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INTRO
Week 2 of the Comeback.
Looking at the life of the greatest comeback story, Joseph.
Last week we followed Joseph from being the favorite child, everything going his way.
to beaten, thrown in to a pit and then sold into slavery by his brothers!
But he kept coming back.
Have you ever had a moment where you just didn’t know what to do.
What do I do now....
Kid in back of car throwing up.
Youth conference last year, after the night service we tried to go eat.
tried multiple places but they were all closed or too short staffed due to covid.
Teens hungry.
Nothing open.
I get online and order at a restaurant 20 min from where we were and plan to just bring it to the room, I oder and pay over $200.
I get to the restaurant, and they are closing and say they can’t fulfill the order!!!!
Corporate will have to refund at a later time......
What do I do!!
Panicked and frustrated and mostly hungry.
I call my wife and she steps me through how to go to the grocery store and buy sandwich stuff.
Best sandwiches ever.
What do you do, when you don’t know what to do??
Because I feel like that defines so much of life.
I want to get out of this, I want to come back, but how?
Where do I even start?
Today we will be in Genesis 39.
Gen 39:1-2
“When Joseph was taken to Egypt by the Ishmaelite traders, he was purchased by Potiphar, an Egyptian officer.
Potiphar was captain of the guard for Pharaoh, the king of Egypt.
The Lord was with Joseph, so he succeeded in everything he did as he served in the home of his Egyptian master.”
Joseph wasn’t where he wanted to be.
Life plan wasn’t slavery in a country away from his, ripped from his family.
But in the midst of the worst, THE LORD WAS WITH HIM.
And because the Lord was with him, success followed him.
Gen 39:3-6a
“Potiphar noticed this and realized that the Lord was with Joseph, giving him success in everything he did.
This pleased Potiphar, so he soon made Joseph his personal attendant.
He put him in charge of his entire household and everything he owned.
From the day Joseph was put in charge of his master’s household and property, the Lord began to bless Potiphar’s household for Joseph’s sake.
All his household affairs ran smoothly, and his crops and livestock flourished.
So Potiphar gave Joseph complete administrative responsibility over everything he owned.
With Joseph there, he didn’t worry about a thing—except what kind of food to eat!
Joseph was elevated.
Rose in the ranks.
Put in charge of everything.
Potiphar’s house was blessed because Joseph.
Because God was with Joseph.
Are people and places around me blessed when I show up , even when things aren’t going my way??
Joseph is the kind of person you want to hire.
Honest, humble, hard-worker.
Gen 39:6b-9
Joseph was a very handsome and well-built young man, and Potiphar’s wife soon began to look at him lustfully.
“Come and sleep with me,” she demanded.
But Joseph refused.
“Look,” he told her, “my master trusts me with everything in his entire household.
No one here has more authority than I do.
He has held back nothing from me except you, because you are his wife.
How could I do such a wicked thing?
It would be a great sin against God.””
Difficult situation.
She prob viewed him as property.
he’s a slave, works for my husband so works for me.
I’m sure a high ranking officials wife wasn’t bad to look at, but Joseph wouldn’t give in...
Genesis 39:10-15
“She kept putting pressure on Joseph day after day, but he refused to sleep with her, and he kept out of her way as much as possible.
One day, however, no one else was around when he went in to do his work.
She came and grabbed him by his cloak, demanding, “Come on, sleep with me!”
Joseph tore himself away, but he left his cloak in her hand as he ran from the house.
When she saw that she was holding his cloak and he had fled, she called out to her servants.
Soon all the men came running.
“Look!” she said.
“My husband has brought this Hebrew slave here to make fools of us!
He came into my room to rape me, but I screamed.
When he heard me scream, he ran outside and got away, but he left his cloak behind with me.””
What do I do??
Do I do what’s right, or what’s easy?
A lot of men could have justified why just giving in is the best thing.
We are always surrounded by some sort of temptation to forfeit who we are.
To give in.
And when things are hard, it gets easier to justify.
Just this one time.
Joseph didn’t rationalize, he ran.
Genesis 39:16-20
“She kept the cloak with her until her husband came home.
Then she told him her story.
“That Hebrew slave you’ve brought into our house tried to come in and fool around with me,” she said.
“But when I screamed, he ran outside, leaving his cloak with me!” Potiphar was furious when he heard his wife’s story about how Joseph had treated her.
So he took Joseph and threw him into the prison where the king’s prisoners were held, and there he remained.”
Come on!!
From the top to back under again.
This is hard, now he is knocked down for doing what right.
Anyone feel like you can relate, I’ve done what’s right.
God where are you?
Why?
What do we do?
To no surprise look what the next verse says...
Genesis 39:21
“But the Lord was with Joseph in the prison and showed him his faithful love.
And the Lord made Joseph a favorite with the prison warden.”
Time and again, when we would wonder what to do,
Joseph doesn’t hesitate.
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