All right, turn back to Genesis
chapter 37. Genesis chapter 37. I just have
three verses to read this morning from Genesis chapter 37. Genesis chapter 37, the first
verse is this, verse three. Now Israel, that is Jacob, the
man whom God had changed his name, Now Israel loved Joseph
more than all his children because he was the son of his old age.
And then here is the point I want to make out. And he made him
a coat of many colors. We read about this coat again
in verse 23. And it came to pass. And in many
instances I've found in the book of Genesis when it says, and
it came to pass, Generally, you're looking at something negative
about to happen. Because God is now going to talk
about the actions and deeds of men, and generally speaking,
when you talk about the actions and the deeds of men, it's going
to be negative. And it came to pass, when Joseph
was come unto his brethren, that they stripped Joseph of his coat. You see that? They stripped Joseph
of his coat, his coat of many colors that was on him. And then we read again in verse
31. Look at what it says. And they
took, that is Joseph's brothers, and they took Joseph's coat and
killed a kid of the goats. Now notice what this coat is
now connected to. And dipped the coat in the blood. and they dipped the coat in the
blood. Does anybody have an idea of what my title and subject
is? My title and subject is Joseph's
Coat of Many Colors. Of course, the Hebrew word here
means many breaths. Now, not breath as you breathe,
but breaths as in with. Some say that artistically or
expressively, I like the word expressively better because God
in his holy inspired word is not trying to be artistic. But
God often uses things to express divine truth, even mundane things
like a coat of many colors. So artistically or expressively,
it means this, to affect unity and inclusiveness by subordinating
details. Literally in the Hebrew, and
this stowed me for a loop for a moment, but literally in the
Hebrew, if you just literally translated this many colors,
it means this, the palm and the foot. And that stowed me for
a loop. But then when you read about,
this was a tunic. that Israel had made for Joseph,
and don't think of it in the sense of different shades of
color, that is the colors of the spectrum, because that will
confuse you, but it's not about the hue of the coat, it's about
this coat covered Joseph hand to foot. It was one whole piece
made from many different pieces, but Joe, it was one coat. one
coat, so expressively, it means this. In the Hebrew, it means
this. And you'll see this word in other places, although the
word colors will not be used. It means this. It was a well-made,
and it means a well-made. This wasn't just thrown together.
It was a well-made tunic of many pieces, forming one united whole,
covering hand to foot. In other words, this expresses
that everything Jesus Christ did and everywhere he went, he
did in absolute obedience to God. Jesus Christ, as we see
here in Joseph's coat, Joseph's coat was a symbol of Jacob's
preeminent love for Joseph. That's what it says in our text,
does it not? Joseph's coat was this symbol that Jacob, Israel,
gave to Joseph as a symbol of his preeminent love for Joseph. So, Christ's person and work. Do not think of the coat as something
Christ put on, as a symbol. Don't think of it as something
Christ put on. Joseph's coat, symbolically, is this. It is
who Jesus Christ is. and it is what Jesus Christ has
done. Jesus Christ did not put on deity. He was deity. He was as much
God when he was first born and wrapped in that swaddling clothes
and laying in a manger and had to feed upon his mother's breast. He was as much God then as he
was when he was 12 years old and was in the temple talking
about the word of God with many in the temple. He was as much
God then as the other. He was as much God when he hung
there with nails in his hands and nails in his feet, top to
bottom, you see it? He was as much God then as he
was even when he made the worlds. So Joseph's coat was a symbol
of Jacob's preeminent love for Joseph. As so Christ's person
and work is the reality of God's unique love for the unity of
Christ in all that he is as the only begotten son. In other words,
let me give you just two fairly brief things to consider and
make a few Comments about it. Jesus Christ was deity and humanity
united in one person. He did not have two personalities. This is something that modern
day religion does not get at all. They think at times he kind
of acted like God. At other times he kind of acted
like a man. He is, and the best way to state
it, at least the best way I have available, is he is the God-man. He's not just God and man. He is the God-man. He is so much
God, even as man, that his human blood is called the very blood
of God by Luke in the book of Acts. Think about it, deity and
humanity united in one person. at the same time. Today's so-called Christianity
has Jesus like he was a man and he has these little spurts of
deity. That's heresy. That's heresy. Now granted, there
will be passages that you will read, especially in Matthew,
Mark, Luke, and John, when it expresses Jesus Christ's humanity,
and you will see him just as human as yourself. You know why? Because he was just as human
as yourself. With one thing accepted, that's
seeing. That's right, amen. That's sin.
And there are things, Mac, I can't fit this passage and that passage
together. Absolute humanity and absolute
deity and I can't fit them together. I don't understand them and Mason,
I cannot understand them because I'm not the God man. Exactly. I am not deity, I am nothing
but humanity. There you go. But Christ, the
man. wasn't joined to deity. Christ the man was God manifest
in the flesh. So much so that he told the disciples,
he that's seen me. And he talked about literally
looking at him with a, he that has seen me has seen who? The
father. The father. So remember, when
we talk about Joseph's coat, It wasn't many different, it's
certainly not Dolly Parton's coat of many rags, poor rags
sewn together. Dolly Parton didn't get it. Okay,
and I'm not trying to be mean to Dolly Parton. Dolly Parton
didn't get what Joseph's coat meant. Joseph's coat was a glorious
thing to look at, so much so that his brothers hated him for
it. And let me tell you, this is the rub with Jesus Christ.
Men and women wouldn't mind if he had a bunch of rags sewn together.
That's actually the way they present him. They almost present
him as a Sybil. You remember the movie Sybil?
The woman who had all of these different personalities and some
of them were really weird. That's the way they view Jesus
Christ. But Jesus Christ is deity and humanity united in one person
at the same time in total union. God and man in one person. Here's another thought. Now you
talk about many colors, right there's many colors. Is that
not many colors? God and deity joined together
in one person. So much so that it was told,
I think it was Joseph, that that holy thing holy thing that shall
be born of her is the Son of God. What a word, what a word. But here's the second thing,
think about this. Here is one who is impeccably just. The only impeccably just man
that ever existed. Adam was not impeccably just. impeccable, peccable justness. He had a justness that could
fall, and he did. Jesus Christ's humanity could
not fall. So pure was his humanity. Here is pure Adam. He's called
the second Now there were many other men between the first Adam
and Jesus Christ. But Paul calls him the second
what? The second man and the second Adam. Why? Because here
is a unique man. Even Adam did not stand up to
who Jesus Christ is. But think about it, here is impeccably
just and yet made sin at the same time. Now this only took
place for a moment in time. Jesus Christ was not made sin
and then continued to be made sin. He was made sin once. But even when he was made sin,
Joe, the book still says he suffered, suffered the just for the unjust. Now somebody says, I don't understand
that. You don't understand deity and humanity joined either. We
really don't. We've heard it so much we think
we got that. Don't we? Now we really think, I've got
that. Deity and humanity, I see it, Jesus. We believe it, but
I don't understand it. I don't understand it. Jesus
Christ was made sin, but at the same time, he was still absolutely,
impeccably just. And I don't have to make that
fit. God says this was his coat, and bless God, this is his coat.
This is who he is, and to foot. And that's just the way it is.
You see, we're not here trying to explain Jesus Christ. Joe
and I, others who stand in this place, we're not trying to explain
Jesus Christ. I can't feel we're trying to
declare Jesus Christ as he is. That's many colors, is it not?
Here is the son of God, who at the same time was the son of
David, who at the same time was the son of man. That's many colors. Here's Jehovah Jireh, Jehovah
Shalom, Jehovah should kiddin' you. And you go right on down
the list, many colors. Many colors. But let me tell
you, all of us by nature, listen to me, all of us by nature, we're
just like Joseph's brothers. Would we like Joseph's brothers
strip Christ of his coat? By nature, we will. By nature,
we do. We don't like Jesus Christ by
nature, because in truth, anybody who's ever heard this word preached,
and even, Neil Cochran, even close to the
truth, knows that Jesus Christ was a unique man. His humanity
was unique, real humanity, but it was still different from mine. He came in the likeness of sinful
flesh, but it was only the likeness of sinful flesh. His flesh was
not sinful. In him was no sin, except when
he was made sin. And that's the only time. In
him was no sin, except when he was made sin. And the sin that
was in him was ours, not his. Now let's always remember that. Do not believe in the Jesus Christ
superstar movie from way back yonder when Jesus Christ, have
Jesus Christ hanging on the cross and he's sitting there lusting
after the women that's sitting out there in the crowd. That's
a lie. You go back and look at the Psalms, you'll see the time,
Joe, when he was made sin, and yet you see him fully obedient
to the Father. fully obedient to the Father.
Deity and humanity united in one person. Impeccable justice
and sin at the same time. Though it was for a brief moment,
that's many colors. But we, just like Joseph's brothers,
we would strip him of his coat. Listen to what our Lord said
to some people in John chapter eight. Turn there if you want
to follow along. John chapter eight. And I'll
try not to keep you too long. John chapter eight, think of
this. We think of Christ's person, by nature, we think of Christ's
person as human only. And let me tell you something,
anyone who denies that the man Jesus of Nazareth existed is
a fool. Now do you hear what I say? Anyone
who denies that the man Jesus of Nazareth existed is a fool. There are people who wrote about
Jesus Christ that has nothing to do with inspired writing at
all. They knew he existed. This thing,
as the book says, it wasn't done in a corner. As a matter of fact,
it was done amidst the most powerful nation on earth at that time. With some of the most powerful
rulers on earth at that time. And it was done right in their
face. What would we do? Look at John chapter eight. Let
me just move on. John chapter eight, look at verse 56. This is what our Lord told the people.
Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. Now I want to
tell you something. I don't think, now this is just
my take on this. Maybe you disagree with it, but
that's okay. Maybe it's both. But I don't think Christ was
simply saying Abraham had this by faith insight of something
that was going to happen way down in the future. Abraham talked
with Jesus Christ. He is the voice of God that walked
in the cool of the day. When God speaks, he always speaks
through his son. Even if it's me here preaching,
Joe, if I'm sin of God, these are the words of Jesus Christ
if I'm preaching this word. You ever hear from God, you'll
hear from God only through Jesus Christ. And he said, Abraham,
your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day and saw it. You see it? And saw it. In the future, yes, but he saw,
even Moses. Now he's talking about Abraham,
even Moses. What did God say to Moses? God is spirit. Isn't
that what the book says? But when Moses said, Lord, show
me your glory. He said, I will stick you in
the cleft of the rock. But you can't see my face right now.
But you will see my what? My hinder parts. There was a
man walked in front of Moses. And Moses, for that time at least,
my Catfield, he got to see the hinder parts. Isn't that amazing? Isn't that amazing? Somebody
said, but how can that be? Because this man is God! He's God! He can do what he wants,
when he wants. He said when he was here, I'm
the son of man that's on earth. And if you got a Bible that don't
say that, he also said, it says that. But if you got one of them
Bibles that leaves out the next phrase, he said I'm also the
son of man that is in heaven. At the same time, he was the
son of man on the earth. I can't fathom that David, I
can't explain that, but that's who he said he was. That's his
coat of many colors, that's what it is. What would we do, and
look what, and we go on. And your father Abraham rejoiced
to see my day, and he saw it and was glad. Then said the Jews
unto him, thou art not yet 50 years old. He was actually somewhere
in between 30 and 33. Right? The book tells us, that's
one of the places we're actually given his age. In two places
we're told his age. Once at, well, of course, his
birth. But once when he was 12, Joe, and then later when he began
to be about 30 years old, he says. And look, thou art not
yet 50 years old, and hast thou seen Abraham? He didn't notice
it. Notice. They even deny, didn't
even deal with what he, he said, Abraham saw my day. You see, they dropped that, they
didn't even deal with that. And hast thou seen Abraham? Jesus said unto them, truly,
truly, I say unto you, before Abraham was, so now he blows
their mind. Before Abraham was, and then
he uses that word. That word that many of the old
Jews in their Jewish superstition, when they would write this name,
you know what they would do? They would throw down the writing
instrument, whatever it was that they used, a quill, whatever
it was, Joe, and they would put it down and get rid of it and
start over with a whole new pen and ink. They held this word
superstitiously in such high regard, but they did not hold
it in faith in high regard. He said, before Abraham was,
I am. That's the name of God. Remember
Moses said, well, God said to Moses, I will send you down there
to Pharaoh. He said, well, who am I to say you're gonna send me? What's
your name? He said, I am. So who was that
talking to Moses? That was Jesus Christ. That was
Jesus Christ, the great I am. Then, and here it is, here's
where they stripped that coat off. Then took they up stones
to cast at him. You see it? And let me tell you
something. This is the one thing that humanity
does not like about Jesus Christ. That he is God Almighty, fully
at all times. God Almighty, the creator at
all times. He owns us lock, stock and barrel. He didn't have to shed one drop
of blood to own anybody. He owns us all as creator. And he can do with us as he will.
Watch your news this evening, you'll see God doing with men
and women what he will. He'll cause a volcano to erupt. And then hundreds of miles away,
water sweeps in and kills hundreds if not thousands. Like that. That's God. That's God. And then God will go down to
the deepest, darkest jungle somewhere and call out some Godless individual. Send them the gospel. And call
them out of that darkness. That's God. That's God. But we
don't want God to have that coat. We would strip him of that coat. Not only that, we deny his absolute
deity. John chapter 10. Just a day or
so later possibly. John chapter 10, listen to what
happens here. Verse 30. He said this. and my father are
one. We're the same. What is this? Then the Jews took up stones
again. Remember the first time, he just
passed right out of their midst. They gonna kill him back here
before when he said I am. And he just passed right out
of their midst. He became invisible to them. I mean, you would think
this would boggle their minds, Mac, and they would fall down
in obeisance to this man who just disappears in their midst,
and next thing you know, shows up the next day. They gonna kill
him. They couldn't touch him. You
know why? Because he's God. And his time
had not yet come, and no man takes his life from him. He says
it right here in this same passage. But he says, I am my father and
one, and that's when they wanted to kill him again. Jesus answered
them, many good works have I showed you from my father, for which
of those works do you stone me? The Jews answered him saying,
for a good work we stone thee not. Well they're liars, remember
they got mad when he healed a man on the Sabbath day. And this
is what we are by nature, liars. We'll lie about anything and
everything just for the sake of lying. You ever done that?
You ever be telling an account or a story to somebody, and after
you're over, you say, I lied like a dog. And there was no
need for it. I wasn't even under, I was sitting
with a friend, and we were just talking, and I lied. You ever
done that? Why? Because it's what we are.
But just like Joseph, he couldn't lie about them dreams he had.
Those were the dreams God gave him. And when he spoke, men got
angry. And what happened to this Joseph?
This Joseph here called Jesus and Nazareth, oh, we don't stone
thee for a good, but because of what you say. Look at what
he says. For the Jews answered, saying,
for a good work we stone thee not, but for blasphemy. And? And? Wait a minute, you
need an and with blasphemy? Huh? Really? But what do we do? We just gotta
keep piling up on Jesus Christ. I want that coat off of you.
And thou, and here's the kicker, being a man, make us thyself
God. That's where they got it. He
didn't have to make himself God. He was God. He didn't become
God at any time. In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Yeah, we're
just like Joseph's brothers by nature. We'd strip him of his
coat. Not only that, we deny his messianic
authority and ability. There are a lot of people say,
well, I believe Jesus was the Christ, but they don't believe the messianic
authority and ability of the Messiah. The Old Testament prophesied
of him this, he shall not fail nor be discouraged. It prophesied
of him that the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his, where? His hand. In his hand. You see, when you preach a Christ
that did not do what he came to do, you're not preaching the
Christ of God. you're preaching what even the
Christ said will be a false Christ. Now most people think as long
as you call Jesus the Christ, no, you don't call him the Christ,
he is the Christ. And you acknowledge who the Christ
is. Or Joe, you deny the Christ altogether. But we by nature,
David Wright, we'd strip him of that coat. Not only that,
Paul says by nature we'll pervert his gospel. Galatians chapter
one verses six and seven. We pervert the very message that
is the only hope in message form that is ever set forth before
mankind, the gospel. Paul calls it this, he says they
preach another gospel and then quickly, he's right, it's another
gospel but quickly the spirit, so there's no misunderstanding,
we have a comma for us in the English, which is not another. But there be some that would
trouble you, and what? Pervert the gospel of Christ. You see, people don't get this. Just because it's a Bible message
don't mean it's the gospel. The gospel is this, God Almighty
sent his son to save some people. And he did do it, he is doing
it, and he shall do it. Second Corinthians chapter one.
That's the gospel. Anything short of that is a perversion
of the gospel. But we, just like Joseph's brothers,
strip that coat off of him. Strip that. Oh, but thank God,
turn to Genesis 45. Turn to Genesis 45. Now you remember,
I know many of you probably read since we've been going through
this, you maybe went back and read some of this again, although
you knew it before. Maybe you refresh your memory. Go to Genesis
chapter 45. And before I read these verses,
let me give you this. Two things now. This is true
about us. We think of Christ's person as
human only by nature. We can't, we not only, Joe can't
fathom, we refuse to believe that he's God Almighty. by nature. We can't believe he's God Almighty
by nature. We deny his absolute deity by
nature. We deny his messianic authority
and ability by nature. By nature, we'll pervert his
gospel. And yet, there is forgiveness
with God. Isn't that good news? Because
I'm guilty of all those things, Joe, I just mentioned, and more. I'm guilty, just like Joseph's
brothers were guilty. And look at what it says here.
Genesis 45, and this is Joseph. And I like this. Yes, this is
Joseph here. But just get a little idea about
this. This is giving us a picture,
a snapshot of Jesus Christ. Then Joseph could not refrain
himself. I mean, let me tell you, when
God is pleased to act, bless God, he will act. God has purposed
all things in time and he did it before the foundation of the
world. And when that thing that God purposed to do before the
world was, in time, comes to its time, it will come to pass
because God will not refrain himself. You hear me? Then Joseph
could not refrain himself before all them that stood by. You know
what, God don't save us over in a corner somewhere. You know
that, now a lot of us may have been in a corner, but you know
what God does? He calls us out of that corner. You know that? And usually, usually when God
saves somebody, it's right out in the midst of everybody else.
You know that? In the midst, it might be family
members by blood. It might be in a church, religious
or gospel preaching or not. If God sends the gospel there,
and he can do that too. He can send someone to a church
building, to a religious society, where there is no gospel, and
he can send someone with his gospel to that religious society,
and when he saves the people he's purposed to save, then he'll
call them out of that religious society, or he'll change the
whole religious society, one or the other. But he don't leave
the one he saves in that religious society there to flounder around
like a flopping fish. Then Joseph could not refrain
himself before all them that stood by him, and he cried, calls
every man to go out from me. And there stood no man with him,
while Joseph, uh-oh, now here it is. Now these men already
feared this man, and rightfully so. He was the top dog under
Pharaoh himself. If you wanted anything from Pharaoh,
guess who you had to get it from. Joseph. And let me tell you something,
you want anything from God, you're gonna have to get it through
Jesus Christ. Or you won't get it. Look, and there stood no
man with him, while Joseph made himself known. Isn't that glorious? Unto his brethren. And he wept aloud, and the Egyptians
at the house of Pharaoh, they didn't get to experience it,
but bless God they heard it. You see, people know, when God
Almighty say, when you've been in the midst of whatever corruption
you was in, immoral corruption or religious corruption, when
God Almighty does something for you, everybody else around you
is gonna know something happened to them. They may not know who
did it, they might not understand how he did it, they might not
understand why he did it, but they know something's taking
place. Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph. Can you imagine that? I am Joseph. Dost my father yet live? And
his brethren could not answer him, for they were troubled at
his presence. And you remember when Jesus Christ
first began to show himself to you? You didn't see him as your
buddy or as your pal, did you? You see him as he is. That's
the Joseph with the coat of many colors. That's the Joseph that
I stripped that coat off of him. That's the Joseph who I said,
I will never bow down to you. And guess what, Mason? Here they
are. Having been bowed down to Joseph. They troubled at his presence,
but look. And Joseph said unto his brethren, come near to me. Is that not gracious? Think of
what they done to him. And did he say, get out of my
presence? You're goners. Mason, he had the right to do
that. He had the right to do that other than this. There's
love in here. Wouldn't let him do it. There's
a real sense, David Wright, in which he could not do anything
but what he did right here. You know why? Because he loved
his brethren not more than they loved him. Oh no! He loved his
brethren even while they hated him. Come near to me, I pray you.
And they came near, and he said, I am Joseph, your brother, whom
ye sold into Egypt. Now therefore, be. Mason, he could have rubbed it
in. Couldn't he? God has the right to rub it in.
We hate him by nature. We'd strip his son of his coat. But look what he says. Now therefore
be not grieved nor angry. Nor angry with yourselves. Now
you think they gonna say, well we ain't angry with ourselves,
Joseph. They're in the dust, folks. They're in the, they know
what they've done to him. They know what they deserve.
You ever been there? If not, then God's Joseph has
never revealed himself to you. I pray he does. I pray he does. Look, now therefore be not grieved
nor angry with yourselves that ye sold me hither, for God did
send me before you to preserve life. And what life in particular?
Theirs! Theirs. Not his own life. God did that when he was in the
hole. God did that when he was down there with the butcher in
the jail. Didn't he? God did that when
Potiphar's wife was lying about him like a dog. Just to preserve
life. Aren't you glad that God is plenteous
in mercy? Because you know what? I don't
just need saving. A lot of people need saving.
But they don't need mercy. And isn't that what that old
sinner really cried out? God be merciful. And he understood something about
mercy. He knew mercy wasn't just a feeling of God. The word is
propitiate. That is there must be a blood
sacrifice and God let there be a blood sacrifice for me. That's
the kind of mercy I got to have. You've got to punish my sin.
And if you punish me for my sin, I'm a goner. Mercy. Mercy. But you know what? Yes, we would
strip Joseph of his coat of many colors. We do that verbally. We do that down in here. But
you know what? Joseph was still who he was. You get what I'm saying? Here's
the sixth thing. But we never, ever truly change
Christ. Now look at it, verse six. For
these two years hath the fabbin been in the land, and yet there
are five years in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest,
and God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the
earth and to save your lives by great deliverance. So now
it was not you that sent me hither, But God. But God. They might have stripped
him of that coat. And men will lie on God. There
are men lying on God right this morning. There are men stripping
Christ of that coat in their message right here this morning.
But they ain't changed who Jesus Christ is. It's one of these things, something
that's hard to do, and I'm not going into the details of it.
Let me tell you something. You can't put Jesus Christ where
he's never determined to be. Now you may in your words, you
may with your words deny, you might say, well he's over here
when he ain't really over there. But you never put Jesus Christ
where Jesus Christ has not been purposed to be. And you can't
take Jesus Christ out of any place God put him. Do you understand
that? And we said and argue about whether
it's Jesus in this or Jesus is where he is. and he's exactly
where God Almighty purposed for him to be. And you know where
that is right now? He's not in that manger any longer. Therefore,
we do not worship Jesus Christ in the manger. They worshiped
him when he was in the manger. That was proper. That was proper. But we don't worship him in the
manger, Joe, quiet, because he ain't in the manger. And I'll
tell you this, we don't worship him on the cross. Oh, we rejoice
in that cross, but he ain't on that cross no more. If you worship
Jesus Christ, you know where you're gonna worship him? Where
he is. On the throne. On the throne. Or you can worship
him in the manger, but he ain't in the manger no more. Therefore
you've missed the true Jesus. There's a lot of people that
they got a picture of him or a little statue of him hanging
on a cross. And they'll guard it and kiss it and pray, if not
to it, at least with it, in their hand. Even thinking that the
prayer with that little icon in their hand is better if it
was laying on the desk. Do they not do this? But he's
not on that cross. We preach, not Christ crucified.
That's not what Paul said. We preach Jesus Christ and him
crucified. Because Jesus Christ is not crucified
now. He's on the throne. He's on the
throne. Oh, but he said, I'm not gonna
spend time. Notice the last thing about that coat? By the wicked
deeds of men, it was dipped in blood. Isn't that enough to say,
those of you who know the truth know what that means. Peter and
Emma, remember what they said? It's recorded if you want to
read it, Acts 4, 23 through 28. He said all of that wicked deed,
all of the wicked deeds that men did to Jesus Christ on that
cross was exactly what God Almighty predetermined to be done. Yes, think about it. Christ's
death, and it was a real death. It was a real death. Remember
Joseph's brothers, if you look at chapter 42, verse 12, they
said, we are the 12 sons of one father. One's still with the
father, and the other is not. Oh, how wrong they were. Because
the one who they thought was not was standing right in front
of them, exalted. at Pharaoh's right hand, we might
say. Huh? Was it not? Was it not? Christ's death, a real death. A real death. Christ's death
and blood was man wrought. It was man wrought, but it was
God ordained. It was God ordained. Christ's
death and blood was man wrought, but it was God ordained. But
his actual dying, he held in his own hands. His actual die,
he gave up the ghost. We have the ghost taken from
us. And we'll, you know, some of you may have seen people that
don't want to go. You know, fine. The ghost is taken, the ghost
wasn't taken from Christ. Mason Lilliam, he gave it up.
He gave it up. Here and here only is where we
find true glory. Joseph's coat dipped in blood And remember
don't think of Joseph's coat is something Christ put on it
is who he is You see he has made unto us wisdom and righteousness
and Sanctification and redemption so much so that it says he is
the fullness of the Godhead how bodily and then here's the glory
for us and ye are complete in him. Think about this. Joseph's
coat, Christ's coat of many colors. Joe, that's my coat. He is my
coat. Somebody says he's my righteousness.
Yeah, he's everything. He is my God. He is my righteousness, and that's
my only hope, but he's also my God. He's my Lord, he's my friend,
he's my elder brother, he's my shepherd, and on and on. That
is truly a coat of many colors. Here we see his coat intrinsically.
He is, it says it here, the word was made flesh. and tabernacle
dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the
only begotten of the Father, and then he says these words,
full of grace and truth. So if you ever find any grace,
if you ever find any truth, where you gonna get it from? If he's
full of it, Joe, then it's there. If you don't find it from him,
you don't know what grace is and you don't know what truth
is. You can't be full of something and be more of it out yonder.
He's full, wherever grace is, whatever grace is, as much as
it is, and truth, it's him. It's him. There we see Christ's
coat intrinsically. Here we see Christ's coat representatively. We are complete. How? In him,
even bodily. Joe, thank God his feet are my
feet. His hands are my hands. He is my head. He is. We're called bone of his bone. Isn't that what it says? We're
called bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh, and he just like
Joseph, he wasn't ashamed to receive his brothers, was he?
Oh, he knew what they done. But he loved them, Seth, he loved
them that much. Oh, thank God our Christ loves
us far more than even that. That's right. Far more than that.
And here we see his coat in elective purpose. You see, yes he is made
of this wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption.
You know why? Because God chose that for the people he is that
unto. That's what it says. For you
see your calling, brethren, how that not many mighty, not many
wise, not many noble, they're not even called. That's right. Isn't that what the book teaches?
That's right. But you see your calling. Consider
Christ's coat. Christ's coat is who He is and
what He wrought. And thank God, His coat is my
covering in Him. In Him. Even when the Father
made it for Him. And I'm using that very loosely.
Even when the Father made it for Him. Because He was made
of a woman. Wasn't He? Made under the law. For what reason to redeem them
that were under the law? Now did He do it or did He not?
I believe he did it. I believe he did it. Even when
the Father made it for him, even when we would strip him of that
which is my only hope, who he is. Even when, especially when,
especially when his coat was soaked in blood. That sealed the deal. You remember
who his brothers took the coat to, don't you? Jacob, his father. And you know what? His father,
Jacob, Joseph's father, was actually brought to see his son exalted. You see, the one thing that gives
God joy, and Mason, sometimes I feel a little awkward even
saying it that way because we think of joy as just an emotion.
Let me put it another way, and it's still, The one thing that
brings God Almighty happiness is when his son is honored. What is the, you know, one sinner
repents. What did our Lord teach? There's
joy in heaven in the presence of the angels. Now who's there
in the presence of the angels? There's only two other things
there I can think of. The people of God that are already
gone on. And Jesus Christ himself. Isn't it amazing? It says if
Jesus Christ can serve us, he's not ashamed. He's not ashamed
to call us brothers. All right, let's stand and sing
number 24 in the folder.