February 13, 2023
Grow-Go-Sow Lesson 7
JOSEPH AND GOD’S GOOD PURPOSES
Text: Genesis 50:15–21
Topic(s): Providence, Suffering
Big Idea of the Message: God used Joseph’s heartache and pain to preserve the nation of Israel and to save the lives of many others during a period of great famine.
Application Point: Your suffering can bring glory to God and help others who are experiencing difficult circumstances.
Discussion Questions:
1. What is one thing that stood out to you from this week’s message?
2. What are the challenges that Joseph faced in his life?
3. How does Joseph’s suffering change him into a different man?
4. Are there any difficult seasons in your life that God has brought you through?
5. How have your difficult seasons displayed God’s goodness to other people?
Before leaving earth, Jesus commands his followers to make disciples of all nations.
Jesus rose again, his physical body made alive again. Although Thomas had his doubts about the resurrection, Jesus presented him with the evidence he needed.
All of Scripture points to Jesus’s death, burial, and resurrection.
Though innocent, Jesus was crucified to fulfill God’s promise of redemption.
At the Passover meal, Jesus instituted the practice of Communion—a vital ritual that reminds us of the atonement.
In this passage, Jesus explains that following him involves being willing to embrace enormous sacrifices.
Jesus didn’t come to destroy God’s work in the Old Testament but to fulfill what it had been always pointing toward: a pure righteousness through Jesus Christ.
Jesus displayed his power to heal spiritually by healing physically.
As Jesus explains to Nicodemus, it is only through being recreated by the Spirit (made possible by Jesus’s ministry) that one can be made right before God.
Jesus’s baptism and temptation represent his identification with humanity’s failures and sin, as well as his anointing and preparation to preach the gospel.
