2. Genesis Teaches Redemption: Ruler Genesis 41:1-57

3. Genesis 45:7 And God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on earth, and to keep alive for you many survivors. 8 So it was not you who sent me here, but God.

4. John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.”

5. Genesis 41:38 And Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find a man like this, in whom is the Spirit of God?”

6. Matthew 3:16 And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him;

7. Genesis 41:16 Joseph answered Pharaoh, “It is not in me; God will give Pharaoh a favorable answer.” … 28 It is as I told Pharaoh; God has shown to Pharaoh what he is about to do. … 32 And the doubling of Pharaoh’s dream means that the thing is fixed by God, and God will shortly bring it about. 33 Now therefore let Pharaoh select a discerning and wise man, and set him over the land of Egypt.

8. Hebrews 1:1 Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, 2a but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son,

9. Genesis 41:40 You shall be over my house, and all my people shall order themselves as you command. Only as regards the throne will I be greater than you.” … 43b And they called out before him, “Bow the knee!” Thus he set him over all the land of Egypt.

10. Philippians 2:9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

11. Genesis 41:57 Moreover, all the earth came to Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the earth.

12. John 6:35 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, … 51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever.

13. STEADFASTNESS

14. AMBITIOUSNESS

15. AMBITIOUSNESS Matthew 20:26 It shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, 27 and whoever would be first among you must be your slave, 28 even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

16. AMBITIOUSNESS Matthew 6:33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

17. AMBITIOUSNESS

18. BOLDNESS

19. BOLDNESS Genesis 41:15b “I have heard it said of you that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.” 16 Joseph answered Pharaoh, “It is not in me; God will give Pharaoh a favorable answer.”

20. BOLDNESS Genesis 41:33 Now therefore let Pharaoh select a discerning and wise man, and set him over the land of Egypt. 34 Let Pharaoh proceed to appoint overseers over the land and take one-fifth of the produce of the land of Egypt during the seven plentiful years. 35 And let them gather all the food of these good years that are coming and store up grain under the authority of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it. 36 That food shall be a reserve for the land against the seven years of famine that are to occur in the land of Egypt, so that the land may not perish through the famine.”

21. BOLDNESS Genesis 41:32 And the doubling of Pharaoh’s dream means that the thing is fixed by God, and God will shortly bring it about.

22. BOLDNESS Titus 1:16 They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work.

23. BOLDNESS