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The Life of Joseph

Session 1: Introduction. The Life of Joseph. What do you know about Joseph?. Joseph’s life is recorded in :. Genesis 37, 39-50. What do you know about Joseph?. Favored son of Jacob Coat of many colors Joseph’s vision about his brothers Sold into slavery by his brothers Enslaved in Egypt

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The Life of Joseph

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  1. Session 1: Introduction The Life of Joseph

  2. What do you know about Joseph? Joseph’s life is recorded in: Genesis 37, 39-50

  3. What do you know about Joseph? • Favored son of Jacob • Coat of many colors • Joseph’s vision about his brothers • Sold into slavery by his brothers • Enslaved in Egypt • Success under Potiphar • Facing Temptation with Potiphar’s wife • Thrown into prison • Favor in Prison • Baker and Cup Bearer dreams • Pharoah’s Dream • God blesses Joseph through the wealth of Egypt • God Reunites Joseph with his family (forgiveness) • God saves all of Israel through Joseph

  4. Session 1 Group time • Divide into small groups. No more than 5 in a group. • If there’s someone in your group you don’t know well, introduce yourself. • Take your facts and write a rap about Joseph’s life • Pick someone in your group to present it. • You have 45 minutes.

  5. Rap Time

  6. Session 2: Dealing with Temptation and Making the Right Choices The Life of Joseph

  7. What are some things that you struggle with? How does Satan tempt you?

  8. Genesis 39:7-20 7 It came about after these events that his master’s wife looked with desire at Joseph, and she said, “Lie with me.” 8 But he refused and said to his master’s wife, “Behold, with me here, my master does not concern himself with anything in the house, and he has put all that he owns in my charge. 9 “There is no one greater in this house than I, and he has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do this great evil and sin against God?” 10 As she spoke to Joseph day after day, he did not listen to her to lie beside her or be with her. 11 Now it happened one day that he went into the house to do his work, and none of the men of the household was there inside. 12 She caught him by his garment, saying, “Lie with me!” And he left his garment in her hand and fled, and went outside. 13 When she saw that he had left his garment in her hand and had fled outside, 14 she called to the men of her household and said to them, “See, he has brought in a Hebrew to us to make sport of us; he came in to me to lie with me, and I screamed. 15 “When he heard that I raised my voice and screamed, he left his garment beside me and fled and went outside.” 16 So she left his garment beside her until his master came home. 17 Then she spoke to him with these words, “The Hebrew slave, whom you brought to us, came in to me to make sport of me; 18 and as I raised my voice and screamed, he left his garment beside me and fled outside.” 19 Now when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke to him, saying, “This is what your slave did to me,” his anger burned. 20 So Joseph’s master took him and put him into the jail, the place where the king’s prisoners were confined; and he was there in the jail.

  9. Joseph dealt with his temptation by ______________. Is this the right way to deal with temptation when we face it? (1 Corinthians 6:18; 1 Peter 5:8-9; Psalm 119:9-11) • How can we deal with the temptation that we face on a regular basis? • What tools do we have to battle the temptation that Satan brings before us? RUNNING!

  10. Session 2 Group time • Divide into small groups. No more than 5 in a group. • If there’s someone in your group you don’t know well, introduce yourself. • Discuss what you need to help you make right choices. • If you feel comfortable with the group, share some of the things that you are tempted with, and pray as a group about those things.

  11. Session 3: Life Ain’t Fair: Coping with things when God doesn’t make sense The Life of Joseph

  12. Genesis 40:1-23 1 Then it came about after these things, the cupbearer and the baker for the king of Egypt offended their lord, the king of Egypt. 2 Pharaoh was furious with his two officials, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker. 3 So he put them in confinement in the house of the captain of the bodyguard, in the jail, the same place where Joseph was imprisoned. 4 The captain of the bodyguard put Joseph in charge of them, and he took care of them; and they were in confinement for some time. 14 “Only keep me in mind when it goes well with you, and please do me a kindness by mentioning me to Pharaoh and get me out of this house. 15 “For I was in fact kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing that they should have put me into the dungeon.” 20 Thus it came about on the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, that he made a feast for all his servants; and he lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants. 21 He restored the chief cupbearer to his office, and he put the cup into Pharaoh’s hand; 22 but he hanged the chief baker, just as Joseph had interpreted to them. 23 Yet the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph, but forgot him.

  13. FAIR • Life often does not seem ________. Can you think of a time when it seems like God’s not paying attention? • What is the difference between fairness and justice? • God always sees our circumstances _________________ with perfect __________. We can only see our circumstances from our ____________. • Was Joseph treated fairly? How did he react? How should we react? When life doesn’t seem fair? CLEARLY AND FULLY WISDOM PERSPECTIVE

  14. Session 3 Group time • Divide into small groups. No more than 5 in a group. • If there’s someone in your group you don’t know well, introduce yourself. • Why does God allow bad things to happen to His people? • What can we do to make sure that good things always happen to us? • How can we please God in difficult circumstances? How did Joseph?

  15. Session 4: Moving On: God’s Provision and Forgiveness The Life of Joseph

  16. Genesis 44-45; Genesis 50 Genesis 44:1 Then he commanded his house steward, saying, “Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man’s money in the mouth of his sack. 2 “Put my cup, the silver cup, in the mouth of the sack of the youngest, and his money for the grain.” And he did as Joseph had told him. 26 “But we said, ‘We cannot go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go down; for we cannot see the man’s face unless our youngest brother is with us.’ 33 “Now, therefore, please let your servant remain instead of the lad a slave to my lord, and let the lad go up with his brothers. Genesis 45:1 Then Joseph could not control himself before all those who stood by him, and he cried, “Have everyone go out from me.” So there was no man with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers. 2 He wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard it, and the household of Pharaoh heard of it. 3 Then Joseph said to his brothers, “ am Joseph! Is my father still alive?” But his brothers could not answer him, for they were dismayed at his presence. 4 Then Joseph said to his brothers, “Please come closer to me.” And they came closer. And he said, “I am your brother Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt. 5 “Now do not be grieved 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 still five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvesting. 7 “God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to keep you alive by a great deliverance. 8 “Now, therefore, it was not you who sent me here, but God; and He has made me a father to Pharaoh and lord of all his household and ruler over all the land of Egypt. Genesis 50:19 But Joseph said to them, “Do not be afraid, for am I in God’s place? 20 “As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring about this present result, to preserve many people alive.

  17. PROVIDES PICTURE • We often cannot see how God __________ for us, because we don’t see the big __________.

  18. PEOPLE CIRCUMSTANCES • God provided for his ___________ through the difficult ______________ that Joseph faced. • Joseph _____________ his brothers, in spite of how they treated him. FORGAVE

  19. Session 4 Group time • Divide into small groups. No more than 5 in a group. • If there’s someone in your group you don’t know well, introduce yourself. • Can you think of someone who you need to forgive? Who you have wronged? • Commit now to forgive yourself of any wrong you have done, to forgive others of wrong they have done you, and to do everything within your power to make things right with that person.

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