Genesis 42
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Sep 24, 2026
Greg GiffordHOST
I think you're gonna be hard-pressed for that.
Greg GiffordHOST
The closest that you're gonna see is maybe going back to Old Testament families Jacob, Reuben, where you see dads have authority over their kids, Genesis 42, verse 37.
Greg GiffordHOST
But note that doesn't necessarily sell the case that you as a New Testament believer have authority over your kids and that your 25-year-old daughter should do what you tell her to do because she is your daughter.
Greg GiffordHOST
I find some of the guys that confuse those lines, they have a strong view of headship or maybe even a hyper headship view.
speaker_0HOST
They could sit down and enjoy their food before completing the murder of Joseph.
speaker_0HOST
Now later on, Genesis 42 will describe the conviction of sin they ignored at that moment.
speaker_0HOST
In that passage, the brothers say, obviously, we are being punished for what we did to our brother.
speaker_0HOST
We saw his deep distress when he pleaded with us, but we would not listen.
Brian WolfmuellerGUEST
This passage and what follows, especially verses 64, 65, 66 in Deuteronomy 28 says, is the prime description of an evil conscience.
Brian WolfmuellerGUEST
Even this morning in the Worldwide Bible Class, we were studying Genesis 42, Luther's commentary, and he's talking about Joseph's brothers and how when all these bad things are happening to them, when they discover that the money is in the bag of corn that they were given, and they're troubled by it, they remember what happened with Joseph.
Brian WolfmuellerGUEST
So they're reading everything that's happening to them through the lens of an evil conscience.
Brian WolfmuellerGUEST
And Luther uses this text from Deuteronomy 28 to describe what that's like.
ScottHOST
In desperation, Jacob, his dad, sends all of his brothers, almost all of his brothers, to Egypt to buy food.
ScottHOST
And Genesis 42 says it this way.
ScottHOST
Now Joseph was the governor of the land, the person who sold grain to all its people.
ScottHOST
So when Joseph's brothers arrived, they bowed down to him with their faces to the ground.
ScottHOST
And he's turning this experience into a nightmare for his family.
ScottHOST
And at one point, Joseph overhears his brothers talking amongst themselves.
ScottHOST
It says this in Genesis 42.
ScottHOST
Surely, they say, we're being punished because of our brother.
Judah SmithHOST
Now, I'll give you one other little tool.
Judah SmithHOST
Anytime you're reading this ancient, mystical, magical book, you ask yourself, not where's Waldo, but where's Jesus? If you want to understand this extraordinary book that has no peer, you've got to ask yourself, where is Jesus? So even if you go back in time to the beginning and the book, the name Genesis, the first book of the Bible literally means beginning.
Judah SmithHOST
When you look for Jesus, the book will come alive to you.
Judah SmithHOST
So as we approach the life of Joseph, we're going to catch up with him at 17 years old.
Judah SmithHOST
Joseph has an extraordinary life, so much so Broadway has even dedicated a show to him, The Coat of Many Colors.
Judah SmithHOST
Joe is 17.
Judah SmithHOST
He's 17 when we pick up the story in Genesis, and of all the kids...
Judah SmithHOST
His dad, Jacob, loves Joseph.
Bryan WolfmuellerHOST
Okay, so we want to treat the words with this kind of special care, right? So that takes us here to the text.
Bryan WolfmuellerHOST
Now, we're in Genesis 42, 25.
Bryan WolfmuellerHOST
This is the context where we're sitting.
Bryan WolfmuellerHOST
And it's Joseph who is going to be kind of roughing up his brothers, right? and but he's not going to do it because he wants to remember he turned away uh and he wept remember this weeping of joseph he doesn't he's uh i was i was visiting with a person about the worldwide bible study and about this idea that god plays with us and the um Someone said, it seems like this makes God into a bully.
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Bryan WolfmuellerHOST
It's a general name for all utensils, as the term vasabelli is used in Latin for war equipment.
Bryan WolfmuellerHOST
Thus Genesis 49.5, Simeon and Levi are referred to as weapons of violence.
Bryan WolfmuellerHOST
Then another word will follow, Genesis 42, namely amtahat, from mata, that is to spread out.
Bryan WolfmuellerHOST
Paraphrastically, the word means sack.
Dave DickinsonHOST
The feast.
Dave DickinsonHOST
So as we left Genesis 42, the brothers have returned home minus Simeon, who's still back in Egypt as an insurance that they'll return.
Dave DickinsonHOST
Their sacks were full of food.
Dave DickinsonHOST
They'd also been returned with the money that they had used to pay for the food, and Joseph's request was that they would return with their youngest brother, Benjamin, so he knows that they weren't spies, okay? That was kinda the, the way that he termed it.
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Dave DickinsonHOST
But on a practical level, okay, Joseph's story provides not just a great example for what is possible, but a great temp- template for what is necessary, okay, in terms of a restoration journey.
Dave DickinsonHOST
Because two things are visible in the Joseph story, and without them, restoration wouldn't have happened.
Dave DickinsonHOST
You see, on one side, okay, we have the repentance and the transformation in the lives of the brothers, don't we? We, we get that first snapshot in Genesis 42.
Dave DickinsonHOST
It says this: "They said to one another, 'Surely we are being punished because of our brother.
Bryan WolfmuellerHOST
It's verse 20.
Bryan WolfmuellerHOST
So right here, Genesis 42, 20, where Joseph, he had said already to the guys who don't know that it's him, right? He had told them already, hey, you got to bring, you got to stay in prison.
Bryan WolfmuellerHOST
One person goes back.
Bryan WolfmuellerHOST
He says, now he's changed his mind.
Daniel LaustedGUEST
And he pleaded with them.
Daniel LaustedGUEST
Let's look at Genesis 42 and verse 21.
Daniel LaustedGUEST
This is when the brothers were responding.
Daniel LaustedGUEST
When they were in Egypt years later.
Daniel LaustedGUEST
Genesis 42 and verse 21.
Daniel LaustedGUEST
Then they said to one another, we are truly guilty concerning our brother.
Daniel LaustedGUEST
For we saw the anguish of his soul and he pleaded with us and we would not hear.