pit prison palace 8/23

gen 37:20

the apostles where prisoned as we left off many time we see the insancxt sufreing

1 Peter 2:19–20 “For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully. For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently?

but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.”

we will suffer wrongfulyy

might though this morning is the pits prisons and palaces of tis life

THE PIT

WE SEE SEVERAL CHARCHTERS IN TH EBUBLE END UP IN THE PIT FOR RIGHTOUSENESS

DANIEL IN TH ELIONS DEN THROUGHT THE JEUOLSY OF OTHERS

IN JERIMIAAH 38.6 HE IS PUT IN A DUNGOEN OR MIRY PIT FRO PREACHING WHAT GOS TOLD HIM

THEN JOSEPH WHO BROTHERS PUT HIM IN A PIT WHO WE WILL LOOKK AT THIS MORNING

WHY WE GET IN PIT

WE SEE THAT IT IS BY THE HANDS OF OTHEERS YHAT WE CAN GET THROUGHED INTO A PIT

THE OTHER RULERS WITH DANIEL THE KING WITH JERIMIAH AND JOSEPHS ON BROTHER

THEY HATED HIM Genesis 37:4 “And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.”

PITS FOR US ARE PLACES OF CONTROL PEOPLE WANT TO PUT US IN

THEY DIDNT LIKE DANIELS PRAYING JERIMIA PREACHING JOESPH DREAMING

PITS ARE BSD PLACES DRY WELL A MIRY NASTY PIT A LIONS DEN A PLACE TO STAVE AND SUFFER

LOOK AT 25 WHEN PEOPLE CAST YOU IN A PIT IT IS BECAUSE THEY ARE JEULOSE THEY HATE THERE INVIOSE OF WHERE YOU AR EIN LIFE

AND WOULD RATHER SEE YOU SUFFER AND FAIL

NOTICE THEY HATED HIM SO MUCH LEAV EHIM DIE AND SET DOWN AND EAT

WE MAY NOT SEE IT BUT THE PIT MY BE A PROTECTION FROM SOMETHING WORSE

THEY WANTED TO KILL HIM AND HIS ELDEST BROTHER STEPPED IN

THE PIT WAS PROTECTION WE MIGHT NOT SEE ATHE TIME

HE WAS SOLD A SLAVE PROBRALY A FATE WORSE THAN DEATH

TIME MOVES ON GOD DELIVERS HIM TO POTIFER HOUSE AND MAN EVERTHING HE DOES GOD BLESSES MAYBE THE PIT WASNT TO BAD AFTER ALL

THE PRISON

YEARS PASS EVEN IN BONDAGE GOD BLESS JOSEPH

Genesis 39:5–6 “And it came to pass from the time that he had made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that the Lord blessed the Egyptian’s house for Joseph’s sake; and the blessing of the Lord was upon all that he had in the house, and in the field. And he left all that he had in Joseph’s hand; and he knew not ought he had, save the bread which he did eat. And Joseph was a goodly person, and well favoured.”

POTIFER DIDNT KNOW ALL HE HAD

WE KNOW THE STORY THE WIFE LIES POTIFER PUTS HIM IN PRISON

Genesis 39:20–21 “And Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king’s prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison. But the Lord was with Joseph, and shewed him mercy, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison.”

NOTICE IN THE PIT AND PRISON OF LIFE GOD IS STILL WORKING

WHEN WE THINK GOD HAS LEFT US SUFFERING AND WRONG DOING WE SEEM THAT NEVER CATCH A BREAK

WHY DIDNT POTIFER ASK OR INVESTGATE HE HAD BECOME GRETLY WEALTHY BECAUSE21 OF JOSEPH

WE CAN GO TO PRISON PER SAY BECAUSE WE DONT BEND TO THE WILL OF OTHERS

AND SOMETIMES YOUR CHRACTER OR REPUTATION FAITHFULNESS WILL NOT MATTER

POTIFER PROBRALY NKNEW HE WAS INOCCNT KNEW HE COULDNT GO AGAINST HIS WFE

PEOPLE MAY ISOLATE YOU PUT YOU AWAY BECAUSE THEY DO NOTWANT TO STAND DUP FOR YOU AGAINST FAMILY OR FRIENDS

AGAIN NOTICE GOD Genesis 39:21 “But the Lord was with Joseph, and shewed him mercy, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison.”

CH 40 TIME PASSES THE BUTLER AND BAKER ARE PUT IN PRISON JOSEPH TELLS THEM THE DREAMS THEY COME TO PASS

AND IN CH 41 2 YEARS JOSEPH STILL IN PRISON

THE PALACE

CH 41

THE PHAROH HAS A DREAM THE BUTLER REMEBERS JOSEPH

THIS REMIED ME OF Esther 4:14 “For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father’s house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”

GOD TIMEING IS ALWAYS RIGHT

WE WILL HAV ETO SUFFER IN THE PITS AND PRISON OF THIS WORLD WE MAY NOT UNDERSTAND IT MAY SEEM HOPLESS LIKE GOD HAS ABANDONDED US

GODS REWARD IS HIS PALACE IF I REMEBER RIGHT JOSEPP WAS 17 WHEN HE WAS IN TH EPIT AND AROUND 30 WHEN HE FINALYY GOT OUT OF PRISON

GEEN 41-46

THAT 13 YEARS WAITING ON GOD

CLOSING

Genesis 41:37–45 “And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants. And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such a one as this is, a man in whom the Spirit of God is? And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou art: Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou. And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt. And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck; And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt. And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt. And Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphnath-paaneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On. And Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt.”

I DONT KNOW WHAT YOUR LIFE HAS BEEN THE PITS AND PRISONS YOU HAV EBEEN IN

MAY STILL BE IN OR BE PUT IN OUR LESSON FROM JOSEPH IS TO BE FAITHFUL TO GOD OR CHRACTER TO REMAIN IN TACT NOTICE EVERYWHERE JOESPH WAS HE WAS A BLESSING TO THOSE GOD SET HIM APART

HE DIDNT SEE IT IN THE PIT OR PRISONS NO MATTER HOW NICE THE PRISON OR PIT MAY BE

Genesis 45:4–8 “And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life. For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest. And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.”

WE DO NOT KNOW THE PLANS OF GOD FOR OUR FUTURE WE KNOW HE IS IN CONTROL IN TH EPIT AND PRISONS OF LIFE