God’s ____________Unlocks the Answers

for the Tests We Face in Life

Testing is ____________. (Genesis 43:1-14)

• Their physical need: _____

• Their spiritual need: ______

The brothers’ __________ is tested. (Gen 43:15-25)

• They are given ______ instead of punishment.

The brothers’ ____________ is tested. (Gen 43:26-34)

• Instead of condemning, Joseph shows ___________.

• Instead of coveting, the brothers show _____________.

And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the saying in mind. Gen 37:11

The brothers’ _____________ is tested. (Gen 44:1-34)

• Judah is finally honest about his ______. (Gen 44:1-16)

• Judah is finally sacrificial instead of _______. (Gen 44:17-34)

• Our guilt and Jesus’s grace ________ in Judah’s story.

And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together

with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with

its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.

Col 2:13-14

• Like Judah, we are ________.

• Like Judah, Jesus is the __________.

God’s sovereignty is celebrated. (Genesis 45:1-28)

• Look at what the sovereign God has _____!

When he summoned a famine on the land and broke all supply of bread, he had sent a man ahead of them, Joseph, who was sold as a slave. His feet were hurt with fetters; his neck was put in a collar of iron; until what he had said came to pass, the word of the Lord tested him. The king sent and released him; the ruler of the peoples set him free; he made him lord of his house and ruler of all his possessions, to bind his princes at his pleasure and to teach his elders wisdom.

Ps 105:16-22

God is sovereign:

• I can be ________.
• I can be ________.
• I can be ________.