Family is Fundamental

Sermon Text:  1 Tim 3:5; If anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God’s church? Genesis 37: 3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons, because he had been born to him in his old age; and he made a richly ornamented robe for him.

Sermon Title:  My New Life Forward 2016 Pt 5: Family is Fundamental

Point 1:  You have a destiny in spite of the dysfunction. Genesis 37:3(KJV) 3ff Now Israel [formally Jacob] loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours. (4) When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kin word to him. (5) Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him all the more…

Point 2:  Let God develop you through the dysfunction. Gen 39: 10 And though she spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her or even be with her.

Point 3:  You have to be determined in the dysfunction. Gen 40: 23 The chief cupbearer, however, did not remember Joseph; he forgot him. 41: 1 When two full years passed, Pharaoh had a dream… (9) Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, “Today I am reminded of my shortcomings…

Point 4:  The dysfunction is by design. Gen 50:20 But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good....”

Life application:

1.   Forgive whoever hurt you in your dysfunctional family and move forward

2.  Put your dysfunctional family in the hands of God

3.  Don't repeat the dysfunction in your family