Let's read that last verse again. I want to go over some of this
again. I told Mindy I didn't feel I had much liberty. At any
rate, I thoroughly enjoyed looking at it once again. The story of
Joseph revealing himself to his brethren is the gospel. This
is salvation. It's the same with all of God's
sons, all of the sons of God. must have Christ revealed to
them. And no man knoweth the Son, but
the Father, neither knoweth any man the Father, but the Son,
and he to whom the Son will reveal Him." So just as our Lord must
reveal Himself to us, that's what Joseph had to do. In verse
1, Joseph says, couldn't refrain himself. He caused every man
to go out from him, and there stood no man with him while Joseph
made himself known unto his brethren. That's what the Lord will do
to everyone He speaks to. He'll speak to you personally.
You'll know that He's speaking to you. Verse 2, And he wept
aloud, and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard it.
And many hear the word, but having ears, they don't hear. But God's
people do. They hear. Like the time that
Paul, when the Lord revealed Himself to Paul on the road to
Damascus, there were some men with him. They didn't hear what
he's saying, but Paul did. The Lord revealed Himself to
Saul of Tarsus. And Joseph, verse 3, said to
his brethren, I am Joseph. I am Joseph. Does my Father yet
live? And his brethren could not answer
him. They were so terrified at his presence. They hadn't seen
him in 23 years. They thought he was dead. And
now he's very much alive, isn't he? Not only alive, that He has
their life in His hands. Isn't that what Peter preached
at Pentecost? That struck fear into 3,000 souls, and later,
5,000. And so it must be, and so it
is with every one of the sons of God. They will fear the Lord
first. And Joseph then said, verse 4,
he said unto them, His brethren, come near to me, I pray you.
He's not talking to the Egyptians. He's talking to His brethren.
He says to his brethren, come near, come unto me. All that
the Father gives you, all the sons of the Father will come
to Christ, won't they? They will come. He says, come
near. I am Joseph, your brother whom you sold into Egypt. And
again, that's what Peter preached at Pentecost, didn't he? This
same Jesus whom you crucified with the wicked hand. God made
him Lord. In verse 5, Joseph said, don't
be grieved, angry with yourselves. And every one of God's people,
They find out that they're sinners, they grieved over their sins,
and yet the Lord comforts us through the gospel, doesn't He?
To everyone that fears Him, and everyone that grieves over their
sins, and everyone that confesses their sins like these brethren
did, the Lord speaks comfort to their heart. And He says in
verse 5, God did send me before you to preserve life. This is
a faithful sinner. Christ came into the world, sent
by the Father. to save sinners. Yes, the sorry
sons of Jacob. Verse 6, he says, two years this
famine had been in the land. And you know famine, there's
been a relative famine in the earth since the beginning of
time. Hasn't it? Drought. The Lord has always
sent drought as a form of judgment. And it's a famine of bread and
our Lord said, and it happened many times literally, But mostly
spiritually, and our Lord said that to Hosea. He said, there
will be a famine, not a bread. The hearing of the Word. But
not for God's people. Not God's people. They're going
to be nourished. And they're going to be, I don't
know how many more years we have on this earth, but there will
still be years of famine as far as the Word goes. But not for
us. Verse 7, God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity. in the earth, to save your lives
by a great deliverance, preserved from and in the midst of famine,
we will be saved by the great salvation. Verse 8, now it is
not you that sent me, but God. But God. It's not you, but God. And He hath made me a father
to Pharaoh. You see that? Pharaoh represents
God the Father here. In this story, Jacob represents
every sinner, Jacob, though he's called father by Joseph. But
Pharaoh is going to represent God the father, because he's
the one giving all the commands for Joseph to do concerning his
brethren and concerning Jacob. But it says, Pharaoh made me
a father. And didn't God say, call his
name, wonderful counselor, the mighty God, everlasting Father. Doesn't Hebrews 1.8 say, unto
the Son he saith, thy throne, O God, is forever? God doesn't
mind you calling Him Father. His Son that is. That's what
Thomas said, isn't it? My Lord and my God. He's made
me a father to Pharaoh and Lord of all his house and a ruler
throughout all the land of Egypt. That's what God has made The
Lord Jesus Christ said, Lord over all, haste ye and go up
to my father. Verse 9, go to my father and
say unto him, thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me
Lord of all Egypt. Come down unto me, tarry not. Go to my father, go to Jacob
and say unto him, God has made him Lord. And John wrote this,
the apostle John. In 1 John, he said, I write unto
you fathers, because you've known him that was from the beginning.
He said, I write unto you young men, because you've known him.
And this is the message which every preacher is sent to preach
and every child of God is sent to tell everyone they tell the
gospel. God hath made this Jesus Lord
and Christ. Now, come down. bow down before
Him. It's the same, same message.
And you'll see in a moment they went and told Jacob exactly what
Joseph told them to say. And everyone must see the Son.
They must see that He is. Everyone that cometh to God must
believe that He is, that Christ is the only way to God, that
He lives and in Him we live and move and have our being. He's
all that God demands of us, that He's everything. Now, the first
book of Moses as well as the next four and all of the Old
Testament is concerning Christ in them. You know why there is
so much room devoted to Joseph in this book? Because they testify
of Christ. To the end of this book, Genesis,
it ends with Joseph. It ends with Joseph. And Christ
is the first. and the last, he who was dead
and yet alive forevermore." Verses 10 and 11. And he said to the
brethren to go tell Jacob that he will dwell in the land of
Goshen, he and his sons. They will dwell in the land of
Goshen and be near unto the Son. Thou and our children, our children,
our children. We're going to dwell, we do dwell. We saw that,
didn't we? You're in the land of Goshen
right now, the church. The Lord added daily to the church
such as should be saved. And that first church we read
about in Acts 2 that they had all things common. They
were just so at peace and of one accord and daily together
worshiping. And it was just a wonderful thing. So is this church, the local
church here on earth. The land of Goshen, and that
certainly speaks of glory that we're going to go be in. Verse
11, there will I nourish thee. We're being nourished, aren't
we? Fat things, wine on the leaves. Throughout the famine, He's prepared
us a table, bread in the wilderness. Man eats, we eat angel's food
so that we won't come to poverty. If you come to Him poor and needy,
Hungry and thirsty, you won't go away that way. You'll be filled. You'll be rich.
Verse 12, he says, you see with your eyes, the eyes of my brother
Benjamin, it's my mouth that speaketh unto you. That's what we were saying, weren't
we? That we know and are sure that
this is the Word of God. These aren't the words of men.
This is God speaking to us in the very words of our God and
we are certain of that. Verse 13, And tell my father
of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that you've seen, and
haste, and bring down my father hither. Tell him of all my glory. Go home and tell what great things
the Lord hath done for you. That's what the Lord tells us
to do. To go home to whomever and tell what great things the
Lord hath done for us and tell whoever we come into contact
with of His glory. and bring them. This is what
Joseph is telling them to do, to bring Jacob to where they
are, to see who they've seen. And that's what the Lord says
to His disciples and to us. He said, as the Father has sent
me, so send I you. Now you go and you tell what
you've been told. And you give what you have received. Freely you have received, freely
give. And you go and you bring them. Bring them to see my glory. Bring them to hear my words. And verse 14 and 15, it says,
he fell on his brother Benjamin's neck. Oh, how the father loves
his son supremely. You know, the rest of the brethren
knew that, didn't they? They knew that Benjamin was the
only innocent one of that bunch, didn't they? And when Joseph
began to lavish all the things he did upon Benjamin, made his
mess five times bigger, kissed him first, they didn't mind it. They knew he well deserved that. And so do the sons of God, the
brethren of our Lord Jesus Christ. They know he's the only innocent
one. He well deserves to pray, but
yet, he reserves some kisses for the rest of us. Verse 15,
moreover, he kissed all his brethren. He wept on all of them, Judah
and Dan and Gad and Issachar and Zebulun and all of them. He fell on all their names, Simeon
and Levi and Reuben and all those fellows. All of them that sold
Him and all of them that hated Him, despised Him and rejected
Him. They don't hate Him now. They don't reject Him now. They've
received Him by the grace of God. They've bowed to Him. They
believe Him and they love Him. They're thankful that He's alive
now, though they're scared. And this is how He's going to
relieve their fears. He falls on their neck and kisses
them all. And this is what the Shulamite
maiden said in the Song of Solomon. Let Him kiss me with the kisses
of His mouth. You see, we all fear the Lord.
When we first hear the Gospel, we fear the Lord. And we think,
this can't be for me. Like Jacob a little later, Jacob
couldn't believe it. He just couldn't believe it.
And the brethren couldn't either. But when Joseph finally fell
on their necks, laid hold of them, and said, brethren, I'm
Joseph. I'm not mad. I'm your brother. And he kissed them with the kisses
of his mouth. He said, I'm not angry. You meant
it for evil, but God meant it for good. And God sent me, oh,
what a loving, kind, and gracious brother Joseph was. How much
more our Lord Jesus Christ. And when, that's when, and when
finally the gospel, you know, we're afraid when we first hear
it. We fear it's not for us. We fear He's going to cast us
out. But at some point in the gospel, He's going to, He's going
to say unto your soul, I am thine and you're mine. And He'll kiss
you with His Word. Word of God is called a kiss.
Called meat, milk, honey, bread, all these things. And a kiss.
And sometimes, doesn't it? He kisses you and lets you know
that you're His. He's not angry. He loves you.
He loves you. And the fame, verse 16, the fame
thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house. And they said, Joseph's
brethren are come. Joseph's brethren are come. The
cry went out. throughout all of Egypt, Joseph's
brethren would come. And it pleased Pharaoh well and
all his servants. Everybody was so pleased that
Joseph's brethren would come. And the Scripture says this,
that there is joy in heaven of the one sinner that repents.
One sinner repents. People in heaven don't know.
God does. Right? So apparently, they know
something that's going on here. We've often wondered that, don't
we? It does say there's joy in heaven over one sinner that repents. And they don't know who the elect
are. God does, but they don't know.
And all of a sudden, that one sinner repents and bows a knee
and confesses Christ and gets in that pool and they say, so-and-so
has come, so-and-so. And it pleased the Lord to make
you His people. Do you know that? It pleased
God to make us His people. One of the verses of Scripture
that just, it was a kiss to me. It was one of the first times
He kissed me. There's a verse in Luke where
He said, Fear not, little flock. It's your Father's good pleasure
to give you the kingdom. It's His good pleasure. You're
not going to get in by the skin of your teeth. It's going to
be an abundant entrance like that prodigal son. Bring the
best robe. He's going to run and fall on
your neck and kiss you. If you repent by His grace, come
to Christ. And the fame went everywhere.
Pharaoh, verse 17, said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren... Now look, look, Pharaoh represents
God the Father and he's telling Joseph to tell his brethren.
God tells our Lord and He told us See, God at sundry times spoke
unto the fathers by the prophet, hath in these last days spoken
unto us by the Son, He said. So the words, Christ said, the
words that I speak are the Father. So see, Joseph now is telling
what Pharaoh said to tell. And here's what he said, This
do ye, say unto the brethren, This do ye, lay your beasts,
and go, and get you into the land of Canaan. Take your father,
verse 18, take your father and your household, and come unto
me, and I'll give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you'll
eat the fat of the land. So the father says through Christ
the Son, come. Didn't he say that over in Isaiah?
Ho, everyone that thirsteth, come. Didn't he say that? Didn't
Christ stand up in the latter day? And the father told me to
say, come. And they went back to Jacob and
they said, he said, come. Spirit and the bride say, come.
Let him that is thirst, come. Whosoever will, let him take
the water of life freely. Take your father and bring him
here. He is going to eat the good of the land of Egypt. He
is starving now. And old Jacob is back there alone,
starving. While the brethren in Egypt are
just feasting. Do you know anybody that is starving? Go tell them
about corn. There's corn in Egypt. And now
this, verse 19, you're commanded. You're commanded. This do you,
take wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, for
your wives, and bring your father and come. Take wagon loads. I
thought about this verse in Ephesians 1. Oh, how God hath abounded
toward us in wisdom and prudence, making known unto us the mystery
of His will. When we first hear the gospel, we have sacks. We
get a little sack load, don't we? We don't know much, but boy,
we're thankful for the corn that He gives us. He just fills our
sacks overflowing and our money in a sack's mouth. But boy, after
a long time, He just loads a wagon, abundantly blesses us, abounded
toward us in wisdom and prudence, made known unto us the mystery
of His will. How many wagon loads of truth
Have you received in all these years? My, my. Well, the world is eating
husks. My, my. So he says, go home.
And boy, we have great gospel to tell, don't we? Much to tell.
So great is salvation, great love, great mercy, great grace
to the poor and needy, wagons of wonder. And he commanded them, didn't
he? I thought of Psalm 3, it says, Salvation belongeth to
the Lord and His blessing is upon His people. So he says,
command it. Thou hast commanded the blessing
in Mount Zion. Verse 20, he said, Also, regard
not your stuff, for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours.
In other words, don't bring anything. Don't bring anything. It's all
provided for you. provided for. Don't bring a thing. It's all by grace. It's all by
grace. And this also means forget all
that stuff. Forget all that stuff. Leave
it behind because you're going to have to. This is certain. You came into this world naked
and you're going to go out naked and you can't take anything with
you. We've got treasures. So Joseph is telling that. Didn't
our Lord say this? Lay up for yourselves treasures
in heaven. Forget all this stuff. At His
right hand are pleasures forevermore. Treasures, unsearchable riches
that I hadn't seen. This stuff, don't regard this. Don't set your affection on stuff,
but on treasures. That's what He's saying. That's
what our Lord is saying. And the children of Israel did
so, verse 21, did so. And he gave, Joseph gave wagons
according to the commandment of Pharaoh and gave provision
for the way. And to all of them he gave changes
around. He just gives and gives and gives
and gives. No, they didn't do a thing. He
just gave, gave, gave, and he giveth and he giveth and he giveth
more. And I guarantee you, once again,
as they headed out on that journey, he didn't leave them to themselves,
did he? He reckoned. He sent anyone to watch them
all the way home. You know He did. And our Father
does too. But to Benjamin, and He gave
him changes of raiment. You don't think I'd skip over
that. Every one of God's people have that robe of righteousness.
They all wear the same. It's the righteousness of saints. Christ's robe. And Benjamin,
he gave 300 pieces of silver. Christ has the price of atonement. And five changes of raiment.
And to his father, verse 23, after this manner, ten asses
laden with the good things of Egypt. Ten she-asses laden with
corn and bread and meat for his father by the way. Corn, bread,
meat, all the good things. This is what they brought to
Jacob to see. And isn't that what we see? And isn't all of that Christ
Himself, all of these things. He's the bread, He's the meat.
He said, my body is meat indeed. Christ is the corn and we have
it all in Him when He brings this to us. So verse 24, He sent His brethren away and
they departed. And He said unto them, now this is important. He said in verse 24, see that
you fall not out. By the way, the last thing He said unto them,
see that you fall not out. By the way, oh my, how many warnings
do we have in Scripture? You're a partaker if you hold
fast at the beginning of your confidence, steadfast at the
end. Hold fast. Don't fall out by the way. Keep your eye, don't look to
the right, don't look to the left, look straight on. Looking
unto Jesus. We've got a great cloud of witnesses
who've gone before us and they're right now in the land of Goshen
with Joseph, with our Lord. Look right on. Looking unto Jesus,
the author and finisher of our faith. Don't regard this stuff
now or you'll fall out by the way. Don't fall asleep in vanity
fair. Keep your eyes on Christ. You're
going back home to get your Father. That's the only reason. Come
bring Him back. Now, and I should have just passed
over this again, verse 15, it says, when He kissed them, then
the brethren could talk to Him. I almost passed that again. See,
they weren't saying a word when He revealed Himself to them.
Their mouths were stopped. They had nothing to say. They
were guilty. But when He finally kept assuring them of who He
was and what the Father had done for them through Him, And he
finally kissed him, assured him, I'm not angry with you. I love
you. You're my brethren. Then they
could talk. Then they could speak and they
communed with him. All right now, verse 25. Here's our story
tonight. And so they went up out of Egypt
and came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob their father. And
they told him, they told him exactly what Joseph said to tell
him, saying, Joseph is yet alive and he's governor over all the
land of Egypt. And that's it. That was the message. And again, isn't that exactly
what Peter preached at Pentecost? Isn't that the message every
true gospel preacher preaches? Christ lives. Lives. And he's Lord over all. And him
every knee shall bow and every tongue confess. Now bow the knee
to Christ. And in Him we live and move and
have our being. And our life is in His hands.
He's Lord over all. You're going to die if you don't
receive something from His hands. Now come. Come with us and bow
before the Lord Jesus Christ. You need to see the Son or else
you'll die. Isn't that the message we preach?
And our Lord sent us with that message like He sent Joseph sent
his brethren with that message. And Jacob's heart fainted. You
see, out of the heart of the issues of life, this is what
the Lord does when He first reveals Himself to all His children.
He pricks the heart, doesn't He? Not the head. Not the head,
but the heart. We may learn some doctrine, but
until the Lord breaks our heart, until He reveals Himself. Didn't
Paul say that? Would it please the Lord? who
separated me from my mother's womb and called me by His grace
to reveal His Son in me. In me. Christ in you is the hope
of glory. Meaning that your heart has a
need for Christ. Your heart has a desire for Christ. Your heart that is broken over
sin sees Christ as your all. As Christ as your righteousness.
Christ as your sin payment. Christ is your all. In the heart,
man believeth unto righteousness. And with the mouth, confession
is made. And I bet you Jacob couldn't say anything either. He was dumbstruck. He couldn't
believe it. And you know, I remember when
the Lord was revealing Himself to me, and I loved what I was
hearing. I loved it. And I believed it. And I remember it pricked my
heart that I thought, this can't be for me. I love it. I want it. But this can't be
for me. I'm too sinful. Surely this is
not for me. Surely God, I'm not one of His.
Surely Christ didn't die for me. Well, Jacob's going to find
out. He sent word for you, Jacob.
Now, once you think about that, they went a long ways from Egypt
all the way back to Canaan. I forgot how long it was, but
it was a long trip. For one man. They went all the way back for
one fellow. Jacob. They got to him. Jacob's got
to come. This whole thing started with
Jacob. Where God went to Jacob and said, Jacob, you're the one
I've chosen. You're the one, not Esau. Jacob
have a love. And God made all the promises
to Jacob. He said, I'm going to bring...
Remember when God, back in chapter 28, I think that's it. Let me see that. Yes, go back
there quickly, chapter 28. Isaac blessed Jacob here, and then God spoke to him
on the way. And Jacob chapter 28 says, Isaac,
I mean, the father said to Jacob in verse 3, God Almighty bless
thee and make thee fruitful and multiply thee that thou mayest
be a multitude of people and give thee the blessing of Abraham
to thee and to thy seed with thee that thou mayest inherit
the land wherein thou art a stranger. Which God gave to Abraham. And
that's exactly. where Jacob ends up. And then down in verse 13, the
Lord came to him where Jacob was laid on those stones for
his pillar. In verse 13 he said, I am the
Lord God of Abraham. I am Joseph. I am God. And verse
14, thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth. Verse 15,
I am with thee, will keep thee in all places whither thou go,
and will bring thee again into this land. I will not leave thee
until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of. So
Joseph gave the command. There's somebody missing. Now
you go all the way back. You leave the 99 and you go after
that one man, Jacob. But we can't continue without
him. The blessing of God is for Jacob and his son. So they did. They did. They went back. And look at verse 27 in our text,
chapter 45. So they did. They told Jacob
of all the words of Joseph. They said exactly what he told
them to tell. No more, no less. Which he'd
said unto them. So Jacob heard, didn't he? He heard the gospel. He heard
the Word. He heard what Joseph said for
them to say. And all of God's people hear
the words of Christ. Didn't Christ say that? He said
that to some Pharisees one time. He said, Why is it that you don't
believe? Why can't you? Because you cannot. He said,
No man cometh unto the Father but my name. He said, God hears
God's Word then. You can't hear because you're
not my sheep. But all my sheep will hear my voice. My sheep
hear my voice. And they will hear exactly what
He says, and they'll believe and receive it all. And verse
27 says, And when he saw the wagons which Joseph sent to carry
him... Now Jacob's an old man at this
time. He's a hundred and... He lives
seventeen more years, by the way. Seventeen more years. And he's a hundred and... What
is it? He's a hundred and forty... 47,
so he's 130 years old. He's too old to make this trip.
If Joseph said, tell Jacob to come, he couldn't have come if
he wanted to. He's too old. He's too feeble.
He's not able. Oh, that's not what our Lord
does, does it? He sends a wagon to carry him. Brother Mack read Isaiah 46 tonight,
where it says, I'll carry you all the days of your life. To
your hoary head I'll carry you. That same book talks about the
God that Bell and Nebo that everybody else carries. False God that
people have to carry. But our God says to us, you don't
carry me, I carry you. I've carried you from the womb
and I'll carry you to your grave. I am he that beareth you and
carryeth you. And God I thought of several. There could be several titles
to this message. It would tell it all, wouldn't
it? The wagons are here for you. Or the chariots are here for
you, like Elijah. The Lord sent a chariot for him,
didn't He? Or this, the Son is sent to fetch
you. The Son is sent to fetch you. Or, we're going to be carried
home to see the Son. Carried home to see the Son.
And when Jacob heard, and when Jacob saw, and they sent for
him, and he saw all the blessings, all the grace and the mercy and
the goodness, and when we see all the mercy and grace and the
goodness of God in the Lord Jesus Christ, it says His Spirit was
revived. We're quickened together when
we hear and we see When the Holy Spirit comes to fetch us, we
are quickened together with Christ, don't we? And he says just a
few words, doesn't he? Here's his confession, and this
is mine. When he heard that Joseph lived,
that his son lived, and he's sent to carry him all the way
home, he said, it's enough. That's all I need. He sang that
song. Jesus Christ is all I need. We
should have sung it. All I need, all I need. It's
enough, he said. It's enough. And then he said
this. He said, Joseph, my son is yet alive. I will go and see
him before I die. This is his resolve and this
is his confession and this is his absolute belief. He believes
this. This is what he wants to do.
This is what he believes is going to happen and he's even sure
about that. He doesn't say, I sure hope I
see him. You see, before he didn't believe. This kind of just now
struck me. But before he couldn't believe
it. But now after hearing and seeing and having all this revealed
to him and all this grace and mercy, it's just, it's enough. to make him believe. And he says,
I will. I'll go. Like Rebecca at the well. Remember that? When
finally Abraham's servant, you know, he took all that he could
to show her. And wait till we get to when
Joseph and Jacob unite again. We're not going to do that tonight.
We're saving that for a whole message. They're going to weep a while
and we probably will too. But anyway, when Abraham's servant
showed Rebekah the bride for Isaac, all those things, he said,
will you go? I'll go. And that's what Jacob
says, and that's what every son of Adam says, I'll go. I've got
to go see him before I die. And this is like, does that remind
you of a story? Is there another story in the
Bible just like that? Well, God told a man, you won't die until
you see the Son. Simeon. Luke chapter 2, Simeon. I'll close with a few points,
but you've got to see this, because that's the Old Testament. Jacob
said the same thing that Simeon said in the New, because it's
the same. All are going to see the Son, whether it be Jacob
or Simeon, you or me. We're all going to see the Son
before we die. or else we will. And he that
seeth the Son will never die, our Lord said. In Luke 2, verse
25, Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem named Simeon, the same
man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel.
The Holy Ghost was upon him. And this is what the Holy Ghost
does, doesn't it, John? Every one of God's people. It
was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost that he should not
see death before he had seen the Lord's Christ. Every single son of God, the
Holy Spirit comes to and reveals Christ before they die. And it
came by the Spirit in the temple, verse 27, when the parents brought
in the child Jesus to do for Him after the custom of the law,
He that was made of woman, made under the law, to redeem them
that were under the law. Simeon's Redeemer, He took him
up in His arms and blessed God and said, Now lettest thou thy
servant depart in peace according to thy word, for mine eyes have
seen thy salvation." I'm going to go see him before I die. And
he did. Here are four things. It's life
to see the Son. He that hath the Son hath life.
He that seeth the Son. Didn't our Lord say that this
is the Father's will, that of everyone that seeth the Son, I'll raise him up. I believeth
on him, I will raise him up at the last day." And all who see
the Son will never die. They'll never die. See Him as
He is, alive, reigning, ruling the Lord over all, the true Christ,
the only way to God. And then all who see the Son
will live with Him forever. Old Jacob ended up with Joseph,
and that's where he died. That's where He was forever,
for the rest of His days. And all who see the Son are going
to live with Him forever, seated with Him in the heavenlies. Where
do you reckon Joseph put Jacob at the table? Where do you reckon Joseph put
Jacob at the table? He put him on one side and he
had Benjamin on the other. And that's our Lord Jesus Christ. All of His Son, He said, you're
going to sit with Me. Like old Mephibosheth. And all
that see the Son, when they really see the Son, if anybody sees
and hears the Gospel of Christ and sees His glory and sees all
that they need in Christ, every single one that really sees Christ
says, that's enough. That's all I need. All I need. Now, what do you think Jacob
was taken up with for the remainder of his days? And I went ahead and read the
rest of the story, all the way to chapter 50. And Jacob never
says one word about Egypt. He never one time says, wow,
isn't Egypt great. He never says one time, this
is the best food I've ever had. He never says one, look at all
this raiment. He never says one time about
any of that stuff. He has eyes for one person. He's just happy to be with Joseph. the Son in Him. He has eyes for
the Lord of Egypt, Joseph. And people, this is just so. Everybody who really sees the
Son, who sees the Lord Jesus Christ, after that, you don't
care too much about anything else. That's a fact. If anybody does, I don't think
they've seen Old Jacob, he had only eyes for
Joseph, and God's people have only eyes for Christ. There was
a time when I saw no beauty in Christ that I should desire Him.
You? Every one of you. Such were some
of you. Saw no beauty in Christ that you should desire Him. And
yet you saw beauty in everything else. And everything else you
desired. And your affection was set on
everything else. But buddy, when the Lord turns that around, it's
opposite isn't it? It's opposite to Him. Oh, you
know, a beautiful sunrise. Oh, that's God's creation. Oh,
isn't that nice? But the longer you live and the
more you see of His glory, it's just stuffing. It's all
fading like the leaf. Oh, the beauty is the flower
of the grass. It's like the grass. Old Jacob
was just happy. His life was Joseph. His life was Joseph. He was just
happy. He didn't care about anything
after that. I am now with Joseph, with the
Son. He was his life, he was his satisfaction
for 17 years. Seen and dwelling with the Son. How about you? How about you? Alright. Stand with me. Our Lord, That Word is beautiful. It's glorious. It's marvelous.
We know it's Thy Word because it is so. It is so glorious,
so beautiful. Such a glorious picture. You've
given us eyes to see. It's beautiful. Such a clear
picture of the Lord Jesus Christ. Even though it is a picture and
a shadow and a type, it's all clear to them to understand it.
It clearly speaks of Christ. How we thank You that You've
made Him known to us and in us, Lord. We do desire Him. We do say with David of old,
one thing have I desired of the Lord, and that will I seek after,
that I may dwell in the house of the Lord forever and behold
the beauty of the Lord, and inquire into His temple. We do desire
that, O Lord. But set our affection more fully
on things above, where Christ sits, and remove our affection
from other things, from stuff. perishing things of clay, born
but for one brief day. Oh Lord, set our affection on
Christ and let us now in this earth while we still live here
for who knows how many years abide with Thee and the Word
abide in us and commune with Thee and have our eyes upon Thee
and gather with Your people around Thy table. to feast on Christ
and His Gospel. Do it, Lord, for us, we pray,
for Thy name's sake. In Christ's name we pray and
as He's saying and have met here tonight and worship. Amen. You're
dismissed.