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#10152 - Learning to No Longer Hope in Man - Genesis 40 · Calvary Church with Ed Taylor Podcast

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  Welcome to the Study of God's Word with pastor and author Ed
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  into our study. Amen.
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  Open your Bible's Genesis, Chapter 40.
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  Genesis Chapter 40. The title of our message is
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  Learning to No Longer Hope in Man.
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  I want you to consider in your own life, how often you trust
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  man. You trust the word of a man or a
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  woman. You, you hold on to that to the
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  degree where you trust in the hope, and you trust in hope and
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  man to a greater degree than you trust in God.
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  Where if someone makes you a promise and it encourages you,
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  but then God makes promise after promise and you wonder if he's
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  going to come through, where you're going to trust the guy to
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  keep his promise in your life. But there are those seasons
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  where you don't even trust God when he's made a promise where
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  he desires to work on our behalf.
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  Joseph is learning this. He's learning it in a very
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  painful way to no longer hope in man.
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  And it's a hard season. We drop into Joseph's life here.
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  It's a hard season of his life. Pain upon pain.
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  And in the midst of pain, God is showing favor.
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  Notice back in chapter 39, verse 21, it says, but the Lord was
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  with Joseph and this is the secret to his success.
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  It's not a secret. It's made here very publicly.
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  That the Lord was with Joseph, and he showed him mercy and he
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  gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
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  Things are looking up in this difficult time in Joseph's life.
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  He's receiving favor in God's blessing.
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  Not only that, he was given more responsibility.
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  In verse 22 of 39, the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's
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  hand. All the prisoners who were in
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  the prison, whatever they did there, it was his doing.
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  And the keeper of the prison didn't even look into anything
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  that was under Joseph's hand, because the Lord was with him.
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  And if you haven't already written in your Bibles, circle
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  that phrase in verse 21, circle that phrase in verse 23, and
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  make sure you circle that phrase in your life.
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  This is the key and the secret to your success.
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  Anything good in your life is because the Lord is with you.
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  As a believer, the Lord is with you.
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  Even as an unbeliever, the favor of God is because God is with
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  you. He it's his grace.
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  He deserves all the credit even to those that are rebellious and
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  angry and even what you would call God haters.
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  You are alive and able to hate God because God is loving and
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  merciful towards you. It wouldn't be possible
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  otherwise. He has given you life and is
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  patient with you. With Joseph, just when things
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  begin to look up, the bottom falls out again.
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  That's the pattern of his life. Just when you think he's making
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  progress. The Lord is with you, Joe, the
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  Lord is with you. Look like even this difficult
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  situation God has shown you favor.
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  And it says in verse one of chapter 40 it came to pass after
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  these things. I remind you from time to time
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  that these are the kind of phrases that we read over.
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  We just read over because it's an introductory sentence to a
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  new paragraph, or in this case, to a new chapter.
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  It was after these things. It came to pass after these
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  things and I want to teach you as a as a pastor and his Bible
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  student. To not skip these phrases,
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  especially when you have a couple, you have some extra time
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  in the word where you can just pause for a second and just ask
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  the question What things? What things?
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  What things is the Bible referring to?
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  And the way to answer that question is to answer it in
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  context. We just did that already in
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  chapter 39. You look to what came before,
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  what's happening before, what's happening before.
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  Joseph is receiving favor from the Lord Joseph.
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  Has experiencing the presence of God.
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  He's enjoying it. As hard as the situation is, God
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  is with him. And it was in these times of
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  great progress that come great warfare, great difficulty, great
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  challenges. Joseph provides for us an
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  example of faith in God, in situations that we can't see how
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  it's going to turn out. We're living in the favor of
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  God. But it's after these things that
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  came to pass. It's in the midst of these
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  things that came to pass. You see in Joseph's life, we
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  have the opportunity and the privilege of seeing what God is
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  doing. He's giving us insight of what
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  God is doing behind the scenes. But like Joseph, you and I don't
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  know what's happening behind the scenes in our lives.
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  Joseph encourages us because it tells us God is doing something
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  behind the scenes, but I don't know what He's doing in my life
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  behind the scenes yet. In God's timing and Providence,
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  he's going to reveal it to me, but I don't know yet.
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  Things might be looking up for me then.
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  There might be some warfare, but there might be something so much
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  more bigger. It's not might be.
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  There is something so much bigger that I don't quite see
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  yet. I see right now.
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  The Bible says in a mirror, dimly.
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  I don't have the full picture. It's not crystal clear.
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  I see a little bit up ahead, but with Joseph we learn nothing.
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  Just so happens. Because God knows what's
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  happening. He understands these things in
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  Joseph's life are training him, and the things in your life are
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  training you and preparing you like he was preparing Joseph and
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  equipping you like he was equipping Joseph.
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  And if anyone had the right to question God or, you know, look
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  like they had the right to question God of the difficulties
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  they face, I think it would have been Joseph.
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  But he doesn't. He humbly submits to his life,
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  as bad as it was in the moment. He lived a submitted life, a
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  surrendered life in the preparation time.
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  God doesn't see Joseph, doesn't even know what God's preparing
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  him for, doesn't have any clue it from any standpoint.
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  You know, if you're living Joseph's life and being in it
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  from any standpoint, he's like, man, this is what it is.
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  I better be a good prisoner. I don't even deserve to be here.
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  I better be a good prisoner, because this is where I'm at.
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  I'm not going to be able to undo what what happened before me.
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  But here in this time it says in verse one, it came to pass after
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  these things, that the Butler and the Baker of the king of
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  Egypt offended their Lord, the king of Egypt.
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  Pharaoh was angry with this two officers and the chief Butler
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  and the chief Baker. So he put him in custody in the
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  House of the captain of the guard in the prison, the place
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  where Joseph was confined. This prison experience in
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  Joseph's life is going to teach him how to care, going to
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  develop in him a caring heart. It's going to teach him how to
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  sense needs. It's going to give him a
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  sensitivity to others needs. He's going to learn in this
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  prison experience, in chapter 40 how to trust God.
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  He's going to learn how to walk in humility and to stand in
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  courage. And finally, he's going to learn
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  how not to trust in man, or, as I phrased it, learning to no
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  longer hope in man but to put your trust in the Lord.
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  Now the Butler and the Baker come in to prison, but don't get
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  in your mind. This idea of a traditional
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  Butler who comes in with a plate and a thing over his arm and
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  he's got a tuxedo on this would have been a man that was very
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  influential place of trust and dependent, somebody super close
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  to Pharaoh, highly trusted. We don't know exactly the
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  responsibilities of the Butler, but the Baker we know would be
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  in charge of his food he would be in charge of.
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  What would be provided? There were some commentators
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  that speculated that the issue that offended Pharaoh was that
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  somehow poison was found. It wasn't found close to his
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  lips, but it was found close to him.
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  And that charge for that was being thrown in prison.
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  But we don't know for sure. And where is Joseph?
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  Joseph has been listen Joseph has been prepositioned to meet
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  this Butler and Baker. Prepositions.
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  God knew all this unfolding. Joseph's learning it a little at
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  a time. And it says in verse four, when
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  the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, not only was
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  he prepositioned, but he was placed in the position to
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  oversee these men. God is setting this up.
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  He served them it, says verse 4. And so they were in custody for
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  a while. Joseph's in charge?
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  But he serves them. Don't miss that.
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  You might want to mark that he's in charge.
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  He's in a place of authority, but he chooses to serve them.
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  This is a place of learning how to care for others, even while
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  he himself is suffering great hardship.
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  I know at times suffering and pain and trials can stop a
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  person from serving the Lord. Sometimes it's of necessity.
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  For a season, you're incapable and you're healing and you're
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  you're having to process this new reality.
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  And for a season, however, it's also possible that you can hurt
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  and serve at the same time. It's a healthy place to be.
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  You can hurt and serve others at the same time.
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  It needs to be said, and it also needs to be learned.
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  That others, they are waiting for Someone Like You to serve
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  them, even though you're in a tough spot, in a difficult spot.
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  You understand now that the warning in the New Testament
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  about not allowing bitterness to take root in your heart, because
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  bitterness is a defiling agent. It's not a helpful, it's not
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  helpful to you, and it's not helpful to the people around
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  you. It's defiling.
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  It's dirtying. It it, it diminishes the
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  holiness and the mercy and the grace and the character of God
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  through your life. It would be easy if you're
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  thrown into prison, falsely accused to become bitter and to
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  be upset about it the rest of your life.
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  And that becomes your new identity.
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  I don't belong here. I don't belong here.
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  I don't belong here. I don't belong here.
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  And you say that a million times.
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  You begin to live out that reality.
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  Except that you can you you can come to terms with the reality
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  you don't belong there and then turn it around and go.
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  But God has me here, and that's a turning point.
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  Even in great hardship, Joseph is serving them now.
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  I've noticed over the years when it relates to servanthood,
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  especially here in a church where we value servanthood that.
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  The pastor, it starts with me. I'm to be the chief servant of
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  this church. This is not like the world where
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  you climb the ladder and the higher you get, the less work
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  you do. That's not the way of the world.
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  The way that, I mean, that's the way of the world.
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  It's not the way of the church. The way of the Church is the
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  ladder is down, and the more you.
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  The more responsibility you have, the more service you do.
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  I mean, if you're climbing the ladder in the church, that means
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  you want to serve more, not less.
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  And the pastor is to be the chief servant and those serving
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  in leadership are to be Co laborers in that service.
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  But here's what I've seen over the years and if you are serving
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  in this church, I want to warn you about it.
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  So you know ahead of time, I have noticed over the years that
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  positions and titles can ruin a person.
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  They just take a person out where there is this sense of
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  starting out well. And I want to serve the Lord and
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  just tell me what to do. And here I am, brother.
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  I'll be at every service and I'll just do whatever you But
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  but there is this ulterior motive, spoken or unspoken, that
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  the more I serve, the more I'll be noticed.
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  And the more I'm noticed, the more authority I'll be given and
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  the more authority I could be given.
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  Then I can tell other people to serve.
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  And when titles get thrown around, I mean, you have folks
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  that send a serve, serve and work hard.
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  But once they're getting in a place of authority, that
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  expectation now is no longer serving.
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  But now there's a new expectation.
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  Well, don't you know who I am? I'm like, yeah, bro, you're my
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  brother and the Lord. No, no, no.
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  I'm much more than your brother and and you change your voice
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  and all that you know. In the world I I experienced
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  this. I don't know if you have, but
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  it's very I I remember watching this multiple times where you
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  would be working and in the position I I was a dispatcher.
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  So I had a lot of people working side by side.
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  We're all working together, all doing the same job, all
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  supporting one another. Man making it work.
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  Teamwork makes the dream work. All of that, man.
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  That was it. But then along the way, so and
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  so didn't show up anymore. They didn't show up in the chair
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  next to you. They showed up at the office
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  with a new polo shirt. That's what they had.
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  They weren't wearing what we used to wear, tshirts.
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  Now they've got the polo with the collar and a little name
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  badge. They had to be a really long
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  name. Dutch, because they were
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  assistant assistant, assistant assistant course, sort of, kind
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  of junior supervisor. Whoo.
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  Don't you know who I am? Yeah, bro, you were sitting next
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  to me yesterday and I helped you do your job when you didn't know
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  how to do it. I know who you are.
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  Oh, no. I am your boss.
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  I'm like, bro, you're a junior, junior, junior supervisor that
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  doesn't know how to do that job. What makes me think you know how
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  to That's your inside voice. Your outside voice is yes, you
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  are my boss now. You know because titles, they
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  just have a way of if you don't know.
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  So what happens when in the church, you know what happens in
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  the church. There are titles.
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  There are recognition in the sense of what level of service
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  and responsibility you have. But you know what God how God
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  gives titles. He prepares you for them.
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  He prepares. You know how he prepares you.
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  Through challenges and difficulties, he gets you ready
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  for him. He wants you ready for him.
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  He wants you to serve well. He wants you to love him and
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  love people. He doesn't want a title to ruin
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  you. He doesn't want to see you in a
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  position of authority like Joseph here.
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  And then once you have authority, you start lording
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  over people. So much so that God says, you
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  know what, don't Lord over people.
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  The Bible says that straight up. That is not God's will for
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  anyone in authority to throw titles.
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  As a matter of fact, you know this as well as I do.
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  But when someone has to throw their title around to get you to
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  do something, they're not leading you and they're not
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  serving you. They're bossing you.
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  And you know, you don't respond too well to bosses.
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  You love working for people that serve you and work alongside of
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  you and try to make your life better and create an environment
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  so you can be successful. Because they realize if you're
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  successful, they're successful and we're successful.
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  That's a beautiful thing, man. I don't know how many of you,
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  but I certainly worked for a few.
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  Or guys like, like, I know you're my boss.
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  You don't need to tell me every day.
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  I know. I know you're my boss.
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  You don't. You don't need to let everybody
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  know. We all know.
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  So why don't you just do your job?
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  I'll do mine, you do yours. And in the church, the way that
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  looks in the church is hey, look, church, just do your job.
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  Love God with all your heart, soul and mind.
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  And love your neighbors yourself.
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  It doesn't matter what role and what title.
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  Don't let titles. Here's my point.
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  Don't let titles ruin you. Because if a title ruins you, a
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  lot of people are going to get hurt.
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  People that are looking to you, people that are hurting.
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  People that now the chief Butler and the Baker were in a place of
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  great esteem. Now they're experiencing what
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  Joseph's experiencing in the same place I reminded of Second
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  Corinthians chapter one. You know the Paul writes to the
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  church in Corinth, and he says that God is the God of all
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  comfort. Who comforts us and all our
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  tribulation? Why?
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  So that we might be able to comfort others that are going
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  through the same thing here. They are going through the same
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  thing that Joseph is going through and he's ready to serve
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  them. Mark Mark chapter 10 if you want
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  to jot it down in verse 45, says for even the son of man did not
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  come to be served but to serve and to give his life a ransom
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  for many. And Joseph here is serving.
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  I think his service came from a deep place of faith in God's
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  will for his life. We often equate God's will for
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  our lives as only the best things that happened to us.
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  But everything that comes to us has been father filtered.
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  The pain, the difficulty. This is these are times when
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  we're falsely accused, when we're slander, gossip, whatever.
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  These are times, these difficulties where the devil
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  sees an open door and he comes in whispers or screams at you.
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  Where's your God now? Is this how God rewards you?
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  Joseph Coat of many colors, Dad's favorite?
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  Is this how God rewards faithfulness and faith?
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  Throwing you into prison, putting you in a place of.
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  Great distress. If those were around Joseph,
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  maybe his brothers could say the same thing.
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  Oh, I thought your God was faithful.
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  I thought your God cared. I thought I'd look at you and
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  you're going through things and you can hear the unbeliever at
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  work, can't you? You're going things, going
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  through things that are worse than I've ever experienced.
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  That's your God. And they become mockers.
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  But through his service. Listen through his service.
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  Joseph was saying, my God hasn't changed.
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  He's with me right here, right now, and I'm going to take this
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  opportunity to serve him even in this prison he hasn't changed.
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  In verse 5 again it says. Then the Butler and the Baker of
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  the king of Egypt who were confined in the prison, dreamed
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  a dream. Both of them.
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  Each man's dream in one night, and each man's dream with its
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  own interpretation. Joseph came into them in the
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  morning and looked at them and saw that they were sad.
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  So he asked Pharaoh's officer, who were with him in the custody
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  of his Lord's house, saying, Why do you look so sad today?
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  And they said to him, we each have a dream to dream, and
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  there's no interpreter of it. And Joseph said to them, Do not
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  interpretations belong to God? Tell them to me, please.
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  Another characteristic of Joseph here in the midst of his
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  distress. Is Joseph's in a very difficult
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  situation himself, but he still notices sadness and sorrow
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  around him. He has he cares.
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  And because he cares, he observes.
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  And because he cares and observes, he sees that they're
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  troubled. And when he sees that they're
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  troubled, he asked them how they're doing, what's wrong, and
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  it reminded me of Nehemiah. Nehemiah did the same thing when
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  the Messenger came to him. And he asked them, hey, what's
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  going on? And he asked them, knowing that
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  the answer could have moved him to some action.
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  And he asked the question, what's going on in Jerusalem?
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  Why? Because he cared.
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  But I I see a connection here in Joseph's life, in Nehemiah's
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  life of this asking because here, here's the thing, A lot of
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  times people are avoided and questions are avoided simply
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  because, you know, if you ask the question, there's going to
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  be some answer that you're going to have to deal with and you
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  don't want to deal with it. And so it was a Christian You
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  avoid certain people. And if somebody does come up
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  you, you feel prompted by the Spears, Are you OK today, you
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  guys? I don't really want to ask that
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  right now because I already know they're not OK and I don't want
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  to deal with it. And friend, I think that's sin.
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  I don't think that's OK. You don't have, you don't have
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  the choice to choose who comes to prison with you, man.
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  If the Butler and the Baker show up to prison, you need to ask
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  them how they're doing. If somebody shows up into your
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  life or you find out, you bump into somebody, you got to, you
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  got to care enough to observe, to ask and thank you.
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  You know what? Tell me.
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  Go ahead and tell me. I know.
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  I know a God that interprets dreams.
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  So just tell me what's going on. Give me the dreams.
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  I mean, Joseph doesn't even really know what he's going to
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  do with the information yet, but he's willing to do it.
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  I was sharing with our team today and our staff DeVos and
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  and our discipleship time that I believe and and I believe it's
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  all my heart. I believe it's always been the
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  same. But we're alive now that the
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  changing force on the earth today in the culture
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  environment, the political environment, the economic
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  environment, the changing power, the force that will make
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  progress and move the church forward in the world today is
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  the agape love of God. It is otherworldly,
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  supernatural, unexplainable, not the kind of love that we can
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  build up. Like we can pretend to care.
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  That's not what I'm talking about.
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  And we can partly care. That's not what I'm talking
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  about. I'm talking about the self
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  sacrificial love that's displayed by God the Father
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  where the Bible says that he so loved this sin.
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  Reject God rejecting world. He's so loved that he gave his
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  only begotten Son that whosoever will believe in him would not
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  perish but have everlasting life.
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  The kind of agape love that cares steps into lives.
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  The kind of agape love it great personal sacrifice, time,
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  talents, treasures that would step into someone's life and
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  make yourself available not for your name, not for a church's
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  name, but for the name of Jesus Christ on the earth today.
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  You can't argue with the agape love you can't explain.
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  People get mad at it. People don't know.
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  They don't know how. They don't know how to explain
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  the kind of love that God flows through his church.
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  And there is no other, no other people, no other people group,
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  no other entity, no other organization that displays the
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  agape love. None.
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  It's only the church. Only the church can walk in the
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  agape love that let me show you, give you a real peek of the go
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  over to 1st Corinthians chapter 13.
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  Because long before 1st Corinthians 13 is written.
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  Joseph's walking in this agape love.
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  He's in charge. He's the head of the prison.
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  He doesn't need to do anything for these guys.
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  You can just say, yeah, you go over there and be chained to the
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  wall or whatever. I don't know how it was.
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  It was. I'm sure it was a horrible
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  experience. But he's already living this out
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  before it was ever written. Why?
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  Because the spirit of God is ministering in Joseph's life.
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  He he's, he is, he is living in Joseph's life.
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  And you have a greater relationship with the Holy
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  Spirit than Joseph ever had. Notice First Corinthians chapter
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  13, where we pick up in the description in verse four.
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  It says love suffers long and is kind.
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  Love does not envy. Love does not parade itself, is
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  not puffed up. Love does not behave rudely,
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  does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil, does
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  not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth.
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  Bears all thing, believes all thing, hopes all things, endures
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  all things. Love never fails.
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  And this is Joseph's life here. He cares, and I love to see that
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  in our church. I love to hear that in our
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  church. I love to hear the testimonies
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  of God using you in people's lives for no other reason, no
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  other reason than you care and you care enough to observe and
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  and your observations of Holy Spirit says here move, act,
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  love, care, serve, speak, invite them into your life.
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  Sometimes you need to carefully invite yourselves in their lives
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  and be open to be used of God. I know we use words and phrases
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  and we have vision statements and axiom statements we all this
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  information to help define us. But I mean, really think about
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  it. When disciple and send our words
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  of love to take the church. And I was talking to someone
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  today about this, it just seems like the church is so scared by
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  what's everything's happening in the world that they've taken on.
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  And and maybe you have and I just let those just pray about
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  this, but you're just taking this isolationist view toward
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  the world. Like just protect everything and
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  make sure we all protect and we just like the world needs you
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  and then the world doesn't need you.
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  Hiding in a cave somewhere like Elijah, The world doesn't need
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  you up. You know, hiding butter and
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  guns. I don't know why butter, but
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  butter and guns and food and you know as much toilet paper as you
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  can get from Costco. So when the end of the world
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  comes, you like the world needs you right where you are, caring,
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  observing and helping in Jesus name.
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  That's how you were reached. Many of us were reached because
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  somebody cared enough to call us, reach out to us, not give up
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  on us. Invite us to church.
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  Give us a book back in the day. Give us a tape, a cassette tape.
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  Listen to this. Why would I listen to that?
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  What kind of music is all? It's not music.
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  It's a guy teaching the Bible. What you could take your
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  cassette tape back, bro. I don't need that.
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  But what do I need? I needed to hear the love of God
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  through the gifting of a pastor teacher, teaching the word where
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  man, he cared enough. So care because here they are.
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  They have dreams. They're already troubled.
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  Now they're troubled by dreams. They don't know what their
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  future is. Joseph steps in.
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  I love this verse 9 Now the chief Butler told him his dream
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  and said beholden. My dream of vine was before me,
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  and in the vine there were three branches.
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  It was as though it butted. It blossoms shot forth, its
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  clusters brought forth ripe grapes.
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  Then Pharaoh's cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes and
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  pressed them into Pharaoh's cup. Placed the cup in Pharaoh's
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  hand, Joseph said to him. This is the interpretation of
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  it. The three branches are three
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  days, and within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head
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  and restore you to the place. Then you will put Pharaoh's cup
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  in his hand, according to the former manner, when you were his
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  Butler. But Remember Me when it is well
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  with you, and please show me kindness to me, make mention of
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  me to Pharaoh, and Get Me Out of this house.
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  For indeed I was stolen away from the land of the Hebrews.
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  And also I've done nothing here that they should put me in to
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  the dungeon. The dream is a beautiful 1.
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  The interpretation's beautiful and you have to step back and
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  go. Wait a minute.
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  Why would God bring. Why would God bring the Butler
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  into prison next to Joseph? Have a troubled face match up
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  with Joseph's caring to hear the dream.
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  God gives them the instant interpretation.
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  Why would God all do this? To get these words out of
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  Joseph's mouth. You ready?
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  Just mark them. But Remember Me when it's well
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  with you. All this is going on just to get
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  Joseph to mouth a really deep desire in his heart.
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  What was that desire? He wants out of prison.
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  Doesn't surprise you, does it? I would too.
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  He's faithful. He's embracing his life.
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  He's serving, He's caring, He's observing, He's stepping into
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  life. All of the characteristics that
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  you would expect from a man that loves God and he wants to get
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  the heck out of prison. All this is being arranged in
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  this case, to get these words out of his mouth.
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  Just Remember Me, bro. Where there's a sense now by
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  saying that to the Butler, where Joseph's heart wakes up every
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  day. I wonder if today is the day
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  when the Butler remembers me not.
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  I wonder if today is the day God remembers me.
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  But I wonder if the Butler remember because the Butler's
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  here and he's going to be with Pharaoh.
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  And I wonder, I wonder, I wonder notice the next dream. 16 When
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  the cheap Baker saw the interpretation was good.
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  He's like, I would also had a dream.
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  And in it were three white baskets on my head in the
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  uppermost basket. There were all kinds of baked
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  goods for Pharaoh. The birds ate him out of the
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  basket on my head. So Joseph answered and said,
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  this is the interpretation. The three baskets are three days
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  and the Baker's going, yes, yes, yes, yes.
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  Within three days, Farrell would lift off your head from you and
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  hang you on a tree. No, no, no.
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  Go back, go back, and the birds will eat your flesh from you.
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  And now what came to pass on the third day, which was Pharaoh's
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  birthday, he made a feast for all his servants, and he lifted
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  up the head of the chief Butler and of the chief Baker among his
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  servants. He restored to the chief Butler
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  to his Butler ship, again placed the cup in Pharaoh's hand.
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  But he hanged the chief Baker, as Joseph had interpreted to
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  them. Yet the chief Butler did not
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  remember Joseph, but forgot him. Why the Baker dream?
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  Why the interpretation? It wasn't to get the words, but
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  Remember Me out of his mouth. For the Baker.
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  God allowed all these circumstances for Joseph to
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  reveal a depth of courage to speak the truth.
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  This would have been very, very hard to share.
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  I wonder if Joseph was thinking. I wonder what Great.
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  Oh, it's going to be great. Just the interpretation is going
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  to be just like the Butler. But it wasn't.
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  It was a very hard word to share again.
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  God preparing Joseph for the future.
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  God preparing Joseph for the future.
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  Being able to speak the truth. Being able to tell the truth.
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  Remember in Proverbs chapter 27 and verse six, I'll read two in
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  the New Living Translation. It says wounds from a sincere
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  friend are better than many kisses of the enemy.
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  The Bible says that we're to speak the truth and love where
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  to be honest with one another. Truthfulness is a sign of
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  closeness to the Lord. A person willing to cling to the
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  truth no matter the consequence, is a man or a woman of maturity
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  and growing maturity. In Psalm 86, verse 11 it says,
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  teach me your way, oh Lord, I will walk in your truth.
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  Truth is a mark of the believer. Truth is a mark of a follower of
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  Christ. In Psalm 119, verse 30 it says I
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  have chosen the way of truth and I commend you, Church.
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  I encourage you in the decisions and the things in your life
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  right now. Choose the way of truth.
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  No deception, no pretending, no partial truth.
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  So partial truth is a lie. Choose truth.
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  Choose honesty. Let it be the mark of Christ in
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  and through you. Well, the we read in verse 20
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  that the interpretations come through true.
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  Pharaoh has a major birthday party, was customary.
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  He lives so both these men he restores the Butler.
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  He has the Baker hang just as God revealed to Joseph.
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  Why? Because God always keeps his
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  word. He always keeps his word, the
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  word of the Lord. You can count on it.
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  My word, I would hope you can count on it, but not 100%,
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  because I'm not a perfect man. But the word of God, you can
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  count on 100%. God never lies.
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  No variation, No shadow of turning.
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  You can trust the Bible, You can trust it implicitly.
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  You can entrust it explicitly. You can trust it 100% of the
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  time. The word of man?
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  Not so much. In Joshua chapter 21, verse 45,
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  listen it says not a word failed of any good thing which the Lord
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  had spoken to the House of Israel.
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  All came to pass. Isn't that great?
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  That's going to be stood over your life one day.
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  It's true of your life right now.
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  There's not a word of God that has failed, failed you in your
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  life, not one. Even if circumstances make it
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  look that way. I'm telling you Joseph is
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  experiencing the faithfulness of God even in prison.
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  Not only that, Psalm 138, verse two, it says I will worship
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  towards your holy temple and praise your name for your loving
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  kindness and your truth. Listen, this is what the Bible
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  says. God has magnified His word above
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  his name. That's how important God's word
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  is. You've magnified your word above
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  all your name. Second Peter, Chapter one, verse
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  19 that we have the prophetic word confirmed.
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  You can trust the word of God, yet you can't always trust man.
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  Your trust always has to be in the Lord.
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  Notice in Joseph's life again everything came to pass.
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  The God said but the Butler did not remember Joseph verse 23 but
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  forgot him. It doesn't even have to be like
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  negative motives. It could be he's all excited.
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  It could be that he's excited to be restored and he's alive and
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  he's getting on with life. And he forgot Joseph.
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  Joseph wasn't a part of his life for very long and he forgot him.
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  When you put yourself in Joseph's place for a moment,
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  here he is telling the truth, telling the Butler the good news
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  and all that. He asked was that the Butler
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  mentioned him to Pharaoh, but when the Butler was released, he
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  forgot him. Joseph was probably excited the
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  first few days after he heard got word that the dreams that he
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  interpreted were accurate 100% and I'm sure he got excited.
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  Okay, now the Butler. Now the Butler's going to
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  remember I'm out any day I'm out any day I'm out.
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  Any day I'm out. Any day I'm, I'm out.
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  Any, any day now. Any week now, any month now, in
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  a year now, he was forgotten. But God, he hasn't forgotten.
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  Joseph the Butler did, but God didn't.
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  And this is a serious lesson. I want to show it to you.
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  Turn over to Psalm Chapter 20 with me.
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  This is one of the things, specifically, that Joseph is
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  learning. This is why it's so important,
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  friends, to be in the Bible every day.
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  Reading it, praying, every day is with an open Bible.
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  Because you may come across, it may be the appointed time for
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  you to come across the scripture that reveals the lesson that
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  you're learning, where you finally get clarity or you get a
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  deeper understanding. You stumble across the passage
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  and you're like, man, that's me. Thank you, Lord, for that
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  revelation. The revelation won't come if
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  you're not in the word. The revelation won't come and
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  won't have confirmation if you're not in prayer with the
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  Lord. And I don't just mean sitting
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  down at the table with a cup of coffee.
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  I mean man being in prayer, being in relationship, being in
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  a communication, Long prayer, short prayers, loud prayers,
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  soft prayers, prayers in your mind, prayers when you don't
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  know. Desperation, comfort, surrender
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  this. Listen to what he's listen,
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  Notice what he's learning. Here in Psalm 20.
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  In verse 6, Psalm 20, verse six. Now I know that the Lord saves
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  his anointed. He will answer him from his holy
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  heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.
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  Yes Lord, yes Lord, some trust in Chariots for seven and some
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  in horses and some in butlers. You could add that.
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  I mean don't add to the word, but you could put that there.
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  Some trust in Chariots and horses and butlers, but we will
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  remember the name of the Lord our God.
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  It's foolish to trust in butlers, as trustworthy as
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  butlers might be. We need to learn to trust in the
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  Lord, no matter what comes our way.
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  And God knows that we need to trust him.
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  And listen, some of you won't like this because it's the
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  answer to the problem in your life.
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  You're not going to like it. So be prepared.
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  God allowed the Butler to forget Joseph.
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  God allowed it. In that silence, Joseph was
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  brought to a place of decision once again in the prison,
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  falsely accused in part of hers. House sold as a slave, thrown in
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  a pit for dead. It was in that silence that
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  Joseph needed to decide once again will I walk away from the
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  Lord, or why I press in? Is this the one that I'm giving
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  up now? After all, I've got this series
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  of disappointments and offenses I have with God, and I've got
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  through them, and the Lord's helped me.
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  But now I got another one. And it was in that silence that
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  he needed to press into the Lord.
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  It would be another two years in this hellhole of a prison,
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  living with the pain and injustice.
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  But not only that. Joseph was learning not to trust
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  in man. I am not advocating.
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  Please don't misunderstand me that we don't have trust
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  relationships with each other. Of course we do.
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  The deeper the trust, the deeper the relationship.
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  That's not what I'm referring to.
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  Every real relationship is built on trust.
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  What I'm saying here and what I'm seeing in Joseph's life and
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  what I'm learning in my life, that my hope and my trust cannot
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  be in man. It must be in God.
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  That my primary trust relationship is with God.
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  Again, let me give to you in Psalm 118 verse eight.
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  It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in
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  man. It is better to trust in the
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  Lord than to put confidence in Princess.
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  I mean, we could do we do a Bible study just on this.
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  It's it's better to trust in God.
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  It's better than trusting in man and even Princess who have
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  authority and have money and have resources.
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  It is better to trust in God than in to trust in man, because
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  there is the temptation in the possibility.
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  That if the Butler did remember him and did tell Pharaoh that
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  the Butler would receive all the glory for the work that God did,
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  it's a possibility. And like Joseph, we need to
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  learn this lesson. You're some of you are learning
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  it right now. You want to jump out of your
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  chair. That's me.
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  That's me. And the Lord is still faithful
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  to you. This is a source of much
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  disappointment in our lives. We choose to trust a man, a
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  woman, someone you would expect that we can trust, and they let
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  us down. And you add to that your
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  everyday issues. You add to that your unmet
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  expectations. And we're offended and we're
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  frustrated and we're angered. And the enemy loves to divide us
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  from each other and from God through offenses.
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  And it's just better to trust in the Lord because he'll never let
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  you down. And Joseph's waiting and praying
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  and hoping. And he refused to give up on
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  God. He refused to throw in it.
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  It it says in verse one. It came to pass of chapter 41 at
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  the end of two full years that Pharaoh had a dream.
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  And behold, he stood by a river. Whoa, wait a minute.
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  Pharaoh had a dream. Interesting.
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  And you can read ahead. We'll get to it in our next
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  study. But you can read ahead.
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  Dreams connected with other dreams.
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  Oh, there's a guy. There's a guy that can speak
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  forth Interpretation of Dreams, and now Joseph's connected with
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  Pharaoh. Imagine that the kid thrown into
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  the pit is going to stand before Pharaoh, the leader of the known
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  world. You just never know how God is
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  going to, where he's going to place you, who he's going to
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  place you in front of. You just need to be ready.
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  Just be ready. God's plan is awesome for your
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  life, King. God's plan brings forth life and
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  joy and relationships and brings families together and people
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  together and binds us together. So Lord, we we asked teach us to
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  wait church, don't panic in this situation.
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  Don't give up too early you know.
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  I know we complain we because we don't see the end.
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  That's our we don't. We complain and we murmur and we
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  don't like it because we don't see the end.
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  We don't see that God is working.
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  We don't remember that he is good and that he loves me.
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  And these are two foundational truths that you must cling to.
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  Two foundational truths that you must cling to.
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  Number one, I know that God is good.
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  And #2, I know that God is love. And if you hang on to those two
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  things, it'll get you through anything.
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  I know that God is good. I don't feel it right now.
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  I don't see it right now, but I know it.
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  All things are working for good. He loves me because without
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  Christ, without you're without hope, you know, without Christ,
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  without God in this world, it's a most miserable place to be.
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  There's no meaning, no rhyme or reason to anything when you
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  don't have a relationship with the living God.
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  But to receive Jesus is to have peace with God.
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  And then that peace begins to rule in your hearts and your
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  minds through Christ Jesus. And that what?
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  That's what makes the Christian different.
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  That's what opens us for the agape love of God, because we
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  trust God. It's an attitude, it's an
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  acceptance. And we thank God even for that.
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  And we learn not to trust in man and put our hope in man, but to
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  trust in the Lord. Listen, it is better to trust in
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  the Lord than to put confidence in man.
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  And it's better to trust in the Lord, to put confidence in
• 43:44
  Princess. Amen.
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  Lord, we admit to you the truth of your word, and we pray it
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  into our hearts tonight. We don't want to live like we
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  don't have any hope. We don't want to live to a
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  watching world like we think. You're not in control and you're
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  not sovereign. You're not on the throne, and
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  you don't know what you're doing.
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  We don't want to cave to the mocking words of the world, or
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  the mocking words of Friends, or the mocking words of TikTok, or
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  the mocking words of YouTube, or the mocking words of Twitter or
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  Instagram or Facebook, or that e-mail, that letter, the mocking
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  words of the devil, our own flesh shaming, living under
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  shame and guilt and condemnation.
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  God, we asked for a fresh wind of your presence to be felt in
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  here today. Forgive us for trusting man.
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  Forgive us for looking to man as the solution to the problem
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  that's before us. Forgive us, God as a church, for
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  wanting to solve spiritual problems with human centered
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  solutions and teach us God not to put our hope in man, but to
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  put our hope in you, God, the author and the finisher of our
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  faith, who for the joy that was set before you endured the
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  cross, despising the shame. And you've sat down at the right
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  hand of the Father in a place of finality and rest of authority
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  and rest. And as we're praying tonight, if
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  you're here and you never given your life to Jesus or you're
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  there listening to me from afar, I invite you to receive the Lord
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  Jesus Christ as your savior today.
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  That you would know that you. That you know that eternity is
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  yours. And God, like he, loves you and
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  has given his Son to forgive you of your sins.
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  And so if you're here in the room, I want to give you a
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  chance. If that's you, you say, Ed, I
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  need to. I need to follow God with my
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  life. I want to give my life to
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  Christ. Tonight.
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  Would you just stand to your feet?
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  I want to pray with you that today would be the day that you
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  finalize that decision. Now, in this moment that you say
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  here I am, God take my life, it belongs to you.
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  I receive the forgiveness of my sins.
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  And it's true. Every single one of us have
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  sinned and fallen short of the perfection of God, the glory of
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  God, the holiness of God, and yet still He invites us into
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  relationship. He doesn't despise us, or throw
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  us away, or ignore us, or give us the silent treatment God
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  invites us to Himself. Anyone here want to give you
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  that opportunity before we leave, like there's no need for
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  you to keep living your own way. There's no need for you to leave
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  here the same or actually worse than when you first came in
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  because now once again, another time you reject Christ.
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  It's like, you know, whenever I say that people are always like
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  I didn't reject Christ, well, Jesus did.
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  He said it this way. If you're not for him, you're
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  against him. And it's a call to commitment.
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  Perhaps you're watching online right now and you know, maybe
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  listening on the radio and and God's giving you that same
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  invitation. You could be even downstairs in
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  the cafe down there at the Res or in the overflow.
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  And the Lord knows because he loves you, he's got your
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  attention and he wants you to follow him.
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  That's His word to you today, to follow him.
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  The Bible says if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus
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  and you believe in your heart that God raised him from the
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  dead, you will be saved. Why?
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  Because with the heart 1 believes to righteousness and
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  with the mouth confession is made unto salvation as you can
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  just ask God. God, forgive me of my sins.
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  I want to follow you with my life and he'll hear that prayer.
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  You can go to our website Calvary Co dot church and
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  there's a tab up there that says how to know God.
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  How to know God and all the information we have here at the
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  church is available online. All the discipleship info, all
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  the questions answered, what it means to follow Jesus.
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  Of course you guys that are here, we can give it to you
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  before you leave. But the Lord is working in your
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  life. He's getting your attention like
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  Joseph. I don't want you to miss that.
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  I want you to understand that. Grasp that, Father.
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  I I pray for the reality of your presence among us and the battle
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  for the souls of women and men, girls and boys.
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  I can always remember my Wednesday nights walking into a
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  church and not wanting to be there, listening to Bible study
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  and not really understanding any of it.
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  But all the while you're drawing me to yourself.
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  I know you're doing that work among us, even on a Wednesday
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  night. Have your way with us, God grow
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  us and strengthen us that you might be glorified in Jesus
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  name. Amen.
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  We pray that you've been encouraged by this Bible study
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  delivered live from the sanctuary of Calvary Church for
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  prayer. Call us at 87730 Grace.
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  That's 877-304-7223. To listen to this message in its
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  entirety or to join us for our live stream services, visit us
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  online at Calvary, Co dot Church or download our free Calvary
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  Church app, Be Blessed as You Worship Jesus this week.