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Introduction
In his book, The Knowledge of the Holy, A. W. Tozer wrote:
What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.
The history of mankind will probably show that no people has ever risen above its religion, and man’s spiritual history will positively demonstrate that no religion has ever been greater than its idea of God.
Worship is pure or base as the worshiper entertains high or low thoughts of God.
For this reason the gravest question before the Church is always God Himself, and the most portentous fact about any man is not what he at a given time may say or do, but what he in his deep heart conceives God to be like.
We tend by a secret law of the soul to move toward our mental image of God.
This is true not only of the individual Christian, but of the company of Christians that composes the Church.
Always the most revealing thing about the Church is her idea of God.
—A.W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy (New York: HarperCollins, 1978), 1.
God Is. . .
God Exists
God is actively interested in you
God Is. . .
For His Own Glory
We are not the center of all things - God is.
God being for his own glory is both right and good.
The church exists to display and advance the glory of God
God Is. . .
Love (1,2)
God’s Love is the Evidence of the Believer.
(7-8)
God’s Love is the Evidence of the Believer.
(7-8)
We show we belong to God when we love like God. (7-8a)
God loves because he IS love.
(8b)
God’s Love is the Gift of the Believer.
(9-10)
God showed the world his love by sending Jesus.
(9)
Jesus shared God’s love by satisfying God’s wrath.
(10)
God’s Love is the Mission of the Believer.
God Is. . .
Good
Sometimes the goodness of God is assumed.
(LORD is good.)
Sometimes the goodness of God is overlooked.
(See)
We are blind to the blessings already around us.
2. We're missing an eternal definition of what is good.
3. We have a selfish view of our blessings.
Sometimes the goodness of God is misunderstood.
(Taste)
Sometimes the goodness of God is underused.
(Blessed . . .
refuge)
God Is. . .
Able to Redeem
What Redemption Means
Redemption may be summarized around three basic ideas.
(1) People are redeemed from something; namely, from the marketplace or slavery of sin.
(2) People are redeemed by something; namely, by the payment of a price, the blood of Christ.
(3) People are redeemed to something; namely, to a state of freedom; and then they are called to renounce that freedom for slavery to the Lord who redeemed them.
Redeemed:
Redeemed:
from bondage (slavery/sin)
by means of a payment of price
to freedom
There is also a restorative
God is in the business of redemption.
From on, God has been in the process of redemption- working in and through all sorts of people to bring about an end to sin and a start to freedom.
I want to look at the story of Joseph for two reasons:
To see common areas of life where we feel the need for redemption - Areas of life that we might be able to identify with that we would consider a ‘loss.'
To see the character of Joseph as he waits on God’s plan of redemption.
*God is able to redeem both in and through His people.*
The hero of the Joseph story is not Joseph - It’s God.
Joseph did not save himself - God saved Joseph.
Gen 50:18-
Common areas where we feel the need for redemption :
Relationships
Reputation
Time
Sin
Reputation
Sin
Relationships
Gen 37:
:
All of Joseph’s relationships changed in an instant
What must Joseph been feeling while sitting in the pit?
Direction of life completely changed
What must Joseph have been thinking on his way to Egypt?
Reputation
Gen 39:6b-
Gen 39:19-
Joseph did the right thing yet was still accused of wrong.
He was accused falsely - he was labeled.
Gen 39
Time
cupbearer and baker
Gen 40:14
Joseph had been faithful to God and God had used Joseph to interpret the dreams yet now
Sin
Gen 50:
The guilt of Joseph’s brothers must have been intense - or at least the fear that Joseph would retaliate.
Throughout the story they tend to attribute difficulties to punishment for what they did to Joseph
Heavy conscious for past sins
Joseph leaves to God to judge
“You meant evil against me,”
Joseph told his brothers, using a Hebrew verb that traces its meaning to “weave” or “plait.”
“You wove evil,” he was saying, “but God rewove it together for good.”
I want to look at the story of Joseph for two reasons:
To see common areas of life that need redemption - Areas of life that we might be able to identify with that we would consider a ‘loss.'
To see the character of Joseph
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