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When Everything Goes Wrong
February 24, 2019
Introduction
Illustration: I fell out of bed to see that my alarm clock hadn’t gone off.
I was late for school!
I rushed to the bathroom, grabbed what I thought was my toothpaste and brushed my teeth.
To only find out it was actually my sisters’ colour hair mousse.
I looked in the mirror to see my teeth were dark brown.
No time to worry about it now, I needed to have breakfast I was late for school!
I grabbed the milk and cereal and ate as quickly as I could.
While eating I found the cereal to have an awful taste, I looked at the box and saw that I had eaten the dog food pellets.
Oh I felt so sick!
I rushed upstairs to get dressed.
I didn’t want to miss the bus!
I grabbed my school bag and ran to the bus stop.
I found it strange that I was the only one waiting for the bus. 10 minutes later and there was still no bus in sight.
Well, no time to waste, I had to get to school.
I started running as fast as I could.
I looked behind me and saw that a dog started chasing me.
I don’t need this now, and ran very fast.
The dog grabbed my uniform, I looked down and saw I had put on the wrong shoes and was wearing my brothers’ uniform.
Oh! How could this day get any worse?!
Along the way my bag became lighter and lighter.
I stopped to see that my zip on my school bag was open and all my books had fallen out along the way...
Finally I got to school, the gates were closed and there was not a person around.
Just ME!!!
Confused, I looked around and found Mr Gold the school caretaker.
I asked him where everyone was and why the school gates were locked.
His answer was not a good one...”lt’s Saturday”, he replied!
I sat on the school steps and laughed out loud!!!!!
We experience that in life.
There are times in life where everything just goes wrong.
Maybe, this year has not started out like you hoped it would.
Everything is going wrong.
Maybe, last year was one of the roughest years of your life.
Everything that could go wrong last year went wrong.
Whether it is now or last years or 10 years ago, we have all been there where everything goes wrong.
Today, we want to talk about a guy in the Bible named Joseph.
If you don’t much about Joseph, Joseph was on the 12 sons of Jacob.
Joseph was his father’s favorite.
His father gave Joseph the coat of many colors.
God literally gave Joseph visions of grandeur in which his father and brothers were bowing down to Joseph.
It looked like Joseph was set up for a great life.
But then everything went wrong for Joseph.
His brothers were jealous and hated Joseph.
They were planning to kill him but ended up selling him into slavery.
Joseph became a slave in Egypt.
Joseph was falsely accused and thrown into prison.
Everything went wrong for Joseph.
Things were bad for Joseph.
It was a dark time in Joseph’s life.
But there are some powerful lessons that we can learn from Joseph’s life that can help us better handle when everything goes wrong in our lives.
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1. Don’t Demand to Understand
Theological: Look at verse 20.
Let’s talk about the prison that Joseph was cast into.
And Bible scholars tell us that the prison that he was cast into was not just a normal prison.
The word prison here is the word for “hole.”
They cast him into the hole, into the dungeon, into the dark part, the slimy part, where the king’s prisoners were bound.
That is, the innermost prison.
That’s not just an ordinary prison.
He’s in a very tight security.
And there he is.
Adrian Rogers: Now, remember that he is there not for doing wrong; he is there for doing right.
Had he been willing to commit adultery with Potiphar’s wife, he could have stayed out of prison; but because he dared to be different, because he purposed to be pure, he’s now in prison.
Read through the entire story of Joseph.
He never demanded to understand.
He never demanded that God give him insight into what he was going through.
Practical: When we go through tough times, do you know what our first question to God is? Why? God, why is this happening to me.
We demand to understand.
We want to know the why immediately.
(KJV) For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
God’s thoughts and techniques are different than ours.
Illustration: I heard about a college boy who came home from college.
He was telling his dad—his dad was a farmer—he said, “You know, I’ve learned a lot of things in college.”
He was a freshman.
He said, “I studied biology.
I found out the world is made wrong, and God just created everything wrong, if God created it.”
His father said, “Oh, how is that?”
They were talking, standing under an oak tree, and the son says, “Well, for example, Dad, look at this oak tree.
Look how big, how strong, it is.
It has those little acorns on it.
And then look down here on the ground.
There’s a little weak pumpkin vine, and it has those big pumpkins.”
And he said, “Really, the pumpkins ought to be on the big oak tree and the little acorns on the weak vine.”
About that time, an acorn fell off that tree and hit him on the head.
He said, “Boy, I’m glad it wasn’t a pumpkin.”
Amen?
Practical: When we don’t understand, God does.
Sometimes, God gives us understanding.
Joseph got understanding much later in the story.
But sometimes, God never reveals the why.
Take Job.
Everything went wrong in Job’s life.
His children died.
He lost his cattle.
Job developed painful boils all over his body.
Job demanded understanding.
Job wanted to know why all this bad was happening to him.
God never explained the why to Job.
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