Joseph
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We are in our 5 week of our series Valleys and Peaks.
Sometimes our spiritual lives feel like a series of peaks and valleys. One moment, we feel like we are soaring high; the next, we experience a crushing low. We are looking at different people throughout the bible that have experienced this peaks and valleys.
We have look at 4 different men of the bible of the last four week.
Elijah and how he ran for is problems instead of running to God. We look at Paul and how he found contentment in Christ. Contentment is not contingent on our circumstances but on God’s faithfulness and provision.
We then look at Moses and how it ok to take our doubts to God. God is always there willing and ready for you to come to him.
Last week we look Daniel and continued to pray in the face of danger. WE learned that we should be pray with thanksgiving all the time and not just praying when the bad comes our way.
This week we are going to be look at another man from the old Test. This man is Joseph.
So if you have your bible please turn to the first book of the Bible Genesis chapter 45. If you do not have your bible you can follow along on the screen in a few moments.
Before we look at todays passage and the Joseph. I have a question for you. So think for a moment.
Have you even not understood why certain things happen?
Have you even not understood why certain things happen?
This could be good or bad thing. Some time thing happen in our life and we have no clue why they happen. After some time we look at on those thing and say O thats why this thing happened so I can do this or that. We all have those times.
This morning we are look at Joseph. So join me as I read.
1 Joseph could no longer keep his composure in front of all his attendants, so he called out, “Send everyone away from me!” No one was with him when he revealed his identity to his brothers.
2 But he wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard it, and also Pharaoh’s household heard it.
3 Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Is my father still living?” But they could not answer him because they were terrified in his presence.
4 Then Joseph said to his brothers, “Please, come near me,” and they came near. “I am Joseph, your brother,” he said, “the one you sold into Egypt.
5 And now don’t be grieved or angry with yourselves for selling me here, because God sent me ahead of you to preserve life.
6 For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting.
7 God sent me ahead of you to establish you as a remnant within the land and to keep you alive by a great deliverance.
8 Therefore it was not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of his entire household, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
9 “Return quickly to my father and say to him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says: “God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me without delay.
10 You can settle in the land of Goshen and be near me—you, your children, and your grandchildren, your flocks, your herds, and all you have.
11 There I will sustain you, for there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise, you, your household, and everything you have will become destitute.” ’
12 Look! Your eyes and the eyes of my brother Benjamin can see that I’m the one speaking to you.
13 Tell my father about all my glory in Egypt and about all you have seen. And bring my father here quickly.”
14 Then Joseph threw his arms around his brother Benjamin and wept, and Benjamin wept on his shoulder.
15 Joseph kissed each of his brothers as he wept, and afterward his brothers talked with him.
You might be wondering what is happing here. whys does Joseph brake down? What happened to him that he was sold into slavery?
Joseph went though hardships
Joseph went though hardships
The story of Joseph starts a few chapter before we pick up were we read today. It starts in chapter 37.
Joseph’s father loved him more than is other bothers. His father was Jacob. The father of the Hebrew people and who was also called Israel. Jacob had 13 sons that would end up become the nation of Israel. Joseph was one of this son. He we born to Jacob by the wife he really loved.
Joseph’s older bother’s hate the fact that he was loved some much by their father. So they came up with a plan. They sold Joseph into slavery.
This was Joseph valley time. He had now clue why is bother would do this. But you see that wasn’t the end of the low moment for Joseph. Joseph was sold to a member of the captains guard for Pharaoh in Egypt named Potiphar.
While at this house has a the master wife want Joseph to come to bed with her but Joseph told her no. She then had Joseph thrown into jail because of the lie she told that Joseph had come into make a fool of her.
So now Joseph is in prison. The Pharaoh as a dream that no one can interpret. Someone remember that Joseph could interpret dream. So Pharaoh had Joseph brought in. The dream was interpreted this way. There will be 7 year of great abundance followed by 7 years of famine. So Pharaoh appointed Joseph over all things in the kingdom. The only person that was great was Pharaoh himself.
With all that being said this bring us to where we are at today.
7 God sent me ahead of you to establish you as a remnant within the land and to keep you alive by a great deliverance.
God allow all this to happen
God allow all this to happen
You see Joseph understand that God had planned all this or you could say that God used want happen in Joseph life to benefit the Hebrew people. If God had just allowed Joseph to stay the the people might have starved when the frame came
God orchestrates all things—even calamity—for his glory and our good.
God orchestrates all things—even calamity—for his glory and our good.
Consider habits that keep you coming back to God and to community. This will help reorient you when you’re tempted to believe that you’re forgotten by God and a victim of the valley moments in your life.
We all will experience valley moments so allow God to be the one that drive you throw to the other side. Allow God to show you how he will use the valley moments because he will.
We are all worthy of is love.