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“The Road to Redemption”
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I want to give us an overview of , which records the road to redemption for Joseph’s brothers.
closes with a great famine in the land of Egypt, which has spread into the land of Canaan.
The only place that food was available was in Egypt.
The Pharaoh had a dream that Joseph interpreted; the dream told of seven years of plenty, followed by seven years of severe famine.
Joseph counseled the Pharaoh to choose a wise man, and put him in charge of gathering, storing up grain and corn during the seven years of plenty, so they would have plenty of food during the seven years of famine.
The Pharaoh chose Joseph; and he put Joseph in charge of all the land of Egypt.
Joseph becomes the Prime Minister.
Joseph opens the storehouses and sells corn and food to all the people that come to Egypt to buy.
A couple of years into the famine; God puts the spotlight on Jacob and his family in the land of Canaan.
V:1-2“Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, and he said unto his sons, why do you keep staring at each other?
I’ve heard that there is corn in each of go down there, and by us some corn; that we may live, and not die”
10 of Jacob’s sons; the brothers of Joseph, the same brothers that hated him because of the coat of many colors, and because he was his father’s favorite son; and because he dreamed that he saw them bowing down before him.
We’re told that Jacob wouldn’t allow Benjamin to go with them, Benjamin was the youngest, and the son of Rachel, Joseph’s mother.
Try to picture in your mind these 10 bearded Hebrew men as they approach the place to buy grain and food.
Joseph happened to be at the very distribution center that these brothers came to buy corn.
V:6-8-Read.
I wonder if Joseph had been looking for his brothers to show up one day.
Over 20 years has gone by since the last time he had seen them.
The last time he had seen them, was when they pulled him out of the pit and sold him into slavery as a 17-year-old boy.
He had 20 years to think about what his brothers did to him; and here they are hungry, desperate, seeking to buy bread and to save their family from starvation.
My how the tables had turned!
Joseph recognize them, but they did not recognize him.
They are bearded and war the garb of Canaan and spoke in Hebrew.
Joseph was clean-shaven, with an Egyptian headdress, dressed in the robes of Egypt, and he spoke to them in Egyptian through a translator.
You say; I can’t believe they didn’t know who he was.
Don’t forget he’d been in Egypt for 20 years; people have a way of changing as they get older.
Do you remember the high school reunion he went to?
I went with Tess to her high school reunion years ago; and I said on the way home; I’ve never seen so many old people in all my life.
You know we never think we’re getting old, we just think everybody our age is old.
20 years have passed, Joseph’s brothers do not know that this powerful Egyptian prime minister is there brother they sold into slavery 20 years earlier.
Joseph spoke rough to his brothers, accuse them of being spies; he finds out that his father is still alive, and about his baby brother Benjamin.
He continues to accuse them of being spies; and tells them the only way to convince him they’re not spies, is to bring their brother Benjamin to him.
He puts Simeon in jail, and tells them he will get out of jail when you bring Benjamin.
Joseph fills their sacks with grain, and puts their money back into their sacks as well.
On their way home they discovered that their money had been restored to them; they had received free grain.
When they got home they told their father Jacob all that had happened to them.
In a matter of time they ran out of food again, Jacob said you go to go back to Egypt again and buy us a little food.
They said dad remember the headman in Egypt told us when he took Simeon prisoner that if we didn’t come back with Benjamin; Simeon would not get out of jail, and there would be no more food for us!
They’re forced to take Benjamin with them to Egypt; once in Egypt, Joseph puts them through a series of test to see if they’re the same mean, wicked, jealous brothers that used to be, or had God and time changed them.
It is a fascinating account, as Joseph sits his brothers down to a banquet in order of their birth, gives a larger portion of food, clothing to Benjamin.
Joseph is seeing if his brothers are still filled with jealousy.
Joseph feels their sacks with grain once again and sends them back to Canaan.
But this time Joseph plants his silver cup in Benjamin’s sack of grain; and when they get almost out of town Joseph sends one of his workers to stop them, and accuses them of stealing his cup.
The cup is found in Benjamin’s sack, and all of the brothers come back to Joseph’s house.
Joseph will further press these brothers to see if they would abandon Benjamin, as they had abandoned him.
Judah speaks up and says, 44:33, take my life and let Benjamin go free; at this point in the story Joseph reveals who he is to his brothers, 45:1-4-Read.
Can you imagine what that moment must have been like?
Those brothers who had sold him into slavery had thought for years that he was dead.
His dad thought he had been eaten by wild animal, and years before had given up all hope of him being alive.
I can picture them standing there with their mouths gaping open, they cannot believe that this is their brother!
He has to say to them several times I’m Joseph, I’m Joseph; I’m Joseph your brother, who you sold into Egypt.
Tears are flooding down Joseph’s face, as he is reconciled to his brothers!
, are some of the most moving verses in all of the Bible!
In these chapters we have a picture of, family reconciliation.
But there is a greater message behind this human reconciliation; and that is the message of divine reconciliation.
In the account of Joseph being reconciled to his brothers we have a clear picture of what’s involved in a sinner being reconciled to God!
I want us to walk the road of redemption with Joseph ten brothers; and learn how it pictures for us the road to redemption through Jesus Christ.
The first step on the road of redemption is to:
1. Experience the Conviction of the Holy Spirit!
When Joseph’s brothers come to Joseph to buy grain and he accuses them of being spies listen to what they say, -Read.
They said to Joseph we are true men… That means we are honest men, we are not spies.
These guys have a self-righteous attitude, they think that they are honest, trustworthy, good men.
Now we know that these men were not honest men!
They had murdered a whole village of people, one of them had committed incest with his daughter in law, and they had hated their brother Joseph who they’re talking to right now, plan to kill him, then sold him into slavery.
They were guilty, guilty, guilty men with blood on their hands.
Yet they had the audacity to stand before Joseph in their self-righteousness and claim we are honest men.
And this is exactly why there is no reconciliation to Joseph, until you get the chapter 45.
Learn this; Jesus Christ will not revealed himself to self-righteous men who don’t acknowledge their sin, guilt, wickedness before him!
It is a true fact that when the Holy Spirit begins to convict you of your sin the first thing you want to do is begin to justify yourself, declare your own righteousness.
Well I’m not that bad a person.
I’m not as bad as so-and-so.
I’m a pretty good guy.
I’ve never cheated on my wife, stole anything, or murdered anybody.
So what does Joseph do to bring his brothers to the place to see their guilt, sin and wickedness?
Joseph accuse him of being spies, says the only way to prove to me you’re not spies is to go and bring your younger brother back here.
Then Joseph throws these 10 brothers into the prison for three days.
After three days Joseph comes and tells them: -Read.
V:21-“They said one to another, we are very guilty concerning our brother, we saw the anguish of his soul, when he begged us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us”
They are talking to one another, their still not aware there in the presence of Joseph, or that he can understand them.
But there becoming conscious of their sin, their acknowledging their sin.
Joseph is setting all this up to awaken their guilty conscious.
The first step on the road to redemption is to experience the conviction of the Holy Spirit over your sin and guilt before a Holy God!
Joseph orders their bags to be feel with grain and restores every man’s money.
They loaded up their donkeys and head back to the land of Canaan.
One of the brothers opened his sack to give his donkey some grain and his money was in his sack.
He told his brothers, and listen to what they say, -Read.
Their hearts trembled, God is on their mind, their feeling the pressure of God; they are under conviction of their guilt before God.
In the first few verses of were told the famine gets worse, and Jacob says to his sons go back down to Egypt and get us some more food.
For some of you this morning God is dealing with you, and you sense a spiritual famine, a growing awareness of a deep hunger in your heart that nothing in this world can satisfy!
Jesus is doing the work of conviction in your heart!
God has made you aware of your need and your spiritual famine will intensify until you obey God’s call of salvation!
The spirit of God had made them aware of their sin and guilt.
Don’t think that conviction over your sin and condition before God is a bad thing; it is a good thing!
You cannot be redeemed, saved, and made right with God; unto you realize you’re lost, guilty, a sinner without God!
In , Joseph meets his brother Benjamin, has to run out of the room to keep from weeping over him publicly.
They have a meal together, in which Joseph seats his brothers in order of their ages.
Joseph is arranging everything that’s happening to bring his brothers to a place of conviction, to acknowledge that their sinners, and guilty before God!
The road to redemption involves, the conviction of the Holy Spirit.
The second step on the road of redemption is to:
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