In this Father’s Day sermon, Stephen Armstrong continues his study in Genesis 47, focusing on the intriguing political and spiritual dynamics between Jacob and Pharaoh. He discusses Jacob's surprising decision to bless Pharaoh, highlighting the significance of this act as a demonstration of Jacob's recognition of his own shortcomings and his understanding of true spiritual authority. Stephen explores how Jacob’s humility and acknowledgment of his own past sins allowed him to stand before the most powerful man of his time and offer a blessing rooted in God's promises. This episode provides a powerful example of the importance of humility, faith, and recognizing the source of true honor and blessing, challenging listeners to evaluate their own lives and their relationship with God.

Genesis 47:7-19 (NASB):

7 Then Joseph brought his father Jacob and presented him to Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
8 Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How many years have you lived?”
9 So Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my sojourning are 130; few and unpleasant have been the years of my life, nor have they attained the years that my fathers lived during the days of their sojourning.”
10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from his presence.
11 So Joseph settled his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had ordered.
12 Joseph provided his father and his brothers and all his father’s household with food, according to their little ones.
13 Now there was no food in all the land, because the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan languished because of the famine.
14 Joseph gathered all the money that was found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, for the grain which they bought, and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house.
15 When the money was all spent in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, “Give us food, for why should we die in your presence? For our money is gone.”
16 Then Joseph said, “Give up your livestock, and I will give you food for your livestock since your money is gone.”
17 So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them food in exchange for the horses and the flocks and the herds and the donkeys; and he fed them with food in exchange for all their livestock that year.
18 When that year was ended, they came to him the next year and said to him, “We will not hide from my lord that our money is all spent, and the cattle are my lord’s; there is none left for my lord except our bodies and our lands.
19 Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for food, and we and our land will be slaves to Pharaoh. So give us seed, that we may live and not die, and that the land may not be desolate.”

Notes: https://versebyverseministry.org/lessons/genesis_2011_lesson_47b/file/notes/Genesis_47B.pdf

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