Come Follow Me 11: Genesis 37-41

Come Follow Me Lesson 11: Genesis 37-41

Introduction:

Have you ever felt that when you are trying your hardest to do what is right, you have greater trials?

Joseph did. What about Job?

Personal Study

The Lord Can Be With Me

“Time and again, good fortune seemed to abandon Joseph, but the Lord never did.”

What have you done in times of trouble to stay nearer to the Lord? How have you felt the Lord’s presence with you in your struggles?

The Lord prospered all that Joseph did, even we he was in prison.

Remember how the Lord has sustained you in your trials and weakness. How can you prepare now for trials that may lay ahead? What can you do to have the Lord as your companion?

See also John 14:18; Romans 8:28; Alma 36:3; Doctrine and Covenants 121:7–8


I Need to Be Faithful

How do we receive revelations? It what ways do they come?

The Lord revealed truth to Joseph in dreams. He also gave him the ability to interpret dreams.

What insights have you gained from this lesson about receiving and understanding revelations from the Lord?


see Genesis 40:8; 41:16 It is the Spirit that will give us understanding. Put away pride; the revelations you receive are a gift from God.

Take time to ponder how the Lord is revealing His will to you.

Are you being submissive to the will of the Father? Are you acting on the revelation you receive? Are you taking the Holy Spirit as your guide? Do you seek for His guidance?


Escaping Temptation

What examples do we have from Joseph in resisting temptation?

What examples do we have from Jesus during His mortal ministry?

What things are you tempted with, and how do you seek the Lord’s help for deliverance?

He “refused” the advances of Potiphar’s wife (verse 8). Genesis 39

  • He recognized that sinning would offend God and others (verses 8–9).

  • He “hearkened not” to the temptation, even though it continued “day by day” (verse 10).

  • He “left his garment … and fled, and got him out” (verse 12).

Even though things looked bad for him, he chose the right.

Nephi prayed for help to overcome sin and temptation. We can read that in the Psalm of Nephi: 2 Nephi 4:18, 27–33

We need to have recognition of what Heavenly Father’s will is for us and of the things that we need to change in order to make a plan to avoid temptation.

How can I rely on Heavenly Father when temptations arise?

Temptation:

Situations to avoid:

Plan to respond:


Why is chastity an important commandment to keep? How do we learn to bridle our passions?

See also 1 Corinthians 10:13; 1 Nephi 15:23–24; 3 Nephi 18:17–18.


Personal Study

For Genesis 37

How does speaking peaceably with and about each other help us to avoid jealousies, hatred, and division?

For Genesis 39

Watch 2 videos:

Refiner’s fire: A woman who had many family members battle and lose their lives to cancer.

The Law of Chasity is important, and it is for our freedom and happiness.

For Genesis 41

How did the Lord bless the people of Egypt through Joseph? How are others blessed through you?

How have the prophets told us to prepare for times of want and emergency? Are you preparing?


“How could Joseph’s faithfulness in Egypt inspire you to stay faithful to the Lord in spite of adversity?”


Readings: Genesis 37 https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/gen/37?lang=eng


Joseph dreamed that his brother’s sheaves bowed to his. Then he dreamed that the sun, the moon, and the eleven starts bowed to him.

Joseph, at Jacob’s bidding, took food to his brothers in Dothan. They wanted to kill him. Reuben didn’t want that to happen, so they cast him into a pit. Judah thought they should get something for him, so they sold him.

Reuben had planned to deliver Joseph from the pit, but he was no longer there.

They dipped his coat in blood and took it to his father. He mourned many days; his sons pretended to comfort him...but they didn’t come clean.

The Midianites sold Joseph to Potiphar.

Readings: Genesis 38 https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/gen/38?lang=eng

Some history of Judah, who he married, and of him sleeping with his daughter-in-law. Twins born.

Readings: Genesis 39 https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/gen/39?lang=eng

Joseph was blessed by the Lord, and his master gave him charge over all his goods, because he saw that Joseph was blessed. The household was blessed because of Joseph.

Potiphar’s wife wants Joseph to sleep with her.

He refused and said,

9 There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?

12 And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out.

“When in doubt, get out!”

His wife made up a lie, saying that Joseph sought to make a mock of her.

20 And Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king’s prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison.

21 ¶ But the Lord was with Joseph, and shewed him mercy, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison.

22 And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph’s hand all the prisoners that were in the prison; and whatsoever they did there, he was the doer of it.

23 The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing that was under his hand; because the Lord was with him, and that which he did, the Lord made it to prosper.


Readings: Genesis 40 https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/gen/40?lang=eng

Joseph interpreted the chief butler’s and the chief baker’s dreams. The butler was restored to Pharaoh’s house, while the baker was hanged. But the butler forgot to mention Joseph to Pharaoh.


Readings: Genesis 41 https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/gen/41?lang=eng

Pharaoh’s dreams:

There are first 7 fat cows, then seven skinny cows. The skinny cows eat the fat cows. Still skinny.

7 healthy ears of corn proceeded 7 miserable ears of corn. The 7 ill ones ate the good ones.

Pharaoh sought for interpreters; no one could. Then the butler told Pharaoh about Joseph interpreting his and the baker’s dreams.

Years of plenty and years of famine. Vs 2 dreams that are the same; established by God. It will come to pass.

Because Joseph had the spirit of prophesy and could tell Pharaoh what needed to be done, Pharaoh made him a ruler, second only to himself. Joseph married and had two sons during the 7 years of plenty.

Manasseh--God  hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father’s house. Vs 51

Ephraim--For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction. Vs 52.

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