Sermons from December 2022

Sermons from December 2022

God’s Good Purposes

Genesis 50 Then Joseph fell on his father’s face and wept over him and kissed him. 2 And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel. 3 Forty days were required for it, for that is how many are required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days. 4 And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the…

Jacob Blesses His Sons

Genesis 49 Jacob Blesses His Sons 49 Then Jacob called his sons and said, “Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you what shall happen to you in days to come. 2 “Assemble and listen, O sons of Jacob,    listen to Israel your father. 3 “Reuben, you are my firstborn,    my might, and the firstfruits of my strength,    preeminent in dignity and preeminent in power.4 Unstable as water, you shall not have preeminence,    because you went up to your father’s bed;    then you defiled it—he went up to my couch! 5 “Simeon and Levi…