Genesis 44:1-34

Genesis(35) (Part of the Joseph–Finding God's Plan in the Midst of Dysfunction and Disaster(19) series)
by Glen Osborn(162) on July 14, 2024 (Worship Service(175))

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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.

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