Well, this is it! We made it! This is the final installment of our look into Joseph's life and the events surrounding it. My prayer is that God will use these messages to drive people into His word, compel people to ask, seek, and knock after the love of Christ, and grow in knowledge and understanding of the truth. God bless you all!
A. After Jacob dies, Joseph _____________ his brothers.
1. Joseph’s brothers think they might finally get what they __________ (50:15).
2. Seeing Joseph’s grief, they fall before him in complete ______________ (50:18).
B. The eternal _________ of redemption pours from Joseph’s heart (50:19-21).
1. Joseph did not have the ________ of Romans 8:28, but he had the _________ of it.
2. How sad that many of us who have the ________ do not have the _________.
II. Joseph as a Type of Christ in Genesis
1. Joseph was opposed to and exposed evil (37:2).
2. Joseph was hated for his words (37:8; John 7:7; 3:32)
3. Joseph was promised a glorious future (37:7-12;
4. Joseph foretold of his future reign (37:7-12;
5. Joseph was envied by his brothers (37:11;
6. Joseph was sent by his father to his brothers (37:13;
John 4:34; 5:30; 6:38-40; 12:48-50; 17:21).
7. Joseph seeks out his brothers (37:14-17;
8. Joseph seeks the welfare of his brothers (37:14;
9. Joseph was conspired against (37:18; Matt. 12:14).
10. Joseph was cast into a pit (37:24; Matt. 27:59-60).
11. Joseph was taken out of the pit alive (37:28).
12. Joseph is sold for the price of a slave (37:38;
13. Joseph’s blood sprinkled coat is presented to his father (37:31; Leviticus 16:8-10)
14. Joseph becomes a servant (39:1; Phil. 2:6-7).
15. Joseph was falsely accused (39:16-18;
16. Joseph was cast into prison, though he was innocent (39:20; John 19:4-6).
17. Joseph suffered at the hands of the Gentiles.
18. Joseph was imprisoned with 2 others (40:16-19; Luke 23:43).
19. Joseph was put in prison, but God would not allow him to remain there because God’s purpose for Joseph was not yet fulfilled (Acts 2:24).
20. Joseph warned of a coming danger (41:33-36).
21. Joseph is exalted, and set over all Egypt (41:39-40;
1 Pet. 3:22; Phil. 2:5-11).
22. Joseph received from Pharaoh a new name (41:45; Philippians 2:9, 10; Matt. 1:21; Acts 5:31).
23. Joseph alone is now seen as dispersing bread to a perishing world (41:55; Acts 4:12; Matt. 17:5).
25. Joseph became a Saviour to all peoples (41:54-57;
26. Joseph has unlimited resources to meet the need of all the people (41:49; Eph. 1:7; 2:7; 2:4; 1 Pet. 1:3; Eph. 3:8; Col. 2:9; Rom. 10:12).
27. Joseph was unknown and unrecognized by his brethren (42:6-8; John 1:10-11).
28. Joseph made provision for his brethren while they were in a strange land (42:25; Eph. 1:7; 2:7; 2:4; 1 Pet. 1:3; Eph. 3:8; Col. 2:9; Rom. 10:12).
