1. OUR MISSION: To guide those far from God into the new start found in Jesus Christ.

3. Genesis 45:1-8 Then Joseph could not restrain himself before all those who stood by him, and he cried out, “Make everyone go out from me!” So no one stood with him while Joseph made himself known to his brothers. And he wept aloud, and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard it. Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph; does my father still live?” But his brothers could not answer him, for they were dismayed in his presence. And Joseph said to his brothers, “Please come near to me.” So they came near. Then he said: “I am Joseph your brother, whom you sold into Egypt. But now, do not therefore be grieved or angry with yourselves because you sold me here; for God sent me before you to preserve life. For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are still five years in which there will be neither ploughing nor harvesting. And God sent me before you to preserve a posterity for you in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. So now it was not you who sent me here, but God; and He has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.

5. The Life of Joseph – Part One Genesis 45:1-8 Destiny (the plan of God for your life – the meaning that God has for your life)...is only able to be accepted, and believed in, by starting from where you are now and looking backwards

6. The Life of Joseph – Part One Genesis 45:1-8 Destiny (the plan of God for your life – the meaning that God has for your life)...is only able to be accepted, and believed in, by starting from where you are now and looking backwards Genesis 45:5 And now, do not be distressed and do not be angry with yourselves for selling me here, because it was to save lives that God sent me ahead of you.

7. The Life of Joseph – Part One Genesis 45:1-8 Genesis 45:9-11 Now hurry back to my father and say to him, “This is what your son Joseph says: God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me; don’t delay. You shall live in the region of Goshen and be near me – you, your children and grandchildren, your flocks and herds, and all you have. I will provide for you there, because five years of famine are still to come. Otherwise you and your household and all who belong to you will become destitute.”

8. The Life of Joseph – Part One Genesis 45:1-8 Joseph saw and continued to see the plan of God throughout his life Joseph is saying that... “My rejection became my direction” Romans 8:28 “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.”

9. The Life of Joseph – Part One Genesis 45:1-8 So often for God to get you moving in the direction that He knows that you will never choose... or cooperate with Him in, He uses rejection in order to birth direction in your life The event of rejection in your life can birthing a new option, even a new direction in your life

10. The Life of Joseph – Part One Genesis 45:1-8 It is your destiny to be rejected Mark 14:18-21 While they were reclining at the table eating, he said, ‘Truly I tell you, one of you will betray me – one who is eating with me.’ They were saddened, and one by one they said to him, ‘Surely you don’t mean me?’ ‘It is one of the Twelve,’ he replied, ‘one who dips bread into the bowl with me. The Son of Man will go just as it is written about him. But woe to that man who betrays the Son of Man! It would be better for him if he had not been born.’

11. The Life of Joseph – Part One Genesis 45:1-8 “Balding, skinny and can dance a little” Beethoven’s music teacher declared him hopeless at composing Albert Einstein’s parents feared that he was mentally handicapped Walt Disney was fired from his job for lacking ideas

12. The Life of Joseph – Part One Genesis 45:1-8 An invitation was extended to witness one of humanities most historic moments Newspapers said that his preaching was vulgar, in bad taste, theatrical, rude and rough

14. OUR MISSION: To guide those far from God into the new start found in Jesus Christ.