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I watched the 9 O'clock service. Love the sermon. Here are my very rough notes:
Gen 37 -50
Gen: 37:1-2
Joseph has two dreams
Meant for Good
What do we do when our dreams appear to be lost
When we cannot see God?
Shattered dreams and the nature of God
Joseph is a shepherd, his flock is his brothers
1.
Joseph was pampered 2. Is a man of God (1Kings 19:19)
Dreams: Means of God speaking to
them ( Gen. 20) Dream down to earth …the
sheaves of grain
One more upward…dreams of power
gains, family saved,
Vs. 1-11 favorite child, dreams grandiosely skilled
apprentice shepherd and has a coat
Vs 18 He went to check on his brothers Dreamer
lives life with grand intentions. Brothers call him a dreamer, they mean one
empowered by prophetic dreams. Expressed knowledge about future….people did not
like this, the prophets were treated violently, so do Joseph’s brothers treat
him. The rejection of Joseph is rejection of prophecy and God. (They sell
Joseph to Ishmalites.
Do you think that Joseph had
purpose and preferential treatment? Do you feel this way now? Do you feel like
YOU have a future.
Vs. 31 Brothers took back Joseph’s bloody robe. His
father Jacob mourns. Sheoul…I will join my son in Sheoul.
Un healthy mourning. How are you dealing with loss? Do you refuse to be
comforted. Is your gaze downward? The
question is Where is God? He is not
mentioned in vs. 27. God’s leadership, though hidden is the real story of this
In a time of knowing so much
and doing so much, what does it mean to trust in God?
1.
The purposes of God are at work in ways that can
seem to be hidden and unnoticed.
2.
The ways of God are at work regardless of human
attitudes or actions.
3.
God is visualized as working through day to day
people and events.
4.
4. We can trust God works his way his ways will
come to fruition
Romans 8:28 God works for good to those who love him who
have been called according to His purpose.
A loss of plans, opportunities….You love a God who works all
things for good. Joseph helps us to be assured.
Vs. 9 God is there:
Then he had another dream the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to
me…..almost blasphemy, it’s not the bowing points to Jesus Christ. Every knee
will bow and every tongue confess.
1Pet. 1: 6-8 There
is a dream that is spoken over us. We dream about the promise and eternal hope
we have in Jesus. It’s bigger than a world pandemic. We have eternal hope in
Christ.
Go has not abandoned the dream Bow before Jesus and believe
in him the eternal life of Christ.
