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Genesis chapter 47 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Genesis chapter 47 Let us pray. Our Lord our King, the Most
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  High, the God of Israel, the God of the Jews.
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  Lord, we worship you in spirit and truth.
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  We thank you, God, for bringing us into the fold.
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  We thank you, Lord, for the Messiah, Jesus our Christ, the
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  anointed. We thank you for the blood that
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  was spilled on Calvary. We thank you, God, for inviting
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  us into the fold, for giving us life worth living, for giving us
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  a reason to live. Lord, we thank you for the
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  dignity that you have given us. God, we thank you for giving us
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  all that we ever could need for this life and the life to come
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  for the Holy Spirit, the helper who has come.
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  Lord, we come in to the throne room.
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  We come in, God, boldly gird up our loins so that we can stand
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  in your holy presence. We only want you, Father.
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  We only need you, Father. We don't care about any of the
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  luxuries, God. We don't care about any of the
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  delicacies, God, We only want you.
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  We only want to touch from the hem of your garment.
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  We receive our healing today. We receive salvation today.
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  We put all of ourselves, all of our, our trust, we put our
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  entire being in Christ Jesus. We know that we are seated with
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  him in heavenly places. We thank you God for going to
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  prepare a place for us. Help us to wait.
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  Well. Help us, Father, to know that
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  you're fighting our battles all around us.
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  God, help us to see and to peak and to peer into the spiritual
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  realm. Help us to know, Father, that
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  you are God, that you're the great I am, and that we can
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  trust you and that you're leading us, Father, that you are
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  prodding us, God, and pulling us into a greater measure.
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  Father, help us not to try and manufacture our destiny.
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  Help us not to get in our own way.
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  But God, I pray for the strength to hear your voice, for the
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  strength to obey your voice, for the strength, God, to finish
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  this race out well. Help us, Lord, not to grow
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  despondent. Help us not to grow distant from
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  you. Help us not to grow discouraged
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  God and depressed Father. Help us not to have anxiety God,
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  but we battle all of the flesh in the world and the devil God.
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  Bind the enemy God and cast them into the judgment that you have
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  a waiting form, God. Bind all satanic revolt from off
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  of this land, from off of our families and off of our bodies.
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  God and I pray that we'll be made whole and that we'll be
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  holy and sanctified and anointed.
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  God, as we consecrate this temple, Lord, we pull out all of
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  the idol worship, all of the dross and the impurities.
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  God in the canker worm. God, pull it out, Father, burn
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  it. Father and I pray that we will
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  be made whole and that we will be holy and we will be purified,
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  Lord, because you are our everything.
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  Shine upon us, Lord, Let us be light.
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  Let us be salt, God, to this wicked, perverse generation.
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  God, we only want to please you, Father.
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  We only want more of you. Father, I pray that we'll not
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  get tangled up in the affairs of this life, Father, that we'll
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  actually be the ones who are pushing towards all of your
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  purposes and plans for such a time as this.
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  God, we do not try to hold on to this life, God, but we surrender
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  it. Father, we surrender all unto
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  you. We thank you, God, for your
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  eternal words. We thank you God for the Bible.
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  God, we stand upon this word. We stand upon the Bible, every
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  syllable, God, alive and active. And we thank you God, for
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  entrusting us with it. Lord, I pray that we will be men
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  and women marked by your goodness and grace and and
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  mercy. Lord, that will be the answer to
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  all of the problems that are going on around us.
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  God, help us to be faithful and to the end in Jesus Christ, holy
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  and precious and powerful name. I pray all of these things,
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  Father, Amen. Let's start in verse one.
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  Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh and said, my father, my
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  brothers, their flocks and their herds and all that they have
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  have come out of the land of Canaan and behold, they are in
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  the land of Goshen. So just to recap real quick, you
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  already know that they have had a severe famine and it was all
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  predicted by the dreams of Pharaoh and Joseph.
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  Got to predict, got to tell, interpret the dreams to Pharaoh.
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  And now you can see that God has got a hold of Jacob and Jacob
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  has finally gone down into the land.
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  And God has told him not to be fearful, but to trust the
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  process. And many of us, that's where we
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  need to be friends. We don't need to try to figure
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  it all out. We just need to know that God is
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  good and he does things that are counterintuitive to our minds
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  and to our psyche. But if we'll stand on the word
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  of God, we never have to worry about being put to shame.
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  And God will do things that we can't even pretend to try and
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  understand in the supernatural realm.
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  We just get out of our own way. We give God center stage.
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  We say yes and Amen to all of the words and everything in our
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  lives. Friends, if we will come back to
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  the Word of God and we will measure what is being said by
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  what the Word of God has said, and we stand on the Word of God,
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  friends, then we can know that God will lead us in paths of
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  righteousness even when they don't make sense.
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  Even when the disease is still in your body, the foreclosure is
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  still on your door, even when the job loss is imminent, even
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  when we are called into the courtroom, even when all of life
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  doesn't turn out the way that you had hoped.
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  You can trust God in the middle that He is working it all out,
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  friends, for the good of those who love Him and who are called
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  according to His purpose. And here Jacob has to understand
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  that even though Canaan is the land that they will inherit, God
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  is definitely calling them down into Egypt.
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  And we know from a bird's eye view, helicopter view, we can
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  look down and we can see that God was going to put them in an
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  incubator and he was going to multiply them and cause them to
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  become a very strong nation within Egypt.
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  And they were going to come out of Egypt a very wealthy nation.
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  And look at how God still today is blessing the Jews
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  financially. And God is blessing the Jews in
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  the strength of the military. God is blessing them, friends.
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  And there are miracles after miracles after miracles that are
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  breaking out even today. If we choose to see them or if
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  we buy into the rhetoric of commonplace news, you will find
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  yourself at odds with these mighty people of God that He has
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  chosen. And that is no place that we
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  want to position ourselves in. Friends.
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  We get out of our own way, and we say yes to God and all of his
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  ways, and we don't try to call God into the courtroom and ask
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  God what is He doing and what has He done, and ask Him to give
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  us a answer for all the things that he has decided to do.
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  It is beyond our intellect, beyond our comprehension.
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  We just say yes and Amen to Yahweh.
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  Everlasting Adonai verse 2. And he took some of his
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  brothers, even 5 men, and presented them unto Pharaoh. 3
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  And Pharaoh said unto his brothers, What is your
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  occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Your
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  servants are shepherds, both we and our fathers.
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  So here they are securing their place in Goshen.
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  Goshen was where the shepherds would go, and we already know
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  that the shepherds were an abomination unto the Egyptians.
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  So look at how God is already leading them in heavenly places
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  where they are not intermingled in.
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  They have their own separate place, and God's going to
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  multiply them at a rate that is unheard of.
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  For they said moreover unto Pharaoh, for to sojourn in the
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  land are we come, for your servants have no pasture for
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  their flocks, For the famine is sore in the land of Canaan.
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  Now, therefore, we pray you let your servants dwell in the land
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  of Goshen. So here they're asking Pharaoh
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  for the privileged position in their minds to be able to put
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  their animals out on pasture. And this was an easy yes for
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  Pharaoh, because they did not intermingle with the shepherds.
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  Five in Pharaoh spoke unto Joseph, saying, Your father and
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  your brother have come unto you. 6 The land of Egypt is before
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  you in the best of the land. Make your father and brothers to
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  dwell in the land of Goshen. Let them dwell.
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  And if you know any men of activity among them, then make
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  them rulers over my cattle. So here's a little caveat.
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  Pharaoh says, yes, let them take Goshen, but also have them to
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  look after my cattle. 7 And Joseph brought in Jacob his
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  father, and set him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed
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  Pharaoh. What an amazing thought is that
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  Jacob, one of the patriarchs, and then he invokes a prayer
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  unto Pharaoh. And Pharaoh would have thought
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  that he was descended from the false lowercase G God of the sun
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  RA. And he was presented as a
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  descendant of this false idol. And you can see here that there
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  is only one true living God. And that is why Pharaoh does not
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  reject this kind of blessing upon him, because there is no
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  power within their entire construct of religion.
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  It is all a bunch of garbage. But here Jacob is actually
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  attached to the one true living God, friends, and that is why he
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  can pray and bless Pharaoh. 8 And Pharaoh said to Jacob, How
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  old are you? 9 And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The
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  days of the years of my pilgrimage are 130 years.
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  Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been and
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  have not attained unto the days, the years of the life of my
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  father's and the days of their pilgrimage.
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  So we can see here that Abraham was a mighty man of God.
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  He was a friend of God. He was the father of faith.
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  And we know that Isaac was the well digger.
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  We know that Isaac had a wonderful relationship with God
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  Almighty. But look at how this deceiver,
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  this heel catcher, he has had to pay for so much of his deception
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  in his life. And he's realizing now that he
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  doesn't just serve the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, but
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  the Yahweh everlasting has been his God too, and that he can
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  rest in peace, that he can know that God is.
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  And he's not just the God of his father, but he's also his God.
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  And he's made him personal at this point.
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  And he is grieving all the time. Lost friends. 20 And Jacob
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  blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh. 11 And
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  Joseph placed his father and his brothers, and gave them a
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  possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the
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  land of Ramses, as Pharaoh had commanded. 12 And Joseph
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  nourished his father and his brothers, and all his father's
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  household with bread, according to their families.
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  So here you can see that Joseph was a mighty man of character,
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  and he took care of his family, and here you see that he's
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  become the leader in that family. 13 And there was no
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  bread in all the land, for the famine was very sore.
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  So the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by reason
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  of the famine. So you can see here that the
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  crops have failed in all the land surrounding and even in
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  Egypt. And thank God for the storehouse
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  of the seven years of abundance, and where Joseph had put away
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  all of the corn. 14 And Joseph gathered up all the money that
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  was found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan for
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  the corn which they bought, for Joseph brought the money into
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  Pharaoh's house. You can see how scrupulous this
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  man was. The integrity that Joseph has is
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  wonderful. It's beautiful.
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  It's rare, friends. You do not see any account in
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  here of Joseph holding back any of the finances.
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  You see that he is a steward and trustworthy and he brings it all
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  in. And that is how we are to behave
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  in this world. When they go into the database,
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  when they go into the files, if you have integrity, you have
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  nothing to worry about. Friends, we need a man who truly
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  believes in God, who truly will do whatever he needs to do in
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  order to please God, in order to do the things the Bible has
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  ascribed. We need one man completely sold
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  out to him, and this world would be a different place. 15 And
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  when money failed in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan,
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  all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, give us bread, for why
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  should we die in your presence, for the money failed.
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  So here you can see all self-reliance has gone out the
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  window. They have nothing.
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  Even the money that they had going into this famine has all
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  been spent. 16 And Joseph said give your cattle and I will give
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  you for your cattle if money fail.
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  So here he's saying, OK, you don't have any money, let's
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  exchange livestock. 17 And they brought their cattle to Joseph,
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  and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for horses, for the
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  flocks, for the cattle of the herds, and for the donkeys.
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  And he fed them with bread for all their cattle for that year.
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  So here they don't have the money, but they do have all of
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  their animals and they're trading it for food. 18 And when
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  that year was ended, they came to him the second year, and they
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  said to him, we will not hide it from my Lord.
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  Our money is spent. You also have the herds of
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  cattle. There is not all left in the
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  sight of my Lord, but our bodies and our lands.
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  So they're saying we've spent all the money we have.
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  We've given you all the cattle we have.
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  The only thing we have left is our very bodies and our land. 19
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  Why should we die before your eyes?
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  Both we in our land by us and our land for bread.
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  We in our land will be servants to Pharaoh.
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  Give us seed that we may live and not die, that the land be
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  not desolate. How amazing is Argon to give
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  unto Pharaoh the dreams, and then to give unto Joseph the
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  interpretation of the 7 cows that ate up the other 7 cows and
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  the seven ears that ate up the other seven ears of corn, and
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  how it was easily interpreted that there would be 7 years of
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  abundance followed by 7 years of famine.
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  And look at how Joseph is in this wonderful, superior
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  position and he's using it as leverage, Friends. 20 And Joseph
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  bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for the Egyptians sold
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  every man is filled because the famine prevailed over them, so
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  that the land became Pharaohs. So not only did all the money go
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  to Pharaoh and then all the cattle go to Pharaoh, but now
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  all of the land that was privately owned has become part
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  of Pharaoh's estate. 21 And As for the people, he removed them
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  to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt, even to the
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  other end of it. So all the people were pushed
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  into the city because there was this social welfare there in
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  that city and they were pushed out of the countryside because
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  they could not sustain themselves because the famine
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  was so great. This is one of the tactics of
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  the enemy friends is to get us to become city dwellers and to
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  get us to not be self reliant. Friends.
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  Don't buy into it. Make sure that you are taking
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  care of your family and do it when the chips are high.
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  Do it whenever everything is up. Do not wait for these
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  cataclysmic events that upend all of our security and then we
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  go into panic mode. Friends, make sure that you have
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  the wherewithal and the mental fortitude to be able to see it
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  before it ever happens. And it's by being connected to
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  God Almighty, like Joseph was, that will help us and to get us
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  home. Friends, all the way to the end,
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  we do not live in fear. Do not let anxiety and fear rule
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  the day in your life. 22 Only the land of the priest did he
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  not buy? For the priests had a portion
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  assigned to them of Pharaoh, and he did eat their portion with
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  which Pharaoh gave them, wherefore they did not sell
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  their lands. So here the priests, they were
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  taken care of. They were given a portion of the
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  food and they did not have to give up their lands.
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  You can see that it is a wonderful thing to be attached
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  to God Almighty and to know that He's going to take care of us.
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  Friends, do the work of an evangelist.
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  Actually go out into the harvest.
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  Do not make this life about everything that is actually not
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  friends about wealth and about prosperity.
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  Do not make this life about comfort or else you will find
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  yourself in a. Very deplorable state when it
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  fails. 23 Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have
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  bought you this day, and your land for Pharaoh, lo, here is
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  seed for you, and you shall sow the land.
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  So here Joseph is making sure everybody stays alive.
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  But in the meantime and in between time, all of Pharaoh's
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  possessions are becoming greater and greater and greater.
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  And it is in these very chaotic times when tragedy hits, that
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  the commoner is the one who suffers the most, while the
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  central government becomes stronger.
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  Never forget that. 24 And it shall come to pass in the
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  increase that you shall give the 5th part unto Pharaoh, and four
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  part shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food,
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  and for them of your households, and for food for your little
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  ones. So here he is imposing a 20% tax
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  upon them, and he's saying that he will come and he will take
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  the 20% as they are working the fields. 25 And they said, you
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  have saved our lives. Let us find grace in your sight,
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  my Lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants. 26 And
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  Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day,
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  that Pharaoh should have the 5th part, except the land of the
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  priests only, which became not Pharaohs.
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  So they were able to stay on their land, but they were able
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  to give 20% of all the increase over to Pharaoh. 27 And Israel
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  dwelt in the land of Egypt in the country of Goshen, and they
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  had possessions therein, and grew and multiplied exceedingly,
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  which is the whole point of the whole matter, of the whole
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  facts, friends, is that God LED them there to increase. 28 And
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  Jacob lived in the land of Egypt 17 years.
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  So the whole age of Jacob was 147 years, 29.
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  And the time drew near that Israel must die.
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  And he called to his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have
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  found grace in your sight, put, I pray you your hand under my
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  thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me.
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  Do not bury me, I pray in Egypt. So here he's making him swear by
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  a covenant that he will not allow him to be buried in Egypt.
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  Egypt was not his home. He was a sojourner there, a
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  Pilgrim in the land, friends. And he knew that all the land of
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  Canaan was to belong to Israel. And that is still the promise of
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  today. Do not get it twisted.
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  It belongs to them. And when Jesus Christ comes to
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  take his rightful place on the throne during the Millennium
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  Temple, he will rule and reign from Jerusalem. 30 But I will
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  lie with my father's, and you shall carry me out of Egypt and
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  bury me in their burying place. And he said, I will do as you've
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  said. So Joseph gives him his answer
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  that he's looking for. He consented to the request of
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  his father Israel, and he says, yes, I will take you and bury
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  you in your rightful place of Canaan that has been given to
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  Father Abraham, Isaac, and to Jacob.
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  Here we'll end on 31. And he said, swear unto me.
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  And he swore unto him, and Israel bowed himself upon the
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  bed's head. So here he's near death.
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  He's right at death's door, friends.
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  And we're going to see how it goes in the next chapter.
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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.