To be turning to Genesis chapter
40, the things which are laid out here in this chapter are
the things which set the stage for Joseph's exaltation and which
lead to the salvation of many. But at the same time, there's
things that are laid out here which reveal the gospel of Jesus
Christ and only now that he is exalted that he has accomplished
the redemption of his people that now we look at these things
and we understand that we see the gospel picture which is being
declared to us here in this chapter. Let's begin reading the first
two verses. It came to pass after these things,
that the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker had offended
their lord, the king of Egypt. And Pharaoh was wrath. He was angry against two of his
officers. I don't know if these are the
same people. It sounds like he's angry with the heads of these
people. the officers, against the chief
of the butlers and against the chief of the bakers. And so what this is laying out
for us here is what we see this universal truth in the scriptures
that there's only two people. Two people that are represented
in all the world. The two people are either represented
by the butler or the baker. Either a butler or baker. A butler
serves. And he serves that which is given
to him to serve. He doesn't grow the grapes. He
doesn't pick the grapes and make the wine. He simply is given
the wine. He tastes that it is good. there's
no bad thing in it. He tasted his good and he serves
it to the king. He serves that which is given
to him. A baker on the other hand makes. He's a doer. A baker is a doer
and of all things he bakes bread. He bakes bread of all things.
These two men represent all men. All are represented by one of
either of these two men, the butler or the baker. One is a people chosen of God,
chosen of God and elect, a people redeemed to God by the blood
of the Lamb out of every kindred, tribe, people, and nation. These are the children of promise. The children of promise. Paul
writing of this very thing said that we brethren are as Isaac
was. We are the children of promise. The children of promise. Alright,
if you look at Israel and think, wow, I wish I was Israel. You that believe Christ are the
Israel of God. You are, as Isaac was, the children
of promise, chosen of God in Christ before the foundation
of the world, and to you the gospel is revealed. You look to Christ. And to you,
the gospel is good news. It's good news for you hear the
word of Christ. You receive Christ. You believe
Christ by faith. You trust him. You believe he
is my righteousness. I have no righteousness of my
own. He is salvation. Then there are those who the
scriptures call the seed of the serpent. the seed of the serpent. These are they who will not hear
Christ and will not come to Christ that they might have life. These
make their own righteousness. These do their own works and
come before God their own works of righteousness they make bread
and they feed upon the bread to sustain themselves to give
themselves strength and life and trust in the things which
they do like the the the makers of the Tower of Babel what does
it say of them they baked their bricks and They're in the middle
of nowhere, but they made stone to build a tower up to heaven
to bring themselves up to God. They baked those bricks. They baked works out of the dust
of the earth and thought, this is my righteousness. This is
my acceptance with God. Well, to them, when they hear
the gospel, all they come away with is wrath and terror, because
they hear God saying, I refuse your works. Your works are not
works of righteousness. They're works of wickedness.
And I'll have none of it. And so for them, all that remains
is wrath and destruction. Two kinds of people in this world,
all represented either by the butler or the baker. Verse 3 and 4 now. And he put them in ward, which
means in prison, in the house of the captain of the guard into
the prison, the place where Joseph was bound. This must have been
attached to Potiphar's house. He was the captain of the guard.
And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and
he served them, and they continued a season in ward. Now, Joseph, as we've been seeing,
is a picture of Christ. Joseph is a picture of Christ
and here we see him in prison and that speaks to him being
made like unto his brethren. He was manifest in the flesh
yet without sin. He's in prison not for any crimes
that he had committed but he was made like unto his brethren. He came in the flesh. It's a
picture of Christ. The scripture is also telling
us that Jesus Christ was numbered with the transgressors. Isaiah 53 10, he hath poured
out his soul unto death And he was numbered with the transgressors. Sorry, that's verse 12. He's
numbered with the transgressors. And here Joseph is numbered with
the prisoners here, the sinners, those that have offended. And
so Christ was numbered with the transgressors. The son of God
laid aside his glory and took upon him the weakness of this
flesh in order that he and his body would suffer, that he would
suffer for his people, the body of his people. He suffered in
his body and died in their room instead in order to deliver them
from death, from the coming wrath and destruction for their sin. And so by his sacrificial death
and being numbered with his people and bearing a body for the suffering
of death, he redeemed his people. He reconciled us unto God by
himself. Now, in verse 4, we're also told
that they continued a season in ward. These men were made
to know their awful condition. They were made to know that they
had sinned against their king. They had angered the king, and
now they're put in ward for a season in order to gain a knowledge
of what they had done, gain an understanding. You guys did wrong.
You did wrong. You've come under the wrath of
the King. Romans 1 speaks of something of this when it says
in verse 18 that 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,
for the invisible things of him from the creation of the world
are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made,
even his eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse. The butler and the baker were
both put into ward for a season. They are without an excuse. They
know they have done wrong. They have offended the king.
Next, we're given a picture of the gospel. The gospel is declared
to these men. It's given to these men, pictured
in type here, as a dream. They both hear it. They're both
given this dream. Verse 5. And they dreamed a dream,
both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man according
to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker
of the king of Egypt, which were bound in the prison. Now, brethren, there is but one
gospel and not another. There's many man-made gospels
which cannot say There's many, many Jesuses, so-called, which
cannot save, but there is one God and Savior, the Lord Jesus
Christ, who accomplished successfully the redemption of his people.
He bought them. He purchased them with his own
blood, and they are saved. They are delivered by him. There's one gospel that we declare
to all peoples. could be in a room full of butlers
and bakers or all butlers or all bakers they're all going
to hear the same gospel message will be declared unto them however
it must be revealed it must be revealed by God, He must reveal
that word to them. They must hear the interpretation
of it, and God is the one who gives the interpretation of it
as He will, as He's laid it to them, as it's revealed unto them. Whether they're profited by that
message, God knows. God knows. He knows, because
He's sovereign, and He interprets it to the people. According to
the gospel, all men are brought low in themselves. When the gospel
is preached, all are going to know I'm a sinner. All are going
to be brought low and know that they are a sinner. Verse 6 says,
And Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and looked upon
them, and, behold, they were sad. They were said, when the
Lord does a mysterious work, a man is going to be made to
know he's a sinner. He's offended God. He's going
to, in all his senses, in what he sees, what he hears, what
he feels, what he thinks, he's going to know, I've offended
God. I'm a sinner. I've done wickedly. And he's troubled. He's troubled.
He hears the thunderings of the law and the shakings of it. He sees the flashes of lightning,
and he knows, I have sinned against God. He's made to know that he
is a transgressor. Why? Because the knowledge by
the law is the knowledge of sin. And he's given the law to show
us that we are sinners. But to whom does a man, when
he hears that message, is he offended? And does he turn away
from God? Or is he drawn to God? Lord,
forgive me. Lord, save me. To whom does a
man turn when he's brought low by the gospel? When he hears
that, no, it's not by our works under the law that's our righteousness.
God doesn't accept our works of the law. The law was given
to show us our sin. Does that offend and drive you
away, or does that bring you low on your face to the feet
of Christ, asking him, Lord, save me, have mercy on me? Because
that's the difference there. One hears it and gets angry,
another hears it and cries out to the Lord for mercy. That's
where the revelation of whose seed we are is manifest. That's where the Lord manifests
them that are his, the seed of promise, or of the seed of the
serpent. How do you hear? What think ye
of Christ? Whose son is he? Is he the Savior,
or are you the Savior of yourselves? When heard aright by the ear
of faith, the gospel serves as the breaking of day in the morning.
After a long night, a long troubled night, A fearful night, a night
of trembling, when we are certain we are done for, we are destroyed.
But when that good news comes, it breaks forth like the dawn.
The night is over, and the day has come, and it's peace, and
it's joy, and it's comfort. The scripture hath concluded
all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might
be given to them that are saved. He brings us low that we might
hear Christ and believe Him and trust Him. When it's her to miss,
however, That word just gendereth to more and more bondage. It
just brings a man into greater bondage when he hears it only
in the flesh, because it turns him to vain fleshly confidences,
thinking, I got to fix this, and I know how I'm going to fix
it. And it just brings him into more bondage, deeper into the
dungeon, deeper into darkness, going away from the light. And
he stumbles over that stumbling stone, which is Christ, given
by God for the salvation of his people. And he says, get that
thing out of my way so I can get on with my own righteousness.
And he thinks that's salvation, and that's his life. Verse 7
and 8, and Joseph asked Pharaoh's officers that were with him in
the ward of his lord's house, saying, wherefore look ye so
sadly today? And they said unto him, we have
dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it. And Joseph
said unto them, do not interpretations belong to God? Tell me them,
I pray you." So Joseph's going to hear this dream, and he's
going to interpret it to these two men. And it's going to, it
speaks to, here we see another picture of Christ. that Jesus
Christ is the revealer of God to men. He's the interpreter
of this gospel word to men. He makes it known what God is
revealing to us, whether we be his seed or no. Whether we're
children of promise or no, he's making it known. He's the interpreter. He's the revealer of the secrets
of God to men. If you can, turn to Luke 10.
In verse 21, if you can get there, our Lord shows us here that He's
the interpreter. He's the revealer. He's the divider
between men, whether they are the lords or no. He's the one
that makes it known. Luke 10, 21 and following, in
that hour, Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee,
O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these
things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes. Even so, Father, for so it seemed
good in thy sight. all things are delivered to me
of my father right God does this and he says this is delivered
to me and no man knoweth who the son is but the father and
who the father is but the son and he to whom the son will reveal
him He's the revealer. He's the one that declares the
true and living God to us, so that we know Him, that we know
ourselves, and we don't think too highly of ourselves, but
that we come low and are not offended in Him, but come to
Him, to come to the Savior. He's the Savior. And He turned
unto His disciples and said privately, This is what was revealed to
the disciples of God. He's making this known to them.
This wasn't known to those without, but to his disciples. To you
that look to Christ, to you that follow Christ, to you that hear
him and cry, Lord, feed me as a worthless raven. Lord, remember
me. Give me food. Give me that bread
of heaven. Save me, Lord. Have mercy on
me. He said, blessed are the eyes which see the things that
you see. For I tell you that many prophets
and kings have desired to see those things which ye see, and
have not seen them, and to hear those things which ye hear, and
have not heard them." And so we need this dream, this word,
which to the natural man is but a dream. But when applied by
the Savior, when revealed by the Revealer, the Lord Jesus
Christ, then we know. Then we know whose we are, and
do I have an interest in Christ? Do I have an interest in the
salvation of my soul or no? If you're his, he gives you that
interest. And he turns you not to self and to the law, but to
Christ, to seek him. And so in this, we see what is
revealed in the gospel, what Christ has accomplished for his
chosen, redeemed people. As well, we'll also see what
is the lot of all those without. how that they shall die in their
sins and bear the wrath of God for their own sins in themselves
because they will not hear. They do not see Christ and trust
Him. So, first we're going to read
the whole of the butler's dream and Joseph's interpretation to
him of that dream. And then we'll see what it pictures
for us in the gospel. Ready? Verse 9. Genesis 40, verse
9. And the chief butler told his
dream to Joseph, and said to him, In my dream, behold, a vine
was before me, and in the vine were three branches. And it was
as though it budded, and her blossoms shot forth, and the
clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes. And Pharaoh's cup
was in my hand, and I took the grapes and pressed them into
Pharaoh's cup. And I gave the cup into Pharaoh's
hand. And Joseph said unto him, This
is the interpretation of it. The three branches are three
days. Yet within three days shall Pharaoh
lift up thine head and restore thee unto thy place. And thou
shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand, after the former manner
when thou wast his butler. And then as we will see later
in the chapter, in three days, it all came to pass exactly as
Joseph told him it would be. But why, according to the mystery
of God, why did this butler receive such reconciliation and mercy
to his king? Why was he restored? Why was
he dealt so graciously? Are there deeper tracks being
laid here that are set forth that speak to the gospel? And
these scriptures that are according to revealing the truth of the
gospel of God's salvation for his people. Is God showing us
something of our salvation, of our redemption by the Lord Jesus
Christ? Something to prepare us for Christ's
coming, so that when he comes, we look back and say, now I see. Now I see what the Lord was saying
here. Yes, yes, there is something here. Indeed, the vine is Christ. He is the vine. He is the vine. He is the true vine. He is the
one to whom we must be rooted in. He is the vine. And the three
branches, Joseph tells us, are three days. And that hearkens,
of course, to what? The death of Christ. death of
Christ who came according to the will of the Father that gave
in a body that he might suffer and die for the sins of his people
to redeem his bride and reconcile us to the Father all things are
reconciled in Christ to the Father and he died and and was buried
and what? Three days later he was raised
from the dead. God declaring him justified and
you that believe him justified of all things which you could
not be justified by the law of Moses. Christ has done it. He's done it. He's the Savior,
brethren, and by this blessed redemption work, the branches
of our Lord, who are rooted in Christ, we are the branches,
He's the vine, we're rooted in Him by faith, we do bud and blossom
shoot forth, and clusters thereof bring forth ripe grapes. All that are rooted in Christ
are fruitful. They are fruitful. They're given
life and salvation from the vine, rooted to the vine, not separate.
Apart from him, you can do nothing. But connected to Christ, in Christ,
we can do all things through Christ, which strengtheneth me.
Why? He's the servant of God. He's
the servant that prospereth in all that he does. All that's
in his hand prospers. He tells us that. The prophets
write that numerous times. I'll read you one. Zechariah
812. For the seed shall be prosperous, the vine shall give her fruit,
and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall
give their due. Christ, who sitteth on the throne,
gives the Spirit of God, and gives us the measure of grace
and the gifts which he gives to us, each one severally in
the body, as he wills. the dew of heaven, that's the
dew of heaven, brethren, and I will cause the remnant of this
people to possess all things. And so we see that this is speaking
of Christ and our blessings in Him. Now the next verse, 11,
it says, here's this description of the butler, and Pharaoh's
cup Pharaoh's cup, not my cup, but Pharaoh's cup was in my hand,
and I took the grapes and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and
I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand." Now, what this is is a
righteous work, and this righteousness is imputed to the butler. But it's Christ. This is speaking
of what Christ has done and accomplished for his brethren. It can be none other than Christ
Jesus, who himself trod the winepress. I looked and saw none. So I went in mine anger, and
I trod out the winepress. My garments were stained with
the blood of the grape in the winepress. I did. I bore the
wrath for my people. I accomplished redemption. I
did what was necessary to save them from their sins. And so
we read in that same chapter, which comes from Isaiah 63, in
that same chapter, verse nine, we read this. This is the Lord
speaking. He says, in all their affliction,
he was afflicted. In all our affliction, he was
afflicted. He was numbered with the transgressors. And the angel of his presence,
the fullness of the Godhead bodily, saved them. He saved them. He provided, the Godhead saved
us, did all for our salvation. In his love and in his pity,
he redeemed them, and he bare them and carried them all the
days of old. Brethren, this picture here of
that cup being in our hand and taking those grapes and pressing
them and giving that cup to Pharaoh, that's the imputed righteousness
of the Lord Jesus Christ, that work of redemption, which was
done for us. Not because we're worthy, but
because he's worthy and his righteousness is imputed unto us. And so when
we come before the throne of God, we're not coming in our
own righteousness. Lord, I don't want to be found
in my own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which
is the righteousness of Jesus Christ. I want to stand before
the throne of God washed in his blood. That hope that I have,
I'm coming in the hope of Christ, that he's my salvation. He's
my righteousness. He's my acceptance with the Father
so that in his blood we have no stain, no stain of sin, we
have no blemish, we have no wrinkle in our garment, not a blot, nor
splotch, nor stain, nor spot, nor nothing. We're in the bright
white wedding garment of the Lord Jesus Christ made for us
by whom we are presented unto the Father faultless before his
throne. This butler heard the good news,
and it was blessed unto him, just as Joseph told him." And
that's what the Lord speaks to our heart, that hope, that confidence
in him. And I think these next words
in verse 14 and 15 lay out the manner in how every child that
is his will hear. And the day of his calling and
not before when God brings this word to bear on our hearts. Joseph said to the butler, think
on me when it shall be well with thee. When the Lord brings this
home to your heart and show kindness or the word is be zealous. I
pray thee unto me and make mention of me unto Pharaoh and bring
me out of this house. Don't bury this truth. Don't
stand before God apart from Christ. That's how we're coming to Pharaoh.
That's how we're coming to the King. That's how we come to the
Father in Christ, remembering Him, believing Him. And the butler didn't know it
immediately, but a day came when he remembered, and that hit like
salvation in the soul, like the prodigal son who comes to himself
and says, what have I been thinking? And he goes home to the Father
to an abundance of grace. partake of an abundance of grace. For indeed, he said, I was stolen
away or stealthily removed out of the land of the Hebrews. Christ
Jesus went out from the veil of Hebron. He departed from that
to seek his brethren. And here also have I done nothing
that they should put me in the dungeon. He suffered not for
his own sins, but for the sins of his people to save alive much
people, much people. as he did, as he's done. And
so that's the gospel being declared here, brethren, which now we
can look back and say, I see it. I see Christ. I see what
he's done and his imputed righteousness for my salvation. This butler
didn't come in his own works. He came in the fruit of the vine,
in the blood of Christ. And that's how we come. All right,
let's do the same now with the baker's dream. We'll read his
dream, and we'll read the interpretation of Joseph of that dream, and
then we'll see what it pictures in light of the gospel. Verse
16. When the chief baker saw that
the interpretation was good, he said, oh, I got something
good, too. I got something that'll be accepted
before God, before Pharaoh. And he said to Joseph, I also
was in my dream, and behold, I had three white baskets on
my head. And in the uppermost basket,
there was of all manner of baked meats for Pharaoh. This wasn't
Pharaoh's baskets like the butler had Pharaoh's cup. This was his
baskets, what he had filled with what he had made. And the birds
did eat them out of the basket upon my head. And Joseph answered
and said, this is the interpretation thereof. The three baskets are
three days. And yet within three days shall
Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee
on a tree, and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee."
And then in three days these words came to pass exactly as
Joseph had said to him. So why then, according to the
mystery of God? Did the baker receive that wrath
of God? Why was he not received by Pharaoh? Why was he not reconciled to
Pharaoh? Why did he die in his sin? Well, such is the lot of all
who come to God in their own works, in the making of their
own righteousness, trusting their works, trusting that their works
is as good as Jesus's. It's good. It's good. I brought
this forth. I did my best here. And what
we see here is that those who come not to God in Jesus Christ,
trusting him, they shall bear their own sins. They will bear
the curse of the law because they trusted themselves and would
not hear. Chief Baker's dream was different
from a different interpretation. He had a different outcome, a
different interpretation, but he saw that the interpretation
for the butler was good, and he thought, what I got is just
as good. I don't need your Jesus. That's
your crutch. I got my own works. I'll come
in my own strength. I'm just as good. That's what
Cain thought, right? I don't need to come in the blood
of a lamb. I don't need to come like my brother. I've worked
for these things out of the dust of the earth. These are good
enough. Surely this is as good as what Jesus can do. It's righteous. I mean well. I'm sincere. I'm
doing the best that I can. But Cain was rejected. And so what did he do? He just
manifested more of the flesh in murdering his own brother.
Because he thought, that should have been me. I don't understand
why what I did wasn't good enough for God. And so he murdered his
own brother. This man had no part in the vine,
did he? He saw no vine. He had no part
in it. Everything he had was what he made and what he manufactured. It wasn't given to him. He didn't
receive nothing. He made it. He made it. He had three white baskets on
his head. And as we've seen that number
three, it speaks to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. When
God the Father declared Christ, both Lord and Christ, He's the
King, He's the Savior, that's how you're coming to me. Bowing
the knee to Him, confessing the name of Jesus Christ. He is the
name above every name. He's the King of kings and Lord
of lords. He's the Savior. Psalm 212, kiss
the son lest he be angry. And ye perish from the way when
his wrath is kindled, but a little, just a little. Because he's king.
If he wants you gone, boop, you're gone. That's it. He's the king.
He's sovereign. He does as he pleases. He does
as he pleases. Blessed are they, or all they,
that put their trust in him. And this baker had no trust in
him. This baker's three baskets, he
was his own God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost
to himself. He provided everything he needed. He was his God and
Savior. That was it. His idolatry there. And with
the works of his hands, he filled his baskets with all manner of
baked meats, meaning all kinds of baked goods. I got a little
of this, a little of that, and God will be happy. This will
please God well. And if you look at the margin
for white baskets, it says that it means a basket full of holes,
a basket full of holes. And it was empty. His confidence,
when he got there, his baskets were found to be empty, full
of holes containing nothing in them, nothing to give to God. And just like all self-righteous
workmongers, The garment that they've woven for themselves
is a garment full of holes, exposing their nakedness, showing their
shame to all. Christ said, I come as a thief.
Blessed is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments, lest he
walk naked and they see his shame. And this man is walking up the
pharaoh naked and in shame. And the baker, is as the man
that hears the gospel declared, hears that Christ is all, sees
himself put low in the dust and Christ exalted, but he will not
hear it. He will not believe. He does
not believe that Christ is all. He will not come to the father
in the one in whom the father said, I'm well pleased. Come
to me in him. I'll receive you in him. I receive
all that come to my son for mercy. But those words, they fall by
the wayside, because he understandeth not. And in comes the devil,
that wicked one, and catcheth away that which is sown in his
heart, as a bird comes and swoops down and picks up that abandoned
seed on the hard ground, just taking it away. And there's a
people in this world in great number who, like this baker,
have a whole assortment of goods, a whole bunch of works of righteousness
that they're trusting in and are confident in, and they think,
God will be pleased with this. God will accept this. I'll be
accepted just like the butler. There's no reason why I shouldn't
be. Cain said, I'll be accepted just like Abel. No reason, no
difference there. No difference in what I'm doing
to what he did. And they dismiss and they just
cast out the bread of heaven, the Lord Jesus Christ, who was
given to satisfy God and to satisfy our hunger and our need of righteousness. Bakers think God will be pleased
with them when they finally stand before him in that great day,
but they shall bear their own sins, and bear the punishment
in themselves. I'm going to read from Galatians
3 verse 10, beginning there, down to verse 14. It says that
as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse. For it is written, cursed is
everyone that continueth not in all things which are written
in the book of the law to do them. If you come to God in your
own works, he's saying you're going to die under the curse.
You're going to die in your sins. But that no man is justified
by the law and the sight of God, it's evident. For the just shall
live by faith, by faith. And the law is not of faith,
but the man that doeth them shall live in them. And so the child
of God hopes in Christ. We believe that word, that he
is our righteousness, that he is the cup Provided it's Pharaoh's cup that
he's provided and he's the wine that fills that cup He's the
good thing which which our God and King receives and receives
us in and we're reconciled to him in Christ And we're told
Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made
a curse for us, for it is written, cursed is everyone that hangeth
on a tree, that the blessing of Abraham might come on the
Gentiles through Jesus Christ, that we might receive the promise
of the Spirit through faith. That baker didn't have someone
who died on the tree for him. He bore in himself. What it's
saying is he bore the curse in himself because he trusted in
his own righteousness. And so he died on the tree. He
bore the curse. His flesh was picked apart by
the birds. He died in his sins. That's what
it's saying. All who come to God in their
own works or any other way bear their own sin and iniquity. They bear the punishment. All
who come to God in Christ, that punishment has been borne by
Him and put away. The curse is gone. It has no
more bearing on you, you that trust Christ. Believe Him. Trust
Him. And so to save time, we see it
all comes to pass in three days, just like he said. And the butler
didn't remember that hour, but there came a day when he does
remember it. And so what we see here is that
this gospel is good news. Not good news to all, not to
those without, but to you within, it's good news. Paul spoke of
this in 2 Corinthians chapter 2, when he said, we are unto
God a sweet saver of Christ in them that are saved and in them
that perish. To the one we are the saver of
death unto death. and to the other the saver of
life unto life, and who is sufficient for these things. Now, some might
think, I go too far in applying this to Christ. But you that
see Christ, you whose only hope is Christ, you see how that he
is our righteousness. How this now, seeing him exalted,
and by the faith which he's given to us, this speaks of Christ. That man, that butler, was received
because he came in true righteousness in Christ. And so it is for all
of you who come to the Father in Jesus Christ. Don't come in
your own works. They cannot save you. You'll
die in your sins like this baker. Two men, the butler and the baker,
representing all peoples. Which one are you? I pray the
Lord, bless the word that give you that interpretation of the
butler in your heart and bring you to the Father in Jesus Christ,
the Son, the righteousness of God for his people. Amen.