Sunday Message: Joseph and the Unintended Consequences

“Many of us have heard the story of Joseph and the Technicoloured Dreamcoat. We’ve heard the story of Joseph being sold into slavery and living the blameless life that would bring him to the point of saving his family from famine, the same family that had sold him as a slave in the first place. We’ve seen Joseph as a “type of Christ” which is a theological way of noting parallels between the Lord Jesus and certain characters in the Bible (notably the Old Testament). Many times we find zero fault in Joseph to the point that he’s seen as the closest parallel to the Lord Jesus in the Old Testament. I’ve had professors that have made this point one of fact and I didn’t see reason to question them. That is, until I was challenged by Karl and another minister in the CP program that Bob and I have been attending. I’ve realized, now, that there’s more to the story than that. This Sunday we will be looking at the story of Joseph saving his family, his people, and the nations of Egypt & Canaan. We will see if there is more to the story of what took place and how sometimes unintended consequences can arise even in the greatest of motivations. How did Joseph’s family and his people go from being honoured guests of one Pharaoh to being slaves of another Pharaoh? Let’s look at the text together and let it speak.” -David Kayumy