Genesis 37
- Joseph was 17 and his father loved him best because he was born in Israel's old age
- Why didn't Israel love his oldest son best as was the way of the culture?
- Why didn't he love Benjamin most since he was his youngest son?
- Israel gave Joseph a coat of many colors which made his other sons jealous.
- He tells his brothers about his first dream in which 11 sheives bowed down to him.
- Then he tells his father and broethers his second dream in which the sun and moon (his parents) and 11 stars (his borthers) bow down to him.
- Israel rebuked him for sharing this, but Israel remembered what Joseph had said.
- Why did Israel talk about Joseph's mother bowing down when she had just died?
- Israel sent Joseph out to see how his brothers were doing pasturing the sheep.
- Joseph's brothers jealousy ahd turned to bitterness which caused them to conspire to kill Joseph (Do not let the sun go down on your anger?)
- Reuben intervened and convinced his brothers not to kill Joseph but to throw him into a pit instead.
- Reuben intended to restore Joseph back to Israel later.
- Judah convinced his brothers to sell Joseph to the Ishmaelites so that they might not kill their own blood.
- They sold Joseph for 20 shekels (220 grams) of silver.
- Joseph was take by the Ishmaelites to Egypt.
- How did Reuben's brothers sell Joseph without Reuben knowing it?
- They slaughter a goat and put its blood on Joseph's tron coat.
- Israel identified the coat and he wept, refusing to be comforted, for many days
- Why is Israel referred to as Jacob here?
- Why did Jacob say he'd go to Sheol?
- Isn't Sheol hell?
- Are Midian traders and Ishmaelites the same people?
- The Midians sold Joseph to Potiphar, an officer to Pharoah, in Egypt.
Job 3
- v. 3 -10 show Job sorry he was conceived. He is wishing that it never happened.
- Then Job was wishing that he had died at birth and never had to experience this misery.
- He is longing to die, yet still does not curse God or take his own life.
- Job is saying that everything is at peace and restful at death and he longs for it.
- He is "bitter in soul" and is searching and hoping for death.
- He is fearful and full of dread because of what has happened to him.
- Job is not at ease nor quiet, but restless because trouble has come.
- Is Job's response to his present trials a godly response to troubles in life?
Mark 7
- Traditions and God's commandments are addressed by Jesus.
- The Pharisees ask Jesus why He does not wash his hands as tradition says He should.
- He emphasizes His point by quoting from Isaiah where Isaiah said that the people will teach as doctrine the commandments of men. "You leave the commandment of God and hold to the traditions of men.
- Corban means given to God
- Jesus says by telling children to give only to God and not to parents they are breaking the commandment to "honor their father and mother"
- Jesus turned the people's thinking on it's head when he said it's not what goes into the body that makes it unclean, it's what comes out of one's body that makes one unclean.
- Jesus declares all food clean.
- If Jesus said this, why did Peter not think all foods were clean in Acts when the blanket was laid before him 3 times?
- Jesus healed the Gentile woman's sick daughter because she had spoken wisely (It did not mention her faith in Mark as it did in Matthew)
- Why does Mark tell us that she is a Syrophoenician?
- The people brought to Jesus a deaf man with a speech impediment.
- Jesus took the man to the side, put his fingers in the man's ears and spit on the man's tongue and the man was healed.
- Jesus told those present to tell no one, but they told everyone instead. They proclaimed Jesus' work zealously.
Romans 7
- Paul says that a woman is only married under the law until her husband dies. Then that law has no weight and she is free to remarry.
- Paul ties in the fact that they too have died to the law through Christ's resurrection from the dead. We are released from the old law.
- Paul is saying that until the law was given mankind was unaware of their sin.
- The law itself is holy and good, but sin is bad and we died because of our sin.
- The battle of our Spiritual selves and our flesh wages war within us.
- The law itself does not bring death, but the sin that is within us.
- The Law is spiritual but we are of the flesh, so that even when we want to do good, our flesh causes us to sin.
- What were some "good things" that Paul wanted to do, but did not do because Paul was always boldly preaching the gospel?
- What does Paul mean when he says, "So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. "? Is he excusing sin?
- How do we keep from doing the things we hate, when we know what we should be doing that is right?
- The battle between flesh and spirit wages on "So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand." (We need to be on guard for sin even when we are trying to do what's right)
- Thanks to God sending Christ to die for us we have the ability to serve the law of God even while our flesh serves the law of sin.
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