13 People Who Changed History - Joseph: Faithfulness from Pit to Palace

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The Bible says Myspace Joseph, when he died made mention of the deposit of the children of Israel and gave commandment concerning his bones. This is a continuation of the series that will change history and this morning's 7 is blissful. Pizza Palace.

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I mean, this dysfunctional family and we see it here in Genesis 37, verse 3, Love Joseph. More than all his children. Places in particular, parents know this isn't good and children know this isn't good and I ain't going to be getting worse in this case cuz we know the source of Many Colors sibling is your favorite of your father's. But he wears a coat is proof. Make a constant shining Beacon of a reminder that he's the favorite. She's no, this is like a beacon of that Stadium. Every time they come in as is Joseph, And it gets worse. The ten Brothers before. Joseph had a different mother. Rachel was only mother to Joseph and Benjamin and she died giving birth to Benjamin brothers. The ten brothers that she wasn't the favorite. Rachel was so deep in this family. And you remember Jacob, as well, give him a call. Joseph father, Jacob tricked, his own father. Isaac. This is Joe Paterno grandfather for the east side of the family, both lights. So not like a trivial family master and it wouldn't have been a secret either. And this was the examples that Joseph had Until 6:12. So I could invent. Of being the favorite son from his own mother cuz he was a favorite of his maternal grandfather. He tricked Jacob into marrying, his older daughter first layer before, making him up for many more years, tomorrow is favored to win the race. They gave Jacob the handmaidens and they took the women that works and I passed them off the Jacob to videos babies. And I can see if it was your husband as well. This is story when the family arrived in Canaan to him to his half-brother's Simeon and Levi and angry with the village and because if he filed another sister and entire Village to seek revenge for the sister series.

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About the commandant continues, but I also want to read Ecclesiastes. 9:10, to be in your mind is where we talkin and thinking about going to do it with dynamite but he's no wisdom in the grave with a ghost. What's the weather like in find us to do do it with I might spray that we just ask that you can speak to a house this morning. You still got pulled in Josephus to help us. To encourage us to put us to Yoko Realty. Do you work for you? I'll do me to suspect. This is Jesus Christ.

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So we're going to just look at every season of suffering and betrayal and testing. Joseph exemplified unwavering diligence and Trust in God's Providence. It showed his faith in God when he was rejected when he was humiliated and when he was supposed to be accused, and when he was forgotten and find, he was tested. When finding when he was tested. Before we look the man with the Joseph lights, let's just make sure we missed on the parts in Hebrews about the bones because of all the faithful acts performed of Hebrews. Quite surprised me since to focus on the commandant concerning 206 bones made mention of the departing of the children of Israel and gave commandment concerning. His phone is Hebrews 11:22. You knew that I knew this already Genesis 50 Genesis 50 20, 22 New Jersey to Hilton in his father's house in Jersey and hundred and ten years and has child of the third generation and the children also of Mexico of the sort of man who brought upon Joseph Neese and Josie 17th. President I die and go to visit you and bring you out to this land and to the laundry. He swore to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. And I will surely visit you and Alycia Carey up my bones from hence. So why is this important?

Before we might see why it's important we need to be square jerseys. Didn't consider the location of his bones in any way to Prejudice his soul or prevent the resurrection of the body. This wasn't for his own. Each other will be The primary reason that Joseph was not in Egyptian, Jacobs, family may have been safe to Egypt and Israelites in Egypt.

He likely would have received a magnificent burial in Egypt. The pyramids in Egypt are we see a Monumental tombs for fairies designed to ensure that successful Journey to the afterlife and there were symbols of great power of the nation of Egypt, a Place full of afterlife preparations and this was not going to work for the humble servant of the one true God, he would have much rather a significant burial in the promised land and magnificent burial in Egypt. I finally, he wanted to go as far as he could with his people. You can go as far as he would have liked but this with him going on the final Journey with his people, back to the promised land. Nostradamus nerds.

And I did this last time, I faced calculations as to how many people is It was talking about how many, how big was the family of Jacob when Joseph died. So this is kind of like that the tiny Israel Nation. How many Israelites were that and how much had this station for pads?

Jersey with a child in the field and looking at this policy, 20. How much is 70 people population? When Joseph died would have been maybe 1,000, maybe two thousand people depending on the birth rates and how old was talking to when he's talking about, take my buttons, at least a thousand people would have passed these instructions. The Next Generation in the next two. Then we'll fill the request, but this morning. Going to lose weight. And I want to take five incidents in Joseph's life and look at Josie's faithful response, Facebook, that his faithfulness, in the response. So I called the seven trumpets to Palace. The faithfulness is Joseph. So if you can put your workout going to start in the kitchen and in the, in the palace. So in Genesis 37, and he's faithfulness in rejection. How is hated by his brothers. Genesis 37, verse 36, Israel of Joseph more than all his children because he was the son of his old age. And he has his brother, and father loved him more than all, his brother could not speak peaceably into him. Imagine what life was like. His father looked at him but he has 11 brothers who hates him. They didn't get The Passing dislike. This is they couldn't even speak piece of you turn on piece of so many Hebrew word, Shalom, good health. So how did you resolve this lifelong pension that existed? Did I lash out until his father? Did you confront them? And Catholics. I know, it's not really my fault. You should really talk to my dad about it. Why take it out on me? It's not my fault. You say Josie stream hated him more for history, Spanish words. So now it's time to tackle this hatred, it was just a dream, he can't control reasonable. People will see sense. No record of that. Between, I never a few ways we can look at your house. He was quite intuitive and realize that there was no arguing with you cooked. And if you have the occasional dream, any felt the need to share it, then then so be it. Maybe that was just, so maybe the flip side, he just didn't see it until perhaps, his brothers simmering hate you and him was just always liquid, how many weeks is normal. He could just go about his normal life, happy and content with the situation. He was in like a blissful ignorance.

Contention being hated consenting, not realizing. He was hated. Which one is more important than the ignorant so that the realization he was we just know he was content.

Can you think of a time maybe when you hate it or maybe even last? That is an unbeliever, you fit sharing his face because you might be hated. God had a plan for Joseph to be hated. Joseph told the truth about his dreams and he was hated even more. But I didn't stop. There was a sticking to the truth. I'm continuing on that path. He was faithful in his rejection. He was hated by his brothers, but he remains contentious situations place, but this hatred was just kind of a foreshadow of the challenges which were going to come for Joseph. As we see now, he needs his humiliation. His faithfulness in humiliation. Now to do some, you know, the story his father sent him to check on his brothers, because everyone loves to be checked on that. Father's favorite, son, Evan, ready, I can imagine these brothers. Like, 53 miles is travel and not coats that Beacon of his favoritism. I didn't think that his brothers but it is tested to go and check on his ass on the phone off, even before he came near into them, they conspired against him to slay him. And they said once we hold the streamer, come now that for him and ask him into some pics. And we will say some evil beasts have devoured him. And we shall see what will become of his dreams.

Now it seems a bit like Ruben is grown up a little bit and put the Holts to his brother's plans. He said don't kill him. Maybe that's just cool off a bit. I suspect he can. So they strip him of his clothes including the coat and I hate you so much and they throw him into a pic. Add dried up. Well, it would put him in, it would have been shaped like a bottle. So we just in neck and a y, to the Boston Central District. The brothers, sit down for a minute lunch. Hopefully a good meal. Good idea.

Nova have in the mail when they see a company of extra lights passing away. Would you believe it is also good for the midianite, much and forth between the kitchen lights, and the midianites, and twenty pieces of silver, which is the price of a Slave. Everyone returns and is devastated his clothes. Sick of him. So didn't get some silver. So I have to plan on a goat's, is Kilz on the wonderful coats is covered in blood now, interesting, late. This is how the tricking, Jacob, remember how Jacob his father, it was with the skin of a goat as well to make you smile to think he was Harry. He used to as a goat. So we have Jacob. Son is taking us all the way to go to the junction of find me that I was talking about the way services in this humiliation. What he's? He's so again, cuz the midianites then sold into Egypt to this house. An officer of Pharaoh, let me know the story and the captain of God by the Providence of God himself as a slave to the captain of The Bodyguard of the ruler of the most powerful nation in the world at a time. The Lord's Prayer in with the Lord's presence. He prospered 39. Now, Genesis 39, 40 and Joseph found Grace in your sight, animated movie series house and nobody had he puts into his hand and it came to pass from the time. He had made him over Sierra's house of all. They had the Lord bless the Egyptians house for Joseph sink and the blessing of the Lord, with all that, he had in the house and in the field, and he left already had injured, his hand and you not or he had saved the bread, which he did eat in Jersey with a good tea person in the favorite. Who was overseer of a household in the household prospered and he's supposed to because he was lazy and sloppy. Good wasn't going about prospering second-rate, half the household Joseph with working diligently graciously as humbly. Are you working hard in the Lord with blessing for spring. In Joseph's humiliation. He was treated like a commodity and he works faithfully and with accidents and then let him know and he did it just as he should remember. The beginning. He did it with all his mites. We seen Joseph faithfulness image action, faithfulness, humiliation. Analyst and look at his faithfulness and integrity. And again, this is where things start to go. B. Roll been wrong for Joseph. In Genesis 37, 39 / 7. They came to pass by see these things but his master's wife passed away from Joseph, and she said, lying with me. U.s. population has a one-off thing. This is day after day in the movie, The Jersey says there is no one greater in the house tonight. They must have kept nothing back from him, but his wife, how can I do this? Great wickedness and sin against God? This is his Integrity. He knows it's a sin, he knows the house of God. He knows, right from wrong and he sticks to the whites. And can you imagine the strength of moral character and love for the Lord, must have had given his family background and how we could have made all the excuses in the world for not being faithful. Putting his strength into his work for falling into temptation set by Potiphar's wife. I think there are times we all do this. We have that kind of internal oil and I had making the argument for not doing right and we could see how I will. I was bullied at school so it's not my fault. You have any good role models to look up to. So I know what to do. I was the middle child. So I missed out on everything. I said of deceiving ourselves for taking responsibility.

It's got this moment when you making excuses but he had the Integrity voice, resist the temptation to sin. And then when I'm with Joseph and Potiphar's wife handi-van for sale

Joseph and his life took a turn for the worst and punched his wife accused, Joseph is proof would have been sufficient, but clearly by the his wife story, all he had picked you and Joseph and he was 21 where the king's prisoner tequila Lee separated area. In fact, criminals Joseph's pay. It's in Eustis. Now, his faithfulness in obscurity, he was imprisoned and forgotten. So now we're all the way to Genesis that and I was flying through the story of Joseph a little bit and the key for the prison committed to Joseph and all the prisoners that were in the prison and whatsoever they did that. He was the doing of it. Now I don't know if you've ever thought about it but Joseph is quite frankly remarkable everywhere. He goes his leadership skills immediately shine. Its trustworthiness is manifested by that. So apparently he's just getting these massive responsibilities, he's given us authority of the prison. And they were responsible for, keeping the records and managing the assets of the prison. They were the second in authority to the prison one and once again, the Lord made it. And we know the story The Bakery in the butler come in since sent to jail by Pharaoh. What kind did they commit? We have reading know, but it's going to be serious to be given. That was one of them tried to poison ferret out these dreams and Daydreams attention to what he says. Do not interpretations belong to God. Doing the interpretation God is we don't really have the time to go into these, These Dreams for the outcome of the butler, in the bakery, hang and just as the interpretation of Dreams City would happen. New Jersey says to the butler but on me when it shall be well with me and show killing this. I Pray them to me and make mention of interfering and bring me out of this house is 40.

Don't forget me.

You can play with it from time to time. You could put in a good word. However, Genesis 14:23 says yet. Did not the chief Butler. Remember Joseph book, forgot him. I mean a guy in prison for another 2 years. I was thinking about this. This is like the Apostle Paul, he was jailed in Rome during that time in Philippines, Colossians, Philemon, and you could almost say God sent his call to pray and whites for season in jail. You could call every traits that maybe Paul didn't see that way at time of great intimacy, between Paul and his redeeming. And he's supposed to say he turned his hand to his work, and he was faithful, he praised the Lord and trusted in his Providence, in obscurity is being imprisoned in Suboxone, but this doesn't Define his worth no circumstance, negates our responsibility to labor Faithfully. So we do the work. God puts in front of milk for the recognition but for obedience and just as pulled it and is it be led to an opportunity? Testing services spitefulness now in opportunity.

Tell me another story. Pharaoh has the terrifying dream and by the sounds of it is quite shaken. And I think you can read the house. This is, but a dream is seven. Beautiful. Well, fed cows come out of a river and a feeding in a minute. We'll be seen I got out of the river. These 7 skull gold, skinny cows, come out. And they eat the fat cows sound a little bit. Like a horror movie. It sounds terrifying.

Funny falls back to sleep again and then again we have the the seven lovely pump is of coal and funded by the 17 is blasted by the East Wind and the thin ones Duvall, the seventh ones.

How do you say? He's obviously it must mean something he sets about trying to find out how to explain this. And you think about Point who sings magicians and nobody can interpret the DREAM Act. This powerful nation that is Egypt and heavy shows if the Hebrew Shepherd boy standing before the very month is it from Elevate to god-like status. I think about where we are now. Brothers, sold him into slavery. He would not be brought to Egypt if possible and not purchased him from the slave traders in the experience. He needed to manage people in Egyptian context, the accused to be The Interpreter of the dreams of the bank for the butler. If all that happened happened, I've been summoned by Pharell Divinely appointed day. In other words out loud, had every single detail in his life. Every detail. This is God's Providence. Bring into this moment to show his face in to be tested as the Pharaoh Djoser. First thing it is not in Me God shall give Sarah an answer, please. This is Joseph answering Pharaoh, giving an interpretation. From pit to Palace. Joseph was obedient and faithful. And now he can give an account to fire all history, what it means because of all that preparation that the Lord has led Joseph. He is ready to be elevated to the highest position in the land of Egypt. You can save the nation of Egypt from the salmon. And humiliation is integrity and insecurity. And finally, it says about building the nation of Israel, When Chelsea came, he was ready. His heart was ready and his hands were well-trained. Josie's life is an exposition of Ecclesiastes. 9:10 whatsoever, thy hand findeth to do. Do it with all my might every season of suffering, betrayal and testing exemplified on Wave intelligence and Trust in God's Providence. He showed his faith in God, when he was rejected, when he was humiliated, when he was falsely accused, and when he was forgotten, and finally, when he was tested, Ghost story reminds us. That is not defined by results but obedience, whether we are hated humbles. Used for our exalted. We must trust that God is Sovereign is working all things together for our good and His glory. Consider this.

Joseph was dearly loved by his father. Joseph, with a shepherd of his father's sheep. Joseph was hated by his brothers. He was stripped of his clothing sold for the price of a Slave. There's a second to Egypt, he was tempted and falsely accused. It was found in Chains who condemned with criminals. After all this suffering, he was highly exalted, he was 30 years old when he began his Public Service, he wet his brothers, he could gave them

Who wronged him? He saved them from certain death.

What are the mandates? Hurt him. God turned around for good.

There's a face that perfect picture of Christ that lives on the surface, seems vastly different when you just got to new B. These events afraid of a thousands of years married to the incredibly. This is God's Providence. Take me about the events of Our Lives, which we feel in control of work and going to his work tonight.

Like I said, I love you Heavenly Father, we just we thank you for the example. Let Joseph is his faithfulness in it, every trial and every circumstances, you know, the rejection in the hood, in the hatred, he continued to just love you Lord. And we can, we can, we can liver a life is, as honorable all this Thursday for glorifying to use Joseph. We know that he was, he was he still lives in this world. But we just, we thank you for the wonderful example that he is that we can live a life and live in a video of Steven. We just thank you for your Providence. The way you move these events in our lives to Ultimate Euro, to end this to you and pray to Jesus Christ.