Joseph Being – A Righteous Man – Power of One Holy Family

Joseph Being – A Righteous Man – Power of One Holy Family

Matt 1:19 – And Joseph her husband, being a righteous man

One Man’s Obedience – Family is God’s Redemptive Force

  • Mat 1:18,19 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows: when His mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child by the Holy Spirit. And Joseph her husband, being a righteous man and not wanting to disgrace her, planned to send her away secretly. – mercy more than Justice
  • Mary was well favoured
  • To match her faith, Joseph must have been favoured
  • Insignificant on earth but well known in Heaven
  • Holy Family Covenant

 

Angelic Mission Breaks Thru

And as he thought upon these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take to you Mary as your wife. For that in her is fathered of the Holy Spirit.  (21)  And she shall bear a son, and you shall call His name JESUS: for He shall save His people from their sins. (24)  And Joseph, being roused from sleep, did as the angel of the Lord commanded him and took his wife,.

 

Joseph Being A Righteous Man
Before Stress Came

  • Kept faith & purity working long hours, content with income
  • No Doubt he obeyed his parents & followed Dad’s family craft
  • At a ripe age he desired marriage & espoused to himself a pure virgin – he himself being a virgin – no doubt with parental concurrence
  • They both believed, God was matchmaker – angel came to affirm the same

 

Joseph Under Stress

  • Was willing to let go vengeance & forgive Mary if that was the case – he didn’t insist on his right
  • His obedience was instant – they both heard God & obeyed
  • He protected Mary
  • Joseph cultivated the habit of hearing heaven – way for prosperity – this saved Baby Jesus’ life.
  • He kept the faith – Dedicated Jesus on the 8th day with offering
  • He was richly provided gold, myrrh & frankincese

 

Solution is in the Word & Witness

  • Isa 8:20-22 To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn.  (21)  They will pass through the land hard-pressed and famished, and it will turn out that when they are hungry, they will be enraged and curse their king and their God as they face upward
  • Every word has to produce a testimony – Word & Witness

 

Never Ending Night of – Forsaking the Lord

  • No Dawn – day is like night. No hope of a new day or dawn. Night never ends.
  • Hard pressed – hardened heart. Let not hard conditions produce hard heart
  • Hungry
  • Enraged & Curse
  • Face upward = set their looks haughtily upwards

 

Choosing Further Ruin

  • . (22)  Then they will look to the earth,
  • and behold, distress and darkness,
  • the gloom of anguish;
  • and they will be driven away into darkness. – they chose darkness rather than the Word & Witness

Rom 1:21  For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened

 

Hungry

  • rā‛ēḇ: An adjective meaning hungry, famished. It describes a state of craving, needing food. It indicates the perpetual poor of the land who are in constant hunger, lacking enough food and care (1Sa_2:5); often lacking rest and water as well (2Sa_17:29). It was a common condition in the siege of a city (2Ki_7:12). The wicked will suffer from hunger (Job_18:12). The Lord delivers from hunger (Psa_107:5, Psa_107:9, Psa_107:36). The famous saying in Pro_25:21 urges people to feed hungry enemies. Hunger can cause a person to dream (Isa_29:8). A hungry person finds even bitter food to be enjoyable (Pro_27:7). A righteous person helps feed the hungry (Eze_18:7, Eze_18:16).

 

Heaven Intervenes – Angels Summoned

  • Angels respond at the point where their ministry is needed.
  • We completing Our action, commissions angels for their part
  • Psa 103:20-21 Bless the LORD, you His angels, Mighty in strength, who perform His word, Obeying the voice of His word!
  • The word we obey, and the decree we release, become God’s voice over our affairs which angels move to fulfil.

 

Angels on Call – to make earth better thru you

  • Angelic activity increases on earth when people are born again – so transformation needs, witness that saves souls
  • When saints obey the word & angels actionize the word
  • When saints move into activities God directs which require supernatural assistance.
  • When Esther & Mordecai obeyed angels worked to keep Xerxes awake & turned the book to where Mordecai’s deed was recorded.

 

Transformation – Contempt to Prosperity

  • Isa 9:1-3 But there will be no more gloom for her who was in anguish; in earlier times He treated the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali with contempt, but later on He shall make it glorious, by the way of the sea, on the other side of Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles.
  • Gloom, anguish – expect worse – symptoms of soul wounds
  • What are roots of contempt, put down, soul wounds?
  • Can an area be like that – are you carrying oppression of your birth town, family or your work field?
  • Other side of the Sea was the worst

 

Rewards of Restitution

  • (2) The people who walk in darkness Will see a great light; Those who live in a dark land, The light will shine on them.
  • What you see will shine in you
  • Dark land of my ow heart – shine up
  • (3)  You shall multiply the nation, You shall increase their gladness; They will be glad in Your presence As with the gladness of harvest,
  • Edenic Blessing Restored
  • As men rejoice when they divide the spoil – recovery restitution for loss of lost years.

 

Acting on Root Causes
Isa 9:4-5  For You shall break the yoke of their burden and the staff on their shoulders, The rod of their oppressor, as at the battle of Midian.  (5)  For every boot of the booted warrior in the battle tumult, And cloak rolled in blood, will be for burning, fuel for the fire.

 

Transformation By the Cross

  • Saviour has to take on – Yoke of burden (cross on His shoulder)
  • Staff on the shoulder (sign of a slave)
  • Rod of the Oppressor (Punishment & censure)
  • Sandals of war (enemy hordes in your territory)
  • Cloak rolled in blood (All His garments were blood soaked as He took on all blood letting between humans)
  • Cross became the inferno that burnt up all spiritual war equipment that came against mankind – Cross was the Liberation. Who will do this?

 

  • Kingdom of Light Advances
    Kingdom of Darkness Recedes
  • Luk 1:35 The angel answered and said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; and for that reason the holy Child shall be called the Son of God
  • Overshadowing by God’s power
  • Divine conception of Mission Call
  • Physical acts by angelic mediation
  • What happens when Power of God overshadows