Now you can open your Bibles
to Genesis Chapter 41. I recommend that you stay a little
bit ahead of me in Genesis and read these chapters so that you
have a kind of a working knowledge of what's in here. But there's
57 verses in this chapter, and we don't have time to go through
all those verses. Though I may come back and refer
to some of them as we go along. But if you'll just kind of bear
with me a minute, I'll try to get you up to speed on and try
to sum up what this chapter's all about. Now, last week we
left Joseph down in prison. And he had come to the baker
and the butler and revealed their dreams to them. And to the baker,
it was bad news, and they took him out. He said, in three days,
they're going to take you out, and they're going to have your
head. But to the butler, it was good news. He said, full restoration
for you. But he said, one thing I'm going
to ask of you when you get back up there in your job and you're
waiting on old Pharaoh hand and foot and you're right there in
his presence where you can whisper in his ear and you hand him that
cup, tell him about me. Tell him that I'm down here wrongfully
charged. Tell him that my treatment is not justified. I'm here wrongfully charged,
sold into slavery. Tell him my plight." And so he
said he would, but he didn't. The last verse of that chapter
says that the butler forgot Joseph. He forgot him until Pharaoh had
his dream. When Pharaoh had this dream that
troubled him, this butler got to thinking about it. Because
Pharaoh called in all the magicians, and he called in all the wise
men, and he called in all that should be able. That was their
function in his court, was to tell him these dreams that troubled
him and interpret them. But they couldn't tell him the
meaning of these dreams. And this butler knew that Pharaoh
wasn't going to let this thing drop. He was going to begin to
ask around. And sooner or later, it's going
to be found out about Joseph and his own butler. And the butler
knowing all along that Joseph could have interpreted these
dreams. And he saw real quick he was about to get in trouble.
He was on his way back down to the prison. And so he said, now,
Pharaoh, he said, before I get in trouble, let me tell you about
what happened to me. And he tells him about Joseph.
And so Pharaoh calls for Joseph. And we'll get into this just
a little bit later on, but they brought him up stinking, smelling. Now, he had the highest job there
was to have down in that prison, but a dungeon's a dungeon. I
don't care what your title is. A dungeon is a dungeon. If you
stand down there as a guard, you better go home and wash them
clothes, because it smells like a dungeon. And so they washed
his clothes, and they shaved him, and they put new raiment
on him, and they brought him up into Pharaoh's presence. Pharaoh
told him those dreams, and he said, it's been told me that
you can interpret dreams. And he said, well, let's just
stop right there. He said, only God can do that. And he has used me for that before,
and he may show you the interpretation of yours. And so Pharaoh told
him his dreams, and sure enough, the Lord did interpret those
things through Joseph. And through that interpretation
of dreams, old Joseph was so Highly thought of by Pharaoh,
he was so impressed with what he did, Winston, he promoted
him to second in command over all his kingdom. Put him in a
chariot and sent people out before him crying, this is Joseph, now
bow down. And he was second chariot from
Pharaoh all over that kingdom. Now the lesson tonight is this. This is what impressed me in
this chapter, a name above every name. That's what Joseph pictures. You already knew where I was
going with this. I'm going to preach Christ. That's where I'm
headed with this thing. The Lord of glory took this simple
shepherd boy. That's what he was, a simple
shepherd boy. And he appointed him to be Lord
of Egypt. A simple shepherd boy. And he
overruled every event, every circumstance, every barrier,
and made him ruler over this wicked land for the preservation
of his father's house. Now that's just exactly what
Christ did. He came into this world as a
nobody, born in a manger of a couple that nobody looked to to produce
a Messiah. You can read Isaiah, it talks
about it. This world esteemed him not. He was born, he said he made
himself. That's what he said in Philippians
chapter 2. He made himself of no reputation. None. But God overruled every event,
every circumstance, and every barrier and made Him ruler over
all. And there's no end. If you go
through this chapter, there's literally no end to the lessons
taught in the life of Joseph. There's lessons in here of humility,
sincerity. There's lessons in here of serving
God even when the day seems to go contrary to it. There's lessons
in here about faithfulness. There's lessons in here about
honesty. There's lessons in here about
devotion and family life, morality, and patience. But the major theme
of Joseph is the Lord Jesus Christ and his redeeming grace. Now,
I'm going to give you four things tonight to think about. And I'm
going to tie this thing in also with the preacher and the preaching
of the gospel as I go through this thing because I don't think
you can separate these two things. It's the Lord Jesus Christ that
I'm attempting to preach. That's the goal. That's why I'm
here. I told the folks over in Wichita
Falls, I'm not trying to promote this church. I'm not trying to
build something for my name. I'm trying to represent my God
in the preaching of the Lord Jesus Christ. If he's exalted,
I'm happy. If everybody goes out the back
door, I'm still going to be happy because that's my goal. That's
my goal. I'd love to see this place full.
I'd love to see them sitting out in the yard. I'd love to
be over here building a new auditorium because we can't hold all the
folks. But whether that happens or whether it don't, my goal
is to exalt Him and glorify Him and to set Him forth. And so
it is in the life of Joseph. Joseph's life really means nothing
apart from that. Take those things that he represented
toward the Lord Jesus Christ. Take all those typical things
away from Joseph and his life is just meaningless. It's meaningless. I want to give
you four things tonight to think about as you study this chapter.
And the first thing I want for you to consider is the forgotten
prisoner. I thought about that as I read
that last verse. Yet did not the chief butler
remember Joseph but forgot him. He forgot him. Now, his own brothers
dug a pit. They despised him so much, and
they knew he'd be coming out, and they knew he'd be telling
them about his dreams, and telling them that that's what the straw
that broke the camel's back is when he come out there and told
them they was all going to bow down before him. That did it. They
started digging the pit that day. And they dug that pit, and
they throwed him in it, and they sold him in as a servant, sold
him off into Egypt. And they did everything in their
power to forget Joseph. And their father, they caused
him, as best they could, to forget Joseph. Just forget him. The
wild beasts would eat him. That's how they left their father.
And their father began to forget about Joseph. His own brothers
put him in the pit. Did the best they could to blot
him out of their memories. And then Potiphar who knew and
recognized this man's qualities and turned everything in his
house over to him. And he ran it with such, such
a quality, Nathan, that everything, he didn't have to worry about
anything except what he said on the table. The only thing
he had to worry about. He didn't worry about income,
and servants, and business, and how the house... Joseph took
care of that. He knew that. He knew this man's
qualities. And don't tell me he was married
to this woman and didn't know about her. He knew exactly what
she was. You don't live with a wife and
not know what she is. He knew what she was. But Potiphar,
who knew and recognized Joseph's qualities of character, and knew
the deceitfulness of his wicked wife for his own pride of heart
and personal reputation, put Joseph in iron, throwed him down
in the prison, and tried to forget him. But he couldn't. He couldn't. And later on, there was nobody
raised Joseph up to be in charge of anything in that prison without
Potiphar. He was the captain of the guard
of that prison. That prison was his responsibility,
and nobody did anything in there without his okay. You can book
it. His conscience got to bothering
him. And he went down and said, well, take them irons off of
him. He can come around and be in
charge of these prisoners. And then down in the prison,
he interpreted these dreams of these two condemned men. And
the one, by his prophecy, was restored, promised to remember
Joseph when he went back up there to serve. But he forgot Joseph.
Everybody forgot Joseph. Everybody forgot it. Now let
me show you something over here in Romans chapter 1. Natural men, believing and unbelieving,
are warned in the Scriptures not to forget God. Don't you
forget God? David said in Psalm 9 verse 17,
the wicked shall be turned into hell and all the nations that
forget God. You better not forget. God hath not left Himself without
a witness. Christ is the light, He said,
that lighteth every man that cometh into the world. His light
shines in the creation of His hands. Without Him was not anything
made that was made. You can't go out here and look
at creation to deny creation to deny God. Somebody said, well,
you can believe in evolution and still believe the Scriptures.
I beg your pardon. No, you can't. No, you can't. By Him were all things created
that are in heaven, that are in earth, visible and invisible,
whether they be thrones or dominions or principalities or powers.
All things were created by Him and for Him. And there was no
reason for Egypt Pharaoh, or the providence that threatened
its existence, except what God purposed to do in Joseph. And
so it is in all creation. There is no reason for creation,
part and cross. None whatsoever. That is why
God did this, for His glory. We all, we spend our days and
times past doing our dead level best to forget God. Suppressed
our consciences. We've done things and our consciences
are pricked. And what we do? Did our dead
level best to stop that conscience. Try to keep that conscience from
crying. When you do that, what you're doing is trying to forget
God. That's what you're trying to do. Look over here in Romans
1, 18. For the wrath of God is revealed
from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who
hold the truth in unrighteousness. Because that which may be known
of God is manifest in them. It's recorded. For God hath showed
it unto them. Verse 20, For the visible things
of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen. being
understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power
and Godhead, so that they are without excuse. They don't want
that knowledge. You read through this chapter.
They didn't want that knowledge. They don't want that wisdom.
They don't want that light. And so they become vain in their
imaginations, and their foolish hearts darken, and professing
themselves to be wise, they become fools. and tried their dead level
best to change the glory of God into something like undecorruptible
man and birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things. Wherefore,
God gave them up. Gave them up. Gave them over
to themselves. It says down in verse 25, they
changed the truth of God into a lie. That's what they did.
Now, what's he talking about here? He's talking about men
with men and women with women. How did they change the truth
of God into a lie? Because that relationship between
a man and a woman is the most visible, clearest revelation
of Christ and His Church that there is in this world. And they
left that. They turned that truth into a
lie. And so God gave them up. God gave them up. In verse 28,
and even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge,
they wanted to forget Him, God gave them over to a reprobate
mind to do those things which are not convenient. He said,
this is what you want. Here it is. Multiply this same truth times
women ordering their husbands around contrary to their nature,
Take this same truth toward effeminate men, allowing their wives to
get away with it. Take this same truth and use
it where servants tell their masters what to do and how to
do it. You take that truth and multiply
it times any order that God has established in this world, and
what you're trying to do is forget God. That's what it is. That's what it is. Everybody
forgot Joseph. There was only one reason for
everything that was going on. It was Joseph. And everybody
forgot him except God. Everybody except God. Take that
times David. Read the life of David. What
happened? David was anointed to be king. Everybody forgot
David because they had Saul. And old David, he was just shoved
out of the picture. He was shoved out here in exile.
The only one in that whole outfit God had a mind on was David. And so it is here with Joseph.
He's down in the prison and he's down in the pit. He's forgotten
by everybody. Forgotten by his brothers and
forgotten by Potiphar and forgotten by his evil wife and forgotten
by those two men that he interpreted dreams to. He's forgotten. Everybody
forgot him except God. Everybody forgot him but God.
While the butler was busy forgetting Joseph, God was thinking on him.
That's what David said. The Lord thinketh on me, my soul. Next time you get in trouble,
just sit there in the dark and think on that. He thinketh on
me. While his brethren, Potiphar
and Potiphar's wife and all of them busy trying to forget Joseph,
God was arranging and ordering all things for Joseph's sake.
to save their undeserving souls. They'd all starve to death if
it wasn't for Joseph. Now listen to this. He said,
when you were yet without strength in due time, Christ died for
the ungodly. God commendeth His love for us
in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. We forgot
Him, but He didn't forget us. He never did. He said, I'll never leave you.
I'll never forsake you. There was never a time from eternity
when God did not think on us because He thought on His Son.
He put us in His Son. While this unbelieving world
went their own way and went after their own lusts and ambitions
and goals, God looked on His beloved. Looking on his son,
he keeps this ungodly world in check. Peter said it's reserved
under fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly
men. But he said, know this, God is
not slack concerning His promise. He's not slack. We are, but He
ain't. And He's long suffering in this
preservation of the world. He's long-suffering in this thing
of the perdition of ungodly men. He allows it to go on, and he
allows it to stir, and he allows the confusion to multiply, multiply,
multiply. Why? Because he's not willing
for any of his elect that he put in his son. He's not willing
for one of them to perish. But he's long-suffering, he said,
to us. Not willing that any should perish,
but that all should be brought unto repentance. Everybody forgot
Joseph, but God. And here's the second thing I
want you to see in this story. A troubled monarch. A troubled
monarch. The pharaohs of Egypt believed
themselves to be gods. Did you know that? Have you ever
studied anything about the Egyptians? They believed themselves to be
deities. That's why they built these huge pyramids and went
through all this embalming process and all this stuff that they
did. They put live servants and horses and I don't know what
all in them pyramids when they buried them. Because they believed
they were deities. And these things were just going
to be all these treasures and all this stuff they put in them
pyramids. But I sat and I thought, why?
Why do they believe that? Well, the reason why they believe
that they were gods is as old as sin. It's as old as sin. Oh, Satan, he said, Isaiah said,
fell from heaven like lightning, because he said in his heart,
I'll be like the Most High. That's what he said. Let me tell
you where he said it again, in the garden. He said, in the day
we eat that, we're going to die. He said, you're not going to
die. He said, the Lord that told you
that, He knows when you eat that tree, you'll be like gods. Ain't that what He told? You'll
be like gods. And then over in 2 Thessalonians
chapter 2, it says when that old man of sin, that son of perdition,
reveals himself in the world, By opposing all the authority
of God and exalting himself above all that's identified with God
and by which God is worshipped, he'll sit in the temple of men's
bodies and in their minds as God. Ain't that what it says? As God. Showing himself that
he is God. Isn't that what he tells men?
God can't do anything with you without your will, without your
decision. God can't do anything. I've heard
them say, God's hands is tied. And the prophet, he said, evidently
this thing's as old as men, these things that we're hearing in
Armenian religion right now. It's as old as religion. Because
the prophet, through the prophet, God said, you're going to say
of me, I have no hands, I have no eyes, I have no feet? Is that
what you say about me? Isn't that what men say? That's
exactly what they say. He has no eyes but your eyes.
He has no hands but your hands. He has no feet but your feet.
If you don't walk, he can't walk. What kind of God do you got? The pharaohs of Egypt believed
themselves to be God because foolish men told them they were.
That's why. That's exactly why. There's no proof of it. There's
no evidence of it. Just a superstitious man like
Cain being given over to a reprobate mind. Leaving the house of worship
and the like, he went on to live in the land of Nod. And why did
he go there? So he could preach what he wanted
to preach and worship the way he wanted to worship and believe
what he wanted to believe. That's why he did it. That's
why men do what they do today. What's being preached in the
average pulpit today, you don't need a Bible to preach. You can
preach the same thing with a Look magazine. You can take a dictionary. Use it. You can use any common
magazine to base their lives. The only reason they use Bibles
is to lend some credibility to what they're saying. You begin to talk to the average
preacher about the Bible, he don't know anything about what
I'm telling you tonight. Don't know anything about it. What I'm saying is something
has to happen to interrupt the rule and reign of the God of
this world. Christ told the hypocrites of
His day that the strongman arm keeps His palace and His goods
are at peace, always at peace, until one stronger than Him comes
in. That's what has to happen. That's
what has to happen, and that's exactly what did happen in Pharaoh.
God come into his mind and heart with a dream that troubled him.
God has to intervene in our lives and in our minds and trouble
our hearts. And God must break into the everyday
events and course of this world or we'll just continue on in
our rebellion. We'll continue on in our ignorance
until we wake up in judgment. God troubles the heart. All the
magicians and diviners and wise men can't interpret the dram.
Oh, they can give their speculations on it, but it don't help that
troubled heart. He called on the magicians and
the wise men, but they didn't have anything to comfort him
with. And then the butler remembered Joseph. And he told the king. And the king called for him.
And Joseph tells the king that Both the dream and the interpretation
is of God. Now, what do I see in that? He who sends the troubled heart
is the only one who can speak peace to it. That's it. Couldn't you explain these things?
I can't. There's no way I can explain these things. I went
through there, but I know absolutely, 100% positive that these things
is exactly in line with the Word of God. How do you know that?
Spirit of God on the way. Joseph said, it ain't in me.
Verse 16. It's not in me. God shall give
Pharaoh an answer of peace. That's the only one who can. I sit up here and say the word.
That's what my little grandbaby asked me one time. She was down
here visiting and she was on her way back to back. She came
over here and she said, you going to say the word, Papa? I said,
boy, I hope so. I hope so. But if I'm the only
one that says a man will do you any good, he's going to have
to say it. All right, now watch this. Here's
the third thing I want you to see. Standing before this potent
tank is a man virtually unknown. He
didn't know. Everybody else forgot about him.
He's down there in prison. He's a convict. He's a felon
coming out of the king's prison. Standing before this great potentate. They were gods over their people
and over their nation. Here's this man, here's Joseph,
convict, standing before him. Pharaoh didn't know anything
about him except what he heard the butler say. That's all he
knew about it. And as Pharaoh listened to what
Joseph said, he perceived the Spirit of God to be in him. He
said, where is a man like this anywhere in my kingdom? Think about that now. A convict
standing before a potentate, and the potentate listens to
him talk, listens to what he's saying. listens to his testimony,
listens to his interpretation of what's troubling his heart.
And he said, the spirit of God's in that man. I remember the very first time
somebody just stood up and said something to me about the sovereignty
of God and about election and predestination and things. I
never heard anything. I didn't know. If somebody started
talking about election, I'd have wondered who was running for
office. I didn't know anything about election. Never heard the
word predestination before. Didn't know what it meant. Had
to look it up in the dictionary. And somebody just kept telling
me, because I didn't have anything. I didn't know anything about
these writers or anything. And I had a big old family coffee
table Bible out there in front of me full of pictures and names
and relatives, and it belonged to my grandmother. Back in the
back, it had a little concordance. And I got back there and started
looking up predestination and things. And he'd give me a few
references. That's the first time I ever
knew it was even in the Bible. And so I'd start, people would
ask, well, what did you ever find out about that sovereignty
stuff or that predestination stuff? And so I'd tell them,
you know, well, it talks about over in Romans chapter 8, and
it talks about Doverian Ephesians 1. You know, I can't give you
an explanation for it, but it says what it says, you know,
and I'm trying to find it. And finally, one man come up
to me one day, and he said, boy, man, he said, you need to turn
your TV on next Sunday morning. He said, there's a man on there
preaching about these things. And I said, there ain't nobody
on TV on Sunday morning preaching about this stuff, you know. Yeah,
he said, there is, too. So I did. And Brother Mahan started
preaching. I'll never forget it. The very
first time I listened to Henry Mahan on Sunday morning TV broadcast,
I felt while I listened to this man talk that he must be the
wisest, most spiritual man I ever met in my life. I didn't know
him from the man in the mountain. I didn't know anything about
his background or what he preached. I didn't have any knowledge of
the gospel whatsoever. But I listened to that man preach,
and God gave me a reverential fear of that man. Henry Mahan
ain't this tall. Man, I feared him like I would
Muhammad Ali or somebody. I mean, it just... How do you explain that, Russell?
How do you explain that fear? Here stands a convict I just
want to press this home to. Here's a convict. He spent seven
or eight or nine years in prison. They had to bathe him before
you could even stand to smell him. And they shaved him. And
they brought him up out of that dark dungeon and stood him up
there before a potentate. And that potentate listened to
this man interpret what troubled his heart. And he said, the spirit
of God's in him. And he took that ring off his
finger and he took it over there and put it on Joseph. And he
said, nothing's bought and sold in Egypt apart from him. Nothing's
done in Egypt apart from this man, say so. Nobody goes to that
prison without Joseph. Nobody eats apart from Joseph. Nobody drinks apart from Joseph. Huh? He committed everything
in his kingdom into the hands of Joseph. He said, here it is. Here it is. I'm going to go sit
on the throne. You run things. Now ain't that
what the Father told Christ? Here it is. Here it is. You read about it over there
in Ephesians chapter 1. Who first trusted in Christ?
Who's that? That's the potentate. That's
God the Father. He said, here it is. It's yours. It's yours. And appointed this
man of no reputation. Huh? Over everything. You can
read about it over in Colossians chapter 1. Joseph's vision could have been
from any of the magicians or the wise men. All he gave Pharaoh
was just words. No other evidence. He gave Pharaoh
the words that God laid on his heart. And the Spirit of the
living God pressed that testimony home and made it effectual in
the heart of that old kid. Until his dying day, Joseph run
that whole outfit. All right, here's the fourth
thing. Upon the testimony of Joseph and the wisdom he perceived,
the character he admired, the truth of which he was convinced,
Pharaoh committed everything into his hands. Now let me tell
you something. Preachers that preach Christ
that set Christ before the people. That's what happens when God
comes in your heart. That's exactly what happens.
I can't explain it. There's no way to explain it.
I just know it's so. I just know it's so. They don't
promote programs or organizations or demonstrations, and they don't
promote themselves. Paul said over in 2 Corinthians
4 or 5, we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and
ourselves your servants for his sake. It's for Christ's sake. We have this treasure, he said,
in earthen vessels that the excellency of the power may be of God and
not of us. And the way he said we got this
treasure is that the God who commanded the light to shine
out of darkness shined in our hearts to reveal the glory of
God in the face of Jesus Christ. That's how we got the treasure.
And he shined it in his old earthen vessels that the glory might
be of him. The excellency is going to be
of him. Listen to me. Joseph didn't argue
with Pharaoh. He didn't come up there and he
said, now I've got five points. Now I know what you magicians
are saying and I know what you wise men are saying, but here's
how it is. He didn't do that, did he? He went up and he said,
here it is. Boom. He just told him what it
was. He didn't offer any evidence. He didn't offer any proof. He
didn't offer any anything. He just said, here's the way
it is. Oh, God teach me to preach that
way. Just stand up here and tell it like it is. I ain't gonna
have it. We'll go home. Hit the road. Roll the dice. Here's the way
it is. God buckled the knees of that
old potentate. He took everything he had and
said, here it is. It's yours. That's what happens
when God saves sinners. They say, here it is. They don't
do this. They don't reach in there and
say, here it is. They say, here it is. Here am I, Lord. Here am I. Oh, but old Pharaoh
received it. And he received it, I want you
to hear me, he received it as if it had come from the lips
of God Himself. Yes, he did. He heard this old
convicted villain and so overwhelmed with what he heard that he gave
his kingdom, the fullness of it, into his hands. All right,
here's the fifth thing. Pharaoh gave him a name above
every name. Now, I looked this up and I'll
probably butcher it, but here's the name. It's Zaphnath-Paeonea. That's what he called him. Zaphnath-Paeonea. It's the only time that word's
ever used. There's no explanation of it
anywhere in any book that I ever read. Nowhere. It was a name. There's no way to even explain
what the name means. It's pure Egyptian. It's not
Hebrew. It's not Chaldean. It's 100%
pure Egyptian. And there's not another name
like it. Not even Pharaoh had a name like this name. Zaphnath
Paeonea. And here's what it means. It
means governor over the realm of life. That's what it means. It means ruler of Goshen. We're going to get into Goshen.
You remember all the plagues come into Egypt, but Israel's
down in Goshen. And the plagues didn't come down
there. They just fell on Egypt. He's ruler of the realm of life. Ruler of Goshen. It's a name
of majesty. It was a title. but it was more
than a title. It was a declaration of character,
but it was more than a declaration of character. It had to do with
authority and office and station and majesty and dignity. He took
this convict and turned everything over into his hand and gave him
a name. Now, ain't that what happened
when Christ came down here? He said, let this man be in you,
which was also in Christ Jesus, our Lord, who made himself of
no reputation. took upon Him the form of a servant,
was made in the likeness of men. And being found in passion as
a man, He humbled Himself and become obedient unto death, even
the death of the cross. Wherefore, God also hath highly
exalted Him, raised Him up, gave Him a name above every name,
that at the name of Jesus every knee go and bow. Everton going
to confess that he's Lord to the glory of God. Zaphnath Aeneas, a name above
every name. And he said, you put him in the
second chariot. And he said, and you send strong
man out before him. And you tell him to run out there
and tell them ignorant people to bow down. Joseph's coming. Joseph's coming. Bow down. Bow down. Bow the knee. Well,
that's what the gospel is. I'm telling folks, bow down.
Christ is coming. God give Him a name above every
name. Now bow down. Submit to Him. Submit to Him. Pharaoh took that
ring, the royal seal, and put it on his hand and dressed him
in royal apparel, fine linen and purple. and sit there in that chariot.
And then Pharaoh went over and gave him a priestly bride. That's what his church is. She's
a priest. God hath made us kings and priests
unto him. Gave him a priestly bride. When the foretold trouble came,
the people all come crying to Pharaoh, and they cried for bread.
We don't have any bread. We're starving to death. Where
are we going to get bread? He said, go see Joseph. Go unto
Joseph. Look at it down there, verse
55, Genesis 41. Go unto Joseph. Are you hungry? Go see Joseph. Are you confused? What did he say he was going
to do with Joseph? He said, he's going to teach all your senators. And he's going to put your princes
in line. That's what he said. Are you
confused? Go see Joseph. Are you worried? Go to Joseph. Joseph rules my
house. Anything you desire of me, you'll
have to get it through Joseph. And I'll tell you this, every
son of Adam who's convinced of God that Jesus is the Christ,
He commits all that He has into His hands. And He has nothing
else to say to men except this. Look to Christ. Look to Christ. Look to Christ. You don't think those people
out there, when the people went out and said, look to Joseph,
don't you think those folks said, well, who's Joseph? Hey, you
just park right there and let me tell you about Joseph, huh?
That's out of witness to men. Tell them, look to Christ. Who's
Christ? All right, just sit down right there. Let me tell you.
Let me tell you who He is. He carries the seal. All those
who trust in Him are sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise. He
wears the name. At the name of Jesus, every knee
is going to bow. Call on that name, He said, you
shall be saved. And then let me close with this.
Turn with me over to Psalm 105. Let me read you a few verses
of Scripture. Listen to how David, you know,
I stand up here tonight and I'm telling you how this story is.
Well, here it is. I'm not the only one who found
this story. God revealed this story to David
too. Psalm 105. Look here in verse
17. Talking about Israel, he sent
a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for
a servant, whose feet they hurt with fetters. He was laid in
iron until the time that his word came. That word foretold
from the beginning. You remember Joseph in the beginning
telling his daddy, all my brothers are going to bow down to me,
and so are you. His daddy said, now wait a minute,
son. You saying I'm going to bow down? Yeah, you're going
to bow down. The rest of them hated him for
it, but his daddy kind of held that word and thought on it.
Foretold from the beginning, the word of the Lord tried him.
The king sent and loosed him, even the ruler of the people,
and let him go free. And he made him lord of his house.
the ruler of all his substance, to bind his princes at his pleasure
and teach his senators wisdom. Israel also came into Egypt,
and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham. And he increased his
people greatly and made them stronger than his enemies." Are you worried, troubled, hungry,
and thirsty? Go to Joseph. Go to Joseph.