Scarless Healing

Scarless Healing

Sunday, February 18, 2001
| Genesis 45:3-11, 15

How do you hide a scar? That's the question scientists and surgeons are wrestling with these days. The technology they've developed is amazing, but not as incredible as what Jesus can do for wounds that run much deeper.

The topic would be perfect for Jenny Jones: Siblings who sell each other into slavery.

Picture the sons of Jacob on stage, a line-up of coarse and questionable characters who openly admit to selling their teenage brother Joseph down the river. No doubt they'd bluster about why they did it:

"I hated him."

"Dad loved him best."

"He had the fancy robe, and wouldn't get his hands dirty."

"The kid drove me crazy with his dreams"

"Thought he was the king of us!"

And then they'd explain just how they pulled it off:

"We thought about killing him."

"Wanted to throw dream-boy into a pit."

"Yeah, kill him and throw him in a pit."

"Say that the wild animals ate him."

"But Reuben said no - said we shouldn't kill him."

"So we stripped him and we sold him."

"Yeah - sold him to some Ishmaelites."

"Got 20 pieces of silver for him."

"Pretty good money."

Finally, Jenny would bring out the surprise guest: Their long-lost brother Joseph, who ended up as chief minister in Egypt. "I am your brother," he'd reveal. "And now...


































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