S4:008 Genesis 37-41
Join The Journey
Watermark Community Church, Dallas, TX
5 • 827 Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Content Warning: This episode discusses sensitive topics, including sexual abuse.
"If God is good, why does evil exist?" Lauren Atkinson and Watermark staff member Dave Bruskas explore this question through Genesis 37–41, offering a framework for viewing suffering in light of God’s character.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, friends, due to the nature and content of today's episode, we'd recommend you listen by yourself first and then decide if you'd like to listen with your kids. |
| 0:08.0 | All right now, if we're honest, reading the Bible consistently can be a challenge, but it's never too late to start, and we're in this together. |
| 0:16.3 | This is the Join the Journey podcast. |
| 0:20.4 | Thanks for joining. My name is Lauren Atkinson on the Join the |
| 0:23.9 | journey team. And today, I am back in the podcast studio with another Watermark staff member, Dave |
| 0:29.8 | Breskes. Hey, Lauren. How are you? Dave, thanks for being back with us today. And you've been on the podcast |
| 0:35.7 | before. So we'll link your episode in the show notes but |
| 0:38.8 | we've got a lot to cover yeah there's a lot here today so we're going to go ahead and jump right |
| 0:44.5 | into it today we are reading genesis 37 through 41 and i just want to start by acknowledging that |
| 0:52.7 | these are hard passages to read. We see Joseph is |
| 0:57.4 | sold into slavery by his brothers. We see sexual sin and abuse and Joseph being falsely accused. We see a lot of |
| 1:06.4 | family dysfunction and heaviness. And so if you found yourself not wanting to read today's |
| 1:12.0 | passages or just feeling heavy by it, that is an appropriate response. And our goal today |
| 1:17.3 | is to just navigate how do we read passages that are heavy like this in light of who God is. |
| 1:23.5 | How do we navigate understanding how God is good and evil things happen and so Dave I love to |
| 1:30.6 | just hear from you how you're thinking about these passages today yeah such a such a good insight |
| 1:36.4 | Lauren is to is to just the transition we've seen in these these first 30 40 chapters in Genesis |
| 1:43.5 | where everything started out beautifully. |
| 1:45.3 | God created Adam and Eve to enjoy him forever, to worship him. |
| 1:49.6 | We see, even Jesus quotes this, that we see that God brought them together to be one flesh. |
| 1:53.7 | You have the beauty of even the sexual union that God intended. |
| 1:57.8 | And when it's done, you know, when the first two chapters are finished, God declares it good. And then everything changes in chapter three when Adam and Eve sin against God. |
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