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Intro
The comeback.
Looking at one of the greatest comeback stories of all time, Joseph.
Favorite child, hated by his brothers, beaten and sold into slavery,
Slavery to Potiphar, get elevated, Potiphar’s wife lies and he is thrown into prison.
Any one of the things that Joseph went through, I think we would all be understanding if he gave up… Yet he didn’t
He kept persevering.
Keep moving forward.
We understand a setback, How do we come back?
Rise up?
Overcome?
Imagine this.
A small island discovers an ancient tablet.
The secret to life:
Where hats.
so for generations the made hats.
wore them.
bigger and more extreme.
then someone find out the tablet had been translated and interpreted wrong.
it didn’t say anything about hat.
It was a recipe for stew....
Generations of people would have lived based off a wrong understanding.
THE OUTCOME IS DETERMINED BY THE INTERPRETATION.
Joseph is one who understood this reality.
He had dreams in his heart, and somehow he had discovered a way to live the dream even when it feels like a nightmare.
Because he knew how to interpret the dream no matter what the day looked like.
We say living the dream, but we usually just means anything but.
We find Joseph locked away in prison.
Knocked down but still not taken out.
Genesis 40:1-4
“Some time later, Pharaoh’s chief cup-bearer and chief baker offended their royal master.
Pharaoh became angry with these two officials, and he put them in the prison where Joseph was, in the palace of the captain of the guard.
They remained in prison for quite some time, and the captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, who looked after them.”
Joseph is now in a leadership position, in prison!
Genesis 40:5-6
“While they were in prison, Pharaoh’s cup-bearer and baker each had a dream one night, and each dream had its own meaning.
When Joseph saw them the next morning, he noticed that they both looked upset.”
Joseph sees them, cares and has compassion.
He noticed they were upset.
One of the greatest indicators to how you interpret life, is how you view others.
Joseph didn’t just see them as a task or part of his imprisonment…But as people.
Genesis 40:7-8
““Why do you look so worried today?” he asked them.
And they replied, “We both had dreams last night, but no one can tell us what they mean.”
“Interpreting dreams is God’s business,” Joseph replied.
“Go ahead and tell me your dreams.””
tell me what you saw.
I’ll tell you what God says.
I know the source of interpretation.
Interpretation is something that makes sense of the senseless..
Clarity to what is confusing.
A language out of sounds..
We need an interpretation.
Clarity, Make sense of it all.
Joseph says interpretation belongs to God.
Through everything he had been through, Joseph hasn’t lost his understanding of where to make sense of it all.
Cupbearer tells his dream about branches and grapes.
- Joseph told him, it means you will be restored back to your position.
Genesis 40:14
“And please remember me and do me a favor when things go well for you.
Mention me to Pharaoh, so he might let me out of this place.”
Baker tells his dream now about baskets of bread.
his interpretation isn’t so good.
Pharoah will life up your head… and then cut it off.
Joseph knew the source to make sense out of the senseless.
Genesis 40:20-23
Pharaoh’s birthday came three days later, and he prepared a banquet for all his officials and staff.
He summoned his chief cup-bearer and chief baker to join the other officials.
He then restored the chief cup-bearer to his former position, so he could again hand Pharaoh his cup.
But Pharaoh impaled the chief baker, just as Joseph had predicted when he interpreted his dream.
Pharaoh’s chief cup-bearer, however, forgot all about Joseph, never giving him another thought.”
Forgotten, again.
But he hasn’t given up.
He understands that t’s God who makes sense of it all.
Who brings clarity into confusion.
Clarity breeds perseverance.
Romans 5:3-5
“We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance.
And endurance develops strength of character, and character strengthens our confident hope of salvation.
And this hope will not lead to disappointment.
For we know how dearly God loves us, because he has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love.”
It doesn’t make suffering easy, but theres clarity.
I know...
When I know, I don’t give up.
A new way to understand life is the key to the strength to keep on.
Genesis 41:1
“Two full years later, Pharaoh dreamed that he was standing on the bank of the Nile River.”
Crazy dreams about fat cows and skinny cows eating the fat cows, and 7 heads of wheat and then 7 skinny ugly heads of wheat swallow up the good ones...
Tried an no one could interpret the dream.
Genesis 41:9
“Finally, the king’s chief cup-bearer spoke up.
“Today I have been reminded of my failure,” he told Pharaoh.”
Genesis 41:15-16
“Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I had a dream last night, and no one here can tell me what it means.
But I have heard that when you hear about a dream you can interpret it.”
“It is beyond my power to do this,” Joseph replied.
“But God can tell you what it means and set you at ease.””
It’s beyond my power to make sense of this… But God.
He knew it wasn’t by his power, (power of gray-skull) it was only God.
Leaning on heaven.
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