JOSEPH IN HIS COAT OF MANY
COLORS WAS BUT A PROPHECY, A PORTRAIT, NOT WITH THE
BRUSHSTROKES OF AN ARTIST, BUT PAINTED WITH WORDS, WE’RE GOING
TO SEE A PORTRAIT OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. [MUSIC] THE
PLAIN-SPOKEN, BIBLICAL WISDOM AND TIMELESS TEACHING OF ADRIAN
ROGERS HAS GONE AROUND THE WORLD AND HAS BEEN DESCRIBED BY THE
THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE HE HAS TOUCHED AS PROFOUND TRUTH,
SIMPLY STATED. WE HOPE YOU’LL HAVE YOUR BIBLES READY AND STAY
WITH US AS WE PRESENT THAT PROFOUND TRUTH THROUGH TODAY’S
MESSAGE. AND IF YOU WERE ENCOURAGED BY TODAY’S MESSAGE,
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[MUSIC] WOULD YOU FIND GENESIS CHAPTER 37? AND WHEN YOU’VE
FOUND IT, I WANT YOU TO LOOK UP HERE IF YOU WILL. AND MAY I TELL
YOU ABOUT THE WORD OF GOD, THIS? IT IS AN ABSOLUTELY AMAZING,
ASTOUNDING BOOK. NOW, TO SOME PEOPLE THE BIBLE IS A MYSTERY.
AND I WANT TO GIVE YOU A KEY, A GOLDEN KEY THAT WILL HELP TO
UNLOCK THE BIBLE AND LET THE TRUTH OF THE BIBLE DANCE FROM
THE PAGES INTO YOUR HEART AND INTO YOUR LIFE. THE KEY IS A
MAN, A PERSON, AND MORE THAN A MAN; HIS NAME IS JESUS.
[AUDIENCE: AMEN] AND THE BIBLE IS ALL ABOUT THE LORD JESUS
CHRIST. [AUDIENCE: THAT’S RIGHT] JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF SAID,
CONCERNING THE OLD TESTAMENT, “SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES, FOR
THESE ARE THEY WHICH TESTIFY OF ME.” NOW I REMIND YOU THAT THE
OLD TESTAMENT WAS WRITTEN BEFORE JESUS CHRIST EVER TOUCHED DOWN
IN A HUMAN BODY UPON THIS EARTH. AND THOSE WERE THE SCRIPTURES
THAT JESUS WAS TALKING ABOUT WHEN HE SAID, “SEARCH THE
SCRIPTURES, FOR THESE ARE THEY WHICH DO TESTIFY OF ME.” AND ONE
OF THESE, AH, SCRIPTURES THAT TESTIFY OF THE LORD JESUS IS THE
LIFE OF JOSEPH. JOSEPH W, BECAME A PROPHECY, A PORTRAIT, A
FIGURE, AN ILLUSTRATION OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, NOT BY
HAPPENSTANCE, BUT BY DIVINE PROVIDENCE. THE MORE I STUDY THE
BIBLE, THE MORE I STAND IN AWE OF THE WORD OF GOD. AND I PRAY
GOD BEFORE THE SERVICE HAS CLOSED TODAY THAT YOU, TOO, IF
YOU WILL HAVE AN OPEN BIBLE IN YOUR HAND, WILL STAND IN
ABSOLUTE AWE AND AMAZEMENT AS WE LOOK INTO THE OLD TESTAMENT AND
SEE A HIDDEN PORTRAIT OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. WHAT A
CONFIRMATION, BOTH OF THE INSPIRATION OF THE WORD OF GOD
AND THE DEITY OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. YOU WILL STAND IN AWE. I
ASKED LARRY THOMPSON, I SAID, “LARRY, WHILE I’M DOING THESE,
AH, MESSAGES ON JOSEPH, I WONDER IF YOU COULD FIND SOMEWHERE A
PICTURE OF JOSEPH IN HIS, AH, MULTI-COATED COAT, HIS COAT OF
MANY COLORS.” AND HE SAID, “WELL, I’LL, I’LL LOOK FOR A
PICTURE.” AND HE BROUGHT A PICTURE, AND HE SAID, “NOW, WAIT
A MINUTE. I’M NOT SURE ABOUT THIS PICTURE.” HE SAID, “I,
THAT’S, IT SAYS A COAT OF MANY COLORS.” BUT HE SAID, “WHEN I
LOOK AT IT, IT DOESN’T LOOK LIKE A SEVENTEEN YEAR OLD LAD. WHY,
LOOK AT THE FACE. IT LOOKS LIKE AN ARTIST’S DEPICTURE OF JESUS.”
AND THEN HE SAID, “LOOK AT THE HANDS. THE HANDS HAVE A NAIL
PRINT.” AND I PUT THAT PICTURE ASIDE, AND THEN I THOUGHT OF IT,
AND I SAID, “AHA, HA, HA, HA, I KNOW WHAT THE PAINTER OF THAT
PICTURE WAS DOING.” HE WAS SHOWING THAT JOSEPH IN HIS COAT
OF MANY COLORS WAS BUT A PROPHECY, A PORTRAIT, NOT WITH
THE BRUSHSTROKES OF AN ARTIST, BUT PAINTED WITH WORDS, WE’RE
GOING TO SEE A PORTRAIT OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. YOU KNOW, GOD
LOVES HIS SON SO MUCH THAT HE WANTS TO GIVE US MANY SNAPSHOTS,
MANY PORTRAITS OF HIM. AND GOD WANTS US TO BE SAVED SO MUCH
THAT HE GIVES US SO MANY ILLUSTRATIONS OF SALVATION. NOW,
IN THE LIFE OF JOSEPH, YOU’RE GOING TO SEE JOSEPH AS HE IS HIS
FATHER’S FAVORITE. THEN YOU’RE GOING TO FIND HIM AS HE IS
MISUSED AND ABUSED BY HIS BRETHREN. THEN YOU’RE GOING TO
FIND JOSEPH AS HE RISES TO BE THE PRIME MINISTER OF EGYPT, THE
MOST POWERFUL NATION ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH. AND THEN YOU’RE
GOING TO FIND JOSEPH AS HE RECEIVES HIS BROTHERS BACK AND
FORGIVES THEM, RESTORES THEM, AND COMMISSIONS THEM. FOUR GREAT
EPISODES IN THE LIFE OF JOSEPH. HERE THEY ARE. I WRITE THEM ON
YOUR HEART. DON’T YOU DARE FORGET THEM. FIRST OF ALL:
JOSEPH; THE BELOVED SON. SECONDLY; JOSEPH, THE SUFFERING
SERVANT. THIRDLY; JOSEPH, THE EXALTED SOVEREIGN. FOURTHLY;
JOSEPH, THE SEEKING SAVIOR, AS HE SOUGHT HIS BROTHERS TO
FORGIVE THEM AND TO RESTORE THEM. SO WE’RE GOING TO THINK ON
THOSE FOUR THINGS WE, THIS MORNING. ARE YOU READY? ALL
RIGHT. KEEP YOUR BIBLES OPEN BECAUSE MY ONLY CONCERN TODAY IS
THAT, AH, I’LL NOT HAVE TIME TO SAY ALL THAT I WANT TO SAY ABOUT
JOSEPH, A, A PORTRAIT OF CHRIST, THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOSEPH.
POINT NUMBER ONE. I WANT YOU TO SEE A PORTRAIT OF JESUS NOW, THE
BELOVED SON, IN THE LIFE OF JOSEPH. GENESIS CHAPTER 37
VERSES ONE THROUGH THREE, “AND JACOB DWELT IN THE LAND WHEREIN
HIS FATHER WAS A STRANGER IN THE LAND OF CANAAN. AND THESE ARE
THE GENERATIONS OF JACOB. JOSEPH, BEING SEVENTEEN YEARS
OLD, WAS FEEDING THE FLOCK WITH HIS BRETHREN; AND THE LAD WAS
WITH THE SONS OF BILHAH, AND WITH THE SONS OF ZILPAH,” BY THE
WAY, THESE WERE SLAVE WIVES, “HIS FATHER’S WIVES. AND JOSEPH
BROUGHT UNTO HIS FATHER THEIR EVIL REPORT. NOW ISRAEL,” THAT’S
ANOTHER NAME FOR JACOB, “LOVED JOSEPH MORE THAN ALL HIS
CHILDREN, BECAUSE HE WAS THE SON OF HIS OLD AGE; AND HE MADE HIM
A COAT OF MANY COLORS.” NOW WE’RE THINKING OF, AH, JESUS,
THE BELOVED SON, AS PICTURED IN THE LIFE OF JOSEPH. THREE THINGS
STAND OUT HERE IN THESE FEW VERSES THAT I WANT YOU TO SEE.
FIRST OF ALL, AS WE THINK OF JOSEPH, THINK OF HIS FATHER’S
DEVOTION, HIS FATHER’S DEVOTION. VERSE THREE TELLS US THAT
JOSEPH, OF ALL OF HIS BRETHREN, IS SPECIALLY LOVED, SPECIALLY
LOVED. HE WAS HIS FATHER’S BELOVED. NOW WHAT DOES THAT TELL
US ABOUT THE LORD JESUS CHRIST? WELL, MY FRIEND, JESUS IN
MATTHEW CHAPTER THREE VERSE 17, AT HIS BAPTISM, GOD THE FATHER
SPOKE OUT OF THE GLORY. AND, AH, “LO, A VOICE FROM HEAVEN SAYING,
‘THIS IS MY BELOVED SON IN WHOM I AM WELL PLEASED.’” AND WHEN
THE LORD JESUS CHRIST WAS ON THE MOUNT OF TRANSFIGURATION, AGAIN
THE VOICE SPOKE FROM HEAVEN, MATTHEW 17 VERSE FIVE, “BEHOLD,
A BRIGHT CLOUD OVERSHADOWED THEM, AND BEHOLD, A VOICE OUT OF
HEAVEN WHICH SAID, ‘THIS IS MY BELOVED SON IN WHOM I AM WELL
PLEASED.’” GOD HAS A SON. HIS NAME IS WHAT? [AUDIENCE: JESUS]
JESUS. AND HE IS BELOVED OF THE FATHER. AND THIS WORLD WILL
NEVER SETTLE THE SIN QUESTION IF IT IGNORES THE SON QUESTION.
JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD. AND THE BIBLE SAYS, “WHEN WE HONOR THE
SON, WE HONOR THE FATHER.” AND, UH, SO, JACOB HAD GIVEN TO
JOSEPH A SPECIAL NAME. LIKE JESUS, JOSEPH HAD A SPECIAL
NAME. DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE NAME JOSEPH MEANS? IT MEANS;
ABUNDANCE. IT MEANS; ONE WHO ADDS TO. IT MEANS A MULTIPLIER.
AND THAT’S WHAT JOSEPH WAS. WHAT DOES THE NAME JESUS MEAN? IT
MEANS, “JEHOVAH SAVES.” AND HE IS THE ONE ALSO WHOSE LIFE IS
FULL OF ABUNDANCE. YOU SEE, JESUS SAID OF SATAN, AH, “THE
THIEF COMES BUT TO KILL AND TO STEAL AND TO DESTROY.” WHO IS
THE THIEF? SATAN. HE IS THE GREAT SUBTRACTOR. BUT JESUS
SAID, “I’VE COME THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE LIFE, AND HAVE IT
ABUNDANTLY.” HE IS THE JOSEPH WHO ADDS TO, WHO MULTIPLIES, WHO
GIVES ABUNDANCE. AND SO, AGAIN, JOSEPH IS A PICTURE OF THE LORD
JESUS CHRIST, BELOVED, THE BELOVED SON. A LITTLE GIRL HAD
COME FROM THE CHILDREN’S’ CHURCH TO THE MAIN CHURCH. AND THEY HAD
A COMMUNION TABLE AT FRONT. AND THE LITTLE GIRL HAD JUST BEEN
LEARNING ARITHMETIC, THE PLUS SIGNS AND THE MINUS SIGNS. AND
SHE LOOKED UP THERE AND SHE SAW THE CROSS ON THE COMMUNION
TABLE, AND SHE SAID TO HER MOTHER, SAID, “WHY IS THE PLUS
SIGN THERE?” HA, HA, HA. WELL, I WANT TO TELL YOU, THAT IS THE
PLUS SIGN, JESUS CHRIST, WHO DIED FOR US UPON THAT CROSS TO
GIVE US LIFE AND TO GIVE IT ABUNDANTLY. AND SO, FIRST OF
ALL, YOU SEE JESUS, A PORTRAIT OF JESUS WHO IS, IS, HAS, NUMBER
ONE, HIS FATHER’S DEVOTION. YOU GOT THAT? NUMBER TWO; HE HAS A
FAULTLESS DISTINCTION. AH, LOOK, IF YOU WILL, HERE, EH, IN THIS
PASSAGE OF SCRIPTURE IN VERSE TWO. AND IT SAYS, UH, THAT,
“HE,” JOSEPH, AH, “BROUGHT UNTO HIS FATHER HIS BROTHERS’ EVIL
REPORT.” THAT IS, HERE IS JOSEPH. HE’S DISTINCT FROM ALL
OF HIS BRETHREN. THEY ARE EVIL; HE IS NOT. AH, DID YOU KNOW, I’M
SURE HE WAS A SINNER, BUT DO YOU KNOW THAT THERE’S NOT ONE SIN
MENTIONED ABOUT JOSEPH IN THE BIBLE? THAT IS AMAZING. WE HAVE
THE SINS OF MOSES, WE HAVE THE SINS OF PAUL, AH, AH, THESE
GREAT BELIEVERS, BUT NO SIN IS EVER MENTIONED ABOUT JOSEPH.
WHY? BECAUSE HE IS A PICTURE OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. PUT IN
YOUR MARGIN HEBREWS CHAPTER SEVEN VERSE 26. IT SPEAKS OF
JESUS, “WHO IS HOLY, HARMLESS, UNDEFILED, SEPARATE FROM
SINNERS.” “JOSEPH BROUGHT UNTO HIS FATHER THE EVIL REPORT OF
HIS BRETHREN.” JOSEPH WAS NOT A TALE-BEARER. JOSEPH WAS A TRUTH
SPEAKER. WHY DOES THE WORLD HATE JESUS? PUT IN YOUR MARGIN JOHN
SEVEN VERSE SEVEN. JESUS SAID, “THE WORLD CANNOT HATE YOU; BUT
ME IT HATETH, BECAUSE I TESTIFY OF IT, THAT THE WORKS THEREOF
ARE EVIL.” JUST AS JOSEPH BROUGHT AN EVIL REPORT, JESUS
HAS TESTIFIED THAT THIS WORLD IS EVIL. I’VE TOLD YOU BEFORE, THE
WORLD DOES NOT HATE THE BABY JESUS, THE VI, THE WORLD DOES
NOT HATE THE JESUS WHO FEED THE MULTITUDES, THE WORLD DOES NOT
HATE THE JESUS WHO HEALED THE SICK. THE WORLD HATES THE JESUS
WHO TESTIFIES OF IT THAT ITS WORKS ARE EVIL. [AUDIENCE:
THAT’S RIGHT] AH, HERE IS THIS BOY. HE HAS HIS FATHER’S
DEVOTION. HE HAS THIS FAULTLESS DISTINCTION. HE IS SEPARATE,
UNDEFILED, SEPARATE FROM HIS BROTHERS. AND A MARK OF THAT
DISTINCTION IS A COAT OF MANY COLORS. YOU SEE IT IN VERSE
THREE. THIS IS THE, THE MARK OF HIS DISTINCTION THAT HIS FATHER,
REALIZING THAT JOSEPH IS ABSOLUTELY DIFFERENT AND UNIQUE,
GIVES HIM THIS COAT. AND IT, IT MUST HAVE BEEN A SPLENDID COAT.
THE BIBLE DELINEATES THAT COAT OF MANY COLORS, AND TO ME IT
SPEAKS OF THE MULTIPLICITY AND THE VARIEGATED SPLENDORS OF THE
LORD JESUS CHRIST WHEN HE CAME TO THIS EARTH, SAID, AH, THE
BIBLE SAYS, “WE BEHELD HIM, FULL OF GRACE AND TRUTH, WE BEHELD
HIS GLORY.” WHAT DO YOU THINK OF WHEN YOU THINK OF JESUS? DO YOU
THINK OF SOME DRAB, PALE, SANCTIMONIOUS, RELIGIOUS
RECLUSE? OH, NO. NO, JESUS WAS THE ONE WITH A COAT OF MANY
COLORS. JESUS IS THE HAPPY SAVIOR. THE BIBLE SAYS GOD HAS,
“ANOINTED HIM WITH THE OIL OF GLADNESS ABOVE HIS BRETHREN.”
LITTLE CHILDREN LOVED TO COME AND SIT AT THE FEET OF THE LORD
JESUS CHRIST. HAVE YOU EVER, AH, WONDERED WHY THAT THOSE WHO ARE
IN THE MINISTRY DRESS IN BLACK? I HAPPEN TO BE WEARING BLACK
THIS MORNING. [AUDIENCE LAUGHTER] MAYBE I SHOULD HAVE
WORN A BRIGHT COAT THIS MORNING. YOU KNOW, WHEN, SO MANY TIMES WE
THINK OF A PREACHER, WE THINK OF SOMEBODY IN A BLACK SUIT, BLACK
TIE, BLACK SOCKS, AND DANDRUFF. [AUDIENCE LAUGHTER] JESUS IS A
HAPPY CHRIST. HE’S THE JESUS OF THE COAT OF MANY COLORS,
DISTINCT AND DIFFERENT IN THIS WORLD. AND SO YOU SEE NOT ONLY
HIS FATHER’S DEVOTION, HIS FAULTLESS DISTINCTION, BUT YOU
ALSO SEE HIS FUTURE DOMINION. JOSEPH HAD A DREAM, AND HE TOLD
THAT DREAM TO HIS BROTHERS. HE SAID, “I DREAMED THAT, AH, YOU
ALL WERE BOWING DOWN TO ME. AND THE SUN, THE MOON, AND THE
STARS, HA, HA, HA, WERE DOING OBEISANCE TO ME.” BOY, DID THAT
TICK THEM OFF; THE IDEA THAT THEY WERE GOING TO BOW DOWN TO
JOSEPH? WHY, THEY, THEY WERE REPULSED BY THE IDEA. DOES THAT
SPEAK TO YOU OF THE LORD JESUS? GENESIS 37 VERSES FIVE AND SIX,
“AND JOSEPH DREAMED A DREAM, AND HE TOLD IT TO HIS BRETHREN. AND
THEY HATED HIM YET THE MORE.” WELL, JUST LOOK IN THE NEW
TESTAMENT. MATTHEW CHAPTER 26 AND VERSE 64, “JESUS SAITH UNTO
THEM, ‘THOU HAST SAID; NEVERTHELESS, I SAY UNTO YOU,
HEREAFTER YE SHALL SEE THE SON OF MAN SITTING ON THE RIGHT HAND
OF POWER, AND COMING IN CLOUDS OF HEAVEN.’” AND THEY HATED
JESUS BECAUSE JESUS SPOKE OF HIS COMING DOMINION. I’VE OFTEN
ASKED THE QUESTION, “WHAT’S THE WORLD COMING TO?” I’VE ANSWERED
THAT QUESTION, “IT’S COMING TO JESUS.” AMEN? SAY, “AMEN.” IT IS
COMING TO JESUS. THINGS ARE OUT OF PLACE RIGHT NOW. AND I
BELIEVE THE BATTLE FOR JERUSALEM HAS BEGUN. I BELIEVE THAT, UH,
THE PRECURSOR OF ARMAGEDDON IS HERE. WE’RE LIVING IN THESE
FRIGHTFUL MOMENTS. DO YOU KNOW WHY THE WORLD’S IN SUCH A MESS?
FRIEND, THINGS ARE OUT OF PLACE. JESUS IS THE KING AND HE BELONGS
UPON THE THRONE. [AUDIENCE: AMEN] SATAN IS THE CRIMINAL AND
HE BELONGS IN PRISON. AND THE CHURCH IS THE BRIDE, AND SHE
BELONGS WITH HER GROOM. [AUDIENCE: THAT’S RIGHT] AND
SOON THAT’S ALL GOING TO BE BACK [CLAP] INTO PLACE. JESUS IS
GOING TO BE ON THE THRONE, SATAN’S GOING TO BE IN PRISON,
AND WE’RE GOING TO BE WITH JESUS. THANK GOD FOR THAT.
[AUDIENCE: AMEN] HALLELUJAH! AND SO, AH, HERE’S THE BELOVED SON,
HIS FATHER’S DEVOTION, HIS FAULTLESS DISTINCTION, AND HIS
FUTURE DOMINION. THAT’S WHAT JOSEPH PICTURED AS HE PICTURES
THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. NOW, LET’S MOVE TO THE SECOND THING.
NOT ONLY DO WE SEE A PORTRAIT OF JESUS, AH, THE BELOVED SON, BUT
WE ALSO SEE A PORTRAIT OF JESUS, THE SUFFERING SERVANT. NOW LET
ME SHOW YOU THE PARALLEL BETWEEN JESUS AND JOSEPH AND JOSEPH AND
JESUS. FOR EXAMPLE, LIKE JESUS, JOSEPH WAS THE SENT ONE. SAY,
“SENT.” [AUDIENCE: SENT] ALL RIGHT, NOW YOU’VE FOCUSED YOUR
MIND. NOW, HE’S THE SENT ONE. LOOK IF YOU WILL IN CHAPTER 37
VERSES, AH, 12 AND 13, “AND HIS BRETHREN,” THAT IS, JOSEPH’S
BRETHREN, “WENT TO FEED THEIR FATHER’S FLOCK IN SHECHEM. AND
ISRAEL,” THAT IS, JACOB, “SAID TO JOSEPH, ‘DO NOT THY BRETHREN
FEED THE FLOCK IN SHECHEM? COME, I WILL SEND THEE UNTO THEM.’ AND
HE SAID, ‘HERE AM I.’” HA, HA, HA. “HERE AM I, FATHER.” JACOB
SAYS, “GO TO YOUR BRETHREN.” WELL, DOES THAT REMIND YOU OF
JESUS? PUT FIRST JOHN CHAPTER FOUR AND VERSE 10 DOWN, “HEREIN
IS LOVE, NOT THAT WE LOVED GOD, BUT THAT HE LOVED US, AND SENT
HIS SON.” JESUS IS THE SENT ONE. YOU SEE, JOSEPH, AH, JACOB NOT
ONLY LOVED, AH, JOSEPH, BUT HE LOVED HIS OTHER SONS ALSO. AND
SO HE SENT, AH, JOSEPH TO MINISTER TO THE OTHER SONS. AND
THANK GOD, AH, JESUS, AS THE SUFFERING SERVANT, FIRST OF ALL
WAS THE SENT ONE. BUT NOT ONLY WAS JOSEPH THE SENT ONE, HE WAS
THE SCORNED ONE. SAY, “SCORNED.” [AUDIENCE: SCORNED] SCORNED;
SENT AND THEN SCORNED. LOOK IF YOU WILL IN GENESIS 37 VERSE
FOUR, “AND WHEN HIS BRETHREN SAW THAT THEIR FATHER LOVED HIM MORE
THAN ALL HIS BRETHREN, THEY HATED HIM.” THEY HATED WHO?
JOSEPH. “AND THEY COULD NOT SPEAK PEACEABLY UNTO THEM.” NOW,
LIKEWISE, OUR DEAR SAVIOR JESUS CAME UNTO HIS OWN, BUT HIS OWN
RECEIVED HIM NOT. THEY SCORNED HIM AND THEY HATED HIM. PUT DOWN
JOHN 15 VERSE 24, JESUS SAID, “IF I HAD NOT DONE AMONG THEM
THE WORKS WHICH NONE OTHER MAN DID, THEY HAD NOT SINNED; BUT
NOW HAVE THEY BOTH SEEN AND HATED BOTH ME AND MY FATHER.”
JESUS, THE VERY SON OF GOD, THE ONE WHO CREATED IT ALL, THE ONE
WHO IS INFINITE LOVE, CAME TO HIS BRETHREN, AND THEY HATED HIM
AND THEY SCORNED HIM. AND THE MESSAGE IS CLEAR; TO HATE JESUS
IS TO HATE THE FATHER. WHY DID THEY HATE JOSEPH? WELL, THEY
WERE ARROGANT. THEY WERE FULL OF PRIDE. LOOK IN GENESIS 37 AND
VERSE EIGHT, AND YOU’RE GOING TO FIND OUT WHY THEY HATED JOSEPH.
“AND HIS BRETHREN SAID UNTO HIM, ‘SHALT THOU INDEED REIGN OVER
US? OR SHALT THOU INDEED HAVE DOMINION OVER US?’ AND THEY
HATED HIM YET THE MORE FOR HIS DREAMS, AND FOR HIS WORDS.” HA,
HA, HA. THEY SAID, “WE ARE NOT GOING TO LET YOU HAVE DOMINION
OVER US, JOSEPH.” WELL, WHY HAS THIS WORLD TURNED AGAINST JESUS?
WELL, BECAUSE THIS WORLD WILL NOT HAVE, AH, JESUS TO RULE OVER
IT. PUT DOWN LUKE 19 VERSE 14, “BUT HIS CITIZENS HATED HIM, AND
SENT A MESSAGE AFTER HIM, SAYING, ‘WE WILL NOT HAVE THIS
MAN TO REIGN OVER US,’” SPEAKING OF JESUS, THE SAME THING. THE
WORLD TODAY DOES NOT WANT TO BOW THE KNEE, AH, TO JESUS. AH, MOST
OF THE PEOPLE IN AMER, IN AMERICA AND THE WORLD ARE
PEACOCKS, STRUTTING TO HELL, THINKING THEY’RE TOO GOOD TO BE
DAMNED. JESUS, LIKE JOSEPH, WAS THE SENT ONE. JESUS, LIKE
JOSEPH, WAS THE SCORNED ONE. JESUS, LIKE JOSEPH, WAS THE
SUFFERING ONE. SAY, “SUFFERING.” [AUDIENCE: SUFFERING] ALL RIGHT.
SENT, SCORNED, AND SUFFERING. HOW DID, AH, JOSEPH SUFFER?
WELL, FIRST OF ALL, THERE WAS THE SUFFERING OF A CONSPIRACY.
LOOK IN VERSE 18. GENESIS, THIR, AH, 37 VERSE 18, “AND WHEN THEY
SAW HIM AFAR OFF,” THAT’S JOSEPH, “EVEN BEFORE HE CAME
NEAR UNTO THEM, THEY CONSPIRED AGAINST HIM TO SLAY HIM.” HE
SUFFERED A CONSPIRACY. WELL, DID JESUS SUFFER A CONSPIRACY? PUT
DOWN IN YOUR BIBLE MATTHEW, AH, 26 VERSES THREE AND FOUR, “THEN
ASSEMBLED TOGETHER THE CHIEF PRIESTS, AND THE SCRIBES, AND
THE ELDERS OF THE PEOPLE, UNTO THE PALACE OF THE HIGH PRIEST,
WHO WAS CALLED CAIAPHAS. AND CONSULTED THEY THAT THEY MIGHT
TAKE JESUS BY SUBTLETY, AND KILL HIM.” EXACTLY THE SAME. HERE’S A
CONSPIRACY AGAINST JOSEPH; HERE’S A CONSPIRACY AGAINST
JESUS. NOW, NOT ONLY DID HE SUFFER CONSPIRACY, BUT HE
SUFFERED ABUSE. NOW WHAT DID THEY DO TO JOSEPH? GENESIS 37
VERSES 23 AND 24, “AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN JOSEPH,” AH, “CAME
NEAR UNTO HIS BRETHREN, THAT THEY STRIPPED JOSEPH OUT OF HIS
COAT, HIS COAT OF MANY COLORS THAT WAS ON HIM. AND THEY TOOK
HIM, AND CAST HIM INTO A PIT; AND THE PIT WAS EMPTY, AND THERE
WAS NO WATER IN IT.” THAT IS, HE’S PUT THERE IN AN EMPTY PIT
THAT HE CANNOT GET OUT OF, NO SUSTENANCE, HE IS PUT THERE TO
DEATH. ACTUALLY, THEY ARE TRYING TO KILL HIM. WHAT A PICTURE OF
THE SUFFERINGS OF CHRIST. NOTICE MATTHEW CHAPTER 27, BEGINNING IN
VERSE 26, “THEN,” AH, “RELEASED HE,” THAT IS, THEN PILATE, RE,
“RELEASED BARABBAS UNTO THEM; AND WHEN HE HAD SCOURGED JESUS,
HE DELIVERED HIM TO BE CRUCIFIED. THEN THE SOLDIERS OF
THE GOVERNOR TOOK JESUS INTO THE COMMON HALL, AND GATHERED UNTO
HIM THE WHOLE BAND OF SOLDIERS. AND THEY STRIPPED HIM, AND PUT
ON HIM A SCARLET ROBE, AND WHEN THEY HAD PLAITED A CROWN OF
THORNS, THEY PUT IT ON HIS HEAD.” JOSEPH IS STRIPPED OUT OF
HIS COAT OF MANY COLORS; JESUS IS STRIPPED OUT OF HIS, AH,
SEAMLESS ROBE. JOSEPH DESCENDS INTO THE PIT, AND JESUS GOES
DOWN INTO THE VERY PIT OF DEATH. WHAT A PICTURE! WHAT A PICTURE
OF JESUS. HE SUFFERED, AH; THE LORD JESUS SUFFERED CONSPIRACY,
AS JOSEPH. THE LORD JESUS SUFFERED ABUSE AS JOSEPH. THE
LORD JESUS SUFFERED BETRAYAL AS JOSEPH DID. AH, JOSEPH WAS
BETRAYED. LOOK IN VERSES 28 CHA, CHAPTER 37 VERSE 28, “THEN THERE
PASSED BY MIDIANITE, MERCHANTMEN; AND THEY DREW AND
LIFTED UP JOSEPH OUT OF THE PIT, AND SOLD JOSEPH TO THE
ISHMAELITES FOR TWENTY PIECES OF SILVER; AND THEY BROUGHT JOSEPH
TO EGYPT.” NOW, HERE HE’S, BETRAYED. HIS BROTHERS ARE
SELLING HIM, BETRAYING HIM. DO YOU KNOW WHOSE IDEA IT WAS TO
SELL JOSEPH FOR SILVER? IT WAS JUDAH’S IDEA. DO YOU KNOW WHAT
THE NEW TESTAMENT NAME FOR JUDAH IS? IT IS JUDAS, THIS, EH, THE
ONE WHO SOLD JESUS FOR SILVER. MATTHEW CHAPTER 26 VERSE 14,
“THEN ONE OF THE TWELVE, CALLED JUDAS ISCARIOT, WENT UNTO THE
CHIEF PRIESTS, AND SAID UNTO THEM, ‘WHAT WILL YE GIVE ME, AND
I WILL DELIVER HIM UNTO YOU?’ AND THE COVENANTED WITH HIM FOR
THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER.” AND, UH, NOW JOSEPH IS THE SENT ONE.
JOSEPH IS THE SCORNED ONE. JOSEPH IS THE SUFFERING ONE. AND
NOW JOSEPH IS THE SLAIN ONE. AH, THE PARALLEL WITH JESUS IS SO
INCREDIBLE. JOSEPH IS SLAIN IN A FIGURE, IN A TYPE, NOT IN
REALITY. BUT WHAT DID THEY DO? AH, NOTICE HERE IN CHAPTER 37
VERSE 31, “AND THEY TOOK JOSEPH’S COAT, AND KILLED A KID
OF THE GOATS, AND DIPPED THE COAT IN THE BLOOD. AND THEY SENT
THE COAT OF MANY COLORS, AND BROUGHT IT UNTO THEIR FATHER;
AND SAID, ‘THIS HAVE WE FOUND. KNOW NOW WHETHER IT IS THY SON’S
COAT OR NOT.’ AND HE KNEW IT, AND SAID, ‘IT IS MY SON’S COAT;
AN EVIL BEAST HATH DEVOURED HIM; JOSEPH IS WITHOUT A DOUBT RENT
OR TORN IN PIECES.’ AND JACOB TORE HIS CLOTHES, AND PUT
SACKCLOTH ON HIS LOINS, AND MOURNED FOR HIS SON MANY DAYS.”
IN THE MIND OF JACOB, JOSEPH IS DEAD. CAN YOU IMAGINE? HERE’S
THE OLD PATRIARCH, WHO’S FAVORITE SON IS JOSEPH, THE, THE
SON OF RACHEL, HIS WIFE, HIS TRUE BELOVED. AND THEY BRING TO
HIM THIS COAT THAT SHOWS HIS DISTINCTION, THE FATHER’S MARK
THAT’S SET UPON HIM, THAT THE BIRTHRIGHT WAS UPON HIM, AND
THEY BRING THIS BLOOD-SPRINKLED COAT AND GIVE IT TO OLD JACOB.
AND HE SAYS, “MY SON IS DEAD! HE’S DEAD.” AND IN THE EYES OF
HIS BROTHERS, HE WAS DEAD ALSO. THEY EXPECTED HIM TO DIE. LATER
ON, AND YOU CAN FIND THIS AND WE’LL NOT TURN TO IT NOW, THEY
SAID, “WE PUT HIM TO DEATH. HIS BLOOD IS ON US. HE IS NO MORE.”
THEY FIGURED HE WAS DEAD. HERE IS THE BRUD, BLOOD-SPRINKLED
GARMENT BROUGHT TO THE FATHER. FRIEND, ONE DAY LONG AGO, THE
BLOOD OF GOD’S SON, THE LORD JESUS, WAS BROUGHT TO HEAVEN AND
SPRINKLED ON THE MERCY SEAT THERE IN FRONT OF THE FATHER.
NOTICE THE PARALLELS HERE THAT ARE INCREDIBLE. HERE IS JOSEPH,
THE SENT ONE, THE SCORNED ONE, THE SUFFERING ONE, THE SLAIN
ONE. WHAT A PICTURE OF JESUS. NOW LET’S MOVE TO THE THIRD
THING. AND, AND, HUH, HEY, DON’T DROP OUT ON ME NOW, DON’T YOU
DROP OUT. GOD WANTS TO SPEAK TO YOU TODAY. AND YOU MAY NOT EVEN
BE A CHRISTIAN, BUT THIS, IT, OH, HOW THIS APPLIES TO YOU.
FIRST OF ALL, WE SEE THE BELOVED SON. THEN WE SEE THE SUFFERING
SERVANT. AND NOW WE SEE A PORTRAIT OF JESUS, THE EXALTED
SOVEREIGN. JOSEPH GOES THROUGH ALL KINDS OF IGNOMINIOUS SHAME.
I DON’T HAVE TIME TO TELL YOU WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM AS HE’S
FALSELY ACCUSED AND CAST INTO PRISON. ALL KINDS OF TERRIBLE,
HORRIBLE THINGS HAPPEN TO HIM. BUT BY THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD AND
THE HAND OF GOD IS UPON HIM, AND GOD TAKES HIM FROM THE PIT AND
FROM THE PRISON, AND GOD EXALTS HIM AND GIVES HIM A NAME WHICH
IS ABOVE EVERY NAME. JOSEPH NOW IS LIFTED UP. I WANT YOU TO SEE
IN GENESIS 41. FAST FORWARD TO GENESIS CHAPTER 41, AND LET’S
LOOK IN VERSE 38, “AND PHARAOH SAID TO HIS SERVANTS, ‘CAN WE
FIND SUCH A ONE AS THIS IS, A MAN IN WHOM THE SPIRIT OF GOD
IS?’ AND PHARAOH SAID UNTO JOSEPH, ‘FORASMUCH AS GOD HATH
SHOWED THEE ALL THESE, THERE IS NONE SO DISCREET AND WISE AS
THOU ART. THOU SHALT BE OVER MY HOUSE, AND ACCORDING TO THY WORD
ALL MY PEOPLE BE RULED; ONLY IN THE THRONE WILL I BE GREATER
THAN THOU.’ AND PHARAOH SAID UNTO JOSEPH, ‘SEE, I HAVE SET
THEE OVER ALL THE LAND OF EGYPT.’ AND PHARAOH TOOK OFF HIS
RING FROM HIS HAND, AND PUT IT ON JOSEPH’S HAND, AND,” AH,
“ROBED HIM IN VESTURES OF FINE LINEN,” AND THAT’S PURE WHITE,
“AND PUT A GOLD CHAIN ABOUT HIS NECK. AND HE MADE HIM TO RIDE IN
THE SECOND CHARIOT WHICH HE HAD; AND THEY CRIED BEFORE HIM,”
BEFORE JOSEPH, RIDING ALONG IN THAT CHARIOT, “‘BOW THE KNEE;’
AND HE MADE HIM RULER OVER ALL THE LAND OF JE, EGYPT. AND
PHARAOH SAID UNTO JOSEPH, ‘I AM PHARAOH, AND WITHOUT THEE SHALL
NO MAN LIFT UP HIS HAND OR FOOT IN ALL THE LAND OF EGYPT.’” WHAT
A TRANSFORMATION. THIS JEW BOY, DESPISED, REJECTED, SLAIN IN A
FIGURE, LANGUISHING IN PRISON, IS BROUGHT UP, BROUGHT OUT,
ENTHRONED. WHAT A PICTURE OF OUR DEAR SAVIOR JESUS. SAY, “AMEN.”
[AUDIENCE: AMEN] FIRST PETER CHAPTER THREE VERSE 22. IT
SPEAKS OF JESUS, “WHO IS GONE INTO THE HEAVENS, AND IS ON THE
RIGHT HAND OF GOD, ANGELS AND AUTHORITIES AND POWERS BEING
MADE SUBJECT UNTO HIM.” THE SAME PARALLEL. AND, AGAIN, I LOVE
PHILIPPIANS TWO VERSES NINE THROUGH 11, “WHEREFORE, GOD ALSO
HATH HIGHLY EXALTED HIM,” JESUS, “AND GIVEN HIM A NAME WHICH IS
ABOVE EVERY NAME. THAT AT THE NAME OF JESUS EVERY KNEE SHOULD
BOW, OF THINGS IN HEAVEN, AND THINGS IN EARTH, AND THINGS
UNDER THE EARTH, AND THAT EVERY TONGUE SHOULD CONFESS THAT JESUS
CHRIST IS LORD, TO THE GLORY OF GOD, THE FATHER.” AS JO, JOSEPH
IS RIDING ALONG THERE IN THE CHARIOT, THERE GOES A HERALD OUT
THERE AND SAYS TO EVERYONE, “BOW THE KNEE, BOW THE KNEE, BOW THE
KNEE!” A MAN SAYS, “I DON’T WANT TO BOW.” HE SAYS, “YOU WILL BOW!
THAT’S JOSEPH. BOW THE KNEE.” SADDAM HUSSEIN WILL BOW THE
KNEE. [AUDIENCE: AMEN] HITLER WILL BOW THE KNEE. [AUDIENCE:
AMEN] JAY LENO WILL BOW THE KNEE. YOU WILL BOW THE KNEE, YOU
WILL! “‘AS I LIVE,’ SAYETH THE LORD, ‘EVERY KNEE SHALL BOW,
[AUDIENCE: AMEN] AND EVERY TONGUE SHALL CONFESS THAT JESUS
CHRIST IS LORD, [AUDIENCE: THAT’S RIGHT] TO THE GLORY OF
GOD, THE FATHER.’” WELL, FRIEND, I DON’T WAIT TO THEN TO BOW MY
KNEE. [AUDIENCE: AMEN] I’VE ALREADY DONE IT THIS MORNING,
AND I’M GLAD TO DO IT NOW, AND SAY, “ALL HAIL THE POWER OF
JESUS’ NAME, LET ANGELS PROSTRATE FALL. BRING FORTH THE
ROYAL DIADEM, CROWN HIM LORD OF ALL.” [AUDIENCE: AMEN] NOW,
LISTEN, WE’RE TALKING ABOUT THE EXALTED SOVEREIGN. AH, HE IS NOW
GLORIFIED. HE IS NOW GIVEN A NEW NAME. LOOK IF YOU WILL IN
GENESIS CHAPTER 45, 41, VERSE 45, “AND PHARAOH CALLED JOSEPH’S
NAME ZAPHENATH-PANEAH.” GOOD NIGHT, WHAT A NAME. [AUDIENCE
LAUGHTER] WELL, THAT’S, THAT’S EGYPTIAN. GET READY FOR A
BLESSING. DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS? IT MEANS, “SAVIOR OF THE
WORLD.” [AUDIENCE REACTION] THAT’S WHAT IT MEANS. THAT’S THE
NEW NAME HE’S GIVEN, SAVIOR OF THE, OF THE WORLD. AH, TAYLOR,
HOWEVER, IN HIS TRANSLATION, GIVES IT THIS WAY, “HE HAS THE
GOD-LIKE POWER OF LIFE AND DEATH.” THAT’S THE NAME GIVEN TO
THIS, AH, MAN JOSEPH. HE HAS THE POWER OF LIFE AND DEATH, GIVEN A
NEW NAME. AND OUR GLORIFIED SAVIOR ALSO IS GIVEN A NEW NAME.
IN REVELATION CHAPTER 19 VERSE 12, THE BIBLE SAYS, “HE’S GIVEN
A NAME WRITTEN, THAT NO MAN KNOWS, EXCEPT HIM WHO RECEIVES
IT.” JESUS WILL MEAN SOMETHING TO YOU THAT HE DOESN’T MEAN TO
THIS WORLD IN HIS NEW NAME. NOW, HERE’S THE NEXT THING. WE’RE
TALKING ABOUT OUR GLORIFIED, AH, LORD, NOW AND HOW HE’S PICTURED
BY JOSEPH. HE IS EXALTED. HE IS, AH, GIVEN A NEW NAME. AND NOW
HE’S PRESENTED WITH A GENTILE BRIDE. LOOK IF YOU WILL IN
GENESIS 41 VERSE 45, “AND PHARAOH CALLED JOSEPH’S NAME
ZAPHENATH-PANEAH; AND HE GAVE TO HIM ASENATH, THE DAUGHTER OF
POTIPHERA, PRIEST OF ON. AND JOSEPH WENT OUT ALL OVER THE
LAND OF EGYPT.” NOW HE’S GIVEN, NOT A JEWISH BRIDE, BUT HE’S
GIVEN A GENTILE BRIDE. AFTER HIS EXALTATION HE IS GIVEN A BRIDE.
WHO IS THE BRIDE OF JESUS? HE HAS A GENTILE BRIDE, THE CHURCH
OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, AND YOU CAN FIND THAT IN EPHESIANS
CHAPTER FIVE. THAT’S WHY I LOVE THE CHURCH, BECAUSE THE CHURCH
IS THE BRIDE OF CHRIST. NOT THIS BUILDING, WE, THE PEOPLE.
[AUDIENCE: AMEN] EH, HUH, HUH, IF YOU WANT A, IF YOU WANT A, TO
HAVE TROUBLE WITH ADRIAN, YOU ABUSE HIS BRIDE. [AUDIENCE:
THAT’S RIGHT] DON’T DO THAT. I’LL TELL YOU, DON’T ABUSE THE
BRIDE OF CHRIST. JESUS LOVES HIS BRIDE. HE LOVES US. HE’S WORKING
ON US THAT HE MIGHT PRESENT US TO HIMSELF A SPOTLESS BRIDE,
WITHOUT SPOT OR BLEMISH OR ANY SUCH THING. AND NOW WE’RE
TALKING ABOUT THE EXALTED SOVEREIGN. NOTICE THIS ONE NOW
WHO IS EXALTED. NOTICE THIS ONE WHO IS GIVEN A NEW NAME. NOTICE
THIS ONE NOW WHO IS GIVEN A GENTILE BRIDE. WHAT IS THE
CULMINATION OF ALL OF IT? HE, MY FRIEND, IS THE ONLY HOPE OF A
DYING WORLD! [AUDIENCE: AMEN] THE ONLY WAY THAT THIS WORLD
COULD HAVE BEEN SAVED BACK IN JOSEPH’S TIME WAS WHAT JOSEPH
HAD DONE WHEN HE MADE PROVISION. NOTICE GENESIS 41 AND VERSE 55,
“AND WHEN ALL THE LAND OF EGYPT WAS FAMISHED,” THAT IS, THE
PEOPLE ARE DYING, “THE PEOPLE CRIED TO PHARAOH FOR BREAD, AND
PHARAOH SAID UNTO ALL THE EGYPTIANS, ‘GO UNTO JOSEPH; WHAT
HE SAITH UNTO YOU, DO.’ AND THE FAMINE WAS ALL OVER THE FACE OF
THE EARTH. AND JOSEPH OPENED ALL THE STOREHOUSES, AND SOLD UNTO
THE EGYPTIANS; AND THE FAMINE WAXED SORE IN THE LAND OF EGYPT.
AND ALL COUNTRIES CAME TO EGYPT TO JOSEPH FOR TO BUY CORN;
BECAUSE THE FAMINE WAS SORE IN ALL THE LANDS.” IS NOT THIS
ABSOLUTELY AMAZING? HERE IS JOSEPH, A DESPISED AND REJECTED
JEW, THE ONLY HOPE OF ALL THE WORLD. A DESPISED AND REJECTED
JEW, THE ONLY HOPE OF ALL THE WORLD! THEY GO TO PHARAOH.
PHARAOH SAYS, “GO TO JOSEPH!” AND HE HAS PLENTY. HIS SUPPLY IS
WITHOUT NUMBER. GO BACK TO GENESIS 41 AND LOOK IF YOU WILL
IN 49, “AND JOSEPH GATHERED CORN AS THE SAND OF THE SEA, VERY
MUCH, UNTIL HE LEFT NUMBERING, FOR IT WAS WITHOUT NUMBER.”
JOSEPH, THE ONLY HOPE IN THAT DAY. WHO’S THE ONLY HOPE IN THIS
DAY? WHAT’S HIS NAME? [AUDIENCE: JESUS] JESUS. THE BIBLE SAYS IN
ACTS CHAPTER FOUR VERSE 12, “NEITHER IS THERE SALVATION IN,
IN ANY OTHER, FOR THERE IS NONE OTHER NAME UNDER HEAVEN, GIVEN
AMONG MEN, WHEREBY WE MUST BE SAVED.” AND I WANT TO TELL YOU
THAT THERE’S NO SHORTAGE TO THE SUPPLY OF JESUS, EITHER. “AND
OUT OF HIS INFINITE RICHES IN JESUS, HE GIVETH AND GIVETH AND
GIVETH AGAIN.” AND THE BIBLE SAYS, AH, “FOR THE SAME LORD
OVER ALL IS RICH UNTO ALL THAT CALL UPON HIM.” NOW, LET’S MOVE
TO THE FOURTH THING BECAUSE WE’RE QUICKLY RUNNING OUT OF
TIME. I WANT YOU TO SEE A PORTRAIT OF JESUS NOW, THE
SEEKING SAVIOR. YOU SEE, LIKE, UH, LIKE JESUS, JOSEPH REVEALED
HIMSELF TO HIS BROTHERS. TURN TO CHAPTER 45. “THEN JOSEPH COULD
NOT RES, REFRAIN HIMSELF BEFORE ALL THEM THAT STOOD BY HIM; AND
HE CRIED, ‘CAUSE EVERY MAN TO GO OUT FROM ME.’” HE’S THERE IN THE
PALACE AND HE SAYS ALL THE ATTENDANTS, “GO AWAY.” “AND
THERE STOOD NO MAN WITH HIM,” NOW WATCH THIS, “WHILE JOSEPH
MADE HIMSELF KNOWN UNTO HIS BRETHREN.” THESE ARE THE ONES
THAT PUT HIM TO DEATH IN A FIGURE. THESE ARE THE ONES THAT
SCORNED HIM, CONSPIRED AGAINST HIM. “AND HE WEPT ALOUD,” THAT
IS, AH, JOSEPH, “AND THE EGYPTIANS AND 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.” LISTEN, JOSEPH
NOW REVEALS HIMSELF TO HIS BROTHERS. MAY I TELL YOU
SOMETHING? THEY WOULD NEVER HAVE KNOWN WHO JOSEPH WAS, HAD JOSEPH
NOT REVEALED HIMSELF TO THEM. [AUDIENCE: THAT’S RIGHT] HE’S
NOW, AH, OLDER. HE’S DRESSED LIKE AN EGYPTIAN. HE IS THERE,
AH, WITH, SPEAKING THE EGYPTIAN LANGUAGE. THE ONLY WAY THAT THEY
COULD KNOW HIM WAS FOR HIM TO SAY, “LOOK, I’M JOSEPH.” THE
ONLY WAY THAT YOU’LL KNOW JESUS IS FOR JESUS TO REVEAL HIMSELF
TO YOU. YOU’LL NEVER FIGURE HIM OUT. BUT YOU’VE BEEN BROUGHT BY
DIVINE PROVIDENCE HERE THIS MORNING THAT GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT
MIGHT SPEAK TO YOU, AND JESUS IS SAYING UNTO YOU, “I AM JESUS.
[AUDIENCE: AMEN] I’M THE SON OF GOD. [AUDIENCE: THAT’S RIGHT] I
WANT TO SAVE YOU.” SO YOU LAY YOUR INTELLECTUAL PRIDE IN THE
DUST AND LET HIM REVEAL HIMSELF. NOW, LIKE JESUS, JOSEPH REVEALED
HIMSELF TO HIS BRETHREN. LIKE JESUS, JOSEPH FORGAVE AND
RESTORED HIS BROTHERS. LOOK IN CHAPTER 45 VERSES FOUR AND FIVE,
“AND JOSEPH SAID TO HIS BRETHREN, ‘COME NEAR TO ME, AND
I, 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, THAT YE SOLD ME
HITHER, FOR GOD DID SEND ME BEFORE YOU TO PRESERVE LIFE.’”
WHAT LOVE AND WHAT GRACE. TRAGEDY HAS BECOME TRIUMPH.
NOTICE IN THESE VERSES HE GIVES AN INVITATION. HE SAYS, “COME TO
ME,” AND THEY CAME. THEY RESPONDED AND THEY CAME TO HIM.
I’M GONNA GIVE AN INVITATION ON BEHALF OF JESUS, AND I’M GOING
TO ASK YOU TO COME TO JESUS. AND I HOPE YOU’LL DO WHAT THE
BRETHREN OF JOSEPH DID WHEN THEY CAME TO JOSEPH. NOW, WHEN JOSEPH
SAID, “DON’T FEEL BAD,” HE’S NOT TRYING TO MINIMIZE THEIR SIN.
WHAT HE IS DOING IS MAXIMIZING THE GRACE OF GOD. AH, CALVARY,
FROM MAN’S VIEWPOINT, WAS EARTH’S GREATEST TRAGEDY. FROM
GOD’S VIEWPOINT, IT WAS EARTH’S GREATEST TRIUMPH. “YOU MEANT IT
FOR EVIL, BUT GOD MEANT IT FOR GOOD.” AND WHEN HELL WAS DOING
ITS WORST, GOD WAS DOING HIS BEST WHEN JESUS DIED UPON THAT
CROSS. DO YOU SEE THE PICTURE HERE? DO YOU SEE THE PARALLEL?
[AUDIENCE: AMEN] NOT ONLY DID HE CONVICT HIS BROTHERS AND REVEAL
HIMSELF TO THEM, NOT ONLY DID HE FORGIVE THEM AND RESTORE THEM,
BUT HERE, FINALLY, HE COMMISSIONED HIS BROTHERS.
NOTICE IN VERSE FOUR WHAT HE SAYS HERE. HE SAYS, “COME.” AND
THEN IF YOU’LL GO TO VERSE NINE. LOOK IN VERSE NINE, “HASTE YE,
AND GO UP TO MY FATHER, AND SAY UNTO HIM, ‘THUS SAITH THY SON,
JOSEPH; ‘GOD HATH MADE ME LORD OF ALL EGYPT; COME DOWN UNTO ME,
TARRY NOT.’’” OUR FAITH IS SUMMED UP IN THIS; “COME TO ME.
GO TO ALL THE WORLD.” JOSEPH SAYS TO HIS BROTHERS, “COME TO
ME, COME HERE. I WILL FORGIVE YOU. I WILL RESTORE YOU. NOW I
WANT YOU TO GO AND I WANT YOU TO TELL THE MESSAGE.” AND WHAT WERE
THEY TO TELL? LOOK IN GENESIS 45 VERSE 26, “AND THEY TOLD HIM,”
THAT IS, THEIR FATHER, “SAYING, ‘JOSEPH IS YET ALIVE, HE IS
GOVERNOR OVER ALL THE LAND OF EGYPT.’ AND JACOB’S HEART
FAINTED; FOR HE BELIEVED THEM NOT. AND THEY TOLD HIM ALL THE
WORDS OF JOSEPH, WHICH HE HAD SAID UNTO THEM; AND WHEN HE SAW
THE WAGONS WHICH JOSEPH HAD SENT TO CARRY HIM, THE SPIRIT OF
JACOB, THEIR FATHER, REVIVED.” THEY ARE GOING NOW AS
EVANGELISTS. HIS BROTHERS, THE ONES WHO PUT HIM TO DEATH, HAVE
NOW BEEN FORGIVEN AND RESTORED, AND HERE’S THE MESSAGE. YOU WANT
TO KNOW WHAT YOUR MESSAGE IS? IF YOU’RE A CHILD OF GOD, HERE IT
IS. WE ONCE REJECTED HIM. NOW HE HAS BEEN RAISED ON HIGH. NOW
HE’S BEEN GIVEN A NAME WHICH IS ABOVE EVERY NAME. NOW THE WORLD
IS AT HIS FEET. HE IS THE FAIREST OF TEN THOUSAND. HE HAS
FORGIVEN OUR SINS. HE WANTS US TO BE WITH HIM AND SHARE HIS
GLORY. [AUDIENCE: AMEN] AND THAT’S THE MESSAGE THAT THEY
PREACHED. THEY PREACHED JOSEPH RISEN, RICH, AND REIGNING. AND
THAT’S THE JESUS THAT I’M PREACHING TODAY. THAT’S THE
GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOSEPH. ISN’T IT AMAZING? [AUDIENCE:
AMEN] I SAY, IS THAT NOT [SLAP] AMAZING? DO YOU THINK ALL [TAP]
OF THAT HAPPENED BY JUST, GIVE GOD A HAND, YES, THAT IS [SLAP]
AMAZING. [AUDIENCE APPLAUSE] THAT’S THE WORD OF GOD. ONLY
IGNORANCE SCOFFS AT THIS BOOK. HOW COULD GOD, SO LONG AGO, IN
THE FIRST BOOK IN THE BIBLE, PAINT SUCH A PORTRAIT OF THE
LORD JESUS CHRIST? GOD WANTS YOU SAVED. HE WANTS YOU TO KNOW
JESUS. AND WHAT JOSEPH SAID TO HIS BROTHERS, “COME TO ME,” HE’S
SAYING TO YOU. “IF YOU’VE NEVER COME, COME.” AND WHAT JOSEPH
SAID TO THOSE WHO HAVE COME, JESUS IS SAYING TO YOU, “GO TELL
THE OTHERS. TELL THEM THAT I’M NOT DEAD, [AUDIENCE: AMEN] BUT
I’M ALIVE. I AM NOW AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE MAJESTY ON HIGH. I
HAVE MADE PROVISION FOR YOU. AND I WANT YOU TO COME AND LIVE
[CLAP] WITH ME FOREVER.” WOULD YOU BOW YOUR HEADS IN PRAYER?
HEADS ARE BOWED AND EYES ARE CLOSED. OUR HEAVENLY JOSEPH, THE
ONE WITH THE NAIL PRINTS IN HIS HAND, THE ONES THAT WE ALL
HELPED CRUCIFY, THE ONE WHO IS ASCENDED, RISEN, THE ONE BEFORE
WHOM EVERY KNEE WILL BOW SOME DAY, IS SAYING TO YOU, “COME TO
ME.” IF YOU WANT TO BE SAVED, PRAY LIKE THIS, “DEAR GOD, I
KNOW THAT YOU LOVE ME. I KNOW THAT YOU WANT TO SAVE ME. I HAVE
SINNED AGAINST YOU. I’VE BEEN SELFISH AND SELF-CENTERED. I’VE
BEEN LIVING FOR MYSELF AND SELF ALONE, BUT NOW I NEED YOU. I
TURN MY LIFE OVER TO YOU. THANK YOU, JESUS, THAT YOU PAID FOR MY
SIN WITH YOUR BLOOD. I BELIEVE THAT YOU DID. I BELIEVE YOU
WALKED OUT OF THAT GRAVE. YOU PROMISED TO SAVE ME IF I WOULD
TRUST YOU. I DO TRUST YOU NOW WITH ALL OF MY HEART. COME INTO
MY HEART. COME, JESUS, INTO MY HEART. COME INTO MY HEART.
FORGIVE MY SIN. SAVE ME, JESUS.” PRAY THAT PRAYER. PRAY IT AND
MEAN IT. “SAVE ME, LORD JESUS.” DID YOU ASK HIM? THEN BY AN ACT
OF FAITH, THANK HIM FOR DOING IT. SAY, “THANK YOU FOR SAVING
ME, JESUS. I TRUST YOU TO DO IT AND THAT SETTLES IT. BEGIN NOW
TO MAKE ME THE PERSON YOU WANT ME TO BE. I’M WEAK BUT YOU’RE
STRONG. START WITH ME WHERE I AM, LORD JESUS, AND GO WITH ME
ALL THE WAY. I GIVE YOU MY HEART. I TRUST YOU, JESUS. AMEN
AND AMEN.” [MUSIC] I AM SO GRATEFUL FOR THESE IN THIS
WORSHIP CENTER, TODAY, WHO HAVE SAID AN EVERLASTING YES TO THE
LORD JESUS CHRIST. AND NOW I WANT TO SPEAK A PERSONAL WORD TO
YOU. WHAT THESE HAVE DONE; YOU CAN DO! AND YOU CAN DO IT RIGHT
NOW. WOULD YOU PRAY AND ASK THE LORD JESUS TO COME INTO YOUR
HEART, TO BE YOUR PERSONAL SAVIOR, TO GIVE YOU A NEW START,
A NEW HOPE AND A NEW HOME? WOULD YOU DO THAT? PRAY THIS WAY,
“LORD JESUS, COME INTO MY HEART, FORGIVE MY SIN AND SAVE ME. I
BELIEVE YOU PAID MY SIN DEBT WITH YOUR BLOOD ON THE CROSS; I
BELIEVE IT! I BELIEVE THAT THE FATHER RAISED YOU FROM THE DEAD.
I BELIEVE YOU CAN SAVE ME AND WILL SAVE ME AND WANT TO SAVE ME
IF I WILL TRUST YOU. SAVE ME, LORD JESUS.” PRAY THAT FRIEND
AND MEAN IT. AND IF YOU DID, BEGIN TO THANK HIM FOR DOING IT.
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