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Tuesday
First Lesson
Genesis 45
1 Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that
stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me.
And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known
unto his brethren.
2 And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh
heard.
3 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph; doth my father
yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were
troubled at his presence.
4 And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray
you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother,
whom ye sold into Egypt.
5 Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that
ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve
life.
6 For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet
there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing
nor harvest.
7 And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the
earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
8 So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he
hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house,
and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.
9 Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith
thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down
unto me, tarry not:
10 And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt
be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children's children,
and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast:
11 And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years
of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast,
come to poverty.
12 And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin,
that it is my mouth that speaketh unto you.
13 And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and
of all that ye have seen; and ye shall haste and bring down my
father hither.
14 And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; and
Benjamin wept upon his neck.
15 Moreover he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and
after that his brethren talked with him.
16 And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying,
Joseph's brethren are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and
his servants.
17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, This
do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan;
18 And take your father and your households, and come unto me:
and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall
eat the fat of the land.
19 Now thou art commanded, this do ye; take you wagons out of
the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and
bring your father, and come.
20 Also regard not your stuff; for the good of all the land of
Egypt is yours.
21 And the children of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them wagons,
according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision
for the way.
22 To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to
Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes
of raiment.
23 And to his father he sent after this manner; ten asses laden
with the good things of Egypt, and ten she asses laden with corn
and bread and meat for his father by the way.
24 So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said
unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way.
25 And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan
unto Jacob their father,
26 And told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he is governor
over all the land of Egypt. And Jacob's heart fainted, for he
believed them not.
27 And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said
unto them: and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to
carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived:
28 And Israel said, It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive:
I will go and see him before I die.
1st Lesson Questions -
What do I suppose the brothers were thinking, right after Joseph told them who he was? RESOLVE.
Second Lesson
1 Corinthians 12:31b-13:13
31 And yet show I unto you a more excellent way.
1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have
not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all
mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so
that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though
I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth
me nothing.
4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity
vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not
easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things,
endureth all things.
8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they
shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether
there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is
in part shall be done away.
11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a
child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away
childish things.
12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face:
now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the
greatest of these is charity
2nd Lesson Questions -
How close am I to living the kind of life this passage talks about - the more excellent way? (12:31) What must I do in order to come more closely into that grace-filled life? RESOLVE.