Well, we come back to the account
of Joseph this morning, Genesis chapter 41, Joseph opened all
the storehouses. You know, material famine, not
having enough to eat, I know there are cases that you hear
of, and parts of the world where there is starvation, but generally
speaking, very many of us, you know, it's not something we ever
have experienced this famine. We, you know, shortage of food,
lack of shelter, lack of clothing, you know, the vast majority of
us have more than we need. Few have ever felt the need to
beg, have they? Few have. Some do, but few have. But the lives of most who don't
have any such material deprivation are empty. They're empty of meaning. What's it all about? What's it
for? They're empty of purpose. Where will it end? Where am I
going? Even those that feel full of purpose at the moment, you
know, What does Genesis say time and time again? And he died,
and he died, and he died. How quickly, how quickly we go
from feeling strong and in our prime to feeling age creeping
on and how rapidly that comes upon us, even in these days where
people have got used to living often well into their 80s and
90s of age. Empty of hope. People live lives
that are empty of true hope. If all your hope are the trinkets
of this world, the baubles of this world, how empty of hope,
and especially under government-imposed lockdowns of the last 12 months.
You know, there are people of whom it is said in the Scripture,
and it's in Peter, 2 Peter chapter 1 says this, in verse 2 he says,
grace, this typical greeting of an apostle to the people,
the believers he's writing to, he says, grace and peace be multiplied
unto you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. That's how peace and grace are
multiplied to you, it's through the knowledge of God that it
comes, according, in proportion, God is infinite in proportion
as His divine power. How big is His divine power?
Infinite. Infinite. Is there anything that
He cannot do? He upholds this world. He created
this world according as His divine power. Look what it's done for
His individual people. Hath given unto us all things
that pertain unto life and godliness through the knowledge of Him
that hath called us to glory and virtue. That's not talking
about material things. Though all these things, says
Jesus, that you need shall be added unto you. But this is treasure
in heaven. This is that which makes life
rich. There's a people who are those
who are saved by the Lord Jesus Christ from their sins, the people
of God, who are blessed with all spiritual blessings in heavenly
places in Christ. This isn't the materially wealthy
that Peter was writing to. In those days they were probably
quite poverty stricken, but they were rich in spiritual goodness
because they had found the pearl of greatest price. The pearl
of greatest price is Christ. and the salvation from sin, the
hope, the certainty of heaven that is in Him, the assurance,
no doubt about it, no doubts whatsoever, the assurance, the
assurance of faith is faith itself, I believe therefore I know amongst
those whom Christ has saved to the uttermost, the peace of God
that comes from that knowledge, to know that God is angry with
the wicked every day, but if I'm in Christ, He's not angry
with me. He is Abba Father, to me. Peace, peace with God. Therefore,
being justified by faith, we have peace with God, and the
contentment that isn't based on material well-being, though
God says he provides all our needs. But you know what the
Apostle Paul said? Paul had been through all sorts
of circumstances, he'd been in abundance and he'd been in famine,
he'd been in safety and he'd been in peril, shipwrecked several
times, beaten, all sorts of evil things done to him, yet Paul
could write I have learned, in whatsoever state I am in, therewith
to be content." You know, there's great liberation from contentment
with having all that you need. Not maybe everything the flesh
wants, but all that you need. There's a truly liberating thing
about contentment with having all that you need. It's called
treasure in heaven. You have treasure in heaven.
You know where your immortal soul is going. You know that
when you die, it's appointed to man to die once, and then
the judgment. You know then in Christ you will
hear, come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared
for you from the foundation of the world. And the reason is
that you have the Savior. Christ is yours. He is mine,
I am his. You have the Saviour. The world
all around us, by which I mean the people in the world all around
us, who do not believe the Gospel, they don't think they need a
Saviour. The world doesn't think it needs a Saviour. It has no
sense of eternal peril. of judgment, of just condemnation
for sin, you know, the sea, the metaphor of the sea, of this
life. You know, to them, it's like
a safe, warm Mediterranean harbour, just lying on your back in that
lovely, warm, salty water, and nothing's threatening you at
all. That's what it's like to them. But to those who realise
the truth, it's a North Atlantic storm and you're guaranteed to
drown in it. You're guaranteed to be lost
in it. But the world has little sense
of that. The world has little sense of sin. against God. Because that's, you know, what
did David say? Against, you know, who did he commit his sin against?
Humanly speaking, Uzziah, Bathsheba's husband. He committed that sin
against him, but in Psalm 51, David writes, against thee, thee
only, God, against you have I sinned and done this evil in your sight.
The world has little sense of sin against God, So, here in
Genesis 41, God gives his people the account of Joseph, and you
know, we've been seeing about the painting of pictures, these
accounts are pictures painted by the Spirit of God. He gives
us this picture of Joseph to paint the picture of our need
for Christ, our need of Christ, and the eternal sufficiency that
is in him. In this story, which I am sure
is absolutely 100% historically true, but in it there are divine,
eternal lessons. The need of a saviour then, first
of all. The need of a saviour. The sons
of Jacob, the older ten sons, the ones that were older than
Joseph, they didn't need a saviour, or so they thought. They were
shepherds. They were living what to them
was a happy life as they were, undisturbed. They were sinful. It seems that their style of
life was fundamentally immoral and evil. It says that Joseph
took back their evil report to his father Jacob. Don't read
into that that Joseph was a nasty little snitch telling tales on
his brothers. I think what he was saying was,
we're the family that is supposed to be the possessor of the one
true gospel of God, from whom the promised seed of the woman
is going to come, and yet those from whom that seed is supposed
to come, are living in a blatantly, visibly evil manner before the
rest of humanity. And they hated Joseph. The ten
brothers, there was one younger one, Benjamin, the second son
of Rachel, giving birth to him, she died in that process, but
the two sons of the wife that Jacob truly loved, who was Rachel,
were Joseph, this eleventh son, and Benjamin, the twelfth son.
And these sons, these ten, of Leah and the maidservants, they
never needed to cry, what must I do to be saved? They'd seem
to have everything they wanted, they lived as they wanted, and
they hated this young man Joseph, their half-brother, they hated
him. But from Judah, one of the brothers, one of them was called
Judah, from Judah must come the promised Messiah, the Christ,
to redeem his people from the curse of the law. He must come
to stand in their place as their substitute, as their surety,
to redeem them. Well, God ordained events to
accomplish His eternal intentions. The eternal intentions of God,
as we'll see later in Genesis, was that the Messiah would come
from the tribe of Judah, from that line. This is where He's
coming from. It cannot be turned on its head.
Human actions cannot stop it, for it is the purpose of God
that this would be the case. So God would cause the brothers,
the evil brothers, to feel their need deeply, and to bring them
to the only one who could meet their need. What about you? Have you ever felt your sense
of mortality? You know, you may be young, you
may have life ahead of you as you think, but do you know You're
a mortal being. Who knows when your life will
be taken from you? It's only loaned from God for
a while. How frail is that life? And you know, in your natural
state, you're in a state of alienation from the One who made you and
the One who will judge you when that day comes that you leave
this life. You may be as indifferent to your need of salvation as
Joseph's brothers were to their need of salvation at that time.
But God is sovereign over all things. God is sovereign. He
will be merciful to whom He will be merciful. He will have compassion
on whom He will have compassion. It isn't of him that wills, nor
of him that runs, but of God that shows mercy. It's not of
the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, nor of the desires
or lineage of a family, it is of God in sovereign grace. Things
don't just happen. Everything is ordained by God. Everything is planned by God.
Oh, we're so slow to learn this, but this is the truth. This is
eternal truth. Everything is ordained by God
and in his hands. Do you know, he says, that not
even a sparrow... He says, look at the sparrows,
I mean, you know, I glanced outside and I can't see one at the moment.
There's normally about 20 or 30 out there around the feeders.
They're such worthless little things, aren't they? But Jesus
said, you know, not even a sparrow falls to the ground, but your
heavenly Father knows. You know, how great is our God? We used to sing a chorus like
that and it used to be so flippant, but do you know how deep is the
truth of that? How great is our God? How infinite,
how majestic, how all-knowing, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent,
all these things. Well God raised up Joseph And
God gave divine wisdom to Joseph. You know, in Christ are hid all
the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. God gave divine wisdom to Joseph. Wisdom to save people from starvation
and death. Material hunger, starvation. And the purpose is to picture
Christ, the Saviour that God has set forth. So Joseph typifies
the Saviour. He typifies the Saviour. The
one who saved his brothers from starvation was Joseph, by what
he did. He was the one who saved his
brothers from starvation. The one who saved his brothers
was one of the brothers. The one who saved them was one
of them. Look at Hebrews chapter 2. Hebrews chapter 2 and verse
11. For both he that sanctifieth
makes holy, this is Christ, and they who are sanctified, the
people made holiness in him, are all of one, of the same type,
for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren. Christ
the God, infinite God, became man to redeem. He's of the same
flesh, they're all of one. He's not ashamed to call the
people he saved his brethren, saying, I will declare thy name
unto my brethren. Christ declares the name of God
to those he calls his brothers. And by that he means sisters
as well, of course. In the midst of the church I
will sing praise unto thee. And then also verse 17. Wherefore,
in all things it behoved him, Christ, to be made like unto
his brethren. Flesh and blood, like we are.
God, infinite God, contracted to the span of a baby. Flesh and blood. Why? That he
might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining
to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. He
took on him the nature of the seed of Abraham. the seed of
Abraham, not Adam, the seed of Abraham, the seed of those who
are the children of Abraham with the same faith as Abraham. He took on him their nature that
he might redeem them from the curse of the law to accomplish
effectual salvation from sin for the elect multitude He was
God. He is God. You know, let this
mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus, who being in
the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God,
but made himself of no reputation. He was God, because why? There's
no other that's good enough. There's no other that is infinite
enough. I know that sounds a contradiction
of grammar, infinite enough, you can't have any degrees of
being infinite, but he is. He's totally, totally infinite. None other good enough. He was
made like unto his brethren. Just as Eve was made from Adam,
God took a rib Whether that means some chromosomes, some genetic
material, what? It's all in the sovereign wisdom
and purpose of God. Eve was made of Adam. Flesh of
my flesh, said Adam, bone of my bones. Look, here she is,
woman, because she was taken out of man. She was made from
man, flesh and bones. So God, in Christ was made our
flesh and our bones for this purpose, to make satisfaction,
to divine justice. For the law says the soul that
sins it shall die. The people that God loved with
an everlasting love are sinners, and the justice and nature of
God demands their punishment with eternal hell, their death,
their death, the second death. It demands the soul that sins
it shall die, it shall lose its life, and the life is in the
blood, and without the remission, without the shedding of blood
there is no remission of sins. Blood must be shed, therefore
God must become man, that he might shed human blood to pay
the price of justice to the law and justice of God, that in the
process of doing that, the penalty being paid, in the edict of the
infinite God, the all-wise God, He says, when He dies, His people
judicially have died in Him. And they're justified, and the
result of justification is qualification. He has made us meet for eternal
glory, for heaven. And though Joseph was a younger
brother, though he was number 11 in the line of brethren that
came from Jacob, Joseph was marked out as special. So Christ, when
he came, he came when the fullness of the time was come. In the
middle of history he came. Effectively as a younger brother
of that Jewish system and the Pharisaical superiority of the
Jews of his time, and they despised him and rejected him. But when
Christ came, as with Joseph, there was honour in that coat,
in that garment, in that intricately woven garment. So with Christ,
when he came, in his birth, there was honour. and glory and majesty. The angels announced this humble
birth in a stable. The angels of God came and cried
glory to God in the highest, peace, goodwill on earth toward
men. In that birth there was honor
and glory. There was divine wisdom shown.
In him was supreme character. Just as Joseph, though a sinner,
Joseph exhibited exemplary character. Christ was without sin, was without
any spot or blemish, like the lamb that was kept, the Passover
lamb that was kept to show that it was perfect, without any blemish
whatsoever. He came, He came as a man, He
came as a perfect man, with infinite capacity, and He came unto His
own, it says in Isaiah 53. He came to His own people, the
very people who should have received Him, but they received Him not,
they rejected Him. Joseph was sent by Jacob to his
brothers, to provide them with what they needed. And he was
sent there, but his brothers received him not. Instead, they
plotted his demise. They despised and rejected him.
They sought to kill him. How many times did Jesus said,
you seek to kill me? And they said, no, we're not.
But of course they did all of the time. Christ was humbled,
was maltreated, was falsely accused. He was taken unjustly to the
court of trial. So was Joseph, humbled. from
that position of the well-beloved son of his father, taken and
maltreated and falsely accused, though he acted with integrity
in everything he did, yet he was falsely accused, he was unjustly
imprisoned, but all of it, all of it, though the wicked hands
that did it, were inexcusable, though the wicked hands that
did it bear responsibility for what they did, yet it was all
in accordance with God's eternal purpose of grace. Joseph's brethren
were impotent to avoid starvation. You know, that's what they really
were like. They thought they were so self-sufficient, but they were
impotent to avoid starvation. If God brings a famine, so are
we. If God brings a new strain of
virus that's the real article, so are we, impotent to do anything
about it. and so are we spiritually, impotent
to stand before a holy God and satisfy his just demands of righteousness
and holiness and that divine justice be carried out. Only
Joseph could do what was required. There's a famine coming. Only
Joseph could do what was required. So only Christ could pay his
people's sin debt. Nobody else was qualified. Nobody
else had the capacity. Nobody else accomplished that
which was necessary. Think of Christ's unjust humiliation. You know, I've already mentioned
it, let this mind be in you, that was also in Christ Jesus,
who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be
equal with God, and humbled himself, and came down, became a man,
and was obedient to his Father, obedient unto death, even the
death of the cross, the shameful cross, And it's all illustrated
by Joseph's experience. He was unjustly accused, yet
he retained his integrity. Christ was the one alone from
heaven who came to this fallen world, so Joseph walked with
God alone in an alien land. In the land of Egypt, nobody
else worshipped the true God, only Joseph there. You know,
I'd be a decent Christian if I had other people to support
me. Joseph was entirely on his own, and yet he maintained integrity,
and he walked with God, and God walked with him in an alien land,
as Christ was the one, the Son sent from heaven, with the message
from heaven, the divine message. No man's ascended up to heaven,
but the Son of man came down from heaven, with the word of
God, with the truth of God, into this fallen world. And there
he is, in this land of Egypt, all alone and treated so badly
and falsely imprisoned, yet maintaining his integrity. And in the prison
he comes across Pharaoh's butler and baker, who, because of one
of the whims of Pharaoh, they'd been put there as a punishment.
And they both had dreams. And Joseph rightly interpreted
their dreams, or at least, shall we say, God gave him the interpretation
of those dreams. And one of the dreams was of
the butler, that he would be restored to his office. And Joseph
said to him, don't forget me when you get out of here. But
of course he did. And two years later, Joseph wallows away in
that prison, maintaining his integrity for two further years,
unjustly imprisoned. And then one day, Pharaoh has
a dream. And the dream is from God. Because
remember who Pharaoh was. At this time, Egypt was the dominant
world power. You know when God scattered the
nations at Babel? He divided the languages. And
when we have nation states, then it was at that time that the
red horse of revelation rides forth, which is the horse of
war. The war horse rides forth. Conflict between nations. Can't
understand what each other says. And Satan's fight back against
that was to build the empires of the world. And the first one
was the Egyptians. And this was Pharaoh. This was
the top guy. This was Pharaoh, the boss over
the whole thing. And he has these dreams because
God God is going to do things in this world, where Joseph is,
in Egypt. He's going to do things for one
purpose, that the line from which he said Messiah will come will
be preserved for Messiah to come from that line. Because only
if he comes will his people be redeemed from the curse of the
law. And Pharaoh has these dreams and they're profound and they
have, oh, you know, if you think that we have a societal philosophy
that is vast and wise and deep and, you know, theirs was just
the same. And yet it was utterly impotent
to give Pharaoh any advice. It was an idolatrous culture.
What's idolatry? It's anything which is the worship
of other than the true God. Is that not the world we live
in? They say, well there's not much religion around. Oh yes
there is, totally. It's totally overtaken by idolatry. Godless idolatry. That our destiny
is in our own hands. Godless idolatry. They were completely
idolatrous, they wallowed in the wisdom of this world, they
generated the wisdom of this world, and it was impotent to
tell Pharaoh what these strange dreams meant. You know, this
was divine wisdom that came to Pharaoh. This wasn't some mathematical
model of the future, there's a little dig in there. Not some
mathematical model of the future, no, this is God speaking. to Pharaoh, the head of the main
empire, the one big empire of the world in those days. Do you
know what Proverbs 21 verse 1 says? The heart of the king? Even Pharaoh,
however godless he might be and idolatrous, but the heart of
the king, the heart of the one who controls things, is in the
hands of the living God. Pharaoh's heart is in the hands
of God. Pharaoh's desires, Pharaoh's
intentions, are in the hands of God. And Joseph is highly
exalted, because Joseph tells Pharaoh the interpretation of
the dream that God has given to him, and it seems so wise. What was the dream? There were
seven fat cattle came up out of the river, and seven thin
cattle followed them, and the thin ones ate up all the fat
ones, and then there were seven ears of corn, heavy, rich ears
of corn. And then that was followed by
seven that look like they've had a terrible time with a cold
east wind blowing on them and they're perished and withered.
And the weak ones, the thin ones, eat up the fat ones. And Joseph
said, it's a dream from God. And this is what the dream means.
There are going to be seven years of plenty, followed by seven
years of extreme famine in all the world. And this is what you
need to do. make the most of the good years,
and store away, so that when the lean times come, there is
grain there. And of course, Pharaoh thought,
well, what a wonderful plan. I mean, can anybody do any better
than that? Look, here is wisdom, and he recognized that it was
the God of Joseph that had given him this wisdom and this insight. And so Joseph is highly exalted. He's exalted to the highest position
of the land. Does that remind you of somebody
else who was highly exalted? I've already mentioned Philippians
2, 5-8, well listen to 9-11, Wherefore God also hath highly
exalted him, the Lord Jesus Christ, and given him a name which is
above every name, no name higher. No name higher. Nope, no name
higher. That at the name of Jesus, every
knee should bow at things in heaven, and things in earth,
and things under the earth, and that every tongue should confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.
The plan of salvation is here, and there's one alone who is
worthy to implement it. The plan of salvation from starvation
in Egypt, in all the world in those days, and there's one alone
who is worthy, who is able to implement it. Look what Pharaoh
says of him in verse 38 of chapter 41. Pharaoh said to his servants,
Can we find such a one as this, Joseph, a man in whom the Spirit
of God is? Oh, if the Spirit of God is in
him, even Pharaoh could see. Nobody can do any better. This
is the one that we need. This is the lion of the tribe
of Judah, pictured. You know when there's a plan
of salvation presented in Revelation chapter 5, the scroll written
on all sides of it with no white space left missing, it's the
plan of God to redeem his people from the curse of the law. Who's
going to implement the plan? And nobody is able to, nobody
steps forward, and John weeps. And the elder says, don't weep,
look into the middle of the throne of God. So he looks right in
the middle of the throne of God, and what does he see? Not a lion,
as the elder says, behold the lion of the tribe of Judah. No,
he doesn't see a lion, he sees a lamb, as it had been slain,
because in that capacity he's able to implement the plan of
salvation. This is all The life of Joseph
doing this, in saving so many from starvation, is picturing
Christ. Pharaoh's vision of wrath to come, starvation, is interpreted
by Joseph, by divine revelation, and Joseph's God-given wisdom
is obvious to all. Use the abundance of the plenteous
years to provide for the dearth of the famine years. The abundance
of righteousness of God that we require to see Him in Christ
provides for the dearth of righteousness that God requires. follow peace
with all men, and righteousness, holiness, without which no man
shall see the Lord. But in Christ he who knew no
sin was made sin for us that we, sinful people, his people,
might be made the righteousness of God in him." You see, Imagine
the dearth, the starvation. We have a starvation of righteousness
that God requires. We have a, if God is working
in us, a hunger and a thirst for righteousness, and we find
it in Christ. Eight years after chapter 41,
when the seven plenteous years have been and gone, and all of
the grain is stored away, huge surpluses to cover the following
seven years, in Genesis 41 and 55, when all the land of Egypt
was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. And Pharaoh
said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph, what he saith
to you, do. A starving people, the Egyptians,
and the countries round about, because it says that all the
countries came to Joseph to buy food. Desperate for food, about
to die, no hope of survival, crying out to Pharaoh for bread,
and what does Pharaoh say? Go to Joseph. Go to him. He's
the one who has the wisdom of God and has made the provision
that God has guided us to do. Go to Joseph. And so it says
in verse 56, the famine was over all the face of the earth and
Joseph opened all the storehouses. Not much use the grain being
there in the storehouses, with the people starving of hunger,
if the storehouses remained closed. But Joseph opened all the storehouses,
and sold unto the Egyptians. And the famine waxed sore, and
all countries came to Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn, because
it was a bad famine everywhere. So the starving people cry out
to Pharaoh, who points to Joseph, are you starving spiritually?
What must you have to see God? Holiness, righteousness. If you're
conscious of sin, it's because the Holy Ghost has made you conscious
of sin. A sinner is a sacred thing. The
Holy Ghost has made him so. Blessed are they, said Jesus
in the Sermon on the Mount, blessed are they who hunger and thirst
for righteousness, for they shall be filled. You know, it's a blessed
state, is hungering and thirsting. No, he didn't say, blessed are
those who are already righteous in their own sight. No, he says
there, that's as filthy rags. He says, but blessed are ye,
those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall
be filled. You see, knowing that without
righteousness, you will die eternally and justly under the condemnation
of God, the second death. It's not annihilation, it's the
second death. and aware of the wrath to come,
for it's appointed to man to die once, and then the judgment,
and longing for assurance of peace with God, that I might
lay me down in peace and sleep safely, for thou, Lord, only
makest me to dwell in safety, to lie down in peace with God
that comes from the certainty of justification, that my sins
have been paid for, my sins have been taken away, that the Lord
God, the Judge, has said He will not remember them any more. Well,
cry to God. Cry to God. Go to Pharaoh. Cry to Pharaoh. And he'll say,
go to Joseph. Cry to God. And he'll say, go
to Christ. For whosoever shall call upon
the name of the Lord shall be saved. Cry to God. Be merciful
to me. This is what you should cry.
What should I cry? Be merciful to me. As that, as
that publican did at the wall, there was the Pharisee who said,
it's one of the articles in the bulletin. He said, I thank you
that I am not as other men. And he didn't see, did he? And
yet the publican could see what he was, for the Holy Ghost had
made him aware of it. And all he could cry, be merciful
to me, a sinner. How should a man be just with
God? How to have that hunger and thirst for righteousness
satisfied, so that we do not die that death of eternity? God
answers, go to Jesus. As Pharaoh said, go to Joseph,
the Lord God says, when you cry, when you call upon the name of
the Lord, he says, go to Jesus, go to Christ, who himself, Christ
himself, says, Matthew 11, 28, come unto me, all ye that labour
and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon
you, for my yoke is easy and my burden is light. I will give
you rest for your souls. Rest from your anguish that your
sin will condemn you to hell, for in him it won't, for he has
paid it. Joseph opened the storehouses
of grain to satisfy hunger and preserve life, and Christ opens
the storehouses of redeeming grace. There's an unlimited supply. Is there any limit to the grace
that God can dispense for the people whom He has chosen? Not
at all. It's an unlimited supply. for
all who desire to be fed with the righteousness needed to see
God. And it's He that creates that
righteousness, and it's Him that supplies. When Joseph opened
the storehouses, there was enough grain to keep alive all who came
to him in Egypt to buy grain. And in Christ, there is enough
righteousness to qualify all who come to Him for eternal glory. What a blessing. What a privilege
it is. What an amazing position to know
this when the world around knows nothing of it. You know, those
who came to Joseph for food. Even the
brothers later on, you'll see in the next chapter, the brothers,
they're starving too. Now they know they need a savior
and they come to Joseph. And those dreams of Joseph are
fulfilled and their families are fed at the hands of Joseph,
the brother that they despised, you know. That's just a little
picture compared to the blessing felt by sinners who come to Christ
for redeeming grace from the storehouses of God's infinite
provision for His people. Blessed with every spiritual
blessing in heavenly places in Christ is what the Word of God
says. May you, may we all be brought
to hunger for it, to cry to God for it, to go where God points
us, to the Lord Jesus Christ. Go unto Joseph, go to Christ,
to have that hunger satisfied, not just a little, but to have
it satisfied to the uttermost. And that hungering and thirsting
goes on, and that hungering and thirsting is constantly satisfied. Amen.