BEHAVIOR OF THE BLESSED

FAITHFUL IN SERVING

SERVING WITH HUMILITY

Genesis 47:1–2 1 Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said, “My father and my brothers and their flocks and their herds and all that they have, have come out of the land of Canaan; and behold, they are in the land of Goshen.” 2 He took five men from among his brothers and presented them to Pharaoh.

SERVING WITH HONESTY

•Genesis 47:3–4 •3 Then Pharaoh said to his brothers, “What is your occupation?” So they said to Pharaoh, “Your servants are shepherds, both we and our fathers.” 4 They said to Pharaoh, “We have come to sojourn in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants’ flocks, for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now, therefore, please let your servants live in the land of Goshen.”

SERVING WITH RESPONSIBILITY

•Genesis 47:5–6 (NASB95)•5 Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Your father and your brothers have come to you. 6 “The land of Egypt is at your disposal; settle your father and your brothers in the best of the land, let them live in the land of Goshen; and if you know any capable men among them, then put them in charge of my livestock.”

FAITHFUL IN RESPECT

SHOWING RESPECT

Genesis 47:7–8 (NASB95)7 Then Joseph brought his father Jacob and presented him to Pharaoh; and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. 8 Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How many years have you lived?”

SHOWING HONOR

Genesis 47:9 (NASB95)9 So Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my sojourning are one hundred and thirty; few and unpleasant have been the years of my life, nor have they attained the years that my fathers lived during the days of their sojourning.”

SHOWING WISDOM

Genesis 47:10 (NASB95)10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh and went out from his presence.

SHOWING HOPE

Genesis 47:11 (NASB95)11 So Joseph settled his father and his brothers and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had ordered.