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Joseph Tests His Brothers
What does reconciliation look like?
As humans that occasionally outside into the world and interact with other humans we’ve all had moments in our lives when we’ve needed to be reconciled with other people.
Illustration: I live in a house with 3 kids all under the age of 10.
At this very moment my house is the most peaceful it will be all week… because no on is there.
And i’m not just talking about it being quiet.
There is a seemingly never ending cycle of restoration: friendship, hurt, broken relationship, repentance, forgiveness,
Joseph’s story is a story of reconciliation and salvation.
God could have saved Jacob’s family from this famine w/o Joseph being sold into slavery.
Without Joseph suffering injustice and being thrown into jail.
With out the pain of boken relationships with his brothers and separation from his father, but as with all scripture God isn’t just telling us this story from afar to give us a history lesson.
He’s revealing something about himself.
Through all scripture, God is revealing himself.
He’s revealing his heart, his character… his ways.
So here in Chapter 44, God is continuing to reveal his ways to Jacob and his family… and to us...
What’s your attitude when you meet new people?
Better yet, what’s it like RE-meeting or re-uniting with someone.
I’m coming up on the 20th year since I graduated High School.
I’m a member of the last class of the 20th Century: Class of 2000.
This coming school year is the 19-20 school year.
It’s been 20 years since I’ve seen some of the people I went to high school with.
I didn’t go to my 10 year reunion.
What do you talk about?
Where do you begin?
How much do you share?
Who can you trust?
I’m probably not going to my 20th… just ‘cause those types of things aren’t my jam.
I probably wouldn’t even recognize anyone.
I recently just learned that I attended a church service about a year ago with a guy I went to High school with.
Let me say that a little more clearly.
I went to a Church service at Sojourn Galleria.
Believed I didn’t know anyone there, except the man preaching.
Then just recently, like 2 weeks ago, learned that a guy I went to High school with (We even sat next to each other in English class our Jr.
Year) was there at the same church service.
I didn’t recognize him.
He didn’t recognize me.
Over long periods of time, people change.
And so here find ourselves we are in .
The heading in my bible (the headings by the way, are not original.
Those are added in.
Mine says: Joseph Tests His Brothers.
He’s not seen them.
Maybe at first, he was legitimately unsure if these guys were his brothers.
He tells them to come back with their youngest brother.
They do about a year later.
He questions them.
He feasts with them.
He’s about 98% sure (not really) these guys are his brothers.
But then Joseph still feels the need to test them.
Let’s read:
Chapter 43 ends with Joseph and his brother’s feasting at Joseph’s house
Chapter 43 ends with Joseph and his brother’s feasting at Joseph’s house
The brothers still have no idea that the person they are “serving” is their brother.
They recognize his authority, power, and influence (even in their own lives) but they don’t understand who He is nor how they are connected to him.
We left off last week w/ Joseph’s brothers, including Benjamin, partying the night away
Genesis 43:
As Tyler preached last week.
Joseph is a type of messiah.
He is someone in scripture that points us to the type of messiah God would ultimately send his people: Jesus.
Jesus is the true and better Joseph.
We’re going to read this whole thing!
As we look a this story, knowing we are not Joseph, we are not the central character in this story, we look to the 11 brothers, and find we can relate to them more than we realize.
For the rest of this series through the life of Joseph, we’ll be looking at the plight of Joseph’s brothers and asking our selves, how have we acted like this toward God?
How have our hearts and our attitudes completely misunderstood the love of God in our own lives?
ends with Joseph and his brothers eating and drinking together.
My translation says.
“And they drank and were merry with him.”
Genesis
Pray
We’re going to talk about principles we can use in reconciliation.
And how ultimately reconciliation affects our relationship, not only with others, but ultimately with God.
Use Caution in Reconciliation: Reconciliation isn’t as simple as Do you forgive me?
I forgive you?
Let’s play!
Joseph Still hasn’t told his brother’s who he is.
Forgiveness is not the same thing as reconciliation.
You can forgive someone, but not reconcile.
I believe that’s where Joseph is with his brothers at this stage in the story
Don’t be a doormat in all your relationships
Forgive freely, but exercise caution in reconciliation.
Boundaries: Cloud & Townsend
Joseph is testing his brothers (vs.
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This is what my heading says, “Joseph test his brothers”
The text doesn’t tell us what he’s testing for
I believe, he’s testing them to see if they had changed, to know if it they’re safe people for him trust.
the brother’s he knew 20 years ago were not safe.
He’s testing to see if their hearts, their character had changed
Sumarrize verses 6-13
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Summary
Judah does most of the talking
Aside: Who is Judah - Judah, The one who suggested selling Joseph instead of killing him
not because he didn’t want his brother to die, but because there’s no “profit/money” in it for them if they just kill him ()
In , We’re given an entire chapter on Judah’s life… and it’s not pretty.
He’s an evil and selfish man, who only cares about himself.
kids, only read that chapter with your parents permission.
Genesis 44:16
The brothers view the Cup appearing in Benjamin’s sack as a work of God
They came to Egypt for food
If God can make their money appear in their sack he can certainly make a cup appear
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