Kinstugi – to repair with gold

In a world where we break things and things break us, we can trust in the God who redeems and repairs broken things.

Big Idea: Our God transforms brokenness into beauty, messes into miracles, and wrecks into stories of redemption.

Doctrine of Redemption
Redemption means to secure the release or recovery of persons or things by the payment of a price. It is a covenantal legal term. Theologically, redemption refers ultimately to the saving work of Christ, who came to accomplish our redemption by giving his life in substitution for our own as the ransom price. – Dr. Ligon Duncan

There is something about that robe

Genesis 37:3
“Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children because he was the son of his old age. Also, he made him a tunic of many colors.” Israel.”

“Jacob presented the special coat to Joseph as a sign that Joseph was esteemed above his brothers. The coat signified Joseph as being Jacob’s choice as the future head of the clan—an honor normally bestowed upon the firstborn son.”

Genesis 37:31
“Then they took Joseph’s robe and slaughtered a goat and dipped the robe in the blood.”

Genesis 39:12-13
“She caught him by his cloak and said, “Come to bed with me!” But he left his cloak in her hand and ran out of the house. When she saw that he had left his cloak in her hand and had run out of the house.”

Genesis 41:41- 42
“And Pharaoh said to Joseph, ‘See, I have set you over all the land of Egypt.’ Then Pharaoh took his signet ring off his hand and put it on Joseph’s hand; and he clothed him in garments of fine linen and put a gold chain around his neck.”

“I pursued a career in a field that wasn’t right for me.”

“I did a PhD. The first time I made more than $30k in a year, I was 31 years old. I hate academia.”

“Far too much time spent on my career and not nearly enough on friends and family. Can’t say it wasn’t financially rewarding, but I’d give that all up for more time with friends and family who have since died.”

“I wallowed in grief and got high. A wasted waste of a decade.”

“I always thought I was already too old [to do things].”

“Depression. Spent seven years of college in my dorm/ apartment reading books and taking naps.”

“I spent my time in a prison wasting my gifts, interpreting dreams for people who would later forget about me anyway.” – Joseph

God doesn’t waste seasons

Genesis 41:46-49
Joseph was thirty years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from Pharaoh’s presence and traveled throughout Egypt. During the seven years of abundance the land produced plentifully. Joseph collected all the food produced in those seven years of abundance in Egypt and stored it in the cities. In each city he put the food grown in the fields surrounding it. Joseph stored up huge quantities of grain, like the sand of the sea; it was so much that he stopped keeping records because it was beyond measure.

Genesis 41:53-55
The seven years of abundance in Egypt came to an end, and the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all the other lands, but in the whole land of Egypt there was food. When all Egypt began to feel the famine, the people cried to Pharaoh for food. Then Pharaoh told all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph and do what he tells you.”

Genesis 45:7
But God sent me ahead of you to preserve for you a remnant on earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

Big Idea: Our God transforms brokenness into beauty, messes into miracles, and wrecks into stories of redemption.