12/20/2023
📍The 4th Man
▪There are 3 men that God trusted with His word but trusted the 4th the most.
▪The value of trust depends on what is given to the one who's trusted.
The 1st Man
▪The 1st Man was Joseph. God trusted Joseph with the safety and posterity of Israel. Joseph was entrusted by God with the preservation of Israel. God saw the future and He sends Joseph before time. Genesis 45:7...And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
The 2nd Man
▪The 2nd Man was Joseph Father of Jesus. Joseph was entrusted by God with the safety of the child Jesus. An Angel appeared to Joseph and instructed him to take the child and his mother and FLEE!...RUN AWAY!!!
So the child Jesus could be hurt?..If he couldn't be hurt then the Angel of the Lord could have deceived Joseph!
What a life.... Our salvation was entrusted into the hands of Joseph!..Matthew 1:13...And when they were departed, behold the Angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.
The 3rd Man
▪The 3rd Man is Joseph of Arimathaea. He was entrusted with the preservation of the dead body of Jesus. Matthew 27:59-60...And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in a rock: and he rolled a great stone to the stone of the sepulchre, and he departed.
The 4th Man
▪The 4th man today is You. The 4th Joseph is You and I. The name Joseph means God adds. Whose job is it to add souls to the body of Christ?..It's our's, that's where you come in, that's where I come in.
▪God entrusted the Gospel to you. You are the 4th man. You have the responsibility of adding souls to his body today.
▪God trusts you the most!
▪Don't fail God. This is what soul winning means.