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Genesis 50:22
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We need to draw a very thick line under verse 21 and before verse 22. ‘And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house it.’ It's a new item. Now, Calvin was quite sure the way this is expressed that the you can see in these words Joseph in the course of time as he got older, retiring from the royal court, moving to Goshen with his people to the rural outback, laying down the splendid house and all the retinue of servants and the trappings of high office, and simplifying his life no end, and identifying wholly with the people of God in Goshen. It doesn't say any of that; Calvin just assumed it, and I wonder if he was right. I am very inclined to think he was. It implies he went from the capital from the royal court to his people, as time went by, when opportunity arose, when people had been trained to succeed him, and Pharaoh was happy about it. So off he went because he was concerned that his sons should not be brought up in the atmosphere of the highlife, but that they should be with their people. They would be the leaders of the tribes of Israel, their own tribes, and they had to learn the proper ways of humility and obedience to God and reliance upon him. I think that is probably true, and that these terms in such a careful narrative to be somehow put so close together – Joseph dwelt in Egypt's he and his father's house.
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Certainly, Joseph had never immersed himself entirely in the life of Egypt. He was always an Israelite. He was always a member of the household of God, and so should we be. Are you prospered? Have you got a very good job, a good income? Don’t get entirely carried away. Don't be drawn, as the worldlings are, to revelling in that, living at the highest opportunities of your income. Always a child of God, the promises of God, and the cause of Christ, and living for him, come first. I think you see this in Joseph and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.
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