BBBI - 2019.08.14 - PM - Forewarned is Forearmed (Gen. 41)
All right. I'll have you go to a couple of places tonight will eventually be in Genesis chapter 41. But before you go there you want to keep a finger in Genesis 41 if you would join me in the Book of Psalms Psalm 105 as we begin and as we start.
Psalm 105
begin reading in verse number 16 in the word of God psalmist recording Moreover that is God called for a famine upon the land. He break the whole staff of bread. He sent a man before them Joseph Goose teeth hurt with Fetters. She was laid in Iron until the time that his word came. the word of the Lord Tried Him The king sent and pushed him in the ruler of the people Letting Go free you made him Lord of his house and ruler of all his stuff Define his princess at his pleasure to teach his Senators wisdom. Israel to Egypt Jacob sojourn in the land of ham Lord, I pray that you will bless our time in your work tonight as we consider how impactful it is and what we can do at your people to make sure that we have really as other Seth said the whole word whole word to the whole world Lorde. The world is in dire need of your precious word and we have it to be able to give it to them help us to learn from Joseph tinnitus. We spend some time Brinkley looking at his journey and how you blessed his efforts to save much people a lot because of his faith in you as we share the word of God May others find eternal life in Jesus Christ as we lead them through the word of God find rest for your souls.
amen The last Joseph we've been studying his accountant in chapter number 40. We left off with Joseph in the dungeon. He was in prison. He was being kept in ward. And he was a prisoner there now because of God's hand being on Joseph. One thing that tells was mentioned after the service last time I did that I didn't get a chance to talk about during the message before was the fact that everything that it occurred in that prison house was because the Lord was with Joseph. The Lord was with Joseph. The Lord was with Joseph that we talked about that previous. It was recognized that the Lord was with Joseph. So anything that happened was because the Lord was with Joseph and it is a rather lengthy is about 57 Burgers so we won't read all of them, but just to get the flow of where Joseph is at. Let's look at verse number one and it came to pass at the end of two full years to people years from what two full years from Wendy Bachelor Butler forgot Joseph. Is when The Bachelor and the baker for payroll was cast into the prison with Joseph and he interpreted their dreams. It's been two years. And Joseph probably feels forgot. In fact, that's how chapter 40 closes yet. Did not the chief Butler. Remember Joseph but forget super 2 full years.
In God's timing a row has a degree. Empty hole says Fay Road drained and behold he stood by the river and I take that to mean the Nile River and it wasn't until the 1800s. We even knew where the Nile Source was and it wasn't until some British explorers made their way through the heart of Africa and found Lake Victoria in Trace that up to the river. I can't remember the name of it. That is the headwaters for them. And so for all of human history recent recent centuries, we didn't know where the Nile started it all spills out into the Mediterranean Sea you notes the river that flows north kind of different than most rivers and go which way does the Mississippi flow does it close South? And so the Nile actually flows into the Mediterranean empties into that Delta and so up in this Egypt area of Africa, you're going to have a key cities like Memphis and so some of the kings of a rose Mention that the payroll that is mentioned here is the king of Memphis and so he's over that area that you've got Goshen. If you look at the well water planes are at the Delta region where when Israel comes to Egypt will be able to find good pasturage and take care of their clocks and things that's not till later but it's saying here that Pharaoh's dream has him standing by the river say standing by the night. I don't think we can stress the importance that enough because in this day and time everything Rose and tell him and not and whether you had food or not was depending on whether the Nile had water or not. And there are times that they've they've been able to document that it would be down to just inches and then other times it's flooding in its banks. And so there's there's actually some evidence that would pinpoint some of the famines that would occur like the one we're studying here and there scrap yards that they've Unearthed elsewhere of letters that are things that they found that attest to the fact that they did have these diamonds and so in the Bible just validates what we're doing with science. Amen, and that's how we approach that.
The Nile now, this is the source of sustenance for the entire Egyptian Nation at this time. So he's standing at the place of provision and he's dreaming and behold there came up out of the river. And sometimes we do a play around in the cow pastures find ourselves not to get too close to the bolts. And then he want to stay clear of other play that day for sure. I remember Crossing through and it be you're not getting out without he'll definitely look how they like to stay in that portion of the river. Where are these cows are in the water and hear they're coming up out of the river and there's a fattest cows you'd ever see. He said they're well paper. Will Vapor Time in the West?
And they said in the middle. So these are cows are not the kind of depression and I'm trying to keep me for a couple of weeks before it turns those kind of things. You know, they are leans left their little favor in his dream and of the river that you'll favored and willing flesh and go Scout. Will they were so hungry house?
Corn came up on one stock readout of not not Supreme Court in different kind of East Wind coming from this day will be full of that are or you just take everything out this way. There's nothing that would last so the East Wind The senators in Eastwind sprung up after them the seven years now. Orangecabinet, and so they devoured the seven Rank and pull here's in February and behold. It was a drink. So this sets the tone for Joseph about to come out of prison. It's been two years since he in a row has a dream and I want you to notice something really through the entire night and I won't read every single verse like I said, but I just want to challenge you tonight to to see how Joseph could be used of God and then ask yourself Lord. How can I be Joseph today? How can I use your word in the same way in a similar way I should say because we're not going to be interpreting dreams and those kind of things. We have all of the revelation of God. I want to be clear on that. But we can use the revealed word of God to us today to help others were in need of a Sonos first world needs the word of God and this one capsule 8 first one all the way down to verse number 45 on the importance of God's revelation had to go back in my mind here singing the doxology. I remember taking some classes in college one of those classes. I took was with the aspect of Revelation and we went through all the aspects. We went through General Revelation the creation God reveals himself through the Stars the heavens through the Rocky Mountains God's fingerprint is all around people Sunset. However, you want to think about it. You can see God in general Revelation, but then there's also specific revelation.
Scriptures on this day and time the scriptures have not have not been culminated like they are now. We're in the first book of the Bible if they have scripture. I would probably some portions of jobber written down. If not, the entirety of the book of Joe. I believe Joseph very well could have a record of that that you can study and meditate on butt. Joseph's account is not going to be written sometime until sometime later when Moses comes on the scene and a so everything that was given up to this point is going to be oral transmission. All the way back to add not really because if Abraham was a contemporary and could have lived the same time as shim sham being a son of Noah and Shem tops Noah Shem tops Abraham. He Bridges the Gap. So the oral transmission, you don't have to talk to a hundred people. You just talked to him and that's about as far back as you got to go Seven Generations. If you count them in the book when you get back all the way to the Garden to talk to somebody who was there that knew what happened. So through the course of time in human history. Now. God has preserved his word. He's written it down. It's getting by divine inspiration. Every word of this Bible is inspired by God to give it to us so that we can have confidence that we can go talk to somebody who was there in the beginning and then I love that. I don't have to guess about it. I know who was there God was there I read the account of what happens in Joseph's life and I don't have to question. I think I can just take it Lock Stock & Barrel is the word of God. And so the world desperately needs the word of God. We've been reading down through first number 7 and we see the importance of God's revelation. Think about how important the revelation of God is the Pharaoh at this juncture in time. I did that. He wasn't going to reveal himself to Pharaoh Joseph, Waterville, Maine.
An Egypt those days that Joseph would have lived would probably have been short because Egypt would not have been prepared to carry the world through. What do you understand? How important is revelation is now we think about that are named time. There's coming a day where something much worse than a famine is going to come on this world, and we've been told and we've been given the revelation of God almighty. Justice they were in this day now didn't come through dream. He came through the inspired scriptures, but I want you to see how court the word of God in Revelation of God Speak.
And so they roll doesn't know though. Yes, no idea that. This is God's revelation to him. It will wind up being this Revelation even in that extend that had dream set Kings would have drinks and Joaquin would have a dream. It was very significant when a king had to drink that was extremely significant. There was a story about another king somewhere that had two dreams in the dreams that was put on so you can understand why is trouble he can figure this out. I'm standing on the roof.
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Stop supporting and I'm on the bend in the river. I know what I'm doing there. It's a dream. And he's perplexed working on these interpretation books interpreting the popular and the baker streams. And so here he goes and he consults the people who had enough in his day, you know, this would be like heading over to head over to you know, maybe you head up to the Mayo Clinic or Mayo Clinic and I will go check every doctor, you know, see if anybody has written about these particular symptoms and then come back and say sorry we got nothing. You don't know Sophia Rose as what's in The Magicians are not Mayo Clinic. Don't take it to the extreme. I'm just giving you a today's celebration of how that might fall out and how you feel about it. I don't know which magician's scriptures. You'll see them on the scene. So here you have. Probably the most prominent ruler of the world at the same time. And God in essence is making sure that he becomes subservient to a Hebrew slave. Who has a relationship with him? Apart from Joseph and God and Moses relationship with God when God's people have been sent to bondage again in Babylon. You have a man named Dane who will also be an interpreter of dreams and God will take a Nebuchadnezzar underneath why because God is the king of kings and Lord of lords and he is Sovereign over this world Affair and he was so burned in and he is Sovereign today. He sets Nations up. He takes Nations down and everything that our leaders to God has ways of bringing his people and those that he would use subservient to His Sovereign has free will be on the gate. That favor has free will not seek out Joseph but hear this is Providence God is moving and he's ordering circumstances to where Joseph couldn't find his way out of this prison. And so we see the importance of prayer and the world is doomed for judgement. Cairo dreams of cattle and dreams. Of course. You can't figure it out notice the intensity of the worlds desperation. I remember some great and came to pass in the morning. His Spirit was troubled. He said a call from The Magicians magicians of Egypt and all the wise men there up in Barrow told Ms. Green notice the desperation there was none that can interpret them on the payroll.
Friend, you can pour this world over you can search to the Earth's end and you will never find what the word of God can give you deep down inside your heart and there's a there's a desperation that the world has and it needs the revelation of God. It needs the word of God just as in this day. So now we see how God intervene have inspect the chief Butler under Pharaoh finally pipes up. It's been 2 years and he says I do remember my pulse to stay. That why is he doing this? I would submit to you that it's not because he's really feeling sorry about forgetting Joseph. I think he's doing it out of self-service. He's there and pay rose right hand getting him to stop and he says okay I can get in good with payroll. Nobody can figure this out. So I think he's trying to get some attention on himself there. But peyroux. history Theory cast the whole story
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according to my recollection and we dream each man, according to the interpretation of his dream. There was there with us a young man in Hebrew servant to the cabin.
We told him and he has our dreams to each man according to his dream that he interpret and it came to pass as he interpreted to us. So it was what's the word in here? Joseph Joseph good morning is interesting. They're God's hand is on this man and two arrows in a predicament. He's received the revelation of God and who they are. SeaWorld is in desperate need for the revelation of God for God's work and yet they can come to the school can they can grow through this book and and how many have poured over this way? And it's late in the NXT old like they beat you up in Munich on his way back down to Ethiopia after leaving Jerusalem worship God to seek God, but he doesn't know his eyes are not illuminated to the Holy Ghost. Joints is Chariot and ask him simple question understand. Is that without readers his words were how can I accept a man guide me? So here Joseph is going to be feeling to the sparrow who like that eunuch has a size has scales overs on and can't see what God is trying to tell me. And then God uses his his messenger uses his Bethel humble vessel Joseph and Joseph come to him.
Think about that in your life there people where you worked there people where you live there people that you go to school with their people that you're going to pass on the streets this week and they've got scales and rice.
They know can they see the truth? How many have tried to darken the doors on churches in turn away because they were never explained the truth of the tribute God help us. We entertain them in the mount the do we help them connect with the truth that God has that will change their life and save their soul revelation. We see the intensity of the worlds desperation. And then secondly tonight. The people of God need to share the word of God with the world. The world desperately needs the word of God. The people of God need to share the word of God with the world. Let's pick up our story person with 14 pero sin called Joseph and they brought them hastily out of them are quick. So Joseph Ghost World Record.
I heard I heard about your reputation. Joseph one of the things I want to hear is Joseph's response to pay rub each other since it wasn't me. I didn't do that. Joseph is quick to not take any credit for what happened to your previous when he was able by God's help to give the interpretation of the dreams of the butler pick. What the shows this is that God makes Divine appointments on our calendar. And here's a Divine appointment for Joseph. He's been waiting two years for this Divine employment at the right time payroll and payroll is seeking will go up and seeking an interpretation for the revelation of God that was given to him and Joseph is quick to give glory to God and say there's one person who can help you. There's only one person who knows the answer and it's not me. It's God God is the one that can give you migraines. You see how that works for NBC when we are in place to where we can witness the folks and share the word of God within we're always pointing to Jesus Army cuz it's not a speed. We can't save anybody. They're Stanley and like Joseph we get them to the feet of Jesus. We say look how I can't I can't solve all the problems. I don't have all the answers for your soul. And that's Jesus Christ. The greatest need the Pharaoh has right now is to find God and Joseph going to take him right there. So see what's happening here. 4 Charlton I just want to work this out Joseph Vacaville. Egyptian Court The pleasure of God said they were Egypt and say there's only one.
Be safe. We got to wait for me.
Everybody today is saying so everything all roads lead to the same place. And the walls are coming down and ecumenic ecumenism is spreading and everybody's trying to get to God their own way. and it's going to take bolts for a person to stand up and say there's only
The Bible says Jesus is the way the truth and the life the Bible says no man cometh unto the father. But by him he has convictions stand up in the midst of all these islands all of the folks person down and say God.
The people of God need to share the word of God with the world notice Joseph confession of complete Reliance on God skillful. Take a little Liberty Theater in the litter rated for you as pretty sure we can do that. Joseph is skip over the scripture is the scripture for us that we need to become well-versed with and able to handle is the revelation of God 66 books right here that can help you witness. And so this would be the equivalent of a rose dream. We can take people to the Bible and say let me help you understand it. You got to be so you find somebody you trust.
You come to church to a good Bible believing Bible preaching Church anytime you can you listen to good Bible preaching on the radio. Be careful who you listen to be careful who you let into your home via TV and radio how many times do we turn away from our front door? And then we'll turn the TV on and let him write in different different thing altogether and so notice Joseph here in his skill to be able to interpret ipayroll stream and we need to be skilled with the scripture of the embassy Joseph said in the payroll the dream of payroll is one but it's the fact that you had to and it's not going to change God is sending this. There's no way around it. There's no way it will ever. What happened? Help him understand notices complete confidence in the revelation of God trans. The only Authority you have when you're talkin others that need the word of God is the word of God. The only reason we can stand up and tell people that there's hope it's because of the scriptures that testified Jesus Christ and that hope is the anchor of our soul.
There's a place. Psychology, there's a place for medicine. I'm not negating that. There are a great man to have done great. Things are great women who have unlocked great Mysteries. And we have such knowledge at our disposal day and I was prophesied by David. I mean if knowledge just ask Google and only tell you the knowledge you want to know but you can search anything.
Joseph stand before payroll he is absolutely confident that why he sang is God's word. We live in today and time where God's word has been questioned left and right but I'm here to tell you tonight. You can take this book and you can stand on it. You can stand on the Promises of God. We have the Bible. We don't have to go looking for the Bible. You don't have to dig it out of the basement of the bag. They don't have to go find it in Alexandria. We don't have to I don't have to pour over us take documents from saini Atticus. We don't have to go after all these folks think we can just take our Bible and help others people treat blister. You see the confidence that you need to have scriptures. If you can handle them scopely. You need to know the revelation of God to be able to expand that to others.
Confidence and revelation of God from the scriptures seven years of plenty. And cows sitting years of Fame play the Wayne corn 7 years of famine. It's coming. It's not changing. It's part of God's plan.
You can be prepared payroll. So then based off the council to Faroe and save if you're smart, you're going to store up in the years of plenty to Stave off and help feed people when they're hungry in the seven years. You need to look for somebody that's wise enough to oversee all of this payroll. It's bigger than you. But if you'll do this God's to use that and then get wise counsel to pharaoh to help him in the upcoming wise counsel and guidance. So I can't the people of God need to share the word of God with the whole world. We are going to be given Divine appointments to do that. And when those Divine appointments Scripture completely through the scriptures to add now. I don't want to I don't want to muddy the waters. So because they're those today that preached a health and wealth gospel and Prosperity Gospel and all this will happen if you'll get a bunch of money and your life will be okay all of that hogwash, you might get a lot of stuff. You might not God will reward those who are faithful in a little And they will be made rulers over much. What is it that happens before the Rapture or after that's up to God and he has planned for each individual and so don't listen misunderstand what I'm saying. God will reward your faithfulness to share his work. Now. This is giving us an illustration of that right here because of mediately you said I need to find somebody why I found him. It's Joseph and the transformation happen. No more back to the prison for Joseph know he is going to be wearing silkies going to be wearing Royal apparel and he's elevated to vice president under payroll overall Egypt and if and when he goes and set the granaries to be able to haul all this grain in and stored up that would speak to this time frame that expanded and they could expand their field and have more growth and just brain after grinding gather this stuff in Hanover this so much. So the Bible says Joseph
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That's good advice. preparing for the want Wise counsel as we see his Ascension into second we commanded repair the six Siding World desperately needs the word of God. It's important that the world understand that they need the word of God and it's an intense desperate need they have for the people of God, which is you and I today we've been given given the scriptures to be able to carry those on and get word of God a spirit getting wise counsel hand to the plow and not look back at one day. We'll stand for him if he'll say those work well done thou good and faithful servant enter the voice of my rest and I'll close with this last point. To be forewarned of judgment is to be forearmed to be forgiven.
used to be for R22 There is a way to escape the coming judgment and it's through forgiveness of sin and the blood of Jesus. That's the only way out today from the great judgment as to come on the world. Just the world knows they would flood and you promise to never flood the world again one day. There's coming a day of God's Wrath but its power will fall in OV fire and brimstone in this whole world be judged. We're headed for it rapidly and faster and faster each day. I believe we're seeing the World ride going to that point anyway to be ready before warrant for warrant.
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Joseph gather corn is the sand of the sea very much until he left number eight and under Joseph were born Tucson at watch. four side of the fan wisely planning ahead is a basic principle of practical living as quoted from Bible knowledge commentary and Ross said that in a few estate planning ahead is base is a basic principle for practical living. Go to see inside buffet that Joseph has.
Forearm to be forgiven. Joseph has an inside of faith in the face in verse number 50 Joseph has two sons because he was given a sin that the daughter of Pata Pata Pata pair of capris Devon and so he's able this. This was interesting to me because you know, you think of part of her we talked about him possibly being a beauty those that are closest to the payroll is going to feel threatened by him. So, why was Joseph
Because he's going to have two sons at least two sons are going to become two tribes. Well, I have tried and tried and a half truck from from his from his legacy here and look at this. He called The Neighbors 51 of the firstborn Vanessa. The interpretation is given to you in your Bible right here. What does Manasseh mean in Hebrew? It means Manasseh. What does Manasseh mean Vanessa? Vanessa simply means to forget? In the name of the second he called at 3 a.m. Abraham For God has caused me to be proved. You see God in both of those God. Damn it. God did it cost me to be fruitful in a foreign land. I'm just a pilgrim passing through I came into this world with nothing and I look now as a as a servant of God and I'm humbled to see how God has blessed our church bless the faith of his people to follow him anywhere. There was nothing now. God has blessed Joseph says I've forgotten all the toil all that all that nasty stuff all that that darkness is gone God's called me forget that and he's also made me. forgetting and fruitfulness
He had two drinks. interpreted to imprisonments G interpreted two trains and also Pharaoh had two dreams all the way back to the games. I don't know Joseph doesn't see this way. But can you imagine him just looking over the horizon? Just waiting looking for that Caravan to come they got to come sometime everybody else in the world is starving surely. They're not going to stay there or are they all the way back to that dream? When did sad come about down before him? Brothers from Counting machines down so many stars down Joseph never lost sight of God Wilson closer and closer to God. He was a man to be admired in so many ways.
And so to be forewarned of judgment is to be forearmed to be forgiven. There was a poor side of famine. There was an inside of faith and then we look here at the last verses of prosperity in the midst of property 1st. 53 really you should carry this through chapter 42 in verse probably 5 or 5 somewhere around there. But if you look at verse 53 the seven years of plenteousness that was in the land of Egypt Brandon. cabs near me Are the seven years of dirt began to come courting is Joseph and the Spanish the people cry?
Whatever. He says to you duke Marquette prison that phrase would you put circle around that there was also a problem and they ran out of wine and wedding and Mary went to Jesus. So we've got trouble. And then she turns around and says to the servants whatsoever. He say it to you.
Those are good words to say Ro save whatever whatever you said lie, because one day he's going to come and he will give his life on Calvary and he died for the sins of the world whatsoever. He saith do you do as Paul said when he encountered the Lord on the road to Damascus Lord, what will have me to do? We need to come to that place where we're ready and willing there's prosperity in the mist of property. When you look ahead you see even though this world is headed for judgement. Those that come to God by faith through Jesus Christ will find prosperity in the midst of all that judgment the World Riley and Judgment of sin and unbelief, and the devil is being judged in the Antichrist and false prophet and the Beast all of them are cashing Lake fire in this old world is judge-made new. We're to be safe with Jesus and he's going to come and Rule and Reign for a thousand years. She got to go through that payment. So to speak before I will ever find the blessing of God. and as we look at it is Prosperity in the midst of poverty what's got doing? I want you to notice. There's a God is overseeing it all. There's a Joseph who's willing to just take the word of God and say let me show you the way. And there's a sparrow but humbles himself and acknowledges revelation. God says he's got the answer Joseph Oregon Farish. If you're in pair of shoes, I invite you and encourage you and if you look to God because he has the answer. Are you in Josef shoes and take this Revelation and go lead somebody to cheeses that needs.
All the time trusting that God Sovereign his program will be carried out to the ends of the Earth.