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Episode 71 - The Lord With Us · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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O Lord, Our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth?
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Who hast set thy glory above the heavens out of the mouth of babes
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and sucklings. Hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightst
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steal the enemy and the avenger. When I consider thy heavens, the work
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of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained,
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what is man that thou art mindful of him? And the son of Man
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that thou dost visit him. For thou hast made him a little lord than
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the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honor. Thou hast made
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him to have dominion over the works of thy hands. Thou hast put all
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things under his feet. Psalm number eight, verses one through six, far
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that we thank you for amen, coming down from glory, giving yourself Amen,
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and shedding your blood for the remission of our sins, so that we
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might have a right to the tree of life. We thank you for a
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man this great salvation to which you have called us love. We pray today
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that someone somewhere will hear the voice of the Savior knocking at the door of
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their heart, and that they will open up and you will come in and
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be with them, Save them, deliver them, set them free from the
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power of sin, the power sat in, the power of darkness, the
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power of death and fear. God, be glorified in your people today.
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Be thou magnified in us through us in Jesus name, we pray and give
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thanks for all things. Amen and Amen. What is man? The Psalmist
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says, what is man? That thou art mindful of him? And the
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son of man, that you would visit him a man? That is what
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we're going to focus on today, The Lord being with us, Amen,
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The Lord with us. Amen. Those of you who are listening to this
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And we certainly invite you to become a subscriber to the podcast, and
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please, by all means share it with someone else. A man, a
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man, Amen, our goal, our mission, a man. Our endeavor
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is to teach and to preach the Word of God, the Word of the
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Living God, faithfully, a man without compromise, A man so that God
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is glorified. A man in the earth, in a man his people,
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a man in the church is going to prevail. I have no doubts about
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it. Amen, this is the promise of Jesus himself. Upon this rock
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I build my church, and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.
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We win, a man, we win. The word of the Lord
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is right. I am convinced. I am persuaded a man, as the
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apostle Paul says, I am persuaded that none of these things will be able
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to separate us a man from the love of God. A man, what
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is man? What is man that the sovereign Lord of all creation, would
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come down from glory a man to be with us a man. We are
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made in God's image and its likeness. The Bible teach us we are the
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image bearers and the crowning finality of God's superb creative power, and we were
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made to be like him in dominion, in knowledge, wisdom, and in
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understanding. As the Psalmist said, thou hast made him that is man,
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to have dominion over the works of your hands. You put all things under
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his feet. We were made a little lord than the angels, a man.
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But the Psalmist is asking the question, what is man that you are
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mindful of him that you would come down to visited him, to be with
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him. Amen, and good Again. We were made in the image and
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likeness of God, and we are the image bearers of God. And we
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were made to be like him, to be in continual fellowship with Him.
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However, our continuing rebellion against God greatly diminishes our being like God. Yet
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in spite of this rebellion, God, in his love, God, in
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his magnanimous mercy for fallen man, he came down from glory Jesus Christ,
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Amen, the Savior of the Redeemer, the Bible says, made himself of
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no reputation, took upon him the form of a servant. Found in the
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likeness of men. He almost himself and became obedient unto death, even the
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death of the cross. Amen. So this God of creation Amen, in
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the person of Jesus Christ, came down to save us from this rebellion.
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And not only to save us, ladies and gentlemen, Amen, but to
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be with us. Emanuel, that's his name. His name shall be called
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Emanuel. That being interpreted God with us. And not only is he with
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us now, the Bible says, he is with us. Jesus promises,
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I'll be with you always, even to the end of the world. The
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Lord with us. See this is the beauty of God's uncomfortable affirmative action program
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that he spoke concerning his people. He is with us in all aspects of
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our life. Amen, of your life, my life. Amen, from
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before the conception of each of us in our mother's womb, Amen, all
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the way up until the time that we pass from this mortal to immortality.
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God is with us. Now, please understand, and you should know this
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by now, those of you who are mature enough in the Lord and have
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lived long enough, you should know a man, that God did not choose
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to make life for us in this present world to be without pain and suffering.
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He did not choose to make life for us to be without trials and
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tribulations. Amen without heart aches and disappointments, he said. He is a
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matter of fact. Before Jesus departed out his where he told his disciples plainly,
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in this world you will have tribulation. You're gonna be tested, You're
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gonna have trials, You're gonna have persecutions. But be of good cheer.
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I have overcome the world, and I've made you overcommerce. You are more
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than conquerors. And this is exactly what the apostle paul A man I was
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talking about and why he could evidently make the declaration that in all these things
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we are more than conquerors. Those of us who are in Christ Jesus,
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we are more than conquerors, and we overcome and we triumph because God always
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causes us to triumph. You know why, It's because the Lord is with
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us. Now. I want to take you today to the book of Genesis,
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because one of the most powerful and enduring of testimonies of the Lord being
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with us. It's found in the book of this beginnings, of the beginnings
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a man in the story of one of the most extraordinary eventful of lives in
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a man by the name of Joseph. I just could not escape from Joseph.
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Amen. And we pick up the story in Egypt after he had been
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sold into slavery as a seventeen year old teenager. Can you imagine that,
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Amen? Can you imagine that as a young teenagers being sold into slavery,
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ripped from everything that you've known. Amen. And we can get to that
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in just a moment. But I want to read the first six verses of
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Genesis thirty nine. So again, if you have your bibles, Amen,
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you can go with us to this, Amen, great narrative in the life
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of this young man by the name of Joseph, the Bible tells us in
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verse number one, and Joseph was brought down to Egypt, and Potiphar,
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an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the Guard, an Egyptian, bought him
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off the hands of the Ishmaelites, which had brought him down thither ah verse
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number two. And the Lord was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous
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man. And he was in the house of his master, the Egyptian,
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and his master saw that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord
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made all that he did to prosper in his hand. And Joseph found grace
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in his sight, and he served him, and he made him overseer over
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his house, and all that he had he put into his hand. And
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it came to pass from the time that he had made him overseer in his
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house and over all that he had, that the Lord blessed the Egyptian's house
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for Joseph's sake. And the blessing of the Lord was upon all that he
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had in the house and in the field. And he left all that he
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had in Joseph's hand, and he knew not aught. He had saved the
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bread which he did eat. And Joseph was a goodly person and well favored.
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Amen. Please, I hope you heard this very clearly, and it's
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repeated a man throughout these adventures of Joseph. And we won't go through all
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of the story, but I want you to focus on what the Bible tells
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us in verse number two. A man and the Lord was with Joseph.
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The Lord was with Joseph. Amen, Lord, he please understand this.
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God has no respected persons, of course, and everyone who is called by
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his name, everyone whom He has redeemed out of the hand of the enemy.
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God is with you. And not only is he with you, but
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He is also for you. And when God is for you, and when
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God is with you, there is no schein there's no concoction that the powers
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of the darkness of this world can conjure up to take you down or out.
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No weapon. I've said it over now to keep continued to saying,
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no weapon formed against you can prosper. You see the Lord that chosen Joseph
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before he was conceived in his mother's womb, just as he said to Jeremiah,
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the prophet before you were Amen, conceived in your mother's womb. I
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ordained you. I made you a prophet to the nations. You don't need
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to be afraid of them. Don't be afraid of the people. Don't be
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afraid of the nations, don't be afraid of the enemies. Amen. Speak,
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Amen, I'm gonna put a word in your mouth. And when God
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has his hand on you, and he does, if you are his God
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has purpose for your life. Amen. And God had chosen Joseph before he
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was conceived in his mother's womb, and God had ordained him already before the
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foundation of the world to be precisely what he was to be. But he
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also had to go through the process of testing, through the trial, through
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the fire of purifying, as we all will have to. And it is
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it is purposed in the plan and a man providence of God in order to
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prepare us for whatever God has ordained, whatever God has decreed for our lives.
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Now, Joseph did not know exactly what God had in store for him,
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just as it is with many of us. We don't know oftentimes exactly
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how a man things are going to be a man working out in our lives.
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Joseph didn't know exactly what God had in store for him as a child
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a man when God gave him these dreams. He didn't know how these things
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would unfold in his life. He only knew that God had given him dreams,
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that God had called him for a purpose. God doesn't have to explain
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everything to us, and he doesn't because He's called for us to live by
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faith. The just shall live by faith. Amen. We like to see
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the beautiful, glorious, a man ending in the sense that we rise above
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our enemies, and we conquer and we overcome and all. We want to
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see all of that. But we don't want to see the heart aches.
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We don't want to see the tribulation. We don't want to see the tests.
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We don't want to see the trials. We don't want to see the
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fiery furnaces. Amen. And so God doesn't show us everything that's gonna happen
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in our lives. But he promises again that I'm gonna be with you.
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Amen. I'll never leave you, I'll never forsake you. Amen. And
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when God has his amen calling on us, his gifts that he gives to
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us, Amen, the gifts of the Holy Spirit that belong to Him.
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By the way, see the gifts and the calling will not exempt us from
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going through these fiery trials just because you are gifted, just because you are
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a man called of God, Amen, you will not be exempted a man
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from these trials. You will not be exempted from some of the most devious
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acts of betrayal and treachery a man that can be possibly inflicted upon a human
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being. Amen. Even when we've done nothing you don't have to, You
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don't have to do anything worthy of it. Amen. If it's God,
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Amen ordained, if it's God, a man in his in his providence,
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and in his plan and purpose for your life. He will not allow,
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first and foremost and I love this, any more on us than we can
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bear. Amen. He won't put any more on us than we can bear.
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So we're not exempt a man from trials and tribulations. And such was
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the case with this young man, Joseph. Amen. He was hated by
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his own brothers Amen, because he was favorite by his father Jacob first and
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foremost Amen. And then of course they saw that he was chosen by God,
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a man again who gave Joseph these dreams of his future, of his
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destiny as a young child, and he told them. He told them to
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his brothers and his father, his family. Amen. He shared with them
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the dreams that God had given to him. And they hated him. Amen.
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They hated him. And of course his brothers were very they had become
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weary of all of the favoritism because his father favored him. He was the
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firstborn son of his beloved Rachel Amen, his wife Rachel and and and and
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uh they were weary of all of the favoritism that their father, Jacob,
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a man that's shown toward Joseph, and the Bible says they hated him soul,
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and they detested him so that they could not speak peaceably to him.
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But in all of this family dysfunction, in the midst of all of this
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strife and hatred and malice, the Lord has his purposes, and he has
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his his his eternal decrees fully intact. Listen, it doesn't matter what men
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do, it doesn't matter what they say, it doesn't matter what they think.
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They will never be able to overturn. I've said this over and over
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again. They can't change what God has ordained. No one can amen.
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Favoritism and respect the persons does not necessarily necessarily work well, you know,
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with with man. It doesn't. A man, and we have a very
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narrow perspective, a man that is of course limited by our own agenda,
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sometimes by our own understanding or what we might perceive to be or want to
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be. And and often it does not lead to the desired outcome that we
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think it's gonna happens. It's gonna happen. And this is what happened to
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Joseph a man, and it was not what Jacob had in mind. Jacob,
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when in his favoritism, did not dream of the fact a man.
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He could not have conceived of the fact that his sons a man, would
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sell that brother into slavery. I mean, and then come back and deceive
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you. I don't again, I don't have time to go through all it.
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Hopefully you've already know the story. He could not have conceived of this
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in his mind. Amen. But he had this favoritism a man and respective
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persons as it were, towards Joseph a man. But he did not have
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in his mind that what would happen to Joseph. Amen, would what would
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would would be the uh, you know, outcome of his favoritism. He
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just did not think that would be so. And please understand that hatred in
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the heart of man is never good, as Jesus taught, because it is
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murderous and it's of the devil. People who hate harbor hatred, Amen,
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in their hearts. They will commit murder unless they are restrained by God himself
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from shedding blood. People. Let me say it again. People who hate
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people, who harbor hatred in their heart, they will commit murder. They
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will shed blood unless the Lord himself restrained them from doing so. And we
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don't know, Oh, my God, we have no idea how much God
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restrains this kind of evil in the world from the shedding of blood. Amen.
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And the hatred of Joseph Amen by his brothers was so strong that they
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indeed plotted to kill him, murder him. And they got the chance,
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at least they thought so on this particular occasion when their father Jacob sent him
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Joseph to check on them, and they spotted him coming. And the Bible
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tells us they schemed, they plotted, Amen, they devised in their mind,
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this is our opportunity. We're gonna kill this boy. We're gonna get
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rid of him. We're gonna rid ourselves of this dreamer. That's what they
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call the dreamer. See, they hated the faith of favouritism that their father
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showed toward him, but they also hated the fact that God had chosen him.
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Little did they know, of course, Amen, the plants. See
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this is the blindness. Hatred will blind you. Envy and jealousy will blind
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you. You can't see because it's you're jealous a man of what God is
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doing. In someone else's life, and you can't see that it's also for
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your good. They didn't see. They didn't know. They couldn't see because
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they are blinded by hatred. They were blinded by jealousy, they were blinded
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by envy, they were blinded by man alice. Amen. So they decided
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they were gonna kill him. That is just how corrupted the conscious of man
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can become. You talk him out having a conscious that's seared. This is
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that same spirit of kin, the very first murderer, the same spirit of
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the devil. The Bible says Jesus said, he was a murderer from the
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beginning. And hatred will do that, malice will do that, jealousy and
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envy will do that. If you allow it to harbor, if you allow
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it to rise up in you, you are a murderer. Jesus said,
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if you hate your brother without a cause, you're already a murderer. But
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because the Lord was with Joseph and he was for Joseph, God prevented his
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own blood brothers from carrying out their murderous plans against their little brother. But
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instead Joseph was sold into slavery, carried into Egypt by a band of Ishmaelites
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who were going down that way, and as a slave on the auction block.
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The Bible lets us know he ended up in the house of a man
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by the name of Potiphar. Again, the key to Joseph's adventures in Egypt
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is in verse number two of this chapter. I read it chapter thirty nine.
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The Lord was with Joseph. Now Joseph was alone. He had no
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family, no one that he knew, in a strange land. He was
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alone, and he was a stranger. He was a slave, he was
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on the amen auction block, and he was a young teenager. But you
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know what, he was not forsaken. Oh, thank you Jesus, Oh
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yes, oh yes, And I know I'm sure Amen. His mind was
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racing and he had all kinds of thoughts, and he didn't understand at that
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time. He did not understand what God was doing in his life. He
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didn't. He didn't. He didn't. Again, God doesn't always show us
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the end of the story. Amen. We know the end, the ultimate
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end, of course, but we've got to go through in this life.
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Amen. And it's not always gonna be pretty, it's not always gonna be
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easy. Amen. And again God didn't promise us that. But what he
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did promise us was I'm with you. I'll never leave you, I'll never
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take you. Amen, though my father and my mother forsake me, disarm
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and said the Lord will take me up. And while he was there in
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Egypt as a slave, the Bible says the Lord made him a prosperous man.
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And God did this while Joseph was a teenager, just like he did
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it with Daniel and his comrades. Amen. They were in their young young
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teen years Amen, when they were taken into Babylon sold into slavery. Amen,
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taking them brother into slavery to be captives by Nebuchadnezza in Babylon. So
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it was with Joseph as a seventeen year old teenager. The blessings in the
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favor of God was upon his life soul. I mean so evident that Potiphar,
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his master, he could see it, Amen, and he decided,
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I've got to take advantage of this opportunity. This is by far the best
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slave I've ever purchased. Amen, he sez he. When we are walking
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with the Lord, when we are chosen by God, when God has a
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plan for your life, when God has purposed for your life when God has
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his hand upon you. Amen, we are to be a blessing to others,
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even when they are not walking with the Lord. You see what happened
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in this Amen, story. Here the Lord was with Joseph, and and
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and and and and and again. It was so evident that the favor of
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God was upon his life, even as a slave. His master could see
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it. Because Joseph was not felled with bitterness, he was not feared with
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malice, he was not felled with anger. Amen. He did not,
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Amen, simplify any of those negative, bitter characteristics that many of us perhaps
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would harbor. With resentment and and being troubled at why God, why me?
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Why me? You know? And and and no no, no,
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no, no no. Joseph a man, seemed to have been able to
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overcome rise above all of these things. And again, even as a young
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teenager, Amen, the hand of God was a man upon him, and
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and and the blessings of God was upon him. And again he had a
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character a disposition about him. Amen. It was just something special about this
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young man. Amen. And again, when God is with you, and
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when God is for you, other people can sit in you. And men
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ought to be able to see our good works, see our diligence, see
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our faith, see our amen diligence in serving the Lord. They should be
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able to see this. They should be able to see our love one for
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another. Jesus said, by this shall all men know that you are my
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disciples. Indeed, by the love that you have one for people ought to
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be able to see the difference in us. Amen. Well, that city
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on a hill, well that's salt. Amen. Wear that light in this
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world. People ought to be able to see. The city on the hill
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is hidden. The salt of the earth has lost its saltiness. The light
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has gone out, and it is dim and it's not shining. No,
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no, no, Amen. They need to see that God is with us,
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that God is for us. There has to be a difference. Amen.
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And if God is for us, as the apostle Paul said, who
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can be against us? Amen? And so Joseph, and by the way,
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let me, let me, let me make this point. The Bible
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tells us in this and in this narrative. Listen, listen when the Bible
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says, the Lord was with Joseph, and he made all that a man
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need, He did to prosper. What Look, what the Bible says,
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he was a prosperous man in the house of his master, the Egyptian,
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and the man saw it. God made all that he did to prosper.
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And then the Bible tells us, Joseph found grace in Potipha's sight, and
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all watch this. He served him. Joseph served Potiphar, Joseph served Potipher.
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Oh, my God, help us Jesus, if the saints of God
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would just be faithful in their everyday. A man a calling, whatever is
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vocation to which the Lord has blessed you a man, we are to be
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faithful. We ought to be diligent. We ought to be examples, We
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ought to be living epistles known and read of man. Amen. Potipher could
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see. Amen, the hard work of Joseph, the diligence of Joseph as
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a seventeen year old. There's no excuse. There's no excuse for being a
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sloth, for being a sluggard, for being lazy. Amen, no excuse,
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no excuse, none at all. Amen. Joseph, the Bible tells
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us, found grace in his sight, and he served him Potipher. He
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did his job, he did it well. Amen. And the Bible tells
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us a new Testament. We ought to work as unto the Lord. Amen.
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And when you know, listen, listen, when we when we when
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we have the right spirit, who we have the right attitude, when we
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work as unto the Lord, and we were diligent, when we are faithful,
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the blessings of God are automatic. You don't even have to ask,
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You don't even have to request, you don't even have to pray for it.
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It'll all. It'll automatically come. If you diligently hearken to the voice
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of the Lord, your God. Deuteronomy twenty eight. The Lord said to
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his people, if you would just obey my voice, if you would just
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do my commands, if you would just walk in my ways and my precepts,
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Amen, I will command all of these blessings to come on you and
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to overtake you. In other words, if we would just do what is
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right, the blessings of God will automatically come on us, overtake us,
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be with us. And then not only that, all people of God.
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It overflows your cup overflows, and it blesses other people. Potipha could see
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that the Lord, the Bible says, what's with Joseph? Amen? And
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the Bible says, and it came to pass after Potiphar saw it. He
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made Joseph the Overseer. He put Joseph in charge of everything. The Bible
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tells us from the time that he made Joseph the overseer in his house over
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all that he had, the Lord bless the Egyptian's house. The Lord blessed
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Potipha's house. The Lord will cause the blessings a man that flow through you
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to be on your company, even though it's not your company, even though
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it's not your You know you didn't you're not You're not the founder. Amen.
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You could be working for a fortune five hundred company, for example,
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that's been around for a hundred years, but because of your presence, because
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of your diligence, because of your faithfulness, because the Lord is with you.
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Oh, if the people of God, oh my God, if my
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people that are called by my name, would umble themselves and pray, turn
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from there, will get ways and seek my faith. God would here from
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heaven, He would forgive sins, and he would heal the land. Other
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words, prosperity would just be flowing through us to the rest of the world,
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to the rest of the nation. Because righteousness is what exhalsts a nation.
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And it doesn't mean that everybody in the nation has to be saved,
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everybody in the nation has to be living right. No, we just need
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a few people. We need a few faithful folk praying and believing and fearing
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God and serving God and walking up right. Amen, we just need a
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few. It only took ten. If it had been ten, Sodom and
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Gomarraw Amen would have still been here. Amen. God doesn't, Amen,
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he doesn't, he'll He'll cause his blessings the come on sinners, rebels the
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ungodly. The body says, God is good. His rainfalls on the just
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and the unjust. Amen. And so because of Joseph, because of this
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one man, a slave, God calls his blessings and his prosperity to overflow
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throughout all of Potipha's house. Oh my God, help us, Jesus,
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help us, Jesus. Oh yeah, Amen, Potipha. Amen was so
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I mean, and thank God. He and he understands by the way,
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all of us is in the hand of God and the plan of God,
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the providence of God. God was the one who was providentially at work.
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Again, Joseph didn't understand. He didn't know what was happening at the time.
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And because we can look back, you know, with his twenty twenty
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vision hindsight, and understand and see amen, how God was working in his
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life. Amen. But we're not gonna have necessarily carbon copy, certainly not
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of what happened in Joseph's life. But we can understand these principles, these
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precepts, and know of a surety that the promises of God is applicable in
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our lives, just as it was in his life. Amen. The Lord
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bless Potipha's house for Joseph's sake because he was there. And if you are
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faithful in what you do, Amen, If you're faithful in your vocation,
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if you're faithful in your calling, if you're faithful on your job, if
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you're faithful and diligent, God will bless the company just because you're there.
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Oh, My God, help us Jesus. The Bible says, this man,
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a man could see it, a man, and he left all that
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he had in Joseph's hand. And he didn't even This man didn't even he
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didn't even check up on He didn't He just went to work every day and
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came back home and ate and went to bed, took a nap, sipped
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his lemonade or whatever, and went to bed. That's how faithful Joseph was.
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That's how diligent he was. That's how much of a blessing he was.
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See the adversary, your adversary, who is the devil? He absolutely
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hates the favor of God on your life, and he will use anyone,
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anyone he can, to try to up end what God has in store for
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you, what God is doing for you. But no weapon can prosper,
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no scheme, no device, no cunning, no concoction, no witchcraft,
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no sorcery, no demon nothing. No one can stop what God has spoken
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concerning you. Amen. Right here in this present world now, the Bible
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tells us Joseph was a good looking guy, young strapping teenager. He may
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have been by this time twenty years old. I don't know how many years
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had passed, Amen, from the time he was first Amen brought into Potipha's
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house, how many months or years had passed. But he was still a
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very young man, Amen, because he was thirty seven when he was promoted
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to Amen, the prime minister number two position as it were in Egypt.
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Amen. But but, but he was a good looking, strapping young lad.
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And that old devil, that old devil, that old adversary. He
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used the lust of the flesh and Potiphar's wife to take Joseph down by enticing
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Joseph to commit adultery with her. But Joseph was keenly aware that this wickedness
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of adultery is sinning against God. Also, it wasn't just cheating on part
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of her. See a lot of people think, Oh God, oh Lord,
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will you please help your people, help your people? Amen? If
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my people, oh help us Jesus. Joseph was keenly aware of this,
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that this was sinning against God, so he refused to succumb to her daily
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longings and desires to fulfill the lust of the flesh. Oh no, Joseph
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said, no, no, no, no, no no. The Bible
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tells us by the way in the work of Proverbs that this sin of adultery
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when a man goes into his neighbor's wife. The Bible says, jealousy is
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the rage. And the man who has been wronged, the man who has
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been sinned against, he cannot and will not be pacified. Though you try
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to give many gifts, Amen. It is an evil, It is a
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it is a wicked and this is a this is a kind of generation that
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we're in. This is a kind of culture that we're in, a wicked
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and adulterous generation. And people, again, when you're when you're conscience,
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well, you don't have any conscience about lusting about commit all. He's satisfying
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the lust of your flesh, and and and and and and not even understanding
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that this is a sin against God. Joseph refused. He ran, he
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he flee, fleed from her presence. It may cause this. There was
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this one day when she you know, she she she she she made this
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opportunity to happen. I'm sure she made sure there were no servants around,
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and she caught Joseph in the house all by herself, in a section of
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the house, all by herself, and hit him, just Joseph and her.
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This is my opportunity, she devil. The devil can set all kinds
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of traps. But again, it won't prosper, it will not. The
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Bible tells this body way in the New Testament. Flee for nication. Don't
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try to negotiate, amen, run run, flee, youthful LUs, run
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from adultery, from sins of the flesh. Amen, from a farnication,
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all kinds of a a unnatural and again a sensual desires of the flesh and
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of the mind. Amen. The Bible tells us to flee farnication, flee
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youth, youthful us, Amen, Joseph brand And because Partipha's wife was rejected,
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and because she was a scorned woman, she falsely accused Joseph of attempting
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to rape her. Let me pick this up down in verse number nineteen.
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The Bible tells us, so it was when his master because she told her
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husband of her lies. Amen, she didn't tell him all that she had
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been doing. You know, That's the way it is, you know.
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And again no nobody said life is fair. And Joseph didn't get a chance.
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He didn't get the opportunity to present his side of the story. He
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didn't get a chance to call witnesses, to call upon the other servants to
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testify on his behalf. He didn't get his day in court. Amen.
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When his master heard the words which his wife spoke to him, saying,
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your servant did this to me after this manner, that his anger was aroused.
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Then Joseph's master took him and put him into the prison, a place
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where the king's prisoners were confined. And he was there in prison. You
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just what did he do? What did he do, ladies and gentlemen,
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to deserve this? What did the man do? He was faithful. He
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was faithful to the Lord. He was faithful to the word of God.
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He was faithful to Potipha. He served him. He served Potipha so diligently.
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And this is as a slave. Now. He served Potiphar so faithfully
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and so diligently, to the point where Potiphar didn't even check on Joseph.
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He didn't even have to check on him. He didn't have to bring in
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an auditor. So I want to examine the books. Oh no, that's
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how faithful Joseph was. But now here comes that old enemy. Here comes
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the enemy. But that's that's that's okay, It's okay. These things happen
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in life. But when God is for you, And then again here it
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is again. In verse twenty one, Joseph is in prison, wrongfully accused
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of rape, no trial, no chance to defend himself. But the Bible
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tells us look at verse twenty one, But the Lord was with Joseph.
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The Lord was with Joseph and showed him mercy. Oh see, that's the
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mercy I want. I don't you listen, listen, you be hard prayer
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if you're depending on the mercy of man. Oh oh no no no,
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no, no, no, no no no no, A thousand times,
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a million times, a billion or trillion times. Don't open man. Don't
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look for mercy from man. Amen, don't look for help from man.
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But the Lord was with him. See all God and I just. God
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is just. He's seeing all of this, he's watching all. He knows,
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all he knows. He knows, he knows. By the way,
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listen, your future, my future, the future of this world, the
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future of things to come that are yet to come. Guess what they are
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with God. History, the future that we don't know is history to God.
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Because there's nothing that can happen, nothing that will happen that God has
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not already decreed, that God has not already purposed, that God has not
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already ordained, nothing takes him by surprise. This is how we need to
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live. This is how we need to think. This how we need to
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order our lives. This is why and how we can live by faith.
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My future is history with God, because he's already declared the end from the
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beginning, and his counsel, Oh help me, Jesus shall stand forever.
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The Lord was with Joseph. Now Joseph doesn't know, We don't know.
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We don't know the future, but we know the one who holds the future,
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and it is again history with him. God lives and resides in eternity.
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In eternity, there is no past, there is no present, there
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is no future. We can't fathom it. We can't understand it because we
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are confined in this world, and we are confined to time and space and
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events. The Lord was with Joseph, the Bible says, and showed him.
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She gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
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And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand. All the prisoners who
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were in the prison, whatever they did there, it was his doing.
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It was Joseph's. See. Oh, my God helps Jesus. All help
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me, Jesus, All help me, Jesus. And look, look,
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look, this is almost like this is a carbon copy literally of his time
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with Potipher. Now he's in prison, and see even being in prison,
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being falsely accused, innocent a man of the charges leveled against him. God
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is still with him. The hand of the Lord is still there, even
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in the prison, even in the dungeon, as a slave, as a
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foreigner, as a stranger, all along, no one there, no family,
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no friends, no acquaintances. God is still with him. God is
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steal for him. So the keeper of the prison, just like Potiphar,
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trusted Joseph fully because he could see it. Oh, my God, oh
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Jesus, help us, Lord, Will you just please help your people,
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Oh God, help us, help us. Help us to trust you,
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Lord, Help us to lean not to our own understanding. Help us to
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believe your report. Help us to believe what you have spoken concerning us.
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Help us to believe that no weapon formed against us can prosper. Help us
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to go through the trials and tribulations, the tests, amen, the disappointments,
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Amen. And to know that you are faithful, Amen, that you
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would never leave us, You'll never forsake us, And no matter what happens
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in our lives, Lord, that you are with us. And help us.
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Jesus, Oh God, help us this young man, Amen, young,
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not thirty five, not forty. He wasn't even thirty yet. I
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don't think he was even twenty five yet. Because when you got Pharaoh,
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with the dreams and all of the years that passed and all that, Joseph
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was at best in his early twenties, early to mid twenties. The keeper
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of the prison gave turned all the books, overturned all of the operations.
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Man, man, where have you been all my life? I've been sweating,
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I've been toiling, I've been Oh my God, thank God for Joseph
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being here. Thank God for the saints of God working in these companies,
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incorporate, making them prosperers, making the life of your boss, your supervisor,
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your manager easier. Thank God for the people of God being Oh.
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I pray that that is the case for all of us working and laboring,
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because we are there, because we are faithful, faithful. Amen. The
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keeper of the prison turned everything over to Joseph. He did not look into
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anything what the Bible says, the keeper of the prison did not look into
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anything that was under Joseph's authority, because the Lord was with him. And
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whatever Joseph did, the Lord made it prosper. And I can't help it.
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I can't help it. I can't help it. I gotta go there
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again. Psalm number one. Blessed is the man who does not walk in
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the council of the ungodly, who does not stand in the way of sinners,
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who does not sit in the season with a scornful. But his delight
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is in the law of the Lord. And in his law he meditates day
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and night. And the Bible says he shall be like a tree planted by
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the rivers of water, bringing for fruit in season. His leaves shall not
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wither, and whatsoever he does shall prosper, because God is going to make
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it prosper. When God is with you, when God is for you,
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when you are serving him faithfully, when you're walking up right before him,
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God is with you, and God is for you. Woh, Oh,
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God, help us, help me, Jesus, help me, Jesus.
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Listen, jess. As the Lord was with Joseph, just as the Lord
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was for Joseph, so he is with you also. And when God is
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with you, and when God is for you, does not matter where you
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are, a slave, a private in the army. You're at the lowest
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level. Huh huh. You're the dishwasher, You're the bus boy. Amen.
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You're you're you're you're an You're an immigrant in a strange land. Amen.
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When God is with you, when God is for you, it doesn't
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matter where you are. It doesn't matter whatever the skin or the plans of
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the wicked one. No, no, no, doesn't matter, because it
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will not prosper, it will not prevail. All you need to do is
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to walk by faith and to live your life in the conviction and in the
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confidence that the Lord is with me. You need to make that death you
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can understand. You needn't make it your own personal. Yeah, though I
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go through the value of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.
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Why because the Lord is with me. He's my shepherd, he's my
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guide. He's not only with me, but he is also for me.
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And therefore I will not fear. I will not fret about what the enemy
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may doe to me. Trust his plan, trust his hand of providence on
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your life and for your life. Because the Lord is with you and he
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is for you. God, help your people today, Help us to walk
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by faith, not by sight, leaning not to our own understanding, but
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in all of our ways, Lord, we want to acknowledge you. You
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will direct our path. You will order our steps, and no good thing
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will you withhold from them who walk up right before you. God, be
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magnified, be glorified in your people. Today in Jesus name, we thank
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you now, a man and a man