Beginnings #10: Joseph's Big Reveal

November 16, 2025           Rev. Thomas M. Cox

BEGINNINGS #10

Genesis 45:1-15

JOSEPH’S BIG REVEAL

• RECAP OF CHAPTERS 42-44
  

42- Jacob sends 10 brothers to Egypt to get food. Joseph conceals his true I________ from them.

43- The brothers make a 2nd visit to Egypt, bringing Benjamin along.

44- Joseph T________ his brothers.

2) JOSEPH REVEALED TO HIS BROTHERS

• He tells them that God sent him ahead of them to S______ their lives.

• He did not take R____________ upon them.

• He instructs them to bring their father down to Egypt due to the F__________.
  

3) TAKEAWAYS

1. HEAD: Know that Moses was teaching his audience to trust in God’s wise P____________.

1. HEART: When we trust in God’s sovereignty, we can Feel C___________ even for our enemies.

1. HAND: Read Ch. 48-50 to prep for next week.

• Be grateful for the definite P____ and foreknowledge of God! (See Peter’s sermon in Acts 2.)

• Note what Romans 12:17-21 says about living P_______ably.

Genesis 45:1-15 (ESV, emphases mine)

Then Joseph could not control himself before all those who stood by him. He cried, “Make everyone go out from me.” So no one stayed with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers. 2 And he wept aloud, so that the Egyptians heard it, and the household of Pharaoh heard it. 3 And Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Is my father still alive?” But his brothers could not answer him, for they were dismayed at his presence.

4 So Joseph said to his brothers, “Come near to me, please.” And they came near. And he said, “I am your brother, Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt. 5 And now do not be distressed or angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life. 6 For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there are yet five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest. 7 And God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on earth, and to keep alive for you many survivors. 8 So it was not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house and ruler over all the land of Egypt. 9 Hurry and go up to my father and say to him, ‘Thus says your son Joseph, God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me; do not tarry. 10 You shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near me, you and your children and your children's children, and your flocks, your herds, and all that you have. 11 There I will provide for you, for there are yet five years of famine to come, so that you and your household, and all that you have, do not come to poverty.’ 12 And now your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin see, that it is my mouth that speaks to you. 13 You must tell my father of all my honor in Egypt, and of all that you have seen. Hurry and bring my father down here.” 14 Then he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck and wept, and Benjamin wept upon his neck. 15 And he kissed all his brothers and wept upon them. After that his brothers talked with him.

Acts 7:11-14 Now there came a famine throughout all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction, and our fathers could find no food. But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers on their first visit. And on the second visit Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and Joseph's family became known to Pharaoh. And Joseph sent and summoned Jacob his father and all his kindred, seventy-five persons in all.

Acts 2:22-23, 36 “Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a Man attested to you by God with mighty works and wonders and signs that God did through Him in your midst, as you yourselves know— this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men. God raised Him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for Him to be held by it. …Let all the house of Israel therefore know for certain that God has made Him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”