CHARACTER NEEDED – BIBLE SKETCHES
Character Needed,
by Robert Allen, published by Regular Baptist Press, includes 33 skits
illustrating the truths of each of the verses in Proverbs 15. These Character
Needed – Bible Sketches are designed to accompany those contemporary plays,
illustrating the same character traits by use of a Bible story.
CHARACTER NEEDED
JOSEPH’S KIND WORDS
Proverbs 15:26
Genesis 50:15-21
Character Trait: Kindness
Cast of Characters
Narrator
Dan
Levi
Dan’s
Wife
Joseph
NARRATOR: Jacob was dead. He had lived for many years and seen his
entire family provided for in a wonderful way down in Egypt. For his funeral, all twelve of his sons
traveled back up into the Promised Land and buried him there. Now they were back with their families in Egypt. But some of the brothers and their wives
started to get worried.
DAN: Do you remember how we
used to tease Joseph when he was a boy, and call him names?
LEVI: Sure do.
DAN: Remember how we used
to laugh at him for his dreams?
LEVI: What were we supposed
to think when he told us that we were stars bowing down to his star.
DAN’S WIFE: We all used to laugh at him. Do you suppose he remembers that?
DAN: I bet he does. And I’m sure he remembers how we through him
down into that well and then sold him into slavery.
LEVI: And what we did to his
beautiful coat.
DAN’S WIFE: But does any of that matter now that
he’s the second ruler in all of Egypt?
DAN: He might still hate us
for what we did.
LEVI: That’s what worries
me. If you had all treated me like that,
I would remember. We said some pretty
hateful things.
DAN: If he hates us, he is
going to get his revenge now that father has died. He’s going to pay us back for all the evil we
did to him.
DAN’S WIFE: So what can we do about it?
LEVI: Maybe a couple of us
should go and ask him to forgive us. If
we don’t, we’re going to be in big trouble.
DAN’S WIFE: Great idea. Why don’t you and Dan go?
NARRATOR: So two of Joseph’s brothers went up
to the palace. Joseph was seated on a
throne in a beautiful room, all decorated in gold and silver. He called for t hem to come in as soon as he
knew they were waiting.
JOSEPH: Dan. Levi.
What can I do for you?
DAN: Please forgive us,
sir.
JOSEPH: Forgive you? For what?
LEVI: For all the terrible
things we did to you when we were younger.
All those evil things we said about you.
DAN: You have a right to
hate us.
LEVI: But we’re pleading
with you to forgive us. It was wrong to
sell you into slavery. I know you
probably want revenge and we are all willing to be your servants. That would be only just since you had to
serve as a slave because of us.
JOSEPH: Levi. Dan.
You don’t need to be afraid of me.
LEVI: But you are a great
ruler.
JOSEPH: I am also your brother.
DAN: And we’ve done such
terrible things to you.
JOSEPH: I know. You thought that you were doing evil when you
sold me into Egypt. But God meant it for good. Look what He has done through this. He made it possible for father’s entire
family to have enough to eat when there was famine in every part of the
world. All your families have been kept
alive because God turned everything out for good.
DAN: I never thought of it
what way.
JOSEPH: So you have no need to
fear. I will continue to see that you
and your little ones are cared for. I
don’t hate you and you have no reason to fear.
NARRATOR: Joseph kept his word. All the rest of his life he made sure that
his brothers and their families were well cared for. God had been kind to him, and he knew what it
was to be kind to others.
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