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All Things Working for Good
Genesis 39:20-41:49
Every person can serve God in every circumstance by remembering some truths about God.
Introduction:
I would guess that we have all had times in our lives when we thought that God was far from us.
These could be times when it seemed like God was almost mocking us with Romans 8:28, “all things work together for good.”
We might sit and wonder how on earth anything good could come from this situation.
It really seemed like God was a million miles away.
While you are thinking about that we are going to look at some events in Joseph’s life that must have made it feel just like that, or maybe even worse.
He had been sold into slavery by his brothers.
His brothers did not like him and they were very jealous of him.
So they did this to him.
After that he was sold to a man named Potiphar in Egypt.
He had great success in Potiphar’s house and excelled in all that he did.
He eventually became the highest ranking servant in the house.
But, much like the brothers, Mrs. Potiphar became jealous of Joseph and created charges against him and had his imprisoned.
That is where Joseph is at the beginning of this passage.
We will look at some truths about God we need to keep in mind when things are not going well.
If we can remember these truths it will help us to make it through those hard times.
Truth I. God is always with us
A. I would be inclined to say that if there is anyone who would have the excuse of saying that God had abandoned him it would be Joseph.
He had a pretty good gig going.
He was a high ranking servant in the house and he was over all of the other servants.
He really had things pretty good.
Then the bottom fell out.
He was thrown into prison for something he never did.
She accused Joseph of assaulting her, which was something he would never do.
So Joseph is treated like a criminal.
In 39:20 & 21 we are told that, “while Joseph was there is prison, the Lord was with him; he showed him kindness.”
Even though it looks like Joseph has hit the bottom God is still with Joseph.
A few weeks ago I was talking about Joseph’s dreams and how I thought that he was demonstrating some pride in passing along those dreams.
Perhaps this was God’s boot camp to help Joseph with his pride.
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