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Genesis 45-47 “Savior of the Nations”
INTRO: COVID TP shortage; Famine in the land of Naperville—imagined. REAL famine: knowledge of God.
-People all around us are spiritually starving, but they do not know it.
-Only Christ can deliver us and our neighbors from this self-imposed famine.
MI: Only the Savior God provides can give us the rescue we need.
OUTLINE: 1. The Rescue of Israel (45-47:12); 2 The Rescue of the Nations (47:13-26)
- The Rescue of Israel (45-47:12)
Rescue needed: Famine.
God-given savior: Joseph—long lost brother, whom God sent to Egypt!
The rescue: gracious, generous and effective.
-Joseph Reveals Himself to His Brothers (45:1-3)
-Shock and astonishment, along with great emotions.
-Joseph: the Savior God has Provided (45:4-15)
-Joseph’s theology: “God sent me before you to preserve life” (5, 7, 8, 9)
-Notice: Human culpability (brother’s sin) but God’s Sovereignty
-Doctrine: COMPATIBALISMàGod’s sovereignty and human responsibility
–GRACIOUS rescue: showing grace to his brothers and forgiveness.
-He was greatly wronged, but showed great grace.
–EFFECTIVE RESCUE PLAN: “Come down and bring your father” (9)
-Real rescue from a real disaster
-Pharoah’s Invitation, the Brothers Departure, and Shocking News for Jacob (16-28)
-Pharoah’s invitation to Jacob’s family to come to Egypt (16-20)
-The brothers depart for Canaan (21-24)
-Jacob hears the shocking news of Joseph and Commits to go to Egypt (25-28)
-Israel (Jacob) and Family Head to Egypt but God Speaks to Him on the Way (46:1-27)
-Jacob begins his journey to Egypt with worship (1-4)
-God speaks to Him in a dream (2-4)
-Reassures him “Do not be afraid”
-Promises him “Make into a great nation”àAbrahamic promise!
-Return to the land and Joseph close his eyes
–OBSERVE: Tenderness of God toward Jacob.
-The whole clan of Jacob depart Canaan and arrive in Egypt (5-27)
-70 Total! àThis will one day be a huge nations of millions that is Israel.
-Jacob and Joseph Reunited (46:28-34)
-Great emotion and joy (29)
-Jacob’s Family Settles In (47:1-12)
-Joseph’s brothers and Jacob before Pharoah
-Jacob “blesses Pharoah” (7, 10) àAbrahamic Promise! “All nations blessed through you”
—GENEROUS RESCUE: “Settle them in the best of the land” (6)
–EFFECTIVE RESCUE: The Israelites are truly delivered from the famine.
SUMMARY: Only the Savior God provides can give us the rescue we need.
-Israelites were in need of rescue
-God provided Joseph, and only through him could they be rescued.
-They were rescued, and their deliverance was gracious, generous, and effective.
Only the Savior God provides can give us the rescue we need, and this rescue comes to us in manner that is gracious, generous and effective.
- The Rescue of the Nations (47:13-26)
-Rescue needed: Famine (v 13)
-God-given savior: Joseph—a foreigner who rightly interpreted Pharoah’s dreams. (14-26)
The rescue: gracious, generous and effective.
–Gracious: Joseph showed them grace—an unearned rescue.
–Generous: Provided food and then seed for future harvest
–Effective: The people were provided for, because Joseph knew what he was doing.
Only the Savior God provides can give us the rescue we need, and this rescue comes to us in manner that is gracious, generous and effective.
APPLICATION: Only the Savior God provides can give us the rescue we need.
Rescue needed: Spiritual famine due to sin.
God-given savior: Jesus—the Son of God, who is the bread of Life (John 6)
-“I am the Bread of Life” (John 6:35, 40, 47-48)
-Jesus is the SAVIOR God has provided to give us the rescue we need!
-His death and rescue deliver us from our sin
-We can come to him by faith and are rescued.
NOTICE: Gospel Rescue: gracious, generous, and effective.
–Gracious: Saved by grace (Eph 2:8-9)
–Generous: God lavishes his blessing upon us.
–Effective: Gets the job doneàour sins are actually forgiven! Real restoration.
Unbeliever: See your need of a rescue and come to only savior who can rescue you.
-Because of sin, you have forsaken God and chosen to feed your soul on idols that cannot satisfy
–Idolatry: trusting in created things rather than our Creator for our hope, happiness, significance, security
-Self-destructive, but also evil. You forsaken God!
– Only the JESUS, the Savior God provides, can give us the rescue we need.
Believer: See again the wonderful redemption Christ has won for us.
-Repent of falling into old ways of spiritual famine (idolatry, forsaking God)
-IDOLS OF SUBURBIA: Children’s success; more money; more possessions; more success
-See the world in its true state: spiritually famished.
-Neighbors, other parents, classmates, are starving to death
-Let’s step our in faith first week of November
-WEEK OF PRAYER
-INVITE!
-ACT!
END: Only the Savior God provides can give us the rescue we need!
“Savior of the Nations Come!”
1. Savior of the nations, come, Virgin’s Son, make here your home. Marvel now, O Heav’n and Earth, That the Lord chose such a birth.
2. Not by human flesh and blood, By the Spirit of our God. Was the Word of God made flesh: Woman’s offspring, pure and fresh.
3. Wondrous birth! O wondrous child, Of the virgin undefiled! Though by all the world disowned, Still to be in Heav’n enthroned.
4. Lo, he comes! The Lord of all, Leaves his bright and royal hall; God and man, with giant force, Hastening to run his course.
5. From the Father forth he came, And returned hence to the same. Captive leading death and hell—High the song of triumph swell!
6. Christ, the Father’s only Son, Has o’er sin the vict’ry won. Boundless shall your kingdom be; When shall we its glories see?
7. Brightly does your manger shine; Glorious is its light divine. Let not sin o’ercloud this light; Ever be our faith thus bright.
8. Praise to God the Father sing, Praise to God the Son, our King, Praise to God the Spirit be Ever and eternally.
