Now, notice, all blessing in this type flows from this risen Joseph. He is lord of all Egypt. His brethren are not only forgiven—and, oh, how forgiven! “He kissed all his brothers and wept over them.” What assurance of forgiveness. But this was not all; they were blessed with earthly blessings in the land of Goshen. Grace not only forgave but abounded over all their sin.

Fellow believer, we have not only forgiveness of sins through the blood of Jesus, but God has blessed us in this risen Christ with all blessings in heavenly places. Now, for your everlasting comfort and joy, do ponder this well: that vile as was man in putting Jesus to death, yet it was really God who foreordained Him to this very death of the cross for the express purpose of saving you with a great salvation. View the amazing death of the cross as a transaction, entirely between God and His Son, for your salvation. God sent Him for this very purpose; Jesus died for the very purpose of cleansing you from all sin, and bringing you into an entirely new creation, where sin can never, never be; where the blight of death, or breath of pollution can never come. Oh, blessed fact! Sin can never mar God’s new creation, in the risen Christ.

Oh, wondrous, stupendous grace! God’s eternal purpose, God’s greatest work is thus shadowed forth in the history of Joseph. That very Jesus, who died on the cross, who lay in the cold grave, is now the head of the new creation, exalted above all principalities and powers. Oh, the eternal mystery, kept hid from ages! Poor, dead sinners of the Gentiles raised up together, and made to sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. Oh, what a triumph to God! Look at the old creation. Look from Adam, its beginning, to the cross, its end. Now look at the new, heavenly, holy creation. Oh! view it rise and swell, every soul that passes from death to life filling up the heavenly body!