Teaching Notes

Families grow quickly. What starts out as a few, can become many. This is all because of the love of God. He grows "his" family because he wants none to perish.

Deuteronomy 10:22 (The Message)

10:22 When your ancestors entered Egypt, they numbered a mere seventy souls. And now look at you—you look more like the stars in the night skies in number. And your God did it.

Notes: God had increased the number of the children of Israel. When they first entered Egypt, the scripture says there were only seventy people but he had now increased them to so great a number, it was almost impossible to count them. This was because of God's love for them. He created more people for himself.





Question: Do you know who the seventy people were that went into Egypt.





Answer: If you remember the story about Joseph and the coat of many colors then you might also remember that his brothers were jealous and sold him into slavery. What seemed like a very unloving act, turned out to be used by a loving God to create a people he loved. When there was a famine in the Land Joseph's brothers and father came to Egypt were he had become great and they met up with him there. The stayed in the land. That is how they came to be in Egypt.





Prayer: Lord, because of your love for us you will even take the things done by others to destroy us and create something wonderful because of it. You will increase your family through the efforts that we put forth when we follow you and when we love others. Help us to love at all times.