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Joseph : God meant it for good
Intro the series: Life of Joseph
At this point Joseph is a boy (17)
He’s loved by his father
As far as we can tell, he’s a good kid.
We’re not told by the narrator Joseph has any major character flaws.
His brother’s HATE him.
Let’s pick up in
Before we read this text let me ask, have you ever witnessed someone doing something to harm someone else, but what they ended up doing actually ended up helping the person they were trying to harm
Roy Riegels (Cal) 1929 Rose Bowl.
8-7 loss to GA Tech
Raiders of the Lost ark.
both these stories tell of men who tried to defeat their enemies but only ended up helping them.
What does that have to do with ?
let’s see
Genesis 37:12-36
Pray
Jacob is sent by his father (12-17)
His father sends Joseph to check on his brothers in Shechem
His brothers are not where they’re supposed to be (bad report?)
Joseph has to go seek go find them
Jacobs brothers see Joseph from a long way off (18-24)
They are motivated by (1) hatred and (2) a desire to put an end to Joseph’s dreams (18 & 20)
Little did they know that what they were doing to end Joseph’s dreams were actually exactly what needed to happen to make these dreams come true.
They want to kill him
His brother’s decide not to kill him
The sell him for 20 shekels of silver.
They take Joseph’s robe and tel their father he was killed by a wild animal
This is Joseph’s reward.
This isn’t fair.
This isn’t what Joseph deserves.
From what we could tell he was a good kid (17).
We ‘re not told he has any major character defects
He’s trusted and loved by his father.
He was simply doing what was asked of him… and this is what he Gets
Job
All throughout scripture, we see this patter that is being built out right here in the life of Joseph: Salvation comes through sin and suffering
The sin of Joseph’s brothers is a spectacular sin
They are in need of salvation and they don’t even realize it yet.
Life is pretty good.
but a famine is coming
God is working out a plan for their salvation even while they sin spectacularly against Joseph, their brother and God.
The suffering one is righteous
job, noah, all the prophets.
seeing a righteous suffering servant prepares us to see Jesus
we really haven’t seen Joseph’s righteousness through this passage, but his life is already pointing us to Jesus
Joseph pointing us to Jesus through this the story so far:
Joseph was sent by his father to seek out his brothers
Jesus was sent by God the father to seek out his brothers
Joseph’s brother’s were not where they were supposed to be, So like a good shepherd he looks until he finds them
Jesus is the Good shepherd, he came to seek and save the lost.
Joseph’s brothers hated him and want to kill him and put and end to his dreams.
They plotted to kill him
Jesus’ people, religious leaders wanted to kill him and put an end to what they called blasphemy they plotted to kill him
Joseph was sold for 20 sheckels of shilver
Jesus was sold for 30… inflation?
In both cases these murders were plotting spectacular sin, to put an end to hearing the things they did not like.
All they while what they were actually doing was fulfilling the dreams/prophecies they were trying to end
God was working out a way for a great salvation even salvation for Joseph’s brothers, murders and spectacular sinners like us.
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