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Hebrews 11- Faith

Benjamin Ng

01 The Faith of Abel

02 The Faith of Enoch

03 The Faith of Noah

05 The Faith of Sarah

08 The Faith of Jacob

09 The Faith of Joseph Part 1

11 The Faith of Moses’ Parents

10 The Faith of Joseph Part 2

13 The Faith of Moses Part 2

14 The Faith of Moses Part 3

12 The Faith of Moses Part 1

15 The Faith of Rahab

16 The Faith of Gideon

07 The Faith of Isaac

17 The Faith of Barak

19 The Faith of Samson

20 The Faith of Jephthah

21 The Faith of David

22 The Faith of Samuel

04 The Faith of Abraham Part 1

06 The Faith of Abraham Part 2

Father in heaven, thank you so much for this past week.

And Lord, I know that this past week for some it has been difficult.

For some Lord, you've been tremendously grateful and blessing them.

And Lord, I just want to thank you that you've brought us to this point.

As we open your word to study this evening, we ask for your presence.

Please grace us with Thy presence and draw us close to You, we pray, in Jesus' name.

1 thing I was telling myself, I have to pray for this before I started, but please, just whisper a prayer right now for our connection.

It seems that every week now we seem to be having some sort of internet problem and I don't know how to fix it.

It's just what it is I guess here in Malaysia but do pray for that.

But I want to invite you now to turn with me in your Bibles to Hebrews chapter 11.

Hebrews 11 and this evening as you notice by the title we are looking at the faith of Joseph.

Hebrews 11 verse 22, the Bible says this, By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel and gave commandment concerning his bones.

This really talks about the end of Joseph's life.

But what we want to do in this next 2 weeks, as you see on the title there, there's a part 1, so next week is going to be the part 2.

We're gonna spend 2 weeks at the least, if more I'll let you know, but we're gonna spend 2 weeks on the life of Joseph.

Look, Joseph is probably 1 of the most talked about characters in the book of Genesis.

Abraham or Abraham is the most, and then the second most is Jacob, but Joseph is a very, very big portion of it, and he's probably the most famous.

And so I want to look at his life and spend some time looking at his life because his life is also a testament of the life of faith lived by a big man of God, and what we would call a patriarch of God as well.

And so let's turn our Bibles to Genesis chapter 37.

Joseph, he was the favorite son of Jacob, the favorite of the wives that he had.

Rachel was the favorite wife and it was no surprise that the other brothers hated him because of the favoritism that Jacob showered upon Joseph.

His coat of many colors, you know, many things that we see and how when you play favorites with your children, it really causes a division within the family.

And Jacob's family was already fractured because of the 4 different wives or women that he had children with, 13 children in total, and Joseph was the 12th.

But let's turn our Bible to Genesis 37 and starting in verse 3.

Genesis 37 starting in verse 3, the Bible says this.

Now 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 colors.

And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him and could not speak peaceably unto him." So the whole Situation in the family was a toxic situation to begin with.

It was not a pleasant home It was not a home that you would probably be happy growing up in and 2 brothers They were murderers with a capital S and the oldest 1 Reuben slept with the father's wife there was just trouble brewing in this family.

And to make matters worse, Jacob showed his extra care and attention and love all upon Joseph and probably his younger brother Benjamin.

But even then on top of that, God gave Joseph dreams.

Dreams where the sheaves of hay would bow down to his, that his brother's ones would bow down to his, and even the sun, moon and stars would bow down to Joseph as well.

So there was just trouble everywhere it seemed, and all these things just made this whole situation a very bad situation.

Genesis 37 and verse 5 said, Joseph dreamed a dream and he told it to his brethren and they hated him yet the more.

I don't think Joseph told the brothers a dream to spite them, but it just showed how little tact he had, and probably, he was probably feeling pretty spoiled, you see?

So look, how would you feel if you were 1 of the brothers?

Was he dreaming these things because he was already thinking about it?

You know, thinking about having supremacy over us?

So the brothers, they had, I guess, you would say in this world, a just cause to hate him.

Needless to say, Joseph was definitely spoiled.

And God in his providence would turn up the heat for this family.

It would be in Egypt that Joseph would shine like the stars in the heavens.

As a small child at home, we don't know much about him, but the experience of being sold as a slave would make him mature and grow up very quickly, not just as a man, but also as a child of God.

So with that, let's turn our Bibles now to Genesis chapter 39.

Genesis chapter 39 and we're starting in verse 1.

Genesis chapter 39, we're starting in verse 1.

And 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 Ishmaelites, which had brought him down thither.

So look, was the Lord with Joseph because God felt sorry that he was sold as a slave into Egypt?

God was not having a bit of pity on himself.

God does have tender care for all his children, especially those that suffer wrong.

But friends, that was not the reason why the Bible says here in verse 2 that the Lord was with Joseph.

The Lord was with Joseph because Joseph was with the Lord.

This relationship as with human relationships, it requires a two-way street.

Friends, in spite of what happened to Joseph, in spite of having been sold as a slave into Egypt, he chose to remain faithful to God, even when he saw the hatred of his brothers, those with whom he'd grown up together with all his life, wanting to kill him.

But instead of that, did something far worse, made him live out his worst nightmare, to be sold as a slave into Egypt far away from home.

And friends, it's usually in times like these, times where we are so absolutely discouraged, Times where we just have gone through a very, very, very bad situation in life.

This is something much worse than just having a loved 1 perish.

Joseph, he went through this really bad situation in his family and you know, it's in times like these that we give ourselves excuses to go back to our old habits of sin just for a little while.

We expect people to understand why we're being unfaithful, why we've decided to just push God away just for a little while.

God let me have some breathing room and so the drunkard they go back to their drink for a while, the gambler they go back to the casino for a while, we give ourselves excuses to go back to sin just for a little while because we've been through this tragic experience.

You know fans, in fact, some of us when we go through really bad situations and we still remain faithful to God, people are more surprised actually.

You know, oh why why do you come back so quick?

You just take a break, you just take a break.

As if it's okay to take a break from God when bad things happen to us.

He chose to renew that covenant to God that even when he was in Egypt amidst all these pagan people that had no idea about the God of the Bible, He was faithful.

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

The heathen master, the 1 that did not know God at all, he saw that something was different about Joseph.

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