Participants: Doug Batchelor
Series Code: AFP
Program Code: AFP000122
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00:01 >>THIS PRESENTATION IS BROUGHT
00:01 TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF THE 00:03 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. >>AS YOU READ THROUGH THE BIBLE, 00:13 YOU THINK YOU'RE REALLY READING ABOUT JOSEPH? 00:15 OR ARE YOU READING ABOUT JESUS? YOU'RE NOT READING ABOUT NOAH. 00:18 YOU'RE NOT READING ABOUT ABRAHAM OR ENOCH OR MELCHIZEDEK - 00:22 YOU'RE READING ABOUT JESUS. 00:27 >>FOR OVER 40 YEARS AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN DEDICATED TO 00:30 SHARING GOD'S WORD THROUGH MEDIA. THIS PROGRAM FEATURES 00:33 HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOME OF OUR BEST TELEVISION BROADCASTS. 00:37 WE INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK AND ENJOY THIS EDITION 00:40 OF AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS. >>THIS MORNING I'M GOING TO 00:48 BEGIN A SERIES AND, TO BE HONEST, I DON'T KNOW HOW LONG IT 00:50 WILL LAST. I'M SURE I WON'T BE DONE TODAY, 00:53 THAT'S ALL. DEALING WITH THE THEME OF JESUS 00:59 THROUGHOUT THE BIBLE. WHEN IT COMES TO THE STORIES IN 01:03 THE BIBLE, YOU CAN SEE IN THEIR LIVES SHADOWS AND TYPES OF 01:08 CHRIST THAT ARE VERY PROMINENT AND UNDENIABLE. 01:13 TALKING ABOUT SHADOWS AND TYPES, FOR INSTANCE, IF YOU LOOK IN 01:16 JOHN - THE GOSPEL OF JOHN CHAPTER 1, VERSE 45 - IT TELLS 01:22 US THAT AFTER PHILIP MET JESUS HE WENT AND HE "FOUND NATHANAEL 01:28 AND SAID TO HIM, 'WE HAVE FOUND HIM OF WHOM MOSES IN THE LAW, 01:33 AND ALSO THE PROPHETS, WROTE, JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE SON OF 01:38 JOSEPH.'" HERE PHILIP IS SAYING ALL 01:41 THROUGH THE BIBLE THEY WERE WRITING ABOUT JESUS. 01:45 NOW, YOU DON'T FIND JESUS' NAME, PER SE, IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, 01:49 BUT YOU DO FIND TYPES OF CHRIST ALL THE WAY FROM THE WRITINGS OF 01:53 MOSES TO MALACHI. THESE SYMBOLS ARE THERE AND GOD 01:57 WANTS US TO READ OUR BIBLES AND RECOGNIZE THESE ANALOGIES 02:00 BECAUSE IT'LL STRENGTHEN YOUR FAITH. 02:03 WE'RE GOING TO QUICKLY FLY OVER MANY OF THESE GREAT CHARACTERS 02:06 OF THE BIBLE AND THESE EVENTS, BUT I WANT YOU TO BEGIN TO LOOK 02:09 AT YOUR BIBLE AND SEE THAT IT'S MORE THAN JUST A HISTORY BOOK. 02:13 IT IS A SUPERNATURAL BOOK. THE ONLY WAY ALL OF THESE TYPES 02:17 AND SHADOWS COULD BE THERE IS IF SOMEBODY IN CONTROL OF HISTORY 02:22 WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE BIBLE. ALRIGHT, WHO'S THE FIRST MAN 02:25 IN THE BIBLE? ADAM. 02:29 IN THE NEW TESTAMENT WE READ THAT JESUS IS THE SECOND ADAM. 02:33 FOR INSTANCE, JESUS IS IN ADAM, ADAM'S A TYPE OF CHRIST. 02:38 ROMANS CHAPTER 5, VERSE 14, "NEVERTHELESS DEATH REIGNED FROM 02:43 ADAM TO MOSES, EVEN OVER THOSE WHO HAD NOT SINNED ACCORDING TO 02:48 THE LIKENESS OF THE TRANSGRESSION OF ADAM, WHO IS A 02:51 TYPE" - NOW THE IDEA OF BIBLE TYPOLOGY - PASTOR DOUG'S NOT 02:56 INVENTING THAT - THE BIBLE WRITERS LOOKED FOR THESE TYPES 02:59 AND SYMBOLS - "...ADAM, WHO IS A TYPE OF HIM WHO WAS TO COME." 03:04 SO YOU'RE READING IN THE NEW TESTAMENT PAUL SAID, 'ADAM IS A 03:07 TYPE OF THE ONE WHO IS TO COME, THE SECOND ADAM, JESUS.' 03:12 WHAT ARE SOME WAYS THAT ADAM IS A TYPE OF CHRIST? 03:17 ADAM WENT TO SLEEP ON FRIDAY AND GOD PUT HIM TO SLEEP. 03:24 HE BREATHED - HE STOPPED BREATHING AND - OH, I'M SORRY - 03:28 ADAM BREATHED HIS FIRST ON FRIDAY, JESUS BREATHED HIS LAST 03:32 ON FRIDAY. ADAM THEN WENT TO SLEEP, GOD 03:35 OPENED HIS SIDE AND BROUGHT OUT HIS WIFE. 03:38 IT'S NOT HOW MOST OF US GET MARRIED, BUT JESUS WENT TO SLEEP 03:42 ON FRIDAY, A SPEAR OPENED UP HIS SIDE AND THROUGH THAT BLOOD AND 03:45 THAT WATER HIS BRIDE - HIS CHURCH - WAS BORN. 03:50 ADAM FELL IN A GARDEN. JESUS WAS VICTORIOUS IN A 03:56 WILDERNESS. YOU SEE HOW THIS WORKS? 03:59 THERE'S SYMBOLS AND TYPES THERE THAT TELL US THAT CHRIST IS THE 04:03 SECOND ADAM AND AS REAL AS - THE FIRST ADAM FELL AND YOU ALL FEEL 04:07 THAT FALL IN YOUR NATURES, DON'T YOU? YOU CAN, THROUGH FAITH, 04:12 GET THE DNA OF THE SECOND ADAM, JESUS, AND BECOME VICTORIOUS. 04:17 THE REALITY OF YOUR STRUGGLE WITH TEMPTATION - BECAUSE OF THE 04:21 FALL OF THE FIRST ADAM - YOU CAN HAVE THE REALITY OF VICTORY 04:25 BECAUSE OF THE VICTORY OF THE SECOND ADAM. 04:28 IT CAN BE YOURS JUST AS MUCH BECAUSE YOU ARE ADOPTED INTO HIS 04:31 FAMILY. YOU CAN EXPERIENCE THAT VICTORY. 04:33 IT'S VERY REAL. SO THESE SYMBOLS ARE ALSO 04:35 REDEMPTIVE. THEY'RE TEACHING US SOMETHING 04:38 THAT'S VERY PRACTICAL. WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON. 04:41 CAIN AND ABEL. ABEL IS THE FIRST ONE TO DIE IN THE BIBLE. 04:47 HE IS A GOOD SHEPHERD. JESUS IS OUR GOOD SHEPHERD. 04:53 THE FIRST TIME YOU FIND THE WORD 'BLOOD' IN THE BIBLE IS SPEAKING 04:57 ABOUT THE BLOOD OF ABEL THAT SPEAKS TO GOD. 05:02 THE BLOOD OF ABEL THAT CRIES TO GOD FROM THE GROUND. 05:06 ABEL OFFERS A SACRIFICE AND THEN HE LAYS DOWN HIS LIFE. 05:12 IT DOESN'T SAY HE EVER RESISTED HIS BROTHER. 05:15 WELL, YOU CAN READ IN THE BOOK OF HEBREWS CHAPTER 12, "JESUS 05:20 THE MEDIATOR OF THE NEW COVENANT...THE BLOOD OF 05:23 SPRINKLING THAT SPEAKS BETTER THINGS THAN THAT OF ABEL." 05:27 IN THE SAME WAY THAT THE BLOOD OF ABEL SPOKE TO THE FATHER, THE 05:29 BLOOD OF JESUS SPEAKS TO THE FATHER AND WHEN YOU AND I PLEAD 05:32 HIS BLOOD WE ARE FORGIVEN. 05:35 YOU KNOW, GOD EVEN SHOWED MERCY ON CAIN, DIDN'T HE? 05:39 HE SAID, 'MY SIN IS TOO GREAT FOR ME TO BEAR. 05:41 ALL THAT FIND ME WILL KILL ME.' AND GOD SHOWED CAIN MERCY. 05:46 HE SAID, 'I'LL PLACE A MARK ON YOU LEST ANY THAT LATER COME 05:49 WILL KILL YOU.' WELL WE FIND MERCY BECAUSE OF 05:54 THE BLOOD OF JESUS, OUR GOOD SHEPHERD. 05:57 LET ME READ SOMETHING TO YOU FROM THE BOOK 'THAT I MAY KNOW 06:00 HIM' - THIS IS PAGE 208, "THE OLD TESTAMENT IS AS VERILY THE 06:06 GOSPEL IN TYPES AND SHADOWS AS THE NEW TESTAMENT IS IN THE 06:12 UNFOLDING POWER. THE NEW TESTAMENT DOES NOT 06:15 PRESENT A NEW RELIGION. THE OLD TESTAMENT DOES NOT 06:18 PRESENT A RELIGION TO BE SUPERCEDED BY THE NEW. 06:21 THE NEW TESTAMENT IS ONLY THE ADVANCEMENT AND UNFOLDING OF THE 06:24 OLD. HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD 06:26 PEOPLE SAY BEFORE, 'WELL I'M A NEW TESTAMENT CHRISTIAN'? 06:29 AS OPPOSED TO AN OLD TESTAMENT CHRISTIAN. 06:31 YOU CAN BE AN OLD TESTAMENT CHRISTIAN AND IT'S THE EXACT 06:33 SAME THING AS A NEW TESTAMENT CHRISTIAN. 06:35 IT'S A MYTH THAT THEY'RE DIFFERENT. 06:37 IT'S A MYTH THAT THERE'S ONE WAY GOD SAVES PEOPLE IN THE OLD 06:40 TESTAMENT AND ANOTHER WAY HE SAVES THEM IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. 06:43 EVERYBODY IS SAVED BY GRACE AND FAITH, AMEN? 06:46 YES, THEY SAY THEY WERE SAVED IN THE OLD TESTAMENT - THOSE LAMBS 06:50 AND GOATS THAT THEY SACRIFICED WERE TYPES AND SHADOWS POINTING 06:53 FORWARD TO JESUS BY FAITH. THEY WERE ALL SAVED BY FAITH 06:57 LOOKING FORWARD. WE'RE ALL SAVED BY FAITH LOOKING 06:59 BACK AT THE CROSS. EVERYBODY'S SAVED BY THE CROSS. 07:02 IT'S THE SAME. NOW, I'M GOING TO JUMP ALONG TO 07:07 THE STORY OF ABRAHAM. GOING TO CONSIDER ABRAHAM. 07:13 JESUS IS LIKE ABRAHAM - AND LIKE ISAAC, I MIGHT ADD. 07:19 ABRAHAM CAME FROM A FAR COUNTRY TO THE PROMISED LAND AND HE 07:22 BROUGHT HIS FAMILY. JESUS LEFT HEAVEN AND CAME TO 07:27 THIS WORLD TO BRING HIS FAMILY TO THE PROMISED LAND. 07:33 EVERYBODY IS GOING TO BE SAVED THROUGH THE BLESSED SEED OF 07:36 ABRAHAM, WHICH WAS ISAAC. ISAAC'S NAME - WHO REMEMBERS 07:41 WHAT IT MEANS? LAUGHTER. HOW MANY OF YOU LIKE TO SMILE 07:48 AND LAUGH. THAT'S HAPPY NEWS. THE GOSPEL IS GOOD NEWS. 07:55 SO ISAAC, HERE, IS A TYPE OF CHRIST THAT SHOULD BRING US JOY. 08:00 SO HE'S GIVEN THIS SON THAT IS A MIRACLE BIRTH AND ONE DAY THE 08:04 LORD SPEAKS, THEN, TO ABRAHAM. THIS PROMISED CHILD THROUGH WHOM 08:09 ALL THE WORLD'S GOING TO BE SAVED - THROUGH ISAAC - WHAT IS 08:13 HE GOING TO DO WITH HIM? BEFORE HE EVER GETS MARRIED 08:16 WE'RE GOING TO SACRIFICE HIM. WELL, THAT DOESN'T MAKE ANY 08:19 SENSE. ALL THE PROMISE OF SALVATION IS 08:22 SUPPOSED TO COME THROUGH HIM. YOU'RE GOING TO KILL HIM? 08:25 AND JESUS, IN HIS PRIME, IS OFFERED AS A SACRIFICE. 08:30 SO GOD TELLS ABRAHAM, 'I WANT YOU TO MAKE THIS JOURNEY TO THE 08:33 PLACE OF SACRIFICE. THEY GO THREE DAYS. 08:38 THEY LEAVE THE DONKEY WITH THE SERVANTS. 08:42 THEY SAY, 'WE'LL COME BACK TO YOU AGAIN.' 08:44 THEY GO ANOTHER HALF A DAY UP A MOUNTAIN. 08:47 SO THE JOURNEY TO THE PLACE OF SACRIFICE IS THREE AND A HALF 08:49 DAYS FROM THE TIME OF CHRIST'S BAPTISM, WHEN HE BEGAN HIS 08:52 MINISTRY, TO THE PLACE OF SACRIFICE IS THREE AND A HALF 08:55 YEARS. A DAY IN PROPHECY IS A YEAR. 08:59 THE WOOD IS LAID ON ISAAC'S BACK. 09:01 YOU'VE HEARD ME TALK ABOUT THIS ANALOGY MANY TIMES. 09:04 THE CROSS IS PLACED ON JESUS' BACK. 09:08 ON THE WAY UP THE HILL ISAAC SAYS TO HIS FATHER - AND THIS IS 09:10 ONE OF THE IMMORTAL STATEMENTS IN THE BIBLE, 'FATHER, YOU KNOW, 09:14 I'VE GOT THE FIRE' - THEY PROBABLY TOOK SOME KIND OF 09:16 TINDER OR SOMETHING TO MAKE A FIRE. 09:18 HE SAYS, 'WE'VE GOT THE WOOD' - HE'D PROBABLY GONE TO THE PLACE 09:21 OF SACRIFICE MANY TIMES BEFORE WITH HIS FATHER, BUT HE SAID, 09:25 'WE'RE MISSING SOMETHING REALLY IMPORTANT. 09:28 WHERE IS THE LAMB?' AND ALL OF HISTORY NOW FOCUSES 09:32 ON THE STATEMENT OF ABRAHAM TO HIS SON. 09:35 HE SAYS, "MY SON, GOD WILL PROVIDE FOR HIMSELF THE LAMB..." 09:40 NOW THE WAY THAT'S WORDED - EVEN IN THE HEBREW - IT'S SAYING, 09:44 'GOD WILL PROVIDE HIMSELF A LAMB.' 09:49 AND THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT JESUS DID. 09:52 GOD THE SON PROVIDED HIMSELF AS A LAMB. 09:54 THEN THEY GET TO THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN - WAS JESUS A WILLING 09:57 SACRIFICE OR DID GOD THE FATHER HAVE TO FORCE HIM? 10:00 HE SAID, 'NOT MY WILL BUT THY WILL BE DONE.' 10:03 ISAAC, WHEN HE HEARS FROM HIS FATHER WHAT THE PLAN IS, HE 10:06 SURRENDERS. HE SAYS, 'FATHER, IF THIS IS 10:07 WHAT GOD HAS TOLD YOU TO DO.' ABRAHAM WAS AN OLD MAN AT THIS 10:11 POINT. HE'S OVER A HUNDRED YEARS OF 10:13 AGE. ISAAC WAS A YOUNG STRAPPING 10:15 YOUTH. HE COULDN'T WRESTLE HIM TO THE 10:16 GROUND. HE COULD HAVE SPRINTED OFF. 10:18 ABRAHAM COULDN'T HAVE CAUGHT HIM. 10:19 BUT HE SUBMITTED TO THE WILL OF HIS FATHER. 10:21 THEY HAD SUCH TREMENDOUS RESPECT FOR THAT COMMAND THAT SAYS, 10:24 'HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER' THAT EVEN IF THE FATHER SAID, 10:27 'HOLD OUT YOUR HAND, SON, I'M GOING TO TIE YOU UP AND I'M 10:29 GOING TO SACRIFICE YOU.' HE HELD OUT HIS HANDS. 10:32 HE WAS A WILLING SACRIFICE. JESUS WAS A WILLING SACRIFICE. 10:38 HE WAS THE BELOVED SON - HE SAID, 'TAKE YOUR SON, YOUR ONLY 10:41 SON, WHO YOU LOVE.' GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD HE GAVE 10:46 HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON. 10:48 AND JUST AS HE'S ABOUT TO BRING THE KNIFE DOWN THE ANGEL STOPS 10:52 HIM AND HE POINTS HIM TO A RAM - A SUBSTITUTE - CAUGHT IN A THORN 10:57 BUSH - A THICKET MEANT A THORN BUSH - BY THE HORNS. 11:02 WHAT THAT REALLY REPRESENTS IS THERE YOU'VE GOT A RAM WITH A 11:05 CROWN OF THORNS - ANOTHER TYPE OF CHRIST. 11:08 SO IN THIS STORY OF ABRAHAM, ALL THROUGH MANY EXAMPLES, YOU CAN 11:13 SEE THE EXAMPLE OF CHRIST. JACOB - AND I COULD TALK AN 11:18 AWFUL LONG TIME ABOUT JACOB BUT LET'S JUST MENTION A FEW THINGS 11:22 HERE. JACOB - WELL, FOR ONE THING, HE 11:26 HAS TWELVE SONS THAT END UP POPULATING THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL. 11:32 IN THE SAME WAY, JESUS HAS THE TWELVE APOSTLES AND THROUGH 11:36 THEIR MINISTRY THE CHURCH GROWS AND IS POPULATED. 11:40 JACOB WANTS THE ETERNAL BIRTHRIGHT. 11:44 ISN'T IT AN INTERESTING STORY THAT JACOB GOES BEFORE THE 11:49 FATHER AND HE OBTAINS THE BIRTHRIGHT BY VIRTUE OF HE PUTS 11:54 THE SKIN OF THESE SACRIFICED KIDS - GOATS - ON HIS HANDS AND 12:02 THE BACK OF HIS NECK - HE PUTS ON HIS BROTHER'S CLOTHES AND HE, 12:05 BASICALLY, GETS CREDIT FOR BEING THE FIRSTBORN BY VIRTUE OF THE 12:11 SKINS OF THE GOAT WHICH REPRESENTS A SACRIFICE AND THE 12:14 CLOTHING OF THE ELDER BROTHER. 12:17 HE RECEIVES THE BLESSING OF THE FATHER WHO IS BLIND - IN OTHER 12:21 WORDS, HE DOESN'T LOOK AT HIM BUT HE LOOKS AT THE EVIDENCE 12:23 THAT HE FEELS AND HE SMELLS AND HE SAYS, 'BECAUSE OF THAT I'M 12:28 GOING TO GIVE YOU THE BLESSING OF MY FIRSTBORN.' 12:31 IN THE SAME WAY WHY DO WE GET THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST. 12:36 THE FATHER BASICALLY WINKS - HE'S BLIND TO OUR SINS BECAUSE 12:40 OF THE CLOTHES THAT WE'RE WEARING. 12:42 HE SAYS, 'THE VOICE IS THE VOICE OF JACOB'S, BUT THE SKIN IS THE 12:46 SKIN OF ESAU'S.' AND SO HE BLESSED HIM. 12:50 YOU AND I COME BEFORE THE FATHER AND WE GET TO WEAR JESUS' ROBE 12:52 AND WE GET TO WEAR JESUS' SKIN. AND THE SACRIFICE OF CHRIST. 12:58 AND SO WE GET THE BLESSING. THERE'S BEAUTIFUL TYPES AND 13:03 STORIES IN THE LIFE OF JACOB. JACOB HAS A DREAM. 13:10 HE RUNS FROM HOME BECAUSE HE'S DECEIVED HIS BROTHER AND, OH, I 13:13 COULD TALK A LONG TIME ABOUT JACOB. JACOB HAS A DREAM. 13:16 AND WHAT DOES HE SEE IN HIS DREAM? HE LAYS DOWN. 13:20 HE'S GOT NOTHING BUT A ROCK FOR A PILLOW, SOME OF YOU HAVE 13:23 PILLOWS LIKE THAT AT HOME, PROBABLY, HUH? 13:28 AND HE SEES THIS LADDER REACHING FROM EARTH TO HEAVEN. 13:32 WE ARE SEPARATED FROM HEAVEN BUT NOW THERE'S A LADDER AND ON THIS 13:36 LADDER GOING UP AND DOWN YOU'VE GOT ANGELS ASCENDING AND 13:38 DESCENDING - IT'S KIND OF LIKE WHEN YOU GO TO THE MALL - 13:40 YOU SEE RIGHT THERE YOU'VE GOT THE UP AND THE DOWN ESCALATORS 13:43 SIDE BY SIDE. THESE ANGELS ARE GOING - EXCEPT 13:45 IT'S A LONG ESCALATOR - IT'S REACHING UP TO THE GLORY OF GOD 13:48 - DISAPPEARS OFF INTO HEAVEN SOMEWHERE. THE VEHICLE THROUGH 13:52 WHICH GOD MINISTERS TO EARTH IS THIS LADDER. 13:56 WHAT DOES THAT LADDER MEAN? YOU GET TO THE NEW TESTAMENT AND 13:58 JESUS TELLS US WE ARE TO INTERPRET THAT THROUGH HIM. 14:03 JOHN CHAPTER 1, VERSE 51, CHRIST SAID TO HIM - SPEAKING TO 14:07 NATHANAEL - "MOST ASSUREDLY, I SAY TO YOU, HEREAFTER YOU SHALL 14:12 SEE HEAVEN OPEN, AND THE ANGELS OF GOD ASCENDING AND DESCENDING 14:17 UPON THE SON OF MAN." NOW DID EVERY JEW KNOW THE STORY 14:20 OF JACOB? AND WHEN JESUS SAID 'ASCENDING 14:24 AND DESCENDING ON THE SON OF MAN' THAT MEANS CHRIST IS THAT 14:28 ESCALATOR - CHRIST IS THE LADDER. 14:31 MATTER OF FACT, THE CROSS IS THE LADDER - IT'S THE BRIDGE 14:34 CONNECTING HEAVEN AND EARTH AND IT IS THROUGH CHRIST AND THROUGH 14:37 THE CROSS THAT WE HAVE ACCESS TO HEAVEN. 14:40 IT'S THROUGH THE CROSS THAT ANGELS COME AND GO ANSWERING OUR 14:43 PRAYERS BECAUSE WE PRAY IN JESUS' NAME. 14:46 HE'S THE LADDER - THAT LADDER THAT - JACOB THOUGHT THAT HE WAS 14:49 SEPARATED FROM GOD. HE DECEIVED HIS BROTHER, HE WAS 14:51 RUNNING AWAY FROM HOME, HE THINKS HE WAS ALL ALONE AND 14:54 THROUGH THAT DREAM GOD SAYS, 'I HAVEN'T FORSAKEN YOU. 14:57 I'LL BE WITH YOU AND I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE VISION. 14:59 WHAT EVERYBODY HAS YOU'RE GOING TO SEE NOW. 15:02 YOU'VE GOT A LADDER TO HEAVEN AND ANGELS ARE COMING AND GOING, 15:06 TAKING CARE OF YOU, WATCHING OVER YOU, AND YOU'RE NOT GOING 15:08 TO SEE THIS AGAIN, BUT DON'T EVER FORGET THAT LADDER IS 15:10 THERE.' AND YOU'VE GOT A LADDER. 15:13 WHEREVER YOU GO, IF YOU'VE COMMITTED YOURSELF TO THE LORD 15:15 AND YOU'VE ASKED FOR FORGIVENESS, HE SAYS HE WANTS TO 15:17 BLESS YOU. AND YOU KNOW WHAT GOD SAID TO JACOB? 15:19 HE SAID, 'I'M GOING TO BRING YOU BACK INTO THE PROMISED LAND.' 15:22 AND HE SAYS - THE SAME NIGHT HE HAD THAT DREAM, GOD MADE THAT 15:24 PROMISE TO HIM. AND HE SAYS TO YOU AND I, 'I'M 15:30 GOING TO BRING YOU TO THE PROMISED LAND. 15:32 DON'T FORGET.' AND YOU PRAY IN CHRIST'S NAME 15:35 THAT WE'VE GOT A LADDER THAT GOES FROM HEAVEN TO EARTH AND HE 15:38 ANSWERS YOUR PRAYERS AND HE PROTECTS YOU. 15:40 THE VERY FACT THAT YOU'RE HERE NOW IS THE FACT THAT GOD HAS 15:43 WATCHED OVER YOU - OVER YOUR LIFE. 15:46 WHEN YOU READ THROUGH THE BOOK OF GENESIS, YOU'LL READ ABOUT 15:49 ADAM AND YOU'LL READ ABOUT EVE AND ENOCH AND YOU'LL READ ABOUT 15:52 JACOB AND ABRAHAM, BUT YOU'LL NOTICE THAT AS YOU GET TO 15:56 GENESIS CHAPTER 37, THE REST OF THE BOOK IS DEDICATED TO JOSEPH. 16:02 THERE'S MORE SAID THERE IN THE BOOK OF GENESIS THAN IS SAID 16:06 ABOUT ABRAHAM OR JACOB - MORE SAID ABOUT JOSEPH. 16:11 JOSEPH IS ONE OF THE PREMIER POWERFUL TYPES OF CHRIST ALL 16:16 THROUGH THE BIBLE. NOW, LOOKING AT THE LIFE AND THE 16:18 STORY OF JOSEPH - COMPARING IT TO WHAT YOU KNOW ABOUT THE LIFE 16:21 AND THE EXPERIENCE OF JESUS, CONSIDER FOR A MINUTE THE 16:27 HUNDREDS OF SIMILARITIES THAT OUGHT TO - OUGHT TO SET US BACK 16:31 WITH AWE AT HOW GOD IS IN CONTROL OF HISTORY. FOR 16:38 INSTANCE, JESUS AND JOSEPH - #1 - WERE BOTH THE FIRST BORN SONS 16:44 - JOSEPH FIRSTBORN OF RACHEL - JESUS, FIRSTBORN OF MARY. 16:48 THEY WERE BORN THROUGH MIRACLES. JOSEPH WAS SECOND ONLY TO THE 16:55 KING OF EGYPT. JESUS IS SECOND ONLY TO THE KING 16:58 OF THE UNIVERSE, GOD THE FATHER. JOSEPH'S FATHER LOVED HIM MORE 17:04 THAN HIS BROTHERS. JESUS IS CALLED 'THE BELOVED 17:07 SON' - THE PREFERRED ONE. AND, AGAIN, JOSEPH'S FATHER WAS 17:10 AN ANCIENT OF DAYS WHEN HE WAS BORN. 17:13 BOTH JOSEPH AND JESUS ARE DESCRIBED IN THE BIBLE TO BE 17:16 VERY PIOUS MEN WHO RECEIVE REVELATIONS FROM GOD OF FUTURE 17:20 GLORY. THE BIBLE RECORDS NO SIN IN THE 17:23 LIFE OF JOSEPH. IT RECORDS NO SIN IN THE LIFE OF 17:26 JESUS. POINT 4 - BECAUSE OF ENVY, 17:31 JOSEPH'S BROTHERS CONSPIRED TO KILL HIM. 17:34 IT SAYS, 'AND BEFORE HE REACHED THEM THEY PLOTTED TO KILL HIM.' 17:38 THEY SAID, 'HERE COMES THAT DREAMER. COME NOW LET US KILL 17:41 HIM AND THROW HIM IN ONE OF THESE WELLS - THESE PITS - 17:44 AND SAY A FEROCIOUS ANIMAL HAS DELIVERED HIM. 17:47 THEY SAID THE SAME THING ABOUT JESUS. 17:49 THEY CONSPIRED AND PLOTTED TO KILL HIM. 17:52 YOU CAN READ HERE, IN THE SAME WAY THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS WANTED 17:55 TO GET RID OF JESUS - 'THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND THE ELDERS OF THE 17:57 PEOPLE ASSEMBLED IN THE PALACE OF THE HIGH PRIEST BEFORE 18:01 CAIAPHAS AND THEY PLOTTED TO ARREST JESUS AND TO SLAY - OR 18:05 KILL - HIM IN SOME WAY.' SAME WORDING IS USED THERE IN 18:08 THE NEW TESTAMENT ABOUT JESUS AS YOU FIND IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. 18:14 JOSEPH WAS SOLD TO THE EGYPTIANS UNDER THE INFLUENCE 18:16 OF JUDAH, HIS BROTHER. 18:18 JESUS IS SOLD TO THE ROMANS UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF JUDAS - 18:24 BOTH HANDED OVER TO THE GENTILES BECAUSE OF THOSE NAMES. 18:27 #8 - JOSEPH ASKS THE IMPRISONED CUPBEARER NOT TO FORGET HIM WHEN 18:33 HE'S RELEASED AND - WHEN HE'S REINSTATED AT COURT. 18:36 HE SAYS, 'BE SURE TO REMEMBER ME WHEN THINGS GO WELL WITH YOU.' 18:41 IT'S ALSO INTERESTING AS CHRIST HAD THE LAST SUPPER WITH HIS 18:44 DISCIPLES HE SAID, 'DO THIS IN REMEMBRANCE OF ME.' 18:47 EVEN HANGING ON THE CROSS - WELL, THINK ABOUT THIS FOR A 18:50 SECOND - CHRIST IS BETWEEN TWO CONDEMNED MEN. ONE SAYS, 'LORD, 18:55 REMEMBER ME.' HE GETS ETERNAL LIFE, THE OTHER DOES NOT. 19:00 ONE IS SAVED. ONE IS LOST. JOSEPH IS IN JAIL BETWEEN TWO 19:04 CONDEMNED MEN AND HE INTERPRETS THEIR DREAMS FOR THEM. 19:08 ONE IS REINSTATED - HE'S SAVED - THE OTHER IS EXECUTED - HE DIES. 19:15 AND IT'S INTERESTING THAT THE THIEF THAT WAS SAVED SAYS, 19:19 'LORD, REMEMBER ME.' BOTH JOSEPH AND JESUS ARE 19:22 PERSECUTED BECAUSE OF FALSE WITNESSES. 19:26 THE WIFE OF POTIPHAR BEARS FALSE WITNESS BEFORE JOSEPH AND BEFORE 19:30 MEMBERS OF HER HOUSEHOLD AND BEFORE HER HUSBAND. 19:34 THE WITNESSES FALSELY ACCUSE JESUS BEFORE THE SANDHEDRIN AND 19:38 BEFORE PILATE. JOSEPH WENT TO PRISON BECAUSE OF 19:42 THE FALSE WITNESSES. JESUS WENT TO THE GRAVE BECAUSE 19:45 OF THE FALSE WITNESSES. THE WORDS 'PRISON' AND 'THE 19:48 GRAVE' ARE OFTEN INTERCHANGEABLE IN THE BIBLE, DID YOU KNOW THAT? 19:52 BOTH JOSEPH AND JESUS WERE MEN WHO WERE REJECTED BY THEIR 19:56 BRETHREN BECAUSE THEY WANTED THEIR INHERITANCE. 20:00 BUT GOD RAISED THEM UP TO BE JUDGE OF THEIR BROTHERS. 20:04 THEY WANTED - YOU KNOW WHY JACOB GAVE JOSEPH 20:06 THE COAT OF MANY COLORS? HE BASICALLY SAID, 'REUBEN, 20:10 YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BE THE FIRSTBORN. 20:12 YOU'RE NOT GETTING THE INHERITANCE OF THE FIRSTBORN. 20:14 IF YOU KNOW YOUR BIBLES YOU KNOW REUBEN SLEPT WITH HIS 20:15 STEP-MOTHER. JACOB SAID, 'YOU'RE DISQUALIFIED.' 20:18 THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN HE GIVES JOSEPH THIS ROBE OF MANY COLORS 20:22 - IT'S A SIGN OF ROYALTY AND ALL THE BROTHERS REALIZE, 'OH, 20:24 RACHEL'S THE WIFE HE WANTED. JOSEPH'S THE FIRSTBORN OF 20:27 RACHEL. HE'S GOING TO GIVE THE INHERITANCE TO THIS YOUNG 20:30 WHIPPERSNAPPER. AND THEY WERE JEALOUS OF THE 20:33 INHERITANCE THAT JACOB WAS GOING TO GIVE JOSEPH. 20:36 BOTH JOSEPH AND JESUS WERE HATED BECAUSE OF THEIR GREATNESS. 20:41 THEY RESENTED JOSEPH'S DREAMS. 20:43 THE ENEMIES OF CHRIST RESENTED HIM BECAUSE OF HIS DREAMS AND 20:47 THEY SAID, 'BEHOLD, HERE COMES THIS DREAMER, LET'S KILL HIM. 20:50 CHRIST WAS ALSO A PROPHET AND HIS PEOPLE WANTED TO KILL HIM. 20:56 BUT, ULTIMATELY, JOSEPH AND JESUS OBTAINED GREAT AUTHORITY 21:00 AND INSPIRED CONFIDENCE IN THOSE AROUND THEM. 21:03 THEY SAID, WHATEVER HE TELLS YOU, DO. 21:05 WHAT DID POTIPHAR SAY TO THOSE IN HIS HOUSEHOLD? 21:09 'I'M GIVING EVERYTHING INTO THE HANDS OF JOSEPH. 21:11 DO WHATEVER HE SAYS. DO WHATEVER JOSEPH SAYS.' 21:13 WHAT DID MARY SAY REGARDING JESUS AT THE WEDDING FEAST? 21:16 'WHATEVER HE TELLS YOU. YOU DO WHATEVER HE SAYS.' 21:19 SO IN SPITE OF RESISTANCE FROM SOME, OTHERS SAW THEY WERE 21:23 BLESSED AND HAD GREAT CONFIDENCE IN THEM. 21:26 WHEN MARY ANNOUNCED JESUS' RESURRECTION TO THE DISCIPLES, 21:28 THEY DIDN'T BELIEVE IT. THEY THOUGHT IT WAS TOO GOOD TO 21:31 BE TRUE. THEY WANTED PROOF. 21:34 WHEN THE BROTHERS COME BACK FROM EGYPT AND THEY TELL JACOB, 'YOUR 21:36 SON IS STILL ALIVE' - AFTER 22 OR 3 YEARS, WE'RE NOT EXACTLY 21:40 SURE - MAYBE CLOSER TO 21 YEARS HE HAD NOT SEEN HIS SON. 21:47 IT SAYS, 'JACOB SAID, 'I CAN'T BELIEVE IT.'' 21:49 HIS HEART STOPPED. TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE. 21:51 AND THEN AS THE EVIDENCE CAME HE SAID, 'I DO BELIEVE IT.' 21:54 THEN HE SAID, 'LET ME DIE IN PEACE BECAUSE MY SON IS ALIVE.' 21:58 AND WHEN SIMEON SAW JESUS AS A BABY HE SAID, 'NOW LET ME DIE 22:02 BECAUSE I'VE SEEN YOUR SALVATION.' 22:05 ANOTHER ANCIENT OF DAYS THERE. BY THE WAY, CHRIST WAS SEPARATED 22:11 FROM THE FATHER THE TIME THAT HE WAS DOWN HERE ON EARTH. 22:15 JOSEPH WAS SEPARATED FROM THE FATHER. 22:17 THERE WAS A GREAT REUNION IN HEAVEN WHEN JESUS AROSE. 22:21 THERE WAS A GREAT REUNION WHEN JOSEPH AND JACOB GET TOGETHER. 22:25 I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, BUT WHENEVER I READ THROUGH THE 22:26 BIBLE, EVERY TIME I GET THROUGH THE STORY OF JOSEPH AND I READ 22:29 WHERE JOSEPH AND JACOB ARE REUNITED AND THEY FINALLY - 22:32 YOU CAN SEE JOSEPH STEPPING OUT OF HIS GOLDEN CHARIOT AND YOU 22:36 SEE JACOB KIND OF FALLING OFF HIS OLD MULE AND THEY RUN TO 22:42 EACH OTHER - THE OLD PATRIARCH HOBBLING WITH HIS CANE BECAUSE 22:45 HE'S GOT THIS HIP PROBLEM FROM WRESTLING WITH AN ANGEL - AND 22:49 JOSEPH IN HIS PRIME RUNNING AND HUGGING EACH OTHER AND A LONG 22:55 TIME SOBBING ON ONE ANOTHER. THAT STILL MOVES ME WHENEVER I 22:58 READ THAT STORY IN THE BIBLE. DOES IT MOVE YOU? 23:02 AND HE THOUGHT HE WAS DEAD AND HE FOUND OUT HE WAS ALIVE. 23:07 HOW DO YOU THINK THE FATHER FELT WHEN JESUS WAS ON THE CROSS? 23:10 AND HOW DO YOU THINK HEAVEN REJOICED WHEN CHRIST ASCENDED? 23:13 THAT'S WHY HE SAID, 'MARY, DON'T CLING TO ME. 23:14 I'VE NOT YET ASCENDED TO MY FATHER. 23:16 I'VE GOT TO GO SEE MY FATHER. HE MISSES ME. 23:18 I'VE BEEN HERE ON THIS EARTH 33 AND A HALF YEARS.' 23:21 FOR DECADES THEY WERE SEPARATED - JESUS AND JOSEPH 23:25 - FROM THEIR FATHERS. AND THERE WAS A GREAT REUNION 23:28 YOU CAN BE SURE. YOU'VE GOT THAT SEVEN YEARS OF 23:31 PLENTY DURING THE TIME OF THE FAMINE - BUT THERE WERE SEVEN 23:37 YEARS OF PLENTY. THERE WERE SEVEN YEARS WHEN THE 23:40 WORD OF GOD IS POURED OUT IN PLENTY FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE - 23:43 FROM THE BEGINNING OF CHRIST'S MINISTRY 'TIL PROBATION WAS 23:47 CLOSED FOR THE JEWISH NATION WITH THE STONING OF STEPHEN. 23:50 AND WHAT SHALL I MORE SAY? TIME WOULD FAIL ME, AS THE BIBLE 23:54 SAYS, TO GO ON AND TELL YOU ALL THESE EXAMPLES. 23:57 NOW I WOULD LIKE TO CLOSE WITH THIS VERSE: HEBREWS CHAPTER 12, 24:00 VERSES 1 AND 2 - I'VE JUST LOOKED AT A COUPLE EXAMPLES OF 24:04 HOW YOU SEE JESUS THROUGH THE BIBLE - AND IT SAYS HERE, 24:09 "THEREFORE, - HEBREWS 12, VERSE 1, "...SINCE WE ARE SURROUNDED 24:13 BY SO GREAT A CLOUD OF WITNESSES,..." 24:17 ALL THROUGH THESE STORIES IN THE BIBLE WE CAN SEE A CLOUD OF 24:20 WITNESSES. "LET US LAY ASIDE EVERY WEIGHT" 24:24 - WHAT IS GOD TELLING US TO DO WHEN WE SEE ALL THIS EVIDENCE IN 24:26 THE BIBLE OF JESUS? THAT GOD CAN SEE ALL OF HISTORY? 24:30 BY THE WAY, HISTORY, WHEN YOU READ THE BIBLE, IS HIS-STORY. 24:35 IT'S ALL ABOUT JESUS BEING EVERYWHERE. 24:38 "LET US LAY ASIDE" - HERE'S HOW WE RESPOND - "EVERY WEIGHT, AND 24:42 THE SIN WHICH SO EASILY ENSNARES US, AND LET US RUN WITH 24:46 ENDURANCE THE RACE THAT IS SET BEFORE US, LOOKING UNTO JESUS, 24:50 THE AUTHOR AND FINISHER OF OUR FAITH, WHO FOR THE JOY THAT WAS 24:54 SET BEFORE HIM ENDURED THE CROSS, DESPISING THE SHAME, AND 24:58 HAS SAT DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE THRONE OF GOD." 25:02 YOU AND I FIX OUR EYES ON JESUS. AS YOU READ THROUGH THE BIBLE 25:05 YOU THINK YOU'RE REALLY READING ABOUT JOSEPH OR ARE YOU READING 25:08 ABOUT JESUS? YOU'RE NOT READING ABOUT NOAH. 25:11 YOU'RE NOT READING ABOUT ABRAHAM OR ENOCH OR MELCHIZEDEK. 25:15 YOU'RE READING ABOUT JESUS IN THESE HEROES OF THE BIBLE. 25:18 AND YOU KNOW WHAT? 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