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Genesis chapter 40 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Genesis chapter 40. Let us pray.
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  Our God is higher, Our God is better.
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  Our God is the only God. You are the King of the
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  universe. You're the King of kings and the
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  Lord of Lords, Jesus Christ high and exalted above every
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  principality, above every government official, above every
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  leader of the land. It is Jesus Christ who takes his
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  rightful place on the throne of our hearts.
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  We give him full obedience today.
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  We laid down every other lover. We laid down every other idol.
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  We laid down all of our own cleverness, all of our own
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  abilities, all of our own self gratification, all of our own
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  self preservation. We laid down all of our arms.
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  We laid down every single defense mechanism.
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  We laid down our very lives today.
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  We laid down our families. We laid down every single thing
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  that we have built up that has a wall against the holy presence
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  of God. We break down that wall and
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  allow the kind of glory to come in to flood our lives, to flood
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  our minds, to flood our hearts. We only want more of you, King
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  Jesus. It's all about you, King Jesus.
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  Nothing is worth anything without you, Jesus, So we only
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  want you. We desire you, Jesus.
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  We desire a touch from you, Jesus.
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  You are our everything. You're the breath in our lungs.
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  You're their minds. You are all of our thoughts.
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  You are the very emotions and the feelings.
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  You are our circumstances. You are moving mightily all
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  around us. Stir up fresh wind and fresh
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  fire. God, I pray fan the flame today.
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  Lord, increase the zeal of our hearts and minds.
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  Let us take back the territory that we have capitulated.
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  Let us take back all of the territory that we have
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  squandered. God, every single time that we
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  let our guard down, every single time that we gave the enemy a
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  foothold, God, we rightfully take back all of that territory
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  within our minds, within our hearts, within our houses, our
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  marriages, the relationships that we have with our children,
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  our workplaces. God, we take back that territory
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  and we place the flag of Jesus Christ.
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  The victory that you have won, we place it there.
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  We do not give the enemy any more control over our lives.
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  In the mighty name of Jesus, he is defeated.
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  In the mighty name of Jesus, he is broken down.
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  He is crushed underneath the feet of the Saints.
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  The gates of hell will never prevail against the church.
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  Lord, I pray for the family unit.
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  God, I pray for marriages. God, I pray that we'll choose
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  life today. God, I pray that we'll lay down
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  all of our addictions, God, and we'll become addicted to you and
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  addicted to your word, addicted to your voice, addicted to Your
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  presence, addicted to worship unto you night and day, day and
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  night, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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  Let us walk in the prayerfulness You've called us to the ministry
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  of prayer that you have given us.
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  God, we thank you, Father, for all that you've given us.
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  We thank you, God, for your holy word.
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  We thank you God for salvation. We thank you, God, for saving us
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  to the utmost. We thank you for a life worth
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  living. We thank you God for your
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  presence. We thank you, God, for showering
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  us with Jesus's blood and covering us.
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  God, we only want more of you. King Jesus, come and get your
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  glory. Holy Spirit, fill us up today,
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  not just a little, not just to the top, but overflowing.
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  God help us to love our neighbors.
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  We pray for our enemies today. In the mighty name of Jesus
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  Christ, I pray, Amen. Let's start in verse one.
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  And it came to pass after these things that the Butler of the
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  king of Egypt and his Baker had offended their Lord, the king of
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  Egypt. So somehow there perhaps there
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  was some kind of murder plot against the Pharaoh and there
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  were some suspects here and one of them would have been the cup
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  bearer and the other one would have been the Baker.
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  Let's see how the story goes. Verse 2.
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  And Pharaoh was wroth against two of his officers, against the
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  chief of the butlers and against the chief of the bakers.
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  This is the front of the house and the back of the house.
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  And somehow, some way, there was some kind of plot, perhaps to
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  poison him. And he did not know if it was
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  the waiter or if it was the chef. 3 And he put him into the
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  ward, in the House of the captain of the guard, into the
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  prison, the place where Joseph was bound.
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  So wait a minute. Stop.
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  Pump the brakes. We get a little insight here in
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  this verse that you might miss if you're not paying close
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  attention. Look at where Joseph is.
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  He put them. Who?
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  The Baker and the chef. He put them.
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  It was actually the cupbearer and the Baker.
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  He put them in ward, in the House of the captain of the
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  Guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.
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  So you see here that Joseph is still in the company and
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  protection of the captain of the Guard, which we know was
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  Potiphar. So here is a little revelation
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  for us to pay attention to. This is where we would get the
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  idea that Potiphar perhaps knew that it was all a bunch of
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  farce. It was a mockery for his wife to
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  try to pretend as if this righteous man Joseph would have
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  done any of the sorts that he was accused of for.
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  And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he
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  served them, and they continued a season in ward.
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  So here this cupbearer and Baker, they are in prison, and
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  they're under Joseph's direction. 5 And they dreamed a
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  dream, both of them. Each man is dreaming one night,
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  each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the
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  Butler and the Baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound in
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  the prison. So they both had a dream and
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  let's see how it goes. 6 And Joseph came in unto them in the
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  morning and he looked upon them and behold, they were sad.
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  So this shows the great care that Joseph had for all those
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  that were in the prison. He actually cared about them.
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  They were not just a number, they were not just a game, they
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  were not just a job. They were actual people.
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  And that is the heart of God. Friends is when we move from
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  seeing people as the ability for us to climb the corporate ladder
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  to step on to get to the top. Whenever we finally get to a
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  place where people become important, they become the most
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  important thing that we're going to do for that day.
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  It's not about money, it's not about privilege, it's not about
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  possessions, it's not about progress.
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  It's not about any of the things that the world makes it about,
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  Friends. It's about loving the Lord God
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  with all your heart, with all your mind, with all your soul,
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  with all your strength, and loving your neighbor as
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  yourself, and all of the laws filled, if we will do those
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  things, friends. 7 And he asked Pharaoh's officers that were
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  with him in the ward of his House, of the Lord's house,
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  saying, Why do you look so sadly today?
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  8 And they said to him, We've dreamed a dream.
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  There's no interpreter of it. And Joseph said unto them, Do
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  not interpretations belong to God.
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  Tell me them, I pray you. So here Joseph rightfully
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  understood that he could not interpret the dreams, but that
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  God, if the Lord was willing, would give them the
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  interpretations of the dream. And it's interesting to know
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  with all of the people of the land, there was no one there who
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  was truly connected to God except for Joseph.
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  And Joseph understood that it was to God to interpret dreams.
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  It's not for us. 9 And the chief Butler told his dream to Joseph
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  and said to him, in my dream, behold, a vine was before me. 10
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  And in the vine there were three branches, and it was as though
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  it budded, and her blossom shot forth, and the clusters of it
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  brought forth ripe grapes. 11 And Pharaoh's cup was in my
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  hand, and I took the grapes and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup,
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  and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand.
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  So here this cup bearer, in his dream God spoke to him in things
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  that he could understand. And don't be surprised if God
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  doesn't speak to you in dreams and visions and visitations, but
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  they all must line up with the Word of God.
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  There is no more interpretations of God's Word.
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  There's no more revelations of God's Word.
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  There's nothing that needed needs to be added or taken away
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  from God's Word. Anything that we have that is
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  extra biblical must come and be completely, 100% congruent with
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  the complete Word of God, and that is what we measure every
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  single thing by. Because you can be LED astray by
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  all of this occult cultic leadership.
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  You can be LED astray with all of this New Age teaching if you
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  give in to the mysticism and the Gnosticism and any of the isms
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  that are attached to Christianity.
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  And it is not profitable. Friends, we must stay within the
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  66 Canon. Nothing added and nothing
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  subtracted. And if you ever find somebody
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  who says that it is the Bible plus anything else, run, flee,
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  get away from them, for they are trying to manipulate you. 12 And
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  Joseph said unto him, This is the interpretation of it.
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  The three branches are three days. 13 Yet within three days
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  shall Pharaoh lift up your head and restore you to the place,
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  and you shall deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand after the
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  former manner, when you were his Butler.
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  So here he gives them the interpretation.
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  God was pleased enough to give Joseph the understanding to know
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  that the branches were the days, and that all of it meant that he
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  was going to go back to what he was doing prior. 14 But think on
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  me, when it shall be well with you, and show kindness.
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  I pray you unto me, and make mention of me unto Pharaoh, and
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  bring me out of this house. So just because God calls you to
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  a deplorable place does not mean that God desires for you to stay
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  in that place. And this is what calls for
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  wisdom, friends, is to know that God has much more for us than
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  just to stay in the destitute. He calls us to the palaces.
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  He calls us into royalty. He calls us into places,
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  friends, that he opens the doors that no man can shut, and he
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  shuts the doors that no man can open.
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  And it is wisdom and discernment that will tell you where you
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  need to be and when you need to be there and how long you need
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  to be there. And Joseph had enough
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  wherewithal all in mental fortitude to know that this
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  could work out for his good, that as this cupbearer went back
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  into service right next to Pharaoh, that he would speak
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  well about him. Let's see how it goes. 15 For
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  indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, And
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  here also have I done nothing that should put me into the
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  dungeon. So here he shares with this
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  cupbearer how he got all the way to Egypt, and who he's connected
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  to the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob his father. 16 And
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  when the chief Baker saw that the interpretation was good, he
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  said unto Joseph, I also was in my dream, and behold, I had
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  three white baskets on my head. 17 And in the uppermost basket
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  there was all manner of baked meats for Pharaoh, and the birds
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  did eat them out of the basket on my head. 18 And Joseph
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  answered and said, This is the interpretation of it.
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  The three baskets are three days. 19 Yet within three days
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  shall Pharaoh lift up your head from off you, and shall hang you
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  on a tree, and the bird shall eat your flesh from off of you.
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  So here this Baker thought that the good interpretation of the
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  cupbearer meant that he would get a good interpretation too.
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  And he turns and he just spills the beans and he shows Joseph
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  what his dream was, thinking that he would get a good
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  rapport. But it did not fare that way.
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  And here is a call of a true prophet, one who is not afraid
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  to speak good and to speak bad. One that does not just talk
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  about prosperity, prosperity, prosperity in the land, but one
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  who is not afraid to share the hard things of God with people.
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  That is how you know who is truly interpreting for God or
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  not. 20 And it came to pass the third day, which was Pharaoh's
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  birthday, that he made a feast unto all his servants, and he
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  lifted up the head of the chief Butler and of the chief Baker
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  among his servants. So during this big celebration,
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  he brings them out in front of everybody. 21 And he restored
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  the chief Butler under his butlership again, and he gave
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  the cup into Pharaoh's hand. 22 But he hung the chief Baker, as
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  Joseph had interpreted to them. That is another mark of a true
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  prophet, is what they say will actually come to fruition.
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  And if they say something and it does not happen, you can know
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  that they are a false prophet. And here you can see that in
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  this celebration of Pharaoh's birthday, he brought them out
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  publicly. He had learned that the coup, he
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  had learned that the mutiny, he had learned that whatever kind
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  of plan to take him out was somehow connected to the Baker
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  and not the cupbearer. And he had to pay for this
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  revelation. And here Joseph is left in
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  prison. We'll end on 23.
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  Yet did not the chief Butler remember Joseph?
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  But he forgot him. Poor Joseph left in the prison.
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  But it's all going to work out for God's good.
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  It's all going to work out friends.
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  And God has a plan and he knows what he's doing.
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  We'll just trust him and get out of our own way, get out of our
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  own understanding. And we'll actually give him the
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  full access, give him the keys. Friends, He's not your copilot.
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  He's not someone to stuff in the trunk and get out when
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  everything goes wrong. Friends, God is the one who's
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  steering at all. And we get out of our own way.
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  We bow down low, we give him center stage, we give him our
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  everything. We give him our next breath.
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  And watch how it goes well with you two, friends.
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  He might put you in the hardest places to speak the hardest
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  words to people. And it will completely devastate
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  them and cause them to bow down and give God due reverence and
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  awe and wonder and worship. Because you said the right thing
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  at the right time at the right place.
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  And that is the God that we serve, the God who can do
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  infinitely more and infinitely more than we could ever imagine
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  we could ever think of. He's not limited friends, and
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  you can't put him in a box. He is the great I am, period.
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  There's none like our God. Hope you've been blessed by this
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  amazing chapter 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.