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Bulletin Questions
Why did Jacob insist on being buried in Canaan?
What else stands out about his funeral?
Why were Joseph’s brothers concerned after the death of Jacob?
What do we learn from Joseph’s words “you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good” (verse 20)?
What has changed about this family since Joseph’s dreams in ?
Why is this important?
What do we learn from this passage that we can apply to our lives today?
Coming to the End
Read Genesis 49:29-50:26
Illustration on completing a task after a long time
School
College Degree
Books read
Papers written
Tests taken
Facts committed to memory
And then one day you turn in that last assignment and you get your degree
Building a house
Planning
Foundation
Framing
Walls / Electrical / Plumbing / Drywall
All of your fixtures and flooring
Painting
And then one day it’s finished!
What a feeling!
Completing our study of Genesis (over 1 year!)
Redemption
What have we learned?
God has a plan to redeem fallen mankind
The blessing was lost
But God has a plan to bless the world
God’s plan to bless the world will be worked out through a specific person (Abraham) and his descendants who will become a great nation (Israel)
Is This a Good Plan?
As we have been studying, we find that this family has its own issues
Consider Abraham and Sarah
They become impatient as they wait and wait
Come up with a plan of their own to help the situation
Results in family turmoil (Sarah and Hagar; Isaac and Ishmael)
Consider Isaac
Showed favoritism to his oldest (Esau)
His wife, Rebekah, favored the younger (Jacob)
Again, family turmoil
Consider Jacob
The fighting and taking advantage of his brother, Esau
The deception of his father
The favoritism shown to his wife Rachel over Leah
The favoritism of Joseph over his other children
More family turmoil
Consider Jacob’s sons
The way they despised their brother Joseph
They were OK with his murder and his sale into slavery
They deceived their father for 20 years about what really happened to Joseph
We see from the text that there was a general lack of trust in this family
Thinking on these things makes s wonder how this is going to work
How can this family bring blessing to the world
They can’t even get along with themselves!
God at Work
As we began our study, one of the things I pointed out was that the hero of these stories is God
It is not Abraham
Nor Isaac
Nor Jacob
The primary purpose of these texts is not to draw our attention to the human figure and say “Be more like…!”
It is to point us to God
It is to teach us of God’s grace towards mankind
The men and women we have studied have proven to be deeply flawed and in need of God’s rescue
Even the men and women God is using to bring blessing to the world
God has to take these flawed and sinful people and work in them through the circumstances to prepare them for his purposes
And that is what he has been doing to Jacob and his sons!
A Reconciled Family
When we first met this family they were a mess
Favoritism
Jealousy / envy
A plan to murder Joseph
The result was great heartache and turmoil
Joseph sold into slavery
Jacob believed his son was dead
Joseph enslaved and later imprisoned (13 years)
The family members do not trust each other
But through it all, God has been working in the lives of these men
Consider what we learn about them in these final verses
Jacob’s request to be buried in Canaan (the Promised Land)
His hope is in the promise of God
Joseph’s forgiveness
After the death of Jacob, the brothers fear that Joseph may be holding a grudge against them
Hebrew - satam (hostility)
Now that Jacob is gone, he would act on it?
This is in contrast to what Joseph had told them in
But their fear is not surprising
We are told the same about Esau in
He was waiting for his father’s death to get vengeance on Jacob
They even sent word that “Your father gave this command before he died...”
Not likely
Surely Jacob would have said it directly to Joseph if this were true
But Joseph is not like Esau
His forgiveness was true
He was even hurt because his brothers were not ready to accept his forgiveness - the reason for his weeping
But why was Joseph ready to forgive?
Notice his statement in
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