Genesis 39:11-23 – Joseph, God Builds a Man (Part 2). God sovereignly uses Joseph, a young man, to prophetically foretell Jesus’ life, rejection, death, and His rise to fame and power as the Savior of the world! This incredible story continues with Joseph being wrongfully accused of a sexual crime he did not commit and is thrown into prison! Although we are prone to feel sorry for Joseph and ourselves in times of hardship, God’s Word clearly reveals that character is built through the furnace of adversity. Learn the value of walking in obedience to God’s Word as we are bombarded with sexual temptation. Pastor David’s sermon from Genesis 39:11-23 – Joseph – God Builds a Man (Part 2), provides profound insight on how a follower of Christ should flee from sexuality immorality in order to grow as a man/woman of exceptional character!
How did Joseph thrive in adversity?
1) He had great reverence for God
2) He was full of gratitude to God
3) He honored the authority God placed over him
The Bible instructs us to FLEE SEXUAL IMMORALITY
“Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.”
The Blame Game
Commonly used tactics of the ungodly:
1) USING RACE MALICIOUSLY
2) MALIGNING OTHERS TO JUSTIFY SELF
Joseph faces harsh adversity once again
God is at work in our lives in both prosperity & adversity
“Our present troubles are small and won’t last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever! So we don’t look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever.”
Godly character – cannot be built in a vacuum – or by a magic wand.
Character, like gold, must be refined in the furnace of adversity
Joseph rises above dire adversity by BEING OBEDIENT TO GOD’S WORD
Joseph – a prophetic prefigure of King Jesus
1) The beloved son, sent by the father on a mission of love.
2) Rejected because of his testimony to his own brethren (Tribes of Israel)
3) Sold to gentiles for a few pieces of silver (the price of a slave)
4) Falsely accused and arrested
5) His tunic taken by the captors
6) Left for dead
7) Preached to the spirits in prison (Eph 4:8-10, 1Pet 3:18-19)
(to one a message of Salvation, to one a message of judgment)
8) Raised to power, seated at the right hand
9) Savior of the world
