Jared Schipper – Judah – In His Family – Class 3 – The New Judah

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Good morning.
Thank you.

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I believe I made a mistake or
got a little confused yesterday

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when I lost my notes at the
start of the second session

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talking about whether Judah had
two sons or three sons.

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Can we be really clear?
He had three.

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Two died, eh?
Onan, Sheila, apparently.

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I couldn’t think of Onan, so
forgive me.

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Just wanted to get that right.
All right, where are we up to?

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Well, between me and our study
last night, I think we’re

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building a little bit of basis
or foundation or context to

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Judah’s life, some of the
background to the why he did the

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things that he did.
But between Steve and I, we left

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Judah wallowing in the prodigal
pig food through having to make

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the decision, Is he going to
pick his face up out of it and

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face a whole new day and a new
opportunity and a new life?

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Or is he going to get bitter and
twisted like he has before?

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And like we can when things
don’t go to plan, some of the

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biggest choices we make is how
we respond to situations like

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this.
You know that we are never past

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the point of no return until you
or I choose to be past that

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point of no return.
Just grasp that God doesn’t give

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up on you.
You’re the one that gives up on

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Him.
And then he goes, well, there’s

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nothing I can do.
Get that clear in your mind.

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We are never past the point of
no return until we choose to be

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past that point of no return.
And Judas at that crossroads,

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he’s got to look up and see the
opportunity to move forward, to

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see a way to deal with his
pride, to swallow his pride and

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all the embarrassment that comes
with that.

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And often there’s two ways that
we respond to these kind of

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situations when God’s Providence
brings us to that point where

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it’s ground us so small that we
feel so embarrassed that we feel

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like we can’t recover.
You know, there’s 2 examples

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that I missed talking about
yesterday that I want to make

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the point clearly to you about.
Judah in his past blamed people.

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Other people blamed
circumstances.

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Samson made jokes of it, and
both of those responses to the

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Providence and the way God works
in our life doesn’t help you or

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me.
All Samson’s jokes did was make

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the problem bigger for him, and
all Judah’s response of blaming

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people and other things did was
make him more bitter.

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Don’t do it.
Don’t do it.

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It’s not the answer.
Judith thought about the

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situation that he found himself
in.

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Thoroughly, deeply reflected on
that situation, and as a result,

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God was able to work with him
because he faced the situations.

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That’s how God works with us.
That’s how he develops that

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character.
God breaks us sometimes so that

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He’s able to then rebuild us
through that process.

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He doesn’t break you for fun.
He does not enjoy doing that.

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He actually breaks the barriers
that you’ve built that stop Him

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working in your life.
He’s going to break them down,

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and He does it so carefully, so
precisely.

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He breaks down that bit of the
wall and that brick, just not

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that bit that needed to remain
so that He could rebuild you or

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Samson or Judah.
So when we have major events

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happen in our life, don’t make a
joke of it.

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I’ve done it.
I know it’s a classic thing to

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do when you’re young is to laugh
about an accident you might have

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had or some event where
something went terribly wrong.

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You make a big joke about it.
Don’t go that approach.

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Think deeply.
Let’s learn from Judah, and

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hopefully we don’t have to fall
as far or as deep or suffer as

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much as what Judah had to to
learn this lesson.

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So how old’s Judah?
He’s like 50 now.

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And it’s ironic to think that
Judah has just come crashing

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down to the lowest point of his
life.

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And guess where Joseph is?
He’s coming to the climax of his

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life.
It’s funny how their two lives

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sort of crossover and go the
opposite direction.

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You can look at your chart,
understand the dates.

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Yes, he’s getting old and get
that fine.

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Learn those lessons before you
get to that age, maybe.

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But when you think about the
fact that we’re now going to

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rush through a number of
chapters, we’re going to do the

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two journeys down into Egypt and
the final speech.

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When you think about Judith’s
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because his first trip down to
Egypt, Judas says nothing, He is

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silent.
Why is he silent?

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Because he’s reflecting.
He’s thinking.

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And I want you to grasp the fact
that God hasn’t finished showing

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him stuff.
The learning process didn’t just

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happen in that one embarrassing
moment.

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The learning process was going
to take a little bit longer

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because remember, Tamar had
started to show she hadn’t had a

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baby yet.
That was still going to happen.

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He was going to learn when he’s
like, heck, I’ve got twins, not

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just one child.
And then he’s going to learn a

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lot in this first journey down
to Egypt.

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And that’s how God works.
God works with us, unraveling

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and showing us more as we
respond and as we think about

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the things that He’s teaching
us.

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What do you think about that?
Because Judah is watching, Judah

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is observing, and Judah is
learning from what God is going

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to show him in these next two
chapters.

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Because this first trip to Egypt
is strange.

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It’s weird.
There’s some really unusual

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confronting things that happen.
I’m going to give you 3

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examples.
There’s a heck of a lot more,

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OK?
These three examples demonstrate

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the way that God’s refining
process continues beyond the

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moment, beyond that impact
moment of when something hits US

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in life and we realize God’s
teaching us something.

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That’s the time that we need to
just shut up and watch.

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Look, listen, think.
This first trip down to Egypt,

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there was many strange things
that happened.

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The first thing is that this
crazy ruler who’s in Egypt is so

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focused on these men, whether
they’re true men, whether

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they’re honest or whether they
are spies that have an ulterior

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motive.
That’s what spies are.

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They fake it that they are
blending with everybody else as

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a normal person when really they
have an evil alternative motive.

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And that’s what Judy used to
have.

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And that’s why Joseph uses his
strategy.

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It’s in it’s incredible.
I genuinely personally believe

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that God directed Joseph to use
this strategy.

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I can’t prove that I’d love to,
but I can’t.

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But just these genius that
Joseph used is is wow.

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So he proved wants them to prove
that they are true men and what

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better way than to put them on
the spot and accuse them of

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being spots because how do you
prove you’re not a spy?

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You have to tell the truth.
More than that, you’ve got to

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prove the truth.
You’ve got to verify the truth.

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So that was one thing.
Truth and honesty was a key

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issue for Judah.
You know, there’s another thing

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for Judah is that he didn’t
really have a healthy fear of

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God.
He didn’t have respect of God.

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He didn’t appreciate that there
is a God who was involved in his

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life, and he’s going to meet an
Egyptian ruler, an Egyptian

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ruler who has a healthy respect
for a God who’s involved in

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every aspect of his Egyptian
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Now we can go, well, which
Egyptian God is he talking

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about?
This rule is incredible.

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He says.
I’m talking about the God of

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your dad, Judah, and that would
have freaked him out.

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Why is this ruler in Egypt
talking about my dad’s God?

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See, there’s some really unusual
stuff.

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We don’t have time to look at
this chapter properly.

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We just got to gloss through it.
It was giving you three things.

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But this would have just hit
judo.

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And he would have been like,
what am I meant to take from

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that?
Why am I being challenged to

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repeatedly say I’m a true man?
I’m honest.

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I wouldn’t do that.
The simple reason is that wasn’t

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his reputation or his historical
way of life.

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See how he’s really being
challenged and God is really

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keeping the pressure on.
I mean, this is almost a year

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later at best, maybe two to
three years.

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Looking at the time frames.
There’s one other thing.

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This whole trip down to Egypt is
full of money issues.

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And that was a problem for Judah
in his life too, because they’d

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come down to pay for things and
then they’d find their money was

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back in their sacks.
But not just that.

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The the servant would say to
them, I’ve got your money.

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But then he’d say things like,
no, God put treasure in your

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sacks.
And Judah would be thinking.

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And that’s what I’m encouraging
you to do to young people when

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something major happens in your
life.

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Just don’t close that door and
move on.

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Keep watching.
Keep listening to what God is

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showing you because He’ll show
you the new path forward.

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He’ll show you the new way.
You’ve got to listen.

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Don’t make a joke about it.
Listen carefully and think about

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what He is trying to show you.
All right, so let’s continue on

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because I don’t really have time
to spend any more time there.

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Well, no, we do.
We’ve got to talk about one more

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thing because it’s relevant for
later.

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Sorry, Chapter 42, the real lap
in verse 16.

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This is part of his genius.
So the way that Joseph works,

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the first thing he does is he
puts these three men, oh, sorry,

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puts these ten men in prison for
three days after accusing them

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that they’re spies.
Why would you do that?

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You’ve put them on the spot and
said you’re dishonest, and now I

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attract you in prison for three
days so you can figure out

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whether that’s the case.
What do you think the

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conversation would be in that
prison for those three days?

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It would start with, who do you
think is the one that we could

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trust to send back home to the
family while all the rest of us

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stay here in this filthy prison?
That’s the first conversation.

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And that would quickly lead to I
don’t trust you.

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You did that.
I don’t trust you because you

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did that.
And we can’t trust those two

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because they and the blame game
starts.

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And when the blame game starts,
what comes next?

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A bit of anger, a bit of
bitterness, all the resentment

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and all the dirt starts pouring
out.

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And these boys had three days to
chat about who amongst the ten

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of them they could actually
trust and be Judah for a second.

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He’s got to own this moment.
He’s got to stand there and go,

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do you know what?
I’ve changed and I want to be

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different, but I have 0
credibility.

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I probably could be trusted to
go home, but they wouldn’t trust

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me.
And that’s fair.

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Three days later, Joseph comes
down and brings them up out of

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prison.
He says, listen, the rules have

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changed.
You’re all going home, but one

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of you staying.
Why does he do that?

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Doesn’t even give him a chance
to speak.

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He says if you’re honest, he
didn’t even say that If you’re

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honest, he’s emphasizing this
idea.

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He says if you’re true men,
which she’s heard for the last

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three days.
Because I so believe that Joseph

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would have gone down and just
stood around the corner and

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listened to those arguments.
That would have been insightful.

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Really insightful.
Better than what you get.

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One of my friends left on leave,
one of your brothers here while

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the rest of you go home.
Oh, that’s different.

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The brother you would send home
is not the brother you’d leave

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to languish in an Egyptian
prison.

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That’s the guy you hate, and the
one you send home is the one you

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like.
See how he’s just created both

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emotions to get exposed amongst
those brothers?

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Who do they even have a wedge of
faith about in contrast to?

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Who do they hold bitterness and
resentment against?

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And in that process, Judah opens
up and goes, I wish we never

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actually sold Joseph and Jude’s
like, or Joseph’s like.

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Oh, interesting.
And so he chooses to bind Simeon

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because he’s the next eldest and
he knows Simeon’s personality

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quite well.
And so he binds Simeon right

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there in front of their eyes.
Now I ask you, 10 brothers saw

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another brother bound in front
of their eyes 22 years ago.

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Do you think that came into
their mind as he deliberately

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bound Simeon in front of their
eyes and then put him into an

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Egyptian prison and said you’re
good to go guys, enjoy life.

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Can you imagine those feelings?
You’ve got to think about that.

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Well, Judah would watch as his
blood brother Simeon is put in

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prison.
He looked up to that guy in his

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past, but you know, this time
he’s not resentful about it

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because he knows that sometimes
we have to go through those

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processes to learn.
He’s also going to watch his dad

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trade off Simeon and leave
Simeon in prison for well over a

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year while Simeon’s family’s at
home starving without a dad.

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They’re going to Jacob is going
to leave Simeon in that prison

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for over a year because he’s not
willing to send that beloved

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Benjamin down to release Simeon
to come back to his family.

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And Judah could have got angry.
He did last time.

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He could have got resentful of
that, but Judah knows what it’s

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like to protect your youngest
son now because he did that for

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Sheila and made Tamar wait for a
number of years.

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He knows what it’s like to be on
the side of that fence.

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He has empathy not just for his
dad, but for Simeon’s family,

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for Simeon, because he knows
that Simeon needs to learn

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through that process.
And have a look at chapter 43

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and at verse one, it says now
the famine was severe in the

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land.
Oh, OK, no doubt we know that.

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Why are we told, in case you
miss the fact that life is

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difficult, that’s what that
verse is saying.

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Life in the land for Jacob was
not easy.

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That’s the food, including the
relationship challenges.

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What were the problems that came
to pass when they’d eaten up all

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the corn and there was a lot
that Joseph sent back with them

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that they’d brought out of
Egypt.

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Their dad says to them, go again
and just bias a little bit.

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What?
They’re in a famine.

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They’re 400 kilometers away from
where the food is.

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Why would you go down and buy a
little bit of food?

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That’s dumb.
You need a little bit of food

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just to get back.
What is Jacob doing?

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He’s delaying.
Verse 10 tells us that Jacob is

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delaying.
Judah picks him up on this and

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says you’re delaying Dad.
He’s delaying sending Benjamin

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because he knows the problem to
get more food, I have to send

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Benjamin.
Don’t care about Simeon left in

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prison, not sending Benjamin.
So, So boys, how about if you go

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like some back door and try and
just get a bit, just a little.

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And that’s what Judah’s dealing
with.

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He’s dealing with a dad that’s
Syrian, a dad that’s a little

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bit willing to bend the rules.
And what’s Judah’s response?

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It doesn’t work like that.
Dad where oddest men.

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And that’s what we’re going to
see from Judah.

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He’s not going to let his dad
push him around.

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Oh, we’re not up to verse 8.
Hang on.

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Sorry.
Let’s read the contact.

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Let’s read the verses, chapter
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Judah’s response is in verse 3.
So circle that because this is

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Judah taking the lead, right?
He said nothing in the first

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trip down to Egypt, but now
we’re just going to see him come

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to the front constantly.
Jacob says go down, buy us a

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little bit of food in verse 2,
verse 3, But Judah steps up in

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front of all the other brothers
and he says, dad, the man

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seriously and solemnly warned
us.

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That means he repeatedly said
you will not see my face unless

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your brother is with you.
So Dad, it’s like this.

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If you send ow, our brother, oh,
not your son, not that guy, not

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Benjamin our brother.
If you send our brother with us,

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we’ll go down and we’ll buy food
for you.

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See the way he puts that?
See, his emphasis, he’s uniting

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him and his brothers on the same
platform but focus or the same

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level, but focusing on what his
father needs.

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And they’re key things that
we’re going to see through this

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chapter.
And then he’s straight verse 5.

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But in case you missed the
point, Dad, if you will not send

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him, we will not go.
Because the man was straight to

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us.
He said it as it is and he said

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you will not see my face unless
your brother is with you.

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You know, we could have
condensed those 3 verses into

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one verse if I was telling the
story.

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And this is the power of the
Bible.

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You got to read all that double
repeated emphasis that’s there

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and understand what we’re being
told.

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Judas being so clear,
respectfully, straight with his

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dad, here’s the issues, here’s
the problem, and this is the way

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forward, dad.
And look at the way Israel

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responds.
Israel, Judah, we won’t go into

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the Y or Jacob, we won’t go into
Y, the different titles.

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Jacob responds and says why did
you bring all this trouble on me

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by telling the guy that you had
another brother?

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Can you hear him?
He’s whinging.

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He’s going.
Why’d you tell the truth boys?

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Like he should have just lied.
OK babe.

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And that’s their response, verse
7, they all of them and feel

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this, this is a different
person, each saying a statement.

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They, the man questioned us
thoroughly.

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One person would say and and as
about ourselves and about our

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family, Someone else would say
someone else would say, is your

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father alive?
And someone else would say, what

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about your brother?
He answered us this way.

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How could we possibly know that
he was going to say bring your

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brother down?
Can you imagine that these ten

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brothers all chiming in going,
Dad, you just can’t work like

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that.
But who’s the leader in these

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conversation?
Judah started it.

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They all chimed in when it was
easy.

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See his positive leadership.
Now who’s next?

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Verse 8.
Then Judah said to his dad.

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Judah’s the one who’s taking the
lead in this situation and his

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good leadership is helping his
brothers to man up in the

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process.
Stick up on the screen.

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Judah said to Israel, his
father.

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He says, Dad, send the lad with
me.

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That guy’s over 30 years old.
He’s no boy, but he prefers to

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him in a very loving, caring
way.

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Dad, send the lad, the lad that
your whole life is wrapped up

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in, send him with me and Jacob.
But look at him and go.

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And then he says we will arise
and go so that we, Dad, all of

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us, may live and not die.
It’s serious, Dad.

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We can’t muck around.
We’re going to die if we don’t

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act on this.
We’ve delayed for long enough.

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We’ll go and get food for us and
you and the little ones.

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Who are those little ones?
They’re the kids that Judah

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didn’t want to have, but they
play an important part in his

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priorities now.
He didn’t want those twins, he

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didn’t expect them to come into
his life.

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And now he knows what it’s like
to love children that he never

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intended or wanted to have.
Like his dad struggled with.

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He thought, and now he knows
that dad actually didn’t

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struggle.
Dad just didn’t have a life in

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perspective.
Dad was learning too.

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And Judas growing up and he’s
demonstrating empathy in the

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situation.
Can you see that?

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Just the little details that are
written in, he couldn’t, he

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didn’t have to say that.
He could have just talked about

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we’ll get food for all of us,
for all the families.

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Well, how can a judo respond or
so how can a Jacob respond to a

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situation like that?
You know, I imagine Judah

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stepping forward and being like
that doting uncle who would

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provide for and look after his
younger nephew or something like

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that.
There’s quite an age difference

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between the two of them.
Just imagine what it would be

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like.
And Judah says to his dad, he

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says, I myself, that’s ownership
repeating it.

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I’ll take it personally.
I’ll own every bit of this.

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I’m going to pledge security for
him.

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You can hold me liable if I do
not bring him back to you and

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place him here before you.
I’ll bear that blame for the

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rest of my life.
There’s no wheeze in that, is

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there?
He shares it all the other

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times.
I’ll own this one bud.

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In fact Dad, I will pledge
security of my life.

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You know, last time Judah
pledged his identity and his

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life was for a one night stand
and now he’s doing it for the

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next most loved, favoured
brother-in-law and he’s putting

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his life on the line for him and
he’s saying I’ll bear the blame

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to you Dad, for the rest of my
life.

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What’s the blame?
The blame is he knows what he’s

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done before.
He knows what’s happened to the

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last son.
We can prove this context.

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We don’t have time to do it.
We can see that all ten of those

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older brothers know that this is
happening because of what they

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did to Joseph.
They say that themselves.

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I’ll give you the reference.
It’s in chapter 42 and verse 21.

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We’re being punished because of
our brother, but we don’t want

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to go there.
Let’s not get distracted.

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That’s all talk though.
And I want you to think about

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this.
Judas standing there saying that

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to his dad, and that’s talk.
And Judas good at talking.

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He’s got to act, He’s got to
follow through on this.

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It’s easy to stand there or sit
here in these seats and make

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commitments about how we’re
going to respond when we get put

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in the situation.
That’s tough when you’re in the

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situation, it’s different,
right?

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And that’s what we’re going to
see in the rest of our study.

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So Jacob, in the typical Jacob
way, packs up a whole bunch of

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gifts and says, all right, if
that’s what it has to be, then

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take the gifts and and your
brother and go and get us some

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food.
And the rest of the chapters

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filled out all that story of
them packing up, preparing all

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these gifts, going down into
Egypt to face up to this

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Egyptian rule.
And we know the story.

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The Egyptian ruler welcomes the
brothers in and basically rolls

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out the red carpet for them,
provides for their camels and

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their asses and washes their
feet and brings them in for a

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nice royal meal.
Great times.

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I mean, we’re in the final
verses of chapter 43, they sat

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down and verse 40 or chapter 44
three and a verse 3 spit it out

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43 verse 33 says they sat before
him, arranged by order of birth,

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beginning with the first born
Reuben and ending with the

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youngest Benjamin.
So when you think about this,

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why is this happening?
Because the men looked at each

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other at this moment in
astonishment, like how the heck

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does an Egyptian know our age
order to see us all in that

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order?
Is this guy magic?

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Can he divine?
Which is probably going through

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your head that talks about this
thing that Joseph says.

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I can certainly divine.
Joseph’s not into black magic,

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let’s be really clear.
But Egypt is.

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So Egypt talks like that, and
Joseph’s using the idea of I

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know stuff about you to freak
these boys out.

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He’s saying I know your ages,
boys.

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I know where you’ve been, I know
what you’re doing, and I know

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what you’re thinking is what
we’re going to see.

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That’s all he’s doing.
He’s not actually saying he can

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do magic, but what he’s trying
to do is show them that he has

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an all knowing understanding of
their life.

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He’s trying to help them
understand what God does in our

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life.
He’s trying to make them aware

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of an all powerful being that
has a powerful influence and

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control over their life.
So by these little events he’s

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creating his authority for
what’s going to happen with the

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cup.
So he lines them all up and

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there’s a whole load of good
food, good wine, and at the end

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00:30:22,560 –> 00:30:27,200
that favoured Benjamin Feller
gets five times as much stuff.

433
00:30:28,080 –> 00:30:32,040
And 20 years ago all the
brothers would have gone typical

434
00:30:32,960 –> 00:30:36,320
and had a few words to say under
their breath, right?

435
00:30:37,560 –> 00:30:39,800
Not this time.
And that’s what Joseph was

436
00:30:39,800 –> 00:30:42,720
doing.
He was watching carefully as

437
00:30:42,720 –> 00:30:46,240
that food rolled out and as the
five servant loads came and

438
00:30:46,240 –> 00:30:49,040
dropped all the stuff in front
of Benjamin and kept pandering

439
00:30:49,040 –> 00:30:52,600
to him and kept bringing him out
some new special release of wine

440
00:30:53,320 –> 00:30:57,520
and offering it to him first.
He’s watching the rest of the

441
00:30:57,520 –> 00:31:01,120
brothers to go.
He’s resentful about that.

442
00:31:03,400 –> 00:31:07,480
Not a response.
But growing up, it’s not just

443
00:31:07,480 –> 00:31:12,320
judo, they’re all growing up.
The problem is they drink a

444
00:31:12,320 –> 00:31:15,160
little bit too much and, and
hey, let’s be fair, let’s be

445
00:31:15,160 –> 00:31:18,360
real.
Joseph hasn’t seen his brothers

446
00:31:18,360 –> 00:31:23,120
for 20 something years.
He hasn’t had a birthday with

447
00:31:23,120 –> 00:31:27,920
his family for 2223, maybe 24
years.

448
00:31:28,120 –> 00:31:32,840
He’s been hanging out for this
time, but he can’t reveal

449
00:31:32,840 –> 00:31:36,600
himself yet.
But he just wanted to spend some

450
00:31:36,600 –> 00:31:39,240
time with the brothers that he
loved.

451
00:31:40,960 –> 00:31:44,560
Forgive him.
But it was part of the strategy

452
00:31:46,160 –> 00:31:49,640
was to just get them a little
bit intoxicated so they didn’t

453
00:31:49,640 –> 00:31:51,840
quite know what they were
saying.

454
00:31:51,840 –> 00:31:55,680
And they’d speak their real
thoughts and their real mind,

455
00:31:55,680 –> 00:31:59,880
and they’d say what was going
through their deepest emotions.

456
00:32:01,120 –> 00:32:05,080
And if they thought that’s a
pretty cool cup should make that

457
00:32:06,840 –> 00:32:11,560
no one had taken notice or
remember you see his strategy.

458
00:32:12,440 –> 00:32:16,920
Joseph is a genius in just the
way he orchestrates this event.

459
00:32:19,640 –> 00:32:23,680
We know the story 44 verse 1.
He instructs A servant put the

460
00:32:23,960 –> 00:32:29,520
the silver cup into the sack,
the special cup and he packs

461
00:32:29,520 –> 00:32:32,760
them all up with all their food
and off the boys go.

462
00:32:32,760 –> 00:32:39,520
And you can imagine they would
be just like such a relief for

463
00:32:39,520 –> 00:32:41,720
Judah.
There’d be a spring in his steps

464
00:32:41,720 –> 00:32:45,120
as he’s like, let’s get back
home, We’re done.

465
00:32:46,080 –> 00:32:49,480
Benjamin’s safe.
We’re loaded with food.

466
00:32:49,480 –> 00:32:55,560
This is too good to be true.
And it was because there’s the

467
00:32:55,560 –> 00:33:01,840
servant chasing them down,
bailing them up, saying, what

468
00:33:01,880 –> 00:33:06,880
are you boys thinking?
Why would you in the world

469
00:33:07,000 –> 00:33:11,800
consider to steal from the man
who was so kind to you last

470
00:33:11,800 –> 00:33:15,400
night?
Verse 6, Chapter 44, The man

471
00:33:15,400 –> 00:33:17,960
overtook them.
He spoke these words to them and

472
00:33:17,960 –> 00:33:20,000
they answered.
And they said, why does my Lord

473
00:33:20,000 –> 00:33:23,160
say these things?
Far be it from your servants to

474
00:33:23,160 –> 00:33:25,960
do such a thing.
Look, the money we found in our

475
00:33:25,960 –> 00:33:29,200
sacks we brought back double.
Why would we steal silver or

476
00:33:29,200 –> 00:33:32,120
gold?
If one of us has done it, we’ll

477
00:33:32,120 –> 00:33:36,480
all die.
Their language is so over the

478
00:33:36,480 –> 00:33:42,600
top because they think they’re
true men, but they’ve never been

479
00:33:42,600 –> 00:33:46,960
proven on that point and their
test is about to happen.

480
00:33:49,040 –> 00:33:55,560
The cup is found after all.
The boys dropped their sacks and

481
00:33:55,560 –> 00:33:57,960
opened them all up, and you can
imagine Judah was probably the

482
00:33:57,960 –> 00:33:59,400
first.
He’s like totally confident.

483
00:34:00,000 –> 00:34:02,480
Look, it’s not here, so you’re
fine.

484
00:34:02,640 –> 00:34:05,160
We don’t have it.
Not going through every single

485
00:34:05,160 –> 00:34:07,920
one of them.
All the bags are open, and

486
00:34:07,920 –> 00:34:09,880
understandably, Benjamin’s the
youngest.

487
00:34:09,960 –> 00:34:12,719
He was probably told to do
Benjamin’s last.

488
00:34:13,199 –> 00:34:15,960
The anticipation would have
grown.

489
00:34:16,920 –> 00:34:18,600
And there’ll be.
No, it’s good.

490
00:34:18,719 –> 00:34:20,239
It’s only Benjamin’s.
Left, right.

491
00:34:20,239 –> 00:34:21,840
Start loading up.
It’s only Benjamin’s.

492
00:34:21,840 –> 00:34:24,080
It’s good.
Oh, stuff.

493
00:34:29,510 –> 00:34:34,760
What would you say?
You’re standing there with your

494
00:34:34,760 –> 00:34:37,239
bags of sack, with your sacks of
grain.

495
00:34:39,320 –> 00:34:44,960
And that special boy Benjamin,
to all intents, to all forms of

496
00:34:44,960 –> 00:34:49,400
evidence, proof, is a thief.
He stole a silver cup.

497
00:34:49,440 –> 00:34:50,920
It’s in his bag.
It’s found.

498
00:34:55,040 –> 00:34:58,840
What do you do?
What can you do?

499
00:35:02,120 –> 00:35:06,880
They tore their clothes.
Last time those boys talked or

500
00:35:06,880 –> 00:35:14,120
saw clothes got torn, it was
Jacob over Joseph’s, and each

501
00:35:14,120 –> 00:35:19,560
one owned the responsibility.
They loaded up their donkeys and

502
00:35:19,560 –> 00:35:24,440
they returned to the city and
Judah led the procession.

503
00:35:25,080 –> 00:35:27,080
Can you feel that?
Feel the Bible?

504
00:35:27,080 –> 00:35:32,920
So careful.
They’re all in, but Judah takes

505
00:35:32,920 –> 00:35:36,120
the lead in this situation.
Now, I want you to understand

506
00:35:36,120 –> 00:35:41,160
what’s going on here because
it’s so easy for them at this

507
00:35:41,160 –> 00:35:43,720
point to have gone well.
Benjamin, it is what it is.

508
00:35:43,720 –> 00:35:45,040
Mate.
You stole a cup.

509
00:35:45,040 –> 00:35:48,680
That was dumb.
We’re out. 22 years ago, they

510
00:35:48,680 –> 00:35:51,280
would have.
They would happily have left

511
00:35:51,880 –> 00:35:56,440
Benjamin or Joseph in trouble
and walked away.

512
00:35:57,000 –> 00:36:03,480
Not now, not now.
Let’s continue our story, he

513
00:36:03,480 –> 00:36:06,600
says in verbal.
We’ve read to verse.

514
00:36:06,600 –> 00:36:09,640
We’re up to verse 14.
So Judah and his brothers came

515
00:36:09,640 –> 00:36:11,800
back to Joseph’s house and he
was still there.

516
00:36:11,800 –> 00:36:17,200
Well, it’s almost a mute point.
Just think about what Judah was

517
00:36:17,720 –> 00:36:23,560
doing while those boys packed up
and had gone off, while he

518
00:36:23,560 –> 00:36:27,720
waited for his servant to do the
ACT and to bring them back.

519
00:36:27,720 –> 00:36:29,840
What was Joseph doing?
We don’t have time to talk about

520
00:36:29,840 –> 00:36:30,920
Joseph.
You think about that.

521
00:36:31,760 –> 00:36:34,480
They come in and they throw
themselves down on the ground,

522
00:36:34,480 –> 00:36:36,320
all 11 of them.
And Joseph would look at that

523
00:36:36,320 –> 00:36:39,200
and he’d go, Yep, that’s another
one of those dreams.

524
00:36:39,640 –> 00:36:41,120
The rest are going to be
fulfilled.

525
00:36:41,120 –> 00:36:48,080
Not proudly, reassuringly. 10
bad last time, 11 this time.

526
00:36:48,240 –> 00:36:49,920
There’s more to go.
Let’s keep going.

527
00:36:49,920 –> 00:36:51,600
In the process of what we have
to do.

528
00:36:51,840 –> 00:36:55,400
This is God’s plan and his
response is verse 15.

529
00:36:55,680 –> 00:37:00,600
What did you think you’re doing?
Don’t you know that a man like

530
00:37:00,600 –> 00:37:04,000
me can divine?
And this is my point.

531
00:37:04,000 –> 00:37:06,840
What he’s trying to do is teach
these boys that he’s all

532
00:37:06,840 –> 00:37:11,920
powerful and he knows stuff
about them and learn to live

533
00:37:11,920 –> 00:37:14,880
with an awareness of an all
powerful being in your life.

534
00:37:14,880 –> 00:37:17,680
That’s what we need to do.
That’s what he’s trying to teach

535
00:37:17,680 –> 00:37:28,560
the boys, his older brothers.
Verse 16 and Judah replied,

536
00:37:29,120 –> 00:37:33,640
Judah takes the lead and break
it down into three sentences or

537
00:37:33,640 –> 00:37:38,720
three phrases that show his
utter speechlessness.

538
00:37:39,880 –> 00:37:43,200
What can we say?
What can we speak?

539
00:37:47,480 –> 00:37:51,920
How can we clear ourselves?
You feel that he’s lost for

540
00:37:51,920 –> 00:37:53,800
words.
He really is.

541
00:37:55,000 –> 00:37:59,240
This is not planned.
This is not orchestrated by him

542
00:37:59,680 –> 00:38:02,600
like the gift was that they
brought last night’s where

543
00:38:02,600 –> 00:38:04,640
everything went to plan,
everything went well.

544
00:38:04,880 –> 00:38:08,000
They’ve just had their rug
pulled out from under them and

545
00:38:08,000 –> 00:38:10,080
they’re making it up as they go
along.

546
00:38:10,080 –> 00:38:14,400
This is raw, this is real, and
they’re just having to roll with

547
00:38:14,400 –> 00:38:17,960
it as it happens. 20 years ago,
they would have walked off and

548
00:38:17,960 –> 00:38:20,280
not cared that now they’re true
men.

549
00:38:20,280 –> 00:38:21,520
They’re looking at things
differently.

550
00:38:21,520 –> 00:38:24,560
They’re realizing that they’ve
been given another opportunity.

551
00:38:24,880 –> 00:38:27,720
And so they’re all facing up to
this situation.

552
00:38:28,680 –> 00:38:33,000
They’re standing there and
looking this ruler in the eye,

553
00:38:34,480 –> 00:38:38,480
and the ruler responds to them.
Oh no, sorry, we never finished

554
00:38:38,480 –> 00:38:41,560
up here.
Three things of his

555
00:38:41,560 –> 00:38:45,360
speechlessness.
And then he connects the idea

556
00:38:45,360 –> 00:38:50,840
that God has exposed the sin of
your servants.

557
00:38:51,080 –> 00:38:52,840
He’s not just thinking about a
silver cup.

558
00:38:53,400 –> 00:38:55,080
He knows the real thing that’s
going on.

559
00:38:55,080 –> 00:38:57,360
They’ve been talking about this.
The real sin is what they did to

560
00:38:57,360 –> 00:39:00,520
their brother.
We are now, my Lord, slaves.

561
00:39:00,520 –> 00:39:03,000
We and the one in whose
possession the cups found.

562
00:39:03,160 –> 00:39:06,600
That’s total overkill.
All the ruler wants is the one.

563
00:39:07,280 –> 00:39:10,160
And listen to his response.
He’s like, no, no, no, no, don’t

564
00:39:10,160 –> 00:39:11,920
work like that.
I’m the ruler here.

565
00:39:11,920 –> 00:39:14,320
You don’t call the shots.
You’re the guys that stole from

566
00:39:14,320 –> 00:39:15,240
me.
I’m the ruler.

567
00:39:15,360 –> 00:39:18,720
This is how it’s going to be.
Joseph says, to far be it for me

568
00:39:18,720 –> 00:39:22,800
to do this.
I just want that guy, the man in

569
00:39:22,800 –> 00:39:26,000
whose hand the cup was found,
He’s the one that’s going to be

570
00:39:26,000 –> 00:39:27,880
my slave.
And he’s watching their eyes.

571
00:39:28,280 –> 00:39:30,920
He’s watching every single one
of them’s emotions and

572
00:39:30,920 –> 00:39:34,960
responses, and particularly the
guy that’s standing there with

573
00:39:34,960 –> 00:39:39,920
his arm around Benjamin.
Just God, don’t pick on him.

574
00:39:41,600 –> 00:39:47,280
And he’s watching his reaction.
Because the rest of you, you can

575
00:39:47,280 –> 00:39:49,240
go home.
It’s all good guys.

576
00:39:49,240 –> 00:39:55,160
Don’t worry.
You can go home in peace.

577
00:39:57,520 –> 00:40:04,280
And Judah’s like, no, no, can’t
do that.

578
00:40:05,240 –> 00:40:11,760
I can’t go home and I can’t go
home in peace, because there’s

579
00:40:11,760 –> 00:40:16,600
no peace when you have a guilty
conscience for 25 years of your

580
00:40:16,600 –> 00:40:20,480
life.
There’s not a hope that Judy was

581
00:40:20,480 –> 00:40:21,600
going to walk away from that
moment.

582
00:40:24,280 –> 00:40:31,440
He knows what it’s like to have
a guilty conscience to his dad.

583
00:40:34,640 –> 00:40:38,840
And so Joseph steps up.
He steps up to defend his

584
00:40:38,840 –> 00:40:42,040
brother.
And he says, my Lord, my Lord,

585
00:40:42,040 –> 00:40:48,000
please, please, just please let
me explain things.

586
00:40:48,320 –> 00:40:51,440
Can you imagine the situation?
This speech is incredible.

587
00:40:52,200 –> 00:40:56,800
It’s like a masterpiece that’s
been compared to Shakespeare as

588
00:40:56,800 –> 00:40:59,280
a Hebrew literacy piece.
All right.

589
00:40:59,680 –> 00:41:01,560
It’s amazing the way it’s
constructed.

590
00:41:01,560 –> 00:41:02,720
We don’t have time to look at
that.

591
00:41:02,840 –> 00:41:07,920
But it’s when you feel it, feel
him as the appeals to this

592
00:41:07,920 –> 00:41:12,720
random ruler in Egypt.
It’s raw, it’s uncut, it’s

593
00:41:12,880 –> 00:41:16,080
unplanned.
It’s just off the the emotions

594
00:41:16,080 –> 00:41:20,120
are just rolling unexpected.
He’s speaking from the heart and

595
00:41:20,120 –> 00:41:25,200
he’s just saying it’s as it is.
And he says, please let me just

596
00:41:25,200 –> 00:41:28,800
speak a word to let me just
approach you and just talk

597
00:41:28,800 –> 00:41:34,520
gently, logically to your heart.
Don’t get angry with me, your

598
00:41:34,520 –> 00:41:36,280
servant.
I’m your servant.

599
00:41:36,280 –> 00:41:38,920
I’m not trying to challenge you.
Don’t get angry with me.

600
00:41:39,360 –> 00:41:48,520
You are like God.
Pharaoh is God in Egypt.

601
00:41:50,120 –> 00:41:52,880
That’s what Joseph was trying to
achieve by his whole divination

602
00:41:52,880 –> 00:41:56,560
track or technique.
He was trying to get them to

603
00:41:56,560 –> 00:42:00,000
feel that he knew everything was
under control and knew what was

604
00:42:00,000 –> 00:42:04,240
going on, like God does in our
lives, he says.

605
00:42:04,240 –> 00:42:11,600
I understand that you are like
God and so I’m going to

606
00:42:11,600 –> 00:42:19,920
communicate to you like that.
He starts then with the truth.

607
00:42:20,560 –> 00:42:24,600
He says it started off with my
Lord asked his servants see the

608
00:42:24,600 –> 00:42:26,360
plural party.
He doesn’t own this party

609
00:42:26,360 –> 00:42:29,920
because this is he shares this
part that’s humble.

610
00:42:31,320 –> 00:42:35,840
He says, do you have a father or
do you have a brother?

611
00:42:38,160 –> 00:42:44,120
The whole speech started off
with a little bit unsure what to

612
00:42:44,120 –> 00:42:49,400
say, a little bit speechless.
And now he’s going to find a

613
00:42:49,400 –> 00:42:54,760
rhythm as his speech goes
through in the next 17 verses,

614
00:42:54,760 –> 00:42:58,360
17 verses, the longest speech in
all of Genesis, he’s going to

615
00:42:58,360 –> 00:43:01,000
find this beautiful rhythm.
Why?

616
00:43:02,240 –> 00:43:06,960
Why is there a rhythm in what
Judah’s going to say?

617
00:43:08,960 –> 00:43:13,680
Because he’s telling the truth,
and the truth works.

618
00:43:14,040 –> 00:43:18,600
The truth adds up, and the truth
has feeling, it has emotion

619
00:43:18,760 –> 00:43:22,520
attached to it, and it works.
You tell one lie, you’re forced

620
00:43:22,520 –> 00:43:24,520
to tell another.
That makes 2 lies.

621
00:43:24,520 –> 00:43:26,600
And then suddenly you’re forced
to tell 4 lies and you’ve got a

622
00:43:26,600 –> 00:43:27,720
problem.
You’ve got this deep hole that

623
00:43:27,720 –> 00:43:33,680
doesn’t work.
When you tell the truth, it

624
00:43:33,680 –> 00:43:38,240
works and has an incredible
emotional impact on the person

625
00:43:38,240 –> 00:43:42,080
you’re admitting that to.
And that’s what he’s about to

626
00:43:42,080 –> 00:43:46,080
do.
He says, you asked me the truth

627
00:43:46,080 –> 00:43:49,440
of the situation of how things
are back in our family.

628
00:43:49,920 –> 00:43:53,680
And we said to my Lord, with
truth, we said we have an old

629
00:43:53,680 –> 00:43:57,600
father, He’s an old man.
And then there’s a young boy who

630
00:43:57,600 –> 00:43:59,320
was born when our father was
old.

631
00:44:00,320 –> 00:44:01,880
There’s a lot of emotion there,
isn’t there?

632
00:44:01,880 –> 00:44:03,640
There’s there’s a lot of extra
facts.

633
00:44:03,920 –> 00:44:07,400
And it’s bringing out the Hebrew
emotion about the relationship

634
00:44:07,400 –> 00:44:15,320
of an old man to his beloved
younger son, that boy’s brother.

635
00:44:16,720 –> 00:44:19,120
I like the King James that says
he’s not.

636
00:44:21,760 –> 00:44:25,280
I don’t know what to say because
they know they don’t know.

637
00:44:26,560 –> 00:44:27,960
But the implication is he’s
dead.

638
00:44:30,040 –> 00:44:32,520
He’s the only one of his
mother’s sons that’s left, and

639
00:44:34,160 –> 00:44:38,480
his father’s life is just
wrapped up in the lab.

640
00:44:39,960 –> 00:44:45,480
Says that later builds to that.
But I want you to think about

641
00:44:45,480 –> 00:44:50,040
Joseph, who’s listening to this
and going, oh, you think I’m

642
00:44:50,040 –> 00:44:52,160
dead?
Is that what you told that?

643
00:44:53,160 –> 00:44:57,160
Is that what that thinks?
Oh, so Benjamin is loved.

644
00:44:57,880 –> 00:45:00,080
OK, so that is a good
relationship.

645
00:45:00,080 –> 00:45:02,960
He’s putting all these details
together as he’s listening to

646
00:45:02,960 –> 00:45:05,760
this speech that’s unraveling in
front of him.

647
00:45:05,960 –> 00:45:08,680
It’s for Joseph.
There would have been so much

648
00:45:08,920 –> 00:45:13,640
information coming out in this
moment of just intense emotion.

649
00:45:15,200 –> 00:45:17,600
He’s trying not to cry.
He’s already cried 7 times.

650
00:45:17,600 –> 00:45:20,200
And if I cry, forgive me,
Joseph’s cried 7.

651
00:45:20,720 –> 00:45:22,920
But this is hard to talk about,
right?

652
00:45:23,240 –> 00:45:26,240
Because it’s such an emotional
story.

653
00:45:27,920 –> 00:45:31,200
And in that moment, Judah is
telling him things that he

654
00:45:31,200 –> 00:45:33,360
doesn’t know, and he’s trying to
absorb it all.

655
00:45:33,640 –> 00:45:37,840
But what he’s also seeing is a
very sincere person, a person

656
00:45:37,840 –> 00:45:41,920
who’s sensitive to that awkward
relationship of his dad, who’s

657
00:45:42,040 –> 00:45:45,480
over the top loving his brother.
And he’s seeing a love and a

658
00:45:45,480 –> 00:45:48,520
care for other people coming
out, and he’s seeing how values

659
00:45:48,600 –> 00:45:52,320
or relationships are being
valued between the brothers.

660
00:45:52,320 –> 00:45:54,320
And Joseph’s receiving all these
ideas.

661
00:45:54,560 –> 00:45:56,800
And he’s going.
You’re not actually angry at Dad

662
00:45:56,800 –> 00:45:59,280
anymore.
OK, this is interesting.

663
00:46:00,640 –> 00:46:03,040
And that beloved Benjamin,
you’re actually standing up

664
00:46:03,040 –> 00:46:07,160
defending him when actually, to
all intents and purposes, he

665
00:46:07,160 –> 00:46:13,600
looks like a thief.
You’ve been surety for him.

666
00:46:14,600 –> 00:46:18,000
Oh, you’re going to stand up for
him.

667
00:46:18,000 –> 00:46:20,240
You’re going to give your life
instead of him.

668
00:46:21,440 –> 00:46:25,480
Really, all that is going
through Joseph’s mind.

669
00:46:25,480 –> 00:46:27,040
It’s just too much for him to
grasp.

670
00:46:28,000 –> 00:46:30,120
I want you to just think for a
second and you read this and I

671
00:46:30,120 –> 00:46:31,720
give you one minute.
We don’t have a lot of time to

672
00:46:31,720 –> 00:46:33,880
summarize this speech into a
couple of words.

673
00:46:34,480 –> 00:46:39,200
Take 30 seconds.
Have a read of the 17 verses.

674
00:46:39,520 –> 00:46:43,240
There should be 3 or 4 keywords.
Jump off the page to you.

675
00:46:43,240 –> 00:46:44,840
If you don’t have them colored
in, you need to.

676
00:46:45,720 –> 00:46:48,680
It is just so important to grasp
this.

677
00:46:49,840 –> 00:46:56,680
There’s 3 or 4 keywords in the
17 verses from verse 20 to the

678
00:46:56,680 –> 00:47:17,850
end of the chapter.
Joseph, who’s copying all this

679
00:47:17,850 –> 00:47:24,010
emotion, all this information,
What are the key ideas that he’s

680
00:47:24,010 –> 00:47:31,370
meant to absorb and take away?
I struggled like you’re probably

681
00:47:31,370 –> 00:47:33,730
doing too.
So I fed it into a word cloud,

682
00:47:34,170 –> 00:47:36,720
data-driven.
It’s not my opinion, it’s here.

683
00:47:37,640 –> 00:47:40,480
There’s the keywords in a word
cloud.

684
00:47:40,800 –> 00:47:43,760
I picked up the 17 verses,
copied, dumped it, paste it

685
00:47:43,760 –> 00:47:47,520
straight in.
What are the important issues in

686
00:47:47,520 –> 00:48:01,600
this speech?
Dad, actually God, He’s the real

687
00:48:01,600 –> 00:48:04,920
father.
What’s next?

688
00:48:09,160 –> 00:48:14,960
We will ignore thy servant
servants.

689
00:48:15,320 –> 00:48:17,240
It’s a bit of a problem.
This is how raw it is.

690
00:48:18,000 –> 00:48:19,680
That’s actually the same thing.
So it should be quite big.

691
00:48:19,680 –> 00:48:21,720
It’s equally up there with
brother.

692
00:48:22,000 –> 00:48:24,840
And who’s this?
That’s the brother too.

693
00:48:26,200 –> 00:48:28,680
Yeah.
Just think carefully about this.

694
00:48:30,000 –> 00:48:38,480
It’s all about the father and
brotherhood, but not

695
00:48:38,600 –> 00:48:42,960
brotherhood, General.
There’s one special brother out

696
00:48:42,960 –> 00:48:46,200
of all of the brothers, and
that’s the lad.

697
00:48:49,160 –> 00:48:53,800
And then it’s about service.
Service.

698
00:48:55,360 –> 00:49:00,920
They’re the key ideas that came
out in Judah’s speech.

699
00:49:03,200 –> 00:49:05,040
Allow me to summarize that for
you.

700
00:49:07,920 –> 00:49:18,520
The father Jacob’s love to his
beloved son Benjamin is

701
00:49:18,520 –> 00:49:25,160
understood, valued, and
appreciated so much that Judah

702
00:49:25,160 –> 00:49:32,000
is willing to be a servant for
his brother’s good.

703
00:49:33,080 –> 00:49:38,880
Not all the brothers, one
brother in particular, think

704
00:49:38,880 –> 00:49:45,080
deeply about that.
Think very deeply because that

705
00:49:46,280 –> 00:49:51,400
is the point and the purpose of
life there.

706
00:49:52,560 –> 00:49:54,440
Let’s say it that bluntly,
because it is.

707
00:49:56,360 –> 00:50:02,360
The purpose of our life is
wrapped up in our sincere love

708
00:50:02,400 –> 00:50:09,320
of the Father because of his
special love to his son.

709
00:50:11,480 –> 00:50:18,480
And as a result of that, you and
I are willing to lay down our

710
00:50:18,480 –> 00:50:30,760
life for our brothers because
our Father loves his son so

711
00:50:30,760 –> 00:50:35,360
much, but his life is wrapped up
in the son’s life.

712
00:50:37,360 –> 00:50:43,440
And our life is not worth living
if that beloved brother is not

713
00:50:43,440 –> 00:50:46,680
alive and the father is not
happy.

714
00:50:49,600 –> 00:50:53,000
You feel that.
That’s why this speech is

715
00:50:53,000 –> 00:50:58,960
powerful.
It’s incredible, the emotional

716
00:50:58,960 –> 00:51:00,120
pull.
And I can’t do it.

717
00:51:00,120 –> 00:51:03,600
I I’d be an absolute mess to
talk about that emotionally as a

718
00:51:03,600 –> 00:51:08,200
story and present the story.
So try not to do it technically

719
00:51:08,680 –> 00:51:13,360
incredible.
Let me just show it to you in

720
00:51:13,360 –> 00:51:16,360
the last two verses or sorry,
verse 32.

721
00:51:16,360 –> 00:51:21,640
We’ll pick up from there.
Here comes the summary in verse

722
00:51:21,640 –> 00:51:24,520
32.
Indeed, this is the truth I’m

723
00:51:24,520 –> 00:51:31,360
telling you, Joseph, ruler in
Egypt, your servant, me, I

724
00:51:31,360 –> 00:51:39,520
pledged security for that boy a
few years ago.

725
00:51:39,520 –> 00:51:42,400
I was happy to give my life for
a one night stand, but not

726
00:51:42,400 –> 00:51:48,440
anymore.
I said to my dad, if I do not

727
00:51:48,440 –> 00:51:53,800
bring him back to you, then I’ll
bear the blame before my dad for

728
00:51:54,320 –> 00:52:04,680
all the rest of my life.
So now please, please, please

729
00:52:05,720 –> 00:52:08,920
just let me stay instead of the
lad.

730
00:52:10,600 –> 00:52:15,360
Just let me be the servant.
Just let him go.

731
00:52:16,000 –> 00:52:19,080
Why?
Why is Judah caring so much?

732
00:52:20,280 –> 00:52:22,520
It’s not because he cares just
about Benjamin.

733
00:52:22,800 –> 00:52:26,080
He cares most of all about his
dad.

734
00:52:27,280 –> 00:52:29,360
He says.
How could I go back to my father

735
00:52:31,000 –> 00:52:35,920
and the boy’s not with me?
I couldn’t do it, he says.

736
00:52:35,920 –> 00:52:40,880
Why?
Because I couldn’t bear to see

737
00:52:41,840 –> 00:52:46,360
the evil that would come upon my
father’s face.

738
00:52:47,120 –> 00:52:52,080
I saw it 22 years ago.
I can’t do it again.

739
00:52:53,680 –> 00:52:58,320
That’s what he’s saying.
I saw what it did to my dad.

740
00:52:58,720 –> 00:53:05,240
I stood beside my dad and I lied
through my teeth to him not

741
00:53:05,360 –> 00:53:13,040
doing it again.
I can’t bear to see the way his

742
00:53:13,040 –> 00:53:19,840
face would screw up in pain.
And the fact is, he would die

743
00:53:19,840 –> 00:53:25,880
this time because his life is
bound up in that boy’s life.

744
00:53:28,040 –> 00:53:35,520
Do you feel that?
And he’d lift his head, and he’d

745
00:53:35,520 –> 00:53:40,880
lift his head up and he’d look
into the eyes of that Egyptian

746
00:53:41,560 –> 00:53:51,400
ruler and he’d see his face
start to contort and twitch.

747
00:53:54,120 –> 00:53:58,040
He was clearly, I don’t know,
agitated.

748
00:53:59,000 –> 00:54:06,520
Something is bothering the ruler
that I’ve just appealed to.

749
00:54:08,080 –> 00:54:10,800
And he wants to know that rule
of emotions.

750
00:54:11,000 –> 00:54:15,560
He wants to understand the
emotional impact that he had

751
00:54:16,400 –> 00:54:21,400
upon that ruler.
And that is our exhort for the

752
00:54:21,480 –> 00:54:21,720
sake.