<TITLE>10. Par -</TITLE>L-14-6 Look at Joseph: borned a spiritual boy among a bunch of brethren. They were all good men, all them patriarchs. But when Joseph come he was different. He could see visions, interpret dreams; and he was hated of his brethren because of that. Because of the very work that God had put him on earth to do, his brothers hated him for it. See? And it was all pointing to the cross.
And look, he was sold for almost thirty pieces of silver by his brethren, throwed into a ditch to be dead by his brethren, was took up from that ditch, and went and set on the right hand of Pharaoh; and no man could come to Pharaoh (who controlled the world in that day), no one could come to Pharaoh only through Joseph. No man can come to God only through Christ. And when Joseph left the palace, before he left, there was a trumpet sounded, and runners went before him, and hollered, "Bow the knee; Joseph is coming." No matter where you was, or what you were doing, or how important your job was, you had to fall on to your knees till Joseph got there. And when the trumpet sounds one of these days, every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess. When Christ, our Joseph, shall leave glory and come, your work won't be important then. Every knee shall bow and confess Him to be the Son of God. That's right.

L-15-1 Oh, how we see Him in David. How David, a rejected king, throwed off his own throne by his brethren, his own son, set upon the Mount of Olives. As he went up to the top of the Mount of Olives, looked back over in Jerusalem and cried; for there his own people that he had served them, and taught them of God... And his own people turned him off and throwed things at him, spit on him, and made fun when he started up the hill, and was rejected. Oh, how perfect of the Son of God eight hundred years later, a rejected King among His own people set on the mount and wept over Jerusalem as a rejected King. What was it? God reflecting Himself in those prophets reflecting Christ.
Then there came One which was the perfection of God. It was God among us. And since that time He has reflected Himself in His church this side of Calvary. So you see, we're all trying to get to this dwelling place, Tabernacle of the Living God.

L-15-3 Now, there's some people we notice here; He said, "First we have faith, virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, goodness, or godliness, and brotherly love." All right; brotherly kindness and then add love. Let me read this all over again so you'll be sure to get it now. Now, we're going to start at the 5th verse.
And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. (Which is love).
If these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Now, Peter's outlining something here for us, that how to get there.


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