I
have an assignment for you. I want you to click on this link
and read the text from Genesis 47:13-27. It’s the familiar story of the famine
in Egypt in which seven years of scarcity followed seven years of abundance. On
the advice of Joseph, Pharaoh gathered grain during the years of abundance,
then doled out the grain during the years of famine.
But
Pharaoh didn’t just freely hand out food to the people. Instead, he sold the
grain to the hungry hordes, essentially redistributing back the very abundance
the people themselves had produced. The people grew more and more desperate –
giving first their money, then their livestock, then their property and at last
their very bodies – in order to eat. In other words, they sold themselves into
slavery in exchange for food.
Now
I wish to draw your attention to a sermon from a Virginia church service based
on that text. This sermon has been circulating the Internet for so long that I
can’t find the original source; but the text – too lengthy to be reproduced in
this column – can be found here.
Some highlights include:…..To Read More….
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