<TITLE>07. Par 29-32</TITLE>L-29 To know that it was nothing I could do, or would do, or had an idea, or had a privilege of doing, it's what He did for me. He came down and redeemed me, placed me on the highway, and stood at the other end to pull both of ends together to make the chain with eternity to roll on. I have a right to walk in that eternity, because He died in my stead, taking away my sins. Wonderful.

L-30 "The law having a shadow, a shadow of good things to come. What is a shadow? A "shadow" is a "forecast of an object." You know, a lot of times people quote 23rd Psalms: "Ye though I walk through the dark shadows of the valley of death." That's wrong. It said they here.. "Yea, though I walk through the shadow." Not the dark shadow, if it was dark, it wouldn't make a shadow. There has to be a certain percent of light to forecast a shadow. So the law provided enough light to see the shadow of the real thing to come.
Christ was represented in that law of the sha... He was represented foreseen, and Joseph, under the law, Joseph being a shadow of Christ, loved of his father, because he was a spiritual man. He saw visions, interpret dreams, very spiritual, and despised of his brother, correctly with Christ.
He saw visions of the father, and he was a spiritual man. And his brother hated without a cause, and he was supposingly to have been killed, a bloody garment placed back before the father. (Oh, how beautiful. Oh, I get started on that I'll never get to this lesson.) The garment taken back to the father, bloody, representing his son being dead...?... And today, the garment of the Lord Jesus is sanctified Life and His shedded Blood for sinners stands before God, as a memorial that the price is paid. You see it?

L-31 And he was sold for almost thirty pieces of silver like Christ was. He was taken up from the ditch, the pit where he was throwed, and Christ was too. Taken from the grave and was set at the right hand of Pharaoh; no man could go to Pharaoh except by Joseph. A proclamation was made, that when Joseph come forth, that there went forth man before him, callers, saying, "Every one bow the knee. Joseph is coming."
Now the Bible said that, "Every knee shall bow, and every tongue confess to the Name of the Lord Jesus." He could bind Pharaoh's servants at his own desire. He had all the power and authority of Egypt given unto his hands. And when the chariot rolled down the streets, every one when the scream come, every Egyptian, no matter how bad they hated him, they bowed their knee to Joseph.

L-32 Someday, sinner friend, no matter how much you want to call it fanaticism, no matter how much you want to say it's wrong, how much you want to squirm and live into the world and despise the church and the things of God, someday you'll bow your knee whether you want to or not.
But how glorious it might be for those who love Joseph, how they love him... Said, "Oh, here comes the great prince, Joseph, and they bowed their knee and say, "Oh, Joseph, you saved our lives. We would've starved to death if it hadn't be..." [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] But the others unappreciated him. "Aw, nonsense." Ungrateful, we got that kind of people in the world today. You don't realize that the bread you eat and the very air you breathe comes from God. And they worshipped him.


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