use your past to build your future

Use Your Past to Build Your Future

Joseph – Genesis 39-45

Highlights• Restore (Joel 2:25)• Comfort (2 Corinthians 1:3-11)• Redeem the past (Colossians 4:5)

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Dreamers and Dream Killers• A Dreamer• Dream Killers / Vision Stoppers– Genesis 37:19-20– Intentional and unintentional

Positioning• Twice sold into slavery– Brothers and Ishmaelites

• Unjustly imprisoned• Forgotten in prison

Positioning• God Positions Joseph– Hebron to Egyptian Palace

• Dreams– Negative (family) to Positive (Egypt)

An Opportunity toCreate the Future

• God is with him• Redeeming his past– Interpretation of dreams• Cupbearer• Baker• Pharaoh

– Remembered his dream (42:6, 9)

Opportunity toCreate the Future

• Recognize his brothers– Inquires of his brother and father– Flood of hurt (42:24; 43:30)

Opportunity toCreate the Future

• Reveals himself– Release of his pain (45:2)– Comforts his brothers (45:4-8)– Family comes to Egypt

Application• We need redemption to move

forward– Past holds us captive

• Redemption is more than salvation– Salvation restores us to God– Redemption restores us to humanity

use your past to build your future

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