Beginnings #9: Joseph's Dream

November 9, 2025           Rev. Thomas M. Cox

BEGINNINGS #9

Genesis 37:1-11

JOSEPH’S DREAMS

• (P)RECAP OF CHAPTERS 37B-41
  

37B- Joseph’s brothers sell him into S________ and they lie to their father, saying that he died.

[[ 38- Unrighteous Judah is outwitted by his daughter-in-law, Tamar. ]] (Juxtaposition)

39- Joseph ascends to P_______ in Egypt but Potiphar’s wife cries R_____.

40-41: He interprets D_______ while in prison. He is elevated to prepare for the coming F______.

2) JOSEPH AND HIS JEALOUS BROTHERS

• The coat of many C_________.

• Two dreams engender H_________3x and J_____________11 from his brothers.

• Original Meaning: This story informed Moses’ audience how they first came to Egypt.
  

3) TAKEAWAYS

1. HEAD: Know that the Lord was with Joseph, the Israelites, and Paul. He is with us always.

1. HEART: Feel a sense of A_________ that the Lord is in control. Learn H_______ as did Joseph.

1. HAND: Read Ch. 42-47 to prep for next week.

• Look to the Lord for your R_________ from sin and pride and, ultimately, from this world.
• Remember that Jesus’ own brothers did not believe in Him until after His R____________!

Genesis 37:1-11 (ESV, emphases mine)

Jacob lived in the land of his father's sojournings, in the land of Canaan. 2 These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was pasturing the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. And Joseph brought a bad report of them to their father. 3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his sons, because he was the son of his old age. And he made him a robe of many colors. 4 But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peacefully to him.

5 Now Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers they hated him even more.   6 He said to them, “Hear this dream that I have dreamed: 7 Behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and stood upright. And behold, your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down to my sheaf.” 8 His brothers said to him, “Are you indeed to reign over us? Or are you indeed to rule over us?” So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words.

9 Then he dreamed another dream and told it to his brothers and said, “Behold, I have dreamed another dream. Behold, the sun, the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me.” 10 But when he told it to his father and to his brothers, his father rebuked him and said to him, “What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves to the ground before you?” 11 And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the saying in mind.

Acts 7:9-10 “And the patriarchs, jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt; but God was with him and rescued him out of all his afflictions and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made him ruler over Egypt and over all his household.”

2 Timothy 4:14-18 Alexander the coppersmith did me great harm; the Lord will repay him according to his deeds. Beware of him yourself, for he strongly opposed our message. At my first defense no one came to stand by me, but all deserted me. May it not be charged against them! But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it. So I was rescued from the lion's mouth. The Lord will rescue me from every evil deed and bring me safely into his heavenly kingdom. To Him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.