Now if you'll flip back to Genesis
39 and 40, I'll be coming back and making references in these
verses. My subject tonight is the interpreter
of dreams. This seemed to follow Joseph
all through his life. He dreamed dreams and told them
to his brethren and they Got angry at him and he told him
again to his father and his father didn't understand and he got
upset with him. And these dreams were that his
brothers and his fathers would kneel before him. And kneel before
him they did. Before it was all over. This
was the vision that God set upon his heart. Joseph was a prophet. And then, all through his time,
He interprets these dreams, and interprets these dreams. So I
want to, I think these dreams are very significant. That wasn't
where I intended to go tonight, but there's something here for
us, and I want to see if I can work on it just a little bit
tonight. Joseph had been falsely accused, cast into, and I don't
believe, we need to pay special attention when we read the Word
of God. The Holy Ghost When he inspired
these writers to write, he inspired them verbally to put certain
words in, key phrases that a believer can pick up on, but an unbeliever
just scans over and goes through it. It means nothing to him.
A man who takes this book with no spiritual insight whatsoever
can read it, and he's not going to get any of these things that
I'm going to tell you and talk about to you tonight. But he
uses words, and these are the first ones. He calls it the king's
prison. The king's prison. That's in
there on purpose. The king's prison. Joseph had
been falsely accused and cast into the king's prison. But even
in this awful place, God reveals in him his attitude and his character. And the keeper of the prison
commits everything. everything to Joseph's hand,
all the prisoners that were in the prison. And it says in Genesis
39, 22, whatsoever they did there, he was the doer of it. Nobody
did anything without Joseph. Nobody. Everything was committed
into his hand. He was in charge of them, just
as he was in the house of Potiphar. That same character, that same
spirit, that same attitude that he lived before Potiphar, even
though he was sold to him as a slave and entered there as
a servant, there was something in his person that convinced
Potiphar to commit everything to his hand. And as we looked
at last week, at the end of the time, Potiphar, the only thing
Potiphar concerned himself with was his daily bread. He didn't
He didn't worry about any of the other affairs. They were
in Joseph's hands. Joseph could take care of it. What a beautiful picture that
is of faith established in the hearts of men. And even so, it
says here that the keeper of the prison looked not on anything
that was under his hand. He didn't concern himself with
it. Not that they didn't see him or not that they totally
ignored him, but they approved of what he did. They saw what
he did and approved of it. They were in agreement with it.
And they saw in him the ability to do it. And everything he did here, it
says the same thing about it that it did in Potiphar's house.
The Lord prospered it. Prospered it. And I think that's
such a Out of context word, if you will,
for a man who's been sold into slavery and despised by his brothers
and now he's falsely accused and he's down in prison and God
said he's prospered. Everything he's done, he's prospered. And that's the way it is with
a believer. Circumstances don't dictate prosperity. What dictates
prosperity is the fact that the Lord was with him in all that
he did. He was with him As a servant,
he was with him as a prisoner. And then you find later on the
Apostle Paul, who also had to go down into prison, he would
never say that he was a prisoner of Rome. He'd never admit to
that in a million years. He said, I'm a prisoner of the
Lord Jesus Christ. Now, he put me here, and don't
be ashamed of me, nor of my sufferings. Everything he did in this place,
the Lord prospered. just like He did in Potiphar's
house. Now, it says the Lord was with you. Has God Himself
become one with man in the person of Christ and prospered all that
He did? You remember, Joseph is a picture
of Christ. I'm using these things as an
allegory. Some of you haven't been here and heard these things. But these things are allegories
and pictures and types. And I'm using Joseph as a type
of Christ. And as a type of Christ, God
prospered everything that he did as a man, as a representative
man. He came and he humbled himself,
it says, and took on him the form of a servant. That's the
first thing Joseph did, wasn't it? He become obedient unto death,
even the death of the cross. And I'll show you a little bit
later on how he went into the prison. But the Lord prospered
him. He prospered him. And having
the mind of Christ, it says in Philippians 2, verses 5 through
15, he said, let everybody, every man, work out his own salvation
in fear and trembling, for it's God that worketh in you both
the will and to do of his good pleasure. You can't do it of
yourself. Joseph couldn't do it of himself,
but the Lord was with him. He just keeps saying that over
and over and over. The Lord was with him. And that
being so, he said, do all things. Now, if it's the Lord in the
believer working both to will and to do of his good pleasure,
Paul said, then let's don't murmur. Huh? That makes sense, don't
it? Let's don't murmur. Do all things
without murmuring. Do all things without disputing.
What are we going to dispute about? If it's God in you working
both to will and to do of His good places, then we've got nothing
to dispute about. It's all of grace and none of
us. And if this work in us be the
work of God and the work of grace and effectual in us by the Spirit
of God, we don't have anything to murmur or dispute about. But
he said that we'll be blameless. and harmless, the sons of God
without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation,
among whom you shine as lights in the world." Do you ever think
of yourself shining? Boy, I don't. That's hard for
me to think about. But he said here that we shine
under this crooked and perverse government in this world. We
shine as lights, but watch how he says this, holding forth the
word of life. That's how he shines. And Joseph is in the prison.
He's in the king's prison, and all the prisoners have been committed
unto him. Now what's that sound like? Is
that not Christ? He came into the prison house
of this world, and God committed all the prisoners into his hands.
All of them. Those that He shows grace to
and those that He don't, they're all in His hands. He has all things, the Bible
said, in His hands. Listen to this in Romans 14,
verse 7. He said, For none of us liveth
to himself, and no man dieth to himself. Don't you get tired
of hearing somebody when they start talking about their self?
And all that they've done, and all that they have, and all that
they've made, and all that they are, and all that they're going
to do is just... That's why he calls that number 666. That's
man, man, man. That's all that is. That's what's
in his forehead. That's what's on his mind. He
said, for whether we live, we live unto the Lord, and whether
we die, we die unto the Lord. Whether we live, therefore, or
die, we're the Lord's. Now that's the bottom line. We're
the Lord's. For to this end Christ both died
and rose and revived, that He might be Lord both of the dead
and the living." And then in John 17, verses 1 and 2, it says,
the Father glorifies the Son in His person. He said, glorify
Thou me. Now watch this. He glorifies
Him in His person and He's getting ready to glorify Him in His work,
which in turn, He said, is going to glorify the Father. He's going
to glorify me that I might glorify Thee, as Thou hast given Him
power over all flesh. Why? Why would He do that? Don't you find this strange that
this man named Joseph, his father recognized his special qualities
and he loved him above all his other brethren and made him this
coat. That's the Lord Jesus Christ.
And His brothers despised Him. And they dug a pit and put Him
in it and sold Him out. And here He is down here in Egypt.
Now what God's going to do with Joseph is He's going to redeem
those brothers that despised Him. That's what He's going to
do. But now here He is down here and a woman lies on Him. And
then He goes to prison. And then He's in prison. And
now He's the head over the prisoners. What on earth has this got to
do with salvation? with salvation. Well, that's
what this verse here in John 17 is talking about. Thou hast
given him power over all flesh that he should give eternal life
to as many as Thou hast given him. That's what it's about. And what I'm laboring to point
out to you tonight is that Joseph was where he was and how he was
and people treated him the way they treated him on purpose.
God's purpose worked through this whole thing. And that purpose
was the salvation of the whole house of Israel. And that place
where He was in the circumstance of the day didn't appear like
it. There's no way you could look
at the circumstance, this boy's end, and see salvation. Just
like natural man sees Christ and he cannot see that end accomplished
on that cross. All he can do when he looks at
that with natural eyes is feel sorry for Jesus. That's all he
does. He sees no glory in it. That thief hanging on that cross,
he didn't feel sorry for Jesus. He saw a king going into his
kingdom. Now that is exactly the difference between believers
and unbelievers. It might not appear like it,
but that's what was going on. Joseph was born to rule. And
his lordship was one of character and spirit. His rule wasn't just
in title alone, but his rule was in his person. It was in
his character. It didn't matter where he went.
If he was sold into slavery, he was raised to rule the house.
If he was cast into prison, then he ruled the prisoners. He was
born to rule. And the Lord Jesus Christ, when
He came into this world, although it didn't appear like it, He
ruled in every event, in every circumstance, and over everything
that happened in His entire life. There was nothing that happened
contrary to the purpose of God. Because the Lord was with Him.
The Lord was with Him. The Lord Jesus Christ. As a man, he was foretold by
the prophets, and his word and his character
and attitude won the hearts of men. And as they did, they willingly
committed all things into his hands. What did they commit to
him? Well, they came with their diseases,
and they committed such authority to him that they believed he
could take them away. They came to Him with their demon
possessions, believing that He had the authority to cast them
out. They came to Him with their shattered lives, believing that
He had the authority to straighten them up. They came to Him in
darkness, believing Him to have authority over light and darkness.
He had authority to command these words. Never a man spake like
this man. They came to Him in their trouble,
because even the winds and the waves obeyed His word. They came to him in their ignorance,
believing him alone to have the wisdom to teach them. And these
heathen men of Egypt, they discerned the presence of God in Joseph,
not by his habits alone, but by his spirit and attitude and
conduct among them. They just could not believe what
they saw. Now here he is. He's down here in the prison. Old Egyptian heathens had raised
him up and made him ruler over all and committed into his hands
all the prisoners in the king's prison. And into this king's
prison came two of Pharaoh's servants, his butler and his
baker. And both of them were charged
with serious crimes. The old historians, I don't know
how much you can put in what they have to say, but they both
said that a rumor was heard by the king that somebody intended
to poison him. So that kind of makes sense to
me why he would have thrown them both in there. And until he could
learn which one it was, they'd both go into prison. And he just
wasn't going to take no chances. So both of them were charged
with these crimes, and both of them were cast into prison. And
both of these men dreamed dreams that left them distressed and
sad. What is a dream? I've had dreams. I mean, I know what they are
in that sense, but what is a dream? Well, the dictionary defines
a dream as a series of images, ideas, and emotions projected
on the mind while in kind of a semi-conscious state of sleep.
It can be a wild fancy or an aspiration or even an ambition. It can be something really good.
really fine and really pleasant or it can be an absolute nightmare.
A dream. A dream very simply is an image
of the heart and mind. That's what it is. It's an image
projected out of the heart on the mind. And the mind plays
it over and over and over in your sleep. And you see it just
like it's real. Just like watching a movie in
your dream. You watch it in your Now, let me tell you something.
All men are prisoners in the king's prison. All of them. We all died in Adam. In Adam,
we all become prisoners of the king. Now, I want you to listen
to these scriptures. I'm just going to quote you a
few of them. Our Lord back in Isaiah 61.1, you remember that
morning he stood up and they delivered the scrolls to him
and he read them? This is the scripture that he
read back here in Isaiah chapter 61. The Spirit of the Lord is
upon me, because He hath anointed me to preach good tidings to
the meek. He has sent me to bind up the
brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening
of the prison to them that are bound. We're all in prison. That's where we're at. Listen
to this, Isaiah 42.6. I the Lord have called thee in
righteousness and I will hold thy hand and will keep thee and
give thee for a covenant of the people for a light unto the Gentiles. That's Christ. To open blind
eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison and them that
sit in darkness out of the prison house. All men are prisoners
in the king's prison. Now, when we talk about man,
I stand up here and I talk about man and I sometimes set what
men talk about free will and I set that in a bad light, free will. Because
I believe our nation is absolutely plagued with the idea of free
will. And when I say a man has not
a free will, I'm not saying to you that he don't have a will.
I'm saying to you that his will is in bondage. He has a will. And God's not going to save anybody
unwilling. He's going to be willing if God
saves him. But it's not going to be by his will. And I don't
know of anybody other than Rob Barnard that's ever said this,
but he said it this way. God saves a man against his will
with his full consent. And that's exactly what he does. I don't mean to say that he has
no will. And when the scriptures declare that salvation is not
of him that willeth nor of him that runneth, it does not mean
that God bypasses man's will or saves unwilling men. When
I talk about man's will not being free, I'm talking about the confinement
of his will because of his fallen nature. Everybody in this prison
was free as far as them chains would reach. They'd go four or
five feet, couldn't they? In any direction. But that's
as far as they could go. Now, you might sit there and
dream about being outside, but you ain't going any farther than
what them chains are. That's as far as your will can
go. That's as far as it can go. We're all in the king's prison,
and we're free as far as our shackles and bars will allow
us. Natural man's heart and his mind
is constrained by limited vision, just like theirs was. You know
what they can see? They can see the other prisoners.
Now you try, you try sometime, go down here, one of the worst,
I don't know anything about it, but every town's got to have
a worst spot. You go down in the worst spot
over there in Texarkana, and you pick out the roughest, rowdiest
bar in there, You go in there and go over and sit down in the
corner and sit there all night and you watch what these men
say and what they do and you try to come up with a vision
of God. Try to evaluate your righteousness
based on what these men do. Now that's what we do. We look
at one another and try to judge ourselves by how he acts. And
we won't find somebody better than us, we're going to find
somebody down in the bar. See, he don't even go to church.
Why? He's nothing but a drunk. See? Well, I'm looking at his bad
qualities, and I'm looking at what God has done in me by grace,
and I'm trying to form some kind of a self-righteous opinion of
myself. These prisoners in this prison couldn't interpret their
dream because all they had around them was people just like them.
People just like them. They had limited vision. And
I've read and heard men say, I don't really know too much
about it, but they tell me there's no guilty men in prison. They
all claim they're innocent. That's what I find. I'll tell
you this, if I could find a guilty man, I got good news for him.
But I can't find a guilty man. A thousand times worse is the
confinement of the soul. That man's bound in chains of
darkness. And he's surrounded by men as
bad or worse than himself. The Bible said there's none good.
I can't even. That rich young ruler run up
to Christ in all his life. He'd been a moral man. He tithed. He attended the synagogues. He told the Lord. He said, what
must I do to be saved? And he said, well, you can keep
the law. He said, all that I've done. I've done that. So the Lord just stopped him
in his tracks, and he said, why callest thou me good? You see, that'll shatter your
ideas of keeping the law right there. He didn't know him. He didn't know who he was. He
didn't see him as God good. He didn't see him God in Christ. He just saw a man that was moral
like he was, and he just run up and said, good master. Good
master. The Bible said there is none
good, none righteous, none that understandeth, and none that
seeketh after God. He said he looked down from heaven
and every imagination of the thoughts of man's heart was only
evil continually. Natural man who professes the
knowledge of God are called in the Scripture filthy dreamers. That's what they are. Filthy
dreamers. All they can conjure up All you
can come up with in your mind is filthy in the sight of God.
That old prophet said, we are all as an unclean thing and all
our righteousnesses are as filthy rags. We're filthy dreamers. Dream of an acceptance with God
by our own righteousness. That's a dream. A dream of blessing and favor
as a result of some empty promise we make. They dream about wisdom
without Christ and rejoicing without atonement and a walk
without faith. Without faith, it's impossible
to please God. That's a dream. They dream of
wisdom without revelation. I'm a self-taught man. Then you're
lost. You're lost. They dream of seeing and serving
without bowing. That ain't going to happen. They dream of life without love. And that bothers me. They're
filthy dreamers. His only source of light, Christ
said, your only source. He said, imagine this, a house
with one window. But that one window is evil,
and all the light that comes in the window is darkness. And
He said, now if all the light that's in you is darkness, how
great is that darkness? That's the prism. You see where
I'm coming from? Everything comes in the window,
Russell. Darkness. Darkness. The only way light's
going to come in is for God to come in. That's it. End of story. And there's only one in the king's
prison who can interpret the vision. Now, God spoke to both
these men. God spoke. Imagine that. And
if he's in prison, God speaks to these two servants of Pharaoh. He speaks to them. But they don't
know what he's saying. God speaks to us right here in
this book. Anybody that picks this book
up, what he reads is the Word of God. God speaks. Anybody who
reads the four Gospels of Christ, this is light. But he don't understand
the vision. He can't interpret the dream.
And there's only one man in all this whole nation, but especially
in this prison, there's only one man who can interpret their
dreams and tell them what God said. And when Joseph come in,
he said, do not interpretations belong to God. How do I know if what is projected
in my mind by what I read is of God or is of me? How can I discern the difference? I can't unless God gives me the
interpretation. You can't. You'll believe a lie. You read 2 Thessalonians 2. To
the man that God gave over to Himself, all those men that were
under the influence of Satan and believed those lies were
given over to themselves. They believed a lie. Now that's
what they did. Now here's these two men. And they both have dreams. And
there's only one interpreter. And there's only one in the king's
prison. That's the Lord Jesus Christ. He is the truth. No man
cometh to the Father but by me. He said, no man knoweth the Father
save the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal Him. One
interpreter. You just can't separate. I'm
telling you this. Don't even try to do it. Don't
separate the Word of God from the eternal Word of God. Don't
do it. There's no understanding in this
book apart from Christ. In all our dreams, like the butler
and the baker, they leave us sad without that interpretation,
don't they? It's just when everything's said
and done, it's still a mystery. Now, you might be amazed by it.
You might be impressed by it. But at the end of the day, it's
still a mystery until he interprets the dream. Natural man, it said, receive
it not the things of the Spirit of God, their foolishness to
it, Neither can he know them because they're spiritually discerned. I'm going to tell you about myself.
God found this prisoner in the prison. That's where He found
me. And everything that I thought I knew was a mystery in the end. I didn't know anything. I thought
I knew a lot. I've been in church all my life.
My dad was a churchgoer. We'd go on nights when there
was no church, we'd go to the Mission House over in Mansfield,
Ohio, and he'd take me, set me up on a feed sack and listen
to that guy down there preach to them drunks. And we'd stay
over there until about midnight. And then if there was any kind
of a revival or anything going on anywhere, the church camp
or anything else, we was there. I was in church all the time.
And at the end of it, it was all still a mystery. I didn't
understand anything. I had the dream. I had the vision. I could tell the story, but I
didn't have any understanding. And I could not see any connection
between myself and the dream. And this whole thing is but,
without Christ, it's just a vision of the night that troubles you.
That's all it is. You go home and, boy, I just
don't know. I just don't know. And then Joseph comes into the
ward, and he looks on your sad face, and he said, why are you
so sad? Now, I've got this knowledge,
but I don't know what it means. Tell me the dream. I'll give
you the interpretation. These two prisoners told Joseph.
They didn't have anybody. And I'm going to tell you something.
I doubt a man's calling. I want you to hear me on this.
I doubt the calling of any man until God in His providence leads
him to this place where he no longer can look in
here, but he's shut up to God for a revelation. When he can
take this book and read it, and he wants to. I wanted to. I'd
sit and look at this thing. Man, I want to understand it.
I want to believe it. But I couldn't. And when he shuts
you up to that, he'll send you the interpreter. Yes, he will. He'll send Christ to you. And
Christ will make that thing known. And he'll just come alive. There
it is. And you'll turn to faith. Why
couldn't I see that? I've read that a hundred times.
Why couldn't I see that? And I tell you this, when God's
finished with His revelation, that man will say in his heart,
but for the grace of God, I'd be just like everybody else in
the prison. He ain't going to be over there in the corner,
Russell, saying, well, I'll tell you one thing. God never did
talk to him. He should have talked to him.
No. He's going to say, but for the grace of God, I'd be just
like Him. Just like Him. When the Gospels preach, there's
always a two-fold revelation given. When God speaks to men,
it's a message of judgment, always a message of judgment. I know
that sounds a little strange to you, but when the Holy Spirit
has come, He's going to reprove the world of sin. He's going
to convince you of the judgment of God against your sin. He's
going to convince you of it. You're going to take sides with
God against yourself. That's what David did. He sided
up with God. He said, you're just, that you
might be just when you speak. He said, I'm going to own up
to what I am. He ought to send me to hell.
He'd be just if he did. But I'm not looking for justice.
I'm looking for mercy. It's always this two-fold revelation,
and this revelation comes as a judgment. Our sins leave us
at the mercy of His righteousness. That's the second thing He convinces
you of. If you're ever convinced of sin, He'll have to convince
you of righteousness, because you ain't got any. And he'll
convince you of that righteousness of Christ. And when he does,
he'll convince you of judgment. Not that future judgment, but
that judgment is satisfied by that righteous obedience of Christ
and his death on the cross. But to the rebel, his sin is
the reality of his nature. And God is righteous to punish
him for his sins. So to the butler, God spoke peace
and restoration and pardon, but to the baker, justice, judgment,
and death. Both of these things are revealed
here in these two meetings. What man holds in his heart concerning
God is how he's justified and condemned. Did you know that? It's this vision, this dream,
this image that's projected on your mind by your heart by which
you're justified. Justified by faith, ain't that
what it says? What am I saying? I'm saying
that these two men's faith were revealed in the images of their
hearts and minds. Faith is the product. I want
you to hear me out. Faith is the product of the heart
and mind whose revelation depends on Christ. But it's the product
with the heart man believeth unto righteousness. Ain't that
what it says? Let this mind be in you, which
was also in Christ. It's a product of the heart and
mind, but the revelation depends on Christ Himself. Now, the pretense
of faith is also the product of the heart and mind, but one
left to itself without Christ and without that revelation. And Joseph himself is he who
interprets that dream also. Now, upon seeing the good news
to the believer, that's what happened. Joseph came up and
he heard the butler's dream first. And he said, in three days, he
said, Pharaoh's going to restore you, and you're going to again
take that cup and serve it. He's going to take you out of
this prison, and you're going to have full restoration. And
that baker said, boy, that's good. He said, let me give you
my drink. Upon seeing the good news to
the believer, the false professor concludes that his vision will
be interpreted the same way. Ain't that what they claim? False professors claim they look
forward to that day and look forward to heaven and go meet
mother in heaven and all that kind of stuff. Talk about it. All those good things that they
saw and heard of in this book that was the interpretation of
faith and the interpretation of that work of God in you and
those blessings, they want them. They want them. And they take
those things, and so they come and they say, here, interpret
my dream. I've got a good dream, too. Like those hypocrites in Christ's
day who heard the good things he spoke to some and applied
it to themselves. And I'll give you a better example,
and that is old Haman over in the book of Esther. You familiar
with him? Old Haman? He got to talking
about taking that honorable ride, and he thought they were talking
about him. That's what I'm saying. And he said, boy, I'm looking
forward to this. And he applied all them things to himself, but
they weren't for him. They weren't for him. That honor
was for another. And I tell you this, that old
baker had a different dream than the butler. There wasn't any
vine in the baker's dream. In the baker's dream, there was
a vine. Christ said, I am the vine. Ye are the branches. Now, if you be grafted into the
vine, you can produce those clusters. And it's your hand. He said,
I'm going to take those clusters in your dream and squeeze them.
I'm going to give them to Pharaoh. That's what happened. Christ
puts us in the vine. And then fruit can come. There
ain't no fruit apart from that vine. So he had no vine in his
vision, in his dream. His vision was about meats of
his own preparation. Not something that appeared by
the grace of God, but something fitting to his own talents, fitting
to his own design. And in his dream, the fowl came,
the vultures came. And all them meats he was carrying
around up here in his head, he didn't have any in his heart.
He had them all up here in his head. And those boxers came and
ate it all. And so it is with the unbelieving
hypocrite. All the works of his righteousness
is not worthy meat for the king, just food for the buzzards. That's
all it is. Now watch this. He said, in three
days time, both dreams came true. The third day all the way through
the scripture, ever since the third day of creation, that third
day all the way through the scriptures stands for the resurrection.
That's what it's typifying, that number three. Three days time,
all these dreams came true. That's the day of resurrection,
that's the day of life, that's the day of justification, that's
the day of restoration, but it's also the day of judgment. All
of those not represented in the resurrected Christ are turned
over to themselves. Now, he died for a people. He
died for a people, a specific people, a people given him by
the Father in the covenant of grace before the world began.
And they're left in their lives, and they're left under the judgment
of the king. And then one more thing, and
I'll close. Joseph told this butler, he said, now, when you're up
back up there and you get your butler suit on and you get those
big tails hanging down the back and you're in here and you got
that cup and you're up here in Pharaoh's presence, he said,
would you remember me? You remember me. And when you
get the opportunity, will you tell him that I'm down here for
some other reason than my own crime? that I didn't do this
thing, would you remember me? Boy, I tell you, I looked at
that for the longest time and it says down in verse 23, the
last verse of that 40th chapter, yet did not the chief butler
remember Joseph, but forgot him. And I thought to myself, how
often do you and I forget him? How often? The least little thing
happens. We just throw up our hands, complain,
murmur. Why does it have to snow today? Ain't had a rain in six months.
Look at this rain. It's soaking, pouring down rain.
I wanted to go do something. How often do we forget Him? That's
the basis of all that we have. We just get busy with the affairs
of life and work, and we forget our Lord. But we're vessels of
mercy. We're objects of grace. And by
the grace of God, I say this. Let's not let anything, just
when you wake up in the morning, try to set it in your mind and
in your heart not to let anything keep you from forgetting Him.
We get along if we can remember that. That's why we don't get
along. We can't remember that we're objects of grace. I told
you Sunday morning, those three crosses there, the only thing
different between the right and the left was the one in the middle.
That's it. That's what distinguishes one
from another. But we let everything under the
sun come between that, don't we? When we do, we forget Him. I just, whatever's left of my
life, I want to be used to point men to Him. I want to remember
Him, point to Him. Here it is. This is where it
is. This is where it is. I wasted my life forgetting Him. Just forget that. I've got to
do this. I've got to get on with this. I've got to accomplish.
There's only one thing needful. That's Him. That's Him. All interpretation is of God. Because it is. Here's another
strange statement he makes in here. He said, does not interpretation
belong unto God? Now tell me your dream. That's God in Christ, isn't it?
Tell me your dream. Because the Lord's with him.
And I tell you this, the same thing can be said of any servant
of God, if God's with him. He knows and understands the
dream. I've had so many people tell
me, you just don't know what's going on in my life. I don't
know the details, but I know what's going on in your life.
Same thing went on in mine. I didn't know him. I didn't know
him. When you know him, you won't
have so many problems. Those problems will go away.