GRACE-WHEN YOU LAST EXPECT IT (6)
Scripture: Genesis 42:25-38, Genesis 43:1-34
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Title: Grace-When You Least Expect It (6)
Series: Dreamer
Author: Collin Wimberly
Text: Genesis 42: 25-43: 34
CIT - Joseph shows his brothers mercy in the land of Egypt.
Proposition - God shows us grace when we least expect it.
INTRODUCTION:
Have you ever received something just when you least expected to?
ILLUS: Receiving a reward in college that I had no idea I was going to. In fact, to this day I still don't know why they gave it to me. To be honest, I really didn't deserve it.
Joseph's dealings with his brothers are all about Grace. Grace and Mercy.
Grace and mercy where you would least expect to find it - in the land of Egypt.
I) GRACE FOR THE GRIEVING - 42:25-43:14
Although its been over 20 years since Joseph's disappearance, Jacob is still a broken hearted man, he is still grieving over his son's death. In these verses we find God's grace at work.
A) A SAD DAD - vs. 25-38
29-33 they relate the story to Jacob
Vs. 36 - You have bereaved me - He is grieving all over again. Another son lost, and his Benjamin, his favorite, in danger.
"All things are against me" Who can blame him really? Would you and I have felt any different?
Think of what has happened in life over the last 20 years.
- Joe was lost to him.
- Many of his sons had acted foolishly and immorally.
- Famine was devastating the land and consuming his wealth.
- Simeon was imprisoned. He assumed he would never see him again.
- His sons come home with their money still in their sacks - Surely the Egyptians would assume they had stolen the money.
- Now, "the man" Zaphnath -Paaneah - the most powerful man in Egypt and the world - wanted his son Benjamin.
How much more can one dad take?
ILLUS: Ruth 1:13 (NKJV)
13 would you wait for them till they were grown? Would you restrain yourselves from having husbands? No, my daughters; for it grieves me very much for your sakes that the hand of the Lord has gone out against ...
Series: Dreamer
Author: Collin Wimberly
Text: Genesis 42: 25-43: 34
CIT - Joseph shows his brothers mercy in the land of Egypt.
Proposition - God shows us grace when we least expect it.
INTRODUCTION:
Have you ever received something just when you least expected to?
ILLUS: Receiving a reward in college that I had no idea I was going to. In fact, to this day I still don't know why they gave it to me. To be honest, I really didn't deserve it.
Joseph's dealings with his brothers are all about Grace. Grace and Mercy.
Grace and mercy where you would least expect to find it - in the land of Egypt.
I) GRACE FOR THE GRIEVING - 42:25-43:14
Although its been over 20 years since Joseph's disappearance, Jacob is still a broken hearted man, he is still grieving over his son's death. In these verses we find God's grace at work.
A) A SAD DAD - vs. 25-38
29-33 they relate the story to Jacob
Vs. 36 - You have bereaved me - He is grieving all over again. Another son lost, and his Benjamin, his favorite, in danger.
"All things are against me" Who can blame him really? Would you and I have felt any different?
Think of what has happened in life over the last 20 years.
- Joe was lost to him.
- Many of his sons had acted foolishly and immorally.
- Famine was devastating the land and consuming his wealth.
- Simeon was imprisoned. He assumed he would never see him again.
- His sons come home with their money still in their sacks - Surely the Egyptians would assume they had stolen the money.
- Now, "the man" Zaphnath -Paaneah - the most powerful man in Egypt and the world - wanted his son Benjamin.
How much more can one dad take?
ILLUS: Ruth 1:13 (NKJV)
13 would you wait for them till they were grown? Would you restrain yourselves from having husbands? No, my daughters; for it grieves me very much for your sakes that the hand of the Lord has gone out against ...
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