God has promised to rescue His people from slavery, He has sent Moses to them with signs and wonders to prove His power. The people are excited in anticipation of their freedom. But what happens when this plan hits its first hurdle, a defiant Pharaoh? How the people respond here shows us something about our own hearts and the heart of our God.

God in his mercy and kindness brings resolution and reconciliation to the pain and guilt of our past.

God directs the very large, significant details of our world to bring about his plan for which is for his glory and our good.

God directs the very small, minute details of our lives to bring about his plan which is for his glory and our good.

Although we have failed to be righteous, God provides Jesus’ sacrifice for us to make us righteous.

The family that God has elected, through which all the families of the earth will be blessed (Genesis 12:3), has turned out to be highly dysfunctional. But this is all part of God’s plan (Genesis 15:13-14). He will get glory from this dysfunctional family, and will use the actions of this dysfunctional family, which were meant for evil, and cause them to be for their good (Genesis 50:20).

God is sovereignly causing the covenantal promise that he made to Abraham in Genesis 12:1-3 to come to pass. God has elected Joseph to be the one through whom this promise will come to fruition. God begins to do this in Joseph’s life by giving him very specific dreams about his future.

Christian Perseverance depends upon a loving and merciful God who preserves his people until the end.

The church must protect herself from false teaching, by loving one another, discerning false teaching when they hear it, and not giving air-time to those who misrepresent Jesus.

The gospel compels us towards reconciliation with others because of Jesus reconciled us to God. The book of Philemon is a letter from a guy who is asking the recipient of the letter to forgive the carrier of the letter.