Kenya # 4 Mrs Potiphar and the gospel mystery Gen 39

Berean Sovereign Grace Church

Title(s): Mrs. Potiphar and the gospel mystery, 2. How did Mrs. not get condemned, 3. The doctrine of imputation-the hall mark of God's gospel1. The story of Joseph and Mrs. Potiphar is one of the most familiar albeit scandalous story of the Old Testament as is the story of David and Bathsheba.2. Unfortunately, much of Christendom has not looked at this story and such scandalous stories as gospel testimonies. Instead, they have been used as treatises on moralism, which is far from the proper understanding of them.3. I contend that God did not take time to record these stories for us to draw moralistic teaching. That would be a waste of words. This story bore witness to higher gospel truths of our salvation.4. Unless Joseph is defined properly as a type of Christ then the whole things falls on the weight of moralism. 5. In the matter of the gospel, God was always teaching that salvation would come by a SPECIAL PERSON and through some legal transaction called IMPUTATION.6. Imputation is the hallmark of the gospel transaction and one of the best/classic examples was dramatized in the story of this woman who had wandering eyes.7. She had an eye for Joseph, but Joseph did not yield to her shenanigans. He was a righteous man, but only as a type of Christ.8. And in the unfolding of the story Joseph got in trouble for something that he did not do and Mrs. Potiphar stayed home, a free woman… WONDERFFUL GOSPEL NUGGETS IN THIS.9. And it is all freee!