🔥 GENESIS CHAPTER 39 | BASIC UNDERSTANDINGS OF SCRIPTURE FOR TRUTH (PART 36) 🔥

Mike Balloun teaches today. 02-01-25

🔥 GENESIS CHAPTER 39 | BASIC UNDERSTANDINGS OF SCRIPTURE FOR TRUTH (PART 36) 🔥
Seeing Jesus in the life of Joseph

VERSES: John 5:46; Romans 7:13, 12:2; Proverbs 16:25

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BASIC UNDERSTANDINGS OF SCRIPTURE FOR TRUTH PART 36 Genesis Chapter 39 Seeing Jesus in the Life of Joseph

Chapter 39…
1 And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him down thither.
2 And the Lord was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.
3 And his master saw that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord made all that he did to prosper in his hand.
4 And Joseph found grace in his sight, and he served him: and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.
5 And it came to pass from the time that he had made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that the Lord blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of the Lord was upon all that he had in the house, and in the field.
6 And he left all that he had in Joseph's hand; and he knew not ought he had, save the bread which he did eat. And Joseph was a goodly person, and well favoured.
7 And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me.
8 But he refused, and said unto his master's wife, Behold, my master wotteth not what is with me in the house, and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand;
9 There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?
10 And it came to pass, as she spake to Joseph day by day, that he hearkened not unto her, to lie by her, or to be with her.
11 And it came to pass about this time, that Joseph went into the house to do his business; and there was none of the men of the house there within.
12 And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out.
13 And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and was fled forth,
14 That she called unto the men of her house, and spake unto them, saying, See, he hath brought in an Hebrew unto us to mock us; he came in unto me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice:
15 And it came to pass, when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled, and got him out.
16 And she laid up his garment by her, until his lord came home.
17 And she spake unto him according to these words, saying, The Hebrew servant, which thou hast brought unto us, came in unto me to mock me:
18 And it came to pass, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled out.
19 And it came to pass, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spake unto him, saying, After this manner did thy servant to me; that his wrath was kindled.
20 And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king's prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison.
21 But the Lord was with Joseph, and shewed him mercy, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
22 And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners that were in the prison; and whatsoever they did there, he was the doer of it.
23 The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing that was under his hand; because the Lord was with him, and that which he did, the Lord made it to prosper.

Joseph’s character development in the grace of God is the climactic ‘type’ of the Book of Genesis in the progressive prophetic revealing of the Character of Jesus the Christ. (Jesus said in John 5:46… “For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me; for he wrote of me.” Moses wrote of Jesus in Deuteronomy 18:15, declaring to the Hebrews that “The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken.” Although Moses doesn’t specifically mention Jesus’ name, the first five books of the Bible clearly speak of Him. These books written by Moses, as given from God, are filled with countless allusions to Jesus by the means of types and shadows.)

In the last chapter (Chapter 38), Judah’s having forsaken his calling in joining himself with the Canaanites reflects the harlotry of the Jews for the last 2000 years, and Joseph’s story as a servant in Egypt begins at the end of that chapter. Joseph coming down to Egypt, in type, is reflecting the work of the Lord coming down in His incarnation, into this World 2000 years ago. “Who being in the form of God… made himself of no reputation and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men…” [Philippians 2:6-7] And as Joseph, in the type, was the beloved of the father, Jesus is seen in the Anti-type having the favor of God… “And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.” (Luke 2:52) Noteworthy is that all the Master’s/the Father’s possessions in this Realm, gain or loss, were placed in the Son of Man’s hands. All in the ‘house’ of his children and all the Gentiles in the ‘field.’ (“The earth is the LORD's, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.” - Psalm 24:1) As seen in the beautiful coat that his father had given him, Joseph was highly esteemed in his father’s house and all the possessions of Potiphar were given to this ‘servant’ Joseph. Likewise, all was entrusted to the Son of Man’s hand by the Father, which encompassed everything.

Joseph and Christ both came alone, as foreigners, and were faced with great and persistent temptation, ending in false accusations designed by their accusers to remove them from their standing with God. Satan wanted to stop the promised seed (Joseph being the firstborn inheritor and from whom the promised Seed would come), so when the temptations failed, he used the tactic of false accusations against Joseph… and then also against Jesus when his temptations had failed with Him… See Matthew 26:59-60… “Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death; But found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last came two false witnesses…” Joseph and Jesus both suffered the wrath of their master/Master for sin… although not guilty, and both suffered the penalty for what they were accused of without resistance. Jesus, the Son of Man, was persistently tempted by the god of this World (satan even offered Him all this World… all its unimaginable sensuality, all its inconceivable power and glory, to be granted without opposition, and its certain continuity in that all was given forever into His hands)… yet, He was without sin. “For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.”

The first Adam had no sin nature, being made in the image of God, yet he sinned when tempted by satan, lost the image of God in God-consciousness, and took on the nature of self-consciousness/self-centerednesss. And he was thereby disqualified from that for which he was created… that of ruling over God’s Theocratic Government to be in this Realm. 4000 years later, the Second Adam, conceived by God, born of a woman, had no sin nature and did not sin when being tempted by satan, and lived in the lost image of God as the Son of Man in the power of the Holy Spirit, answering to God’s prophetic word of Genesis 3:15. (Note: Jesus, the Son of Man, had the power to heal mankind, cast devils out, give provision, give protection, and even forgive sins (Matthew 9:6), so it was not necessary that He would have to die in order for our sins to be forgiven… so that we could ‘go to Heaven when we die!’ What Jesus’ Atonement propitiation accomplished was two things:
1) Jesus bore the eternal weight of the sin nature on the Cross, as then the Father “condemned/cursed sin in the flesh” (Romans 8:3), paving the way for the granting of the indwelling power of the Holy Spirit to the redeemed who would surrender to follow Him in overcoming, by denying the sin nature within, by reckoning themselves dead unto sin, and putting on the lost nature of God; His love. (Note that the means for the remission of sin was already given through the blood of animals; but the efficacy of the Blood of Jesus was now able to reach the conscience of man and affect his sin nature and change his way of living by drawing upon the power of grace through faith. In other words, He died that He may restore the lost nature/image of God in us!)
2) And secondly, to justly seal the fate of satan forever. “But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory: Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it (God’s foreordained Salvation Plan for Man through the Atonement death of Christ and to have firstborn sons to replace satan and his princes as rulers in this world and its heavens and to cleanse the heavenly utensils from satan’s defilement and eventually condemn him to the Lake of Fire), they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.” [1st Corinthians 2:7-8]

Joseph’s testing and prison experience speaks to God’s designed means of purifying the soul of the redeemed man (“Now the end (purpose) of the commandment is charity/love out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned.” - 1st Timothy 1:5) Serving the ‘flesh’/self-love/self-centeredness is the reasoning and practice of the World. We then are born into that nature as the result of Adam losing the image of God, void of His love. (Romans 5) And we then live our entire lives from the place of satisfying ‘me.’ It is the inescapable prison of the World (you have to die to get out of it and stay out of it). To be in the prison of self-centeredness is the greatest of bondages. To be freed from this prison is to be “free indeed.” (John 8:36) Those redeemed who are blinded to its bars are ever within its confines, never perceiving or taking Jesus’ Atonement and being “freee indeed,”released from its bondage by living in selfless empowered love. (Living life no longer thinking it’s about ‘me,’ but all about putting on the selfless image of Him.)

The unredeemed mind within us once heard the Law on the curse of sin, and wholeheartedly received redemption from its curse. We, being redeemed and having the love of God then “shed abroad in our hearts,” were sincerely determined to keep the commandments and not sin, but then we sooner or later shockingly discover that the older nature within ourselves can easily overcome the determination not to sin (even those who in determined ‘works’ plug the holes in the damn of self-centeredness in one place, sin oozes out in another). It is just there that we now begin to experience and recognize the exceedingly sinfulness of sin. (Romans 7:13) It is there, in a state of surprised confusion, with hurting conscience, our determined experience then telling us one thing, and the Word seemingly requiring of us another, that we ask ourselves, ‘Can we not overcome sin, in that we agree with God’s Word and are determined to not sin, but find our ‘new man’ vulnerable to sin?’ Just there we were highly vulnerable to our fellow prison inmates’ answers, the religious tares’ lies; which are quick to affirm our experience, saying, ‘No, we redeemed cannot overcome’… explaining to us (blindly)… ‘That is why Jesus died for our sins, that we might receive by imputation His righteousness and be forgiven of our sins, past, present, and future! And that is how the Father looks at you while you are alive in this Earth subject to sin.’ Their supposed “boldness” to ‘follow Jesus and be like Him in the Earth’ (1st John 4:17) becomes but callous presumptuousness… without practical reality. Believing a half-truth that Christ’s righteousness in justification by imputation unto our redemption covers also an imputed personal righteousness. But it is a personal righteousness unto fruitfulness that Scripture declares as a transformation into Christ’s image which requires of the redeemed to no longer be conformed to this world. (See 2nd Corinthians 3:18… “But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.” And Romans 12:2… “And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”)

In the prison of self-love with the vast majority of the redeemed with unrenewed minds, we are faced with an excusing/appealing message to the flesh in ‘Worldly sense and religious reasonings’… that our experience of trying not to sin agrees with. So it is, that our ‘experience’ is exalted over the Truth of the Word in our believing a lie, and we are in prison, and cannot mature in character beyond what we ‘believe.’ “There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death” (‘death’ meaning different degrees of present and future separation from God). [Proverbs 16:25] It is here that we are in the prison of self-centeredness from which there is no escape… because it is a prison of our reasoned thinking “that seemeth right to man.” It is the prison of resigned self-centeredness, in which we lock ourselves into every day.

It is here that it looks like the ‘flesh’/the ‘old man’ has actually maintained its rulership to a great degree (they think… ‘but thank God not in the next’ in that they think all will be washed away, and we’ll be perfected when we die) and has cast the ‘spirit’/the ‘new man’ in prison. And the old man, who is to be crucified/ruled over, yet rules. The Blood Atonement of Jesus is then relegated by the tares’ doctrinal leaven to only that which accounts unto the birth of a new man. They teach the leaven that a redeemed person is not expected to rule over the sensual body and mind of the ‘old man,’ and that his dominance will remain until the new man sheds the old man at death. Where then his faith (merely) unto regeneration is to be rewarded as if he himself had overcome the World and the devil in this life. They believe that all is once and forever secured at the altar of repentance, where they got born-again, and now may be assured that they will go to Heaven when they die.

But as in all places… even bound in self-centered prison… the Lord is with His, for it is just there where the enemy has seemingly isolated us in ‘self’ that God can best ‘reveal us to us’ that He can then reveal Himself to us and then through us. Though satan has designed circumstances for our destruction, God uses them for our good, if we rightly divide the Word and ‘believe’ the empowering Truth of who we are in Him, what He has done for us, and surrender, deny our self, take up our cross, and follow Him, reckoning ourselves dead to sin, and walking in the newness of life…under the law of the spirit of life… not the law of sin and death… not looking at present circumstances or our past experience… as that would equate to looking into the “perfect law of liberty” and then turning away and then “forgetting what manner of man…” God showed us we are in Christ. But rather, being one “…whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.” Thanking Him in gratefulness for freedom to draw upon the grace/power of the Holy Spirit and on His mercy, and putting on His nature of love, maturing in love, and manifesting it everyday in our lives. Seeing that self-centeredness is losing its hold as the beauty of selflessness frees us from its prison.

Self-centeredness within is the root of all sin. (Self-centeredness is behind the love of money, therefore, it is behind the root of all evil.) Blindness and not identifying with the Truth and His Word keeps the redeemed in lock step with the World. It is that place where it is impossible to “follow” Him… for to follow Him, we first must “deny thy self,’ denying the sin nature in the soul (that which is made in the ‘image’ of satan in the fall of the first Adam) that exalts itself against the divine nature of God. We. deny ‘self’ by taking up our crosses and following Him. We are to follow the way He was while on Earth. Walking in communion intimacy with God surrendered to the Word is what brings the power of the Spirit in following in Christ’s steps (Christlikeness/the love walk).

Enabling grace/power to overcome the sin nature, separate and apart from faith motivated/energized by love, cannot be extended to us, in that to do so would enable us to continue to walk in the darkness of self-love/self-centeredness in contrariness to the Gospel message of man’s restoration of the image of God by appropriation by grace through faith in His Son’s Atonement. In other words, we are to identify with Jesus and His Word in who He declares we are in Him in loving faith; not what our circumstances or experience or religious excuses say. Identifying with Him in surrendering to Him, denying ‘self’ in loving faith under the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus allows us to reckon ourselves dead to the law of sin and alive unto God. (Identifying with who we are and not with who we were.) This Truth frees us from the prison of darkness and brings us into the light of His goodness, mercy, and grace. By this means, we draw nigh unto God… in that He will then draw nigh unto us. Letting our ‘experiences’ or ‘circumstances’ or ‘religious excuses’ dictate to the contrary is affirmation of our un-surrendered heart to the Truth.

Joseph was the example, in type, of the redeemed in Jesus Christ maturing in loving faith. Love must be the thrust of understanding. Self-centeredness is void of love and love is void of self-centeredness… and this is the battle of the sin nature against the image of God being formed in a surrendered man born-again from above. We embrace the character of God when we selflessly love not our lives unto death.

The brothers of Joseph, playing the role of Canaanites/servants of satan, could never have done him so much good by their showing him tolerant kindness, as they did with their envy and malice. Nor could Potiphar’s wife finally resigning herself to Joseph’s religious aversion to adultery, rather than her deceitful portrayal of his attempted rape, could have done him so much more good… because that which they did, with intent for harm, God turned to his greater good and others’ good. ‘Had the principalities known that their actions would have led to the salvation of the Nation of Israel… they would never have sold Joseph into slavery’ (a play on 1st Corinthians 2:8… “Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory”). This is the spiritual principle that the war for the soul is based upon: that temptation and sufferings may make or break the believer. You will either be an overcomer because of it or your light will be extinguished because of it. It is the much lesser chance that satan takes with all believers to extinguish by circumstances, because far far more are moved by circumstances and false belief back into self-centeredness, than the few that are not. In that, if they begin to show light in their lives and he comes to extinguish that light; that the wind he blows to put out the fire may actually cause it to burn brighter.

This is not just a lesson for seeing Jesus Christ’s life portrayed in Joseph’s life… but to see how Joseph’s trials represent also the battle within and without the redeemed New Testament believer. Who, being redeemed and potential inheritors of the Kingdom, become the target of satan who orchestrates circumstances to destroy the ‘house’ of faith God is building within. (Luke 6:46-49) And that through lying, killing and destroying, and by his various appeals to the sin nature within every man. Satan has one purpose only, which is to extinguish the light of faith developing unto worthiness and the image of love rising up in the new man overcoming the darkness of the sin nature. (1st Corinthians 13:11-13… “When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity/love.”) May we turn satan’s intent for our harm into an opportunity for us to be capacitated.