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Governing Providence- God guides and governs all events, including the free acts of men and their external circumstances, and directs all things to their appointed ends for His glory.
What Does the Bible Say?
Genesis 39
God in His providence, may allow us to be falsely accused and unjustly maligned
God, in His providence, gives us favor with those of His choosing
Genesis 40
God, in His providence, gifts us to minister to others
God, in His providence, allows our suffering to be prolonged, our gifts and abilities to go unnoticed, our deeds to be forgotten, sometimes for a long time.
Genesis 41
After two full years God is finally ready for Joseph to be released.
God did not keep Joseph in that cell a moment longer than was necessary!
God, in His providence, causes us to be remembered and recognized in His timing, and lifts us to minister to others.
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Let’s back up for a moment and look at Joseph’s life thus far through a wide lens.
How old was Joseph when the story began in chapter 37? 17 year old.
God gave Joseph some dreams and what did God communicate in that revelation?
What kind of life was Joseph destined for?
Ruler of the most powerful nation in the world.
Was 17 year old Joseph ready to be vaulted to such a high destiny all at once?
What was God’s plan for getting Joseph ready for rule?
What it a gradual series of steps up?
God’s plan for preparing Joseph was actually a gradual series of steps down!
Hated by his brothers
Nearly murdered but cast into a pit instead
Sold into slavery in a foreign land
Falsely accused and imprisoned
Forgotten two more years in prison
ONLY then, was he finally vaulted to the throne of Egypt
How do we tend to see each downward step in our lives?
Delays, detours, rerouting
How does God see them?
Each apparent downward step, each seeming delay, is actually the most direct and necessary step toward the place of God’s purpose and appointment.
Have you ever played the game of Monopoly?
Do you enjoy it?
I can’t stand it!
I call it “Monotony.”
Why?
It takes forever right?
What is your perspective of the game board when you play Monopoly?
You have a top down, bird’s-eye view of the whole board, you know when it is going to be your turn, and about how long it will take to be your turn again.
It might still be a long game, but it is usually bearable.
Now imagine that instead of a player you are one of the pieces on that board.
What is your favorite piece?
In real life what kind of perspective do we have?
The player or the piece’s perspective?
We work our way slowly from square to square, landing on “INCOME TAX” or “LUXURY TAX” or “GO TO JAIL” (Joseph did anyway).
And there we are spending an unknown amount of time waiting for our turn to move again so that we can get somewhere.
Only our squares say things like, “FINISH SCHOOL” or “PAY OFF BILLS” or “WORK TWO JOBS” or “NO MARRIAGE YET” or “SERIOUS ILLNESS.”
There is one other significant difference.
Monopoly boards have “CHANCE” squares, but life’s boards have what else instead?
“PROVIDENCE” squares!
And God is the one moving us!
He sees all our downward steps as the necessary movements of His child in exactly the right direction all the way along.
And He is NOT ROLLING DICE!!
There was no other route that would have led 17 year old Joseph to a thirty-year-old man fully prepared to rule the throne of Egypt.
God knew exactly the down-ward path that Joseph had to take!
And we can’t forget this part of the process too- everything that happened to Joseph (good or bad) happened because he consistently resisted sin and temptation!
God weaves delays in the patter of our lives for our ultimate good.
Time is only a worry to us.
It never has been to God.
We must learn to rest in Him, walk with Him, obey Him, and cultivate contentment wherever His Hand has put us.
What we call delays God calls opportunities to effect our spiritual maturity.
Delays are God’s opportunities to complete our preparation.
Joseph was not ready for the throne with its enormous responsibilities until he was done with Third Year Prison Classes.
Delays and afflictions are to God our preparation so that He can lift us up at the proper time to minister to others.
What do we do in the mean time?
What should we do during a delay?
Learn to wait on the Lord, learn the secret of contentment, continue to faithfully obey His commands.
Genesis 42-44
God, in His providence, may allow His own people to suffer need
What does the end of v. 2 (that we may live and not die) suggest about their situation?
“It is corrupt-minded and truth-depraved men who preach the health-and-wealth gospel that godliness and gain go hand in hand.”
God must often use a material crisis to get our attention so that He can then redirect that attention to our deeper spiritual need.
How long had Joseph’s brothers squelched their unquieted memories?
17 years
God, in His providence, causes us to face the consequences of our sins and actions
What is God causing the brothers to realize in these verses?
They identified the deed that has triggered their predicament.
Acknowledge that God is dealing with them.
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Confess the iniquity of their deed.
God, in His providence, can effect a total transformation of character, though it be years later.
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What is the mark of genuine and humble repentance?
It is not merely admission of guilt.
It is also a willingness to submit to whatever consequences God deems appropriate.
Can you see a supernatural transformation in the lives of Joseph’s brothers?
Genesis 45, 50
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Genesis 45:4–8 (ESV)
4 So Joseph said to his brothers, “Come near to me, please.”
And they came near.
And he said, “I am your brother, Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt.
5 And now do not be distressed or angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.
6 For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there are yet five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest.
7 And God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on earth, and to keep alive for you many survivors.
8 So it was not you who sent me here, but God.
He has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
Did you hear in the repetition of Joseph his understanding of the providence of God?
What is significant about this verse?
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