1. God’s Survival Guide Part 13 - “You Can Bounce Back"

2. Genesis 45:1-4 Then Joseph could no longer control himself before all his attendants, and he cried out, “Have everyone leave my presence!” So there was no one with Joseph when he made himself known to his brothers. 2 And he wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard him, and Pharaoh’s household heard about it. 3 Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Is my father still living?” But his brothers were not able to answer him, because they were terrified at his presence. 4 Then Joseph said to his brothers, “Come close to me.” When they had done so, he said, “I am your brother Joseph, the one you sold into Egypt! 

3. Genesis 45:5-9 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. 6 For two years now there has been famine in the land, and for the next five years there will not be plowing and reaping. 7 But God sent me ahead of you to preserve for you a remnant on earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance. 8 “So then, it was not you who sent me here, but God. He made me father to Pharaoh, lord of his entire household and ruler of all Egypt. 9 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.

4. Joseph saw a bigger __________. PICTURE

5. Genesis 39:9 How then could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God?”

6. Genesis 40:8 Then Joseph said to them, “Do not interpretations belong to God?”

7. Genesis 41:16 “God will give Pharaoh the answer he desires.”

8. Genesis 41:25 God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do.

9. Genesis 45:5... it was to save lives that God sent me ahead of you.

10. Genesis 15:5; 13-16 He took him outside and said, “Look up at the heavens and count the stars—if indeed you can count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.” … 13 Then the LORD said to him, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years. 14 But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions. 15 You, however, will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a good old age. 16 In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.”

11. Genesis 43:32... Egyptians could not eat with Hebrews, for that is detestable to Egyptians.

12. Look at the __________ on the box. PICTURE

13. Revelation 7:9-10 After this I looked and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and in front of the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. 10 And they cried out in a loud voice: “Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb.”

14. Ephesians 1:11 In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will

15. Colossians 1:20 Through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.

16. Proverbs 21:30 There is no wisdom, no insight, no plan that can succeed against the LORD.

18. God’s Survival Guide Next Week: Part 14 - “The Prince Is Your Brother”