Our continuing series on Brokenness and Transformation leads us now to the world around us. Sin has certainly caused the brokenness of corruption, pollution, violence, disease and hunger we see in our world. Then there is our personal “world” where dreams, plans, relationships, health and finances can be broken.
One of the most righteous individuals in the Bible is Joseph of the Old Testament. Yet he experienced a broken personal world first hand. He knew the pain of a broken heart through repeated betrayal.
We will look this Sunday at his broken world and how it connects with us. Thankfully, Joseph stayed committed to God through the brokenness and God transformed his world in an amazing way!
See you Sunday.
1. What are hints of the problems between Joseph and his older brothers? Genesis 37:2-5
2. Who wanted to kill Joseph? Genesis 37:17-19.
3. Who first killed his own brother in the Bible? Genesis 4:8
4. Take a moment to consider how Joseph’s “world” came crashing down. Genesis 37:23, 24
5. Go back to Genesis 3:13-19 and see the brokenness that came to the perfect world of Adam and Eve.
6. The Apostle Paul was a true champion for Jesus Christ and yet his personal world was filled with brokenness. How does he describe that brokenness in II Corinthians 6:4-10?
7. What is the similar brokenness that Jesus and Joseph experienced? John 1:11
8. What benefit is there for us in the brokenness Jesus experienced? Hebrews 4:15
“Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen
Nobody knows but Jesus…”
