{"id":1451,"date":"2026-02-22T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodchristadelphiantalks.com\/index.php\/podcast\/388-andrew-johns-joseph-showing-integrity-and-vision-in-youth\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T00:50:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T00:50:53","slug":"388-andrew-johns-joseph-showing-integrity-and-vision-in-youth","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/goodchristadelphiantalks.com\/index.php\/podcast\/388-andrew-johns-joseph-showing-integrity-and-vision-in-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"388: Andrew Johns – Joseph: Showing Integrity and Vision in Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week’s talk is a class by Brother Andrew Johns given in 1994 in Adelaide, Australia; though we aren’t sure which ecclesia is was given at. The title is “Joseph: Showing Integrity and Vision in Youth”.<\/p>\n

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\nthis week’s talk.
\nHello everyone, this is Simon. <\/p>\n

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\nThis week’s talk is given by our
\nbrother Andrew Johns to the <\/p>\n

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\ntopic Joseph Showing Integrity
\nand Vision in Youth. <\/p>\n

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\nAlthough it’s a very long talk,
\nI found it very encouraging and <\/p>\n

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\nespecially for young people as
\nbrother Andrew brings out, had <\/p>\n

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\nGod often used young people to
\ndo a great work or a difficult <\/p>\n

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\ntask.
\nThe story of Joseph is a truly <\/p>\n

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\ninspiring story for us all, so
\nhere is our brother Andrew Johns<\/p>\n

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\non Joseph showing integrity and
\nvision in youth. <\/p>\n

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\nI wonder if you’ve ever noticed
\nthroughout the Scriptures just <\/p>\n

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\nhow many young people’s lives
\nhave been recorded by the Divine<\/p>\n

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\nPen in more than superficial
\ndetail. <\/p>\n

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\nIt seems, brothers and sisters
\nand young people, that whenever <\/p>\n

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\nYahweh wanted a great work done
\nin the earth or a difficult <\/p>\n

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\ntask, no matter what it was in
\nIsrael or to the nations, that <\/p>\n

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\nHe chose a young man, sometimes
\nfrom the womb, in order, in <\/p>\n

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\norder that he might prepare for
\nthat work which was to be done. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd we only have to cast our
\nminds very cursorily back <\/p>\n

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\nacross, for example, the Old
\nTestament. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd you think of Joseph who
\nsaved his brethren, of Moses who<\/p>\n

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\nsaved all of Israel out of
\nEgypt, of David who brought the <\/p>\n

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\nnation together under the
\nkingship of Jeremiah, of Daniel,<\/p>\n

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\nof Ezekiel in captivity, and
\nlater of John the Baptist, or of<\/p>\n

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\nour Lord himself.
\nWhat about Timothy and many <\/p>\n

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\nother of Paul’s companions, all
\ncalled in the prime of their <\/p>\n

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\nyouth, mostly when they are
\nteenagers. <\/p>\n

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\nYou know, that’s telling us
\nsomething, brethren and sisters <\/p>\n

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\nand young people.
\nIt’s telling us something very <\/p>\n

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\nimportant, that God sees youth
\nas a very important time of <\/p>\n

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\nlife.
\nYoung people never forget it. <\/p>\n

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\nIt’s not our intention at the
\nmoment, nor in tonight’s study <\/p>\n

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\nto take our theme and expand it.
\nWe’ll do that, God willing, <\/p>\n

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\ntomorrow night.
\nBut we’re going to focus for <\/p>\n

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\nthis week, God willing, in the
\ndays that are ahead, upon the <\/p>\n

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\nlives of just 66 out of many
\nwhose lives are recorded through<\/p>\n

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\nthe pages of the Word. 6 young
\npeople that God took in their <\/p>\n

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\nyouth and used to forward his
\npurpose. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd it’s amazing how much detail
\nhas been recorded in the lives <\/p>\n

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\nof not only these young
\nindividuals but of many others <\/p>\n

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\nas well.
\nWe’re not going to have time to <\/p>\n

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\nto dwell on all their strengths
\nand all their weaknesses, but we<\/p>\n

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\nwill be able to touch from time
\nto time upon the zeal and what <\/p>\n

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\ndrove these young people in
\ntheir early days, and <\/p>\n

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\nparticularly what God did in
\ntheir lives and what pressures <\/p>\n

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\nGod brought to bear upon them
\nand what their reaction was <\/p>\n

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\nunder those pressures.
\nBecause we hear a lot about <\/p>\n

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\npressures, don’t we?
\nPressures of this life, <\/p>\n

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\npressures of an evil and godless
\nworld. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd that’s very true.
\nThe pressures are increasing <\/p>\n

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\nevery day.
\nWe know it. <\/p>\n

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\nWe don’t have to be young to
\nknow that it’s happening to us <\/p>\n

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\nall, is it not?
\nBrethren and sisters, we’re <\/p>\n

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\nfeeling the pressure as the
\nworld grinds closer and closer <\/p>\n

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\nto the eventful fate of
\nArmageddon. <\/p>\n

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\nBut we needn’t despair, because
\nhere in front of us, young <\/p>\n

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\npeople and brethren and sisters,
\nGod has memorialized the lives <\/p>\n

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\nof faithful young people who
\nhave borne incredible pressures <\/p>\n

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\nand have stood straight with
\nintegrity, with vision and <\/p>\n

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\nfaith, and have withstood
\neverything else around them <\/p>\n

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\nagainst all odds.
\nAnd God has used them to move <\/p>\n

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\nunrepentant hearts back to him.
\nAnd that’s what we’re going to <\/p>\n

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\nsee tonight in the life of
\nJoseph. <\/p>\n

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\nI’d like you, before we go to
\nJoseph, to come to the words of <\/p>\n

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\nthe wise man at the end of
\nEcclesiastes at Chapter 11. <\/p>\n

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\nWe know Solomon had tried
\neverything under the sun in his <\/p>\n

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\nyouth, I might add.
\nIt was at a time when he had <\/p>\n

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\nenergy and vigor, when he could
\ndo whatever he liked. <\/p>\n

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\nHe had the resources at his
\nhands, and that he did. <\/p>\n

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\nHe tried everything there was to
\ntry. <\/p>\n

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\nHe got himself into trouble, but
\nat the end of his days penned <\/p>\n

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\nwords to all generations
\nthereafter about what he found. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd in verse 9 of Chapter 11 he
\ngives advice to young. <\/p>\n

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\nHe says in verse 9, Rejoice, O
\nyoung man in thy youth and, and <\/p>\n

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\nlet thy heart cheer thee in the
\ndays of thy youth and walk in <\/p>\n

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\nthe ways of thine heart and in
\nthe sight of thine eyes. <\/p>\n

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\nBut know thou that for all these
\nthings God will bring thee into <\/p>\n

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\njudgement.
\nYou know, it seems on the <\/p>\n

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\nsurface that that Solomon is
\nbeing very cynical there as if <\/p>\n

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\nto say go and do whatever you
\nlike, but God will bring you <\/p>\n

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\ninto judgement.
\nI don’t think he’s saying that <\/p>\n

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\nat all.
\nBrethren, Sisters, what he’s <\/p>\n

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\nsaying is that youth is a time
\nof vigor and enthusiasm, of <\/p>\n

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\noptimism and opportunity.
\nGrasp those opportunities. <\/p>\n

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\nHe says.
\nRejoice in your youth, but <\/p>\n

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\ntemper all that you do in youth
\nin taking those opportunities. <\/p>\n

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\nTemper it all with the knowledge
\nthat God is there and we’ll <\/p>\n

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\nbring all into judgement.
\nYou know, life is not one big <\/p>\n

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\nsearch for fun and excitement
\nand enjoyment. <\/p>\n

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\nFrom the beginning of our days
\nto the end of our life, there is<\/p>\n

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\na seriousness about life that
\nshould be remembered in youth. <\/p>\n

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\nThough youth ought to be a time
\nof rejoicing, of happiness, of <\/p>\n

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\ngrasping opportunities, of
\nchallenges. <\/p>\n

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\nYoung people, many of today’s
\nyouth, have thrown those away. <\/p>\n

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\nThey want no challenges.
\nAll they want to do is lull <\/p>\n

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\naround and waste their lives.
\nGrasp opportunities. <\/p>\n

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\nThat’s what Solomon says.
\nGrasp them. <\/p>\n

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\nBut he goes on in verse 10,
\ntherefore he says, remove sorrow<\/p>\n

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\nfrom thine hearts and put away
\nevil from your flesh for <\/p>\n

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\nchildhood and the prime of life.
\nIt’s not the same word as as his<\/p>\n

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\nrendered youth elsewhere here in
\nverse 9 and in the next verse in<\/p>\n

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\nchapter 12.
\nFor childhood and the prime of <\/p>\n

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\nlife are vanity.
\nPut evil away, because it will <\/p>\n

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\nonly bring sorrow in the end.
\nAnd remember verse one now thy <\/p>\n

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\nCreator in the days of thy
\nyouth, while the evil days come <\/p>\n

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\nnot, nor the years draw nigh,
\nwhen thou shalt say, I have no <\/p>\n

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\npleasure in them.
\nYou know what the most important<\/p>\n

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\nword in that verse is?
\nYoung people underline it now. <\/p>\n

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\nRemember now thy Creator in the
\ndays of thy youth. <\/p>\n

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\nYou see, brethren and sisters
\nand young people, that’s the <\/p>\n

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\nhardest time of life to
\nremember. <\/p>\n

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\nWhen we’re old and almost facing
\nthe grave, it’s very easy to <\/p>\n

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\nremember that there is a Creator
\nin heaven who will be able to <\/p>\n

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\nrecreate our faculties that
\nwe’ve lost. <\/p>\n

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\nIt’s very easy to do that on a
\non a bed where we can hardly <\/p>\n

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\nmove.
\nWhen we’ve lost our mobility. <\/p>\n

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\nIt’s very easy then, but it’s
\nexceedingly difficult in youth <\/p>\n

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\nto remember that there is a
\nCreator. <\/p>\n

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\nRemember now while this
\nopportunity, Solomon says at the<\/p>\n

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\nend of his life, regretting much
\nof his life. <\/p>\n

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\nRemember now when it’s difficult
\nto do that. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd we’re going to see that
\ntonight in the life of Joseph, <\/p>\n

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\nan inspiring individual who put
\naway evil from his life and <\/p>\n

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\nremembered now at 17, his
\ncreator in the days of his <\/p>\n

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\nyouth.
\nYou know, brothers and sisters, <\/p>\n

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\nwhen the world generally and
\npeople talk about the whole of <\/p>\n

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\nlife, we often we do it
\nourselves. <\/p>\n

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\nWe talk of childhood and
\nadolescence and adulthood, and <\/p>\n

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\nsometimes adulthood is broken up
\ninto various stages, all <\/p>\n

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\nartificial stages except one,
\nbecause God doesn’t recognize <\/p>\n

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\nthose stages per SE.
\nYou’ll find that Scripture <\/p>\n

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\nbrethren and sisters and the
\napostle Paul and our Lord <\/p>\n

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\nhimself all understand life as
\nbeing made-up of childhood and <\/p>\n

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\nthe rest of life.
\nThere is no artificial <\/p>\n

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\ndistinction made for teenagers,
\nfor adolescents. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd there is a phenomenon in
\nthis world over the last 30 <\/p>\n

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\nyears that has almost made
\nteenagers a subculture or a <\/p>\n

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\nsubspecies of the human race.
\nAnd the media has accelerated <\/p>\n

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\nthat understanding.
\nAnd there is completely <\/p>\n

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\ndistinctive dress and language
\nand culture that goes with with <\/p>\n

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\nteenage and it’s perpetuated by
\nthe big corporations that want <\/p>\n

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\nto sell and that advertise
\nconstantly. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd it’s picked up by the media
\nand sensationalized and young <\/p>\n

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\npeople come to think that they
\nare different. <\/p>\n

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\nBut God doesn’t see life like
\nthat young people. <\/p>\n

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\nGod sees life as childhood and
\nadulthood and youth or teenage <\/p>\n

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\nfits into the latter, because in
\nteenage young people, we have <\/p>\n

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\nthe mental and the moral
\ncapabilities to understand the <\/p>\n

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\nCreator and are therefore
\nincreasingly responsible and <\/p>\n

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\naccountable to Him.
\nAnd when we have a look at this,<\/p>\n

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\nthese words that Solomon has
\njust said, that’s exactly what <\/p>\n

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\nit’s saying, is it not?
\nIt’s saying rejoice in thy <\/p>\n

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\nyouth, grasp those
\nopportunities, but remember your<\/p>\n

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\nCreator.
\nIt’s obvious that in youth there<\/p>\n

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\nare responsibilities which God
\nexpects to rest on our <\/p>\n

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\nshoulders.
\nAnd it’s not just that, he says,<\/p>\n

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\nand put away evil from your
\nflesh. <\/p>\n

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\nHe expects in youth us to be
\nable to make those distinctions.<\/p>\n

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\nWe’re adults when we’re in our
\nteens. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd if we’re in Jewish society
\nfrom the age of 12, we would <\/p>\n

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\nhave increasingly taken on very
\nserious responsibilities of <\/p>\n

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\nadulthood, which today are
\npushed off and pushed off and <\/p>\n

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\npushed off.
\nAnd many young people have <\/p>\n

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\nalmost no responsibilities, no
\naccountability until much, much <\/p>\n

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\nlater in life.
\nBut we’re going to see a young <\/p>\n

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\nman tonight, brothers and
\nsisters and young people, who <\/p>\n

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\ndefinitely had enormous
\nresponsibilities on his <\/p>\n

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\nshoulders.
\nWe meet him at 17 years of age <\/p>\n

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\nunder extreme pressure.
\nAnd the remarkable thing is that<\/p>\n

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\nGod took notice of him.
\nYou know, there must be around <\/p>\n

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\nthis world millions upon
\nmillions of 17 year olds. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd I wonder how many of those
\nyoung people God is interested <\/p>\n

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\nin.
\nI wonder how many 17 year olds <\/p>\n

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\nGod is really interested in in
\nthis world. <\/p>\n

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\nBut he was interested in this
\none when he was 17 years old, <\/p>\n

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\nyears of age, and he laid on his
\nshoulders tremendous <\/p>\n

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\nresponsibilities.
\nYou know what he did? <\/p>\n

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\nGod took him at 17 and put in
\ntrain a process by which he <\/p>\n

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\nwould put his entire purpose
\nwith Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob <\/p>\n

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\nback on track because his other
\neleven brothers had virtually <\/p>\n

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\nleft the truth.
\nAnd he was given the <\/p>\n

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\nresponsibility of getting them
\nback into the truth so that <\/p>\n

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\nGod’s purpose might be able to
\ngo forward with all Israel. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd he’s 17 years old.
\nAmazing, isn’t it? <\/p>\n

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\nWe’re going to see tonight in
\nJoseph’s life an illustration <\/p>\n

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\nnot only of tremendous faith, of
\nbelief in the impossible, <\/p>\n

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\nhumanly speaking, not only are
\nwe going to see God’s Providence<\/p>\n

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\nworked out and a young man
\nobviously seeing what Providence<\/p>\n

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\nwas all about in his teens and
\nhis early 20s. <\/p>\n

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\nBut what is most remarkable
\nabout this individual is the <\/p>\n

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\nenormous influence that his
\nlife, character and example had <\/p>\n

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\non any and everyone that had
\never come in contact with him. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd God picked him at 17.
\nHe had a tremendous pull on his <\/p>\n

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\nfamily.
\nOh, they hated him. <\/p>\n

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\nThey didn’t want us, couldn’t
\nstand the sight of him. <\/p>\n

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\nThey tried to kill him, selling
\nhim off into Egypt, and that <\/p>\n

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\nwould be the end of him.
\nThey would never hear of it <\/p>\n

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\nagain.
\nBut eventually they came to be <\/p>\n

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\nvery powerfully influenced by
\nhim. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd there were Gentiles who
\nlikewise were powerfully <\/p>\n

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\ninfluenced.
\nThere was Potiphar, the prison <\/p>\n

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\nguy, there was the Butler, the
\nbiker, the list goes on. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd the ruler of the world was
\nimpressed with this man. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd that’s not all.
\nMoses was deeply impressed with <\/p>\n

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\nthe life of Joseph.
\nDeeply impressed. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd he made sure that that stone
\ncoffin, as difficult as it was <\/p>\n

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\nto carry, was marched all the
\nway from Egypt into the Promised<\/p>\n

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\nLand.
\nFor 40 years, Joseph’s example <\/p>\n

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\nsat in the midst of an evil
\ngeneration and reminded them of <\/p>\n

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\nthe faith and the vision that
\nshould have got them there long <\/p>\n

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\nbefore.
\nAnd Joseph’s The record of <\/p>\n

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\nJoseph’s life, with 14 chapters
\nof Genesis recorded here for us,<\/p>\n

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\nhas continued to influence
\npeople like us, all young and <\/p>\n

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\nold, for many generations.
\nSince it’s a very powerful and <\/p>\n

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\nmoving story, we’re not going to
\nhave time to look at all of <\/p>\n

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\nJoseph’s life by any means.
\nBut let’s go to the start and <\/p>\n

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\nsee how God introduces him into
\nthe record in Genesis chapter <\/p>\n

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\n37.
\nIf we read our Bibles carefully,<\/p>\n

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\nwe’ll see what God thought of
\nthis individual we find in <\/p>\n

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\nGenesis 37 at verse one.
\nAnd Jacob dwelt in the land <\/p>\n

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\nwherein his father was a
\nstranger in the land of Canaan. <\/p>\n

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\nWell, we already knew that
\nbecause if you’d been reading <\/p>\n

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\nthe few chapters before, you
\nwould know that he was already <\/p>\n

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\nin the land of Canaan and he was
\ndwelling where his father. <\/p>\n

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\nWhy tell us that?
\nBut it’s really quite important,<\/p>\n

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\nBrethren and sisters, the
\nScripture doesn’t waste words. <\/p>\n

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\nJacob is still a stranger.
\nThat’s the point. <\/p>\n

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\nYou see, if you look back at
\nverse the previous chapter, <\/p>\n

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\nright at the end of the previous
\nchapter, verse 40, for example, <\/p>\n

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\nthrough to verse 43 read.
\nAnd these are the names of the <\/p>\n

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\nDukes that came of Esau
\naccording to their families, <\/p>\n

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\nafter their places by their
\nnames. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd there was Duke.
\nThis, this is all the list of <\/p>\n

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\nall these Dukes down to verse 43
\naccording to their habitations <\/p>\n

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\nin the land of their possession.
\nAnd he is the Esau, the father <\/p>\n

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\nof the Edomites.
\nAnd Jacob dwelt in the land of <\/p>\n

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\nhis father’s sojournings.
\nThere’s a dramatic contrast <\/p>\n

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\nbetween Esau and Jacob.
\nEsau has already settled himself<\/p>\n

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\ndown in his habitations, in his
\npossessions, in the land, put <\/p>\n

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\nhis roots down and his belongs
\nthere in Edom. <\/p>\n

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\nBut Jacob is still dwelling in
\nhis father’s sojournings. <\/p>\n

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\nThat’s saying something.
\nIt’s saying that Jacob has still<\/p>\n

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\ngot the promises in his heart.
\nHe still is faithful. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd he’s the third generation,
\nYou know, that the faithfulness <\/p>\n

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\nwent even further, that went at
\nleast to the next generation, <\/p>\n

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\neven though the apostle Paul
\nsays in Hebrews, he says, and by<\/p>\n

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\nfaith he, Abraham that is
\nsojourned in the land of <\/p>\n

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\npromise, as in a strange country
\ndwelling in tabernacles with <\/p>\n

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\nIsaac and Jacob, the heirs with
\nhim of the same promise. <\/p>\n

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\nSo the very fact that we read
\nhere that he’s sojourning still <\/p>\n

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\nas a stranger is picked up by
\nPaul in Hebrews to say he’s <\/p>\n

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\nstill faithfully hanging on to
\nthose promises. <\/p>\n

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\nBut Esau had chosen not to do
\nthat. <\/p>\n

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\nYou know, if we read our Bibles
\nvery carefully and this is a <\/p>\n

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\ngood exercise for you young
\npeople, when you go home, you, <\/p>\n

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\nyou skim through the last
\nprevious 7 or 8 chapters of <\/p>\n

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\nGenesis here and you’ll find
\nthis, that Jacob’s life is <\/p>\n

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\ndotted by movement all over the
\nplace. <\/p>\n

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\nIn fact, it’s very interesting
\nthat it was as soon as Joseph <\/p>\n

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\nwas born that Jacob decided to
\nuproot out of the land of Paedon<\/p>\n

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\nArum.
\nAnd, you know, we find there’s <\/p>\n

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\nno more, no less than 10
\nindividual movements and <\/p>\n

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\nstopping places all the way from
\nPaedon right back here to where <\/p>\n

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\nwe find him here at Hebron.
\nAnd through all that period, <\/p>\n

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\nwhich is the period in which
\nJoseph is growing up, what do <\/p>\n

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\nyou think Joseph’s learning?
\nIs he learning that this world <\/p>\n

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\nis permanent and you’ve got to
\nget out there and get everything<\/p>\n

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\nyou can, build your empire,
\nbuild your riches. <\/p>\n

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\nHe’s learning, brothers and
\nsisters, what his father was <\/p>\n

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\nliving.
\nHe’s learning to be a sojourner.<\/p>\n

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\nBecause he was never still,
\nalways intense, always moving <\/p>\n

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\non.
\nAnd for the whole of Joseph’s <\/p>\n

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\nlife, that’s all he’d known.
\nAnd he learned that lesson well.<\/p>\n

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\nBut verse 2 tells us, and these
\nare the generations of Jacob. <\/p>\n

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\nJoseph, being 17 years old, was
\nfeeding the flock with his <\/p>\n

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\nbrethren.
\nAnd to any astute reader, that <\/p>\n

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\nhas to be an incredibly strange
\nverse, particularly if you’re <\/p>\n

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\nfamiliar with Genesis, because
\nwe find this term and these are <\/p>\n

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\nthe generations of da, da, da 10
\ntimes in Genesis. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd you go back and have a look
\nat them and you’ll find, for <\/p>\n

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\nexample, in just the previous
\nchapter, chapter 36, we find <\/p>\n

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\nverse 9.
\nAnd these are the generations of<\/p>\n

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\nEsau, the father of the
\nEdomites. <\/p>\n

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\n00:21:16,440 –> 00:21:18,080
\nThese are the names of Esau’s
\nsons. <\/p>\n

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\n00:21:19,000 –> 00:21:22,400
\nSonic just lists son after son
\nafter son after son, after <\/p>\n

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\ngeneration, after generation
\nafter generation. <\/p>\n

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\nThe whole of that chapter is
\njust taken up with genealogies. <\/p>\n

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\nYou check that out.
\nYou’ll find that whenever that <\/p>\n

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\nphrase is used, these are the
\ngenerations and gives the name <\/p>\n

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\nof of the progenitor that then
\nfollows a list of all their <\/p>\n

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\ndescendants.
\nOr what do we find here? <\/p>\n

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\nThese are the generations of
\nJacob, Joseph. <\/p>\n

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\nWhere’s all the others?
\nWhere’s Reuben and Simeon and <\/p>\n

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\nLevi and Judah?
\nWhere are they? <\/p>\n

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\nThey’re not there.
\nThere’s nothing about them. <\/p>\n

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\nThey don’t even deserve to be in
\nJacob’s genealogy. <\/p>\n

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\nThat’s what it’s saying, because
\nJacob is being introduced in <\/p>\n

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\nhere as a faithful supporter of
\nthe promises, and here are his <\/p>\n

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\ngenerations, and you have to go
\nall through all of his sons, <\/p>\n

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\nright down to the 11th son
\nbefore you find one that’s got <\/p>\n

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\nthe same spirit as Jacob.
\nAnd there he is, Joseph, and <\/p>\n

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\nhe’s only 17.
\nThat’s the introduction we get <\/p>\n

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\nin the divine record to Joseph.
\nWhat an amazing thing that is <\/p>\n

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\nalone.
\nHe is singled out as a faithful <\/p>\n

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\nfollower of the promises.
\nYou know what that’s saying? <\/p>\n

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\nNot one of his other brothers
\nahead of him had accepted the <\/p>\n

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\ntruth.
\nIn effect, look what it tells <\/p>\n

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\nus.
\nHe was feeding his flock with <\/p>\n

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\nhis brethren.
\nMiddle of verse 2 and the lad <\/p>\n

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\nwas with the sons of Bilhar and
\nwith the sons of Zilpah, his <\/p>\n

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\nfather’s wife, wives.
\nThey didn’t even call the sons <\/p>\n

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\nof Jacob because they weren’t,
\nthey certainly weren’t the sons <\/p>\n

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\nof Israel.
\nThey were the sons of Bilhah and<\/p>\n

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\nZufa.
\nThat’s who they were. <\/p>\n

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\nThey had no affinity whatever
\nwith Joseph. <\/p>\n

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\nThey had little affinity with
\ntheir father apart from that he <\/p>\n

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\nwas physically their father.
\nWhat an incredibly tragic record<\/p>\n

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\nthat is.
\nAnd that’s where we find Joseph.<\/p>\n

326
\n00:23:35,920 –> 00:23:42,560
\nWe find him in the midst of
\nanything but a comfortable <\/p>\n

327
\n00:23:43,240 –> 00:23:50,200
\nChristadelphian high.
\nIt was characterized by by <\/p>\n

328
\n00:23:50,200 –> 00:23:54,760
\ntension and and unhappiness and
\ntragedy from start to end. <\/p>\n

329
\n00:23:54,880 –> 00:23:57,800
\nAll of Joseph’s life, that’s all
\nhe would ever have known, <\/p>\n

330
\n00:23:58,000 –> 00:24:01,840
\nbrethren and sisters and young
\npeople, because Jacob had two <\/p>\n

331
\n00:24:01,840 –> 00:24:06,800
\nwives that brought into that
\nfamily contention and division <\/p>\n

332
\n00:24:06,800 –> 00:24:12,440
\nand rivalry that ripped it apart
\nand was immediately transferred <\/p>\n

333
\n00:24:12,440 –> 00:24:16,520
\nto the to all the sons and the
\ndaughters in in that family so <\/p>\n

334
\n00:24:16,520 –> 00:24:20,880
\nthat they likewise grew up
\namongst all of that with those <\/p>\n

335
\n00:24:20,880 –> 00:24:24,080
\nsame characteristics.
\nYou know, Joseph lost his mother<\/p>\n

336
\n00:24:24,080 –> 00:24:29,720
\nat a very early age when his
\nfather, mind you, was 108 years <\/p>\n

337
\n00:24:29,720 –> 00:24:32,760
\nold.
\nSo what support did he have as a<\/p>\n

338
\n00:24:32,760 –> 00:24:34,520
\ntiny little attacker running
\naround? <\/p>\n

339
\n00:24:35,520 –> 00:24:39,400
\nAnd you think of the influence
\nthat that he had on him. <\/p>\n

340
\n00:24:39,800 –> 00:24:42,800
\nYou just think of Reuben.
\nYou know what Reuben did went <\/p>\n

341
\n00:24:42,800 –> 00:24:48,000
\ninto his father’s wife.
\nWhat about Judah and what he did<\/p>\n

342
\n00:24:48,040 –> 00:24:50,360
\nout in the land?
\nWhat about Levite and Simeon, <\/p>\n

343
\n00:24:50,360 –> 00:24:55,040
\nwho made Jacob’s name to stink
\nin Shechem because of the deceit<\/p>\n

344
\n00:24:55,520 –> 00:24:58,000
\nand the the wickedness that they
\ndid in that place? <\/p>\n

345
\n00:24:58,480 –> 00:25:01,000
\nAnd they’re his Big Brothers
\nthat he’s looking up to in that <\/p>\n

346
\n00:25:01,000 –> 00:25:04,880
\nfamily.
\nIt’s amazing that at 17 he <\/p>\n

347
\n00:25:04,880 –> 00:25:07,400
\nappears in this record, isn’t
\nit? <\/p>\n

348
\n00:25:07,400 –> 00:25:11,400
\nAnd look what we find.
\nHe brings to his father the end <\/p>\n

349
\n00:25:11,400 –> 00:25:18,520
\nof verse 2, their evil report.
\nHis brothers absolutely detested<\/p>\n

350
\n00:25:18,520 –> 00:25:19,600
\nhim.
\nLook at verse 4. <\/p>\n

351
\n00:25:19,600 –> 00:25:23,520
\nAnd when his brothers saw that
\ntheir father loved him more than<\/p>\n

352
\n00:25:23,560 –> 00:25:29,200
\nall his brethren, they hated him
\nand couldn’t speak peaceably and<\/p>\n

353
\n00:25:29,200 –> 00:25:30,920
\nthey couldn’t even speak civilly
\nto him. <\/p>\n

354
\n00:25:31,080 –> 00:25:32,520
\nThey weren’t peaceably there as
\nShalom. <\/p>\n

355
\n00:25:32,520 –> 00:25:35,280
\nThey couldn’t even say hello.
\nAnd they wouldn’t. <\/p>\n

356
\n00:25:36,720 –> 00:25:40,040
\nWhat an amazing thing in a
\nfamily that is of all those <\/p>\n

357
\n00:25:40,040 –> 00:25:44,080
\nlands.
\nAnd he’s the the little young <\/p>\n

358
\n00:25:44,080 –> 00:25:48,800
\nboy growing up in that family.
\nAnd his older mature brothers <\/p>\n

359
\n00:25:49,840 –> 00:25:56,440
\nwould not even say hello.
\nAnd that hatred grew. <\/p>\n

360
\n00:25:56,440 –> 00:25:59,760
\nVerse 5 And Joseph dreamed a
\ndream and told it his brethren, <\/p>\n

361
\n00:26:00,600 –> 00:26:05,960
\nand they hated him.
\nYet the more, and we know that <\/p>\n

362
\n00:26:05,960 –> 00:26:12,880
\nthat hatred even boiled over to
\nthe extent in verse 18 that they<\/p>\n

363
\n00:26:12,880 –> 00:26:18,120
\nwanted to slay him.
\nThey hate that hatred grew when <\/p>\n

364
\n00:26:18,440 –> 00:26:22,600
\nhe began talking about the truth
\nand when he didn’t leave them <\/p>\n

365
\n00:26:22,600 –> 00:26:27,560
\nalone, when he persisted, all
\nthey could think of doing was <\/p>\n

366
\n00:26:27,560 –> 00:26:30,880
\nquieting, quieting his voice
\nforever. <\/p>\n

367
\n00:26:31,720 –> 00:26:33,640
\nAnd eventually they sold him
\ninto slavery. <\/p>\n

368
\n00:26:35,480 –> 00:26:40,360
\nThey lied to get out of it.
\nThey deceived their aged father <\/p>\n

369
\n00:26:42,160 –> 00:26:44,120
\nfor 20 years.
\nThey deceived him. <\/p>\n

370
\n00:26:45,120 –> 00:26:50,280
\nThat’s what sort of men were in
\nJoseph’s family. <\/p>\n

371
\n00:26:51,960 –> 00:26:55,840
\nAnd with callous indifference
\nthey watched the grief of their <\/p>\n

372
\n00:26:55,840 –> 00:27:00,160
\nfather, whose Gray hairs were
\nbrought down to the grave in <\/p>\n

373
\n00:27:00,160 –> 00:27:02,760
\nsorrowing for the only godly son
\nthat he had. <\/p>\n

374
\n00:27:05,760 –> 00:27:15,120
\nAnd they couldn’t care. 2 hoots.
\nAnd Joseph, when he was 567, was<\/p>\n

375
\n00:27:15,120 –> 00:27:19,240
\ngrowing up with their influence.
\nIt was not an easy family to <\/p>\n

376
\n00:27:19,240 –> 00:27:22,840
\ngrow up nor an easy family to
\nlearn the truth in. <\/p>\n

377
\n00:27:24,120 –> 00:27:29,320
\nAnd well before he was 17, young
\npeople, there were enormous <\/p>\n

378
\n00:27:29,320 –> 00:27:36,800
\npressures, pressures that that
\nwe mostly don’t even understand.<\/p>\n

379
\n00:27:39,160 –> 00:27:43,520
\nAnd God allowed it to be so.
\nAnd yet out of all of that, he <\/p>\n

380
\n00:27:43,520 –> 00:27:48,040
\nsingled out as the as the single
\ngodly seed in that household at <\/p>\n

381
\n00:27:48,040 –> 00:27:50,280
\n17, young people, think about
\nthat. <\/p>\n

382
\n00:27:50,960 –> 00:27:57,760
\nAt 17, where do we meet him?
\nWell, he burst too told us he <\/p>\n

383
\n00:27:57,760 –> 00:28:00,480
\nwas feeding the flock with his
\nbrethren. <\/p>\n

384
\n00:28:02,080 –> 00:28:05,720
\nAnd whilst he was doing that,
\nsome, some activity was going on<\/p>\n

385
\n00:28:06,880 –> 00:28:08,480
\nthat he did not feel comfortable
\nwith. <\/p>\n

386
\n00:28:08,480 –> 00:28:11,800
\nAnd he brought unto his father
\ntheir evil report. <\/p>\n

387
\n00:28:15,480 –> 00:28:18,280
\nYoung people, Joseph wasn’t a
\ndobber. <\/p>\n

388
\n00:28:20,920 –> 00:28:24,280
\nHe had a conscience.
\nAnd there’s a difference. <\/p>\n

389
\n00:28:28,040 –> 00:28:32,720
\nThere’s an unwritten, well, I
\nwas going to say moral code. <\/p>\n

390
\n00:28:32,960 –> 00:28:35,200
\nIt’s not moral at all.
\nIt’s amoral. <\/p>\n

391
\n00:28:36,400 –> 00:28:41,720
\nAmongst today’s teenagers
\nparticularly, That’s really come<\/p>\n

392
\n00:28:41,720 –> 00:28:47,520
\nfrom the criminal element of the
\nworld that says protect your <\/p>\n

393
\n00:28:47,520 –> 00:28:52,720
\nfriends at all costs, protect
\nyour family. <\/p>\n

394
\n00:28:53,400 –> 00:28:57,040
\nDoesn’t matter what they’re
\ndoing, show loyalty. <\/p>\n

395
\n00:28:58,160 –> 00:28:59,560
\nIt’s better than telling the
\ntruth. <\/p>\n

396
\n00:29:00,920 –> 00:29:05,960
\nIt is never right, young people,
\nto cover wickedness. <\/p>\n

397
\n00:29:07,320 –> 00:29:10,360
\nAnd Joseph was not just here
\ngoing off to his father and <\/p>\n

398
\n00:29:10,360 –> 00:29:13,520
\ntitle tattling and telling all
\nsorts of things and saying, oh, <\/p>\n

399
\n00:29:13,520 –> 00:29:17,000
\nthey did this to me.
\nWhen Joseph went to his father, <\/p>\n

400
\n00:29:17,760 –> 00:29:21,640
\nhe had a rapport on godly terms
\nwith his father, and he was <\/p>\n

401
\n00:29:21,640 –> 00:29:23,840
\ndeeply concerned about his
\nbrethren. <\/p>\n

402
\n00:29:23,960 –> 00:29:26,960
\nWe’ll see that in just a moment.
\nDeeply concerned for their <\/p>\n

403
\n00:29:26,960 –> 00:29:29,120
\nwelfare.
\nAnd he saw that there were <\/p>\n

404
\n00:29:29,120 –> 00:29:32,360
\nactivities that they were
\ninvolved in that could do them <\/p>\n

405
\n00:29:32,360 –> 00:29:35,680
\nnothing but serious harm
\neternally. <\/p>\n

406
\n00:29:36,600 –> 00:29:42,400
\nAnd he had to talk to his father
\nabout it, to God. <\/p>\n

407
\n00:29:42,400 –> 00:29:46,480
\nThere were more young people who
\ntalked to their parents. <\/p>\n

408
\n00:29:47,760 –> 00:29:53,240
\nWhen he knew there was something
\nwrong, he went to his father and<\/p>\n

409
\n00:29:53,240 –> 00:29:56,280
\nyoung people.
\nI urge you, in the environment <\/p>\n

410
\n00:29:56,280 –> 00:29:59,720
\nthat you’re growing up in, there
\nare many things which are <\/p>\n

411
\n00:29:59,720 –> 00:30:02,720
\ndisturbing.
\nI find it exceedingly <\/p>\n

412
\n00:30:02,720 –> 00:30:05,560
\ndisturbing.
\nAs you’re probably aware, I’m in<\/p>\n

413
\n00:30:05,560 –> 00:30:07,800
\na school.
\nI’m not on the ground floor <\/p>\n

414
\n00:30:07,800 –> 00:30:12,040
\nwhere many of you are in the in
\nthe yard and in the classroom. <\/p>\n

415
\n00:30:12,680 –> 00:30:15,600
\nBut there are many things that
\ndeeply disturb me in that <\/p>\n

416
\n00:30:15,600 –> 00:30:19,120
\nenvironment, and they ought to
\nbe talked about. <\/p>\n

417
\n00:30:19,160 –> 00:30:21,160
\nTalk to your mother and father
\nabout them. <\/p>\n

418
\n00:30:22,320 –> 00:30:24,160
\nDon’t think that they won’t
\nunderstand. <\/p>\n

419
\n00:30:24,840 –> 00:30:28,520
\nThey will.
\nIf it’s about godly principles <\/p>\n

420
\n00:30:28,560 –> 00:30:31,120
\nand what’s right and wrong, talk
\nabout it. <\/p>\n

421
\n00:30:32,520 –> 00:30:37,560
\nAnd parents, don’t shy away just
\nbecause something might be <\/p>\n

422
\n00:30:37,560 –> 00:30:41,960
\nembarrassing to talk about.
\nYou’ve got to face it head on <\/p>\n

423
\n00:30:43,560 –> 00:30:47,960
\nand help your children and other
\nyoung people through a very evil<\/p>\n

424
\n00:30:47,960 –> 00:30:51,800
\nand difficult age.
\nThey’ve got to talk about it. <\/p>\n

425
\n00:30:51,800 –> 00:30:55,800
\nOtherwise they will internalize
\nthose things and may very well <\/p>\n

426
\n00:30:55,800 –> 00:30:58,840
\nthemselves go off.
\nIf Joseph Joseph had no one to <\/p>\n

427
\n00:30:58,840 –> 00:31:00,680
\ntalk to, what would have
\nhappened to him? <\/p>\n

428
\n00:31:00,920 –> 00:31:04,840
\nMaybe he would have eventually
\nended up joining the example of <\/p>\n

429
\n00:31:04,840 –> 00:31:11,360
\nhis brother.
\nEvil hidden is never right, but <\/p>\n

430
\n00:31:11,360 –> 00:31:14,960
\nverse 3 tells us that Israel
\nloved Joseph more than all his <\/p>\n

431
\n00:31:14,960 –> 00:31:18,720
\nchildren because he was the son
\nof his old age. <\/p>\n

432
\n00:31:19,680 –> 00:31:21,160
\nHe made him a coat of many
\ncolours. <\/p>\n

433
\n00:31:21,360 –> 00:31:23,760
\nYou know, there’s a very
\ninteresting change in that verse<\/p>\n

434
\n00:31:23,760 –> 00:31:27,800
\nfrom verses one and two that
\ntells us why Joseph, why Jacob <\/p>\n

435
\n00:31:27,800 –> 00:31:31,880
\nloved Joseph.
\nAnd it’s simply because Joseph, <\/p>\n

436
\n00:31:32,040 –> 00:31:34,720
\nJacob, sorry, he’s not called
\nJacob anymore. <\/p>\n

437
\n00:31:36,040 –> 00:31:41,800
\nHe’s called Israel.
\nAnd Israel, which is the the <\/p>\n

438
\n00:31:41,800 –> 00:31:47,240
\nname that Jacob was changed to,
\nthat shows the strength of <\/p>\n

439
\n00:31:47,240 –> 00:31:52,960
\nspiritual qualities of the man.
\nAnd that man loved Joseph. <\/p>\n

440
\n00:31:53,760 –> 00:31:56,080
\nIt shows what sort of
\nrelationship there was there. <\/p>\n

441
\n00:31:56,440 –> 00:32:01,120
\nJoseph was evidently a very
\ngodly young man, and he was at <\/p>\n

442
\n00:32:01,120 –> 00:32:03,920
\n17.
\nHere we find brothers and <\/p>\n

443
\n00:32:03,920 –> 00:32:05,760
\nsisters and young people.
\nYou know what that’s saying? <\/p>\n

444
\n00:32:06,080 –> 00:32:10,560
\nIt’s saying this that he must
\nhave been a very serious minded <\/p>\n

445
\n00:32:10,560 –> 00:32:16,080
\nyoung man long before 17, long
\nbefore he reached 17. <\/p>\n

446
\n00:32:16,080 –> 00:32:18,760
\nHe knew what the promises were
\nabout, and he knew more than <\/p>\n

447
\n00:32:18,760 –> 00:32:20,480
\nthat.
\nHe knew actually what they meant<\/p>\n

448
\n00:32:20,480 –> 00:32:22,320
\nto him.
\nHe knew what it meant to be a <\/p>\n

449
\n00:32:22,320 –> 00:32:24,600
\nsojourner, and he was happy and
\ncomfortable with that. <\/p>\n

450
\n00:32:25,880 –> 00:32:29,600
\nLong before he was 17, he’d come
\nto a conviction that he believed<\/p>\n

451
\n00:32:29,880 –> 00:32:34,200
\nthat God really did exist.
\nHe was convicted about divine <\/p>\n

452
\n00:32:34,200 –> 00:32:37,840
\nstandards of right and wrong
\nlong before he got to 17, and it<\/p>\n

453
\n00:32:37,840 –> 00:32:41,760
\nhad begun to affect his life by
\nthe time he reached 17. <\/p>\n

454
\n00:32:41,880 –> 00:32:44,920
\nAnd where did he learn all that?
\nHe didn’t have a Bible. <\/p>\n

455
\n00:32:44,920 –> 00:32:48,600
\nHe didn’t have anything there
\nthat he could put his hands on. <\/p>\n

456
\n00:32:48,600 –> 00:32:50,320
\nHe didn’t have Sunday school to
\ngo to. <\/p>\n

457
\n00:32:50,320 –> 00:32:52,440
\nHe didn’t have a youth group.
\nHe didn’t have any young <\/p>\n

458
\n00:32:52,440 –> 00:32:55,240
\npeople’s activities or ecclesial
\nactivities he could go to. <\/p>\n

459
\n00:32:56,760 –> 00:33:02,280
\nHe learnt by listening to his
\nfather around the table, the <\/p>\n

460
\n00:33:02,280 –> 00:33:05,880
\nother sons didn’t want to hear
\nand often were not even there. <\/p>\n

461
\n00:33:06,280 –> 00:33:09,520
\nBut his father and his
\ngrandfather, who by the way was <\/p>\n

462
\n00:33:09,520 –> 00:33:11,400
\nstill alive.
\nIsaac was still alive at this <\/p>\n

463
\n00:33:11,400 –> 00:33:20,000
\nstage, but he not obviously had
\nan an intense desire himself and<\/p>\n

464
\n00:33:20,000 –> 00:33:22,960
\ngave his mind to heavenly
\nthings. <\/p>\n

465
\n00:33:23,240 –> 00:33:25,880
\nAnd before he go, he reached the
\nage of 17. <\/p>\n

466
\n00:33:26,320 –> 00:33:32,000
\nYoung people and parents,
\nthere’s a powerful lesson there.<\/p>\n

467
\n00:33:34,800 –> 00:33:39,240
\nWe tend not to think at times
\nthat our young people are <\/p>\n

468
\n00:33:39,240 –> 00:33:45,880
\ncapable of too much too early.
\nIt is amazing what the school <\/p>\n

469
\n00:33:45,880 –> 00:33:51,480
\nsystem can expect and require
\nand achieve from very young <\/p>\n

470
\n00:33:51,480 –> 00:33:58,800
\nteenagers at 1314 who have
\ndeveloping and inquiring minds <\/p>\n

471
\n00:33:59,160 –> 00:34:02,240
\nthat are grasping for knowledge
\nand understanding. <\/p>\n

472
\n00:34:03,320 –> 00:34:06,360
\nWe ought to fill them with godly
\nthings. <\/p>\n

473
\n00:34:07,400 –> 00:34:11,760
\nIt’s not uncommon either in
\nlectures to see some of our <\/p>\n

474
\n00:34:11,760 –> 00:34:15,520
\nyoung people, though it’s not
\nall that often, to see some of <\/p>\n

475
\n00:34:15,520 –> 00:34:22,280
\nour young people more interested
\nin passing notes to others than <\/p>\n

476
\n00:34:22,280 –> 00:34:24,159
\nin anything that’s happening up
\nthe front. <\/p>\n

477
\n00:34:27,159 –> 00:34:30,360
\nYoung people, let’s face the
\nreal issues. <\/p>\n

478
\n00:34:33,480 –> 00:34:38,120
\nWhat do we do with that time?
\nWe’ve got heaps of it. <\/p>\n

479
\n00:34:38,960 –> 00:34:43,719
\nHeaps and heaps of time we might
\nnot think we have, but compared <\/p>\n

480
\n00:34:43,719 –> 00:34:51,040
\nto generations of of past ages,
\ntoday’s generation of teenagers <\/p>\n

481
\n00:34:51,760 –> 00:34:54,000
\nhave an enormous amount of time
\nat their disposal. <\/p>\n

482
\n00:34:55,760 –> 00:35:02,400
\nWhat are we doing?
\nJoseph was giving his mind to <\/p>\n

483
\n00:35:02,400 –> 00:35:09,640
\nserious things obviously before
\n17 because God could pen the <\/p>\n

484
\n00:35:09,640 –> 00:35:13,880
\ndivine record of this man’s life
\nby the time he reached 17. <\/p>\n

485
\n00:35:13,880 –> 00:35:19,840
\nAre we ready to shoulder
\nresponsibilities at 17? <\/p>\n

486
\n00:35:22,760 –> 00:35:26,480
\nYou know, after each of the
\nstudies this week there, there <\/p>\n

487
\n00:35:26,480 –> 00:35:28,200
\nis a Bible marking sheet
\navailable. <\/p>\n

488
\n00:35:30,560 –> 00:35:35,480
\nWhat often happens with sheets
\nof paper that are handed out so <\/p>\n

489
\n00:35:35,480 –> 00:35:40,520
\nthey get jammed in the Bible
\ncover and left there until we <\/p>\n

490
\n00:35:40,520 –> 00:35:45,480
\nwant to scribble out a note and
\nsend it to somebody or write out<\/p>\n

491
\n00:35:45,480 –> 00:35:50,400
\na shopping list.
\nI wonder how many Josephs we’ve <\/p>\n

492
\n00:35:50,400 –> 00:35:56,960
\ngot here tonight, young people
\nwho’ll be able to come keep up <\/p>\n

493
\n00:35:57,840 –> 00:36:00,480
\nwith some of the activities and
\nideas that are on that sheet. <\/p>\n

494
\n00:36:01,720 –> 00:36:03,360
\nThere’s one every night, every
\nstudy. <\/p>\n

495
\n00:36:04,480 –> 00:36:10,440
\nSee what you can do.
\nVerse 5 And Joseph dreamed a <\/p>\n

496
\n00:36:10,440 –> 00:36:14,320
\ndream.
\nThat word dream is always used <\/p>\n

497
\n00:36:14,320 –> 00:36:18,120
\nin scripture of of visions of
\nGod always. <\/p>\n

498
\n00:36:19,720 –> 00:36:23,640
\nAnd God just doesn’t give dreams
\nor visions to just anyone. <\/p>\n

499
\n00:36:25,520 –> 00:36:30,080
\nThey only come to those of the
\nright and godly disposition. <\/p>\n

500
\n00:36:30,640 –> 00:36:34,240
\nAnd what a testimony that is to
\nhis character at this age. <\/p>\n

501
\n00:36:34,480 –> 00:36:37,640
\nAnd when the Word of God came to
\nhim, young people and brethren, <\/p>\n

502
\n00:36:37,640 –> 00:36:41,320
\nsisters, he was so excited that
\nhe had to run and tell his <\/p>\n

503
\n00:36:41,320 –> 00:36:44,000
\nbrethren.
\nNow, do you think that Joseph <\/p>\n

504
\n00:36:44,000 –> 00:36:47,320
\ndidn’t know what they were like?
\nIt just told us in the previous <\/p>\n

505
\n00:36:47,320 –> 00:36:49,440
\nverse that they hated him and
\nwouldn’t even say hello to him. <\/p>\n

506
\n00:36:49,680 –> 00:36:52,800
\nBut when the Word of God moved
\nhim, he went and told his <\/p>\n

507
\n00:36:52,800 –> 00:36:57,320
\nbrethren, didn’t matter whether
\nthey wanted to know or not. <\/p>\n

508
\n00:36:58,000 –> 00:37:01,480
\nHe was so excited by what he’d
\nseen and heard that he had to go<\/p>\n

509
\n00:37:01,480 –> 00:37:04,000
\nand tell them.
\nAnd they hated him yet the more.<\/p>\n

510
\n00:37:06,080 –> 00:37:11,760
\nBut it didn’t crush his spirit.
\nWe find that when he had another<\/p>\n

511
\n00:37:11,760 –> 00:37:16,360
\nvision a little later, what
\nwould you have done? <\/p>\n

512
\n00:37:17,600 –> 00:37:20,840
\nTell you if it was me?
\nI’d been clipped across the air <\/p>\n

513
\n00:37:21,920 –> 00:37:25,040
\nand given a kick out of the tent
\nand said, get away. <\/p>\n

514
\n00:37:25,040 –> 00:37:26,880
\nWe don’t want to hear any more
\nof your dreams. <\/p>\n

515
\n00:37:27,440 –> 00:37:30,440
\nWhen you had another one, would
\nyou go back into the midst of <\/p>\n

516
\n00:37:30,440 –> 00:37:34,160
\nthose eleven brothers?
\nI don’t think I would have. <\/p>\n

517
\n00:37:35,400 –> 00:37:40,960
\nBut he did.
\nHe went back and his brethren, <\/p>\n

518
\n00:37:40,960 –> 00:37:44,680
\nand verse 9, he dreamed yet
\nanother dream, and he told it <\/p>\n

519
\n00:37:44,680 –> 00:37:47,920
\nhis brethren, and he told them
\nall about it. <\/p>\n

520
\n00:37:50,320 –> 00:37:53,600
\nAnd they hated him.
\nThey hated him. <\/p>\n

521
\n00:37:53,600 –> 00:37:55,760
\nLook at the end of verse 8 or
\nstart of verse 8. <\/p>\n

522
\n00:37:55,760 –> 00:37:58,440
\nRead all of verse 8.
\nAnd his brethren said unto him, <\/p>\n

523
\n00:37:58,840 –> 00:38:02,600
\nShalt thou indeed reign over us,
\nor shalt thou indeed have <\/p>\n

524
\n00:38:02,600 –> 00:38:05,280
\ndominion over us?
\nAnd they hated him yet the more <\/p>\n

525
\n00:38:05,280 –> 00:38:09,160
\nfor his dreams and for his
\nwords. <\/p>\n

526
\n00:38:09,640 –> 00:38:11,440
\nIt wasn’t just that he’d had a
\ndream. <\/p>\n

527
\n00:38:11,520 –> 00:38:15,040
\nHe was wanting to talk about the
\ntruth, about the issues that <\/p>\n

528
\n00:38:15,040 –> 00:38:18,040
\nwere involved in those dreams.
\nHe was wanting to talk about the<\/p>\n

529
\n00:38:18,040 –> 00:38:19,960
\nword of God, about the promises
\nto them. <\/p>\n

530
\n00:38:20,160 –> 00:38:21,600
\nAnd they hated him for those
\nwords. <\/p>\n

531
\n00:38:21,600 –> 00:38:23,000
\nThey didn’t want to know
\nanything about it. <\/p>\n

532
\n00:38:24,080 –> 00:38:27,800
\nAnd so the animosity built up
\nbetween him and them, not on his<\/p>\n

533
\n00:38:27,800 –> 00:38:30,400
\nside, but it didn’t crush his
\nspirit. <\/p>\n

534
\n00:38:30,400 –> 00:38:35,240
\nYou know, when when he had
\nanother one, he went off and <\/p>\n

535
\n00:38:35,240 –> 00:38:39,440
\ntold them and even his father
\nthis time rebuked him. <\/p>\n

536
\n00:38:39,440 –> 00:38:46,400
\nWe find in verse verse 10.
\nWhere are the Josephs today, <\/p>\n

537
\n00:38:47,440 –> 00:38:50,200
\nyoung people and brethren and
\nsisters? <\/p>\n

538
\n00:38:50,200 –> 00:38:53,240
\nWhere is the spirit of Joseph
\namong those who are older? <\/p>\n

539
\n00:38:53,640 –> 00:38:58,240
\nWhere is it that are so excited
\nby the word that they have to <\/p>\n

540
\n00:38:58,240 –> 00:39:01,520
\ntell somebody they have not
\nbecause they want to show off <\/p>\n

541
\n00:39:01,680 –> 00:39:05,520
\nabout their knowledge and and
\nshow that they’re some someone <\/p>\n

542
\n00:39:05,520 –> 00:39:09,400
\nof great importance, but because
\nthey’re so excited about what <\/p>\n

543
\n00:39:09,400 –> 00:39:11,920
\nGod has revealed and what he is
\ndoing in the earth and the <\/p>\n

544
\n00:39:11,920 –> 00:39:15,040
\npromises that he’s made and
\nsomething that he’s found and <\/p>\n

545
\n00:39:15,040 –> 00:39:18,360
\ndiscovered.
\nWhere’s the excitement of that? <\/p>\n

546
\n00:39:19,600 –> 00:39:22,520
\nIt’s got to be revived.
\nIt’s the spirit of a man who was<\/p>\n

547
\n00:39:22,560 –> 00:39:26,200
\nable to withstand enormous
\npressures, young people and it’s<\/p>\n

548
\n00:39:26,200 –> 00:39:29,080
\npart of the key, part of the
\nkey. <\/p>\n

549
\n00:39:29,760 –> 00:39:32,880
\nWe live in an age of
\nindifference of of mediocrity. <\/p>\n

550
\n00:39:33,000 –> 00:39:35,320
\nYou just about say that
\nmediocrity was the national <\/p>\n

551
\n00:39:35,320 –> 00:39:38,440
\nreligion of Australia.
\nThe majority stand up for <\/p>\n

552
\n00:39:38,440 –> 00:39:42,360
\nnothing, let everything go past
\nand knock anything that comes <\/p>\n

553
\n00:39:42,360 –> 00:39:46,800
\npast that they don’t like.
\nGod is not interested in <\/p>\n

554
\n00:39:46,800 –> 00:39:50,960
\nlukewarmness, He’s not
\ninterested in half heartedness, <\/p>\n

555
\n00:39:51,880 –> 00:39:57,560
\nbut he’s looking for those who
\ntremble at his Word, said Isaiah<\/p>\n

556
\n00:39:57,560 –> 00:40:00,720
\nin chapter 66 and verse 2.
\nMake a note of that, young <\/p>\n

557
\n00:40:00,720 –> 00:40:03,160
\npeople, and look up what
\nRotherham says for that last <\/p>\n

558
\n00:40:03,160 –> 00:40:06,600
\nphrase.
\nHe says God will look to those <\/p>\n

559
\n00:40:06,600 –> 00:40:11,720
\nwho care anxiously for his word.
\nAnd here’s 1 Spirit in the midst<\/p>\n

560
\n00:40:11,720 –> 00:40:15,400
\nof great animosity.
\nWho cares anxiously? <\/p>\n

561
\n00:40:16,160 –> 00:40:22,600
\nWho is excited about the vision?
\nAnd what were the visions? <\/p>\n

562
\n00:40:23,680 –> 00:40:29,320
\nWe know what they were really
\nvery simple, the sheaves bowing <\/p>\n

563
\n00:40:29,320 –> 00:40:31,120
\ndown to another sheave.
\nThat was Joseph’s. <\/p>\n

564
\n00:40:31,240 –> 00:40:33,280
\nJoseph was to be the nourisher
\nof the world. <\/p>\n

565
\n00:40:33,520 –> 00:40:35,680
\nBut you know what Joseph took
\nout of that first dream? <\/p>\n

566
\n00:40:36,640 –> 00:40:41,920
\nHe thought about it.
\nHe heard what his brethren said,<\/p>\n

567
\n00:40:42,000 –> 00:40:45,640
\nand they said, do you think
\nwe’re going to bow down to you? <\/p>\n

568
\n00:40:46,600 –> 00:40:50,800
\nThink again and clip him over
\nthe ears. <\/p>\n

569
\n00:40:51,800 –> 00:40:57,280
\nAnd Joseph thought about that.
\nIt meant that his brethren were <\/p>\n

570
\n00:40:57,280 –> 00:41:04,280
\ngoing to bow down if they, it
\nmeant one of two things that <\/p>\n

571
\n00:41:04,280 –> 00:41:08,560
\neither he was going to go and
\nturn into their life and follow <\/p>\n

572
\n00:41:08,560 –> 00:41:12,160
\ntheir lifestyle and gain
\npredominance over them so that <\/p>\n

573
\n00:41:12,160 –> 00:41:16,440
\nthey would they would Lord him,
\nor they would one day be <\/p>\n

574
\n00:41:16,440 –> 00:41:21,520
\nconverted.
\nAnd that at that time was an <\/p>\n

575
\n00:41:22,120 –> 00:41:28,280
\nutterly impossible thought.
\nYou know, he believed that God <\/p>\n

576
\n00:41:28,280 –> 00:41:31,760
\nwas right.
\nHe believed that godliness in <\/p>\n

577
\n00:41:31,760 –> 00:41:34,400
\nthe end would prevail.
\nAnd he saw that from that vision<\/p>\n

578
\n00:41:34,400 –> 00:41:37,520
\nof the sheaves.
\nHe saw from the other vision <\/p>\n

579
\n00:41:37,760 –> 00:41:40,520
\nthat even his mother would have
\nto be resurrected because she <\/p>\n

580
\n00:41:40,520 –> 00:41:43,960
\nwould bow down being the being
\nthe moon in that in that vision,<\/p>\n

581
\n00:41:45,120 –> 00:41:47,480
\nand that if his brethren were to
\nlikewise better and they <\/p>\n

582
\n00:41:47,480 –> 00:41:50,160
\nthemselves would have to change
\ntheir attitudes and would and <\/p>\n

583
\n00:41:50,160 –> 00:41:53,920
\nwould eventually be saved.
\nAnd as he mulled that over <\/p>\n

584
\n00:41:53,920 –> 00:41:59,880
\nbrothers and sisters, he
\nbelieved what was humanly <\/p>\n

585
\n00:41:59,880 –> 00:42:04,840
\nimpossible at that stage.
\nEverything was saying everything<\/p>\n

586
\n00:42:04,840 –> 00:42:08,880
\nthat he knew was going against
\nwhat that was saying. <\/p>\n

587
\n00:42:12,480 –> 00:42:15,480
\nYou know, this becomes the key
\nto Joseph’s life, young people. <\/p>\n

588
\n00:42:16,840 –> 00:42:20,680
\nIt’s his visions, the key to
\nJoseph’s life. <\/p>\n

589
\n00:42:20,680 –> 00:42:25,320
\nYou know, the very first words
\nin the record of the Scriptures <\/p>\n

590
\n00:42:25,400 –> 00:42:29,320
\nand the very last words that
\ncome from Joseph’s mouth are <\/p>\n

591
\n00:42:30,520 –> 00:42:35,640
\nabout his visions, about these
\nvisions here, and about his <\/p>\n

592
\n00:42:35,640 –> 00:42:39,280
\nvision of going into the
\nPromised land when he told his <\/p>\n

593
\n00:42:39,280 –> 00:42:43,280
\nsons to carry them up.
\nHence look at verse 19. <\/p>\n

594
\n00:42:44,240 –> 00:42:48,000
\nThis is what his brothers, his
\nbrothers said about him. <\/p>\n

595
\n00:42:49,000 –> 00:42:52,920
\nThey said when he’d come, come
\nto, to, to get them and to see <\/p>\n

596
\n00:42:52,920 –> 00:42:55,400
\nhow they were going.
\nThey said one to another. <\/p>\n

597
\n00:42:56,000 –> 00:43:01,800
\nBehold, this dreamer cometh.
\nLook at the margin, this master <\/p>\n

598
\n00:43:01,920 –> 00:43:05,040
\nof dreams.
\nOh, it was said tongue in cheek,<\/p>\n

599
\n00:43:05,040 –> 00:43:07,480
\nbrothers and sisters, but they
\nknew two things. <\/p>\n

600
\n00:43:07,720 –> 00:43:09,920
\nThey knew that the dreams meant
\nsomething to him. <\/p>\n

601
\n00:43:10,880 –> 00:43:17,360
\nThey knew that, and they hated
\nhim for it. <\/p>\n

602
\n00:43:19,520 –> 00:43:21,720
\nThey knew he wanted to talk
\nabout them, and so they <\/p>\n

603
\n00:43:21,720 –> 00:43:25,960
\ncynically called him the Master
\nof Dreams. <\/p>\n

604
\n00:43:26,960 –> 00:43:29,600
\nBut the truth was, brethren and
\nsisters and young Pope people, <\/p>\n

605
\n00:43:29,760 –> 00:43:35,800
\nhe was a master of dreams.
\nHe did understand what God had <\/p>\n

606
\n00:43:35,800 –> 00:43:38,840
\nrevealed because he’d accepted
\nit in faith. <\/p>\n

607
\n00:43:40,080 –> 00:43:47,120
\nAnd it was in fact those dreams
\nwhich eventually ended up saving<\/p>\n

608
\n00:43:47,240 –> 00:43:50,320
\nall of his brethren.
\nAnd they’re now here calling <\/p>\n

609
\n00:43:50,320 –> 00:43:55,880
\nhim, casting this phrase in his
\nin their teeth, the master of <\/p>\n

610
\n00:43:55,880 –> 00:44:00,040
\ndreams and ridiculing him.
\nYou know, he was later known <\/p>\n

611
\n00:44:00,040 –> 00:44:05,280
\nwhen he came into into Egypt as
\nas the interpreter of dreams. <\/p>\n

612
\n00:44:05,400 –> 00:44:10,000
\nSo to his own family and to the
\nGentiles outside, everybody knew<\/p>\n

613
\n00:44:10,000 –> 00:44:12,520
\nhe had something to do with
\ndreams and visions of God. <\/p>\n

614
\n00:44:14,360 –> 00:44:18,400
\nAnd it was his dreams, these
\ndreams here in particular, these<\/p>\n

615
\n00:44:18,400 –> 00:44:22,440
\ntwo dreams, because we read of
\nno others at this stage of his <\/p>\n

616
\n00:44:22,440 –> 00:44:26,760
\nlife that were critical to his
\nsurvival in the days ahead. <\/p>\n

617
\n00:44:26,880 –> 00:44:30,560
\nYou know, he couldn’t even guess
\nor imagine what was going to <\/p>\n

618
\n00:44:30,560 –> 00:44:32,000
\nhappen.
\nI mean, we know the end of the <\/p>\n

619
\n00:44:32,000 –> 00:44:33,640
\nstory.
\nWe know what happened and, and <\/p>\n

620
\n00:44:33,640 –> 00:44:35,280
\nhow everything worked out fine
\nin the end. <\/p>\n

621
\n00:44:35,400 –> 00:44:38,960
\nBut to him, at this stage, he
\nhad no idea how God could ever <\/p>\n

622
\n00:44:38,960 –> 00:44:42,040
\npossibly bring those dreams to
\nfruition. <\/p>\n

623
\n00:44:43,720 –> 00:44:49,480
\nThere is nothing else, nothing
\nelse, young people, except faith<\/p>\n

624
\n00:44:49,520 –> 00:44:54,160
\nin what God has revealed,
\ndespite what we see, that will <\/p>\n

625
\n00:44:54,160 –> 00:44:56,160
\nsustain us under times of
\npressure. <\/p>\n

626
\n00:44:58,360 –> 00:45:03,160
\nAnd when Joseph himself was
\nunder even more extreme pressure<\/p>\n

627
\n00:45:03,360 –> 00:45:07,960
\nthan he was in his family, those
\ndreams came back. <\/p>\n

628
\n00:45:08,720 –> 00:45:11,640
\nYou know, that’s not even the
\nmost critical thing. <\/p>\n

629
\n00:45:12,680 –> 00:45:18,600
\nThe most important thing to know
\nis that those visions were <\/p>\n

630
\n00:45:18,760 –> 00:45:28,680
\nembedded in his mind in youth.
\nYou know, we’re going to start <\/p>\n

631
\n00:45:29,440 –> 00:45:33,920
\nto build a picture of what this
\ntheme is all about, and there’s <\/p>\n

632
\n00:45:33,920 –> 00:45:37,280
\none building block.
\nThere was something embedded in <\/p>\n

633
\n00:45:37,280 –> 00:45:41,760
\nJoseph’s mind, young people, and
\nit was those visions. <\/p>\n

634
\n00:45:42,240 –> 00:45:44,680
\nAnd it was in his youth.
\nThe Word of God had made an <\/p>\n

635
\n00:45:44,680 –> 00:45:49,120
\nimpression on his mind, and he
\nactually loved it and believed <\/p>\n

636
\n00:45:49,120 –> 00:45:50,640
\nit.
\nAnd he thought about it very <\/p>\n

637
\n00:45:50,640 –> 00:45:52,720
\noften.
\nOver and over again he thought <\/p>\n

638
\n00:45:52,720 –> 00:45:56,000
\nabout those dreams.
\nHe didn’t know how on earth God <\/p>\n

639
\n00:45:56,000 –> 00:45:59,680
\ncould ever bring them to pass,
\nbut he believed God would do it <\/p>\n

640
\n00:46:00,320 –> 00:46:04,200
\nand that’s all that mattered.
\nAnd what a spirit that gave to <\/p>\n

641
\n00:46:04,200 –> 00:46:10,480
\nthat man as he grew up from 17
\nto 18 and onwards. <\/p>\n

642
\n00:46:10,720 –> 00:46:15,320
\nLook at verse 4, verse 12.
\nHis brethren went to feed their <\/p>\n

643
\n00:46:15,320 –> 00:46:21,160
\nfather’s flock in Shechem.
\nAnd Israel said to Joseph, Do <\/p>\n

644
\n00:46:21,160 –> 00:46:22,960
\nnot thy brethren feed the flock
\nin Shechem? <\/p>\n

645
\n00:46:23,160 –> 00:46:25,360
\nCome, and I’ll send them.
\nSend thee unto them. <\/p>\n

646
\n00:46:26,560 –> 00:46:31,400
\nAnd he said to to him, Here am
\nI. <\/p>\n

647
\n00:46:33,760 –> 00:46:37,120
\nAnd he said to him, Go, I pray
\nthee, see whether it be well <\/p>\n

648
\n00:46:37,120 –> 00:46:39,720
\nwith thy brethren, and well with
\nthe flocks, and bring me where <\/p>\n

649
\n00:46:39,720 –> 00:46:42,440
\nto gain.
\nAnd so he sent him out of the <\/p>\n

650
\n00:46:42,440 –> 00:46:45,280
\nvial of Hebron, and he came to
\nShechem. <\/p>\n

651
\n00:46:47,760 –> 00:46:50,400
\nDo you think that Joseph didn’t
\nknow what his brethren were <\/p>\n

652
\n00:46:50,400 –> 00:46:51,800
\nlike?
\nOf course he did. <\/p>\n

653
\n00:46:51,800 –> 00:46:54,880
\nDo you think that Jacob didn’t
\nknow what those brethren were <\/p>\n

654
\n00:46:54,880 –> 00:46:57,560
\nlike and that they hated Joseph?
\nOf course he did. <\/p>\n

655
\n00:46:57,760 –> 00:47:00,920
\nWhy did he ask Joseph to go?
\nWhat a mean and cruel thing to <\/p>\n

656
\n00:47:00,920 –> 00:47:08,160
\ndo.
\nBut Jacob knew that Joseph alone<\/p>\n

657
\n00:47:09,240 –> 00:47:13,520
\nhad the welfare of his brethren
\nat heart, and he would truly <\/p>\n

658
\n00:47:13,520 –> 00:47:20,520
\nbring that.
\nJoseph alone had the welfare of <\/p>\n

659
\n00:47:20,520 –> 00:47:26,040
\nhis brethren at heart, and he
\nwould truly bring back an honest<\/p>\n

660
\n00:47:26,040 –> 00:47:31,760
\nreport about their welfare.
\nAnd look at Joseph’s attitude <\/p>\n

661
\n00:47:32,520 –> 00:47:35,760
\nwhen Jacob says to him, I want
\nyou to go to your brethren to <\/p>\n

662
\n00:47:35,760 –> 00:47:41,680
\nsee how they are.
\nHe says, here am I. <\/p>\n

663
\n00:47:41,680 –> 00:47:44,200
\nYou know what I would have been
\nthinking? <\/p>\n

664
\n00:47:46,120 –> 00:47:50,600
\nThey wouldn’t send me for them.
\nDad, you know what they’re like.<\/p>\n

665
\n00:47:51,200 –> 00:47:53,480
\nThey’re animals.
\nI’ve told you about all the <\/p>\n

666
\n00:47:53,480 –> 00:47:56,000
\nthings that they’re up to.
\nThey’ll kill me if you’re not <\/p>\n

667
\n00:47:56,000 –> 00:47:58,280
\naround.
\nDon’t send me. <\/p>\n

668
\n00:47:58,280 –> 00:48:05,440
\nCan I take a servant with me?
\nAll he said was father, here am <\/p>\n

669
\n00:48:05,440 –> 00:48:09,200
\nI.
\nAnd Joseph watched his son go <\/p>\n

670
\n00:48:09,200 –> 00:48:12,840
\nout of the Vale of Fellowship
\ntowards Shechem. <\/p>\n

671
\n00:48:14,800 –> 00:48:18,840
\nHe went, as we read in verse 16,
\nlook at this, these words, <\/p>\n

672
\n00:48:18,840 –> 00:48:24,640
\nbrethren and sisters.
\nAnd he said, I, I seek my <\/p>\n

673
\n00:48:24,640 –> 00:48:30,440
\nbrethren.
\nVerse 17 So Joseph went after <\/p>\n

674
\n00:48:30,440 –> 00:48:32,080
\nhis brethren and found them at
\nDothan. <\/p>\n

675
\n00:48:32,840 –> 00:48:35,320
\nWhen he got to the place that
\nthat he was expecting to find <\/p>\n

676
\n00:48:35,320 –> 00:48:37,440
\nthem and didn’t find them.
\nIf that was me, I’d have been <\/p>\n

677
\n00:48:37,440 –> 00:48:40,240
\nback to Hebron as fast as I
\ncould and told my father that I <\/p>\n

678
\n00:48:40,240 –> 00:48:45,280
\ncouldn’t find them anywhere.
\nBut he went searching and till <\/p>\n

679
\n00:48:45,280 –> 00:48:47,880
\nhe found them.
\nWhat a spirit, young people, <\/p>\n

680
\n00:48:48,120 –> 00:48:50,840
\nwhat a spirit.
\nAnd he was going out to Shechem <\/p>\n

681
\n00:48:50,840 –> 00:48:54,120
\nof all places.
\nYou know, Levi and Simeon had <\/p>\n

682
\n00:48:54,120 –> 00:48:59,600
\nmade that region to stink in
\nJacob’s, in the eyes of the OR <\/p>\n

683
\n00:48:59,600 –> 00:49:02,040
\nJacob’s name to stink in the
\neyes of all the people of that <\/p>\n

684
\n00:49:02,040 –> 00:49:04,840
\nregion because of their, their
\ndeception and wickedness only a <\/p>\n

685
\n00:49:04,840 –> 00:49:07,760
\nshort time before.
\nNow there was no shortage of <\/p>\n

686
\n00:49:07,760 –> 00:49:09,240
\nwater there.
\nThey didn’t have to move on. <\/p>\n

687
\n00:49:09,480 –> 00:49:11,680
\nThey told their father that
\nwe’re going out to Shechem, <\/p>\n

688
\n00:49:11,920 –> 00:49:14,520
\nwhich was all very noble because
\nthat was the place where the <\/p>\n

689
\n00:49:14,520 –> 00:49:17,360
\ninheritance was.
\nThat’s the place where Abraham <\/p>\n

690
\n00:49:17,360 –> 00:49:19,800
\nfirst appeared when he came into
\nthe land and built an altar. <\/p>\n

691
\n00:49:20,080 –> 00:49:22,560
\nAnd so they told their father,
\nwe’re going out to Shechem, dad,<\/p>\n

692
\n00:49:22,560 –> 00:49:25,400
\nto feed the flocks.
\nWhen Jacob, when Joseph got <\/p>\n

693
\n00:49:25,400 –> 00:49:30,200
\nthere, they weren’t at Shechem.
\nThey weren’t interested in the <\/p>\n

694
\n00:49:30,200 –> 00:49:35,680
\ninheritance.
\nShechem was a place of decision <\/p>\n

695
\n00:49:35,680 –> 00:49:38,520
\nmaking.
\nIt’s very, very fascinating on <\/p>\n

696
\n00:49:38,520 –> 00:49:41,080
\nthe Bible marking chip.
\nIt shows all the places that <\/p>\n

697
\n00:49:41,080 –> 00:49:43,120
\nShechem is used.
\nCheck it out. <\/p>\n

698
\n00:49:43,640 –> 00:49:47,080
\nIt’s used throughout Scripture
\nas a place where decisions were <\/p>\n

699
\n00:49:47,080 –> 00:49:50,280
\nmade, important decisions to go
\nthis, well that. <\/p>\n

700
\n00:49:50,840 –> 00:49:53,120
\nAnd they went out to Shechem,
\ntold their father, we’re going <\/p>\n

701
\n00:49:53,120 –> 00:49:54,440
\nout to the field of the
\ninheritance. <\/p>\n

702
\n00:49:54,440 –> 00:49:57,840
\nDad got out there and tipped off
\ninto the world. <\/p>\n

703
\n00:49:57,840 –> 00:50:01,520
\nThat’s exactly what they did,
\nBecause you think of this, when <\/p>\n

704
\n00:50:01,520 –> 00:50:05,000
\nAbraham came from earth, he
\nmarched all the way down and <\/p>\n

705
\n00:50:05,000 –> 00:50:07,000
\ncame into the land.
\nThe very first place he came to <\/p>\n

706
\n00:50:07,000 –> 00:50:10,480
\nwas Shechem, and there he made a
\ndecision and he built an altar <\/p>\n

707
\n00:50:10,480 –> 00:50:13,080
\nand worshipped Yahweh.
\nThen he moved up through the <\/p>\n

708
\n00:50:13,080 –> 00:50:15,840
\nland and eventually came to
\nHebron where he was there in <\/p>\n

709
\n00:50:15,840 –> 00:50:19,880
\nfellowship with God.
\nNow his sons, the sons of Jacob,<\/p>\n

710
\n00:50:20,480 –> 00:50:25,920
\nMarch out of fellowship down to
\nShechem, where decisions are <\/p>\n

711
\n00:50:25,920 –> 00:50:29,000
\nwant to be made.
\nThey make the wrong decision and<\/p>\n

712
\n00:50:29,000 –> 00:50:31,720
\ndon’t come back.
\nThey go out to Dothan. <\/p>\n

713
\n00:50:31,720 –> 00:50:33,960
\nYou know where Dothan was.
\nIt was on the caravan routes. <\/p>\n

714
\n00:50:34,160 –> 00:50:36,600
\nOh, there was plenty of
\nexcitement out there. <\/p>\n

715
\n00:50:36,720 –> 00:50:41,160
\nIt wasn’t like dull old Hebron.
\nThere was all sorts of bright <\/p>\n

716
\n00:50:41,160 –> 00:50:43,880
\nlights.
\nYou could get anything you <\/p>\n

717
\n00:50:43,880 –> 00:50:49,520
\nwanted, anything you wanted.
\nAnd who would know? <\/p>\n

718
\n00:50:50,800 –> 00:50:54,600
\nThat’s what Dothan was.
\nIt suited their lifestyle. <\/p>\n

719
\n00:50:54,800 –> 00:50:58,960
\nTheir restrictions were gone.
\nThey didn’t have this, this <\/p>\n

720
\n00:50:58,960 –> 00:51:03,000
\nfield of Shechem behind them all
\nthe time, reminding them of <\/p>\n

721
\n00:51:03,000 –> 00:51:06,000
\nthese awful visions and
\npromises. <\/p>\n

722
\n00:51:07,160 –> 00:51:08,360
\nAnd we know where their minds
\nwere. <\/p>\n

723
\n00:51:08,360 –> 00:51:12,320
\nThat’s not a caricature of them.
\nWe know where their minds were <\/p>\n

724
\n00:51:12,560 –> 00:51:17,040
\nbecause verse 18 says, and when
\nthey saw him afar off, even <\/p>\n

725
\n00:51:17,400 –> 00:51:20,800
\nbefore he came near, they
\nconspired to slay him. <\/p>\n

726
\n00:51:21,160 –> 00:51:24,080
\nIn their heart was murder,
\ndeception, and lies. <\/p>\n

727
\n00:51:24,240 –> 00:51:26,760
\nThey hated the sight of the
\ntruth. <\/p>\n

728
\n00:51:28,360 –> 00:51:32,880
\nOh, they were in that
\nenvironment reluctantly, but <\/p>\n

729
\n00:51:32,880 –> 00:51:35,480
\nthey had two feet in the world
\nand that’s where they wanted to <\/p>\n

730
\n00:51:35,480 –> 00:51:38,160
\nbe.
\nYou imagined this scene, verse <\/p>\n

731
\n00:51:38,160 –> 00:51:42,000
\n23 came to pass when Joseph was
\ncome under his brethren. <\/p>\n

732
\n00:51:42,320 –> 00:51:46,400
\nThey stripped Joseph out of his
\ncoat of many colours that was on<\/p>\n

733
\n00:51:46,400 –> 00:51:51,120
\nhim and they took him and and
\nthey cast him into the pit that <\/p>\n

734
\n00:51:51,120 –> 00:51:52,920
\nwas empty and there was no water
\nin there. <\/p>\n

735
\n00:51:52,920 –> 00:51:54,960
\nAnd they sat down to eat bread.
\nThey had their lunch. <\/p>\n

736
\n00:51:55,160 –> 00:51:56,680
\nWell, he’s crying out of the
\npit. <\/p>\n

737
\n00:51:57,000 –> 00:51:59,440
\nMake a note of chapter 42 and
\nverse 21. <\/p>\n

738
\n00:51:59,440 –> 00:52:01,040
\nWe haven’t got time to look at
\nit at the moment. <\/p>\n

739
\n00:52:01,400 –> 00:52:05,920
\nBut there they remembered in
\ntheir minds vividly 20 years <\/p>\n

740
\n00:52:05,920 –> 00:52:09,800
\nlater when they were standing in
\nthe courts of Joseph in Egypt, <\/p>\n

741
\n00:52:09,920 –> 00:52:12,960
\nunbeknownst to them, that who
\nthis man that they were standing<\/p>\n

742
\n00:52:12,960 –> 00:52:17,120
\nbefore was.
\nAnd they said, oh, we remember <\/p>\n

743
\n00:52:17,120 –> 00:52:22,320
\nthe anguish of his soul and how
\nhe cried to us and we wouldn’t <\/p>\n

744
\n00:52:22,320 –> 00:52:24,520
\nlisten.
\nHe was crying out to the <\/p>\n

745
\n00:52:24,520 –> 00:52:26,360
\nbrethren, what are you doing
\nthis to me for? <\/p>\n

746
\n00:52:27,280 –> 00:52:31,000
\nAnd they just ate their lunch.
\nThen they stripped him naked and<\/p>\n

747
\n00:52:31,680 –> 00:52:35,400
\nthey bathed and had fun with
\nhim, with the merchants. <\/p>\n

748
\n00:52:35,560 –> 00:52:37,760
\nNo, not enough.
\nWe want a bit more. <\/p>\n

749
\n00:52:39,160 –> 00:52:40,560
\nWe got things to buy and date
\nthem. <\/p>\n

750
\n00:52:42,280 –> 00:52:47,760
\nAnd his humiliation, the pain,
\nthe anguish of a godly, <\/p>\n

751
\n00:52:47,760 –> 00:52:51,840
\ninsensitive man was only just
\nstarting because he had to <\/p>\n

752
\n00:52:51,840 –> 00:52:57,080
\nMarch, probably naked, chained
\nall the way to Egypt. <\/p>\n

753
\n00:52:57,480 –> 00:53:02,720
\nImagine it and what would you be
\nthinking? <\/p>\n

754
\n00:53:04,160 –> 00:53:08,440
\nManhandled, beaten, humiliated,
\nsold as a slave. <\/p>\n

755
\n00:53:09,600 –> 00:53:14,320
\nYou’d be hiding your brethren.
\nBut there’s not an ounce of that<\/p>\n

756
\n00:53:14,320 –> 00:53:15,800
\nin Joseph.
\nNot an ounce. <\/p>\n

757
\n00:53:16,320 –> 00:53:18,960
\nHe goes to a strange land.
\nHe’s sold to the chief of the <\/p>\n

758
\n00:53:18,960 –> 00:53:24,160
\nslaughterman.
\nHe’s sold body and soul and he’s<\/p>\n

759
\n00:53:24,160 –> 00:53:30,880
\nscared stiff and who cares?
\nHad he done nothing wrong? <\/p>\n

760
\n00:53:31,240 –> 00:53:34,000
\nWhy was he there?
\nWhere was the justice in that? <\/p>\n

761
\n00:53:34,000 –> 00:53:35,640
\nWhy had God allowed this to
\nhappen? <\/p>\n

762
\n00:53:35,800 –> 00:53:38,440
\nAll he’d done was out seeking
\nthe welfare of his brethren, and<\/p>\n

763
\n00:53:38,440 –> 00:53:40,760
\nnow he’s in in a strange land.
\nHe didn’t even know where it <\/p>\n

764
\n00:53:40,760 –> 00:53:43,560
\nwas.
\nThat was only because he <\/p>\n

765
\n00:53:43,560 –> 00:53:45,400
\nbelieved.
\nIf he hadn’t believed in those <\/p>\n

766
\n00:53:45,400 –> 00:53:46,920
\npromises, he wouldn’t have been
\nthere. <\/p>\n

767
\n00:53:47,120 –> 00:53:50,120
\nThat’s very true, young people.
\nSometimes we might find <\/p>\n

768
\n00:53:50,120 –> 00:53:53,520
\nourselves in circumstances and
\nwe could think back. <\/p>\n

769
\n00:53:54,440 –> 00:53:57,640
\nIf only I hadn’t had anything to
\ndo with the truth, I wouldn’t be<\/p>\n

770
\n00:53:57,640 –> 00:54:01,520
\nhere.
\nWell, it’s very true. <\/p>\n

771
\n00:54:02,280 –> 00:54:05,840
\nThere are circumstances that God
\nwill take us in that we would <\/p>\n

772
\n00:54:05,840 –> 00:54:09,560
\nnever ever have been in.
\nWas it not for the truth? <\/p>\n

773
\n00:54:09,560 –> 00:54:13,200
\nYoung people understand that
\nthat’s how God works. <\/p>\n

774
\n00:54:13,560 –> 00:54:18,120
\nAnd in the end, the prize was
\nenormous. <\/p>\n

775
\n00:54:20,040 –> 00:54:23,240
\nBut then it was a very bitter
\npill. <\/p>\n

776
\n00:54:24,280 –> 00:54:27,680
\nHe didn’t know what to do.
\nHe didn’t know the end of the <\/p>\n

777
\n00:54:27,680 –> 00:54:31,880
\nstory like we did, or like we do
\nand we read all of this and know<\/p>\n

778
\n00:54:32,000 –> 00:54:36,160
\nhow it ended up.
\nHe had no idea what would happen<\/p>\n

779
\n00:54:36,160 –> 00:54:38,320
\nto him when he got to this new
\nland. <\/p>\n

780
\n00:54:40,280 –> 00:54:45,920
\nHe is a godly young man with the
\nanguish of his soul. <\/p>\n

781
\n00:54:48,120 –> 00:54:51,600
\nWho could he turn to?
\nThere was no father to talk to. <\/p>\n

782
\n00:54:52,520 –> 00:54:55,240
\nJacob was not there.
\nHe didn’t know whether he’d ever<\/p>\n

783
\n00:54:55,240 –> 00:55:00,560
\nsee him again.
\nAnd he turned to his only source<\/p>\n

784
\n00:55:00,560 –> 00:55:07,480
\nof comfort, to his Father in the
\nheaven, and he poured out his <\/p>\n

785
\n00:55:07,480 –> 00:55:12,920
\nsoul unto God.
\nDoubtless, for night after night<\/p>\n

786
\n00:55:12,920 –> 00:55:18,520
\nhe had no sleep.
\nBut what began to burn in his <\/p>\n

787
\n00:55:18,520 –> 00:55:23,600
\nbrain was something that had
\nbeen embedded there in its <\/p>\n

788
\n00:55:23,600 –> 00:55:30,520
\nyouth, those visions.
\nHe had something to think about <\/p>\n

789
\n00:55:31,520 –> 00:55:38,080
\nbecause it was in his mind and
\nit renewed him and lifted him, <\/p>\n

790
\n00:55:39,840 –> 00:55:44,960
\nand he believed God would do
\nwhat he said. <\/p>\n

791
\n00:55:46,800 –> 00:55:50,320
\nIsn’t that amazing here, young
\npeople? <\/p>\n

792
\n00:55:50,320 –> 00:55:55,880
\nIf he’d had nothing in his mind,
\nif those visions had been in a <\/p>\n

793
\n00:55:55,880 –> 00:56:00,320
\nbook on paper when he got to
\nEgypt and his book was left at <\/p>\n

794
\n00:56:00,320 –> 00:56:05,880
\nhome, he would have died in the
\nbitterness of his soul. <\/p>\n

795
\n00:56:08,800 –> 00:56:12,640
\nBut something had come out of
\nthere into his mind and had so <\/p>\n

796
\n00:56:12,680 –> 00:56:17,280
\ngenerated a power there that he
\ncould dwell on and think on that<\/p>\n

797
\n00:56:17,280 –> 00:56:21,960
\nlifted him up and bore him in
\nvery, very difficult <\/p>\n

798
\n00:56:21,960 –> 00:56:27,760
\ncircumstances.
\nThat’s the power that faith can <\/p>\n

799
\n00:56:27,760 –> 00:56:30,400
\nhave.
\nBut you know, faith can’t work <\/p>\n

800
\n00:56:30,400 –> 00:56:34,400
\nunless anything’s in our minds,
\nunless what God has promised is <\/p>\n

801
\n00:56:34,480 –> 00:56:39,880
\nactually there, remembered,
\nthought about, chewed over. <\/p>\n

802
\n00:56:40,480 –> 00:56:45,120
\nAnd that’s what he did night
\nafter night, month after month, <\/p>\n

803
\n00:56:45,440 –> 00:56:48,400
\nnot knowing what would happen
\nnext or how he’d be treated. <\/p>\n

804
\n00:56:49,520 –> 00:56:52,840
\nAnd don’t think that in Egypt
\nthey treated slaves well. <\/p>\n

805
\n00:56:52,840 –> 00:56:56,280
\nThey didn’t.
\nThey were like pieces of <\/p>\n

806
\n00:56:56,280 –> 00:57:01,160
\nproperty.
\nAnd look where he comes. <\/p>\n

807
\n00:57:02,520 –> 00:57:07,040
\nChapter 39 and verse one, He was
\nbrought down to Egypt unto <\/p>\n

808
\n00:57:07,040 –> 00:57:11,920
\nPotiphar, an officer of Pharaoh,
\ncaptain of the garden, an <\/p>\n

809
\n00:57:11,920 –> 00:57:15,280
\nEgyptian bought him of the hands
\nof the Ishmaelites, which had <\/p>\n

810
\n00:57:15,280 –> 00:57:21,720
\ncome down thither.
\nAnd Yahweh was with him, and he <\/p>\n

811
\n00:57:21,720 –> 00:57:26,560
\nwas a prosperous man, and he was
\nin the House of his master, the <\/p>\n

812
\n00:57:26,560 –> 00:57:29,640
\nEgyptian.
\nYahweh was with him. <\/p>\n

813
\n00:57:29,640 –> 00:57:31,960
\nYou know what the prophet said
\nto King ASA? <\/p>\n

814
\n00:57:31,960 –> 00:57:39,280
\nHe said Yahweh is with you while
\nyou be with him, but if you <\/p>\n

815
\n00:57:39,280 –> 00:57:42,200
\nforsake him, he will forsake
\nyou. <\/p>\n

816
\n00:57:42,200 –> 00:57:45,280
\nAnd this record is saying that
\nYahweh is in four times in this <\/p>\n

817
\n00:57:45,280 –> 00:57:47,280
\nchapter.
\nIt says that young people four <\/p>\n

818
\n00:57:47,280 –> 00:57:49,880
\ntimes.
\nWe’re told that Yahweh was with <\/p>\n

819
\n00:57:49,880 –> 00:57:53,360
\nhim in a very difficult
\ncircumstance and the words <\/p>\n

820
\n00:57:53,800 –> 00:57:56,400
\nprosperous there in verse two
\nreally means successful. <\/p>\n

821
\n00:57:56,520 –> 00:57:59,880
\nHe was a very successful man.
\nHe didn’t bemoan his lot and sit<\/p>\n

822
\n00:57:59,880 –> 00:58:02,160
\ndown and gripe about what his
\nbrothers had done to him. <\/p>\n

823
\n00:58:02,280 –> 00:58:03,920
\nHe just made the most of the
\nsituation. <\/p>\n

824
\n00:58:04,240 –> 00:58:06,440
\nHe saw that God was obviously
\nworking. <\/p>\n

825
\n00:58:06,440 –> 00:58:10,280
\nHe didn’t know how, when, or
\nwhere, but he believed that God <\/p>\n

826
\n00:58:10,280 –> 00:58:14,880
\nwas right and he just got on and
\ndid what he was told and he <\/p>\n

827
\n00:58:14,880 –> 00:58:18,440
\nshowed initiative.
\nHe was diligent young people and<\/p>\n

828
\n00:58:18,440 –> 00:58:20,440
\nhe made the most of those
\ncircumstances. <\/p>\n

829
\n00:58:20,960 –> 00:58:25,240
\nAn amazing thing happened, verse
\n3, and his master saw that <\/p>\n

830
\n00:58:25,240 –> 00:58:28,320
\nYahweh was with him and that
\nYahweh made all that He did to <\/p>\n

831
\n00:58:28,320 –> 00:58:31,440
\nprosper in His hand.
\nYou know that Master Potiphar <\/p>\n

832
\n00:58:31,440 –> 00:58:34,320
\nsaw that Joseph was different
\nfrom every other slave that he’d<\/p>\n

833
\n00:58:34,320 –> 00:58:36,040
\never seen.
\nHe’d never, ever seen a slave <\/p>\n

834
\n00:58:36,040 –> 00:58:40,160
\nquite like this before.
\nI just wonder, young people, how<\/p>\n

835
\n00:58:40,160 –> 00:58:43,080
\nmany and not, not so young,
\nwhether we’re in the workforce <\/p>\n

836
\n00:58:43,080 –> 00:58:45,560
\nor not, or at school.
\nI wonder how many of our <\/p>\n

837
\n00:58:45,560 –> 00:58:50,720
\nmasters, our teachers or
\nwhatever, see us as being very <\/p>\n

838
\n00:58:50,720 –> 00:58:53,080
\ndifferent and notice us as being
\nvery different. <\/p>\n

839
\n00:58:53,520 –> 00:58:55,760
\nBut that’s not just what this
\nrecord is saying, brothers and <\/p>\n

840
\n00:58:55,760 –> 00:59:01,320
\nsisters.
\nIt says that his master saw that<\/p>\n

841
\n00:59:01,360 –> 00:59:04,240
\nYahweh was with him.
\nIt doesn’t say that he saw that <\/p>\n

842
\n00:59:04,240 –> 00:59:07,120
\nJoseph was different from every
\nother slave that he saw before. <\/p>\n

843
\n00:59:07,520 –> 00:59:09,720
\nIt says he saw that Yahweh was
\nwith him. <\/p>\n

844
\n00:59:09,720 –> 00:59:12,440
\nHow did he know that Yahweh was?
\nI didn’t even know the word <\/p>\n

845
\n00:59:12,440 –> 00:59:16,480
\nYahweh as Israel’s God.
\nThere’s only one way. <\/p>\n

846
\n00:59:18,080 –> 00:59:21,600
\nJoseph was the only one in Egypt
\nwho knew anything about that, <\/p>\n

847
\n00:59:22,680 –> 00:59:25,160
\nand he’d obviously told his
\nmaster about it. <\/p>\n

848
\n00:59:26,040 –> 00:59:28,480
\nAnd his master had been very
\nimpressed. <\/p>\n

849
\n00:59:29,960 –> 00:59:33,160
\nHe’d told him about the visions,
\nno doubt, and that Yahweh had <\/p>\n

850
\n00:59:33,160 –> 00:59:35,840
\ngiven him.
\nAnd yet he just went diligently <\/p>\n

851
\n00:59:36,160 –> 00:59:38,800
\nand efficiently about his work
\nevery day. <\/p>\n

852
\n00:59:39,040 –> 00:59:42,120
\nAnd his master sat back and
\nthought, this is a man of really<\/p>\n

853
\n00:59:42,360 –> 00:59:47,720
\nthere’s something behind him.
\nHis God is obviously worth some <\/p>\n

854
\n00:59:47,720 –> 00:59:49,720
\nconsideration, and he noted
\nthat. <\/p>\n

855
\n00:59:50,000 –> 00:59:54,120
\nI wonder just how many of our
\nassociates know that Yahweh is <\/p>\n

856
\n00:59:54,120 –> 00:59:57,120
\nwith us.
\nYou answer that for yourself, <\/p>\n

857
\n00:59:57,120 –> 00:59:59,920
\nyoung people.
\nHow many of your associates know<\/p>\n

858
\n00:59:59,920 –> 01:00:02,320
\nthat?
\nIt could only be because we’ve <\/p>\n

859
\n01:00:02,320 –> 01:00:06,720
\ntold them about our God.
\nAnd Joseph’s prepared to make a <\/p>\n

860
\n01:00:06,720 –> 01:00:08,600
\nstand there.
\nHe’s the only one. <\/p>\n

861
\n01:00:08,600 –> 01:00:10,400
\nHe didn’t have to.
\nThere’s no one else there to <\/p>\n

862
\n01:00:10,800 –> 01:00:11,920
\nsay.
\nGo on, say something. <\/p>\n

863
\n01:00:11,920 –> 01:00:16,080
\nNow working in an office where
\nthere’s 16 Christadelphians. <\/p>\n

864
\n01:00:17,440 –> 01:00:21,000
\nThere was a land of gross
\nidolatry they wanted nothing to <\/p>\n

865
\n01:00:21,000 –> 01:00:25,360
\ndo with the the one true God of
\nsome little tin pot family down <\/p>\n

866
\n01:00:25,680 –> 01:00:27,680
\nmiles away they’d never heard of
\nbefore. <\/p>\n

867
\n01:00:29,280 –> 01:00:31,800
\nNow this becomes a
\ncharacteristic of Joseph in the <\/p>\n

868
\n01:00:31,800 –> 01:00:34,960
\nrecord.
\nHe didn’t let up speaking to his<\/p>\n

869
\n01:00:34,960 –> 01:00:37,000
\nbrethren until they’d sold him
\ninto Egypt. <\/p>\n

870
\n01:00:37,400 –> 01:00:40,160
\nHe never, ever let up when he
\ngot in there. <\/p>\n

871
\n01:00:40,160 –> 01:00:42,360
\nHe talked to Potiphar, he talked
\nto Potiphar’s wife. <\/p>\n

872
\n01:00:42,560 –> 01:00:44,560
\nHe got into prison and he talked
\nto the prison officer. <\/p>\n

873
\n01:00:44,720 –> 01:00:46,320
\nHe talked to the Butler, he
\ntalked to the Baker. <\/p>\n

874
\n01:00:46,320 –> 01:00:48,520
\nHe talked to Pharaoh.
\nHe told everybody about the <\/p>\n

875
\n01:00:48,520 –> 01:00:49,400
\ntruth.
\nAnd you know what? <\/p>\n

876
\n01:00:50,120 –> 01:00:54,000
\nEverybody that he ever came in
\ncontact with knew that he was <\/p>\n

877
\n01:00:54,000 –> 01:00:57,760
\nmotivated by something that was
\nvery different from them. <\/p>\n

878
\n01:00:58,960 –> 01:01:02,240
\nThey knew that there were
\nvisions of God that were in this<\/p>\n

879
\n01:01:02,240 –> 01:01:08,760
\nman’s mind and that somehow,
\namazingly, he believed and it <\/p>\n

880
\n01:01:08,760 –> 01:01:12,440
\nwas seen in his life.
\nYoung people, it’s very <\/p>\n

881
\n01:01:12,440 –> 01:01:16,760
\nimportant to make a stand if you
\nstart a job or wherever you go <\/p>\n

882
\n01:01:16,760 –> 01:01:20,680
\nat school, with friends, with
\nwhoever, and brethren and <\/p>\n

883
\n01:01:20,680 –> 01:01:24,440
\nsisters, it’s just as important
\nfor us too, not to make a stand <\/p>\n

884
\n01:01:24,440 –> 01:01:26,480
\nat arrogance.
\nI mean, you can’t imagine Joseph<\/p>\n

885
\n01:01:26,480 –> 01:01:28,760
\nmarching into Potiphar and
\nsaying, now listen here, <\/p>\n

886
\n01:01:28,760 –> 01:01:34,560
\nPotiphar, I’m a Hebrew, got it.
\nUnderstand God is the ruler of <\/p>\n

887
\n01:01:34,560 –> 01:01:37,920
\nthe world and you people are
\ndust. <\/p>\n

888
\n01:01:40,040 –> 01:01:43,960
\nHe waited for an opportunity and
\nhe sensitively and carefully <\/p>\n

889
\n01:01:43,960 –> 01:01:47,920
\ntold him about Yahweh’s plan and
\npurpose. <\/p>\n

890
\n01:01:49,080 –> 01:01:54,720
\nAnd from then on Potiphar eyed
\nhim off and his behaviour became<\/p>\n

891
\n01:01:54,760 –> 01:01:58,520
\na constant witness.
\nAnd people never ever think that<\/p>\n

892
\n01:01:58,520 –> 01:02:01,960
\nafter we’ve opened our mouth to
\ntalk the truth that people will <\/p>\n

893
\n01:02:01,960 –> 01:02:06,280
\nnot observe us.
\nThey’ll observe us for good or <\/p>\n

894
\n01:02:06,280 –> 01:02:13,760
\nI’ll they’ll either be impressed
\nthat we do really believe, or <\/p>\n

895
\n01:02:13,760 –> 01:02:18,440
\nthey’ll be turned forever from
\nthe truth by the utter and sheer<\/p>\n

896
\n01:02:18,440 –> 01:02:24,160
\nhypocrisy that they see.
\nBe very careful, and I’m not <\/p>\n

897
\n01:02:24,160 –> 01:02:28,360
\nsaying don’t talk the truth.
\nJust be very careful about our <\/p>\n

898
\n01:02:28,360 –> 01:02:32,880
\nexample.
\nYou know, I’ve seen that happen <\/p>\n

899
\n01:02:33,280 –> 01:02:36,360
\nin schools with some very
\nungodly teachers. <\/p>\n

900
\n01:02:36,800 –> 01:02:40,000
\nI’ve sat around in a staff room
\nand listened to teachers talk <\/p>\n

901
\n01:02:40,000 –> 01:02:41,760
\nabout students.
\nThat’s all they ever talk about <\/p>\n

902
\n01:02:42,320 –> 01:02:46,040
\nlunchtimes and recess times,
\nabout how someone made their <\/p>\n

903
\n01:02:46,320 –> 01:02:49,600
\nmade their morning.
\nBut you know, I’ve sat around in<\/p>\n

904
\n01:02:49,600 –> 01:02:54,000
\na staff room and listened to
\nteachers talk about young people<\/p>\n

905
\n01:02:54,000 –> 01:02:58,320
\nthat weren’t Christadelphians.
\nThey said there’s something <\/p>\n

906
\n01:02:58,320 –> 01:03:02,680
\nabout them.
\nWe don’t know what it is, but <\/p>\n

907
\n01:03:02,680 –> 01:03:06,280
\nthey’re really nice kids.
\nThey’re honest, trustworthy, <\/p>\n

908
\n01:03:06,520 –> 01:03:12,680
\ntruthful.
\nAnd they weren’t ours, but they <\/p>\n

909
\n01:03:12,680 –> 01:03:16,040
\ndid have a belief and they
\nfirmly held it and they didn’t <\/p>\n

910
\n01:03:16,040 –> 01:03:17,280
\ngo around telling everyone about
\nit. <\/p>\n

911
\n01:03:17,520 –> 01:03:21,840
\nYou could see it.
\nHow many of us as young people <\/p>\n

912
\n01:03:22,520 –> 01:03:25,640
\nin schools or in the workplace
\ncould have that thought and said<\/p>\n

913
\n01:03:25,640 –> 01:03:28,280
\nabout us?
\nBut verse four goes on to say, <\/p>\n

914
\n01:03:29,400 –> 01:03:32,240
\nAnd Joseph found grace in in
\nPotiphar’s sight, and he served <\/p>\n

915
\n01:03:32,240 –> 01:03:36,000
\nhim, and he made him overseer
\nover his house, and all that he <\/p>\n

916
\n01:03:36,000 –> 01:03:40,600
\nhad he put into his hand.
\nIt came to pass from that time <\/p>\n

917
\n01:03:40,600 –> 01:03:43,520
\nthat he made him overseer his
\nhouse, and over all that he had,<\/p>\n

918
\n01:03:43,520 –> 01:03:46,200
\nthat Yahweh blessed the
\nEgyptians house for Joseph’s <\/p>\n

919
\n01:03:46,200 –> 01:03:48,720
\nsake.
\nAnd the blessing of Yahweh was <\/p>\n

920
\n01:03:48,720 –> 01:03:50,720
\nupon all that he had in the
\nhouse and in the field. <\/p>\n

921
\n01:03:51,880 –> 01:03:58,240
\nAnd he left all that he had in
\nJoseph’s hand, and he knew not <\/p>\n

922
\n01:03:58,240 –> 01:04:00,840
\nought what he had save the bread
\nwhich he did eat. <\/p>\n

923
\n01:04:01,840 –> 01:04:05,600
\nAnd Joseph was a goodly man and
\nwell favoured. <\/p>\n

924
\n01:04:06,440 –> 01:04:11,000
\nHe was very successful and
\nresponsible. <\/p>\n

925
\n01:04:12,040 –> 01:04:14,640
\nAnd promotion came very rapidly
\nfor Joseph. <\/p>\n

926
\n01:04:17,120 –> 01:04:25,800
\nYoung people, if because of your
\ndiligence promotion comes, think<\/p>\n

927
\n01:04:25,800 –> 01:04:30,920
\ncarefully before you accept it,
\nnever seek it. <\/p>\n

928
\n01:04:33,080 –> 01:04:35,960
\nTo Joseph, it came because of
\nhis godly and honest spirit, <\/p>\n

929
\n01:04:35,960 –> 01:04:39,760
\nbecause of his diligence and
\nintegrity, and he maintained it <\/p>\n

930
\n01:04:39,760 –> 01:04:42,920
\nthroughout.
\nBut the young people and <\/p>\n

931
\n01:04:42,920 –> 01:04:46,000
\nbrethren, sisters alike in an
\nevil and godless age, an <\/p>\n

932
\n01:04:47,280 –> 01:04:52,920
\nadulterous generation, there are
\nmany young people, there are <\/p>\n

933
\n01:04:52,920 –> 01:04:59,400
\nmany strong in the past brethren
\nand sisters who’ve sacrificed <\/p>\n

934
\n01:04:59,400 –> 01:05:04,440
\ntheir lives on the altar of
\nsuccess for promotion, for what?<\/p>\n

935
\n01:05:04,840 –> 01:05:10,640
\nMoney status?
\nBe very careful about promotion.<\/p>\n

936
\n01:05:13,720 –> 01:05:18,840
\nBut verse the end of verse 7
\nsays, verse 6 says, and Joseph <\/p>\n

937
\n01:05:18,840 –> 01:05:22,880
\nwas a goodly person and well
\nfavoured, the RSV says, and <\/p>\n

938
\n01:05:22,880 –> 01:05:26,080
\nJoseph was handsome and good
\nlooking. <\/p>\n

939
\n01:05:26,720 –> 01:05:30,200
\nIt’s the same phrase that’s used
\nof his mother’s good looks. <\/p>\n

940
\n01:05:30,720 –> 01:05:35,040
\nHe was handsome and good
\nlooking. <\/p>\n

941
\n01:05:35,760 –> 01:05:40,480
\nVerse 7 and it’s connected.
\nIt came to pass after these <\/p>\n

942
\n01:05:40,480 –> 01:05:45,000
\nthings that his master’s wife
\ncast her eyes upon Joseph and <\/p>\n

943
\n01:05:45,000 –> 01:05:51,880
\nshe said lie with me.
\nYou know, Joseph was probably <\/p>\n

944
\n01:05:51,880 –> 01:06:00,400
\nabout in his early or mid 20s,
\nin the prime of life, physically<\/p>\n

945
\n01:06:01,560 –> 01:06:07,800
\na specimen, handsome and good
\nlooking, virile and energetic, <\/p>\n

946
\n01:06:08,600 –> 01:06:12,120
\nhighly successful, knew where
\nhe’s going. <\/p>\n

947
\n01:06:12,640 –> 01:06:17,000
\nAnd in Egypt, the state religion
\nendorsed the indulgence of every<\/p>\n

948
\n01:06:17,000 –> 01:06:23,680
\nlust you can think of.
\nIt said it’s OK in the name of <\/p>\n

949
\n01:06:23,680 –> 01:06:28,400
\nreligion, brothers and sisters
\nand young people think of this. <\/p>\n

950
\n01:06:29,320 –> 01:06:33,400
\nHe’s in a foreign land, he’s all
\nalone. <\/p>\n

951
\n01:06:34,440 –> 01:06:38,520
\nThere’s no Christadelphians for
\nhundreds and hundreds of miles <\/p>\n

952
\n01:06:40,280 –> 01:06:54,480
\nwho would ever know what he did?
\nBut verse 8 says, but he refused<\/p>\n

953
\n01:06:57,080 –> 01:07:02,320
\nwhat an enormous temptation was
\nplaced in his way and he gave 3 <\/p>\n

954
\n01:07:02,320 –> 01:07:05,040
\nreasons.
\nIn verse 8 he said, first of <\/p>\n

955
\n01:07:05,040 –> 01:07:09,200
\nall, my master trusts me, how
\ncan I betray that trust? <\/p>\n

956
\n01:07:10,520 –> 01:07:13,160
\nHe said my Master has given
\neverything into my hand except <\/p>\n

957
\n01:07:13,400 –> 01:07:17,520
\nexcept you who are his wife.
\nHow can I touch that? <\/p>\n

958
\n01:07:17,520 –> 01:07:23,080
\nHow can I betray that trust?
\nAnd the bottom line was the end <\/p>\n

959
\n01:07:23,080 –> 01:07:30,440
\nof verse 9.
\nHow then can I do this great <\/p>\n

960
\n01:07:30,480 –> 01:07:36,560
\nwickedness and sin against God?
\nAnd there’s an insight, is it <\/p>\n

961
\n01:07:36,560 –> 01:07:40,360
\nnot, into the mind of and the
\ncharacter of this young man in <\/p>\n

962
\n01:07:40,360 –> 01:07:44,640
\nhis early 20s, a man of
\nintegrity and principle, who was<\/p>\n

963
\n01:07:44,640 –> 01:07:47,920
\nso convicted about divine
\nstandards and morality that he <\/p>\n

964
\n01:07:47,920 –> 01:07:53,320
\nmade us stand in an almost
\nimpossible situation because he <\/p>\n

965
\n01:07:53,320 –> 01:07:57,000
\nwas constantly aware of the
\nreality of God. <\/p>\n

966
\n01:07:57,000 –> 01:07:59,640
\nThere was no need for there to
\nbe any other Christadelphians <\/p>\n

967
\n01:07:59,640 –> 01:08:01,800
\nthere, young people, because God
\nwas there. <\/p>\n

968
\n01:08:02,680 –> 01:08:05,720
\nThat’s the point.
\nAnd he knew what God thought <\/p>\n

969
\n01:08:05,720 –> 01:08:08,160
\nabout that.
\nNow the record here 4 times <\/p>\n

970
\n01:08:08,160 –> 01:08:13,640
\ntells us that that God was with
\nhim, and truly he was in every <\/p>\n

971
\n01:08:13,640 –> 01:08:17,640
\nsense.
\nNow, Joseph took God with him. <\/p>\n

972
\n01:08:20,319 –> 01:08:25,279
\nJoseph took God with him.
\nAnd if we can take God with us <\/p>\n

973
\n01:08:25,720 –> 01:08:30,520
\nevery day of our lives back into
\nthat degenerate world, then <\/p>\n

974
\n01:08:30,520 –> 01:08:34,560
\nwe’ll have something to call
\nback on, to fall back on to <\/p>\n

975
\n01:08:34,560 –> 01:08:36,680
\nJoseph.
\nGod was real, brethren, sisters,<\/p>\n

976
\n01:08:36,840 –> 01:08:39,560
\nHe was always in his thoughts.
\nAnd there’s an amazing <\/p>\n

977
\n01:08:39,560 –> 01:08:45,760
\nobservation, which probably is
\nnot, not all that obvious on the<\/p>\n

978
\n01:08:45,760 –> 01:08:49,680
\nsurface, But if you read Genesis
\nchapter 37 right through the <\/p>\n

979
\n01:08:49,680 –> 01:08:52,520
\nchapter 50, which is the record
\nof Joseph’s life, there’s <\/p>\n

980
\n01:08:52,520 –> 01:08:56,800
\nsomething that stands out.
\nThat is that every time, almost <\/p>\n

981
\n01:08:56,840 –> 01:09:01,560
\nevery time that Joseph opens his
\nmouth, God is there. <\/p>\n

982
\n01:09:02,920 –> 01:09:06,160
\nIt’s staggering to see.
\nHe’s either talking about God <\/p>\n

983
\n01:09:06,160 –> 01:09:11,479
\ndirectly or His Word or a vision
\nin almost every single utterance<\/p>\n

984
\n01:09:11,479 –> 01:09:14,600
\nhe makes in this record over 14
\nchapters. <\/p>\n

985
\n01:09:14,960 –> 01:09:17,920
\nGod is there in his thinking all
\nthe time. <\/p>\n

986
\n01:09:17,920 –> 01:09:21,399
\nAnd there was the key to him
\novercoming that temptation. <\/p>\n

987
\n01:09:21,600 –> 01:09:27,520
\nHe thought about God’s promises.
\nHe remembered now in the days of<\/p>\n

988
\n01:09:27,520 –> 01:09:32,319
\nhis youth, his Creator, and God
\nwas ever with him. <\/p>\n

989
\n01:09:32,600 –> 01:09:35,439
\nBut young people and brother and
\nsisters, temptation is never, <\/p>\n

990
\n01:09:35,439 –> 01:09:41,720
\never that simple.
\nVerse 10 And it came to pass as <\/p>\n

991
\n01:09:41,720 –> 01:09:48,680
\nshe spoke to Joseph day by day,
\nthat he hearkened not unto her, <\/p>\n

992
\n01:09:48,680 –> 01:09:52,399
\nto lie by her or to be with her,
\nand he got himself out. <\/p>\n

993
\n01:09:53,680 –> 01:09:56,360
\nShe changed her strategy.
\nYou see, we don’t defeat <\/p>\n

994
\n01:09:56,360 –> 01:09:58,360
\ntemptation with words, young
\npeople. <\/p>\n

995
\n01:09:58,760 –> 01:10:01,080
\nWe don’t just say, oh, that’s
\nthe end of that. <\/p>\n

996
\n01:10:01,080 –> 01:10:07,560
\nWipe that off because temptation
\nand sin is more subtle, more <\/p>\n

997
\n01:10:07,560 –> 01:10:11,920
\npersistent, and now there’s even
\nmore difficult pressure for him <\/p>\n

998
\n01:10:11,920 –> 01:10:14,320
\nto cope.
\nAnd how did he respond? <\/p>\n

999
\n01:10:14,480 –> 01:10:17,320
\nThe record tells us that he
\nhearkened not. <\/p>\n

1000
\n01:10:17,480 –> 01:10:22,320
\nHe avoided her presence or, as
\nthe apostle Paul said, make no <\/p>\n

1001
\n01:10:22,320 –> 01:10:25,800
\nprovision for the flesh.
\nHe did everything he could to <\/p>\n

1002
\n01:10:25,800 –> 01:10:28,680
\navoid that circumstance of being
\nin the same room when she was <\/p>\n

1003
\n01:10:28,680 –> 01:10:33,000
\nthere, but the pressure remained
\nand and that sort of pressure <\/p>\n

1004
\n01:10:33,000 –> 01:10:36,720
\nbecomes very weary.
\nAnd every day he renewed his <\/p>\n

1005
\n01:10:36,720 –> 01:10:39,120
\nperspective.
\nHe thought about God. <\/p>\n

1006
\n01:10:40,000 –> 01:10:44,280
\nHe went to God in prayer every
\nnight and asked no doubt to be <\/p>\n

1007
\n01:10:44,280 –> 01:10:50,120
\nrelieved of that temptation.
\nVerse 11 says came to pass about<\/p>\n

1008
\n01:10:50,120 –> 01:10:52,560
\nthis time that he went to the
\nhouse to do business and there <\/p>\n

1009
\n01:10:52,560 –> 01:10:53,960
\nwas none of the men in the
\nhouse. <\/p>\n

1010
\n01:10:54,760 –> 01:10:57,520
\nAnd she caught him by his
\ngarment and said, lie with me. <\/p>\n

1011
\n01:10:58,240 –> 01:11:06,240
\nAnd he left his garments in her
\nhand and fled and got him out. <\/p>\n

1012
\n01:11:06,240 –> 01:11:09,680
\nDo you know what that meant in
\nEgypt? <\/p>\n

1013
\n01:11:11,320 –> 01:11:16,600
\nHis garment in the hands of his
\nmaster’s wife and he’s out of <\/p>\n

1014
\n01:11:16,600 –> 01:11:20,200
\nthe house.
\nHis head would have rolled as <\/p>\n

1015
\n01:11:20,200 –> 01:11:21,760
\nsoon as his master had found
\nout. <\/p>\n

1016
\n01:11:21,920 –> 01:11:24,520
\nIt is an amazing thing that he
\ndidn’t lose his life. <\/p>\n

1017
\n01:11:24,760 –> 01:11:28,600
\nBrethren and sisters, I believe
\nit was only because Potiphar had<\/p>\n

1018
\n01:11:28,600 –> 01:11:31,640
\nan amazing respect for this
\nyoung man. <\/p>\n

1019
\n01:11:34,320 –> 01:11:37,680
\nBut he didn’t lose his life.
\nHe was put into prison. <\/p>\n

1020
\n01:11:38,600 –> 01:11:45,760
\nAnd when temptation comes and
\npersists, there is only one <\/p>\n

1021
\n01:11:46,880 –> 01:11:52,920
\nthing to do, flee.
\nCome to 1st of Corinthians <\/p>\n

1022
\n01:11:52,920 –> 01:12:15,770
\nchapter 10. 1st of Corinthians
\nchapter 10 verse 12 set in the <\/p>\n

1023
\n01:12:15,770 –> 01:12:21,570
\ncontext of Israel’s failure and
\nnotice of fornication in verse 8<\/p>\n

1024
\n01:12:24,730 –> 01:12:29,040
\nand Paul using the example of
\nIsrael’s failure as saying verse<\/p>\n

1025
\n01:12:29,040 –> 01:12:30,800
\n12.
\nTherefore let him that thinketh <\/p>\n

1026
\n01:12:30,800 –> 01:12:33,000
\nhe standeth.
\nTake heed from the example. <\/p>\n

1027
\n01:12:33,880 –> 01:12:37,720
\nThere is no such temptation.
\nThere is no temptation taken you<\/p>\n

1028
\n01:12:37,720 –> 01:12:42,840
\nbut such as is common to man,
\nbut God is faithful who will not<\/p>\n

1029
\n01:12:42,840 –> 01:12:45,520
\nsuffer you to be tempted above
\nthat you’re able, but will with <\/p>\n

1030
\n01:12:45,520 –> 01:12:49,200
\nthe temptation also make a way
\nof escape that she may be able <\/p>\n

1031
\n01:12:49,200 –> 01:12:54,720
\nto bear it.
\nWherefore, my dearly beloved, he<\/p>\n

1032
\n01:12:54,720 –> 01:12:59,840
\nsays flee.
\nAnd that’s all we can do at <\/p>\n

1033
\n01:12:59,840 –> 01:13:06,200
\ntimes, young people, God will
\nnot always remove or ease the <\/p>\n

1034
\n01:13:06,200 –> 01:13:09,000
\ntemptation.
\nHe doesn’t ever promise to do <\/p>\n

1035
\n01:13:09,000 –> 01:13:11,800
\nthat.
\nTemptation is just that, <\/p>\n

1036
\n01:13:12,280 –> 01:13:16,160
\ntemptation.
\nAnd if God was to remove it, it <\/p>\n

1037
\n01:13:16,160 –> 01:13:20,720
\nwouldn’t be temptation.
\nSo he can’t, but he will be <\/p>\n

1038
\n01:13:20,720 –> 01:13:24,040
\nfaithful in putting a way of
\nescape possible. <\/p>\n

1039
\n01:13:24,200 –> 01:13:31,680
\nBut the issue is we have to
\ndecide to take it and we have <\/p>\n

1040
\n01:13:31,680 –> 01:13:35,640
\nthe choice as to whether we stay
\nthere or whether we go. <\/p>\n

1041
\n01:13:37,400 –> 01:13:40,200
\nJust turn back a few pages to
\nchapter 6 of First Corinthians, <\/p>\n

1042
\n01:13:40,960 –> 01:13:44,240
\nverse 15.
\nThe apostle highlights the issue<\/p>\n

1043
\n01:13:44,240 –> 01:13:46,480
\nagain.
\nHe says, no, you’re not, that <\/p>\n

1044
\n01:13:46,480 –> 01:13:48,400
\nyour bodies are the members of
\nChrist. <\/p>\n

1045
\n01:13:49,280 –> 01:13:51,600
\nShall I then take the members of
\nChrist and make them the members<\/p>\n

1046
\n01:13:51,600 –> 01:13:55,040
\nof, of and harlots, God forbid.
\nWhat? <\/p>\n

1047
\n01:13:55,040 –> 01:13:58,720
\nNo, you’re not that he which
\njoin which is joined to a harlot<\/p>\n

1048
\n01:13:58,720 –> 01:14:03,120
\nis 1 body for two saith he shall
\nbe 1 flesh, but he that is <\/p>\n

1049
\n01:14:03,120 –> 01:14:05,200
\njoined under the Lord is 1
\nspirit. <\/p>\n

1050
\n01:14:07,240 –> 01:14:12,400
\nFlee fornication.
\nThere’s no other way, young <\/p>\n

1051
\n01:14:12,400 –> 01:14:14,640
\npeople.
\nWe’re living in an adulterous <\/p>\n

1052
\n01:14:14,640 –> 01:14:19,960
\ngeneration where that thinks,
\njust like the ancient Egyptian <\/p>\n

1053
\n01:14:19,960 –> 01:14:24,760
\nsociety was, that it’s OK to do
\nanything your body tells you to <\/p>\n

1054
\n01:14:24,760 –> 01:14:27,640
\ndo.
\nIt’s OK, But the apostle <\/p>\n

1055
\n01:14:27,640 –> 01:14:31,360
\ncouncils constantly to flee.
\nYou know, we’re in an <\/p>\n

1056
\n01:14:31,480 –> 01:14:34,960
\nenvironment rather than sisters,
\nwhere this problem, though <\/p>\n

1057
\n01:14:34,960 –> 01:14:38,960
\nembarrassing it might be to talk
\nabout, is influencing and <\/p>\n

1058
\n01:14:38,960 –> 01:14:41,480
\naffecting the brotherhood.
\nAnd it’s affecting our young <\/p>\n

1059
\n01:14:41,480 –> 01:14:44,160
\npeople.
\nMake no mistake, any brother or <\/p>\n

1060
\n01:14:44,160 –> 01:14:48,040
\nsister or parent who doesn’t
\nthink that it’s making inroads <\/p>\n

1061
\n01:14:48,040 –> 01:14:52,320
\ninto the lives of some young
\npeople within our group is blind<\/p>\n

1062
\n01:14:53,720 –> 01:14:56,560
\nwith the influences that are on
\nour children outside. <\/p>\n

1063
\n01:14:56,560 –> 01:14:59,560
\nIt’s bound to do that.
\nIt’s in the workplaces, it’s in <\/p>\n

1064
\n01:14:59,560 –> 01:15:02,640
\nthe streets, it’s everywhere.
\nThere’s a powerful appeal <\/p>\n

1065
\n01:15:02,640 –> 01:15:05,720
\nthrough the media, through
\nadvertising, through education <\/p>\n

1066
\n01:15:06,120 –> 01:15:10,320
\nto break down divine values.
\nAnd as soon as divine values go,<\/p>\n

1067
\n01:15:10,320 –> 01:15:14,800
\neverything’s gone.
\nOur children are being told in <\/p>\n

1068
\n01:15:14,800 –> 01:15:19,600
\nschools told don’t suppress
\nwhat’s natural. <\/p>\n

1069
\n01:15:20,720 –> 01:15:24,520
\nIt leads to inhibitions, it
\nleads to hang ups. <\/p>\n

1070
\n01:15:25,840 –> 01:15:28,560
\nIt’ll thwart you for life, you
\nknow. <\/p>\n

1071
\n01:15:28,560 –> 01:15:32,360
\nIn a recent newspaper report, an
\nAustralia wide survey was <\/p>\n

1072
\n01:15:32,360 –> 01:15:38,280
\nconducted that said more than
\n50% of 17 year olds in Australia<\/p>\n

1073
\n01:15:38,280 –> 01:15:42,360
\nare sexually active.
\nToday, I’ve walked past <\/p>\n

1074
\n01:15:42,360 –> 01:15:44,600
\nclassrooms in schools in this
\ncity. <\/p>\n

1075
\n01:15:44,800 –> 01:15:48,240
\nBrethren and sisters and our
\nyoung people know that this goes<\/p>\n

1076
\n01:15:48,240 –> 01:15:51,640
\non, whether you like to believe
\nit because you’ve grown up in a <\/p>\n

1077
\n01:15:51,640 –> 01:15:54,480
\ngeneration that was much more
\nprivate. <\/p>\n

1078
\n01:15:55,040 –> 01:16:00,120
\nBut I’ve walked past classrooms
\nin schools, reasonably decent <\/p>\n

1079
\n01:16:00,120 –> 01:16:04,360
\nschools I might add reasonably
\ndecent schools where teachers <\/p>\n

1080
\n01:16:04,600 –> 01:16:11,600
\nare saying to children of
\nteenage 1415 years of age it’s <\/p>\n

1081
\n01:16:11,600 –> 01:16:14,440
\nOK to experiment as long as it’s
\nsafe. <\/p>\n

1082
\n01:16:16,080 –> 01:16:20,200
\nIt’s normal to have sex at your
\nage. <\/p>\n

1083
\n01:16:21,480 –> 01:16:25,480
\nYoung people make no provision
\nfor the flesh. <\/p>\n

1084
\n01:16:25,840 –> 01:16:30,320
\nWho cares what they think?
\nThere is a God in heaven who <\/p>\n

1085
\n01:16:30,320 –> 01:16:34,320
\nthinks differently and stand up
\nfor it. <\/p>\n

1086
\n01:16:35,720 –> 01:16:37,560
\nDon’t get washed away by the
\ntide. <\/p>\n

1087
\n01:16:37,960 –> 01:16:41,800
\nJoseph is in a very, very
\ndifficult situation, and he <\/p>\n

1088
\n01:16:41,800 –> 01:16:45,800
\nstood his ground until he could
\nstand it no longer and he went <\/p>\n

1089
\n01:16:45,840 –> 01:16:51,520
\nout the door.
\nAvoid circumstances, avoid <\/p>\n

1090
\n01:16:51,520 –> 01:16:56,440
\nplaces, avoid influences.
\nYoung people, avoid them. <\/p>\n

1091
\n01:16:56,920 –> 01:17:00,920
\nYou’ve got to avoid them.
\nIf you stay there too long, <\/p>\n

1092
\n01:17:02,120 –> 01:17:05,160
\nyou’ll be gone and you’ll wreck
\nyour life. <\/p>\n

1093
\n01:17:06,760 –> 01:17:11,680
\nDon’t learn by experience.
\nListen to what God has said. <\/p>\n

1094
\n01:17:13,080 –> 01:17:17,440
\nThere are lusts in your bodies,
\nyoung people, which if aroused <\/p>\n

1095
\n01:17:17,840 –> 01:17:22,160
\nand allowed to work, cannot be
\ncontrolled. <\/p>\n

1096
\n01:17:23,760 –> 01:17:28,360
\nThe mind will be overruled.
\nAnd don’t think that’s fanciful <\/p>\n

1097
\n01:17:28,360 –> 01:17:31,040
\nnonsense.
\nAnd if you have a boyfriend or <\/p>\n

1098
\n01:17:31,040 –> 01:17:34,880
\nyou have a girlfriend, don’t sit
\nin a car for two hours at night.<\/p>\n

1099
\n01:17:36,720 –> 01:17:43,040
\nLearn to avoid circumstances,
\nplaces and influences that you <\/p>\n

1100
\n01:17:43,040 –> 01:17:48,440
\ncan’t control and that will
\ninevitably lead to absolute <\/p>\n

1101
\n01:17:48,520 –> 01:17:51,880
\ndisaster and tragedy.
\nLook at what God says one more <\/p>\n

1102
\n01:17:51,880 –> 01:17:57,000
\nin First of Thessalonians
\nchapter 4 and think about this, <\/p>\n

1103
\n01:17:57,120 –> 01:18:02,960
\nyoung people and brother and
\nsisters, because it’s not <\/p>\n

1104
\n01:18:02,960 –> 01:18:06,800
\nisolated to young people though.
\nThey’re growing up amongst a <\/p>\n

1105
\n01:18:06,800 –> 01:18:12,040
\ngeneration who has no morals.
\nAnd that’s no exaggeration. <\/p>\n

1106
\n01:18:12,320 –> 01:18:16,640
\nThe generation that our children
\nare growing up largely have no <\/p>\n

1107
\n01:18:16,760 –> 01:18:19,880
\nidea of biblical morality at
\nall. <\/p>\n

1108
\n01:18:19,920 –> 01:18:23,960
\nThey make their own rules, their
\nown values, their own morals. <\/p>\n

1109
\n01:18:24,040 –> 01:18:27,960
\nBut look what God says in First
\nthe Thessalonians chapter 4 and <\/p>\n

1110
\n01:18:27,960 –> 01:18:31,800
\nat verse 3.
\nFor this is the will of God, <\/p>\n

1111
\n01:18:32,480 –> 01:18:38,240
\neven your sanctification, that
\nyou should abstain from <\/p>\n

1112
\n01:18:38,240 –> 01:18:43,000
\nfornication.
\nIt’s God’s will for you, young <\/p>\n

1113
\n01:18:43,000 –> 01:18:46,720
\nperson, to abstain from
\nfornication. <\/p>\n

1114
\n01:18:46,960 –> 01:18:51,760
\nLook at verse 7.
\nFor God hath not called us unto <\/p>\n

1115
\n01:18:51,760 –> 01:19:00,440
\nuncleanness, but unto holiness,
\nseparateness, purity, devotion <\/p>\n

1116
\n01:19:00,440 –> 01:19:02,720
\nof the mind, of things that are
\nhigh and pure. <\/p>\n

1117
\n01:19:03,760 –> 01:19:07,960
\nHe therefore look at verse 8 and
\nunderline it in your Bible. <\/p>\n

1118
\n01:19:08,200 –> 01:19:16,160
\nHe therefore that despiseth,
\nthat despiseth not man, but God.<\/p>\n

1119
\n01:19:16,960 –> 01:19:20,640
\nThat’s how serious it is, young
\npeople. <\/p>\n

1120
\n01:19:21,520 –> 01:19:25,280
\nAnd Joseph went out and he
\ndidn’t count the consequences, <\/p>\n

1121
\n01:19:25,880 –> 01:19:29,160
\nand he found himself in prison.
\nHe could have found himself with<\/p>\n

1122
\n01:19:29,160 –> 01:19:34,200
\nhis head rolling down the the
\nyard of the slaughterman, but he<\/p>\n

1123
\n01:19:34,200 –> 01:19:37,360
\nfound himself, thankfully, by
\nthe grace of God, in prison. <\/p>\n

1124
\n01:19:38,080 –> 01:19:41,000
\nHe’d done nothing wrong.
\nAll he’d done was stood up for <\/p>\n

1125
\n01:19:41,000 –> 01:19:44,520
\nwhat was right.
\nAnd if you get chopped down in <\/p>\n

1126
\n01:19:44,520 –> 01:19:48,320
\npieces at school, young people,
\nfor saying what’s right, think <\/p>\n

1127
\n01:19:48,320 –> 01:19:53,840
\nof Joseph.
\nHe didn’t even deserve to be in <\/p>\n

1128
\n01:19:53,840 –> 01:19:56,160
\nEgypt, and he was.
\nAnd now he’s in prison. <\/p>\n

1129
\n01:19:57,680 –> 01:20:02,920
\nAnd prison was not an easy place
\nto live in, not in Egypt. <\/p>\n

1130
\n01:20:05,720 –> 01:20:09,480
\nI’d like you to come back now,
\nbut our time is slipping away. <\/p>\n

1131
\n01:20:09,480 –> 01:20:13,360
\nI’d like you to come to Psalm
\n105. <\/p>\n

1132
\n01:20:18,980 –> 01:20:27,600
\nPsalm 105.
\nAnd verse 17. <\/p>\n

1133
\n01:20:32,920 –> 01:20:35,120
\nAnd here the psalmist, taking
\nthe panorama of Israel’s <\/p>\n

1134
\n01:20:35,120 –> 01:20:41,960
\nhistory, comes to the time of
\nJoseph. 105 Verse 17 sent a man <\/p>\n

1135
\n01:20:41,960 –> 01:20:45,920
\nbefore them, even Joseph, who
\nwas sold for a servant. <\/p>\n

1136
\n01:20:47,200 –> 01:20:49,520
\nHis feet, they hurt with
\nfetters. <\/p>\n

1137
\n01:20:51,120 –> 01:20:53,320
\nHe was laid in iron.
\nLook at the margin. <\/p>\n

1138
\n01:20:54,840 –> 01:21:03,520
\nHis soul came into iron.
\nDo you think those two or three <\/p>\n

1139
\n01:21:03,520 –> 01:21:07,840
\nyears, four years maybe in
\nprison, were pleasant years? <\/p>\n

1140
\n01:21:09,040 –> 01:21:12,920
\nHis soul came into iron.
\nHe didn’t know why God was doing<\/p>\n

1141
\n01:21:12,920 –> 01:21:14,480
\nthis.
\nAll he’d done was what was <\/p>\n

1142
\n01:21:14,480 –> 01:21:17,320
\nright.
\nAnd he’s only 25. <\/p>\n

1143
\n01:21:20,400 –> 01:21:23,320
\nBut we do ourselves a disservice
\nif we don’t read the next verse.<\/p>\n

1144
\n01:21:24,280 –> 01:21:31,640
\nThey do Joseph a disservice.
\nHis soul came into iron until <\/p>\n

1145
\n01:21:31,640 –> 01:21:38,760
\nthe time that his word came.
\nThe word of Yahweh tried him. <\/p>\n

1146
\n01:21:38,760 –> 01:21:43,040
\nThis is what the RSV says.
\nHis soul came into iron until <\/p>\n

1147
\n01:21:43,040 –> 01:21:49,520
\nwhat he said came to pass.
\nThe word of Yahweh tried him, <\/p>\n

1148
\n01:21:50,800 –> 01:21:54,960
\nand in prison Joseph’s dreams
\ncame back to him. <\/p>\n

1149
\n01:21:56,120 –> 01:21:59,440
\nWas God right?
\nWas he going down the wrong <\/p>\n

1150
\n01:21:59,440 –> 01:22:02,440
\ntrack?
\nEverything seemed to be against <\/p>\n

1151
\n01:22:02,440 –> 01:22:06,080
\nhim, but the word of Yahweh
\ntried him sorely. <\/p>\n

1152
\n01:22:06,080 –> 01:22:09,520
\nYoung people, we will be put
\ninto circumstances at times <\/p>\n

1153
\n01:22:09,520 –> 01:22:14,880
\nwhich we don’t deserve, and it’s
\nthe word of Yahweh that’s trying<\/p>\n

1154
\n01:22:14,880 –> 01:22:16,600
\nus.
\nThose circumstances we might <\/p>\n

1155
\n01:22:16,600 –> 01:22:21,760
\nthink are awful, but it’s the
\nWord of God that’s fighting in <\/p>\n

1156
\n01:22:21,760 –> 01:22:25,160
\nour minds, trying to weigh up
\nwhat God’s doing with us. <\/p>\n

1157
\n01:22:25,480 –> 01:22:29,520
\nAnd it tried Joseph when his
\nsoul was in iron and God put the<\/p>\n

1158
\n01:22:29,520 –> 01:22:33,280
\npressure on him there to see if
\nhe really believed and to make <\/p>\n

1159
\n01:22:33,280 –> 01:22:37,240
\nsomething of him that he could
\nlater use not only in the <\/p>\n

1160
\n01:22:37,240 –> 01:22:42,000
\nKingdom but in his life as well.
\nBut Joseph had something that no<\/p>\n

1161
\n01:22:42,000 –> 01:22:46,840
\nman could ever take away,
\nembedded in his mind from his <\/p>\n

1162
\n01:22:46,840 –> 01:22:54,320
\nearly days for the promises and
\nthe visions of God, and he <\/p>\n

1163
\n01:22:54,320 –> 01:22:57,000
\nexercised his mind every day on
\nthose things. <\/p>\n

1164
\n01:22:58,880 –> 01:23:08,280
\nAnd remarkably, back in Genesis
\nchapter 39, remarkably it had an<\/p>\n

1165
\n01:23:08,280 –> 01:23:17,520
\neffect, verse 21.
\nAnd Yahweh was with Joseph and <\/p>\n

1166
\n01:23:17,520 –> 01:23:22,320
\nshowed him mercy and gave him
\nfavour in the sight of the <\/p>\n

1167
\n01:23:22,320 –> 01:23:25,840
\nkeeper of the prison.
\nIsn’t that amazing? <\/p>\n

1168
\n01:23:25,960 –> 01:23:30,600
\nThe spirit of this godly man,
\nthe visions of whose mind had <\/p>\n

1169
\n01:23:30,720 –> 01:23:36,360
\nregenerated that faith again, it
\nenabled him to stand and to <\/p>\n

1170
\n01:23:36,360 –> 01:23:39,760
\nendure all that uncertainty, all
\nthat anguish. <\/p>\n

1171
\n01:23:40,840 –> 01:23:45,520
\nYou know, we haven’t really even
\ngot to the essence of Joseph’s <\/p>\n

1172
\n01:23:45,520 –> 01:23:48,240
\nlife tonight.
\nWe’re not going, don’t think <\/p>\n

1173
\n01:23:48,240 –> 01:23:49,640
\nwe’re going to go on to help us
\nin. <\/p>\n

1174
\n01:23:50,360 –> 01:23:53,440
\nWe haven’t yet got to the
\nessence of Joseph’s life. <\/p>\n

1175
\n01:23:54,200 –> 01:23:58,360
\nAnd I want to tell you in one
\nsentence what it is that all his<\/p>\n

1176
\n01:23:58,440 –> 01:24:01,920
\nearly experiences when God had
\nchosen him from the age of 17 <\/p>\n

1177
\n01:24:03,040 –> 01:24:08,400
\nwere all leading for the time
\nwhen he would save his brethren.<\/p>\n

1178
\n01:24:10,120 –> 01:24:12,800
\nYou know that.
\nThat’s the story of Joseph, that<\/p>\n

1179
\n01:24:12,800 –> 01:24:16,600
\nhe saved his brethren, but God
\nhad had brought Joseph at a <\/p>\n

1180
\n01:24:16,600 –> 01:24:19,720
\nyoung age through all these
\nexperiences that he none of whom<\/p>\n

1181
\n01:24:19,720 –> 01:24:22,640
\nhe deserved.
\nBut in the end, it was his <\/p>\n

1182
\n01:24:22,640 –> 01:24:27,720
\nfaith, young people, it was his
\npatience, it was his godliness, <\/p>\n

1183
\n01:24:27,960 –> 01:24:31,520
\nhis example, his vision that
\nsaved them. <\/p>\n

1184
\n01:24:31,720 –> 01:24:34,760
\nIt wasn’t theirs and they didn’t
\ndeserve to be saved in the end, <\/p>\n

1185
\n01:24:34,760 –> 01:24:38,680
\nbut they were.
\nAnd it was all started in a 17 <\/p>\n

1186
\n01:24:38,680 –> 01:24:41,320
\nyear old.
\nNever, ever let us think young <\/p>\n

1187
\n01:24:41,320 –> 01:24:44,400
\npeople, that we’re too young for
\nGod to use. <\/p>\n

1188
\n01:24:45,440 –> 01:24:47,680
\nNever, ever let us think that
\nthe pressures of this life are <\/p>\n

1189
\n01:24:47,680 –> 01:24:51,320
\ntoo strong to stand up against.
\nNever, ever let us think that <\/p>\n

1190
\n01:24:51,320 –> 01:24:55,680
\nGod has forsaken us.
\nBecause in all those things, <\/p>\n

1191
\n01:24:55,880 –> 01:25:19,360
\nJoseph inspired his brethren.
\nIn summary, what have we seen? <\/p>\n

1192
\n01:25:22,160 –> 01:25:24,480
\nNo one’s too young for God to
\nuse. <\/p>\n

1193
\n01:25:28,280 –> 01:25:34,400
\nDeveloping a good conscience in
\nyouth by diligent attention to <\/p>\n

1194
\n01:25:34,400 –> 01:25:39,880
\nthe Word of God is vital to
\nbeing able to withstand the <\/p>\n

1195
\n01:25:39,880 –> 01:25:44,920
\npressures of life that come in
\nyouth and in the days beyond. <\/p>\n

1196
\n01:25:46,160 –> 01:25:51,600
\nBut the key to Joseph’s success
\nwas the reality that he made God<\/p>\n

1197
\n01:25:51,600 –> 01:25:58,520
\nin his life that allowed him to
\nflee youthful lusts and <\/p>\n

1198
\n01:25:58,520 –> 01:26:06,680
\ntemptation when it arose.
\nAnd it was the key to his <\/p>\n

1199
\n01:26:06,720 –> 01:26:11,720
\nfaithfulness under this
\nunreasonable pressure really <\/p>\n

1200
\n01:26:11,720 –> 01:26:16,240
\ncame from his dreams.
\nNobody, them sisters and young <\/p>\n

1201
\n01:26:16,240 –> 01:26:19,280
\npeople, we’ve all got to be
\nmasters of dreams. <\/p>\n

1202
\n01:26:21,760 –> 01:26:29,480
\nBecause by that, Solomon says,
\nwhere there is no vision, the <\/p>\n

1203
\n01:26:29,480 –> 01:26:33,280
\npeople perish.
\nAnd surely Joseph would have <\/p>\n

1204
\n01:26:33,280 –> 01:26:37,600
\nfaded into insignificance in
\nEgyptian society had it not been<\/p>\n

1205
\n01:26:37,600 –> 01:26:43,280
\nfor the tremendous power that
\nthose visions had upon his mind <\/p>\n

1206
\n01:26:43,640 –> 01:26:48,120
\nin times of real trouble that
\nwere embedded there in his very <\/p>\n

1207
\n01:26:48,120 –> 01:26:53,920
\nyoungest days, renewed every day
\nby him because he thought about <\/p>\n

1208
\n01:26:53,920 –> 01:26:57,480
\nthem.
\nYou know, young people, as we go<\/p>\n

1209
\n01:26:57,480 –> 01:27:02,720
\naway tonight, let’s just think
\nthat it’s no good just <\/p>\n

1210
\n01:27:03,200 –> 01:27:07,680
\nconsidering a the life of an
\ninspiring young individual who <\/p>\n

1211
\n01:27:07,680 –> 01:27:11,680
\nwas committed to the truth like
\nlike Joseph obviously was. <\/p>\n

1212
\n01:27:13,080 –> 01:27:20,920
\nLet’s think what it means to us.
\nIt’s got a cost, a personal <\/p>\n

1213
\n01:27:20,920 –> 01:27:26,280
\ncost, sacrifice of time
\ncommitment. <\/p>\n

1214
\n01:27:26,720 –> 01:27:30,720
\nYoung people, while your mind is
\nagile, while there is time <\/p>\n

1215
\n01:27:31,640 –> 01:27:36,560
\nbefore the evil days come when
\nyou say young people, and <\/p>\n

1216
\n01:27:36,560 –> 01:27:40,880
\nthere’s no substitute, there’s
\nno quick fix, there’s no instant<\/p>\n

1217
\n01:27:40,880 –> 01:27:43,600
\nsolution.
\nTime is the only way. <\/p>\n

1218
\n01:27:44,480 –> 01:27:49,960
\nTime thinking about the Word and
\nabout God’s promises. <\/p>\n

1219
\n01:27:52,360 –> 01:27:57,240
\nTake one of those sheets
\nafterwards and give it some time<\/p>\n

1220
\n01:27:58,920 –> 01:28:03,200
\nbecause it won’t be wasted.
\nAnd we’ll never, ever, ever deal<\/p>\n

1221
\n01:28:03,360 –> 01:28:06,320
\nwith the pressures of life
\nwithout doing that. <\/p>\n

1222
\n01:28:07,400 –> 01:28:11,360
\nI’d like you to listen in
\nconclusion to the words of of <\/p>\n

1223
\n01:28:11,360 –> 01:28:17,520
\nthe great Apostle Paul as he
\nwrote his last words to the <\/p>\n

1224
\n01:28:17,520 –> 01:28:23,400
\nyoung man that he loved.
\nHe said, Let no man despise thy <\/p>\n

1225
\n01:28:23,400 –> 01:28:32,920
\nyouth, but be thou an example to
\nthe believers, an example in <\/p>\n

1226
\n01:28:32,920 –> 01:28:42,120
\nyouth, to the believers in Word,
\nin manner of life, in love, in <\/p>\n

1227
\n01:28:42,120 –> 01:28:50,680
\nfaith, in purity.
\nGive a tendency said to reading,<\/p>\n

1228
\n01:28:51,840 –> 01:28:55,080
\nto exhortation, to doctrine.
\nThat just doesn’t mean going to <\/p>\n

1229
\n01:28:55,080 –> 01:29:00,040
\nthe meetings.
\nMeditate upon these things, give<\/p>\n

1230
\n01:29:00,040 –> 01:29:04,320
\nthyself wholly to them.
\nIsn’t that a picture of Joseph? <\/p>\n

1231
\n01:29:05,960 –> 01:29:14,240
\nFor in so doing thou shalt both
\nsave thyself and them that hear <\/p>\n

1232
\n01:29:14,240 –> 01:29:17,400
\nthee.
\nAnd there in the life of Joseph <\/p>\n

1233
\n01:29:17,400 –> 01:29:22,280
\ntonight, that principle which
\nPaul enunciated and exhorted, <\/p>\n

1234
\n01:29:22,280 –> 01:29:27,520
\nthat young man Timothy to
\nfollow, was seen outworked, and <\/p>\n

1235
\n01:29:27,520 –> 01:29:31,920
\nthe influence of his life swept
\nmany along, and not only saved <\/p>\n

1236
\n01:29:31,920 –> 01:29:36,440
\nhimself in the end, but all
\nthose that hurt him. <\/p>\n

1237
\n01:29:37,520 –> 01:29:42,080
\nPray God that our influence,
\nyoung or old, might likewise be <\/p>\n

1238
\n01:29:42,080 –> 01:29:58,360
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\nThank you for listening to the <\/p>\n

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\n01:29:58,360 –> 01:29:59,920
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\n01:30:00,760 –> 01:30:03,200
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