Let's be turning to Genesis 45. Last week we were looking at
how Joseph revealed himself to his brethren. And today, Joseph
instructs his brethren. He gives them instruction now
that they know who he is. And this is a word for us. This is what the Lord does after
that He reveals Himself to you, He instructs you in the way that
you should go. I want to show you three things
here in regards to these instructions. First of all, we're made to know
the extent of the damage, at least to a degree. We're made
to know just how awful our sin is and the ruin of our sin. The
second thing that we'll see is Joseph sending them to go and
tell others of his glorification, a picture of us being sent to
go and tell of the glorification of Christ, what he has accomplished
for us. And then finally, we are to comfort
God's people with the words of Christ, us and them being helped
by the Holy Spirit. who makes us to hear this effectually
in us. So first, we are made to know
the extent of the ruin of our sin and the death of our nature. And this is pictured for us here
in Joseph revealing the extent of the famine. And he says in
verse six and seven, that's where we'll begin, verses six and seven,
For these two years hath the famine been in the land, and
yet there are five years in the which there shall neither be
earing nor harvest." And let me just say something on that. I was thinking why this is an
interesting breakdown. We know the famine is seven years.
It's a complete famine. It fulfills all that the Father
has brought it to pass. It's a complete famine here.
It's severe. It's a severe famine. And two
years have gone by. Well, two, in Scripture, is a
picture of union. It's a picture of union. Two
are married. A husband and a wife are two
and become one. Christ and his church are two
and they become one, the head and the body of the church. And
what would it take? It took two years for Joseph
and his brethren to be reconciled and brought together. In two
years the Lord had brought them together and reconciled this
family together in those first two years. And then five, I'm
told that five represents grace. It's a picture of grace, but
also in scripture, five we know is a picture of the law. It represents
the first five books of the Bible, which were all written by Moses.
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. five books in
the which there shall neither be earring nor harvest." In other
words, you that would come to God by the works of the law,
you shall not bring forth. It shall reveal, rather, the
famine in your soul. It'll make you to know just how
empty and unable you are able to make yourselves before God. But, in that sense in which it
also speaks of grace, here we have the instruction of Joseph
to his brethren, which is a very gracious instruction, in which
he provides all for you, to save you alive, to provide for you
through the famine, of which we are all in by the law of sin
and death. So we can't save ourselves. And
then verse 7, God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity
in the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance. And so, so grievous is this famine,
so severe is this famine, that Jacob and all his family, which
is a remnant of the people of God. They are the remnant of
believers, worshipping the true and living God in truth and in
spirit. They would have all died in Canaan.
That's how severe the famine is. They would have perished
in Canaan. But God provided a salvation. He provided the Savior. He performed
all that was necessary to save alive the people of God. And he did this by sending Joseph
before them. And so this famine here pictures
the ruin of our flesh. It pictures us in Adam who sinned
and rebelled in Adam and cannot bring forth fruit unto God, not
even by the law. We can't bring forth satisfaction
and fruit unto God and so this is foretelling of the coming
wrath and judgment of God against us, against our works, against
our ways, which are what they are because we're all dead in
trespasses and sins and Adam. We're ruined and that's what
this famine pictures, the ruin of man, the ruin of our nature. It is that severe. It is that
severe. Turn over to Romans chapter one. Let's look at a few passages
first in Romans, and then we'll go to Hebrews, but let's see
some in Romans here. In chapter one, Romans one, and
we'll pick up in verse 18 and 19. For the wrath of God is revealed
from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who
hold the truth in unrighteousness. Because that which may be known
of God is manifest in them, for God hath showed it unto them. Now turn over to Romans chapter
3. With such knowledge man would
not and could not bring forth a righteousness. We see that
in Romans 3, picking up in verse 10, 10 through 12, as it is written,
there is none righteous, no, not one. There is none that understandeth. There's none that seeketh after
God. They are all gone out of the way. They are together become
unprofitable. There is none that doeth good,
no, not one. That is the testimony of scripture.
That is the severity of the famine of our souls, unable to bring
forth fruit unto God, even under the works of the law, even in
religion, unable to bring forth fruit unto God. And so many,
of course, have done that. They've turned to the works of
the law. They've turned to religion and
the form of religion to seek a refuge from the wrath of God. That's why men go to the law.
That's why people become religious. They're seeking a refuge from
the wrath of God. But that is not why the law was
given. Look in chapter 3 there, Romans
3, verse 19 and 20. Now we know that what thing soever
the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law, that every
mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before
God. Therefore, by the deeds of the
law, to you that think the law was given to you for a refuge
to run to, And to make yourselves righteous, know this, that by
the deeds of the law, there shall no flesh be justified in God's
sight. For by the law is the knowledge
of sin. And so don't flee to the law,
sinner. That is no refuge for you. You're not going to find peace
and acceptance and life with God under the law. The refuge whom the Father sent
before us to save us from our sins is His Son, Jesus Christ
the righteous. That's whom the Father has sent
before us, Jesus Christ. Look at verse 21 and 23, through
23 in Romans 3. But now the righteousness of
God, without the law, is manifested, being witnessed by the law and
the prophets. Meaning, this is of whom they
wrote. This is the one of whom they
speak. Even the righteousness of God, which is by faith, the
faith of Jesus Christ, His faithfulness, unto all and upon all them that
believe. There's your faith, which the
father gives to his child, looking to Christ, for there's no difference
for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. And so this is our hope of salvation,
that through the faith of Jesus Christ, his redemption, his work
is our acceptance with holy God. We come into the presence of
God being received of Him and not being destroyed and blown
away like a dead leaf because of the grace of God in Christ
who has gone before us to save us. So, look to Christ, you that
have fled for refuge to lay hold upon this hope that is set before
you. It's found in Christ. Turn over to Hebrews chapter
6. Hebrews chapter 6. And there in verse 19 and 20, speaking of that hope that you
have, that refuge you've run to and laid hold of this hope
by faith which is given to you, Hebrews 6, 19, which hope we
have as an anchor of the soul. And you're not blown about and
twisted and moved about looking to Christ and trusting his righteousness
for all. We have him as an anchor of the
soul, both sure and steadfast, and which entereth into that
within the veil, having gone before us, having died before
us, and living again." He lives again. Whether the forerunner
is for us entered, even Jesus, made in high priest, so that
by his sacrifice forever after the order of Melchizedek," meaning
he's not under the Levitical priesthood. He doesn't have to
sacrifice himself every year like they did. It's after the
order of Melchizedek. That is, it's forever. It's forever
and ever. And so the Lord Jesus Christ
was sent before us, and he went before us willingly to the cross
to die, obtaining the redemption of his people, reconciling his
people to the Father, and has gone before us, ascended to heaven,
seated at the right hand of the throne of God, ruling and reigning.
and calling his people to himself, drawing us to himself in grace.
In grace, in grace, he told his disciples, I go to prepare a
place for you. And if I go and prepare a place
for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself, that
where I am, there ye may be also. That's his word of promise. So
Joseph saw the wisdom of what God did in this, in causing Joseph
to be sold into slavery. And God blessed him with grace
in his heart, not to get angry and vindictive with his brethren
and say, now I'm going to show you, and I'm on top now. And I'll punish you. No, Joseph
didn't do that. His heart was full of grace because
he recognized God has done this. What you did was for good. You didn't mean it for good.
You meant it for evil, but that's okay. God did this in salvation. He did this on purpose. Look
at verse 8. So now it was not you that sent
me hither, but God, and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh,
a wise counselor to Pharaoh, and Lord of all his house, and
a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt. And so Joseph attributed
his being sent to Egypt as being the will of God. This is what
God purposed. He did this. It was not you that
sent me here, but God. God did it so that he would save
all his people alive. And you can imagine as Joseph's
brethren are hearing this, as he's revealing himself to them
and speaking to them, they're afraid. They're afraid because
why? Their sin's exposed. It's laid
bare. They're the sinners. They've
done wickedly in what they did, but Joseph immediately comforts
their hearts. and turning then to see the sovereign
will of God in this, and the sovereign grace of God in doing
this. He said, look at verse five,
in Genesis 45, verse five, be not grieved nor angry with yourselves
that ye sold me hither, for God does send me before you to preserve
life. All right, so carry this forward
now to Christ, right? To the coming of Christ in the
flesh, who in humility, in weakness, he suffered on behalf of his
brethren. He was there for us who cannot
save ourselves. And we're told in Acts 3, verse
18, that God before had showed by the mouth of all his prophets
that Christ should suffer, and he hath so fulfilled. He's fulfilled
that which God testified that he would do in the law and in
the prophets beforehand. So we men, we're guilty for our
sin. Our Lord came and did what he
did because of the sin of his people, the debt that we had
worked up because of our wicked works. And so we're guilty for
sinning against Christ. All men would fight against the
Lord were it not for grace. And we see that worked out here
with the religious Jews, and the people with them, and with
Pilate, the leaders of the Gentiles, and the Gentile people with him.
They crucified Christ. But it was for our sakes that
he went to that cross because of our sin. Because of our sin,
and God did it on purpose. He did it on purpose to save
his people so that by the death of his son he wrought a great
deliverance, a great salvation by him, by his blood. Peter sang
in Acts 2 verse 23 that by him, or him being delivered by the
determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken and by
wicked hands have crucified and slain. And these would be revealed
as believers. All right, so that it shows that
it's us who put him there. In verse 37 and 38, when they
heard this, they were pricked in their heart, just as all God's
people are, when we see that it's because of me, it's for
my sin, it's because of my inability to save myself, that I'm the
sinner, that I'm the rebel, that I rebelled against God, that
Christ, the Son of God, came and did this work. And so he
reveals this to us, and they said unto Peter, and to the rest
of the apostles, men and brethren, what shall we do? And so this
is God's instruction to sinners who seek a refuge from the wrath
of God. Peter said it this way in verse
38. Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus
Christ for the remission or forgiveness of sins, and ye shall receive
the gift of the Holy Ghost. And so, that repentance which
the Lord gives us is to turn us from trusting our works and
thinking of ourselves as having obtained the salvation of God. looking to Christ, Christ dwelling
in your heart. He gives instruction through
his gospel and he turns you from sin and wicked works and works
that cannot save. Most of religion says to you,
stop doing this, stop doing that, fix that, get that right, what
you're doing is wrong here, make this better. They turn you first
to yourselves and says, that's the repentance. No, our repentance
is turn from trusting those works to save you and believe Christ. And no, the promise of God says,
I'll instruct you, not me. Christ will instruct you by giving
you his gospel word. And he'll turn your heart from
dead things. He's the one that gives a new heart and a new spirit.
He's the one that separates you from the lusts of this flesh.
And that when you feel those lusts rise up in this dead flesh,
he's the one that strengthens you and gives you that grace
and strength to turn from it. and to be delivered when you
do fall into it, and to raise you up again, to look to Christ
and trust him. It's him instructing you. It's
him giving you that grace and strength. So don't try and fix
yourselves first. No, go to Christ, look to Christ,
believe him, and ask him, Lord, teach me, guide me, instruct
me, give me grace in my heart. Turn me from dead works. Turn
me from sin. Turn me from evil. and to serve
you, right? So he does it. That's the repentance
that's spoken of here. And that baptism there speaks
to what? Our confession of Christ. You that are baptized in the
name of Jesus Christ, you're confessing He's my Savior. I'm not saving myself. I can't
do it. I can't work the law and get things right. It's a testimony
that you believe that God raised Him from the dead, that He is
the Christ, the Son of God, come in the flesh, laid down His life
for me, a sinner. When you're baptized, that's
what we're confessing. We're not saved by baptism, we're saved
by Christ. And that confession of baptism
is the evidence that God reveals in his people that I love him
who loved me and gave himself for me. I believe him. I don't
have any other righteousness. I have no other salvation. I
believe him. I confess him in baptism. That's
what Peter is saying there. And then the second thing that
we see here, so we see the extent of the famine. We see the severity
of it. We see I'm ruined and undone
in Adam. I'm a sinner. The second thing
we see here in our text is the instruction to go and tell others
of Christ's glorification, of his accomplished redemption.
Go and tell others. Tell my people. So what follows
here, Well, before I get back there to Genesis, I'm gonna quote
something from Romans 1 again, but what follows here is a picture. When we do get to Genesis 45,
it's a picture of the gospel call that goes forth to the people,
out to the people there, and we carry this message to all,
because we don't know who the Lord's people are. He knows,
and he'll hit his mark. He'll hit the mark there. But
we go and declare these things of Christ, because this is how
the lost sheep are found. This is how they're made evident.
This is how God reveals them that are his, by giving them
faith in this gospel word, without trickery and chicanery and lies
and crafty moves. No, just preach Christ. This
is how he reveals it, by giving them faith in Christ whom he
sent. To that end, Romans 1, 16 and
17 says, as Paul said, I'm not ashamed of the gospel. You don't
have to be ashamed that this is all we have. This is what
God gave us, so be glad in it. I'm not ashamed of the gospel
of Christ, for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone
that believeth, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For therein
is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith. As it is
written, the just shall live by faith. And so that's what
I'm saying. He manifests them that are his
by revealing faith in them. That looks outside of what they're
doing and looks to what Christ has done and rejoices in him. Rejoice in him. So the redemption
life of Christ is revealed by faith through the preaching of
the gospel. So all right, let's go back to
Genesis 45 verse 9 now. And here's Joseph's word to his
brethren, telling them, carry this good news back to my father. All right, verse 9. Haste ye,
and go up to my father, and say unto him, thus saith thy son
Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt. Come down unto
me, tarry not. Now, you're looking at this picture.
I was looking at this picture. We're looking at this picture
here and wondering, why is the type, Joseph, a type of Christ,
saying to his brethren, go seek my father? Wouldn't it be nicer
if it was just a little cleaner here, the picture of seeking
out the lost sheep? Well, I believe it's worded this
way with no issue because When the Lord seeks out his lost sheep,
who is it that gives them life? Who is it that opens their ear
and gives them faith? The Father, right? He does that. It's by his works in sending
his Son, in sending the Spirit. It's the work of God that is
made evident in the lost sheep of God's people here. All who
are born of the Father shall hear the word of good news, the
grace of God, effectually in their heart. Effectually, and
it is good news to the sinner that, wait a minute, Christ has
done all He saved me, that's good news. To the one who thinks
that they still have something to work out and can do it under
the law, it don't really mean anything to them. It's not good
news to them. They've still got their own works that they're
working on. They think they have their refuge. But to you that
are broken sinners, who have no righteousness, who have fallen
on your face time and time again trying to make yourselves good
and righteous before God, to you, The grace of God in Christ
is good news. Because He promises, I'll make
a covenant with you according to the sure mercies of David.
It's sure and certain because it doesn't rest on you or me.
It rests entirely on the Lord Jesus Christ. So, think about
it. To who was this good news in
Canaan? When they came with this good
news to Canaan, who rejoiced in it? All the inhabitants of
Canaan? or Jacob and his family. To his
family, to whom Joseph was calling and coming to me, it was good
news, because they were going to be put up by Joseph and cared
for entirely by Joseph. And so we declare the gospel
to sinners, and they will not hear and believe except God is
there to meet that word and to receive that word and make it
effectual in their hearts. That's the picture. Go and seek
my father. Go and declare this word, and
it'll be evident those that are the Lord's, because they'll hear
and believe, and they'll come. They'll come. Turn over now to
1 Corinthians 2. 1 Corinthians 2, and I want to
show you that according to the scriptures, this word is heard
and understood by faith, and then for whom God reveals that
faith, and those who God gives his spirit. Look at verse 7. We'll pick up there. So 1 Corinthians
2, 7, but we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery. Just saying
this is a mystery to those who have not the Spirit of God, even
the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the world unto our glory. So we're not surprised when men
don't hear and don't believe. It remains a mystery to them. Verse 8, which none of the princes
of this world knew, for had they known it, they would not have
crucified the Lord of glory. And he's talking about even the
Jews, the religious Jews that studied the word, that had the
law, that had the prophets, that had the oracles, that had the
temple, that had the sacrifices, that had the ordinances. And
yet they didn't see it, and they still crucified him, even though
you see it here now, right? But as it is written, I hath
not seen, nor ear heard, neither I've entered into the heart of
man the things which God hath prepared. for them that love
him." In other words, it's not just going to be by your studying
the letters here, the letter of this word. You need the grace
of God to reveal it to you. But God hath revealed them unto
us. There's the people that are God's. It's revealed unto us, a people
that hear by his spirit. For the Spirit searcheth all
things, yea, the deep things of God, so that the one who makes
the difference in one person from another is God, testifying
them that are his by his grace. Making known this mystery. We give credit where credit is
due. We glory in God, not in man,
not in flesh. I got nothing to boast of before
you. It's all of God. For what man knoweth the things
of a man save the spirit of man which is in him? Even so the
things of God knoweth no man but the spirit of God. So that
what he's going towards here is We need a new birth. We need
a regeneration by the Spirit of God. We need that Spirit of
God to know these things. Now, we have received not the
Spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God, that
we might know the things that are freely, graciously, sovereignly,
without cost, given to us of God. He's speaking of grace,
the grace of God, not something that you or I do, but of what
God does. Which things also we speak, not
in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy
Ghost teacheth, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. So I have
no doubt that there are some that would hear me preach Christ
to you from Joseph and think, you're out of your mind. What
are you talking about? You've just spiritualized this
whole text here, speaking of Christ. Well, that's exactly
what it's given to us to do, by the Spirit of God, to compare
the spiritual words here, to compare the grace of God here,
seen in Joseph, which testifies of what Christ has done for us.
To hear it by his spirit and grace. And to do that, brethren,
he must be born again. So that, verse 14, this is our
last verse here, the natural man receiveth not the things
of the Spirit of God for their foolishness unto him. Neither
can he know them because they are spiritually discerned. Because
he must be born again. Without the Spirit of God, you're
not gonna see Christ. You're going to keep seeing a
dead letter. You're going to want to hear
Sunday school lessons. Just tell me about Joseph. That's
all. I just want to know the simple moral lessons that are
here. No, you don't. You want to see Christ, because
Christ saves, not just Sunday school lessons. You want to know
Christ. He's the Savior whom the Father
has sent before us, and that's who he reveals in the preaching
of his gospel. So we speak the glad tidings
of Christ's finished work and of his exaltation, the one whom
the Father hath sent. And those in whom the Father
gives his spirit, they'll hear this word and rejoice that there's
a Savior, there's salvation from the severity of this famine under
which I'm dead. But he has delivered me once
and for all freely, without cost to me, without money, in His
Son, Jesus Christ. He bids me come. So to them,
the promise is given. So let's go back to Genesis 45,
verse 10 and 11 now. So here's the good news that
we're carrying. Thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshem, that good
land, and thou shalt be near unto me. Isn't that good news? He promises, you'll be dwelling
right next to me. I'll be with you. I'll dwell
in your heart. Thou and thy children and thy children's children and
thy flocks and thy herds and all that thou hast, and there
will I nourish thee. I'll feed you good food, not
that GMO junk that you get in the store. I'll give you good
things, healthy things. I'll take care of you. For yet
there are five years of famine, lest thou and thy household and
all that thou hast come to poverty." And so this speaks to the beautiful
words of Christ, the promise of Christ. to provide for you
all that you need, telling you, you can't endure it. You're not
going to come out of this famine in any good. You'll be destroyed,
wasted away, dead. Romans 6.23 says, for the wages
of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through
Jesus Christ our Lord. The third thing now, that's the
good news we carry. And then the third thing here
is we're to comfort God's people with the words of Christ being
helped by the gift of the Holy Spirit. Let's read verse 12. And behold, your eyes see. Your eyes see, you see it, and
the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaketh
unto you." In other words, God sends you pastors who see these
things by the grace and spirit of God, just like you're going
to see them by the grace and spirit of God. We see these things
being made to see eye to eye with God, to see things as He
sees them, not to look at the outward form, but to see Christ,
whom he sent, and to show you Christ, as he blesses my heart,
to bless your heart with the same word here, so that you see
what I see, our eyes see and recognize that's the Father.
And in this case, that's Joseph who's speaking there. Joseph,
that's his words. Or in our case, that's Christ
speaking there. Christ is, He isn't turning you
to the flesh. He's turning you to Him, saying,
I'll do everything for you. I've done it all. I've accomplished
it all. And you have everything in me.
And you come near to me. You dwell here, and I'll provide
for you everything that you need. Isaiah speaks of this work in
Isaiah 52. Let's turn there, Isaiah 52. And in verse 6, now remember
what Joseph said to his brethren here. He says, behold, your eyes
see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin. In other words, when
you look at me, you can see he and I have the exact same eyes.
We got Rachel's eyes. We look just like Rachel, or
dad's eyes, you know. But they're the same eyes there,
that it is my mouth that speaketh unto you. All right? Well, listen
to what the Lord says to us in Isaiah 52, verse 6 through 10. Therefore, my people shall know
my name. Therefore, they shall know in
that day that I am he that doth speak. Behold, it is I." Just
like Joseph said, it's my mouth that speaks to you. You'll know
that Christ is speaking to you. How beautiful upon the mountains
are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth
peace, that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation,
that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth." You know, when Paul
speaks of this, he's talking about the pastors that the Lord
sends. And here we see that we are but ambassadors for God as
though Christ had beseeched you by us. We pray you in Christ
that be you reconciled to God. The one who's come and whose
feet are beautiful and lovely, it's Christ. It's his word. that is sent unto you. It's him
calling his people to himself. Thy watchmen, okay, there's me,
but they shall lift up the voice with the voice together. That's
the voice you want to hear, is the voice of Christ. Together
shall they sing, for they shall see eye to eye when the Lord
shall bring again Zion. Break forth into joy, sing together,
ye waste places of Jerusalem, for the Lord hath comforted his
people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem. The Lord hath made bare his holy
arm in the eyes of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth
shall see the salvation of our God. That's why we preach Christ
crucified to you. Because in that word, he reveals,
he lays bare his arm. He lays bare his arm for you,
brethren, of what he's accomplished at the cross for his people.
That he is risen. Now, verse 13, 14, and 15. These
are our final verses. And he shall tell my father,
of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen, and
ye shall haste and bring down my father hither," or to here. That's what we're declaring the
glory of Christ. Go to Christ. There's your refuge.
Fly to him, sinner. Flee to him. Get away from Mount
Sinai and the thunderings and lightnings and animals being
thrust through with darts. Fly to Christ. He's the refuge
of God for sinners. And he fell upon his brother
Benjamin's neck and wept. And Benjamin wept upon his neck. Moreover, he kissed all his brethren
and wept upon them. And after that, his brethren
talked with him." Now, brethren, this kiss here is experienced
by all God's people. by the gift of our Lord speaking
graciously to us. He kisses us with the gift of
the Holy Spirit whereby we know his tears, we know his suffering,
we know that he's sincere to us, that he loved me and gave
himself for me a sinner who sold him into slavery as it was, as
the brethren did to Joseph, but it was for good. It was for good. And that kiss, and that weeping
there, shows the suffering of Christ, testifying to us that
He does love me. He did this for me, though I
don't deserve it at all. It's the giving of the Holy Spirit. It's the creation of a new man
in you, whereby you hear these things and rejoice in this. and
what Christ has done, and believing Him by faith evermore. So when
Christ reveals His salvation to you, we're made to know the
extent of our sin, of our ruin, that we cannot do this ourselves
and provide for us. And He does this so that we don't
take refuge under the law, which is no refuge for sinners. You
have to be perfect to come in the law. We come in Christ. That's the sinner's refuge. That's
who we come to God in. And second, we're sent to tell
others of the exalted salvation of the Lord Jesus Christ, that
he is risen, what he's done and accomplished for us. And we are
to comfort God's people. Third, with the words of Christ,
whereby the gift of his Holy Spirit and the understanding
he gives to sinners is made known unto us. through this word, brethren. So I pray you delight in these
wonderful pictures that we see in the type of our Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ in Joseph here, because that's why the Lord gives
it. It's to lay that track down, to prepare your heart to receive
Christ, to hear him and see, yeah, this is him who has testified
to us in the law and in the prophets. It is Christ. Amen.