god with us 1: the lord was with joseph.
THE STORY OF JOSEPH The story of Joseph is a storied presenta1on of providence. It puts Romans 8:28, that “all things work for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose,” in story-‐form. It’s a tale of conflict and character, of evil and envy, of murderous rage and rebellion, of sexual tempta1on and severe trials. It’s a breath-‐taking story of a man moving from a pit, to a prison, and then to prominence. It is a story about the invisible hand of
God guiding the visible affairs of man to His good purposes. It’s a story that shows us that because of Jesus, the greater Joseph, God’s purposes cannot be thwarted by the schemes of Satan, the plans of man, or by the myth of coincidence. It’s a story intended to remind Israel then and the church now that God, our Father, can be trusted, even in the dark.
GOD WITH US 1: THE LORD WAS WITH JOSEPH.
GOD WITH US 1: THE LORD WAS WITH JOSEPH. Hesed: describes the consistent, ever-‐faithful, relentless, constantly pursuing, lavish, extravagant, unrestrained, one-‐way love of God.
GOD WITH US 1: THE LORD WAS WITH JOSEPH. -‐ in the darkness of slavery.
GOD WITH US 1: THE LORD WAS WITH JOSEPH. -‐ in the darkness of slavery. -‐ in the darkness of tempta1on.
GOD WITH US 1: THE LORD WAS WITH JOSEPH. -‐ in the darkness of slavery. -‐ in the darkness of tempta1on. -‐ in the dark season of false accusa1ons.
GOD WITH US 1: THE LORD WAS WITH JOSEPH. -‐ in the darkness of slavery. -‐ in the darkness of tempta1on. -‐ in the dark season of false accusa1ons. -‐ in the dark season of prison.
GOD WITH US 1: THE LORD WAS WITH JOSEPH. 2: THE LORD IS WITH US.
The ques=ons we ask in the midst of suffering aren’t mainly intellectual ones about God’s rela=onship to evil and evildoers; they are emo=onal ones such as, “How can I trust a God who has the power to make it stop, but doesn’t? Who is this indifferent God who makes such grand promises and then watches as his people are treated so unjustly? Does he feel anything at all when he hears their wailings? Or does he just stand back at a distance, leKng random events, the plans of evil men, and the forces of nature take their course? Mike Wilkerson
GOD WITH US 1: THE LORD WAS WITH JOSEPH. 2: THE LORD IS WITH US. -‐ He hears us.
GOD WITH US 1: THE LORD WAS WITH JOSEPH. 2: THE LORD IS WITH US. -‐ He hears us. -‐ He hurts with us.
Luke 4:1-‐12, And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness 2 for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those days. And when they were ended, he was hungry. 3 The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.” 4 And Jesus answered him, “It is wriWen, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone.’ ” 5 And the devil took him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of 1me, 6 and said to him, “To you I will give all this authority and their glory, for it has been delivered to
(con1nued) me, and I give it to whom I will. 7 If you, then, will worship me, it will all be yours.” 8 And Jesus answered him, “It is wriWen, “‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve.’ ” 9 And he took him to Jerusalem and set him on the pinnacle of the temple and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here, 10 for it is wriWen, “‘He will command his angels concerning you, to guard you,’ 11 and ‘On their hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.’ ” 12 And Jesus answered him, “It is said, ‘You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.’ ”
Ma@hew 27:21-‐23, Pilate said to them, “ Then what
shall I do with Jesus who is called Christ?” They all said, “Let him be crucified!” 23 And he said, “Why, what evil has he done?” But they shouted all the more, “Let him be crucified!”
Luke 22:47-‐48, While he was s1ll speaking, there came a crowd, and the man called Judas, one of the twelve, was leading them. He drew near to Jesus to kiss him, 48 but Jesus said to him, “Judas, would you betray the Son of Man with a kiss?”
Ma@hew 26:36-‐39, Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples, “Sit here, while I go over there and pray.” 37 And taking with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful and troubled. 38 Then he said to them, “My soul is very sorrowful, even to death; remain here, and watch with me.” 39 And going a liWle farther he fell on his face and prayed….
Ma@hew 26:39, And going a liWle farther he fell on his
face and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.”
John 11:33-‐35, When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in his spirit and greatly troubled. 34 And he said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to him, “Lord, come and see.” 35 Jesus wept.
GOD WITH US 1: THE LORD WAS WITH JOSEPH. 2: THE LORD IS WITH US. -‐ He hears us. -‐ He hurts with us. -‐ He heals us.
PSALM 139 Joseph, I have searched you and I know you. I know when you sit down and when you stand up. I know your thoughts from afar. I discern your going out and your lying down. I'm familiar with all your ways. Before you say anything, Joseph, I know it completely. Joseph, I have hemmed you in, behind and before. I have laid My hand upon you.
PSALM 139 Where can you go from My spirit? Where can you flee from My presence? If you go up to the heavens, Joseph, I am there. If you make your bed in the depths, I am there. If you rise up on the wings of the dawn, if you seQle on the far side of the sea, even there My hand will guide you. My right hand will hold your fast. Joseph, if you say, "Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light will become night around me," even the darkness will not be dark to Me. The night will shine like the day.
Joseph, I created you. I knit you together in your mother's womb. You have every reason to praise Me because you are fearfully and wonderfully made. Your frame wasn't hidden from Me when I made you in the secret place. I wove you together in the depths of the earth. My eyes saw your unformed body. All the days ordained for you were wriQen in My book before one of them came to be. Joseph, the sum of My thoughts toward you is vast; they outnumber the grains of sand. Joseph, I am leading you in the way of ever-‐las=ng life.
God guiding the visible affairs of man to His good purposes. It’s a story that shows us that because of Jesus, the greater Joseph, God’s purposes cannot be thwarted by the schemes of Satan, the plans of man, or by the myth of coincidence. It’s a story intended to remind Israel then and the church now that God, our Father, can be trusted, even in the dark.
GOD WITH US 1: THE LORD WAS WITH JOSEPH.
GOD WITH US 1: THE LORD WAS WITH JOSEPH. Hesed: describes the consistent, ever-‐faithful, relentless, constantly pursuing, lavish, extravagant, unrestrained, one-‐way love of God.
GOD WITH US 1: THE LORD WAS WITH JOSEPH. -‐ in the darkness of slavery.
GOD WITH US 1: THE LORD WAS WITH JOSEPH. -‐ in the darkness of slavery. -‐ in the darkness of tempta1on.
GOD WITH US 1: THE LORD WAS WITH JOSEPH. -‐ in the darkness of slavery. -‐ in the darkness of tempta1on. -‐ in the dark season of false accusa1ons.
GOD WITH US 1: THE LORD WAS WITH JOSEPH. -‐ in the darkness of slavery. -‐ in the darkness of tempta1on. -‐ in the dark season of false accusa1ons. -‐ in the dark season of prison.
GOD WITH US 1: THE LORD WAS WITH JOSEPH. 2: THE LORD IS WITH US.
The ques=ons we ask in the midst of suffering aren’t mainly intellectual ones about God’s rela=onship to evil and evildoers; they are emo=onal ones such as, “How can I trust a God who has the power to make it stop, but doesn’t? Who is this indifferent God who makes such grand promises and then watches as his people are treated so unjustly? Does he feel anything at all when he hears their wailings? Or does he just stand back at a distance, leKng random events, the plans of evil men, and the forces of nature take their course? Mike Wilkerson
GOD WITH US 1: THE LORD WAS WITH JOSEPH. 2: THE LORD IS WITH US. -‐ He hears us.
GOD WITH US 1: THE LORD WAS WITH JOSEPH. 2: THE LORD IS WITH US. -‐ He hears us. -‐ He hurts with us.
Luke 4:1-‐12, And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness 2 for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those days. And when they were ended, he was hungry. 3 The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.” 4 And Jesus answered him, “It is wriWen, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone.’ ” 5 And the devil took him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of 1me, 6 and said to him, “To you I will give all this authority and their glory, for it has been delivered to
(con1nued) me, and I give it to whom I will. 7 If you, then, will worship me, it will all be yours.” 8 And Jesus answered him, “It is wriWen, “‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve.’ ” 9 And he took him to Jerusalem and set him on the pinnacle of the temple and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here, 10 for it is wriWen, “‘He will command his angels concerning you, to guard you,’ 11 and ‘On their hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.’ ” 12 And Jesus answered him, “It is said, ‘You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.’ ”
Ma@hew 27:21-‐23, Pilate said to them, “ Then what
shall I do with Jesus who is called Christ?” They all said, “Let him be crucified!” 23 And he said, “Why, what evil has he done?” But they shouted all the more, “Let him be crucified!”
Luke 22:47-‐48, While he was s1ll speaking, there came a crowd, and the man called Judas, one of the twelve, was leading them. He drew near to Jesus to kiss him, 48 but Jesus said to him, “Judas, would you betray the Son of Man with a kiss?”
Ma@hew 26:36-‐39, Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples, “Sit here, while I go over there and pray.” 37 And taking with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful and troubled. 38 Then he said to them, “My soul is very sorrowful, even to death; remain here, and watch with me.” 39 And going a liWle farther he fell on his face and prayed….
Ma@hew 26:39, And going a liWle farther he fell on his
face and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.”
John 11:33-‐35, When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in his spirit and greatly troubled. 34 And he said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to him, “Lord, come and see.” 35 Jesus wept.
GOD WITH US 1: THE LORD WAS WITH JOSEPH. 2: THE LORD IS WITH US. -‐ He hears us. -‐ He hurts with us. -‐ He heals us.
PSALM 139 Joseph, I have searched you and I know you. I know when you sit down and when you stand up. I know your thoughts from afar. I discern your going out and your lying down. I'm familiar with all your ways. Before you say anything, Joseph, I know it completely. Joseph, I have hemmed you in, behind and before. I have laid My hand upon you.
PSALM 139 Where can you go from My spirit? Where can you flee from My presence? If you go up to the heavens, Joseph, I am there. If you make your bed in the depths, I am there. If you rise up on the wings of the dawn, if you seQle on the far side of the sea, even there My hand will guide you. My right hand will hold your fast. Joseph, if you say, "Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light will become night around me," even the darkness will not be dark to Me. The night will shine like the day.
Joseph, I created you. I knit you together in your mother's womb. You have every reason to praise Me because you are fearfully and wonderfully made. Your frame wasn't hidden from Me when I made you in the secret place. I wove you together in the depths of the earth. My eyes saw your unformed body. All the days ordained for you were wriQen in My book before one of them came to be. Joseph, the sum of My thoughts toward you is vast; they outnumber the grains of sand. Joseph, I am leading you in the way of ever-‐las=ng life.
