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"Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat:"
How to Find Healing for Our Deepest Relationships
Speaker
Dwight K. NelsonDwight Nelson served as lead pastor of the Pioneer Memorial Church on the campus of Andrews University from 1983 to 2023. During his time at Pioneer he spoke on the “New Perceptions” telecast, taught at the theological seminary and has written books, including The Chosen. He and his wife, Karen, are blessed with two married children and 2 granddaughters.
Offering
Saturday, March 28, 2015
More In This Series
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat:
How to Heal Our Deepest Relationships”—1
- Genesis 37
- Carlye B. Haynes: “It was foolish of his father to place Joseph in a post of superintendency, but being in that place made Joseph responsible to their father for an account of their behavior.” (God Sent a Man 29)
- Carlye B. Haynes: “It was such a robe as was worn only by the opulent and the noble, by kings’ sons, and particularly by those who had no need to toil for their living. In short, it was the garment of a prince. It was given to Joseph for the purpose of marking his superiority, of making a distinction between him and his more rude brothers. No wonder they bore a grudge against him!” (God Sent a Man 28)
- Terri Fivash (Calkins), Joseph, 22
- Parallels between Joseph and Jesus
- The Son (Gen 37:3/Matt 3:17)
- The Son (Gen 37:5-11/Phil 2:10-11)
- The Son (Gen 37:12/Ps 40:7-8; Heb 10:5-10)
- The Son (Gen 37:4-5/Matt 21:38-39)
- The Son (Gen 37:26/Rev 5:5)
- The Son (Gen 37:28/Matt 27:3-4)
- The Son (Gen 37:31-15/Rev 5:9; 19:13)
- Patriarchs and Prophets: “The life of Joseph illustrates the life of Christ. . . . Joseph, through his bondage in Egypt, became a to his father’s family.” (239)
- For only the Savior has a .
- Revelation 19:13—“He [the returning Christ] is dressed in a .
- Isaiah 53:6—“By His we are healed.”
- 1 Peter 2:24—“He himself bore our in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.”
- The healing always begins with the .
- Frederick Buechner: “Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is gooder than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that good news, to live out of it and toward it, to be in love with the good news, is of all glad things in this world the gladdest of all.” (In Philip Yancey, Vanishing Grace, 70)
And the healing always begins with the blood.
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