FROM THE PRISON TO THE PALACE (59 OF 64)
by Brad Whitt
Scripture: Genesis 40
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From the Prison to the Palace (59 of 64)
Series: The Book of Beginnings Series
Brad Whitt
Genesis 40
If you have your Bibles with you now, then you need to be finding your way back to the first book in your Bible, the book of Genesis. We are now at chapter number 41. We have been in the book of Genesis for a long, long, long time, and I don't have any idea exactly how long, but we've been there awhile. We are getting near the end. Every single Sunday night that we're in Genesis, we are that much closer to the end of this study. But we've entitled this study, if you will remember, the Book of Beginnings: Creation, Fall, Flood and Covenant, and we've been looking at, over the last several weeks, we've been looking, learning about the life of a young man by the name of Joseph, really one of my heroes, one of my favorite characters in all the pages of Scripture. What a tremendous young man. What a tremendous type, a picture of the person of the Lord Jesus Christ.
If you will remember the last time that we were in Genesis, we were in chapter 40. And if you remember, Joseph is left in prison. He's just left there. Those two guys whose dreams he interpreted, the butler and the baker, not the candlestick maker, but the butler and the baker, the cupbearer, if you will, basically forgot all about him. If you'll come there to verse one of chapter 41, there's an interesting little phrase. Look there at the first couple of words. ''Then it came to pass at the end of two full years.''
Can I just stop right there? Push stop; pause for just a second. It came to pass, at the end of two full years. Can you imagine that? All during those two, full years he's been left there. He's still in prison. They've forgotten about him and nothing is going on. There's nothing in Joseph's life. It's just drudgery day after day after day. Monotony, if you will. Month after month after month, day after day after day of just nothingness sitting there in that prison cell. Can you imagin ...
Series: The Book of Beginnings Series
Brad Whitt
Genesis 40
If you have your Bibles with you now, then you need to be finding your way back to the first book in your Bible, the book of Genesis. We are now at chapter number 41. We have been in the book of Genesis for a long, long, long time, and I don't have any idea exactly how long, but we've been there awhile. We are getting near the end. Every single Sunday night that we're in Genesis, we are that much closer to the end of this study. But we've entitled this study, if you will remember, the Book of Beginnings: Creation, Fall, Flood and Covenant, and we've been looking at, over the last several weeks, we've been looking, learning about the life of a young man by the name of Joseph, really one of my heroes, one of my favorite characters in all the pages of Scripture. What a tremendous young man. What a tremendous type, a picture of the person of the Lord Jesus Christ.
If you will remember the last time that we were in Genesis, we were in chapter 40. And if you remember, Joseph is left in prison. He's just left there. Those two guys whose dreams he interpreted, the butler and the baker, not the candlestick maker, but the butler and the baker, the cupbearer, if you will, basically forgot all about him. If you'll come there to verse one of chapter 41, there's an interesting little phrase. Look there at the first couple of words. ''Then it came to pass at the end of two full years.''
Can I just stop right there? Push stop; pause for just a second. It came to pass, at the end of two full years. Can you imagine that? All during those two, full years he's been left there. He's still in prison. They've forgotten about him and nothing is going on. There's nothing in Joseph's life. It's just drudgery day after day after day. Monotony, if you will. Month after month after month, day after day after day of just nothingness sitting there in that prison cell. Can you imagin ...
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