Sermon Tone Analysis

"JEHOVAH WITH JOSEPH"

                                                                       GEN 39:2

 

INTRODUCTION

 

I.

JOSEPH........."JEHOVAH HAS ADDED".

THE BELOVED OF JACOB AND RACHEL

THE ELEVENTH SON OF TWELVE BROTHERS 

THE SHEPERD WHO BROUGHT BACK THE FAITHFUL REPORT

 

THE BROTHER WHO'S PRESENCE LEFT A BAD TASTE IN HIS BROTHERS MOUTHS

THE OWNER OF A TAILOR MADE MULTI-COLORED TUNIC

THE DREAM-ADDICT

 

SEIZED BY HIS BROTHERS

SEPERATED FROM HIS FAMILY

SOLD AS HUMAN CARGO INTO SLAVERY

 

BROUGHT DOWN TO EGYPT

BOUGHT BY POTIPHAR

BLESSED OF GOD

 

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THE THEME OF CH. 39, IS "JEHOVAH WITH JOSEPH"..."THE LORD WAS WITH JOSEPH"...WE MUST POINT OUT THAT THIS IS THE THEOLOGICAL TRIGGER OF THE STORY ... IT IS FROM HERE THAT...

 

V2.

POTIPHAR PERCEIVES "SOMETHING IS GOING ON"

V3-4   POTIPHAR PROMOTES JOSEPH TO HIS HOUSEHOLD ADMINISTRATOR

V4B    POITPHAR'S HOUSE IS THE RECIPIENT OF PROSPERITY FOR JOSEPH'S                  SAKE

V5     POTIPHAR ENTRUTS POWER JOSEPH

V7-21  MRS.

POTIPHAR PINES, POSITIONS HERSELF, PROPOSITIONS JOSEPH          AND THEN IN HER SCOURN SHE PUBLICIZES A FALSE ACCUSATION OF             PROMISCUITY WHICH POSITIONS JOSEPH IN PRISON.

AS WE TELESCOPE AHEAD AND TO FIND THE CONCLUDING WORDS OF JOSEPH TO HIS BROTHERS,

 

"YE THOUGHT EVIL AGAINST ME; BUT GOD MENAT IT UNTO GODD, TO BRING TO PASS, AS IT IS THIS DAY, TO SAVE MUCH PEOPLE ALIVE."

GEN 50:20

 

 

JOSEPH

                        HEIR OF HIS GRANDFATHER'S AND FATHER'S FAVORITISM

                        HEIR TO HIS UNCLE'S AND BRO.S HATRED

                        HEIR OF HIS GRANMOTHERS'S AND HIS FATHER'S DECEPTION AND                                    SEPERATION.

WE SEE THE SINS OF THE FATHER  FILTER DOWN INTO THE SUBSIQUENT GENERATIONS...SEPERATION, SLAVERY, SUPPRESSION AND SANCTIFICATION... AND THROUGH IT ALL JOSEPH'S MAINTAINED A CONSCIENTIOUS CHARACTER AND HE HELD ONTO HIS INTEGRITY....

*FOR THE "LORD WAS WITH JOSEPH".*

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IF THE LORD WAS WITH JOSEPH AND HE WAS PROSPEROUS; NOT HAVING THE INDWELLING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.

HOW MUCH MORE VICTORIOUS SHOULD OUR WALK WITH CHRIST BE.....???

 

WHAT CAN I LEARN FROM THE LORD BEING WITH JOSEPH?

THIS OT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GOD AND MAN?     

                                                  THIS BOND OF INFINITE TO FINITE?

 

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THE FIRST THING WE LEARN IN THE IMPORTANCE OF THE WORD.

THROUGH ORAL TRADITION THE STORIES PASSED DOWN...

 

OF HOW GOD APPEARED TO GREAT-GRANDFATHER ABRAHAM WITH THE GREAT               PROMISE..

OF HOW GOD, JEHOVAH JIREH, PROVIDED FOR HIMSELF A SUBSTITUTE                SACRIFICE FOR HIS GRANDFATHER ISSAC...

OF HOW GOD WRESTLED WITH HIS FATHER, BREAKING HIM TO BLESS HIM...

 

THEIR WAS NURTURING IN THE WORD...AND BY THE SOVERIGNTY OF GOD...THE WORD FELL ON GOOD GROUND.

THE WORD...WAS HID IN HIS HEART  

                         IT WAS A HIDING PLACE

                       

                         OFFERED HOPE

                         OFFERED DIVINE SUPPORT

                         ORDERED HIS STEPS 

 

                         MADE HIM WISE

                         IT BUILT HIS FAITH.

"FAITH COMES BY HEARING, HEARING THE WORD OF GOD..."

 

SO THE FIRST THING WE LEARN IS THE IMPORTANCE OF THE WORD.

"IN THE BEGINING WAS THE WORD AND THE WORD WAS WITH GOD...

...AND THE "WORD WAS WITH JOSEPH"

...*FOR THE "LORD WAS WITH JOSEPH".*

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AS WE OBSERVE  THE PERMISSIVE WILL OF GOD, WE SEE THAT "JOSEPH WAS BROUGHT DOWN TO EGYPT"... "BOUGHT OF THE HANDS OF THE ISMEELITES, WHICH BROUGHT HIM DOWN THITHER."

GOD BRINGS US DOWN, BREAKS US IN ORDER THAT ME MIGHT BE COMFORMED, MIGHT BE BLESSED...

 

 

I.

THE PROCESS OF SANCTIFATION   - THE INNER CHANGE

 

WHERE MANY OF US WOULD HAVE REBELLED AGAINST THE PERILS, PESTILENCE AND OPPRESSION OF THE STRONG ARM OF EGYPTIAN SLAVERY; BACKS BEAT INTO THE SUBMISSION OF SERVITUDE OR WE MAY HAVE SUCCOMMED THE SENSATIONAL SEDUCTION OF THE SWEET PERFUME OF MRS.

POTIPHAR...AND... SURRENDERED TO THE WILES OF THE DEVIL, ENJOYED SIN FOR A SEASON...

 

MANY OF US WOULD HAVE FAILED THE TEST...HANDS DOWN!!!

 

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BUT THE LORD WAS WITH JOSEPH & JOSEPH WAS BEING SANCTIFIED; SEPERATED FROM HIS FAMILY AND SET APART FOR GOD.

GOD SANCTIFIES MEN.

SANCTIFICATION IS THE PROCESS OF BEING SETTING APART, BEING CHOSEN OF GOD TO BE USED ACCORDING TO HIS PURPOSE.

SANCTIFICATION IS THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, SO ALTHOUGH THE SPIRIT WAS UPON HIM EXTERNALLY, THE SPIRIT OF GOD WAS AT WORK.

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BECAUSE OF THE GODHEADS INFINITE HOLINESS, THE FATHER , THE SON AND THE HOLY SPIRIT - ARE ETERNALLY SANCTIFIED.

THE FATHER SANCTIFIES, THE SON SANCTIFIES, AND THE HOLY SPIRIT SANCTIFIES.

OUR SANCTIFICATION IS THE WILL OF GOD.

WE ARE SANCTIFIED IN TRUTH, THE WORD OF GOD.

 

            "SANCTIFY THEM IN TRUTH, THY WORD IS TRUTH", JN 17:17

            "NOW YE ARE CLEAN THROUGH THE WORD WHICH I HAVE SPOKEN UNTO               YOU",

 

WE ARE SANCTIFIED, PARTAKERS OF GOD'S HOLINESS, THROUGH HIS       CHASTISEMENT.

WE ARE SANCTIFIED BY FAITH.

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SANCTIFICATION IS SOMETHING WE PURSUE, AND SEEK AFTER, IF WE ARE TO OBTAIN IN.

WHILE IT IS THE WORK OF GOD - WE HAVE OUR PART IN IT.

 

                        ROM.

6:19B "PRESENT YOU MEMBERS AS SERVANTS TO                 RIGHTEOUSNESS.:"

 

*WE ARE SANCTIFIED BY OUR UNION WITH CHRIST, BY THE WORD OF GOD, BY THE BLOOD OF CHRIST, BY THE SPIRIT, BY OUR OWN CHOICE AND BY FAITH.*

SANCTIFICATION IS THE POWER OF GOD'S SPIRIT MADE MANIFEST BY BELIEVERS CHOOSING RIGHTEOUSNESS.....

 

 

II.

THE PRESENCE OF GOD'S GRACE - THE OUTWARD MANIFESTATION

 

MOSES DESCRIBES THE SLAVERY OF JOSEPH AND SAYS "THE LORD WAS WITH JOSEPH."

WHAT A PARADOX!!!

IN THE MIST OF OPPRESSION THERE WAS JOY

IN THE MIST OF SUFFERING  THERE WAS COMFORT

IN THE MIST OF POTIPHAR'S HOUSE THERE WAS THE POTENTATE...

IN SPITE WHAT WE WOULD CALL EXTRANEOUS CIRCUMSTANCES, JOSEPH WAS SENSITVE TO THE PRESENSE OF GOD'S GRACE, THE EXTERNAL PRESENSE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.

INDEED HIS FLESH DID FEEL THOSE HORRIBLE ASSAULTS OF THE TRIALS, TEST AND TEMPTATIONS, SINCE THE  FLESH IS SOFT, WEAK AND UNABLE TO BEAR TRIALS...BUT GOD'S GRACE STRENGHTHED HIM...  FOR WHERE THE LORD IS, THERE THER FRUITS OF THE WORD FOLLOW, NAMELY, CONFESSION, DOCTRINE, THANKSGIVING, SACRIFICES OF PRAISE.

THERE WAS A SPIRIT OF FAITHFULLNESS, LOVE, TRUSTWORTHINESS, LONGSUFFERING, GENTLENESS, SELF-CONTROL, PEACE, KINDNESS...THE LORD WAS WITH JOSEPH.

AND BECAUSE OF THE PRESENCE OF GOD'S GRACE, HE BECAME A SUCESSFUL MAN."   HE WAS A "MAN OF ACHIEVEMENT."

HIS MASTER SAW THAT THE LORD WAS WITH HIM...

THE LORD MADE ALL THAT HE DID TO PROSPER...

JOSEPH FOUND GRACE IN HIS SIGHT...

JOSEPH WAS MADE OVERSEER OVER HIS HOUSE...AND ALL THAT HE HAD...

LORD BLESSED THE EGYPTIAN'S HOUSE FOR JOSEPH'S SAKE

BLESSING OF THE LORD WERE ON ALL THAT HE HAD IN THE HOUSE ~/ FIELD.

DESPITE THE SITUATION, NEVER-MIND THE CIRCUMSTANCES, GOD'S GRACE IS SUFFICIENT AND GOD REWARD'S FAITHFULNESS!!!