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Immerse Beginnings Day 94 Year 3 Daily Bible Reading
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Dreams and Betrayal
Joseph dreams, and his dreams are true, and telling the truth gets him thrown into a pit. There is a pattern here that will repeat itself throughout Scripture and throughout life: the one who sees clearly is rarely thanked for it. His brothers cannot hear a dream about sheaves of grain bowing without hearing an accusation, and so the coat of many colors ends up soaked in goat’s blood. The scene of Jacob receiving that bloodied robe is among the most devastating in Genesis—this father who once deceived his own blind father with a goat skin is now deceived by his own sons with goat’s blood. The symmetry is terrible and precise. And yet the chapter ends not with despair but with a quietly loaded sentence: Joseph was taken to Egypt. The pit was not the end of the story. It was, though no one could see it yet, the beginning of the rescue.
00:00 The Descendants of Esau
05:00 Joseph the Dreamer
07:00 Joseph Sent to His Brothers
08:00 Sold into Slavery
10:00 Jacob’s Grief
4 Questions to get your conversations started:
1. What stood out to you this week?
2. Was there anything confusing or troubling?
3. Did anything make you think differently about God?
4. How might this change the way we live?
QUICK START GUIDE
3 ways to get the most out of your experience
1. Use Immerse: Beginnings instead of your regular chapter and verse Bible. This special reader’s edition restores the Bible to its natural simplicity and beauty by removing chapter and verse numbers and other historical additions. Letters look like letters, songs look like songs, and the original literary structures are visible in each book.
2. Commit to making this a community experience. Immerse is designed for groups to encounter large portions of the Bible together for 8 weeks–more like a book club, less like a Bible study. By meeting every week in small groups and discussing what you read in open, honest conversations, you and your community can come together to be transformed through an authentic experience with the Scriptures.
3. Aim to understand the big story. Read through “The Stories and the Story” (p. 329) to see how the books of the Bible work together to tell God’s story of his creation’s restoration. As you read through Immerse: Beginnings, rather than ask, “How do I fit God into my busy life?” begin asking, “How can I join in God’s great plan by living out my part in his story?”
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