I'm not over it (Part 4)
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Jospeh keeps his brother Simeon so that his brothers could prove to them that they are honest men.
Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I shall know that you are not spies but honest men, and I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall trade in the land.’ ”
Jospeh treated them roughly!
Not only did he treat them roughly but he was playing with their mind....
He gives them grain and their money back! But they didn’t know it.....
When Israel sent his sons back to buy food....
Israel wanted to make things right....
He said take him the choice fruit of the land
Take him double the money
Take him Benjamin but bring him back!
When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of his house, “Bring the men into the house, and slaughter an animal and make ready, for the men are to dine with me at noon.”
Benjamin was special to Joseph because they shared the same mother.
Benjamin was the youngest son and Rachel their mother died having Benjamin.
And he lifted up his eyes and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother’s son, and said, “Is this your youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me? God be gracious to you, my son!” Then Joseph hurried out, for his compassion grew warm for his brother, and he sought a place to weep. And he entered his chamber and wept there.
This is the second recorded time that Joseph had to weep!
“He sought a place to weep”
Where is your place?
Then he washed his face and came out. And controlling himself he said, “Serve the food.”
He washed his face!
He put back on the mask…
“Controlling himself”
Controlling: to restrain v. — to hold back.
Then..... Joseph set them up!!!!!
Then he commanded the steward of his house, “Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man’s money in the mouth of his sack, and put my cup, the silver cup, in the mouth of the sack of the youngest, with his money for the grain.” And he did as Joseph told him.
Unaddressed pain… Can lead you down a path of destruction…
It’s a path that will cause you to involve other people in your web of destruction…
BACK - And - FORTH (The Story)
As they are pleading their case....
Joseph said the person who had the silver cup, shall be my servant!
It was almost as if Jospeh wanted his brother but he also wanted to take something away from them that was close to them!
Judah tells him words from his father…
Then your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons. One left me, and I said, “Surely he has been torn to pieces,” and I have never seen him since.
Judah said.....
I have to bring my brother back take me instead!
Then Joseph could not control himself before all those who stood by him. He cried, “Make everyone go out from me.” So no one stayed with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers. And he wept aloud, so that the Egyptians heard it, and the household of Pharaoh heard it.
I can’t be fake any longer!
So Joseph said to his brothers, “Come near to me, please.” And they came near. And he said, “I am your brother, Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt.
What clicked for Jospeh?
There are times in our life… When are actions contradict our assignment!
This is why transformation is so important!
Connect the dots…
And now do not be distressed or angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.
For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there are yet five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest. And God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on earth, and to keep alive for you many survivors.
So it was not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
When Israel died…
Jospeh’s brothers thought that Jospeh would hate them and pay them back for all the evil…
But when your whole from the inside out!
But Joseph said to them, “Do not fear, for am I in the place of God?
As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.
You mean evil against me
But God....
Meant “It” for good…
What’s good… Many people should be kept alive.... As they are today
So do not fear; I will provide for you and your little ones.” Thus he comforted them and spoke kindly to them.
Transformation…
Speaking roughly to Speaking Kindly....
