But GOD

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But GOD
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Joseph
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Genesis 3920-21 (ESV)

• And Josephs master took him and put him into the
  prison, the place where the kings prisoners were
  confined, and he was there in prison. But the
  LORD was with Joseph and showed him steadfast
  love and gave him favor in the sight of the
  keeper of the prison.

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• We know that as the light of the sun is most
  clearly seen when we are looking from a dark
  place so, in the darkness of our miseries, the
  grace of God shines more brightly when, beyond
  expectation, He aids us.
• -John Calvin

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Genesis 456-8 (ESV)

• For the famine has been in the land these two
  years, and there are yet five years in which
  there will be neither plowing nor harvest. And
  God (but God NIV) sent me before you to preserve
  for you a remnant on earth, and to keep alive for
  you many survivors. So it was not you who sent me
  here, but God. He has made me a father to
  Pharaoh, and lord of all his house and ruler over
  all the land of Egypt.

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Genesis 5020 (ESV)

• As for you, you meant evil against me, but God
  meant it for good, to bring it about that many
  people should be kept alive, as they are today.

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Genesis 5024 (ESV)

• And Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to
  die, but God will visit you and bring you up out
  of this land to the land that he swore to
  Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."

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Joseph

• God is in control is sovereign
• Gives us confident hope in the future that God
  will continue to be faithful with His promises

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Jonah
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Jonah 11-4 (ESV)

• Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah the son of
  Amittai, saying, "Arise, go to Nineveh, that
  great city, and call out against it, for their
  evil has come up before me." But Jonah rose to
  flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.
  He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to
  Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went on board,
  to go with them to Tarshish, away from the
  presence of the LORD. But the LORD hurled a great
  wind upon the sea, and there was a mighty tempest
  on the sea, so that the ship threatened to break
  up.

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Jonah

• Learn once again of Gods sovereignty
• God is incredibly gracious and merciful

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Jonah 41

• But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was
  angry. (ESV)
• But Jonah was greatly displeased and became
  angry. (NIV)

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Acts 222-24 (ESV)

• Men of Israel, hear these words Jesus of
  Nazareth, a man attested to you by God with
  mighty works and wonders and signs that God did
  through him in your midst, as you yourselves know
  this Jesus, delivered up according to the
  definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you
  crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men.
  God (But God NIV) raised him up, loosing the
  pangs of death, because it was not possible for
  him to be held by it.

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Acts 1039-41 (ESV)

• And we are witnesses of all that he did both in
  the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They
  put him to death by hanging him on a tree, but
  God raised him on the third day and made him to
  appear, not to all the people but to us who had
  been chosen by God as witnesses, who ate and
  drank with him after he rose from the dead.

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Ephesians 21-3 (ESV)

• And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in
  which you once walked, following the course of
  this world, following the prince of the power of
  the air, the spirit that is now at work in the
  sons of disobedience among whom we all once
  lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out
  the desires of the body and the mind, and were by
  nature children of wrath, like the rest of
  mankind.

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Ephesians 24-7 (ESV)

• But God, being rich in mercy, because of the
  great love with which he loved us, even when we
  were dead in our trespasses, made us alive
  together with Christ by grace you have been
  saved and raised us up with him and seated us
  with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
  so that in the coming ages he might show the
  immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness
  toward us in Christ Jesus.

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Ephesians 28-10 (ESV)

• For by grace you have been saved through faith.
  And this is not your own doing it is the gift of
  God, not a result of works, so that no one may
  boast. For we are his workmanship, created in
  Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared
  beforehand, that we should walk in them.

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• These two words, in and of themselves, in a
  sense contain the whole of the Gospel.
• -D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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Romans 58 (ESV)

• but God shows his love for us in that while we
  were still sinners, Christ died for us.

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What has God done?

• Notice in verse 1, we were dead in our sins in
  verse 5, God has made us alive
• In verse 2, we followed the course of this world
  in verse 6, God has raised us up with Christ
  and seated us with Him in the heavenly places
• In verse 3, we were objects of Gods wrath in
  verse 7, we are the objects of the immeasurable
  riches of His grace in kindness toward us

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Ephesians 28-10 (ESV)

• For by grace you have been saved through faith.
  And this is not your own doing it is the gift of
  God, not a result of works, so that no one may
  boast. For we are his workmanship, created in
  Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared
  beforehand, that we should walk in them.

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Revelation 215 (ESV)

• And he who was seated on the throne said,
  "Behold, I am making all things new."

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Revelation 225 (ESV)

• And night will be no more. They will need no
  light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be
  their light, and they will reign forever and
  ever.

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• The only basis for any real and lasting hope
  about anything is that Jesus died for our sins
  on the Cross, was buried in a tomb, and was
  raised from the dead on the third day,
  inaugurating the greatest restoration project
  imaginable
• -Steven Curtis Chapman

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Psalm 7325-28 (ESV)

• Whom have I in heaven but you?   And there is
  nothing on earth that I desire besides you.My
  flesh and my heart may fail,   but God is the
  strength of my heart and my portion forever. For
  behold, those who are far from you shall
  perish   you put an end to everyone who is
  unfaithful to you.But for me it is good to be
  near God   I have made the Lord GOD my
  refuge,   that I may tell of all your works.

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But GOD