Joseph As A Youth - NAS

Joseph Didn't Realize That His Troubles Would Eventually Lead Him to Be the Salvation of His Family. When a Famine Came to the World Joseph Would Bring His Father's Family down to Egypt Where They Would Remain for Many Years Before Being Rescued from Egypt's Oppressive Rule. a Time Would Come When the Pharaoh Would Not Remember Joseph. it was All Part of God's Plan to Help His People to See Him as Their Divine Deliverer.

1. Joseph Might Have Been a Little Spoiled.

Genesis 37:1-4 Now Jacob lived in the land where his father had sojourned, in the land of Canaan. [2] These are the records of the ___________________ of Jacob. Joseph, when ________________ years of age, was ________________ the flock with his brothers while he was still a youth, along with the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his ______________ wives. And Joseph brought back a bad report about them to their father. [3] Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons, ____________ he was the son of his old age; and he made him a ___________________ tunic. [4] His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers; and so they hated him and could not speak to him on ______________ terms.

Genesis 37:5-8 Then Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him even more. [6] He said to them, "__________ __________ to this dream which I have had; [7] for behold, we were ____________ sheaves in the field, and lo, my sheaf rose up and also stood erect; and behold, your sheaves ______________ around and bowed down to my sheaf." [8] Then his brothers said to him, "Are you actually going to reign over us? Or are you __________ going to rule over us?" So they hated him even more for his __________ and for his words.

Genesis 37:9-11 Now he had still another dream, and related it to his brothers, and said, "Lo, I have had still another dream; and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me." [10] He related it to his father and to his brothers; and his father ____________ him and said to him, "What is this dream that you have had? Shall I and your mother and your brothers actually come to bow ________________ down __________ you to the __________?" [11] His brothers were ____________ of him, but his father kept the __________ in mind.

1. Did Joseph's dreams come from God? _________________

2. Do all dreams come from God? ________________

3. Do you think Joseph's father showed favoritism toward him? _________

4. Was there some other way for Jacob to find out about the misbehavior of his other sons rather than Joseph telling on them? ___________________________________________________.

2. Joseph's Brothers Called Him the Dreamer.

Genesis 37:12-13 Then his brothers went to pasture their ______________ flock in Shechem. [13] Israel said to Joseph, "Are not your brothers ________________ the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them." And he said to him, "I will go."

Genesis 37:18-24 When they saw him from a ______________ and before he came close to them, they plotted against him to put him to death. [19] They said to one another, "Here comes this ____________! [20] "Now then, come and let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits; and we will say, 'A wild beast ______________ him.' Then let us see what will become of his dreams!" [21] But Reuben heard this and rescued him out of their hands and said, "Let us not take his life." [22] Reuben ____________ said to them, "Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the __________________, but do not lay hands on him"-that he might rescue him out of their hands, to ____________ him to his father. [23] So it came about, when Joseph ____________ his ______________, that they ______________ Joseph of his tunic, the ___________________ tunic that was on him; [24] and they took him and threw him into the pit. Now the pit was empty, without any water in it.

3. Joseph was about to Suffer Really Hard Times.

Genesis 37:25-28 Then they sat down to eat a meal. And as they raised their eyes and looked, behold, a ____________ of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels ____________ aromatic gum and balm and myrrh, on their way to bring them down to Egypt. [26] Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is it for us to kill our brother and cover up his blood? [27] "Come and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay our hands on him, for he is our brother, our own flesh." And his brothers ______________ to him. [28] Then some ________________ ____________ passed by, so they pulled him up and lifted Joseph out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty ____________ of __________. Thus they ____________ Joseph into Egypt.

Genesis 37:29-33 Now Reuben returned to the pit, and behold, Joseph was not in the pit; so he tore his ______________. [30] He returned to his ______________ and said, "The boy is not there; as for me, where am I to go?" [31] So they took ______________ tunic, and ___________________ a male goat and dipped the tunic in the blood; [32] and they sent the ___________________ tunic and brought it to their father and said, "We found this; please examine it to see whether it is your son's tunic or not." [33] Then he ______________ it and said, "It is my son's tunic. A wild beast has ______________ him; Joseph has surely been torn to pieces!"

Genesis 37:36 Meanwhile, the __________________ sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, Pharaoh's officer, the captain of the ________________.

Could any good come out of this difficult situation for Joseph? ________________.

4. Joseph was Blessed by God and His Master Eventually Trusted Him with Everything. Then His Integrity was Tested and He was Falsely Accused.

Genesis 39:1-4 Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt; and ______________, an Egyptian officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the ________________, bought him from the ___________________, who had taken him down there. [2] The LORD was with Joseph, so he became a __________________ man. And he was in the house of his master, the Egyptian. [3] Now his master saw that the LORD was with him and how the LORD caused all that he did to prosper in his hand. [4] So Joseph found favor in his sight and became his ______________ ____________; and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he owned he put in his charge.

Genesis 39:7-9 It came about after these events that his master's wife looked with desire at Joseph, and she said, "Lie with me." [8] But he refused and said to his master's wife, "Behold, with me here, my master does not concern ____________ with ______________ in the house, and he has put all that he owns in my charge. [9] "There is no one greater in this house than I, and he has ______________ ____________ from me except you, ____________ you are his wife. How then could I do this great evil and sin against God?"

Genesis 39:11-12 Now it ______________ one day that he went into the house to do his work, and none of the men of the ________________ was there inside. [12] She caught him by his garment, saying, "Lie with me!" And he left his garment in her hand and fled, and went ____________.

Genesis 39:16-18 So she left his garment beside her until his master came home. [17] Then she spoke to him with these words, "The Hebrew slave, whom you ____________ to us, came in to me to make sport of me; [18] and as I raised my voice and ______________, he left his garment beside me and fled ____________."

What is more important than success? _______________________.

5. Even While Joseph was in Prison God was Training Him for a Greater Work.

Genesis 39:19-20 Now when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke to him, saying, "This is what your slave did to me," his anger burned. [20] So ______________ master took him and put him into the jail, the place where the king's ________________ were ______________; and he was there in the jail.

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