Revealed Love
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Revealed Love
Revealed Love
The weeping Family Gen 45:1
Love is revealed thou the show of tears Gen 45:1-2
I am Joseph: Gen 45:3-4 He said I am Joseph twice
Reconciliation is given to his brothers Gen 45:5
A Joseph wept
A Joseph wept
The weeping family:
Genesis 21:16, 23:2, 27:38, 29:11
16 and sat down about a hundred metres away. She said to herself, “I can’t bear to see my child die.” While she was sitting there, she began to cry.
2 She died in Hebron in the land of Canaan, and Abraham mourned her death.
38 Esau continued to plead with his father: “Have you only one blessing, father? Bless me too, father!” He began to cry.
11 Then he kissed her and began to cry for joy.
Ge 33:4, 37:35, 42:24, 43:30, 45:1-2,14-15
4 But Esau ran to meet him, threw his arms round him, and kissed him. They were both crying.
35 All his sons and daughters came to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted and said, “I will go down to the world of the dead still mourning for my son.” So he continued to mourn for his son Joseph.
24 Joseph left them and began to cry. When he was able to speak again, he came back, picked out Simeon, and had him tied up in front of them.
30 Then Joseph left suddenly, because his heart was full of tender feelings for his brother. He was about to break down, so he went to his room and cried.
1 Joseph was no longer able to control his feelings in front of his servants, so he ordered them all to leave the room. No one else was with him when Joseph told his brothers who he was. 2 He cried with such loud sobs that the Egyptians heard it, and the news was taken to the king’s palace.
14 He threw his arms round his brother Benjamin and began to cry; Benjamin also cried as he hugged him. 15 Then, still weeping, he embraced each of his brothers and kissed them. After that, his brothers began to talk with him.
Gen 46:29, 50:1,3,17
29 Joseph got in his chariot and went to Goshen to meet his father. When they met, Joseph threw his arms round his father’s neck and cried for a long time.
1 Joseph threw himself on his father, crying and kissing his face.
3 It took 40 days, the normal time for embalming. The Egyptians mourned for him 70 days.
17 he told us to ask you, ‘Please forgive the crime your brothers committed when they wronged you.’ Now please forgive us the wrong that we, the servants of your father’s God, have done.” Joseph cried when he received this message.
Love is revealed thou the showing of tears
Love is revealed thou the showing of tears
The Secret of God’s Purpose (45)
It was now time for Joseph to reveal himself and the purpose for which God had sent him. Acts 7:13 makes it clear that it was “the second time” that he revealed himself, just as it was the second time that Israel received Moses after rejecting his leadership forty years before (Acts 7:35). This is the theme of Stephen’s speech recorded in Acts 7: the chosen people Israel have always rejected their saviors the first time and received them the second time; they will do the same with Jesus Christ.
I am Joseph: Gen 45:3-4 He said I am Joseph twice
3 Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph. Is my father still alive?” But when his brothers heard this, they were so terrified that they could not answer.
4 Then Joseph said to them, “Please come closer.” They did, and he said, “I am your brother Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt.
Reconciliation is given to his brothers Gen 45:5
5 Now do not be upset or blame yourselves because you sold me here. It was really God who sent me ahead of you to save people’s lives.
Joseph’s revelation of himself brought his brothers terror, for they fully expected him to judge them for their past sins. But he had seen their repentance; they had bowed before him; and he knew he could forgive them. He explained that five more years of famine would follow, but that he had prepared a place of refuge for them and their families there in Egypt. God had sent him before to save their lives.
Joseph promised to nourish Gen 45:10-15
Joseph promised to nourish them (v. 11) and protect them. He wept over them and kissed them, and he sent gifts to his father to assure him of the riches that lay in Egypt. “Come unto me!” was his invitation (45:18). Then, what a change took place in Jacob after he discovered that Joseph was alive—a change not too different from the change in the disciples when they discovered that Christ was alive! Before, Jacob had said, “All these things are against me (42:36), but now he could say, “All things are working together for good!”1
1 Wiersbe, W. W. (1993). Wiersbe’s Expository Outlines on the Old Testament (Ge 45). Wheaton, IL: Victor Books.