, Pharaoh tells Joseph to give
his brethren the land. Look at verse 6 again. In the
best of the land, Make thy father and thy brethren to dwell in
the land of Goshen. Let them dwell. You see, God
gives all the inheritance to Christ. It's His. That's who
He's pleased with. He gives it all to Christ. But
He tells our Lord Jesus now, because He laid down His life
for His people, because He reconciled His people to God, made His people
righteous before God. He says now, you give the very
best to them. You make them dwell in this land
and you give them all the very best. You see how badly we need
Christ? We need Christ to go to the Father.
We need Christ to teach us. We need Christ to go to the Father
for us. We need Christ to present us to the Father. We need Christ
for the Father to communicate to Christ who communicates to
us. We need Christ. Christ is all. Now look, Pharaoh
even charged Joseph to make some of his brethren under shepherds
to care for his sheep. Look at verse 6. He said, And
if thou knowest any men of activity among them, then make them rulers
over my cattle. Do you know what a privilege
that was? Not only am I going to give you
the best land where you can graze your cattle, but if there are
some men in there that you And he told Joseph to make this call.
He said, if there's some men there that you deem worthy, trustworthy,
faithful, honorable men, men of activity, men who won't be
lazy, men who will do what they're sent to do, make them rulers
over my cattle. And our Lord Jesus Christ, for
the sake of Christ, God gives into the hand of Christ and charges
him. Whatever men you've made worthy,
whatever men you've given the gifts to do the work and made
them so they won't be lazy, made them so they'll go to the field
and they'll do what you put in their hand to do. You make them
under shepherds over my sheep. For the good of my people. That's
what God does. We're in Goshen right now. We're in the fat, green, lush
pasture. And all I am is an under-shepherd
sitting here with God's sheep and telling you all about our
Joseph who brought us into this pasture and who has given all
this stuff to us. It has been our goal between
us and God to bring all this to us and give it all to us,
free, just free. Alright, here is the last thing.
And the last point, I know these are just subtle differences,
but I think they're important. We saw how Joseph said, now here's
what's going to happen, and then we saw how it came to pass. And
then we saw how Pharaoh said, now this is what I'm giving the
land to you, now you give it all to them. Now here's a subtle
difference, but it's important. Joseph fulfilled every word Pharaoh
charged him with. And when you come to Christ,
you'll find out through faith that Christ fulfills every word
God charges Him to give to you. Now watch this. Joseph gave them the best land.
Look down at verse 11, Genesis 47, 11. And Joseph placed his
father and his brethren and gave them a possession in the land
of Egypt in the best of the land, in the land of Ramesses, as Pharaoh
had commanded. Joseph did exactly what Pharaoh
commanded. Christ freely gives believers
the very best land. He gives us Christ himself. He
gives us free justification, free righteousness, free sanctification,
free redemption, free reconciliation, free blessings all forever. He gives us himself. He gives
us the very best land because God says, I command you, give
it to them. I can't. You, sinner, listen
to me. You that believe on Christ, you
cannot not have free justification and righteousness in Christ because
holy God commands our mediator, give it to him. Why? Because of what Christ did for
Christ's sake. He says, give it to him. Give
it to him. And look at this. Joseph gave
him the very best food. He gave them the best land. He
gave them the best food just because Pharaoh commanded it.
Verse 12, And Joseph nourished his father and his brethren and
all his father's household with bread according to their families. They didn't have to work. They
didn't have to do anything. You know what they did when they
needed bread? They went to Joseph. And they held out their hand.
And Joseph filled it full with the best He nourished his father
and his brethren and his father's household with bread according
to the family everybody that needed it. He gave it to him
free absolutely free John 650 Christ said this is the bread
which comes down from heaven That a man may eat thereof and
not die. He's talking about himself He
said I am the living bread which came down from heaven If any
man eat of this bread, he shall live forever. And the bread that
I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the
world. Now let me review and I'm going to close. Number one,
there's no understanding of God's Word except through faith in
Christ. Christ is our wisdom. Christ
is the prophet. And he's going to get the glory
for being the wisdom and being the prophet. God, before that, God will give
you faith, God will give you life, God will give you faith,
and God will draw you to Christ. But it's going to be through
you believing on Christ, by God's grace, that you're going to learn
what true wisdom is. And you'll learn it from Christ.
Number two, there's no coming to God the Father except through
faith in Christ. Christ is our mediator. He was
the one that said, I'll go up for you, and he's the one that
went up for him. He's the one that presented him. Everything
that happened here happened because Joseph was in the middle between
them and Pharaoh. And everything the believer has
is because Christ is between God and His people. Number three,
there's no confession of our sin except through faith in Christ. You can confess your sin all
you want to, but until you've cast all your care on Christ
and through faith in Christ you confess in your sin in light
of your need of Christ, you haven't confessed your sin until then.
Because Christ is our great high priest and our advocate. When
we come to God confessing our sin, we've got to come in our
great high priest. We've got to come in our advocate. Number
four, there's no blessings from God the Father except through
faith in Christ. All those blessings that that
were given them, Pharaoh gave them to Joseph and said, give
them to them. And every blessing God gives
to Christ, He says, give to them. Christ is our provider and He's
our King. Now listen to this last point.
This is my fifth point. Every blessing is not only given
by Christ, He is the blessing. That's what we see here. They
were given two things. The best land. That's a picture
of Christ. And they were given all the bread
they could eat. That's a picture of Christ. He's
not only the one, the blesser. He's the blessing. Christ is
all. Now, has God given you faith
in Christ? If He has, come to Christ. Cast all your care on Christ.
He'll teach you these things. He'll make all the... Everything
I just told you, you'll find it comes to passing. Exactly
like I just showed it to you in the Scripture. And only then
are you prepared to die. Then you can say, let me die.
I've seen your face. Let's pray together. Let's stand
together. Our Heavenly Father, we thank
You for Your blessed Word. Thank You for showing us another
glimpse of our Redeemer, of our great Mediator, Our prophet,
priest, king, our provider, our all. Lord, give us faith. Give us faith. Give us real faith
to really believe on Christ. And Lord, increase it. Make us
ever, make us come to Christ and make us ever come to Christ.
Make us just keep needing Him more and more and more and more.
and make everything else just so much less and less and less
to us. Lord, make Christ all. Make Christ all. And make everything
else to just be insignificant. Because it really is. Thank You,
Lord, now. We pray You'll be with Brother
Cody and give him grace to preach to us. And thank You again for
Your Word. We ask it in Christ's name. Amen.