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In these recent chapters in Genesis Joseph’s life takes a dramatic turn. It seemed that everything that could go wrong did go wrong. After receiving a dream from God that he would rise above his brothers, his brothers didn’t think much of Joseph’s dream and plotted to kill him. This was changed into an opportunity to make some money and he was sold as a slave instead.

He was sold to some Midianites travelers who took him to Egypt where he was purchased by Potiphar, captain of the bodyguard. He found great success in Potiphar’s house, but Potiphar’s wife tried to trap him into a liaison, but he refused. As a result, he was thrown into prison, his dreams seeming impossibly distant.

But here again, in prison, he found success and was trusted to oversee other prisoners. At one point he was told to oversee the king of Egypt’s chief cupbearer and chief baker who then each had dreams. Joseph was given the interpretation that the cupbearer would be restored, so Joseph asked that he remember to help him get out of prison. But he did not remember Joseph and there he remained in prison for two more years.

But then Pharaoh had a dream that no one could interpret, and then cupbearer remembered that Joseph interpreted dreams. When he appeared before Pharaoh he once again pointed toward God as the One to glorify and gave the interpretation – there would be seven years of prosperity followed by seven years of famine. He then suggested ways to prepare for the famine by storing up grain during the seven years of plenty. Pharaoh saw wisdom in Joseph and set him in a place of authority that he might prepare for the nation for the years of famine.

The king of Egypt also gave Joseph an Egyptian wife and she bore him two sons. It is in the naming of these two sons that we focus our study this morning, because as he reveals his heart in the naming of these boys we gain insight into our own lives as well.

I. Blessed are They Who Can Forget

 Joseph gives his first son the name ‘Manasseh’ which means forgetting. “God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father’s household.”

A. Forgetting is part of healing

 Verse 51 – Even here Joseph gives the glory to God and says that God has made him forget all his troubles.
 There is something very right in understanding that this is part of a maturing relationship to God.
 Does your relationship to God make any difference? Are you changed? Are you different? The more we understand who God is and who we are in light of that truth, the more we change and the more our character changes, becoming more godly.
 In fact, Paul wrote that “Love does not take into account a wrong suffered.”

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