Finding God’s story in all of life’s Disappointments

Rob Branham shared this story about Joseph on Sunday 24, April 2016. He is the the lead Pastor at Northlakes Christian Church. Rob and his wife Lynne Braham are both Graduates of Central Christian College.
Finding God’s story in all of life’s Disappointments
Genesis 39:20-23 – 40:1-8, 14, 21-23
We are going to be engaged in the study of a man by the name of Joseph. Joseph was from a classic dysfunctional family. Joseph had three step- mothers and six step brothers all living in the house at the same time. Joseph is his father’s favourite child and Jacob, his father, is unwise enough to openly display his favouritism. The result is that Joseph’s brothers are jealous and they grow to hate him. His brothers scheme until given the opportunity, they devise a way to sell Joseph into slavery in Egypt and convince their father that he has been killed by wild animals. One minute he is a seventeen- year-old boy with all of his life ahead of him and in the next a slave who’s only prospect is a life of drudgery.