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In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.

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Okay, we are in Genesis chapter 37 from here on out up until Genesis chapter 50.

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The focus really shifts to just being all about Joseph.

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And so from chapter 37 to 50, it's basically the chronicles of Joseph.

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With the exception of chapter 37, that really focuses on that weird story with Judah.

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Okay, if you've read through Genesis, you know what I'm talking about. We'll deal with that later.

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I'm sorry, chapter 38 where it talks about Judah and Onan and Ur and so forth.

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And one of the reasons I think that that story is kind of just inserted within the chronicles here of Joseph

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is because of the fact that Joseph ended up being a better representation of Jesus Christ far more than Judah.

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And of course we know that Judah, you know, that's from where Jesus Christ is going to come from

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but you know, he isn't necessarily a typology of Jesus Christ.

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Joseph actually operates far better, far greater of a typology of Jesus than Judah.

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But Judah is mentioned in chapter 38 because from Judah you have Phares

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and Phares essentially comes into the genealogy of Jesus Christ.

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So it's all still about Christ.

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And so the Lord is trying to help us realize that, you know, he's using imperfect menders,

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imperfect people within the genealogy of Jesus.

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But that's why I believe Genesis 38 is being mentioned there.

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But from Genesis 37 and on, it's all about Joseph.

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And quite frankly, I'll be honest with you, this is probably my favorite part of the book of Genesis.

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When I read through the story of Joseph, it's very emotional.

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There's a lot going on and it's just a lot of great representations, typologies, illustrations of Jesus Christ.

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So let's start in verse number one.

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It says,

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So right off the bat, we're seeing that Joseph is obviously reporting to his dad regarding the deeds of his brethren.

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It specifically says that he's bringing up their evil report.

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Whether that means that they're dishonest, they're doing things that are not right,

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they're doing things that would be displeasing in the eyes of the father.

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And this is one of the reasons why Joseph's brethren despised him.

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We're going to see later on some other reasons, but primarily we also see here that it's because of the fact that he's testifying of their evil report.

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So the first illustration, representation of Christ here is that Jesus, just as Joseph, also came to Israel and he testified of their evil deeds, right?

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Go to John chapter 2 if you would.

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John chapter 2, hold your place there in Genesis 37, and let's go to John chapter 2.

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As you're turning there, I'm going to read to you from John chapter 3 in verse number 20.

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It says,

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Look at Genesis chapter 2 if you would, in verse number 23.

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It says,

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And of course we know that Jesus throughout his ministry was constantly calling out the Jews.

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He was constantly calling out the Pharisees.

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He was bringing up their evil report.

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The fact that they were teaching for doctrines, the commandments of men, the fact that they didn't really believe in Moses because they rejected him.

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He was constantly preaching against them, right?

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And so we see this parallel with Joseph that the first illustration, typology that we come across is his ability to bring up the evil report.

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Now let me just say this is that when it comes to preaching, that's what we're supposed to do.

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We're obviously supposed to exhort people, build people up, comfort people,

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but the Bible says that we're also supposed to bring up the evil report of others, right?

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Correct others.

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The Bible says to preach the word, be instant in season, out of season,

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reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all along suffering and doctrine.

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Meaning that it's our job as preachers, pastors, to bring up the evil report of this world.

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To preach against the fornication, preach against drunkenness, preach against the sins of society.

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And you know what? That's one of the reasons why people are going to hate us.

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That's one of the reasons people are going to hate you.

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Maybe your family and friends have separated you from their company.

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It's not necessarily because there's something wrong with you.

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It's because there's something wrong with them.

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And it's because of the fact that you're exposing the sinfulness of their actions,

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what they believe or their deeds and so forth.

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And so we can't expect to be loved by the world.

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We can't expect to live a godly life and not have people criticize us

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or be angry with us because it's our job to call out the sin, to bring up that evil report.

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So we can look at Joseph and say, oh man, he's just a little snitch.

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He's just ratting on his brothers. He's bringing up the evil report.

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And no one likes to snitch for sure, but let's just be honest.

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He's probably telling the dad about things that they're doing that are bad.

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They're wicked. They're being dishonest.

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Maybe they're doing things that are sinful.

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And Joseph's coming back and he's bringing this report like, hey,

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they're doing some wicked stuff over there.

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I just want to let you know they're being lazy.

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Maybe they're not working.

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They're claiming that they're doing one thing, but they're actually doing the exact opposite.

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And obviously when you're in the world, no one likes to snitch,

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but at the end of the day, the Bible tells us to be honest though.

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To be truthful, to be honest, to expose lies

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and to make sure that we are individuals of integrity

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and not being this individual that just, well, I don't want to get in trouble.

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I want to be liked by my co-workers.

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I want to be liked by my family and friends.

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So I'm just going to turn a blind eye to sinfulness and criminal acts or whatever it may be.

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It's not right to do.

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We need to be like Joseph and bring up the evil report to the Father.

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Verse 3 says,

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Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children

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because he was the son of his old age.

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And he made him a coat of many colors.

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So Joseph is favored of his father, Jacob,

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and we see there because of the fact that it's the child of his old age

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and the parallel that we can derive from this is the fact that God told Jesus,

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this is my beloved son and whom I am well pleased.

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He loved the Lord Jesus Christ.

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That is his son.

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And it specifically says that he made his son a coat of many colors.

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So he made him this coat.

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It's a raid with a variety of different colors.

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Not my style, right?

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But maybe his dad meant well or whatever.

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And you think to yourself, what is the parallel there to Jesus Christ?

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How does this relate to Jesus Christ?

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Well, we're going to see what's going to be done to the coat later.

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But I personally believe that the reason he gave him that coat of many colors

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and why it parallels Jesus Christ

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is because Jesus was made in the likeness of sinful flesh.

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And when we talk about sinful flesh,

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we're talking about everyone in this world no matter what color you are, right?

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You know, red and yellow, black and white,

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they are all precious in his sight.

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So he took upon himself the form of sinful flesh.

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And then later on, we see that this same coat is dipped in what?

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Blood.

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Why?

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Because without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sins.

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And so every kindred and tongue and nation

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is given the opportunity to be covered in the blood

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of the Lamb of God who should take away the sins of the world.

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So I believe that this coat of many colors represents all nations, kindreds and tongues.

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Look at verse 4 here.

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It says,

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And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren,

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they hated him and could not speak peaceably unto him.

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So they don't like that he's favored above everyone else.

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And obviously, you know, if we're to address this in a practical way,

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it's never good to show favoritism to one child over the other, right?

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You should love your children equally and not show some sort of favor

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because you don't want to cause resentment in your other children

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because if you're favoring one over the other,

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your other children are going to know about it, right?

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They're going to know that you're kind of lenient with this person.

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You are favoring them.

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You bless them more.

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You know, you despise the other.

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And that's not right to do.

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You know, I believe that we as parents should make sure that we equally love all our children.

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And here's the thing, like, you know, I have six kids.

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I have a lot of kids.

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I got six.

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And I can honestly tell you with integrity of heart that I love all my children equally, okay?

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And I don't favor one over the other.

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If you're like, if you could just lose one, what would you lose?

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None of them.

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I love all my children.

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And I can't picture my life without any one of them, you know?

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And it's not like when I'm showing affection to one,

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it's just like, oh, yeah, this is my favorite one right here.

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Now, grandparents have a tendency to be that way towards their kids.

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You know, kids sometimes, they're just like, this is the one.

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But parents shouldn't be that way.

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You know, we need to make sure that we favor our children.

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You're like, what if I think one is cuter than the other or something like that?

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You know, we need to just recognize that they're all beautiful in their own way, okay?

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And, you know, we need to favor them and not, you know, cause, provoke them

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to feel a sense of resentment because, oh, I just like this one more than the other or something like that.

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It's wrong to do.

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Jacob shouldn't do this.

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And, you know, it's wrong for him to do this because, you know, he's obviously causing his other sons

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to have bitterness not only towards Jacob, but more so towards Joseph.

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And Joseph's not doing anything wrong, right?

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And so don't be the parent that just shows favoritism towards one over the other

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because, well, you know, we just get along better.

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Or, you know, I just like this one more or something like that.

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Well, if that's true, just don't verbalize it, okay?

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Don't verbalize it and work on loving your children equally

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because it's not right to have one favored over the other.

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Now, it says here that they hated him and could not speak peaceably with him,

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meaning that they're angry at him.

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They're bitter towards him.

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They don't want him to be in their company.

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It says in verse 5 in Joseph dreamed a dream and he told it to his brethren

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and they hated him yet the more.

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So what does this mean?

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You know, obviously we're going to look at the dreams that he's having

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and they're very prophetic dreams.

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These are dreams that are being given to him by God.

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But let's address the practical aspect of this passage

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and then we're going to get into the application

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what this is actually illustrating in a spiritual way.

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The practical thing is this, you know, if you are an ambitious person, right?

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And, you know, your ambition, you know, you got to be careful

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who you share your ambitions with.

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Why? Because sometimes people are just haters.

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You share your ambition, your goals and what you want to do

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and, you know, sometimes people are, they're just like,

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they just don't like the fact that you want to succeed.

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You know, you share your dreams, so to speak

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and then people, all they have to do is just want to criticize you

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and try to stop you from succeeding, stop you from going forward.

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You know, make sure you share your ambitions with ambitious people

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or people that are in support of your success, okay?

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Now, look, obviously, if you come to me and share your ambition

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and it's a stupid idea, I'm going to tell you, okay?

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Like, I think I'm going to open a lottery shop or something, you know?

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And, you know, that's a stupid idea.

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It's sinful, you know, obviously we need to be realistic about

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goals and dreams and visions, right?

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When I say vision, I'm talking about a dream,

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some sort of ambition that you might have.

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But at the end of the day, you know,

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you need to make sure that you share your dreams

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and your ambitions with the right kind of people.

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Because I'm just going to tell you right now, in this world,

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even amongst Christians, you have haters.

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People who, oh, man, this guy, he wants to do this

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or he has this ambition.

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I don't think that's going to work.

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You and I, you shouldn't do that.

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I wouldn't try that if I were you.

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You can't even do this or that or the other.

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You know, when those types of words come out of someone's mouth,

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just mark it down, this person is filled with envy.

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What happened to Joseph's brothers?

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What are they filled with?

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Envy.

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He told the dream and they're just like,

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who does this guy think he is?

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He's younger than us.

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You know, he's having all these dreams or whatever,

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that this is what he's going to do and they hate him for it.

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So on a practical level, you know,

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make sure you share your goals and successes,

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if they're realistic, of course,

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with people who are also realistic

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and are willing to help you, encourage you

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and are willing to just support you in that endeavor.

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You know, I've been around people where

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if I share a specific goal,

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they're just like, oh, oh, okay.

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You know, you say, how often do you share those dreams

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with that person?

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Nothing.

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I don't share them with them anymore.

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Because obviously I don't want to be around people

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that douse your flame,

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that just discourage you, right?

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And again, you shouldn't want to share things like that

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with haters because haters typically don't like to see you

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succeed and they'll often,

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even if they think that what you're doing will succeed,

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they would do everything humanly possible

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to demoralize you, okay?

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Maybe you have a business venture

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that you're trying to get off the ground, okay?

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You're trying to succeed in a certain area.

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You know, you better be careful sharing that goal

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with a family member who hates on you, okay?

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With a specific friend that just hates on you

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or something like that.

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Get around people who brainstorm with you.

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Get around people who are willing to just add to the ideas.

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Ask you how it's going.

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Not like, oh, you know, whatever.

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You know, I don't think that's going to work or whatever.

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I tried that already or something.

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Well, yeah, you didn't succeed

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because you probably suck at it.

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So, you know,

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and you probably didn't have a good idea

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to go along with it or something.

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The point being here is that, you know,

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I get that Joseph had the dream

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but he probably shouldn't have shared it with his brothers

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because his brothers are already bad.

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And of course, he's sharing it with people

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who are already mad at him for bringing up an evil report.

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You understand?

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And so, you know, be careful with that.

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And, you know, I have family members

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that I don't share anything with.

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Because sometimes family members are haters, man.

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You know, a prophet is not without honor.

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Save it his own country.

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That's what the Bible says.

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And so often family members could look at you like,

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well, you know,

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I remember when you were this and this, that and the other.

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I'd rather just let my success speak for itself.

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Right?

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So, let the numbers talk.

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Let the numbers talk.

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The success talk.

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The goals talk.

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The achievements talk.

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Rather than trying to brainstorm with people

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who don't want to see you succeed.

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Okay?

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And I've just learned that when it comes to

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striving and endeavoring to accomplish something big,

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you just ought to keep it to yourself

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until it gets to a certain level.

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That's my opinion, you know?

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My opinion is if you are striving to accomplish something big,

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you're like, you have a goal that you want to accomplish.

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Maybe it's like weight loss or something, right?

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Or maybe it's gains that you want to make.

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Maybe it's a certain amount of money that you're trying to get.

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Maybe it's like a side business

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that you're trying to get off the ground.

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Keep it hush, hush.

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Share it with maybe only one other person.

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Maybe your wife, your husband or something.

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A very close friend.

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But don't go blabbering about it

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to everyone else because I'm just telling you right now

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people can demoralize you.

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So I just keep it hush, hush until the numbers blow up

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and then people just start asking you about it

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like, this is what I'm doing, you know?

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I'll give you a really raw example.

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You know, the Instagram, for example, you know?

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I've had people just before the Instagram blow up

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hate on the page.

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Just hate on the content.

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Hate on the page.

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This is what you should be doing.

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Is that any other?

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And, you know, that's not going to work

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and, you know, talking down on it.

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And that was my fault for just sharing some of the goals

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that I have, right?

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And look, obviously not every idea you have

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is going to take off, okay?

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That's how things work.

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Be a person who brainstorms.

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Be a person who comes up with a library

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and a catalog of ideas because eventually one will work.

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And the way you get one to work is if you come up

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with a bunch of different ideas.

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So I've made a mistake of sharing stuff with people

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and, you know, luckily I just didn't listen to them.

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I just kept at it

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and now here I am a year later

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and it's blown up, right?

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And so I realized like, oh, you know,

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I got to be careful because if I listen

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to the advice of these other individuals

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then you know what?

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I wouldn't have experienced the same success

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because I would have been like, oh, they're right.

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Maybe I shouldn't even try or something like that.

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You know?

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And, you know, don't base

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whether you want to pursue a particular goal

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based off of what other people think about it.

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You know what I mean?

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Like if I told someone a year ago, like,

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I'm just going to make content about the Jews

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and I'm confident that it's going to blow up,

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I'm sure people would have been like,

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no, you shouldn't do that.

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You should be more well-rounded.

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You know?

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Be more well-rounded

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and talk about other things.

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You're not going to grow that.

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Well, guess what?

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I guess you're wrong, okay?

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And people think like, oh,

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you're just like a one-trick pony.

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It doesn't work that way.

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Instagram is a niche.

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That's how it works.

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You know what works when you drive in

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one particular topic?

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That's what works, okay?

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You think I don't get tired about talking

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about Jews all the time?

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Jews are a grief unto me, okay?

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They're grievous and they're vexing to my soul.

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I don't like to think about Jews, okay?

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They make me mad.

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They make me frustrated.

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So you think I'm just like,

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can't wait to do it again?

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I'm just doing what I know works.

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You say, well, did you get any advice?

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Nope.

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Just test things out.

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You have a goal.

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You implement it and you let the number

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speak for themselves.

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People are like, well, yeah, you grew,

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but you should be a little more well-rounded.

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Well, you know, well-rounded doesn't

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really work for a lot of people, though.

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And so at 190,000 followers,

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I think if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

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At the end of the day, right?

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And let me also say this.

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Don't take advice from people who have

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not succeeded in your area, okay?

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You know, I'm trying to cut weight

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and I'm doing decent, but I'm just

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going to tell you right now, I'm not

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going to learn from people who are

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600 pounds, right?

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It's not going to happen.

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It's not going to happen.

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It's just the way it works, you know?

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I'm not going to take health advice

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from a vegan or a vegetarian.

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Well, actually, the science behind...

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Let me look at your calves real quick.

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What's going on here, you know?

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What's going on here?

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Well, actually, if you...

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I'm not interested.

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You're a bad representation of this whole topic.

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I'm not interested in getting advice

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from people who have not succeeded

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in the area that I want to succeed in,

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okay?

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You know, you say, who do you get

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advice from when it comes to church things?

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Well, my sending pastor is one of them.

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You say, why?

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Because he succeeded.

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The man has succeeded extensively.

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Pastor Anderson has succeeded extensively.

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So, yeah, that's who I want to get advice from, right?

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I'm not going to get it from some, you know,

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church out there who's running five.

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Why would I get advice from...

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I think the way we should do it is...

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Bro, you're running five people in your church.

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You're not the poster boy for success

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on church growth here.

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The point being here is that you need to make sure

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that you dream, dream big,

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but don't make the same mistake that Joseph made

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and just share it with people who hate you.

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You know?

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And here's the thing.

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Here's the best thing.

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Here's the great thing about being hush-hush

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about your goals until you succeed

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is that if it doesn't succeed, no one knows about it.

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So no one knows you failed.

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You know what I mean?

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Like, oh, that didn't work.

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And just...

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Mark it out.

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I've had ideas that just failed,

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but you don't know about them because I didn't tell you about them.

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Okay?

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And look, I have a podcast right now

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and it's blowing up.

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It's doing absolutely great.

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I'm thankful to God for it

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and it's just reaching a lot of people.

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It's called the Engrafted Word.

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I had this idea back in 2019.

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This is something that I've been wanting to do for years.

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And I literally already had the name.

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I had episodes recorded.

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I had this entire vision.

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But, you know, I just, you know,

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I just felt like it wouldn't succeed.

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I didn't really have all the details.

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And I never really shared it with anybody.

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And I'm kind of glad I did it

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because maybe six years ago,

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you know, when I came up with the idea,

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if I shared it with someone,

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people would be like,

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oh, that doesn't really work.

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You know, it's not going to really blow up.

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It's not going to really do anything.

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And that probably would have demoralized me, you know?

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So I'm glad that when I decided to, like, implement it,

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I didn't tell anybody.

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It just blows up.

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So let the numbers speak for themselves.

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Dream, have goals, have things you want to achieve.

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Share with people who are going to aid you, you know,

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and they're not going to demoralize you.

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They're going to promote you.

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They're going to support you.

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And they're going to be real with you.

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You don't want to be around a bunch of yes men either.

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You want to be around people

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who actually tell you the truth, right?

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Like, this diet you're on, you're still fat.

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So I'm just, I know you think you're losing weight,

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but you're not really losing weight.

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You know what I mean?

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You're still fat.

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All right, bro.

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Thanks.

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You know?

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You're looking out, bro.

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You know?

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But here's the thing.

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If you're losing weight, don't be a hater.

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Make that, let that person know.

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Hey, yeah, you look a little thin.

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A little bit, you know?

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It looks like it's working a little bit.

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Or, you know, hey, you know, you've grown some muscle.

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You look a little bigger or whatever.

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Be around people who are just going to be realistic

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and real with you.

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They're not going to be haters, okay?

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So that's the practical aspect of this passage.

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What is a spiritual application here?

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Well, obviously we know that he's dreaming a dream,

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but, you know, we can say a dream is a vision.

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The Bible says, well, there is no vision.

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The people perish, but happy is the man to keep it the law.

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And so this could be synonymous with, like, preaching, right?

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When we preach to people, we're telling them

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the vision of God's Word.

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So what is he doing?

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He's, like, preaching to his brothers.

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He's prophesying to his brothers

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of things that must shortly come to pass.

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And what happens?

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They hate him for it.

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And, you know, this is the result of preaching.

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People just hate you for it.

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Now, may it never be said, though,

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that when the man of God gets behind the pulpit,

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Passover here gets behind the pulpit and starts preaching

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that the people who are hating it

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are the people in the congregation.

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You better not be hating this preaching.

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If you do, just leave and just don't come back

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because you can't handle preaching.

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You know, we should embrace preaching.

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The Bible says, despise not prophesying,

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meaning that you should have this love relationship

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with the preaching of God's Word

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and not despise it.

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You know, obviously we all love preaching

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when the sermon is against someone else,

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but we should like it even if it's against us.

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And look, folks, I've been there in the congregation

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where the pastor's preaching against your sin

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and then your face is just red.

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I've been there.

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I remember, like, my father-in-law preaching against me

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and I'm just like, I'm like, he's talking about me.

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Like, he's just divulging what I just told him

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and he's just preaching against me right now.

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But I wasn't mad at him.

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I was like, pfft, can't believe this guy.

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I'm never gonna ask him for any advice ever again.

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You know what it caused me to do?

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To just get right with God.

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That's what you're supposed to do.

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If you get bitter instead of better,

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then you don't love preaching.

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You just love to hear people scream

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and preach against other people except for you.

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Loving preaching is when you love preaching

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against others and against yourself.

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Amen.

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So he's dreaming a dream.

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He's telling it to his brother.

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He's preaching to them.

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He's prophesying.

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That's what preaching is, prophesying.

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He's prophetically addressing

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what's gonna take place in the future

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and what's the result.

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They hate him for it.

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Now we expect for the unsafe to hate us for it, right?

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We expect for people who are limp-wristed,

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soft-sew Christians to hate this kind of preaching.

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We expect the Calvary Chapel types,

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the non-denom types to hate this

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because of the fact that they can't handle it, right?

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So, you know, they hated us without a cause,

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but sometimes it's just like they just hate us

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because of the truth.

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We're preaching the truth.

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We're proclaiming the Word of God.

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And we're not using this liberal

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Christian-ese or something like that.

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Let me just say something really controversial right now.

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Jesus is God.

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You know, it's like...

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Let me just say something really controversial right now.

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You shouldn't sin.

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Oh, thank you, Sherlock.

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Let me just say something really controversial right now.

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We need to be in church.

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You know?

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Here's something controversial.

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Faggots! How about that?

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God hates homos! How about that?

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How about quoting Leviticus 2013?

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How about preaching from Romans chapter 1?

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How about expounding upon Genesis chapter 19?

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How about preaching against divorce?

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How about preaching against alcohol?

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How about preaching against fornicators and adulterers?

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Oh, no, because then you'll get hated for it, right?

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How about preaching against faggots and transvestites

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and pedophiles and saying that they deserve the death penalty?

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How about that?

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You know, that's my dream.

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But you know what the result of that is that people hate you for it.

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And so they hated him for it.

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They hate him because he's favorite of his father,

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just like the Jews hated Jesus because he was beloved of the father.

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They hated him because he brought up their evil report just as Jesus brought up the evil report of the Jews.

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And they hated him for his preaching just like the Jews hated Jesus for his preaching.

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Again, I mean, there's instances in the gospels where Jesus Christ is preaching the house down

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and they're picking up stones to stone him because they can't handle what he's saying.

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They don't like what he's saying.

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They perceive that he's spake this against him.

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That's what the Bible says.

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Like, oh, you're talking about us, huh?

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You know, in Matthew chapter 21,

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we have Jesus saying that the Kingdom of God should be taken from you

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and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.

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And he's saying that, you know, the stone with which the builders rejected,

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the same as becoming the head of the corner,

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this is the Lord's doing and how marvelous it is in our eyes.

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And then what does the Bible say?

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It says of the Jews, I think he's talking about us.

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And they hated him for it.

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It's like, yeah, he is talking about you guys.

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And so we have Joseph essentially preaching to his brothers about this dream

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and then they're just increasing in their hatred towards him.

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Look at verse 6 and he said unto them,

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Here I pray you this dream which I have dreamed.

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For behold, we were binding sheaves in the field

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and lo, my sheaf arose and also stood upright

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and behold, your sheaf stood round about

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and made obeisance to my sheaf.

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And his brothers said unto them,

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Shout thou and deed reign over us

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or shout thou and deed have dominion over us

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and they hated him yet the more for his dreams and for his words.

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So obviously Joseph doesn't have a whole lot of discretion.

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He's like, let me tell you, this dream,

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like I'm better than you.

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Like we're binding sheaves and we all got these bundles

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but my bundles bigger and then your sheaves

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are just like bowing down to me and they're just like

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and keep in mind, he's the younger brother.

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Now what is the spiritual application here?

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Well, you know, we can apply this to Old and New Testament.

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The brothers representing the Jews and the Old Testament,

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Joseph representing believers and the New Testament.

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And you know what? The Old Testament bows down.

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The sheaf of the Old Testament bows

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to the sheaf of the Gentiles in the New Testament.

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You know, the Bible literally says regarding the Jews

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in Revelation 3.9, you know,

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they would say they are Jews and are not

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but are the synagogue of Satan.

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I will make them to come and worship before thy feet

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and to know that I have loved thee

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just as Jacob loved Joseph,

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just as the sheaves of the brothers bowed down

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to Joseph's sheaf in like manner.

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Jesus says, I'm going to make them to bow down

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before your feet and to know that I have loved thee.

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So the sheaf of the brothers, that Old Testament,

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the accumulation of all those salvation

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of the Old Testament will bow and be pale

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in comparison to the amount of people

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that the New Testament sheaf will produce.

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Understand? Because at the end of the day

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more people have been saved from the time of Christ

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or the time or the institution of Israel

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to the conclusion of the Old Testament.

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Why? Because of the fact that they were supposed to be

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allotted to the Gentiles, they were not.

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And of course the New Testament now includes

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Gentiles among believing Jews.

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So they hated him for it. They were just like,

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and it says in verse 8,

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shall thou indeed reign over us?

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Isn't that exactly the problem that Jews

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had about regarding Jesus?

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They didn't want Jesus to reign over them.

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Are you going to reign over us?

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Shall thou indeed have dominion over us?

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Yes! Yes, he will.

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It says in verse 9,

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and he dreamed yet another dream

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and told it to his brethren

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and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more

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and behold, the Son of the moon

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and the eleven stars made obeisance to me

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and he told it to his father and to his brethren

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and his father rebuked him

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and said unto him, What is this dream

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that thou has dreamed?

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Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren

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indeed come to bow down ourselves

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to thee, to the earth?

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So, you know, Joseph, God bless him

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but he's just, he's not learning here.

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You know, if my brother started hating me,

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I'm like, I don't think I'm going to tell him anymore.

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Like, these guys are mad at me right now

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and I'm getting all these dreams.

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I should go talk to someone else.

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But to a certain degree he kind of did,

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he went and told his father

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and his father rebuked him.

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He was very upset.

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And keep in mind his father loved Joseph

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but he doesn't like this dream that he's having.

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And you know, this is kind of like

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what you have with Jesus

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and his stepfather and, of course, his earthly mother

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who they just couldn't really understand and grasp,

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you know, that he must be about his father's business.

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Right?

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So he's telling this dream,

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he is demonstrating that basically

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his mom, and of course his mom at this point

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has passed away.

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But that his father and his brothers,

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basically the entire nation of Israel

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is going to be in,

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they're going to be subject to Joseph

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and we, because we know the story,

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this is referring to what's going to take place in Egypt.

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Verse 11,

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And his brethren envied him

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but his father observed the same.

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This is very similar to what Mary said

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when they lost Jesus

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and she observed the same in her heart.

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But it states here that his brethren envied him.

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So why do they hate Joseph?

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It's because they hate his status.

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They want what he is.

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They want that same favor.

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They want what he has.

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And look, envy is rottenness of the bones.

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That's what the Bible says.

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And we as Christians need to make sure

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that we are not envious people.

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We need to keep that in check

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because every Christian has the propensity to be envious.

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We see someone succeed,

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someone possess the things that we want,

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have the status that we would want,

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the acclamations, the praise of others,

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whatever it may be,

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and there could be a sinful inclination to say,

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well, I want that.

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I want the position that this person has.

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I want to be like this person.

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And then you begin to envy that person

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and that is a sinful thing to do.

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You've got to be content with who you are.

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And look, if you don't like

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not receiving praise for certain deeds

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or accomplishments, then do something.

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Here's what you're supposed to do as a Christian.

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Number one, rejoice when your brother or sister succeeds.

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That will help you squelch the envy

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even if it just kind of hurts you to do it.

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Just do it anyways

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because you've got to subject it to flesh.

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The flesh is like,

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they're saying he did a good job.

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I don't think I'm better or something like that.

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Go over and say, you know what, he did do a good job.

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You did a fantastic job.

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You're doing a great job

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and that'll help you kill the envy.

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But let me just say this, if that's not enough

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then go do something greater then.

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Go do something greater,

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go accomplish something,

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go get better at what you do

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and you know what?

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You will receive praise for it.

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But just don't be an envious person.

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Trying to tear people down

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just because they're more successful

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than you or something like that.

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What's stopping you from being successful?

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It's not the person who's succeeding,

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it's you.

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You're the lazy individual.

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You're the person without vision.

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You're the person without dreams, without ambition.

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You're the brokey, okay?

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Go do something about it

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instead of envying others for the things that they have.

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And look, at the end of the day

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there's instances where envy is sinful

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and you can't try to do better

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in order to, you know,

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achieve the same success because the Bible tells us

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that we should not envy sinners.

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Sometimes Christians envy

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unsafe people and it's not right to do that

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and there's nothing that you can do

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to achieve what they have

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because God doesn't want you to have that.

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God doesn't want you to be a wicked person, right?

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You know, these young people today

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let me say this, you need to stop envying

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people like Clave.

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The Muggers.

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Oh man, I just wish

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I was just like him or something.

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And look, this guy has a lot of influence.

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You old timers, you guys, you know,

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just tune me out right now.

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This is for the younger people.

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You know, a lot of people are into this guy.

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But let me just say this,

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if you're a dude into that guy, you're acting like a faggot.

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Super gay, looks maxing thing.

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That's super faggoty.

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It's un-Christian.

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It's a godless attitude to have.

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Okay? It's vain

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and God's not pleased with that.

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And what it demonstrates is that you're envious of the wicked.

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You're envious of sinners.

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I mean, that guy is a major fornicator.

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He's extremely wicked.

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He's extremely prideful.

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He's not a representation of Christianity.

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Well, I'm just trying to like integrate that

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into like who I am and make myself better.

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How about you just like

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exercise thyself rather onto godliness?

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I don't see a verse in the Bible

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that says just, you know,

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part of godliness is just improving

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bone smashing,

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getting plastic surgery or something like that.

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Just you can visibly look better

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in Mugg or something.

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You know, why don't you spiritually Mugg?

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It's supposed to be the most important.

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Get soul saved, read the Bible,

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you know, keep under your body,

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bring it into subjection,

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learn how to rule your own spirit

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and you're like, well,

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you know, I just want to be attractive,

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you know, well, you know.

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If you're not, praise God

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because then that means certain sins

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are just not available to you.

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And that's a blessing.

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It's funny, but it's a blessing though.

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You know, that is a blessing.

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Because you know, there's people who maybe

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in this world, according to this world,

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standards are attractive and you know what,

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they're going to destroy their lives.

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So if you're chopped, you're ugly,

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praise God for that, you know what I mean?

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Well, how am I supposed to get married?

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Look, there's a lot of women in this world,

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one of them has to want you.

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How many, what's the,

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what we're at right now in the population

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of the world, like 6 billion?

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8 billion?

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Come on.

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There has to be one.

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Has to be.

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And when you have God on your side,

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you have godliness,

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you have all these things going for you,

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you have the Lord on your side,

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you know, a prudent wife is of the Lord.

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So you don't have to rely upon

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the evil people of this world

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to get yourself a woman,

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because let me just tell you, that guy,

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all he's teaching you is how to get bad women.

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Just godless, wicked women.

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A bunch of whores and sluts.

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So that's off the table for you,

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if you're a Christian, okay?

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You know,

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the point being here is that

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we should not envy sinners.

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But we should also not envy other Christians.

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Just improve yourself.

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Ask God for his favor.

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Pray God, Lord, please favor me.

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You know, give me your power,

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show me favor,

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may your hand be upon me.

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Annoy me with the Holy Spirit of God.

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Give me boldness.

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Help me to just succeed as a Christian.

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Pray that down, amen.

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Instead of being like Joseph's brother,

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just envious of him because he's

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preaching against their sin.

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He's ambitious. He's doing all these great things.

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Look at verse 12.

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And he said to him,

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here am I.

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And he said to him,

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go, I pray thee,

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see whether it be well with thy

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with thy brethren,

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and well with the flocks,

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and bring me word again.

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So he sent him out of the veil of

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Hebron, and he came to sheik'em.

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So what we have here

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is the Father sending the son

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to see the state of

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the brethren, right?

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So the way we can apply this is like,

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God the Father sending Jesus Christ

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unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel

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to see how they fare.

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Okay?

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And they basically respond

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the exact same way

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that Israel responded to Jesus.

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He came into his own

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and his own received them not.

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It says in verse number 15,

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and a certain man found him.

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Behold, he was wandering in the field,

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and the man asked him saying,

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what seekest thou?

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And he said, I seek my brethren,

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tell me I pray thee,

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where they feed their flocks.

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And the man said,

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they are departed.

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Hence, for I heard them say,

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let us go to Dothan.

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And Joseph went after his brethren

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and found them in Dothan.

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And when they saw him afar off,

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even before he came near into them,

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they conspired against him

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to slay him.

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This is extremely evil.

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Think about this.

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Okay?

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You know,

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you are sent by your father and Aaron

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to see how your brethren do,

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where they are, just to get a report.

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Your brothers, your blood brothers,

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see from afar off,

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and all they can do is try to

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conspire to murder you.

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They're like, what can we do to kill him?

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I mean, that's hatred.

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That's like, deep hatred.

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And look, I have family members

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that I just don't get along with at all,

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but there's not an ounce of hatred

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to the point where I would want them to die.

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You know, unless there's, of course,

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there's a reprobate,

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but I don't even think about them at all.

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And even then,

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I'm not conspiring to kill them.

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I mean, think about that.

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This is extremely wicked.

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It's evil,

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but it also illustrates the fact

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that that's exactly what the Jews did to Jesus.

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They conspired to kill him

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from the beginning of his ministry

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all the way to the end.

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It says in verse 19,

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and they said,

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one to another,

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behold, this dreamer cometh.

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Come now, therefore,

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and let us slay him

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and cast him into some pit.

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And we will say,

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some evil beast hath devoured him,

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and we shall see

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what will become of his dreams.

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So this demonstrates that, you know,

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sometimes you can piss people off

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when you're preaching God's word

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to the point where they'll be willing to kill you.

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And we see that in the Bible.

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You can piss people off

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with your preaching so bad

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that they'll blow up your church.

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They will bomb your church

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because they just don't like what you say.

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It's a free country,

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but they don't care.

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They will bomb you.

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They will assault you.

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They will kill you

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just because they don't like what you believe

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and what you preach.

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They conspired.

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And, you know, these conspirators,

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they're not honest.

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They're already making up the story

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of what they're going to say,

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of what happened.

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And in fact, you know,

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prior to getting bombed

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when we were being protested,

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they were making all kinds of stuff up.

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Now, a lot of the stuff they said were true.

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Okay?

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You know, I did say

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they won't find us here in the ghetto.

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You can quote me on that.

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Okay?

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I did say that pedophiles and homos

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should be put to death.

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Good with that.

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But some of the other stuff they were saying

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is just like, I don't think I ever said that.

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You know, like, the main person,

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you know, was coming up and saying,

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he's part of the International Federation Baptist.

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I'm like, dang, I'm international.

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She said, oh, IFB.

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Like, the dumb broad

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didn't even do her homework

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to figure out what IFB even meant.

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It was just like, IFB,

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International Federation Baptist.

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Sounds like a wrestling thing or something.

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Well, let me just say this.

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You know, evil people

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do no homework

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when it comes to stuff like that.

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It's like Paul Winberg, right?

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You know, he made this film

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and then he's like adding Pastor Stuckey on there,

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but he can't even get the name of the church right.

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And this is supposed to be

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just this great investigative documentary

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exposing the man of God.

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The guy can't even get his facts straight.

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It's ridiculous.

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You know, the International Federation Baptist.

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I was like, man, I'm known internationally, apparently.

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But they don't care.

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They don't care about the facts.

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They just want to, you know,

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hire men of the baser sort.

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They want to accumulate

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all these false accusations

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to rile up the population

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to get people to just hate you.

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And unfortunately, in the day and age in which we live,

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it's not hard to rile people up.

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Online.

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They don't need any facts to rile people up.

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You could just make videos,

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especially with AI now,

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and just boomers believe it, right?

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Gen Xers, boomers,

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and millennials will believe it.

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You know, just like,

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now all of a sudden,

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all of a sudden the ice wall

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is just clearly seen now, isn't it?

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It's like, oh, so many clear footage,

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so much clear footage of the ice wall.

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Now, how convenient.

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Now the AI is just so good.

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Now the ice wall is just present or something, right?

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And that's not the only thing.

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They do this for everything.

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And you know what?

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Boomers are just like, I knew it.

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Skinwalkers, I knew it.

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Look at this clear footage of skinwalkers.

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They don't need the actual facts.

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They don't need any legitimate footage.

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They're willing to believe just anything, okay?

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And so they're conspiring against him.

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It says in verse 20,

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come now therefore let us slay him.

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Cast him into some pit.

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That's actually verse 21.

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And Reuben heard it,

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and he delivered him out of their hands

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and said, let us not kill him.

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And Reuben said into them,

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shed no blood,

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but cast him into this pit

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that is in the wilderness

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and lay no hand upon him

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that he might rid him out of their hands

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to deliver him to his father again.

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So, you know,

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Reuben's not necessarily the most moral guy

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as we saw in the previous chapters.

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But, you know, he has his limits.

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And one thing he's not willing to cross

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is the boundary of murdering his brother.

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So he's trying to act like he's going along

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with the conspiracy,

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but he's like, well, let's not kill him.

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Just put him in this pit.

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But in his mind,

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he's going to come back

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and deliver him out of the pit

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once the brothers are gone

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and then bring him back to his dad.

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It says in verse 23,

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and it came to pass

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when Joseph was coming to his brethren

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that they stripped Joseph out of his coat,

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his coat of many colors that was on him,

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and they took him and cast him into a pit.

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And the pit was empty.

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There was no water in it.

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And they sat down to eat bread.

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They lifted up their eyes

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and looked and behold,

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the company of Ishmaelites came from Gilead

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with their camels,

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barren, spicer and balm and myrrh,

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going to carry it down to Egypt.

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So, we see that they're stripping up of his garments

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just as we see with Jesus Christ

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when he was being taken to the cross.

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They removed his garments.

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They parted his garments.

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They cast lot for his garments

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just as they did with Joseph.

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Verse 26,

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What profit is it

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if we slay our brother

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and conceal his blood?

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Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites

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and let not our hand be upon him

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for he is our brother

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and our flesh

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and his brethren were contempt.

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So, this is really sad.

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You know, they're basically

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going to sell him into slavery.

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Think about this.

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You're 17 years old.

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You're literally just doing what your dad

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asked you to do.

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And then your brothers

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first conspired to kill you.

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But then they're like,

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well, what good is that to us?

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We don't benefit from that.

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Let's just sell him.

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It's super sad.

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Now, obviously we've read the story

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and hopefully you've already

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read the book of Genesis.

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But you can see why this is so emotional

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at the very end, right?

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When Joseph can just, like,

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kill them all.

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He could just, like,

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off all of them

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because he's remembering all this.

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He was sold into slavery

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literally taken out of the country

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out of his nation

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away from his loving father

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from his family

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just because his brother

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envied him.

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It says in verse number 29

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and Reuben returned unto the pit

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and behold Joseph was not in the pit

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and he rent his clothes

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and he returned to his brother

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and said, the child is not

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and I, where the shall I go?

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And they took Joseph's coat

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and killed the kid of the goats

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and dipped the coat in the blood

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and they sent the coat of many colors

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and they brought it to their father

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and said, this have we found

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no now, whether it be

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thy son's coat or no.

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So, this is the lie they're coming up with

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and obviously this is a picture

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of the fact that, you know,

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you have the coat of many colors

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that represents the kindreds,

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tongues and nations

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being dipped in the blood

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of Jesus Christ and in fact,

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you have in Revelation 19

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the garment that Jesus Christ is wearing

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is dipped as a vesture as

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there was dipped in blood,

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the Bible says, right?

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So they do that, they remove that,

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they conspire, they lie about it

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and this is exactly

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what the nation of Israel did

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when Jesus Christ resurrected

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out of the pit, right?

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They conspired to lie,

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they made up a story

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that they stole his body away,

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you know, and their pain off,

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the Roman soldiers to basically

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go with that narrative

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because they're just lying about it.

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Now, put yourself in Jacob's shoes, right?

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When you hear this report

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that a beast killed your son,

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that's what they're

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basically implying here.

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It says in verse number 33

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and he knew it

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and said, it is my son's coat

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and evil beast had devoured him.

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Joseph is without doubt

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rent in pieces.

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So we obviously see that

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they sell Joseph to the

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Ishmaelites for 20 pieces of silver

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just as Jesus Christ was also

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sold by Judas

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for 30 pieces of silver as well, right?

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You have that same,

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that parallel there.

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Verse 35 says in all his sons

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and all his daughters rose up to come for him

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but he refused to be comforted

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and he said, for I will go down

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into the grave unto my son

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mourning thus his father

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wept for him. So this is really sad, you know?

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He's under this impression

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that Joseph is dead,

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that he's been mauled by an animal

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and eaten by an animal

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and Joseph, just in a moment's notice

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life changed for him.

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Life completely changes from him.

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And you think to yourself like

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why would this happen? Why would God allow this to happen to Joseph, right?

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And the conclusion is this

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God can't override

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the will of man.

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The evil will of man

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they're going to carry out

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whatever it is that they want to do.

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Obviously we can bank on the protection of God

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but at the end of the day

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God has given free will to man

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to do evil things

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and we can rely upon

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the protection of God. But we also have to realize

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that if we are

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the recipients of someone else's evil will

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we know for a fact

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that all things still work together for good

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to them that love God. To them who are the called

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according to his purpose.

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Because man a lot of evil was done. We're going to see over the next couple chapters

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obviously 38 has nothing

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to do with Joseph, you know?

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But over the next couple of chapters

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we're going to see a lot of evil that's done to Joseph

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like just, he's just wrong

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time and time again

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just lied about

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forgotten

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abandoned, right? Just

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absolutely defrauded

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just being wrong. But what happens each time

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the Lord is with Joseph.

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And look folks

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if someone does evil unto you

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you better make

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sure that the Lord is with you.

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If you wanted to work together

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for good

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if you wanted to end like Joseph's story

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you better make sure that the Lord is with you

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because I'm telling you right now

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there's Christians who people have done evil to

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but because they're not walking with God

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they don't have God with them

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they don't have God's blessing

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they just end in that situation

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and what happens they become bitter

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resentful

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out of the will of God

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lives are destroyed and they become this

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byword and proverb of a person

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who is just simply the innocent recipient

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of someone else's evil deeds

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you know we don't know the future

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we don't know what's going to happen in our personal lives

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but we do know that there's evil people out there

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and you know what sometimes they're just

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not restrained they can mess with

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us they can do evil unto us

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they can wrong us and you know what

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we can't control that all we

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can control though is if the Lord is with us or not

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your primary goal as a Christian

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should always be to make sure that

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God is with you and I'm not

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saying like say God is with you

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that doesn't make God with you

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I know the Lord

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there's a bunch of unsay people that say that stuff

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only God can judge me

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yeah we know that's why you're in hell

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Tupac

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you know oh man

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I just know that the Lord is with me

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are you sure about that

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you sure about that

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you better make sure you're abiding in the vine

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you better make sure you're in church

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you better make sure you're reading the Word of God

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better make sure that you're praying

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better make sure that you're obeying the commandments of the Lord

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better make sure you're keeping your heart clean

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you better make sure that you are

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walking with God

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you're in agreement with the Lord because

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can two walk together except to be agreed

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be in agreement with the Lord

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and his commandments

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make sure that you're serving the Lord

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so you can say with confidence

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the Lord is with me

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and look you're gonna need that

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sometime this year

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you're gonna go through a situation

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I'm like man I don't know if the Lord is with me or not

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you know

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why do you not believe he's with you

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well because I'm involved in sin

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well yeah that'll do it

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you better make sure you repent

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better make sure you get right with God

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you better make sure you know what the will of the Lord is

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I mean the Bible literally says

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be not unwise

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but understanding what the will of the Lord is

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see that you walk

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circumspectly not as fools

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but as wise the Bible says

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saying that the Lord is with me

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is not enough my friends

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the Bible specifically says

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you better make sure that you're wise

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you walk circumspectly

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that you understand what the will of the Lord is

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and you understand

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what God requires of you

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you better make sure that you're obedient to the Lord

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to make sure that the Lord is with you

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and you know what

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Joseph is wrong for years

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but the Bible just constantly tells

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the Lord is with Joseph

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the Lord is with Joseph

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the Lord is with Joseph

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and so you know

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we're going to be taking through a pretty crazy trip

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a gnarly trip for Joseph

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and we see his emotions

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and everything that takes place

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but the overarching theme of Joseph

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is like God is just with him

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throughout every single step

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and look just keep in mind that with Joseph

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this happened over a span of a couple decades

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so if you're in a situation

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where you're going through a hard time

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just remember Joseph went through a hard time

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for a long time

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you know

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and without having the written word of God

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there's only

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the prophetic word of God right

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the verbal word of God there was no written Bible

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at this particular time

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you have the written word of God

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verse 36 says in the Median nights

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sold him into Egypt

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unto Potiphar

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an officer of Pharaohs

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and a captain of the guard

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and I love how the Bible is written

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it just kind of leaves us with that cliffhanger going into chapter 38

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and then of course 39 is where we

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pick up with Potiphar

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what's the point of the chapter here

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the point of the chapter is that

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God ended up using Joseph

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in such a great manner

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through all this whole situation

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this whole debacle

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to demonstrate that the Lord is with him

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and he ended up using him to be a

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typology of Jesus Christ

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Joseph didn't know that

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he didn't know that

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everything that was happening to him

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was supposed to represent the Lord Jesus Christ in the future

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you know he didn't know that

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Judah was supposed to be the one

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to really represent the Lord Jesus Christ

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but obviously

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chapter 38 he messes that up

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so God ends up turning his attention

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towards Joseph

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and Joseph just ends up becoming this beautiful picture

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of Jesus and everything that he went through

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and so let's pray

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Father we thank you so much for your word

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thank you for the life of Joseph

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and help us to recognize

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Lord the importance

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of just prophesying

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dreaming

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having a vision of the word of God

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but recognizing that not everyone

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who hears the dream is going to like it

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not everyone who hears the vision

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is going to approve of it

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and in fact not only will people hate us for it

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the Bible also says

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that they will envy us for it

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and they're going to be willing to take

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some extreme measures

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to shut us up

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and I pray that if anything Lord

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that we learn from tonight is that

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we have you with us every step of the way

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and maybe something

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that we're confident in on a daily basis

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help us Lord as we

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learn from the life and the chronicles here of Joseph

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to apply these principles to our lives

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in Jesus name we pray amen