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Let us ask the Holy Spirit's grace on the reading of God's word.

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God our helper, by your Holy Spirit, open our minds that as the scriptures are read

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and your word is proclaimed, we may be led into your truth and taught your will.

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For the sake of Jesus Christ our

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Amen.

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A reading from Genesis 37, verses 2 through 11.

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This is the account of Jacob's family line.

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Joseph, a young man of 17, was tending the flocks with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah,

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his father's wives, and he brought their father a bad report about them.

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Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons because he had been born to him in his old age, and he made an

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ornate robe for him.

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When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a

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kind word to him.

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Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, others, they hated him all the more.

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He said to them, listen to this dream I had.

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We were binding sheaves of grain out in the field when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright while your sheaves

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gathered around mine and bowed down to it.

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His brothers said to him, do you intend to reign over us?

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Will you actually rule us?

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And they hated him all the more because of his dream and what he had said.

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Then he had another dream, and he told it to his brothers.

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Listen, he said, I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and 11 stars were bowing down to me.

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When he told his father as well as his brothers, his father rebuked him and said, 'What is this dream you had?

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Will your mother and I and your brothers actually come and bow down to the ground before you?'

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His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept this matter in his mind.

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Thanks be to God for the reading of his word.

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There's something that the biblical authors want to communicate from the very first chapters of the Bible, and that is this:

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the Lord God keeps his promises.

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He is a promise-keeping God, which should be revolutionary for every one of us living among humanity

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where promises are broken left and right.

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And frankly, a lot of life is about, will so-and-so be true to their word?

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I love a good suspenseful action movie.

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One of my favorite James Bond openings starts with a car chase where you're weaving in and out of cars,

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but of course you know, you know, you know that James Bond is going win.

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You know that when you rent the movie, when you, when you hit play, he's going to live to fight another day, or live to

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die another day.

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He's going to make it through this car chase even though the suspense and the action is full of all of these close calls.

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When we drop into the story of Joseph, we are in the midst of a car chase.

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The action has already moving.

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We're 37 chapters deep into this big question: Is God going to keep the promises that he's made?

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Genesis is such a huge book, 50 chapters, that very infrequently will we actually sit down and read the entire thing.

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I took one afternoon and only read the Joseph story last week, and I had to break it up into

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different sections and stretch my legs and kind of do something else.

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It was just 14 chapters.

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To read the entire 50 in one sitting, ah, would give us quite a scope on things, a meta perspective.

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If we were to pan out and remember that in the early chapters of Genesis, humanity is created in the image of God

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with a divine mandate.

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Adam and Eve and all of humanity are to be kings and having dominion and wise stewardship, being fruitful and

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populating the earth as the word of God is kept.

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Increasing from concentric circles: the garden in the midst of Eden, and Eden in the midst of the ancient Near

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East, and then having stewardship and wise dominion over the entire world.

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The Hebrews, the Israelites, understood that they were Adam and Eve.

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That was their commission.

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And yet Adam fails.

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What we see in Genesis over and over again is a return, so to speak, to that

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original command from God: "Will you obey my word?

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Will you rule with my wise authority?"

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So indeed we see several different Adams coming up in the course of all of these chapters in Genesis.

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When we get to this point in Genesis, we have to remember these recurrences.

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Joseph is going to be connected to every story that went before it.

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So the themes from Eden and Cain and Abel and the flood and the city of man, Babel,

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and the chosen sacrifice, and the blessing.

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These themes will be reiterated indeed with the same words even coming up.

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A garden is planted where humanity is rested.

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The word, the verb is "noah," rested, to be kings and queens in an Edenic

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paradise in Eden, populating the world in God's way.

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Ah, but then Cain comes.

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He is going to be jealous of his younger brother.

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Is that a theme we'll see again?

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He murders his brother, and his guilt cries out from the very ground.

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Is that a theme that we'll see again?

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So Cain goes into exile.

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Is that a theme that we'll see again?

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And a city of man is built.

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And from the offspring of the man who built the city of man comes a man whose name is rest, Noah.

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I have given you a word, a command to trust me and to prepare an Edenic refuge, a little Eden

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on a boat with all of the food and animals and people that will supply for a preserved offspring.

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offspring.

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And then after Noah crash lands on the top of a mountain, he climbs the mountain and prepares a

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sacrifice.

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And what does he do next?

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He plants a garden.

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And we see this cycle over and over again.

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So what can we expect when we drop into this car chase in chapter 37?

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Well, probably what we've seen in the previous 36 chapters will continue to come up.

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We ought to see that cycle again.

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That is to say, there will be more Adams that fail, just as Adam did, just as Abraham

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did, just as Isaac did, and just as Jacob has.

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We're dropped into the action here with expectations that we'll see repeated themes.

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But then we read this:

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"This is the account of Jacob's family line."

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If indeed we're sitting down and reading all 50 chapters of Genesis, we would have read that very line, "This is the account of

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family line."

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9 previous times.

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This is the 10th time it has occurred.

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If you're reading a different translation, you might read, these are the generations of Jacob, or to be even more literal, this is

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the birthing account of Jacob.

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He's the family head, and here is his line.

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The Greek word for that is Genesis, where we actually get title of the book.

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That word doesn't occur until Genesis chapter 2.

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But why do we call the book Genesis?

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Because that line keeps repeating 10 times over the course of Genesis, and every time it happens, it reminds us

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of something God is doing.

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Every time we hear, "These are the generations of," we're going to hear God choosing one child.

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and passing over the others.

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We're going to hear about God choosing one offspring and exalting that one and laying low the others.

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It's God's election, his divine election happening 10 times.

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So when we read it here, the 10th and final time it'll happen in the book of Genesis, what do we expect?

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Well, we expect that one of Jacob's sons is going to be chosen over the others.

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So already we're in the midst of the action.

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We have expectations that we're going to see some

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Second Adam happening here, and we've got the expectations that one of these sons is going to be elevated above the rest.

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Humanity is chosen over the firstborn of the beast of the field, the snake.

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Seth is chosen over Cain, even though Cain is the firstborn.

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Shem is chosen over his brothers Japheth and Ham.

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Abram is chosen over his brothers Nahor and Haran.

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Isaac is chosen over Ishmael, even though Ishmael is older.

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Jacob is chosen over Esau.

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And Judah is going to be chosen over the other 11.

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See, from the very first First words, we expect the recurring themes of Genesis and that one of the sons of Jacob will be exalted

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over the other.

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All right, this is a little technical.

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Why doesn't the author of Genesis just kind of tell it to us straight?

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Why do the biblical authors communicate in this way?

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Well, first of all, remember that this is not our culture, this is not our language.

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Children's language and only spiritually is this our people.

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So when we read this, the biblical authors are insisting on this point to communicate something to every reader,

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and that is God is faithful to keep his promise.

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So what is the car chase about?

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What is held in suspense?

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promised that a male offspring will be born to reign as King and Priest,

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as a new Adam, forever and ever.

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Those are the promises that we've come to expect earlier in Genesis.

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And though all of the other new Adams fail, this one will succeed.

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But how will God preserve that seed, that offspring, that male descendant.

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And what this does is it takes all of our hopes into this car chase.

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And indeed, every prayer that we pray where we expect God will be true has something to do with his power.

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Can God actually pull this off?

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Can he bring the car chase to a safe ending?

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And so when we read texts like like this.

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I encourage you, bring your hopes, bring your suspenses into this and say, God,

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if I can see you as faithful in the midst of these dramatic events,

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I believe that you'll be faithful in my life.

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God's car chase scene is beginning.

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Here's where we see the suspense in the very first 3 3 verses: verse 2, verse 3, and verse 4.

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We're going to hear 3 different perspectives.

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Take a look at verse 2.

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We hear about a young man named Joseph, only 17 years old.

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We're going to hear his perspective.

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And then in verse 3, ah, we hear about his father's perspective about the events, Jacob.

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And then in And then in verse 4, we hear about his brothers' opinions.

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And all 3 of these verses are tightening the suspense.

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The car chase is speeding up.

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All of this is going to set the suspense in one— on one tone.

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We are going to expect fraternal conflict, brothers at odds with other brothers.

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Look at verse 2.

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Joseph, a young man of 17, was tending the flocks with his brothers, the sons

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of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his brothers, his father's wives,

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and he brought their father a bad report about them.

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Now the first thing is this: He was tending the flocks with his brothers.

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This is a shepherding family.

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Now, I know you are thinking, oh, shepherds, no big deal, their last name, Shephardson, great.

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Now, to us, we do not know a shepherd from Adam, but the Israelites, ah, when they read this, a Hebrew reader, shepherd would have a

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connotation.

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In fact, shepherd is spelled exactly the same way you spell the word Enoch.

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Evil, just with different vowels, ro'ah and ra'ah.

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And shepherds were nomadic compared to stable.

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So when the Old Testament talks about two identities of people, one being

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unreliable,

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the versus stable, they would speak in terms of shepherds versus farmers.

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Farmers stayed in the land.

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They built cities.

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This, remember, was Abel's job, but Cain was the shepherd.

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Already there's some thoughts about who are the shepherds we saw before this family.

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Abel, his animal sacrifice, his sacrifice became the source of strife between him and his brother.

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You think of Abram and Lot, both shepherds, and their abundant flocks became the source

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of conflict.

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Already we're expecting, oh, brother shepherds, there's going to be some drama here.

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And then immediately we hear mentioned Jacob's other wives, the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah,

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certainly caused for lots of tension in the previous chapters.

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Another source of strife.

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And then, of course, we hear that— what has Joseph done to make a name for himself here?

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Well, he's a tattletale.

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He's brought a bad report to his father about his brothers.

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And that's where you see the word A'ah, shepherd, just spelled differently.

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Jacob's brothers, or Jacob's sons, are no fans of their younger brother Joseph because he's told on them one too many times.

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Now let's look at Jacob's perspective, the father.

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In verse 3, now Israel, otherwise known as Jacob, loved Joseph more

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than any of his other other sons, because he had been born to him in his old age; and he made an

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ornate robe for him.

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Favoritism has already shown up several times throughout the book of Genesis.

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Interestingly, just a couple of chapters before this, when all of Jacob's sons are listed, 12 of them, rather than being

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listed in birth order.

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They're listed according to Jacob's wives, and that sets Joseph in a particular spot in the lineup.

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Now, when you know baseball and you go see the batter's lineup at Petco Park, you're looking for who's in the 4th

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slot in the lineup, because you know the best batter doesn't bat first.

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The best batter bats cleanup.

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You want 3 there's 3 bases loaded before that 4th batter comes up.

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You know that the order of the lineup matters.

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And in Hebrew literature, the 7th in the order is the favored one.

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It's already embedded in the genealogy in chapter 35.

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We got 12 sons listed, and who's in the 7th position?

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Joseph.

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Already he's rising to the surface as the cream on the milk.

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Ah, and he's called the son of Jacob's old age, which denotes a

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chosenness.

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This doesn't just have to do with Jacob's— or excuse me, this doesn't have to do with Joseph's, uh, actually being the youngest, because he wasn't the youngest.

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Benjamin, his younger brother, would have had the chosen position in that case.

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Instead, what we find is this term is only used twice in the Old Testament, both referring to Isaac.

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He is the child that has a covenantal connection to what has gone before it.

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Joseph will be the one who has the dynastic expectations connected to his name.

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Who will carry on all of the promises from Abram and Isaac and Jacob?

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It's going to be the son of Jacob's old age.

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It's going to be Joseph.

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Ah, so we see the favoritism of Jacob toward Joseph.

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And one day, for a birthday gift, he gives him an ornate robe.

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This is one of those famously confusing words.

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It only appears here and one other passage in the Bible.

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And if you compare translations, sometimes it is called the many-colored robe, the long-sleeved robe, the

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ornate the glamorous robe.

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It doesn't really matter, but what we see reading the story of Joseph is that the robe and the dreams

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go together.

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The robe and the dreams symbolize the same thing.

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Who wears a robe?

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The only other time we see it in Scripture is the daughters of King David.

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It's a regal vestment.

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Joseph is Joseph gets a robe from his dad and it has symbolic significance: "You are going to rule someday."

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And Jacob may not even know this, but Joseph's going to have some dreams that show that very thing.

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So he's got a robe, he's in the privileged position, he's the son of his father's old age, and we're reminded

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of the earlier love that Jacob had toward one of his wives, Rachel.

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wives and not toward his other.

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He loved Rachel, and yet Leah he hated.

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Favoritism has not worked out well in Jacob's family, and yet he continues this.

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Joseph he loved more than any of his other sons.

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So in the midst of the car chase, we're expecting fraternal conflict, conflict between the brothers.

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We're seeing a favored son already elevated.

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Elevated before the action even starts.

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And then we hear verse 4, what about his brothers?

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His brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, and they hated him and could not speak a

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kind word to him.

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They had nothing peaceful to say.

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The word is shalom.

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They had nothing of peace to say of their brothers.

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And then one day Joseph had two dreams.

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The first is this: as he was binding his sheaves with his brothers, his sheaf stood up surrounded by the

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sheaves of all of his brothers, and they bowed down to his.

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And Joseph, we can question his judgment, thinks it's a good idea to tell this to his brothers.

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And the text tells us they only hated him even more.

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Ah, but he's not done yet.

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He has another dream.

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He dreams that the sun and the moon and the 11 stars were bowing down to him.

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And both the brothers and Jacob interpret these dreams to be about them bowing down to Joseph.

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They say it 3 times, "Are we in "Are you indeed to bow down to you?

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Are you indeed to reign over us?

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Are you really going to rule over us?"

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And many commentators say that that threefold way of emphasizing, "Yes, indeed.

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Yes, indeed.

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Yes, indeed, Joseph will be elevated above his brothers," is going to be shown later in the narrative when his brothers bow down to

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Joseph 3 different times over the course of the story, showing that God has God is bringing

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about the promises that he had brought earlier.

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But there's a different reaction that his father has in verse 11.

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His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.

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There was something about his father's impression that made him I believe that things may come about in this way.

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Without spoiling the story, that thought in Jacob's mind is going to be tested

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in the moment that he believes that he's lost his son forever.

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Will these dreams come true?

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David is leading us— excuse me, Joseph is leading us to an even more perfect second Adam that eventually

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we will see.

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And the promises about him are this we see in Psalm 2, that he will be elevated and given the

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reign over all nations below him, and everyone will come and kiss the Son, Psalm 2 tells us.

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In other words, all the world will pay him respect.

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The Lord said to my Lord, I will make a throne for all of your— or a footstool for all of your enemies.

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When we look at the New Testament, we see that this is realized in one person, one person

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who is declared to be the Son of God by

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2 Corinthians 5 tells us that God has brought us Christ, and Christ will be the one who not only

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rules and reigns over his brothers but also brings peace for all of his brothers and sisters.

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Christ has reconciled us to himself and given us then the ministry of peace and reconciliation with one another.

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Christ will be the King who reigns and obliterates peace and enmity between brothers, so that we would no longer

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have any bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander among us, the brothers and sisters of

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Christ.

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And because of that, we will be led to be kind to one another, to be tenderhearted, to be forgiving of one another, as God in

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Christ has forgiven us.

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us.

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These themes will be shown throughout the rest of the narrative of Genesis, but the car chase is only starting.

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Let's pray.

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Thank you, Lord, that you are true to your promises, that what you've declared you've brought about.

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In the greater Joseph Joseph, Jesus Christ.

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Fix our eyes upon him as over the next few weeks we read this story of Joseph.

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In Christ's name,