"Joseph Was Hated Because He was Loved"

**Heb 11:22**

**22 By faith Joseph, when he was dying, made mention of the exodus of the sons of Israel, and gave orders concerning his bones.**


**1. Joseph was hated because he was loved.**

**Gen 37:2-3**

2 These are the records of the generations of Jacob. **Joseph, when seventeen years of age**, was pasturing the flock with his brothers while he was still a youth, along with the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives. And **Joseph brought back a bad report about them to their father**. 3 Now **Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons, because he was the son of his old age**; and he made him a **varicolored tunic**.


**Gen. 37:4-8**

4 His brothers saw that their **father loved him more than all his brothers; and so they hated him** and **could not speak to him on friendly terms.**

5 Then Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, **they hated him** even more.

6 He said to them, "Please listen to this dream which I have had;

7 for behold, **we were binding sheaves in the field, and lo, my sheaf rose up and also stood erect; and** behold, **your sheaves gathered around and bowed down to my sheaf."**

8 Then his brothers said to him, "Are you actually going to reign over us? Or are you really going to rule over us?" So **they hated him** even more for his dreams and for his words.


**Gen.37:11**

His brothers were **jealous of him, but his father kept the saying in mind.**


**2. Joseph suffered because he was loved.**


**Gen 39:2-6**

2 **The Lord was with Joseph**, so he became a successful man. And he was in the house of his master, the Egyptian. 3 Now **his master saw that the Lord was with him** and how the **Lord caused all that he did to prosper in his hand.**

4 So **Joseph found favor in his sight** and **became his personal servant**; and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he owned he put in his charge. 5 It came about that from the time he made him overseer in his house and over all that he owned, the **Lord blessed the Egyptian's house on account of Joseph**; thus the **Lord's blessing was upon all that he owned, in the house and in the field.**

6 So he left everything **he owned in Joseph's charge**; and with him there he did not concern himself with anything except the food which he ate.


Gen 39:6, 9-10

6 Now Joseph was **handsome in form and appearance.**


**9 "There is no one greater in this house than I, and he has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do this great evil and sin against God?"**

10 As she **spoke to Joseph day after day**, he did not listen to her to lie beside her or be with her.


**Gen 39:21-23**

21 But the **Lord was with Joseph and extended kindness to him**, and **gave him favor in the sight of the chief jailer**. 22 The **chief jailer committed to Joseph's charge all the prisoners who were in the jail**; so **that whatever was done there, he was responsible for it. 23 The chief jailer did not supervise anything under Joseph's charge because the Lord was with him; and whatever he did, the Lord made to prosper.**


**Gen. 40:14**

"Only keep me in mind when it goes well with you, and please do me a kindness by mentioning me to Pharaoh and get me out of this house. 15 **"For I was in fact kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing that they should have put me into the dungeon."**


**3. Joseph is finally delivered because he was loved.**


**Gen 42:9**

9 **Joseph remembered the dreams which he had about them**, and said to them, "You are spies; you have come to look at the undefended parts of our land."


**Gen 42:22-24a**

22 Reuben answered them, saying, "Did I not tell you, 'Do not sin against the boy'; and you would not listen? **Now comes the reckoning for his blood."** 23 They did not know, however, that Joseph understood, for there was an interpreter between them. 24 **He turned away from them and wept.**

**Gen 43:29-30**

29 As he lifted his eyes and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's son, he said, "Is this your youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me?" And he said, "May God be gracious to you, my son."

30 Joseph **hurried out for he was deeply stirred over his brother, and he sought a place to weep; and he entered his chamber and wept there.**

**Gen 45:1-2**

Then **Joseph could not control himself before all those who stood by him, and he cried,** "Have everyone go out from me." So there was no man with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers. **2 He wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard it, and the household of Pharaoh heard of it.**

**Gen 45:13-14**

13 "Now you must tell my father of all my splendor in Egypt, and all that you have seen; and you must hurry and bring my father down here." 14 Then he fell on his brother Benjamin's **neck and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck.**

**Gen 46:29**

29 Joseph prepared his chariot and went up to **Goshen to meet his father Israel**; as soon as he appeared before him, **he fell on his neck and wept on his neck a long time.**


**Rev 21:4**

4 and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away."


**Heb 11:22**

22 By faith Joseph, when he was dying, made **mention of the exodus of the sons of Israel, and gave orders concerning his bones**


**Gen 50:24-26**

24 Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die, but God will surely take care of you and bring you up from this land to the land which He promised on oath to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob." 25 Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear, saying, "God will surely take care of you, and you shall carry my bones up from here." 26 So Joseph died at the age of one hundred and ten years; and he was embalmed and placed in a coffin in Egypt.


**Gen 15:13-14**

13 God said to Abram, "Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, **where they will be enslaved and oppressed four hundred years.** 14 "But I will also judge the nation whom they will serve, and afterward they will come out with many possessions.

**Ex 12:35-36**

35 Now the sons of Israel had done according to the word of Moses, for they had requested from the Egyptians articles of silver and articles of gold, and clothing; 36 and the **Lord had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have their request. Thus they plundered the Egyptians.**


**Ex 13:19 (Israelites never forgot about Joseph’s request)**

19 Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for he had made the sons of Israel solemnly swear, saying, "God will surely take care of you, and you shall carry my bones from here with you."


**Josh 24:32**

32 Now they **buried the bones of Joseph**, which the sons of Israel brought up from Egypt,


**Gen 47:8-10**

8 Pharaoh said to Jacob, "How many years have you lived?"

9 So Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The years of my sojourning are one hundred and thirty; few and unpleasant have been the years of my life, nor have they attained the years that my fathers lived during the days of their sojourning."

10 And **Jacob blessed Pharaoh and went out from his presence.**