Joseph April 20th - Sept 21st a new sermon series - jealousy, betrayal, temptation & salvation
Lisa Jennings
Racine Rens
1 “ Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt. Potiphar, an Egyptian who was one of Pharaoh’s officials, the captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there.” Genesis 39 � What is God doing?
”If I have sinned, what have I done to you, you who see everything we do? Why have you made me your target? Have I become a burden to you?” Job 7:20 � What is God doing?
”If I have sinned, what have I done to you, you who see everything we do? Why have you made me your target? Have I become a burden to you?” Job 7:20 � “Though he slay me, yet will I hope in him…” Job 13:15 � What is God doing?
The philosophical/theological quandary � Did God cause this? � The ‘Already/Not Yet’ Kingdom
Does God intervene?
”First post since the accident... I am indeed in pain and worried about my family but I am also overwhelmed by love. God's love is REAL... I feel him loving me through all of you and it's overwhelming. Lisa Jennings
”One week ago I was in a serious accident and I am posting from my first night in a rehabilitation center. I am grappling with understanding why I have been so blessed. Why I'm still here. Why I was blessed enough to feel the cool night air on my face and stare at the stars looking down on me as they wheeled me into an ambulance for transport. Things like that fill me with such joy now... I look at my husband's face and I see so much love, my heart feels like it may just burst into a thousand pieces of light. I can never put all my thoughts into a post but my thumb had something to say and I couldn't fight it. So my dearest friends, know how precious your lives are. Know you are important. Know you are not alone. Make someone else believe it too. And repeat.” Lisa Jennings
”Happy Anniversary Lisa!! The greatest joy of my life was when I married you six years ago. "Last night your beauty burned into my memory, the wheel of Heaven turns above us endlessly, this is all the heaven we got, right here where we are in our Shangri La." You have been such an inspiration to myself and others over the past several months. I could not have gotten through it without your love and support. I love you. Three little words have never meant so much between two people. I look forward to many more wonderful years together.” Chris Jennings
“If you had been here, my brother would not have 22 But I know that even now God will give you died. 23 Jesus said to her, “Your brother whatever you ask.” 24 Martha answered, “I know he will will rise again.” 25 Jesus rise again in the resurrection at the last day.” The said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. one who believes in me will live, even though they 26 and whoever lives by believing in me will never die; 27 “Yes, Lord,” she replied, die. Do you believe this?” “I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, who is to come into the world.” John 11
33 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled. 34 “Where have you laid him?” he asked.“Come and see, Lord,” they replied. 35 Jesus wept. 36 Then the Jews said, “See how he loved him!” 37 But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?” John 11
What could God be doing?
What could God be doing?
2 The Lord was with Joseph so that he prospered, and he lived in the house of his Egyptian master. 3 When his master saw that the Lord was with him and that the Lord gave him success in everything he did, 4 Joseph found favor in his eyes and became his attendant. Potiphar put him in charge of his household, and he entrusted to his care everything he owned. 5 From the time he put him in charge of his household and of all that he owned, the Lord blessed the household of the Egyptian because of Joseph. The blessing of the Lord was on everything Potiphar had, both in the house and in the field. 6 So Potiphar left everything he had in Joseph’s care; with Joseph in charge, he did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate. Genesis 39
Wisdom
Wisdom Courage
Wisdom Courage Kindness
Wisdom Courage Kindness � Jesus suffers along with us God’s providence is working itself out � Look for door number 3
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