Joseph Part 1: The Dreamer

Red, Green, Yellow and Blue…I have a colorful story today for you. This is part one of a four part series of how God used Joseph to exercise HIS rescuing POWER! Joseph gets a colorful gift, shares his dreams but it ends not as he planned.

Every parent wants their child to have fun, learn, and grow more in the Bible. However, time is limited. Have you ever asked: “What can I do to grow my child’s faith?” “How can I connect with my child?” “What about the difficult topics of stress, loss, and anxiety?” This podcast connects laughter and the Bible. It provides starter questions at the end of every episode, a soft opening to begin those discussions. It resources parents ways to connect with their children where they are.

An interactive retelling of the greatest stories in the Bible.  Take a journey with your kids and benefit from the parenting next steps after each show. These are "Short" stories to be used anywhere; in the car, dinner table, bedtime or wherever you want, with me Israel "Schertz." 

Go deeper with reading scripture: Genesis 37

Follow up questions:

1. What is a cool dream you've had before?
2. How would you react if you were Joseph or his brothers?
3. Have you ever been angry before toward someone? How did you handle that?

NEXT LEVEL QUESTION: Is being angry a sin? Why or why not?

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Transcript

Narrator: 0:04

Red, green, yellow and blue. I have a colorful story for you. This is short with Schertz where we share a quick create a biblical story with some follow up questions. Our goal is a partner with you to grow deeper and stronger if you like us hit subscribe and share with your friends

Merchant: 0:24

Welcome to The Coat closet where our clothes are the finest don't have bought embroidered fabric where our coats will pop and jive... where our....

Israel*: 0:33

yah yah yah yah yah, I get it. You sell coats. You sell cool coats. That's why I'm here.

Merchant: 0:42

Will Sir, how may I serve you?

Israel*: 0:45

I want you to make a custom colorful coat for my Joseph he's my favorite.

Narrator: 0:51

Israel gave Joseph this amazing, expensive and custom coat. Did I mention that Joseph was one of the youngest sons of Israel 12 sons in total. You heard me correct 12. The youngest was Benjamin, but he was really young at this time, with Joseph being the favorite son, the older 10 didn't like him. In fact, the Bible said they hated their 17 year old brother. It didn't help Joseph's cause with his brothers when he started having dreams and then shared them. Okay, well, let's pause. Hated by his brother's new coat dreams. That's a lot already in a few sentences of the 10 Chapter story. Additionally, why is a dream so important? Anytime someone told me their dream, I didn't hate them for it. Okay, let's unpause and get back to the story.

Joseph: 1:41

Check this out guys. Last night I had a dream. We were gathering entire stocks of grain up did you ever guess what happened? My grains suddenly stood up and yours gathered around mine and bowed down. Wow.

Narrator: 2:01

They didn't like it. Do you have a younger brother or sister? You get annoyed at them. Well, that was happening at an epic level. They were not going to bow down to their younger brother

Israelites: 2:12

We think that is crazy! Correction, Joseph - You are crazy bro. Never gonna happen. You're not the oldest dad won't ever let that happen.

Narrator: 2:24

They were correct. Joseph had another dream. This time it was the Sun, Moon and 11 stars bowing down to them. His father didn't like it and scolded him for having the dreams.

Israelites: 2:35

Joseph, you can't believe everything you dream about. Do you think that if you have a dream that all of us are throwing pies at each other. That will happen? No. Because I don't like pie.

Narrator: 2:50

Who doesn't like pie gesh! Well, sometime past and Israel sent Joseph to be with his brothers. All they took care of the family sheep. Wait, what? Dad is sending his favorite son to the same brothers that hate him far from home. Not a wise choice.

Israelites: 3:11

Look, Joseph is coming. Let us throw him into this bed.

Narrator: 3:17

When they saw him. They immediately wanted to kill him. But Ruben, not the tasty sandwich, tried to rescue him from the pit. He lost though. Joseph arrived and they took his awesome fancy colorful coat threw him into the pit and then had some lunch. I wonder what they ate? A knuckle sandwich? punch? Or maybe some pudding? The Bible doesn't exactly say but the ate. After they ate. The brothers saw something in the distance that got them really excited.

Israelites: 3:50

Is that a bird? Flying camels? No, it's....

Narrator: 3:54

Merchants! Riding across the desert. These media nights rode over to Joseph's brothers. They made a deal and sold him for 20 shekels of silver or $175 today. They sold him and then destroyed an amazing expensive, colorful and may I add comfy coat. Wow! Sin and hate can cause us to do some mean things.

Speaker: 4:21

Let's go slave. Off to Egypt.

Narrator: 4:25

Joseph went off to be sold as a slave in Egypt. And his brothers thought they were rid of him for ever. The brothers ran back and lied to their father that Joseph was attacked. Israel was sad. Joseph was a slave and the brothers were happy for now. To be continued. You're not lost in the desert with these questions. Question one. What is a cool dream you have had before? Question two. How would you react if you are Joseph or his brothers? And question three. Have you ever been angry towards someone? How did you handle that? Next level question - is being angry a sin? Remember to tune in next week as Joseph arrives Egypt.