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0:02it's the story of how God was seeking a
0:06bride for his son each book is different
0:09from every other book I'm trying to give
0:11you the keys for you to unlock it for
0:15[Music]
0:27yourself I think most people are very
0:30familiar with the story of
0:32Joseph if you were brought up in church
0:34you were most certainly taught this in
0:36Sunday school it's a story that appeals
0:39to Children the goody wins over the
0:41baddies in the end and now Jason Donovan
0:44has made it very popular among young
0:46people with Andrew Lloyd Weber's Joseph
0:49and his Technicolor Dream Coat actually
0:52that's probably a mistake it was
0:53probably a coat with long sleeves rather
0:57than a multicolored garment though the
0:59new International Version says it was a
1:02richly
1:03ornamented certainly it was
1:05special but it's almost certainly had
1:08long sleeves and the reason for that is
1:11that one boy was always given the job of
1:14Foreman over the others and while the
1:17others had to roll up their sleeves or
1:19wear short sleeves for work the foreman
1:21had a long sleeved coat and Joseph was
1:25put in charge therefore of his brothers
1:28and yet he was not the eldest so you can
1:30imagine the situation that arose in the
1:32family anyway that's beside the point
1:35the important thing is that Joseph is
1:37the fourth generation the great grandson
1:40of
1:41Abraham and yet again he's not the
1:44eldest there's a clear pattern here the
1:48natural Heir does not get the blessing
1:51God chooses in his grace who gets it
1:54it's usually one of the younger
1:56ones and yet there's a great difference
2:00between Joseph and the previous three
2:02generations God never calls himself the
2:05god of Joseph Angels never appear to
2:09Joseph though they certainly did to the
2:12others and then his brothers are not
2:16rejected his brothers are included in
2:20The Godly line of Seth so there isn't
2:23the same contrast though his brothers
2:25are not too good to him at the
2:27beginning God never speaks to directly
2:30to Joseph maybe you've not noticed that
2:33now he certainly uh reveals things in
2:37dreams and gives him interpretations of
2:39dreams but he never actually talked to
2:43Joseph directly nor so far as is the
2:46record goes does Joseph ever talk to him
2:50so there's a difference here and when
2:52you read through the Book of Genesis
2:54you're aware that somehow Joseph stands
2:57on his
2:58own why
3:00what's so different about him why are we
3:03told his
3:04story well one obvious reason is that in
3:08the very next book in the Bible we find
3:11all this family in Egypt in slavery and
3:15somehow you've got to explain how they
3:17got there and of course the story of
3:20Joseph is the vital link of how Jacob
3:23and his family migrated down to Egypt
3:26for the same reason as Abraham and Isaac
3:29had once gone down to Egypt for famine
3:32shortage of food whereas Egypt doesn't
3:35depend on rain it's got the Nile coming
3:39down from the Ethiopian Highlands so
3:42Egypt doesn't depend on any rainfall it
3:44doesn't have any it's got a constant
3:47supply of moisture in the Nile whereas
3:50Israel the land of Israel depends
3:52totally on rain for the crops which the
3:56West Wind from the Mediterranean brings
3:59so at at least the story of Joseph is
4:01there to link us with the next part of
4:04the Bible and the curtain Falls after
4:08Joseph for some 400 years of which we
4:12know nothing and when it lifts again the
4:16family has become a people of many
4:19hundreds of thousands but they're slaves
4:22in
4:23Egypt well if that's the only reason
4:25that the story of Joseph is there then
4:27it hardly explains why so so much space
4:30is given to his story we are told almost
4:34as much detail as
4:36Abraham Abraham had what about uh 12
4:40chapters devoted to him whereas Joseph
4:42has 36 to
4:4650 no I've got it wrong Abraham had just
4:49about two more chapters but Isaac and
4:52Jacob had far less so what's so
4:55important about this man why are we told
4:58in such detail is it simply the example
5:01of a good man and a a moral that good
5:04triumphs in the end no it's much more
5:06than that there are at least four levels
5:09at which you can read the story of
5:11Joseph the first level is simply the
5:13human level it's a vivid story told
5:18superbly with very real characters it's
5:20a great adventure Stranger Than Fiction
5:24there are some extraordinary
5:25coincidences in it and you could really
5:28summarize Joseph's life in two chapters
5:31chapter one down and chapter 2
5:35up and that's what happened to him he
5:38went all the way down from being the
5:40favorite son of his father to becoming a
5:43household slave and he went all the way
5:46up from being a forgotten prisoner to
5:50being prime minister it's an astonishing
5:53story all the way down the social ladder
5:56and all the way up again to the very top
5:58something about that heals to us and in
6:01between we've got the Envy of his
6:03brothers and and the key to it all seems
6:06to be
6:08dreams mind you I don't think Joseph was
6:11the most tactless tactful person in the
6:14Bible I think he was quite tactless
6:16fancy telling his brothers I had a dream
6:19in which you all bowed down to me that
6:22is not the way to win friends and
6:23influence people but uh it was the truth
6:27he had the dream whether he should have
6:29shared it but then we all mistake when
6:32we should share Revelations from God so
6:35we mustn't blame him for that that's one
6:37level it's a human story and it makes a
6:39jolly good musical show in the London
6:41West End and thousands will go to see it
6:45and many schools have put that on as
6:47well now the second level at which you
6:50can read the story is to read it from
6:54God's
6:55angle God is in this story even though
6:58he doesn't actually talk to Joseph he's
7:01behind the scene he's the invisible God
7:04arranging
7:05circumstances for his purposes and
7:08plans and he chose to reveal through
7:11dreams people will accept things in
7:13dreams more easily than when they're
7:16awake I have some very peculiar dreams
7:19usually of arriving at a meeting on the
7:21wrong day with the wrong notes at the
7:23wrong time and I I wake up sweating it's
7:26more a nightmare but it's funny in dream
7:29you accept anything as as real and
7:33sometimes God needs to speak this way to
7:35communicate with us but it always needs
7:38an
7:39interpretation now Joseph said these
7:41dreams were of God and that the
7:44interpretation would come from God
7:47Daniel would be noted for the same gift
7:50God is in fact the main actor in the
7:53story though that doesn't come out in
7:55the
7:55musical God is behind the scenes
7:58organizing all this no no direct
8:00Miracles but providential
8:03circumstances and often that is a way
8:05that God works it's not so spectacular
8:08or so Sensational but God has a way of
8:11arranging meetings with
8:13people and the course of your life is
8:15changed he's behind the scenes bringing
8:19about the Fulfillment of his purpose his
8:21overruling this is the very opposite of
8:24believing in luck I don't know if you
8:26know but the Hebrew word for luck is Gad
8:30and you can either live by Gad or by God
8:33and I'm sure you've heard the phrase in
8:35a former day by Gad that's simply means
8:37by luck or The Best of British luck
8:40horses shoes at weddings and all that
8:42kind of thing amazing how many people
8:45live by
8:46luck and the national lottery number
8:48this week is and people believe that
8:52circumstances are the result of chance
8:55of
8:56luck but Joseph didn't believe that he
8:59belied believed his circumstances were
9:01overruled by God and that God was behind
9:04the things that happened to him didn't
9:07see that at the time but he saw it later
9:10and you can often see God's hand on your
9:12life in hindsight where you didn't
9:15realize at the time what was
9:17happening in fact the key verse in the
9:20story of Joseph is found in chapter 45
9:23verse 7 and this is what he said when he
9:26finally made himself known to his
9:27brothers
9:29after humbling them greatly and
9:32embarrassing he finally forgave them
9:34what they' done to him selling him into
9:35slavery and he said this but God sent me
9:39ahead of you to preserve for you a
9:43Remnant on the earth and to save your
9:46lives by a great
9:49Deliverance now that's a very very
9:52important statement God sent me ahead of
9:55you they thought they just got rid of
9:58their brother and sold him to some
9:59traveling camel Traders as a
10:02slave and that's that and they took that
10:06special coat of his and covered it with
10:08the blood of a goat and took it back to
10:10poor old Jacob and said we found this in
10:11the field your favorite son must be dead
10:15a terrible thing to do especially to Old
10:17Jacob but uh God sent me ahead of
10:21you see God allows things to happen
10:25doesn't Force anyone to do harm to
10:28another but but he does allow it and
10:31sometimes he allows it for his own
10:33purposes and that was the faith that
10:36Joseph had God sent me ahead of you and
10:39of course that was in fact the result
10:41because he became the minister of food
10:44he interpreted the dream of pharaoh that
10:46there would be Fe seven fat years with
10:49good harvests and seven lean years to
10:51follow and he said we better store up
10:53food now and then we'll have enough to
10:55live on and his foresight through that
10:58dream actually saved the whole nation of
11:01Egypt and his own family when they were
11:04short of food and came to Egypt so he
11:06became their savior God actually wanted
11:10his people in Egypt and this was how it
11:13happened why should God want them in
11:15Egypt when he'd promised them the land
11:17of Israel or the land of Canaan the
11:20answer
11:21is given to actually given to Abraham
11:24years previously God said to Abraham
11:27I'll have to leave your family in Egypt
11:32for 400 years until the wickedness of
11:36the amorites is
11:40complete in other words God would not
11:42let them take the promised land from
11:45those living in it until those living in
11:48it became so Dreadful that they had
11:51forfeited their right to their lives
11:54never mind their land so God is a moral
11:57God he wouldn't just push people out and
11:59push his own people in it was only when
12:01the inhabitants became so Dreadful and
12:04archaeology has revealed how Dreadful
12:07venial diseases were everywhere in the
12:10land of Canaan they were corrupt they
12:12were decadent and it was only when they
12:15reached the point of no return that God
12:17said now you can have their land so any
12:22complaint about God's Injustice in
12:24giving that land to the Jews is quite
12:27mistaken but he had to keep them out of
12:30the land until the state of the people
12:32in that land was so bad that uh being
12:36pushed out of it was just
12:39judgment but there were other reasons
12:42too God wanted them to become
12:45slaves it was all part of his
12:48plan to rescue them from slavery so that
12:52they would be so Greatful to
12:54him they would then live his way and
12:56become a model for the whole world to
12:58see of how blessed people are when they
13:01live under the government of Heaven that
13:03was the plan and so he let them get into
13:07such problems working seven days a week
13:10no pay no land of Their Own no money of
13:13their own nothing of their own and it
13:16was then that he reached down and
13:17rescued them with his mighty hand so
13:19that you see it all had to happen and
13:22God let it happen for his own purposes
13:25he wanted to redeem them and rescue them
13:29so that they would know it was God who
13:32got them out and into their own land so
13:35that's God's angle on the
13:37story but we still haven't really got to
13:40the heart of the story the next approach
13:43or level at which we could read it would
13:45be a study of Joseph's
13:48character and this is a very remarkable
13:52thing because there is nothing said
13:56about Joseph that is bad
14:00now we've seen already that the Bible
14:01tells the whole truth about Abraham
14:03Isaac and Jacob and they certainly had
14:05their weaknesses and
14:07sins but not one word of criticism is
14:10leveled at
14:12Joseph I've told you already the worst
14:15thing he ever did which was just to be a
14:16bit tactless and tell his brothers about
14:19the dream but there's no Trace
14:23whatever of a wrong attitude or reaction
14:26in Joseph's character even his reactions
14:30to going all the way down the social
14:33letter there's no trace of resentment no
14:37complaining no saying why has God done
14:40this no no sense of Injustice that he
14:42should finish up in prison on death row
14:45in Pharaoh's
14:47jail furthermore even though he was far
14:50from home and totally unknown he
14:52maintained his Integrity when parer's
14:56wife tried to seduce him and when she
14:59tried his reaction was how could I sin
15:02against
15:03God like this and you know that she
15:06falsely accused him then which put him
15:08on death row in the
15:10jail but not one word of criticism even
15:14of Piper's wife this is an astonishing
15:18portrait furthermore the man even at
15:21rockbottom his concern seems to have
15:23been primarily to help
15:26others there was Pharaoh's cup Bearer
15:30and his Baker on death row and Joseph
15:34sought to comfort them he is a man who
15:37seems to have no concern for himself but
15:40a deep concern for everybody else and
15:43all the way down he never once question
15:45God never once doubted that God knew
15:48what he was
15:49doing whereas we
15:52do and then his reaction to going up to
15:55the top I don't know which is the bigger
15:58test of a man's character being taken
16:00all the way down to the bottom or being
16:01lifted up to the top I think probably
16:03the second is the biggest test of his
16:06character but look at his reaction to
16:09the brothers who' sold him into
16:11slavery he gave them
16:14food and he wouldn't charge them for it
16:16he put the money back in their
16:18sacks he forgave them with
16:23cheers he interceded for them with
16:27pharaoh and he purchased for them the
16:29best land in the Nile delter a land
16:31called Goan and said I'm going to look
16:34after you they'd thrown him out and told
16:37his old daddy was dead but here he is
16:40providing every need of this what a man
16:45so Joseph is unspoiled either by
16:49humiliation or by
16:51Honor he's a man of total
16:54Integrity he's the only one so presented
16:57in the Old Testament
16:59there isn't any other character
17:01presented like this even King David you
17:05know what his faults were and you will
17:08find in every other full portrait we get
17:11the whole picture but here the whole
17:13picture seems to be blameless it's very
17:17unusual we read of David's sin we read
17:20of Elijah's cowardice we read all the
17:24weaknesses and we know that as the New
17:26Testament says of Elijah they were men
17:28of like passions to ourselves but here's
17:31a man who has utter
17:34Integrity there's only one person in the
17:36Old Testament like this and there's only
17:38one person in the New Testament like
17:40this you know who that is now there is
17:44one chapter in the middle of the story
17:47of Joseph that comes as a shock it's
17:49about his brother Judah and if you've
17:53read through Genesis recently you must
17:54have felt what a shock it is suddenly in
17:56the middle of the story of this good man
17:59there is actually a contrast in his own
18:01brother Judah a man who visits a
18:04prostitute who is actually his
18:06daughter-in-law with a veil on and
18:08incest happens and it's a sorted story
18:11and suddenly that story comes right in
18:13the middle of Joseph it's almost as if
18:16to highlight
18:18Joseph and to say his brothers were bad
18:21people but Joseph wasn't the contrast is
18:25marked I can only think of that as the
18:27reason why that sorted instant instance
18:30of Judah is put right suddenly in the
18:33Middle with no
18:34connection as if just as Abraham had a
18:37contrast with lot and Ishmael with Isaac
18:39and Jacob with Esau it's as if he is a
18:42brother who
18:44highlights the Integrity of this man so
18:47we're getting very near to the reason
18:50why the story of Joseph is there but we
18:52haven't yet got there I want you to put
18:56together in your minds the three levels
18:59at which we have discussed this story so
19:02far the human story of a man who was
19:05taken all down to the bottom and then
19:07right up to the top and who became and
19:10is called the savior of his people and
19:13the Lord of
19:15Egypt then we're looking at God's
19:18overruling of this man's life that he
19:21allowed that to happen and pln it to
19:24save his people and then we've looked at
19:26a man of total integrity
19:29who all the way down and all the way up
19:32remained a man of Truth and honest
19:35goodness who does that remind you
19:38of the answer is Jesus
19:41himself Joseph becomes what we call a
19:45type of
19:47Jesus a foreshadowing of Jesus way back
19:51in the Old Testament it's as if God is
19:54showing us in the life of Joseph what he
19:57was going to do with his own
19:59son that his own son like Joseph would
20:02be rejected by his Brethren and taken
20:05all the way down to utter
20:07humiliation and then raised to be Savior
20:10and Lord of his people it's all there
20:14and the parallels are
20:16remarkable the more you read the story
20:18of Joseph the more you see this picture
20:21of Jesus as if God all along knew what
20:25he was going to do and was going to give
20:27hints to his people
20:29we find that all the way through the Old
20:31Testament one of my favorite little
20:33books is called Christ in all the
20:35scriptures by a lady called Mrs am
20:38hodkin any of you know it lovely little
20:40book and she just goes through every one
20:42of the 66 books in the Bible and shows
20:45us Jesus in that book you see Jesus
20:48himself said search the scriptures for
20:51they bear witness of me and yet he's
20:55talking about the Old
20:57Testament now now when you read the Old
20:59Testament you should be looking for
21:01Jesus for his likeness for his
21:05shadow Jesus is himself the substance
21:09but his shadow Falls right across the
21:11pages of the Old Testament and
21:13especially in
21:15Genesis now once you've seen that that
21:19Joseph is a picture of Jesus of God's
21:24answer as Abraham Isaac and Jacob are
21:27models of our faith faith in God Joseph
21:30is a model of God's response to that
21:32faith and how he can take the life of a
21:36men and deliver his people from their
21:40need and lift him up to be Savior and
21:43Lord once you've got that key you start
21:46turning back the pages of Genesis and
21:50suddenly you find Jesus in so many
21:53different
21:54places and I just want to take you
21:57through five of them there are others
22:00that you can look for the first all the
22:04genealogies of Genesis are in fact the
22:07genealogy of our Lord Jesus Christ and
22:11if you read Matthew 1 and Luke 3 you'll
22:13see those genees you'll find in Luke 3
22:1724 names from the book of
22:19Genesis he is in this line of Seth that
22:23line comes straight down to the son of
22:25Mary so we're reading his life line and
22:30if you are in Christ you are reading
22:32your own family
22:34tree this is our
22:36genealogy these are the most important
22:39ancestors we have because through faith
22:43in Christ you become a son of
22:46Abraham you've become part of this
22:49line you are in Christ and you've
22:52inherited this history so you're not
22:55reading about their history now you're
22:56reading about our history now this is
22:59your family
23:01tree uh my wife and I went to Petworth
23:04house that's not far away from here is
23:06it bit further east not long ago for a
23:10day out and uh that was owned by The
23:13Dukes of norblin the Peres and coming
23:16from nland I was very interested I went
23:18to college with one of the Peres and uh
23:22so I was interested when I saw their
23:24family tree on a long chart on the wall
23:27and you know it went right back to to
23:29Adam they traced their family tree back
23:32to Adam the pures of North umberland I
23:34felt like saying I could do that if only
23:37I knew some of the names in the gaps but
23:39I could do that we all go back to Adam
23:42but we all go back to
23:44Abraham in Christ this is our genealogy
23:47because it was
23:48his it is Jesus family tree that you're
23:52reading in Genesis oh but there are much
23:54deeper links than that the next thing I
23:56want to say is that again and again you
23:59look at someone in Genesis and you see
24:02Jesus you look at Joseph you see Jesus
24:06you look at Isaac and you see Jesus
24:09let's go back to the time when Abraham
24:12was told to offer Isaac he was told to
24:14go to a mountain a specific Mountain
24:17years later that mountain was Mount
24:20Maria Mount golgatha Mount Calvary a
24:25place where God sacrificed his only
24:28begotten son it's interesting that in
24:31Genesis 24 it says Isaac was Abraham's
24:34only beloved
24:36Son and I've told you already that Isaac
24:39was not a boy he was in his early 30s
24:42when that happened and therefore he was
24:44strong enough to resist his father but
24:47he submitted to being bound and put on
24:49the
24:50altar now God stopped Abraham at The
24:53crucial point and provided another
24:56sacrifice
24:58it was a
24:59Ram with its head caught in
25:04Thorns Behold The Ram of God that takes
25:07away the sin of the world I don't like
25:08the word lamb applied to Jesus it's
25:10always portrayed as a little cuddly
25:12white woolly thing in stainless windows
25:15it's a ram No sacrifice was offered of a
25:18little cuddly lamb it was a one-year-old
25:21male Ram with
25:22horns and Jesus in The Book of
25:25Revelation is the Ram with seven horns
25:27it's not a little cuddly picture it's a
25:29strong picture a ram of
25:32God and God provided a ram for Abraham
25:35to offer in place of his son a Ram with
25:39his head caught in the
25:42thorns and God gave a new name to
25:44himself I am always your
25:47provider
25:50Yahweh
25:51yah God my
25:53provider and in that very Mountain
25:56centuries later and another young man in
25:59his early 30s was
26:01sacrificed with his head caught in the
26:03Thorns do you see there picture of
26:05Jesus and what about that strange
26:08encounter Abraham had with a man who was
26:10both a king and a priest and who was
26:14King over the city
26:16Salem which later became
26:19Jerusalem and when Abraham was on his
26:22way back from a big battle to rescue his
26:24family who had been kidnapped came back
26:27with the spoils from the enemy and as he
26:31came near the City of Salem which was
26:33then a pagan City nothing to do with the
26:37this Godly line but there was this
26:39strange figure
26:41melchisedec a priest and a king that's a
26:44very unusual combination never found in
26:47Israel and this King priest brought out
26:50bread and wine for Abraham and his
26:53troops to refresh them and restore them
26:57and Abraham gave gave him a tenth of all
26:59the spoils of the battle a tithe of the
27:03treasure and in our new testament it
27:05says Jesus is a priest Forever After the
27:09order of
27:11melchisedec another little glimpse of
27:14our Lord Jesus
27:16Christ let's go back to Jacob's Ladder
27:19do you remember Jacob the day he ran
27:20away from home sleeping out at night
27:22with his head on a stone as a pillow and
27:25he dreamt and he saw not so much a
27:27ladder as an escalator the Hebrew
27:29implies the ladder was moving and there
27:31was one ladder moving up and one ladder
27:33moving down and there were Angels
27:35ascending and descending and he felt
27:37that at the top of the ladders was
27:39Heaven where God
27:42lived and he woke that's when he
27:45promised to give a
27:46tenth of everything he made to God now
27:50you see a tithe was never part of the
27:52law until Moses this was Jacob's offer
27:55of a tenth to bargain with God if you
27:58bring me back home safely I'll give you
27:59a tithe but you can't bargain with God
28:02you can't make a contract with God God
28:04makes a covenant with you he had to
28:06learn that the hard way
28:08later centuries later when Jesus met a
28:11man called
28:13Nathaniel he said to
28:15Nathaniel I saw you sitting under the
28:18Fig Tree I noticed
28:20you and you're a Jew in whom is no guile
28:24no deceit you're an honest Jew
28:28and Nathaniel said how did you know
28:31that he didn't deny it but he
28:35acknowledged that Jesus knew him
28:38intimately and Jesus said you think
28:40that's
28:41wonderful what will you think if you see
28:44Angels ascending and descending on the
28:46son of
28:48man an amazing thing to say isn't it
28:51he's saying I'm Jacob's
28:53letter I'm the link between Earth and
28:56Heaven I'm the new letter
28:59do you see Jesus in that instant Jesus
29:02did let's go way back to Genesis 3 God
29:06made a promise even in the middle of his
29:09punishment he said to the serpent that
29:12the seed and the word is male the seed
29:15of the woman will bruise your
29:18head even while you bruise his heel now
29:22bruising a heel is not fatal but
29:24bruising a head
29:26is and that's the very first promise
29:29that God would one day deal Satan a
29:33fatal
29:34blow who was this male seed of Eve who
29:37would do that well you know who it was
29:41it was the one who bound the strong man
29:42and spoiled his Goods let's go further
29:45back still to something I mentioned a
29:46few talks ago Romans 5 Paul says as one
29:51man's Disobedience brought death so one
29:55man's
29:56obedience brought
29:59life he is saying that Jesus is a second
30:04Adam and both happened in a garden it
30:07was in the Garden of Eden that Adam said
30:10I want and it was in The Garden of
30:12Gethsemane that Jesus said nevertheless
30:15not my will but yours be
30:17done there's a contrast here they both
30:20began a human race Adam was the first
30:24man of homo
30:26sapiens Jesus was the first human being
30:30of homon
30:32noas I was born Homo sapiens I'm now
30:37homon
30:38Novus the New Testament talks about the
30:41new man the new Humanity in fact there
30:44are two human races on Earth today you
30:48are born Homo sapiens you're born again
30:53homonovis you're either in Adam or
30:56you're in Christ there's a whole new
30:59human race and it's going to inhabit a
31:02totally new planet Earth indeed a whole
31:05new
31:07universe let's go even further I suppose
31:10the most remarkable thing of all said
31:13about Jesus in the New
31:15Testament is that he was responsible for
31:18the creation of the
31:20universe that a carpenter from Nazareth
31:23should ever be attributed with such an
31:25amazing achievement but the early
31:28disciples came to see that Jesus was
31:32involved in Genesis chapter
31:341 and that as they later said without
31:37him nothing was made that has been made
31:41I once had the privilege of speaking at
31:43an open air meeting in Canada in a place
31:46that had never seen a Christian meeting
31:48before right in front of the Niagara
31:50Falls now that's a backcloth and it was
31:54televised to the whole of Canada and
31:56parts of USA there were three speakers I
31:59was put on first then a Catholic priest
32:01then a Pentecostal Pastor uh I'll tell
32:05you what we actually talked about we all
32:06talked about
32:07honeymoons we hadn't prepared together
32:10but actually Niagara is one of the
32:11honeymoon capitals of the world all the
32:13hotels have Bridal suets around the
32:15Falls but that's beside the point when I
32:17got up to speak I said I'd like to tell
32:21you that I know the man who made the
32:23Niagara
32:24Falls I said I met him when I was 17
32:28and uh we've been friends since well
32:31they looked at me sideways as if I was
32:33crazy I said his name actually is Jesus
32:37and without him nothing was made that
32:40has been
32:41made so I said he made the Falls I
32:45said before he made chairs and tables he
32:47made the trees so he'd have some
32:50Timber and before he preached The Sermon
32:52on the Mount he made the mountain so
32:54he'd have a
32:56Pulpit now this is in incredible really
32:58isn't it that a carpenter from Nazareth
33:01should be involved in creating our
33:04universe so when you read Genesis 1 do
33:07you see Jesus there he's there he's in
33:09the US let us make man in our own
33:13image you now know we've known for some
33:1720 years that we're on an eggshell
33:20really on flat plates of rock floating
33:22on molten rock and these plates are
33:26constantly moving ing against each other
33:28causing earthquakes we're in a very
33:31delicate position really we're just
33:33standing on these plates and when this
33:36was discovered and the continental drift
33:39whereby the one piece of dry land that
33:41we read about in Genesis 1 drifted to
33:44become the continents of today the
33:46scientists needed to coin a new word for
33:50these plates and you know what they
33:52called them tectonic
33:56plates and do you know what the Greek
33:58word tectone means the word from which
34:01that adjective was coined tectone means
34:06Carpenter now I don't know if they were
34:09conscious when they chose that title
34:12what a title the whole planet earth on
34:15which we live was the result of a
34:18carpenter's work from Nazareth and his
34:22name is the Lord Jesus
34:23Christ well we finish our studies today
34:26where we begin we began with creation we
34:30finish with Jesus
34:32Christ through whom the world came to be
34:35and for whom it was made and by whom we
34:39discover the answer to our questions for
34:42he is called in Genesis in John chapter
34:441 he's called the
34:46logos the word but it means much more
34:50than the word John wrote his gospel in
34:53Ephesus and 500 years before John wrote
34:56that gospel a man lived in E Ephesus
34:58called
35:00heroclitus he was the first real
35:02scientist and he taught his students to
35:05observe and study what went on in animal
35:09life in in the in the weather and he
35:12said everything You observe you must
35:14find out the reason why it behaves like
35:18it
35:20does but the reason why in Greek is
35:26logos and that's become the title of
35:29every branch of
35:31science ology means the reason why
35:35biology is the reason why life behaves
35:38as it does zoology the reason why
35:40animals behave psychology psychology the
35:42reasons why our minds behave as they do
35:44sociology the reason why groups behave
35:47as they do meteorology the reason why
35:49the weather behaves as it does but every
35:51branch of science only looks at the
35:53reason why part of our universe behaves
35:56like it does
35:58nobody seems to be interested in the
36:00reason why it's all
36:02here and the answer is Jesus is the
36:05reason why he is the logos of the whole
36:10universe it was made for him and through
36:13him and by him and to him be all praise
36:17and honor and glory and power forever
36:20and ever amen
36:26[Music]
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