Handouts: None given
Reminders:
- Service Project: The 10 hours, 2 forms, and 1 essay are due on Apr 23, 2017
- Book Report: Due Monday, Nov. 14 (report on TurnItIn.com; Art Project @ start of class)
- Devotion 1 Presentation: Be ready to present on your day! See class schedule.
Instructional Time: Unit 3: Psalms and Genesis 27-50- Devotion 1 Presentation: Be ready to present on your day! See class schedule.
Journal: In 5 or more sentences, explain the role God played in what happened to Joseph, according to these verses:
- Genesis 39:2, 21, 23
- Genesis 41:15-16, 39, 51-52
Genesis 37-41 – Joseph’s struggles & Rise: Study Packet, Page 2
Jacob’s Roller-Coaster Ride:
- Joseph was sold as a slave in Egypt to Potiphar (Pharaoh’s bodyguard captain)
- - God blesses Joseph w/success & shows him kindness!
- - Potiphar promotes Joseph to the highest slave position!
- - - He overseer all of Potiphar’s house
- - Joseph is both prosperous & handsome..
- - - Potiphar’s wife tries to get him to sleep with her…
- - - When Joseph refuses to commit adultery—
- - - - She lies about him & gets him imprisoned
- In jail, God continued to bless Joseph!
- - The leader of the jail looked kindly upon Joseph
- - Joseph was promoted to the highest prisoner position!
- - - He is responsible over all the prisoners!
Jacob’s Roller-Coaster Ride: Years later…
- Pharaoh (Egypts king) imprisons his cupbearer and baker in Joseph’s jail
- - They each have disturbing dreams about the future…
- - - They ask Joseph about what they mean
- - - God gives Joseph an accurately interpretation of the dreams!
- - The cupbearer is freed from jail & returned to Pharaoh’s service! :-)
- - - The baker is put to death. :-(
- - Joseph asks the cupbearer to tell Pharaoh about Joseph’s own innocence & ask for his released
- - - The cupbearer promises to do so! :-)
- - - But then, the cupbearer forgot… :-(
Jacob’s Roller-Coaster Ride: Two years later…
- Pharaoh had a disturbing dream about the future!
- - No one could interpret what it meant!
- - The cupbearer them remembers Joseph!
- - - He tells Pharaoh about him
- - Pharaoh has Joseph brought in
- - - God interprets the dream for Joseph
- - - - 7 yrs of great abundance will be followed by 7 yrs of terrible famine!
- - - Pharaoh recognized God’s presence with/in Joseph
- - - - He promotes him to lead in this time as the 2nd in command of Egypt!
- - - Joseph (30 yo) is renamed Zaphenath-paneah
- - - - He marries Asenath
- - - - They have two children: Manasseh & Ephraim
- Joseph collected tons of food in the years of abundance
- - From his leadership, Egypt had plenty of food during the famine
- - They even have enough to sell it to all who had need—and paid!
Genesis 37-41: Josephs Struggles & Rise - Theology: Study Packet, Page 3
- God will work out His good plan for His people, even when terrible things happen to us
- “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.” – Rom. 8:28 (NIV)
Genesis 37-41: Josephs Struggles & Rise - Anthropology: Study Packet, Page 3
- Favoritism within the family causes terrible conflicts
- Other people will recognize it when we humbly live in faith
- Often our mistakes will also become our children’s mistakes (e.g. Jacob’s deception)
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