Joseph's Blessing: Separated For The Lord's Purpose

[Mr. M]

The Blessing of Joseph:

Genesis 49:26 The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors
unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph,
and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.

To be separated for the Lord’s Purpose led Joseph to this conclusion
concerning his past experiences

Genesis 45:
7 And God sent me before you to preserve a posterity for you in the earth,
and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
8 So now it was not you who sent me here, but God…

This is to know and to love Him

Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to those
who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.

After walking in the Lord’s Purpose, we see His Life forming Christ in us,
and this Way of Life in our making convinces us that we were His from the beginning.

Galatians 1:15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb
and called me through His grace…

He who has saved us has also called us for His Own Purpose

2 Timothy 1:9 Who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works,
but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began.

Our Inheritance obtained in accordance with His Will

Ephesians 1:11 In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to
the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His Will.

Separated for the Eternal Inheritance of the sons and daughters of God

2 Corinthians 6:
17 Therefore, come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord.
Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you.
18 I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters,
says the Lord Almighty.

 

[Mr. M]

Isaiah 56:
1 Thus says the Lord:
Keep justice, and do righteousness,
For My salvation is about to come,
And My righteousness to be revealed.
2 Blessed is the man who does this,
And the son of man who lays hold on it;
Who keeps from defiling the Sabbath,
And keeps his hand from doing any evil.”
3 Do not let the son of the foreigner
Who has joined himself to the Lord
Speak, saying,
“The Lord has utterly separated me
from His people”;
Nor let the eunuch say,
“Here I am, a dry tree.”
4 For thus says the Lord:
“To the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths,
And choose what pleases Me,
And hold fast My covenant,
5 Even to them I will give in My house
And within My walls a place and a name
Better than that of sons and daughters;
I will give [them an everlasting name
That shall not be cut off.
6 Also the sons of the foreigner
Who join themselves to the Lord, to serve Him,
And to love the name of the Lord, to be His servants—
Everyone who keeps from defiling the Sabbath,
And holds fast My covenant—
7 Even them I will bring to My holy mountain,
And make them joyful in My house of prayer.
Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices
Will be accepted on My altar;
For My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations.