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Genesis 39 - Day Three | Five Good Minutes · Five Good Minutes

• 0:01
  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to Five Good Minutes.
• 0:03
  SPEAKER_01: You're listening to today's inspirational message on the book of Genesis with Jake Williams.
• 0:12
  SPEAKER_00: Joseph runs from temptation, but Potiphar's wife refuses to accept his rejection.
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  SPEAKER_00: She takes the cloak he left behind and turns it into evidence against him.
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  SPEAKER_00: She calls the household servants and says, Look, this Hebrew has been brought to us to make sport of us.
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  SPEAKER_00: He came in here to sleep with me, but I screamed.
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  SPEAKER_00: End quote.
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  SPEAKER_00: Later, when Potiphar returns, she repeats the accusation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Joseph has done the right thing, and now he's accused of doing the very thing he refused to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there are some experiences more painful than being falsely represented, but there aren't many.
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_00: We can endure criticism when we know we deserve it, but when someone assigns motives that we didn't have, or describes actions we didn't take, or tells a story in which our faithfulness becomes guilt, something deep inside of us cries out, That's not fair.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's not fair.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Bible never asks us to pretend injustice is justice.
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  SPEAKER_00: Joseph really is innocent of this accusation, and scripture doesn't soften that fact.
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  SPEAKER_00: But notice Joseph's vulnerability here.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's a Hebrew slave.
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  SPEAKER_00: Potiphar's wife has she has status, power, she has social credibility.
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  SPEAKER_00: Joseph doesn't control the narrative.
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  SPEAKER_00: That still happens.
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  SPEAKER_00: Truth and reputation are not always the same thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: A person can have a bad reputation and a clear conscience, or a good reputation and a corrupt heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that distinction is spiritually important because most of us are deeply dependent on being understood.
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  SPEAKER_00: We say we want integrity, but often what we really want is integrity plus universal recognition for our integrity.
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  SPEAKER_00: Joseph is about to learn that sometimes you don't get both.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_00: And there is also an irony in the accusation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Potifar's wife refers to Joseph dismissively as this Hebrew.
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  SPEAKER_00: And sin often protects itself by dehumanizing someone else.
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_00: Once a person becomes the category rather than a neighbor, it becomes a lot easier to mistreat them.
• 2:39
  SPEAKER_00: But maybe the hardest part of this section is God's apparent silence.
• 2:44
  SPEAKER_00: We're told repeatedly that the Lord is with Joseph, and yet God doesn't interrupt the accusation.
• 2:51
  SPEAKER_00: No voice comes from heaven, no witness appears, and no miraculous evidence clears Joseph's name.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes God's presence is not experienced as immediate vindication.
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  SPEAKER_00: We want God to defend us on our timetable.
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  SPEAKER_00: We pray, show them the truth, clear this up, fix my reputation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes he does.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes he doesn't.
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  SPEAKER_00: At least not immediately.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that doesn't mean truth has become irrelevant.
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  SPEAKER_00: It means God, not public opinion, is finally the judge.
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  SPEAKER_00: And here Joseph points us unmistakably to Jesus Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus is the truly innocent man who is falsely accused.
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  SPEAKER_00: Witnesses distort his words.
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  SPEAKER_00: Religious leaders manufacture a case.
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  SPEAKER_00: Pilate recognizes that the charges don't justify crucifixion, yet Jesus is condemned anyway.
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  SPEAKER_00: He doesn't control the narrative.
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  SPEAKER_00: He doesn't defend himself with the power that is available to him.
• 3:58
  SPEAKER_00: Isaiah's suffering servant is, quote, oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why does Jesus endure false judgment?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because he's taking the place of people who are actually guilty.
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  SPEAKER_00: The innocent one accepts condemnation so that guilty people like you and I can receive his verdict, righteous.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's the gospel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus loses his reputation so that you can receive a righteousness that does not depend on your reputation.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that doesn't mean that reputation never matters.
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  SPEAKER_00: We should tell the truth.
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  SPEAKER_00: We should seek justice.
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  SPEAKER_00: We should correct false accusations and falsehoods when we can.
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  SPEAKER_00: But we don't have we don't have to make vindication our God.
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  SPEAKER_00: If your identity rests entirely on other people and what they understand about you, false accusations will destroy you.
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  SPEAKER_00: But if your identity rests in Christ, you can say, God knows.
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  SPEAKER_00: Joseph's cloak is used as false evidence.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus' cross becomes true evidence of God's love.
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  SPEAKER_00: So pursue integrity more than image.
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  SPEAKER_00: Tell the truth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Entrust the verdict to God.
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  SPEAKER_00: The crowd does not get the final word.
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  SPEAKER_00: God does.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thanks for joining us here today.
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  SPEAKER_01: Have a great day!