The Shadow of Guilt is a ____ Place to Live
God draws people to face their ___. (Gen 42:1-5)
Their physical condition represents their ________
condition.
§ The brothers are ___________.
§ The father is _______.
o God is drawing them to deal with their ___.
They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity.
Ephesians 4:18-19
We all have the ability of ____-deception. (Gen 42:6-11)
o The brothers did not recognize ________.
o But Joseph recognized _____. (Gen 42:12-14; 37:6-10)
o The brothers did not recognize __________.
o But Joseph ___. (Gen 37:19-20)
o Our own ___ is easy to rationalize.
Confession creates ______ opportunities.
o The ____ is to discover who they are now. (Gen 42:15)
Joseph himself is being ______. (Gen 42:16-17)
§ ____ of God changes Joseph’s direction. (Gen 42:18-20)
§ Fear of God changes ___ direction.
(Prov 9:10, Job 28:28, Psalm 111:10, Psalm 112:1, Ecc 12:13)
The brothers’ _____ catches up to them. (Gen 42:21-22)
o Unaddressed sin is like ___ to the soul.
For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Selah. Ps 32:3-4
A tranquil heart gives life to the flesh, but envy makes the bones rot. Prov 14:30
o Their confession causes Joseph’s ___________.
(Gen 42:23-24)
Confession creates ______ opportunities. (Gen 42:25-35)
o Wrong Response #1: ________ (Gen 42:36)
§ Today, instead of responding in faithlessness, _____________!
But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.
Heb 10:39
o Wrong Response #2: _________ (Gen 42:37)
§ Today, instead of responding in foolishness, ________________!
And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. Mt 7:26
o Wrong Response #3: ______ (Gen 42:38)
§ Today, instead of responding in fear, ___________________!
For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” Rom 8:15
- How Blessed is the Man (Psalm 1)
- I Will Wait For You (Psalm 130)
- Beyond The Stars (Psalm 8)
- Psalm 18