Bible Notes

SUBJECT: “ACT LIKE A SERVANT, THINK LIKE A CHILD”

January 31, 2024By Antoine Barlow

TEXT: Exodus 8:14-9:35, KJV

Youth Focus this week: Memory Verse of the Month: “If you love Me, Keep my commandments”, John 14:15, KJV Family Focus of the Month: Genesis 24 – Exodus 10 Watch Word of Month: Service Hymn of the Month: Blessed Assurance

Key Verse: “And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me.” Exodus 10:3, KJV

Hebrew ‘Leanot’ from root word עָנָה (anah) — meaning to ‘willfully surrender’

Introduction:

Background:

1^st Plague – Overthrow of Nile 2^nd Plague – Overthrow of Hekket

“23 Christian Thoughts about God that even Children Can Understand”

Chapter Eight Verse 14

¹⁴And they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land stank.

¹⁵But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart, and hearkened not unto them; as the Lord had said.

God give us adequate time to accept Him

¹⁶And the Lord said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch out thy rod, and smite the dust of the land, that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt.

3^rd Plague – dust becomes Lice or Mosquitos; this was the first unannounced plague!

The first two plagues (blood and frogs) seemed to dispel idolatry this one seems aimed at uncleanliness. Egyptian Priests were regarded as Pure but bugs even overcame them.

God is Holy

¹⁷And they did so; for Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote the dust of the earth, and it became lice in man, and in beast; all the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.

¹⁸And the magicians did so with their enchantments to bring forth lice, but they could not: so there were lice upon man, and upon beast.

God is Sovereign

¹⁹Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh, This is the finger of God: and Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as the Lord had said.

Name of God here is Elohim

Remember Moses says I Am means Yahweh: Yahweh is the relational name of God

Elohim is the Creative name of God as in Genesis 1:1 but can mean a god or the God

The magicians state we don’t know him Pharoah but He definitely is stronger than us

God will not be mocked

Original Word: μυκτηρίζω Part of Speech: V. Transliteration: muktérizó
Phonetic Spelling: (mook-tay-rid’-zo) Definition: ignored, brushed off, factored in)

CR: Gal 6:7, “whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap”

²⁰And the Lord said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; lo, he cometh forth to the water; and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Let my people go, that they may serve me.

Serve is the Hebrew word ‘Weyaabduni’ — 6 Occurrences in Bible with last at Ex 10:3

Since nowhere else in Scripture describes the type service God wants we research it

^{Deuteronomy 28:1, NIV}“If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations on earth. All these blessings will come on you and accompany you if you obey the Lord your God”

^{Deuteronomy 30:11 “}Now what I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach.”

^{Deuteronomy 30:16 “}For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.”

^{Deuteronomy 30:17 “}But if your heart turns away and you are not obedient, and if you are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them, I declare to you this day that you will certainly be destroyed. You will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.”

The Shema seems to be the actual service God wanted Moses to share with Israel

The Shema is one of only two prayers that are specifically commanded in Torah (the other is Birkat Ha-Mazon — grace after meals). It is the oldest fixed daily prayer in Judaism, recited morning and night since ancient times.

Sh’ma Yisra’eil Adonai Eloheinu Adonai echad.
Hear, Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is One

^{Deuteronomy 6:4 “}Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.^[a] ⁵Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. ⁶These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. ⁷Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.”

^{Matthew 22:37} “Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.”

God is a Jealous God

²¹Else, if thou wilt not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thy houses: and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground whereon they are.

4^th Plague-Flies

²²And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end thou mayest know that I am the Lord in the midst of the earth.

God distinguishes between good and evil

²³And I will put a division between my people and thy people: to morrow shall this sign be.

God offers every man opportunity to hear and respond to His Word

CR: In Numbers 11:4-15, the “rabble” (non-Israelites, Exodus 12.38), joined by the Israelites’ and their nostalgia for Egyptian food, despise God’s gifts of food (verses 6, 18) and deliverance (verse 20).

²⁴And the Lord did so; and there came a grievous swarm of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants’ houses, and into all the land of Egypt: the land was corrupted by reason of the swarm of flies.

²⁵And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, Go ye, sacrifice to your God in the land.

God will wear us down until He wins

²⁶And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the Lord our God: lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us?

The Egyptians would despise animal sacrifice because they held them in high regard and people who touched animals in low regard

Why does God require animal sacrifice anyway? Precursor to Propitiation

Ex 26 would have been written around 3,000 years before Jesus Birth. The flood in Noah’s day happened in the year 2370 B.C.E and Jesus was born about October 1, 2 B.C.E. So Jesus was born 2,368 years after the flood in Noah’s day.

God has given us the only guide we need to live good lives

²⁷We will go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the Lord our God, as he shall command us.

Three days meant a long period of time. Similar to us saying give me 5 minutes today!

God Never even tells Moses to tell Pharoah how many days it would take

Sticking with what God said will keep us from slipping into sin

²⁸And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the Lord your God in the wilderness; only ye shall not go very far away: intreat for me.

²⁹And Moses said, Behold, I go out from thee, and I will intreat the Lord that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, to morrow: but let not Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the Lord.

³⁰And Moses went out from Pharaoh, and intreated the Lord.

³¹And the Lord did according to the word of Moses; and he removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people; there remained not one.

God answers prayer CR: Jm 5:16 “the prayers of the righteous”

³²And Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also, neither would he let the people go.

Chapter Nine

¹Then the Lord said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh, and tell him, Thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me.

²For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still,

³Behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thy cattle which is in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep: there shall be a very grievous murrain.

⁴And the Lord shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt: and there shall nothing die of all that is the children’s of Israel.

5^th Plague – Disease on Cattle

⁵And the Lord appointed a set time, saying, To morrow the Lord shall do this thing in the land.

God has already released what we need on earth we just haven’t run into it yet

⁶And the Lord did that thing on the morrow, and all the cattle of Egypt died: but of the cattle of the children of Israel died not one.

God wont always spare His Saints from suffering

⁷And Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not one of the cattle of the Israelites dead. And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people go.

Grace and only grace opened our hearts to receive the message of the Cross

Gods Grace is a gift that we should give to others to show our appreciation

⁸And the Lord said unto Moses and unto Aaron, Take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the heaven in the sight of Pharaoh.

⁹And it shall become small dust in all the land of Egypt, and shall be a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast, throughout all the land of Egypt.

6^th Plaque- Boils/Sores (the idea is swelling, painful, skin inflammation)

Suggestions are that this plaque was against Imhotep-Father of Medicine

¹⁰And they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast.

¹¹And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boil was upon the magicians, and upon all the Egyptians.

Successive destruction of the entire Egyptian pantheon

God will tear down everything we build that gets more of us than Him

¹²And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he hearkened not unto them; as the Lord had spoken unto Moses.

¹³And the Lord said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me.

Hebrews-abar meaning opposite or people from the other side

God expects Christians to show the world what serving/service truly is

¹⁴For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that there is none like me in all the earth.

¹⁵For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth.

7^th Plaque – Hail

¹⁶And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up, for to shew in thee my power; and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.

iow- I have raised you up to show the world who I am

Pharoah thought his resistance was showing his strength but it was doing the opposite

God may allow a little rain before He appoints a little sunshine

¹⁷As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people, that thou wilt not let them go?

¹⁸Behold, to morrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as hath not been in Egypt since the foundation thereof even until now.

God has Not yet shown either of us ALL of His Power: Get ready for Greater

¹⁹Send therefore now, and gather thy cattle, and all that thou hast in the field; for upon every man and beast which shall be found in the field, and shall not be brought home, the hail shall come down upon them, and they shall die.

²⁰He that feared the word of the Lord among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses:

This denotes that by Plaque 7 there were many Egyptians who believed in Gods Power though they didn’t know Him Personally

Gods Power is always greatest among those who pursue Him personally

²¹And he that regarded not the word of the Lord left his servants and his cattle in the field.

²²And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch forth thine hand toward heaven, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon man, and upon beast, and upon every herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt.

²³And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the Lord rained hail upon the land of Egypt.

Continued Plague- Thunder, Hail and Fire mixed together

²⁴So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.

²⁵And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb of the field, and brake every tree of the field.

²⁶Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail.

God is going to somedays destroy this earth by fire and only a few will be Saved

²⁷And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said unto them, I have sinned this time: the Lord is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.

God will always forgive a sinner who repents of sin and turns from his old ways

²⁸Intreat the Lord (for it is enough) that there be no more mighty thunderings and hail; and I will let you go, and ye shall stay no longer.

²⁹And Moses said unto him, As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands unto the Lord; and the thunder shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that thou mayest know how that the earth is the Lord’s.

³⁰But as for thee and thy servants, I know that ye will not yet fear the Lord God.

Gods enemies cannot be our friends: if one won’t do right by God, they’ll never do right by us.

³¹And the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled.

³²But the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they were not grown up.

God has provided a handout for those who need a hand up! CR: Eph 2:8

“Prior to conversion to Christ, most people go through a process of illumination regarding the ugliness of sin and the contrasting beauty of God’s redemptive work in Jesus. However, for those who cannot go through such a process because of their limited mental faculties, the character of God suggests that He would make provision for them. As a result, while we recognize that most saved people have at least some understanding of sin, repentance, redemption through Christ, and eternal life, we also recognize that those of limited mental capacity—such as infants and individuals who are mentally disabled—may be saved by grace without such understanding.”

³³And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands unto the Lord: and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured upon the earth.

³⁴And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.

³⁵And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, neither would he let the children of Israel go; as the Lord had spoken by Moses.

“Conversion is the Christian Confession”

August 9, 2023By Antoine Barlow

SUBJECT: “Conversion is the Christian Confession”

TEXT: Genesis 42:1-43:34, KJV

Youth Focus this week: Repentance means to not only confess but to change the behavior

Key Verse: “And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.” Genesis 42:21,KJV

Key Words: Repent

Transliteration: Metanoia Phonetic Spelling: (met-an’-oy-ah) Definition: change of mind

Introduction:

Previous Points:

God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit created man, the highest earthly species in His own image and For specific Purpose
Man’s purposes on earth are to, Reproduce (Gen 1:28), Replenish (1:28) to Be Responsible (1:28) and Responsive (1:29 Behold – 2:17)
Angels are also created beings capable of love, logic and liberty
Lucifer, once a gifted Angel was removed from Heaven and has become the enemy of God known as satan or the devil
Satan only has one power….. to convince us that we have none which he does by tempting us to sin through 3 tricks: Lust of Flesh, Lust of Eyes and Pride of Life!
God has given man the power to resist sin with love, logic and liberty!
CR: Job 2:3 The Hebrew Word: Chazaq (khaw-zek) means to grow firm inculcating that God will often teach us life lessons through curriculums we may not like.

THREE PRIMARY LESSONS WE LEARN FROM STUDYING GENESIS

God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit created everything in this world For Purpose!
Man has been given Love, Logic and LibertyI
Holding to Gods unchanging Hand through hard times is the harbinger of Biblical Christianity

PREVAILING PRESUPPOSITIONS

Bible is oldest religious book
Genesis 1 most likely written around 4000 years before Christ to earth
Joseph dreams his dreams around 2000 years before Christ came to earth
Christophanies are signs of Jesus in the Old Testament and tonight study is one of the best:

GOD: God Loves the World and all of His Creation Within It

MAN: Man was created for the purpose of serving God

SIN: The evil one has made it his business to stop man from serving God and seeing the fruit from doing so

SALVATION: Gods plan for saving man from sin through His grace can be seen best through the life of Joseph

BACKGROUND BIBLICAL CONTEXT:

Leah	Zilpah	Rachel	Bilhah
Reuben	Gad		Dan
Simeon	Asher		Naphtali
Levi
Judah
Issachar
Zebulun
~~Dinah~~
		Joseph
		Benjamin

“Twenty-One Compelling Reasons to Convert from Sin”

Chapter 42

¹Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?

Egypt- the name Egypt originated from an ancient Greek word “Aígyptos. The Greek forms of the word were derived from the Late Egyptian “Hikuptah” which translates to “home of the soul of Ptah”. Ptah is what the Egyptians used to refer to the city of Memphis where the chief deity being worshipped there was none other than the potter god, Ptah.

Egypt was among the most advanced civilizations on the planet with massive leaps in writing, urbanization, organized religion, and others. For this reason, ancient Egypt is considered to be a cradle of civilization.

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Diety	Area of Power	Depicted as
Osiris	Agricultural fertility
Isis	Motherhood	female
Horus	Sky god
Seth	Chaos, storms & death god
Ptah	Crafts and Building
Re	Sun god
Hathor	Fertility god	Female/cow

Egypt – Israel’s redemption from Egypt is a picture of our deliverance from sin and death through faith in Jesus Christ. While initially seen as a place of refuge in famine or threat, Egypt becomes a place of oppression and slavery. For New Testament believers, Egypt represents our old life of slavery to sin. CR: Galatians 3:13; 4:5; Titus 2:14.

²And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.

The time frame is after 7 years of plenty now into 7 years of famine

300 miles/ a six week journey

Sin will always lead us further than we want to go & costs far more that we want to pay

³And Joseph’s ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.

Joseph means He will Increase; He will add

Joseph had already been in Egypt 20 years before this verse

God sent someone ahead of us to experience sin before we ever did

⁴But Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.

Benjamin- means “son, house or foundation” CR: King Saul, Esther, Apostle Paul and Jerusalem was originally Benjamite territory CR: Joshua 18:28, Judges 1:21

A firm foundation for sin forgiveness was made just outside Jerusalem on a hill called Mt. Calvary

⁵And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

⁶And Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was that sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph’s brethren came, and bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth.

Freedom from sin is available to EVERYONE who BOWS to Jesus!

⁷And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.

Gods Word addresses/convicts sin strongly/seriously!

CR: Prov 3:11, KJV

⁸And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.

⁹And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them, Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.

We all have weaknesses/vulnerabilities that the devil desires to exploit through sin but increase is available

Name Joseph means “God will increase/add”

On the other side of temptation is Elevation!

¹⁰And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come.

¹¹We are all one man’s sons; we are true men, thy servants are no spies.

Transliteration: kenim Phonetic Spelling: (kane) Definition: Honest/Righteous

All have sinned and come short the glory of God!

¹²And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.

¹³And they said, Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.

Joseph yet lives and has great power, while his conspirators believe him to be deceased

Because He Lives, all sin is gone!

¹⁴And Joseph said unto them, That is it that I spake unto you, saying, Ye are spies:

¹⁵Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.

¹⁶Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether there be any truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies.

¹⁷And he put them all together into ward three days.

All ten brothers jailed for sins though not all equally

Punishment for letting sin dominate our lives is the same for all: isolation

¹⁸And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:

¹⁹If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses:

²⁰But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.

²¹And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.

Without Jesus, there is no remission of sin: 20 years

²²And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore, behold, also his blood is required.

²³And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spake unto them by an interpreter.

Muy Buen

God understands our every prayer and is waiting on us to confess our sin

²⁴And he turned himself about from them, and wept; and returned to them again, and communed with them, and took from them Simeon, and bound him before their eyes.

²⁵Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to restore every man’s money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way: and thus did he unto them.

²⁶And they laded their asses with the corn, and departed thence.

²⁷And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the inn, he espied his money; for, behold, it was in his sack’s mouth.

Spotted the money

²⁸And he said unto his brethren, My money is restored; and, lo, it is even in my sack: and their heart failed them, and they were afraid, saying one to another, What is this that God hath done unto us?

Why do the think God has done something to them?

Fear of what may happen

Believers should so Fear/Respect God that sin becomes something we shun

²⁹And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan, and told him all that befell unto them; saying,

³⁰The man, who is the lord of the land, spake roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country.

³¹And we said unto him, We are true men; we are no spies:

³²We be twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.

³³And the man, the lord of the country, said unto us, Hereby shall I know that ye are true men; leave one of your brethren here with me, and take food for the famine of your households, and be gone:

³⁴And bring your youngest brother unto me: then shall I know that ye are no spies, but that ye are true men: so will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall traffick in the land.

³⁵And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man’s bundle of money was in his sack: and when both they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid.

³⁶And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.

The presence of the unpleasant does Not mean we’ve become the unclean!

In this case, God is positioning the Israelites for Increase

It is true that our sins can negatively affect a lot of people we love

³⁷And Reuben spake unto his father, saying, Slay my two sons, if I bring him not to thee: deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him to thee again.

³⁸And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

Chapter 43

¹And the famine was sore in the land.

²And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food.

Sin will always leave us empty, broken, hurt and hungry

³And Judah spake unto him, saying, The man did solemnly protest unto us, saying, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you. ⁴If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food: ⁵But if thou wilt not send him, we will not go down: for the man said unto us, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.

Judah means Praise

The argument here is that a man send his only remaining son to Egypt

The primary point for praising God is Not the house, car and job but that He has settled our Sin debt through His Son, Jesus

⁶And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?

Jacob/Israel says in essence its your fault! And/or why didn’t you lie?

The only one to blame for sin, is the sinner because satan is just a suggester.

⁷And they said, The man asked us straitly of our state, and of our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye another brother? and we told him according to the tenor of these words: could we certainly know that he would say, Bring your brother down?

⁸And Judah said unto Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go; that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, and also our little ones.

⁹I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever:

¹⁰For except we had lingered, surely now we had returned this second time.

The time to confess sin and repent is always immediately

¹¹And their father Israel said unto them, If it must be so now, do this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds: ¹²And take double money in your hand; and the money that was brought again in the mouth of your sacks, carry it again in your hand; peradventure it was an oversight:¹³Take also your brother, and arise, go again unto the man: ¹⁴And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.

Repentance is the least we can give the God who gave us His Best!

CR: 2 Corinthians 7:10, NLT “For the kind of sorrow God wants us to experience leads us away from sin and results in salvation. There’s no regret for that kind of sorrow. But worldly sorrow, which lacks repentance, results in spiritual death.”

¹⁵And the men took that present, and they took double money in their hand and Benjamin; and rose up, and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.

¹⁶And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the ruler of his house, Bring these men home, and slay, and make ready; for these men shall dine with me at noon.

High noon or the 6^th hour of the day is seen often in Jewish writing

It was the 6^th hour when Jesus died on the Cross

These brothers are being served and shown undeserving favor

There is No greater demonstration of Love towards us than the Crucifixion.

¹⁷And the man did as Joseph bade; and the man brought the men into Joseph’s house.

¹⁸And the men were afraid, because they were brought into Joseph’s house; and they said, Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time are we brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bondmen, and our asses.

God’s thoughts towards us are pure, regardless of our sin!

¹⁹And they came near to the steward of Joseph’s house, and they communed with him at the door of the house,

²⁰And said, O sir, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food: ²¹And it came to pass, when we came to the inn, that we opened our sacks, and, behold, every man’s money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight: and we have brought it again in our hand.

Confession is good for the Soul

²²And other money have we brought down in our hands to buy food: we cannot tell who put our money in our sacks.

²³And he said, Peace be to you, fear not: your God, and the God of your father, hath given you treasure in your sacks: I had your money. And he brought Simeon out unto them.

²⁴And the man brought the men into Joseph’s house, and gave them water, and they washed their feet; and he gave their asses provender.

²⁵And they made ready the present against Joseph came at noon: for they heard that they should eat bread there.

²⁶And when Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves to him to the earth.

Gods Word concerning sin and everything else will always come to pass!

²⁷And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spake? Is he yet alive?

²⁸And they answered, Thy servant our father is in good health, he is yet alive. And they bowed down their heads, and made obeisance.

²⁹And he lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother’s son, and said, Is this your younger brother, of whom ye spake unto me? And he said, God be gracious unto thee, my son.

³⁰And Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother: and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there.

³¹And he washed his face, and went out, and refrained himself, and said, Set on bread.

³²And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves: because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians.

³³And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth: and the men marvelled one at another.

³⁴And he took and sent messes unto them from before him: but Benjamin’s mess was five times so much as any of their’s. And they drank, and were merry with him.

ILLUSTRATION:

FOR FURTHER STUDY:

CONCLUSION:

PRAYER LIST:

QUESTIONS?

HOMEWORK: None

SUBJECT: “A Proper Understanding of Biblical Prosperity”

July 12, 2023By Antoine Barlow

TEXT: Genesis 39:1 – 41:57, KJV

Key Verse: “But the Lord was with Joseph, and shewed him mercy, and gave him favour” Genesis 39:21,KJV

Introduction: B.M.W, (Blood, Mercy & Word)

Previous Points:

God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit created man, the highest earthly species in His own image and For specific Purpose
Man’s purposes on earth are to, Reproduce (Gen 1:28), Replenish (1:28) to Be Responsible (1:28) and Responsive (1:29 Behold – 2:17)
Angels are also created beings capable of love, logic and liberty
Lucifer, once a gifted Angel was removed from Heaven and has become the enemy of God known as satan or the devil
Satan only has one power….. to convince us that we have none which he does by tempting us to sin through 3 tricks: Lust of Flesh, Lust of Eyes and Pride of Life!
God has given man the power to resist sin with love, logic and liberty!
CR: Job 2:3 The Hebrew Word: Chazaq (khaw-zek) means to grow firm inculcating that God will often teach us life lessons through curriculums we may not like.

THREE PRIMARY LESSONS WE LEARN FROM STUDYING GENESIS

God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit created everything in this world For Purpose!
Man has been given Love, Logic and LibertyI
Holding to Gods unchanging Hand through hard times is the harbinger of Biblical Christianity

PREVAILING PRESUPPOSITIONS

Bible is oldest religious book Genesis 1 most likely written around 4000 years before Christ to earth Joseph dreams his dreams around 2000 years before Christ came to earth Christophanies are signs of Jesus in the Old Testament and tonight study is one of the best:

GOD: God Loves the World and all of His Creation Within It MAN: Man was created for the purpose of serving God SIN: The evil one has made it his business to stop man from serving God and seeing the fruit from doing so SALVATION: Gods plan for saving man from sin through His grace can be seen best through the life of Joseph

BACKGROUND BIBLICAL CONTEXT:

Chapter 37 Jacobs other sons sell Joseph and lie to him making him believe Joseph is dead Chapter 38 Jacobs son Judah is fooled by daughter-in-law, Tamar: Sons Perez & Zerah

Leah	Zilpah	Rachel	Bilhah
Reuben	Gad		Dan
Simeon	Asher		Naphtali
Levi
Judah
Issachar
Zebulun
~~Dinah~~
		Joseph
		Benjamin

“20 Pathways to Biblical Prosperity”

Chapter 39

¹And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him down thither.

Yahweh – occurs more than 6800 times in the Bible; it is the relational name of God as opposed to Elohim and Adonai. Ex 3:13-15 where God says “I Am who I am”

Yahweh is the personal name of God, that was eventually spoken aloud ONLY by priests worshiping in the Jerusalem temple.

Tetragrammaton is YHWH and because “Y” makes “J” sound we get Jehovah

After the destruction of the temple in A.D. 70, the name was not pronounced and Adonai was substituted for Yahweh whenever it appeared in the biblical text.

ELOHIM ————— YAHWEH ——————ADONAI/KURIOS——- GOD

Revelation through Relationship!

²And the Lord was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.

Prosperous – meaning to Be Successful in Strongs Hebrew is the word “Tsaleach “ {tsaw-lay’-akh}; Meaning(s) – break out, come mightily, go over, be good, cause to, effective,

Why is Joseph successful?; 2) Where is he successful? 3) How is he successful?
God must become Our Goal

iow- everything we do must be done for Gods glory and Not our own and its easy to recognize when its for Gods glory because our attitude reflects it

³And his master saw that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord made all that he did to prosper in his hand.

What did he do?

Do what you do without complaint, conflict, contempt or condition

⁴And Joseph found grace in his sight, and he served him: and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.

Serve because its right, Not because it may come with reward

Serve Who? Serve How? Joseph served Potiphar by putting him as a priority

Sometime over the next five to seven years Potiphar gives him more responsiblity

⁵And it came to pass from the time that he had made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that the Lord blessed the Egyptian’s house for Joseph’s sake; and the blessing of the Lord was upon all that he had in the house, and in the field.

Seek to be a blessing instead of a burden (i.e, how can I help?)

⁶And he left all that he had in Joseph’s hand; and he knew not ought he had, save the bread which he did eat. And Joseph was a goodly person, and well-favoured.

Invest more into Character than we do beauty and Clothing (i.e., books, conferences)

Javier from Courageous

⁷And it came to pass after these things, that his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me.

⁸But he refused, and said unto his master’s wife, Behold, my master wotteth not what is with me in the house, and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand;

Resist the devils devices

⁹There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?

Recognize that sin no matter its size is rebellion against God that has consequences that we can’t choose

¹⁰And it came to pass, as she spake to Joseph day by day, that he hearkened not unto her, to lie by her, or to be with her.

¹¹And it came to pass about this time, that Joseph went into the house to do his business; and there was none of the men of the house there within.

¹²And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out.

¹³And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and was fled forth,

¹⁴That she called unto the men of her house, and spake unto them, saying, See, he hath brought in an Hebrew unto us to mock us; he came in unto me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice:

Still Loving people who’ve hated you

¹⁵And it came to pass, when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled, and got him out.

¹⁶And she laid up his garment by her, until his lord came home.

¹⁷And she spake unto him according to these words, saying, The Hebrew servant, which thou hast brought unto us, came in unto me to mock me:

¹⁸And it came to pass, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled out.

¹⁹And it came to pass, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spake unto him, saying, After this manner did thy servant to me; that his wrath was kindled.

²⁰And Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king’s prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison.

Look for Gods hand when dealing with low places and low down people

²¹But the Lord was with Joseph, and shewed him mercy, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison.

Always treat folks better than you’d like to be treated regardless of their position

²²And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph’s hand all the prisoners that were in the prison; and whatsoever they did there, he was the doer of it.

²³The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing that was under his hand; because the Lord was with him, and that which he did, the Lord made it to prosper.

Remain faithful regardless of your present reality because the same God who allows disappointment also allows appointment.

Mr. Miyagi

Chapter 40

¹And it came to pass after these things, that the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker had offended their lord the king of Egypt.

²And Pharaoh was wroth against two of his officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers.

³And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.

⁴And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he served them: and they continued a season in ward.

Serving successfully because you can see the good in a bad situation

⁵And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound in the prison.

⁶And Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and looked upon them, and, behold, they were sad.

⁷And he asked Pharaoh’s officers that were with him in the ward of his lord’s house, saying, Wherefore look ye so sadly to day?

Caring enough about other human beings that you connect with them in Christlike fashion

The man has every reason in the world not to care about anyone or anything yet……

⁸And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it. And Joseph said unto them, Do not interpretations belong to God? tell me them, I pray you.

There is no evidence that Joseph has ever interpreted a dream before but his belief is that His God Can

Believing the best about God even in the worst of circumstances (i.e, God Can, God Will, God is)

⁹And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, In my dream, behold, a vine was before me;

¹⁰And in the vine were three branches: and it was as though it budded, and her blossoms shot forth; and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes:

¹¹And Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand: and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh’s cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand.

¹²And Joseph said unto him, This is the interpretation of it: The three branches are three days:

¹³Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh’s cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler.

¹⁴But think on me when it shall be well with thee, and shew kindness, I pray thee, unto me, and make mention of me unto Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house:

Transliteration: checed Phonetic Spelling: (kheh’-sed) Definition: goodness, kindness

Do me a favor because I’ve done you a favor

Rejoicing when others receive their blessings though our situation hasn’t changed yet

¹⁵For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.

¹⁶When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said unto Joseph, I also was in my dream, and, behold, I had three white baskets on my head:

¹⁷And in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of bakemeats for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head.

¹⁸And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation thereof: The three baskets are three days:

¹⁹Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.

²⁰And it came to pass the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, that he made a feast unto all his servants: and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and of the chief baker among his servants.

²¹And he restored the chief butler unto his butlership again; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand:

²²But he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had interpreted to them.

²³Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him.

Deepening your relationship with God despite not getting what you know you deserve (i.e, church, Bible study, Fasting, works on auxiliaries, etc…)

Chapter 41

¹And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river.

Still serving God even though so much time has past that you’ve started to see yourself as no longer even wanting what God promised you

Sometimes we can want the right thing for the wrong reasons

²And, behold, there came up out of the river seven well favoured kine and fatfleshed; and they fed in a meadow.

³And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill favoured and leanfleshed; and stood by the other kine upon the brink of the river.

⁴And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven well favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke.

⁵And he slept and dreamed the second time: and, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.

⁶And, behold, seven thin ears and blasted with the east wind sprung up after them.

⁷And the seven thin ears devoured the seven rank and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it was a dream.

⁸And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.

The anointing is activated only at Gods command and that usually only after many days, months, weeks or even years of agony (extreme physical or mental suffering)

Joseph is now either 29 or 30 years old; having been imprisoned for nearly 13 years

⁹Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults this day:

¹⁰Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in ward in the captain of the guard’s house, both me and the chief baker:

¹¹And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.

¹²And there was there with us a young man, an Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard; and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams; to each man according to his dream he did interpret.

¹³And it came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so it was; me he restored unto mine office, and him he hanged.

¹⁴Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.

¹⁵And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret it: and I have heard say of thee, that thou canst understand a dream to interpret it.

¹⁶And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace.

When everything we do and say are opportunities for God to speak and work

Here, Joseph is a representative of God offering revelation to Pharoah through relationship

¹⁷And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood upon the bank of the river:

¹⁸And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a meadow:

¹⁹And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness:

²⁰And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:

²¹And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill favoured, as at the beginning. So I awoke.

²²And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up in one stalk, full and good:

²³And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them:

²⁴And the thin ears devoured the seven good ears: and I told this unto the magicians; but there was none that could declare it to me.

²⁵And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: God hath shewed Pharaoh what he is about to do.

²⁶The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.

²⁷And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine.

²⁸This is the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh: What God is about to do he sheweth unto Pharaoh.

²⁹Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt:

³⁰And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land;

³¹And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine following; for it shall be very grievous.

³²And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice; it is because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.

³³Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.

³⁴Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years.

³⁵And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities.

³⁶And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine.

³⁷And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.

³⁸And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such a one as this is, a man in whom the Spirit of God is?

Transliteration: Elohim Phonetic Spelling: (el-o-heem’) Meaning: God or gods

Pharoah uses Elohim because he does not yet know Yahweh through relationship

³⁹And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou art:

Letting others praise our work and Not our own lips

⁴⁰Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou.

⁴¹And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt.

⁴²And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;

⁴³And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.

Just like God showed Joseph in the dream 13 years ago people are bowing to him in honor

All dreams are Not laden with Divine Direction towards destiny but some may be indicators that its time to take God more seriously

⁴⁴And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.

⁴⁵And Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphnathpaaneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On. And Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt.

⁴⁶And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.

⁴⁷And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls.

⁴⁸And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same.

⁴⁹And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.

⁵⁰And unto Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine came, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On bare unto him.

⁵¹And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For God, said he, hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father’s house.

⁵²And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.

When we’re willing to trade forgetfulness/forgiveness for fruitfulness

⁵³And the seven years of plenteousness, that was in the land of Egypt, were ended.

⁵⁴And the seven years of dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said: and the dearth was in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.

⁵⁵And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph; what he saith to you, do.

⁵⁶And the famine was over all the face of the earth: and Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt.

⁵⁷And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn; because that the famine was so sore in all lands.

Now Israel needs to come see Joseph in order to survive

When people have dealt you underhanded but now you have the upperhand

ILLUSTRATION:

FOR FURTHER STUDY:

CONCLUSION:

PRAYER LIST: Mother Fleming

QUESTIONS?

HOMEWORK: None

SUBJECT: “He’s Sweet I Know, Part II”

July 5, 2023By Antoine Barlow

TEXT: Genesis 37:1 – 40:23, KJV

Youth Focus this week: Begin Preparation for District Fall Bible Bowl

Key Verse: “And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?” Genesis 37:15,KJV

Introduction: Eph 2:5 The idea is an act of preserving that gets better and better through accepted invitation, allowed input and atoned iniquity.

Previous Points:

God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit created man, the highest earthly species in His own image and For specific Purpose
Man’s purposes on earth are to, Reproduce (Gen 1:28), Replenish (1:28) to Be Responsible (1:28) and Responsive (1:29 Behold – 2:17)
Angels are also created beings capable of love, logic and liberty
Lucifer, once a gifted Angel was removed from Heaven and has become the enemy of God known as satan or the devil
Satan only has one power….. to convince us that we have none which he does by tempting us to sin through 3 tricks: Lust of Flesh, Lust of Eyes and Pride of Life!
God has given man the power to resist sin with love, logic and liberty!
CR: Job 2:3 The Hebrew Word: Chazaq (khaw-zek) means to grow firm inculcating that God will often teach us life lessons through curriculums we may not like.

THREE PRIMARY LESSONS WE LEARN FROM STUDYING GENESIS

God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit created everything in this world For Purpose!
Man has been given Love, Logic and LibertyI
Holding to Gods unchanging Hand through hard times is the harbinger of Biblical Christianity

PREVAILING PRESUPPOSITIONS

Bible is oldest religious book Genesis 1 most likely written around 4000 years before Christ to earth Joseph dreams his dreams around 2000 years before Christ came to earth Christophanies are signs of Jesus in the Old Testament and tonight study is one of the best:

GOD: God Loves the World and all of His Creation Within It MAN: Man was created for the purpose of serving God SIN: The evil one has made it his business to stop man from serving God and seeing the fruit from doing so SALVATION: Gods plan for saving man from sin through His grace can be seen best through the life of Joseph

BACKGROUND BIBLICAL CONTEXT:

Chapter 34 Jacobs daughter Dinah is assaulted and her perpetrators killed by her brothers Chapter 35-36 Jacob moves to Bethel in Canaan and Benjamin is added to the list of sons

Leah	Zilpah	Rachel	Bilhah
Reuben	Gad		Dan
Simeon	Asher		Naphtali
Levi
Judah
Issachar
Zebulun
~~Dinah~~
		Joseph
		Benjamin

“Twenty Examples of Jesus Christ in the Old Testament”

Chapter 37

¹And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan.

²These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives: and Joseph brought unto his father their evil report.

Name Joseph spelled with “Y” Yosef; because there is no “J” in Hebrew OT or Greek NT

Jesus is actually Yeshua in OT and Iesous in NT but gains a “J” in English translation

Name Yosef/Joseph mean “he will increase”

The Meaning never ceases to be “The Lord is Salvation”

CR: Eph 2:5 The idea is an act of preserving that gets better and better through accepted invitation, allowed input and atoned iniquity.

Jesus’ life is Gods ‘Only Offer’ to Save Mankind

³Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours.

The coat was a gift showing the Fathers approval of this son for several reasons ( Simeon & Levi 34:1-9, Reuben 35:5, Judah 38:16)

No wonder daddy loved Joseph More!

There will never be another Jesus on the earth but we should try to emulate His example

⁴And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.

Transliteration: sane Phonetic Spelling: (saw-nay’) Definition: to hate Part of Speech: Verb

Translation seems to suggests that the more they saw him, the more they hated him

Jesus did no wrong and doesn’t deserve anything but love

⁵And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and they hated him yet the more.

⁶And he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed:

⁷For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.

⁸And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words.

Jesus Words are true

CR: Jn 14:6 “I am the Way, the Truth and the Life”

⁹And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.

¹⁰And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?

Every knee shall bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord

CR: Phil 2:9-11

¹¹And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.

¹²And his brethren went to feed their father’s flock in Shechem.

¹³And Israel said unto Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed the flock in Shechem? come, and I will send thee unto them. And he said to him, Here am I.

Jesus was sent to His brethren knowing that many would Not receive Him yet He came anyway

¹⁴And he said to him, Go, I pray thee, see whether it be well with thy brethren, and well with the flocks; and bring me word again. So he sent him out of the vale of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.

¹⁵And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?

¹⁶And he said, I seek my brethren: tell me, I pray thee, where they feed their flocks.

¹⁷And the man said, They are departed hence; for I heard them say, Let us go to Dothan. And Joseph went after his brethren, and found them in Dothan.

¹⁸And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him.

Jesus was despised and rejected yet never despised or rejected anyone

CR: Isa 53:3

¹⁹And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer cometh.

²⁰Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams.

Jesus was lied on yet never lied on anyone

²¹And Reuben heard it, and he delivered him out of their hands; and said, Let us not kill him.

Reuben really is trying to buy some time to devise a plan because he knows this is wrong

²²And Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood, but cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, and lay no hand upon him; that he might rid him out of their hands, to deliver him to his father again.

²³And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren, that they stript Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colours that was on him;

²⁴And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.

²⁵And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.

²⁶And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood?

²⁷Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmeelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he is our brother and our flesh. And his brethren were content.

Jesus was sold out for 30 pieces of silver by His own friend

CR: Matt 24:14-16 (todays value would be around $264)

²⁸Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt.

Picked up and Sold to Midianites then sold to the Ishmeelites

²⁹And Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit; and he rent his clothes.

Saddened by what he wasn’t able to accomplish

³⁰And he returned unto his brethren, and said, The child is not; and I, whither shall I go?

³¹And they took Joseph’s coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood;

³²And they sent the coat of many colours, and they brought it to their father; and said, This have we found: know now whether it be thy son’s coat or no.

³³And he knew it, and said, It is my son’s coat; an evil beast hath devoured him; Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces.

Animal blood cannot be compared with Jesus’ Blood

CR: Heb 9:13-14 “For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?”

³⁴And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.

³⁵And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.

³⁶And the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, and captain of the guard.

Ishmeelites to the Midianites to Potiphar

Jesus took on the life of a servant

CR: Matt 20:28, “the Son of Man did not come to be served….”

Chapter 38

¹And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.

²And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite, whose name was Shuah; and he took her, and went in unto her.

Jesus never compromised the Cross Agenda

³And she conceived, and bare a son; and he called his name Er.

⁴And she conceived again, and bare a son; and she called his name Onan.

⁵And she yet again conceived, and bare a son; and called his name Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bare him.

⁶And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, whose name was Tamar.

⁷And Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the Lord; and the Lord slew him.

⁸And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother’s wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.

⁹And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother’s wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother.

¹⁰And the thing which he did displeased the Lord: wherefore he slew him also.

Jesus Never let God the Father down

CR: Matthew 3:17; Matthew 17:5; Mark 1:1; Mark 9:7; Luke 3:22

¹¹Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at thy father’s house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren did. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father’s house.

¹²And in process of time the daughter of Shuah Judah’s wife died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheepshearers to Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

¹³And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father in law goeth up to Timnath to shear his sheep.

Name Tamar is Hebrew meaning upright or righteous

Jesus is the Righteous One

¹⁴And she put her widow’s garments off from her, and covered her with a vail, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which is by the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife.

¹⁵When Judah saw her, he thought her to be an harlot; because she had covered her face.

¹⁶And he turned unto her by the way, and said, Go to, I pray thee, let me come in unto thee; (for he knew not that she was his daughter in law.) And she said, What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come in unto me?

¹⁷And he said, I will send thee a kid from the flock. And she said, Wilt thou give me a pledge, till thou send it?

¹⁸And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she said, Thy signet, and thy bracelets, and thy staff that is in thine hand. And he gave it her, and came in unto her, and she conceived by him.

¹⁹And she arose, and went away, and laid by her vail from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.

²⁰And Judah sent the kid by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive his pledge from the woman’s hand: but he found her not.

²¹Then he asked the men of that place, saying, Where is the harlot, that was openly by the way side? And they said, There was no harlot in this place.

²²And he returned to Judah, and said, I cannot find her; and also the men of the place said, that there was no harlot in this place.

²³And Judah said, Let her take it to her, lest we be shamed: behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her.

²⁴And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot; and also, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.

²⁵When she was brought forth, she sent to her father in law, saying, By the man, whose these are, am I with child: and she said, Discern, I pray thee, whose are these, the signet, and bracelets, and staff.

²⁶And Judah acknowledged them, and said, She hath been more righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more.

²⁷And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that, behold, twins were in her womb.

²⁸And it came to pass, when she travailed, that the one put out his hand: and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out first.

²⁹And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold, his brother came out: and she said, How hast thou broken forth? this breach be upon thee: therefore his name was called Pharez.

³⁰And afterward came out his brother, that had the scarlet thread upon his hand: and his name was called Zarah.

Chapter 39

¹And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him down thither.

²And the Lord was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.

Everywhere He went and Everyone He touched Prospered greatly

³And his master saw that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord made all that he did to prosper in his hand.

⁴And Joseph found grace in his sight, and he served him: and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.

Jesus is Trustworthy

⁵And it came to pass from the time that he had made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that the Lord blessed the Egyptian’s house for Joseph’s sake; and the blessing of the Lord was upon all that he had in the house, and in the field.

⁶And he left all that he had in Joseph’s hand; and he knew not ought he had, save the bread which he did eat. And Joseph was a goodly person, and well favoured.

⁷And it came to pass after these things, that his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me.

⁸But he refused, and said unto his master’s wife, Behold, my master wotteth not what is with me in the house, and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand;

⁹There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?

Jesus never sinned Not even once

¹⁰And it came to pass, as she spake to Joseph day by day, that he hearkened not unto her, to lie by her, or to be with her.

Jesus was tempted all day everyday but still never sinned even once

¹¹And it came to pass about this time, that Joseph went into the house to do his business; and there was none of the men of the house there within.

¹²And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out.

¹³And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and was fled forth,

¹⁴That she called unto the men of her house, and spake unto them, saying, See, he hath brought in an Hebrew unto us to mock us; he came in unto me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice:

¹⁵And it came to pass, when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled, and got him out.

¹⁶And she laid up his garment by her, until his lord came home.

People tried to trap Jesus

¹⁷And she spake unto him according to these words, saying, The Hebrew servant, which thou hast brought unto us, came in unto me to mock me:

¹⁸And it came to pass, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled out.

¹⁹And it came to pass, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spake unto him, saying, After this manner did thy servant to me; that his wrath was kindled.

²⁰And Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king’s prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison.

²¹But the Lord was with Joseph, and shewed him mercy, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison.

²²And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph’s hand all the prisoners that were in the prison; and whatsoever they did there, he was the doer of it.

²³The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing that was under his hand; because the Lord was with him, and that which he did, the Lord made it to prosper.

Chapter 40

¹And it came to pass after these things, that the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker had offended their lord the king of Egypt.

Jesus was crucified between two thieves