The Bible. Are you intimidated at the thought of reading such a complicated book? Do you find it

daunting or delightful or both? Welcome to the club. The Bible book club where we read every word of this

great book and then dig in and study it together.

We're almost to the end of Genesis.

Very exciting. Pat yourself on the back. You're almost to the end. But here's why we study this story and all the stories in the Bible that are the history, it's so that we can learn from

these people who were people of God, but still made mistakes. And so here's where we are.

Joseph revealed his true identity to his brothers. There was that flood of emotion, the tears,

the crying, and the difficult moments for him as he revealed who he was. The brothers, they're

shocked, obviously, a little afraid.

Joseph then assured them, this was God's doing, everything's okay, what you meant for evil, he

meant for good. And then he's sent ahead of them to save him from the famine, really. And then Jacob

and their whole family packed their bags and moved to Egypt where his son was in charge.

Jacob finally gets to see his long lost son.

But he stops at Beersheba and he had a vision of God's confirmation that this is the plan for them to go to Egypt and leave Canaan, the promised land.

And so there's this great story of God's sovereignty in both Joseph and Jacob's

faithfulness to him in their lives. Great. Great overview there. All right. To set up chapters 47 and

48, I want to ask you a few questions first. Do you feel like you have a plan for your life? Or do you

feel like you are floating down a river to

nowhere make this episode your inspiration a target something to shoot for because joseph and

jacob are leaders we can learn from joseph the first one i'm going to cover and i'm going to be

covering both back and forth. So stay

with me on this because they're such unique men. Joseph is this example of a man who worked hard,

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