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

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Use Your Past to Build Your Future

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  1. Use Your Past to Build Your Future Joseph – Genesis 39-45

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

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

  4. Positioning • Twice sold into slavery • Brothers and Ishmaelites • Unjustly imprisoned • Forgotten in prison

  5. Positioning • God Positions Joseph • Hebron to Egyptian Palace • Dreams • Negative (family) to Positive (Egypt)

  6. An Opportunity toCreate the Future • God is with him • Redeeming his past • Interpretation of dreams • Cupbearer • Baker • Pharaoh • Remembered his dream (42:6, 9)

  7. Opportunity toCreate the Future • Recognize his brothers • Inquires of his brother and father • Flood of hurt (42:24; 43:30)

  8. Opportunity toCreate the Future • Reveals himself • Release of his pain (45:2) • Comforts his brothers (45:4-8) • Family comes to Egypt

  9. 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

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