Genesis 44:1-34
Genesis(33) (Part of the Joseph–Finding God's Plan in the Midst of Dysfunction and Disaster(17) series)
by Glen Osborn(146) on July 14, 2024 (Worship Service(158))
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Small Group Questions July 14, 2024
Increasing the Pressure
Genesis 44
Have volunteers read Genesis Chapter 44.
What does Joseph do to put the brothers to a test? What does he want the test to prove?
How do the brothers respond? Why does this upset them so badly?
What does Judah propose? What does he see is the cause of their problems?
What do you think was going through Joseph’s mind when Judah mentioned the one son went away and never returned, doubtless killed by a wild animal?
What are the changes that you can identify in the brothers? What is different in them than they were when they sold Joseph to be a slave?
How is Joseph’s pressure on the brothers an image of how God deals with us?
Read 1 Peter 1:6,7. What is to be the impact of testings in our life? Read Proverbs 17:3 and Isaiah 48:10. What refines or takes out the impurities in us?
Joseph was used by God to bring change in his family through the challenges he brought to them. What are some principles we learn in this story that we may apply to bring change in our families when there is dysfunction?
Prayer
Ask God to be the agent of change in you and through you in your family.