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Genesis chapter 43 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Genesis chapter 43, let us pray. Our Lord, our God, our King, our
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  everything. Lord, we come to you today to
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  worship you in spirit and truth. We come and lay at your feet.
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  God, we come running into the throne room boldly.
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  Father, gird up our loins today. Let us stand in your holy
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  presence. Let the train of your robe fill
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  the temple. God, we thank you for all the
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  many blessings that you've already poured out upon us.
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  Today we thank you, God, that your mercies are new every day.
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  We thank you for giving us life and life abundant.
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  We thank you for allowing us to come and drink from the water,
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  the living water. Thank you, God, for the daily
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  bread. Today, God, keep us from the
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  enemy, keep us from ourselves, keep us from the flesh, the
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  world, the God, I pray that you'll help us to do war today,
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  God, breaking down all the opposition and the strongholds.
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  God, we war against all the demonic principalities.
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  God, all those in the high places.
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  God, I pray in the name of Jesus that you help us to walk out on
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  the water. God help us Lord to be in
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  dwelled with your Holy Spirit. Help us to be endued with the
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  Spirit God full all the way to the top.
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  God overflowing into the neighborhoods, the highways and
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  the hedges and the byways, restaurants and banks God,
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  groceries and schools. God, I pray in the house, God in
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  our workplaces, Father, in our marriage and our relationship
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  with our children, God and our Co workers relationships.
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  Lord, I pray that you'll help us to be plan a help us to be the
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  answer. God, help us to be your hands
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  and feet today. Help us not to grow lazy and
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  weary. Help us not to give in Lord, to
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  all of our own fleshly desires. God, I pray that we'll actually
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  lock eyes with you, that we will actually live sold out for you,
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  that we will not relegate our spirituality, Lord, to the
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  carnal way of thanking God to all of the worldly cultural
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  ways, Father. But then we will actually
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  believe every single word. And when you say go and wash
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  yourself in the water, God, and we'll come out without any of
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  the diseases, Lord, that will be made clean and whole and holy
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  because you are holy, Lord. That we can actually, Lord, do
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  the things that you've told us that we could do, Lord.
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  And we will not back down, Lord. We will not be talked out of the
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  faith that we possess, Lord. We will not allow this world to
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  beat us down and make us succumb to its ways, Lords, But we will
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  actually read this word and believe this word.
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  Live this word, God. Meditate upon this word, God.
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  We will live it out, Father, We'll memorize it.
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  God will hide it in our hearts, Lord.
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  And we will not sin against you, Father.
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  We only want you, Lord. We want to see you.
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  We want you more than we want life itself.
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  We want you more than we want health and wealth, God, more
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  than we want prosperity, more than we want all of our natural
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  relationships with others. God, we just want you.
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  We want you more, Father. We love you more, Father, than
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  anything. We love you more than our own
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  self, more than our loved ones, more than our professions, more
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  than money and security, God, more than vacations, God more
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  than the comfort, more God than anything else that we've ever
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  experienced. You are the top tier everything.
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  You're the highest, loftiest God.
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  And we set our eyes upon you, upon Zion, God, and we press
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  towards you. Lord, we thank you, God, for the
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  reality that you are here. Let us step into the bridal
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  identity today. God, you are Yahweh, everlasting
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  Lord, you're the Alpha, the Omega, You're the beginning,
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  you're the end, You're here in the middle.
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  God, we invite you in. Father, come in like a mighty
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  rushing wind. God Almighty, thank you Jesus
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  holy glory worthy Maranatha spirit and the bride say come
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  show up today, show off today, teach us today.
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  Holy Spirit, I get out of the way, I decrease you increase in
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  Jesus Christ holy precious powerful name.
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  I pray in. Let's start in verse one.
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  And the famine was sore in the land.
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  What's he talking about here? Well, we know that old Joseph
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  was sent down into Egypt and he had the ability to tell Pharaoh
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  what his dream meant. And he knew that there was going
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  to be 7 years of prosperity and seven years of famine.
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  And they've already got all of the grain stored up and now
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  they're in the second year. And we already know in the first
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  year that the Israelites came down into Egypt to buy some
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  bread. And he told them that they could
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  not come back and do any kind of trafficking business in the land
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  without bringing their little brother Benjamin down.
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  Let's see how it goes. 2 And it came to pass.
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  When they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of
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  Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again and buy us a
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  little food. So perhaps old Jacob, who was
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  unwilling to let Benjamin go, thought that they could make it
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  with the little bit of supplies that they brought back on the
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  first trip. Perhaps that it had gone on too
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  long, and now he was trying to figure out how they were going
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  to survive. He cared nothing for Simeon, who
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  was in the prison there, but he was just unwilling to let the
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  child of the love of his life, Rachel, who he had borne.
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  He'd already lost Joseph, who was the son born with her.
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  And you can see here that God's going to get a hold of him, this
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  wrestling match that we get to look at and take part of and
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  see. 3 And Judas spoke unto him, saying, The man did solemnly
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  protest unto us, saying, You shall not see my face except
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  your brother be with you. So this man, little did they
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  know, this was Joseph. For if you will send our brother
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  with us, we will go down and buy you food.
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  So here Judah speaks up and isn't it just like the Messiah,
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  the lineage of our Jesus Christ, the Messiah, the Savior of the
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  world. You can see the genealogy traced
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  all the way back up here to Judah, the Lion of Judah.
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  You can see him speak up and speak out, and you can see him
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  take an active role in what God has for the Israelites.
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  But if you will not send him, we will not go down.
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  For the man said to us, You shall not see my face except
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  your brother be with you. 6 And Israel said, why do you deal?
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  So I'll with me as to tell the man whether you had yet a
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  brother. So here Jacob's belly aching to
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  Judah and to the brothers, and he's saying, why did you even
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  tell him that Benjamin was here and alive?
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  And why did you tell him that he wasn't with you?
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  7 And they said, the man asked us straightly of our state of
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  our kindred saying, is your father still alive and have you
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  another brother? And we told him according to the
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  tenor of these words, could we certainly know that he would
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  say, bring your brother down. So here you need to know
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  something. Anytime that the Israelites are
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  going down, down, down into Egypt, it's sin, friends.
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  It's always sin. But you can see here God has a
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  plan. And you can also see that they
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  did not want to admit that Benjamin was alive, but you
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  could see that Joseph was the one who was prodding.
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  He was the one pulling these things out of them.
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  And you know that it is true whenever you see Joseph asking
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  these questions that are so personal that they had no idea
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  that it was Joseph. But Joseph knew that they
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  already had a brother. Joseph knew and wanted to know
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  if Jacob was still alive. 8 And Judah said unto Israel, Send the
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  lad with me, and we'll arise and go, and we may live and not die,
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  both we and you, and also our little ones.
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  So he's saying Unless you send Benjamin with us, we're all
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  going to die, our families included. 9 And I will be surety
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  for him of my hands. Shall you require him?
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  If I bring him not to you and set him before you, then let me
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  bear the blame forever. So old Judah speaking up and
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  he's saying I will be a surety for him.
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  And that is what Jesus Christ did.
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  Judas stepping into this messianic role and Jesus Christ
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  is the surety for us and he lives forever to make
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  intercession for us. And he tells the Father, this
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  one is mine and he's going to bring us into the fold.
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  Don't forget it. 10 For except we had lingered, surely now we
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  had returned the second time. So he's saying, if you would
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  have let us go with Benjamin, we would already been back by now.
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  11 And the father Israel said to them, if it must be so now do
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  this. Take the best fruits in the land
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  and your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm
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  and a little honey, spices, MERS, nuts and almonds. 12 And
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  take double money in your hand, and the money that was brought
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  again in the mouth of your sacks, carry it again in your
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  hand. Maybe it was an oversight.
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  So you can see here that whenever Jacob was trying to win
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  Esau over, he gave them all the gifts of the land.
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  And here he is going back and relegating himself, thinking
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  that this is the way to approach this mysterious man down in
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  Egypt that he did not know was his son Joseph.
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  And God was orchestrating all of these things.
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  Let's see how it goes. 13 Take also your brother and arise, go
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  again to the man. So finally God got a hold of him
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  and won the wrestling match. And you can see here, Jacob had
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  no other option. So he sent little Benjamin down
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  with his brothers. 14 And God Almighty give you mercy before
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  the man, that he may send away your other brother.
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  And Benjamin, if I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.
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  So this is the fatalistic mindset that Jacob has.
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  He's saying, OK, whatever happens happens, I'll probably
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  be bereaved and go down to death of my Gray hair and I'll be in
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  grief. 15 And the men took that present, and they took double
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  the money in their hand, and Benjamin and rose up and went
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  down to Egypt and stood before Joseph.
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  What an amazing thought, friends.
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  You can see these brothers all standing before Joseph and the
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  12 brothers all reunited back in the same place.
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  And this is the lineage. These are the 12 tribes that
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  Israel still to this very day are based upon.
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  Friends, what an amazing thought that God's plans and purposes
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  will always come to fruition and you can't do nothing about it.
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  You can't destroy it. You can't put it by the wayside,
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  you can't relegate it. You can't try to invent new ways
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  of getting rid of them. Friends, it is going to stand
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  the test of time, that country, that nation, that lineage, that
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  genealogy, the Jews themselves, friends will be there all the
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  way in the end. Never forget that. 16 And when
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  Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the ruler of his
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  house, Bring these men home and slay, and make ready, for these
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  men shall dine with me at noon. So he's going to tell them to go
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  and prepare a feast, and he's going to come and dine with
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  them, just like Jesus does with. 17 And the man did as Joseph
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  told him to, and the man brought the men into Joseph's house. 18
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  And the men were afraid because they were brought into Joseph's
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  house. And they said because of the
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  money that was returned in our sacks at the first time are we
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  brought in, that he may be, may seek occasion against us and
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  fall upon us and take us for bond men and our donkeys.
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  So they're worried about their livestock and they're worried
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  about their own lives, trying to save their own skin, thinking
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  because of the money that they did not pay for the grain the
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  first time that he is trying to get them pigeonholed, get them
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  into a trap so that he can fall upon them and kill them.
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  They're operating in the spirit of fear, friends. 19 And they
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  came near the steward of the of Joseph's house, and they
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  communed with him at the door of his house, 20 and said, oh, Sir,
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  we came indeed down the first time to buy food. 21 And it came
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  to pass, when we came to the end that we owe, opened our sacks,
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  and behold, every man's money was in the mouth of his sack.
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  Our money in full weight, and we have brought it again in our
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  hand. They're saying we're going to
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  return the money that we accidentally took with us.
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  We did not know that we didn't pay for the grain the first
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  time. 22 And the other money we have brought down in our hands
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  to buy food, we cannot tell who put our money in our sacks.
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  So they're saying we're we are not only willing to return the
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  money for the grain for the first time, but we also brought
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  enough money to buy again. So we have returned double the
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  money. 23 And he said, peace be to you if you're not your God,
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  God of your father has given you treasure in your sacks.
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  I had your money. And he brought Simeon out to
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  them. So look at this.
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  Here comes Simeon out of the prison.
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  We could see that this steward of the house who's standing
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  there, who keeps Joseph's house, you can see that he calmed them
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  down and said, God Almighty is the one who's orchestrating all
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  these events. Calm down.
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  Here's your brother Simeon. 24 The man brought the men into
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  Joseph's house and gave them water, and they washed their
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  feet, and he gave their donkeys food. 25 And they made ready.
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  The present against Joseph came at noon, for they heard that
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  they should eat bread there. So they got together the honey
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  and the myrrh. They got together the spices out
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  of the land of Canaan to present unto this mysterious man. 26 And
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  when Joseph came home, they brought him the present, which
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  was in their hand into the house, and they bowed themselves
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  to him, to the earth. Look at how many times the dream
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  of little Joseph, whatever he told them, that they would bow
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  down to him. Look how many times it's
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  actually happened. Look at all the times that this
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  dream has been fulfilled. 27 And he asked them of their welfare,
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  and said, Is your father well? The old man of whom you spoke,
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  is he yet alive? So he has not revealed to them
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  that he is their brother just yet.
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  But he is very curious about Jacob.
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  He wants to know, is Jacob still alive and well?
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  28 And they answered, Your servant, our father, is in good
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  health, he is yet alive. And they bowed down their heads
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  and made obedience. So here you can see that they
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  are giving him all the reverence and respect of someone in a high
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  position. 29 And he lifted up his eyes and saw his brother
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  Benjamin, his mother's son, and said, Is this your younger
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  brother of whom you spoke to me? And he said, God, be gracious
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  unto you, my son. So here's a very emotional
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  moment for Joseph. He's getting to see the little
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  brother that he never really got to have a relationship with for
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  the first time. It's been 20.
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  It's been over 20 years since he's seen this little guy. 30
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  And Joseph made haste for his bowels did yearn upon his
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  brother, and he sought where to weep.
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  And he entered into his chamber and he wept there.
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  He excused himself out of the moment and he went into his room
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  and he wept in the room because of he was overwhelmed with the
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  emotions of getting to meet his little brother.
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  But he was not able in this moment just yet to reveal that
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  he was his older brother, 31. And he washed his face and he
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  went out and refrained himself. And he said set on bread.
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  So he says, put on the meal, let's get with it. 32 And they
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  set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for
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  the Egyptians which did eat with him by themselves, because the
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  Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews, for that is an
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  abomination unto the Egyptians. This is a pivotal key moment,
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  friends, you need to lock in, you need to really pay attention
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  to what I'm about to tell you. This is the all sufficient
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  knowledge of God Almighty who knows everything and is
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  orchestrating the entire event. You can see here from this
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  little verse, verse 32. Underline it, highlight it,
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  circle it, friends, write it in the margin of your Bible that
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  this is the entire reason that God is taking them out of the
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  land of Canaan where they were assimilating into the people
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  group and would have dissolved and would have been nothing.
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  And he's going to take 70 people and turn them into over 2
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  million because of this one little tiny verse that if you do
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  not look at it and study it and highlight it, you're going to
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  miss the whole point of the whole matter, friends.
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  And he told Abraham all the way back in Genesis chapter 12, he
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  told Abraham that there was going to be this horror of them
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  having to go into another land and they were going to be
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  servants, but he was going to make them strong.
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  And that is what the whole verse right here in 32 right here is
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  telling us. Because you can see that this
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  Egyptian culture was segregated and they thought of themselves
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  as being descended from the gods and they would not intermingle
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  in with the Hebrews. And so the Hebrews were free to
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  operate and repopulate. They were free to become
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  stronger and stronger and stronger.
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  And we're going to read later that they were actually a threat
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  unto the Egyptians because they were getting so strong.
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  And that is whenever the Pharaoh is going to tell the midwives to
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  take the babies out whenever, before they ever come into the
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  world, friends, And you're going to see it.
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  And it is God's most magnificent knowledge and all of the wisdom
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  that he has that he would send them down for 400 years to grow
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  stronger and stronger and stronger.
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  And look at where we're at today.
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  They are one of the mightiest military people on planet Earth.
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  Friends. There are miracles breaking out
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  even this day for the Jews. God is still fighting their
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  battles for them. He's still orchestrating it all,
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  and we're going to see it come to fruition in the end.
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  They're going to admit that Jesus Christ is their Messiah,
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  and we're going to get to see a snapshot of what that looks like
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  here in a minute when Joseph reveals himself.
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  And this is very indicative of what it looks like for Jesus
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  Christ to be in the midst of the Jews, and for the Jews not to
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  recognize him. 33 And they sat before him, the first born
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  according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his
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  youth. And the men marvelled one at
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  another. So think about it for a second
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  here. This mysterious man somehow
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  knows who's the oldest and who's the youngest, and he sets them
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  at the table in order from oldest to youngest.
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  And they all looked around at each other and thought, What in
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  the world just happened? Well, in Dome 34 and he took and
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  sent messes unto them from before him, but Benjamin's mess
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  was five times so much as any of theirs, and they drank and were
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  merry with him. So here's another little
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  snapshot that you need to understand.
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  At the very end of this chapter, God gives us a little marker of
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  what this is all about. Here Joseph is testing them
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  because Benjamin is being favored more than them.
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  He wanted to see how the brothers would react because
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  over 20 years before this they were very jealous of the brother
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  who was getting all the attention from the father and
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  was getting the extra. And it must have been very
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  hurtful to the 10 other brothers to watch Joseph have this
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  special attention. And now Joseph wanted to see if
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  their hearts had changed in the course of the time.
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  And you can see here that they have because they make no
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  grumbling, murmuring about Benjamin getting five times as
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  much as the rest of them. What an amazing God we serve.
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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. And we'll see you back here
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  tomorrow. God bless she.