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INTRO
1923, seems like a lifetime ago.
Eric Liddell was fast, he even said, God made me fast.
Had trained for the 440m race.
Had the ability to win.
But during the race he was tripped by a Frenchmen and fell behind 20 meters.
It’s over at this point.
For most.
He stood up and ran as fast and hard as he could.
He overtook each opponent one by one to come back and win the race.
His speed and style earned him the nickname “Flying Scotsman”
People who saw the moment described it as the greatest comeback and sport moment in history.
That’s exciting, it pumps me up.
it’s also why we often like the books, sports, and movies we do.
We love to see the one not expected, the underdog pull off the impossible.
Even when it’s not our team we mumble, ok that was pretty good...
I think it’s because a comeback story gives us hope.
We understand the first part of these stories.
Where the odds feel stacked against, the setbacks are real, it can feel there is no winning.
Over the next few weeks were going to look at a guy who truly has one of the greatest comeback stories of all times.
(other than Jesus!)
Joseph.
he didn’t just experience bad days or a bad year, but decades.
one thought I want you to have today and carry through the entire series is this,
HOW IT LOOKS, ISN’T ALL THERE IS.
Genesis 37:2-4
“This is the account of Jacob and his family.
When Joseph was seventeen years old, he often tended his father’s flocks.
He worked for his half brothers, the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah.
But Joseph reported to his father some of the bad things his brothers were doing.
Jacob loved Joseph more than any of his other children because Joseph had been born to him in his old age.
So one day Jacob had a special gift made for Joseph—a beautiful robe.
But his brothers hated Joseph because their father loved him more than the rest of them.
They couldn’t say a kind word to him.”
Joseph, the favorite child.
His dad let everyone know about it.
This family puts the FUNC in dysfunctional.
Joseph has a couple dreams that he shares with his family.
we were gathering grain, my bundle of grain rose up and your grain bundles bowed down to mine.
I saw sun and moon and eleven stars (amount of brothers) was bowing down to me...
Scripture says the brothers hated him all the more!!
Maybe don’t share the dream....
Joseph is on top, the favorite, the loved.
has dreams he will reign.
Jacob, his dad, sends him to go and check on his brothers who are out tending the sheep.
Joseph finally finds them and here is what happens
Genesis 37:18-20
“When Joseph’s brothers saw him coming, they recognized him in the distance.
As he approached, they made plans to kill him.
“Here comes the dreamer!” they said.
“Come on, let’s kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns.
We can tell our father, ‘A wild animal has eaten him.’
Then we’ll see what becomes of his dreams!””
Genesis 37:23-24
“So when Joseph arrived, his brothers ripped off the beautiful robe he was wearing.
Then they grabbed him and threw him into the cistern.
Now the cistern was empty; there was no water in it.”
Genesis 37:26-27
“Judah said to his brothers, “What will we gain by killing our brother?
We’d have to cover up the crime.
Instead of hurting him, let’s sell him to those Ishmaelite traders.
After all, he is our brother—our own flesh and blood!”
And his brothers agreed.”
IT’S A SETBACK
I think we can all agree on this.
This isn’t going according to his life plan.
Beat up, stripped off his prized jacket, dumped in a pit, overhears them talking about killing him and selling him.
We will learn through the weeks that this is just the beginnings to setbacks in Jospehs life, yet he kept coming back.
Kept rising up.
And Ultimately his dreams come true.
but right now, this is a setback.
Sitting, injured in a pit with an unsure future.
one thing I know, they all look differently, but we all experience pits.
setbacks.
knockouts even.
feeling like life has stripped us, robbed us.
Knocked down, looking up and saying how did I get here and what now.
many of us today feel like we are in that pit.
If not you will experience it.
the pits in life make you question everything.
The pit will change your entire thoughts and views.
Some of us have been in pits long enough that it’s hard to see anything else, hope for anything, expect that anything could be any better or different.
We’re not told Joseph thoughts or words while in the pit.
But can you imagine??
It’s a Pit Perspective.
In a pit, there are only a couple different views.
looking around and down.
(black screen)
Everything is dark.
Or, look up.
(show picture)
You can see there is more.
Problem, I can see there is more, there is light, but I don’t know how to get from here to there.
perspective changes everything.
Went to a concert.
So excited about the seats!!
Can’t wait.
The person sits down in front of me and is kined to goliath!
Abnormally tall.
I knew there was music goin on, I could hear it, I knew it was great because people were smiling.
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