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Sunday, April 27, 2014

Lesson 17: Joseph Forgives His Brothers -- Scriptures and Illustrations

1. Draw a picture of a time when you were angry at someone.



2. Imagine that you had to carry that picture around with you all the time.

3. Now imagine that every time you got mad at someone, you had to draw a picture, and carry all of your pictures around with you.






Forgiveness lets you get rid of those pictures that you carry around with you, the ones that keep you from being able to think and do other things.  



Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down:


  1. 1. 
     Are you forgiving when you say, “I forgive you, but I will never forget how unkind you have been to me”?

  1. 2. 
     Are you forgiving when you are happy that something bad happens to someone you do not like?

  1. 3. 
     Are you forgiving when you want to get even with someone who pushed or hit you?

  1. 4. 
     Are you forgiving when you stop talking to someone who told lies about you?

  1. 5. 
     Are you forgiving when you speak unkindly about the person who does not choose you to be on his or her team?
To truly forgive we must:
  1. 1. 
     Overcome our angry feelings.  
2. 
 Not judge or criticize others.

3. Forget about what was done.






7 For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.

8 And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words.



Genesis 41
56 And the famine was over all the face of the earth: And Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt.
57 And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn; because that the famine was so sore in all lands.


Genesis 42
 l1 Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?
 2 And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.
 3 ¶And Joseph’s ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.
 4 But Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.






Genesis 42
 6 And Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was that sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph’s brethren came, and bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth.

(What do you remember when they bow down to him?)  



 7 And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.
 8 And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.  [go to verse 23]

23 And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spake unto them by an interpreter.


Genesis 42
 21 ¶And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
 22 And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore, behold, also his blood is required.  [Read 23 again.]
 23 And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spake unto them by an interpreter.


Genesis 42
15 Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.

 16 Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether there be any truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely are spies.  [Read also verse 20.]
 20 But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.

Genesis 42
36 And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.[Read also 38.]
 37 And Reuben spake unto his father, saying, Slay my two sons, if I bring him not to thee: deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him to thee again.
 38 And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

Genesis 43
1 And the famine was sore in the land.
 2 And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food.
 3 And Judah spake unto him, saying, The man did solemnly protest unto us, saying, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.
 4 If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food:



Genesis 43
29 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother’s son, and said, Is this your younger brother, of whom ye spake unto me? And he said, God be gracious unto thee, my son.
 30 And Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother: and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there.



Genesis 44

s  1 And he commanded the steward of his house, saying, Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man’s money in his sack’s mouth.
 2 And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack’s mouth of the youngest, and his corn money. And he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.
 3 As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their asses.
 4 And when they were gone out of the city, and not yet far off, Joseph said unto his steward, Up, follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say unto them, Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good?

 5 Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.  [Read also 11-13.]



11 Then they speedily took down every man his sack to the ground, and opened every man his sack.
 12 And he searched, and began at the eldest, and left at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.
 13 Then they rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and returned to the city.

Reminder of what Judah had said:
Genesis 43
(11)  8 And Judah said unto Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go; that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, and also our little ones.
 9 I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever: [Also read 44: 31-34.]
Genesis 44
 31 It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave.
 32 For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever.
 33 Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren.
 34 For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.


Joseph lets them know who he is:
Genesis 45: 
 Then Joseph could not arefrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he bcried, Cause every man to go out from me. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren.
 And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard.
 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am aJoseph; doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were btroubled at his presence.
 And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am aJoseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.
 

Genesis 45
(12)  5 Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
 6 For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest.
 7 And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
 8 So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.


(13)  9 Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not:
 10 And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children’s children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast:
 11 And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty. [Also read 14-15.]
 14 And he fell upon his brother Benjamin’s neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck.
 15 Moreover he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and after that his brethren talked with him.




(14)
 14 For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
 15 But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

 10 I, the Lord, will forgive whom I will forgive, but of you it is required to forgive all men.


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