LOCKED UP AND FORGOTTEN (3)
Scripture: Genesis 40:1-23
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Title: Locked Up and Forgotten (3)
Series: Dreamer
Author: Collin Wimberly
Text: Genesis 40
CIT - Joseph interprets the dreams of Pharaoh's cupbearer and baker.
INTRODUCTION:
Joseph might well have felt that this was the lowest point of his life. He had been sold into slavery by His brothers and now he is unjustly imprisoned by Potiphar.
Ps. 105:18 tells us that he was bound and chained - and tested in prison.
Ps. 119:71 - It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I may learn your statutes."
"God permitted Joseph to be treated unjustly and put in prison to help build his character and prepare him for the tasks that lay ahead. The prison would be a school where Joseph would learn to wait on the Lord until it was His time to vindicate him and fulfill his dreams."
Martin Luther - suffering is essential to knowing God's Word as we ought;
"For I myself . . . owe my papists many thanks for so beating, pressing, and frightening me through the devil's raging that they have turned me into a fairly good theologian, driving me to a goal I should never have reached."
John Bunyan - spent 12 years in an English prison for preaching the Gospel. He was a father of six. He writes - "The parting with my Wife and poor children hath often been to me in this place as the pulling of the flesh from my bones. . .
But listen to how he describes his suffering. "Jesus Christ was never more real and apparent than now. Here I have seen him and felt him indeed. . . I have had such sweet sights of the forgiveness of my sins in this place, and of my being with Jesus in another world. . .I ever knew what it was for God to stand by me at all times and at every offer of Satan to afflict me, as I have found since I came hither" quoted in Piper - The Hidden Smile of God, p. 76-77
In more recent times, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn described his spiritual awakening in his book, "The Gulag Archipelago" , God came near. He spent eight years in the infamous ...
Series: Dreamer
Author: Collin Wimberly
Text: Genesis 40
CIT - Joseph interprets the dreams of Pharaoh's cupbearer and baker.
INTRODUCTION:
Joseph might well have felt that this was the lowest point of his life. He had been sold into slavery by His brothers and now he is unjustly imprisoned by Potiphar.
Ps. 105:18 tells us that he was bound and chained - and tested in prison.
Ps. 119:71 - It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I may learn your statutes."
"God permitted Joseph to be treated unjustly and put in prison to help build his character and prepare him for the tasks that lay ahead. The prison would be a school where Joseph would learn to wait on the Lord until it was His time to vindicate him and fulfill his dreams."
Martin Luther - suffering is essential to knowing God's Word as we ought;
"For I myself . . . owe my papists many thanks for so beating, pressing, and frightening me through the devil's raging that they have turned me into a fairly good theologian, driving me to a goal I should never have reached."
John Bunyan - spent 12 years in an English prison for preaching the Gospel. He was a father of six. He writes - "The parting with my Wife and poor children hath often been to me in this place as the pulling of the flesh from my bones. . .
But listen to how he describes his suffering. "Jesus Christ was never more real and apparent than now. Here I have seen him and felt him indeed. . . I have had such sweet sights of the forgiveness of my sins in this place, and of my being with Jesus in another world. . .I ever knew what it was for God to stand by me at all times and at every offer of Satan to afflict me, as I have found since I came hither" quoted in Piper - The Hidden Smile of God, p. 76-77
In more recent times, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn described his spiritual awakening in his book, "The Gulag Archipelago" , God came near. He spent eight years in the infamous ...
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