This is the 10th message in our series on the life of Joseph, by Pastor Kevin. Comments? Email me at [email protected]

Here's the outline:

Genesis 41:17-45

I. God Prepares and Uses His People in The World

     A. We forget the blessings when times get tough.

          1. “…all the plenty will be ____________ in the land of Egypt;” (Genesis 41:30)

          2. “So the plenty will not be known in the land because of the _________ following…” (Genesis 41:31)

          3. In times of __________, let us remember the manifold blessings of God, for Christ has provided.

               a. Psalm 42:5-6

               b. Psalm 77:7-11

               c. Psalm 143

     B. There is a world of difference between ___________ and giving up.

          1. “…the dream was repeated to Pharaoh ________ because the thing is established by God…” (Genesis 41:32)

          2. Who else had a ________ repeated to him?

          3. ___________ when God called you.

     C. As opportunity arises, speak the truth in ________.

          1. In verse 33, _________ does something that was not done: he offered counsel to Pharaoh without being asked.

          2. John 1:14

          3. John 1:17

Sorry once again for the poor audio quality. I've ordered a new microphone so hopefully when that arrives it helps.

Below is the outline for this message:

Genesis 40 and 41:1-16

I. Life Isn’t Fair; Deal With It

   A. Joseph chose good over ­­­­_______.

      1. He _______ from even the appearance of evil. (Genesis 39:12)

      2. His reward was a __________.

   B. The only way we can make sense of evil in this world is if it was ______ on that cross.

      1. God didn’t remain distant from human ____________.

      2. He __________ in it. (Philippians 2:8)

   C. After all Joseph has been through, he took the time to notice the suffering of _________.

      1. He sees that the butler and baker are _____________.

      2. He _______ them what the cause of their distress is.

      3. They tell him that they each had a ________ that they didn’t understand.

II. Joseph Gave Hope and Truth to Those Who Shared His Dungeon

   A. _________ gave hope and truth to those who shared His agony.

      1. To the one, _______ and restoration.

      2. To the other, only ________ and corruption. (Luke 23:39-43)

   B. Joseph makes a _________ request to the butler.

      1. Remember me when you are ___________.

      2. With a glimmer of _______, he returns to his cell and waits… a day… a week… a month… a year. Nothing.

      3. And still, Joseph endures the __________ of God for 2 full years.

III. Pharaoh Has a Dream

   A. Have you ever asked yourself what would have happened if the butler had remembered Joseph _________ Pharaoh had his dreams?

   B. But now the butler does remember, and at the age of 30, _________ stands before the most powerful man on earth. (Genesis 41:15)

   C. With the whole weight of human history resting on his shoulders, Joseph answers Pharaoh, “I am not able to. ______…”

      1. And the rejected ______ is given world power and authority.

      2. Uniquely in Egyptian history, Joseph rides in a second chariot.

   D. What will Joseph do with the power?

The Eighth in our series on the life of Joseph. The second 'filler' message from Pastor Kevin to replace the message not recorded while our sound system was down. Please email me with any comments: [email protected]

Here's our outline:

Some Things Never Change (Genesis 39:7-23)

I. Human Nature Has Not Changed

  A. Joseph was a ___________ man, and this matters to the story.

    1. I Samuel 16:7

    2. II Corinthians 10:7

    3. I Peter 3:3-4

  B. Potiphar’s wife used a _________ slur to increase the effectiveness of her accusation against Joseph (Genesis 39:14, 17).

    1. We like to put persons into a ________ and condemn (or praise) the ________.

    2. God’s command: treat people as ______________.

    (Leviticus 19:15)

  C. If ________ nature hasn’t changed, why would Satan change his tactics to __________ us?

II. Satan’s Methods Have Not Changed

  A. We are vulnerable and __________ to malevolence.

    1. We live in a fallen ________.

    2. We have a fallen _________.

  B. Uniquely, Christianity teaches that man is inherently _______.

    1. We are not naturally _______ people that have done bad things.

    2. We are naturally _______ people that won’t do good things (Isaiah 53:6).

III. God’s Solution Has Not Changed

  A. Christ has given us the perfect __________ to follow.

  (Philippians 2:5-8)

  B. God has saved us and enabled us through the power of the ________. (I Corinthians 1:18)  

I just listened to this episode. Talking to myself in an empty room is going to take some getting used to... my apologies. As I mention in the episode, my personal email address is [email protected]. At the end of the message, I used the word 'determined'. A better word may have been 'pre-determined' for clarity's sake.

Here's the outline for the message:

Joseph: A Slave?

I. Joseph: A Slave Outwardly

  A. At Judah’s suggestion, Joseph is sold to Midianite slave traders heading for ________.

    1. Joseph was put in __________.

    2. On average, it would take ________ days to make this journey.

  B. When Joseph arrived in Egypt, he was sold to ___________, the captain of Pharaoh’s guard.

    1. He had to learn a new ___________ and __________.

    2. He had to come to terms with being a ____________.

    3. Joseph had a choice: be _________ and do the worst job possible or move forward.

II. Joseph: Free Inwardly

  A. The _______ was with Joseph.

    1. It is mentioned ____ times in chapter 39 of Genesis.

    2. Potiphar notices that the Lord is with _________.

  B. Joseph finds himself in ___________ with a beautiful woman.

    1. All things are open to him except ______ (Genesis 39:7-9).

    2. It would be meaningless if he didn’t have the __________ to say yes or no

    3. God has given us the _______ of freedom to say yes or no on which the whole of eternity will depend.

    4. God will eventually ________ us as to whether we said yes or

    no to Him. (John 3:35-36).

Although this sermon is not specifically about Joseph, the 'interruption' of Judah is absolutely vital to understanding God's plan in Joseph's life and redemptive history. Below is our outline:

I. Judah’s Background

  A. Jacob was more attracted to Rachel than _______ (Genesis 29:17).

  B. Due to the customs of the time, Leah is forced to marry a man that ________ her.

  C. Judah grew up knowing his mother was hated, and he sees Joseph, ________.

  D. ______ takes note of Leah because she is hated. (Genesis 29:31)

  E. As Leah’s sons are born, the names she gives them records her _______ and longing.

    1. Reuben—God has _______ my affliction.

    2. Simeon—God has ________ that I am unloved.

    3. Levi—At last my husband will become ___________ to me!

    4. Judah—This time I will praise the _______.

  F. These names would be inscribed by God on the gates of the __________ _______ (Revelation 21:9-12).

  G. Judah would bring forth the _______ of the Tribe of Judah.

II. Jacob’s Family Disintegrates

  A. Jacob believes Joseph is _______.

  B. Judah _________ his family and heads south about 35 miles to Adullam.

  C. What a mess he makes there!

  D. Had it not been for ________’s desperation to preserve Judah’s line, it would have been extinguished and God’s project would have ended.

    1. The means were _______.

    2. But God’s ______________ is greater (and more complex) than mankind’s evil schemes.

    3. God continued His _______ without disturbing the free will of man one whit.

  E. But, by the end of Tamar’s story, we see the faint glimmer of ___________ in Judah. (Genesis 38:24-26)

  F. 19 centuries later God continues His plan in the __________, Jesus of Nazareth.

    1. Schemes to thwart God’s plan include Herod, the chief priests, the Scribes, the Pharisees, the Sadducees, Judas, the Sanhedrin, Pilate, and the              Roman guards.

    2. In the end, it all pointed to the ________ and Salvation for all mankind.

    3. In the future, God’s plans also will not fail, regardless of the schemes of ______.

In our fifth message on the life of Joseph, things for Joseph continue to go downhill. Our outline is below.

I. Judah Becomes a ________ Trader

  A. Judah moralizes his decision to _______ Joseph to Ishmaelite slave traders.

    1. “What do we gain by just __________ him?”

    2. “It would be _________ bad to kill him, because he is our brother.”

    3. The second worst thing to do becomes “_______” in comparison.

  B. They sold Joseph for _____ pieces of silver.

    1. The prices of _____________ are listed in Leviticus 27:1-7.

    2. Joseph was sold for _____ shekels, the standard price of a male between the ages of 5 and 20.

    3. Christ was sold for _____ pieces of silver.

    4. The standard price for Him should have been _____ shekels. Why the discrepancy?

    5. Christ needed no redemption for Himself, but for His _______.

II. Jacob is Deceived by His _______

  A. The brothers attempt to cover their sin with a ______.

  B. The blood of a _______ is used to deceive Jacob.

    1. Recall the story of Jacob and _______.

    2. Jacob used goat skins to __________ his father

    (Genesis 27:15-17)

    3. Recall the story of Jacob and ________.

    4. Laban ____________ the older for the younger to deceive Jacob.

    5. Now, Jacob’s sons deceive him with the blood of a _______.

  C. What the ________ of the story?

    1. Numbers 32:20-23

    2. Tell the ________! (Or at least don’t lie.)

    3. You will not get away with ______, not in the long run. (Ecclesiastes 8:11-13)

In our fourth installment in this series, we see how a teenaged Joseph (who is highly favoured by his father) is set up and sets himself up for a great fall into troubled times. Our outline is below.

I. Joseph Brings a Bad Report of His Brothers to Jacob (Genesis 37:2)

 A. The brothers he informed on were the brothers of the  ________ women, Bilhah and Zilpah.

  1. Why was Joseph ________ by his brothers?

  (Genesis 37:4)

  2. Why was _________ hated by His own? (John 3:19-20)

  3. What about you? What about me? (I John 3:12)

 B. The report was not necessarily ________.

  1. The ____________ of the brothers comes through  clearly later on in the story.

  2. Christ testified of the world that its deeds were  _______ by His life and His speech. Do you?

II. Jacob Openly Shows Favouritism to _________ (Genesis 37:3)

 A. Jacob should have known _________ (Genesis 25:28)

 B. Each ________ is different.

  1. Some children are easy going and ____________.

  2. For some curious genetic reason, some are not.

 C. We try, and _______, to be fair.

 D. Genesis talks a lot about favouritism because it's _________.

III. Joseph Told His Brothers of His _________ of Supremacy

(Genesis 37:5)

 A. These pronouncements bring the _________ of Joseph's  brothers to their final limit.

 B. How does the __________ man react in the face of authority?

  1. Read John 8:58-59

  2. Read Mark 14:60-65

 C. Then, the __________ heart is filled with murder, deception,  malice, greed, and enslavement.

 D. What must the ____________ reaction be?

 (Ephesians 5:1-10)

This is the third installment of the series of messages preached on Sunday mornings beginning back in August 2018. We finally begin to look at the early years of Joseph as well as some of the descriptions of the life of Judah in Genesis. Please forgive the poor audio quality. Below is our outline for the message.

I. God's Great Plan For the Ages is Embedded in a _________

 A. Jacob does not have one son, but _____ (and a daughter).

  1. It seems as though God is working out 2 plans:

   a. To establish His chosen _________.

   b. To bring forth the promised "_______" that  will bring salvation to all nations.

  2. As a result, we get 2 stories about 2 different men.

 B. Who would you choose?

  1. In Chapter 37, you have a _________.

   a. A ___________.

   b. Openly coddled by his _________.

   c. Proclaims to his ___________ that they will  serve him.

  2. In Chapter 38, you have ________.

   a. Took a Canaanite _______.

   b. His first two sons were so _______ that God  terminated them.

   c. Had twin sons by his daughter-in-law,  ________, whom he thought was a prostitute.

 C. Well, one of the twins was named ________.

  1. We encounter him several times in the ______  ____________.

  2. We also encounter him in __________ 1:1-3

II. What's So Special About _________?

 A. Listen to what the martyr __________ says: (Acts 7:9-10, 51-52)

  1. You've consistently ___________ the men whom  God raised up to be your saviours.

  2. Now you've done the same with ________.

 B. Joseph stood at the start of a long line of people that  ________ for God against the flow of __________ and  brought truth and salvation,   that line extending even  through _________ Himself.

This is a quick overview of the book of Genesis to get an idea, however brief, of God's grand narrative of redemptive History. From here, the plan is to place the life of Joseph into this narrative. It continues the outline from last week's sermon.

This is the first message on the life of Joseph taken from the book of Genesis. These first two messages give us important biblical, historical background to the life of Joseph as it fits into the overall narrative of the Bible in General, the Old Testament in particular, and Genesis specifically. This message was preached on Sunday morning, August 19, 2018. Below is a copy of our outline:

I. There are 11 natural divisions in the book of Genesis.

 A. The first is from, "In the beginning, God..." to chapter 2:3

 B. From here, Moses uses the phrase, "These are the generations of..." for the other divisions.

  1. Chapter 2:4 - the heavens and earth

  2. Chapter 5:1 - Adam

  3. Chapter 6:9 - Noah

  4. Chapter 10:1 - Shem, Ham, and Japheth

  5. Chapter 11:10 - Shem

  6. Chapter 11:27 - Terah

  7. Chapter 25:12 - Ishmael

  8. Chapter 25:19 - Isaac

  9. Chapter 36:1 - Esau

  10. Chapter 37:2 - Jacob

II. More broadly, we can divide Genesis into 2 main parts.

 A. The times of plenty (Genesis 2:6)

  1. The Creation

  2. The Fall

  3. Noah and the Flood

  4. The dispersion of Mankind

 B. The times of famine (Genesis 12:10, 26:1, 41:53,57)

  1. The story of Abram/Abraham

  2. The story of Isaac

  3. The story of Jacob/Israel

  4. The story of Joseph

III. There are also 6 larger divisions based on God's Plan for Salvation in History (each ending in death.)

 A. Chapters 1:1-2:3 - The Creation and Organization of the Universe

  1. The Word creates the universe (John 1:1-3)

  2. The Word creates men and women in God’s Image (Genesis 1:26-27)

  3. The death of mankind (Genesis 3:6-7)

 B. Chapters 2:4-4:26 - The meaning of human life and death

  1. The Word defines morality including temptation, sin, and salvation

  2. Cain and Abel

  3. The death of righteous Abel

 C. Chapters 5:1-9:29 - The nature of God's dealings with human beings

  1. The faith of Noah

  2. The judgment of the Flood

  3. The death of the wicked

 D. Chapters 10:1-25:11 - The Rise of the Hebrew nation from the Gentile nations

  1. Abraham and his sons – Ishmael and Isaac

  2. The death of Abraham

 E. Chapters 25:12-35:29 - The development of the Hebrews into Israelites

  1. Isaac and his sons, Esau and Jacob

  2. The death of Isaac

 F. Chapters 36:1-50:26 - The Israelites become a blessing to the Gentile world through Joseph

  1. Jacob and his 12 sons

  2. The deaths of Jacob and Joseph