Class 5 from this series was used in GCT Episode 267.<\/p>\n
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\nto introduce our first speaker,
\nFirst Class Brother Dennis <\/p>\n
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\nGillett of Oxford, England and
\nhe will deliver a series on <\/p>\n
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\nBible Men the Way They Were and
\nthe title for the first Class <\/p>\n
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\nJoseph From Regs to Riches.
\nMother. <\/p>\n
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\nGood.
\nGood. <\/p>\n
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\nMorning everyone by way of
\nintroduction. <\/p>\n
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\nThis first address that is one
\nthing that needs to be <\/p>\n
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\nemphasized and that is that.
\nThese. <\/p>\n
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\nAddresses this series is
\ndesigned. <\/p>\n
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\nTo observe the characters.
\nOf certain Bible men, and what <\/p>\n
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\nwe are concerned with is
\nnoticing the details about them <\/p>\n
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\nas those details are revealed.
\nIn the Word of God and reading <\/p>\n
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\nbetween the lines where.
\nReading. <\/p>\n
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\nBetween the lines is justified.
\nSo that we can see what they <\/p>\n
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\nwere like.
\nThat’s what we mean. <\/p>\n
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\nBy the way they were.
\nTo see what they were really <\/p>\n
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\nlike as far as we.
\nCan and. <\/p>\n
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\nThen to draw conclusions from
\ntheir lives in order to. <\/p>\n
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\nHelp her own SO.
\nI want you to understand, <\/p>\n
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\nbrothers and sisters, that is
\nthe objective in this particular<\/p>\n
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\nseries.
\nNow I know well enough. <\/p>\n
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\nThat there are other.
\nWays of looking at Bible. <\/p>\n
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\nCharacters.
\nI know that there are studies <\/p>\n
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\nwhich are thematic and prophetic
\nand. <\/p>\n
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\nWhich of course.
\nCan be very interesting and very<\/p>\n
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\nprofitable indeed, I understand.
\nThat all I’m. <\/p>\n
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\nSaying is that that is not the
\nsystem in this case all I am <\/p>\n
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\nconcerned to do.
\nSo that you won’t be <\/p>\n
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\ndisappointed, all I am concerned
\nto do is to. <\/p>\n
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\nLook.
\nCarefully, incisively, if we <\/p>\n
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\ncan, seeking to unveil the
\ncharacters of these men so that <\/p>\n
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\nwe can learn something for
\nourselves, so with that little <\/p>\n
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\nintroduction.
\nThen we’re thinking of Joseph <\/p>\n
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\nfrom Rex.
\nTo riches now, it seems to me, <\/p>\n
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\nwhen seeking to make an
\nassessment. <\/p>\n
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\nOf Bible men.
\nSometimes it’s of great value to<\/p>\n
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\nnotice how the narrative about
\ntheir lives in the Word of God <\/p>\n
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\nis related to the remainder of
\nthe. <\/p>\n
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\nBiblical Revelation.
\nNow I choose. <\/p>\n
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\nMy words carefully there because
\nI didn’t say how they are <\/p>\n
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\nrelated to the development of
\nGod’s purpose. <\/p>\n
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\nOf course that’s important.
\nBut I’m saying it is profitable <\/p>\n
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\nsometimes to notice.
\nHow what is recorded about him? <\/p>\n
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\nRelates to the rest.
\nOf the Bible and if you. <\/p>\n
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\nApply that measurement to
\nJoseph. <\/p>\n
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\nHe is revealed.
\nAs a man of very considerable <\/p>\n
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\nsignificance, as it appears to
\nme, he was a kind of. <\/p>\n
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\nWell, what I would call.
\nA Christophany. <\/p>\n
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\nThat is, things happen to
\nJoseph. <\/p>\n
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\nOn one level which?
\nHappened to Christ on a much <\/p>\n
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\nhigher level.
\nJoseph Life, to some extent, was<\/p>\n
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\nmicrocosmic.
\nOf the. <\/p>\n
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\nMessiah as we Christadelphia and
\nshe would say he was a type. <\/p>\n
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\nHe was a type.
\nOf the man of Nazareth. <\/p>\n
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\nWe can quickly think of some
\nexample. <\/p>\n
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\nJacob loved all his children.
\nBut there was between him and <\/p>\n
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\nJoseph and a special
\nrelationship. <\/p>\n
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\nIndeed, the record is explicit
\nin Genesis 37 verse three. <\/p>\n
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\nIt says now Israel loved Joseph
\nmore than all. <\/p>\n
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\nHis children because.
\nHe was the son of his. <\/p>\n
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\nOld.
\nAge. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is special love and Jacob
\nhad other. <\/p>\n
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\nChildren but.
\nHe loved this one man, <\/p>\n
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\nespecially now.
\nIn the Psalm. <\/p>\n
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\nYou can read this about God in
\nPsalm 103. <\/p>\n
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\nLike as a father pityeth his
\nchildren, so hath the Lord <\/p>\n
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\ncompassion on them that fear
\nhim. <\/p>\n
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\nThat tells us that God is like a
\nfather, That is to say, he has <\/p>\n
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\nfatherly feelings.
\nHe is compassionate to those <\/p>\n
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\nwhom he.
\nLoves, but once in the course <\/p>\n
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\nof.
\nHuman time in the process of the<\/p>\n
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\ncenturies.
\nA maid of Israel is with child <\/p>\n
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\nby the Holy Spirit.
\nAnd the Holy. <\/p>\n
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\nThing which is born of.
\nHer is the child of the eternal <\/p>\n
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\nSpirit, the child of God who has
\nfatherly feelings. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd this child is different from
\nevery other. <\/p>\n
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\nListen to the voice from heaven.
\nThis is my Son, the Beloved in. <\/p>\n
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\nThee I am well pleased.
\nThe Father loves the Son. <\/p>\n
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\nFrom the foundation of the world
\nthere was. <\/p>\n
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\nBetween them as there was.
\nBetween Jacob and Joseph there <\/p>\n
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\nwas.
\nBetween them the God of heaven. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the child a special
\nrelationship or again Joseph was<\/p>\n
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\nrejected by his brethren.
\nIt says in Genesis 37 verse <\/p>\n
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\neight They hated him for his.
\nWords think of that. <\/p>\n
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\nThey hated him for his.
\nWords now of the Messiah, it is <\/p>\n
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\nwritten.
\nHe came unto his own. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd his own received him not.
\nHis brethren did not believe on <\/p>\n
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\nhim.
\nAnd those who should have been <\/p>\n
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\nhis.
\nBrethren said Thou blasphemist. <\/p>\n
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\nThey hated him because of his
\nwords, but again, Joseph was <\/p>\n
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\nsold as a slave by his brethren
\nfor a slave’s price. <\/p>\n
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\nThe Messiah was betrayed for 30
\npieces of silver. <\/p>\n
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\nThe price of a slave but.
\nAgain, Joseph the Hebrew the <\/p>\n
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\nfreeman became a servant in
\nEgypt of the Messiah, it is <\/p>\n
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\nwritten.
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\nForm of a servant.
\nAnd humbled himself, or again in<\/p>\n
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\nGenesis 39 we have the record of
\nthe temptations of Joseph, about<\/p>\n
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\nwhich we have read.
\nThey were persistent and subtle <\/p>\n
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\nand devilish and insidious.
\nAnd indeed he stands in the book<\/p>\n
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\nof Genesis as the.
\nOne man who was. <\/p>\n
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\nTempted more than any other.
\nNow of the Messiah, it is <\/p>\n
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\nwritten, He was tempted in all
\nthings like as we are, yet <\/p>\n
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\nwithout sin, and his temptations
\nwere more keenly felt, because <\/p>\n
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\nhis nature was more sensitive.
\nBut again Joseph, after his <\/p>\n
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\ncondemnation, when he was
\nvindicated, was exalted to be a <\/p>\n
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\nPrince and a saviour in Egypt,
\nand he became indeed the life <\/p>\n
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\ngiver through the very bread he
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\nHungry people.
\nAnd of the Messiah it is <\/p>\n
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\nwritten, for which course God
\nhath highly exalted him, and <\/p>\n
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\ngiven him a name which is above
\nevery name. <\/p>\n
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\nIndeed, he is called the King of
\nKings. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the Lord of Lords.
\nJohn says in him was life. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is the bread that cometh
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\nAnd giveth life to the world
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\nEvidence you see, is
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\nof two verses showing that what
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\nAnd in both cases was the
\ncombined result of human <\/p>\n
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\nwickedness on the one hand and
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\nGenesis 50 verse 20.
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\nagainst me.
\nBut God meant it for good. <\/p>\n
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\nTo bring to pass as it is this
\nday to save much people alive. <\/p>\n
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\nGenesis 50 verse 20.
\nGod meant it for good to save <\/p>\n
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\nmuch people.
\nAlive now in Acts 2 verse 23. <\/p>\n
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\nHim being delivered up by the.
\nDeterminate counsel and <\/p>\n
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\nforeknowledge.
\nOf God ye by. <\/p>\n
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\nThe hands of lawless men be
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\nraised up.
\nAnd then again. <\/p>\n
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\nThe Egyptians gave.
\nJoseph A. <\/p>\n
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\nName.
\nIt’s written in Genesis. <\/p>\n
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\nThe name they gave.
\nIt’s written, I suppose, in the <\/p>\n
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\nEgyptian.
\nLanguage but. <\/p>\n
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\nTranslated, it means the
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\nOf the world.
\nThis non Hebrew nation called <\/p>\n
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\nhim.
\nThe Saviour. <\/p>\n
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\nOf the world, Joseph.
\nAnd in the New Testament, the <\/p>\n
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\nSamaritans the place.
\nWhere no Hebrew. <\/p>\n
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\nNo self respect in Hebrew.
\nWould ever go. <\/p>\n
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\nThe Samaritans.
\nThey gave him a name, too. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the name they gave.
\nHim was the Saviour. <\/p>\n
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\nOf the world well.
\nThat’s it. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s what I mean without.
\nStraining the evidence, it’s <\/p>\n
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\nquite clear, it seems to me,
\nthat. <\/p>\n
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\nIn a remarkable.
\nWay this Joseph was a wonderful <\/p>\n
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\ntype of Christ.
\nHis life is the significant. <\/p>\n
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\nUnveiling of of things.
\nWhich are at the very centre of <\/p>\n
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\nbiblical revelation.
\nNow the thing to remember is <\/p>\n
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\nthat in the midst of this.
\nHigh calling. <\/p>\n
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\nHe was a man of like.
\nPassions with ourselves. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd that’s what we’re trying to
\nlook at now. <\/p>\n
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\nWe’re trying to look at that
\nfact without prejudice to see <\/p>\n
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\nthat this Bible man.
\nWell, to. <\/p>\n
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\nSee what he was like.
\nAnd in that way we may help <\/p>\n
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\nourselves in the process.
\nSo we’re going to think about <\/p>\n
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\nJoseph character.
\nWe’ve seen what a significant <\/p>\n
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\nman he was in the biblical
\nrevelation. <\/p>\n
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\nLet’s think about this
\ncharacter. <\/p>\n
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\nI remember years ago.
\nAt a Bible class in Oxford, the <\/p>\n
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\nsubject was Joseph and in the
\ndiscussion that. <\/p>\n
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\nFollowed one man in the Bible.
\nClass said that he felt a <\/p>\n
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\ncertain amount of sympathy with
\nJoseph’s prayer. <\/p>\n
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\nHe felt that to some extent,
\nJoseph came out of the <\/p>\n
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\nnarrative.
\nAnd I’m quoting his words, No, <\/p>\n
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\nnot mine.
\nJoseph came out of the narrative<\/p>\n
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\nas he said, a bit of a pring.
\nHe said he was 17, out with his <\/p>\n
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\nbrothers, and he brought to his
\nfather an evil report about his <\/p>\n
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\nbrethren.
\nAnd then later on he came to <\/p>\n
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\nthem in a very superior way and
\nextolled his own importance. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the man said he.
\nThought that he would. <\/p>\n
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\nProbably have reacted very much
\nlike Joseph Brethren did, he <\/p>\n
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\nsaid.
\nNothing is more calculated to <\/p>\n
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\nrub you up.
\nThe wrong way than for a young <\/p>\n
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\nupstart.
\nTo try loading it over his <\/p>\n
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\nelders, especially when he
\nsplits on them and on fairs. <\/p>\n
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\nHe was, after all, honestly
\ntelling us how he felt And <\/p>\n
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\nanyway, his words did provoke us
\nto look even more incisively at <\/p>\n
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\nJoseph to come to his defence.
\nWell, here’s something to think <\/p>\n
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\nof by way of balancing the
\nargument in some respects. <\/p>\n
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\nYou know, it’s not an easy thing
\nto be a favorite many Amanas <\/p>\n
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\nwish.
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\njoy.
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\nsafety.
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\nsomebody’s affection and
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\nOf course it is.
\nBut. <\/p>\n
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\nWhen people.
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\neither die or they go away or in
\nsome way. <\/p>\n
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\nThey’re removed.
\nWhat then? <\/p>\n
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\nWell, sometimes all the.
\nStored up resentment of your <\/p>\n
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\ncompanions has fallen,
\nunfettered expression, so it’s <\/p>\n
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\nnot easy to be a favorite.
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\nespecially difficult if you’re
\nwilling to read between the <\/p>\n
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\nlines.
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\nresentment.
\nIt was not merely annoyance. <\/p>\n
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\nAt this young man’s seeming
\nself. <\/p>\n
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\nImportance The record.
\nSays in Genesis 37, verse four, <\/p>\n
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\nthey hated him and could not
\nspeak peaceably to him. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd in Genesis 37, verse 8, his
\nbrethren said unto him, Shalt <\/p>\n
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\nthou indeed reign over us, or
\nshalt thou indeed have dominion <\/p>\n
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\nover us?
\nAnd they hated him yet the more <\/p>\n
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\nfor his dreams, and for his
\nwords, and even his. <\/p>\n
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\nFather felt.
\nThat this was a bit. <\/p>\n
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\nToo much and he.
\nSaid, as you know, rebuking late<\/p>\n
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\nin verse 10 of Genesis 37.
\nShall I and thy mother, and thy.<\/p>\n
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\nBrethren, indeed, come to bow
\ndown ourselves to thee, to the <\/p>\n
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\nearth, and his brethren envied
\nhim. <\/p>\n
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\nBut but do you not get the
\nfeeling by the sisters that <\/p>\n
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\nJacob said this to Joseph?
\nMore for the. <\/p>\n
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\nBenefit of the others, than for
\nanything else. <\/p>\n
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\nThat is to say, it was an
\nattempt to appear fair, to allay<\/p>\n
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\ntheir anger and to calm their
\njealousy by seeming to rebuke <\/p>\n
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\nthe young.
\nUpstart Brother because. <\/p>\n
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\nNotice what it says at the end
\nof verse 11 about Jacob. <\/p>\n
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\nIt says, but Jacob kept the
\nsaying. <\/p>\n
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\nIn mind.
\nAnd he kept the saying of Joseph<\/p>\n
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\nin mind, as though he sensed the
\nring of truth in the words which<\/p>\n
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\nJoseph had spoken, as though
\nwith some mysterious insight, <\/p>\n
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\nJacob saw the destiny of the.
\nChild that he loved. <\/p>\n
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\nBest so I want to put it.
\nTo you? <\/p>\n
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\nWell, this.
\nWhich opposes the idea that <\/p>\n
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\nJoseph was a prig.
\nYou see what he said about his <\/p>\n
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\ndreams?
\nAnd he said it more than. <\/p>\n
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\nOnce.
\nHe brought in the hatred of his <\/p>\n
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\nbrethren and the rebuke of his
\nfather. <\/p>\n
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\nNow I want to tell you something
\nand it’s this what Joseph said <\/p>\n
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\nI.
\nWouldn’t have said, I wouldn’t <\/p>\n
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\nhave said.
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\nWhy?
\nI’m too artful, that’s why I <\/p>\n
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\nwould know the.
\nEffect it would produce. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I would want to.
\nAvoid it however much I thought <\/p>\n
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\nit to be true.
\nI am too hard. <\/p>\n
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\nTo do that, but I detect nothing
\nof this, you see in the attitude<\/p>\n
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\nof Joseph, and therefore I am
\ndriven to the conclusion that. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat?
\nHe said, and what he did was <\/p>\n
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\ndone and said.
\nQuite artlessly. <\/p>\n
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\nHe is not a man looking sideways
\nto see how he is doing and what <\/p>\n
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\neffect he is having.
\nOpenly and artlessly, he told <\/p>\n
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\nthe dream and he behaved.
\nHere like. <\/p>\n
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\nHe is going to behave in other
\nplaces and later on, evidently <\/p>\n
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\nquite honest and open, without
\nany intrigue. <\/p>\n
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\nHe said what he believed, and he
\nreaped the consequences. <\/p>\n
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\nHe is not an ingenious schemer,
\na wild boy, a clever Dick. <\/p>\n
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\nHe is not.
\nHe is an open, honest man, <\/p>\n
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\nartlessly speaking his mind and
\nthen finding that his brethren <\/p>\n
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\ndidn’t like.
\nAnd if there is blame to be <\/p>\n
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\nlaid, it looks as though his
\nbrethren really are the <\/p>\n
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\nvillains.
\nEnvy and jealousy and hatred <\/p>\n
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\ntowards.
\nHim. <\/p>\n
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\nBecause they were insensitive to
\ntheir fathers. <\/p>\n
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\nA special love for the child.
\nBorn to? <\/p>\n
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\nHim through the.
\nWoman that he loved best of all.<\/p>\n
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\nSo you see, sometimes it is
\ndifficult to be a favorite and <\/p>\n
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\nJoseph discovered it, I think.
\nAnd it was not his fault to some<\/p>\n
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\nextent.
\nIt was his misfortune, because <\/p>\n
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\nit brought him eventually
\nbrutality and suffering and the <\/p>\n
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\npit.
\nBut now the narrative you know <\/p>\n
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\nwell, and I don’t propose to go
\nthrough it again in detail. <\/p>\n
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\nYou know what?
\nHappened to Joseph. <\/p>\n
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\nThe best loved son became a
\nslave. <\/p>\n
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\nSold.
\nBy his brethren, the children of<\/p>\n
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\nIsrael, and came by this means
\nto live in Egypt for the land of<\/p>\n
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\nthe master race.
\nLet’s not forget it, the land of<\/p>\n
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\nthe master race.
\nAnd it is there that we now must<\/p>\n
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\nlook at him again.
\nSo let’s think of Joseph in the <\/p>\n
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\nhouse.
\nOf potted fire about. <\/p>\n
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\nWhich we read earlier today.
\nAnd and notice how marvellously <\/p>\n
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\nhe progressed in spite of the
\ncircumstances. <\/p>\n
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\nHe was plainly an honest man,
\nindustrious, competent and hard.<\/p>\n
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\nWorking.
\nNow, very often this brings <\/p>\n
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\nresults, doesn’t it?
\nMost successful men, I think, <\/p>\n
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\nwould admit it that they get.
\nOn by their own efforts. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is the way to success.
\nHard work. <\/p>\n
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\nConscientiousness, faithfulness,
\nand honesty. <\/p>\n
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\nBut we know something more.
\nWe know that as well as Joseph’s<\/p>\n
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\ncompetence and honesty.
\nWe know that it was God’s will. <\/p>\n
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\nThat made Joseph prosper and in
\nthe process Potiphar himself and<\/p>\n
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\nhis household was blessed as
\nwell. <\/p>\n
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\nNow in Genesis 39, there’s one
\nsentence that’s first of all <\/p>\n
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\nsignificance, verse six.
\nIt says Joseph was a goodly <\/p>\n
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\nperson and well favored now.
\nYou may think that that’s <\/p>\n
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\nsplendid.
\nYou would all like to be like. <\/p>\n
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\nThat he would a goodly person
\nand well favoured. <\/p>\n
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\nBut you see, in the case of
\nJoseph, it got him into a very <\/p>\n
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\ndifficult situation, a situation
\nin a way in which there was no <\/p>\n
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\nmiddle course.
\nHe was wooed and pursued. <\/p>\n
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\nBy a woman.
\nWhom he must either refuse and <\/p>\n
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\nawaken against himself her on
\ndying hate, or else he must <\/p>\n
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\naccept and violate his whole
\nallegiance to God. <\/p>\n
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\nThere was no middle course in
\nthis situation. <\/p>\n
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\nNow it’s very interesting to
\nnotice how Joseph measured it. <\/p>\n
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\nIndeed, it’s a lesson in honesty
\nand verse nine, he said. <\/p>\n
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\nHow can I do this great
\nwickedness and sin against God. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s a very important
\nsentence. <\/p>\n
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\nAll sin is against.
\nGod men. <\/p>\n
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\nMay call it by other names.
\nMen may call it crime. <\/p>\n
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\nMaladjustment.
\nLack of education. <\/p>\n
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\nThe Bible.
\nCalls it sin and it is against. <\/p>\n
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\nGod.
\nThat’s not mistaken. <\/p>\n
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\nI told you we should be talking
\nabout it. <\/p>\n
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\nIt is against.
\nGod you. <\/p>\n
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\nMay sin with others, as David
\ndid with Bathsheba, but in the <\/p>\n
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\nend it’s against God, and David
\nconfessed it. <\/p>\n
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\nHe said against thee.
\nOnly have I sinned and done this<\/p>\n
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\nevening.
\nJoseph knew it and said it. <\/p>\n
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\nNow, of course it could have
\nbeen you’d, I suppose that there<\/p>\n
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\nwere mitigating circumstances.
\nWhen a slave is commanded, does <\/p>\n
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\nhe not?
\nHave to obey. <\/p>\n
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\nIsn’t it a case of diminished
\nresponsibility? <\/p>\n
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\nBut you see, there are some
\nthings, brother and sisters <\/p>\n
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\nwhere?
\nWhen all the peripheral <\/p>\n
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\narguments are stripped aside, a
\nman cannot be. <\/p>\n
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\nNeutral this is.
\nOne, but you can mark the <\/p>\n
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\nstrain, the insidious power of
\nthe temptation. <\/p>\n
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\nSee, in the Bible every word is
\nimportant, and in verse 10 of <\/p>\n
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\nGenesis 39 it says as she spoke
\nto Joseph. <\/p>\n
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\nDay by day that he hearkened not
\nunto. <\/p>\n
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\nHer day by day.
\nThink of the ruthless <\/p>\n
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\npersistence of the temptress day
\nafter day. <\/p>\n
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\nWhy was she so persistent?
\nBecause in verse 11 you see it, <\/p>\n
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\nhe makes what we might call a
\nspecial effort. <\/p>\n
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\nIn verse 11, it says he came to
\npass about this time that Joseph<\/p>\n
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\nwent into the house to do his
\nwork. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd was none of the men of the
\nhouse there? <\/p>\n
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\nWithin, I should guess that that
\nwas her doing. <\/p>\n
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\nShe fixed it.
\nThis was. <\/p>\n
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\nHer best effort yet?
\nSo you have to read between the <\/p>\n
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\nlines here.
\nHe was a frustrated. <\/p>\n
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\nWoman, you’ll pardon me for
\nmentioning this, but we’re <\/p>\n
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\nadults and we mean business.
\nShe was a frustrated woman. <\/p>\n
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\nNow notice in verse 14 how she
\nspeaks to the servants about her<\/p>\n
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\nhusband.
\nSee, he hath brought in and <\/p>\n
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\nHebrew unto us to mock us.
\nYou do not usually run your <\/p>\n
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\nhusband down to the servants if
\nyou respect him and honour him, <\/p>\n
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\ndo you?
\nNot even in Egypt You don’t, and<\/p>\n
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\nyou don’t just insert the
\npersonal pronoun. <\/p>\n
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\nHe see what he’s done.
\nI think we can be more <\/p>\n
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\nspecifically.
\nI want to read something to you <\/p>\n
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\nfrom Genesis 39 from the New
\nEnglish Bible. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s verse one of Genesis 39 in
\nthe New English Bible. <\/p>\n
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\nIt says when Joseph was taken
\ndown to Egypt, he was bought by.<\/p>\n
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\nPotiphar, one of Pharaoh’s
\neunuchs, Captain of the guard, <\/p>\n
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\n00:22:46,760 –> 00:23:00,840
\nan Egyptian.
\nOne of Pharaoh’s eunuchs, if you<\/p>\n
346
\n00:23:00,840 –> 00:23:04,640
\nthink it seems unlikely.
\nCan I remind you that in these <\/p>\n
347
\n00:23:04,640 –> 00:23:07,960
\ntimes it was quite.
\nCommon for units to be appointed<\/p>\n
348
\n00:23:07,960 –> 00:23:09,360
\nto places of high.
\nOffice. <\/p>\n
349
\n00:23:09,360 –> 00:23:13,080
\nQuite common.
\nDo you remember Rab Saris, the <\/p>\n
350
\n00:23:13,080 –> 00:23:16,720
\nambassador of the King of
\nAssyria, who came to Hezekiah? <\/p>\n
351
\n00:23:17,360 –> 00:23:27,200
\nWell, he was the chief eunuch,
\nindeed the very word Saris. <\/p>\n
352
\n00:23:27,240 –> 00:23:33,680
\nMeans eunuch Rab Paris.
\nAnd then there’s Acts chapter 8,<\/p>\n
353
\n00:23:33,680 –> 00:23:36,080
\nverse 27.
\nAnd Philip arose and went, and <\/p>\n
354
\n00:23:36,080 –> 00:23:39,600
\nbehold a man of Ethiopia.
\nA eunuch of great authority <\/p>\n
355
\n00:23:39,600 –> 00:23:42,960
\nunder Candesi, Queen of The
\nEthiopians who had charge of. <\/p>\n
356
\n00:23:42,960 –> 00:23:50,640
\nAll her treasure.
\nVery often eunuchs are given the<\/p>\n
357
\n00:23:50,640 –> 00:23:55,240
\nhighest offices in these times,
\nsometimes military, sometimes <\/p>\n
358
\n00:23:55,240 –> 00:23:58,120
\nsevere, and the reason was they
\nwere. <\/p>\n
359
\n00:23:58,120 –> 00:24:02,880
\nReliable, steady, stable,
\ndevoted. <\/p>\n
360
\n00:24:04,240 –> 00:24:09,840
\nSo it’s no great surprise that
\nPotiphar, captain of the <\/p>\n
361
\n00:24:09,840 –> 00:24:13,480
\ngovernment, could have been a
\nunit for those who are <\/p>\n
362
\n00:24:13,480 –> 00:24:15,760
\ninterested.
\nThe word which is translated <\/p>\n
363
\n00:24:15,760 –> 00:24:19,240
\neunuch is translated eunuch 17
\ntimes in the Old Testament. <\/p>\n
364
\n00:24:22,000 –> 00:24:23,760
\nNow if you’re willing to receive
\nit, and if you. <\/p>\n
365
\n00:24:23,760 –> 00:24:26,240
\nDon’t I don’t.
\nI don’t mind, but if you’re <\/p>\n
366
\n00:24:26,240 –> 00:24:30,120
\nwilling to receive it, it does
\nexplain some of the things which<\/p>\n
367
\n00:24:30,120 –> 00:24:32,480
\noccur in the 39th chapter of
\nGenesis. <\/p>\n
368
\n00:24:32,480 –> 00:24:36,160
\nOf course it could be said.
\nWould any woman in her right <\/p>\n
369
\n00:24:36,160 –> 00:24:37,440
\nmind?
\nMarry a eunuch? <\/p>\n
370
\n00:24:41,200 –> 00:24:46,360
\nWell, some women might, if the
\nunit was a man of high rank, and<\/p>\n
371
\n00:24:46,360 –> 00:24:48,760
\npot if I was.
\nSome men will. <\/p>\n
372
\n00:24:48,760 –> 00:24:51,400
\nSome women will do a great deal
\nto attain their ends if the <\/p>\n
373
\n00:24:51,400 –> 00:24:55,600
\nglory is good enough.
\nNow here is a strange thing to <\/p>\n
374
\n00:24:55,600 –> 00:25:02,680
\nNotice how Potiphar dealt with
\nJoseph over this matter. <\/p>\n
375
\n00:25:04,400 –> 00:25:08,120
\nRemember what it would be a
\nslave who had allegedly <\/p>\n
376
\n00:25:08,120 –> 00:25:14,600
\nattempted to rape the mistress
\nand Potiphar gets rid of Joseph <\/p>\n
377
\n00:25:14,600 –> 00:25:19,040
\nby putting him in prison.
\nAnd not too bad a prison at <\/p>\n
378
\n00:25:19,040 –> 00:25:22,480
\nthat.
\nNow I’m asking you, does it <\/p>\n
379
\n00:25:22,480 –> 00:25:26,480
\nseem, does it seem reasonable?
\nDoes it make sense? <\/p>\n
380
\n00:25:27,680 –> 00:25:32,600
\nWell, try to work it out in
\nterms of what we know of our own<\/p>\n
381
\n00:25:32,600 –> 00:25:35,480
\ncivilization.
\nWith respect, take your own <\/p>\n
382
\n00:25:35,480 –> 00:25:36,600
\ncountry.
\nI use it. <\/p>\n
383
\n00:25:37,200 –> 00:25:38,880
\nI know it’s not your country.
\nReally. <\/p>\n
384
\n00:25:38,880 –> 00:25:41,160
\nBut you know what I mean.
\nTake the United States of <\/p>\n
385
\n00:25:41,160 –> 00:25:44,920
\nAmerica.
\nJust imagine a landowner in <\/p>\n
386
\n00:25:44,920 –> 00:25:47,720
\nLouisiana, say.
\nIn the beginning of the last <\/p>\n
387
\n00:25:47,720 –> 00:25:51,360
\ncentury and one of the slaves
\nassaults, the master’s wife <\/p>\n
388
\n00:25:51,600 –> 00:25:53,680
\ntries to rape her in her own
\nbedroom. <\/p>\n
389
\n00:25:55,040 –> 00:25:57,360
\nWhat think you, the master,
\nwould have done? <\/p>\n
390
\n00:25:59,880 –> 00:26:02,760
\nDo you think he would have asked
\nfor a mild prison sentence or <\/p>\n
391
\n00:26:02,760 –> 00:26:07,760
\nreach for his?
\nGun What do you think, knowing <\/p>\n
392
\n00:26:07,760 –> 00:26:13,360
\nyour own history?
\nWell, you see here the situation<\/p>\n
393
\n00:26:13,360 –> 00:26:19,400
\nis is more well, it’s it’s more
\nclearly defined here in Genesis <\/p>\n
394
\n00:26:19,400 –> 00:26:22,760
\n39.
\nWe have a man of the master <\/p>\n
395
\n00:26:22,760 –> 00:26:26,560
\nrace.
\nAn important man of the master <\/p>\n
396
\n00:26:26,560 –> 00:26:30,240
\nrace, whose honour has been
\nassaulted, whose wife has been <\/p>\n
397
\n00:26:30,240 –> 00:26:33,080
\nassaulted by a mere slave who
\nhas no rights whatever. <\/p>\n
398
\n00:26:35,080 –> 00:26:38,360
\nIt seems to me that I would have
\nexpected Joseph to have been <\/p>\n
399
\n00:26:38,360 –> 00:26:41,120
\nthrown to the crocodiles without
\na moment’s hesitation. <\/p>\n
400
\n00:26:42,280 –> 00:26:45,840
\nAnd there’s another thing too.
\nThis Potiphar happens to be the <\/p>\n
401
\n00:26:45,840 –> 00:26:49,600
\nchief executioner as well.
\nSo he isn’t a man. <\/p>\n
402
\n00:26:50,280 –> 00:26:52,720
\nHe has a certain amount of
\ninfluence in the right <\/p>\n
403
\n00:26:52,720 –> 00:26:55,120
\ndirection, the chief
\nexecutioner. <\/p>\n
404
\n00:26:56,960 –> 00:26:59,560
\nBut you see, here is the mystery
\nfor some. <\/p>\n
405
\n00:26:59,560 –> 00:27:05,320
\nReason Potiphar for theirs?
\nWhy does he? <\/p>\n
406
\n00:27:05,800 –> 00:27:10,280
\nWhy is he so reasonable?
\nOr do you not think that in his <\/p>\n
407
\n00:27:10,280 –> 00:27:13,960
\nheart he believes Joseph more
\nthan his wife? <\/p>\n
408
\n00:27:15,880 –> 00:27:18,600
\nHe thinks that Joseph is the
\ninnocent party and the guilty. <\/p>\n
409
\n00:27:18,600 –> 00:27:23,320
\nParty is the woman, and it’s
\ndifficult to potify. <\/p>\n
410
\n00:27:23,360 –> 00:27:27,680
\nHe cannot openly call his wife a
\nliar, can he? <\/p>\n
411
\n00:27:27,680 –> 00:27:30,400
\nAnd he cannot leave Joseph in
\nthis impossible situation. <\/p>\n
412
\n00:27:30,400 –> 00:27:34,480
\nSo he compromises takes.
\nJoseph out of the way and tries <\/p>\n
413
\n00:27:34,480 –> 00:27:36,360
\nto forget the whole miserable
\nbusiness. <\/p>\n
414
\n00:27:39,280 –> 00:27:41,720
\nThere is just one little
\nthought, Brethren, sisters, <\/p>\n
415
\n00:27:41,720 –> 00:27:44,320
\nwhich I think we are entitled
\nto. <\/p>\n
416
\n00:27:44,320 –> 00:27:46,720
\nYou may not agree.
\nAnd you’ll have to forgive me, <\/p>\n
417
\n00:27:46,720 –> 00:27:49,400
\nbut there’s a little.
\nThought you may think it’s a <\/p>\n
418
\n00:27:49,400 –> 00:27:51,080
\nnaughty.
\nThought, but never mind. <\/p>\n
419
\n00:27:52,040 –> 00:27:55,560
\nI think we are entitled to
\nruminate upon it before we leave<\/p>\n
420
\n00:27:55,560 –> 00:27:59,280
\nthis part of the narrative
\nthink. <\/p>\n
421
\n00:28:02,440 –> 00:28:08,200
\nOr what do you suppose, did
\nMissus Potiphar think or say to <\/p>\n
422
\n00:28:08,200 –> 00:28:13,840
\nherself one day later on, at a
\ngreat banquet in the royal <\/p>\n
423
\n00:28:13,840 –> 00:28:19,280
\npalace, when she was introduced
\nto Joseph, the new Grand Master <\/p>\n
424
\n00:28:19,280 –> 00:28:22,880
\nof the government?
\nSina, the Princess of Egypt. <\/p>\n
425
\n00:28:24,000 –> 00:28:26,480
\nMrs. Potiphar must have been
\nlivid. <\/p>\n
426
\n00:28:36,920 –> 00:28:40,200
\nWell, now let’s move on a little
\nbit to another episode in the <\/p>\n
427
\n00:28:40,200 –> 00:28:45,960
\nlife of Joseph when his brethren
\ncame to Egypt, and in the plea <\/p>\n
428
\n00:28:45,960 –> 00:28:47,560
\nfor sustenance he has
\ndiscovered. <\/p>\n
429
\n00:28:47,560 –> 00:28:52,720
\nAs their long lost brother I
\nbring you to Genesis 45 verses 1<\/p>\n
430
\n00:28:52,720 –> 00:29:01,840
\nto 8.
\nYou remember the situation. <\/p>\n
431
\n00:29:01,840 –> 00:29:04,720
\nThey are discovered as his
\nbrethren. <\/p>\n
432
\n00:29:06,680 –> 00:29:15,200
\nGenesis 45 verse One.
\nThen Joseph could not refrain <\/p>\n
433
\n00:29:15,200 –> 00:29:18,640
\nhimself before them all, and
\nstood by them that stood by him.<\/p>\n
434
\n00:29:18,640 –> 00:29:21,520
\nAnd he cried, caused every man
\nto go out from me. <\/p>\n
435
\n00:29:22,000 –> 00:29:24,920
\nThere stood no man with him.
\nWhile Joseph made himself known <\/p>\n
436
\n00:29:24,920 –> 00:29:28,000
\nunto his brethren, he wept
\naloud. <\/p>\n
437
\n00:29:28,000 –> 00:29:32,200
\nAnd the Egyptians heard, and the
\nHouse of Pharaoh heard, Joseph <\/p>\n
438
\n00:29:32,200 –> 00:29:34,760
\nsaid unto his brethren.
\nI am Joseph. <\/p>\n
439
\n00:29:35,480 –> 00:29:39,440
\nDoes my father yet live, and his
\nbrethren could not answer him? <\/p>\n
440
\n00:29:40,440 –> 00:29:42,440
\nThey were troubled with his
\npresence. <\/p>\n
441
\n00:29:43,760 –> 00:29:46,360
\nJoseph said unto his brethren,
\nCome near to me. <\/p>\n
442
\n00:29:47,080 –> 00:29:49,960
\nI prayed you.
\nHe came near, and he said, I am <\/p>\n
443
\n00:29:49,960 –> 00:29:52,960
\nJoseph, your brother, whom he
\nsold into Egypt. <\/p>\n
444
\n00:29:53,800 –> 00:29:57,400
\nNow be not grieved, not angry
\nwith yourself, But she sold me, <\/p>\n
445
\n00:29:57,400 –> 00:30:01,840
\nhit her, for God did send me
\nbefore you to preserve life for <\/p>\n
446
\n00:30:01,840 –> 00:30:04,200
\nthese two years Has the famine
\nbeen in the land? <\/p>\n
447
\n00:30:04,800 –> 00:30:07,560
\nFor yet five years in which
\nthere shall be neither. <\/p>\n
448
\n00:30:07,560 –> 00:30:11,720
\nPloughing nor harvest, God sent
\nme before you to preserve your <\/p>\n
449
\n00:30:11,720 –> 00:30:14,360
\nremnant in the earth.
\nTo save you alive by a great <\/p>\n
450
\n00:30:14,360 –> 00:30:18,120
\ndeliverance.
\nSo now it was not you that sent <\/p>\n
451
\n00:30:18,120 –> 00:30:21,240
\nme hit her, but God.
\nAnd he hath made me a father to <\/p>\n
452
\n00:30:21,240 –> 00:30:25,320
\nPharaoh, and Lord of all his
\nhouse, and ruler over all the <\/p>\n
453
\n00:30:25,320 –> 00:30:29,360
\nland of Egypt.
\nNow the words to fix on in that.<\/p>\n
454
\n00:30:29,360 –> 00:30:33,560
\nPassage for this point is the
\nwords in verse 8. <\/p>\n
455
\n00:30:34,000 –> 00:30:36,520
\nNow then.
\nIt was not you that sent me, hit<\/p>\n
456
\n00:30:36,520 –> 00:30:41,280
\nher, but God.
\nWhat Joseph meant was God was to<\/p>\n
457
\n00:30:41,280 –> 00:30:44,360
\nbe discovered in the whole
\nprocess, not just the <\/p>\n
458
\n00:30:44,360 –> 00:30:48,000
\nappointment to power in Egypt,
\nbut in all the things which had <\/p>\n
459
\n00:30:48,000 –> 00:30:52,600
\npreceded it, the jealousy.
\nAnd the dream and the separation<\/p>\n
460
\n00:30:52,600 –> 00:30:57,160
\nand the brutality and the pit
\nand the temptation and the <\/p>\n
461
\n00:30:57,160 –> 00:31:00,280
\nprison, and then the deliverance
\nand the ultimate triumph. <\/p>\n
462
\n00:31:00,280 –> 00:31:04,160
\nIt was not you that sent me.
\nHit her, but God, that is to <\/p>\n
463
\n00:31:04,160 –> 00:31:06,880
\nsay, not.
\nThat God had manufactured all <\/p>\n
464
\n00:31:06,880 –> 00:31:10,080
\nthe circumstances, but He had
\nused the circumstances to <\/p>\n
465
\n00:31:10,080 –> 00:31:12,640
\nforward His purpose.
\nThat is not to say. <\/p>\n
466
\n00:31:12,640 –> 00:31:17,080
\nThat Joseph’s will was invaded
\nby God’s power so that Joseph <\/p>\n
467
\n00:31:17,080 –> 00:31:20,160
\nbecame a puppet.
\nThis temptation. <\/p>\n
468
\n00:31:20,600 –> 00:31:23,920
\nTo sin was real enough and
\nPotiphar’s wife was beaten in a <\/p>\n
469
\n00:31:23,920 –> 00:31:24,760
\nfair.
\nFight. <\/p>\n
470
\n00:31:25,600 –> 00:31:30,360
\nBut Joseph, looking back, could
\nsee the unmistakable evidence <\/p>\n
471
\n00:31:30,360 –> 00:31:32,800
\nthat what had happened in all
\nthe long process. <\/p>\n
472
\n00:31:33,240 –> 00:31:36,720
\nIt did not happen just as a
\nresult of blind chance, but but <\/p>\n
473
\n00:31:36,720 –> 00:31:39,840
\nthings were working together for
\na common end. <\/p>\n
474
\n00:31:40,640 –> 00:31:45,120
\nSo in retrospection, he could
\nsay it was not you that sent. <\/p>\n
475
\n00:31:45,120 –> 00:31:49,560
\nMe hit her.
\nBut God, now we can be sure of <\/p>\n
476
\n00:31:49,560 –> 00:31:51,440
\nthis.
\nI think those words were spoken <\/p>\n
477
\n00:31:51,440 –> 00:31:54,800
\nwhen Joseph was able to look
\nback and mark the pattern of the<\/p>\n
478
\n00:31:54,800 –> 00:31:57,400
\nprocess.
\nBut when he was in the midst of <\/p>\n
479
\n00:31:57,400 –> 00:31:59,280
\nthe process, no doubt it was
\ndifferent. <\/p>\n
480
\n00:32:00,080 –> 00:32:01,280
\nMore than once, he must have
\nbeen. <\/p>\n
481
\n00:32:01,280 –> 00:32:05,760
\nSad and weary and downcast and
\nafraid more than once, because <\/p>\n
482
\n00:32:05,760 –> 00:32:08,040
\nhe is a man of like passions
\nwith ourselves. <\/p>\n
483
\n00:32:08,280 –> 00:32:11,160
\nHe must have been baffled and
\nperplexed by the strange things <\/p>\n
484
\n00:32:11,160 –> 00:32:14,240
\nwhich were coming.
\nUpon him, perhaps very conscious<\/p>\n
485
\n00:32:14,240 –> 00:32:17,760
\nof his weakness but finding no
\nreason for his adversity. <\/p>\n
486
\n00:32:18,600 –> 00:32:20,760
\nIf I could just give you 1
\nillustration of this, there’s <\/p>\n
487
\n00:32:21,120 –> 00:32:22,400
\nanother.
\nLittle sentence in the <\/p>\n
488
\n00:32:22,400 –> 00:32:25,440
\nnarrative, which seems to me to
\nbe so full of significance. <\/p>\n
489
\n00:32:25,800 –> 00:32:31,920
\nIt’s in Genesis 40, Genesis 40
\nverses verse 20. <\/p>\n
490
\n00:32:35,360 –> 00:32:40,560
\nYou remember when they when
\nJoseph was in prison, verse 20 <\/p>\n
491
\n00:32:40,560 –> 00:32:42,920
\nof Genesis 40.
\nAnd it came to pass the third <\/p>\n
492
\n00:32:42,920 –> 00:32:46,240
\nday, which was Pharaoh’s
\nbirthday, that he made a feast <\/p>\n
493
\n00:32:46,240 –> 00:32:48,920
\nunto all his servants.
\nAnd he lifted up the head of the<\/p>\n
494
\n00:32:48,920 –> 00:32:53,200
\nchief, but the head of the chief
\nBaker among his servants, when <\/p>\n
495
\n00:32:53,200 –> 00:32:56,520
\nhe restored the chief Butler
\nunto his Butler ship again. <\/p>\n
496
\n00:32:56,520 –> 00:32:58,520
\nAnd he gave the cup into
\nPharaohs hand. <\/p>\n
497
\n00:32:59,000 –> 00:33:02,800
\nBut he hanged to the chief
\nBaker, as Joseph had interpreted<\/p>\n
498
\n00:33:02,800 –> 00:33:05,920
\nto them.
\nYet did not the chief bottler <\/p>\n
499
\n00:33:05,920 –> 00:33:18,000
\nremember Joseph, but forgot him?
\nThe boxer forgot Joseph. <\/p>\n
500
\n00:33:20,400 –> 00:33:23,040
\nThe bottler had promised Joseph
\nthat when his freedom came, when<\/p>\n
501
\n00:33:23,040 –> 00:33:26,600
\nthe amnesty came.
\nHe and he was once more fellows,<\/p>\n
502
\n00:33:26,600 –> 00:33:29,600
\nbut he would speak to the king
\non behalf of Joseph, and secure <\/p>\n
503
\n00:33:29,600 –> 00:33:32,920
\nhis release also.
\nImagine then, with what <\/p>\n
504
\n00:33:32,920 –> 00:33:35,920
\nhopefulness Joseph would wait
\nfor the news of his deliverance <\/p>\n
505
\n00:33:36,480 –> 00:33:40,600
\nafter the Butlers intercession.
\nAnd as the days lengthened into <\/p>\n
506
\n00:33:40,600 –> 00:33:43,840
\nweeks and the weakest into
\nmonths, imagine with what <\/p>\n
507
\n00:33:43,840 –> 00:33:48,240
\ndisappointment Joseph would.
\nRealize that he was still <\/p>\n
508
\n00:33:48,240 –> 00:33:53,880
\nforgotten the Butler.
\nForget, you know, I heard a man <\/p>\n
509
\n00:33:53,880 –> 00:33:56,280
\nsay once that.
\nThat sort of thing has been <\/p>\n
510
\n00:33:56,280 –> 00:34:01,040
\ngoing on all deadly ages.
\nAnd the man’s name hasn’t always<\/p>\n
511
\n00:34:01,040 –> 00:34:07,120
\nbeen Butler, Sometimes when
\nmayor. <\/p>\n
512
\n00:34:07,120 –> 00:34:10,760
\nCompanions in adversity, and one
\nof them escapes the freedom they<\/p>\n
513
\n00:34:10,760 –> 00:34:12,880
\nso.
\nSoon forget those who are left <\/p>\n
514
\n00:34:12,880 –> 00:34:17,480
\nin bonds and suffering.
\nSo the Butler forget you as if <\/p>\n
515
\n00:34:17,480 –> 00:34:20,960
\nbut God remembered him.
\nBehind the very present <\/p>\n
516
\n00:34:20,960 –> 00:34:24,159
\nrealities of hardship and
\ndifficulty, there is the <\/p>\n
517
\n00:34:24,159 –> 00:34:27,560
\ninvisible.
\nWatchfulness of God, and it <\/p>\n
518
\n00:34:27,560 –> 00:34:30,360
\nteaches us that though he is
\ninvisible, he is never <\/p>\n
519
\n00:34:30,360 –> 00:34:33,560
\nindifferent.
\nEnglish at the time appeared <\/p>\n
520
\n00:34:33,560 –> 00:34:36,719
\ntrivial and.
\nUnconnected and hard and bitter <\/p>\n
521
\n00:34:36,719 –> 00:34:39,679
\nand disappointing may
\nnevertheless be charged with <\/p>\n
522
\n00:34:39,679 –> 00:34:42,719
\nsignificance indeed.
\nMay be full of promise that we <\/p>\n
523
\n00:34:42,719 –> 00:34:46,440
\ncannot see it at the time, and
\nthis strange story of Joseph <\/p>\n
524
\n00:34:46,440 –> 00:34:50,239
\nbegan because, being the son of
\nhis father’s old age, he was <\/p>\n
525
\n00:34:50,239 –> 00:34:52,880
\nloved by his father with a
\nspecial tenderness. <\/p>\n
526
\n00:34:53,400 –> 00:34:55,360
\nThat provoked the jealousy of
\nhis brethren. <\/p>\n
527
\n00:34:55,679 –> 00:34:58,840
\nSo began that.
\nStrange process which led him <\/p>\n
528
\n00:34:58,840 –> 00:35:01,080
\nto.
\nEgypt, and to being the saviour <\/p>\n
529
\n00:35:01,080 –> 00:35:04,240
\nof all who came to him, as they
\nsaid, the saviour of the world, <\/p>\n
530
\n00:35:05,440 –> 00:35:07,520
\nIt was not you that sent me, hit
\nher, but. <\/p>\n
531
\n00:35:07,520 –> 00:35:12,320
\nGod, And although poor Joseph
\nnever knew it at the time, God, <\/p>\n
532
\n00:35:12,320 –> 00:35:15,640
\nas it were, had gone before him
\nand prepared the way, And <\/p>\n
533
\n00:35:15,640 –> 00:35:18,360
\nalthough the way, led him
\nthrough hardness and adversity, <\/p>\n
534
\n00:35:18,680 –> 00:35:20,720
\nit was all.
\nDone so that he could at last <\/p>\n
535
\n00:35:20,720 –> 00:35:24,160
\ncome to the place of triumph.
\nAnd safety, you see. <\/p>\n
536
\n00:35:24,160 –> 00:35:26,960
\nEverything that God does and
\nthrough his people is done in <\/p>\n
537
\n00:35:26,960 –> 00:35:33,200
\nlove so that they may be.
\nBlessed and never harmed, some <\/p>\n
538
\n00:35:33,200 –> 00:35:36,280
\nof the Lord’s sternest words are
\nspoken to save us from harm and.<\/p>\n
539
\n00:35:36,280 –> 00:35:40,240
\nTo do was good.
\nI’m thinking of Matthew 5 verse <\/p>\n
540
\n00:35:40,240 –> 00:35:42,280
\n30.
\nIf I right hand offend me, cut <\/p>\n
541
\n00:35:42,280 –> 00:35:45,440
\nit off.
\nCould there be harder words than<\/p>\n
542
\n00:35:45,440 –> 00:35:51,400
\nthat?
\nIf I right hand offend me, cut <\/p>\n
543
\n00:35:51,400 –> 00:35:55,720
\nit off.
\nThose words are spoken in love. <\/p>\n
544
\n00:35:56,560 –> 00:35:58,200
\nRemember how the sentence goes
\non. <\/p>\n
545
\n00:35:58,600 –> 00:36:01,960
\nIf thy right hand offend me, cut
\nit off, for it is better. <\/p>\n
546
\n00:36:03,280 –> 00:36:06,600
\nIt is better for thee to enter
\ninto life main than to have two <\/p>\n
547
\n00:36:06,600 –> 00:36:11,040
\nhands and go into Gehenna.
\nThe process is something. <\/p>\n
548
\n00:36:11,360 –> 00:36:16,400
\nThat may be better for thee to
\nbe one handed, but still in <\/p>\n
549
\n00:36:16,400 –> 00:36:21,200
\nGod’s care.
\nJoseph’s life teaches us that <\/p>\n
550
\n00:36:21,200 –> 00:36:23,480
\nGod is in the hardship as well
\nas in the blessing. <\/p>\n
551
\n00:36:23,960 –> 00:36:25,680
\nGod is in the pit as well as in
\nthe. <\/p>\n
552
\n00:36:25,680 –> 00:36:29,000
\nPalace.
\nThe Apostle Paul told it out of <\/p>\n
553
\n00:36:29,000 –> 00:36:33,040
\nhis experience, and Joseph told
\nit out of his It was not you <\/p>\n
554
\n00:36:33,160 –> 00:36:37,680
\nthat sent me hit her.
\nBut let’s look at something <\/p>\n
555
\n00:36:37,680 –> 00:36:40,720
\nelse.
\nBecause this unveiled Joseph, <\/p>\n
556
\n00:36:40,720 –> 00:36:44,160
\nperhaps more than anything,
\nGenesis 50. <\/p>\n
557
\n00:37:00,480 –> 00:37:11,160
\nVerse 15 to 21 This is later on
\nafter they had gone to bury <\/p>\n
558
\n00:37:11,240 –> 00:37:16,960
\ntheir father.
\nWhen the old man was gone, <\/p>\n
559
\n00:37:16,960 –> 00:37:21,800
\nremember that verse 15 And when
\nJoseph’s brethren saw. <\/p>\n
560
\n00:37:21,840 –> 00:37:23,840
\nThat their father was dead, they
\nsaid. <\/p>\n
561
\n00:37:24,200 –> 00:37:28,480
\nIt may be that Joseph will hate
\nus and will fully. <\/p>\n
562
\n00:37:28,480 –> 00:37:31,040
\nRequired us all the evil which
\nwe did unto him. <\/p>\n
563
\n00:37:31,400 –> 00:37:33,320
\nAnd they sent a message unto
\nJoseph, saying. <\/p>\n
564
\n00:37:33,320 –> 00:37:35,400
\nThy father did command before he
\ndied. <\/p>\n
565
\n00:37:35,400 –> 00:37:39,920
\nSaying, So shall ye say unto.
\nJoseph, forgive, I pray thee now<\/p>\n
566
\n00:37:40,120 –> 00:37:42,840
\nthe transgression of my
\nbrethren, and their sin for that<\/p>\n
567
\n00:37:42,840 –> 00:37:44,880
\nthey.
\nDid unto the evil, And now we <\/p>\n
568
\n00:37:44,880 –> 00:37:47,520
\npray thee, forgive the.
\nTransgression of the servants of<\/p>\n
569
\n00:37:47,520 –> 00:37:50,680
\nGod, That thy father Joseph
\nwept. <\/p>\n
570
\n00:37:51,240 –> 00:37:54,880
\nWhen they spake unto him, the
\nbrethren also went and fell down<\/p>\n
571
\n00:37:54,880 –> 00:37:57,320
\nbefore his face.
\nAnd they said, Behold, we be thy<\/p>\n
572
\n00:37:57,320 –> 00:38:02,840
\nservants, Joseph said unto them.
\nFear not, Ram I in the place of.<\/p>\n
573
\n00:38:02,840 –> 00:38:05,720
\nGod, and As for you, ye meant
\nevil against. <\/p>\n
574
\n00:38:05,720 –> 00:38:07,080
\nMe.
\nBut God meant it for good to <\/p>\n
575
\n00:38:07,080 –> 00:38:10,720
\nbring to pass, as it is this.
\nDay to save much people alive. <\/p>\n
576
\n00:38:10,760 –> 00:38:14,200
\nTherefore fear ye not, I will
\nnot assure in your little. <\/p>\n
577
\n00:38:14,200 –> 00:38:17,560
\nOnes and ye comforted them and
\nspake kindly. <\/p>\n
578
\n00:38:19,160 –> 00:38:21,160
\nNow here’s something to ponder,
\nbrown sisters. <\/p>\n
579
\n00:38:22,960 –> 00:38:26,920
\nIt’s an interesting thing to
\nnotice how men behave. <\/p>\n
580
\n00:38:27,240 –> 00:38:33,320
\nWhen the tables are turf, that
\nis when the condemned. <\/p>\n
581
\n00:38:33,320 –> 00:38:37,240
\nSuddenly become the judges when
\nthe prisoners suddenly become <\/p>\n
582
\n00:38:37,240 –> 00:38:41,560
\nthe warders, when the powerless
\nsuddenly have authority. <\/p>\n
583
\n00:38:42,640 –> 00:38:47,200
\nNow notice Joseph brethren
\nexpected him to take revenge. <\/p>\n
584
\n00:38:47,240 –> 00:38:50,800
\nWhen you notice they expected
\nhim to take revenge. <\/p>\n
585
\n00:38:52,080 –> 00:38:54,920
\nAnd and Joseph words in in verse
\n19. <\/p>\n
586
\n00:38:55,120 –> 00:38:59,480
\nAm I in the place of God now?
\nThat could mean 2 things. <\/p>\n
587
\n00:38:59,720 –> 00:39:01,440
\nIt could mean, and I fear it
\noften. <\/p>\n
588
\n00:39:01,440 –> 00:39:06,080
\nHas meant at different times.
\nI do not take vengeance because <\/p>\n
589
\n00:39:06,080 –> 00:39:10,520
\nGod.
\nIf God did not, then I would, <\/p>\n
590
\n00:39:10,520 –> 00:39:12,760
\nbut being sure that he will.
\nI can wait. <\/p>\n
591
\n00:39:12,920 –> 00:39:15,600
\nI can wait.
\nI can watch the decline of their<\/p>\n
592
\n00:39:15,600 –> 00:39:17,760
\nfortune.
\nI can see the process of evil. <\/p>\n
593
\n00:39:17,960 –> 00:39:21,800
\nI can observe the grief.
\nI couldn’t take note of the loss<\/p>\n
594
\n00:39:21,800 –> 00:39:25,880
\nof the failure, and I will be
\nable to say I knew it, I told <\/p>\n
595
\n00:39:25,880 –> 00:39:28,600
\nyourself.
\nI haven’t touched him. <\/p>\n
596
\n00:39:28,600 –> 00:39:31,880
\nGod has taken vengeance.
\nMuch better than I could. <\/p>\n
597
\n00:39:32,200 –> 00:39:37,680
\nI’m quite satisfied it could
\nhave meant that, but sadly it <\/p>\n
598
\n00:39:37,680 –> 00:39:40,720
\nhas I.
\nFeel many times, but not in the <\/p>\n
599
\n00:39:40,720 –> 00:39:42,280
\ncase of Joseph if I have read
\nit. <\/p>\n
600
\n00:39:42,280 –> 00:39:44,720
\nRight.
\nThis I believe was his meaning. <\/p>\n
601
\n00:39:45,320 –> 00:39:50,040
\nAm I in the place of God?
\nMeaning, if God does not avenge,<\/p>\n
602
\n00:39:50,440 –> 00:39:54,040
\ndare I avenge?
\nDare I seek to rejudge that <\/p>\n
603
\n00:39:54,040 –> 00:39:57,440
\nwhich has been judged?
\nDare I snatch the balance? <\/p>\n
604
\n00:39:57,560 –> 00:40:03,120
\nFrom God’s hand and impose that
\nwhich he has released, she Paul <\/p>\n
605
\n00:40:03,120 –> 00:40:05,520
\nonce quoted.
\nAnd said Vengeance is mine, set <\/p>\n
606
\n00:40:05,560 –> 00:40:06,840
\nthe Lord.
\nAnd did he mean? <\/p>\n
607
\n00:40:06,840 –> 00:40:13,480
\nTherefore wait and see God’s
\nwrath take and glory in God ‘s <\/p>\n
608
\n00:40:13,480 –> 00:40:14,760
\nwrath?
\nIs that what he meant? <\/p>\n
609
\n00:40:15,360 –> 00:40:19,960
\nWell, listen, vengeance is
\nmindset for Lord, Therefore if <\/p>\n
610
\n00:40:19,960 –> 00:40:23,360
\nthine enemy hunger.
\nFeed him and if he first give <\/p>\n
611
\n00:40:23,360 –> 00:40:27,560
\nhim to drink.
\nThis was Joseph’s greatness. <\/p>\n
612
\n00:40:27,880 –> 00:40:30,880
\nHe looked thankfully on the good
\nwhich had come out of the forces<\/p>\n
613
\n00:40:31,000 –> 00:40:35,480
\nwhich seemed to be so cruel in
\nGenesis 50 verse 20. <\/p>\n
614
\n00:40:35,680 –> 00:40:39,200
\nYou thought evil against me, but
\nGod meant it for good to bring, <\/p>\n
615
\n00:40:39,200 –> 00:40:41,520
\nto pass, as it is this day to
\nsave. <\/p>\n
616
\n00:40:41,520 –> 00:40:44,760
\nMuch people alive, therefore
\nfear ye not. <\/p>\n
617
\n00:40:45,640 –> 00:40:47,440
\nI will nourish you and your
\nlittle ones. <\/p>\n
618
\n00:40:47,440 –> 00:40:51,520
\nAnd he comforted them, and spake
\nkindly unto you, and then. <\/p>\n
619
\n00:40:51,600 –> 00:40:54,200
\nWe can mark that Joseph’s
\nforgiveness was utterly <\/p>\n
620
\n00:40:54,200 –> 00:40:57,400
\nunconditional.
\nHe did not hold his brethren, as<\/p>\n
621
\n00:40:57,400 –> 00:41:00,600
\nit were, in suspense.
\nHe did not, as it would put them<\/p>\n
622
\n00:41:00,600 –> 00:41:04,480
\non their good behaviour, as
\nthough to say I hold this threat<\/p>\n
623
\n00:41:04,480 –> 00:41:06,400
\nover you.
\nIf you ever do it again, then <\/p>\n
624
\n00:41:06,400 –> 00:41:10,360
\nwatch out.
\nThat is forgiving and not <\/p>\n
625
\n00:41:10,360 –> 00:41:14,120
\nforgetting.
\nBut it seems that Joseph is <\/p>\n
626
\n00:41:14,120 –> 00:41:18,240
\nanxious that his brethren.
\nShall forget not a word to <\/p>\n
627
\n00:41:18,240 –> 00:41:19,760
\nsuggest it should be.
\nRetained. <\/p>\n
628
\n00:41:19,760 –> 00:41:20,920
\nHis voice is tender.
\nI. <\/p>\n
629
\n00:41:21,280 –> 00:41:22,680
\nI sense it.
\nYou sense it. <\/p>\n
630
\n00:41:22,880 –> 00:41:25,040
\nHis voice is tender.
\nIt is consoling. <\/p>\n
631
\n00:41:25,280 –> 00:41:27,880
\nHis pardon is.
\nFull and frank and free. <\/p>\n
632
\n00:41:30,280 –> 00:41:32,240
\nIt has to be measured by this
\nfact too. <\/p>\n
633
\n00:41:32,520 –> 00:41:36,920
\nHow many men think you in his
\nday, wielding his power, <\/p>\n
634
\n00:41:37,120 –> 00:41:41,760
\nexercising his authority, would
\nhave shown such mercy and such <\/p>\n
635
\n00:41:41,760 –> 00:41:44,920
\ngentleness?
\nIndeed, how often is the <\/p>\n
636
\n00:41:44,920 –> 00:41:48,280
\nopposite being common when power
\nand vengeance are joined <\/p>\n
637
\n00:41:48,280 –> 00:41:51,120
\ntogether, brothers and sisters?
\nThe very worst evils are <\/p>\n
638
\n00:41:51,120 –> 00:41:54,120
\nsometimes unleashed.
\nWe have seen it, sadly. <\/p>\n
639
\n00:41:54,120 –> 00:41:58,440
\nIn their own world, it is a mark
\nof greatness that some. <\/p>\n
640
\n00:41:58,440 –> 00:42:00,880
\nMen are able to resist this
\ntemptation. <\/p>\n
641
\n00:42:01,160 –> 00:42:05,880
\nAnd Joseph was one such man.
\nSo what shall we say finally? <\/p>\n
642
\n00:42:06,800 –> 00:42:09,280
\nI suppose the history of every
\nman has two sides. <\/p>\n
643
\n00:42:10,120 –> 00:42:11,920
\nThe outward life of
\ncircumstances. <\/p>\n
644
\n00:42:11,920 –> 00:42:16,640
\nThe inward life of motives now
\nJoseph’s outward circumstances. <\/p>\n
645
\n00:42:16,640 –> 00:42:21,800
\nWere checkered with misfortune,
\nhatred, early loss of his home. <\/p>\n
646
\n00:42:21,800 –> 00:42:23,560
\nCruelty.
\nSlavery. <\/p>\n
647
\n00:42:23,560 –> 00:42:27,720
\nPrison, Neglect, longer envy,
\ntemptation and then suddenly the<\/p>\n
648
\n00:42:27,720 –> 00:42:30,280
\nvery opposite.
\nExaltation, Power, Rank, <\/p>\n
649
\n00:42:30,280 –> 00:42:33,800
\nAuthority, Riches.
\nAnd looking at his inner life <\/p>\n
650
\n00:42:33,800 –> 00:42:35,360
\nwith a notice.
\nWith what calm? <\/p>\n
651
\n00:42:35,360 –> 00:42:37,640
\nDignity.
\nHe moved from one condition to <\/p>\n
652
\n00:42:37,640 –> 00:42:39,680
\nthe other.
\nThere was no expression of <\/p>\n
653
\n00:42:39,680 –> 00:42:42,920
\nbitterness.
\nNo wailing over the cruelty of <\/p>\n
654
\n00:42:42,920 –> 00:42:46,680
\nhis captors.
\nNo denunciation of the falseness<\/p>\n
655
\n00:42:46,680 –> 00:42:52,160
\nof friendship, no sarcastic
\nscepticism about human honour. <\/p>\n
656
\n00:42:52,960 –> 00:42:56,760
\nIndeed, if ever a man had.
\nCause for doubts he did, and yet<\/p>\n
657
\n00:42:56,760 –> 00:42:59,720
\nhis heart is not soured.
\nAnd his spirit is not crushed. <\/p>\n
658
\n00:43:00,600 –> 00:43:03,240
\nThis was part of Joseph’s
\ngreatness. <\/p>\n
659
\n00:43:04,400 –> 00:43:06,480
\nThen another thing.
\nIn the midst of all the power of<\/p>\n
660
\n00:43:06,480 –> 00:43:09,520
\nthe pomp of Egypt, let us notice
\nthis. <\/p>\n
661
\n00:43:09,680 –> 00:43:13,920
\nHe is a.
\nHebrew man still essentially a <\/p>\n
662
\n00:43:13,920 –> 00:43:19,080
\nHebrew man.
\nElevated as he was to high <\/p>\n
663
\n00:43:19,080 –> 00:43:22,480
\npower, he did not depart from
\nthe principles of his true life <\/p>\n
664
\n00:43:22,480 –> 00:43:25,000
\nas a man of God.
\nIn spite of the elevation, <\/p>\n
665
\n00:43:25,000 –> 00:43:28,960
\nJoseph is a humble man, I sense.
\nHe is a humble man. <\/p>\n
666
\n00:43:29,480 –> 00:43:31,480
\nThere is never.
\nA hint in the narrative that he <\/p>\n
667
\n00:43:31,480 –> 00:43:34,720
\nforgot his true home, although
\nhe managed into one of the <\/p>\n
668
\n00:43:34,720 –> 00:43:36,320
\nnoblest.
\nFamilies of Egypt. <\/p>\n
669
\n00:43:36,600 –> 00:43:39,320
\nYet he never sought to become a
\nnaturalized Egyptian. <\/p>\n
670
\n00:43:39,320 –> 00:43:42,480
\nNever.
\nHis heart was in that fair land <\/p>\n
671
\n00:43:42,480 –> 00:43:45,440
\nwhere he once tended his
\nfather’s flock in the days of <\/p>\n
672
\n00:43:45,440 –> 00:43:50,040
\nhis genial boyhood.
\nIt seems to me he bore this <\/p>\n
673
\n00:43:50,080 –> 00:43:54,320
\nunsophisticated spirit a
\nfaithful Hebrew. <\/p>\n
674
\n00:43:54,680 –> 00:43:57,520
\nIn the midst of Egyptian pomp
\nand Pagan split. <\/p>\n
675
\n00:43:58,760 –> 00:44:01,080
\nAnd finally the other aspect.
\nOf the inner life. <\/p>\n
676
\n00:44:02,000 –> 00:44:07,800
\nIs this to mark his benevolence?
\nYou see the system that he <\/p>\n
677
\n00:44:07,800 –> 00:44:12,200
\nproposed and followed to meet
\nthe famine in Egypt in the <\/p>\n
678
\n00:44:12,200 –> 00:44:15,800
\nunderlying impulses.
\nOf its design was to save the <\/p>\n
679
\n00:44:15,800 –> 00:44:20,760
\nhungry and was to sucker the
\ndeprived, that is to say in the <\/p>\n
680
\n00:44:20,760 –> 00:44:24,920
\nheart of them.
\nIn the heart of him he was a <\/p>\n
681
\n00:44:25,000 –> 00:44:29,200
\ngood man.
\nHe was at the heart of the great<\/p>\n
682
\n00:44:29,200 –> 00:44:33,960
\nsocial revolution in Egypt.
\nThrough him the nation became. <\/p>\n
683
\n00:44:33,960 –> 00:44:37,840
\nCompacted into a new unity and.
\nThe power was devoted in the <\/p>\n
684
\n00:44:37,840 –> 00:44:40,240
\nhands of the.
\nRoyal Government through a <\/p>\n
685
\n00:44:40,240 –> 00:44:43,680
\nperiod when perhaps the nation
\ncould well have disintegrated <\/p>\n
686
\n00:44:43,680 –> 00:44:45,840
\nand failed under this awful.
\nImpact of the famine. <\/p>\n
687
\n00:44:46,600 –> 00:44:51,320
\nThere could have been a
\nrevolution of the wrong kind, so<\/p>\n
688
\n00:44:52,640 –> 00:44:58,360
\nperhaps the final measurement we
\ncan make is in his death after <\/p>\n
689
\n00:44:58,360 –> 00:45:03,880
\n100 and 10 years of life.
\nIn reading between the lines, I <\/p>\n
690
\n00:45:03,880 –> 00:45:10,080
\nthink we can say at least I
\nwould say I feel every man in <\/p>\n
691
\n00:45:10,080 –> 00:45:14,720
\nEgypt felt that in losing
\nJoseph, they had lost a friend. <\/p>\n
692
\n00:45:16,080 –> 00:45:18,160
\nIndeed, they had lost the
\nSaviour. <\/p>\n
693
\n00:45:19,840 –> 00:45:23,400
\nThat conclusion is not drawn
\nfrom the details of Joseph’s <\/p>\n
694
\n00:45:23,400 –> 00:45:27,040
\nfuneral, because there are
\nvirtually none about his <\/p>\n
695
\n00:45:27,080 –> 00:45:29,720
\nfuneral.
\nI draw that conclusion. <\/p>\n
696
\n00:45:30,120 –> 00:45:33,720
\nThat they felt they had lost a
\nfriend and a saviour from the <\/p>\n
697
\n00:45:33,720 –> 00:45:37,880
\ndetails of.
\nJacob’s funeral, the greatness <\/p>\n
698
\n00:45:37,880 –> 00:45:41,080
\nof that funeral astonished even
\nthe Canaanites. <\/p>\n
699
\n00:45:43,520 –> 00:45:47,840
\nIt was a royal funeral, the
\nfuneral of Jacob. <\/p>\n
700
\n00:45:48,720 –> 00:45:53,360
\nAnd it wasn’t for Jacob’s sake.
\nIt was because he was the father<\/p>\n
701
\n00:45:53,400 –> 00:45:58,520
\nof Joseph.
\nSo Joseph’s final words are in a<\/p>\n
702
\n00:45:58,520 –> 00:46:02,040
\nway.
\nMicro cosmic of his life and his<\/p>\n
703
\n00:46:02,040 –> 00:46:10,360
\nfaith in the fifty, 50th chapter
\nof Genesis, verse 25, he says. <\/p>\n
704
\n00:46:11,920 –> 00:46:16,000
\nGod will surely visit you and
\nbring you out of this land, into<\/p>\n
705
\n00:46:16,000 –> 00:46:19,080
\nthe land which he swear to
\nAbraham, Isaac, and to Jacob, <\/p>\n
706
\n00:46:19,920 –> 00:46:26,160
\nand he shall carry my book from
\nhim so. <\/p>\n
707
\n00:46:27,280 –> 00:46:30,480
\nLet the Hebrew man in the New
\nTestament give us the final <\/p>\n
708
\n00:46:30,480 –> 00:46:35,280
\nverdict on the man who passed
\nfrom rags to riches in a strange<\/p>\n
709
\n00:46:35,320 –> 00:46:39,360
\nland that.
\nHebrew man wrote by faith. <\/p>\n
710
\n00:46:40,280 –> 00:46:44,120
\nLet’s notice the words, because
\nevery word is important by <\/p>\n
711
\n00:46:44,120 –> 00:46:48,040
\nfaith.
\nJoseph, when he died, made <\/p>\n
712
\n00:46:48,040 –> 00:46:51,640
\nmention of the departing of the
\nchildren of Israel, gave <\/p>\n
713
\n00:46:51,640 –> 00:46:53,840
\ncommandment concerning his
\nbones. <\/p>\n
714
\n00:46:54,640 –> 00:46:56,680
\nRight to the end, he was a man.
\nOf. <\/p>\n
715
\n00:46:57,440 –> 00:47:01,480
\nUtter faith.
\nAnd in Psalm 105 it is written <\/p>\n
716
\n00:47:02,160 –> 00:47:07,600
\nabout God.
\nHe sent a man before them, even <\/p>\n
717
\n00:47:07,600 –> 00:47:13,240
\nJoseph, who was sold for a
\nservant whose feet they hurt <\/p>\n
718
\n00:47:13,240 –> 00:47:15,880
\nwith fetters.
\nHe was laid. <\/p>\n
719
\n00:47:15,880 –> 00:47:21,880
\nIn ire until the time that his
\nWord came, the word of the Lord <\/p>\n
720
\n00:47:22,600 –> 00:47:26,000
\ntried him.
\nNow brother and sisters in that <\/p>\n
721
\n00:47:26,000 –> 00:47:30,440
\ntesting.
\nHe was made to be outwardly what<\/p>\n
722
\n00:47:30,440 –> 00:47:34,240
\nhe was inwardly.
\nI believe that to be a <\/p>\n
723
\n00:47:34,240 –> 00:47:40,040
\nrevelation of greatness.
\nHe was a man of faith and <\/p>\n
724
\n00:47:40,040 –> 00:47:43,720
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