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Day 43 - Genesis 41:33-57

From: Chapter-A-Day: Volume 1

By: Norman W. Berry

Narrator: Chris Genthree

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V.33 The man to be chosen had to be discreet and wise (Heb. 7:26²⁶For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; (Hebrews 7:26)).

V.38-39 Pharaoh connects Joseph’s life with God. “If God be for us who can be against us? (Rom. 8:31³¹What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? (Romans 8:31)).

V.41 Exalted over all the land of Egypt! (Phil. 2:9⁹Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: (Philippians 2:9)).

V.45 Joseph received a new name (Phil. 2:9⁹Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: (Philippians 2:9)) and a Gentile bride (Eph. 5:25-27²⁵Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; ²⁶That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, ²⁷That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. (Ephesians 5:25‑27); Acts 15:14¹⁴Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name. (Acts 15:14)).

V.47 Years of plenty. The world is going through its years of plenty. The famine is ahead. But Joseph laid up for the future.

V.53-57 Famine comes. Pharaoh said “Go to Joseph” (John 14:6⁶Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. (John 14:6)). The humbled Joseph becomes the exalted Joseph! From the pit to the palace! The humbled Jesus has become the Center of glory (Phil. 2:5-11⁵Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: ⁶Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: ⁷But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: ⁸And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. ⁹Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: ¹⁰That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; ¹¹And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (Philippians 2:5‑11)).

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• Genesis 33, Day 34 -

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• Genesis 39, Day 40 -

• Genesis 40, Day 41 -

• Genesis 41:1-32, Day 42 -

• Genesis 41:33-57, Day 43 -

• Genesis 42, Day 44 -

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• Genesis 45, Day 47 -

• Genesis 46, Day 48 -

• Genesis 47, Day 49 -

• Genesis 48, Day 50 -

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• Romans 1, Day 53 -

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