Daily Bible Study with Fel and Andy: Genesis - Day 63

We are, Phil.

Now, yesterday we talked about how Joseph's brothers, he had 11 brothers, well, 10 of them were jealous of him.

The younger one wasn't involved in this scene that's coming up next.

But the other ones were.

And they basically got together.

Joseph's walking towards them because Dad sends him out to check on them in the paddock and they basically say, you know, well, let's get rid of this guy.

We're a bit over him.

And long story cut short, they sell him as a slave to some Midianite traders who are on their way to Egypt.

These guys were out in a fairly rural part of the world.

They were farming and they said, let's just sell him and he gets sold off as a slave to the Midianites.

Now, we...

Here later in the story, Phil, in the book of Genesis, the brothers talking about this event and they're saying that Joseph was in this pit pleading with them and begging them, guys, please don't do this.

Please don't do this.

So what I want to highlight here, Phil, is that Joseph really got hurt here by his brothers.

And you know, the sad realities, Phil, sometimes in this life and sometimes even in our church lives, we can get hurt by people's humanity, I call it, which is the part of them which is not perfect.

And unfortunately, it happens in life, doesn't it, Phil? Yeah.

Yeah.

And as you're telling that story, Andy, you're right.

We are going to see Joseph accomplish some incredible things and he wouldn't have been able to do it if he held on to this hurt, but it is, let's just go in there with him.

Like, let's just imagine what this is like, because it's going to help us.

that he's a young guy.

He's the second youngest of all of his brothers.

So these are much older guys who he probably looked up to at times.

Like there are probably guys there that he's growing up beside and they're the big guys that are out there working for dad.

And he's there this much younger trying to do the right thing.