No mortal can with him compare. Genesis 45. Go to Genesis 45. We have been through this story
of Joseph several times. The last time we studied Genesis
was ten years ago. But I looked at some notes and
we just looked at this chapter in August of last year. I'm sure
you remember it well. I didn't. I forgot. But as I
said, may the Lord make it brand new to us. It's just wonderful. Just wonderful. Wonderful story
of our Lord Jesus Christ. Great mercy to his brethren.
Look at verse 1 of chapter 45. 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. As the Lord made himself known
to you. Look at verse 4. Joseph said
unto his brethren, come near to me, I pray you. And they came
near. He said, I am Joseph, your brother,
whom you sold. Verse 10, Thou shalt dwell in
the land of Goshen. Thou shalt be near unto me, thou
and thy children, thy children, thy children, your flocks, your
herds, all that you have. I'm going to nourish you. There
are five years of famine, lest thou and thy household, all that
thou hast, come to poverty. I'm going to take care of you.
Look at verse 15 and 16. So he kissed all his brethren,
his brethren, wept upon them. And after that, his brethren,
they were just astounded, silenced at such mercy and love and grace. They couldn't even speak. After
that, they talked with him. And the fame thereof, the story,
was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's brethren are
come. And it pleased Pharaoh well and
his servants. This is pleasing to God. I was
going to bring a message and began preparing one on the God
of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
God of sovereign election. God of sovereign covenant. God
who doesn't change. God who loves His own to the
end. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. That would be a good message,
wouldn't it? Start thinking about Jacob. Therefore, you sons of
Jacob will not consume. Start thinking about the sons
of Jacob. And that's Joseph's brethren. And then I turned over here and
it was just such a blessing. Joseph's brethren. Do you know
his brethren are spoken of beginning in chapter 37? That's where the
story of Joseph begins at the end of Genesis. Fifty times his
brethren. Specifically says, Joseph's brethren,
or his brethren, or my brethren, or thy brethren. Fifty times.
This story is about The Lord Jesus Christ, the elder brother,
the firstborn among many brethren whom God sent to this world to
save sinners unworthy though they be. We're going to see these
men hated Joseph. They hated him. Joseph didn't
hate them, thank God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. Full of mercy,
full of grace, so great salvation. Oh, don't let this slip. Hebrews 2, we read that. He says,
I'll declare, the Lord said, He called them brethren. I'm
going to declare thy name unto my brethren. My brethren. Our Lord is the firstborn Son
of God. Well beloved. Joseph. Well, look at chapter 37. Here's
where it began. Genesis 37. Here's where the
story began. Joseph was the first born son
of Jacob. Said, no, he wasn't. Reuben wasn't.
Reuben was an illegitimate son. Rachel was Jacob's wife. Right? Right? Rachel was the one. Okay? And though there were some, and
what a picture this is, the firstborn son of God, Adam. Boy, he failed
miserably, wasn't he? He's not the only begotten, well-beloved
son of God. Jesus Christ is. He came much
later. The first son without sin, Joseph. You know, there are no faults.
God doesn't mention one fault of Joseph. Only two men in Scripture. other than our Lord. Joseph and
Daniel, they're both such pictures of the Lord Jesus Christ. No
fault is mentioned there. No fault. And everybody was blessed
because of those two men. But Joseph, look at verse 2 of
chapter 37. These are generations of Jacob.
See this? Here's a generation of Jacob.
Joseph. Why is he mentioned Joseph first? Reuben's the firstborn. Ishmael was Abraham's firstborn,
wasn't he? He's not his son. God said that. No, no, no. He said, Isaac's
my son. Didn't He? You read the script.
Joseph. It begins with Joseph because
he's a picture of Christ. Seventeen years old, was feeding
the flock with his brethren. And the lad was with the sons
of Bilah and the sons of Zilpah, these illegitimate sons of concubines. He's with them. Right in the
middle of it. Our Lord was numbered with transgressors.
He came down here among sinners. Look at verse 3. Now Israel loved
Joseph more than all his brethren. He's the son of his old age.
He made him a coat of many colors. Maybe you haven't heard this
story. Maybe you don't know what this means. Christ is the son
of the father from the beginning. In Proverbs 8, he said, I was
ever with him. I was daily his delight. Before
he made the mountain, before the hills were set forth, I was
there by his side. I was daily his delight. Oh, the well-beloved son of the
most high God. Before there was ever a human
being, there was Jesus Christ, the son with the father. He loved them more than all.
He's worthy. Joseph, you know the story. Joseph
was worthy of the Father's love. These other brethren were not
worthy. Later on, Jacob was describing his sons, and he said, unstable
as water. And on and on it went. Sinners all. God has many sons,
but only one son without sin. Only one begotten, well-beloved
Son of God. The Father loved Him. God said in Isaiah 42, I am well
pleased for His righteousness sake. Jacob gave Joseph a coat
of many colors. Do you know what that is? Sure
you do. That's the righteousness of Jesus
Christ. Gave him a robe, gave him a sinless
body to come down to this earth. Never been a human being without
a sinless body, besides Adam. But he lost that, didn't he?
He became naked. Our Lord, sinless humanity. Gorgeous, beautiful, altogether
lovely, without sin. Coat of many colors. What happened?
What happened to that coat? It's stripped. A brother stripped
him of it. What happened to it? It's covered
in blood. What'd they do with it? Took
it to the father. What a picture. I'm getting stuck
already. But that's alright. You see,
this is all a picture of Jesus Christ. We were talking the other
night, last night, how that every single thing in this Bible speaks
of Jesus Christ. From Genesis 1, in the beginning,
God. Who's that? Jesus Christ. Created
the heaven and the earth. No, that's God. Yes, you're right.
He's God. John 1. Colossians 1. He's God. You know these things. Blessed
are your ears, they hear. Blessed are your eyes, they see.
Blessed is your heart, you know. You know these things. You have
the mind of Christ, sister. Why? Because God's come and given
you an understanding that you might know Him. These brethren
didn't know Him, didn't care, they hated Him. Boy, they're
going to. All His brethren are going to
know Him, bow the knee, and love Him, and be so thankful that
God loved Him more than them, and sent Him just for them. I just declared the end from
the beginning. Joseph dreamed a dream. This
is a prophecy, all prophecies of Scripture right here. Verse
5, told it to his brethren, this dream, and they hated him for
it. Here's what he said, verse 7, Behold, we were binding sheaves
in the field. My sheep arose and stood upright. Behold, your sheaves stood round
about and bowed down to me. In verse 9, he said, I've dreamed
another dream. Behold, I dreamed that the sun,
the moon, and the stars are going to bow down before me. And they
said, you're just a man. No, we're not going to bow. The
sun, the moon, the stars bow to a man? Yes. Now who could that be speaking
of other than the Lord Jesus Christ? Is it true? Oh yeah, all his brethren, they
will bow. Every knee will bow. Every tongue will confess. In
fact, God made the planets for the glory of his Son. His Son,
the firmament was a tabernacle for the Son. That's Psalm 19. So, all prophecies of Scripture
concerning our Lord Jesus Christ, who was to come, come into this
world to save His people. Who's this story about? Who is
Joseph going to save? Well, he's the Savior of all
of Egypt. Everybody who ate got food, got
it from Joseph. Everybody whose life was sustained
was sustained by Joseph, wasn't it? He's the wise one. He's the
one we need to set aside this so much for all this famine and
because there's going to be dearth. And Pharaoh said, if you're going
to get anything, you've got to go to Joseph. Remember that?
Who's that speaking of? Jesus Christ. He feeds everything,
everyone, animals, people, everything. We saw that in Hebrews 2. Everything
is under his feet. everything and everyone. He provides
for, He reigns and rules over everything and everyone. He's
Lord. You don't make Him Lord. He is Lord. That's why we come here, we come
to worship our Lord, come to thank our Lord for all that He's
done, all that He does, but especially and most of all for His great
mercy wherewith He loved us and showed mercy to us and forgave
us our sins through the Lord Jesus Christ crucified. That's
why we come. Do we need another reason? No, we wouldn't if He hadn't
made Himself known. So every knee will bow and every
tongue confess. And these brethren said, we ain't
going to... Oh no, who do you think you are? You're just a
man. In fact, you're younger than most of us. No, he's Christ. They said, the Pharisees said,
you're not 50 years old. Have you, you know Abraham? We're older than you. This is
the ancient of days. He said, before Abraham was,
I am. Boy, they knew what he said,
and they hated him. They killed him. No, they didn't
kill him. God did. He laid his life down. That's the story of Joseph in
a nutshell. Well, these prophecies, they
all speak of Christ. To him give all the prophets
witness, all the scriptures, and to him every knee shall bow.
Everything in earth, heaven, and hell. Hmm. That's why God
made everything, for the glory of His Son. Yes, it is. Well,
let's look at these brethren. Chapter 37, look at it. Verse
2, when Joseph came back to his father, verse 2, the last line
says, Joseph brought unto his father their evil report. He came down to see about his
brethren. What did he see? Their evil. Every one of them. Does he make any exceptions,
brother? Eleven brothers. Any exceptions? All equal. None
good. Not one. That's what God says
about humanity. You know that's so, don't you?
You children of God, you brethren of the Lord Jesus Christ, you
know it's so. You do now. Didn't always think
that. But bless God, greatest blessing
God could bestow on you to show you're a sinner. You wouldn't
listen to this gospel if you didn't. An evil report. They didn't think so. Well, they're
going to. And look at verse 4 and 5. When his brethren saw
that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated
him. They couldn't say anything good about him. Verse 5, when
they dreamed this dream and told Him of His dominion, they hated
Him yet the more. And man, when Christ came, they
said, we will not have this man to reign over us. Yes, you will. Oh, yes, you will. Verse 8, they questioned Him. They hated
Him all the more for His words. There was nothing in Joseph's
character or personality or his deeds or anything that they could
find fault in, no sir. He went about doing good for
his brethren. They hated what he said about
himself. what the scripture says about
Jesus Christ. Everybody loves Jesus, the healer,
the miracle worker, that, you know, Jesus loves you, and the
one that loves everybody, and, you know, the one that feeds
everybody, and the Savior, and won't you accept him as your
personal Savior, and on and on it goes. Everybody loves that
Jesus. But when you start talking about a Lord Jesus reigning and
ruling and sending all the evil, sending everything, making people
sick, killing people, putting, you know, a sword, a fire, anger
and wrath, a God, I don't like that Lord Jesus. That's what
He said about Himself in John chapter 6 all the way through
7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. Keep going. They finally said, now wait a
minute. These are hard sayings. We can't take this. We're not
going to walk with you anymore. You're just Jesus now, as long
as you keep feeding us and doing miracles and helping us out and
all that. But don't be talking about everything in your hands and
will. No, no. We might let you be Lord. We might make you king. and restore
unto us the kingdom. And they hated him for his words,
what he said. That's what people still today
hate, his words, the truth, the truth, so clear. Well, Romans
1, now these men hated Joseph, didn't they? Romans 1 says of
all human beings, they're haters of God. Read it? He read it. Romans 3. Nothing
good, nothing right. Not one. Not one. Doesn't it say that? It sure does. And such were some of you. What's
your salvation? Two words. But God showed you what you are. And
showed you who He is. And showed you the sacrifice.
Now you know. Now you know. Some show restraint. You know that some of the sons
of Adam show some restraint. Reuben. You know the story here? Are you with me? Reuben said,
don't kill him. Didn't he? The oldest brother.
There was about, you know there's about 30 years difference between
he and Joseph. Reuben's almost 50 years old.
I think, if I remember correctly, 40, so 20 or 30 years. And that's
his baby brother before Benjamin was born. Well, no, about the
same time. But Reubens had some compassion
on him. Don't kill him. Well, he could
have stopped that. Couldn't he? He's the oldest
brother. Go to your father and tell him what they're planning
against him. He's evil too. God showed him some restraint. There's some human beings that
show some restraint. There's some human beings that
seem to have more mercy and more compassion and more love, more
kindness, and they're just, you know, they're not as mean as
some others. Right? You know them, don't you? Don't
mistake the restraining grace of God for that person's personal
holiness. It's the restraining grace of
God that keeps anybody from being a devil. You understand me? I didn't do that. I didn't do
that. Why? Because God restrained you. And if you do anything good,
if anybody does anything good that you can call good, God did
it. Paul said it, by the grace of
God, I am what I am. Right? It may be puzzling to
you. There's some people that are
so-called Christians, there's people that are religious, and
they seem so kind and so sweet and so merciful and all that.
Start talking about the God of the Bible. Come on now. Come
right out and talk about the God of the Bible. Talk about
mankind being hating God and tell them, you hate God by nature. Oh, then watch the venom come
out. Oh, yeah. Tell them the truth.
Man doesn't love the truth. All those Pharisees were such
good, moral, thought they were morally superior. Oh, no. Our
Lord said they were full of dead men's bones, quieted sepulchers,
full of extortionate excess. None good. Not one. And to say differently is to
call God a liar. You understand? Because if you've
got any goodness, if you've got any righteousness, if you've
got any redeeming qualities, if you've got anything in you
to commend you to God, your restraint or your love or whatever it is,
why did Jesus Christ come to die? He came to die for sinners. These men hated Him. And I've
said this so many times before, if you didn't think about God
for years, and everybody in here, when you were young, never gave
God a thought, never gave God thanks, never thought about Jesus
Christ crucified, why He came and what He did on the cross,
or if you heard it, it didn't really matter, it didn't have
any effect on you, you hated Him. You didn't care. Right? Right? Doesn't Isaiah 53 say,
we did esteem him smitten and stricken. We despised and rejected
him. Oh, we like sheep have gone astray. Who did God lay on him the iniquity
of? All. Who all? Those that know
that. Like these brethren. Those that
feel that. Those that know. And you know, here he is, the
grace of God's got to take a self-righteous, morally superior, restrained
person, religious person, and it's the same grace of God's
got to convict them of being a sinner as a harlot in the street.
I've given you this illustration before. My sister was a model
child. Daughters of the American Revolution. Won the Good Citizenship
Award. She was a model child, a role
model. My parents didn't love her more,
but they should have. Just a good child, a good daughter. But God convicted her. I never
saw her do anything wrong. Ever. Never saw her look back or talk
back or look angry at my parents. Not once. But God. through the same gospel, had
to convict her of her sin. And she did, and she felt like
she was the worst sinner on earth. What God's got to do is open
up your heart. Show you the plague of your heart. Man can't see
on the heart. God does. And what He does is
open, break your heart wide open and make you see. Look. Look
at yourself. You're not good after all, are
you? None good. Not one. These brethren did not
deserve Joseph's love, mercy, and grace, did they? And we don't
deserve the love, the mercy, and the grace of the Lord Jesus
Christ. That scripture that says, you
go to a house and you find somebody worthy, and your peace will be
on it. What's that talking about? Matthew 10. Go find somebody
worthy. And if you can find a worthy
person, the peace of God will be on his hand. What's that mean?
Who's worthy? Who's worthy? Who does the Scripture
say is worthy? Worthy is what? The Lamb. All right? What do all God's
people say? Unworthy. If you can say unworthy,
God says worthy. I don't understand. Yes, you
do. Christ didn't come for the righteous. He came for sinners. He didn't come for the well,
but for the sick. From the sole of the feet to
the top of the head. That's who. No soundness in you. Leper. Are you covered from head to
toe with leprosy? You know the plague of your heart?
Clean. How? Because Christ said so.
God said so. Because of Christ's name. That's
who's worthy. Who's worthy of food? Hungry.
They can't provide any. They don't have any. They're
beggars. They're going to appreciate it. They're going to be thankful
for the food. Who's worthy of salvation? The lost. Nothing
they did to make them worthy. But that's who Christ came to
save, you see. Now let's look at the merciful
son and brother. Oh, Joseph's brethren, they hated
him. They despised him, rejected him. They sold him. You know the story.
They sold him. And brothers and sisters, if
you pursued anything and anyone other than Jesus Christ, you
sold him for a mess of pottage. If you did, you're just like
Esau. If right now you pursue anybody
or anything more than Jesus Christ, you've sold him for pleasure. If you've chosen anyone or anything
over Jesus Christ, you've sold him. Unless you have. What's our hope? That God made him the price of
our redemption. His blood. They hated their brother and
tried to kill him. They wanted to kill him. The
blood of its son. Look at verse Chapter 37, verse 23. It came
to pass when Joseph came to his brethren, they stripped Joseph
of his coat. His coat of many colors. They
took him and cast him into a pit where there was no water. And
you know the Scripture says in the Psalms that he cried, I'm
thirsty. His brothers don't care. Didn't our Lord do that on the
cross? Stripped, wasn't He? Cast into the pit of corruption,
wasn't He? Didn't He say, I thirst? Verse
25, And they sat down to eat bread while He suffered. The
Gospel even says that. When they put Christ on the cross
sitting down, they watched Him there. It was like sport. And religions know better people
when they hang crosses around their neck and put them on their
bumper sticker and put them in their ears and make the gospel
a beautiful thing. It's a sport. It's a jewelry. It's an abomination to God. Don't
be ashamed. So ashamed that Christ hung on
the cross. We ought to burn all crosses. Thank God he thought nothing
of it. Sold him cheap, verse 28. Some Midianites, Gentiles
came by and sold Joseph for 20 pieces of silver. Why not 30?
Because he's not worth what Jesus Christ is. They brought Joseph into Egypt. Why did Christ come into this
world? Egypt represents this world. Why did Christ come into
this world? Why did God do this? You know God did all this. Joseph
said so. Later on, chapter 45. Why did
God do all this to Joseph? To put him on the throne in Egypt.
From the pit to the throne. Stripped of his raiment, his
coat, to wear the royal robes. To sit on the throne of Egypt.
Why? They won't be saved if he's not
reigning. No one would. Our Lord came into
this world, sent by God. In Acts chapter 2, listen brothers
and sisters, listen to this, Simon Peter preached this message.
I haven't been preaching long, 29 minutes, come on now. Take
heed, don't let this slip. In Acts chapter 2, Simon Peter
stood up and preached this message that everybody would hear it.
He said, men, brethren, now listen to me, men of Israel, Jesus of
Nazareth, a man proved of God among you by miracles and wonders
and signs which God did by him in the midst of you. You know
this. Him be delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge
of God. You, with wicked hands, have
taken and crucified the Lord of glory. But God raised him
up. Hear this now, he said, exalted
by the right hand of God. He said, sit on my right hand
till I make your foes my footstool. Who's his foe? That was you.
You, my enemy. Wicked works. That was you. Not some of you. All of you,
including me. Let all the house of Israel and
every human being know assuredly, God hath made this same Jesus
whom you crucified, whom you rejected. Glory. And Christ, the only way to God,
you will not come unto God's kingdom but by Him. Not you doing anything with Him.
Not you accepting Him. Him accepting you. Him deciding to save you. This story of Joseph was all
about His mercy, His grace. It was up to Him to show it,
wasn't it? They didn't deserve this from their brother. Look
what they did to Him. No human being deserves mercy. By definition, it means not getting
what you deserve. Grace means getting what you
don't deserve. It means something given to you
that you didn't earn, that you didn't produce, but it was frankly,
freely given, bestowed. That's salvation. That's righteousness. You understand that, don't you?
Last week I was very calm and sedate and just kind of spoke
to you. This deserves to be heard from the mountaintops. This is
the Christ of Scripture. This is why Jesus Christ came.
This is Jesus on the throne. The fear of the Lord is the beginning
of wisdom. None good. Not one. Not even His brethren. It's only the mercy and grace
of God that's in Christ that God would save one human being,
let alone many as the stars in the sky and the sands of the
sea. God is so merciful. The thing we need more than anything
from God is mercy. And that's what He is, but to
whom He will. It's sober mercy. Salvation is
by grace. to whom He will be gracious.
It's His to show. You know it so, don't you? Brethren. You know it, brethren? The brethren
all say, Amen. Amen. Unworthy. Unworthy. Unworthy. Where am I? Look at chapter 42. I've got to conclude. Chapter
42. 33 minutes of him. Did Paul preach this that night? All night? I guarantee you he
did. No clearer picture of Jesus Christ. Chapter 42, look at verse
7 and 8. Joseph saw his brethren. He knew
them, but made himself strange unto them. Spake roughly unto
them. Oh, Jesus loves you. He wants to. They said, these
are hard things. We can't take this. Didn't it? He's a rough thing. He's a hard
thing. That's the Christ description. He knew them. They didn't know
him. He was strange to them. Speak roughly unto them. He said,
where are you from? What's your name? Jacob. No one spoke more kindly than
our Lord Jesus Christ. Grace poured from His lips. But,
buddy, it's a kindness when He asks, What's your name? Not with
a smile on His face. What's your name? What have you
done? That's mercy, isn't it? That's
grace. Let the righteous smite me. He won't break. He'll be
a kindness. What's your name? They said,
we're just good boys, good brethren. We're just here to get a little
coin. He said, no, you're not. Isn't it? You know the story. You're
spies. No, you're not. You're bad men. I'm going to put you in jail.
All of you. Isn't it? Oh, no, no, we're good
men. No, you're not. They're not thinking of Joseph
yet. They're going to. And so in verse 17, He put them
all in ward three days. He put them all in jail three
days in bondage. What happened? Down in verse 21, they said one
to another. I know why we're here now. It's what we did to Joseph. All this has happened because
of what we did to Joseph. And their hearts pierced them,
like the people at Pentecost. And Peter preached that and sat
down, didn't ask for an altar call, didn't say, won't you accept?
Oh, no. No, no, no. He declared Christ
on the throne and sat down. And everybody whom God had chosen,
everybody whom God had given to Christ in a covenant before
the world began, everyone whom God elected, everyone whom Christ
came to save and hung on that cross to shed His precious blood
for and be made sin for, every single one there that day at
Pentecost, hearts were convicted because of what they did to Jesus
Christ. and say, what are we going to
do? And all these brothers, what
are we going to do? It's because of what we did to our brother
Joseph. And that's what God holds against
every human being on the face of this earth. You know, people say this, preachers
say this, what will you do with Jesus? They still say it, don't
they? That's what Pilate said, what will you do with Jesus?
What did they do with Jesus? Huh? What do they do with you?
Crucify. What do you do? Give it a choice
before the Lord revealed Himself to you? What do you do? Give us Barabbas. I love these
murderers and these thieves and these godless people. I love
them. I don't love God. I don't love Christ. I love these
cronies of mine, these no-good, worthless... I don't need that
religion. Huh? What you do, like Cain,
give me a bowl of pottage. Give me something to eat. I don't
need that religion. I mean, Esau. Isn't that right? Do you see that your salvation
and mine is because of Jesus Christ? Completely because of
Him. Because of the love of God. Not
your love. His love. Because of Christ came. for you,
to die for you, not because of anything you've done. Ever have,
do, or ever shall do. It's because of what he did.
Do you see that? Do you understand that? Yes, you do. Yes, you do. And they all confessed. It's
what, and distress, this distress has come upon us. We're guilty. The anguish of his soul, he besought
us. We wouldn't hear. He said, I stretched out my hands,
Proverbs 1, and you wouldn't hear me. He said, you will not
come unto me, Christ said. And of some, he said, so someday
you're going to call on me, and I'm not going to hear you. Sister, sister, sister, why did
you call on Jesus Christ? Why did you hear his voice, Robin
Pendry? Robin Chandler, formerly in Methodist
religion. Why did you hear the voice of
the Lord Jesus Christ? Why Sally? Mindy? Irene? Why Kate? Why you? Because he
chose you. He wouldn't have done it. There
are millions just like you right now that don't want anything
to do with this gospel. Aren't there? Your sisters? Your
brothers and sisters don't want this gospel. Don't believe this
gospel. Why you? You ought to be singing
louder than anybody here, Mary Magdalene. Mary Parks Magdalene. God chose you. See, election is to the praise of
the glory of His grace. And in the time to come, He's
going to show succeeding riches of His grace in His kindness
toward us where? through the Lord Jesus Christ.
That's what Joseph did, and I've got to quit. That's what Joseph
did. Go over to chapter 50, and I
conclude. That's what Joseph did for the
last days. He kept showing him. God did
this. Don't be angry. Don't fear. Look at chapter 50. Don't you love this? Oh, my. them and wept on them and hugged
their necks. Oh, my. They weren't worthy. Verse 15, Joseph's brethren saw
their father was dead, Jacob died, and Joseph, they said,
Joseph's going to hate us now. He's going to requite us all
the evil which we did unto him. So they sent a messenger. They
sent a mediator, an advocate, saying, the father commanded
before he died, saying, tell Joseph to forgive us. See, they did evil, yes, but
we pray you forgive them. And what Joseph did? He wept. He wept. Did He forgive them? All of them? If we confess our sins, He's faithful and just. to forgive us all our sins. And
you know what? The blood of Jesus Christ, God's
Son, cleansed us from all, all forgotten. And his brethren,
verse 18, went and fell down before his face on their knees,
just like he said. And Joseph said, Fear not, am
I in the place of God? Yes, he was. And as for you,
verse 20, you meant evil against me, God meant it unto good, to
bring to pass as it is this day to save much people alive. Therefore,
fear not." And our Lord keeps saying that to his disciples,
fear not, fear not, fear not. I will nourish you and your little
ones. And he comforted them and spake,
it says, kindly, spoke to their hearts. I love you. You're mine. That's why God sent
me. That's why all this happened.
You did it, but God did it to save you. Does that speak to
your heart? I hope so. You're mine. All right, let's sing a closing
hymn.