The Life of Joseph: Lesson Eight

What God says will come to pass, and sin will find you out.

Years later, Joseph's brothers bowed down before him with their faces to the earth, just as he dreamed.

Genesis 42:6 (KJV): And Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was that sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph's brethren came, and bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth.

They did not know who he was, but they knew what they had done.

Genesis 42:21 (KJV): And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.

Sin can be hidden for years, but not forever.

Numbers 32:23 (KJV): But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out.

The same Judah who helped sell Joseph now offered himself as a bondman so Benjamin could go home.

Genesis 44:33 (KJV): Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren.