Old Testament - Genesis 42:1-38 - (Grace of Guilt) - CC Windward - Pastor Tim
Channel: Calvary Chapel Windward
Date: 2016-03-07

Old Testament - Genesis 42:1-38 - (Grace of Guilt) - CC Windward - Pastor Tim

Old Testament - Genesis 42:1-38 - Grace of Guilt - Calvary Chapel Windward - OAHU, HAWAII - Pastor Tim Newman - From Local Olelo / Oceanic / Time Warner Cable show "A View from Calvary" - Episode #: - Original Air Date: 10/12/2012 A.D.


PASTOR TIM's NOTES:

Genesis 42:1-38
“The Grace of Guilt”
1. Jacob gives the COMMAND to go to Egypt.
Vs. 1-5
1a. The COMMAND came at a time of crisis caused by God.

Ps 105:16-17, Acts 7:9-12
1b. The COMMAND would include an exception.
So they all went, with one exception. “But Jacob did not send Benjamin.
Notice the phrase in vs. 4, for he said, "Lest some calamity befall him."
2. Joseph will CONFRONT his brothers
Vs. 6-25
2a. The opportunity to CONFRONT them comes as they bow.
It was a gesture of subordination.
To them, this was a hateful gesture, but necessary to
their survival.
1
2b. Joseph will CONFRONT them by accusing them of being spies.
Now Joseph had absolute and perfect advantage.
At the same time Joseph needed to know what was in his brothers’ hearts.
2c. Joseph will CONFRONT them by demanding to see their younger brother.
He realized that his dreams were not yet fulfilled, because the dreams included not
ten but eleven brothers, plus his parents.
Joseph put his brothers to the test by treating them the same way they had treated
him.
Joseph had been brilliantly messing with their minds and hearts, and he continued
to do so when, after three days, he surprised them with two new things.
 He stunned them by referencing God (Elohim
 Joseph decided that only one brother would have to stay as hostage, while
the nine others returned for Benjamin.
2d. Joseph’s CONFRONTATION produced a guilty conscience.
Joseph’s strategy works.
Notice their admission of guilt in vs. 21.

1 Claus Westermann, Joseph: Eleven Bible Studies on Genesis, trans. Omar Kaste (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1996), p. 65.
True guilt is a grace because it brings the guilty to seek forgiveness and to
repent.
2e. Joseph’s CONFRONTATION will include a 2
nd test.
The test of the money returned.
How would they interpret Joseph’s actions?
As a gift?
Or as an attempt to frame them as thieves?
3. There will be a difficult CHOICE for Jacob and his sons to make.
Vs. 26-38
3a. They RETURN to Jacob in fear
They say, “What is this that God had done to us”
This is the first time ever in the narrative that the brothers mention the Lord.
Here’s a turning point in the lives of these brothers.
Joseph’s brothers realized that their sins were against God.
Prov 1:7
Godly fear is a grace because the fearer knows where he or she must turn to have
the fear alleviated.
Remember the line from Amazing Grace.
T'was Grace that taught my heart to fear.
JOHN NEWTON, 1779
3b. They REPORT all that happened to Jacob
They need to take Benjamin to Egypt. But Jacob remained unmoved and silent.
3c. They are REMINDED of Joseph’s death
Jacob made it clear that his sadness was the work of his sons.
Thus the godly fear of Joseph’s brothers was now matched by their godly sorrow—
and that was a grace.
Paul combines both of these ideas in writing to the Corinthians.
2 Cor 7:10-12
Peter and Judas were both sorrowful after the death of Jesus.
One hanged himself and the other repented and was restored by the Lord.
Israel’s patriarchs would remain imperfect. But this initial experience with Joseph was a
redemptive grace to their souls.



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