Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: EG
Program Code: EG002931
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00:09 >> IT'S BEEN 2,000 YEARS SINCE THE GLORIOUS LIGHT OF THE CROSS
00:12 ILLUMINATED A WORLD VEILED IN DARKNESS AND CONFUSION 00:15 ABOUT THE CHARACTER OF GOD. 00:17 AND STILL TODAY, THE GREATEST NEED OF MANKIND IS A REVELATION 00:20 OF GOD'S LOVE AS REVEALED IN THE LIFE OF CHRIST. 00:23 AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS "THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL" 00:26 WITH PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR. 00:28 COMING TO YOU EACH WEEK FROM SACRAMENTO CENTRAL CHURCH 00:31 IN SUNNY CALIFORNIA. 00:33 DISCOVER HIDDEN TREASURES IN GOD'S WORD TODAY. 00:38 >> THIS MORNING, I'M GOING TO BEGIN A SERIES AND TO BE HONEST, 00:41 I DON'T KNOW HOW LONG IT WILL LAST. 00:43 I'M SURE I WON'T BE DONE TODAY, THAT'S ALL. 00:46 DEALING WITH THE THEME OF JESUS THROUGHOUT THE BIBLE. 00:52 AND WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT A LOT OF EXAMPLES 00:56 IN THE SCRIPTURES, MOSTLY OLD TESTAMENT, MAYBE 00:58 SOME NEW TESTAMENT AS WELL, OF HOW THE DIFFERENT CHARACTERS 01:02 AND EVENTS OF HISTORY ARE REALLY FACETS THAT 01:07 GIVE US A PICTURE OF JESUS. 01:10 IT REPRESENTS A KALEIDOSCOPE OF HIS IMAGES THAT CAN BE SEEN IN 01:15 THE LIVES OF THE PEOPLE THROUGH HISTORY. 01:18 SOME OF YOU MAYBE HAVE SEEN THIS LITTLE ANALOGY THAT WAS DONE 01:23 BEFORE, EVEN YEARS BEFORE THE INTERNET. 01:25 I SAW THE PARALLELS THAT WERE DRAWN BETWEEN ESPECIALLY THE 01:32 CLOSING DAYS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND JOHN F. KENNEDY. 01:36 SOME OF YOU HAVE HEARD THESE THINGS BEFORE. 01:39 FOR EXAMPLE, ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS ELECTED TO CONGRESS IN 1846. 01:45 JOHN F. KENNEDY WAS ELECTED TO CONGRESS IN 1946. 01:49 LINCOLN WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT IN 1860. 01:53 KENNEDY WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT IN 1960. 01:57 LINCOLN'S WIFE LOST A CHILD WHILE LIVING IN THE WHITE HOUSE. 02:01 KENNEDY'S WIFE LOST A CHILD WHILE LIVING IN THE WHITE HOUSE. 02:05 LINCOLN HAD A SECRETARY NAMED KENNEDY, WHO URGED HIM 02:09 NOT TO GO TO THE THEATER. 02:11 KENNEDY HAD A SECRETARY NAMED LINCOLN, WHO URGED HIM 02:15 NOT TO GO TO DALLAS. 02:18 BOTH LINCOLN AND KENNEDY WERE SHOT IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD 02:21 IN THE PRESENCE OF THEIR WIVES. 02:24 LINCOLN WAS SHOT IN FORD'S THEATRE. 02:27 KENNEDY WAS SHOT IN A LINCOLN MADE BY FORD. 02:34 THE NAMES, LINCOLN AND KENNEDY, EACH CONTAIN SEVEN LETTERS. 02:38 BOTH KENNEDY AND LINCOLN WERE KILLED ON FRIDAY AND WERE 02:42 ASSASSINATED BY SOUTHERNERS. 02:45 YOU KNEW THEY COULDN'T BE TRUSTED, RIGHT? 02:50 LINCOLN'S ASSASSIN WAS KNOWN BY THREE NAMES, JOHN WILKES BOOTH, 02:55 COMPROMISED OF 15 LETTERS. 02:57 KENNEDY'S ASSASSIN WAS ALSO KNOWN BY THREE NAMES, 03:00 LEE HARVEY OSWALD, ALSO COMPROMISED OF 15 LETTERS. 03:05 BOTH SHOT LINCOLN--BOOTH, I'M SORRY, SHOT LINCOLN IN A THEATER 03:10 AND THEN FLED TO A WAREHOUSE. 03:12 OSWALD SHOT LINCOLN IN A WAREHOUSE--I'M SORRY, OSWALD 03:20 SHOT KENNEDY IN A WAREHOUSE AND THEN FLED TO A THEATER. 03:24 ISN'T THAT INTERESTING? 03:26 BOTH OSWALD, BOOTH--I'M SORRY, BOTH OSWALD AND BOOTH WERE 03:32 KILLED BEFORE BEING BROUGHT TO TRIAL. 03:35 LINCOLN'S SUCCESSOR WAS ANDREW JOHNSON, BORN IN 1808. 03:40 KENNEDY'S SUCCESSOR WAS LYNDON JOHNSON, BORN IN 1908. 03:45 NOW, WHEN YOU HEAR THINGS LIKE THIS, YOU WONDER, 03:47 IS THAT JUST A COINCIDENCE? 03:49 OR IS IT POSSIBLE THAT HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF? 03:53 OR IS THERE A MASTER HAND THAT IS GUIDING 03:57 IN THE AFFAIRS OF MEN? 03:59 I THINK YOU COULD PROBABLY SOMETIMES TAKE DIFFERENT EVENTS 04:02 OF HISTORY AND IF YOU WANTED TO PUT THEM SIDE BY SIDE AND START 04:05 LOOKING FOR SIMILARITIES, SOMETIMES YOU'LL FIND MORE 04:08 THAN OTHERS AND YOU COULD TRY TO TORTURE THE EVIDENCE 04:10 AND SHOW PARALLELS. 04:13 BUT WHAT WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT TODAY ARE PARALLELS THAT YOU 04:18 FIND THROUGH THE BIBLE, THROUGH THE CHARACTERS AND THE HISTORY 04:22 IN THE BIBLE, THAT I THINK IS SOME OF THE STRONGEST EVIDENCE 04:26 FOR THE INSPIRATION OF THE BIBLE THAT JESUS IS THE MESSIAH 04:30 AND THAT HE HAS A PLAN FOR YOUR LIFE. 04:33 AND SO, WE'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE A LOOK AT ALL OF THE STORIES 04:37 AND ALL OF THE CHARACTERS. 04:38 BUT WE'LL BE EXAMINING SOME OF THE PROMINENT PATRIARCHS, 04:42 PROPHETS AND KINGS IN THE BIBLE, AND I THINK THAT YOU'LL SEE 04:46 THAT IN THEIR LIVES, THERE ARE TREMENDOUS PARALLELS 04:50 THAT HELP US RECOGNIZE THE MINISTRY OF JESUS. 04:53 NOW, YOU HAVE TO BE CAREFUL. 04:57 SOME PEOPLE TAKE THE BIBLE SYMBOLS AND TYPOLOGY A LITTLE 05:00 TOO FAR, AND THEY START LOOKING FOR SECRET MEANING IN EVERYTHING 05:03 WHERE THERE MAY NOT BE ANY. 05:05 AND AS I JUST MENTIONED WITH THE ILLUSTRATION OF KENNEDY 05:10 AND LINCOLN, YOU COULD FIND A LOT OF SIMILARITIES. 05:14 I COULD ALSO RIGHT NOW GO THROUGH A LONG LIST OF THINGS 05:16 THAT WHERE THEY'RE NOWHERE ALIKE. 05:18 ONE WAS A REPUBLICAN. 05:19 ONE WAS A DEMOCRAT. 05:20 I MEAN YOU COULD START RIGHT THERE. 05:22 BUT WHEN IT COMES TO THE STORIES IN THE BIBLE, YOU CAN SEE IN 05:27 THEIR LIVES SHADOWS AND TYPES OF CHRIST THAT ARE VERY PROMINENT 05:32 AND UNDENIABLE. 05:35 TALKING ABOUT SHADOWS AND TYPES, FOR INSTANCE, IF YOU LOOK IN 05:38 JOHN, THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 1:45, IT TELLS US THAT AFTER PHILIP 05:46 MET JESUS, HE WENT AND, "HE FOUND NATHANAEL AND HE SAID TO 05:50 HIM, 'WE HAVE FOUND HIM OF WHOM MOSES IN THE LAW, AND ALSO 05:56 THE PROPHETS, WROTE, JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE SON OF JOSEPH.'" 06:01 HERE, PHILIP IS SAYING ALL THROUGH THE BIBLE THEY 06:04 WERE WRITING ABOUT JESUS. 06:07 NOW, YOU DON'T FIND JESUS' NAME, PER SE, IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, 06:11 BUT YOU DO FIND TYPES OF CHRIST ALL THE WAY FROM THE WRITINGS 06:14 OF MOSES TO MALACHI, THE SYMBOLS ARE THERE. 06:19 AND GOD WANTS US TO READ OUR BIBLES AND RECOGNIZE 06:21 THESE ANALOGIES 'CAUSE IT'LL STRENGTHEN YOUR FAITH. 06:24 NOW, HOW ARE WE TO INTERPRET THE SYMBOLS AND TYPES IN THE BIBLE? 06:28 YOU NEED TO LET THE BIBLE GIVE YOU THE PATTERN OF 06:33 HOW TO INTERPRET THESE THINGS. 06:34 FOR EXAMPLE, IF YOU TURN IN YOUR BIBLE--MATTER OF FACT, 06:37 TURN WITH ME. 06:37 1 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 10, WE'RE JUST GOING TO READ 06:40 SOME OF THIS TOGETHER. 06:41 1 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 10, I'M GOING TO JUST READ A FEW VERSES. 06:46 "MOREOVER, BRETHREN," PAUL IS WRITING, "I DO NOT WANT YOU TO 06:51 BE IGNORANT CONCERNING THAT ALL OUR FATHERS WERE UNDER 06:54 THE CLOUD, AND THEY ALL PASSED THROUGH THE SEA, AND THEY 06:58 WERE ALL BAPTIZED INTO MOSES IN THE CLOUD AND IN THE SEA." 07:03 NOW, PAUL IS TELLING US IN THE SAME WAY YOU AND I NEED TO 07:05 BE BORN OF THE WATER AND BORN OF THE SPIRIT, THE CHILDREN OF 07:08 ISRAEL WHEN THEY CAME OUT OF THE SLAVERY OF EGYPT, 07:10 THEY WENT THROUGH THE SEA. 07:11 THEY WERE BAPTIZED. 07:12 THEY HAD THAT PILLAR OF FIRE GLOWING AT NIGHT. 07:15 THAT REPRESENTS THE HOLY SPIRIT. 07:16 NOW, THESE THINGS THAT HAPPENED HISTORICALLY ARE ALSO SYMBOLS 07:21 OF SALVATION. 07:23 I'M STILL READING HERE, "THEY ATE THE SAME SPIRITUAL FOOD." 07:28 CHRIST SAID, "I AM THAT BREAD THAT CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN." 07:31 "THEY ALL DRANK THE SAME SPIRITUAL DRINK. 07:34 FOR THEY DRANK OF THAT SPIRITUAL ROCK THAT FOLLOWED THEM, AND 07:37 THAT ROCK WAS CHRIST." 07:40 AND SO, HE'S BEGINNING TO DRAW ANALOGIES. 07:43 HE SAYS THAT WATER REPRESENTED THE SEA, AND THAT CLOUD 07:45 REPRESENTED THE SPIRIT AND THE ROCK REPRESENTED CHRIST AND 07:48 THE MANNA REPRESENTED CHRIST. 07:51 MANNA WAS SWEET. 07:53 JESUS IS SWEET. 07:53 THE GOSPEL IS GOOD NEWS. 07:55 THE BIBLE SAYS THE MANNA WAS ROUND, IT WAS PURE. 07:58 THE GOSPEL IS PERFECT IN THAT WAY, THAT IT CAME QUIETLY 08:02 IN THE NIGHT. 08:03 JESUS CAME QUIETLY INTO OUR WORLD, UNANNOUNCED. 08:07 THAT IT WAS VERY SUSTAINING, KEPT THEM ALIVE. 08:10 THEY HAD PRETTY MUCH THE SAME THING ON THE MENU. 08:13 CHRIST AND HIS WORD CONTINUES TO BE FRESH AND SUSTAINING. 08:17 AND SO, YOU CAN SEE ALL THESE ANALOGIES HERE AND PAUL IS 08:20 TELLING US--PAUL TALKS ABOUT THE SIMILARITIES BETWEEN LAW AND 08:24 GRACE, AND HE COMPARES IT TO SARAH AND HAGAR, HOW THEY 08:28 WERE TYPES OF THESE THINGS. 08:30 AND SO, YOU CAN SEE ALL THROUGH THE WRITINGS OF THE 08:32 NEW TESTAMENT HOW THEY LOOKED AT THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THEY SAW 08:35 THESE TYPES AND SYMBOLS. 08:37 NOW, WHAT I'M GOING TO DO WITH YOU IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS IS 08:42 DEFINITELY NOT AN EXHAUSTIVE STUDY. 08:46 WE'RE GOING TO QUICKLY FLY OVER MANY OF THESE GREAT CHARACTERS 08:49 OF THE BIBLE AND THESE EVENTS, BUT I WANT YOU TO BEGIN TO LOOK 08:52 AT YOUR BIBLE AND SEE THAT IT'S MORE THAN JUST A HISTORY BOOK. 08:56 IT IS A SUPERNATURAL BOOK. 08:58 THE ONLY WAY ALL OF THESE TYPES AND SHADOWS COULD BE THERE IS IF 09:02 SOMEBODY IN CONTROL OF HISTORY WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE BIBLE. 09:07 ALRIGHT, LET'S GO BACK TO THE BEGINNING HERE. 09:11 AND FOR EXAMPLE--OH, BY THE WAY, I WANT TO READ 09:13 1 CORINTHIANS 10:11. 09:15 I MISSED VERSE 11. 09:17 SPEAKING OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, "NOW ALL THESE THINGS 09:21 HAPPENED TO THEM AS EXAMPLES, AND THEY WERE WRITTEN FOR OUR 09:26 ADMONITION, UPON WHOM THE ENDS OF THE AGES HAVE COME." 09:30 THE WORD "EXAMPLES" HERE IN GREEK MEANS IT COMES FROM THE 09:34 GREEK WORD "TUPOS" WHERE YOU GET THE WORD "TYPES" OR A PATTERN. 09:40 THEY ARE ALL PATTERNS FOR US SO WE CAN RECOGNIZE THE PLAN OF 09:45 SALVATION AND THEN APPLY THEM TO OUR LIVES. 09:47 ALRIGHT, WHO'S THE FIRST MAN IN THE BIBLE? 09:50 ADAM. 09:52 IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, WE READ THAT JESUS IS THE SECOND ADAM. 09:56 FOR INSTANCE, JESUS IS IN ADAM. 09:59 ADAM'S A TYPE OF CHRIST. 10:01 ROMANS 5:14, "NEVERTHELESS DEATH REIGNED FROM ADAM TO MOSES, EVEN 10:08 OVER THOSE WHO HAD NOT SINNED ACCORDING TO THE LIKENESS OF 10:12 THE TRANSGRESSION OF ADAM, WHO IS A TYPE." 10:15 NOW THE IDEA OF BIBLE TYPOLOGY, PASTOR DOUG'S NOT INVENTING 10:20 THAT, THE BIBLE WRITERS LOOKED FOR THESE TYPES AND SYMBOLS. 10:23 "ADAM, WHO IS A TYPE OF HIM WHO IS TO COME." 10:27 SO, YOU'RE READING IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. 10:29 PAUL SAID, "ADAM IS A TYPE OF THE ONE WHO IS TO COME," 10:32 THE SECOND ADAM, JESUS. 10:35 WHAT ARE SOME WAYS THAT ADAM IS A TYPE OF CHRIST? 10:41 WELL, ADAM WAS MADE WITH A LOVING NATURE. 10:46 HE'S ACTUALLY THE ANTITHESIS OF CHRIST, HIS TYPOLOGY THERE 10:48 IN A MIRROR. 10:49 ADAM WAS MADE WITH A LOVING NATURE, BUT IT BECAME 10:52 SELFISH THROUGH SIN. 10:54 CHRIST WAS MADE WITH OUR FALLEN BODIES, BUT HE LIVED A PERFECT 10:59 LIFE IN SPITE OF THAT. 11:01 HE WAS MOTIVATED BY LOVE. 11:05 ADAM WENT TO SLEEP ON FRIDAY, AND--GOD PUT HIM TO SLEEP, 11:12 HE BREATHED, HE STOPPED BREATHING AND--I'M SORRY, ADAM 11:17 BREATHED HIS FIRST ON FRIDAY. 11:19 JESUS BREATHED HIS LAST ON FRIDAY. 11:22 ADAM THEN WENT TO SLEEP. 11:24 GOD OPENED HIS SIDE AND BROUGHT OUT HIS WIFE. 11:27 IT'S NOT HOW MOST OF US GET MARRIED. 11:29 BUT JESUS WENT TO SLEEP ON FRIDAY. 11:32 A SPEAR OPENED UP HIS SIDE. 11:33 AND THROUGH THAT BLOOD AND THAT WATER, HIS BRIDE, 11:36 HIS CHURCH WAS BORN. 11:39 ADAM FELL IN A GARDEN. 11:42 JESUS WAS VICTORIOUS IN A WILDERNESS. 11:46 YOU SEE HOW THIS WORKS? 11:47 THERE'S SYMBOLS AND TYPES THERE THAT TELL US HOW CHRIST 11:50 IS THE SECOND ADAM. 11:52 AND AS REAL AS THE FIRST ADAM FELL, AND YOU ALL FEEL THAT 11:56 FALL IN YOUR NATURES, DON'T YOU? 11:59 YOU CAN THROUGH FAITH GET THE DNA OF THE SECOND ADAM, JESUS, 12:04 BECAUSE YOU ARE ADOPTED INTO HIS FAMILY, YOU CAN EXPERIENCE 12:09 THAT VICTORY. 12:10 IT'S VERY REAL. 12:11 SO, THESE SYMBOLS ARE ALSO REDEMPTIVE. 12:13 THEY'RE TEACHING US SOMETHING THAT'S VERY PRACTICAL. 12:16 WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON. 12:18 WE GOT A LOT TO TALK ABOUT. 12:20 CAIN AND ABEL, FIRST CHILDREN OF ADAM AND EVE, AND THERE'S A LOT 12:23 MORE WE COULD SAY ABOUT ADAM AND EVE. 12:25 BUT I'M JUST GIVING YOU AN IDEA OF HOW THIS PRINCIPLE WORKS. 12:28 WELL, WHAT ABOUT ABEL? 12:31 FIRST OF ALL, YOU'LL OFTEN NOTICE IN THE BIBLE THAT THERE'S 12:34 A TENSION BETWEEN TWO BROTHERS. 12:36 CAIN, HE WANTED THE WORLD, HE WANTED THE FLESH. 12:42 ABEL, HE WANTED THE SPIRIT, HE WANTED TO SERVE GOD. 12:45 ONE PERSECUTED THE OTHER, JUST LIKE JACOB AND ESAU, AND YOU 12:48 COULD LOOK AT MANY OTHERS, ISAAC AND ISHMAEL 12:51 AND MANY OTHERS IN THE BIBLE. 12:53 ABEL IS THE FIRST ONE TO DIE IN THE BIBLE. 12:59 HE IS A GOOD SHEPHERD. 13:01 JESUS IS OUR GOOD SHEPHERD. 13:04 THE FIRST TIME YOU FIND THE WORD "BLOOD" IN THE BIBLE IS SPEAKING 13:08 ABOUT THE BLOOD OF ABEL THAT SPEAKS TO GOD, THE BLOOD 13:14 OF ABEL THAT CRIES TO GOD FROM THE GROUND. 13:18 ABEL OFFERS A SACRIFICE AND THEN HE LAYS DOWN HIS LIFE. 13:23 IT DOESN'T SAY HE EVER RESISTED HIS BROTHER. 13:26 WELL, YOU CAN READ IN THE BOOK OF HEBREWS CHAPTER 12, 13:30 "AND JESUS IS THE MEDIATOR OF THE NEW COVENANT, OF THE BLOOD 13:34 OF SPRINKLING THAT SPEAKS BETTER THINGS THAN THAT OF ABEL." 13:38 IN THE SAME WAY THAT THE BLOOD OF ABEL SPOKE TO THE FATHER, 13:41 THE BLOOD OF JESUS SPEAKS TO THE FATHER. 13:43 AND WHEN YOU AND I PLEAD HIS BLOOD, WE ARE FORGIVEN. 13:47 YOU KNOW, GOD EVEN SHOWED MERCY ON CAIN, DIDN'T HE? 13:50 HE SAID, "MY SIN IS TOO GREAT FOR ME TO BEAR. 13:53 ALL THAT FIND ME WILL KILL ME." 13:54 AND GOD SHOWED CAIN MERCY. 13:58 HE SAID, "I'LL PLACE A MARK ON YOU LEST ANY THAT LATER 14:00 COMES WILL KILL YOU." 14:03 WELL, WE FIND MERCY BECAUSE OF THE BLOOD OF JESUS, 14:07 OUR GOOD SHEPHERD. 14:09 MOVING RIGHT ALONG, ENOCH, ENOCH'S A TYPE OF CHRIST 14:14 IN THE BIBLE. 14:17 WHAT DO WE READ ABOUT ENOCH? 14:18 TURN IN YOUR BIBLES TO GENESIS 5:24, 14:24 "AND ENOCH WALKED WITH GOD." 14:25 WE CAN STOP RIGHT THERE. 14:27 HOW MANY MEN IN THE BIBLE HAVE REALLY WALKED WITH GOD? 14:31 DID JESUS WALK WITH GOD? 14:35 "AND HE WAS NOT, FOR GOD TOOK HIM." 14:38 DOES ENOCH NOW HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE? 14:41 WILL HE EVER DIE AGAIN? 14:43 IS HE UP IN HEAVEN? 14:45 ENOCH WAS THE SEVENTH GENERATION, 14:48 THE SEVENTH FROM ADAM. 14:49 CHRIST IS A SYMBOL--OR THE NUMBER SEVEN 14:52 IS A SYMBOL OF PERFECTION. 14:53 JESUS WAS PERFECT, WITHOUT SIN. 14:56 JESUS WALKED WITH GOD. 14:58 JESUS HAS ASCENDED TO THE FATHER. 15:01 AND SO, THE FIRST ONE WHO ASCENDS IS A TYPE OF CHRIST 15:04 AND THAT IS ENOCH. 15:06 ARE YOU GETTING THE IDEA OF HOW THIS WORKS? 15:09 IF YOU GO TO THE NEW TESTAMENT AND READ IN JUDE 1:14, "NOW 15:15 ENOCH, THE SEVENTH FROM ADAM, PROPHESIED ABOUT THESE MEN ALSO, 15:19 SAYING, 'BEHOLD, THE LORD COMES WITH 10,000 OF HIS SAINTS.'" 15:23 WAS ENOCH A PREACHER? 15:25 YES HE WAS. 15:26 DID HE PREACH ABOUT THE SECOND COMING? 15:29 WAS JESUS A PREACHER? 15:31 WAS ENOCH A PROPHET? 15:32 WAS JESUS A PROPHET? 15:34 THEY BOTH WALKED WITH GOD. 15:35 DID JESUS TALK ABOUT THE SECOND COMING? 15:38 AND ENOCH TALKED ABOUT THE SECOND COMING. 15:40 HE'S A TYPE OF CHRIST IN THE BIBLE. 15:44 WHAT ABOUT THE STORY OF NOAH? 15:46 CAN WE FIND JESUS IN THE STORY OF NOAH? 15:50 OH YES, IN MANY WAYS. 15:53 YOU CAN TURN, FOR EXAMPLE, IN YOUR BIBLE IN THE BOOK 15:56 OF GENESIS 6:9. 16:01 NOW, I'M GIVING YOU A FEW SCRIPTURES AT THE BEGINNING. 16:03 I'M HOPING YOU CAN LOOK THESE UP. 16:05 I'LL START GIVING YOU SCRIPTURE PRETTY SOON. 16:07 YOU'LL JUST THROW YOUR BIBLE IN THE AIR BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT GOING 16:09 TO BE ABLE TO KEEP UP WITH ME. 16:10 BUT I'M GOING TO TRY AND PROVIDE SOME NOTES FOR YOU ONLINE SO YOU 16:14 CAN HAVE THESE THINGS IN YOUR HANDS. 16:17 GENESIS 6:9, "THIS IS THE GENEALOGY OF NOAH. 16:21 NOAH WAS A JUST MAN, PERFECT IN HIS GENERATIONS." 16:26 WHO IS THE ONLY MAN THAT REALLY WAS PERFECT? 16:30 JESUS. 16:32 "NOAH WALKED WITH GOD." 16:35 JESUS WALKED WITH GOD. 16:36 ALL WHO WOULD BE SAVED IN THE DAYS OF NOAH COULD ONLY BE 16:39 SAVED THROUGH NOAH AND THE WORK THAT HE HAD DONE. 16:43 NOAH BUILT AN ARK. 16:44 IF ANYONE WANTED TO BE SAVED, THEY COULDN'T SAY, "ALRIGHT 16:46 NOAH, YOU'VE GOT YOUR BOAT, I'VE GOT MY BOAT." 16:49 THERE WAS ONLY ONE BOAT. 16:50 THERE WAS ONLY ONE DOOR IN THAT BOAT. 16:53 JESUS SAID, "I AM THE DOOR, I AM THE WAY; 16:56 THERE IS NO OTHER WAY." 16:58 AND SO, IN THE SAME WAY THAT NOAH PROVIDED THE ONLY WAY TO 17:02 BE SAVED, JESUS PROVIDES THE ONLY WAY TO SAVE. 17:05 THERE IS ONLY ONE ARK OF SALVATION IN THESE LAST DAYS, 17:10 AND THAT'S THROUGH CHRIST. 17:12 GENESIS 6:18, GOD SAYS, "I WILL ESTABLISH MY COVENANT WITH YOU." 17:19 DOES JESUS MAKE A COVENANT WITH US? 17:22 THE WHOLE WORLD WAS SAVED THROUGH THE COVENANT 17:25 THAT GOD MADE WITH NOAH. 17:27 AS A MATTER OF FACT, I'M JUST CURIOUS. 17:29 I MIGHT HAVE AN EXCEPTION HERE. 17:30 IS THERE ANYONE HERE THAT WAS NOT AT LEAST INDIRECTLY 17:33 SAVED BECAUSE OF NOAH? 17:35 ANYONE HERE ALIVE THAT'S NOT RELATED TO NOAH? 17:41 DO YOU REALIZE THAT WE'RE ALL KIN? 17:44 NOT ONLY THROUGH ADAM, BUT THAT TREE COMES BACK TOGETHER 17:47 AGAIN IN NOAH'S FAMILY AND THEN SPLITS OFF. 17:50 WE'RE ALL RELATED FROM THE TIME OF NOAH ON. 17:53 ISN'T THAT RIGHT? 17:54 AND SO, EVERYBODY IS FAMILY BECAUSE OF NOAH. 17:58 IF YOU'RE A BELIEVER, WE'RE ALL FAMILY BECAUSE OF JESUS. 18:02 OUR DNA CAN ALL BE TRACED BACK TO CHRIST THAT WAY. 18:08 GENESIS 7:1, "AND THE LORD SAID TO NOAH, 'COME THOU, AND ALL THY 18:15 HOUSE, INTO THE ARK FOR THEE I HAVE SEEN RIGHTEOUS BEFORE 18:20 ME IN THIS GENERATION.'" NOW, YOU NOTICE HE SAID, 18:24 "ALL OF YOUR HOUSE." 18:26 DOES JESUS HAVE A HOUSE THAT HE'S GOING TO BRING 18:29 INTO THE ARK? 18:31 IT'S THE TEMPLE OF GOD. 18:32 IT'S HIS FAMILY. 18:34 YOU BECOME PART OF THE FAMILY OF CHRIST. 18:36 YOU NOTICE HE SAYS, "I AM GOING TO SAVE ALL OF YOUR FAMILY 18:38 BECAUSE I FOUND THEE RIGHTEOUS," SINGULAR. 18:41 GOD SAYS TO CHRIST, "I AM GOING TO SAVE YOUR HOUSE BECAUSE, 18:45 CHRIST, YOU ARE RIGHTEOUS." 18:47 YOU GET THAT? 18:49 WE ARE AS CHRIST'S BRETHREN, SAVED BY VIRTUE 18:52 OF HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS. 18:53 THE FAMILY OF NOAH, THE BOYS AND THEIR WIVES, NEVER COMMENTS 18:57 IN THE BIBLE ON THEIR RIGHTEOUSNESS. 18:59 ACTUALLY, AFTER THE FLOOD, SOME OF THEM GOT INTO TROUBLE. 19:02 BUT THEY WERE SAVED BY VIRTUE OF THEIR FATHER'S RIGHTEOUSNESS. 19:08 WE ARE SAVED BY VIRTUE OF CHRIST'S RIGHTEOUSNESS AND BEING 19:11 RELATED TO HIM, BEING PART OF HIS FAMILY. 19:13 THE ARK SURVIVED A STORM LIKE CHRIST. 19:18 WE MUST BE IN THE ARK. 19:20 WE MUST BE IN CHRIST. 19:22 THAT ARK WAS BEATEN BY A STORM. 19:25 IT WAS BATTERED BY A STORM. 19:26 JESUS, HIS BODY WAS BATTERED. 19:28 ONLY THOSE THAT WENT IN THROUGH THE SIDE WERE SAVED. 19:32 ONLY THOSE OF US WHO GO IN THROUGH THE SIDE OF CHRIST WHERE 19:36 THAT BLOOD AND THAT WATER FLOWS ARE SAVED. 19:39 AND SO, CHRIST IS LIKE NOAH AND THE ARK. 19:42 THIS IS A WONDERFUL ANALOGY. 19:43 AGAIN, MANY, MANY EXAMPLES I COULD SHARE WITH YOU, BUT I'LL 19:47 NEVER GET THROUGH THIS SERIES IF I PARK ON EACH ONE FOREVER. 19:51 NOW, I'M GOING TO JUMP ALONG TO THE STORY OF ABRAHAM, 19:57 GOING TO CONSIDER ABRAHAM. 19:59 JESUS IS LIKE ABRAHAM AND LIKE ISAAC, I MIGHT ADD. 20:05 ABRAHAM CAME FROM A FAR COUNTRY TO THE PROMISED LAND, 20:08 AND HE BROUGHT HIS FAMILY. 20:10 JESUS LEFT HEAVEN, CAME TO THIS WORLD TO BRING HIS FAMILY 20:15 TO THE PROMISED LAND. 20:18 EVERYBODY IS GOING TO BE SAVED THROUGH THE BLESSED SEED OF 20:22 ABRAHAM, WHICH WAS ISAAC. 20:24 ISAAC'S NAME, WHO REMEMBERS WHAT IT MEANS? 20:28 LAUGHTER. 20:32 HOW MANY OF YOU LIKE TO SMILE AND LAUGH? 20:35 THAT'S HAPPY NEWS. 20:38 THE GOSPEL IS GOOD NEWS. 20:41 SO, ISAAC HERE IS A TYPE OF CHRIST THAT SHOULD BRING US JOY. 20:46 ABRAHAM WAS AN ANCIENT MAN WHEN HE GAVE BIRTH TO THIS CHILD 20:52 THAT WAS CERTAINLY A MIRACLE. 20:54 ISAAC WAS A MIRACLE BIRTH. 20:58 THE ANCIENT OF DAYS IS GOD THE FATHER. 21:01 IT'S INTERESTING IN THE BIBLE HOW MANY ANCIENT OF DAYS HAVE 21:05 THESE MIRACLE BOYS OR TYPES OF CHRISTS. 21:10 YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE SAYS THAT JESSE, THE FATHER OF DAVID, 21:13 WAS AN OLD MAN. 21:16 JACOB WAS AN OLD MAN WHEN JOSEPH WAS BORN. 21:21 JOSEPH EVIDENTLY WAS AN OLDER MAN WHEN JESUS WAS BORN, JOSEPH 21:27 THE FATHER OF JESUS I'M SPEAKING OF, BECAUSE HE DIDN'T EVEN LIVE 21:31 THROUGH THE MINISTRY OF CHRIST. 21:34 AND THEY REPRESENT THE FATHER OF THESE GREAT TYPES OF CHRISTS. 21:37 IT REPRESENTS THE ETERNAL FATHER, THE ANCIENT OF DAYS, 21:40 THAT WE HAVE IN HEAVEN. 21:44 SO, HE'S GIVEN THIS SON THAT IS A MIRACLE BIRTH. 21:47 AND ONE DAY, THE LORD SPEAKS THEN TO ABRAHAM. 21:51 THIS PROMISED CHILD THROUGH WHOM ALL THE WORLD'S 21:54 GOING TO BE SAVED THROUGH ISAAC, WHAT IS HE GOING TO DO WITH HIM? 21:58 'FORE HE EVER GETS MARRIED, WE'RE GOING TO SACRIFICE HIM. 22:03 WELL, THAT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE. 22:04 ALL THE PROMISE OF SALVATION IS SUPPOSED TO COME THROUGH HIM. 22:08 YOU'RE GOING TO KILL HIM? 22:10 AND JESUS, IN HIS PRIME, IS OFFERED AS A SACRIFICE. 22:16 SO, GOD TELLS ABRAHAM, "I WANT YOU TO MAKE THIS JOURNEY 22:19 TO THE PLACE OF SACRIFICE." 22:21 THEY GO 3 DAYS. 22:24 THEY LEAVE THE DONKEY WITH THE SERVANTS AND THEY SAY, 22:28 "WE'LL COME BACK TO YOU AGAIN." 22:29 THEY GO ANOTHER HALF A DAY UP THE MOUNTAIN. 22:32 SO, THE JOURNEY TO THE PLACE OF SACRIFICE IS 3 AND A HALF DAYS 22:36 FROM THE TIME OF CHRIST'S BAPTISM WHEN HE BEGAN HIS 22:37 MINISTRY TO THE PLACE OF SACRIFICE IS 3 AND A HALF YEARS. 22:42 A DAY, PROPHECY, IS A YEAR. 22:44 THE WOOD IS LAID ON ISAAC'S BACK. 22:47 YOU'VE HEARD ME TALK ABOUT THIS ANALOGY MANY TIMES. 22:50 THE CROSS IS PLACED ON JESUS' BACK. 22:53 ON THE WAY UP THE HILL, ISAAC SAYS TO HIS FATHER AND THIS IS 22:56 ONE OF THE IMMORTAL STATEMENTS IN THE BIBLE, "FATHER, 22:59 YOU KNOW, I'VE GOT THE FIRE." 23:00 IT PROBABLY TOOK SOME KIND OF TINDER OR SOMETHING TO MAKE 23:03 A FIRE. 23:04 HE SAYS, "WE'VE GOT THE WOOD." 23:06 HE HAD PROBABLY GONE TO THE PLACE OF SACRIFICE MANY 23:08 TIMES BEFORE WITH HIS FATHER. 23:10 BUT HE SAID, "WE'RE MISSING SOMETHING REALLY IMPORTANT. 23:13 WHERE IS THE LAMB?" 23:16 AND ALL OF HISTORY NOW FOCUSES ON THE STATEMENT OF ABRAHAM 23:19 TO HIS SON. 23:21 HE SAYS, "MY SON, GOD WILL PROVIDE HIMSELF A LAMB." 23:26 NOW, THE WAY THAT'S WORDED, EVEN IN THE HEBREW, IT'S SAYING, "GOD 23:30 WILL PROVIDED HIMSELF A LAMB." 23:35 AND THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT JESUS DID. 23:37 GOD THE SON PROVIDED HIMSELF AS A LAMB. 23:40 THEN, THEY GET TO THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN. 23:42 WAS JESUS A WILLING SACRIFICE OR DID GOD THE FATHER 23:44 HAVE TO FORCE HIM? 23:46 HE SAID, "NOT MY WILL, THY WILL BE DONE." 23:48 ISAAC, WHEN HE HEARS FROM HIS FATHER WHAT THE PLAN IS, 23:51 HE SURRENDERS. 23:52 HE SAYS, "FATHER, IF THIS IS WHAT GOD HAS TOLD YOU TO DO." 23:54 THEY HAD SUCH TREMENDOUS RESPECT FOR THAT COMMAND THAT SAYS, 23:57 "HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER." 23:59 THAT EVEN IF THE FATHER SAID, "HOLD OUT YOUR HANDS, SON, 24:02 I'M GOING TO TIE YOU UP AND I'M GOING TO SACRIFICE YOU." 24:04 HE HELD OUT HIS HANDS. 24:07 HE WAS A WILLING SACRIFICE. 24:09 JESUS WAS A WILLING SACRIFICE. 24:11 HE WAS THE BELOVED SON. 24:14 HE SAID, "TAKE YOUR SON, YOUR ONLY SON, WHO YOU LOVE." 24:17 "GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON." 24:21 AND JUST AS HE'S ABOUT TO BRING THE KNIFE DOWN, THE ANGEL STOPS 24:25 HIM AND HE POINTS HIM TO A RAM, A SUBSTITUTE, CAUGHT IN A THORN 24:30 BUSH, A "THICKET," WHICH MEANT A THORN BUSH, BY THE HORNS. 24:35 WHAT THAT REALLY REPRESENTS IS THERE YOU'VE GOT A RAM 24:38 WITH A CROWN OF THORNS, ANOTHER TYPE OF CHRIST. 24:42 SO, IN THIS STORY OF ABRAHAM, ALL THROUGH MANY EXAMPLES YOU 24:46 CAN SEE THE EXAMPLE OF CHRIST. 24:49 ABRAHAM PICKS A WIFE FOR HIS SON, AND HE SENDS HIS SERVANT TO 24:55 THE LAND OF MESOPOTAMIA TO BRING HIS WIFE OUT OF THIS PAGAN LAND. 25:00 BUT THE WIFE BELIEVED IN THE TRUE GOD, BUT TO BRING HER OUT 25:02 OF THAT INTO THE PROMISED LAND. 25:05 DON'T MISS THAT THE PATRIARCHS, ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB, ALL 25:09 BROUGHT THEIR WIVES FROM THESE PAGAN LANDS TO THE PROMISED 25:14 LAND. 25:15 DOES JESUS BRING HIS WIFE, HIS BRIDE, OUT OF THE WORLD 25:21 INTO THE PROMISED LAND? 25:23 IT'S THE STORY OF SALVATION. 25:25 AND DON'T HAVE TIME TO GO THROUGH THEM ALL. 25:28 YOU KNOW, BEFORE WE LEAVE THE TIME OF ABRAHAM, YOU'VE GOT 25:31 ANOTHER PROMINENT CHARACTER THAT FIGURES IN THE BIBLE WHO 25:33 THE NEW TESTAMENT TELLS US IS A TYPE. 25:36 IT'S MELCHIZEDEK. 25:38 MELCHIZEDEK, YOU READ, FOR INSTANCE, AND YOU FIND HIM IN 25:42 THE BOOK OF GENESIS CHAPTER 14. 25:45 I'LL GIVE YOU A QUICK OVERVIEW OF THE STORY. 25:48 I'M ASSUMING THAT MOST OF YOU KNOW THESE BIBLE STORIES. 25:52 SOME OF YOU MAY NOT BE ACQUAINTED WITH THE 25:54 OLD TESTAMENT STORIES AND SO, I'M--GIVE YOU A QUICK OVERVIEW. 25:58 ABRAHAM HAS TO GO FIGHT HIS SERVANTS WITH THESE FIVE KINGS 26:04 FROM THE NORTH, UP BY DAMASCUS, THAT HAVE KIDNAPPED LOT 26:07 AND HIS FAMILY. 26:08 THEY CONQUERED SODOM AND GOMORRAH AND ZOAR 26:10 AND THE CITIES OF THE PLAIN. 26:12 ABRAHAM GOES AND HE SAVES THEM. 26:13 HE WINS THE BATTLE. 26:15 HE GETS TREMENDOUS BOOTY FROM THE WAR, A LOT OF GOLD AND 26:18 SILVER AND CLOTHING AND RICHES. 26:20 AND ON HIS WAY BACK DOWN, HE STOPS AT A LITTLE COMMUNITY 26:25 CALLED "SALEM" WHERE THERE IS A FAMOUS KING PRIEST THERE 26:28 THAT WORSHIPPED JEHOVAH. 26:30 NOBODY'S EXACTLY SURE WHO MELCHIZEDEK IS. 26:33 THERE ARE SOME WHO WONDER IF IT WAS SHEM. 26:36 SHEM, THE SON OF NOAH, WAS ACTUALLY STILL ALIVE 26:41 AT THIS POINT. 26:42 AND SOME HAVE POSTULATED THAT BECAUSE THINGS GOT SO BAD IN 26:47 MESOPOTAMIA AROUND THE TOWER OF BABEL AND THAT AREA THAT WHEN 26:51 WORD REACHED SHEM THAT SOMEONE WAS STILL WORSHIPPING THE TRUE 26:54 GOD IN THE LAND OF CANAAN THAT HE WENT AND HE CAME AND SETTLED 26:59 IN SALEM WITH HIS HOUSEHOLD. 27:02 HIS NAME WAS MELCHIZEDEK, AND THAT WORD MEANS KING OF 27:06 RIGHTEOUSNESS, KING OF PEACE. 27:08 NOW, I CAN'T PROVE IT'S SHEM AND I DON'T KNOW THAT. 27:10 THAT'S JUST ONE THEORY. 27:11 BUT THERE'S THIS NEBULOUS PERSON. 27:14 NO GENEALOGY IS GIVEN, WHERE HE CAME FROM OR WHERE HE WENT. 27:18 HE APPEARS OUT OF NOWHERE IN HISTORY. 27:20 ABRAHAM RECOGNIZES HIM. 27:22 ABRAHAM IS AN OLD, GREAT PATRIARCH AT THIS TIME, 27:24 VERY RICH. 27:25 HE RECOGNIZES HIM AS THE PRIEST OF THE MOST HIGH GOD. 27:28 HE PAYS TITHE TO HIM. 27:30 HE ACKNOWLEDGES HIM AS THE GREATER, MELCHIZEDEK, 27:33 THE KING OF SALEM. 27:35 THE WORD "MELCHIZEDEK" MEANS KING OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. 27:39 THAT'S WHAT THE NAME MEANS. 27:41 HIS TERRITORY IS SALEM, LATER KNOWN AS "JERUSHALOM." 27:45 SO, HIS NAME IS KING OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, KING OF PEACE, 27:48 AND YOU CAN READ IN THE NEW TESTAMENT 27:49 WHERE THE APOSTLE PAUL SAYS HE IS A TYPE OF CHRIST. 27:52 HEBREWS 5:9, "HAVING BEEN PERFECTED, HE," JESUS, "BECAME 27:58 THE AUTHOR OF ETERNAL SALVATION TO ALL WHO OBEY HIM, CALLED BY 28:03 GOD AS A HIGH PRIEST 'ACCORDING TO THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK.'" 28:07 CHRIST DID NOT COME FROM THE TRIBE OF LEVI. 28:10 HE CAME FROM THE TRIBE OF JUDAH. 28:11 SO, CHRIST BEING A HIGH PRIEST IS AFTER A DIFFERENT 28:14 KIND OF PRIESTHOOD. 28:15 IT'S NOT THE PRIESTHOOD OF THE LEVITICAL PRIESTHOOD 28:18 OR THE PRIESTHOOD OF AARON. 28:20 HE IS CALLED A PRIEST AFTER THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK. 28:23 WHY MELCHIZEDEK? 28:25 WITHOUT BEGINNING OR END, THERE'S NO GENEALOGY GIVEN 28:29 FOR MELCHIZEDEK. 28:30 CHRIST IS THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA WITHOUT BEGINNING OR END. 28:33 HE IS THE KING OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. 28:35 HE IS THE KING OF PEACE. 28:37 AND BY THE WAY, YOU READ ALL THOSE THINGS I JUST SAID 28:38 IN HEBREWS CHAPTER 7. 28:40 READ VERSES 1 THROUGH 3. 28:42 SO, I WANT TO SEE IF YOU'RE STILL WITH ME. 28:45 DO YOU UNDERSTAND HOW WE'RE READING THROUGH 28:46 THE BIBLE RIGHT NOW? 28:48 THAT THESE CHARACTERS IN THE BIBLE ARE TYPES OF JESUS. 28:52 PASTOR DOUG IS NOT MAKING THESE THINGS UP. 28:56 I'M SHOWING YOU WHERE PAUL AND THE OTHER GOSPEL WRITERS 28:58 ARE USING THIS PATTERN TO STUDY THE OLD TESTAMENT. 29:03 AND IT'S TEACHING US DIFFERENT THINGS ABOUT CHRIST. 29:06 ALRIGHT, LET'S MOVE ON. 29:08 YOU STILL WITH ME? 29:10 JACOB, AND I COULD TALK AN AWFUL LONG TIME ABOUT JACOB, BUT LET'S 29:16 JUST MENTION A FEW THINGS HERE. 29:19 JACOB, WELL FOR ONE THING, HE HAS 12 SONS THAT END UP 29:23 POPULATING THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL. 29:27 IN THE SAME WAY, JESUS HAS THE 12 APOSTLES AND THROUGH 29:31 THEIR MINISTRY, THE CHURCH GROWS AND IS POPULATED. 29:35 JACOB WANTS THE ETERNAL BIRTHRIGHT. 29:39 ISN'T IT AN INTERESTING STORY THAT JACOB GOES BEFORE 29:45 THE FATHER AND HE OBTAINS THE BIRTHRIGHT BY VIRTUE OF: HE PUTS 29:49 THE SKIN OF THE SACRIFICED KIDS, GOATS, ON HIS HANDS AND 29:57 THE BACK OF HIS NECK AND HE PUTS ON HIS BROTHER'S CLOTHES? 30:00 AND HE BASICALLY GETS CREDIT FOR BEING THE FIRSTBORN BY VIRTUE OF 30:06 THE SKINS OF THE GOAT, WHICH REPRESENTS A SACRIFICE, AND THE 30:10 CLOTHING OF THE ELDER BROTHER. 30:12 HE RECEIVES THE BLESSING OF THE FATHER WHO IS BLIND. 30:16 IN OTHER WORDS, HE DOESN'T LOOK AT HIM, BUT HE LOOKS AT 30:18 THE EVIDENCE THAT HE FEELS AND HE SMELLS AND HE SAYS, "BECAUSE 30:22 OF THAT, I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU THE BLESSING OF MY FIRSTBORN." 30:26 IN THE SAME WAY, WHY DO WE GET THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST? 30:31 THE FATHER BASICALLY WINKS. 30:33 HE'S BLIND TO OUR SINS BECAUSE OF THE CLOTHES 30:36 THAT WE'RE WEARING. 30:37 HE SAYS, "THE VOICE IS THE VOICE OF JACOB'S, BUT 30:41 THE SKIN IS THE SKIN OF ESAU'S." 30:43 AND SO, HE BLESSED HIM. 30:45 YOU AND I COME BEFORE THE FATHER AND WE GET TO WEAR JESUS' ROBE, 30:48 AND WE GET TO WEAR JESUS' SKIN AND THE SACRIFICE OF CHRIST. 30:53 AND SO, WE GET THE BLESSING. 30:56 IT'S BEAUTIFUL TYPES AND STORIES IN THE LIFE OF JACOB. 31:04 JACOB HAS A DREAM. 31:05 HE RUNS FROM HOME BECAUSE HE'S DECEIVED HIS BROTHER AND, OH, 31:08 I COULD TALK A LONG TIME ABOUT JACOB. 31:10 JACOB HAS A DREAM, AND WHAT DOES HE SEE IN HIS DREAM? 31:14 HE LAYS DOWN. 31:15 HE'S GOT NOTHING BUT A ROCK FOR A PILLOW. 31:17 SOME OF YOU HAVE PILLOWS LIKE THAT AT HOME PROBABLY, HUH? 31:22 AND HE SEES THE LADDER REACHING FROM EARTH TO HEAVEN. 31:27 WE ARE SEPARATED FROM HEAVEN, BUT NOW THERE'S A LADDER. 31:30 AND ON THIS LADDER GOING UP AND DOWN, YOU GOT ANGELS ASCENDING 31:33 AND DESCENDING. 31:34 IT'S KIND OF LIKE WHEN YOU GO TO THE MALL, YOU SEE RIGHT THERE 31:36 YOU'VE GOT THE UP AND THE DOWN ESCALATOR, SIDE BY SIDE. 31:39 THESE ANGELS ARE GOING, EXCEPT IT'S A LONG ESCALATOR. 31:42 IT'S REACHING UP TO THE GLORY OF GOD, DISAPPEARS OFF 31:44 INTO HEAVEN SOMEWHERE. 31:46 THE VEHICLE THROUGH WHICH GOD MINISTERS TO EARTH 31:49 IS THIS LADDER. 31:51 WHAT DOES THAT LADDER MEAN? 31:52 YOU GET TO THE NEW TESTAMENT. 31:53 JESUS TELLS US WE ARE TO INTERPRET THAT THROUGH HIM. 31:58 JOHN 1:51, "CHRIST SAID TO HIM," SPEAKING TO NATHANAEL, 32:04 "MOST ASSUREDLY, I SAY TO YOU, HEREAFTER YOU WILL SEE HEAVEN 32:08 OPEN, AND THE ANGELS OF GOD ASCENDING AND DESCENDING 32:12 UPON THE SON OF MAN." 32:14 DID EVERY JEW KNOW THE STORY OF JACOB? 32:17 AND WHEN JESUS SAID, "ASCENDING AND DESCENDING ON 32:20 THE SON OF MAN," THAT MEANS CHRIST IS THAT ESCALATOR. 32:25 CHRIST IS THE LADDER. 32:26 AS A MATTER OF FACT, THE CROSS IS THE LADDER. 32:28 IT'S THE BRIDGE CONNECTING HEAVEN AND EARTH, AND IT 32:31 IS THROUGH CHRIST AND THROUGH THE CROSS THAT WE HAVE ACCESS 32:35 TO HEAVEN. 32:35 IT'S THROUGH THE CROSS THAT ANGELS COME AND GO, ANSWERING 32:38 OUR PRAYERS, BECAUSE WE PRAY IN JESUS' NAME. 32:41 HE'S THE LADDER, THAT LADDER THAT JACOB THOUGHT 32:44 THAT HE WAS SEPARATED FROM GOD. 32:45 HE DECEIVED HIS BROTHER. 32:46 HE WAS RUNNING AWAY FROM HOME. 32:48 HE THINKS HE'S ALL ALONE. 32:49 AND THROUGH THAT DREAM, GOD SAYS, "I HAVEN'T FORSAKEN YOU. 32:52 I'LL BE WITH YOU. 32:53 AND I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE VISION. 32:55 WHAT EVERYBODY HAS YOU'RE GOING TO SEE NOW, YOU'VE GOT A LADDER 32:58 TO HEAVEN THAT ANGELS ARE COMING AND GOING TAKING CARE OF YOU, 33:02 WATCHING OVER YOU, AND YOU'RE NOT GOING TO SEE THIS AGAIN, 33:04 BUT DON'T EVER FORGET THAT LADDER IS THERE." 33:07 AND YOU'VE GOT A LADDER. 33:08 WHEREVER YOU GO, IF YOU'VE COMMITTED YOURSELF TO 33:10 THE LORD AND YOU'VE ASKED FOR FORGIVENESS, HE SAYS HE 33:12 WANTS TO BLESS YOU. 33:13 AND YOU KNOW WHAT GOD SAID TO JACOB? 33:14 HE SAYS, "I'M GOING TO BRING YOU BACK INTO THE PROMISED LAND." 33:17 AND HE SAYS THE SAME NIGHT HE HAD THAT DREAM, GOD MADE 33:20 THAT PROMISE TO HIM. 33:22 AND HE SAYS TO YOU AND I, "I'M GOING TO BRING YOU 33:26 TO THE PROMISED LAND." 33:27 DON'T FORGET THAT YOU PRAY IN CHRIST'S NAME THAT WE'VE GOT 33:31 A LADDER THAT GOES FROM HEAVEN TO EARTH, AND HE ANSWERS YOUR 33:34 PRAYERS AND HE PROTECTS YOU. 33:35 THE VERY FACT THAT YOU'RE HERE NOW IS A FACT THAT GOD HAS 33:39 WATCHED OVER YOU OVER YOUR LIFE. 33:41 SO, WE'VE JUST DONE A FLYOVER, REAL QUICK, LOOKING AT SOME OF 33:46 THESE EXAMPLES IN THE BIBLE. 33:48 NOW, I THINK I'M PROBABLY NOT GOING TO GET BEYOND 33:51 OUR NEXT ONE. 33:53 BUT THE NEXT ONE WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT IS ONE OF THE MOUNTAIN 33:57 PEAKS IN THE BIBLE, ONE OF THE MAGNIFICENT VISTAS 34:02 THAT SHOWS US CHRIST IN A LIFE. 34:05 AND THAT'S THE LIFE OF JOSEPH. 34:08 WHEN YOU READ THROUGH THE BOOK OF GENESIS, YOU'LL READ ABOUT 34:12 ADAM AND YOU'LL READ ABOUT EVE AND ENOCH AND YOU'LL READ 34:14 ABOUT JACOB AND ABRAHAM. 34:17 BUT YOU'LL NOTICE THAT AS YOU GET TO GENESIS CHAPTER 37, 34:20 THE REST OF THE BOOK IS DEDICATED TO JOSEPH. 34:25 THERE'S MORE SAID THERE IN THE BOOK OF GENESIS THAN 34:28 IS SAID ABOUT ABRAHAM OR JACOB, MORE SAID ABOUT JOSEPH. 34:33 JOSEPH IS ONE OF THE PREMIER, POWERFUL TYPES OF CHRISTS 34:38 ALL THROUGH THE BIBLE. 34:39 HE IS A FANTASTIC, PHENOMENAL EXAMPLE OF CHRIST IN SO MANY 34:44 FACETS OF HIS LIFE, IT'S MINDBOGGLING. 34:47 I'VE GOT SOME NOTES HERE. 34:51 LOOKING AT THE LIFE AND THE STORY OF JOSEPH, COMPARING IT 34:54 TO WHAT YOU KNOW ABOUT THE LIFE AND THE EXPERIENCE OF JESUS, 34:57 CONSIDER FOR A MINUTE THE HUNDREDS OF SIMILARITIES 35:02 THAT OUGHT TO SET US BACK WITH AWE ON HOW GOD IS 35:08 IN CONTROL OF HISTORY. 35:11 NOW, I SHOULD ADD AT THIS POINT THERE'S SOME PEOPLE THAT 35:15 QUESTION IF THEY CAN TAKE GENESIS LITERALLY. 35:18 AND THEY WONDER ABOUT, YOU KNOW, ADAM AND EVE AND NOAH AND THE 35:22 ARK AND EVEN THE TOWER OF BABEL AND EVEN SOME OF THE PEOPLE 35:27 OUT THERE THAT THEY DENOUNCE THE FIRST 11 CHAPTERS OF 35:30 THE BIBLE AS FABLE. 35:31 THEY ALMOST ALL UNIVERSALLY BELIEVE THAT JOSEPH 35:34 IS A REAL CHARACTER. 35:36 YOU CAN FIND IN EGYPTIAN HISTORY TOO MANY PARALLELS TO THINK 35:40 THAT THIS IS A FABLE. 35:42 WE BELIEVE THAT HE REALLY DID LIVE AND EVEN MOST CYNICS 35:45 BELIEVE THAT JOSEPH REALLY DID LIVE. 35:47 SO, FOR HIS LIFE TO MIRROR THE LIFE OF JESUS SO MUCH OUGHT 35:52 TO STRENGTHEN YOUR LIFE IN THE OTHER THINGS IN THE BIBLE 35:55 AND THAT HE HAS A PLAN FOR YOU. 35:58 ALRIGHT, FOR INSTANCE, JESUS AND JOSEPH, NUMBER ONE, 36:03 WERE BOTH THE FIRSTBORN SONS; JOSEPH, FIRSTBORN OF RACHEL, 36:07 JESUS, FIRSTBORN OF MARY. 36:09 THEY WERE BORN THROUGH MIRACLES. 36:12 I DON'T KNOW IF YOU REMEMBER BUT IT DOES SAY IN THE BIBLE THAT 36:15 RACHEL WAS BARREN AND SHE PRAYED AND GOD HEARD HER PRAYER, 36:18 AND SHE HAS THIS MIRACLE SON. 36:20 HIS NAME IS JOSEPH. 36:24 JESUS COMES INTO THE WORLD AND HE LEAVES THE WORLD FLANKED 36:28 BY TWO JOSEPHS. 36:31 JESUS' EARTHLY FATHER WAS JOSEPH. 36:34 THERE TO BRING HIM INTO THE WORLD WAS JOSEPH AS A WITNESS. 36:37 WHEN JESUS DIED, THERE'S ANOTHER MAN NAMED JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA 36:40 THAT GIVES HIM HIS GRAVE. 36:42 CHRIST COMES IN AND HE GOES OUT WITH A JOSEPH. 36:45 AND SO THAT OUGHT TO MAKE US THINK ABOUT THAT AS WELL. 36:51 JOSEPH WAS SECOND ONLY TO THE KING OF EGYPT. 36:54 JESUS IS SECOND ONLY TO THE KING OF THE UNIVERSE, GOD THE FATHER. 37:00 JOSEPH'S FATHER LOVED HIM MORE THAN HIS BROTHERS. 37:03 JESUS IS CALLED "THE BELOVED SON," THE PREFERRED ONE. 37:07 AND AGAIN, JOSEPH'S FATHER WAS AN ANCIENT OF DAYS 37:09 WHEN HE WAS BORN. 37:11 BOTH JOSEPH AND JESUS ARE DESCRIBED IN THE BIBLE TO BE 37:14 VERY PIOUS MEN, WHO RECEIVE REVELATIONS FROM GOD OF FUTURE 37:18 GLORY. 37:19 THE BIBLE RECORDS NO SIN IN THE LIFE OF JOSEPH. 37:23 IT RECORDS NO SIN IN THE LIFE OF JESUS. 37:26 POINT FOUR, BECAUSE OF ENVY, JOSEPH'S BROTHERS CONSPIRE 37:30 TO KILL HIM. 37:32 IT SAYS AND BEFORE HE REACHED THEM, THEY PLOTTED TO KILL HIM. 37:35 THEY SAID, "HERE COMES THAT DREAMER. 37:38 COME NOW, LET US KILL HIM AND THROW HIM IN ONE OF THESE WELLS, 37:42 THESE PITS, AND SAY A FEROCIOUS ANIMAL'S DELIVERED HIM." 37:45 THEY SAID THE SAME THING ABOUT JESUS. 37:47 THEY CONSPIRED AND PLOTTED TO KILL HIM. 37:50 YOU CAN READ HERE, IN THE SAME WAY, THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS 37:52 WANTED TO GET RID OF JESUS. 37:53 THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND THE ELDERS OF THE PEOPLE ASSEMBLED IN THE 37:56 PALACE OF THE HIGH PRIEST BEFORE CAIAPHAS AND THE PLOTTED 38:01 TO ARREST JESUS AND TO SLAY OR KILL HIM IN SOME WAY. 38:04 SAME WORDING IS USED THERE IN THE NEW TESTAMENT ABOUT JESUS AS 38:08 YOU FIND IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. 38:12 HE'S BETRAYED BY THE 12 AND SOLD FOR THE PRICE OF A SLAVE 38:16 FOR SILVER. 38:18 NOW, JOSEPH IS SOLD, GRANTED, FOR 20 PIECES OF SILVER. 38:21 JESUS IS BETRAYED AND SOLD FOR 30 PIECES OF SILVER. 38:24 BOTH WERE THE PRICE OF A SLAVE. 38:26 KEEP IN MIND INFLATION, THE PRICE OF A SLAVE HAD GONE UP 38:29 IN THAT 1,500 YEARS AND SO THAT SHOULDN'T SURPRISE YOU. 38:36 POINT SEVEN, JESUS AND JOSEPH BOTH WENT TO EGYPT 38:40 IN THEIR YOUTH. 38:41 JOSEPH WAS SOLD INTO EGYPT ON THE ADVICE OF HIS BROTHER. 38:46 JESUS WAS HANDED OVER TO THE ROMANS--OH WAIT, 38:50 I MISSED A POINT HERE. 38:52 UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE DISCIPLE JUDAS, OH, 38:55 THAT'S ACTUALLY ANOTHER POINT. 38:58 JOSEPH WAS SOLD TO THE EGYPTIANS UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF JUDAS-- 39:01 JUDAH, HIS BROTHER. 39:03 JESUS IS SOLD TO THE ROMANS UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF JUDAS. 39:09 BOTH HANDED OVER THE GENTILES BECAUSE OF THOSE NAMES. 39:12 NUMBER EIGHT, JOSEPH ASKS THE IMPRISONED CUPBEARER NOT TO 39:16 FORGET HIM WHEN HE'S RELEASED AND WHEN HE'S REINSTATED 39:20 AT COURT, HE SAYS, "BE SURE TO REMEMBER ME WHEN THINGS 39:24 GO WELL WITH YOU." 39:26 IT'S ALSO INTERESTING AS CHRIST HAD THE LAST SUPPER WITH HIS 39:29 DISCIPLES, HE SAID, "DO THIS IN REMEMBRANCE OF ME EVEN 39:32 HANGING ON THE CROSS." 39:34 WELL, THINK ABOUT THIS FOR A SECOND. 39:36 CHRIST IS BETWEEN TWO CONDEMNED MEN. 39:40 ONE SAYS, "LORD, REMEMBER ME." 39:41 HE GETS ETERNAL LIFE. 39:43 THE OTHER DOES NOT. 39:45 ONE IS SAVED. 39:47 ONE IS LOST. 39:48 JESUS IS IN JAIL BETWEEN TWO CONDEMNED MEN. 39:51 AND HE INTERPRETS THEIR DREAMS FOR 'EM. 39:53 ONE IS REINSTATED. 39:56 HE IS SAVED. 39:57 THE OTHER IS EXECUTED. 39:58 HE DIES. 40:00 AND IT'S INTERESTING THAT THIEF THAT WAS SAVED SAYS, 40:04 "LORD, REMEMBER ME." 40:06 JOSEPH TESTED HIS BROTHERS WITH A CUP. 40:10 YOU REMEMBER THAT STORY? 40:11 HE WANTED TO FIND OUT IF THEY REALLY LOVED EACH OTHER. 40:14 AND SO, THEY'RE TESTED WITH THIS CUP THAT'S PUT IN THEIR SACK. 40:18 JAMES AND JOHN CAME TO JESUS AND SAID, "LET US SIT ON YOUR 40:21 RIGHT HAND AND YOUR LEFT HAND IN YOUR KINGDOM." 40:23 HE SAID, "YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE ASKING." 40:25 BY THE WAY, THIS IS MATTHEW 20:22, 40:28 "ARE YOU ABLE TO DRINK THE CUP THAT I'M GOING TO DRINK, 40:30 AND BE BAPTIZED WITH MY BAPTISM?" 40:32 THEY SAID, "OH YES, LORD, WE'RE ABLE." 40:34 WHEN CHRIST WAS IN THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE, HE SAID, 40:36 "FATHER, IF THERE'S ANY WAY, LET THIS CUP PASS FROM ME." 40:39 A CUP PLACED PROMINENTLY EVEN IN THE STORY OF JOSEPH. 40:45 IN PERSECUTION, JESUS AND JOSEPH WERE STRIPPED OF THEIR ROBES AND 40:50 PLACED IN A PIT WHERE THEY WERE ULTIMATELY--THEY CAME OUT ALIVE 40:54 TO BECOME GREAT PRINCES AND EXALTED BY GOD FOR THEIR 40:57 GREAT SUFFERING. 41:00 THE ROBE IS TAKEN AWAY FROM JOSEPH. 41:02 IT'S COVERED WITH BLOOD. 41:05 IT'S THEN PRESENTED TO THE FATHER OF JOSEPH TO COVER 41:08 THE SIN OF HIS BROTHERS. 41:11 WHAT DO WE PRESENT BEFORE OUR HEAVENLY FATHER 41:14 TO HAVE OUR SIN COVERED? 41:16 DID JESUS HAVE A BLOOD-STAINED ROBE THAT WAS TAKEN FROM HIM? 41:19 REMEMBER WHEN HE WENT BEFORE HEROD. 41:20 THEY STRIPPED HIM OF HIS ROBE. 41:22 THEY BEAT HIM. 41:23 THEY PUT A PURPLE ROBE ON HIM. 41:25 THEY BEAT HIM. 41:26 THEY TOOK BACK OFF THE PURPLE ROBE AND THEY PUT HIS OWN 41:29 CLOTHING BACK ON HIM. 41:30 AND THEN, THEY LAID THE CROSS ON HIS BACK WHEN HE WENT 41:32 BACK TO PILATE. 41:33 CHRIST'S ROBE WAS A BLOOD-STAINED ROBE, 41:36 BUT THEY DID NOT TEAR IT UP. 41:39 THEY CAST LOTS FOR IT. 41:41 IT IS THAT ROBE THAT WE PLEAD BEFORE THE FATHER TO COVER 41:44 OUR SINS. 41:46 A WONDERFUL ANALOGY OF THE RIGHTEOUS OF JESUS. 41:50 AND THEN, OF COURSE, BOTH EXALTED BEFORE--AFTER 41:54 THEIR SUFFERINGS. 41:55 BOTH JOSEPH AND JESUS ARE PERSECUTED BECAUSE OF FALSE 41:59 WITNESSES. 42:01 THE WIFE OF POTIPHAR BEARS FALSE WITNESS BEFORE JOSEPH AND BEFORE 42:05 MEMBERS OF HER HOUSEHOLD AND BEFORE HER HUSBAND. 42:08 THE WITNESSES FALSELY ACCUSE JESUS BEFORE THE SANHEDRIN 42:13 AND BEFORE PILATE. 42:15 JOSEPH WENT TO PRISON BECAUSE OF THE FALSE WITNESSES. 42:18 JESUS WENT TO THE GRAVE BECAUSE OF THE FALSE WITNESSES. 42:21 THE WORDS "PRISON" AND "THE GRAVE" ARE OFTEN 42:24 INTERCHANGEABLE IN THE BIBLE. 42:26 DID YOU KNOW THAT? 42:29 JOSEPH BECOMES A MODEL OF SEXUAL PURITY. 42:32 DID HE FALL WHEN HE WAS TEMPTED BY POTIPHAR'S WIFE 42:35 OR DID HE SUCCESSFULLY RESIST THIS GREAT TEMPTATION? 42:39 DOES JESUS FACE A GREAT TEMPTATION? 42:41 IS HE ALSO VICTORIOUS? 42:43 DID POTIPHAR PROBABLY HAVE DOUBTS ABOUT JESUS' GUILT 42:47 BUT HE STILL CONDEMNED HIM? 42:49 NO SORRY, I SAID THAT WRONG. 42:51 DID POTIPHAR HAVE DOUBTS ABOUT JOSEPH'S GUILT BUT HE STILL 42:55 HANDED HIM OVER BECAUSE HE WAS AFRAID OF THE PRESSURE 42:57 THAT HE MIGHT GET? 42:59 DID PILATE HAVE DOUBTS ABOUT JESUS' GUILT? 43:03 BUT HE STILL CONDEMNED HIM. 43:09 BOTH JOSEPH AND JESUS WERE MEN WHO WERE REJECTED BY THEIR 43:12 BRETHREN BECAUSE THEY WANTED THEIR INHERITANCE, BUT GOD 43:17 RAISED THEM UP TO BE JUDGE OF THEIR BROTHERS. 43:21 THEY WANTED--YOU KNOW WHY JACOB GAVE JOSEPH 43:23 THE COAT OF MANY COLORS? 43:26 HE BASICALLY SAID, "REUBEN, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BE 43:28 THE FIRSTBORN. 43:28 YOU'RE NOT GETTING THE INHERITANCE OF THE FIRSTBORN." 43:30 IF YOU KNOW YOUR BIBLES, YOU KNOW REUBEN SLEPT 43:32 WITH HIS STEPMOTHER. 43:33 JACOB SAID, "YOU'RE DISQUALIFIED." 43:35 THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN, HE GIVES JOSEPH THIS ROBE OF MANY COLORS. 43:38 IT'S A SIGN OF ROYALTY. 43:39 AND ALL THE BROTHERS REALIZED, "OH, YOU KNOW, RACHEL'S 43:42 THE WIFE HE WANTED. 43:43 JOSEPH'S THE FIRSTBORN OF RACHEL. 43:45 HE'S GOING TO GIVE THE INHERITANCE TO THIS 43:46 YOUNG WHIPPER-SNAPPER." 43:47 AND THEY WERE JEALOUS OF THE INHERITANCE THAT JACOB 43:50 WAS GOING TO GIVE JOSEPH. 43:52 SO THEY SAID, "LET'S SLAY HIM AND THEN THE INHERITANCE 43:55 WILL BE OURS." 43:56 DOES JESUS TELL A PARABLE ABOUT THE OWNERS OF A VINEYARD 43:59 WHO SAID, "OH LOOK, HERE COMES THE SON, THE FIRSTBORN, 44:02 LET'S KILL HIM AND THE VINEYARD WILL BE OURS"? 44:05 THE EXACT SAME WORDING IS USED BY JESUS. 44:07 IT'S NOT AN ACCIDENT IN THAT PARABLE AS WELL. 44:15 THE STORIES OF JOSEPH AND JESUS ARE BOTH A KIND OF 44:17 RAGS TO RICHES STORY. 44:20 JOSEPH IS BROUGHT OUT OF THE PIT AND EXALTED TO PHARAOH'S 44:23 RIGHT HAND. 44:24 PHARAOH SAID TO JOSEPH, "SINCE GOD HAS MADE ALL THIS 44:27 KNOWN TO YOU, THERE'S NO ONE SO DISCERNING AND WISE AS YOU. 44:31 YOU WILL BE IN CHARGE OF MY PALACE AND ALL MY PEOPLE ARE 44:33 TO SUBMIT TO YOUR ORDERS." 44:35 WHEN JOSEPH WENT OUT FROM THE PHARAOH, 44:37 ALL KNEES BOWED BEFORE JOSEPH. 44:41 THE BIBLE SAYS THAT CHRIST GOES FROM THE PIT TO THE PALACE. 44:45 IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, IT SAYS THAT EVERY KNEE WILL BOW 44:48 AND EVERY TONGUE WILL CONFESS THAT JESUS IS LORD, 44:51 THE WILING AND THE UNWILLING. 44:54 EVEN POTIPHAR AND HIS WIFE HAD TO KNEEL BEFORE JOSEPH. 44:59 YOU EVER THINK ABOUT THAT? 45:00 THAT WOULD'VE BEEN SOMETHING TO GET ON YOUR LITTLE VIDEOPHONE. 45:05 I AM GOING THROUGH HERE BECAUSE I'M LOOKING AT THE CLOCK. 45:08 I'VE GOT 8 MINUTES, AND I'VE GOT A LOT OF JOSEPH LEFT HERE. 45:11 BOTH BEGAN THEIR LIFEWORK SAVING THE WORLD AT THE AGE OF 30. 45:17 WHEN DOES JOSEPH GO OUT ON THE STAGE? 45:21 HE'S 30 YEARS OF AGE. 45:23 WHEN DOES JESUS BEGIN HIS MINISTRY? 45:25 WHEN IS HE BAPTIZED? 45:26 THIRTY YEARS OF AGE. 45:29 THE COURSE OF THE LIVES OF JOSEPH AND JESUS 45:31 WERE DRAMATICALLY CHANGED BY THE POWER OF DREAMS. 45:34 JOSEPH BECAME AN INTERPRETER OF HIS OWN DREAMS AND THE DREAMS OF 45:38 OTHERS, WHICH ARE USED TO SAVE EVERYONE'S LIFE IN SOME WAY. 45:42 IN THE SAME WAY, A DREAM IS GIVEN TO JOSEPH, THE FATHER 45:46 OF JESUS, TO SAVE THE LIFE OF JESUS. 45:50 AND THAT'S WHEN THE FAMILY FLEES TO EGYPT. 45:53 IT'S INTERESTING. 45:54 YOU CAN READ EVEN IN THE BOOK OF HOSEA 11:1, "OUT OF EGYPT 45:58 I HAVE CALLED MY SON." 45:59 ANOTHER DREAM IS GIVEN TO JOSEPH, THE FATHER OF JESUS, 46:02 IN EGYPT THAT SAYS, "NOW IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO GO TO 46:05 THE PROMISED LAND." 46:08 BOTH JOSEPH AND JESUS WERE HATED BECAUSE OF THEIR GREATNESS. 46:13 THEY RESENTED JOSEPH'S DREAMS. 46:15 THE ENEMIES OF CHRIST RESENTED HIM BECAUSE OF HIS DREAMS. 46:19 AND THEY SAID, "BEHOLD, HERE COMES THIS DREAMER. 46:21 LET'S KILL HIM." 46:22 CHRIST WAS ALSO A PROPHET, AND HIS PEOPLE WANTED TO KILL HIM. 46:27 BUT ULTIMATELY, JOSEPH AND JESUS ATTAINED GREAT AUTHORITY 46:31 AND INSPIRED CONFIDENCE IN THOSE AROUND THEM. 46:34 THEY SAID, "WHATEVER HE TELLS YOU, DO." 46:37 WHAT DID POTIPHAR SAY TO THOSE IN HIS HOUSEHOLD? 46:41 "I'M GIVING EVERYTHING INTO THE HANDS OF JOSEPH. 46:43 DO WHATEVER HE SAYS. 46:44 DO WHATEVER JOSEPH SAYS." 46:45 WHAT DID MARY SAY REGARDING JESUS AT THE WEDDING FEAST? 46:48 "WHATEVER HE TELLS YOU, YOU DO WHATEVER HE SAYS." 46:51 SO, IN SPITE OF RESISTANCE FROM SOME, OTHERS SAW THEY 46:54 WERE BLESSED AND HAD GREAT CONFIDENCE IN THEM. 46:57 JOSEPH MIRACULOUSLY GAVE BREAD TO THE PEOPLE AROUND HIM BECAUSE 47:01 THEY RECEIVED GOD'S REVELATION, WHICH SAVED THEM FROM DYING 47:04 IN THE FAMINE. 47:05 JESUS MIRACULOUSLY FED THE MULTITUDES THAT SAVED THEM FROM 47:09 HUNGER AND CHRIST FURTHERMORE SAYS, "I AM THE BREAD THAT 47:12 CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN." 47:14 JOSEPH AND JESUS, VERY SIMILAR IN THESE WAYS. 47:19 THE BROTHERS CAME TO JESUS-- I'M SORRY, THE BROTHERS 47:22 CAME TO JOSEPH AND THEY TRIED TO PAY FOR THEIR BREAD. 47:26 AND HE KEPT PUTTING THE MONEY BACK IN THE SACK. 47:27 WHY'D HE DO THAT? 47:29 BECAUSE THAT REPRESENTS THE BREAD OF GOD AND YOU 47:31 CAN'T PAY FOR IT. 47:32 IT'S A GIFT. 47:33 AMEN? 47:35 JESUS SAID, "I AM THE BREAD THAT CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN." 47:39 FINALLY, WHEN JOSEPH REVEALS HIMSELF TO HIS BROTHERS THAT 47:41 HAD SOLD HIM, HE COULD'VE SPENT THOSE YEARS BITTER 47:44 AND CONNIVING. 47:45 AS SOON AS HE CAME INTO POWER, HE COULD'VE SENT AN ARMY INTO 47:47 ISRAEL AND KILLED HIS BROTHERS. 47:49 BUT HE FORGAVE THEM. 47:51 DOES CHRIST FORGIVE THOSE WHO ARE EVEN RESPONSIBLE 47:54 FOR HIS CRUCIFIXION? 47:55 "FATHER, FORGIVE THEM, THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY DO." 47:57 BY THE WAY, I WAS TALKING ABOUT YOU. 48:00 WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS CRUCIFIXION. 48:03 AND HE FORGIVES US. 48:04 NOT ONLY DID HE FORGIVE HIS BROTHERS, HE FEEDS HIS BROTHERS 48:08 AND HE SAYS, "LOOK, I WANT YOU TO COME INTO THIS LAND RIGHT NOW 48:10 'CAUSE THE FAMINE'S NOT OVER WHERE I'LL CONTINUE TO SUSTAIN 48:13 YOU DURING THE TIME OF FAMINE." 48:16 THERE'S A FAMINE FOR THE WORD OF GOD IN THIS WORLD. 48:18 CHRIST SAYS, "BUT COME UNTO ME AND I'LL SUSTAIN YOU." 48:21 AND HE FORGIVES US, AND WE GET TO ABIDE WITH HIM. 48:24 AND HE PROTECTS US. 48:25 HE BROUGHT HIS FAMILY THERE TO PROTECT HIS FAMILY, GAVE THEM 48:28 OF THE BEST OF THE LAND. 48:29 CHRIST IS OFFERING US THE BEST OF THE LAND. 48:32 EVEN WHY WE WANDER HERE IN THIS WILDERNESS, SO TO SPEAK, HE 48:35 GIVES US THE BEST OF THE LAND. 48:37 HE BLESSES HIS PEOPLE HERE. 48:40 WHEN MARY ANNOUNCED JESUS' RESURRECTION TO THE DISCIPLES, 48:43 THEY DIDN'T BELIEVE IT. 48:44 THEY THOUGHT IT WAS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE. 48:46 THEY WANTED PROOF. 48:47 WHEN THE BROTHERS COME BACK FROM EGYPT AND THEY TELL JACOB, 48:50 "YOUR SON IS STILL ALIVE," AFTER 22-3 YEARS, WE'RE NOT EXACTLY 48:55 SURE, MAYBE CLOSER TO 21 YEARS. 48:59 HE HAD NOT SEEN HIS SON. 49:01 IT SAYS JACOB SAID, "I CAN'T BELIEVE IT." 49:03 HIS HEART STOPPED, TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE. 49:05 AND THEN AS THE EVIDENCE CAME, HE SAYS, "I DO BELIEVE IT." 49:07 THEN HE SAYS, "LET ME DIE IN PEACE BECAUSE MY SON IS ALIVE." 49:11 AND WHEN SIMON SAW JESUS AS A BABY, HE SAID, "NOW, LET ME 49:15 DIE BECAUSE I'VE SEEN YOUR SALVATION." 49:19 ANOTHER ANCIENT OF DAYS THERE. 49:22 BY THE WAY, CHRIST WAS SEPARATED FROM THE FATHER. 49:27 THE TIME THAT HE WAS DOWN HERE ON EARTH, JOSEPH WAS SEPARATED 49:30 FROM THE FATHER. 49:31 THERE WAS A GREAT REUNION IN HEAVEN WHEN JESUS AROSE. 49:35 THERE WAS A GREAT REUNION WHEN JOSEPH AND JACOB GET TOGETHER. 49:39 I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU BUT WHENEVER I READ THROUGH THE 49:41 BIBLE, EVERY TIME I GET THROUGH WITH THE STORY OF JOSEPH AND I 49:43 READ WHERE JOSEPH AND JACOB ARE REUNITED AND THEY FINALLY--YOU 49:46 CAN SEE JOSEPH STEPPING OUT OF HIS GOLDEN CHARIOT, AND YOU SEE 49:51 JACOB KIND OF FALLING OFF HIS OLD MULE. 49:55 AND THEY RUN TO EACH OTHER, THE OLD PATRIARCH HOBBLING WITH HIS 49:59 CANE BECAUSE HE'S GOT THIS HIP PROBLEM FROM WRESTLING WITH AN 50:02 ANGEL, AND JOSEPH IN HIS PRIME, RUNNING AND HUGGING EACH OTHER 50:08 AND A LONG TIME SOBBING ON ONE ANOTHER. 50:11 THAT STILL MOVES ME WHENEVER I SEE THAT OR READ THAT STORY 50:14 IN THE BIBLE. 50:15 DOES THAT MOVE YOU? 50:17 AND I MEAN HE THOUGHT HE WAS DEAD, AND HE FOUND OUT 50:20 HE'S ALIVE. 50:21 HOW DO YOU THINK THE FATHER FELT WHEN JESUS WAS ON THE CROSS? 50:24 AND HOW DO YOU THINK HEAVEN REJOICED WHEN CHRIST ASCENDED? 50:27 THAT'S WHY HE SAID, "MARY, DON'T CLING TO ME, I'VE NOT YET 50:29 ASCENDED TO MY FATHER. 50:30 I'VE GOT TO GO SEE MY FATHER. 50:32 HE MISSES ME. 50:32 I'VE BEEN HERE ON THIS EARTH 33 AND A HALF YEARS." 50:35 FOR DECADES, THEY WERE SEPARATED, JESUS AND JOSEPH, 50:39 FROM THEIR FATHERS AND THERE WAS A GREAT REUNION YOU CAN BE SURE. 50:46 THE BROTHERS OF JOSEPH EMBALMED AND PROTECTED HIS BONES, LATER 50:51 TRANSPORTING THEM FROM EGYPT TO THE PROMISED LAND. 50:54 THE FATHER OF JESUS RESURRECTED HIS BODY. 50:57 NONE OF HIS BONES WERE BROKEN. 50:59 AND HIS DISCIPLES TOOK CARE-- HIS 12 DISCIPLES TOOK CARE OF 51:03 THE BODY, JUST LIKE THE 12 BROTHERS OF-- 51:06 TOOK CARE OF THE BODY OF JOSEPH. 51:08 NOW, THERE'S MUCH MORE. 51:10 MATTER OF FACT, A COUPLE OF THINGS, STEPHEN AND I WERE GOING 51:12 THROUGH SOME OF THE PARALLELS LAST NIGHT AND--OH YEAH, YOU 51:16 KNOW WHAT THE NAME RACHEL MEANS? 51:20 RACHEL, THE MOTHER OF JOSEPH, MEANS EWE. 51:24 NOT Y-O-U, E-W-E, IS THAT HOW YOU SPELL IT? 51:30 EWE. 51:32 THAT'S A FEMALE LAMB, A MOTHER LAMB THAT HAS A BABY LAMB. 51:38 RACHEL GAVE BIRTH TO A BABY LAMB NAMED JOSEPH. 51:43 HE BECAME A SACRIFICE THAT ALL OF HIS PEOPLE MIGHT BE SAVED. 51:47 MARY--BY THE WAY, MARY, THE MOTHER OF JESUS, 51:51 GIVES BIRTH TO A LAMB. 51:53 MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB, DIDN'T SHE? 51:55 MARY GAVE BIRTH TO A LAMB IN BETHLEHEM. 51:59 FIRST TIME YOU FIND THE WORD "BETHLEHEM" IN THE BIBLE 52:02 IS WHERE RACHEL DIES. 52:05 THE MOTHER OF JOSEPH DIES IN BETHLEHEM. 52:10 MARY GIVES BIRTH TO THE SAVIOR OF THE WORLD IN BETHLEHEM. 52:16 BOTH JESUS AND JOSEPH, AS JOSEPH IS DYING, HE TELLS-- 52:20 DON'T FORGET, JOSEPH, HE'S THE LEADER IN EGYPT. 52:24 HIS BOYS, EPHRAIM AND MANASSEH, HAVE PASSPORTS THAT SAY "EGYPT." 52:29 THEY'RE BORN IN EGYPT. 52:30 THEY COULD'VE SAID, "LOOK, WE REALIZE WE'VE GOT SOME RELATIVES 52:33 THAT ARE FROM THE PROMISED LAND, THOSE SHEPHERDS, KIND OF HOKEY. 52:36 WE'RE GOING TO STAY HERE WITH OUR FAMILIES IN EGYPT. 52:38 YOU KNOW, WE SPEAK THE LANGUAGE. 52:39 WE'VE GOT ALL OUR FRIENDS HERE. 52:40 THE TRIBES OF EPHRAIM AND MANASSEH ARE GOING 52:43 TO STAY HERE IN EGYPT." 52:44 JOSEPH TELLS HIS BOYS, HE SAYS, "NO NO, BOYS, 52:46 YOU DON'T BELONG HERE. 52:47 DON'T GET COMFORTABLE HERE. 52:49 YOU'RE GOING TO GO BACK TO THE PROMISED LAND. 52:51 I WANT YOU TO STAY WITH YOUR PEOPLE. 52:52 I DON'T WANT YOU TO HANG OUT WITH THE EGYPTIANS." 52:55 CHRIST TELLS HIS PEOPLE, "DON'T GET COMFORTABLE IN THE WORLD. 52:57 DON'T BECOME PART OF THE WORLD. 52:59 YOU'RE GOING TO THE PROMISED LAND. 53:01 THIS WORLD IS NOT YOUR HOME." 53:03 SAME MESSAGE OF JESUS TO THE CHURCH IS THE MESSAGE OF JOSEPH 53:06 TO HIS POSTERITY. 53:07 AND JOSEPH SAYS, "DON'T BURY ME HERE. 53:09 BURY ME BACK IN THE PROMISED LAND." 53:15 YOU'VE GOT THAT 7 YEARS OF PLENTY DURING THE TIME OF 53:18 THE FAMINE, BUT THERE WAS 7 YEARS OF PLENTY. 53:22 THERE'S 7 YEARS WHEN THE WORD OF GOD IS POURED OUT IN PLENTY 53:26 FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE FROM THE BEGINNING OF CHRIST'S MINISTRY 53:30 'TIL PROBATION WAS CLOSED FOR THE JEWISH NATION WITH 53:33 THE STONING OF STEPHEN. 53:35 "AND WHAT SHALL I MORE SAY? 53:36 TIME WOULD FAIL ME," AS THE BIBLE SAYS, TO GO ON AND 53:40 TELL YOU ALL THESE EXAMPLES. 53:42 I'VE GOT A SUMMARY WITH THE SCRIPTURES THAT MAYBE 53:45 I CAN PUT THIS IN THE OFFICE AND WE'LL PRINT IT OUT. 53:48 LET ME REVIEW VERY QUICKLY FOR YOU JUST SOME OF 53:51 WHAT WE LOOKED AT. 53:53 THIS IS NOT EVERYTHING. 53:54 BOTH JESUS AND JOSEPH WERE SONS OF AN ANCIENT FATHER. 53:58 BOTH HAD A SPECIAL ROBE, ULTIMATELY COVERED WITH BLOOD. 54:01 BOTH HAD MIRACULOUS BIRTHS. 54:03 BOTH WERE SHEPHERDS. 54:05 BOTH ARE TAKEN TO EGYPT TO AVOID BEING KILLED. 54:08 BOTH WERE SERVANTS. 54:09 JESUS SAID, "I CAME AS ONE WHO SERVES." 54:11 JOSEPH SERVED IN THE HOUSE OF POTIPHAR. 54:13 BOTH BEGAN PUBLIC MINISTRY AT THE AGE OF 30. 54:17 BOTH WERE SENT BY THE FATHER TO FIND THEIR MISSING BROTHERS. 54:20 JOSEPH CAME LOOKING FOR HIS BROTHERS. 54:21 JESUS HAS COME LOOKING FOR YOU, HIS LOST SHEEP. 54:26 BOTH WERE FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT OF GOD. 54:28 BOTH RETURNED GOOD FOR EVIL. 54:30 BOTH WERE HUMBLE AND UNSPOILED BY WEALTH. 54:33 BOTH WERE TAUGHT BY GOD. 54:35 HE FORGAVE--OR BOTH FORGAVE FREELY. 54:38 BOTH GAINED THE CONFIDENCE OF OTHERS QUICKLY. 54:41 THEY FED THE HUNGRY AND GAVE THEM BREAD. 54:44 THEY RESISTED THE MOST DIFFICULT TEMPTATIONS. 54:48 THEY WERE GIVEN VISIONS INTO THE FUTURE. 54:50 THEY TESTED PEOPLE TO REVEAL THEIR TRUE NATURE. 54:53 THEY WERE HATED FOR THEIR TEACHINGS. 54:56 THEY WERE BOTH SOLD FOR THE PRICE OF A SLAVE. 54:59 BOTH FALSELY ACCUSED. 55:01 BOTH SILENT BEFORE THEIR ACCUSERS. 55:03 WERE CONDEMNED BETWEEN TWO PRISONERS. 55:08 THOUGHT TO BE DEAD BEFORE THE FATHER. 55:12 THEY WERE HELD--BOTH WERE HELD FOR 2 DAYS, 55:16 BUT FREED ON THE 3RD. 55:18 THEY AROSE TO NEW LIFE, CAME OUT OF THE WELL, CAME OUT 55:23 OF THE TOMB, NOT RECOGNIZED. 55:25 JOSEPH WAS NOT RECOGNIZED BY HIS OWN BROTHERS. 55:27 JESUS WAS NOT RECOGNIZED. 55:29 RETURNED TO THE FATHER. 55:31 BECAME LORD OF LORDS. 55:35 THERE'S SO MANY PARALLELS HERE, FRIENDS. 55:40 DO YOU FIND THAT INTERESTING? 55:41 I FIND THAT AMAZING. 55:43 YOU KNOW WHAT THAT DOES FOR ME? 55:44 THAT STRENGTHENS MY FAITH IN THE BIBLE THAT GOD IS IN CHARGE 55:47 OF EVERYTHING IF HE CAN CONTROL HISTORY THAT WAY. 55:50 NOW, I'D LIKE TO CLOSE WITH THIS VERSE. 55:52 HEBREWS 12:1-2, I'VE JUST LOOKED AT A COUPLE OF EXAMPLES OF HOW 55:57 YOU SEE JESUS THROUGH THE BIBLE. 55:59 AND IT SAYS HERE, "THEREFORE," HEBREWS 12:1, "SINCE WE ARE 56:05 SURROUNDED BY SO GREAT A CLOUD OF WITNESSES," ALL THROUGH 56:09 THESE STORIES IN THE BIBLE WE CAN SEE A CLOUD OF WITNESSES, 56:14 "LET US LAY ASIDE EVERY WEIGHT." 56:16 WHAT IS GOD TELLING US TO DO WHEN YOU SEE ALL THIS EVIDENCE 56:18 IN THE BIBLE OF JESUS? 56:20 THAT GOD CAN SEE ALL OF HISTORY. 56:22 BY THE WAY, HISTORY, WHEN YOU READ THE BIBLE, IS "HIS STORY." 56:27 IT'S ALL ABOUT JESUS BEING EVERYWHERE. 56:31 "LET US LAY ASIDE," HERE'S HOW WE RESPOND, "EVERY WEIGHT, 56:34 AND THE SIN THAT SO EASILY ENSNARES US, AND LET US RUN WITH 56:38 ENDURANCE THE RACE THAT IS SET BEFORE US, LOOKING UNTO JESUS, 56:42 THE AUTHOR AND FINISHER OF OUR FAITH, WHO FOR THE JOY THAT 56:47 WAS SET BEFORE HIM ENDURED THE CROSS, DESPISING THE SHAME, 56:50 AND HE'S SAT DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE GLORY OF GOD." 56:55 YOU AND I FIX OUR EYES ON JESUS. 56:57 AS YOU READ THROUGH THE BIBLE, YOU THINK YOU'RE REALLY READING 56:59 ABOUT JOSEPH OR ARE YOU READING ABOUT JESUS? 57:02 YOU'RE NOT READING ABOUT NOAH. 57:03 YOU'RE NOT READING ABOUT ABRAHAM OR ENOCH OR MELCHIZEDEK. 57:07 YOU'RE READING ABOUT JESUS IN THESE HEROES OF THE BIBLE. 57:10 AND YOU KNOW WHAT? 57:11 YOU ARE CHANGED BY BEHOLDING. 57:13 I HOPE YOU'RE READING YOUR BIBLES. 57:15 BECAUSE THE MORE YOU READ THIS BOOK EVERYWHERE--SOME PEOPLE, 57:18 "I'M JUST GOING TO READ THE 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