God’s Design and Image
Part 55: From the Lord

Scripture: Genesis 45:16 – 47:12.
Exodus 1:8 (ESV)
8 Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.
Exodus 5:2a (ESV)
2 But Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord, that I should obey his voice…
Exodus 9:14-16 (ESV)
14 For this time I will send all my plagues on you yourself, and on your servants and your people, so that you may know that there is none like me in all the earth. 15 For by now I could have put out my hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth. 16 But for this purpose I have raised you up, to show you my power, so that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth.
Daniel 4:28-32 (ESV)
28  All this came upon King Nebuchadnezzar. 29  At the end of twelve months he was walking on the roof of the royal palace of Babylon, 30  and the king answered and said, “Is not this great Babylon, which I have built by my mighty power as a royal residence and for the glory of my majesty?” 31  While the words were still in the king’s mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, “O King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: The kingdom has departed from you, 32  and you shall be driven from among men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. And you shall be made to eat grass like an ox, and seven periods of time shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will.”
Deuteronomy 8:17-18a (ESV)
17 Beware lest you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.’ 18a You shall remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth…
1. Remember that Success is from the Lord
2. Remember that Salvation is from the Lord
Titus 3:4-7 (ESV)
4 But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, 5 he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,
6 whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, 7 so that being justified by his grace we might
become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Psalm 3:8 (ESV)
8 Salvation belongs to the Lord; your blessing be on your people!
Psalm 62:1-2 (ESV)
1 For God alone my soul waits in silence; from him comes my salvation. 2 He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be greatly shaken.
Psalm 62:6-7 (ESV)
6 He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be shaken. 7 On God rests my salvation and my glory; my mighty rock, my refuge is God.
Isaiah 43:11 (ESV)
11 I, I am the Lord, and besides me there is no savior.

Hosea 13:4 (ESV)
4 But I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt; you know no God but me, and besides me there is no savior.
Jonah 2:9b (ESV)
9b “Salvation belongs to the Lord!”
Revelation 7:4-8 (ESV)
4 And I heard the number of the sealed, 144,000, sealed from every tribe of the sons of Israel: 5 12,000 from the tribe of Judah were sealed, 12,000 from the tribe of Reuben, 12,000 from the tribe of Gad, 6 2,000 from the tribe of Asher, 12,000 from the tribe of Naphtali, 12,000 from the tribe of Manasseh, 7 12,000 from the tribe of Simeon, 12,000 from the tribe of Levi, 12,000 from the tribe of Issachar, 8 2,000 from the tribe of Zebulun, 12,000 from the tribe of Joseph, 12,000 from the tribe of Benjamin were sealed.
Revelation 7:9-10 (ESV)
9 After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, 10 and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”