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\nhe speaks to the theme Joseph
\nshowing integrity and vision in <\/p>\n
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\nyouth.
\nThanks, brother Andrew, my <\/p>\n
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\ndearly beloved brethren and
\nsisters in our Lord Jesus <\/p>\n
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\nChrist, and particularly
\ntonight, our dear young people. <\/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 further and sisters
\nthan young people that. <\/p>\n
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\nWhenever Yahweh wanted a great
\nwork. <\/p>\n
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\nDone in the Earth.
\nOr a difficult. <\/p>\n
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\nTask, no matter what it was in
\nIsrael or to the nations that he<\/p>\n
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\nchose a young man sometimes from
\nthe womb, in order, in order <\/p>\n
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\nthat he might prepare for that
\nwork 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, <\/p>\n
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\nwho saved all of Israel out of
\nEgypt. <\/p>\n
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\nOf David, who brought the nation
\ntogether under the kingship of <\/p>\n
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\nJeremiah.
\nOf Daniel. <\/p>\n
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\nOf Ezekiel in captivity.
\nAnd later of John the Baptist or<\/p>\n
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\nof our Lord himself?
\nWhat about Timothy and many <\/p>\n
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\nother of Paul’s companions?
\nAll. <\/p>\n
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\nCold in the prime of their
\nyouth, mostly when they are <\/p>\n
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\nteenagers.
\nYou know, that’s telling us <\/p>\n
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\nsomething, brethren and sisters
\nand young people. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s telling us something very
\nimportant. <\/p>\n
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\nThat.
\nGod sees youth as a very <\/p>\n
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\nimportant time of life.
\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.
\nAnd expand it. <\/p>\n
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\nWe’ll do that, God willing,
\ntomorrow night. <\/p>\n
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\nBut we’re going to.
\nFocus for this week, God <\/p>\n
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\nwilling, in the days that are
\nahead upon the lives of just <\/p>\n
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\nsix.
\nSix out of many. <\/p>\n
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\nWhose lives are recorded through
\nthe pages of the word? <\/p>\n
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\n6.
\nYoung people that God took in <\/p>\n
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\ntheir youth and used to forward
\nHis purpose. <\/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. <\/p>\n
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\nBut we will be able to touch
\nfrom. <\/p>\n
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\nTime to time upon.
\nThe zeal and what drove these <\/p>\n
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\nyoung people in their early days
\nand particularly what God did in<\/p>\n
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\ntheir lives and what pressures
\nGod brought to bear upon. <\/p>\n
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\nThem and what their reaction was
\nunder those pressures. <\/p>\n
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\nBecause we hear a lot about
\npressures, don’t we? <\/p>\n
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\nPressures of this life.
\nPressures of an evil and godless<\/p>\n
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\nworld.
\nAnd that’s very true. <\/p>\n
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\nThe pressures are increasing
\nevery day. <\/p>\n
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\nWe know it.
\nWe don’t have to be young to <\/p>\n
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\nknow that it’s happening to us
\nall. <\/p>\n
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\nIs 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.
\nBefore we go to Joseph to come <\/p>\n
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\nto the words of the wise man at
\nthe end of Ecclesiastes at <\/p>\n
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\nChapter 11, we know Solomon had
\ntried everything under the sun. <\/p>\n
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\nHis youth, 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.
\nAt his hands. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd that he did.
\nHe tried everything there was to<\/p>\n
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\ntry.
\nHe got himself into trouble, but<\/p>\n
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\nat the end of his days penned
\nwords to all generations <\/p>\n
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\nthereafter about what he found.
\nAnd in verse 9 of Chapter 11. <\/p>\n
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\nHe gives advice to Young.
\nHe says in verse 9, Rejoice, O <\/p>\n
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\nYoung.
\nMan in thy youth and. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd let thy heart cheer.
\nThee. <\/p>\n
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\nIn the days of thy youth, and
\nwalk in the ways of thine heart,<\/p>\n
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\nand in the sight of thine eyes.
\nBut know thou that for all these<\/p>\n
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\nthings God will bring thee into
\njudgement. <\/p>\n
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\nYou know, it seems on the
\nsurface that that Solomon is <\/p>\n
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\nbeing very cynical there, as if
\nto say. <\/p>\n
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\nGo on, but God will bring you
\ninto judgement. <\/p>\n
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\nI don’t think he’s saying that
\nat all, brethren. <\/p>\n
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\nSisters.
\nWhat he’s saying is that youth <\/p>\n
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\nis a time of vigor and
\nenthusiasm, of optimism and <\/p>\n
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\nopportunity.
\nGrasp those opportunities, he <\/p>\n
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\nsays.
\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. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd we’ll bring all into
\njudgement. <\/p>\n
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\nYou know, life is not one big
\nsearch for fun and excitement <\/p>\n
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\nand enjoyment from the beginning
\nof our days to the end of our <\/p>\n
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\nlife.
\nThere is a seriousness about <\/p>\n
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\nlife that should be remembered
\nin youth, though youth ought to <\/p>\n
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\nbe a time of rejoicing, of
\nhappiness, of grasping <\/p>\n
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\nopportunities, of challenges.
\nYoung people, many of today’s <\/p>\n
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\nyouth, have thrown those away.
\nThere are no challenges. <\/p>\n
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\nAll they want to do is lull
\naround and waste their lives. <\/p>\n
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\nGrasp opportunities.
\nThat’s what Solomon says. <\/p>\n
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\nGrasp them.
\nBut he goes on in verse 10. <\/p>\n
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\nTherefore he says.
\nRemove sorrow from thine hearts.<\/p>\n
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\nAnd put away evil from your
\nflesh 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.
\nIn the end, and remember verse <\/p>\n
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\none now thy Creator in the days
\nof thy youth. <\/p>\n
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\nWhile the evil days.
\nCome not, nor the ears drawn <\/p>\n
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\nnigh, when thou shalt say, I
\nhave no pleasure in them. <\/p>\n
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\nYou know what the most important
\nword in that verse is. <\/p>\n
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\nYoung people underline it now.
\nRemember now thy Creator in the <\/p>\n
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\ndays of thy youth.
\nYou see, brethren, sisters and <\/p>\n
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\nyoung people.
\nThat’s the hardest time of life <\/p>\n
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\nto remember.
\nWhen we’re old and almost facing<\/p>\n
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\nthe grave, it’s very easy to
\nremember that there is a Creator<\/p>\n
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\nin heaven who will be able to
\nrecreate our faculties that <\/p>\n
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\nwe’ve lost.
\nIt’s very easy to do that on a <\/p>\n
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\non a bed where we can hardly
\nmove when we’ve lost our <\/p>\n
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\nmobility.
\nIt’s very easy then, but it’s <\/p>\n
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\nexceedingly.
\nDifficult 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.
\nLife regretting much of his <\/p>\n
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\nRemember now when it’s difficult<\/p>\n
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\nto do that.
\nAnd we’re going to see that <\/p>\n
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\ntonight in the life of Joseph,
\nan inspiring individual who put <\/p>\n
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\naway evil from his life.
\nAnd remembered now. <\/p>\n
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\nAt 17, his creator in the days
\nof his youth. <\/p>\n
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\nYou know, brothers and sisters,
\nwhen the world generally and <\/p>\n
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\npeople talk about the whole of
\nlife, we often we do it <\/p>\n
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\nourselves.
\nWe talk of childhood and <\/p>\n
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\nadolescence and adulthood, and
\nsometimes adulthood is broken up<\/p>\n
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\ninto various stages, all
\nartificial stages except one, <\/p>\n
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\nbecause God doesn’t recognize
\nthose stages per SE. <\/p>\n
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\nYou’ll find that Scripture,
\nbrethren and sisters, and the <\/p>\n
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\nApostle Paul and our Lord
\nHimself all understand life as <\/p>\n
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\nbeing made-up of childhood and
\nthe. <\/p>\n
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\nRest of life, there is no
\nartificial distinction made for <\/p>\n
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\nteenagers, for adolescents.
\nAnd there is a phenomenon in <\/p>\n
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\nthis world over the last 30
\nyears that has almost made <\/p>\n
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\nteenagers a subculture or a
\nsubspecies of the human race. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the media has accelerated
\nthat understanding and there is <\/p>\n
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\ncompletely distinctive dress and
\nlanguage and culture that goes <\/p>\n
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\nwith with teenage and it’s
\nperpetuated by the big <\/p>\n
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\ncorporations that want to sell
\nand that advertise constantly. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd it’s picked up by the media
\nand sensationalised 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 the<\/p>\n
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\nmental 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? <\/p>\n
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\nWe have a look at.
\nThis, these words that Solomon’s<\/p>\n
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\njust said, that’s exactly what
\nit’s. <\/p>\n
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\nSaying 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, but we’re going
\nto see a young man tonight, <\/p>\n
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\nbrother and sisters and young
\npeople who definitely had <\/p>\n
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\nenormous responsibilities on his
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\nWe meet him at 17 years of age.
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\nAnd the remarkable thing is that
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\nTook notice of him.
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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
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\nWorld.
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\none when he was 17 years years
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\nshoulders tremendous
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\nYou know what he did?
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\ntrain a process by which.
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\nwith Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
\nback on track because his other <\/p>\n
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\neleven brothers had virtually
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\nAnd he was given the
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\nThem back.
\nInto the truth so God’s purpose <\/p>\n
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\nmight be able to go forward with
\nall 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
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\nremarkable?
\nAbout this individual is the. <\/p>\n
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\nEnormous influence that his
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\non any and everyone that had
\never come in contact with. <\/p>\n
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\nHim and God picked him at 17.
\nHe had a. <\/p>\n
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\nTremendous pull on his family.
\nOh, they hated 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.
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\nagain.
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\nvery powerfully influenced by
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\nAnd there were Gentiles who
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\ninfluenced.
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\nPotiphar.
\nThe prison guy, there was the <\/p>\n
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\nButler, the Baker, the list goes
\non, was impressed 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, deeply
\nimpressed. <\/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.
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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. <\/p>\n
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\nThem there long before and
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\nlife with 14 chapters of Genesis
\nrecorded here for us has <\/p>\n
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\ncontinued to influence people
\nlike us all young and old for <\/p>\n
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\nmany 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, but
\nlet’s go to the start and see <\/p>\n
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\nhow God introduces him into the
\nrecord in Genesis chapter 37. <\/p>\n
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\nIf we.
\nRead our Bibles carefully. <\/p>\n
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\nWe’ll see.
\nWhat God? <\/p>\n
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\nThought of this individual we
\nfind in genesis 37 at verse one,<\/p>\n
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\nand Jacob dwelt in the land
\nwherein his. <\/p>\n
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\nFather was a stranger in the
\nland 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.
\nBefore you would know that he <\/p>\n
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\nwas already.
\nIn the land of Canaan. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd that 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.
\nStill a stranger. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s the point.
\nYou see, if you look back at <\/p>\n
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\nverse the previous chapter,
\nright at the end of the previous<\/p>\n
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\nchapter, verse 40, for example,
\nthrough to verse 43 read and <\/p>\n
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\nthese are the names of the Dukes
\nthat came of Esau according to <\/p>\n
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\ntheir families after their
\nplaces by their names. <\/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.
\nDukes down to. <\/p>\n
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\nVerse 43.
\nAccording to their habitations. <\/p>\n
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\nIn the land of their possession
\nand he. <\/p>\n
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\nIs the Esau the father of the
\nEdomites? <\/p>\n
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\nAnd Jacob dwelt in the land of
\nhis father’s sojournings. <\/p>\n
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\nThere’s a dramatic contrast
\nbetween Esau and Jacob. <\/p>\n
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\nEsau has already settled himself
\ndown in his habitations, in his <\/p>\n
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\npossessions, in the land.
\nPut his roots down and he <\/p>\n
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\nbelongs there in Edom.
\nBut Jacob is still dwelling in <\/p>\n
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\nhis father’s sojournings.
\nThat’s saying something. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s saying that Jacob has still
\ngot the promises in his heart. <\/p>\n
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\nHe still is faithful, and he’s
\nthe third generation. <\/p>\n
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\nYou know that the faithfulness
\nwent even further when at least <\/p>\n
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\nto the next generation, even
\nthough the apostle Paul says in <\/p>\n
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\nHebrews, he says, and by faith.
\nHe. <\/p>\n
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\nAbraham, 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 and 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.
\nIf we. <\/p>\n
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\nOur Bibles very carefully and
\nthis is a good exercise for <\/p>\n
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\nyoung people.
\nWhen you go home, you you. <\/p>\n
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\nSkim through the last previous 7
\nor 8 chapters of Genesis here <\/p>\n
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\nand you’ll find this that
\nJacob’s life is dotted by <\/p>\n
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\nmovement all over the place.
\nIn fact, it’s very interesting <\/p>\n
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\nthat it was as soon as Joseph
\nwas born that Jacob decided to <\/p>\n
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\nuproot out of the land of Pain
\nand Arum. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd you know, we find there’s no
\nmore, no less than 10 individual<\/p>\n
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\nmovements and stopping places
\nall the way from Paedon R right <\/p>\n
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\nback here to where we find him
\nhere at Hebron. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd through all that period,
\nwhich is the period in which <\/p>\n
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\nJoseph is growing up, what do
\nyou think Joseph’s learning, <\/p>\n
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\nSee, learning that this world is
\npermanent, and you’ve got to get<\/p>\n
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\nout there and do everything you
\ncan. <\/p>\n
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\nBuild your empire, Build your
\nriches. <\/p>\n
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\nHe’s learning, brother 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 learnt that lesson well. <\/p>\n
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\nBut verse 2 tells.
\nUs and these are the generations<\/p>\n
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\nof Jacob.
\nJoseph, being 17 years old, was <\/p>\n
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\nfeeding.
\nThe flock with his brethren, and<\/p>\n
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\nto any.
\nAstute reader. <\/p>\n
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\nThat has to be an incredibly
\nstrange verse, particularly if <\/p>\n
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\nyou’re familiar with Genesis,
\nbecause we find this term and <\/p>\n
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\nthese are the generations of da,
\nda, da. 10 times in Genesis and <\/p>\n
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\nyou go back and have a look at
\nthem and you’ll find for <\/p>\n
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\nexample.
\nIn just the previous chapter, <\/p>\n
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\nChapter 30. 6.
\nWe find verse 9 and these are <\/p>\n
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\nthe generations of Esau, the
\nfather of the Edomites. <\/p>\n
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\nThese are the names of Esau’s
\nsons. <\/p>\n
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\nSonic just lists sun after sun
\nafter sun after sun after. <\/p>\n
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\nGeneration after generation
\nafter generation. <\/p>\n
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\nHe’s just taken with
\ngenealogies, you can check that <\/p>\n
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\nout.
\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. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat do we find here?
\nThese are the generations of <\/p>\n
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\nJacob.
\nJoseph, where’s all the others? <\/p>\n
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\nWhere’s Reuben and Simeon and
\nLevi and Judah? <\/p>\n
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\nWhat are they?
\nThey’re not there. <\/p>\n
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\nThere’s nothing about them.
\nThey don’t even. <\/p>\n
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\nDeserve to be in Jacob’s
\ngenealogy. <\/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. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd here are his generations,
\nand you have to go all through <\/p>\n
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\nall of his sons, right down to
\nthe 11th son before you find <\/p>\n
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\none.
\nThat’s got the same spirit as <\/p>\n
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\nJacob, and there he is, Joseph,
\nand he’s only 17. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s the introduction we get
\nin the divine record to Joseph. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat an amazing thing that is.
\nAlone, he is singled out as a <\/p>\n
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\nfaithful follower of the
\npromises. <\/p>\n
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\nYou know what that’s saying?
\nNot one of his other. <\/p>\n
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\nBrothers ahead of him had
\naccepted the truth. <\/p>\n
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\nIn effect, look what it tells
\nus. <\/p>\n
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\nHe was feeding his flock with
\nhis brethren. <\/p>\n
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\nMiddle of verse 2.
\nAnd the lad was with the sons of<\/p>\n
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\nBilhar, and with the sons of
\nZilpah, his father’s wife’s <\/p>\n
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\nwives.
\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. <\/p>\n
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\nSons of Bilhar and Zulfa, that’s
\nwho 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. <\/p>\n
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\nTragic record, that is, and
\nthat’s where we find Joseph. <\/p>\n
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\nWe find him in the midst of
\nanything but a comfortable <\/p>\n
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\nChristadelphian high.
\nIt was characterized by by <\/p>\n
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\ntension and and unhappiness and
\ntragedy from starting. <\/p>\n
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\nAll of Joseph’s life, that’s all
\nhe would ever have known. <\/p>\n
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\nBrethren and sisters and young
\npeople. <\/p>\n
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\nBecause Jacob had two wives that
\nbrought into that family <\/p>\n
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\ncontention and division and
\nrivalry that ripped it apart and<\/p>\n
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\nwas immediately.
\nTransferred to the to all the <\/p>\n
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\nsons and the daughters in in
\nthat family so that they <\/p>\n
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\nlikewise grew up amongst all of
\nthat with those same <\/p>\n
343
\n00:23:39,080 –> 00:23:41,960
\ncharacteristics.
\nYou know Joseph lost his mother <\/p>\n
344
\n00:23:41,960 –> 00:23:47,600
\nat a very early age when his
\nfather, mind you, was 108 years <\/p>\n
345
\n00:23:47,600 –> 00:23:50,640
\nold.
\nSo what support did he have as a<\/p>\n
346
\n00:23:50,640 –> 00:23:52,400
\ntiny little attacker running
\naround? <\/p>\n
347
\n00:23:53,400 –> 00:23:57,280
\nAnd you think of the influence
\nthat that he had on him. <\/p>\n
348
\n00:23:57,680 –> 00:24:00,280
\nYou just think of Reuben.
\nYou know what Reuben did? <\/p>\n
349
\n00:24:00,440 –> 00:24:02,160
\nWent into his.
\nFather’s wife. <\/p>\n
350
\n00:24:03,640 –> 00:24:06,720
\nWhat about Judah and what he did
\nout of the land? <\/p>\n
351
\n00:24:06,920 –> 00:24:10,440
\nWhat about Wannibite and Simmons
\nwho made Jacob’s name to stink <\/p>\n
352
\n00:24:10,520 –> 00:24:14,920
\nin Shechem because of the deceit
\nand the the wickedness that they<\/p>\n
353
\n00:24:14,920 –> 00:24:19,440
\ndid in that place?
\nLooking up to in that family, <\/p>\n
354
\n00:24:20,840 –> 00:24:24,200
\nit’s amazing that at 17 he
\nappears in this record, isn’t <\/p>\n
355
\n00:24:24,200 –> 00:24:26,480
\nit?
\nAnd look what we find. <\/p>\n
356
\n00:24:26,880 –> 00:24:31,840
\nHe brings to his father the end
\nof verse 2, their evil report <\/p>\n
357
\n00:24:33,600 –> 00:24:36,400
\nhis brothers absolutely
\ndetested. <\/p>\n
358
\n00:24:36,400 –> 00:24:40,080
\nHim look at verse 4 and.
\nWhen his brothers saw that their<\/p>\n
359
\n00:24:40,080 –> 00:24:45,080
\nfather loved him more than all
\nhis brethren, they hated him and<\/p>\n
360
\n00:24:45,080 –> 00:24:48,800
\ncouldn’t speak peaceably under.
\nThat’s been civilly to him. <\/p>\n
361
\n00:24:48,960 –> 00:24:50,360
\nThey weren’t peaceably there as
\nShalom. <\/p>\n
362
\n00:24:50,360 –> 00:24:53,160
\nThey couldn’t even say hello,
\nand they wouldn’t. <\/p>\n
363
\n00:24:54,600 –> 00:24:58,560
\nWhat an amazing thing in a
\nfamily that is of all those lads<\/p>\n
364
\n00:25:00,120 –> 00:25:04,120
\nand he’s the the little young
\nboy growing up in that family <\/p>\n
365
\n00:25:04,640 –> 00:25:10,680
\nand his older mature brothers
\nwould not even say hello. <\/p>\n
366
\n00:25:13,320 –> 00:25:14,960
\nAnd that hatred grew.
\nVerse 5. <\/p>\n
367
\n00:25:15,200 –> 00:25:17,640
\nJoseph dreamed a dream and told
\nit his brethren. <\/p>\n
368
\n00:25:18,520 –> 00:25:20,320
\nAnd they hated him.
\nYet the more. <\/p>\n
369
\n00:25:23,320 –> 00:25:25,080
\nAnd we know that that hatred
\neven boiled. <\/p>\n
370
\n00:25:25,080 –> 00:25:31,640
\nOver to the extent in verse 18
\nthat they wanted to slay him, <\/p>\n
371
\n00:25:34,120 –> 00:25:36,000
\nthey hate that hatred grew.
\nWhen? <\/p>\n
372
\n00:25:36,360 –> 00:25:40,360
\nHe began talking about the
\ntruth, and when he didn’t leave <\/p>\n
373
\n00:25:40,360 –> 00:25:44,600
\nthem alone, when he persisted,
\nall they could think of doing <\/p>\n
374
\n00:25:45,160 –> 00:25:48,680
\nwas quieting.
\nQuieting his voice forever. <\/p>\n
375
\n00:25:49,560 –> 00:25:51,480
\nAnd eventually they sold him
\ninto slavery. <\/p>\n
376
\n00:25:53,320 –> 00:25:58,240
\nThey lied to get out of it.
\nThey deceived their aged father <\/p>\n
377
\n00:26:00,000 –> 00:26:01,960
\nfor 20 years.
\nThey deceived him. <\/p>\n
378
\n00:26:02,960 –> 00:26:10,040
\nThat’s what sort of men were in
\nJoseph’s family, and with <\/p>\n
379
\n00:26:10,040 –> 00:26:13,720
\ncallous indifference they
\nwatched the grief of their <\/p>\n
380
\n00:26:13,720 –> 00:26:18,000
\nfather, whose grey hairs were
\nbrought down to the grave in <\/p>\n
381
\n00:26:18,000 –> 00:26:20,600
\nsorrowing for the only godly son
\nthat he had. <\/p>\n
382
\n00:26:23,640 –> 00:26:33,000
\nAnd they couldn’t care. 2 hoots.
\nAnd Joseph, when he was 567, was<\/p>\n
383
\n00:26:33,000 –> 00:26:37,120
\ngrowing up with their influence.
\nIt was not an easy family to <\/p>\n
384
\n00:26:37,120 –> 00:26:40,760
\ngrow up in, nor an easy family
\nto learn the truth in. <\/p>\n
385
\n00:26:42,000 –> 00:26:47,160
\nAnd well before he was 17, young
\npeople, there were enormous <\/p>\n
386
\n00:26:47,160 –> 00:26:54,640
\npressures, pressures that that
\nwe mostly don’t even understand.<\/p>\n
387
\n00:26:57,000 –> 00:26:58,240
\nAnd God.
\nAllowed to be so. <\/p>\n
388
\n00:27:00,200 –> 00:27:03,320
\nAnd yet, out of all of that, he
\nsingled out as the as the single<\/p>\n
389
\n00:27:03,320 –> 00:27:06,880
\ngodly.
\nSeed in that household at 17. <\/p>\n
390
\n00:27:06,880 –> 00:27:09,880
\nYoung people think about that at
\n17. <\/p>\n
391
\n00:27:12,200 –> 00:27:15,200
\nWhere do we meet him?
\nWell, he burst too. <\/p>\n
392
\n00:27:15,200 –> 00:27:17,520
\nTold us he was feeding the
\nflock. <\/p>\n
393
\n00:27:17,520 –> 00:27:20,520
\nWith his brethren, and whilst
\nhe. <\/p>\n
394
\n00:27:20,520 –> 00:27:25,200
\nWas doing that some some
\nactivity was going on that he <\/p>\n
395
\n00:27:25,200 –> 00:27:27,480
\ndid not feel comfortable.
\nWith and he brought unto his <\/p>\n
396
\n00:27:27,480 –> 00:27:35,720
\nfather their evil report.
\nYoung people, Joseph wasn’t a <\/p>\n
397
\n00:27:35,760 –> 00:27:42,160
\ndobber, he had a conscience.
\nAnd there’s a difference. <\/p>\n
398
\n00:27:45,920 –> 00:27:50,640
\nThere’s an unwritten well, I I
\nwas going to say moral code. <\/p>\n
399
\n00:27:50,840 –> 00:27:53,080
\nIt’s not moral at all.
\nIt’s amoral. <\/p>\n
400
\n00:27:54,320 –> 00:27:59,160
\nAmongst today’s teenagers
\nparticularly, that’s really. <\/p>\n
401
\n00:27:59,160 –> 00:28:03,480
\nCome from the criminal.
\nElement of the world that says <\/p>\n
402
\n00:28:04,840 –> 00:28:10,560
\nprotect your friends at all
\ncosts, protect your family. <\/p>\n
403
\n00:28:11,280 –> 00:28:14,880
\nDoesn’t matter what they’re
\ndoing, show loyalty. <\/p>\n
404
\n00:28:16,000 –> 00:28:17,400
\nIt’s better than telling the
\ntruth. <\/p>\n
405
\n00:28:18,760 –> 00:28:23,760
\nIt is never right, young people,
\nto cover wickedness. <\/p>\n
406
\n00:28:25,160 –> 00:28:28,200
\nAnd Joseph was not just here
\ngoing off to his father and <\/p>\n
407
\n00:28:28,200 –> 00:28:31,360
\ntitle tackling and telling all
\nsorts of things and saying, oh, <\/p>\n
408
\n00:28:31,360 –> 00:28:34,840
\nthey did this to me.
\nWhen Joseph went to his father, <\/p>\n
409
\n00:28:35,680 –> 00:28:38,440
\nhe had a rapport on godly terms
\nwith his father. <\/p>\n
410
\n00:28:39,120 –> 00:28:41,680
\nAnd he was deeply concerned
\nabout his brethren. <\/p>\n
411
\n00:28:41,840 –> 00:28:44,840
\nWe’ll see that in just a moment.
\nDeeply concerned for their <\/p>\n
412
\n00:28:44,840 –> 00:28:47,000
\nwelfare.
\nAnd he saw that there were <\/p>\n
413
\n00:28:47,000 –> 00:28:50,240
\nactivities that they were
\ninvolved in that could do them <\/p>\n
414
\n00:28:50,240 –> 00:28:53,560
\nnothing but serious harm
\neternally. <\/p>\n
415
\n00:28:54,480 –> 00:28:55,800
\nAnd he had.
\nTo talk to his. <\/p>\n
416
\n00:28:55,800 –> 00:29:03,120
\nFather about it to God.
\nThere were more young people who<\/p>\n
417
\n00:29:03,120 –> 00:29:06,920
\ntalked to their parents.
\nWhen he knew there was something<\/p>\n
418
\n00:29:06,920 –> 00:29:11,680
\nwrong, he went to his father and
\nyoung people. <\/p>\n
419
\n00:29:11,680 –> 00:29:15,800
\nI urge you, in the environment
\nthat you’re growing up in, there<\/p>\n
420
\n00:29:15,800 –> 00:29:18,600
\nare many things which are
\ndisturbing. <\/p>\n
421
\n00:29:19,040 –> 00:29:21,400
\nI find it exceedingly
\ndisturbing. <\/p>\n
422
\n00:29:22,280 –> 00:29:24,000
\nAs you’re probably aware, I’m in
\na school. <\/p>\n
423
\n00:29:24,200 –> 00:29:28,440
\nI’m not on the ground floor
\nwhere many of you are in the in <\/p>\n
424
\n00:29:28,440 –> 00:29:31,880
\nthe yard and in the classroom.
\nBut there are many things that <\/p>\n
425
\n00:29:31,880 –> 00:29:36,120
\ndeeply disturb me in that
\nenvironment, and they ought to <\/p>\n
426
\n00:29:36,120 –> 00:29:38,560
\nbe talked about.
\nTalk to your mother and father <\/p>\n
427
\n00:29:38,560 –> 00:29:41,240
\nabout them.
\nDon’t think that they won’t <\/p>\n
428
\n00:29:41,240 –> 00:29:43,480
\nunderstand.
\nThey will. <\/p>\n
429
\n00:29:44,600 –> 00:29:48,360
\nIf it’s about godly principles
\nand what’s right and wrong, talk<\/p>\n
430
\n00:29:48,360 –> 00:29:54,440
\nabout it.
\nAnd parents, don’t shy away just<\/p>\n
431
\n00:29:54,440 –> 00:29:56,920
\nbecause something might be
\nembarrassing to talk about. <\/p>\n
432
\n00:29:57,360 –> 00:30:03,280
\nYou’ve got to face it head on
\nand help your children and <\/p>\n
433
\n00:30:03,280 –> 00:30:04,160
\nother.
\nYoung people. <\/p>\n
434
\n00:30:04,520 –> 00:30:09,040
\nThrough a very evil and
\ndifficult age, they’ve got to <\/p>\n
435
\n00:30:09,040 –> 00:30:11,800
\ntalk about it.
\nOtherwise they will internalize <\/p>\n
436
\n00:30:11,800 –> 00:30:14,560
\nthose things and may very well
\nthemselves go off. <\/p>\n
437
\n00:30:14,560 –> 00:30:17,880
\nIf Joseph Joseph had no one to
\ntalk to, what would have <\/p>\n
438
\n00:30:17,880 –> 00:30:19,720
\nhappened to him?
\nMaybe he would have. <\/p>\n
439
\n00:30:19,840 –> 00:30:23,320
\nEventually ended up joining the
\nexample of his brother. <\/p>\n
440
\n00:30:25,440 –> 00:30:31,280
\nEvil hidden is never right.
\nBut verse 3 tells us that Israel<\/p>\n
441
\n00:30:31,280 –> 00:30:35,520
\nloved Joseph more than all his
\nchildren because he was the son <\/p>\n
442
\n00:30:35,520 –> 00:30:38,640
\nof his old age.
\nHe made him a coat of many <\/p>\n
443
\n00:30:38,640 –> 00:30:39,960
\ncolors.
\nYou know, there’s a very <\/p>\n
444
\n00:30:39,960 –> 00:30:43,360
\ninteresting change in that verse
\nfrom verses one and two that <\/p>\n
445
\n00:30:43,360 –> 00:30:46,720
\ntells us why Joseph, why Jacob
\nloved Joseph. <\/p>\n
446
\n00:30:47,640 –> 00:30:52,040
\nAnd it’s because Joseph Jacob,
\nsorry, he’s not called Jacob <\/p>\n
447
\n00:30:52,040 –> 00:30:54,680
\nanymore.
\nHe’s called Israel. <\/p>\n
448
\n00:30:55,640 –> 00:31:02,840
\nAnd Israel, which is the the
\nname that Jacob was changed to. <\/p>\n
449
\n00:31:03,440 –> 00:31:07,400
\nThat shows the strength of
\nspiritual qualities of the man, <\/p>\n
450
\n00:31:08,080 –> 00:31:12,600
\nand that man loved Joseph.
\nIt shows what sort of <\/p>\n
451
\n00:31:12,600 –> 00:31:16,720
\nrelationship there was there.
\nJoseph was evidently a very <\/p>\n
452
\n00:31:16,720 –> 00:31:19,760
\ngodly young man, and he was at
\n17. <\/p>\n
453
\n00:31:19,760 –> 00:31:22,680
\nHere we find brethren and
\nsisters and young people. <\/p>\n
454
\n00:31:22,680 –> 00:31:25,280
\nYou know what that’s saying?
\nIt’s saying this that he must <\/p>\n
455
\n00:31:25,280 –> 00:31:32,280
\nhave been a very serious minded
\nyoung man long before 17, long <\/p>\n
456
\n00:31:32,280 –> 00:31:35,200
\nbefore he reached 17.
\nHe knew what the promises were <\/p>\n
457
\n00:31:35,200 –> 00:31:37,000
\nabout.
\nAnd he knew more than that He <\/p>\n
458
\n00:31:37,000 –> 00:31:38,440
\nknew.
\nActually, what they meant to <\/p>\n
459
\n00:31:38,440 –> 00:31:41,640
\nhim, he knew what it meant to be
\na sojourner and he was happy and<\/p>\n
460
\n00:31:41,640 –> 00:31:45,600
\ncomfortable with that.
\nLong before he was 17, he’d come<\/p>\n
461
\n00:31:45,600 –> 00:31:49,440
\nto a conviction that he believed
\nthat God really did exist. <\/p>\n
462
\n00:31:50,320 –> 00:31:53,400
\nHe was convicted about divine
\nstandards of right and wrong. <\/p>\n
463
\n00:31:53,480 –> 00:31:55,880
\nLong.
\nBefore he got to 17 and it had <\/p>\n
464
\n00:31:55,880 –> 00:31:59,640
\nbegun to affect his life by the
\ntime he reached 17. <\/p>\n
465
\n00:31:59,760 –> 00:32:02,800
\nAnd where did he learn all that?
\nHe didn’t have a Bible. <\/p>\n
466
\n00:32:02,800 –> 00:32:06,440
\nHe didn’t have anything there
\nthat he could put his hands on. <\/p>\n
467
\n00:32:06,440 –> 00:32:11,480
\nHe didn’t have Sunday school,
\nany young people’s activities or<\/p>\n
468
\n00:32:11,480 –> 00:32:14,800
\necclesial.
\nActivities he could go to he <\/p>\n
469
\n00:32:14,800 –> 00:32:19,480
\nlearnt by listening to his
\nfather around the table. <\/p>\n
470
\n00:32:19,960 –> 00:32:23,400
\nThe other sons didn’t want to
\nhear and often were not even <\/p>\n
471
\n00:32:23,400 –> 00:32:25,880
\nthere.
\nBut his father and his <\/p>\n
472
\n00:32:25,880 –> 00:32:28,040
\ngrandfather, who by the way was
\nstill alive. <\/p>\n
473
\n00:32:28,040 –> 00:32:33,600
\nIsaac was still alive at this
\nstage, but he not obviously had <\/p>\n
474
\n00:32:33,600 –> 00:32:40,200
\nan an intense desire himself and
\ngave his mind to heavenly <\/p>\n
475
\n00:32:40,200 –> 00:32:43,720
\nthings, and before he go he
\nreached the age of 17. <\/p>\n
476
\n00:32:44,120 –> 00:32:49,400
\nAnd young people.
\nAnd parents, there’s a powerful <\/p>\n
477
\n00:32:49,400 –> 00:32:55,000
\nlesson there.
\nWe tend not to think at times <\/p>\n
478
\n00:32:55,960 –> 00:32:59,440
\nthat our young people are
\ncapable of too much too early. <\/p>\n
479
\n00:33:00,800 –> 00:33:06,280
\nIt is amazing what the school
\nsystem can expect and require <\/p>\n
480
\n00:33:06,280 –> 00:33:13,400
\nand achieve from very young
\nteenagers at 1314 who have <\/p>\n
481
\n00:33:13,400 –> 00:33:18,640
\ndeveloping and inquiring minds
\nthat are grasping for knowledge <\/p>\n
482
\n00:33:18,640 –> 00:33:23,600
\nand understanding.
\nWe ought to fill them with godly<\/p>\n
483
\n00:33:23,600 –> 00:33:26,680
\nthings.
\nIt’s not uncommon either in <\/p>\n
484
\n00:33:26,680 –> 00:33:30,320
\nlectures.
\nTo see some of our young people,<\/p>\n
485
\n00:33:30,520 –> 00:33:34,160
\nthough it’s not all that often.
\nTo see some of our young people <\/p>\n
486
\n00:33:36,040 –> 00:33:40,640
\nmore interested in passing notes
\nto others than in anything <\/p>\n
487
\n00:33:40,640 –> 00:33:45,480
\nthat’s happening up the front.
\nYoung people. <\/p>\n
488
\n00:33:45,480 –> 00:33:47,880
\nLet’s face the real.
\nIssues. <\/p>\n
489
\n00:33:51,360 –> 00:33:55,440
\nWhat do we do with our time
\nwe’ve got? <\/p>\n
490
\n00:33:55,440 –> 00:33:58,360
\nHeaps of it.
\nHeaps and heaps of time. <\/p>\n
491
\n00:33:59,160 –> 00:34:05,320
\nI think we have, but compared to
\ngenerations of of past ages, <\/p>\n
492
\n00:34:06,400 –> 00:34:11,080
\ntoday’s generation of teenagers
\nhave an enormous amount of time <\/p>\n
493
\n00:34:11,080 –> 00:34:14,239
\nat their disposal.
\nWhat do we do? <\/p>\n
494
\n00:34:16,920 –> 00:34:21,280
\nJoseph was giving his mind to
\nserious things. <\/p>\n
495
\n00:34:21,719 –> 00:34:24,120
\nObviously.
\nBefore 17. <\/p>\n
496
\n00:34:26,080 –> 00:34:28,639
\nBecause God could.
\nPen the divine record of this <\/p>\n
497
\n00:34:28,639 –> 00:34:31,840
\nman’s life by the time he
\nreached 17. <\/p>\n
498
\n00:34:35,040 –> 00:34:37,600
\nAre we ready to shoulder
\nresponsibilities at 17? <\/p>\n
499
\n00:34:37,600 –> 00:34:44,440
\nYou know after each of the
\nstudies this week there there is<\/p>\n
500
\n00:34:44,440 –> 00:34:50,120
\na Bible marking sheet available.
\nWhat often happens with sheets <\/p>\n
501
\n00:34:50,120 –> 00:34:51,600
\nof?
\nPaper that are handed out. <\/p>\n
502
\n00:34:53,239 –> 00:34:58,400
\nSo they get jammed in the Bible
\ncover and left there until we <\/p>\n
503
\n00:34:58,400 –> 00:35:03,360
\nwant to scribble out a note and
\nsend it to somebody or write out<\/p>\n
504
\n00:35:03,360 –> 00:35:07,560
\na shopping list.
\nI wonder how many? <\/p>\n
505
\n00:35:07,560 –> 00:35:12,840
\nJosephs, we’ve got here tonight
\nyoung people who’ll be able to <\/p>\n
506
\n00:35:12,840 –> 00:35:17,920
\ncome keep up with some of the
\nactivities and ideas that are on<\/p>\n
507
\n00:35:17,920 –> 00:35:20,880
\nthat sheet.
\nThere’s one every night, every <\/p>\n
508
\n00:35:20,880 –> 00:35:27,560
\nstudy.
\nSee what you can do verse 5 and <\/p>\n
509
\n00:35:27,560 –> 00:35:32,200
\nJoseph dreamed a dream.
\nThat word dream is always used <\/p>\n
510
\n00:35:32,200 –> 00:35:35,960
\nin scripture of of visions of
\nGod always. <\/p>\n
511
\n00:35:37,600 –> 00:35:41,480
\nAnd God just doesn’t give dreams
\nor visions to just anyone. <\/p>\n
512
\n00:35:43,360 –> 00:35:47,960
\nThey only come to those of the
\nright and godly disposition. <\/p>\n
513
\n00:35:48,560 –> 00:35:52,120
\nAnd what a testimony that is to
\nhis character at this age. <\/p>\n
514
\n00:35:52,400 –> 00:35:55,120
\nAnd when the word of.
\nGod came to him, young people <\/p>\n
515
\n00:35:55,120 –> 00:35:58,920
\nand brethren, sisters, he was so
\nexcited that he had to run and <\/p>\n
516
\n00:35:58,920 –> 00:36:01,880
\ntell his brethren.
\nNow, do you think that Joseph <\/p>\n
517
\n00:36:01,880 –> 00:36:05,200
\ndidn’t know what they were like?
\nIt just told us in the previous <\/p>\n
518
\n00:36:05,200 –> 00:36:06,800
\nverse that they.
\nHated him and wouldn’t even say <\/p>\n
519
\n00:36:06,800 –> 00:36:09,440
\nhi to him, but when the word of
\nbark moved. <\/p>\n
520
\n00:36:09,440 –> 00:36:14,040
\nHim and went and told his
\nbrethren, didn’t matter whether <\/p>\n
521
\n00:36:14,040 –> 00:36:17,120
\nthey wanted to know or not.
\nHe was so excited. <\/p>\n
522
\n00:36:17,120 –> 00:36:19,880
\nBy what he’d seen and heard.
\nThat he had to go and tell them <\/p>\n
523
\n00:36:19,880 –> 00:36:25,520
\nand the more.
\nBut it didn’t crush his spirit <\/p>\n
524
\n00:36:25,520 –> 00:36:31,120
\nand we find that when he had
\nanother vision a little later. <\/p>\n
525
\n00:36:33,360 –> 00:36:37,200
\nWhat would you?
\nHave done tell if it was me I’d <\/p>\n
526
\n00:36:37,200 –> 00:36:41,600
\nbeen clipped across the air.
\nAnd given a kick out of the tent<\/p>\n
527
\n00:36:42,040 –> 00:36:43,560
\nand said get.
\nAway we don’t want to hear any <\/p>\n
528
\n00:36:43,840 –> 00:36:44,720
\nof your.
\nDreams. <\/p>\n
529
\n00:36:45,360 –> 00:36:46,920
\nWhen you had another one, would
\nyou go back? <\/p>\n
530
\n00:36:47,520 –> 00:36:51,880
\nInto the midst of those eleven
\nbrothers, I don’t think I would <\/p>\n
531
\n00:36:51,880 –> 00:36:58,800
\nhave, but he did.
\nHe went back and his brethren, <\/p>\n
532
\n00:36:58,800 –> 00:37:02,680
\nand verse 9 he dreamed yet
\nanother dream and he told it his<\/p>\n
533
\n00:37:02,680 –> 00:37:09,000
\nbrethren and he told them all
\nabout it and they hated him. <\/p>\n
534
\n00:37:10,680 –> 00:37:12,880
\nThey hated him.
\nLook at the end of verse 8 or <\/p>\n
535
\n00:37:12,960 –> 00:37:14,560
\nstart of verse 8.
\nRead all of verse 8. <\/p>\n
536
\n00:37:15,080 –> 00:37:18,840
\nAnd his brethren said unto him,
\nShalt thou indeed reign over us,<\/p>\n
537
\n00:37:19,280 –> 00:37:21,640
\nor shalt thou indeed have
\ndominion over us? <\/p>\n
538
\n00:37:21,640 –> 00:37:25,640
\nAnd they hated him, yet the more
\nfor his dreams and for. <\/p>\n
539
\n00:37:25,640 –> 00:37:29,280
\nHis words, it wasn’t just that
\nhe’d had a dream. <\/p>\n
540
\n00:37:29,400 –> 00:37:32,880
\nHe was wanting to talk about the
\ntruth, about the issues that <\/p>\n
541
\n00:37:32,880 –> 00:37:35,920
\nwere involved in those dreams.
\nHe was wanting to talk about the<\/p>\n
542
\n00:37:35,960 –> 00:37:39,160
\nword of God and made promises to
\nthem and they listen to those <\/p>\n
543
\n00:37:39,240 –> 00:37:40,120
\nwords.
\nThey didn’t want to know <\/p>\n
544
\n00:37:40,120 –> 00:37:44,600
\nanything about it, and so the
\nanimosity built up between him <\/p>\n
545
\n00:37:44,600 –> 00:37:48,320
\nand them, not on his side.
\nBut it didn’t crush his spirit <\/p>\n
546
\n00:37:48,320 –> 00:37:52,200
\nyou.
\nKnow when when he had another <\/p>\n
547
\n00:37:52,200 –> 00:37:56,640
\none he went off and told them
\nand even his father this time <\/p>\n
548
\n00:37:56,640 –> 00:37:59,200
\nrebuked him we find in verse
\nverse 10. <\/p>\n
549
\n00:38:02,640 –> 00:38:05,920
\nWhere are the Josephs today,
\nyoung people? <\/p>\n
550
\n00:38:07,080 –> 00:38:10,160
\nAnd brethren and sisters, where
\nis the Spirit of Joseph among <\/p>\n
551
\n00:38:10,200 –> 00:38:15,480
\nthose or older, where is it that
\nare so excited by the word that <\/p>\n
552
\n00:38:15,480 –> 00:38:18,280
\nthey have to tell somebody they
\nhave to not be possible. <\/p>\n
553
\n00:38:18,560 –> 00:38:20,920
\nThey want to show up about their
\nknowledge and. <\/p>\n
554
\n00:38:21,200 –> 00:38:23,400
\nAnd.
\nShow that they’re some someone <\/p>\n
555
\n00:38:23,400 –> 00:38:27,280
\nof great importance but because
\nthey’re so excited about what <\/p>\n
556
\n00:38:27,280 –> 00:38:29,760
\nGod has revealed and what he is
\ndoing in the earth and the <\/p>\n
557
\n00:38:29,760 –> 00:38:32,920
\npromises that he’s made and
\nsomething that he’s found and <\/p>\n
558
\n00:38:32,920 –> 00:38:36,240
\ndiscovered, where’s the.
\nExcitement of that. <\/p>\n
559
\n00:38:37,480 –> 00:38:39,480
\nIt’s got to be revived.
\nIt’s the Spirit. <\/p>\n
560
\n00:38:39,480 –> 00:38:42,760
\nOf a man who was able to
\nwithstand enormous pressures <\/p>\n
561
\n00:38:42,760 –> 00:38:44,680
\nyoung people and it’s part of
\nthe. <\/p>\n
562
\n00:38:44,680 –> 00:38:48,560
\nKey part of the key.
\nWe live in an age of <\/p>\n
563
\n00:38:48,560 –> 00:38:51,440
\nindifference.
\nOf of mediocrity just about <\/p>\n
564
\n00:38:51,440 –> 00:38:54,400
\nsaying that mediocrity was the
\nnational religion of Australia. <\/p>\n
565
\n00:38:55,040 –> 00:38:58,280
\nThe majority stand up for
\nnothing, let everything go past <\/p>\n
566
\n00:38:58,680 –> 00:39:01,440
\nand knock anything that comes
\npast that they don’t like. <\/p>\n
567
\n00:39:02,960 –> 00:39:05,680
\nGod is not interested in
\nlukewarmness. <\/p>\n
568
\n00:39:06,000 –> 00:39:10,480
\nHe’s not interested in half
\nheartedness, but he’s looking <\/p>\n
569
\n00:39:10,480 –> 00:39:14,760
\nfor those who tremble at his
\nword. <\/p>\n
570
\n00:39:14,760 –> 00:39:17,160
\nSaid Isaiah in chapter 66 and
\nverse 2. <\/p>\n
571
\n00:39:17,640 –> 00:39:20,400
\nMake a note of that young people
\nand look up what Rotherham says <\/p>\n
572
\n00:39:20,400 –> 00:39:21,400
\nfor.
\nThat last phrase. <\/p>\n
573
\n00:39:21,600 –> 00:39:27,320
\nHe says God will look to those
\nwho care anxiously for His Word,<\/p>\n
574
\n00:39:27,320 –> 00:39:30,160
\nand here’s one.
\nSpirit in the midst of great <\/p>\n
575
\n00:39:30,160 –> 00:39:33,240
\nanimosity.
\nWho cares anxiously? <\/p>\n
576
\n00:39:34,000 –> 00:39:39,480
\nWho is excited?
\nAbout the vision What were? <\/p>\n
577
\n00:39:39,760 –> 00:39:44,400
\nThe visions, we know what they
\nwere really very simple. <\/p>\n
578
\n00:39:46,120 –> 00:39:48,200
\nThe sheaves bowing down to
\nanother sheep. <\/p>\n
579
\n00:39:48,200 –> 00:39:50,600
\nThat was Joseph’s.
\nJoseph was to be the nourisher <\/p>\n
580
\n00:39:50,600 –> 00:39:52,560
\nof the world.
\nBut you know what Joseph took <\/p>\n
581
\n00:39:52,560 –> 00:39:55,560
\nout of that first dream?
\nHe thought about it. <\/p>\n
582
\n00:39:58,120 –> 00:40:00,520
\nHe heard what his brethren said.
\nAnd they said. <\/p>\n
583
\n00:40:01,200 –> 00:40:03,520
\nDo you think we’re going to bow
\ndown to you? <\/p>\n
584
\n00:40:04,560 –> 00:40:10,400
\nThink again and clipped him over
\nthe ears and Joseph thought <\/p>\n
585
\n00:40:10,400 –> 00:40:15,160
\nabout that.
\nIt meant that his brethren were <\/p>\n
586
\n00:40:15,160 –> 00:40:22,160
\ngoing to bow down if they it
\nmeant one of two things that <\/p>\n
587
\n00:40:22,160 –> 00:40:26,480
\neither he was going to go and
\nturn into their life and follow <\/p>\n
588
\n00:40:26,480 –> 00:40:30,040
\ntheir lifestyle and gain
\npredominance over them so that <\/p>\n
589
\n00:40:30,040 –> 00:40:31,840
\nthey would they would Lord.
\nHim. <\/p>\n
590
\n00:40:32,880 –> 00:40:35,040
\nOr they would one day be
\nconverted. <\/p>\n
591
\n00:40:36,280 –> 00:40:41,840
\nAnd that at that time was an
\nutterly impossible thought. <\/p>\n
592
\n00:40:43,840 –> 00:40:46,600
\nYou know, he believed that God
\nwas right. <\/p>\n
593
\n00:40:47,960 –> 00:40:51,080
\nHe believed that godliness in
\nthe union would prevail, and he <\/p>\n
594
\n00:40:51,080 –> 00:40:52,440
\nsaw that from that vision of
\nthe. <\/p>\n
595
\n00:40:52,440 –> 00:40:55,320
\nSheaves.
\nHe saw from the other vision <\/p>\n
596
\n00:40:55,640 –> 00:40:57,760
\nthat even his mother.
\nWould have to be resurrected <\/p>\n
597
\n00:40:57,880 –> 00:41:01,280
\nbecause she would bow down being
\nthe being the moon in that in <\/p>\n
598
\n00:41:01,280 –> 00:41:04,240
\nthat vision.
\nAnd that if his brethren were to<\/p>\n
599
\n00:41:04,240 –> 00:41:06,880
\nlikewise better, and they
\nthemselves would have to change <\/p>\n
600
\n00:41:06,880 –> 00:41:09,440
\ntheir attitudes, and would and
\nwould eventually be saved. <\/p>\n
601
\n00:41:10,520 –> 00:41:14,560
\nAnd as he mulled that over
\nbrothers and sisters, he <\/p>\n
602
\n00:41:14,560 –> 00:41:20,440
\nbelieved what was humanly
\nimpossible at that stage. <\/p>\n
603
\n00:41:21,160 –> 00:41:24,600
\nEverything was saying everything
\nthat he knew was going against <\/p>\n
604
\n00:41:25,800 –> 00:41:31,640
\nwhat that was saying.
\nYou know, this becomes the key <\/p>\n
605
\n00:41:31,640 –> 00:41:37,720
\nto Joseph’s life, young people.
\nIt’s his visions, the key to <\/p>\n
606
\n00:41:37,720 –> 00:41:38,640
\nJoseph’s life.
\nYou. <\/p>\n
607
\n00:41:40,040 –> 00:41:43,520
\nKnow the very first words in the
\nrecord of the scriptures and the<\/p>\n
608
\n00:41:43,520 –> 00:41:46,360
\nvery.
\nLast words that come from <\/p>\n
609
\n00:41:46,360 –> 00:41:51,640
\nJoseph’s mouth are about his
\nvisions, about these visions <\/p>\n
610
\n00:41:51,640 –> 00:41:55,240
\nhere, and about his vision of
\ngoing into the promised land <\/p>\n
611
\n00:41:56,520 –> 00:41:58,800
\nwhen he told his sons.
\nTo carry him up hence. <\/p>\n
612
\n00:42:00,040 –> 00:42:03,560
\nLook at verse 19.
\nThis is what his brothers, his <\/p>\n
613
\n00:42:03,560 –> 00:42:08,520
\nbrothers said about him.
\nThey said when he’d come, come <\/p>\n
614
\n00:42:08,520 –> 00:42:11,560
\nto, to, to get them and to see
\nhow they were going. <\/p>\n
615
\n00:42:12,080 –> 00:42:16,040
\nThey said one to another.
\nBehold this dreamer Comer. <\/p>\n
616
\n00:42:16,280 –> 00:42:20,360
\nLook at the margin, this master
\nof dreams. <\/p>\n
617
\n00:42:21,520 –> 00:42:23,720
\nOh, it was said tongue in cheek.
\nBrothers and sisters. <\/p>\n
618
\n00:42:23,880 –> 00:42:27,160
\nBut they knew two things.
\nThey knew that the dreams meant <\/p>\n
619
\n00:42:27,160 –> 00:42:34,400
\nsomething to him.
\nThey knew that, and they hated <\/p>\n
620
\n00:42:34,400 –> 00:42:38,360
\nhim for it.
\nThey knew he wanted to talk <\/p>\n
621
\n00:42:38,360 –> 00:42:42,440
\nabout them, and so they
\ncynically called him the Master <\/p>\n
622
\n00:42:42,440 –> 00:42:46,320
\nof Dreams.
\nBut the truth was, brethren, <\/p>\n
623
\n00:42:46,320 –> 00:42:49,880
\nsisters and young people, he was
\na Master of dreams. <\/p>\n
624
\n00:42:51,480 –> 00:42:55,960
\nHe did understand what God had
\nrevealed because He’d accepted. <\/p>\n
625
\n00:42:55,960 –> 00:43:01,880
\nIt in faith.
\nAnd it was in fact, those dreams<\/p>\n
626
\n00:43:01,880 –> 00:43:06,520
\nwhich eventually ended up saving
\nall of his brethren. <\/p>\n
627
\n00:43:06,960 –> 00:43:10,960
\nAnd they’re now here, calling
\nhim, casting this phrase in his,<\/p>\n
628
\n00:43:10,960 –> 00:43:15,360
\nin their teeth, the master of
\ndreams, and ridiculing him. <\/p>\n
629
\n00:43:16,760 –> 00:43:19,320
\nYou know he was later.
\nKnown when he came into into <\/p>\n
630
\n00:43:19,320 –> 00:43:23,160
\nEgypt as as the interpreter of
\ndreams. <\/p>\n
631
\n00:43:23,280 –> 00:43:25,640
\nSo to his own family and to the
\nGentiles. <\/p>\n
632
\n00:43:26,920 –> 00:43:29,920
\nEverybody knew had something to
\ndo with dreams and visions of <\/p>\n
633
\n00:43:29,920 –> 00:43:35,640
\nGod, and it was his dreams,
\nthese dreams here in particular,<\/p>\n
634
\n00:43:36,000 –> 00:43:39,360
\nthese two dreams.
\nBecause we read of no others. <\/p>\n
635
\n00:43:39,440 –> 00:43:43,920
\nAt this stage of his life that
\nwere critical to his survival in<\/p>\n
636
\n00:43:43,920 –> 00:43:47,080
\nthe days ahead, you know, he
\ncouldn’t even guess or imagine <\/p>\n
637
\n00:43:47,760 –> 00:43:49,880
\nwhat was going to happen.
\nI mean, we know the end of the <\/p>\n
638
\n00:43:49,880 –> 00:43:51,520
\nstory.
\nWe know what happened and and <\/p>\n
639
\n00:43:51,520 –> 00:43:53,120
\nhow everything worked out.
\nFine at the end. <\/p>\n
640
\n00:43:53,280 –> 00:43:56,840
\nBut to him, at this stage, he
\nhad no idea how God could ever <\/p>\n
641
\n00:43:56,840 –> 00:43:59,880
\npossibly bring those dreams to
\nfruition. <\/p>\n
642
\n00:44:01,600 –> 00:44:07,360
\nThere is nothing else, nothing
\nelse, young people, except faith<\/p>\n
643
\n00:44:07,440 –> 00:44:10,920
\nin what God has revealed,
\ndespite what we see. <\/p>\n
644
\n00:44:11,640 –> 00:44:14,000
\nThat will sustain us under times
\nof pressure. <\/p>\n
645
\n00:44:16,240 –> 00:44:21,040
\nAnd when Joseph himself was
\nunder even more extreme pressure<\/p>\n
646
\n00:44:21,240 –> 00:44:25,800
\nthan he was in his family, those
\ndreams came back. <\/p>\n
647
\n00:44:26,560 –> 00:44:29,480
\nYou know, that’s not even the
\nmost critical thing. <\/p>\n
648
\n00:44:30,520 –> 00:44:36,480
\nThe most important thing to note
\nis that those visions were <\/p>\n
649
\n00:44:36,640 –> 00:44:46,320
\nembedded in his mind in youth.
\nYou know, we’re going to start <\/p>\n
650
\n00:44:47,320 –> 00:44:51,800
\nto build a picture of what this
\ntheme is all about, and there’s <\/p>\n
651
\n00:44:51,800 –> 00:44:55,160
\none building block.
\nThere was something embedded in <\/p>\n
652
\n00:44:55,160 –> 00:45:00,480
\nJoseph’s mind, young people, and
\nit was those visions and it was <\/p>\n
653
\n00:45:00,480 –> 00:45:02,560
\nin his youth.
\nThe word of God had made an <\/p>\n
654
\n00:45:02,560 –> 00:45:07,000
\nimpression on his mind and he
\nactually loved it and believed <\/p>\n
655
\n00:45:07,000 –> 00:45:08,680
\nit, and he thought about it very
\noften. <\/p>\n
656
\n00:45:09,200 –> 00:45:11,680
\nI was going to know ever again.
\nHe thought about those dreams. <\/p>\n
657
\n00:45:12,080 –> 00:45:14,040
\nHe didn’t know how on earth God
\ncould. <\/p>\n
658
\n00:45:14,080 –> 00:45:17,560
\nEver bring them to pass?
\nBut he believed God would do it.<\/p>\n
659
\n00:45:18,200 –> 00:45:20,600
\nAnd that’s all that mattered.
\nAnd what a. <\/p>\n
660
\n00:45:20,600 –> 00:45:27,840
\nSpirit that gave to that man.
\nAs he grew up from 17 to 18 and <\/p>\n
661
\n00:45:27,840 –> 00:45:30,400
\nonwards, look at verse 4, verse
\n12. <\/p>\n
662
\n00:45:32,000 –> 00:45:33,520
\nHis brethren went to feed their
\nFather’s. <\/p>\n
663
\n00:45:33,520 –> 00:45:39,720
\nFlock in Shechem And Israel said
\nto Joseph, Do not thy brethren <\/p>\n
664
\n00:45:39,720 –> 00:45:42,520
\nfeed the flock in Shechem?
\nCome, and I’ll send them, Send <\/p>\n
665
\n00:45:42,520 –> 00:45:46,200
\nthee unto them.
\nAnd he said to him. <\/p>\n
666
\n00:45:48,440 –> 00:45:53,240
\nHere am I.
\nAnd he said to him, Go, I pray <\/p>\n
667
\n00:45:53,240 –> 00:45:56,560
\nthee, see whether it be well
\nwith thy brethren, and well with<\/p>\n
668
\n00:45:56,560 –> 00:45:58,160
\nthe flocks, and bring me word
\nagain. <\/p>\n
669
\n00:45:59,240 –> 00:46:02,720
\nAnd so he sent him out of the
\nVale of Hebron, and he came to <\/p>\n
670
\n00:46:02,720 –> 00:46:07,240
\nShechem.
\nDo you think that Joseph didn’t <\/p>\n
671
\n00:46:07,240 –> 00:46:08,640
\nknow what his brethren were
\nlike? <\/p>\n
672
\n00:46:09,000 –> 00:46:11,680
\nOf course he did.
\nDo you think that Jacob didn’t <\/p>\n
673
\n00:46:11,680 –> 00:46:12,920
\nknow what those brethren were
\nlike? <\/p>\n
674
\n00:46:13,440 –> 00:46:15,360
\nThat they hated Joseph?
\nOf course he did. <\/p>\n
675
\n00:46:15,640 –> 00:46:19,200
\nWhy did he ask Joseph to go?
\nWhat a man craft thing to do. <\/p>\n
676
\n00:46:21,960 –> 00:46:28,800
\nBut Jacob knew that Joseph alone
\nhad the welfare of his brethren <\/p>\n
677
\n00:46:28,800 –> 00:46:37,680
\nat heart, and he would truly
\nbring that Joseph alone had the <\/p>\n
678
\n00:46:37,680 –> 00:46:41,920
\nwelfare of his brethren at
\nheart, and he would truly bring.<\/p>\n
679
\n00:46:41,920 –> 00:46:48,400
\nBack an honest report about
\ntheir welfare and look at <\/p>\n
680
\n00:46:48,400 –> 00:46:51,920
\nJoseph’s attitude when Jacob
\nsays to him. <\/p>\n
681
\n00:46:52,120 –> 00:46:54,120
\nI want you to go.
\nTo your brethren to see how they<\/p>\n
682
\n00:46:54,120 –> 00:46:59,600
\nare.
\nHe says here am I. <\/p>\n
683
\n00:47:00,920 –> 00:47:02,040
\nYou know what I would have been
\nthinking? <\/p>\n
684
\n00:47:09,840 –> 00:47:12,120
\nTold you about all the things
\nthat they’re up to. <\/p>\n
685
\n00:47:12,120 –> 00:47:15,640
\nDon’t kill me.
\nIf you’re not around, don’t <\/p>\n
686
\n00:47:15,640 –> 00:47:20,600
\nsend.
\nMe. <\/p>\n
687
\n00:47:20,600 –> 00:47:23,520
\nAll he said was Father, here am
\nI. <\/p>\n
688
\n00:47:25,600 –> 00:47:29,440
\nAnd Joseph watched his son.
\nGo out of the Vale of fellowship<\/p>\n
689
\n00:47:29,960 –> 00:47:35,200
\ntowards Shechem.
\nHe went as we read in verse 16. <\/p>\n
690
\n00:47:35,200 –> 00:47:37,600
\nLook at this, these words,
\nbrethren and sisters. <\/p>\n
691
\n00:47:39,440 –> 00:47:43,080
\nAnd he said, I, I seek my
\nbrethren. <\/p>\n
692
\n00:47:44,760 –> 00:47:48,520
\nVerse 17.
\nSo Joseph went after his <\/p>\n
693
\n00:47:48,520 –> 00:47:49,960
\nbrethren, and found them at
\nDothan. <\/p>\n
694
\n00:47:50,720 –> 00:47:53,440
\nWhen he got to the place that he
\nwas expecting to find them and <\/p>\n
695
\n00:47:53,440 –> 00:47:56,280
\ndidn’t find them, if that was
\nme, I’d be back to Hebron as <\/p>\n
696
\n00:47:56,280 –> 00:47:58,680
\nfast as I could and told my
\nfather that I couldn’t find him <\/p>\n
697
\n00:47:58,680 –> 00:48:03,240
\nanywhere but.
\nHe went searching and till he <\/p>\n
698
\n00:48:03,240 –> 00:48:05,760
\nfound them.
\nWhat a spirit, young people, <\/p>\n
699
\n00:48:05,960 –> 00:48:08,680
\nwhat a spirit.
\nAnd he was going out to Shechem <\/p>\n
700
\n00:48:08,680 –> 00:48:12,000
\nof old places.
\nYou know, Levi and Simeon had <\/p>\n
701
\n00:48:12,000 –> 00:48:17,480
\nmade that region to stink in
\nJacob’s in the eyes of the OR <\/p>\n
702
\n00:48:17,480 –> 00:48:19,880
\nJacob’s name to stink in the
\neyes of all the people of that <\/p>\n
703
\n00:48:19,880 –> 00:48:22,720
\nregion because of their their
\ndeception and wickedness only a <\/p>\n
704
\n00:48:22,720 –> 00:48:28,440
\nshort time before to move on.
\nThey told their father that <\/p>\n
705
\n00:48:28,440 –> 00:48:30,560
\nwe’re going out to Shechem,
\nwhich was all. <\/p>\n
706
\n00:48:30,560 –> 00:48:33,680
\nVery noble because that was the
\nplace where the inheritance was.<\/p>\n
707
\n00:48:33,800 –> 00:48:36,040
\nThat’s the place where Abraham
\nfirst appeared. <\/p>\n
708
\n00:48:36,040 –> 00:48:38,360
\nWhen he came into the land and
\nbuilt an altar, and so they. <\/p>\n
709
\n00:48:38,360 –> 00:48:40,800
\nTold their father we’re going
\nout to Shechem dad to feed the. <\/p>\n
710
\n00:48:40,800 –> 00:48:43,560
\nFlocks when Jacob.
\nWhen Joseph got there, they <\/p>\n
711
\n00:48:43,560 –> 00:48:48,080
\nweren’t at Shechem.
\nThey weren’t interested in the <\/p>\n
712
\n00:48:48,080 –> 00:48:53,520
\ninheritance.
\nShechem was a place of decision <\/p>\n
713
\n00:48:53,520 –> 00:48:56,040
\nmaking.
\nIt’s very, very fascinating. <\/p>\n
714
\n00:48:56,240 –> 00:48:58,920
\nOn the Biomarking sheet, it
\nshows all the places that <\/p>\n
715
\n00:48:58,920 –> 00:49:00,960
\nShechem is used.
\nCheck it out. <\/p>\n
716
\n00:49:01,480 –> 00:49:04,920
\nIt’s used throughout Scripture
\nas a place where decisions were <\/p>\n
717
\n00:49:04,920 –> 00:49:07,400
\nmade, important decisions to go
\nthis. <\/p>\n
718
\n00:49:07,400 –> 00:49:09,680
\nWell, that and they went out to
\nshake and. <\/p>\n
719
\n00:49:10,160 –> 00:49:12,280
\nTold their father going out to
\nthe field of the inheritance. <\/p>\n
720
\n00:49:12,280 –> 00:49:15,680
\nDad got out there.
\nAnd ticked off into the world. <\/p>\n
721
\n00:49:15,680 –> 00:49:18,880
\nThat’s exactly what they did.
\nBecause you think this. <\/p>\n
722
\n00:49:19,080 –> 00:49:22,840
\nWhen Abraham came from earth, he
\nmarched all the way down and <\/p>\n
723
\n00:49:22,840 –> 00:49:24,840
\ncame into the land.
\nThe very first place he came to <\/p>\n
724
\n00:49:24,840 –> 00:49:27,640
\nwas Shechem.
\nAnd there he made a decision and<\/p>\n
725
\n00:49:27,640 –> 00:49:29,240
\nhe built an altar and worshiped
\nYahweh. <\/p>\n
726
\n00:49:29,600 –> 00:49:32,160
\nThen he moved up through the
\nland and eventually came to <\/p>\n
727
\n00:49:32,160 –> 00:49:34,840
\nHebron where he was there in
\nfellowship with God. <\/p>\n
728
\n00:49:35,400 –> 00:49:41,480
\nNow his sons, the sons of Jacob,
\nMarch out of fellowship down to <\/p>\n
729
\n00:49:41,480 –> 00:49:44,800
\nShechem, where decisions are
\nwant to be made. <\/p>\n
730
\n00:49:45,400 –> 00:49:47,840
\nThey make the wrong decision and
\ndon’t come back. <\/p>\n
731
\n00:49:48,160 –> 00:49:50,840
\nThey’d go out to Dothan.
\nYou know what Dothan was on the <\/p>\n
732
\n00:49:50,840 –> 00:49:53,280
\ncaravan routes?
\nOh, there was plenty of <\/p>\n
733
\n00:49:53,280 –> 00:49:56,640
\nexcitement out there.
\nIt wasn’t like dull old Hebron. <\/p>\n
734
\n00:49:57,600 –> 00:50:00,880
\nThere was all sorts of bright
\nlights you could get. <\/p>\n
735
\n00:50:00,880 –> 00:50:09,640
\nAnything you wanted, anything
\nyou wanted, that’s what Dothan. <\/p>\n
736
\n00:50:09,680 –> 00:50:14,320
\nWas it suited their lifestyle?
\nTheir restrictions were gone. <\/p>\n
737
\n00:50:15,360 –> 00:50:19,640
\nThey didn’t have this, this
\nfield of shaken behind them all <\/p>\n
738
\n00:50:19,640 –> 00:50:22,920
\nthe time, reminding them of
\nthese awful visions and <\/p>\n
739
\n00:50:22,920 –> 00:50:26,120
\npromises.
\nAnd we know where their minds <\/p>\n
740
\n00:50:26,120 –> 00:50:28,040
\nwere.
\nThat’s not a caricature of them.<\/p>\n
741
\n00:50:28,360 –> 00:50:32,400
\nWe know where their minds were
\nbecause verse 18 says, and when <\/p>\n
742
\n00:50:32,400 –> 00:50:37,480
\nthey saw him afar off, even
\nbefore he came near, they <\/p>\n
743
\n00:50:37,480 –> 00:50:40,440
\nconspired to slay him.
\nIn their heart was murder, <\/p>\n
744
\n00:50:40,640 –> 00:50:44,200
\ndeception, lies.
\nThey hated the sight of the <\/p>\n
745
\n00:50:44,200 –> 00:50:47,080
\ntruth.
\nOh, they were in that <\/p>\n
746
\n00:50:47,080 –> 00:50:52,360
\nenvironment reluctantly, but
\nthey had two feet in the world <\/p>\n
747
\n00:50:52,360 –> 00:50:53,720
\nand.
\nThat’s where they wanted to be. <\/p>\n
748
\n00:50:54,360 –> 00:50:58,400
\nYou imagined this scene.
\nVerse 23 came to pass when <\/p>\n
749
\n00:50:58,400 –> 00:51:00,400
\nJoseph was come unto his
\nbrethren, they. <\/p>\n
750
\n00:51:00,400 –> 00:51:02,440
\nStripped.
\nJoseph out of his coat of many <\/p>\n
751
\n00:51:02,440 –> 00:51:06,160
\ncolours that was on him, and
\nthey took him and and they. <\/p>\n
752
\n00:51:06,160 –> 00:51:09,720
\nCast him.
\nInto the pit that was empty and <\/p>\n
753
\n00:51:09,720 –> 00:51:12,240
\nthere was no water in there and
\nthey sat down to eat bread they <\/p>\n
754
\n00:51:12,240 –> 00:51:14,520
\nhad their lunch well, he’s
\ncrying out of the pit. <\/p>\n
755
\n00:51:14,840 –> 00:51:17,320
\nMake a note of chapter 42 and
\nverse 21. <\/p>\n
756
\n00:51:17,320 –> 00:51:20,360
\nWe haven’t got time to look at
\nit at the moment, but there they<\/p>\n
757
\n00:51:20,400 –> 00:51:24,320
\nremembered in their minds
\nvividly 20 years later when they<\/p>\n
758
\n00:51:24,320 –> 00:51:27,640
\nwere standing in the.
\nCourts of Joseph in Egypt. <\/p>\n
759
\n00:51:27,800 –> 00:51:30,800
\nUnbeknownst to them that who
\nthis man that they were standing<\/p>\n
760
\n00:51:30,800 –> 00:51:35,960
\nbefore was and they said.
\nOh, we remember the anguish of <\/p>\n
761
\n00:51:35,960 –> 00:51:39,920
\nhis soul.
\nAnd how he cried to us and we <\/p>\n
762
\n00:51:39,920 –> 00:51:42,440
\nwouldn’t listen.
\nHe was crying and I got the <\/p>\n
763
\n00:51:42,440 –> 00:51:43,800
\nbrethren.
\nWhat are you doing this to me? <\/p>\n
764
\n00:51:43,800 –> 00:51:46,360
\nFor and they just ate their.
\nLunch. <\/p>\n
765
\n00:51:47,160 –> 00:51:51,440
\nThen they stripped him naked and
\nthey bathed and had fun with him<\/p>\n
766
\n00:51:52,280 –> 00:51:57,160
\nwith the merchants.
\nNo, we’ve. <\/p>\n
767
\n00:51:57,160 –> 00:52:04,000
\nGot things to buy and date them.
\nAnd his humiliation, the pain, <\/p>\n
768
\n00:52:04,000 –> 00:52:08,000
\nthe anguish of a godly and
\nsensitive man was only just <\/p>\n
769
\n00:52:08,000 –> 00:52:12,640
\nstarting because he had to
\nMarch, probably naked, chained. <\/p>\n
770
\n00:52:13,080 –> 00:52:16,360
\nAll the way to Egypt.
\nImagine it and. <\/p>\n
771
\n00:52:19,560 –> 00:52:24,720
\nWhat would you be thinking?
\nManhandled, beaten, humiliated, <\/p>\n
772
\n00:52:25,040 –> 00:52:28,040
\nsold as a slave, you’d be, I
\ndrew. <\/p>\n
773
\n00:52:28,520 –> 00:52:32,160
\nThe Brethren.
\nBut there’s not an ounce of that<\/p>\n
774
\n00:52:32,160 –> 00:52:33,680
\nin Joseph.
\nNot an ounce. <\/p>\n
775
\n00:52:34,160 –> 00:52:36,800
\nHe goes to a strange land.
\nHe’s sold to the chief of the <\/p>\n
776
\n00:52:36,800 –> 00:52:43,480
\nslaughterman, he’s sold body and
\nsoul, and he’s scared stiff. <\/p>\n
777
\n00:52:44,920 –> 00:52:48,400
\nAnd who cares?
\nHe’d done nothing wrong. <\/p>\n
778
\n00:52:49,120 –> 00:52:51,800
\nWhy was he there?
\nWho was the justice in that? <\/p>\n
779
\n00:52:51,800 –> 00:52:53,440
\nWhy had God allowed this to
\nhappen? <\/p>\n
780
\n00:52:53,640 –> 00:52:56,320
\nAll he’d done was out seeking
\nthe welfare of his brethren, and<\/p>\n
781
\n00:52:56,320 –> 00:52:58,200
\nnow he’s in.
\nIn a strange and he didn’t even <\/p>\n
782
\n00:52:58,200 –> 00:53:01,400
\nknow where it was.
\nThat was only because he <\/p>\n
783
\n00:53:01,400 –> 00:53:03,240
\nbelieved.
\nIf he hadn’t believed in those <\/p>\n
784
\n00:53:03,240 –> 00:53:04,760
\npromises, he wouldn’t have been
\nthere. <\/p>\n
785
\n00:53:04,960 –> 00:53:07,640
\nThat’s very true.
\nYoung people, sometimes we might<\/p>\n
786
\n00:53:07,640 –> 00:53:11,360
\nfind ourselves in circumstances
\nand we could think back. <\/p>\n
787
\n00:53:11,360 –> 00:53:15,480
\nIf only I hadn’t had anything to
\ntell the truth, I wouldn’t be <\/p>\n
788
\n00:53:15,480 –> 00:53:19,400
\nhere.
\nWell, it’s very true. <\/p>\n
789
\n00:53:20,120 –> 00:53:23,680
\nThere are circumstances that God
\nwill take us in that we would. <\/p>\n
790
\n00:53:23,680 –> 00:53:27,600
\nNever ever have been in.
\nWas it not for the truth, young <\/p>\n
791
\n00:53:27,600 –> 00:53:30,480
\npeople?
\nUnderstand that that’s how God <\/p>\n
792
\n00:53:30,480 –> 00:53:33,360
\nworks and in the end.
\nThe. <\/p>\n
793
\n00:53:33,360 –> 00:53:40,960
\nPrize was enormous, but then it
\nwas a very bitter pill. <\/p>\n
794
\n00:53:42,200 –> 00:53:45,560
\nHe didn’t know what to do.
\nHe didn’t know the end of the <\/p>\n
795
\n00:53:45,560 –> 00:53:47,680
\nstory.
\nLike we did, like we do. <\/p>\n
796
\n00:53:47,680 –> 00:53:49,480
\nAnd we read all of this and
\nknow. <\/p>\n
797
\n00:53:49,920 –> 00:53:54,160
\nHow it ended up he.
\nHad no idea what would happen to<\/p>\n
798
\n00:53:54,160 –> 00:53:56,240
\nhim when he got to this new
\nland. <\/p>\n
799
\n00:53:58,120 –> 00:54:03,800
\nHe is a godly young man with the
\nanguish of his soul. <\/p>\n
800
\n00:54:06,000 –> 00:54:09,480
\nWho could he turn to?
\nThere was no father to talk to. <\/p>\n
801
\n00:54:10,360 –> 00:54:13,120
\nJacob was not there.
\nHe didn’t know whether he’d ever<\/p>\n
802
\n00:54:13,120 –> 00:54:18,400
\nsee him again.
\nAnd he turned to his only source<\/p>\n
803
\n00:54:18,400 –> 00:54:22,320
\nof comfort, to his Father in the
\nheaven. <\/p>\n
804
\n00:54:24,440 –> 00:54:30,280
\nAnd he poured out his soul unto
\nGod, doubtless, for night after <\/p>\n
805
\n00:54:30,280 –> 00:54:36,400
\nnight he had no sleep.
\nBut what began to burn in his <\/p>\n
806
\n00:54:36,400 –> 00:54:41,480
\nbrain was something that had
\nbeen embedded there in its <\/p>\n
807
\n00:54:41,480 –> 00:54:48,400
\nyouth, those visions.
\nHe had something to think about <\/p>\n
808
\n00:54:49,400 –> 00:54:54,120
\nbecause it was in his mind, and
\nit renewed him. <\/p>\n
809
\n00:54:54,920 –> 00:55:02,880
\nIt lifted him and he believed
\nGod would do what he said. <\/p>\n
810
\n00:55:04,680 –> 00:55:08,160
\nIsn’t that amazing, young
\npeople? <\/p>\n
811
\n00:55:08,160 –> 00:55:13,760
\nIf he’d had nothing in his mind,
\nIf those visions had been in a <\/p>\n
812
\n00:55:13,800 –> 00:55:17,080
\nbook on.
\nPaper when he got to Egypt and <\/p>\n
813
\n00:55:17,080 –> 00:55:21,280
\nhis book was left at home.
\nHe would have. <\/p>\n
814
\n00:55:21,440 –> 00:55:23,720
\nDied in the bitterness of his
\nsoul. <\/p>\n
815
\n00:55:26,680 –> 00:55:29,960
\nBut something had come out of
\nthere, into his mind. <\/p>\n
816
\n00:55:29,960 –> 00:55:33,880
\nAnd had so generated a power
\nthere that he could dwell on and<\/p>\n
817
\n00:55:33,880 –> 00:55:39,320
\nthink on, that lifted him up and
\nbore him in very, very. <\/p>\n
818
\n00:55:39,320 –> 00:55:44,120
\nDifficult circumstances.
\nThat’s the power. <\/p>\n
819
\n00:55:44,760 –> 00:55:48,280
\nThat faith can have, but you
\nknow faith can’t work. <\/p>\n
820
\n00:55:48,280 –> 00:55:52,240
\nUnless anything’s in our minds.
\nUnless what God has promised is <\/p>\n
821
\n00:55:52,360 –> 00:55:57,760
\nactually there, remembered,
\nthought about, chewed over. <\/p>\n
822
\n00:55:58,360 –> 00:56:03,000
\nAnd that’s what he did, night
\nafter night, month after month, <\/p>\n
823
\n00:56:03,320 –> 00:56:06,280
\nnot knowing what would happen
\nnext or how he’d be treated. <\/p>\n
824
\n00:56:07,400 –> 00:56:10,720
\nAnd don’t think that in Egypt
\nthey treated slaves well. <\/p>\n
825
\n00:56:10,720 –> 00:56:14,000
\nThey didn’t.
\nThey were like pieces of <\/p>\n
826
\n00:56:14,160 –> 00:56:19,040
\nproperty.
\nAnd look where he comes. <\/p>\n
827
\n00:56:20,400 –> 00:56:24,960
\nChapter 39 And verse one, He was
\nbrought down to Egypt unto <\/p>\n
828
\n00:56:24,960 –> 00:56:29,800
\nPotiphar, an officer of Pharaoh,
\ncaptain of the garden, an <\/p>\n
829
\n00:56:29,800 –> 00:56:33,160
\nEgyptian bought him of the hands
\nof the Ishmaelites which had <\/p>\n
830
\n00:56:33,160 –> 00:56:39,600
\ncome down thither.
\nAnd Yahweh was with him, and he <\/p>\n
831
\n00:56:39,600 –> 00:56:44,440
\nwas a prosperous man, and he was
\nin the House of his master, the <\/p>\n
832
\n00:56:44,440 –> 00:56:47,600
\nEgyptian.
\nYahweh was with him, you. <\/p>\n
833
\n00:56:48,360 –> 00:56:49,040
\nKnow what?
\nThe Prophet. <\/p>\n
834
\n00:56:49,040 –> 00:56:51,360
\nSaid to King ASA, he said
\nYahweh. <\/p>\n
835
\n00:56:51,880 –> 00:56:54,800
\nIs with you while you be with
\nhim. <\/p>\n
836
\n00:56:56,680 –> 00:57:00,760
\nBut if you forsake him, he will
\nforsake you, and this record is <\/p>\n
837
\n00:57:00,760 –> 00:57:03,000
\nsaying.
\nThat Yahweh is in four times in <\/p>\n
838
\n00:57:03,000 –> 00:57:04,240
\nthis.
\nChapter it says that young <\/p>\n
839
\n00:57:04,240 –> 00:57:06,520
\npeople four times.
\nWe’re told that. <\/p>\n
840
\n00:57:06,520 –> 00:57:10,720
\nYahweh was with him in a very
\ndifficult circumstance and the <\/p>\n
841
\n00:57:10,720 –> 00:57:14,240
\nwords prosperous there in verse
\ntwo really means successful. <\/p>\n
842
\n00:57:14,440 –> 00:57:16,240
\nHe was a very successful man.
\nHe did. <\/p>\n
843
\n00:57:16,560 –> 00:57:18,160
\nBemoan his light and sit down
\nand. <\/p>\n
844
\n00:57:18,160 –> 00:57:20,000
\nGripe about what his brothers
\nhad done to him. <\/p>\n
845
\n00:57:20,160 –> 00:57:21,920
\nHe just made the most of the
\nsituation. <\/p>\n
846
\n00:57:22,120 –> 00:57:24,280
\nHe saw that God was obviously
\nworking. <\/p>\n
847
\n00:57:24,280 –> 00:57:25,880
\nHe didn’t know how.
\nWhen or where? <\/p>\n
848
\n00:57:26,520 –> 00:57:31,000
\nBut he believed that God was
\nright and he just got on and did<\/p>\n
849
\n00:57:31,000 –> 00:57:33,680
\nwhat he was told and he showed
\ninitiative. <\/p>\n
850
\n00:57:34,280 –> 00:57:37,320
\nHe was diligent young people and
\nhe made the most of those <\/p>\n
851
\n00:57:37,320 –> 00:57:40,320
\ncircumstances.
\nAn amazing thing happened. <\/p>\n
852
\n00:57:40,320 –> 00:57:43,480
\nVerse. 3.
\nAnd his master saw that Yahweh <\/p>\n
853
\n00:57:43,480 –> 00:57:46,680
\nwas with him, and that Yahweh
\nmade all that He did to prosper <\/p>\n
854
\n00:57:46,680 –> 00:57:48,920
\nin His hand.
\nYou know that, Master. <\/p>\n
855
\n00:57:48,960 –> 00:57:51,920
\nBlood of us saw that Joseph was
\ndifferent from every other slave<\/p>\n
856
\n00:57:51,920 –> 00:57:53,920
\nthat he’d ever seen.
\nHe’d never ever seen a slave <\/p>\n
857
\n00:57:53,920 –> 00:57:58,040
\nquite like this before.
\nI just wonder, young people, how<\/p>\n
858
\n00:57:58,040 –> 00:58:00,120
\nmany?
\nAnd not, not so young, whether <\/p>\n
859
\n00:58:00,120 –> 00:58:03,120
\nwe’re in the workforce or not
\nold school, I wonder how many of<\/p>\n
860
\n00:58:03,240 –> 00:58:06,160
\nour masters, our teachers or
\nwhatever. <\/p>\n
861
\n00:58:07,400 –> 00:58:09,680
\nSee us as.
\nBeing very different and notice <\/p>\n
862
\n00:58:09,680 –> 00:58:12,400
\nus as being very different.
\nBut that’s not just what this <\/p>\n
863
\n00:58:12,440 –> 00:58:14,120
\nrecord is saying, brothers and
\nsisters. <\/p>\n
864
\n00:58:14,920 –> 00:58:20,680
\nIt says that his master saw that
\nYahweh was with him. <\/p>\n
865
\n00:58:20,880 –> 00:58:23,480
\nIt doesn’t say that he saw that
\nJoseph was different from every <\/p>\n
866
\n00:58:23,480 –> 00:58:29,160
\nother slave that he saw before.
\nIt says he saw that Yahweh was <\/p>\n
867
\n00:58:30,080 –> 00:58:32,600
\nwith Yahweh as.
\nIsrael’s God. <\/p>\n
868
\n00:58:33,400 –> 00:58:38,560
\nIt’s only one way, Joseph.
\nWas the only one in Egypt who <\/p>\n
869
\n00:58:38,560 –> 00:58:41,920
\nknew anything about that.
\nAnd he’d obviously told his <\/p>\n
870
\n00:58:41,920 –> 00:58:45,560
\nmaster about it.
\nAnd his master had been very <\/p>\n
871
\n00:58:45,720 –> 00:58:49,520
\nimpressed.
\nHe’d told him about the visions,<\/p>\n
872
\n00:58:49,520 –> 00:58:52,880
\nno doubt, and that Yahweh had
\ngiven him and had he just went <\/p>\n
873
\n00:58:53,040 –> 00:58:56,520
\ndiligently and, and efficiently
\nabout his work every day. <\/p>\n
874
\n00:58:56,520 –> 00:58:59,760
\nAnd his master sat back and
\nthought, this is a man of <\/p>\n
875
\n00:58:59,760 –> 00:59:02,000
\nreally, there’s something behind
\nhim. <\/p>\n
876
\n00:59:02,640 –> 00:59:06,280
\nHis God is obviously worth some
\nconsideration. <\/p>\n
877
\n00:59:06,280 –> 00:59:10,000
\nAnd he noted that.
\nI wonder just how many of our <\/p>\n
878
\n00:59:10,000 –> 00:59:12,840
\nassociates know that Yahweh is
\nwith us. <\/p>\n
879
\n00:59:13,880 –> 00:59:15,640
\nYou answer that for yourself,
\nyoung people. <\/p>\n
880
\n00:59:16,360 –> 00:59:17,960
\nHow many of your associates know
\nthat? <\/p>\n
881
\n00:59:17,960 –> 00:59:22,400
\nIt could only be because we’ve
\ntold them about our God. <\/p>\n
882
\n00:59:23,160 –> 00:59:25,120
\nAnd Joseph’s prepared to make a
\nstand there. <\/p>\n
883
\n00:59:25,320 –> 00:59:27,160
\nHe’s the only one.
\nHe didn’t have to. <\/p>\n
884
\n00:59:27,160 –> 00:59:29,800
\nThere’s no one else there.
\nTo to say, go on, say something <\/p>\n
885
\n00:59:29,800 –> 00:59:32,320
\nnow.
\nWorking in an office where <\/p>\n
886
\n00:59:32,320 –> 00:59:36,880
\nthere’s 16 Christadelphians,
\nthere was a land of gross <\/p>\n
887
\n00:59:36,880 –> 00:59:39,240
\nidolatry.
\nThey wanted nothing to do with <\/p>\n
888
\n00:59:39,240 –> 00:59:44,080
\nthe the one true God of some
\nlittle tin pot family down miles<\/p>\n
889
\n00:59:44,080 –> 00:59:45,520
\naway they’d never heard of
\nbefore. <\/p>\n
890
\n00:59:45,520 –> 00:59:49,720
\nYou know, this becomes a
\ncharacteristic of Joseph in the <\/p>\n
891
\n00:59:49,720 –> 00:59:52,840
\nrecord.
\nHe didn’t let up speaking to his<\/p>\n
892
\n00:59:52,840 –> 00:59:54,920
\nbrethren until they’d sold him
\ninto Egypt. <\/p>\n
893
\n00:59:55,320 –> 00:59:56,440
\nHe never.
\nEver let up? <\/p>\n
894
\n00:59:57,360 –> 00:59:59,560
\nWhen he got in there, he talked
\nto Potiphar, he talked to <\/p>\n
895
\n00:59:59,560 –> 01:00:01,880
\nPotiphar’s wife, he got into
\nprison and he talked to the <\/p>\n
896
\n01:00:01,880 –> 01:00:03,480
\nprison officer.
\nHe. <\/p>\n
897
\n01:00:05,160 –> 01:00:07,280
\nTold everybody about the truth.
\nAnd you know what? <\/p>\n
898
\n01:00:08,040 –> 01:00:11,920
\nEverybody that he ever came in
\ncontact with knew that he was <\/p>\n
899
\n01:00:11,920 –> 01:00:15,600
\nmotivated by something that was
\nvery different from them. <\/p>\n
900
\n01:00:16,840 –> 01:00:20,120
\nThey knew that there were
\nvisions of God that were in this<\/p>\n
901
\n01:00:20,120 –> 01:00:26,680
\nman’s mind and that somehow,
\namazingly, he believed and it <\/p>\n
902
\n01:00:26,680 –> 01:00:30,320
\nwas seen in his life.
\nYoung people, it’s very <\/p>\n
903
\n01:00:30,320 –> 01:00:33,120
\nimportant to make a stand.
\nIf you start. <\/p>\n
904
\n01:00:33,120 –> 01:00:36,880
\nA job or wherever you go at
\nschool, with friends, with <\/p>\n
905
\n01:00:36,880 –> 01:00:41,760
\nwhoever and proven citizens just
\nas important for us too, not to <\/p>\n
906
\n01:00:41,760 –> 01:00:44,360
\nmake a stand at arrogance.
\nI mean, you can’t imagine Joseph<\/p>\n
907
\n01:00:44,360 –> 01:00:46,680
\nmarching into Potiphar and
\nsaying, now listen here, <\/p>\n
908
\n01:00:46,680 –> 01:00:52,400
\nPotiphar, I’m a Hebrew, got it.
\nUnderstand God is the ruler of <\/p>\n
909
\n01:00:52,440 –> 01:00:55,800
\nthe world and you people are
\ndust. <\/p>\n
910
\n01:00:57,880 –> 01:01:01,800
\nHe waited for an opportunity and
\nhe sensitively and carefully <\/p>\n
911
\n01:01:01,800 –> 01:01:07,840
\ntold him about Yahweh’s plan and
\npurpose, and from then on <\/p>\n
912
\n01:01:08,080 –> 01:01:13,280
\nPotiphar hired him off and his
\nbehaviour became a constant <\/p>\n
913
\n01:01:13,280 –> 01:01:15,840
\nwitness.
\nYoung people never ever think <\/p>\n
914
\n01:01:16,200 –> 01:01:19,160
\nthat after we’ve opened our
\nmouth to talk the truth that <\/p>\n
915
\n01:01:19,160 –> 01:01:23,720
\npeople will not observe us.
\nThey’ll observe us for. <\/p>\n
916
\n01:01:23,720 –> 01:01:28,280
\nGood or I’ll.
\nThey’ll either be impressed that<\/p>\n
917
\n01:01:28,280 –> 01:01:33,560
\nwe do really believe, or they’ll
\nbe turned forever from the truth<\/p>\n
918
\n01:01:34,480 –> 01:01:37,920
\nby the utter and sheer hypocrisy
\nthat they see. <\/p>\n
919
\n01:01:39,880 –> 01:01:43,440
\nBe very careful, and I’m not
\nsaying don’t talk the truth. <\/p>\n
920
\n01:01:44,440 –> 01:01:46,800
\nJust be very careful about our
\nexample. <\/p>\n
921
\n01:01:48,600 –> 01:01:53,080
\nYou know, I’ve seen that happen.
\nIn schools with some very <\/p>\n
922
\n01:01:53,080 –> 01:01:56,120
\nungodly teachers.
\nI’ve sat around a staff room and<\/p>\n
923
\n01:01:56,120 –> 01:01:58,560
\nlistened to teachers talk about
\nstudents. <\/p>\n
924
\n01:01:58,560 –> 01:02:01,480
\nThat’s all they ever talk about
\nlunchtimes and recess times, <\/p>\n
925
\n01:02:02,080 –> 01:02:04,920
\nabout how someone made their
\nmade their morning. <\/p>\n
926
\n01:02:04,920 –> 01:02:07,920
\nDo you know what?
\nI’ve sat around in a staff room <\/p>\n
927
\n01:02:07,920 –> 01:02:12,280
\nand listened to teachers talk
\nabout young people that weren’t <\/p>\n
928
\n01:02:12,280 –> 01:02:16,160
\nChristadelphians.
\nThey said there’s something <\/p>\n
929
\n01:02:16,160 –> 01:02:20,560
\nabout them.
\nWe don’t know what it is, but <\/p>\n
930
\n01:02:20,560 –> 01:02:24,160
\nthey’re really nice kids.
\nThey’re honest, trustworthy, <\/p>\n
931
\n01:02:24,400 –> 01:02:32,240
\ntruthful, and they weren’t ours.
\nBut they did have a belief and <\/p>\n
932
\n01:02:32,240 –> 01:02:34,480
\nthey firmly held it and they
\ndidn’t go around telling <\/p>\n
933
\n01:02:34,480 –> 01:02:36,320
\neveryone about it.
\nYou could see it. <\/p>\n
934
\n01:02:38,240 –> 01:02:42,040
\nHow many of us as young people
\nin schools or in the workplace <\/p>\n
935
\n01:02:42,240 –> 01:02:44,040
\ncould have that thought and said
\nabout us? <\/p>\n
936
\n01:02:44,680 –> 01:02:48,920
\nBut verse four goes on to say,
\nAnd Joseph found grace in in <\/p>\n
937
\n01:02:48,920 –> 01:02:51,200
\nPotiphar’s sight, and he served
\nhim, and he made him overseer <\/p>\n
938
\n01:02:51,200 –> 01:02:54,520
\nover his house.
\nAnd all that he had he put into <\/p>\n
939
\n01:02:54,520 –> 01:02:58,120
\nhis hand.
\nAnd it came to pass from that <\/p>\n
940
\n01:02:58,120 –> 01:03:01,120
\ntime that he made him overseer
\nhis house, and over all that he <\/p>\n
941
\n01:03:01,120 –> 01:03:04,080
\nhad, that Yahweh blessed the
\nEgyptian’s house for Joseph’s <\/p>\n
942
\n01:03:04,080 –> 01:03:06,600
\nsake.
\nAnd the blessing of Yahweh was <\/p>\n
943
\n01:03:06,600 –> 01:03:10,040
\nupon all that he had in the
\nhouse and in the field, and he <\/p>\n
944
\n01:03:10,040 –> 01:03:14,080
\nleft all that he had in Joseph’s
\nhand. <\/p>\n
945
\n01:03:15,440 –> 01:03:18,640
\nAnd he did not ought what he had
\nsave the bread which he did eat.<\/p>\n
946
\n01:03:19,720 –> 01:03:23,440
\nAnd Joseph was a goodly man and
\nwell favoured. <\/p>\n
947
\n01:03:24,320 –> 01:03:31,040
\nHe was very successful and
\nresponsible and promotion came <\/p>\n
948
\n01:03:31,040 –> 01:03:37,120
\nvery rapidly for Joseph.
\nYoung people, if because of your<\/p>\n
949
\n01:03:37,120 –> 01:03:43,680
\ndiligence.
\nPromotion comes think. <\/p>\n
950
\n01:03:43,680 –> 01:03:48,800
\nCarefully before you accept it.
\nNever seek it. <\/p>\n
951
\n01:03:50,960 –> 01:03:54,120
\nTo Joseph it came because of his
\ngodly and honest spirit, because<\/p>\n
952
\n01:03:54,120 –> 01:03:58,200
\nof his diligence and integrity,
\nand he maintained it throughout.<\/p>\n
953
\n01:03:59,760 –> 01:04:02,320
\nBut the young people and
\nbrethren, sisters alike in an <\/p>\n
954
\n01:04:02,320 –> 01:04:07,080
\nevil and godless age.
\nAn adulterous generation. <\/p>\n
955
\n01:04:08,320 –> 01:04:12,960
\nThere are many young people.
\nThere are many strong in the <\/p>\n
956
\n01:04:12,960 –> 01:04:18,040
\npast, brethren and sisters
\nwho’ve sacrificed their minds on<\/p>\n
957
\n01:04:18,240 –> 01:04:22,320
\nthe altar of success.
\nFor promotion for what? <\/p>\n
958
\n01:04:22,720 –> 01:04:28,520
\nMoney status?
\nBe very careful about promotion.<\/p>\n
959
\n01:04:31,640 –> 01:04:36,720
\nBut verse the end of verse 7
\nsays, verse 6 says and Joseph <\/p>\n
960
\n01:04:36,720 –> 01:04:39,440
\nwas a goodly person and well
\nfavoured. <\/p>\n
961
\n01:04:39,440 –> 01:04:43,960
\nThe RSV says and Joseph was
\nhandsome and good looking. <\/p>\n
962
\n01:04:44,600 –> 01:04:48,040
\nIt’s the same phrase that’s used
\nof his mother’s good looks. <\/p>\n
963
\n01:04:48,560 –> 01:04:52,880
\nHe was handsome and good
\nlooking. <\/p>\n
964
\n01:04:53,600 –> 01:04:58,360
\nVerse 7 and it’s connected.
\nIt came to pass after these <\/p>\n
965
\n01:04:58,360 –> 01:05:02,840
\nthings that his master’s wife
\ncast her eyes upon Joseph and <\/p>\n
966
\n01:05:02,840 –> 01:05:09,720
\nshe said, lie with me.
\nYou know, Joseph was probably <\/p>\n
967
\n01:05:09,720 –> 01:05:17,560
\nabout in his early or mid 20s.
\nIn the prime of life, <\/p>\n
968
\n01:05:17,560 –> 01:05:23,480
\nphysically.
\nA specimen hence, and good <\/p>\n
969
\n01:05:23,480 –> 01:05:29,320
\nlooking, virile and energetic,
\nhighly successful, knew where <\/p>\n
970
\n01:05:29,320 –> 01:05:32,760
\nhe’s going.
\nAnd in Egypt the state religion <\/p>\n
971
\n01:05:32,760 –> 01:05:36,520
\nendorsed the indulgence of every
\nlust you can think of. <\/p>\n
972
\n01:05:38,360 –> 01:05:44,560
\nIt said it’s OK in the name of
\nreligion, brothers and sisters <\/p>\n
973
\n01:05:44,560 –> 01:05:46,280
\nand young people who think of
\nthis. <\/p>\n
974
\n01:05:47,200 –> 01:05:51,280
\nHe’s in a foreign land, he’s all
\nalone. <\/p>\n
975
\n01:05:52,320 –> 01:05:55,520
\nThere’s no Christadelphians for.
\nHundreds and hundreds. <\/p>\n
976
\n01:05:55,520 –> 01:06:00,640
\nOf Miles, who would ever know
\nwhat he did? <\/p>\n
977
\n01:06:04,960 –> 01:06:17,840
\nVerse 8 says but he refused what
\nan enormous temptation was <\/p>\n
978
\n01:06:17,840 –> 01:06:20,840
\nplaced in his way, and he gave 3
\nreasons. <\/p>\n
979
\n01:06:20,840 –> 01:06:25,280
\nIn verse 8 he said, first of
\nall, My master trusts me, how <\/p>\n
980
\n01:06:25,280 –> 01:06:29,360
\ncan I betray that trust?
\nHe said my master. <\/p>\n
981
\n01:06:29,360 –> 01:06:33,000
\nHas given everything to my head
\nexcept you, who are his wife. <\/p>\n
982
\n01:06:33,000 –> 01:06:36,280
\nHow can I touch?
\nThat how can I betray that <\/p>\n
983
\n01:06:36,280 –> 01:06:40,960
\ntrust?
\nAnd the bottom line was the end <\/p>\n
984
\n01:06:40,960 –> 01:06:48,280
\nof verse 9.
\nHow then can I do this great <\/p>\n
985
\n01:06:48,360 –> 01:06:54,440
\nwickedness and sin against God?
\nAnd there’s an insight, is it <\/p>\n
986
\n01:06:54,440 –> 01:06:58,240
\nnot, into the mind of and the
\ncharacter of this young man in <\/p>\n
987
\n01:06:58,240 –> 01:07:01,160
\nhis early 20s, a man of
\nintegrity and. <\/p>\n
988
\n01:07:01,160 –> 01:07:04,800
\nPrinciple, who was so convicted
\nabout divine standards and <\/p>\n
989
\n01:07:04,800 –> 01:07:08,480
\nmorality that he made us stand
\nin an almost impossible. <\/p>\n
990
\n01:07:08,520 –> 01:07:14,520
\nSituation because he was
\nconstantly aware of the reality <\/p>\n
991
\n01:07:14,520 –> 01:07:16,240
\nof God.
\nThere was no need for there to <\/p>\n
992
\n01:07:16,240 –> 01:07:19,000
\nbe any other Christadelphians
\nthere young people because God <\/p>\n
993
\n01:07:19,000 –> 01:07:21,440
\nwas there.
\nThat’s the point. <\/p>\n
994
\n01:07:22,320 –> 01:07:24,080
\nAnd he knew what God thought
\nabout that. <\/p>\n
995
\n01:07:24,560 –> 01:07:28,320
\nYou know the record here 4 times
\ntells us that that God was with <\/p>\n
996
\n01:07:28,320 –> 01:07:32,200
\nhim and truly he was in every
\nsense. <\/p>\n
997
\n01:07:32,840 –> 01:07:39,840
\nNow Joseph took God with him.
\nJoseph took God with him. <\/p>\n
998
\n01:07:40,760 –> 01:07:45,760
\nAnd if we can take God with us.
\nEvery day of our lives back into<\/p>\n
999
\n01:07:45,760 –> 01:07:49,720
\nthat degenerate world, then
\nwe’ll have something to call <\/p>\n
1000
\n01:07:49,720 –> 01:07:53,000
\nback on, to fall back on to
\nJoseph. <\/p>\n
1001
\n01:07:53,000 –> 01:07:56,120
\nGod was real, brethren, sisters,
\nHe was always in his thoughts. <\/p>\n
1002
\n01:07:56,360 –> 01:08:02,000
\nAnd there’s an amazing
\nobservation which probably is <\/p>\n
1003
\n01:08:02,000 –> 01:08:04,280
\nnot not all that obvious on the
\nsurface. <\/p>\n
1004
\n01:08:04,960 –> 01:08:08,120
\nBut if you read Genesis chapter.
\n37 Right through to chapter 50, <\/p>\n
1005
\n01:08:08,120 –> 01:08:11,000
\nwhich is the record of Joseph’s
\nlife, there’s something that <\/p>\n
1006
\n01:08:11,000 –> 01:08:14,400
\nstands out.
\nThat is that every time, almost <\/p>\n
1007
\n01:08:14,400 –> 01:08:19,439
\nevery time that Joseph opens his
\nmouth, God is there. <\/p>\n
1008
\n01:08:20,800 –> 01:08:24,040
\nIt’s staggering to see.
\nHe’s either talking about God <\/p>\n
1009
\n01:08:24,040 –> 01:08:26,600
\ndirectly, or His Word or a
\nvision. <\/p>\n
1010
\n01:08:27,240 –> 01:08:29,920
\nIn almost.
\nEvery single utterance he makes <\/p>\n
1011
\n01:08:29,960 –> 01:08:32,439
\nin this.
\nRecord over 14 chapters. <\/p>\n
1012
\n01:08:32,800 –> 01:08:37,439
\nGod is there in his thinking all
\nthe time, and there was the key <\/p>\n
1013
\n01:08:37,439 –> 01:08:39,240
\nto him overcoming that
\ntemptation. <\/p>\n
1014
\n01:08:39,439 –> 01:08:45,160
\nHe thought about God’s promises.
\nHe remembered now, in the days <\/p>\n
1015
\n01:08:45,200 –> 01:08:50,160
\nof his youth, His Creator and
\nGod was ever with him. <\/p>\n
1016
\n01:08:50,439 –> 01:08:52,080
\nBut young people have been our
\nsisters. <\/p>\n
1017
\n01:08:52,200 –> 01:08:58,640
\nTemptation is never, ever that.
\nSimple verse 10 And it came to <\/p>\n
1018
\n01:08:58,640 –> 01:09:06,080
\npass, as she spoke to Joseph day
\nby day, that he hearkened not <\/p>\n
1019
\n01:09:06,120 –> 01:09:09,359
\nunto her, to lie by her, and he
\ngot. <\/p>\n
1020
\n01:09:09,359 –> 01:09:12,840
\nHimself out.
\nShe changed her strategy, you <\/p>\n
1021
\n01:09:13,359 –> 01:09:15,680
\nsee, We don’t.
\nDefeat temptation with words, <\/p>\n
1022
\n01:09:15,680 –> 01:09:18,000
\nyoung people.
\nWe don’t just say, oh, that’s <\/p>\n
1023
\n01:09:18,000 –> 01:09:23,279
\nthe end of that.
\nWipe that off because temptation<\/p>\n
1024
\n01:09:23,279 –> 01:09:28,279
\nand sin is more subtle, more
\npersistent, and now there’s even<\/p>\n
1025
\n01:09:28,279 –> 01:09:30,160
\nmore difficult pressure for him
\nto cope. <\/p>\n
1026
\n01:09:31,080 –> 01:09:33,800
\nAnd how did he respond?
\nThe record tells us that he <\/p>\n
1027
\n01:09:33,800 –> 01:09:37,680
\nhearkened not.
\nHe avoided her presence or, as <\/p>\n
1028
\n01:09:37,680 –> 01:09:41,840
\nthe Apostle Paul said, make no
\nprovision for the flesh. <\/p>\n
1029
\n01:09:42,439 –> 01:09:44,120
\nHe did everything he cooked to
\navoid. <\/p>\n
1030
\n01:09:44,160 –> 01:09:46,520
\nThat circumstance of being in
\nthe same room when she was <\/p>\n
1031
\n01:09:46,520 –> 01:09:50,880
\nthere, but the pressure remained
\nand and that sort of pressure <\/p>\n
1032
\n01:09:50,880 –> 01:09:54,120
\nbecomes very weary.
\nAnd every day, he renewed. <\/p>\n
1033
\n01:09:54,360 –> 01:09:57,000
\nHis perspective.
\nHe thought about God. <\/p>\n
1034
\n01:09:57,880 –> 01:09:59,840
\nHe went.
\nAbout prayer every night. <\/p>\n
1035
\n01:10:00,320 –> 01:10:02,960
\nAnd asked no doubt.
\nTo be relieved of that <\/p>\n
1036
\n01:10:02,960 –> 01:10:07,800
\ntemptation.
\nVerse 11 says going to pass <\/p>\n
1037
\n01:10:07,800 –> 01:10:10,320
\nabout this time, that he went to
\nthe house to do business and <\/p>\n
1038
\n01:10:10,320 –> 01:10:11,840
\nthere was none of the men in the
\nhouse. <\/p>\n
1039
\n01:10:12,640 –> 01:10:15,360
\nAnd she caught him by his
\ngarment and said, lie with me. <\/p>\n
1040
\n01:10:16,120 –> 01:10:24,080
\nAnd he left his garment in her
\nhand and fled and got him out. <\/p>\n
1041
\n01:10:24,080 –> 01:10:27,520
\nDo you know what that meant in
\nEgypt? <\/p>\n
1042
\n01:10:29,200 –> 01:10:33,120
\nHis garment in the hands of his
\nmaster’s wife. <\/p>\n
1043
\n01:10:33,560 –> 01:10:38,560
\nAnd he’s out of the house.
\nHis hand was wrong as soon as <\/p>\n
1044
\n01:10:38,560 –> 01:10:40,160
\nhis master had found her.
\nIt is an. <\/p>\n
1045
\n01:10:40,160 –> 01:10:42,360
\nAmazing thing that he didn’t
\nlose his life. <\/p>\n
1046
\n01:10:42,720 –> 01:10:45,080
\nBrethren and sisters.
\nI mean, it was only because. <\/p>\n
1047
\n01:10:45,760 –> 01:10:52,440
\nPotiphar had an amazing respect
\nfor this young man, but he <\/p>\n
1048
\n01:10:52,440 –> 01:10:55,560
\ndidn’t lose his life.
\nHe was put into prison. <\/p>\n
1049
\n01:10:56,480 –> 01:11:03,600
\nAnd when temptation comes and
\npersists, there is only one <\/p>\n
1050
\n01:11:04,800 –> 01:11:08,360
\nthing to do.
\nFlee. <\/p>\n
1051
\n01:11:09,720 –> 01:11:20,960
\nCome to 1st of Corinthians
\nchapter 10. 1st of Corinthians <\/p>\n
1052
\n01:11:20,960 –> 01:11:34,280
\nchapter 10.
\nVerse 12 set in the context of <\/p>\n
1053
\n01:11:34,280 –> 01:11:43,080
\nIsrael’s failure and notice of
\nfornication in verse 8 and Paul <\/p>\n
1054
\n01:11:43,080 –> 01:11:47,280
\nusing the example of Israel’s
\nfailure as saying verse 12. <\/p>\n
1055
\n01:11:47,440 –> 01:11:49,200
\nTherefore let him that thinketh,
\nhe standeth. <\/p>\n
1056
\n01:11:49,200 –> 01:11:53,200
\nTake heed from the example.
\nThere is no such temptation. <\/p>\n
1057
\n01:11:53,200 –> 01:11:57,840
\nThere is no temptation taken you
\nbut such as is common to man, <\/p>\n
1058
\n01:11:58,640 –> 01:12:01,840
\nbut God is faithful who will not
\nsuffer you to be tempted above <\/p>\n
1059
\n01:12:01,840 –> 01:12:04,920
\nthat you’re able, but will with
\nthe temptation also make a way <\/p>\n
1060
\n01:12:04,920 –> 01:12:07,680
\nof escape that she may be able
\nto bear it. <\/p>\n
1061
\n01:12:09,440 –> 01:12:17,200
\nWherefore, my dearly beloved, he
\nsays flee, and that’s all we can<\/p>\n
1062
\n01:12:17,200 –> 01:12:23,920
\ndo at times, young people, God
\nwill not always remove or ease <\/p>\n
1063
\n01:12:23,920 –> 01:12:26,880
\nthe temptation.
\nHe doesn’t ever promise to do <\/p>\n
1064
\n01:12:26,880 –> 01:12:29,680
\nthat.
\nTemptation is just that, <\/p>\n
1065
\n01:12:30,160 –> 01:12:33,640
\ntemptation.
\nAnd if God was to remove. <\/p>\n
1066
\n01:12:33,640 –> 01:12:37,600
\nIt it wouldn’t.
\nBe temptation, so he can’t, but <\/p>\n
1067
\n01:12:37,600 –> 01:12:41,920
\nhe will be faithful in putting a
\nway of escape possible. <\/p>\n
1068
\n01:12:42,120 –> 01:12:49,560
\nBut the issue is we have to
\ndecide to take it and we have <\/p>\n
1069
\n01:12:49,560 –> 01:12:53,520
\nthe choice as to whether we stay
\nthere or whether we go. <\/p>\n
1070
\n01:12:55,320 –> 01:12:58,120
\nJust turn back a few pages to
\nchapter 6 of First Corinthians <\/p>\n
1071
\n01:12:58,840 –> 01:13:02,080
\nverse 15.
\nThe apostle highlights the issue<\/p>\n
1072
\n01:13:02,080 –> 01:13:04,520
\nagain.
\nHe says no, you’re not that your<\/p>\n
1073
\n01:13:04,520 –> 01:13:06,280
\nbodies are the members of
\nChrist. <\/p>\n
1074
\n01:13:07,160 –> 01:13:09,680
\nShall I then take the members of
\nChrist and make them the members<\/p>\n
1075
\n01:13:09,720 –> 01:13:12,920
\nof of and harlots?
\nGod forbid What? <\/p>\n
1076
\n01:13:12,920 –> 01:13:16,120
\nNo, you’re not that.
\nHe which join which is joined to<\/p>\n
1077
\n01:13:16,120 –> 01:13:18,760
\na harlot is 1 body.
\nFor two saith he shall be 1 <\/p>\n
1078
\n01:13:18,760 –> 01:13:23,080
\nflesh, but he that is joined
\nunto the Lord is 1 Spirit. <\/p>\n
1079
\n01:13:25,080 –> 01:13:30,280
\nFlee fornication.
\nThere’s no other way, young <\/p>\n
1080
\n01:13:30,280 –> 01:13:32,560
\npeople.
\nWe’re living in an adulterous <\/p>\n
1081
\n01:13:32,560 –> 01:13:37,840
\ngeneration where that thinks,
\njust like the ancient Egyptian <\/p>\n
1082
\n01:13:37,840 –> 01:13:42,680
\nsociety was, that it’s OK to do
\nanything your body tells you to.<\/p>\n
1083
\n01:13:42,680 –> 01:13:48,400
\nDo it’s OK, but the apostle
\ncouncils constantly to flee. <\/p>\n
1084
\n01:13:48,720 –> 01:13:51,200
\nNow we’re in an environment,
\nbrethren and sisters, where this<\/p>\n
1085
\n01:13:51,200 –> 01:13:54,120
\nproblem.
\nThough embarrassing it might be <\/p>\n
1086
\n01:13:54,120 –> 01:13:58,120
\nto talk about is influencing and
\naffecting the brotherhood, and <\/p>\n
1087
\n01:13:58,120 –> 01:14:02,000
\nit’s affecting our young people.
\nMake no mistake, any brother or <\/p>\n
1088
\n01:14:02,000 –> 01:14:05,880
\nsister or parent who doesn’t
\nthink that it’s making inroads <\/p>\n
1089
\n01:14:05,880 –> 01:14:10,200
\ninto the lives of some young
\npeople within our group is blind<\/p>\n
1090
\n01:14:11,560 –> 01:14:14,400
\nwith the influences that are on
\nour children outside. <\/p>\n
1091
\n01:14:14,400 –> 01:14:17,160
\nIt’s bound to do that.
\nIt’s in the work process, it’s <\/p>\n
1092
\n01:14:17,320 –> 01:14:19,440
\nin the streets, it’s everywhere.
\nThere’s a. <\/p>\n
1093
\n01:14:19,440 –> 01:14:22,520
\nPowerful appeal through the
\nmedia, through advertising, <\/p>\n
1094
\n01:14:22,520 –> 01:14:26,080
\nthrough education.
\nTo breakdown divine values. <\/p>\n
1095
\n01:14:26,080 –> 01:14:29,440
\nAnd as soon as divine values go,
\neverything’s gone. <\/p>\n
1096
\n01:14:31,120 –> 01:14:36,360
\nOur children are being told in
\nschools told don’t suppress <\/p>\n
1097
\n01:14:36,360 –> 01:14:40,400
\nwhat’s natural.
\nIt leads to inhibitions. <\/p>\n
1098
\n01:14:40,640 –> 01:14:42,360
\nIt leads to hang.
\nUPS. <\/p>\n
1099
\n01:14:43,680 –> 01:14:47,880
\nIt’ll watch you for life, you
\nknow, in a recent newspaper. <\/p>\n
1100
\n01:14:48,120 –> 01:14:52,800
\nReport An Australia wide survey
\nwas conducted that said more <\/p>\n
1101
\n01:14:52,800 –> 01:14:57,360
\nthan 50% of 17 year olds in.
\nAustralia are sexually active <\/p>\n
1102
\n01:14:57,360 –> 01:15:00,920
\ntoday.
\nI’ve walked past classrooms. <\/p>\n
1103
\n01:15:00,920 –> 01:15:03,640
\nIn schools in this city,
\nbrothers and sisters. <\/p>\n
1104
\n01:15:04,080 –> 01:15:06,280
\nAnd our young people know that
\nthis goes on. <\/p>\n
1105
\n01:15:06,600 –> 01:15:09,520
\nWe think you like to believe it
\nbecause you’ve grown up in a <\/p>\n
1106
\n01:15:09,520 –> 01:15:12,360
\ngeneration that was much more
\nprivate. <\/p>\n
1107
\n01:15:12,920 –> 01:15:16,160
\nBut I’ve walked past classrooms
\nin schools. <\/p>\n
1108
\n01:15:16,560 –> 01:15:19,120
\nReasonably decent schools I
\nmight add. <\/p>\n
1109
\n01:15:19,280 –> 01:15:23,800
\nReasonably decent schools where
\nteachers are saying to children <\/p>\n
1110
\n01:15:24,480 –> 01:15:31,400
\nof teenage 1415 years of age
\nit’s OK to experiment as long as<\/p>\n
1111
\n01:15:31,400 –> 01:15:37,560
\nit’s safe.
\nIt’s normal to have sex at your <\/p>\n
1112
\n01:15:37,560 –> 01:15:42,600
\nage.
\nYoung people make no provision <\/p>\n
1113
\n01:15:42,680 –> 01:15:45,520
\nfor the flesh.
\nWho cares what they think? <\/p>\n
1114
\n01:15:46,240 –> 01:15:51,560
\nThere is a God in heaven who
\nthinks differently and stand up <\/p>\n
1115
\n01:15:51,560 –> 01:15:55,000
\nfor it.
\nDon’t get washed away by the <\/p>\n
1116
\n01:15:55,000 –> 01:16:00,160
\ntime Joseph is in a very, very
\ndifficult situation and he stood<\/p>\n
1117
\n01:16:00,160 –> 01:16:03,440
\nhis ground until he could stand
\nit no longer and he went out the<\/p>\n
1118
\n01:16:06,640 –> 01:16:09,400
\ndoor.
\nAvoid circumstances, avoid <\/p>\n
1119
\n01:16:09,400 –> 01:16:14,320
\nplaces, avoid influences.
\nYoung people, avoid them. <\/p>\n
1120
\n01:16:14,800 –> 01:16:18,800
\nYou’ve got to avoid them.
\nIf you stay there too long. <\/p>\n
1121
\n01:16:20,000 –> 01:16:22,960
\nYou’ll be gone and wreck your
\nlife. <\/p>\n
1122
\n01:16:24,640 –> 01:16:29,560
\nDon’t learn by experience.
\nListen to what God has said. <\/p>\n
1123
\n01:16:30,920 –> 01:16:35,280
\nThere are lusts in your bodies,
\nyoung people, which if aroused <\/p>\n
1124
\n01:16:35,720 –> 01:16:40,040
\nand allowed to work, cannot be
\ncontrolled. <\/p>\n
1125
\n01:16:41,600 –> 01:16:46,240
\nThe mind will be overruled.
\nAnd don’t think that’s fanciful.<\/p>\n
1126
\n01:16:46,240 –> 01:16:48,880
\nNonsense.
\nAnd if you have a boyfriend or <\/p>\n
1127
\n01:16:48,880 –> 01:16:52,760
\nyou have a girlfriend, don’t sit
\nin a car for two hours at night.<\/p>\n
1128
\n01:16:54,600 –> 01:17:00,920
\nLearn to avoid circumstances,
\nplaces and influences that you <\/p>\n
1129
\n01:17:00,920 –> 01:17:03,720
\ncan’t control and that will
\ninevitably. <\/p>\n
1130
\n01:17:03,720 –> 01:17:07,800
\nLead to absolute disaster and
\ntragedy. <\/p>\n
1131
\n01:17:07,800 –> 01:17:11,120
\nLook at what God says one more
\nin First of Thessalonians <\/p>\n
1132
\n01:17:11,800 –> 01:17:15,680
\nchapter 4 and think about this
\nyoung people. <\/p>\n
1133
\n01:17:16,320 –> 01:17:21,880
\nAnd brother and sisters, because
\nit’s not isolated to young <\/p>\n
1134
\n01:17:21,880 –> 01:17:26,200
\npeople, though they’re growing
\nup amongst a generation who has <\/p>\n
1135
\n01:17:26,200 –> 01:17:29,880
\nno morals.
\nAnd that’s no exaggeration. <\/p>\n
1136
\n01:17:30,200 –> 01:17:34,480
\nThe generation that our children
\nare growing up largely have no <\/p>\n
1137
\n01:17:34,640 –> 01:17:37,760
\nidea of biblical morality at
\nall. <\/p>\n
1138
\n01:17:37,800 –> 01:17:41,800
\nThey make their own rules, their
\nown values, their own morals. <\/p>\n
1139
\n01:17:41,880 –> 01:17:44,640
\nBut look what God says in First
\nthe Thessalonians chapter 4. <\/p>\n
1140
\n01:17:45,720 –> 01:17:51,320
\nAnd at verse 3, For this is the
\nwill of God, even your <\/p>\n
1141
\n01:17:51,400 –> 01:17:57,080
\nsanctification, that ye should
\nabstain from fornication. <\/p>\n
1142
\n01:17:57,560 –> 01:18:03,640
\nIt’s God’s will for you, young
\nperson, to abstain from <\/p>\n
1143
\n01:18:03,640 –> 01:18:05,840
\nfornication.
\nLook at verse 7. <\/p>\n
1144
\n01:18:07,160 –> 01:18:13,920
\nFor God hath not called us unto
\nuncleanness, but unto holiness, <\/p>\n
1145
\n01:18:15,120 –> 01:18:19,560
\nseparateness, purity, devotion
\nof the mind of things that are <\/p>\n
1146
\n01:18:19,560 –> 01:18:24,320
\nhigh and pure.
\nHe therefore look at verse 8 and<\/p>\n
1147
\n01:18:24,440 –> 01:18:25,800
\nunderline.
\nIt in your Bible. <\/p>\n
1148
\n01:18:26,080 –> 01:18:34,040
\nHe therefore that despiseth that
\ndespiseth not man, but God, <\/p>\n
1149
\n01:18:34,840 –> 01:18:39,640
\nthat’s how.
\nSerious, it is young people, and<\/p>\n
1150
\n01:18:39,640 –> 01:18:43,160
\nJoseph went out and he didn’t
\ncount the consequences. <\/p>\n
1151
\n01:18:43,760 –> 01:18:47,040
\nAnd he found himself in prison.
\nHe could have found himself with<\/p>\n
1152
\n01:18:47,040 –> 01:18:52,080
\nhis head rolling down the the
\nyard of the slaughterman, But he<\/p>\n
1153
\n01:18:52,080 –> 01:18:55,200
\nfound himself, thankfully, by
\nthe grace of God, in prison. <\/p>\n
1154
\n01:18:55,920 –> 01:18:58,880
\nHe’d done nothing wrong.
\nAll he’d done was stood up for <\/p>\n
1155
\n01:18:58,880 –> 01:19:02,400
\nwhat was right.
\nAnd if you get chopped down in <\/p>\n
1156
\n01:19:02,400 –> 01:19:06,200
\npieces at school, young people
\nfor saying what’s right, think <\/p>\n
1157
\n01:19:06,200 –> 01:19:11,720
\nof Joseph.
\nHe didn’t even deserve to be in <\/p>\n
1158
\n01:19:11,720 –> 01:19:14,000
\nEgypt, and he was.
\nAnd now he’s in prison, and <\/p>\n
1159
\n01:19:15,680 –> 01:19:20,760
\nprison was not an easy place to
\nlive in, not in Egypt. <\/p>\n
1160
\n01:19:23,560 –> 01:19:27,240
\nI’d like you to come back now,
\nbut our time is slipping away. <\/p>\n
1161
\n01:19:27,240 –> 01:19:31,160
\nI’d like you to come to Psalm
\n105. <\/p>\n
1162
\n01:19:36,850 –> 01:19:45,200
\nPsalm 105.
\nAnd verse 17. <\/p>\n
1163
\n01:19:45,200 –> 01:19:53,020
\nAnd here the psalmist, taking
\nthe panorama of Israel’s <\/p>\n
1164
\n01:19:53,020 –> 01:19:59,860
\nhistory, comes to the time of
\nJoseph. 105 Verse 17 sent a man <\/p>\n
1165
\n01:19:59,860 –> 01:20:05,340
\nbefore them, even Joseph, who
\nwas sold for a servant whose <\/p>\n
1166
\n01:20:05,340 –> 01:20:10,260
\nfeet they hurt with fetters.
\nHe was laid in iron. <\/p>\n
1167
\n01:20:10,460 –> 01:20:15,300
\nLook at the margin.
\nHis soul came into iron. <\/p>\n
1168
\n01:20:18,440 –> 01:20:23,440
\nDo you think those two or three
\nyears, four years maybe in <\/p>\n
1169
\n01:20:23,440 –> 01:20:28,840
\nprison were pleasant years His.
\nSoul came into iron. <\/p>\n
1170
\n01:20:29,320 –> 01:20:30,920
\nHe didn’t.
\nKnow why God was doing this? <\/p>\n
1171
\n01:20:31,160 –> 01:20:35,160
\nAll he’d done was what was
\nright, and he’s only 25. <\/p>\n
1172
\n01:20:38,240 –> 01:20:39,840
\nBut we do ourselves a disservice
\nif we. <\/p>\n
1173
\n01:20:39,840 –> 01:20:42,440
\nDon’t read the next verse.
\nThey do. <\/p>\n
1174
\n01:20:42,440 –> 01:20:50,360
\nJoseph A Disserves, his soul
\ncame into iron until the time <\/p>\n
1175
\n01:20:51,000 –> 01:20:56,640
\nthat his word came.
\nThe word of Yahweh tried him. <\/p>\n
1176
\n01:20:56,640 –> 01:21:00,920
\nThis is what the RSV says.
\nHis soul came into iron until <\/p>\n
1177
\n01:21:00,920 –> 01:21:07,400
\nwhat he said came to pass.
\nThe word of Yahweh tried him, <\/p>\n
1178
\n01:21:08,680 –> 01:21:12,720
\nand in prison Joseph’s dreams
\ncame back to him. <\/p>\n
1179
\n01:21:14,000 –> 01:21:17,320
\nWas God right?
\nWas he going down the wrong <\/p>\n
1180
\n01:21:17,320 –> 01:21:20,320
\ntrack?
\nEverything seemed to be against <\/p>\n
1181
\n01:21:20,320 –> 01:21:24,680
\nhim, but the word of Yahweh
\ntried him sorely, young people. <\/p>\n
1182
\n01:21:25,040 –> 01:21:27,720
\nWe will be put into
\ncircumstances at times which we <\/p>\n
1183
\n01:21:27,720 –> 01:21:31,440
\ndon’t.
\nDeserve, and it’s the word of <\/p>\n
1184
\n01:21:31,440 –> 01:21:34,640
\nYahweh that’s trying us those.
\nCircumstances, we might think <\/p>\n
1185
\n01:21:34,640 –> 01:21:38,920
\nare awful.
\nBut it’s the Word of God that’s <\/p>\n
1186
\n01:21:38,920 –> 01:21:42,840
\nfighting in our minds, trying to
\nweigh up what God’s doing with <\/p>\n
1187
\n01:21:42,840 –> 01:21:45,280
\nus.
\nAnd it tried Joseph, when his <\/p>\n
1188
\n01:21:45,280 –> 01:21:46,240
\nsoul.
\nWas in iron. <\/p>\n
1189
\n01:21:46,760 –> 01:21:49,680
\nAnd God put the pressure on him
\nthere to see if he really <\/p>\n
1190
\n01:21:49,680 –> 01:21:52,280
\nbelieved and to.
\nMake something of him that he <\/p>\n
1191
\n01:21:52,280 –> 01:21:57,320
\ncould later use not only in the
\nKingdom, but in his life as <\/p>\n
1192
\n01:21:57,320 –> 01:21:59,880
\nwell.
\nBut Joseph had something that no<\/p>\n
1193
\n01:21:59,880 –> 01:22:04,720
\nman could ever take away
\nembedded in his mind from his <\/p>\n
1194
\n01:22:04,760 –> 01:22:07,400
\nearly days.
\nFor the promises. <\/p>\n
1195
\n01:22:08,400 –> 01:22:14,040
\nAnd the visions of God, and he
\nexercised his mind every day on <\/p>\n
1196
\n01:22:14,040 –> 01:22:20,320
\nthose things.
\nAnd remarkably back in Genesis <\/p>\n
1197
\n01:22:20,320 –> 01:22:28,960
\nchapter 39, remarkably it had an
\neffect, verse 21. <\/p>\n
1198
\n01:22:30,520 –> 01:22:37,360
\nAnd Yahweh was with Joseph and
\nshowed him mercy and gave him <\/p>\n
1199
\n01:22:37,360 –> 01:22:41,200
\nfavour in the sight of the
\nkeeper of the prison. <\/p>\n
1200
\n01:22:42,800 –> 01:22:45,320
\nIsn’t that amazing, The spirit
\nof this godly man? <\/p>\n
1201
\n01:22:46,280 –> 01:22:50,160
\nThe visions of whose?
\nMind had regenerated that faith <\/p>\n
1202
\n01:22:50,160 –> 01:22:54,200
\nagain.
\nIt enabled him to stand and to <\/p>\n
1203
\n01:22:54,200 –> 01:22:57,600
\nendure all that uncertainty, all
\nthat anguish. <\/p>\n
1204
\n01:23:00,200 –> 01:23:03,680
\nWe haven’t really even got to
\nthe essence of Joseph’s life <\/p>\n
1205
\n01:23:03,680 –> 01:23:06,080
\ntonight.
\nWe’re not going, don’t think <\/p>\n
1206
\n01:23:06,080 –> 01:23:09,840
\nwe’re going to go on to 10:30.
\nWe haven’t yet got to the <\/p>\n
1207
\n01:23:09,840 –> 01:23:13,040
\nessence of Joseph’s life.
\nAnd I want to tell you in one <\/p>\n
1208
\n01:23:13,040 –> 01:23:18,040
\nsentence what it is that all his
\nearly experiences when God had <\/p>\n
1209
\n01:23:18,040 –> 01:23:23,400
\nchosen him from the age of 17
\nwere all leading to the time <\/p>\n
1210
\n01:23:24,200 –> 01:23:28,480
\nwhen he would save his brethren.
\nYou know that. <\/p>\n
1211
\n01:23:28,480 –> 01:23:32,360
\nThat’s the story of Joseph that
\nhe saved his brethren, but God <\/p>\n
1212
\n01:23:32,360 –> 01:23:35,760
\nhad had brought Joseph at a
\nyoung age through all these <\/p>\n
1213
\n01:23:35,760 –> 01:23:39,560
\nexperiences that he none of whom
\nhe deserved, but in the end. <\/p>\n
1214
\n01:23:39,680 –> 01:23:43,880
\nIt was his faith, young people.
\nIt was his patience. <\/p>\n
1215
\n01:23:44,160 –> 01:23:49,080
\nIt was his godliness, his
\nexample, his vision that saved. <\/p>\n
1216
\n01:23:49,080 –> 01:23:51,400
\nThem.
\nIt wasn’t theirs and they didn’t<\/p>\n
1217
\n01:23:51,400 –> 01:23:55,000
\ndeserve to be saved in the end,
\nbut they were and it was all <\/p>\n
1218
\n01:23:55,000 –> 01:23:59,200
\nstarted in a 17 year old.
\nNever ever let us think, young <\/p>\n
1219
\n01:23:59,200 –> 01:24:01,960
\npeople, that we’re too young for
\nGod to use. <\/p>\n
1220
\n01:24:01,960 –> 01:24:04,960
\nYou might ever.
\nLet us think that the pressures <\/p>\n
1221
\n01:24:04,960 –> 01:24:07,200
\nof this life are too.
\nStrong to stand up against you <\/p>\n
1222
\n01:24:07,200 –> 01:24:12,600
\nmight ever let us think that God
\nhas forsaken us, because in all <\/p>\n
1223
\n01:24:12,600 –> 01:24:17,080
\nthose things Joseph inspired his
\nbrethren. <\/p>\n
1224
\n01:24:34,720 –> 01:24:41,880
\nIn summary, what are we seeing?
\nNo one’s too young for God to <\/p>\n
1225
\n01:24:41,880 –> 01:24:49,000
\nuse.
\nDeveloping a good conscience in <\/p>\n
1226
\n01:24:49,000 –> 01:24:56,600
\nyouth by diligent attention to
\nthe Word of God is vital to <\/p>\n
1227
\n01:24:56,600 –> 01:25:00,120
\nbeing able to withstand the
\npressures of life that come in <\/p>\n
1228
\n01:25:00,120 –> 01:25:07,000
\nyouth and in the days beyond.
\nBut the key to Joseph’s success <\/p>\n
1229
\n01:25:07,560 –> 01:25:13,640
\nwas the reality that he made God
\nin his life that allowed him to <\/p>\n
1230
\n01:25:13,640 –> 01:25:18,880
\nflee youthful lusts and
\ntemptation when it arose. <\/p>\n
1231
\n01:25:20,400 –> 01:25:26,720
\nAnd it was the key to his
\nfaithfulness under this <\/p>\n
1232
\n01:25:26,760 –> 01:25:32,240
\nunreasonable pressure really
\ncame from his dreams. <\/p>\n
1233
\n01:25:33,040 –> 01:25:35,800
\nNobody, them sisters and young
\npeople, we’ve all got to be <\/p>\n
1234
\n01:25:35,800 –> 01:25:42,960
\nmasters of dreams.
\nBecause by that, Solomon says, <\/p>\n
1235
\n01:25:44,280 –> 01:25:48,280
\nwhere there is no vision, the
\npeople perish. <\/p>\n
1236
\n01:25:49,480 –> 01:25:52,840
\nAnd surely Joseph would have
\nfaded into insignificance in <\/p>\n
1237
\n01:25:52,840 –> 01:25:58,440
\nEgyptian society had it not been
\nfor the tremendous power that <\/p>\n
1238
\n01:25:58,440 –> 01:26:04,200
\nthose visions had upon his mind
\nin times of real trouble that <\/p>\n
1239
\n01:26:04,200 –> 01:26:08,960
\nwere embedded there in his very
\nyoungest days, renewed every day<\/p>\n
1240
\n01:26:09,000 –> 01:26:11,960
\nby him because he thought about
\nit. <\/p>\n
1241
\n01:26:13,840 –> 01:26:18,360
\nYou know, young people, as we go
\naway tonight, let’s just think <\/p>\n
1242
\n01:26:19,520 –> 01:26:23,560
\nthat it’s no good just
\nconsidering a the life of an <\/p>\n
1243
\n01:26:23,560 –> 01:26:27,000
\ninspiring young individual who
\nwas committed to the truth like <\/p>\n
1244
\n01:26:27,560 –> 01:26:32,760
\nlike Joseph obviously was.
\nLet’s think what it means to us.<\/p>\n
1245
\n01:26:35,560 –> 01:26:42,200
\nIt’s got a cost, a personal
\ncost, sacrifice of time <\/p>\n
1246
\n01:26:43,520 –> 01:26:46,960
\ncommitment.
\nYoung people, while your mind is<\/p>\n
1247
\n01:26:46,960 –> 01:26:52,600
\nagile, while there is time
\nbefore the evil days come, when <\/p>\n
1248
\n01:26:52,600 –> 01:26:55,640
\nyou’ll say young people and
\nthere’s no substitute. <\/p>\n
1249
\n01:26:55,640 –> 01:26:59,480
\nThere’s no quick fix, there’s no
\ninstant solution. <\/p>\n
1250
\n01:26:59,880 –> 01:27:06,560
\nTime is the only way.
\nTime thinking about the Word and<\/p>\n
1251
\n01:27:06,560 –> 01:27:11,280
\nabout God’s promises.
\nTake one of those sheets <\/p>\n
1252
\n01:27:11,280 –> 01:27:17,480
\nafterwards and give it some
\ntime, because it won’t be <\/p>\n
1253
\n01:27:17,480 –> 01:27:21,040
\nwasted.
\nAnd we’ll never, ever, ever deal<\/p>\n
1254
\n01:27:21,240 –> 01:27:24,200
\nwith the pressures of life
\nwithout doing that. <\/p>\n
1255
\n01:27:25,280 –> 01:27:29,280
\nI’d like you to listen in
\nconclusion to the words of of <\/p>\n
1256
\n01:27:29,280 –> 01:27:35,440
\nthe great Apostle Paul as he
\nwrote his last words to the <\/p>\n
1257
\n01:27:35,440 –> 01:27:41,280
\nyoung man that he loved.
\nHe said, Let no man despise thy <\/p>\n
1258
\n01:27:41,320 –> 01:27:50,760
\nyouth, but be thou an example to
\nthe believers, an example in <\/p>\n
1259
\n01:27:50,760 –> 01:27:59,960
\nyouth, to the believers in Word,
\nin manner of life, in love, in <\/p>\n
1260
\n01:27:59,960 –> 01:28:07,840
\nfaith, in purity.
\nGive attendance, he said, to <\/p>\n
1261
\n01:28:07,840 –> 01:28:11,680
\nreading, to exhortation, to
\ndoctrine. <\/p>\n
1262
\n01:28:11,680 –> 01:28:13,360
\nThat just doesn’t mean going to
\nthe meetings. <\/p>\n
1263
\n01:28:15,360 –> 01:28:19,920
\nMeditate upon these things.
\nGive thyself wholly to them. <\/p>\n
1264
\n01:28:20,960 –> 01:28:26,680
\nIsn’t that a picture of Joseph?
\nFor in so doing thou shalt both <\/p>\n
1265
\n01:28:26,680 –> 01:28:32,560
\nsave thyself and them that hear
\nthee. <\/p>\n
1266
\n01:28:33,920 –> 01:28:38,040
\nAnd there in the life of Joseph
\ntonight, that principle which <\/p>\n
1267
\n01:28:38,040 –> 01:28:41,480
\nPaul enunciated and exhorted,
\nthat young man Timothy to <\/p>\n
1268
\n01:28:41,480 –> 01:28:47,520
\nfollow, was seen outworked, and
\nthe influence of his life swept <\/p>\n
1269
\n01:28:47,520 –> 01:28:52,600
\nmany along, and not only saved
\nhimself in the end, but all <\/p>\n
1270
\n01:28:52,600 –> 01:28:56,800
\nthose that hurt him.
\nPray God that our influence, <\/p>\n
1271
\n01:28:56,800 –> 01:29:00,400
\nyoung or old.
\nMight likewise be the same.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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