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From The Pit To Paradise
Contributed by Bo Dunford on Nov 28, 2017 (message contributor)
Summary: The life of Joseph. Many thanks for my preacher friend Chad West from the Northgate FWB Church for this outline.
* And look what Potiphar did to Joseph – Gen. 39:19-20! * But again, v.21 …….
* Do you know what the Lord told me right here? * ALWAYS DO THE RIGHT THING!
* Because if you’ll always do the right thing, God will always help you in your situations!
* He did Joseph … In fact, he gave him favor with the keeper of the prison – v.21-23 …….
E) While he was in prison, God sent two more people into his life … A butler and a baker!
* Do you know what a butler does? * A butler is the chief male servant of a household.
* The Hebrew word means “cupbearer.” * HE ALSO OPENS DOORS!
* You just keep on with Jesus, He’ll send somebody to open doors for you while you’re in prison!
F) The Lord also sent him a baker … The Hebrew word here means a cook!
* A baker takes something small and makes it bigger … HE ALSO FEEDS YOU!
* A lot of people when they get in the pit or prison, they want to quit … DON’T QUIT!!!!!!!
* The Lord will be with you and send you a butler to open doors and a baker to feed you!
G) The butler and the baker both had dreams and Joseph interpreted the dreams for them!
* Both of these guys did something that made Pharaoh mad.
* Things didn’t work out too good for the baker however … He was hanged … The butler was restored.
* But look at 40:23 … His discipline put him in prison …….
(3) HIS DETERMINATION PUT HIM IN THE PALACE – 41:38-44!
A) For two full years, Joseph remained in that prison because the butler forgot about him!
* God didn’t forget about Joseph while he was in the pit or the prison … Joseph didn’t forget about God
when he was in the pit or the prison! * Joseph remained faithful to God …….
* He stayed with God and God done exactly what He said He would do with him!
* You just stay determined friend, God will take you from the pit and prison and put you in the palace!
B) God doesn’t forget about you when you’re in the pit or the prison!
* Don’t give up … Keep on doing the right thing … God will deliver you … Stay determined!
* God fulfilled His promise to Joseph … His family did bow down to him chapters 42-49 …….
* His determination put him in the palace … You may be on hell’s most wanted list … Stay determined!
* Let me give you this …….
(4) HIS DEATH PUT HIM IN PARADISE – 50:22-26!
A) Joseph was seventeen years old when he got put in the pit!
* He spent 13 years in slavery and in prison … He was thirty years old when he was taken out of prison
and placed as second in command in all of Egypt!
* Joseph died when he was one hundred ten years old.
B) Can I tell you today … There is more good times with Jesus than bad times!
* He was thirty when he came out of all that and he lived to be 110!
* If my math is correct, that is 80 years of blessing! * 13 years of pit and prison … 80 years of blessing!
* You may be in a pit this morning … An emotional pit, struggling with various problems … Personal,
work … School … Family … Financial … Stay determined and always do the right thing!
C) Spiritual pit … Struggling with sin and sinful attitudes … Stay determined and do the right thing!
