Turn to Genesis chapter 42. Genesis
chapter 42. The title of my message tonight
is The Second Time. And the reason for the title
will become obvious in just a moment. In this day of happy, clappy,
walk the aisle, decide for Jesus, religious tomfoolery, everybody
knows everything. This religious age is cocksure
about everything, have no questions about anything, and most especially
when we talk about the experience of God's grace and God's salvation. Folks are just dead sure everything's
all right. Everything's all right. Think like Tennessee Ernie Ford's
old song expressed it, I can tell you the time, I can take
you to the place where the Lord saved me by his wonderful grace. When they look back to that experience,
when they decided to start serving the Lord, when they decided to
believe in Jesus, when they decided to let the Lord save them, and
they saw a radical change in their lives, and that's the proof
of their salvation. In the scriptures, that is never
the case. I chose my words deliberately.
In the scriptures, that is never the case. I can't find any place
in this book where any man or any woman who knew God and worshipped
God look back to a past experience as any proof at all that they
knew and worshipped God. That's just not the case. I'm
standing here tonight, and I would like for you to know that I'm
alive. Now, the way I'm going to prove that is I have a copy
of my birth certificate, and I want you to read it. Well,
Brother Don, we will check you into Ha Ha Hotel. You've lost
your mind. And yet, folks, look at God's
salvation. and life in Christ and say, I
know that Jesus is mine. I know I'm saved and safe and
sure for heaven because I can take you to the time and I can
show you the place. Well, look here in Genesis chapter
42. Genesis chapter 42. The fact
is no one really knows when God's work of grace is begun in his
soul. no one. And when at first the
Lord deals with his people, when first he deals with his people
in grace, giving them life and faith in Christ Jesus, the first
operations of grace in a man's soul are more likely to cause
us to think he's dealing with us in the full fury of his wrath
than in his grace. You see, God doesn't make alive
and then kill. Clare, He kills and makes alive. He strips and then He clothes. He wounds and then He heals. I remember when I was a 19-year-old
young man, one of my dear friends who is with the Lord now, Brother
Harry Graham, taught me so very, very much. He said to me one
night, sitting on his hearth as we were discussing these things,
He said, Don, I want to tell you something, son. He said,
if you could see what's going on when God begins to deal with
a sinner in mercy, you'd think to yourself, I wouldn't treat
a mad dog like that. And you know what? I didn't have
a clue what he was talking about. I thought this old man's popped
a cork. The fact is God kills before he makes alive. He spits
before he clothes. He wounds before He heals. He
makes you to know your need of Christ before He gives you the
blessed confidence of life and faith in Christ. Genesis chapter
42. Look at verse 7. Joseph saw his brethren, and
he knew them, but he made himself strange unto them. and spoke
roughly unto them, and said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land
of Canaan, to buy food. And Joseph knew his brethren,
but they knew not him." Turn over to chapter 45, verse 1. Then Joseph could not refrain
himself before all of them that stood by. And he cried, Calls
every man to go out for me. And there stood no man with him,
while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren. And he wept
aloud, and the Egyptians in the house of Pharaoh heard. And Joseph
said unto his brethren, I am Joseph, doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer
him, For they were troubled at his presence. I'll bet they were.
They were troubled at his presence. And Joseph said unto his brethren,
Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said,
I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. Now therefore
be not grieved nor angry with yourselves. Can you imagine that? Be not grieved nor angry with
yourselves. that you sold me hither, for
God did send me before you to preserve life." Now Stephen,
when he was being stoned to death, as he preached the gospel to
those who were his murderers, declares to those men what happened
here. He says in Acts chapter 7 and
verse 13, and that the second time Joseph was made known unto
his brethren. Now, I presume you are familiar
with the story of Joseph and his brethren, but let me familiarize
you anyway. Joseph was the younger of his
brethren, and he dreamed a dream by which God made him to know
that one day his father and all his brothers would bow down before
him and do obeisance unto him. And his brothers hated him. They
despised And they found an occasion when they thought to kill him,
at last they sold him into slavery and thought they were rid of
him, done with him. Joseph was taken down to Egypt and there
he labored in difficulties one after another, enduring trial
after trial, all because of his brethren hating him and selling
him into slavery. But at last he's made to be the
prime minister over all Egypt. He's made to be ruler over all
Pharaoh's land because Joseph interpreted a dream to Pharaoh
in which Pharaoh was told by God and Joseph gave him the message. There are going to be seven years
of plenty and then seven years of famine like the world has
never seen. And Pharaoh said, you take care
of things. And Joseph gathered up all the corn in Egypt and
all the wealth of Egypt and all the land of Egypt and all the
people of Egypt for Pharaoh. And when the famine came, folks
wanted something to eat. Pharaoh said, go to Joseph. Go
to Joseph. So it is with our Lord Jesus
Christ, our blessed Redeemer, who is in so many ways typified
by Joseph. He too was by the hatred of men. Men who despised him, men who
hated him without a cause, was nailed to the cursed tree. but
by means of his being betrayed and murdered by the hands of
wicked men, God's will was performed, and the Lord Jesus was placed
in the place of God, sitting on the right hand of the majesty
on high, given power over all flesh, with all things given
to his hands, just as Joseph was in Egypt, to save many people
alive by the appointment of God. God, our God, rules the universe
absolutely, governs all things done by men and all things in
the hearts of men, and He does it for the saving of His people. Now, as Joseph typified our Lord
Jesus in His exaltation in Egypt, in His suffering and His betrayal,
in all of those things, Joseph also typifies our Lord Jesus
in the way he dealt with his brethren. Joseph did not make
himself known to his brethren all at once. His intent was to
hide himself from his brethren and then bring all of Israel,
that is all his brothers and his father and their sons and
their daughters into Egypt there to take care of them in the time
of need. And so it is our Lord's intent
to bring all God's elect, every sinner for whom He died, to life
and faith in Him, and at last to bring them safe to glory,
and He's hatched a plan by which to do so. He has a purpose that
He will fulfill. I want you tonight to know my
Redeemer. I want you to believe on the
Son of God. I want you to know Jesus Christ
the Lord in your own experience of grace, having life by God's
grace in Christ Jesus. And I presume that no one does. I dare not make that presumption.
I want you to know the Son of God. Believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ and thou shalt be saved. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
and thou shalt be saved. Salvation is as simple and as
profound as that. Trust the Son of God and go home
tonight justified. accepted of God with the smile
of God on your soul and in your conscience. Go home tonight believing
the Son of God, rejoicing forever that Christ is yours and all
things yours in Him. Trust Christ. Cast your soul
entirely upon the merits of His shed blood, His perfect righteousness
as the sinner's substitute. The only acceptance any sinner
can ever have with God Almighty is in this man, Christ Jesus,
the God-man, our substitute. As you were saying just a little
bit ago, in Him is everything God demands and everything God
will accept. And in Him, all who believe are
accepted of God. Salvation is just that simple.
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. And
it's just that difficult. The fact is you will not and
you cannot believe. You will not and you cannot believe
except God do for you just exactly what Brother Paul read in Ezekiel
chapter 37 just a few minutes ago. Except God Almighty stoop
from heaven in the omnipotent power of His saving grace and
give you life in His Son. Except God comes from heaven
into your life, creating life in you, giving you life by omnipotent
grace, you cannot believe on his side. See, contrary to popular
opinion, faith in Christ is not the cause of God's saving grace. Faith in Christ is not the cause
of God giving you life. Faith in Christ is the evidence
of God's grace, the fruit of the life that God gives. In fact,
the scriptures state plainly, as I've quoted several times
already in Acts 16, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou
shalt be saved. And our Lord Jesus says, he that
hath the Son hath life. He that hath the Son hath life. If you believe on Christ, you
have eternal life. He that believeth on the Son
of God hath everlasting life. So that what happens when a man
or woman is born of God, they find themselves believing on
Christ. Oh, may you find yourself tonight
believing on the Son of God. I know this. All who seek Christ
shall find Him when you seek Him with all your heart. And
if you seek Him, it is because He has sought you out. The Lord
God says, I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith
the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you an expected
end. Then shall you call upon Me,
and you shall go and pray unto Me, and I will hearken to you.
And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for
me with all your heart. Let me show you three or four
things tonight about Joseph and his brethren. May God the Spirit
now inscribe his word on your heart. First, though Joseph's
brothers did not know him, he knew them. Look here in Genesis
42, verse 8 again. Joseph knew his brethren, but
they knew not him. These men were totally ignorant
of Joseph, but he knew them. He knew who they were. He knew
all the evil they had done. He knew the dreadful condition
they were in. He knew everything they needed.
And he knew how best to supply that which they needed. They
looked only to the present. He looked to the future. They
only knew that the man before whom they stood had their lives
in their hands, but he knew what he had in his heart for them,
though they knew it not. Joseph loved them. Joseph loved them. You read these
last chapters of Genesis. I've read them several times
the last few days. I stand amazed how Joseph loved these men who
had so ill-treated him, but he loved them still. He supplied
all their needs. He devised a plan by which he
would bring them all to himself. And the plan involved great pain,
great heartache, great suffering, but it was the best possible
plan. There is an unmistakable parallel
here between Joseph and our Lord Jesus. Though we knew Him not
and had no regard for Him, though we loved Him not, He knew us
and loved us, loved us with everlasting love, loved us from the beginning
And because of His great love for us, the Son of God devised
a plan, a purpose by which He would secure our everlasting
good. He redeemed us with His own blood, and He rules the world. He rules the world absolutely
according to this good purpose of grace. The Lord performeth
all things for me. The Lord performeth all things
for me. All the days of our lives, He
whom we despised protected us. Throughout the days of our rebellion
against Him, He provided everything we needed. Our great Joseph graciously
and wisely arranged all the affairs of providence in time, before
ever the world was made by sovereign predestination, and arranges
all the affairs of providence in time in his sovereign rule
of the universe, governing the very thoughts of men, righteous
and wicked, governing all the actions in the universe, in heaven
above, in earth below, and in hell beneath the earth. He governs
it all. He governs it all. according
to his sovereign purpose of grace toward his own. Second, there
was a very good reason, several good reasons, why Joseph did
not make himself known to his brethren when they first came
to him back here in Genesis 42. In his wise, adorable providence,
our Lord uses all things to bring his elect to himself. But salvation
doesn't come. Now listen to me. Salvation doesn't come until
Christ is revealed in you. Salvation is not yours until
you know the only true God and Jesus Christ whom he has sent. The question is often asked,
when is a person saved? And I know there's a sense in
which all God's elect were saved before the foundation of the
world. Read the 8th chapter of Romans, and deny that God's elect
are saved from eternity, and deny the 8th chapter of Romans.
God's elect were saved, justified, glorified, accepted, blessed,
and beloved before ever the world began. No question about that.
I know that God's elect all were saved when Christ, with his own
blood, entered once into the holy place, having obtained eternal
redemption for us. But experimentally, Sinners are
saved in time. We come to know God's salvation. Life is brought to light in our
souls in time when it pleases God to reveal His Son in you. He's never beforehand and He's
never late. He doesn't wait on man and is
not hindered by man. When it pleases God, He reveals
His Son in His people. You won't hurry the work up.
and you won't slow it down. At God's pleasure, He reveals
His Son in His own. A sinner is saved when he hears
and believes the gospel of God's free grace. Now, please understand
what I'm telling you. I do not suggest, I do not imply,
I do not think that men and women must know things theologically
and all that stuff, and got to be able to dot this I and cross
that T and answer theological questions and doctrinal questions. To put those things before me
and say you've got to have a certain measure of knowledge before you
can savingly believe on Christ, you're just as well cut, fellas,
you've got to be circumcised to believe on Christ. But I do
declare, I do declare, that salvation comes by the gospel of God's
grace and by no other means. Salvation comes by the hearing
of the word of God, by the preaching of the gospel. The scriptures
make it very plain. Faith cometh by hearing and hearing
by the word of God. The scriptures are plain. The
preaching of the gospel is the power of God unto salvation to
everyone that believeth. That word power, in Romans chapter
1, if we were to transliterate the word, that is, just spell
it out in English just as it's spelled out in Greek, you know
what the word is? Dynamite. The gospel, the preaching of
the gospel is the dynamite of God by which sinners are given
life. Dynamite. I like Westerns. I like Clint Eastwood's Westerns.
I especially like them when he uses dynamite. Do you know what
you do with dynamite? You light the fuse, you throw
it, and you get out of the way. That's exactly what we do in
preaching the gospel. We proclaim God's free grace
to sinners in Christ Jesus the Lord, and we get out of the way
and wait for God to work. Nothing else. We preach the gospel
and wait for God to work. This is the gospel. Or this is the word which by
the gospel is preached unto you, Peter tells us. This word, this
book right here, is preached to you by the gospel. So that
as we look here at Genesis chapters 42, 43, 45, 44 and 45, you see here something more than
just a picture of Joseph and his brothers. Something more
than just how God brought Israel down to Egypt. We preach the
gospel. By preaching this word, we preach
the gospel. And until we preach the gospel
from the word, the word hasn't been preached. This is not just
a book about morality. It's not a book about religious
history. It's not a book about religious
dogma and religious laws. It's a book about Jesus Christ
crucified and God's salvation in Him. And everything in the
book is designed to teach us about Christ crucified and God's
salvation in Him. Now, we are born again by this
incorruptible seed of God's Word. This is how God gives life to
sinners, as the gospel is preached. When the gospel is preached so
that men and women are, by the preaching of the word, made to
hear the gospel of your salvation. Some of you here have been hearing
the gospel for a long time. Some of you, all your lives,
and you've never heard it. You hear the gospel and you have
intellectual understanding of Bible doctrine and Bible facts
and Bible history, but you've never heard the gospel. You've
never seen the light of the gospel. You've never seen the glory of
God in the face of Jesus Christ. How is that? Because that only
comes by divine revelation in you. Christ revealed in you. That means you can't talk your
children into being saved. And you can't scare them into
being saved. And you can't argue your neighbor
into being saved. Faith comes by the gift of God
in divine revelation through the preaching of the gospel.
You simply tell the truth and wait on God. Make men to hear
the word of truth and wait on God. When is a man saved? When is a woman saved? When they're
called by God the Holy Spirit, given life in Christ Jesus. A person is saved when that person
is called by God's grace to turn to the Lord with all their heart. Sinners are saved when Christ
is revealed in them by the Spirit through the gospel. Like Joseph's
brothers, many Many come before the Lord and
they seek the Lord perhaps, you can say that. They hope for salvation,
but they have no knowledge of who Christ is because Christ
hasn't revealed himself in them. The Apostle Paul speaks of this.
He said we used to know Christ after the flesh. Paul knew him
after the flesh. He knew very well who he was.
He knew very well all that had transpired in Jerusalem. He knew
very well what Christ proclaimed. He knew very well what men said
about him, but he didn't know him. Now, he says, we know him
not after the flesh, but after the Spirit, as is made known
in our hearts by the power of his grace. There are many, many,
most of you, before God saved you, had some experience in religion. Some with this and some with
that. Some form of works, free will religion. And you thought
everything was well before God saved you. But you didn't know
Christ. You didn't know God. Some of
you sitting here now, clinging to your birth certificate religion,
clinging to your time and place religion. You look at those things
and you say, this is my hope. And you know Better than I know
about you that you have no hope because you don't know God. You
don't know God. Now, I won't make the effort
to try to determine who knows God and who doesn't, and I suggest
you not make that effort because you don't know. But you who do
not know him, you know you don't know him. I have no question
about that. Your refuge of lies will sooner
or later be destroyed before you. Oh, God, make it sooner
rather than later. God be pleased now to destroy
every false refuge before you. Why was it that Joseph did not
reveal himself to his brethren? Why does Christ not reveal himself
to every sinner the first time the sinner seeks him or comes
to him or seeks salvation by him? There are a number of reasons
why some who seek the Lord don't yet know him. Though you pray,
though you read his word, though you come to church, though you
believe the doctrine you hear preached from this pulpit, yet
you don't know him. Joseph didn't reveal himself
to his brothers because they were ignorant of him. They didn't
know who he was. They not only didn't know him,
they didn't know who he was. And as long as a sinner is ignorant
of Christ, he cannot have faith in Christ. As long as a sinner
is ignorant of Christ, he cannot have faith in Christ. You can't
trust an unknown Savior. The Apostle Paul came to Athens
in Acts chapter 17, and he saw those religious folks in Athens,
and he saw how they had little idols everywhere, and they had
one place where they didn't have any idols, and they said, to
the unknown God. And Paul said, I perceive that you are all too
superstitious, too religious. You pretend to worship a God
you don't even know. Isn't there the God you don't
know? He's the one I've come to declare
to you. The God who cannot be known by any natural means. God
who cannot be known except He make Himself known. Turn to Romans
10 for a moment. Romans 10. And watch what the Apostle tells
us by divine inspiration. Romans 10 verse 9. If thou shalt confess with thy
mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God
hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with
the heart man believeth, not believed, believeth unto righteousness."
Not that believing makes you righteous. He believes with reference
to righteousness. He believes Christ with reference
to righteousness before God. What is your righteousness? Jehovah
said, can you? Christ is my righteousness. And
with the mouth, confession is made unto salvation. Now, that
doesn't mean if you say, I believe in Jesus, then you're saved.
That's not what it means. It means that the man with his
mouth makes this confession of faith with reference to God's
salvation. Christ alone is my Savior. Christ
alone is my righteousness. Christ alone is my redemption.
Read on. Verse 11. For the Scripture says,
Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. But there is
no difference, for there is no difference between the Jew and
the Greek. For the same Lord over all is rich unto all that
call upon him." The word, call, means worship Him. Men began
to call on the Lord back in Genesis, what was it, chapter 4? Men began
to call on the name of the Lord, worship Him. Find somebody who just had an
accident and they're laying on the pavement and you go over
and you pick them up and you say, Believe on Jesus and everything's
alright. Call on the Lord and everything's
alright. Oh Lord save me. He's saved. No, that's not what
it means. That's not what it means. If you worship the Lord
Jesus, that's a different story. If you worship the Son of God,
that's what it is to call on His name. Verse 13, for whosoever shall
call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. How then shall
they call on Him in whom they have not believed? You can't
worship Him if you don't trust Him. Look at the next question. How shall they believe in Him
of whom they've not heard? You can't believe in Him unless
somebody tells you about Him. And how shall they believe without
a preacher? You can't hear about him except
some preacher tells you. Do you remember how Philip came
to the eunuch and said, as he's reading Isaiah 53? I mean, he's
reading, there's not a chapter in the Bible that more clearly
explains the substitutionary work of Christ in Isaiah 53,
that eunuch's reading Isaiah 53. He's reading it just like
you and I read it. And Philip comes up to him and
says, do you understand what you're reading? And the eunuch said, how can
I? except some man show me." You mean, Brother Don, a man
is not going to be saved just by reading the Bible? If Romans 10 is correct,
they can't. If Romans 10 is correct, God
makes His Word known by preachers, by men preaching His Word. Let's
see. Read on. How shall they hear
without a preacher? Verse 15. And how shall they
preach? except they be sent. I've come here tonight to preach
to you. That's my responsibility. That's
my privilege. That's my desire. I've come to
preach to you. I've come to preach God's Word
to you. I've come to declare a message
from God to you. But I can't unless God sends
me to you this hour, sent by God the Spirit to you. And God sends his word through
the voice of this preacher, this empty, worthless, dirty pipe
to your heart. That's how God gives life and
faith to dead sinners. Yes, knowledge is essential to
saving faith. Knowledge is not faith, and you
can have knowledge without faith, but you can't have faith without
the knowledge of that revealed in the gospel. You must know
Christ. You must know Him. He must be
revealed in you so that you trust Him who is indeed the Christ
of God. your only hope before God, your
only salvation, your only righteousness. Joseph's brothers didn't know
him the first time they came to him because they really weren't
interested in knowing him. They could have cared less about
knowing Joseph. They wanted some corn. They wanted
life. They didn't want to die. Have
you been there? Have you been there? With a horrible
sense of guilt before God? With a horrible dread of God? With a horrible fear of hell? I started reading my Bible when
I was a young man and going to church and trying to pray and
straighten up my life and nothing happened. Nothing happened. The guilt just got worse. The
fear only intensified. The terror that seized my soul
I can't begin to describe. Why? I wasn't interested in knowing
God or His Son. I wanted to stay out of hell.
I wanted life. I wanted something to straighten
up my life that I had ruined. I wanted somebody to clean up
the mess I had made. I had no interest in knowing
God. You see, most people Though they
may not be in agreement with the preachers of our day, have
the religion of our day. Their religion, for most people,
is based upon health, wealth, and happiness. Everybody here
wants peace. Anybody here who doesn't want
peace? You want peace? Who wants the Prince? Everybody
wants mercy. Few want the Master. Everybody
wants God's salvation. Few have any interest in knowing
the Savior. Most everybody wants a sacrifice
they can bring to God, but not the Sovereign to rule over you
by His grace. You might want to be made clean,
but not Christ. Not Christ. You see, it is the
cry of these hearts of enmity against God, I will not have
this man to rule over me. I won't have it. I won't have
it. I will not bow to him. I don't need somebody to govern
my life and tell me what to do. I'll tell you when you will find
the Lord Jesus. when you've got to heaven. And not before. Thou, O Christ,
art all I want, more than all in Thee I find. Joseph didn't reveal himself
to his brothers the first time they came to him, because they
came without any real conviction of their sin, without any real
confession of their guilt. And before Joseph would reveal
himself to them, he was determined to make them know and feel and
confess their guilt. Look at chapter 42, verse 21. They said one to another, We
are barely guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the
anguish of his soul when he besought us, and we would not hear. Therefore is this distress come
upon us." The Lord Jesus. The Lord Jesus will reveal Himself
to you. The Lord Jesus will reveal Himself
to you when you confess your sin to Him. When you confess your sin to
Him. Confess your sin to Him. Not
to me, I don't need to hear about it. Not to somebody else. Nobody else needs to hear about
it. Most everybody acts like tapestries. You want a priest,
you want somebody you can go to rather than going to God.
Paul Wamsley, you've got to confess your sin to Him. That's not just confessing, I
lied, I cheated, I stole, I murdered, I committed adultery. That's
not it. That's not it. If we confess our sin, if we
confess our sin, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sin
and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. What's that talking about? Right where you sit, rip your
heart open before God. Rip your heart open before God. Quit trying to pretend what you
know is not so. Quit trying to pretend goodness. Quit trying to pretend righteousness. Quit trying to pretend a brightness. Quit trying to pretend superiority. Rip open your heart for God to
see all that you are. If we confess our sin, he's faithful. Faithful to his word, he's out
to give all their unrighteousness. Faithful to his son. Faithful
to his own honor. Faithful to his law and his justice.
Because Christ has suffered in our stead. Faithful and just
to forgive us our sin. Now listen. And to cleanse us
from all unrighteousness. From all unrighteousness. Can you believe that? Can you
believe that? Joseph said to his brethren,
don't let it bother you that you sold me to slavery. Don't
you carry that burden around anymore. Don't carry that anymore. It's
over with. I'm in the place of God. So the blood of Jesus Christ,
God's Son, cleanseth us. from all sin. He speaks peace to the guilty
conscience and declares us in our consciences just before God. And look here, I'm either telling
you the truth or I'm lying to you. There's no in-between ground. what I am. I know the dark depravity and
corruption of my heart. I know the evil that's in me
and the evil done by me. And I have no dread of God. No dread, no sense of terror,
no discomfort, no lack of ease and peace at the prospect of
standing before God Almighty right now. None. Why? Because Christ is my righteousness,
and Christ is my redemption, and Christ is my sanctification. Christ is my all. I believe on
the Son of God. I believe on the Son of God. And God, beholding me in his
Son, sees nothing amiss. Clare, can you get hold of that?
Nothing amiss. God Almighty sees nothing in
you of which He doesn't approve and on which He doesn't smile. There's not a human being walking
on this earth who can say that about me. Not one. My grandson sitting back there
came up. You all saw him come up and hug me right before the
service. Ah, it's good to see him. He even sees things he wouldn't
approve of. He might not tell you about it.
He sees things he wouldn't approve of. I'm ashamed to acknowledge
he has reason to. But God Almighty sees nothing in this man of which
he doesn't fully approve, on which he doesn't smile, because
all he sees is his dear son. Oh, may the Savior now make Himself
known to you. Amen.