Day: February 8, 2018

In this video Dr Woodhead discusses Joseph being cast into prison due to Potiphar’s wife accusing him of sexual aggression. He spent about thirteen years in total with Potiphar and at least seven years in Pharaoh’s prison. Only one prison incident was important enough to be included in the Bible. The Lord was using his prison experiences as a time of preparation for the elevated level of leadership he had in store for Joseph. Joseph assumed the office of prime minister in Egypt at the age of thirty. David also became king of Israel at thirty (II Samuel 5: 4). …

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“Thou shalt call his name Jesus.” Matthew 1:21 When a person is dear, everything connected with him becomes dear for his sake. Thus, so precious is the person of the Lord Jesus in the estimation of all true believers, that everything about him they consider to be inestimable beyond all price. “All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia,” said David, as if the very vestments of the Saviour were so sweetened by his person that he could not but love them. Certain it is, that there is not a spot where that hallowed foot hath trodden–there is not …

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