Session 10
Joseph’s dilemma.
7 After some time his master’s wife looked longingly at Joseph and said,
“Sleep with me.”
8 But he refused.
“Look,” he said to his master’s wife,
“with me here my master does not concern himself with anything in his house,
and he has put all that he owns under my authority.
9 No one in this house is greater than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife.
So how could I do this immense evil, and how could I sin against God?”
10 Although she spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her.
Believers must consider the consequences of giving in to temptation.
Briefly recap the previous session and Joseph’s slavery in Egypt.
Sleep with me
Potiphar’s wife made her intentions clear to Joseph.
Despite being a married woman, her lust drove her to make repeated adulterous offers to the young Hebrew slave.
Scripture teaches that God’s design for marriage is one man and one woman (Gen. 2:21-25).
Adultery violates God’s design for marriage.
Even centuries before God gave Israel the Mosaic law at Sinai, Joseph understood that sex outside the covenant of marriage was wrong.
Lead the group to talk about why this would have been a powerful temptation for Joseph.
scan the content in verses 7-10 on pages 93-94 of the PSG.
focusing on the reasons Joseph gave to resist Potiphar’s wife.
Direct attention to the two columns: Judah and Joseph.
Highlight that while Joseph resisted temptation, Judah slept with his daughter-in-law after he had broken a promise to her.
consider the stark contrast between the two brothers.
Under the Joseph column add the words moral integrity.