Title: The Grace of Guilt (5)
Series: Dreamer
Author: Collin Wimberly
Text: Genesis 42
CIT - God uses Joseph to awaken guilt in his brothers.
Proposition - God uses guilt to bring us to repentance and forgiveness
INTRODUCTION:
Joseph's brothers were a pretty sorry group. In fact, their lives could provide the plots for several seasons of "Day of our Lives."
Sons 2 and 3, Simeon and Levi, were guilty of the slaughter of an entire town.
Son 1 - Reuben, had committed incest with his father's concubine.
All ten had taken young Joe, stripped him, beaten him, and thrown him into a pit, then sold him into slavery.
Son 4 - Judah, impregnated his daughter in law, Tama, when she disguised herself asa Canaanite prostitute.
These men needed to be confronted with their guilt. They needed their conscience awakened. They needed to genuinely repent.
They, like us, needed to experience the grace of guilt.
I) THE JOURNEY-
Seven years of Famine are now in full force.
Jacob's sons do not know what to do. They are indecisive, maybe a little lazy.
"Why do you look at one another" Get on with it, get to Egypt, do something productive for a change.
Vs. 4 - Jacob did not send Benjamin with them. Why?
Benjamin was the youngest of all the boys, the second son of his beloved Rachel, and Jacob's favorite since he thought Joe was dead.
But I think there was more to it than that.
1) Perhaps he was afraid they would be careless, and would not watch out for him. Placing some of the blame on the brothers for Joe's death.
2) Jacob did not trust them. Maybe he believed there was some connection between them and the death of Joe. I think this is most likely. Jacob would have said this with suspicion and some sarcasm.
3) Jacob's sons made the long trek across the Sinai and the Nile valley. 20 years earlier, Joe had made this same journey, except he was a captive and a slave, betrayed by his own brothers. Never in their ...
Series: Dreamer
Author: Collin Wimberly
Text: Genesis 42
CIT - God uses Joseph to awaken guilt in his brothers.
Proposition - God uses guilt to bring us to repentance and forgiveness
INTRODUCTION:
Joseph's brothers were a pretty sorry group. In fact, their lives could provide the plots for several seasons of "Day of our Lives."
Sons 2 and 3, Simeon and Levi, were guilty of the slaughter of an entire town.
Son 1 - Reuben, had committed incest with his father's concubine.
All ten had taken young Joe, stripped him, beaten him, and thrown him into a pit, then sold him into slavery.
Son 4 - Judah, impregnated his daughter in law, Tama, when she disguised herself asa Canaanite prostitute.
These men needed to be confronted with their guilt. They needed their conscience awakened. They needed to genuinely repent.
They, like us, needed to experience the grace of guilt.
I) THE JOURNEY-
Seven years of Famine are now in full force.
Jacob's sons do not know what to do. They are indecisive, maybe a little lazy.
"Why do you look at one another" Get on with it, get to Egypt, do something productive for a change.
Vs. 4 - Jacob did not send Benjamin with them. Why?
Benjamin was the youngest of all the boys, the second son of his beloved Rachel, and Jacob's favorite since he thought Joe was dead.
But I think there was more to it than that.
1) Perhaps he was afraid they would be careless, and would not watch out for him. Placing some of the blame on the brothers for Joe's death.
2) Jacob did not trust them. Maybe he believed there was some connection between them and the death of Joe. I think this is most likely. Jacob would have said this with suspicion and some sarcasm.
3) Jacob's sons made the long trek across the Sinai and the Nile valley. 20 years earlier, Joe had made this same journey, except he was a captive and a slave, betrayed by his own brothers. Never in their ...
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