#569 – Our Good and His Glory (Genesis 42:6)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 1 March 2019
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And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to His purpose.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net. |
| 0:06.0 | Genesis chapter 42 verse 6 now Joseph was governor over the land. |
| 0:17.0 | He was the one who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph's brothers came and bowed themselves before him with their faces to the ground. |
| 0:26.7 | That is quite a statement. |
| 0:28.6 | Quite a verse when you think about Joseph's story. |
| 0:32.2 | If you remember back in Genesis chapter 37, Joseph had a dream |
| 0:37.1 | in which his brothers were bowing down before him. |
| 0:44.2 | And remember he shared that with his brothers |
| 0:45.7 | and it didn't go over very well |
| 0:47.7 | and eventually led to him being sold into slavery, |
| 0:51.4 | almost killed. |
| 0:53.2 | And so his brothers tried to hurt Joseph, |
| 0:57.2 | but their sin against Joseph |
| 1:00.7 | actually ended up fulfilling Joseph's dream. |
| 1:05.0 | Like this is mind-boggling, it's baffling, how does this work? |
| 1:10.0 | Sin, evil, ultimately ends up fulfilling the good and gracious purpose of God. |
| 1:20.8 | How does that work, that is |
| 1:23.0 | Theologically baffling, but it makes sense when you think about it. |
| 1:26.8 | This is the gospel, right? |
| 1:29.2 | A God use the sin of those who murdered Jesus to bring about salvation for us from our sins. |
| 1:41.0 | Oh, praise me to God, he is able to take a world of sin and evil and turn it for our |
| 1:48.8 | eternal good. All glory be to his name. |
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