God Provides for Israel and Blesses Pharaoh

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God Provides for Israel and Blesses Pharaoh

• Genesis 4628- 4731

Presented by Bob DeWaay July 16, 2006
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Genesis 4628-34

• Jacob is reunited with Joseph.
• Joseph seeks to secure his familys well-being in
  Egypt.
• Calling them shepherds who are loathsome to
  Egyptians insures they remain separate and are
  not integrated into the Egyptian society.

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Genesis 471-12

• Five of Josephs brothers are introduced to
  Pharaoh.
• Josephs brothers ask permission to live in
  Goshen, to which Pharaoh agrees.
• Jacob is brought to Pharaoh and blesses Pharaoh
  two times.
• Jacob and family are provided for.

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Joseph Enriches Pharaoh During the Famine
Genesis 4713-19

• Joseph obtains the money of the Egyptians for
  food.
• Joseph obtains the livestock of the Egyptians for
  food.
• Joseph obtains the land of the Egyptians for
  Pharaoh and the Egyptians become Pharaohs slaves.

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Joseph Sets Up a System That Enriches Pharaoh and
Provides for the People Genesis 4720-26

• The people and their land become Pharaohs.
• The Priests are exempted and provided for.
• The people get grain for seed and food Pharaoh
  gets 20 percent.

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Israel is Blessed in Egypt

• Genesis 4727, 28
• Now Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in
  Goshen, and they acquired property in it and were
  fruitful and became very numerous. And Jacob
  lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years so
  the length of Jacob's life was one hundred and
  forty-seven years.

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Jacob Makes Joseph Swear to Bury Him in Canaan

• Genesis 4729, 30a
• When the time for Israel to die drew near, he
  called his son Joseph and said to him, Please,
  if I have found favor in your sight, place now
  your hand under my thigh and deal with me in
  kindness and faithfulness. Please do not bury me
  in Egypt, but when I lie down with my fathers,
  you shall carry me out of Egypt and bury me in
  their burial place. . . .

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Joseph Swears to Bury Him in Canaan

• Genesis 4730b, 31
• . . .And he said, I will do as you have said.
  And he said, Swear to me. So he swore to him.
  Then Israel bowed in worship at the head of the
  bed.

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Application

• Understand separation under the Old and New
  Covenants

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Separation Under the Old Covenant

• The Old Covenant Law was designed to, among other
  things, insure that Israel survived as a separate
  nation.
• The three key laws that kept Israel separate were
  Sabbath, the food laws, and circumcision.
• God providentially worked to keep the Messianic
  promises and lineage intact until Jesus Christ
  came.

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The Apostles determined that Gentiles were not
required to keep the Old Covenant Law (Acts
156-29)

• For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us
  to lay upon you no greater burden than these
  essentials that you abstain from things
  sacrificed to idols and from blood and from
  things strangled and from fornication if you
  keep yourselves free from such things, you will
  do well. Farewell. (Acts 1528, 29)

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Peter Separates Wrongly and is Rebuked

• Galatians 211, 12
• But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him
  to his face, because he stood condemned. For
  prior to the coming of certain men from James, he
  used to eat with the Gentiles but when they
  came, he began to withdraw and hold himself
  aloof, fearing the party of the circumcision.

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False Separation is an Attack on the Gospel

• Galatians 214
• But when I saw that they were not
  straightforward about the truth of the gospel, I
  said to Cephas in the presence of all, If you,
  being a Jew, live like the Gentiles and not like
  the Jews, how is it that you compel the Gentiles
  to live like Jews?

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We Must Not Erect Walls When God Has Broken them
Down

• Ephesians 214, 15
• For He Himself is our peace, who made both
  groups into one, and broke down the barrier of
  the dividing wall, by abolishing in His flesh the
  enmity, which is the Law of commandments
  contained in ordinances, that in Himself He might
  make the two into one new man, thus establishing
  peace,

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New Covenant Separation

• 2Corinthians 616, 17
• Or what agreement has the temple of God with
  idols? For we are the temple of the living God
  just as God said, I will dwell in them and walk
  among them And I will be their God, and they
  shall be My people. Therefore, come out from
  their midst and be separate, says the Lord. And
  do not touch what is unclean And I will welcome
  you.

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Pauls Practice

• 1Corinthians 920, 21
• And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might
  win Jews to those who are under the Law, as
  under the Law, though not being myself under the
  Law, that I might win those who are under the
  Law to those who are without law, as without
  law, though not being without the law of God but
  under the law of Christ, that I might win those
  who are without law.

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Pauls Practice

• 1Corinthians 922, 23
• To the weak I became weak, that I might win the
  weak I have become all things to all men, that I
  may by all means save some. And I do all things
  for the sake of the gospel, that I may become a
  fellow partaker of it.

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The Meaning of Cosmos world In the New
Testament

• The entire created order (heaven and earth)
• The arena of human affairs
• The world in its sinful rebellion against God and
  opposition to His rightful rule.

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Paul Clarifies Separation

• 1Corinthians 59, 10
• I wrote you in my letter not to associate with
  immoral people I did not at all mean with the
  immoral people of this world, or with the
  covetous and swindlers, or with idolaters for
  then you would have to go out of the world.

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Paul Clarifies Separation

• 1Corinthians 511
• But actually, I wrote to you not to associate
  with any so-called brother if he should be an
  immoral person, or covetous, or an idolater, or a
  reviler, or a drunkard, or a swindler-- not even
  to eat with such a one.

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Separation Cannot be Based on Human Judgment

• Colossians 216, 17
• Therefore let no one act as your judge in regard
  to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a
  new moon or a Sabbath day-- things which are a
  mere shadow of what is to come but the substance
  belongs to Christ.

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Summary of NT Separation

• We are not to require the type of separation that
  was required under the Old Covenant (food laws,
  Sabbath, circumcision).
• We are to separate from sinful practices as
  defined under the New Covenant.
• We are not to give needless offense to the gospel
  by creating man made laws.

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False Separation in Church History

• The Desert Fathers
• Monasticism and Monasteries
• Anabaptists
• Other sects such as the Amish

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Examples of False Separation Today

• My own in the 1970s.
• Those whose man-made rules put up needless
  barriers to the gospel and Christian fellowship

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What We Should Do

• Separate from the sins of the world as defined in
  the Bible.
• Remain in the world but not of it.
• See the gospel as far more important than
  preserving our own idiosyncrasies.

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