God's Secret Weapon
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And now do not be distressed or angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.
And God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on earth, and to keep alive for you many survivors.
So it was not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
Unwarranted Hate from Brothers
The Fabric of Betrayal
The Fabric of Betrayal
These are the generations of Jacob.
Joseph, being seventeen years old, was pasturing the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. And Joseph brought a bad report of them to their father.
Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his sons, because he was the son of his old age. And he made him a robe of many colors.
These are the generations of Jacob.
Joseph, being seventeen years old, was pasturing the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. And Joseph brought a bad report of them to their father.
But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peacefully to him.
Gen 37:
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Born into betrayal
Betray
be•tray
[Middle English, from be- + trayen to betray, from Anglo-French trahir, from Latin tradere—more at TRAITOR] verb transitive 13th century
1: to lead astray especially: SEDUCE
2: to deliver to an enemy by treachery
3: to fail or desert especially in time of need 〈betrayed his family〉
fabric
2 a structure or framework, especially the walls, floor, and roof of a building.
▶ the essential structure of something abstract: the fabric of society.
*When I say Fabric I am speaking more than just the cloth of his garment: But rather the very WEAVING, THE STRUCTURE ,THE FRAMEWORK OF FAVOR ITSELF.
If anyone could have gone through life with a chip on their shoulder it should have been Joseph: whose name means .May God add, he shall add: increasing
*We see this young man Joseph one of the sons of Israel. Joseph was the 11th of 12 sons, the first by Jacob’s favorite wife, Rachel. His name, “may he [the Lord] add,” was a part of Rachel’s prayer at his birth ().
* and Joseph brought unto his father their evil report.
*we can assume that Joseph was told to do so because the Father asked him to do it in verse 13
We don’t know what exactly Joseph was reporting about his brothers but we do know that it WAS A EVIL REPORT: None the less Joseph told on his bothers to his father
he acted not as a gossiping telltale, but as a “faithful steward” in reporting the scandalous conduct of his brethren.
But there are some of us who aint Joseph! Who aren’t under instruction from the Father or from the leader …You bringing back all reports, beware of those indivials who always got the latest & greatest HOT NEWS
One thing that I have learned in life is that no one likes a tattle tale…
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. —BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Poor Richard’s Almanac
Most of us can keep a secret. It’s the people we tell it to who can’t.
Daddy if you hand have shown favoritism they wouldn't have hated me like they did !!
The Brothers hated Joe because of what the father Did and didn't do.
*Joseph was Jacobs’s favorite son from his favorite wife.
*The love that Jacob had for Joseph caused him to make him a coat of many colors, “an ornamented tunic.” It marked the owner as the one whom the father intended to be the future leader of the household, an honor normally given to the firstborn son.
He Loved Him , He Favored Him and he was open with his love it was no secret and his brothers recognized that love
The Reasons of their Hatred
But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peacefully to him.
gen 37
Now Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers they hated him even more.
Gen 37:
*BUT SOMETIMES THE FAVOR LOOKS LIKE FAILURE BECAUSE INTERTWINE IN THE FABRIC OF THE FAVOR…IS HATRED… IS JEALOUSY IS BACKBITING IT IS ENVY…IT IS STRIFE…SEE ITS MORE THAN JUST A COAT
*THEY ARE HIS BROTHERS BUT HATE IS PRESENT/ DON’T THAT SOUND LIKE THE CHURCH?
*We are all FAVORED/GRACED to be in the family to do something in the Body of Christ. *The book said that his brothers were the ones that hated him, those that were in the household,
*Some God has Graced to Preach…to Teach…to Sing…to Usher…to Cook…to work with the Children
* they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.
*There are those that will hate you /despise you because of the favor because of the grace that God has given to you.
*I shouldn’t be upset with what it is that you do because God has given me something to do.
And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the saying in mind.
The Results of their Hatred
They saw him from afar, and before he came near to them they conspired against him to kill him.
They said to one another, “Here comes this dreamer.
Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits. Then we will say that a fierce animal has devoured him, and we will see what will become of his dreams.”
Then Midianite traders passed by. And they drew Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver. They took Joseph to Egypt.
The Lord was with Joseph, and he became a successful man, and he was in the house of his Egyptian master.
The Assault of Betrayal
The Assault of Betrayal
Assault: a violent physical or verbal attack
And after a time his master’s wife cast her eyes on Joseph and said, “Lie with me.”
Gen 39:
But he refused and said to his master’s wife, “Behold, because of me my master has no concern about anything in the house, and he has put everything that he has in my charge.
39:
She kept putting pressure on Joseph day after day, but he refused to sleep with her, and he kept out of her way as much as possible.
But one day, when he went into the house to do his work and none of the men of the house was there in the house,
she caught him by his garment, saying, “Lie with me.” But he left his garment in her hand and fled and got out of the house.
Gen 39:
And as soon as she saw that he had left his garment in her hand and had fled out of the house,
she called to the men of her household and said to them, “See, he has brought among us a Hebrew to laugh at us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried out with a loud voice.
Gen 39:
And as soon as he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried out, he left his garment beside me and fled and got out of the house.”
Then she laid up his garment by her until his master came home,
and she told him the same story, saying, “The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought among us, came in to me to laugh at me.
But as soon as I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment beside me and fled out of the house.”
She flat out lied on that man : She said that He tried to rape her.
Have you ever been misrepresented, have you ever done all that you can to do what is right but it seems like the more you try to do seems like people just keep trying to keep you oppressed.
And Joseph’s master took him and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were confined, and he was there in prison.
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Potiphar betrayed Joseph because He thought Joseph betrayed Him
But the Lord was with Joseph and showed him steadfast love and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
Gen 39:
And the keeper of the prison put Joseph in charge of all the prisoners who were in the prison. Whatever was done there, he was the one who did it.
The keeper of the prison paid no attention to anything that was in Joseph’s charge, because the Lord was with him. And whatever he did, the Lord made it succeed.
The Frustration of being Betrayed
Gen 39:
frustrate
frustrate verb
1 to come between a person and his aim or desire or to defeat another’s plan
Gen 40:12
Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes and pressed them into Pharaoh’s cup and placed the cup in Pharaoh’s hand.”
frustrate
Then Joseph said to him, “This is its interpretation: the three branches are three days.
1 prevent (a plan or action) from progressing, succeeding, or being fulfilled.
▶ prevent (someone) from doing or achieving something.
2 cause (someone) to feel dissatisfied or unfulfilled.
In three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your office, and you shall place Pharaoh’s cup in his hand as formerly, when you were his cupbearer.
Only remember me, when it is well with you, and please do me the kindness to mention me to Pharaoh, and so get me out of this house.
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For I was indeed stolen out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the pit.”
Yet the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph, but forgot him.
Gen 40:
Betrayed by someones forgetfulness
Who forgot you??
Who did you help along the way and they forgot you!!
A young Hebrew was there with us, a servant of the captain of the guard. When we told him, he interpreted our dreams to us, giving an interpretation to each man according to his dream.
Gen 41
Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they quickly brought him out of the pit. And when he had shaved himself and changed his clothes, he came in before Pharaoh.
Gen 41:
Joseph was thirty years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh and went through all the land of Egypt.
Gen 41
Gen 42:
he had sent a man ahead of them,
Joseph, who was sold as a slave.
His feet were hurt with fetters;
his neck was put in a collar of iron;
Ps 105:
until what he had said came to pass,
the word of the Lord tested him.
Now Joseph was governor over the land. He was the one who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph’s brothers came and bowed themselves before him with their faces to the ground.
Joseph saw his brothers and recognized them, but he treated them like strangers and spoke roughly to them. “Where do you come from?” he said. They said, “From the land of Canaan, to buy food.”
Gen 42:
And Joseph recognized his brothers, but they did not recognize him.
Gen 42:
And Joseph remembered the dreams that he had dreamed of them. And he said to them, “You are spies; you have come to see the nakedness of the land.”
Then they said to one another, “In truth we are guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us and we did not listen. That is why this distress has come upon us.”
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And Reuben answered them, “Did I not tell you not to sin against the boy? But you did not listen. So now there comes a reckoning for his blood.”
gen 42:
They did not know that Joseph understood them, for there was an interpreter between them.
Gen 42:
Then he turned away from them and wept. And he returned to them and spoke to them. And he took Simeon from them and bound him before their eyes.
Then Joseph hurried out, for his compassion grew warm for his brother, and he sought a place to weep. And he entered his chamber and wept there.
gen 43
And we said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a young brother, the child of his old age. His brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother’s children, and his father loves him.’
Then Joseph could not control himself before all those who stood by him. He cried, “Make everyone go out from me.” So no one stayed with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers.
And he wept aloud, so that the Egyptians heard it, and the household of Pharaoh heard it.
And Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Is my father still alive?” But his brothers could not answer him, for they were dismayed at his presence.
So Joseph said to his brothers, “Come near to me, please.” And they came near. And he said, “I am your brother, Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt.
The Benefits of Betrayal
The Benefits of Betrayal
And now do not be distressed or angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.
For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there are yet five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest.
And God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on earth, and to keep alive for you many survivors.
So it was not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
Hurry and go up to my father and say to him, ‘Thus says your son Joseph, God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me; do not tarry.
When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “It may be that Joseph will hate us and pay us back for all the evil that we did to him.”
Gen 50:
So they sent a message to Joseph, saying, “Your father gave this command before he died:
‘Say to Joseph, “Please forgive the transgression of your brothers and their sin, because they did evil to you.” ’ And now, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father.” Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
His brothers also came and fell down before him and said, “Behold, we are your servants.”
But Joseph replied, “Don’t be afraid of me. Am I God, that I can punish you?
God’s Secret Weapon
God’s Secret Weapon
•The fallen state of man causes the natural response of, “To be wronged is to return the wrong done to you.”
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•It is human nature to seek revenge.
•By Adam's fall into sin, "human nature" became "corrupt", although it retains the image of God.
•It’s human nature that if someone hits you, you hit them back.
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•If someone gossips and lies on you, you want to gossip back.
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•It is human nature to want to protect your reputation.
As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.
Matt 26:
Now the betrayer had given them a sign, saying, “The one I will kiss is the man; seize him.”
While he was still speaking, Judas came, one of the twelve, and with him a great crowd with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and the elders of the people.
Matt 26:
And he came up to Jesus at once and said, “Greetings, Rabbi!” And he kissed him.