Joseph Speaks The Truth Even When It Means Hard News To His Hearers , Genesis 40:8-23 By Rev Julio Orozco Jr.

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Overview:

I hope you’re not only enjoying this study of the life of Joseph but also are being transformed by this account. Last week, Pastor Julio preached about Joseph’s compassionate disposition and linked it to the heart of our Savior Jesus Christ. This has been a recurring theme throughout the entire account. Here we are in Genesis 40:8-23,  Joseph is still in prison and God is going to work through Him again to accomplish His purpose. The era we live in has been saturated and flooded with so called prophets who’ve made a mockery out of the Word of God. They claim to have private messages from God and have deceived and  led many astray. Well, that’s not the case with Joseph, he had an intimate relationship with the Lord that allowed him to be a messenger of Truth, even when it meant terrible news for his hearers. Please prepare your hearts to receive the Word of God today as Pastor Julio brings this passage to life.

The Service 9.05.2021: Genesis 40:8-23

The Passage:

⁸ They said to him, “We have had dreams, and there is no one to interpret them.” And Joseph said to them, “Do not interpretations belong to God? Please tell them to me.”

⁹ So the chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph and said to him, “In my dream there was a vine before me, ¹⁰ and on the vine there were three branches. As soon as it budded, its blossoms shot forth, and the clusters ripened into grapes. ¹¹ Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes and pressed them into Pharaoh’s cup and placed the cup in Pharaoh’s hand.” ¹² Then Joseph said to him, “This is its interpretation: the three branches are three days. ¹³ In three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your office, and you shall place Pharaoh’s cup in his hand as formerly, when you were his cupbearer. ¹⁴ Only remember me, when it is well with you, and please do me the kindness to mention me to Pharaoh, and so get me out of this house. ¹⁵ For I was indeed stolen out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the pit.”

¹⁶ When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was favorable, he said to Joseph, “I also had a dream: there were three cake baskets on my head, ¹⁷ and in the uppermost basket there were all sorts of baked food for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating it out of the basket on my head.” ¹⁸ And Joseph answered and said, “This is its interpretation: the three baskets are three days. ¹⁹ In three days Pharaoh will lift up your head—from you!—and hang you on a tree. And the birds will eat the flesh from you.”

²⁰ On the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, he made a feast for all his servants and lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants. ²¹ He restored the chief cupbearer to his position, and he placed the cup in Pharaoh’s hand. ²² But he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them. ²³ Yet the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph, but forgot him.

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