I'm Pastor Mike Winger and this is Bible Thinker the program dedicated to thinking

biblically about everything. Okay so tonight we're going to look at Joseph as a

type of Christ the story of the life of Joseph as it relates to the life of Jesus.

And my contention is that Joseph is clearly, type of Christ.

He's sort of identified in the New Testament as such,

I'll get to that at the end. But let me give you some

ground rules as we're heading into this study. It's difficult to do a study of the

typology of Joseph. You can easily do like a three minute

summary, but what I like to do is actually go through the whole story tonight.

But it's a lot of chapters. So Joseph is in Genesis 37, his story begins. Then in 38 we have a kind of a break-off story about Judah and

Tamar and then we have 39 through 50 chapters 39 through 50 continuing the

story of Joseph. It's a lot of material. Here's my notes. There's a lot more

pages than usual, but a lot of it is actually just reading the text of scripture so we can get the

story so we can then find the types. But our focus isn't going to be everything about Joseph

and answering all the questions that would take forever. It's going to be just the

typology. Now I'll just admit up front, some of the types that I'm going to or the connections between

Joseph and Jesus I'll give you, some are very clear and very like, oh yeah that's clear.

Other ones are much weaker, but I'm going to share them all with you for you to think about

and consider and realize that it's not like you got to take them all or leave them all.

You should probably consider them individually.

It would be maybe a good way to look at it.

So finally, I'm going to mention briefly about Abraham offering

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