Dead Man Walking
DEAD MAN WALKING
Ask God this question: “GOD, WHERE HAVE YOU PUT ME TO REPRESENT YOU?”
Joseph: A Son Given, A Life Surrendered
Genesis 30:22–24 (KJV) — “And God remembered Rachel... And she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD shall add to me another son.”
JOSEPH — יוֹסֵף — YOSEF: “May the LORD add another son.”
John 12:49 (KJV) — “For I have not spoken of myself... the Father... gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.”
Dead Man Walking – Sees What Others Miss
Genesis 40:6–7 Joseph “saw that they were troubled... ‘Why are your faces downcast today?’”
Hebrews 4:15 (ESV) — Jesus can “sympathize with our weaknesses... tempted as we are, yet without sin.”
“There is no pit so deep that He is not deeper still.” -Betsie ten Boom
“[A]n enduring feeling that the self is a victim across different kinds of interpersonal relationships.”— Rahav Gabay, Boaz Hameiri, Tammy Rubel-Lifschitz, and Arie Nadler, The Tendency for Interpersonal Victimhood: The Personality Construct and Its Consequences, Personality and Individual Differences, Vol. 165 (2020), Article 110134
DEAD MAN WALKING – Has Nothing Left But Truth
Genesis 40:19 (ESV) — “In three days Pharaoh will lift up your head—from you!—and hang you on a tree.”
RESTORATION — John 1:12 (KJV): “As many as received him... gave he power to become the sons of God.”
JUDGMENT — Jesus told the truth: Matt. 5:22, 29–30 • Matt. 10:28 • Matt. 23:33 • Mark 9:43–48.
John 1:14 — Jesus was “FULL OF GRACE AND TRUTH.”
A DEAD MAN WALKING — Let Go and Let God
Genesis 40:14–15 — Joseph: “Remember me...” Tell Pharaoh I am innocent.
1 Corinthians 15:10 (ESV) — “By the grace of God I am what I am.”
Luke 12:11–12 (KJV) — “Take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer... the Holy Ghost shall teach you... what ye ought to say.”
Genesis 41:16 (KJV) — “IT IS NOT IN ME: God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace.”
Genesis 41:38 (ESV) — “Can we find a man like this, in whom is the Spirit of God?”
KJV: “Can we find such a one as this is, a man in whom the Spirit of God is?”
רוּחַ אֱלֹהִים בּוֹ — RUACH ELOHIM BO — “THE SPIRIT OF GOD IS IN HIM.”
Joseph—Gen. 41:38 • Joshua—Num. 27:18 • Daniel—Dan. 5:11,14 • Bezalel—Ex. 31:3, “filled...with the spirit of God.”
DEAD MAN WALKING PRIORITIES
Galatians 2:20: “I am crucified with Christ... Christ liveth in me.”
- MY MARRIAGE — Represent Christ; give myself as Christ gave Himself. (Eph 5)
2. NEXT GENERATION — Deut. 4:9: “your children and your children's children.”
3. MY CHURCH — Heb. 10:24–25: Worship • Encourage • Equip. The church is our rally point.
4. COMMUNITY & COUNTRY — Matt. 5:14: “Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.”