16/05/2021
THE CHIEF BUTLER AND THE CHIEF BAKER, GENESIS 40:1-23.
Loving folks, spiritual life in this world may seem easy. It seems that you understand it, it seems that it can go well, but we know that with spiritual life that is not the case. Of course, I do not have the power to solve these problems for you. There is only one condition that has allowed me to stand up here. It is the fact that for a long time I was tormented and in pain because of sin. But one day, I had amazing experience of having all of my sins washed clean.
Please open your Bible and look on it. There are two people in Genesis chapter 40. What we read happened when Joseph was locked in prison for resisting the temptation of Potiphar's wife.
And it came to pass after these things, that the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker had offended their lord the king of Egypt. Who are they? They are the chief butler and the chief baker. Because Pharaoh was a great king, he had men in charge of his chariots; men in charge of his horses; men in charge of his clothes; and men in charge of the wine and bread. He had many ministers who were in charge of all sorts of duties. Genesis chapter 40, tells us that the chief butler and chief baker had committed sins. Which one had committed more sins? It does not say anything about that. It only states that they had both committed sins. We Don't know who committed what sin, but they both committed sins and the two of them were imprisoned.
Let's talk about it. The most important fact about receiving salvation is that when God saves us, it is not with our own strength. He saves us by Himself. When God made the heavens and the earth, did He make man first, or did He make man last? If God had made humans first and then had created the heavens and the earth, humans would not have been able to stand.
How can we be saved? I'd like to speak to you about how we can have our sins washed clean and stand before God.
If you look in Genesis 40, the chief butler and the chief baker both sinned, but the chief butler received salvation and the chief baker was destroyed.