Sermon Tone Analysis

Worship Call 0815

Tuesday February 7th 2023

The teacher leaves the Classroom

Friends, as brothers who are blinded -- open their eyes!

Genesis 42:8 And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.

2 Corinthians 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

When Joseph became ruler over Egypt, his name was changed, and his identity was altered so that he no longer appeared or lived as a shepherd son of Israel from the land of Canaan but as an Egyptian Prime Minister.

The transformation was so thorough that when his ten brothers arrived in Egypt, he was totally unrecognizable to them.

This true story beautifully illustrates Mashiach ben Yosef (Yeshua/Jesus at His first coming) and contains a prophetic picture pointing to Yeshua and His Jewish people living today as we approach the Second Coming.Several details elaborate on this amazing parallel.

After Joseph was rejected by his brothers and sent to Egypt, his life naturally began to develop in the nation of his exile, including learning its language and culture.

Constantly proving his capacity, responsibility, and leadership, Joseph was ultimately embraced by the Egyptians, exalted, and given an Egyptian bride (Asenath, daughter of the priest of On).

In like manner, the rejection of Yeshua by the Jews of His day resulted in His becoming a light to the Gentiles, who rightly accepted and exalted Him so that, in many ways, He seemed to take on a Gentile identity and characteristics.

As He betrothed Himself to this predominantly Gentile "Church" (with its Jewish roots), He ironically became virtually unrecognizable to His own Jewish people.To illustrate further, Yeshua and His disciples had lived and worshiped according to the Biblical Jewish calendar: Shabbat, Passover, Shavuot, Sukkot, and Feast of Dedication (Chanukah).

The later Christian (largely Gentile) church instead adapted and transformed pagan festivals and used them in their worship calendar, changing the cultural expression of the Jewish Messiah and His original followers to a Gentile expression and even prescribing the use of Jewish festivals in "Christian" worship.

All the while, Yeshua's true nature and identity remained, even as Joseph's did.But through these parallels, we can begin to understand the portent of Joseph's experience with his brothers; weeping bitterly when he first recognized them; then carefully arranging the circumstances which would bring them to repentance, and finally, removing the Egyptians for the dramatic revelation of his true identity to his brothers, the sons of Jacob.

Likewise, Yeshua, weeping over His Jewish brothers, finally gathers them back into the Promised Land, and begins to arrange the circumstances which will bring them to repentance so that finally, at some final private revelation, "they shall look upon Him whom they have pierced and mourn for Him" in amazed gratitude.

[Zechariah 12:10].God, Himself, working behind the scenes, has allowed Satan to do his blinding work on Israel for a season while gathering the Gentiles into His fold.

But this season is ending.

The mystery of Israel's blindness is being broadly revealed, prompting the prayers of millions of Gentile believers, and their love for Yeshua and His Jewish brethren is making Israel jealous; so the veil is being removed from Jewish eyes, just as it was from Joseph's brothers.And what is our part?

To understand the times and seasons in which we live, to pray and labor for both the fullness of the Gentiles and the spiritual revival of Israel which will usher in the coming of Messiah and life from the dead!

Through the story of Joseph and the prophetic revelation of both Testaments, we know that all Israel will be saved with the fullness of the Gentiles.

Since much of the world is still blinded to Messiah, we need to make the most of every opportunity to open blind eyes, Jewish or Gentile.friends,

let us reveal Yeshua to the entire world, especially reaching those whom the Lord has placed in our lives.

Every time Yeshua is truly revealed, another one of "Joseph's brothers" can weep with joy, gratitude, and amazement that a humble Suffering Servant is also a great and glorious King!

Your family in the Lord with much agape love,George, Baht Rivka, Obadiah and Elianna (Going to Christian College in Dallas, Texas)Daytona Beach, Florida

Feeding the hungry multitude is not the lesson here.

Having compassion and feeding the poor is not central focus.

If you want to go out and feed the multitudes and the resources to do it, great go for it.

But this is not the lesson here.

There are the two realities.

The Physical and the spiritual.

The Physical we are well acquainted with.

It is the spiritual that is often ignored or forgotten.

The creator has created the heavens and the earth in such a way that we can be see within the physical that which can draw us to spiritual application.

Jesus sat down with His disciples.

John 6:3 (ESV) — 3 Jesus went up on the mountain, and there he sat down with his disciples.

This is the 12

Sitting denotes

Teaching

Communion

rest

Have you ever thought about not just being with Jesus but sitting with him?

Maybe we thought about being before his throne.

Kneeling before the King.

Yes, walking with Him and that is a pleasant Thought that we will be able to walk with the Lord.

But it is also a wonderful image to think that we could sit with Jesus.

Revelation 3:21 (ESV) — 21 The one who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as I also conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.

IN that setting, what would we say?

What would be said to us? Wow!

Being worthy to sit upon his throne will mean that he includes us in his rule and he will be interest in what we say in the matter.

So the 12 were sitting with Jesus before them.

Jesus was looking out over the sea of gathering people who come to Him.

Some came perhaps following the crowd.

Some were curious.

Some wanted to hear his preaching.

But all were hungry.

Not in a physical sense but in a spiritual way.

We should have the compassion for the destitute, the hungry, the homeless.

And it is a good thing to reach out to those in need.

But are we also compassionate for the spiritual need?

Do we simply care for others physical needs only to comfort them before they go to Hell?

As Jesus says

John 6:35 (ESV) — 35 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.

I’ve heard of what people call ministries that they do great work in feeding the hungry and sheltering the homeless, but they do so without giving the gospel of Christ.

They do so with the attitude that people should come and be fed and clothed and provided shelter…

“Without having the bible shoved down their throats.

Without pushing our religion on people.”

“our works will bring people to Christ.”

No, it won’t

The Gospel brings people to Christ.

While we are feeling good about ourselves for the wonderful work of the flesh people are dying and going to Hell.

Oh, but they were well fed in this life.

You know I can’t help to see that something wonderful here is taking place as well.

IN heaven God has a divine council.

The Elohim in Psalm 82 and in

1 Kings 22:19–23 (ESV) — 19 And Micaiah said, “Therefore hear the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing beside him on his right hand and on his left; 20 and the Lord said, ‘Who will entice Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’

And one said one thing, and another said another.

21 Then a spirit came forward and stood before the Lord, saying, ‘I will entice him.’

22 And the Lord said to him, ‘By what means?’

And he said, ‘I will go out, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’

And he said, ‘You are to entice him, and you shall succeed; go out and do so.’

23 Now therefore behold, the Lord has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; the Lord has declared disaster for you.”

I see here with his disciples and with his bride right now as we speak to God in prayer that he hears us and solicits our thoughts on the matter.

He is interested in what we have to say in the matter.

So much better when we know how to pray and that our input is wise council that is formulated by God’s word, doctrine circulating in our hearts.

John 6:5–7 (ESV) — 5 Lifting up his eyes, then, and seeing that a large crowd was coming toward him, Jesus said to Philip, “Where are we to buy bread, so that these people may eat?” 6 He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he would do.

7 Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread would not be enough for each of them to get a little.”

The answer lies with the fact that even if there was a bakery close by or a number of bakeries it could not support the challenge of feeding the multitude.

John 6:8–9 (ESV) — 8 One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to him, 9 “There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are they for so many?”

It is not in the possible that we find the Lord.

There is not a scripture verse that says that the Lord helps those who help themselves.

As Jesus is testing his disciples and as testing demands right application, even in failure to make that right application there is value.

All of us should be able to look back on times when we were tested and see how our way was the wrong way and how our way led to wrong conclusions.

But we learned in the lesson that we seek God’s way Christ way that he has a way as we make right application based on sound council from God’s word.

John 6:10 (ESV) — 10 Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.”

Now there was much grass in the place.

So the men sat down, about five thousand in number.

Sitting down

learning

resting and waiting