The Life of Joseph Quotes

“After all that Joseph went through, he said as a 110yearold man, “God never changes. God will do what He says. He will never vary. When God gets around to doing what He said, I want you to take my bones and carry them out of here.” He had faith to believe God.”
― Clarence Sexton, The Life of Joseph: God Meant It Unto Good

“Joshua, as you may know, was of the tribe of Ephraim, the tribe coming from the loins of Joseph. No doubt Joshua took keen delight in taking care of this responsibility himself because Joseph was his grandfather from many generations back. The Bible says in Joshua 24:32, “And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.”
― Clarence Sexton, The Life of Joseph: God Meant It Unto Good

“Joseph knew that his brethren were not going to be able to immediately take his body and transport it to the land of Canaan, the Land of Promise. But he said, “When you do leave, take my bones with you.”
― Clarence Sexton, The Life of Joseph: God Meant It Unto Good

“You may not have been called to a funeral home, but there are people living around you that you need to be concerned about. There are mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, sons, and daughters who need to hear of the love of the Lord Jesus Christ. Determine that you are going to get out and do something to show concern for the living.”
― Clarence Sexton, The Life of Joseph: God Meant It Unto Good

“Notice the last statement God makes in Genesis 49:33, “And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost,…” God could have put a period there, but there is no period because that is not when it stops. That is where earthly vision stops. But the Bible is an eternal Book written by an eternal God who sees everything, so the next expression is given, “…and was gathered unto his people.”
― Clarence Sexton, The Life of Joseph: God Meant It Unto Good

“This birthright was going to be shared, not by the one we think would get the birthright, but by Joseph and Judah. Jacob would say to Judah that Judah would share in the authority of the birthright. Joseph was going to share in the double inheritance of the birthright with his boys, Ephraim and Manasseh”
― Clarence Sexton, The Life of Joseph: God Meant It Unto Good

“We had a certain lady in our church who was always in distress; at least she thought she was. On one occasion, she came to the pastor when I was standing by his side and started talking to him about all the things that had been going wrong in her life. Brother Hagan simply asked, “Has God forsaken you?” It shocked her. She said, “No.” He said, “Then nothing is as bad as you think it is.”
― Clarence Sexton, The Life of Joseph: God Meant It Unto Good

“If you have any good thing to say to someone to encourage him or express your love to him, you should do it now. Do what you can while you can.”
― Clarence Sexton, The Life of Joseph: God Meant It Unto Good

“If we are not careful, we will get in some ditch of despair or discouragement and we will forget the good among the bad. I think we need to say by God’s grace, “I’m not going to forget all the precious things God has done for me.”
― Clarence Sexton, The Life of Joseph: God Meant It Unto Good

“I choose to dwell on the good things, the blessed times, the precious moments in my life.”
― Clarence Sexton, The Life of Joseph: God Meant It Unto Good

“There is a world of difference between thinking about the Lord and actually thanking the Lord. Thanking God is not simply thinking, “Well, this came from the Lord. Isn’t God good?” We must take the time from everything else to thank the Lord, to call out to God and say, “Lord, we know this came from You and we want to thank You for it.”
― Clarence Sexton, The Life of Joseph: God Meant It Unto Good

“But when they reached the southern tip of the land, before they ever went out of the Promised Land, before they left Canaan, Jacob said, “Stop the wagons. I know we are in a hurry to get to Egypt. I know we are excited about seeing Joseph, but there is something more important than seeing Joseph. We must thank the Lord!”
― Clarence Sexton, The Life of Joseph: God Meant It Unto Good

“If you are a Christian and you say you cannot forgive, there is only one reason. The reason you cannot forgive is that you are not abiding in Christ, giving Him the place in your life He richly deserves. This is how Joseph was able to forgive his brethren and live with them as if they had never sinned against him.”
― Clarence Sexton, The Life of Joseph: God Meant It Unto Good

“The great principle of forgiveness is, “Even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.” You may not think that someone deserves to be forgiven, but that is not the point. Why do you think God has forgiven you? He did not forgive you because you deserved forgiveness. The Bible says, “Even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.”
― Clarence Sexton, The Life of Joseph: God Meant It Unto Good

“We must come to the place by faith where we remove all secondary causes and understand how God has been in the twists and turns of our lives. With just one different little twist or turn, we could be a thousand miles from where we are today.”
― Clarence Sexton, The Life of Joseph: God Meant It Unto Good

“Let us consider a chapter in the Bible that we often skip because it contains such a bad story. In chapter thirty-eight of Genesis, Judah had a child by his own daughter-in-law. He mistook her for a harlot. I am trying to tell you that God’s ways are not our ways. I am not saying that God was in favor of Judah and his daughterinlaw in their awful act, but I am saying that in spite of everything we think, God is able to work.”
― Clarence Sexton, The Life of Joseph: God Meant It Unto Good

“Shiloh” means “rest.” This is one of the names used for our Lord Jesus. He is our rest. God revealed to Jacob that Judah was the son who would form the tribe from which the Lord Jesus Christ, the promised Savior, would come.”
― Clarence Sexton, The Life of Joseph: God Meant It Unto Good

“Judah was at his wit’s end. He did not understand everything that had happened. He had no way to explain how the cup got into Benjamin’s sack. He did not know all the details. He could have thrown up his hands and said, “Why is all this going on?” But he realized God was in it and he said, “What shall we say unto my lord? what shall we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants.”
― Clarence Sexton, The Life of Joseph: God Meant It Unto Good

“They believed him to be an Egyptian. They thought he was like every other Egyptian. They had been told about the true and living God, yet Joseph said to them, “…for I fear God.” When he spoke the name of God, no doubt their hearts were stirred.”
― Clarence Sexton, The Life of Joseph: God Meant It Unto Good

“Would it not be wonderful if in all the glory days of our lives, when the sun is shining brightly and everything is going well, we trusted God with all our strength and might and lived for the Lord daily with all the desire possible? But it does not typically happen that way. It is during the days of darkness and the hours of great difficulty, during days of affliction when things go wrong, that we are made to realize we have a need, and we turn our hearts toward the Lord.”
― Clarence Sexton, The Life of Joseph: God Meant It Unto Good

“The “prime of life” is anytime in life when we are in the center of God’s will.”
― Clarence Sexton, The Life of Joseph: God Meant It Unto Good

“Joseph was in a place of affliction. He was in a strange place, a place he would never truly call home. After years of living in Egypt, Joseph would say to his brethren, “When I die, get my bones out of here.” And they did carry his bones out of Egypt and took them back to the land of his birth to bury them.”
― Clarence Sexton, The Life of Joseph: God Meant It Unto Good

“The fact is, God allows the circumstances, and through the circumstances He speaks to us. So often our disappointments are His appointments.”
― Clarence Sexton, The Life of Joseph: God Meant It Unto Good

“Millions have come to the Lord because someone on this end prayed and God worked on the other end to bring them to Christ. This is the way the Lord works. This is the way God moves. God speaks to people. In Psalm 85:8 the Bible says, “I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.” God will speak to us. If you have read Genesis chapter forty-one, you know that through a dream God stirred Pharaoh and also prodded the memory of the butler. God spoke to those men. God dealt with them.”
― Clarence Sexton, The Life of Joseph: God Meant It Unto Good

“My confidence is in the quiet place, in the secret place of my life, where I have chosen to honor God and I believe that God will keep His Word.”
― Clarence Sexton, The Life of Joseph: God Meant It Unto Good

“But God is at work on the other end. God is working in the lives of people that we have to deal with, people whose lives touch our lives day by day. God is working on the other end.”
― Clarence Sexton, The Life of Joseph: God Meant It Unto Good

“Remember, there is no disappointment in Jesus Christ. In the hour of disappointment, the Lord is with you. In the hour of loneliness, in the hour of temptation, in the hour of uncertainty, in the hour of awful disappointment, all that has sustained me is to know the Lord is with me.”
― Clarence Sexton, The Life of Joseph: God Meant It Unto Good

“Verse twelve says, “And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out.” Joseph lost his coat, but he kept his character.”
― Clarence Sexton, The Life of Joseph: God Meant It Unto Good

“The Bible says in Genesis 39:23, “And the LORD was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian. And his master saw that the LORD was with him, and that the LORD made all that he did to prosper in his hand.” Not only was the Lord with Joseph, but also Potiphar was a witness to the fact that the Lord was with Joseph. When God has His hand on someone, others can see it.”
― Clarence Sexton, The Life of Joseph: God Meant It Unto Good

“Joseph was a lonely man carried down into Egypt away from his home and homeland, away from his family. The Bible says in the hour of his loneliness, the Lord was with him. Just as the Lord was with Joseph, He has promised those who know Him, “I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee” (Hebrews 13:5).”
― Clarence Sexton, The Life of Joseph: God Meant It Unto Good