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Genesis chapter 39 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Genesis chapter 39 Let us pray. Our Father, our King, our Lord,
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  and our everything, the maker of heaven and earth, where our help
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  comes from. Lord, we look up to you, our
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  Creator, the one who gives us the breath inside of our lungs
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  that gives us the ability to read and to think and to reason.
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  God, I thank you for a mind Father to understand.
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  I thank you, God, that you meet us at the emotional level.
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  God, I thank you that you reveal yourself to us in the
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  circumstances of our lives, God, I'm thankful, God, for the
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  ability to know you and be known by you.
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  Father, I thank you for giving us life and life unending, life
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  undeserving, God, for the grace that covers us and showers us
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  with your holy presence. Father, we cover our mouths.
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  We've said too much, Father, for you are holy and worthy.
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  You are magnificent. You are our everything, not an
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  eye, Elohim. You are the only uncreated.
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  You are the one that sustains, the one that gives life, the one
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  that is and always will be and is to come forever and ever on
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  high, forever and ever seated, forever and ever, the most
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  magnificent, the most glorious. God, shower your Shekinah glory
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  all around your Saints, Father. Fuel the church for the journey,
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  Father, and let us finish. Well.
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  Lord, I pray in the mighty name of Jesus Christ today you'll
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  heal us, heal our nation, heal our broken bodies, heal
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  marriages. God, heal the relationships of
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  the fathers with their children. God, bring the captives home.
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  Lord, I pray break the chains of oppression, Break the chains of
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  depression, break the chains of addiction.
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  God, in the mighty name of Jesus, I pray, Lord, that you'll
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  get all of the honor and glory forever.
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  It's always been about you. It'll always be about you.
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  Lord, we get out of the way. Lord, you take center stage.
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  Lord, You teach us what it is that you want us to know from
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  your holy Scriptures, Lord. That'll never pass away, Lord.
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  Not one word, not one jot, not one title removed, God.
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  It is your infallible, inerrant word, God.
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  It is the complete authority for our lives.
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  And so, God, we get under the yoke of Jesus.
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  His burden is light. His yoke is easy.
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  We just want more of you, Father.
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  We don't care about the rewards. We don't care about anything
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  else God, we just want you. We want more of you.
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  Let us see you rightly. Let us know you.
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  God, we lay down all of our selfish desires.
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  God, we lay down the way that we think this life should go.
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  And God, we take up the cross. We lock eyes with Yeshua, eyes
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  like fire and hair like wool. The voice of the many
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  multitudes, Holy is his name. Holy are you God.
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  Worthy is the Lamb that was slain, only one found worthy to
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  open the scroll. King Jesus, we love you, We give
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  you. Our very life, our very breath,
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  we give you. All of our own preconceived
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  ideas we give you, all of our own selfish vanity.
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  God, we lay it all down. For it is you and it is you and
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  it is you alone that we are here for.
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  I decrease as you increase. It's all about you, King Jesus.
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  Holy Spirit, fill us and touch us.
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  Holy Spirit, teach us and heal us.
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  We love you, Holy Spirit, wreck us today, wreck us in the most
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  beautiful way, and it's in King Jesus, holy and precious and
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  powerful. An awesome, inspiring name that
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  I pray. Amen.
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  Well, let's start in verse one. And Joseph was brought down to
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  Egypt, and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard
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  in Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ishmaelites, which
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  had brought him down there. So here we see God's Providence,
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  his hand moving everything along.
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  He knows what he's doing. If we'll just get out of our own
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  way, if we'll just allow him to move us, if we'll get out of our
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  own intellect, you'll see that God's provision works in ways
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  that we can never dream of. And what the enemy meant for
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  evil, God's going to use for great good.
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  And you're going to see Romans 828.
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  It's going to be displayed over and over and over in the next
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  few chapters and you're going to see that God is working
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  everything out. He doesn't 'cause these things,
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  but he uses them. Friends, verse 2 And the Lord
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  was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man, and he was in
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  the House of his master, the Egyptian.
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  So here Potiphar would have been something like the chief of
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  police. He would have been the highest
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  ranking security guard in the protection of Pharaoh.
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  And you need to know that it is by God's divine Providence that
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  Joseph has found himself in this man's house.
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  Verse 3 And his master saw that the Lord was with him, and that
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  the Lord made all that he did to prosper in his hand.
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  Everything that Joseph turned to gold because he had the
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  integrity. Friends, that is what we are
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  lacking of in the utmost in the land is we have no leaders with
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  integrity. Everything is compromised and
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  the body is sick today friends, and we need a fresh wind and
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  fresh fire. We need God's holy hand to touch
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  this nation. We need righteous leaders to
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  spring up that have integrity and do not back down from what
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  the Word of God says. Verse 4 Joseph found grace in
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  his sight and he served him and he made him the overseer of his
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  house and all that he had he put into his hand.
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  He knew that he could trust him. He knew that Joseph was not
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  going to wrong him in any way knowingly.
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  He knew that Joseph had the Spirit of the Lord inside of
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  him. And that is the true marker,
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  Friends, is when we have the Holy Spirit living inside of us.
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  Friends, it's not that we're not capable of sinning, it's that
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  when we do, it grieves us. We have the conviction, we
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  repent, we turn away from those sinful, lustful desires, and we
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  return back to a loving God who covers us with the blood of
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  Christ. And it came to pass from the
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  time that he had made him the overseer in his house, and over
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  all that he had, that the Lord bless the Egyptian's house for
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  Joseph's sake. And the blessing of the Lord was
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  upon all that he had in the house and in the field.
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  Look at how this Pagan idol worshipper was blessed by the
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  only God, the only one true living God, Yahweh everlasting
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  the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and you can see that even
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  in the presence of a blessed St. Others are blessed and that is
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  what you need to know. Is that just your being in the
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  room makes the room a peaceful place?
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  Because you are a peace maker, not a peacekeeper.
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  You are a peace maker. And as the presence of a St.
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  goes into a place, God's presence is there, and it
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  becomes a holy habitation. 6 And he left all that he had in
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  Joseph's hand, and he knew not all he had saved the bread which
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  he did eat and just was a goodly person and well favored.
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  So it's saying here that Potiphar didn't even know what
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  he had. He had no idea what was
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  available to him because Joseph had all that he had in his
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  hands. It was all accounted for in
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  Joseph's hand. All that Potiphar knew was the
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  plate in front of him. He did not have to worry about
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  keeping accounts. He did not have to worry about
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  making any kind of provision. He did not have to worry about
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  making any kind of progress. He did not have to worry about
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  making any kind of progress. He did not have to worry about
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  trying to make an advantage because he had entrusted it all
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  over to Joseph. And Joseph had the Spirit of
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  God, the mind of Christ inside of him, the heart of God.
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  He had integrity and he was operating within the
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  righteousness. He was operating within the
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  Spirit of God and God was moving him and he had the favor of God
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  upon him. And that is what we desperately
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  yearn for, friends. And if you are in Christ, it is
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  automatic that you have that, friends, you are seated with him
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  in heavenly places. Praise God, Hallelujah, you're
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  in the boat. And we do not have to strive for
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  it. It is an automatic friends once
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  you come to the Lord, but if you are still striving after
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  performing miracles, if you are casting out demons in his name,
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  but you do not know Him and you are not known by Him, then that
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  is what produces this striving in our lives.
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  That is what produces so much of the Vainglory, That is is what
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  produces so much of the frustration inside of a person's
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  life, is when they're trying and striving, when they're trying to
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  please God, and it's automatically theirs in Christ
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  Jesus. Get in the ark, get in the boat,
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  friends, put on the parachute. Come in to the fold.
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  Come in and confess all the things that you've done.
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  Cover your mouth for all the things that you said.
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  Repent, friends, and turn back to the Lord while he is still
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  near. His yoke is easy.
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  His burden is light. There's no strivings with him,
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  friends, it's all yours. 7 And it came to pass after these
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  things that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph, and
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  she said, lie with me. Far be it from us, friends, to
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  squander our birthright for a mess of pottage, to go back down
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  into this carnal, lustful, fleshy, worldly way of thinking.
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  Whenever we have tasted and seen that the Lord is good, whenever
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  He has wrecked us with His presence, friends, when we've
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  experienced the fullness of God, the glory of God shining all
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  around us, He has invited us into heavenly places.
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  And then we tuck tail and turn back, and start relying on our
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  fleshly earthly desires again. Far be it from us. 8 But he
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  refused, And he said unto his master's wife, Behold, my
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  master, he knows not what is with me in the house, and he has
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  committed all that he has to my hand. 9 There is no greater in
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  this house than I, neither has he kept back anything from me
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  but you, because you are his wife.
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  How then can I do this great and wickedness and sin against God?
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  So this is what integrity looks like, friends.
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  This is in the secret. This is in the hallowedness of
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  Potiphar's house. This is in the chambers where no
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  one else would know about it except for God.
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  And here Joseph, his heart is pricked and he is not able to
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  perform this wicked act, even if it meant that he would not get
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  caught. He knew that God sees and God
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  sees everything. And what is done in dark will be
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  brought out to the light. What is done in the closet will
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  be talked about from the rooftop.
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  Friends, there is no other way God does it.
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  Friends, God is the one who gets all of The Dirty secrets out on
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  the table. It's not for mankind to try to
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  cover it over, friends. Only by the blood of Jesus
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  Christ and by putting the blood on the lentil of your door will
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  you be passed over in the Day of Judgement.
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  Only God can gird up your loin so that you can stand in His
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  holy Presence. But for man and for all the
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  things of man, when we try to cover it up, friends, it will be
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  all brought out into the light. Never forget that.
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  And it came to pass as she spoke to Joseph day by day.
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  He did not listen to her, to lie with her or to be with her.
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  So here, this is like the dripping of a faucet.
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  This is like the toxic poison of the hemlock, taken drop by drop,
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  and it is going to result in death if we take the bait.
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  And that is the enemy's tactic, is to steal, kill and destroy.
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  And that is what Potiphar's wife is trying to do.
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  And do not be surprised when Satan uses all of these tactics.
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  The lust of the eyes and the lust of the flesh, the pride of
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  life against you friends. It worked back in the garden and
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  you see that He will try and tempt you with these things, but
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  in Christ Jesus he is defeated. We use scripture to combat
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  against it. We flee from the lustful youths
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  desires. We do not succumb to them
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  friends. This is animalistic.
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  This is carnally minded. If we give in to them, friends,
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  we must come up to a higher plane.
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  We are not back there on the playground.
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  We are not back there in our youthful lust.
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  We do not let the fountains spill over into the streets.
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  We take great delight in the wife of our youth. 11 And it
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  came to pass about this time that Joseph went into the house
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  to do his business, and there was none of the men of the house
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  there inside. 12 And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie
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  with me. He left his garment in her hand
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  and fled and got him out. That is the only appropriate
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  response. Whenever this most deceitful Rep
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  repetition, whenever this disgusting approach from the
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  fallen angels, the demonic haunts who desperately try to
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  get us to leave our holy habitation and come down into
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  the depths of despair, This is our only appropriate response is
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  to get thee out from there, to flee from all of that disgusting
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  Ness. Your enemy is like a prowling
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  lion trying to figure out who he can devour, Friends.
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  But we must flee. It's not even worth resisting in
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  that moment. It's getting away from there.
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  It's getting out of there. It's completely removing
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  yourself from the situation. You cannot keep going to the
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  break room to have coffee with that person who you're having a
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  an emotional affair with, because it will not just in
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  there, it will end in death and disease and decay and despair.
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  It will end in complete separation from a holy God.
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  It will end in the most deplorable, disgusting, disease
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  ridden way that you cannot see in the beginning.
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  It all looks fine, it all looks acceptable.
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  It all looks fun in the first stages, but in the end it bites
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  like a bloody Viper. Friends 13 And it came to pass,
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  when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and was
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  fled forth, 14 that she called unto the men of her house, and
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  spoke unto them, saying, See, He has brought in a Hebrew unto us
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  to mock us. He came in, and to lie to me, to
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  lie with me. And I cried with a loud voice.
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  15 And it came to pass, when he heard that I lifted up my voice
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  and cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled, and
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  got him out. 16 And she laid up his garment by her until his
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  Lord came home. So here you can see the set up.
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  He was framed, He did everything right.
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  And then it was purported that he had tried to wrongfully lay
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  with her. Do not be surprised when the
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  world frames a dialogue around the righteousness that you have
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  to make you into an evil person. It's happening in our day and
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  our hour right now. Underneath your nose, friends.
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  And woe to them who call evil good, and to those who call good
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  evil. And God said it would be so.
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  And the real question is, do you believe in the Bible?
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  Do you know the Bible? Do you read the Bible?
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  Is the Bible precious to you? Have you hidden it in your heart
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  so that you might not sin against God?
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  Because in this current culture that we find ourselves in,
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  friends, there are so many who are trying to frame the godly
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  into being the ones who are evil.
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  Do not be surprised when this very same thing happens to you,
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  friend. 17 And she spoke unto him
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  according to these words, saying, The Hebrew servant which
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  you have brought unto us came in unto me to mock me. 18 And it
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  came to pass, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left
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  his garment with me and fled out. 19 And it came to pass,
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  when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke to
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  him, saying, After this manner did I, did your servant to me,
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  that his wrath was kindled. Perhaps his wrath was kindled
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  against this adulterous wife of his.
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  Perhaps he understood that Joseph was a man of integrity.
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  Perhaps his hands were tied in the current culture he found
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  himself in, and he could not turn it around and call her a
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  lying thief, an adulterous whoremonger.
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  But his wrath was kindled, and he did something that was
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  unthinkable. Let's see what he does. 20 And
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  Joseph's master took him, and he put him into the prison, a place
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  where the King's prisoners were bound, and he was there in the
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  prison. 21 But the Lord was with Joseph, and he showed him mercy,
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  and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison. 22
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  And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph hand all the
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  prisoners that were in the prison, and whatsoever they did
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  there he was the doer of it will end on. 23 The keeper of the
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  prison looked not to anything that was under his hand, because
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  the Lord was with him, and that which he did the Lord made it to
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  prosper. So anywhere that Joseph goes
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  turns to gold. Friends, you see here that he
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  went from Potiphar's house where everything was under his care
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  here to the prison where now this leader of the prison has
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  entrusted everything unto Joseph.
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  This warden has given him the keys and he knows that he can
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  trust him. What an amazing thought that no
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  matter where God places you, if you will act in your holy
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  calling, that God can bless you in that place.
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  And if the Lord calls you on to the next arena.
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  We act with the same integrity no matter where we go, no matter
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  what profession we hold. Friends ministry is not just a
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  pulpit on Sundays. Ministry is not just stained
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  glass windows. Friends ministry is not a
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  hymnal. Friends ministry is not just
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  teaching from Sunday to Wednesday to Wednesday to
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  Sunday. Friends ministry is not just
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  taking planes, trains and automobiles to places that we've
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  never seen. Ministry happens in the home.
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  Ministry happens in the workplace.
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  Friends ministry happens whenever we're everywhere that
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  we go within the communities that God has called us to never
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  forget that. And here Joseph understood that
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  it was the integrity and the fear of God that he needed in
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  order to succeed. And you never see Joseph falling
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  away and into carnal impulses. He remained steadfast friends
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  and that is Our Calling. Friends, dare to be a Joseph in
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  this culture. Practice integrity.
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  Hide the Lord's word in your heart.
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  Do not sin against God. Do not side with culture.
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  Jesus Christ is the only way. There is no other way unto the
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  Father except for the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  Never forget that. I hope that you've been blessed
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  by 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.