Previously recorded in 2015 at Five Forks Baptist Church in Hillsborough, NC. "Do Right" is a biographical message on the life of Joseph and can be applied to all believers. This will conclude our series in the book of Genesis as we explore the life of the last of the four great people of the first book of the Bible.
Title: "Do Right-The Life and Times of Joseph"
Text: Genesis 37-50
Preach on the life of Joseph and apply it to our lives as Christians. 7 main points on 6 of the garments that Joseph wore.
I. The Garment he wore that was Designed- Gen 37:2,3
-Designed just for him by his Father, put on by his father
God has put something on every one of His Children- His Righteousness
Illustration of Self Righteousness
*This Garment Represents the believer's
Change- Rom 3:22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
Eph 4:24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
II. The The Garment he wore when he was Despised-Gen 37:4,8,18-27
We will be hated for God's sake
Illustration of Joseph, honest, told the truth, and was hated for it.
*This Garment Represents the World's
Cruelty - Gen 37:20 they compromised with selling him to the Ishmaelites, at least they wouldn't have to deal with him again
Mat 10:22 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
III.The Garment he wore that Deceived- Gen 39:1-14, 21
Because he left his garment it looked like he had sinned
Mislabeled
*This Garment Represents his
Character - 39:2-4 ( illustration of what's in our hearts) 39:11
1Sa 16:7 But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.
IV. The Garment he wore when he was in the Dungeon- Gen 40:1-8,14-16,23
*This Garment Represents his
Commitment 40:8
The time you may need to be closest to God is in the dungeon,that's when God may use you
Attitude
Why would we be in the dungeon?
Proverbs 24:16 For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.
Seven - the number of completeness. It simply means man will just keep falling, but the just man will get up again. (illustration of Peter and Judas)
Psalms 55:22- Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
V. The Garment he wore when he was Delivered - Gen 41:14-16,37-40,44
*This Garment Represents his
Consistency(time is the best truth teller) illustration of whats in the well comes up the bucket
VI. The Garment he wore that showed his Devotion-Gen 45:1-9
*This Garment Represents his
ChoicesProverbs 3:5,6
VII. The Garment he wore in his Death - Gen 50:22-26
*This Garment Represents his
Conclusion
Read Title- Do Right
"
Do right,
Do right,
Do right till the stars fall,
Do right." -Dr. Bob Jones
"Bavarian-born Herman Kahn (1828-1897), whose sons founded the
Cone textile empire in North Carolina during the 1800's, was only
seventeen when he left Germany for the United States in 1846.
Arriving in America, he joined his sister, Elise Kahn Hirsch, and
her husband in Richmond, Virginia, where he changed his name
to Cone and became a peddler. A few years later, he began a wholesale
grocery business in Jonesboro, Tennessee, and in 18f6 Herman
married Helen Guggenheimer, of Lynchburg, Virginia. Some four
decades later, his sons founded the Jirst Cone Mill in Asheville,
North Carolina, and the Proximity Manufacturing Company at
Greensboro.
Though in 1846 the immigrant teen-ager brought with him to
America little of material value, he did not arrive on these shores emptyhanded, for as one of his sons, probably Julius W. Cone, was to
write proudly of him . Herman Cone did include among his baggage
the "intangible possession" of a "vitalizing heritage." That heritage
was eloquently embodied in a letter written to young Herman by his
brother-in-law, Joseph Rosengart,
"Do right, trust in God, and fear no man."
(Signed) JOSEPH ROSENGART"
