The anxieties of our world, economic volatility, geopolitical conflict, digital money, cryptocurrencies and systematic instability often stir deep unrest within us. We live in the tension between Christ's first coming and his promised return, and we know Christ has already conquered sin and death, but we also still live in a world of famine, fear, war, rumours of wars and uncertainty. So Joseph's life gives us a profound theological anchor for such a time as this. His story is not merely a manual for crisis management or strategic foresight. It is an exhibition of God's sovereignty over his history, broken systems, human evil and hidden suffering. Joseph was not the hero behind the story, of course, God was. Joseph was the servant through whom God preserved life and carried forward his covenant promise. Joseph's life was marked by family betrayal, systematic injustice, false accusation, and years of wrongful imprisonment. Yet when he finally looked back on all that had happened, his conclusion was not bitterness, fatalism or self pity. He said in Genesis fifty, as for you you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good. And this is the bedrock of biblical providence. Human evil is real. Human responsibility is also real. Joseph's brothers truly sinned against him, yet their evil did not overthrow God's purpose. God was not reacting, improvising or scrambling to repair what others had broken. No, God was sovereignly directing even painful events toward his good and saving purpose. So this does not make suffering easy, but it does tell us that suffering is never ultimate. Evil does not have the final word. God does. God raised Joseph to prominence inside an idolatrous empire. Through Joseph, Egypt prepared for famine, opened storehouses, and preserved countless lives. Now this was common grace. God cared for human life even in Egypt. But the deeper purpose was saving grace. God was preserving the covenant family through whom the promised Messiah would come. The grain in Egypt was not only about survival, it was part of the story that would lead to Christ. Genesis forty five seven says And God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on earth and to keep alive for you many survivors. So this helps us to understand our own place in the world. Christians are not called to despise ordinary work, planning, economics, technology or public service. God often works through ordinary means, and he uses storehouses, administrators, policies and markets and families and daily labor. But we must never confuse the means with the Savior. The world may talk about money, technology, and power as if they can save us, but Christians know better. Common grace can preserve life for a season. Only the saving grace of Jesus Christ can redeem sinners forever. So the Joseph of the Bible, the Joseph in the Old Testament in Genesis, points beyond himself to Jesus Christ. Joseph was rejected by his brothers and later exalted to give bread to the hungry. Jesus was rejected by his own, crucified in weakness, and raised in glory to give himself as the bread of life, the bread of bread from heaven. And Joseph opened temporal storehouses, Jesus opens the infinite riches of redeeming grace. Joseph preserved people from famine, Jesus saves his people from sin and death, judgment and eternal separation from God. Joseph served under Pharaoh, Jesus reigns over Pharaoh, Caesar's, presidents, nations, markets, banks, blockchains, wars, economies, and every hidden storm within the human heart. Joseph was a servant raised up by God for a temporary deliverance. Jesus Christ is the eternal king of kings, the true Savior, and the final deliverer. So believing in God's sovereignty frees us from two opposite spiritual dangers. The first is anxious self reliance. This is the part of us that says I must secure my own future. I must know enough, save enough, invest enough, prepare enough, and control enough so that nothing can shake me. The second is pious escapism. This is the part of us that says since Jesus is coming back, why bother with the present world? Why engage this world and why plan, steward, serve or even prepare? These are two opposite but still unbiblical spiritual dangers. Joseph, on the other hand, shows us a better way. Because God is sovereign, we do not panic. Because God uses ordinary means, we do not become passive. Because God is coming again in Christ, we do not live carelessly because Christ is king, we do not bow to the false kings of out of fear, greed, control or despair. We live in our our Egypt, I suppose. Egypt back then was the empire, the the most civilized uh part of the world, and so we would live we who live in Korea or the United States, we live in a pretty modern and powerful nations. But our Egypt should never be our master. We may use money, but money is not our refuge. We may pay attention to the world events and we should, but the news is not the good news. It's definitely not the Bible. We may use technology, but technology must not discipline our souls. We prepare wisely, but preparation cannot save us. Christ and Christ alone holds our future today, tomorrow, and forevermore. Thanks for joining us and let me end with some reflection questions. When you look at the instability of the world, what part of your heart tends to take the lead? Is it an anxious part that wants to manage everything through money, information, planning or control? Is it a fearful part that imagines the worst? Or is it a detached part that wants to numb numb out, avoid responsibility, and stop caring? Also, can you bring those fearful or controlling parts honestly before Christ? And lastly, what would faithful wisdom look like this week? So once again thank you so much, and to all who love the Lord Jesus with an undying love, may God's grace and peace be with you this day and forevermore. Godspeed.