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Genesis chapter 44 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Genesis chapter 44. Let us pray, Our Father, who is
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  in heaven, holy is your name, your Kingdom come, and your will
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  be done here on this earth, just as it is there in heaven.
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  Give us this day Our Daily Bread.
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  Father, forgive us for our many trespasses, or as we forgive
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  those who trespass against us, lead us not into temptation.
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  God, deliver us from the evil one.
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  For yours is the Kingdom and the power, the glory and the honor,
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  forever and ever. And Jesus Christ is the way, the
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  truth, and the life. It is only by Jesus Christ that
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  we come in, Father, we just want to love on you and be loved by
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  you. We want to see you, God.
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  We want to see the world all around us the way that you do.
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  We want to attach ourselves to you, God.
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  You lead us by still waters. You protect us with your rod and
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  your staff. Yes, though we go through the
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  valley of the shadow of death. You're with us, God, and we only
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  need you. We only want you.
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  We only seek you, God. We don't seek vanity.
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  We don't seek pride. We don't seek mammon.
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  We don't seek position, God, we just seek your face.
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  We want to see you, Father, we come in today through the blood
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  of Jesus Christ. This speaks a better word.
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  We put it on the lentil of our door.
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  God, Passover us in the day of destruction.
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  God, gird up our loins so that we are unashamed in your
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  presence. Father, we love you.
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  God, we love everything about you.
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  Teach us your ways today. I decrease as you increase.
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  It's all about King. Jesus is not about me.
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  God, we just want you wreck us with your presence today.
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  Holy Shekinah, glory all around us, Father, and it's in your
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  mighty, powerful and precious name, Jesus Christ of Nazareth,
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  the Messiah, the anointed, the long-awaited, the cornerstone
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  that we pray today in your name, Amen.
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  Let's start in verse one. And he commanded the steward of
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  his house, saying, fill the men's sacks with food as much as
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  they can carry, and put every man's money in his sack's mouth.
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  So here Joseph is telling his steward, hey, fill up their
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  sacks completely overflowing, so much so that they cannot carry.
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  Give them back the first money, give them back their second
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  money, load them down. And that's what God does for us
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  in his house. There is no lack friends.
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  He owns the cattle on 1000 hills.
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  He put the oar in the earth that we base our currency off of.
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  Do not get it twisted. Do not lose sight that
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  everything is the Lord's. And if we will come up under the
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  banner of the yoke of Jesus Christ, He's going to lead us
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  friends. He's going to give us friends
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  all that we could ever want and need and desire.
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  Every desire of our heart is fulfilled in Jesus Christ.
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  And he tells us to be content with food and clothing and do
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  not go seeking after the same things that the world does.
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  Verse 2 put my cup, the silver cup in the sack's mouth of the
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  youngest and his corn money. And he did according to the word
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  that Joseph had spoken. So you can see here that
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  Joseph's steward is very obedient and he is very much
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  trustworthy. And everything that Joseph tells
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  him to do, he does it exactly, and he does it very
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  conspicuously. And you can see here that it is
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  beautiful, this relationship that he has with the steward,
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  that the steward just does whatever he asks.
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  And that is the same relationship that we should have
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  with Jesus. We don't have to understand it,
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  we don't need to know all the details.
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  When Jesus Christ speaks, we move three.
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  And as soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away,
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  they and their donkeys. 4 And when they were gone out of the
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  city, and they and not yet far off, Joseph said unto his
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  steward, Up follow after the men, and when you do overtake
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  them, say unto them, Why have you rewarded evil for good?
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  So this was a set up. They were framed friends.
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  Joseph told the steward to put his cup in Benjamin's sack, and
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  then go and overtake them on their way back to Canaan, and
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  ask them why they had repaid his good with evil by stealing the
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  cup. 5 Is not this it in which my Lord drinks?
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  And why indeed, and whereby indeed he divines you have done
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  evil in so doing. So this divinity that the Bible
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  speaks of is divination, friends, and it was practiced in
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  the world of Egypt. If this was like fortune
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  telling, trying to tell the future, and we do not know if
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  Joseph actually practice this, but at the time God had not put
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  any constraints against it. And there is such a limited
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  power, friends, in the occult. It's very limited, but God's
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  power is unlimited and overshadows any of the limited
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  power that the world tries to turn their backs on God and go
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  into this occult, demonic, satanic power of witchcraft,
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  friends. And they're attracted to it, but
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  they need to know that the source, the Creator who allows
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  everything, friends, is much more powerful than anything they
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  could ever experience in all of their charms and all of their
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  divination and all of their witchcraft, occult practices.
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  This New Age garbage that has sprung up in our day, in our
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  hour. And God will not take second
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  place to anybody. And He possesses all the power
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  in the entire universe. And it's much better to be
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  attached to Yahweh than any of the limited power that you find
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  in false religion and in the occult friends. 6 And he
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  overtook them, and he spoke unto them the same word. 7 And they
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  said unto him, Why, says my Lord, these words, God forbid
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  that your servants should do, according to this thing. 8
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  Behold, the money which we found in our sacks mouths we brought
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  again to you out of the land of Canaan.
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  How then should we steal out of your Lord's house silver,
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  silver, or gold? So here they're saying, far be
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  it from us to act in the way that you are accusing us of.
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  We would never do such a thing, and we are sure of it. 9 With
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  whomsoever of your servants it be found, both let him die, and
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  we also will be my Lord's bondsman.
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  So he's saying, if anybody in our company, if any of the 11
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  brothers have this cup that Joseph supposedly divinus from,
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  let them die, and the rest of us will come back and be slaves. 10
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  And he said, now also let it be according to your words, he with
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  whom it is found shall be my servant, and you shall be
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  blameless. He's saying, I'll let everyone
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  else go, but the one in whom the cups found with will become a
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  slave. And obviously this was a setup.
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  Joseph had orchestrated it. And he's operating out of the
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  wisdom of God. And God knows how far to push
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  these men before they break, friends.
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  And God does the same with us friends.
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  He puts things on us friends, and they are designed to bring
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  us to a place where we finally give up and we finally
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  acknowledge His supremacy in our lives. 11 And they speedily took
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  down every man's sack to the ground and opened every man his
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  sack. So they knew they were innocent,
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  they had done nothing wrong, they trusted each other, They
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  knew that none of the other brothers would do this
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  ridiculous crime. So they quickly got off of their
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  donkeys and pulled their sacks down and opened them for the man
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  to inspect. 12 And he searched, and he started at the oldest and
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  left off at the youngest. And the cup was found in
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  Benjamin's sack. No surprise there, friends.
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  Benjamin did not take it, the brothers did not know about it.
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  Joseph had planted it, and the steward knew exactly where to go
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  to find it. 13 And they ripped their clothes, and they loaded
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  every man his donkey and returned to the city.
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  So you remember, he said, only with the one whom the cup is
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  found will become the slave, but the other ones are free to go.
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  But you can see that the brothers have had a change of
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  heart ever since the time that they sold Joseph off into
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  slavery. You can see here, they ripped
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  their clothes, which was equal to someone who just died.
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  And they're thinking about their father for the first time
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  because when they sold Joseph off into slavery, they cared
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  nothing for Jacob's feelings. And now, because something has
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  happened to the youngest Benjamin, whom Jacob loved and
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  doted over, you can see this radical change in the brothers
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  hearts and minds and actions. And that is what Joseph wanted
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  to see. And that is what God was after.
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  He was showing all of them the change that has happened in
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  every single one of them. And he's using all these events,
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  the famine, he's using the position, he's using Benjamin,
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  he's using all of it to get the most amount of glory.
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  And he already told Abraham that they were going to go down into
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  Egypt and be there for 400 years. 14 And Judah and his
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  brothers came to Joseph's house, and he was yet there, and they
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  fell before him on the ground. So again and again and again we
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  see them bowing down, we see the sheaves bowing down to the one
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  sheaf standing. 15 And Joseph said to them, What deed is this
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  that you have done? Did you know?
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  Did you not know that such a man as I can certainly divine?
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  16 And Judah said, What shall we say to my Lord?
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  What shall we speak? How shall we clear ourselves?
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  God has found out the iniquity of your servants.
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  Behold, we are my Lord's servants, both we and he also
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  with whom the cup is found. So here Judas speaks up for the
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  group, and he's going to give one of the most moving speeches
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  in all the Word of God. Friends, you can see that there
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  is a radical heart change for Judah, for the brothers, and we
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  can see that the lion of the Messiah is going to come through
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  the lion of Judah. We're going to get to see the
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  lion roar right here. And the way up is down.
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  And he makes himself humble and practices humility and shows the
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  great strength that he possesses. 17 And he said, God
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  forbid that I should do so, but the man in whose hand the cup is
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  found, he shall be my servant. And As for you, get up in peace
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  unto your father. So Joseph is saying, no, just
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  little Benjamin, he'll stay here.
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  You guys go on back to your father. 18 Then Judah came near
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  to him and said, Oh my Lord, let your servant, I pray you speak a
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  word in my Lord's ears, and let not thine anger burn against
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  your servant, for you are even that's Pharaoh.
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  So here Judah is going to wax eloquently, and he's giving this
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  mysterious man. He's giving him all of the
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  reverence and saying, You are even with Pharaoh, You're equal
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  to Pharaoh. 19 My Lord asked his servants, saying, Have you a
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  father or a brother? 20 And we said unto my Lord, We
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  have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little
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  one, and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his
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  mother, and his father loves him. 21 And you said unto your
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  servants, Bring them down unto me, that I may set my eyes upon
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  him. 22 And we said unto my Lord, The lad cannot leave his
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  father, for if he should leave his father, his father would
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  die. 23 And you said unto your servants, except your youngest
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  brother, come down with you, you shall see my face no more. 24
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  And it came to pass, when we came up unto your servant, my
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  father, we told him the words of my Lord. 25 And our father said,
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  Go again, and buy us a little food. 26 And we said, We cannot
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  go down. If our youngest brother be with
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  us, then we will go down, for we may not see the man's face
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  except our youngest brother be with us. 27 And your servant, my
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  father said unto us, You know that my wife bore me two sons.
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  So here he's going off on a tangent and he's telling Joseph,
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  and he's reminding this mysterious man about all the
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  conversation that they had in the first encounter.
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  And he was the one, this mysterious man, IE Joseph, he
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  was the one who drew the fact that they had a father and the
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  fact that they had a younger brother out of them, and said
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  that they could not do any more business with him unless the
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  little Benjamin came down. He's reminding him of all of the
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  events of the first encounter. And you can see here that Judah
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  was very much knowledgeable of the fact and the sentiment that
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  Jacob had towards Benjamin and Joseph because they were the two
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  children of his beloved Rachel. And it seems as if Jacob only
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  had one wife, even though he had Leah, Bildad, and Zilpah.
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  And you can see here that the 12 tribes of Israel, the 12 sons,
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  were born of these four women here.
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  And you can see that in Jacob's mind, he only had Rachel, and he
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  only cared about Benjamin, and he only cared about Joseph.
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  And it must have been very hurtful unto Judah, but he's
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  gotten over it. He's swallowed all of that.
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  He's dealt with it, friends, and he is acknowledging it and he is
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  actually talking about it to this mysterious man. 28 And the
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  one went out from me, and I said, surely he is torn in
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  pieces, and I saw him not since. So here Judah is talking to
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  Joseph about Joseph. 29 And if you take this also from me, and
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  mischief befall him, you shall bring down my Gray hairs with
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  sorrow to the grave. 30 Now therefore, when I come to your
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  servant, my father, and the lad, be not with us, seeing that his
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  life is bound up in the lad's life. 31 And it shall come to
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  pass, when he sees that the lad is not with us, that he will
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  die, and your servants shall bring down the Gray hair of your
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  servant, our father, with sorrow to the grave.
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  So Judah was worried that if they returned back to Canaan and
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  Benjamin was not with him, that Jacob would die on the spot of a
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  broken heart. 32 For your servant became surety for the
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  light unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then
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  I shall bear the blame to my father forever.
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  So here Judah made a point to tell Joseph, the mysterious man,
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  that he was a surety for little Benjamin.
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  And that is what Jesus Christ does for you and for me.
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  Jesus is our surety. He is the one who won our
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  salvation. He is the one who gave.
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  Give us the down payment of the Holy Spirit, friends, that we
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  can know that we know that we know that we know that we will
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  be in the Father's house. 33 Now therefore I pray that your
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  servant abide instead of the lad of bondsman to my Lord, and the
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  lad go up with his brothers. We'll end on 34.
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  For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with
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  me, lest maybe I see the evil that shall come on my father.
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  So Judah gives one of the most moving speeches in all the Word
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  of God, and this is indicative of how Jesus Christ feels about
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  every single one of his beloved. He goes and He is our
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  intercessor, and He lives forever to make intercession for
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  you and for me. And he tells the Father, this
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  one is mine and he's going to bring us into the fold.
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  Friends, I hope you've been blessed by this amazing chapter
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  in God's Word. I know I sure have.
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  I'm praying for every single one of you.
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  I love you. We'll see you back here
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  tomorrow. God bless you.