- What most encouraged your faith from our time studying the Life of Joseph?
- How does the truth about God’s kind sovereignty affect you? What are the implications of God not only being sovereign but kind in that sovereignty?
- What struck you about Jacob or Joseph dying well? What are the promises of God for followers of Christ today that we can hold onto through the valley of the shadow of death?
- Why did Joseph’s brothers assume that Joseph was still out to get them? What does this teach us about our own hearts?
- How does Joseph’s response to his brothers teach us about the heart of God? In what ways do we see Joseph applying the gospel (for instance — how did Joseph work out Romans 12:19-21)?
- Personally — what can you apply from Joseph’s response to his brothers? How is God compelling you to walk by faith and respond with grace through the suffering caused by sin?
- Personally - what would look different in your life and relationships if you worked out Genesis 50:19-20 by God's grace & strength?
- Pray with and for one another — specifically that God would help each one of us learn to embrace the kind sovereignty of God over all things to the degree that we can respond to unjust suffering with genuine Christ-likeness by faith.
