The Biblical Story of Joseph: A Journey of Faith and Redemption
Explore the captivating tale of Joseph from the book of Genesis, encompassing themes of love, betrayal, resilience, and divine providence. Follow Joseph's path from favored son to slavery, imprisonment, and ultimately, elevation to power as a symbol of forgiveness and reconciliation.
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The Lords Prayer The 4th& 5thPetitions
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Genesis 37 Joseph was the eleventh of Jacob s twelve sons. Jacob loved Joseph more than any other of his sons because Joseph was the child of his favorite wife, Rachel (Gen. 37:3). Because their father loved Joseph more, they hated him (Gen. 37:4). Joseph s prophetic dreams from God only raises tension in the family (Gen. 37:5-11). The brother s plot to kill Joseph but sell him to Egypt instead. They then lie to their father that a fierce animal devoured Joseph.
Genesis 37 Q: What commandments did the brother s break? A: 2nd (Despising the Word of God), 5th (Hatred of Joseph), 7th (Selling Joseph to Egypt), 8th (Lying to their father), 9/10 (Coveting their father s affection of Joseph).
Genesis 39 Joseph serves in Potiphar s house. Joseph rejects Potiphar s wife s advances. She lies that Joseph tried to rape her, and Joseph is thrown in prison.
Genesis 41 Joseph interprets Pharaoh s dreams. Giving all glory to God, Joseph reveals to Pharaoh that God will bestow upon the earth seven years of plenty, which will be followed by seven years of famine. Pharaoh said to Joseph, Since God has shown you all this, there is none so discerning and wise as you are. You shall be over my house, and all my people shall order themselves as you command. Only as regards the throne will I be greater than you. And Pharaoh said to Joseph, See, I have set you over all the land of Egypt (Gen. 41:39-41).
Genesis 41 Throughout years of frustration and pain, God didn t forsake Joseph. Through God, Joseph is exalted to oversee the storage and distribution of Egypt s great harvest. As the years of famine begin to take their toll, God provides daily bread for the earth through the surplus of food.
Genesis 42-43 As the famine is severe, Joseph s brothers come to Egypt from Canaan to get food. It s in these chapters where the brothers encounter Joseph again. And Joseph s brothers came and bowed themselves before him with their faces to the ground. Joseph saw his brothers and recognized them (Gen. 42:6-7). While Joseph recognized his brothers, the brothers didn t recognize Joseph.
Genesis 44:1-13 Read Genesis 44:1-13 Q: In who s sake did they find the cup? A: Benjamin Q: What did the brothers do when they found the cup in Benjamin s sack? A: They tore their clothes in anguish because it meant Benjamin would be enslaved, bring further grief to their father. Q: Is Joseph seeking revenge by placing his cup in the brother s bag, or does he have something else in mind? If so, what? A: He had something else in mind. Joseph desires that his brothers repent of their sins.
Genesis 44:14-17 Read Genesis 44:14-17 Q: In verse 16, what guilt is Judah speaking of? A: Though innocent of stealing the cup, Judah knew that before God, he and his brothers were guilty. The threat of slavery reminded them of their sin of selling Joseph into slavery.
Genesis 44:18-34 Read Genesis 44:18-34 Q: What does Judah offer to do? A: Judah could not stand to see the misery that would afflict his father. Judah is willing to be enslaved in place of his brother. Q: In what way is Judah seen as a type of Christ? A: Even though He was sinless, Jesus hands himself over to death in our place. Q: Jesus is a descendant of which of the twelve brothers? A: Judah!
Genesis 45:1-8 Read Genesis 45:1-11 Q: Why did Joseph weep? A: It pained Joseph to bring about in his brothers the realization of their sin. He loves them and doesn t want to punish them, but for their good he does. Q: Who ultimately sold Joseph to Egypt? A: God! We know the brothers hated Joseph. We know that they sold him to Egypt. Yet, Joseph s faith in the Gospel redefines everything. Joseph doesn t blame his brothers one bit for what they did. He doesn t hold their sins against them.
Genesis 50 Read Genesis 50:15-21 Q: Did the brothers doubt the forgiveness of sins? How so? A: They made up a story that said Joseph should forgive his brothers. Q: How does Joseph respond? A: He reassures his brothers of the forgiveness of sins. He is in the place of God. While they meant everything for evil, God used it for good. He reassures them that they will receive daily bread providing for them and their families.
Genesis 50 Joseph didn t want his brothers to eat of their daily bread, to enjoy the richest land in Egypt, while feeling guilty of their sin against Joseph. Joseph want his brothers to receive their daily bread freely, having received forgiveness. He wanted his brothers to give thanks to the Lord for His mercy endures forever.
4th Petition Give us this day our daily bread. What does this mean? God certainly gives daily bread to everyone without our prayers, even to all evil people, but we pray in this petition that God would lead us to realize this and to receive our daily bread with thanksgiving. What is meant by daily bread? Daily bread includes everything that has to do with the support and needs of the body, such as food, drink, clothing, shoes, house, home, land, animals, money, goods, a devout husband or wife, devout children, devout workers, devout and faithful rulers, good government, good weather, peace, health, self-control, good reputation, good friends, faithful neighbors, and the like.
4th Petition Q: What is meant by daily bread? A: Everything that we need to support this body and life. "Daily" highlights how every moment and every day of our lives depend upon God's provisions (See Acts 17:28). Q: How does God provide our daily bread? A: He brings forth all those things we need. Psalm 104:14 says, "You cause the grass to grow for the livestock and plants for man to cultivate, that he may bring forth food from the earth..."
4th Petition Q: Does God give daily bread only to Christians? A: No, our loving creator looks after His entire creation - both Christians and non-Christians, people and animals (See Matt. 5:45).
4th Petition Discuss: How does this petition relate to the 9th and 10th Commandments, and 1st Article of the Creed? How does this petition relate to the previous petitions of the Lord s Prayer? In the petition we pray: That we would look to God for what we need each day so that we don't worry about the future (See Matt. 6:26). That we would receive all our physical blessing with thanksgiving (See Psalm 106:1).
5th Petition And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. What does this mean? We pray in this petition that our Father in heaven would not look at our sins, or deny our prayer because of them. We are neither worthy of the things for which we pray, nor have we deserved them, but we ask that He would give them all to us by grace, for we daily sin much and surely deserve nothing but punishment. So we too will sincerely forgive and gladly do good to those who sin against us.
5th Petition Q: Why do we need to pray for God s forgiveness? A: Because we re sinners. We sin every day and deserve nothing but God s punishment. We pray for God s forgiveness because without it we can t pray to God for anything and expect Him graciously to hear and answer. Isaiah 59:2, Your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God and your sins have hidden His face from you so that He does not hear.
5th Petition Because of Christ s death and resurrection, forgiveness frees us by giving us peace with God. Psalm 32:1, 5, Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered I acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not cover my iniquity; I said, I will confess my transgressions to the Lord, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. If God doesn t forgive without stopping, we are lost For where the heart is not in a right relationship with God, or cannot take such confidence, it will not dare to pray anymore. Such a confident and joyful heart can spring from nothing else than the certain knowledge of the forgiveness of sins (LC III 91-92).
5th Petition Q: Does our forgiveness from God depend on our ability to forgive others? A: No. It may appear that Jesus makes our being forgiven dependent upon our forgiving others when He says, forgive us as we also have forgiven (Matt. 6:12). But they aren t dependent upon each other.
5th Petition Scripture teaches two complementary truths: 1. God has forgiven the sins of the world solely for Christ sake. 1. LC III 96 The forgiveness you receive is not because of your forgiving. For God forgives freely and without condition, out of pure grace, because He promised, as the Gospel teaches. 2. If we stubbornly refuse to forgive others, we reject God s forgiveness for them and for us. 1. Col. 3:13 Bearing with one another and, if one has complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. 2. LC III 94-95 Just as we daily sin much against God, and yet He forgives everything through grace, so we, too, must ever forgive our neighbor who does us injury, violence, and wrong, shows malice toward us, and so on. If therefore you do not forgive, then do not think that God forgives you.
5th Petition Forgiveness doesn t mean having no memory of past wrongs. But we are asking our Father in heaven to free us from the anger and resentment that may accompany those memories. We relinquish them into His merciful hands and trust Him for healing. Additionally, this doesn t negate the fact that there maybe temporal consequences to sin.
5th Petition Discuss: How does this petition tie 3rd Article of the Creed? How does this petition tie to the previous petitions of the Lord s Prayer? Final Thoughts: We are sinners in need of forgiveness. Through Christ s death and resurrection, we receive forgiveness and life. As we have received all good things, we are free to now forgive others.
