I'll have you turn to two places
this morning, and I'll help you get there. The first one's Genesis
41. We're going to look at the end of Genesis 41, beginning
of Genesis 42. If you look at the cover of your
Bible, turn to the right one book. It's Genesis. That won't
be as funny when we look at Amos. God's been with us this weekend,
I believe. And I don't want to presume that
he will now. But we ask him. We ask him, and
he's faithful. We got the story here of Joseph
we've been looking at in San Diego for a while. And I want
to tell you a little bit about Joseph. There's a thing in preaching
and these seminaries and things, they give words to everything.
It's a homiletics. It's the art of preaching or
how to prepare a sermon. And they say there's expositional
messages. That's where you go through the
scriptures, and you say, this is what this means, this is what
this means. Look over here, I'll show you. This is what this means.
And there's, as the old English folks said, experiental or experimental
preaching. I've experienced it, what I'm
telling you, and I'm gonna tell you what I've experienced. And
there's evangelical. That means I've experienced it,
you ought to come, bow. How could I preach without all
three? If it ain't according to the Word, and I haven't experienced
it, I ain't got no business telling you to do something I've never
done. I hope this is a blessing to you. There's corn in Egypt. Joseph's a picture of Christ
throughout Genesis. There's never anything bad about
Joseph. There's so many other of the
Lord's prophets and people. Rahab what? The harlot. Who was
it on the cross? The thief on the cross. We don't
ever forget what we are, what the Lord saved us from. But Joseph,
never anything bad was mentioned. Here's a picture of Christ from
conception. He was the son of a barren woman.
He was the son of a woman that could not have a child. Our Lord
came to this earth born of a virgin. They can't have children. That's
impossible, isn't it? Joseph was the firstborn. Firstborn
of his father and that wife he just loved. He labored 14 years
to get it. Long time. Perfection double.
He was the firstborn. Our Lord is the only begotten
of the Father. Full of truth, isn't it? Joseph
was loved of his father. He was the favorite. Back then
you could have favorites. No bones about it. He was the
favorite. He was preferred. Our Lord, he's the one that the
heavens opened and said, this is my son in whom I'm well pleased. And then he spoke to his people.
That's general. Everybody ought to hear that. You want to make
God happy? It's going to be in his son.
That's it. And to his people, he spoke to
him on that mount. He said, this is my son in whom
I'm well pleased. And a command came and said,
hear him, hear him. Live, dry bones. I'll just say
what he said. He'll do the work for me. He's
love to the Father. Joseph, he was distinguished
from his brethren by a coat that his father made him. He made
him a coat of many colors and put it on. That just set him
apart from everybody else. Our Lord was set apart from everybody
else. He was distinguished above his brethren from the life that
he lived. That life of righteousness, life
of holiness. He lived for us, and that's what
we're made of him. I love that picture of Aaron.
The last thing he did on this earth was be a picture of Christ.
They took him up a mountain, they stripped him, took his robe,
put it on his sons, and then he died. What an honor and privilege.
Joseph prophesied. I'll go quick on this. Joseph
prophesied to his brothers. He said, I had a dream, and y'all
gonna bow to me. Would that make you mad? That'd
make me mad. I got older brothers, but I'm bigger than they are.
They got mad about it. Our Lord prophesied those things,
didn't he? In this word, it says, every
knee shall bow. Every tongue's gonna confess.
It's gonna happen. And for it to happen in this
lifetime, we call that salvation. To know him now is life. Every
knee's gonna bow. We will joyfully bow now. Well,
the father talked to Joseph and he sent him to his brothers.
And he said, go down over where your brothers are. And you know
where they were? Shechem. That's where Dinah was defiled.
They went through all this trouble in Shechem and all this horrible
things happened to their family. And where was they tending sheep?
I ain't got a lick of sense. We don't either. We don't either. They were down there, and he
said, you go down and check on your brothers. Go see if you can serve
them. If you can help them. Look after them. Take care of
them. Go check in on them. Joseph went down to his brethren. Christ came unto his own, and
they received him not. While he was down there with
his brothers, they was mad at him. And so they sold him for
20 pieces of silver. They cast him into a pit. And
they stripped him, and they sold him for 20 pieces of silver.
Our Lord came. He was sold for 30 pieces of
silver. He was the revealer of dreams.
He ended up being accused falsely by Potiphar's wife. And they
threw him in jail. And he opened not his mouth.
He didn't complain when he went in that pit. He didn't complain
when he was sold into slavery. He didn't complain when Potiphar
bought him. In another country, had to learn a whole nother language,
a whole nother set of customs, was given a whole nother name.
Never opened his mouth. That's a lot. I don't like filing
taxes. Never complained. Our Lord come
to this earth and opened not his mouth. Never defended himself.
Just took it. But he was there in Potiphar's
house, and he was accused of something he did not commit and
was put into prison. Our Lord, who was made sin for
us, knew no sin. He knew no sin. While he was
in that prison, there was a baker and a butler. I was going to
preach on that too, but Gabe took it. There's a baker and a butler.
There was one that made things of his hands. It was an artesian. and crafted things. And there
was another one just served, just took the trash out. He interpreted
those dreams. He said, we've had dreams. And
he said, no man can interpret dreams, but God. Tell me a dream. You take that picture. He was
the interpreter of dreams. My, my, he revealed what those
dreams were. And Christ is the prophet. the prophet who declares
that what works will get you, but bringing something you made
of your own hand and your own meat and your own art or artistry
to the king, you're going to die. But if you come with grapes
of the king in the cup of the king and all you did was crush
the grapes, you come to the king, life's there. That's what Christ
proclaims. Pharaoh took us, fell after he
interpreted Pharaoh's dream and made him ruler over all. He ruled
everything. Christ was made Lord over all.
And whenever Joseph was ruling all of Egypt and all those storehouses
were full, if you were going to get anything, if you were
going to have anything for life, you've got to come to Joseph.
Nobody else. No middlemen. Just him. Christ
has power over all flesh. It says to give life eternal. He knows all as overall. I love
that scripture. Cat on a thousand hills as he
is. It also says he knows the birds. And I got little hummingbirds. I can't hardly preach without
talking about it. They amaze me. And they fly up
and just it's a biological miracle and I'll hover out there and
I'll eat off these flowers Kimberly has planted. And I think Lord
knows that one. That's his and he knows it. I
don't know his name. Maybe he named it. I don't know.
It's his. That's magnificent. Well, if you go on through Genesis,
all of Joseph's brethren, those of his family, they're delivered
only because of Joseph. Christ said, because I live,
you shall live. If you're going to be delivered,
it's because of him only. All judgment and all power is given
to Joseph. He was the head servant. I think Eleazar, too, what a
servant that one was. He had everything and didn't
take credit for nothing. Christ was the servant. He humbled
himself. Walked this earth for us. Well,
Joseph had interpreted a dream, like I said, there for Pharaoh.
And he said, there's seven fat cows and seven skinny cows, seven
big corn, seven skinny corn. And all of them skinny cows is
going to eat the big cows. And Pharaoh said, I have no idea
what this means. Joseph said, I'll tell you. He
said, you're going to have time of plenty, seven years of plenty,
bumper crops. You're going to have seven lean
years. Hard times are coming. Hard times
are coming. And people's going to die. Judgment's
coming. God's judgment's coming. And
you need to find a man discreet and wise and put him over this
so he can rule. He didn't say, it's me. He said, this is what you need
to do. And Pharaoh said, where can we find such a man? And he
looked to the servants. He said, how about him? They
said, good idea. And so Joseph was put over all
that. He said, famine's coming. The famine's going to be terrible.
And Joseph put over all of it. And for seven years, they put
up a fifth. All the extra corn, put it in a storehouse. And he
went town to town, laboring hard to provide for everybody, for
all those that was going to live. That's who he labored for. And
then the word went out. He opened the storehouses in
this great famine. And they said, come to Egypt.
There's corn in Egypt. Come on. You hungry? Famines in the land. Famine,
not like, eh, I could eat. You starving to death. You hungry? There's corn. Come make you some
cornbread. We'll feed you. Gotta go Joseph,
though. That's the thing. I want to see quickly a picture,
and they'll intertwine, a picture of our natural condition as we're
born of Adam. of us living in this earth. Like
I said yesterday, one of the greatest hindrances to understanding
we're spiritually dead is that we're physically alive. We breathe
air, and I can stand up, and I sleep, and I eat. I couldn't
be starving. I just ate a meal. He's speaking
spiritually. That's our natural condition.
Born of Adam, outside of Christ, at war with God. I love that
song we just sang. I don't think I've ever heard
that. I wanted nothing to do with him. Get me out of here.
I don't love you. Go away. And then he pursued. Fetched me. Brought me back. I love his house. That's what
he did. That's his work. But naturally,
as we're born into this world, we're sin. We're dead in trespasses
and sin. And we have one hope. We're starving
to death. We're already dead, but for the
picture. We're starving to death spiritually. We're going to die
eternally. And there's one hope. One place
of corn. One person to get the corn from. Look here in Genesis 41. Verse 56. Genesis 41-56. Joseph had told that this famine
was coming. We've been putting up for seven
years. Now the famine started. It says in Genesis 41-56, and
the famine was over all the face of the earth. It wasn't just
in a county. It wasn't just in a certain Little region or maybe
one country, it was all over the whole face of the earth.
There was famine. And all this physical famine
and all this whole thing it took for 14 years physically took
place to give us a picture, just as Joseph is a picture of Christ,
how the Lord saves sinners. He said, I've given nations for
you. God wouldn't do that. You better hush. Don't say what
he will and won't do. We don't understand his ways.
His ways aren't our ways. His thoughts aren't our thoughts.
He loved the people, and he's going to get them. And he ain't
going to lose them. So I've given nations for you.
Nations. And he did all this to show us
something. There's a famine across the whole
world. Physically, our nation is rich. Our poor people are
wealthy compared to the rest of the world. $40 and other countries
is a monthly salary for some people we know For us, that's
what a trip to McDonald's We're wealthy here physically we're
wealthy spiritually this whole earth all over the earth is bankrupt
That's what it's showing us turn over to Amos you'll turn to aim
after Psalms after Isaiah You can get down there to Daniel,
and Hosea, and Joel, and Amos. Amos. If you get down to Obadiah
and Jonah, you went too far. Amos chapter 8. Prophet Isaiah was a righteous
man. He prayed that the heavens would dry up and there'd be famine
for three and a half years. It didn't rain. Famine had been
throughout time. And if we had a physical famine,
it might be good. The Lord might save some of his
people with it. So if it quits raining, don't go getting mad.
The Lord ain't out of business yet. Amos 8, verse 11. Behold, the days come. In the
same opinion of Amos, saith the Lord God that I will send a famine
in the land. Not a famine of bread, nor thirst
for water. You're going to have plenty of
bread to eat. You'll have plenty of water to drink. But of the
hearing of the words of the Lord. That's a famine. We call famine
when you ain't got enough bread. God calls it a famine whenever
there's no bread of life. Christ the bread of life, there's
a famine for hearing of the words of the Lord. What studied in
this little building, beautiful building, I love y'all's place.
What's discussed here, what's discussed and I can name you
a whole bunch of places. And in spite of me, what's discussed
in San Diego, California, is a feast. It's a feast. I was telling the folks the other
day, you get a preacher, that's always eating out in filet mignon.
You get a pastor, sometimes you got to have peanut butter and
jelly. But it's safe. It's healthy. It's a feast. God
gave it. It's his word. It's a feast. The spot of these broken clay
pots, earthen vessels that it comes in, the Lord feeds his
people. Some places don't even open the
Bible. Did you know that? It says his word. He said there's
going to be a famine of his words. If they saw a fellow on TV holding
one, never opened it. Like it was a weapon or something
he was winging around. Paperweight is all it was. There's places
we know of. I hope the gospel is a lot of
places. But there's some places I know it is and I'm going to
throw my weight behind them people. That's where His word said. That's
good. There's food there. There's corn
there. And we go and eat because we need it, don't we? Look there
in verse 12. Amos 8 verse 12, and they shall
wander from sea to sea and from north even to the east and shall
run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord and shall not find
it. Physical, when that physical
poverty comes, or in the body, a severe illness or loss or something,
people, you start seeing immortality. And they'll start, what about
this God I'm gonna be meeting? I've heard this my whole life,
but that's, For future Kevin, I don't have to worry about that
now. All of a sudden, that's on my doorstep. And they start
looking, and it can't be found. They're looking high and low
and north and south, and it can't be found. What a shame, isn't
it? And you look around, and you
say, there's churches everywhere. You know, anywhere on the Bible
Belt, they say that's the buckle. We're in the Bible Belt, we're
the buckle. Every one of them, don't they? They're all over.
Well, why not there if they don't have this work? They may sing,
and the more they sing, the less they got to preach. The more
practical things you got, the less gospel you got. And the
list goes on. A guy's telling me one time his
pastor, he said, well, he sits down, he'll read the scriptures,
he said, what you all think about that? I said, that's all convenient.
He don't have to study. He said, huh, how about that? We'll go look it up later. What are you paying that fella
for? You're starving to death. Ain't being fed. They don't go
verse by verse. They don't labor and God makes
somebody faithful to tell you this is what this means. Whether
it's comfortable or you cry or you rejoice or whatever it is,
we learned something. That week, that's what it is.
And you go verse by verse down through it. And you can compare
spiritual things with spiritual things. It ain't my opinion.
That's a root word, heresy. People knows what heresy is.
That's a damnable heresy. The root of that word means my
opinion. What do you think about that? I don't want to know what
I think. I want to know what God says about it. That's a feast. That's a feast. It's safe. It's
good. It's not grievous. It's not grievous.
All that's for one thing needful. This whole picture, you need
to come get corn. corn so you don't starve to death. That whole thing for all those
years was to show us that there's one thing needful. Christ the
bread of life. Him. He's life. That's what I tried to tell you
the other day. He's the way. He's the truth. You want life? You
want to live forever? You want to have eternal life?
More abundantly, it's Him. Not a doctrine. Not an idea. Not a doing. It's a person. A
person. Salvation is a person. He's needed. Martha and Mary. Poor Martha. We need them. Stuff's got to
get done. We have to physically eat, and
this place physically has got to get cleaned, whether male
or female. Martha's just got to take the trash out. Somebody's
got to shovel snow. It's got to take place. But Martha
and Mary is working. She gets picked on a lot. God
loved Martha. And I can stand on a mountaintop
and scream that, because he said so. He said Mary and Martha and
Lashley loved them. He loved him. But Martha was
working, and Mary was sitting by his feet. And he said, Mary's
chosen the good thing. She's got that one thing needful.
She's sitting by my feet in this list. God Almighty spoke to her. You want to what? Throw them
dishes away. We'll eat off her hands. He's
talking. He's the one thing needful. And
Mary's sitting there listening to him. He's the one thing needful. Lord loved him. Mary and Martha,
at that moment, Mary had a great need. She was starving, hungry. In front of her was a great God,
who is life. And all that life came from a
great sacrifice. That's the cost of it. an infinite
sacrifice, an eternal sacrifice, everlasting. I always love it
when throughout the scriptures says his kingdom, it's from everlasting,
everlasting, it's never lasting. It's an eternal kingdom. We can't
get ahold of that kingdom. That lady that just died over
in England a couple years ago, she said on that throne a long
time. And that ain't nothing. That ain't a vapor. His throne's
eternal. Eternal. He's the one that provided
the sacrifice. He's the one that did all the
work. He's the one that gathered the corn. It's his corn. And
he gives it. Takes a lot of corn. I told them
folks in San Diego, I said, one pwn wouldn't do. And I said,
y'all know what a pwn is? It's a serving size of cornbread. Anyway, it was a great sacrifice
for many. Look back in our text there in
Genesis 40, 41. There's a great need. This is
serious. This ain't me getting up and
giving you a nice dissertation on what Genesis 41 means. Look
here in Genesis 42, verse 2. Jacob's speaking to his other
sons, the other 11. And it says, Genesis 42, 2. And
Jacob said, behold, I have heard that there's corn in Egypt. How's
anybody going to know, I got to touch on that. How's anybody
going to know there's corn in Egypt? How's anybody going to
know that there's life in Christ? One way, you're going to have
to hear. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. And the world calls it foolishness. You're going to have some fella
from Big Creek, Kentucky stand up and tell you about it. That's
the Lord's way. Jacob heard, he said, behold,
I have heard there's corn in Egypt. Get you down thither.
Did they go up? Growing in grace is growing down.
They went down. You get down. Get down thither
and buy for us from thence that we may live and not die. That's how serious it is. Life
and death, eternal. Life and death. I've had life
and death matters in my jobs before. This is eternal life
and death. You need this corn. You go without
bread long enough, you're gonna die. Spiritually. You go without Christ, you're
gonna die. And for believers too, and I have a heart for that,
leanness of soul. When you go without hearing the
word of God for long enough, there's encouragement to me.
When you go through something, it's hard. I ain't going to be
able to hear. I told Kim at one time, I was
just in a low spot. I said, ain't no sense of me going to services
on Thursday night. I ain't going to hear nothing. And she said,
you hush of getting that truck. You're going to services. And
then like a fool, I show up, and the Lord just blessed me
abundantly. When it's the hardest, and you're
slow, that's when you need to eat. You're hungry. That's good. And that's an encouragement.
Even if I couldn't hear nothing, she told me, if you don't hear
nothing, somebody else will see. Somebody's watching. If you're
a little kid, somebody's watching you. If you're old folks, somebody's
watching you. It don't matter. And you need encouragement for
your brethren. Be there for them. Encourage
that preacher, too. Going to miss. Tell him about it. Shoot
him a text. It'll be good for him. I never was so paranoid
until I started preaching. What did I say? Oh, I did something
that hurt somebody's feelings. Maybe I didn't say hello to them.
I never was like that. So you talk to Fred. Leanness
of soul comes without Christ. He that hath the Son hath life. He that hath not the Son hath
not life. This ain't complicated, is it? This ain't rocket science, and
it ain't brain surgery. It's simple terms. Lord said,
I'm the door. How fancy you got getting preaching? He preached.
And he said, a child knows that. You go through a door. You can't
go over it. You can't go through the wall. You can't dig it. Just
go through it. That's what you got to go through. He said, I'm
the door. He's life. He's the manna from
heaven. He's that hotness, undesirable
little tiny balls of white bread come down from heaven. People
got to where they loathed it. It's life. Life and death. That's the only difference. I
want to do everything in my power to tell folks there's corn in
Egypt. All that's in me, the Lord used me to tell people,
life's in Christ. You're starving. Come on. Come
to it. Come. He's the bread of life. When they said they searched
all over, I know people that's moved a long way across this country. They
heard the gospel and they said, that's it. If y'all want to come
with me, that'd be great. But we're leaving. Time to go. And they packed up and they went.
Go where there's corn. There's those towns out in the
west now that the water's drying up. Are you going to ship it
in? You know, truck it in? No. Sell
out. Do what you can. You got to go where there's water.
Have to. He's the bread of life. Come.
He ain't going to run out. Joseph left off counting. That
means there's a bunch. There's a number that no man
can number of the Lord's people. How many? A bunch. He didn't
leave off counting, but we can't. He has put things in terms we
can understand. We ain't going to run out of corn. I know that
there's a self-righteousness is what it is. It's, well, I
got to get a little better before I can go to church. No, you don't
think. That's false humility. You're
thinking too less of the Lord. A great sinner needs a great
Savior. He's greater than that. There's one greater. You go without
food long enough, in the body, physically. I know more about
this than I ought to, but if you fast and you go without food
long enough, you aren't hungry anymore. If you start intermittent
fasting, and you know it's working real good, because you're like,
oh, them cravings went away. You know what's happening? Biologically,
your body's eating itself. You're feeding on self in your
body. And then you get to where you
ain't hungry at all. And then you keep on going for another
couple weeks, and then you get to where you cannot eat. And
you die. That's what physically happens
in this body. You know what happens whenever Christ is no longer
the sweet-smelling savor of life? You start feeding on yourself.
And you start thinking you're okay. And you start feeling euphoric
and pretty good about it. There's an end thereof. It's
death. We need him. No. Look here in chapter 41,
verse 55. Genesis 41, 55. And when all the land of Egypt
was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. They cried
to the king for bread. People cried, if the Lord gives
you life, you're going to be hungry. Why do babies cry? They want to eat. If he gives
life in you, you're going to be hungry for Christ, the bread.
And they cried to the Father, Father, give us Christ. We would
see Jesus. We need Him. Give us our daily
bread. Give us our daily Christ. And
Pharaoh said unto the Egyptians, unto his people, go unto Joseph,
what he say to you, do. Remember that first miracle the
Lord performed at that wedding? And his mother said, whatever
he says, do it. What if he says everybody's going
to wear purple tomorrow? Go buy some purple clothes. I don't
know what to take. Whatever he says, do it. That's the Lord at that
time. Whatever he says. Well, it'd
be something somebody's famished if they're starving. If I bumped
into a starving sinner that's crying out, I'm going to die.
I need food. I got storehouses full. Ain't
mine. I got the keys. Here. I can help
you. You thirsty? Let me tell you
about some water. You'll never thirst again. I
met a man one time. He said, you mean the ark was
Christ? We're going to have a good time. We're going to get along
real good. And you think I was tired of
telling it? My old buddy, he tickled to death.
I'd do anything to find somebody starving to death. There's corn
in Egypt. You can't find food. And I thought,
what's that food, I could say? What about wisdom? People feed
on wisdom, don't they? What about righteousness? People
want to have a righteous life, acts of righteousness, their
own righteousness. What about sanctification? What about redemption? They want to choose. I chose
the Lord. How about watching? All that
food, life, you can't find those things anywhere but Christ. He's
our wisdom, our righteousness, our sanctification, our redemption.
It's Him. Start to finish. Alpha and Omega. Author and finisher of your faith.
Him. Him. Come to Egypt. Don't wait. Don't wait. Look at chapter 42,
verse 1. Now when Jacob saw Jacob was in another place, Joseph
then took off to Egypt. Now he's running Egypt. Jacob
saw that there was no corn in Egypt. Now when Jacob saw that
there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said to his sons, why do you
look one upon another? That's our natural way. I'm sad. I'll call Fred. Fred, I'm sad.
Well, you're looking to you. Look to him. That's our nature. Well, what about Grandma said?
What about my friend at work or somebody else? But I've known
them 35 years. It don't matter what mankind
thinks. Don't look to one another. Don't look to you. I say that
too. These scriptures ring true if
I'm all by myself on a deserted island. Well, I'm encompassed
about with enemies. You better believe it. That's
true. It's right here inside of this
fella. There's a war going on. Don't look to anybody else. Don't
look one upon another. And he said, behold, I've heard.
He said he saw, didn't he? And it said he heard. We see
and hear things. Go tell John what you've seen and heard. Lame
walk, blind receive their sight. What was that last thing? The
poor, that's people without food, have the gospel preached to them. God said that's a miracle. Behold, I've heard there's corn
in Egypt. Get you down thither right now. And buy for us this,
that we may live and not die. Don't look to another. If you're
starving, I've got good news. There's corn in Egypt. Mercy
there was great, and grace was free. Pardon. You need pardon? You guilty? You an enemy of the
king? Pardon there was multiplied to
me. That coward, that's what it was. Lord said, come unto
me. All you that are heavy laden,
I'll give you rest. He'll feed you. He'll give you
rest. Anything words we use that's good, that's him. It's going
to be found there. There's corn in Egypt. I'm going. How about you? I'm going. How am I going to get there?
I can't walk. He's going to fetch me. And I'm going to be willing
in the day of his power. Amen. Bible's with me to Genesis
chapter 37. Genesis chapter 37. I've titled
the message bowing down before the sovereign bow or bowing before
the sovereign. This is a subject I love to preach. I love to think about the sovereignty
of Christ because his sovereignty is the security of salvation
for a guilty sinner. Joseph the favorite son, has
some dreams one day and he comes to tell his family about them
in Genesis chapter 37 beginning in verse four. And when his brethren
saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they
hated him and could not speak peaceably unto him. And Joseph
dreamed a dream and he told it to his brethren and they hated
him yet the more. And he said unto them, here I pray you this
dream which I've dreamed. For behold, we were binding sheaves
in the field. And lo, my sheaf arose and also
stood upright. And behold, your sheaves stood
round about and made obeisance. It means they prostrated themselves
to the ground, to my sheaf. And his brethren said to him,
shalt thou indeed reign over us? Or shalt thou indeed have
dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more
for his dreams and for his words. He dreamed yet another dream
and told it his brethren and said, Behold, I've dreamed a
dream more. And behold, the sun and the moon
and the 11 stars made obeisance to me. And he told it to his
father and to his brethren. And his father rebuked him and
said unto him, what is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall
I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down themselves
to thee to the earth? And his brethren envied him.
But his father observed the same. Now, you don't have to be a special
interpreter of dreams. to understand what Joseph's dreams
mean. These dreams foretell that Joseph
is going to be the ruler, the sovereign over his family, and
they will bow down to him. And how his brothers hated him
for these dreams. Of course they did. Of course
those older brothers hated him for those dreams. In their culture,
it was an awful thing. It was a shameful thing that
the elder would ever serve The younger. They already had to
put up with Joseph being their father's favorite. I mean, they
already had to put up with that. And now he's telling him, you're
going to bow down to me? That just made him hate him even
more. Of course it did. Now, you might think Joseph would
have been better served keeping his mouth shut about these dreams. My wife is famous for telling
particularly me, you don't have to tell everything you know.
You don't have to tell everything you know. She actually picked
that up, I'll just tell you this story from Brother Henry. When
I first began preaching, I must have started running a little
long. And rather than Henry telling me, shorten this thing up, what
he told me was this, you don't have to tell everything you know
every time. Janet shortened that to tell
me, you don't have to tell everything you know. Joseph didn't have to tell
everything he knew, did he? Didn't have to tell everything.
And maybe he would have been better served keeping his mouth
shut about these dreams, maybe so. But you know, I don't think,
I don't think that Joseph was telling these dreams in a bragging
sort of way. I think he was just being matter
of fact. I had this dream. Humanly speaking, that's very
naive, but the boy's 17 years old. You can expect him to be
naive. But if you look at Matthew chapter
26, None of these stories that we
read in the Old Testament do us any good until we see how
they're a picture of Christ. This Joseph is a type and picture
of Christ, as Kevin just so ably showed us, where the Lord Jesus
Christ is king of kings. He came to this earth as king,
and he made no bones about it. Look here at Matthew 26, verse
62. This is after the Lord had allowed himself to be taken,
and he's put on this mock trial. And the high priest arose and
said unto him, Answerest thou nothing? What is it which these
witness against thee? But Jesus held his peace. And
the high priest answered and said unto him, I adjure thee
by the living God that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ,
the Son of God. Jesus saith unto him, thou hast
said. Nevertheless, I say unto you,
hereafter shall you see the Son of Man sitting on the right hand
of power and coming in the clouds of heaven. Then the high priest
rent his clothes, saying, he has spoken blasphemy. What further
need have we of witnesses? Behold, now you've heard his
blasphemy. What say ye? They answered and said, he's
guilty of death. Now if a person in a mock trial
like this wanted to avoid being crucified, he could have given
a different answer to that question. Are you the king? He could have
given a different answer to it, couldn't he? But he didn't. In
a very matter of fact way, He told them, I'm the king. I'm the sovereign. And what that
means is you bow to me. You're under my authority. And
they hated him for it. Just like Joseph's brothers hated
him for it. Back in our text, Joseph's brothers already couldn't
find it in themselves to even speak peaceably to their brother.
It bothered them so much that he's their father's favorite,
they couldn't even speak to him. Now they hate him even more.
They hate him even more because of these dreams. That's a picture of the natural
man. The natural man hates God Almighty. I know that's a shocking statement
to some folks. And I will tell you, I understand
if someone says, oh, I don't hate God. I understand you don't
hate the God of your imagination. The natural man actually likes
God. when God can heal him. They like God when he can give
him stuff. They like God who can help them do what they can't
do. They can get the thing started
and God will finish it up for them. Man likes that. But the
natural man absolutely hates the God who is sovereign over
them. Who will do with them what he
pleases. He'll save them or he'll damn them. It's up to his pleasure. And whatever he does is right. It's right. And the natural man
hates that. The natural man hates the fact
that God is sovereign in salvation, so I can't get him to save me. I can't obligate him. I can't
even get him to want to do something to save me. Now look over at
Matthew chapter 11. I want to make this point very
clear, because you cannot preach the gospel. It's utterly impossible
to preach the gospel and tell the truth on God without preaching
the sovereignty of God. God is sovereign, and what that
means is salvation is up to God's choice. Matthew 11, verse 27. All things are delivered unto
me of my father, and no man knoweth the son but the father, neither
knoweth any man the father save the son. and he to whomsoever
the Son will reveal him. Now if you and I are gonna know
God, and to know God is life eternal, isn't that what the
Savior said? If we're gonna know God, the only way we can know
God is if the Lord's pleased to reveal him to us. He must
reveal, we can't see him ourselves. Look over at John chapter five.
The point I want us to understand is salvation is up to the will
and choice and purpose of God and him alone. John chapter 5,
verse 21. As the father raiseth up the
dead and quickeneth them, even so the son quickeneth whom he
will. Whom he will. If somebody's gonna
have life, it's because God willed to give it to him. And the natural
man hates that, and I can tell you why. Because the natural
man thinks, I deserve to be saved. I deserve a chance. I deserve
a chance to choose God. I deserve a chance to let Jesus
into my heart. I deserve a chance to do something
that'll make God so happy with me that he'll save me. The natural
man is so spiritually dead, he actually thinks he can do something
to at least get the situation of salvation started. and God'll
finish the rest. Now let me tell you, based upon
what the word of God says, that's not so. The son quickeneth whom
he will, whom he will. Now make no mistake about it.
The Lord Jesus Christ is king over everything. And that's what
Joseph's dreams picture. Not only will his brothers bow
down to him. The other dream he had, the sun
and the moon, the 11 stars, that's his 11 brothers and his father
and his mother, his family. They're gonna bow down to him.
And that's a picture that everything in all of God's creation is subject
to the Lord Jesus Christ. Everything. Look at 1 Timothy
chapter six. I don't know if it was Kevin
or Gabe yesterday, but somebody mentioned this this name, this
title for the Savior, the Potentate. 1 Timothy chapter six, verse 15. Which in his times
he shall show who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King
of kings and Lord of lords, who only hath immortality, dwelling
in the light, no man can approach unto, whom no man hath seen nor
can see, to whom be honor and power everlasting. Amen. Let's make no mistake about it.
Christ is King. He's the only potentate. And if you and I would be saved,
we must bow to King Jesus. We must bow. And the natural
man's problem is we can't do it. We can't make ourselves do
it. We can't make ourselves love
Christ. We don't, the natural man does
not have, our nature doesn't have the capacity to do that. But I'll tell you what we can
do. We can pray. We can pray. We could ask the
Lord that he might get us on board and give us a heart that
we'll lovingly bow to him. Nebuchadnezzar, don't turn to
this, let me just read it to you. You know the story of Nebuchadnezzar.
Well, that's the lesson God taught him, wasn't it? This is what
Nebuchadnezzar said after the Lord turned him into an animal
and then put his reasoning back in his mind. He said, at the
end of the day, he said, I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up mine eyes unto heaven,
and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the Most
High, and I praised and honored him that liveth forever and ever,
whose dominion is an everlasting dominion. And his kingdom is
from generation to generation, there is no end to it. And all
the inhabitants of the earth, you put them all together at
once, they're reputed as nothing. And he doeth according to his
will in the army of heaven and among the inhabitants of the
earth, and none can stay his hand or say unto him, what doest
thou? Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise
and extol and honor the king of heaven, all whose works are
truth, His ways are judgment, and those that walk in pride,
he's able to abase. He's king. God is king. The Lord Jesus Christ is king. Now, hope that fact is established,
at least in our minds, from the word of God. Make no mistake
about it. Nobody here can possibly mistake what the word of God
says, can you? Christ is king, and you and I had better bow. But I certainly don't want to
preach the gospel and use the gospel as a rod to beat you over
the head. I don't wanna make it sound like,
now you'd better bow to this wicked despot or he's gonna get
you. I'm not threatening you to bow
to Christ. I'm not saying, this is very
unpleasant, but you'd better bow. or God's gonna get you.
I mean, it's very unpleasant, but the other options are worse.
That's not what I'm saying at all. I want us to leave here
today with this in our minds, and pray that God puts it in
our hearts, what a blessing it is to bow to King Jesus. What a blessing it is to bow
yourself at his feet and cast yourself upon his mercy. The Lord Jesus Christ saves whom
he will, when he will. That makes me cry, Lord, save
me. He has mercy on whom he will
have mercy. Lord, have mercy on me. He has
the power to save sinners. He has the right to save sinners.
Lord, save me. He doesn't have to now. He doesn't
owe it to anybody, but he's certainly able. And this one, who's the
only one able to save, he's the only one able. Salvation is in
his hand to give or to withhold. You know what he said about himself? I delight to show mercy. What a blessing it is to bow
before this one and beg him for mercy. See, the kingship of Christ
is the best news a guilty sinner has ever heard. David said, Psalm
97 verse one, the Lord reigneth. Let the earth rejoice. Rejoice. I rejoice that the Lord sovereignly
saves sinners because genuine sinners can't be saved any other
way. If the Lord left it up to you and me, we'd never come.
We'd never believe, we'd never have life. But if the Lord sovereignly
saves sinners, there's hope for you and me. There's hope for
you and me. I want to give you five reasons
to rejoice in bowing before Christ the king. Friday night, I gave
you a good eastern Kentucky word fetched this morning. I'm gonna give you another real
good eastern Kentucky word fixing, fixing, fixing means getting
ready. Every one of us is fixing to
bow the knee to Christ and confess that he's Lord over all. I got
five good reasons I wanna do it right now. The first one is
this, look at Genesis chapter 42. The bread of life is found
bowing at the feet of Christ the King. Genesis 42 verse five. And the sons of Israel came to
buy corn Among those that came, for the famine was in the land
of Canaan. And Joseph was the governor over the land, and he
it was that sold all the people of the land. And Joseph's brethren
came and bowed down themselves before him with their faces to
the earth. And Joseph saw his brethren,
he knew them, but made himself strange unto them and spake roughly
unto them. And he said unto them, whence
come ye? And they said, from the land
of Canaan, to buy food. And Joseph knew his brethren,
but they knew not him. And Joseph remembered the dreams
which he dreamed of them and said unto them, you're spies.
To see the nakedness of the land are you come? And they said unto
him, nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come. Now
Joseph's brothers, you know they thought he was dead somewhere.
Sure enough, they came and bowed down to him, didn't they? They
came bowing to him and begging for bread. Now, I know they came
to buy bread, but I want you to notice this. They had to beg
to be able to buy it. They're begging for the right
to even buy. Lord, just let me give you what
I, you know, they're begging. They're begging. And you know
what Joseph did? You know what you'd do. I sure
know what I'd do. You know what Joseph did? He gave them corn for free. Look
at verse 25. And Joseph commanded to fill
their sacks with corn and to restore every man's money into
a sack. And he gave them provisions for
the way. And thus did he unto them. Not
only did he give them their money back, he gave them more than
they tried to buy in the first place. He gave them provisions
for the way. He gave it to them for free. If you're a sinner, you can have
salvation for free. You can't have, you can't purchase
it. You can't earn it, but you can have it for free. The natural
man's problem is he wants to pay something. Let me pay something. Let me pay something. God does
so much better than that for his people. He gives them Christ,
the bread of life freely. If you're hungry, Come and eat.
If you're thirsty, the Savior said, come and drink. He that
believeth on me. Believing Christ is eating him.
Believing him. Come have it for free. Listen
to what the Lord said in Isaiah 55 verse one. Ho, listen up. Everyone that thirsteth, come
ye to the waters. If you have no money, don't worry
about it, come ye. Buy and eat, yea, come buy wine
and milk without money and without price. It's free. It's free. Salvation and eternal
life for our souls is given to sinners freely by Christ the
King. And I tell you, the only place
you'll find it is at his feet, bowing and begging him to feed
you. All right, number two, look at
Genesis chapter 44. Here's an awful good reason to bow to Christ.
Christ the Savior is revealed to his people when they're at
his feet. Genesis 44, verse 14. And Judah
and his brethren came to Joseph's house, for he was yet there,
and they fell before him on the ground. Now here they are again. They keep bowing to Joseph, don't
they? They don't know that's what they're doing just yet,
but that's what they're doing. They keep coming back to Joseph and
keep bowing down to him. And then they have a somewhat
lengthy conversation. And Joseph's heart finally bursts
with love. And he reveals himself to his
brothers. Chapter 45, verse 1. Then Joseph could not refrain
himself before all them that stood by him. And he cried, cause
every man to go out from me. And there stood no man with him.
while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren. And he wept
aloud, and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard. And
Joseph said unto his brethren, I'm Joseph. Doth my father yet
live? And his brother could not answer
him, for there troubled at his presence. And Joseph said unto
his brethren, come near to me, I pray you. And they came near,
and he said, I'm Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt. Now therefore, be not grieved
nor angry with yourselves that you sold me hither, for God did
send me before you to preserve life. Joseph only revealed himself
to his brothers. And he revealed himself to them
when they were bowing at his feet. He didn't reveal himself
that way to the Egyptians. He sent them out of the room,
didn't he? They heard some of what was going on. But Joseph
revealed himself to his brothers. Now this is a picture of Christ
the Savior. We preach to everybody that'll listen. But we preach
knowing this, the Lord's gonna reveal himself to his people.
He's not ashamed to call them brethren. And that's who he's
gonna reveal himself to. And when Christ reveals himself,
he reveals his person. who he is and what he's like. He reveals his work of redemption
to those who are bowing at his feet. Well, hold your place there
in Genesis. Look over at Luke chapter five.
Luke chapter five. Verse 18. And behold, men brought in a
bed a man which was taken with a palsy. He was paralyzed. And
they sought means to bring him in and to lay him before him.
They wanted to lay this man at the feet of Christ. And when
they could not find by what way that they might bring him in
because of the multitude, they went up upon the housetop and
led him down through the tiling with his couch into the midst
before Jesus. They set this man at the feet
of the Lord. And when he saw their faith,
he said unto him, Man, thy sins are forgiven thee. And the scribes
and Pharisees began to reason, saying, Who is this which speaketh
blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God
alone? Now when Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answering,
said unto them, What reason ye in your hearts? Whither is easier
to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee, or to say, Rise up and
walk? But that ye may know, that the
son of man hath power upon earth to forgive sins. He said, under
the sick of the palsy, he said to this paralyzed man, he gave
him a command that he could not do. I say unto thee, arise, take
up thy couch and go into thine house. And immediately he rose
up before them and took up that whereon he lay and departed to
his own house, glorifying God. And they were all amazed. And
they glorified God and were filled with fear, saying, we've seen
strange things today. The Savior revealed his character
to this man lying at his feet. The Lord, this man learned this.
Everybody else said, we saw some strange things today. This man
said, I met the Lord today. I can tell you what he's like.
He's sovereign over everything. He's sovereign over every germ.
He's sovereign over every disease. He's sovereign over every issue
of the body. He's sovereign over the hearts
of men. He is sovereign. And his character is to forgive
sin. I'll tell you what, you'll find
out who Christ is and you'll find out why he came at his feet. at his feet. And that brings
me to the third thing, sin. This is an awful good reason
to bow at the feet of Christ. Sin is forgiven, bowing at the
feet of Christ. Look back in Genesis chapter
50. This is after their father Jacob had died. Genesis chapter 50 verse 15. And when Joseph's brethren saw
that their father was dead, They said, Joseph perventure will
hate us, and he'll certainly requite us all the evil that
we did unto him. And they sent a messenger unto
Joseph, saying, thy father did command before he died, saying,
so shall ye say unto Joseph, forgive, I pray thee now, the
trespass of thy brethren and their sin. For they did unto
thee evil, and now we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants
of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spake
unto him, And his brethren also went, here they go again, and
fell down before his face and said, behold, we be thy servants.
And Joseph said unto them, fear not, for am I in the place of
God. But as for you, you thought evil
against me, but God made it unto good to bring to pass as it is
this day to save much people alive. Now therefore, fear ye
not. I will nourish you and your little
ones. And he comforted them. And he
spake kindly, he spake under their hearts, he spake kindly
unto them. Now, I don't know if Jacob really
told his sons to do this or not. Maybe they just made up this
story. They thought, well, if they use their father's name,
Joseph will be more likely to forgive us. But either way, they
found themselves at Joseph's feet again, didn't they? And
while they're at Joseph's feet, they're pretty full of fear because
they know Joseph can kill him, or he can let him go. And they
thought he'd kill him. You see, I don't know much about
people. People are very confusing to
me. I don't know why people do what they do. It's the most confusing
thing in this world to me. Janet can tell me why people
are doing what they're doing. But this one thing I know about
people, everybody thinks everybody else is just like them. They
think they're motivated by the same things. They think they
would do things for the same reasons I would do them. Joseph's
brothers are so full of fear, because they thought Joseph was
like them. If they were in Joseph's place, they'd have cut their
heads off. There'd have been 11 heads on the floor. Well,
maybe Benjamin would have been spared. 10, maybe. Joseph's not
like them. The Lord's ways, he says, my
ways are not your ways. My thoughts are not your thoughts.
Aren't you glad? Aren't you? Oh, thank God for
that. Every day, we give somebody what
they deserve and a little bit more. If they deserve the knife
stuck in, we're going to twist it. These brothers did wrong. Joseph,
he didn't gloss over that. You did evil. But he forgave those people who
were at his feet begging for forgiveness. And the same thing
is true of every sinner who comes to Christ begging for mercy. Look at Luke chapter 7. Now,
let me tell you this. I'm telling you on the authority
of God's word, by the commandment of Almighty God, you come to
Christ, and you bow at his feet and you beg him to forgive you.
But if you come to Christ and you bow at his feet and you beg
him to forgive you, you've not just obligated God to have to
show mercy to you. No. You know why you're at his
feet? He drew you. That's why you're
at his feet. Salvation's of the Lord. Someone
said yesterday, Brother Fred, said, you're not special. I'm
gonna amen that, Fred. You won't find a place in this
book where a sinner comes to Christ and asks for mercy and
doesn't get it. And you're not so special, you won't be the
first. Come to Christ. I implore you, come to Christ. Look at this poor woman here,
Luke 7, verse 36. And one of the Pharisees desired
him that he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee's
house and sat down to meet. And behold, a woman in the city,
which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in
the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment,
and stood at his feet behind him, weeping, and began to wash
his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her
head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with ointment.
Now when the Pharisee, which had bidden him, saw it, he spake
within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, He
would have known who and what manner of woman this is that
toucheth him, for she's a sinner. And Jesus answering said unto
him, Simon, I have some what to say unto thee. And he saith,
Master, say on. There was a certain creditor
which had two debtors. The one owed 500 pence, the other
50. And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly, freely forgave
them both. Tell me therefore, which of them
would love him most? Simon answered and said, I suppose
that he to whom he forgave most. And he said unto him, thou hast
rightly judged. And he turned to the woman and
said unto Simon, seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house. Thou gavest me no water for my
feet, but she hath washed my feet with tears and wiped them
with the hairs of her head. Thou gavest me no kiss. But this
woman, since the time I came in, hath not ceased to kiss my
feet. My head with oil thou didst not anoint, but this woman hath
anointed my feet with ointment. Wherefore I say unto thee, her
sins which are many are forgiven, for she loved much. She loved
much because much was forgiven. He didn't forgive her because
she loved him. She loved him because he forgave her. But to
whom little is forgiven, the same love with little. And he
said unto her, thy sins are forgiven. And they that sat at meat with
him began to say within themselves, who is this that forgiveth sins
also? And he said to the woman, by
faith has saved thee. Go in peace. This notorious sinner
found forgiveness of her sin. Where? At the feet of the Savior. Just like Brother Kevin said,
she heard. She heard. She heard who he is. She heard
where he is. And he drew her to her, and she
came, and she found forgiveness at his feet. All right, here's
the fourth thing. Look at Matthew chapter one.
Here's an awful good reason to bow to King Jesus. Sinners can
only worship at the feet of Christ. Matthew chapter two, verse one. Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem
of Judea, in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came
wise men from the east of Jerusalem, saying, where is he that's born
king of the Jews? For we've seen his star in the
east and we're come to worship him. We're come to worship. You
know how Herod was trying to find the child and kill him.
Well, look down at verse 11. They found the house, they came
to the child, and when they were coming to the house, they saw
the young child with Mary, his mother, and fell down and worshiped
him. Herod couldn't find the Lord
so that he could kill him. His hour was not yet come, was
it? These wise men came from a long way off without a GPS,
and they found him. They came to worship him. Since
that was their heart's desire, they found the Lord. They came
at the feet of a baby and worshipped him. Now these
men, they knew something. They knew something. They knew
something about this baby. They wouldn't have fallen down
and worshipped him unless they knew this. This is the eternal of
days. in the fleshly body of a baby.
Maybe these wise men were men who read scriptures. I've read
that they studied all kinds of religions, you know, and different
things. Maybe they read Isaiah. Could be. And they thought, this
is the child who's born and the son who's given. His name is
Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father,
the Prince of Peace, And they came to worship Him because they
knew this is God in the flesh. God Almighty came in the flesh.
He took on Him flesh so that He could save people like you
and me in the flesh. God came where His people are
so that He could save them from their sin. He became what His
people are so He could make them what He is. Now, the natural
man can't see that. The natural man cannot understand
that. They'd never worship Christ like
that. It's utter foolishness to them
to think that there's one man with two natures. That's impossible.
You can tell me Jesus is a prophet. You can tell me he's some sort
of special revelation, but he's not God. Oh, yes, he is. He's God in human flesh. He couldn't
save you and me any other way. He had to come into flesh to
be our representative. He had to take on Him our nature
so that His sacrifice would put away our sin. These men came
to worship because they knew who Christ is. He's the God-man. Now I tell you, you want to know
where you're going to get the best view of Christ the King? It's at His feet. It's at His
feet. I don't know when I started preaching,
so I don't know how long I'm going. Brother Ralph Barnard,
I would never say this, but Ralph said this, are you too busy going
to hell that you don't have time to stop and listen to gospel
for a minute? I'm gonna tell you something I hope will be
helpful to you, especially you who are hosting this conference.
I'm gonna give you something to be helpful to you if you listen
to me. These men came to worship. Far as I can tell, including
the Lord, there's five people there. Joseph maybe is out working
or something. Now we love conferences. I'm
not speaking against conferences. I have one every year. And Fred,
I love the way I start our conferences every year, same way you did.
This is not about hooting and hollering and fellowshipping
together and eating. The point's Christ. But you know,
Sometimes it's flesh, we're so excited to see folks I haven't
seen in a while, and we kind of get maybe distracted. You
who attend Redeemer's Grace Church, you show up here Wednesday night,
everybody's gone home, all the visitors gone home. You'll be much more likely to
worship Christ with your pastor. God feeds his sheep by his pastor. you'd be much more likely to
worship. When there's less distraction around, come bow at his feet
and worship him for who he is. It's a blessing. There's no greater
blessing on this earth. Well, you get that for free. Turn to Luke chapter five. There's
my last point. Sinners are cleansed from every
stain of sin, bowing at the feet of Christ. Sin is not just breaking
the rules. Sin is a defilement of our soul. And that's what leprosy is a
picture of. In Luke chapter five verse 12. And it came to pass
when he was in a certain city, behold a man full of leprosy. Who seeing Jesus fell on his
face and besought him saying, Lord if you will, you can make
me clean. And he put forth his hand and
touched him, saying, I will. Be thou clean. And immediately
the leprosy departed from him. In another scripture, I think
it's in Matthew, it says this leper came and fell down and
worshipped him. And worshipped him. You and I
will only worship at the feet of a sovereign who will do with
us what he pleases. If we can get him to do something
for us, If we can obligate him, if we can manipulate him to,
you know, feeling, you know, he'll act on our emotions and
then he'll do something for us. Then we're negotiating and we're
not worshiping. True worship begins with begging. It begins with begging, acknowledging
who the Lord is and who I am. I'm helpless. I'm full of leprosy. I'm full of sin. That's what this leper did. He
worshiped the Lord before he ever had any indication that
the Lord would do something for him. He acknowledged who he is. He acknowledged who the Lord
is. And he stayed at his feet, submissive, to see what the Lord
was pleased to do with him. That's worship. That is worship. And everyone in scripture who
begged for mercy that way received it from the Lord. Everybody who
worships Christ this way, Lord, if you will, if you will, you
can save me. If you will, you can make me
righteous. If you will, you can draw me to you. If you will,
you can give me faith to trust you. Lord, if you will, if you
will, everybody who worships Christ that way is healed of
every spiritual wound and bruise and putrefying sore that's not
been closed up nor mollified with ointment. And the spiritual
cleansing of our sins is only found by those bowing at the
feet of Christ. It is my earnest, earnest prayer
that the Lord will find you and me bowing at his feet. I pray
God bless you. Fred, thank you.