Genesis 37:24-36

What if the very flaws and failures we think disqualify us from serving God are actually part of the story He is writing through us? In this message drawn from Genesis 37, we walk through one of the most dramatic and unsettling family stories in all of Scripture. Joseph is thrown into a pit by his own brothers, sold into slavery for twenty pieces of silver, and hauled off to Egypt as property. And yet, woven through every dark moment is the unmistakable thread of divine purpose. The central question this message places before us is not a theological abstraction but a deeply personal one: Can God use me? We are invited to look honestly at the brothers of Joseph, men who were jealous, violent, deceptive, and hard-hearted, and reckon with the startling truth that these are the very men God chose to become the twelve tribes of Israel, whose names appear all the way through Scripture and into the final pages of Revelation. If God could work through them, the argument for our own inadequacy begins to collapse. The message challenges us to stop using our past as an excuse and start making ourselves available, because availability, not perfection, is what God is looking for.