Week 1 | You Can’t Trust It
From Genesis 47
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📖 Genesis 12:10 (ESV) Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land.
📖 Genesis 26:1-3 (ESV) Now there was a famine in the land, besides the former famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Gerar to Abimelech king of the Philistines. 2 And the LORD appeared to him and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; dwell in the land of which I shall tell you. 3 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you and will bless you
When happens: Our is .
📖 Genesis 47:13-15 (ESV) Now there was no food in all the land, for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan languished by reason of the famine. 14 And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, in exchange for the grain that they bought. And Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house. 15 And when the money was all spent in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, “Give us food. Why should we die before your eyes? For our money is gone.”
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📖 Genesis 47:15 (ESV) when money failed in the land of Egypt
📖 Luke 16:13 (ESV) No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.”
📖 Proverbs 23:5 (ESV) Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone, for they will surely sprout wings and fly off to the sky like an eagle.
2. When , I’ll be to find .
📖 Genesis 47:16-17 (ESV) And Joseph answered, “Give your livestock, and I will give you food in exchange for your livestock, if your money is gone.” 17 So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them food in exchange for the horses, the flocks, the herds, and the donkeys. He supplied them with food in exchange for all their livestock that year.
📖 Genesis 47:18 (ESV) And when that year was ended, they came to him the following year and said to him, “We will not hide from my lord that our money is all spent. The herds of livestock are my lord’s. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord but our bodies and our land.
📖 Genesis 47:19 (ESV) Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for food, and we with our land will be servants to Pharaoh. And give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may not be desolate.”
The enemy uses to us that God won’t for us.
When money is – I’m a .
📖 Matthew 6:11 (ESV) Give us this day our daily bread
📖 Matthew 6:34 (ESV) “do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
📖 Matthew 6:30 (ESV) But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
📖 Psalm 37:25-26 (ESV) I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his children begging for bread. 26 He is ever lending generously, and his children become a blessing.
3. , but a to Christ me in every .
📖 Genesis 47:5-6 (ESV) Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Your father and your brothers have come to you. 6 The land of Egypt is before you. Settle your father and your brothers in the best of the land. Let them settle in the land of Goshen, and if you know any able men among them, put them in charge of my livestock.”
📖 Genesis 47:27 (ESV) Thus Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen. And they gained possessions in it, and were fruitful and multiplied greatly.
Creating the to Christ:
1. and in Him.
2. I’m His .
3. the as my .
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