Power!
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MESSAGE – Rev. Dr. Dale Thiele
Genesis: Foundations for Life
Power!
- Pharaoh’s Power
- Joseph’s Power
- God’s Power
Questions for Further Study or Group Discussion:
- Read Genesis 41:37-57. What catches your attention from this passage? Why?
- What power does Pharaoh have and use? In the Egyptian polytheistic worldview, the Pharaoh was a god. How does this shape Pharaoh’s actions?
- What power does Joseph have and use? In what ways does Joseph’s use of power demonstrate submission to the one true God? Consider Mark 10:42-45 and Colossians 3:22-24.
- What power does God have and use in this chapter? How is God’s power made manifest in the naming of Joseph’s children? Who has power over the famine?
- How is Joseph a type or foreshadow of Christ? In what ways can we learn from his humiliation and exaltation?
Memory Verse of the Week:
Isaiah 55:1 Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. (ESV)
