Okay well we're coming back to
Genesis 39 this morning and I've run out of the gospel in titles
so this is Joseph brought down to Egypt and you'll see an article
in the bulletin that I've written about the way God uses pictures,
how he pictures gospel truth in Old Testament narrative. You
know it's a little bit like photographs versus paintings. I know there
are some exceptionally good photographers, but there is something about
a painting that captures mood and emotion and a kind of an
empathy with the scene that a sort of a straightforward, perfect
capture of the image of what the camera sees doesn't quite
do. You know, the artists, we have
a friend in Ireland who paints some absolutely gorgeous landscape
pictures, and it isn't just what the camera would take as a photo,
it captures the emotion of the scene. That's the power of a
picture, that's what it does, the mood and the emotion. the
empathy that there is with the scene. You feel that you're there,
you feel the ambience of the place. And God's Spirit paints
gospel pictures in Old Testament narratives of this family from
Abraham down, following the Tower of Babel, and Ur of the Chaldees,
and Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and now Joseph. This family from
whom the promised seed of the woman would come. to bruise the
serpent's head, to recover the fallen race that Adam sold for
nothing into the hands of Satan. Those whom Christ has come to
redeem, that race recovered, it's pictured in these Old Testament
narratives, so that we see things in a complementary way to the
crystal clear photography of New Testament doctrinal revelation. You know in the New Testament
it's absolutely explicit. In the Old Testament accounts
the gospel is more implicit. I know it's very clear in some
places but in some accounts it's very implicit and you need guidance,
you need light, you need enlightenment to see the truth of Christ that
is there, for He preached Himself to those disciples, beginning
at Moses and the prophets, all things concerning Him. And we
have this idea in abundance with Joseph, you know, he's a quarter
of the book of Genesis, the last quarter of it is taken up with
Joseph more than anybody else. He is such a clear picture of
gospel grace and of Christ coming into the world to redeem his
people from the curse of the law. You know, the events of
Joseph's human life that we read about, they stimulate those events,
reading them, having them preached, it stimulates in God's sheep. By sheep, I mean what Christ
meant when he said, my sheep hear my voice and they follow
me. His sheep, his believing people, the people that he's
calling by the preaching of his word. These events in Joseph's
life stimulate in God's sheep empathy, feeling, fellow feeling
with the redeeming purposes of Christ. You know, in a way that,
you know, the bold explicit doctrine is absolutely essential. Oh,
how grateful we are for the New Testament, crystal clear, explicit. But, you know, God hasn't left
us just with that. He's given us the whole Bible.
That's why I'm not a great fan of people who just carry around
a New Testament. Christ is the Word, and that
is all of the Word. The Old Testament, the history,
the poetry of the Psalms, the wisdom books of Proverbs and
Ecclesiastes, the prophets, the major prophets and the minor
prophets, all of that, all of it is the Word of God. Christ
is that Word of God. In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God. It's all His message. It's all about the redeeming
purposes of God in Christ. when he came to redeem his people
from the curse of the law. Old Testament implicit and complementary
to New Testament explicit doctrine. So God's purpose is the revelation
of gospel mystery to his elect multitude. You say, that's not
fair. Why doesn't he want everybody to know? Well, that's the way
his word says it is. And we bow to God. And God is
vindicated. Let God be true and every man
a liar. This is God's purpose. God's purpose is the revelation
of gospel mystery to his elect multitude. Read it. You'll read
it two or three times in the New Testament, in the epistles.
The mystery that he revealed to his saints, to his set-apart
ones for his holy service. Having eternally satisfied offended
justice in Christ when he came, the objects of salvation must
know the fact of it. Nobody passes into eternity as
a redeemed sinner who does not know that Christ has redeemed
them from the curse of the law. not only know it in their heads,
but feel the power of it in their emotions, and live in the good
of it in this life, as we battle with the flesh versus the spirit,
and the spirit versus the flesh. We're living in the good of the
gospel of grace, and even must suffer alienation from the world
because of it. This is what Christ has done,
he's eternally satisfied offended justice for the people who must
come to know it. When did he satisfy that offended
justice? You know there's a song, used
to be a song, it was made into a very successful popular song,
Oh happy day, oh happy day, when Jesus took my sins away, oh happy
day. What was the happy day? I'll
tell you what, the vast majority of so-called Christian religion
would say, the day when I believed God, the day when I trusted Christ
was the day He washed my sins away. No, that day was the day
you became aware of it. The day He washed your sins away,
in this unfolding of time of the history of this world was
at Calvary, when he died, having borne in his own body on the
tree the sins of his elect multitude, the Lamb slain in the justice
of God from the foundation of the world, in eternity, outside
of time, yet in time, when the fullness of the time was come.
He must come, and then it was. That's the happy day. That's
the happy day when Jesus washed my sins away. That is the happy
day. But we must come to know it,
and to feel the power of it, and to live in the good of it,
and to suffer alienation from the world because of it. We were
looking last Wednesday night, a few of us, at Ephesians chapter
1, 17 to 20, Paul's prayer for the believers around the New
Testament world, because it went to other churches other than
just Ephesus, and his prayer was that they might know doctrine,
that they might know and live in the good of that doctrine,
might feel the power of that doctrine, and know the purpose
of God in their lives. That was his prayer for them.
Do you have that knowledge, that experience of the fact that God
is bringing his people to know and to feel and to live in the
good of and bear the consequences of the truth of gospel grace. Well let's see if God will open
something of it to your experience of divine truth through Genesis
chapter 39. Just remind you of the background
first of all. Joseph was the favorite son of
old Jacob. He loved him more than the others.
The others were, quite honestly when you read the history of
them, they were a pretty evil bunch. They did some terrible
things, the other brothers, they really did. Not least what they
did to Joseph, the other ten before him. And yet, along comes
Joseph, the eleventh son of Jacob, and he's Rachel's son, her firstborn
son. Rachel, the wife that Jacob really
loved. Rachel, the wife that Jacob really
wanted, and worked for, and earned, and loved as his true wife, and
all the others were the wives of trickery and of customs of
the day. But Rachel was the true wife,
and Joseph was her firstborn. He loved Jacob, loved Joseph,
and somehow, we are not told how, but Joseph was divinely
marked out as separate from his half-brothers. Not only was he
the son of the truly loved wife, Rachel, but somehow, I don't
know what it was, but Jacob got him, made him one of those intricate
garments that showed characteristics of royalty. It was intricate
work. When it says of many colours,
it was cunningly, as the books of Moses say, it was cunningly
put together and woven and intricate and I don't know what anything,
any of the detail of the patterns or anything else because we're
not told, but something marked him out. And here he is, a 17-year-old
young man, and we touched on the story last week, how he had
dreams, dreams that he was marked out for divine favour, and for
a position where his 10 older half-brothers would bow down
before him, and they didn't like it. They hated him for it. They hated him because Jacob
loved him so much. They hated him because he was
of a character that was so different to theirs. They hated him because
he sought the purposes of God, whereas they sought the things
of this world. They hated him to the point of
murder. As we read in Genesis 50, Joseph
says himself, at the end of the account, to the brothers with
whom he's reconciled at long last. He says, you, because they're
frightened he's going to do them some harm. And he said, no, no.
He said, you intended what you did to me for evil, but God intended
it for good. They sold him into slavery. He
only just escaped them murdering him, because that was their intention,
that they should murder. And I think it was Reuben that
said, no, let's not do that, let's get some money for him,
let's sell him into slavery. And he hoped to come back and
release him, and some Ishmaelites came along, and they sold him
for 20 pieces of silver. And they went back and they lied
to Jacob. He must have been killed. Look,
we found this elaborate coat covered in blood, the blood of
an animal, but Jacob didn't know that. And as far as these ten
evil half-brothers was concerned, they were all in it together.
They had all conspired together to do it. They had all joined
hands in their wicked plan, that was the end of the problem. This
little big head, as they might have said, we've got rid of him,
he's gone. Daddy's little favourite, he's
out of the way, he's gone. And verse 1 of chapter 39, Joseph
was brought down to Egypt. Joseph was brought down to Egypt. Joseph, the picture of Christ,
was brought down to Egypt, the picture of the world. Egypt,
pictures. The world without gospel truth. That's what he pictures. Now,
don't get any ideas of the nation of Egypt in the day in which
we live being any better or any worse than any other nation.
It isn't. It isn't. You know, the people
of God, the elect multitude, a multitude which no man can
number, of every tongue and tribe and nation. must be Egyptians
amongst them, mustn't they, in the purposes of God. But in this
Old Testament era, it's picturing the world. It's picturing the
dominion of Satan. It's an idolatrous country, with
idolatrous rulers, who have no thought for the true God. They
do not seek the truth of God, they do not want the truth of
God. It's the kingdom of Antichrist. But you know, Even there, in
the Old Testament narrative, God points out that he has his
people there. Isaiah chapter 19, verse 24. I find this absolutely remarkable.
You know, Isaiah is talking about the blessings of God on the true
Israel of God, and condemning idolatry, but how God is sending
a Redeemer to redeem his people. And even in this book of Isaiah,
you know, 66 chapters, but here in chapter 19 in verse 24, In
that day shall Israel be a third with Egypt and Assyria. He's
talking about the kingdom of God, and it's all symbolical.
It's saying that there will be Jews and Gentiles in the kingdom
of God. Even ones from Egypt and Assyria,
even a blessing in the midst of the land, whom the Lord of
hosts shall bless, saying, Listen to this! Listen to this! Blessed
be Egypt, my people, and Assyria, the work of mine hands, and Israel,
mine inheritance. In these heathen lands, God has
his people. Isn't that good? Because the
country where you and I live, wherever you're watching this
from, is likewise. It's an evil nation of this world
in the kingdom of Satan, but nevertheless, God calls his people
in those places. So here is the favored, beloved
son Joseph, brought down to a life of servitude because, you know,
he comes down there and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain
of the guard, an Egyptian, he bought him from the Ishmaelites,
they sold him, they were slave traders, they'd paid money for
him and no doubt they made a profit selling him to Potiphar. And
so he's Potiphar's property. He doesn't belong to himself,
he's Potiphar's property, for the purpose of serving him, and
running his affairs. He's the favoured, beloved son
of Jacob, but he's brought down to a life of servitude in Egypt. Why? It's to fulfil God's purposes
of salvation of the messianic line. The line from which the
Christ, the Messiah, would come, the promised seed of the woman,
was going to come from this line. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and so
on down. He was going to come from this
line to redeem his people from the curse of the law. He must
come from this line and therefore there's a famine coming in the
affairs of the world, and if there isn't somebody to save
them from starvation, death by starvation, that line will die
out. So the reason Joseph is down
there in Egypt is, as we read in Genesis 50, when he said to
his brothers, you intended it for evil, but God intended it
for good. What was the good that God intended
it for? The salvation of his family. That the Hebrew little
group of 70 souls it was all together that came down into
Egypt, might grow into a mighty nation from which Messiah would
come in the fullness of time, when the fullness of the time
was come. God sent forth his Son made of a woman, made under
the law. Can you feel the injustice of Joseph's situation? Can you
sympathize with Joseph's plight? I'm sure you can. You know, how
unfair. You know, you might take the
view that he was a little bit of a precocious young man and
he did things that provoked his brothers to anger, but did he
deserve this? You know, did Jacob deserve such grief at what he
thought was the death of his son? Can you sympathize with
Joseph's plight? Are you touched with fellow feeling
for him? You know, it's good to be touched
with fellow feeling. Isn't it good that it says in
the Scriptures that Christ is touched with the feeling of our
infirmities? If you just read the doctrine
of Christ being made man for the purpose of redemption, as
good and as glorious as that is, you might just get head knowledge. but the Holy Spirit paints the
truth of it in human terms in the story of Joseph, that you
can sympathize with, empathize with. When God portrays the beloved
son Joseph as a servant in Egypt, he paints a picture of Christ,
God's beloved son, the second person of the Trinity, very God
of very God. the body prepared for him as
a servant on the earth, a willing servant of the Father. You know,
there again, you know in Exodus 21 it starts to give the rules
regarding keeping servants and letting them go free after seven
years and there comes the case where one says, I absolutely
love it in my master's house, I don't want to go free. And
he brands him with an earring, you know, pierces his ear against
the door with a sharp metal instrument. And there's a mark put in him
that for life he's his master's, he's happy to be his master's.
Do you know something? We think this is just about God
giving his people instructions on how to run a just society,
and well it does that, but do you know what it really is saying?
It's saying that Christ was the willing servant of his Father
when he came down to this world. Look at a few more scriptures,
Isaiah 42, you don't need to turn to them because I'll read
them, but Isaiah 42, listen to this, Right? This is hundreds
of years after the days of Joseph, but look what Isaiah writes under
the inspiration of God's Spirit. Behold my servant whom I uphold,
mine elect in whom my soul delighteth. I have put my spirit upon him.
He shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. Gentiles. He'll bring forth judgment to
the Gentiles. He shall not cry nor lift up, nor cause his voice
to be heard in the street. See, voluntary obedience. He's
not a rebel. He's submissive to the will of
his father. Look how gentle he is. A bruised
reed, he shall not break. That which is already bent, he's
not gonna break it, no. The smoking flax, oh, there's
no fire there, but there's a smoking, little bit of smoke. He's not
gonna quench it, he's not gonna put it out. he shall bring forth
judgment into the earth. He shall not fail, nor be discouraged,
till he have set judgment in the earth, and the isles shall
wait for his law. He shall not fail. He shall accomplish
his purposes. Look over a few more pages to
Isaiah chapter 50. Isaiah chapter 50 and verse 5. The law hath opened mine ear,
Is that an allusion to the willing slave having his ear pierced? The Lord hath opened mine ear,
and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back. I gave my back
to the smiters and my cheeks to them that plucked off their...
Is that not Christ? coming, but it's as a willing
servant he's coming. And then we read in Hebrews chapter
10, didn't we? In Hebrews chapter 10, which
is quoting Psalm 40. In Psalm 40 talks about a body
prepared. And you know, he says it's not
possible for the blood of bulls and goats, those picture sacrifices,
to actually take away sins. They were only pictures. It's
the reality that will do it. which is Christ. Wherefore, when
He, Christ, comes into the world, He says, that kind of animal
sacrifice and offering you didn't want. It was only a picture.
It doesn't do the job. But a body, a real body, a human
body, God manifest in the flesh hast thou prepared me. In burnt
offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hadst no pleasure. Then
said I, this is quoting Psalm 40, then said I, Christ, the
Redeemer, Then said I, very God of very God, the Lord said unto
my Lord, God of very God, lo, I come to earth, in the volume
of the book, in the scriptures, it's written of me to do thy
will, O God. He's the one that's coming to
fulfill everything which was those pictures, by the which
will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus
Christ once. Not repeatedly, once he did it. Quoting that psalm, And then
of course, we could turn to Philippians chapter 2. Philippians chapter
2, which I very often quote because it's so clear, verse 5. 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,
because He was God. He is God. He is God, He is the
express image of the person of God. But He made Himself, He
who lived in inconceivable glory, He made Himself of no reputation,
and took upon Him the form of a servant, Joseph, the beloved
son, went down into Egypt to a life of servitude. Christ,
this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased, made himself
of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and
was made in the likeness of men, and being found in fashion as
a man, he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even
the death of the cross. Wherefore God has also highly
exalted him and given him a name. Wherefore, you see, it's Christ's
humiliation as a servant that qualifies him as supreme ruler
of the universe, to whom every knee shall bow. Are these ideas
too high for you? We all have to say, yes, of course. Can we attain to it? Can we grasp
it? Psalm 139 verse 6, such knowledge,
the knowledge of God and his purposes of salvation, is too
wonderful for me. It's too high. I cannot get my
head around it. I cannot attain to it. But do
you know something? This is why God gives the story.
in the way of Joseph and how he was treated in Egypt. Your
human feelings might just about be able to attain to understanding
if God's Spirit reveals it to you. You might just be able to
understand Joseph's situation as a servant. and understand
something. You see, you might just think,
oh well, you know, God coming down, well of course he's God,
so what, what does it matter? No, he puts it in the form of
human experience that we might understand better, what it cost
for God to give his son as the ransom for sins. So back to Genesis
39, back to Genesis 39 and verse 2, the Lord was with, you know,
so he sold as a slave, He's in a humble position, he has no
liberty of his own, he's sold as a slave to a man who seems
to be quite a reasonable man, Potiphar, a man in a position
of authority, but the Lord was with him. Oh, what a thing to
have. You know, I know God is everywhere
and in a sense is with everybody, in a sense, but with his people,
and especially with his people through whom he's going to fulfill
eternal purposes. The Lord was with Joseph. You
know, he causes all things to work together for good to those
who love God, who are called according to his purpose. the
all-powerful God. You know, that's what Paul prayed
for the Ephesians, that they might know and understand something
of the power of God working to ensure that they are taken without
any doubt, without any possibility of failure. Christ shall not
fail, we read in Isaiah 42, into eternal glory. The all-powerful
God accomplishes this. He orders it and he accomplishes
it. And Joseph had the Lord with
him. And as a result, everything that
he touched prospered. It's not a health, wealth and
happiness gospel. This isn't follow God and everything
will turn out perfectly for you and all your finances will be
forever wonderful. No, but God will be with you. Lay up treasure in heaven. where
moth and rust doesn't corrupt, not on the earth. These things
on earth are just fleeting things. You receive them on an open hand
and you let the Lord take them away from an open hand. And you
say, as Job said, the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away. Blessed
be the name of the Lord. But here he is, this young man
who knew his God, and the Lord was with him, and he communed
with God, and he knew the Gospel of God, and he lives a life in
Potiphar's house of integrity, and honesty, and trust, and his
master Potiphar delegates to him all power and authority over
everything in his house. He didn't rebel and fight for
justice and freedom, but he knew his God. and he communed with
God, and he walked with God, and he'd learned God's revealed
purpose of salvation, and he accepted where God had put him. These are wise lessons for life,
aren't they? You can learn a lot, you can
learn a lot of human wisdom just from this story. That's what
many a book is, that's the extent of it, is just wise lessons for
human life. But you know, When Jesus was
teaching, he said, the Queen of Sheba came to see the magnificence
of Solomon. And then he said, but a greater
than Solomon is here. And I would say now, a greater
than Joseph is here in this account, it's Christ. The Psalms describe
Christ, of which Joseph is a type. Christ is the man of Psalm 1,
down in this world. Here's Joseph acting in complete
integrity in this world. And you know what? He's picturing
the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed is the man. Is that you
and me? I don't think so. Blessed is
the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth
in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
I'll tell you what, it is you and me, only as much as we're
in the Lord Jesus Christ. But this is Christ. The blessed
man that walks not in the counsel of the ungodly is the blessed
man that left eternal glory and came down to this earth for the
purpose of redemption. That's the blessed man, the blessed
man of Psalm 1. He is the trusted servant. Listen
to this, Isaiah 52 verse 13. This is God speaking. Behold
my servant Christ shall deal prudently. In him are hid all
the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. Prudence, he shall deal prudently. He shall be exalted and extolled
and be very high. Isaiah 53 verse 10, why was he
brought down here? It pleased the Lord to bruise
him and to put him to grief. Why did, is this saying that
God is vindictive? He is his son. God in the form
of a man walking this earth, and we read, it pleased the Lord. Why did it please the Lord to
bruise him? It pleased the Lord because it satisfied divine justice
for the objects of his love, his elect multitude, the multitude
that no man can number, chosen in Christ before the foundation
of the world, but sinners, and deserving of hell, and unqualified
for eternal glory, except Christ should come and bear that punishment
for them. And in the process of Christ
being bruised by his Father, it pleased the Lord, for the
justice was satisfied, and his people are redeemed." So as Potiphar
trusted Joseph, as his servant and committed all things to him,
the Father trusted his Son. God the Father trusted the Son.
You know, there is that possible ambiguous meaning of Ephesians
1 verse 12, who first trusted in Christ. As Robert Hawker said,
who was it that first trusted in Christ? The Father trusted
his Son. To finish the work of redeeming
grace, Jesus spoke much. What did he speak of? Doing his
Father's will. He set his face as a flint, utter
determination. To do what? To serve as a servant,
his Father, to finish the work. And so we read in Philippians
2 that he was obedient unto death, and not just any death, the cursed
death of the cross. He did it. And just as God blessed
Potiphar's house for Joseph's sake, because he was there, and
the salvation from starvation that he would accomplish at Joseph's
hands so that the Messiah might come, just as God blessed Potiphar's
house, so God continues to preserve and bless this sinful world so
that the course of salvation God's purpose of salvation might
be accomplished to its very end, as all of his people are called
out of darkness into his marvellous light. So how unjustly was Joseph
treated? We read the account earlier in
verses 6 to 12, you know, he's so favoured, but the wife of
Potiphar takes a fancy to Joseph. and wants him to commit adultery
with her. And Satan put powerful temptation in Joseph's way. He
was a fine-looking young man, barely 20 years old. We don't
know at what age he was exactly, but I would say 20 or so would
be his age. But he had such integrity and
faithfulness to Potiphar that he refused. He said it would
just be such an evil sin to do this, and he fled it. You know,
Christ In this even, he pictures Christ, for Christ was tempted
in all points, just as we are, yet without sin, as it says in
Hebrews 4.15. Yet Joseph, being innocent, he
was falsely accused, just as Christ was. Christ, who convinces
me of sin? Nobody. Nobody could bring any
truthful charge of sin against Christ. Those that live with
him knew that For three and a half years, they knew that he was
absolutely, perfectly holy. There was no sin in him. When
he met Peter, Peter said to him, depart from me, Lord, for I am
a sinful man. You want nothing to do with me.
But Jesus came into the world to save sinners. And it was the
lies of bribed witnesses that secured the conviction of Christ
in the court of the high priests. and of Pilate. The lies of bribed
witnesses did that, just as the lies of Potiphar's wife and the
scandal that she spread about him. Do you think for one minute
that Potiphar actually believed his wife concerning Joseph? I
can't believe so. If he had, if he had honestly
thought that Joseph had tried to rape his wife, then he would
have had Joseph not only put in prison, he would have had
him executed, and he could have done that. But he didn't. He
had him committed to prison. It's just like Pilate, Pontius
Pilate. He knew Jesus was innocent of
the charges against him. He wanted to let Jesus go. He
said, I find no fault in him. He's not worthy of death. I find
no fault in him. But we read, Pilate, willing
to content the people, delivered him to them and had him crucified. willing to content the people.
Joseph falsely accused, Joseph unjustly treated, Christ unjustly
treated. And all of it according to this. You know what Peter preached
on the day of Pentecost, he said this in Acts 2 verse 23, him,
Christ, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge
of God, ye Jews have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified
and slain. Him, the Christ of glory, His
deliverance to death was by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge
of God, for it was all in the purposes of God. Yet it was committed
by unjust, wicked hands. In human terms, it was utterly
evil. Though wickedly unjust, yet it
was to accomplish the divine plan of salvation. Christ was
unjustly condemned by wicked men, yet justly punished by God
for the sins of his people, that he bore in his own body, at that
time, in a way we cannot understand, but the Scripture says it, so
we believe it, on that cursed tree of Calvary, There, they
were totally guilty for the wicked thing that they did in unjustly
convicting him and killing him, and murdering the Lord of Glory,
and yet, it was all in the purpose of God that the sins of the people
he loved should be paid for under the justice of God. So in the
picture, Joseph had to be falsely accused of Potiphar's wife, to
be sent to prison, as we'll see later, to meet Pharaoh's servants,
to ultimately put him, Joseph, in Pharaoh's palace as the ruler
of the land for the purpose of the salvation of his brethren
from the starvation and death they would have suffered had
he not been there. You see that? I'll say it again.
In the picture, Joseph had to be falsely accused by Potiphar's
wife. You've taken Christ and wickedly
crucified him, but all for a purpose. Accused by Potiphar's wife to
be sent to prison to meet Pharaoh's servants, the butler and the
baker, to ultimately put him in Pharaoh's palace as the ruler
of the land, the prime minister over everything. to the purpose
of salvation. It's a good story, isn't it?
You have to admit, it's a good story. It really is. It's a good
story, and there's more to come in this account of Joseph. But
let me ask you, how does it leave you feeling? Okay? How does it
leave you? Learning moral lessons? Well,
that's all well and good, but it won't get you to heaven. Learning
moral lessons alone won't. Or does it leave you because
of what you've seen in Joseph? looking unto Christ, who has
saved those that, do you remember we read in Hebrews 2 last week,
who has he saved? You know Joseph saved his undeserving
brothers, didn't he? Christ has saved those he is
not ashamed to call his brethren. Who are they? Who are those people
that he saved? Who are they? Sinners. A sinner
is a sacred thing. The Holy Ghost has made him so.
Sinners who repent and believe on him. What must I do to be
saved? Christ has done it. But what must I do? Believe on
the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved. Amen.