May 02, 2008
Steps verses Leaps, continued
7. Joseph was SOLD into slavery by his own fraternity. Think about how contemptible it was for his brothers to enslave him to a people who serve another god. The traveling band of Ishmaelites did not worship the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The modern equivalent to this shameful act is when we sell out our young people who are attending colleges for ministry training. We do so when we allow OUR COLLEGES THAT ARE FINANCED BY OUR GIVING to enslave our future ministers with SECULAR FUNDED LOANS.
8. Joseph became the servant in the household of Potiphar. Joseph learned how to manage an Egyptian household. Unless you can manage a household, you are not qualified to manage a kingdom (1 Timothy 3:12). Joseph was accustomed to a nomadic lifestyle. In the Egyptian household, he learned the system of seed-time-harvest, which would be wisdom that he later used to prosper during the famine.
9. Joseph was so faithful that his master transferred all of his responsibility to him. When the head of the house entrusted the responsibilities of the household, the lady of the house lusted for the one who took care her.
10. Joseph had a great escape-clause. There always comes a time when you must forfeit your present comforts to embrace your future rewards.
-to be continued