The Sermon Chosen to Make Good Choices by David McGee
May 09, 2021
Chosen to Make Good Choices (36:30)
Referenced Scriptures: Genesis 37:1-41:57; Colossians 4:5-6; Proverbs 16:18; Proverbs 13:10; Joshua 24:15; John 15:1-16; Deuteronomy 7:6-8; Ephesians 1:4-6
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Genesis 37:1-41:57
1) Jacob lived in the land of his father‘s travels, in the land of Canaan.
2) This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father‘s wives. Joseph brought an evil report of them to their father.
3) Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a coat of many colors.
4) His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn‘t speak peaceably to him.
5) Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.
6) He said to them, "Please hear this dream which I have dreamed:
7) for, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves came around, and bowed down to my sheaf."
8) His brothers said to him, "Will you indeed reign over us? Or will you indeed have dominion over us?" They hated him all the more for his dreams and for his words.
9) He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, "Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream: and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me."
10) He told it to his father and to his brothers. His father rebuked him, and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves down to you to the earth?"
11) His brothers envied him; but his father kept this saying in mind.
12) His brothers went to feed their father‘s flock in Shechem.
13) Israel said to Joseph, "Aren‘t your brothers feeding the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them." He said to him, "Here I am."
14) He said to him, "Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers, and well with the flock; and bring me word again." So he sent him out of the vale of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
15) A certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, "What are you looking for?"
16) He said, "I am looking for my brothers. Tell me, please, where they are feeding the flock."
17) The man said, "They have left here, for I heard them say, ‘Let us go to Dothan.‘" Joseph went after his brothers, and found them in Dothan.
18) They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.
19) They said one to another, "Behold, this dreamer comes.
20) Come now therefore, and let‘s kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, ‘An evil animal has devoured him.‘ We will see what will become of his dreams."
21) Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, "Let‘s not take his life."
22) Reuben said to them, "Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him" - that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.
23) It happened, when Joseph came to his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his coat, the coat of many colors that was on him;
24) and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. There was no water in it.
25) They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
26) Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?
27) Come, and let‘s sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let our hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh." His brothers listened to him.
28) Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. They brought Joseph into Egypt.
29) Reuben returned to the pit; and saw that Joseph wasn‘t in the pit; and he tore his clothes.
30) He returned to his brothers, and said, "The child is no more; and I, where will I go?"
31) They took Joseph‘s coat, and killed a male goat, and dipped the coat in the blood.
32) They took the coat of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said, "We have found this. Examine it, now, whether it is your son‘s coat or not."
33) He recognized it, and said, "It is my son‘s coat. An evil animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces."
34) Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
35) All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted. He said, "For I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning." His father wept for him.
36) The Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh‘s, the captain of the guard.
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Colossians 4:5-6
5) Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.
6) Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.
Proverbs 16:18
18) Pride goes before destruction, A haughty spirit before a fall.
Proverbs 13:10
10) By pride comes only quarrels, But with ones who take advice is wisdom.
Joshua 24:15
15) If it seem evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose you this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.
John 15:1-16
1) "I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.
2) Every branch in me that doesn‘t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
3) You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
4) Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can‘t bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.
5) I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
6) If a man doesn‘t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
7) If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done to you.
8) In this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.
9) Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.
10) If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father‘s commandments, and remain in his love.
11) I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full.
12) This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
13) Greater love has no one than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
14) You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.
15) No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn‘t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.
16) You didn‘t choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
Deuteronomy 7:6-8
6) For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God: Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
7) Yahweh didn‘t set his love on you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples:
8) but because Yahweh loves you, and because he would keep the oath which he swore to your fathers, has Yahweh brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
Ephesians 1:4-6
4) even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without blemish before him in love;
5) having predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,
6) to the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved,
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