Craig Smith • Joseph Rejected • January 5, 2025

Joseph’s story opens up with

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under one roof…

This is the account of Jacob. Joseph, a young man of seventeen, was tending the flocks with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives, and brought their father a bad report about them. Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons, because he had been born to him in his old age; and he made a richly ornamented robe for him. When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him. (Gen. 37:2-4)

Jacob: the implications of not breaking

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patterns in the

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– “Isaac, who had a taste for wild game, loved Esau, but Rebekah loved Jacob.” (Gen. 25:28)

• Two dreams and a glimpse of

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– “‘Listen to this dream I had: We were binding sheaves of grain out in the field when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around mine and bowed down to it…this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.’” (Gen. 37:6b-7, 9b)

• The danger of

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– “And they hated him all the more because of his dream and what he had said…His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind…‘Here comes that dreamer!’ they said to each other. ‘Come now, let’s kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns and say a ferocious animal devoured him.’” (Gen. 37:8b, 11, 19-20a)

A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones. (Prov. 14:30)

So when the Midianite merchants came by, his brothers pulled Joseph up out of the cistern and sold him for twenty shekels of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt. (Gen. 37:28)

Joseph: a continued

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from a shepherd’s field to a cistern to Egypt to slavery – “Meanwhile, the Midianites sold Joseph in Egypt to Potiphar, one of Pharaoh’s officials, the captain of the guard.” (Gen. 37:36)

Jesus descended too and became the better Joseph…

Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death—even death on a cross! Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (Phil. 2:6-11)