Read Gen 35:1-15
1. A Family's Sin
The doctors case file
There are important
parts of the family history in Gen 34 & 38
Look at Gen 32: 28
Jacob – Supplanter
Israel – Prince of
God
a. Jacobs unhappy,
divided home life due to his polygamy
Gen 29:25, 30
Gen 30:4, 9
What a mixture of a
family
Genesis 34:30 And Jacob
said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink
among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the
Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves
together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my
house.
b. The 2nd
thing we can see from the case file is that God has choose the worst
raw material to work with to found His chosen people. Compare the Old
Testament Church with the New Testament.
Matthew 22:9-10
Go ye therefore into
the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.
So those servants went
out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they
found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.
The material God works
with is always sinful.
Eph 2:1-3, 4:17-19
The family is a
complete scandal but the 11th son is completely different.
He was set apart at birth. There was a change in his father at this
time Spiritually.
Gen 30:24-25
He wanted to return to
the Promised Land.
Gen 37:1-2
Our next mention of
Joseph is when he is 17
It was now time to
work. We can see the state of the family here in verse 2.
Joseph was different!
Jacob was to find out -
Galatians 6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a
man soweth, that shall he also reap.
2. A Favourite's
Suffering
Israel sends him to
Shechem Gen 37:13 – A days journey
Notice those words –
Here am I
What would you have
done if you hadn't found them? Look ar verse 17 – went after
(Approx 15 Miles)
Trait – persistence –
staying at the task – stick-ability
His 10 brothers hated
him because:
1. He was pure – Gen
37:2
2. He was the favourite
– Gen 37:3
3. He was a dreamer –
Gen 37:19
Look at the dreams in
verses 7-11
Why did Joseph tell
them?
V11 – observed –
kept the matter in mind
He had a cross that he
had to bear.
2 Timothy 3:12 Yea, and
all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
Acts 14:22 Confirming
the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the
faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the
kingdom of God.
Joseph was to know
persecution
Gen 37:28
Gen 42:21
Psalm 105:17-18
Where was his dreams
now? What was going through his head? What would it have been like?
Joseph is an Old
Testament type of Jesus Christ
His suffering was all
part of the plan!
Isa 53:10
3. A Fathers Sorrow
Reading Gen 37:12-36
Exodus 20:16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
What
is a LIE?
Lies
and deceit came easy to Joseph's brothers.
They
even tried to comfort him! See verse 35
Jacob
had been an arch deceiver himself! See Genesis 27:14
How
often do we think we have got away from it? Read Galatians 6:7
Did
Jacobs mind go back to Gen 37:11 – Observed
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