I want you to turn with me this
week to the book of Genesis to chapter 37 and the first 11 verses. But we're going to look more
broadly at Joseph as a type of Christ and the picture of the
grace that's in our Lord Jesus Christ. And the reason for this
is that all scripture, the purpose of it, is not, as the religionist
seems to think, to tell us how we ought to live, to give us
guidance for life, to tell us that if you live like this then
all will be well with you and if you don't then these will
be the consequences for you. The purpose of the scripture
is to reveal the gospel of grace to the saints of God. to call
those who are the children of wrath, even as others, out of
their darkness into the marvelous light of the Son of God. And
he does it in so many different ways in the Scripture. He does
it, obviously, totally explicitly in the New Testament, where it's
absolutely plain what Christ has done, in the Gospels, in
the Acts, in the Epistles. absolutely clear. He does it
in poetry in the Psalms. He does it in types and pictures
in the prophets, and in the Old Testament scriptures, the historical
books, the books of Moses, all sorts of different ways. He shows
how he has accomplished his eternal purposes of grace as we were
reading in Romans chapter 8 those verses that talk about whom he
foreknew then he also predestinated and those he predestinated them
he also called and those he called he justified and those he justified
he glorified was all that he did in eternity and he brings
it into reality in time when Christ comes and all of the pictures
and the types point to him as Jesus himself said these are
there you search the scriptures he said to the Jews you search
the scriptures for in them you think that you have everlasting
life and you do there's nowhere else that there's everlasting
life There isn't everlasting life in any other piece of literature
that we have. Only in the scriptures, that's
where it is, but millions read the Bible and know nothing of
everlasting life, and know nothing of the assurance and the truth
of grace. But those to whom he reveals
it by his spirit, they do, in Christ, because the key is Christ. And you can look at some of the
pictures, Adam, Right at the start, typified Christ as our
current covenant head. You know, he was a federal head
over the whole of humanity. This concept of federal headship
and Christ is our covenant federal head of his people. Abel showed
forth the death of Christ as our sacrifice. Why was Abel's
sacrifice accepted and not Cain's? To show that it was in the death
of a lamb. that there was acceptance with
God. That's why that account is in the scriptures. It's to
show graphically that acceptance with God is in the death of the
Lamb of God, which is Christ, which Abel's Lamb prefigured.
Noah represented Christ. in saving his household by building
that ark, which is such a picture of Christ. And Noah bore the
wrath of God, but in the ark. And so we, the people of Christ,
have borne the wrath of God when we were crucified with Christ,
as Paul says. I have been crucified with Christ.
Abraham and Isaac portrayed the substitutionary sacrifice of
Christ. You know, Isaac was there to
picture it, and then, Father, I see the fire and I see the
wood, but where is the sacrifice? Don't be concerned, my son. God
will provide himself a sacrifice. And he did. There was a ram in
the bush. And what does it speak of? God,
our God, the God of the universe, provides himself with a sacrifice
in the place of his people. Isaac went free. You and me,
if we're in Christ, we go free. He went to the cross and died
in the place of his people. That was pictured in Abraham
and Isaac. All of these things are to picture it. Melchizedek
revealed Christ as our great high priest. Isaac pictured Christ
the promised seed, in whom all the nations of the earth were
to be blessed. Jacob saw Christ as a ladder. Do you remember
when Jacob had that dream? He had a pretty hard pillow,
it was a stone, and he had that dream of a ladder from earth
to heaven? And the angels of God going up
and down that ladder, and that was a picture of Christ, and
Christ himself said, John 1 at the end of it, to Nathanael,
he said, I saw you under the fig tree and you said this, you
surely are the Christ, the promised one of the Old Testament scriptures,
he said you'll see greater things than these, you'll see the angels
of God. going up and down from heaven
to earth upon the Son of Man. It's the ladder, the ladder.
So the purpose of that account is to point us to Christ. But
the fullest, probably, you could argue about it, but the fullest
and most complete and striking type of Christ to be seen in
the book of Genesis is this man before us now, this young man
Joseph, the son of Jacob. not the other brothers, his half-brothers,
but the son of Jacob, the beloved son of Jacob. He is the most
full picture of Christ in the Old Testament. Apparently, Arthur
Pink wrote about the way in which Joseph shows us Christ, and apparently,
I've not seen it, but he brings out more than two hundred likenesses,
you know, Joseph is like this which points us to Christ, two
hundred. I'm just going to bring seven before you this morning,
I think that's probably enough in the time that we have available.
Seven ways in which Joseph is a picture of Christ. And the
purpose of it is this. You say, what's this got to do
with me? Didn't all this happen so long ago? It assures you of
this, God's purpose of grace, in saving his people, in a substitute,
which is Christ. And how he is pictured, and the
assurance that gives to your soul, and the wisdom that you
see of God in the scriptures, in doing all things well, in
accomplishing all his eternal purposes, in picture, in type,
in actual reality. And what it means for us is peace
with God. Peace with God in our Lord Jesus
Christ. Joseph then, first, was typical
of Christ in his name. Joseph, of course, was named
Joseph by his father, Jacob, and his mother, Rachel, and that
was his name, given. And the name actually means Adi. adding. Where Adam had subtracted
from the human race, taken away from the human race, Christ has
added. He's added in righteousness,
in salvation. Joseph, the name means adding. Genesis 30, 24 is where you get
that from. The name means adding. But then
Joseph was given another name down in Egypt by pagan Pharaoh. He was given the name, and it's
difficult to pronounce, Zathnathparnia. That's in Genesis 41, verse 45. So he has two names, Joseph and
Zathnathparnia. Christ and Jesus are the two
names of our Saviour. His divine name is Christ, which
means Anointed of God, the Promised One of God. His human name is
Jesus, which is the same name as Joshua, which means Saviour. Our Lord Jesus Christ has these
two names, Son of God and Son of Man, Anointed of God, Saviour
of his people. his two names. Joseph means adding,
where Adam subtracted, Christ added. Christ is a benefit to
us. Zaphnath-paneer has a twofold
meaning as well, and it's this, you see it in Genesis 41 verse
45, he's revealer and provider. That's what it means, Revealer.
You know why he gave him that name? Because Pharaoh said, this
man, I'm going to call him Revealer, Zathnathparnia, because he revealed
the dreams that nobody else could reveal the meaning of. And provider,
in that, he provided for all of the needs of Egypt through
the years of famine. So is our Lord Jesus Christ.
No man has seen God at any time, but the only begotten Son who
is in the bosom of the Father, He has revealed Him. He's revealed
Him. And our Lord Jesus Christ is
Jehovah-Jireh. You know, again referring to
Abraham and Isaac and the Mount Moriah incident, There, what
that place was called was Jehovah-Jireh. God will provide. Because there,
God provided himself a sacrifice. In our Lord Jesus Christ, God
is revealed and a sacrifice is provided. These are the two meanings
of the name Zaphnath-Parnia that was given him in the purposes
of God by a heathen Egyptian ruler. Joseph was typical of
Christ in his name. All of these things in the scripture,
you know when Jesus said, these are they which speak of me, when
he walked with the disciples on the Emmaus road after his
resurrection, and they were despondent, and it says, beginning at Moses,
these books, and the prophets, he expounded to them in all the
Scriptures the things concerning himself. I know he wouldn't have
had time, physically, to expound every single detail of every
single verse of those books, but you know, it may well be
that he showed those disciples something of this, how that Joseph
was typical of Christ in his name. Then Joseph is typical
of Christ in his relationship to his father. If you look at
verse 3 of chapter 37, it tells us there that Joseph was loved
more than all of Jacob's children. He loved him more than all of
his other children. Jacob and the world looks and
the religious world looks and they say well there's an example
of how not to be fair with your children and there's an example
of things that are not right and this is a bad example. No,
he rejoiced when Joseph was born. Do you remember what Jacob did?
He went to work for his father-in-law and he worked seven years for
Rachel and His father-in-law tricked him. And on his wedding
day, you know, the bride was covered with her veil and she
couldn't see who it was in that culture. And he found that the
next day that he'd married Leah, the older sister of Rachel. And
he said, this is not fair. And his father-in-law said, well,
you must work another seven years before you can have Rachel. And
he did. And all that time he had sons. born to him, Reuben
and Judah and Simeon and all of these other sons that were
born to him. And okay, they were his sons
and he loved them, but then Rachel had a son. For Rachel was barren,
but then Rachel had a son, and that was Joseph. And that was,
you know, this was the wife that he loved and worked for. And
you may say, this is not teaching us about, you know, the book
of Genesis and the account of Jacob and his wives is not, is
not scriptural marriage guidance counseling. It's about God's
eternal purposes of grace. and he loved Rachel and he loved
Joseph more than all his other children he rejoiced when Joseph
was born in a way he hadn't rejoiced when the others were born he
distinguished Joseph from the sons of Leah making for him a
coat of many colors as we'll see shortly when Joseph went
away and he thought Joseph was dead because his brothers brought
that coat back covered in blood you know the blood of an animal
that they had killed and he thought Joseph was dead. It broke his
heart, his sorrow. It was an overwhelming grief
when Joseph, he thought, was dead. He took a long journey
in his old age for one reason, when a man of his age in that
land in those days would never have ventured far. But he took
a long journey because the prospect, he would see Joseph before he
died. And he committed, when he was
down there in Egypt, of all of his sons, it was to Joseph that
he committed himself. When he said, when I die, take
my bones back and bury them in this place. And it was Joseph
that he made to swear. And Joseph to whom he committed
himself completely. And so it is with Christ. There
are so many pictures of Christ there. As Joseph was the object
of his father's love, so the Lord Jesus Christ is the object
of his father's love. This unique love. Isn't it good? You don't feel jealous of him,
do you? As a believer, you don't feel
jealous of Christ, that there is this special... You rejoice
in it because it's the basis of your relationship with God.
As Joseph was the object of his father's love, so the Lord Jesus
Christ is the object of his father's love. John 3.35, The father loveth
the son, and hath given all things into his hand. This is the position
of our Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord delights in His Son. If you read in the book of Proverbs
in the eighth chapter, what you read there is about wisdom. And
it's wisdom personified, wisdom with a personality speaking. And it's Christ who is wisdom
from God. He's made unto us wisdom from
God and righteousness and sanctification and redemption. In Him, we read
in Colossians, dwell all the treasures of wisdom. and knowledge. He is wisdom from God, and wisdom
speaks. Christ speaks in Proverbs 8,
verse 22. The Lord, his Father, possessed
me, Christ, in the beginning of his way, before his works
of old. Then, verse 30, then I was by
him, as one brought up with him, and I was daily his delight,
rejoicing always before him. This is Christ. and the special
relationship between the Father and the Son. In Matthew 3, in
the New Testament, Matthew 3, 17, and lo, a voice from heaven
at his baptism saying, this is my beloved Son in whom I am well
pleased. There was never a voice came
like that for any other person. The special relationship between
the Father and the Son. In chapter 17 and verse 5, on
the Mount of Transfiguration, this is my beloved Son in whom
I am well pleased. hear ye him he is the one and
God has given all things into the hands of his son John 13
verse 3 Jesus knowing that the father had given all things into
his hands and that he was come from God and went to God the
man Christ Jesus As he walked this earth, he knew as a man
that he was come from God. He knew that the Father had given
all things into his hands. Those are words that are so easy
to say, and yet so profound to plumb the depths of. The Father
has given all things into the hands of the Son. And then Christ,
the Son of God, has preeminence over all things. As Jacob loved
Joseph more than the others, God delights in our Lord Jesus
Christ. And Christ is preeminent over
all things. Colossians 1 verse 18. He is
the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn
from the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence.
Joseph was the object of Jacob's love, of Israel's love. That
was the name of Jacob, Israel. Because he was the child of Israel's
old age. Verse 3 says he was the child
of his old age and here again is a picture of Christ from all
eternity. He is the Son of God. He is the
eternally begotten Son of the Eternal Father. He is God, truly,
very God of very God. He is equal with the Father.
He's of the same substance as the Father. In the beginning
was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
He was in the beginning with God. All things were made by
Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made.
He's not a creature of God. That verse proves it. But God
the Creator, this is who He is, the Son of God. God the Creator,
in whom all the fullness of the Godhead dwells. How do I know
that? Because Colossians 2.9 tells
me. In Him, all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily.
He is, as Paul writes to Timothy, 1 Timothy 3.16, God manifest
in the flesh. God made known in the flesh.
special relationship between father and son, and again, a
story, a delightful story, an intriguing story, well known
by so many, and yet all its elements are pointing to these spiritual
realities of the truth of the gospel of grace, of sovereign
grace, of God's love for his people, of God's provision of
salvation in his son. Then thirdly, Joseph represents
the Lord Jesus Christ in his occupation. And he was a shepherd,
says there in verse 2 of chapter 37. He was feeding the flock
with his brethren. He was a shepherd, as were so
many. But the Lord is my shepherd. Our Lord Jesus Christ is the
good shepherd. He's the good shepherd in his
sin-atoning death. John chapter 10, verses 11 to
16. I am the good shepherd, says
Jesus. The good shepherd gives his life
for the sheep. But he that is an hireling and
not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf
coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf catches them
and scatters the sheep. The hireling fleeth, because
he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep. I am the good
shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine. And as
the father knoweth me, even so know I the father. And I lay
down my life for the sheep, and other sheep have I, which are
not of this fold. Them also must I bring, and they
shall hear my voice, and there shall be one fold and one shepherd. And Peter says this, 1 Peter
2, verse 25. For ye were as sheep, going astray, you who are saved. You were as sheep going astray,
but are now returned unto the shepherd and bishop of your souls. Joseph pictures the Lord Jesus
Christ in that he was a shepherd, and maybe this is reading more
into it than the scriptures reveal, but you know, you get the impression
that here is a sneaky telltale who goes home and tells his dad
what naughty boys the older brothers were being. But you know, I think
there's something in this that says this, The other brothers
were acting with their own self-interests at heart. They were like highlings. Joseph was being a true shepherd
of his father's sheep. And in that, I think that is
probably the true situation, in that he pictures Christ, who
was not the highling, but comes because of the love of his sheep.
He's the great shepherd in his resurrection, our Lord Jesus
Christ. Hebrews 13, that blessing, that
benediction, now the God of peace that brought again from the dead
our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood
of the everlasting covenant, make you perfect in every good
work to do his will. And he's the chief shepherd in
his glorious second advent, 1 Peter chapter five, verse four, when
the chief shepherd shall appear, you shall receive a crown of
glory that fadeth not away. Christ is the shepherd of his
sheep. The shepherd of his sheep in
that he cares for his sheep. He has unceasing devotion for
his sheep. He provides constantly for his
sheep. He watches over his sheep. All
of these things are things that the Scriptures assure us. He
has blessed patience because he knows what we are, he knows
our weaknesses, that we are sheep. He is a peaceful presence for
his sheep, who leads us into things that are only ever for
our eternal good. Those green pastures and those
still waters that Psalm 23 speak about. Christ, our shepherd. Our Joseph, our Christ, is our
shepherd. Then, fourthly, Joseph is a picture
of Christ in his coat of many colors. In verse 3 we read about
that coat of many colors, how it was the gift of Jacob to his
son, out of all of his sons. And of course it's very easy,
and many do, find fault with Jacob for giving Joseph a coat
of many colors. Why did he give him it and not
to all of his brothers? This was a This was a really
elaborate coat. This was a good, this wasn't
some old, I believe that there's a song by Dolly Parton, isn't
there, that talks about that old coat being a coat of old
rags, but no it wasn't, it was an elaborate coat. This coat
was providentially and prophetically significant. This coat was a
coat made with great care. It was given to Joseph by his
father, by Jacob, as a mark of distinction and honor. Because
it's all in the purposes of God, to show us the distinction and
honour of the Lord Jesus Christ. It separated Joseph, the son
of Rachel, from his brothers, his half-brothers, the sons of
Leah. It identified Joseph as one of
noble birth, distinct from the others. There's a verse in 2
Samuel 13 verse 18 which talks about a woman and it says, position, that eminence that
God the Father bestows on God the Son. God, our Heavenly Father, distinguished
His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, from all others in His earthly
life. Think of His birth. Think of
his birth, you know, with the stories so familiar from nativity
plays and so on and so forth. But think of his birth. Which
other baby was born and choirs of angels came and sang, glory
to God in the highest and peace on earth, goodwill to men? Never
was there such a heralded birth. At his baptism, The crowds were
coming out of Jerusalem to John to be baptized but only for Christ
did the heavens open and God come down in the form of a dove
and rest upon it and the voice come from heaven saying this
is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. A coat of many
colors was put upon him. He's distinguished from others.
Many had their feet washed, but he had his feet anointed with
ointment, precious ointment, by that woman who wept and wiped
his feet with her tears. When he died upon the cross,
God made it obvious, apparent, that this was no ordinary man,
so that that Roman centurion was heard to Christ, surely this
was the Son of God. There was three hours of darkness.
There was an earthquake. Matthew tells us that the veil
of the temple was torn from top to bottom and saints of God. Dead believers came out of their
graves as a sign of the resurrection to newness of life which is in
the death of the Lord Jesus Christ. Truly this man was the son of
God. Throughout his life, God the Father put on his son a coat
of many colors and distinguished him. Then fifthly, in his character,
Joseph was a type of Christ. He excelled his brothers in every
feature of his character. As I've already hinted, I think
that when it came to being shepherds, I get the impression that Joseph
was the honest shepherd, the hardworking shepherd, the one
who had nothing in mind, but his objective was the good of
his father's sheep. The others, what they could get
out of it for themselves. what they could, the trading
perhaps that they could do on the sidelines for themselves.
He excelled his brothers in every feature of his character. And
so Christ excels all the sons of men in the infinite excellence
of his character. Joseph was obedient to his father
where the others weren't. Joseph was righteous in his behavior,
where the others were immoral. They were immoral. They were
immoral in their relationships with others, in their dealings,
they were immoral. Joseph was faithful to God. Joseph
was kind to men. Joseph was patient in all of
his suffering. Those years he spent in prison
in Egypt, Joseph was patient in all that situation. He was
a type of Christ. He was a picture of what our
Lord Jesus Christ went through, that he might save us. There's
that old hymn that I'm reminded of, that none of us know the
night that our great shepherd went through when he went out
to save his sheep, when he went out to rescue his sheep. I think
you know the him I'm referring to. None of us have any idea
how dark and how rough was that which he went through in order
to save his sheep. And in all of that, Joseph is
a picture of our Lord Jesus Christ. Sixthly, he was a type of Christ
in his actions, in what he did, he pictured Christ. Joseph was
sent by his father into the wilderness to visit his brothers. It's the
next verses that follow on in chapter 37 from where we read.
And his brothers treated him contemptuously. You might say,
well, he deserved it for being such a big head with his dreams
about how they would all bow down to him. You notice that
Jacob, Jacob thought there's significance in what this lad's
saying. I wonder if this is the purposes
of God. Joseph was sent by his father into the wilderness to
visit his brothers, and when he got there they treated him
with contempt. So the Lord Jesus Christ came into this dark wilderness. He was sent by his father to
visit and redeem his people. And when he came here, how did
they treat him? How did they treat our Lord Jesus
Christ? Just like Joseph was treated by his brothers, hated
without a cause, his own kinsmen conspired and plotted to kill
him? Joseph was taking food for them. Joseph secretly fed and cared
for his brothers in their time of need. Later when he was down
in Egypt and the corn had run out and he gave them corn for
free in their sacks and they didn't know that he was the one
that was doing it. They didn't know him, they didn't know who
he was and providentially he was caring for them and our Lord
Jesus Christ cares for his people. He leads and guides every step
and it's only after the event you look back and you know He
was leading me in that situation, He was keeping me. The Lord Jesus
secretly cared for and fed and protected His people when we
didn't know Him. It's like the account in Hosea
about Hosea and that woman that he married who was an adulteress. And it says, for she did not
know that I gave her corn and wine and oil and multiplied her
silver and gold when she was treating him, Hosea her husband,
so spitefully, so wickedly, Yet, all that time, he was providing
for her needs, and so Joseph was with his brothers. Joseph
being innocent, suffered much at the hands of his brothers.
They betrayed him. Is that not what we did? Our
sins, by our sins we betrayed him? We sold him? His brothers
imprisoned him. His brothers delivered him up
to die. So far as they knew, Joseph was dead. If we'd been
there at Calvary, we would probably be with the crowd, but for the
grace of God, we would have been there with the crowd, crying,
crucify him, crucify him. Joseph did nothing but good for
his brothers, though they fully deserved his wrath. When he came
to that position of power, when he was in that position of power
in a word he could have had them executed for what they did but
he did nothing but good for them and so Christ who was and is
so greatly abused by us does nothing but good for us for his
people in the time of love it says Joseph revealed himself
to his brothers chapter forty five in the first three verses
in that time of love he revealed himself to his brothers and so
Christ at the time of love reveals himself by his spirit to God's
elect. Behold thy time was the time
of love. The Holy Spirit comes and that
one who was a child of wrath even as others has the Lord Jesus
Christ revealed to them. And then Joseph forgave his brothers
everything that they'd done to him. Everything that they'd done
to him. He assured them that he was in
the place of God for the salvation of his household. That God had
put him there. Genesis 50, they were worried
when Jacob had died, is now Joseph gonna get his revenge on us because
we did terrible things to him. And Joseph said unto them, fear
not, for am I in the place of God. I think that's the wrong
way around. The translators made it a question. I think he's saying
he is in the place of God. He's where God put him. But as
for you, ye thought evil against me. but God meant it unto good. to bring to pass, as it is this
day, to save much people alive. Now, therefore, fear ye not."
Think of what this is as a picture of Christ and how we cruelly
treated him, how we were there with that crowd, cruelly treating
him, and yet there he was doing all for the salvation and the
good of his people. Now, therefore, fear ye not,
he says to them. I will nourish you and your little
ones. And he comforted them, and he spake kindly to them.
So Christ forgives us. Christ assures us of God's purpose
of grace. Though we killed him, the Lord
of glory, he's in the place of God to save his people. And Joseph
also taught his brothers to love one another. Genesis 45 and verse
24, see that you fall not out by the way he told them, love
one another as Christ told us, love one another. So the Lord
Jesus above all else teaches his disciples, teaches us to
love one another as I have loved you. Then seventh and finally,
Joseph was a very striking picture of Christ in his exaltation. Do you remember those dreams?
And the way he told them, the dreams about the corn and the
dreams about the stars and the sun and the moon, his two dreams? He's greatly exalted. Those dreams
came true. They all did bow before him.
Every knee bowed before him. The corn is speaking of Him being
Lord of the earth. The stars is speaking of him
being the Lord of heaven. He's exalted by Pharaoh. He's put in a position above
everybody else. And so God exalted his son and
gave him a name that is above every name, that at the name
of Jesus, every knee should bow. Joseph was raised to the highest
honor. So is our Lord Jesus Christ,
that in, what does it say? All things, he should have the
preeminence. Joseph was given unreserved dominion
But for the place of Pharaoh himself, Joseph was given dominion
in all the land, all the land, and so it is. God has given all
dominion, all authority to his son. He's placed all authority
in him. He's given him a name which is
above every name. And every man in Egypt was required
to bow before Joseph. They all had to come and bow
before Joseph. Look what he's done. He saved
us alive. Wherefore, this is what Philippians
says, God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which
is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee
should bow, that things in heaven and things in the earth and things
under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus
Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father." Anyone who wanted
anything from Pharaoh's bountiful store was required what to do? Go to Joseph. Go to him. What
do you stand in need of in terms of your relationship with God?
What is it that you want from God? You want forgiveness of
your sins. that you might face death without
that guilty conscience. We want righteousness from God,
that we might see him, for without it no man shall see God. We want
peace with God, we don't want to be his enemy. We want eternal
life from him. We want strength from God. We
want comfort. We want direction. What does
the scripture say? Go to Christ. Go to Him. Christ is all, Christ has all,
Christ gives all, all things are in Christ. This is our Joseph,
this is our Lord Jesus Christ, who to us is in the place of
God. If you would know God, how must
you come to Him? No man comes to the Father, said
Jesus, but by me. He is in the place of God. He
rules all things. He possesses all things. If you would live, if you would
have eternal life, you must go to Joseph. You must go to the
Lord Jesus Christ. What a lovely picture. I mean,
it barely scratches the surface, but what a lovely picture that
the scriptures are replete with pictures of how our Lord Jesus
Christ fulfills everything that we need in respect of righteousness
and the forgiveness of sins and the provision for this life and
that which is to come.