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From Slavery to Sovereignty
(Continued from page two.)
Find him where you will and he is
on top. Never anything else! He is
one of those men you cannot keep
down; he was not born to occupy the
underling’s position. After a time the
chief butler and baker have a dream
and Joseph turns up on the scene,
and says he has had a bit of expe
rience himself in the dream business
and interpretation. So Joseph pro
ceeds with his interpretation of their.
dreams and the result is that these
two men see that Joseph is more than
a dreamer, that he is a prophet as well.
And the chief butler found from the
interpretation of his dream, in three
days he would have his liberty again,
and get his former position back. And
the baker found that in three days
he would be executed. And so it
was.
But before the chieff butler was
let go on the third day, Joseph made
a request of him, that when he got
his liberty, and his old job back, that
he would say a good word for him to
the king, and tell him that he was
innocent; how he had been entrap
ped into slavery into Egypt, and that
he was in that prison as an innocent
man.
Os course, under the circumstances
the butler was glad to promise; a man
under those circumstances will usual
ly promise anything. When he got
out, however, he did as a great many
men do, he forgot his promise.
And there, in prison, Joseph had to
remain, always conscious of his inno
cence.
But after a while the king him
self had a dream, and he was disturb
ed about it and could not get anybody
to interpret it. Then when the but
ler saw that the king was so disturb
ed, he proposed to the king that there
was a man in prison with him, who
seemed to know something about
dreams, for he had interpreted a dream
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for him, which had proved to be true.
And the king, anxious to get help from
any source even from a criminal un
der such circumstances, calls him and
relates to him his remarkable dream.
And Joseph, after a time, interprets
the dream. You are familiar with the
•interpretation of it; that Egypt, af
ter 7 years of the greatest plenty ever
known, would be visited with 7 years
of the greatest famine it had ever
known. And then Joseph did a shrewd
thing, which shows that he was not
only an interpreter of dreams, but he
was a statesman as well; a shrewd one;
a politician in the right sense. After
he had interpreted the king’s dream,
he dared to say to the king some words
about how he was to preserve things
in view of this famine. He ventured
to show the king how he should ap
point under him a sort of chancellor
of the exchequer; a man who would
give himself to the saving of certain
funds from various sources in view of
these days of famine which were to
come, when they would need all the
help they could get. The king saw
that this was good advice, and fur
ther, that Joseph had said words to
him of more importance, more wis
dom and statemanship than anyone
else and he wisely seized upon Jo
seph, though he was recently in pris
on under a charge of attempting to
assault the wife of the captain of his
guard. He takes him out of the pris
on, and makes him ruler of Egypt,
ruling over the very man who put
him in prison, and the very fiend who
by her blackmail work got him there.
And so we have Joseph now as prime
minister, and chancellor of the ex
chequer combined.
So much for the story. I want you
to follow me while I call your atten
tion to certain outstanding lessons
that come to us out of the study of
this story.
There are two. First, the lesson
concerning the presence of the Lord
with him.
1. In the pit.
2. As a slave in the hand of the
Ishmaelites.
3. As a servant in Potipher’s
house. a
4. In temptation.
5. In prison.
6. And now, as prime minister.
Second, the lesson concerning his
faithfulness.
1. He was faithful as a slave.
2. He was faithful in temptation.
3.. He was faithful in blackmail.
4. He was faithful in the interpre
tation of dreams.
5. He was faithful in the midst of
unfaithfulness.
6. He was faithful in the presence
of the king.
7. He was faithful as prime min
ister of Egypt.
Now let me conclude with a few
words in the nature of a
Practical Summary.
1. The pre-arrangement of God ad
mits of no re-arrangement of man.
In all this God had his eye upon
the promises made to Abraham, Isaac
and Jacob, and the whole of Israel.
He had made his covenants of prom
ise with them, which embraced the
care of Israel. And he foresaw that
there needed to be some kind of con
nection with Egypt, hence he allowed
all this intrigue. He allowed the sale
of Joseph by his brethren; the pur
chase of the slave by Potipher; he al
lowed the experience with Potipher’s
wife; he allowed that experience in
prison; that dream of the king and
that interpretation. All this was in
God’s hands, an arrangement to pre-
serve Israel, and keep his covenants
which he had made with Joseph’s
forefathers.
2. The life of the servant may be
come the highway of the sovereign.
This is often the case. I have in
my mind now one of the greatest
statesmen, that the Southern states of
America ever had. He was past 40
years of age before he was convert
ed. The person who led him to Christ
was his own slave in his home and his
testimony concerning his salvation
was that he was led to Christ by the
consecration of his own servant.
3. Joseph stripped of his coat, is
nothing so long as he is armed with
his character.
But what do we understand char
acter to be? Let me tell you what it
is. It is not reputation. Reputation
is what the world thinks of us. Char
acter is what God thinks of us. A
man may lose his reputation and still
hold his character. On the other hand,
a man may lose his character and
still hold his reputation. Now Joseph
lost his coat, and with it he lost his
reputation among his brethren, but,
thank God, he kept his character!
Matthew Henry says: “It is better to
lose a good coat than a good charac
ter.”
4. The battles that have decided
the destinies of the race have been
fought within one’s self.
Here is a battle that did not cost
the firing of a gun, the marshaling of
an army, or the expense of a gov
ernment, or even the visits of the dip
lomatist. Here is a situation which
actually embraces the salvation of a
nation. Do you realize that Israel
is saved when Joseph is made prime
minister of Egypt. Not only Egypt,
but Israel! Two nations, the two
greatest of the time, and not a gun
has been fired. Joseph did not even
have a toy gun; not a penny had been
spent; not a scheme had been laid.
It was all worked out by the hand
of God.
5. Kindness to others always means
kingship to self.
“Never are kind acts done
To wipe the weeping eyes,
But like the flashes of the sun,
They signal to the skies;
And up above, the angels read
How we have helped the sorer need.”
6. Faithfulness in the present, and
hopefulness in the future are the two
essential qualities that lead to vic
tory.
Some years ago Chicago had a great
fire. A man had had his house com
pletely burned down, and after it was
over, he was seen to plant this sign
upon the smoking ruins of his store:
“All gone except wife, and children
and hope. Business will be commenc
ed again in the morning.”
That is the kind of man that is
worth having. That is the kind of man
that Joseph was. You never caught
him down under the juniper tree long
and if he was he had hope that there
was going to be a better day tomorrow.
I pray God to make us all optimists of
the Joseph type.
“SWEET CLOUD.”
(Continued from page 3.)
brace of death. They laid her be
neath a marble slab, and planted the
ivy to twine about its whiteness.
The pride of the entire family was
broken. Instead of remaining “a so
cial acquisition,” they became prover
bial for their seclusion.
But there were those who expected
Rupert to return. “It will be the mak
ing of him,” they said. “He will come
back from the world as gold from the
crucible. He is not the first young
man who has left home and kindred
and friends to reach the summit of
fame.”
And thus others besides Rupert’s
sweetheart watched and waited.