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Genesis chapter 42 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Genesis chapter 42. Let us pray.
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  We thank you, Lord, for another day to come and to worship you
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  in spirit and truth. We cry out Maranatha, we cry
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  out, Come, Lord, come. We fill our lamps today.
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  We trim our Wicks today. We wait upon the bridegroom.
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  We look up. We see our redemption is drawing
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  near. We see your rewards are with
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  you. God, help us to wait well in the
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  middle. Help us to know that you're
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  moving mightily all around us. God, give us fresh wind and
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  fresh fire, God, fresh zeal for your house.
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  God, I pray you'll strengthen your bride in this hour.
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  God, I pray that will not become complacent, will not just gather
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  to ourselves those who tickle our ears and tell us what we
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  want to hear. God, we will not succumb to the
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  prosperity God gospel. God, we will not succumb to all
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  of the false teachers, all of the false prophets in the land
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  who are telling us that everything is well and
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  everything goes on according to how it always has gone.
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  Lord that we know, 1000 years is like a day unto you, and a day
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  is like 1000 years. So Lord, I pray you'll
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  strengthen us in this hour. God, keep us from receiving the
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  mark. God, I pray, Lord, for the
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  church at large, for all those, Lord, who are all around the
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  world crying out to you, those that are in the secret churches,
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  the underground churches. God, for those that are in the
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  persecuted church, God, we pray for them.
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  Lord, we pray that you'll strengthen them in this hour.
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  God, I pray you'll reveal yourself to us in mighty ways.
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  Lord, continue to save those to the utmost.
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  God, snatch them out of the fire.
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  God, I pray that you'll snatch the fire brands out.
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  Clothe them, God with dignity. Clothe them, God with
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  righteousness. God, show up and show off and
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  blow the pictures off the wall. Help us, Lord, to know that
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  you're near. You're fighting our battles.
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  You are for us and not against us.
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  Lord, we love you. Father, we love everything about
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  you. King Jesus, you are our
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  everything. You are holy and worthy, Lord,
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  to be praised. You are Lord of it all, God.
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  You're the Lord of the universe. You're the Lord of the earth.
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  You're the Lord of our lives. God, we call you King, we call
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  you blessed, we call you our Savior.
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  Jesus, you are our everything we love you.
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  Holy Spirit wreck us. Holy Spirit ravage us.
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  Holy Spirit, come and undo us. God, and let us be laid out for
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  you. Father, splayed out for you.
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  God, completely open. Lord, naked and bare before your
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  holy eyes. God, nothing hidden, nothing
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  held back. God, we confess.
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  Lord, we repent. Lord, we ask that you'll search
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  us, Search our hearts, search our minds, search our motives.
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  God, search our bank accounts and our transactions.
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  God, search us, Lord, and carve out anything.
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  God, carve out all the dross, carve out any impurities, carve
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  out the cancer. God, I pray that you'll help us,
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  Lord, to live lives that are sold out and marked to you God,
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  lives that are worthy of the calling that you placed upon us.
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  God, help us to be holy, Father, as you are holy, for you are our
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  everything, God. And we surrender all, not just
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  some, not just most, God, we surrender all.
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  We lay every single thing down. God, it's all for you and to you
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  and by you, God. And we know that every good gift
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  is from you. So Lord, continue to show up,
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  God, continue to reveal more of yourself to us.
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  We just want more of you, Father.
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  We thank you, God for a life worth living.
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  We thank you, God for your holy scriptures.
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  We thank you God for church. We thank you God for worship.
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  We thank you God for knowing us and being known by you.
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  Lord, we just want you. Father, come and show up.
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  God, come and be our right guard, our rear guard, our left
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  guard, our front guard. Envelope us.
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  God, I pray that you'll be all around us, this kind of glory
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  shining around us. Father, take us up to where you
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  are. God be with us here, Lord, on
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  this earth, everywhere that we go.
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  We love you in this, in your holy and precious and powerful
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  name, King Jesus, Jesus of Nazareth, Jesus Christ that I
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  pray, Amen. Let's start in verse one.
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  Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said to
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  his sons, why do you look one upon the other?
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  So here, Jacob says, Go down to Egypt and get us some food.
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  And the brothers all look at each other wild eyed, for they
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  know that perhaps the very thing that they tried to cover up so
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  long ago is coming to visit them too.
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  And he said, behold, I have heard that there's corn in
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  Egypt. Get you down there and buy for
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  us from there, that we may live and not die.
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  So you're saying, why do you sit here staring at each other,
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  blank minded? Go down and get us something to
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  eat so that we will not die? Three and Joseph's ten brothers
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  went down to buy corn in Egypt for but Benjamin, Joseph's
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  brother Jacob sent not with his brothers, for he said, lest
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  peradventure mischief befall him.
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  So he didn't trust these brothers, He didn't trust these
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  little rascals here who had already cost him one son from
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  Rachel and was not going to cost him his very youngest, last son
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  from his beloved wife, Rachel, five.
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  And the sons of Israel came to buy corn.
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  Among those that came for the famine was in the land of
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  Canaan. So here they go down from the
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  land of Canaan into Egypt, and they're trying to buy some food.
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  6 And Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was
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  that sold to all the people of the land.
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  And Joseph's brothers came and bowed down themselves before him
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  with their faces to the earth. This was a fulfilment of the
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  dream that God had given to Joseph so long ago when he was a
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  little boy. And now it's all coming to
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  fruition, friends. And what God says, you can bank
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  on it. You can build your whole life
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  upon it, friends. It is the chief cornerstone.
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  It's rock solid. It's true and it's tried,
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  friends. And it is the anvil that has
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  worn out many hammers, friends. And you need to know that right
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  here and right now, everything's making sense.
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  It's all coming in alignment in Joseph's mind as he sees his
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  brothers come in and bow themselves down low to the
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  ground. And look at how Joseph doesn't
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  just take his responsibilities and delegate them to others.
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  Look at how he is the one who's in charge of it all.
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  He's actually in there doing the work. 7 And Joseph saw his
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  brothers, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them.
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  He spoke rough unto them. And he spoke unto them, and
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  said, Where have you come from? And they said, from the land of
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  Canaan to buy food. 8 And Joseph knew his brothers, but they did
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  not know him. This is synonymous to Jesus
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  Christ, that they did not know that it was the Messiah that had
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  come into their midst. And one day they will. 9 And
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  Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and he
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  said to them, You're spies to see the nakedness of the land.
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  You have come. So here he's not trying to play
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  some kind of trick on them. He's developing character.
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  He's getting them to the place of repentance.
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  And God does the same with us. 10 And they said to him, No, my
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  Lord, to by food are your servants.
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  Come. 11 We are all one man's sons, and we are true men.
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  Your servants are no spies. Here they said something that
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  was not true, that they were true men.
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  These were rascals, friends. They'd sold their brother and
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  they had lied about it, and they had never, ever confessed the
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  sin that they had committed. And hear God, not Joseph, but
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  God is interested in them coming to the point of confession and
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  repentance with what they had done. 12 And he said to them,
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  no, but to see the nakedness of the land, your come. 13 And they
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  said, your servants are 12 brothers, the sons of one man in
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  the land of Canaan. And behold, the youngest is this
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  day with our father, and one is not.
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  So here they are revealing to him that their youngest brother
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  is still alive, even though he's not with them.
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  And this is going to pique Joseph's interest here.
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  And they said that one is not, but the one that is not is
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  actually the one that is standing before them. 14 And
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  Joseph said to them, that is it that I spoke to you, saying, You
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  are spies. 15 Hereby you shall be proved by the life of
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  Pharaoh. You shall not go from here
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  except your youngest brother come here.
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  So he's saying you will be held captive until your younger
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  brother comes here and here. Joseph is interested in getting
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  the whole family together. 16 Send one of you and let him
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  fetch your brother, and you shall be kept in prison, that
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  your words may be proved. Whether there be any truth in
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  you or else by the life of Pharaoh, surely you are spies.
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  So here he's instilling the fear of God into these men. 17 And he
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  put them all together into ward three days.
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  So for three days they had to sit and think about all the
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  things that they had done. 18 And Joseph said to them, for the
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  third day, this do and live, for I fear God.
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  So Joseph revealed to them that he feared the very God of
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  Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 19 For if you be true men, let one
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  of your brothers be bound in the House of your prison.
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  Go. You carry corn for the famine of
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  your houses. So here Joseph had a change of
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  heart. He said that all of them would
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  sit there in the prison, while one went back to get old
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  Benjamin. Now he says, Let all of them go,
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  except for one, to go fetch Benjamin. 20 But bring your
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  youngest brother to me. So shall your words be verified,
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  and you shall not die. And they did so. 21 And they
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  said one to another, We are truly guilty concerning our
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  brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul when he
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  begged us, and we would not listen.
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  Therefore is this distress come upon us.
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  So Joseph can interpret. But they didn't know that.
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  They did not know that he spoke Hebrew.
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  And they're saying these things and they're revealing what
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  happened, friends. And they're giving us a little
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  bit more insight into the day that he was sold off into
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  slavery. Here little Joseph, little boy,
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  gone out to check on the work of his brothers, to supervise them
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  and report back to their dad. And here he's down in the well,
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  and he's begging for his life. 22 And Reuben answered and said,
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  Did I not speak to you, saying, Do not sin against the child?
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  You would not listen? Therefore behold also his blood
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  is required. 23 And they knew not that Joseph understood them,
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  for he spoke unto them by an interpreter. 24 And he turned
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  himself about from them, and he wept, and he returned to them
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  again, and he communed with them and took from them Simeon and
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  bound him before their eyes. So we do not know while Simeon
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  was chosen. Perhaps he volunteered, but they
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  did not know that they, they, Joseph could understand them.
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  And so he turned his face and he wept because it broke his heart.
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  Friends, he found no pleasure in this whole scene other than he
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  was finally back in touch with his long lost family. 25 And
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  Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, to restore
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  every man's money into his sack, and to give them provision for
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  the way. And thus did he unto them.
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  So not only did he give them the food that they were looking for,
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  but he reimbursed them the money. 26 And they laid their
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  asses with the corn and departed from there. 27 As one of them
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  opened his sack to give his ass provender, in the end he spied
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  his money, for behold, it was in his sack's mouth.
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  So not only now they could be charged with being spies, but
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  they also could be charged with being thieves, because they did
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  not pay for what the food that they had. 28 And he said unto
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  his brothers, My money is restored, and lo, it is even in
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  my sack. And their heart failed them.
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  And they were afraid, saying one to the other, What is this that
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  God has done to us? So they understood that God's
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  mighty hand was on this whole scene, but they did not know how
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  it would all play out. And they, they also did not know
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  that all the money was restored, not just this one brother. 29
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  And they came to Jacob their father into the land of Canaan,
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  and they told him all that befell them, saying, 30 The man
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  who was the Lord of the land spoke rough to us, and he took
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  us for spies in the country. 31 And we said to him, We are true
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  men, we are not spies. 32 We be 12 brothers, sons of our father.
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  1 is not the youngest is this day with our father in the land
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  of Canaan? 33 And the man the Lord of the
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  country, he said unto us, Hereby shall I know that you are true
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  men. Leave one of your brothers here
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  with me, take food for the famine of your households, and
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  be gone. 34 And bring your youngest brother to me, and I
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  shall know that you are not spies, but that you are true
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  men, and I will deliver your brother back to you, and you
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  shall traffic in the land. He's saying if you want more
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  food, you're going to have to show me, Benjamin, and then I'll
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  allow you to do business in the land. 35 And it came to pass, as
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  they emptied their sacks, that behold, every man's bundle of
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  money was in his sack. And when both they and their
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  father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid.
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  What does this all mean? We've got food and we've got all
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  of our money back. But Simeon is not here. 36 And
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  Jacob, their father said to them, Me have you bereaved of my
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  children? Joseph is not.
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  Simeon is not. He will take Benjamin away.
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  All these things are against me. So here old Jacob is not through
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  wrestling with God Almighty. There's still another wrestling
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  match that's scheduled here. He's going to have to wrestle
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  and figure out the idol that he has in his life.
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  His youngest son, he's going to have to release.
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  It's no different in our day and our our friends.
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  Every good gift is from God, but you must hold it loosely.
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  And that includes your beloved. That includes those who come to
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  you and they come out and they say that they are
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  countercultural and you accept them and you turn your back on a
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  mighty God. It's no different today.
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  You see it all the time, people making a decision for their
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  family, even if it goes against the Bible friends.
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  And it is deplorable and it is disgusting.
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  And it is because we have made our families idols, and we must
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  hold them loosely in light of a holy, honorable, amazing God who
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  tells us to always choose Him over man.
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  And he says, these things are against me.
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  And this is the lie that Jacob is believing, that God is
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  against him, and he's not friends.
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  He's using all of this for great good.
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  And we've got to trust God in the middle. 37 And Reuben spoke
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  unto his father, saying, Slay my two sons.
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  If I do not bring him to you, deliver him into my hand, and I
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  will bring him to you again. We'll end on 38.
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  And he said my son shall not go down with you, for his brother
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  is dead, and he is left alone. If mischief befall him by the
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  way in which you go, then shall you bring down my Gray hairs
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  with sorrow to the grave. So he turns his back on old
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  Simian and he chooses Benjamin. And the last time these guys
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  were all together with a plan, one of his sons was lost in a
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  bloody colorful coat, was brought back to him, and he's
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  not willing to take that chance again.
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  He'd rather leave Simeon there, and he'd rather starve to death.
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  Let's see how it goes as the story unfolds.
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  I hope you've been blessed by this amazing chapter in God's
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  Word. I know I sure have.
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  I'm praying for every single one of you.
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  I love you. We'll see you back here
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  tomorrow. God bless you.