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Amazing Facts

From Cover to Cover

Doug Batchelor

Jesus in All the Bible, Pt. 4 – Joseph, Pt. 2

Jesus in All the Bible, Pt. 1 – Abraham

Jesus in All the Bible, Pt. 2 – Isaac

Jesus in All the Bible, Pt. 3 – Joseph, Pt. 1

Jesus in All the Bible, Pt. 5 – Joseph, Pt. 3

Jesus in All the Bible, Pt. 6 – Joseph, Pt. 4

Jesus in All the Bible, Pt. 7 – Moses, Pt. 1

Jesus in All the Bible, Pt. 12 – The Book of Judges

Jesus in All the Bible, Pt. 8 – Moses, Pt. 2

Jesus in All the Bible, Pt. 10 – Ruth

Jesus in All the Bible, Pt. 11 – Joshua

Jesus in All the Bible, Pt. 13 – Samson

Jesus in All the Bible, Pt. 14 – David

Jesus in All the Bible, Pt. 15 – The Prophets

Jesus in All the Bible, Pt. 16 – Esther, Pt. 1

Jesus in All the Bible, Pt. 16 – Esther, Pt. 2

Jesus in All the Bible, Pt. 9 – Job

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We've been going through a series called Cover to Cover, Seeing Jesus in All of the Bible.

Now, just a little review because some maybe haven't read it or you weren't here last week.

Joseph was the firstborn son of Jacob's wife, Rachel, but he was not the firstborn son.

But Jacob loved Joseph more than all his children because he only wanted 1 wife and that was Rachel, beautiful Rachel.

Rachel must have also been a very good woman in many ways because her early training for Joseph, she died in childbirth for Joseph's younger brother, Benjamin, but that early training must have been something extraordinary because Joseph grew up to be an extraordinary man with great scruples.

But Jacob, when Reuben was misbehaving, Reuben had an affair with Jacob's, 1 of his concubines, and he said Reuben, who was technically the firstborn, could not have the right of the firstborn.

He gave Joseph this beautiful coat of many colors, and that made the other brothers jealous.

And then he started having dreams, visions of grandeur, that he was gonna be a great ruler and that they would all end up bowing down to him.

He was just so impressed that God had a great destiny for him.

And the Bible says 3 times in chapter 37, they hated him, they hated him, they hated him even more.

So when the father sent Joseph to find out where his brothers were grazing the sheep, he is sent of the father looking for his lost brothers, like Jesus.

They see him coming, and they say, here comes this dreamer, let's murder him and throw him in a hole and say some evil beast has devoured him.

And Reuben stopped them from their purpose and said, he's your brother, don't take his blood, just throw him in the cistern, throw him in the empty well.

And Joseph came, they stripped him of his coat, they threw him in a pit where there was no water, then they sat down to eat.

And then Judah saw a caravan of Ishmaelite traders carrying balm and myrrh down to Egypt.

And he said, hey, why not make a little money?

So let's sell them as a slave and get them out of town.

And no 1 will ever hear from him again in Egypt.

They didn't have the internet back then or Facebook, so they figured he'd just disappear in obscurity.

So they sold Joseph for the price of a slave for 20 pieces of silver.

The Ishmaelites probably took him to Egypt and then sold him for 30 to make a profit.

Joseph then made a resolution of full surrender.

He said, all right, Lord, I believe you gave me those dreams, supernatural dreams, because you have a plan for my life.

You'll find out later that Joseph not only has dreams, he has the ability to interpret dreams.

You think he might have known something about his own dream if he can interpret other people's dreams.

He said, Lord, whatever happens, I'm going to fully surrender and trust you.

You know, friends, if you can get past that decision in your life, your life will be a lot happier.

Whatever happens, you will do your best to serve God, you will do your best to be faithful.

Whatever happens, you're going to trust the Lord And do your best to represent Christ.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it unto the Lord.

Whether you're a prisoner, whether you're a slave, do all things unto the Lord, wherever God puts you in life.

So he gets down to Egypt, and this is where you take it up with Genesis chapter 39 and he becomes the faithful servant here.

And I'm just going to read the first few verses of this.

Now, Joseph had been taken down to Egypt and there Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, that phrase captain of the guard appears several times in the passage.

Leads us believing from some of the ancient writings and commentators that he actually had the position of being chief of police, also chief of executioners.

Now God deliberately puts Joseph in connection with, well, I guess I didn't finish, Potiphar Byzum.

Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian bought him from the Ishmaelites whom had taken him there.

And so the Lord in his design had Joseph placed, he's 17 years old.

By the way, we can map out the life of Joseph pretty clearly, some ages and dates are given.

He's 17 years old, he's just on the cusp of manhood, old enough to be drafted, but still pretty young.

And they take him to the auction block there in Egypt where the slaves are bought and sold.

And he could have been bought by some potter, shoemaker, anything, but he's bought by somebody who's connected with the palace and the government and science and leaders.

And that was part of God's design because Joseph got a crash course education.

First he had to learn the Egyptian language, which he evidently was very smart because he learned it pretty quick.

You know, when you're young, you can do that.

Have you ever noticed A family will come to the United States from some foreign country and they got like 3 kids.

The kids are all speaking English in 6 months and 20 years later the parents are still struggling.

So Joseph, he quickly picks it up and he's taking in everything and he says, if I'm gonna be a slave, I'm gonna be a good slave.

And you know, later there was a little girl who had been captured by the Syrians and sold into the house of a Syrian general named Naaman.

She said, well, if I'm going to be a slave, I'm going to be a good slave.

And instead of overcoming evil with evil, I am going to seek the evil, I am going to seek the best interests of my masters.

We're actually reading the span of about 10 years in this passage.

He gets there, he learns the language, he's faithful in the little things, they give him more to do, he's faithful in that, they give him more.

The master says, this is the sharpest young man, he's got a great attitude, and everything I give him, you know, there's some people that you give them something and they get it done.

And, you know, they say if you want to get something done, give it to a busy person because they're usually the ones that get things done.

And so probably also learned now how to read hieroglyphics or whatever the Egyptians had back then.

And he's learning the math and the sciences.

And I think he wanted to expand his education, talking to the other servants that worked in the palaces.

The master would sometimes send Joseph off to the market on errands to buy things, because he knew he could trust them.

And in his interchange with the servants of other officials, he was asking questions, he's learning things, He's filling his mind.

He wanted to learn all he could to prepare him for whatever God's destiny was.

I think that's an important lesson that we should do all we can to learn all we can.

You take your earthly education with you to heaven, you know.

Education begins here, goes on through eternity.

And it says, the master made him overseer of all, and He put it under His authority.

So it was from the time that He made Him overseer of His house and all that He had, the Lord blessed the Egyptians' house for Joseph's sake.

And the blessing of the Lord was on all that he had in the house and in the field.

So Joseph learned something about farming too, didn't he?

And all of Potiphar's fields were put under Joseph's authority.

So he learned about managing farms and managing fields.

That was going to help save the world later.

And everything was blessed for Joseph's sake, verse 6.

And thus he left all that he had in Joseph's hand, And he didn't know what he had except for the bread that he ate.

You know, the Bible tells us that if we receive any blessing, we are blessed for Jesus' sake.

When we pray, do we pray that God blesses us for our sake?

Or do we pray that God blesses us for Christ's sake?

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Jesus in All the Bible, Pt. 4 – Joseph, Pt. 2

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