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Genesis chapter 37 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Genesis chapter 37. Let us pray.
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  We thank you, Lord, for another opportunity to come and listen
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  to you, listen to your words, listen to your counsel.
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  Lord, I'm so thankful for Jesus. I'm so thankful for salvation.
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  I'm so thankful, God, that you saved me, or thank you for
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  rescuing me, God, for my own self, rescuing me from all of
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  the carnal impulses. God, I pray you'll cover me with
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  your blood. God, cover me with the covenant.
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  Father, I thank you, Father, for all those who will ever hear
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  this. Lord, I pray that you, Lord,
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  will get all the glory. Hide me and hide my words.
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  Hide my thoughts. God, you come in, you wreck us.
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  God, with your presence, help us to step into the reality that
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  you're moving mightily all around us.
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  God, we love you. We love everything about you.
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  We love your ways, we love your words.
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  Father, help us to see you. See you rightly, God.
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  Lord, I pray for the overwhelming presence of your
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  glory to come. God, I pray that we will feel
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  the tangible presence. God help us.
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  Lord, help us to know that you're fighting our battles.
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  Help us to know that you are real.
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  Help us to know, God, that you are for us and not against us.
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  God, help us to walk in our bridal identity and not squander
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  our inheritance. Lord, help us to be rooted and
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  grounded in your word. Help us to fall more madly and
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  deeply in love with you. God, help us to stiff arm all of
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  the things that are coming at us left and right, front and
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  center. God, I pray that we'll be able
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  to overcome all of the sinful culture, Lord, that is all
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  around us. Lord, I pray that you'll mark us
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  with your goodness and grace and mercy and love.
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  Help us to be the light and the salt for such a time as this.
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  We love you, Lord Jesus, as in your powerful and precious and
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  awesome name that I pray. Amen.
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  Well, let's start in verse one. And Jacob dwelt in the land
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  where his father was a stranger in the land of Canaan.
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  So here we're going to see where this is not necessarily a
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  chronological order of events. Friends were backtracking a
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  little bit, and you need to know that Jacob has come out of his
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  uncle Laban's territory and he's coming back into the land of
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  Canaan where God had called Abraham and Isaac and told them
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  that he was going to give them all of the land.
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  Friends. But there were inhabitants in
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  that land. And every time we turn around,
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  we see that these inhabitants of the land are trying to dilute
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  and pollute God's chosen people here.
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  Let's see how it goes. Verse 2.
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  These are the generations of Jacob.
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  Joseph, being 17 years old, was feeding the flock with his
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  brothers, and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah and with the
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  sons of Zilpah, his father's wives.
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  And Joseph brought unto his father their evil report.
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  So imagine this, friends, we've got to actually pay attention to
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  what's happening in this little verse here.
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  Here Joseph is. He was the only child at this
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  time. He was the only child of Rachel
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  who was Jacob's beloved, and so he had a very special,
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  privileged position within the family.
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  And notice here that the sons of Zilpah and Bilhah, these were
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  the handmaids, the concubines of Jacob, and they were supposed to
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  go out and work the fields and tend the flocks.
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  Whereas this little Joseph was very privileged, and he had this
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  coat of many colors that went down to his ankles and his feet.
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  And it showed that he had the supervision over his brothers
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  because he was his father's favorite.
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  And it caused a lot of animosity, friends.
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  And let's see how it turns out, verse 3.
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  Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children because he
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  was the son of his old age and he made him a coat of many
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  colors. So this showed that he was over
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  his brothers. This was not a coat that you
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  would wear while doing physical labor.
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  This was a coat that you would wear to show your esteemed
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  privilege status over them and that is what is mentioned here.
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  Verse 4 When his brothers saw that their father loved him more
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  than all his brothers, they hated him and they could not
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  speak peaceably unto him. There was a lot of jealousy and
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  animosity within this very dysfunctional family.
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  Friends 5 And Joseph dreamed a dream and he told it to his
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  brothers and they hated him. Yet the more so this little
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  dreamer here, he didn't understand tact.
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  He had yet to figure out the maturity of when God speaks a
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  word to you to make sure that God is giving it to others as
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  well. At that time you need to
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  understand and have discernment that not everything that God
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  reveals to you is for public knowledge.
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  Sometimes, friends, God has given it to you and it is for
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  your edification. And when you go around trying to
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  share it with everybody, it just makes you seem more spiritual
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  than this them and it causes a wedge and division friends and
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  they don't understand it. And they will actually try to
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  break you down and try to get you to think less of whatever it
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  is that you're trying to share. And people don't understand
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  spiritual matters. And there are a lot of people
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  that are caught up in the physical things of life and the
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  materialistic things of life and they have no appetite for the
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  spiritual. And when you come in trying to
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  share these profound spiritual experiences with them, they are
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  jealous and they don't understand it, and they think
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  that you're trying to be more than what you are.
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  And far be it from us who are spiritual and walking with the
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  Lord, to try to go around and usurp that spiritual authority
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  over others and try to sound high sounding.
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  It is for us to have the discernment to know when we
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  ought to share and when we ought to be quiet. 5 is a wonderful
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  verse. 6 And he said to them, Here, I pray you, this dream
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  which I've dreamed. 7 For behold, we were binding sheaves
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  in the field. And lo, my sheep a rose, and
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  also stood up right. And behold, your sheaves stood
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  round about and made obedience to my sheep.
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  So their sheaves bowed down to Joseph.
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  Joseph stood tall, and all the sheaves of the brothers were to
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  bow down. And we're going to see this play
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  out later on as the story unfolds.
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  But Needless to say that this didn't do anything but cause a
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  lot of division. A and his brother said to him,
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  shall you indeed reign over us, or shall you indeed have
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  dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more
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  for his dreams and his words. So here they hated the plans of
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  God and God's plans will never be thwarted in all of the things
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  that Joseph dreamed actually are going to happen.
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  But you can see how the brothers were provoked by this dream.
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  And they said, We'll never bow down to you, the dreamer aid.
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  And his brother said to him, Shall you reign over us?
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  And they hated him because of the words nine.
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  And he dreamed yet another dream.
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  And he told it to his brothers, and said, Behold, I've dreamed a
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  dream more. And behold, the sun and the moon
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  and the 11 stars made obesience to me.
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  So he sang that the sun and the moon and the stars, which we
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  understand from Revelation chapter 12 as being Israel and
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  the family of Israel, the 12 tribes, we understand it,
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  friends. And he's saying that they are
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  going to bow down. And let's see how old Jacob
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  takes this. 10 And he told it to his father and to his brothers.
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  And his father rebuked him and said to him, What is the dream
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  that you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your
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  brothers indeed come to bow down ourselves to you, to the earth?
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  So here even the father rebukes him for sharing this dream.
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  And you need to understand this. God is sharing things with you.
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  It takes tact and discernment to understand when to share those
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  things so that we do not become a stumbling block to others who
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  are not yet where we are. And you can see that this does
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  not take place in a sequential matter because we learned in a
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  previous chapter that Rachel had died, but here Jacob is
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  mentioning that she is still alive. 11 and his brothers
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  envied him, but his father observed the saying. 12 And his
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  brothers went to feed their father's flock, and Shechem the
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  13 And Israel said unto Joseph, Do not your brothers feed the
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  flock? And Shechem come, and I will
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  send you to them. And he said to him, Here I am.
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  And that is our response. When the father sends us into
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  the fields, we say, here I am, father, send me.
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  And you need to also understand this.
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  Shechem was the place where there was a mass issue that the
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  brothers had taken care of concerning their sister Dinah.
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  They had gone in there and obliterated all the men of that
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  place. And here we find ourselves back
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  in Shechem and they're keeping their father's flock in Shechem.
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  So you can see that the story is told from the perspective of the
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  lineage of Joseph, whereas in previous chapters it was
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  concerning the genealogies of Jacob.
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  And that is why it's out of place here. 13 And Israel said
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  unto Joseph, Do not your brothers feed the flock and
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  Shechem. And he says, Here I am. 14 And
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  he said to him, Go, I pray, and see whether it be well with your
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  brothers, and well with the flocks, and bring me word again.
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  So he sent him out of the veil of Hebron into the and he came
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  to Shechem. So Hebron, that's where we're
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  going to get the Hebrews, the ones that are sent out.
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  And you're also going to know here that he's going to
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  supervise his brothers. And that is what the coat was
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  significant to show them. That is what the coat symbolized
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  was his elevated status above his brothers.
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  And that is a very reason why they could not stand him. 15 And
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  a certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the
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  field. And the man asked him, saying,
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  What do you seek? 16 And he said, I seek, my
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  brothers tell me, I pray, where they feed their flocks.
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  So here you need to know that Joseph has gone out, and he's
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  trying to be obedient unto the Father.
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  And there is so much here when we're talking about our Lord
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  Jesus Christ. There's so much symbolism in all
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  of Joseph's life, and we could talk about it for days on end of
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  how these overlap with Jesus's ministry while he was here on
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  this earth. 17 And the man said, They're departed from here, and
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  I heard them, let us go to Dothan.
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  And Joseph went after his brothers and found them in
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  Dothan. 18 And when they saw him from afar off, before he even
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  came near to them, they conspired against him to slay
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  him. 19 And they said, one to another, behold, the dreamer
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  comes. So that is the title that they
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  have given them. He is just the dreamer.
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  And they are already starting to premeditate this slaying of
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  their brother, and he is yet to even come.
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  And he was supposed to return back to the Father.
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  And you can see that this is synonymous with the life of
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  Jesus Christ. His own brothers decided to
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  murder him. 20 Come now, therefore, and let us slay him
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  and cast him into some pit, and we will say that some evil beast
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  has devoured him. We shall see what will become of
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  his dreams. So they're trying to outpace and
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  outstep the prophecy that was given against them, that they
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  would bow down unto Joseph. But when we Fast forward the
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  story, you're going to see the very things that they were
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  trying to avoid are the very things that they're going to
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  cause 21 in. Reuben heard it and he delivered
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  him out of their hands and said, let us not kill him.
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  So old Reuben here, he was the one that had laid with his
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  father's concubine in previous chapters, and now he comes to
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  the rescue. But he's trying to appease his
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  brothers at the same time. He could have easily said, no,
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  let's not do this evil thing. But he's trying to play both
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  sides here. 22 And Reuben said unto them, shed no blood, but
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  cast him into the pit that is in the wilderness, and lay no hand
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  upon him, that he might rid him out of their hands to deliver
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  him to his father again. So he was trying to outsmart his
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  brothers by saying, hey, let's just throw him into the pit.
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  And it was his end goal to not kill him, but to make sure he
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  got back to his father. 23 And it came to pass, when Joseph was
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  come unto his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his
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  coat, the coat of many colors that was on him. 24 And they
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  took him, and they cast him into a pit, and the pit was empty,
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  and there was no water in it. 25 And they sat down to eat bread.
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  And they lifted up their eyes and looked.
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  And behold, a company of Ishmaelites came from Gilead
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  with the camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh going down
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  into Egypt. So here we see another
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  connection with Jesus Christ. We see the myrrh, see that he is
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  going to be sold. And we know that Jesus, whenever
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  he was born, he had to go spend a little bit of time in Egypt
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  before he came back up into the Promised Land.
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  And you see so many different connections with the life of
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  Joseph and the life of Jesus Christ and how his brothers
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  stripped him of his clothes and they cast lots for them before
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  he was beaten by the guards and put up on the cross in mockery
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  and shame. And you can see that these
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  brothers were so completely hard hearted and disconnected from
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  reality, and they cared nothing for this dreamer, that they were
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  able to sit and eat their bread in peace while he screamed out
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  from the pit. 26 And Judas said to his brothers, What prophet is
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  it that we kill our brother and conceal his blood?
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  27 Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our
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  hand be upon him, for he is our brother and our flesh.
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  And his brothers were content. So old Judah here, this is where
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  the line of the Messiah came out of and he was the one who said,
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  Let us not kill him, but just sell him to these Ishmaelites.
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  28 Then there passed by the Midianites, the merchant men,
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  and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold
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  Joseph to the Ishmaelites for 20 pieces of silver, and they
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  brought Joseph into Egypt. So what the enemy meant for
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  evil, God's going to use for great good.
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  And God doesn't cause all things to work together, but he makes
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  sure that he uses all the things in our lives to work out for the
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  good of those who love him and who are called according to his
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  purposes. 29 And Reuben returned to the pit, and behold, Joseph
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  was not in the pit, and he ripped his clothes.
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  This was the very one told them not to kill him. 30 And he
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  returned unto his brothers, and said, The child is not, and I
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  where shall I go? So him him being the oldest, he
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  felt the responsibility, and he did not know how he was going to
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  face his father now that the brother was sold into slavery.
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  31 And they took Joseph's coat, they killed a kid of the goats
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  and dipped the coat in the blood.
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  So here they're trying to cover up their time and they're
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  dipping his coat of many colors into the goat's blood. 32 And
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  they sent the coat of many colors and they brought it to
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  the father and said this have we found know now whether it be
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  your son's coat or not. So here they're manipulating the
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  circumstances and they're trying to get their father Jacob to see
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  that he was dead and reality, he was down in Egypt and the plans
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  of God were going to happen through all of their
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  disobedience. And it does not excuse them, but
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  God is sure going to use it. 33 And he knew it and said it is my
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  son's coat. An evil beast has devoured him.
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  Joseph is without doubt ripped in pieces.
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  So you need to know that Jacob should have went to the Lord God
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  and asked the Lord God what this was all about.
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  But instead he just goes to pieces.
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  And this reveals friends, his heart.
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  And there are so many of us when we face these deep tragedies,
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  it's going to reveal the things that we've hidden within us. 34
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  And Jacob ripped his clothes, he put sackcloth upon his loins,
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  and he mourned for his son many days. 35 And all his sons and
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  all his daughters rose up to comfort him.
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  But he refused to be comforted, for he said, For I will go down
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  into the grave to my son. Morning.
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  Thus his father wept for him. So Jacob refused to be consoled.
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  Perhaps there was some suspicion there of the evil that the
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  brothers had done, but he did not admit it.
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  He did not go to the Lord to ask of it.
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  He just refused to be comforted. And they knew it all along what
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  they had done, and they kept it a secret.
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  We'll end on 36. And the Midianites sold him into
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  Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer of Pharaohs and the captain of
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  the guard. So we're going to see how God's
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  going to use this evil intent of his brothers for great good in
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  the land as the story unfolds. I hope you've been blessed by
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  this amazing chapter in God's Word.
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  I know I sure have. I'm praying for every single one
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  of you. I love you.
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  We'll see you back here tomorrow.
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  God bless you.