Genesis 37:3
Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age. Also he made him a tunic of many colors.
I want to talk to you this morning about a man that had a love for his son that was above all. His love for Joseph was so great that he did not mind being open about it in front of all of his other children.
Now this cause all of his brothers to hate him so much that they wanted to kill him. They all would get together and talk about how much that Dad loved his son Joseph more than any of them.
Now I don't know about you, but I would love to be someone's favorite. My Dad and I were very close and I often times told my sisters that I was his favorite and I think they believed me.
I have told you some of the stories. When I was a young boy and we would be coming home from church my two sisters would ask me to get Dad to stop and get us some Doritos. He would usually always do that for me, but not so much for my sisters.
Dad would come and get me out of school about 3 or 4 times a year without me knowing until he got there. I would get a call over the speaker to come to the office and Dad would be standing there waiting on me. He would pick me up to take me fishing with him.
As I got older Dad and I would run around all over town to do things together. If I wanted a Dr. Pepper or RC Cola he would stop and get me one. And when we went to the church to work he would give me the key to the coke machine to get a drink.
I think to myself that when I read the story of Joseph and his father I think that they were probably a lot like us. I think there were probably many times when Israel would take Joseph fishing or maybe Joseph went to the market with his father while he was getting business done.
He loved Joseph so much that he even had this tunic or coat of many colors made just for him because he was his favorite. For you see in Egypt where Joseph ended up was a city that loved colors. So I believe that it was a for shadowing of Joseph's future.
His brothers would spend a lot of time talking about how that Joseph was Dad's favorite and how they hated him. They hated Joseph so much that they even plotted to kill him and instead of killing him they threw him in a pit and eventually sold him into slavery to the Midianites which ended up selling him to Potiphar an officer of Pharaoh in Egypt.
This coat that his Father placed on him I believe it was his blessing for God. That coat is what started the whole plot to kill him and sending him to Egypt to where he became second to the Pharaoh.
When you were saved I believe that God took you and placed a coat of blessing upon you. That coat tells people that you belong to Jesus and that Jesus has your back.
1 John 3:8
He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.
Jesus came to this Earth as a warrior for you and I to destroy the works of the devil. He blessed you the day you got saved and has fought for you all along. You have been blessed by your coat of many colors.
I believe that coat had Blue because in Egypt it symbolizes life, birth, and rebirth. Blue is used in depictions of heaven and water. Being Baptized in water is symbolic, not only of the washing away of sins, but of death, burial and resurrection of Jesus.
I also believe that there was white in the coat. In Egypt white means purity and cleanliness. We were sent the perfect sacrifice for our sins that was without sin.
I believe that coat had red in it because that is the color of victory. It is the victory at Calvary where Jesus shed his blood for you and I.
Because of that we have victory in:
Victory over sin
Victory over sickness
Victory over kids
Victory over your marriage
Victory over your job
Victory over your depression
Victory over your anxiety
Victory over your fear
Because of Jesus you have the victory over all of this and many more things. Because, He has placed that coat of blessing over me.
I have said many times that you need to be careful of what you do to people that are Christians because, I know that Jesus will fight against people that come against me. Why? Not because I am anyone special in the flesh, but because I have a Jesus that came to earth to fight against what the enemy comes against me with.
I am blessed by God and if you are a Christian then you are blessed by God, because He has place that coat of blessing around you.
God has you like He said. Hezekiah says it best.
Isaiah 28:28-31
28 Have you not known?
Have you not heard?
The everlasting God, the Lord,
The Creator of the ends of the earth,
Neither faints nor is weary.
His understanding is unsearchable.
29 He gives power to the weak,
And to those who have no might He increases strength.
30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary,
And the young men shall utterly fall,
31 But those who wait on the Lord
Shall renew their strength;
They shall mount up with wings like eagles,
They shall run and not be weary,
They shall walk and not faint.
It is time for you to get yourself ready. Christ is coming back for His bride and you must be ready.