1. All Different – or – All Similar

2. Joseph – Dreamer and Deliverer God’s Man for God’s Time
Can we find anyone like this man, one in whom is the spirit of God… (Genesis 41:38)
God’s Man for God’s Time
Genesis 41:41-57

3. “I cannot do it,” Joseph replied to Pharaoh, “but God will give Pharaoh the answer he desires.” … (Genesis 41:16)
Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, “The dreams of Pharaoh are one and the same. God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do… (Genesis 41:25)
“It is just as I said to Pharaoh: God has shown Pharaoh what he is about to do… (Genesis 41:28)

4. New…but familiar status…
New Status
New…but familiar status…

5. Thus he put him in charge of the whole land of Egypt… (Genesis 41:43)

6. New Status New Name…
Pharaoh gave Joseph the name Zaphenath-Paneah…

7. Authority
A wife
A chariot
A signet ring
A gold chain
Fine linen

8. New Family…
Joseph, a young man of seventeen, was tending the flocks with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives, and he brought their father a bad report about them… (Genesis 37:2)
Joseph was thirty years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt… (Genesis 41:46)

9. Forgetfulness:- What an incredible gift: God enables one to forget, to put the past behind, to move beyond dwelling on misfortunes and get on with ever-new gifts that God brings…
Fruitfulness:- Egypt becomes the context for blessing, anticipating Exodus and the growth of Israel…Blessing comes in the midst of affliction…as in Israel’s oppression in Egypt…
(Terrence E. Frethiem…Genesis, New Interpreter’s Bible Commentary)

10. New Rule