1 00:00:06,430 --> 00:00:09,620 Father, we thank you so much for Jesus Messiah. 2 00:00:09,690 --> 00:00:11,100 Thank you for the light of the world. 3 00:00:11,110 --> 00:00:15,810 Thank you for the hope you give the salvation that has been won 4 00:00:15,820 --> 00:00:19,650 for us on the cross of Christ. We thank you for that place and 5 00:00:19,660 --> 00:00:22,870 we thank you for the person of your beloved Son. 6 00:00:23,140 --> 00:00:25,220 Father, we remember those who are not with us today. 7 00:00:25,230 --> 00:00:27,850 We pray your blessing on the campers for the word of Life 8 00:00:27,860 --> 00:00:30,870 outreach and those who are travelling at this time. 9 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:33,240 We thank you for the offering that's been taken. 10 00:00:33,700 --> 00:00:37,010 We thank you for these gifts and, and dedicate them to you 11 00:00:37,020 --> 00:00:41,250 for your for your Kingdom, for your work with Thanksgiving and 12 00:00:41,260 --> 00:00:43,640 worship. And now, Lord, as we receive 13 00:00:43,650 --> 00:00:46,530 your word, we pray your blessing for Gary, and we thank you for 14 00:00:46,540 --> 00:00:50,170 him and for your word to us today in the name of the Lord 15 00:00:50,180 --> 00:00:54,570 Jesus, Amy. Thank you, Andrew. 16 00:00:54,580 --> 00:01:02,370 For not introducing me as a visiting speaker, Let's continue 17 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:04,709 in prayer. Father God. 18 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:10,710 Most totally lured. Lord of Lords, Lord of Hosts, 19 00:01:11,380 --> 00:01:16,300 Creator. King and Saviour, I give you 20 00:01:16,310 --> 00:01:18,600 thanks this morning for the privilege of preaching. 21 00:01:20,030 --> 00:01:22,540 I thank. You for this opportunity, the 22 00:01:22,550 --> 00:01:27,630 select turn, this audience and those who have afforded it to 23 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:29,930 me, thank. You for the holy. 24 00:01:29,940 --> 00:01:31,650 Scripture from which I. Address. 25 00:01:32,550 --> 00:01:36,730 And the Holy Spirit, by whom I address your most precious name. 26 00:01:37,650 --> 00:01:43,560 Amen. Being offered a preaching. 27 00:01:43,570 --> 00:01:47,230 Slot outside of Luke. Comes. 28 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:49,930 With the usual catch of. Having to choose a. 29 00:01:49,940 --> 00:01:54,590 Topic. 18 months into Genesis, our Home group was already 30 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:56,090 immersed in the. Life of Joseph. 31 00:01:56,800 --> 00:02:02,220 So an extension to the pulpit seemed like the logical thing to 32 00:02:02,230 --> 00:02:06,400 do. Like Joseph, our lives. 33 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:10,050 Also take many varied twists and turns. 34 00:02:10,750 --> 00:02:15,380 The future really goes. To plan and circumstances often 35 00:02:15,390 --> 00:02:17,740 unravel around. Us quickly. 36 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:22,420 The people from whom we expect the most often deliver the 37 00:02:22,430 --> 00:02:27,400 least. And all this while living in a 38 00:02:27,970 --> 00:02:33,220 seemingly chaotic, weird and out of control world. 39 00:02:33,990 --> 00:02:36,540 It's in this topsy. Turvy world. 40 00:02:36,550 --> 00:02:41,120 We seek not only a purposeful and meaningful life, but the 41 00:02:41,130 --> 00:02:43,280 passion and optimism to go with it. 42 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:48,930 So in this context. We are looking for learnings 43 00:02:48,940 --> 00:02:54,860 from Joseph Shattered Dreams being the. 1st of a three-part 44 00:02:54,870 --> 00:02:58,420 series of titled. Purpose and passion in a 45 00:02:58,430 --> 00:03:02,320 perplexing world, Part 2. When lightning. 46 00:03:02,330 --> 00:03:05,480 Strikes twice. And Part 3. 47 00:03:05,610 --> 00:03:10,130 We're bad plus bad equals good. Will come next year. 48 00:03:10,270 --> 00:03:14,650 If I don't. Outdo my welcome today, moving 49 00:03:14,660 --> 00:03:17,180 through our text and Genesis chapter 37. 50 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:23,010 Joseph was 17 years of age, pastoring the flock. 51 00:03:23,060 --> 00:03:25,300 With his brothers while he was still a youth. 52 00:03:26,150 --> 00:03:28,110 Along with the sons of Bella and the sons of. 53 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:33,290 Zulfa, his father's wives. I think of Joseph. 54 00:03:33,340 --> 00:03:37,830 We're here this morning. Here would be sitting over the 55 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:40,920 year. Maybe 5 rows back year 12. 56 00:03:41,850 --> 00:03:45,090 And we need to remember in all of today's narrative, he was 57 00:03:45,100 --> 00:03:49,190 very. Much the youth, but he also 58 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:52,370 worked as would be. Expected of him tending sheep 59 00:03:52,380 --> 00:03:53,950 with. The ten older brothers. 60 00:03:54,140 --> 00:03:59,350 There was an 11th at home, Benjamin much younger and. 61 00:03:59,360 --> 00:04:05,930 Together, they rounded out the 12 tribes of Israel and Joseph 62 00:04:05,970 --> 00:04:09,570 brought back a bad. Report about them. 63 00:04:09,620 --> 00:04:13,720 To their father. Now this is significant for 64 00:04:13,730 --> 00:04:17,350 whatever reason, and I'm sure you can all think of some. 65 00:04:17,399 --> 00:04:19,790 Jacob. Loved Joseph more than. 66 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:23,400 All his other sons. We had given the region of 67 00:04:23,410 --> 00:04:24,660 Joseph's. Birth and his old. 68 00:04:24,670 --> 00:04:26,470 Age. The early 90s. 69 00:04:27,290 --> 00:04:29,180 But it's what? Jacob may have done to 70 00:04:29,190 --> 00:04:32,230 communicate. That love which complicated 71 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:34,550 Joseph's relationship with his brothers. 72 00:04:35,280 --> 00:04:39,150 Favouritism is dangerous, thought maybe when you. 73 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:42,050 Favours or feel appropriate. At the time that there are 74 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:47,850 always negative consequences, both unintended and intended, 75 00:04:49,100 --> 00:04:51,650 James speaks on the matter. In chapter 2. 76 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:55,070 That we shouldn't make distinctions based on external 77 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:59,960 measures an elevating some others are dishonoured the 78 00:04:59,970 --> 00:05:04,460 emphasis of being external. Colour, race, wealth, 79 00:05:04,710 --> 00:05:08,250 occupation. But doesn't pull saying 80 00:05:08,260 --> 00:05:11,770 Galatians 610 let us. Do good to all. 81 00:05:11,780 --> 00:05:15,390 People, and especially. To those of the household of the 82 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:18,150 faith. And justice was certainly in 83 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:19,200 the. Household of faith. 84 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:23,090 Seemingly unlike his brothers at the time. 85 00:05:24,430 --> 00:05:28,190 The very coloured coat. Or technicoloured dream coat. 86 00:05:29,020 --> 00:05:33,340 Sit Joseph apart. Quite the statement, wasn't it? 87 00:05:35,060 --> 00:05:39,560 At home and the world. Of wearable arts, perhaps, but 88 00:05:39,570 --> 00:05:40,990 it was probably. Only. 89 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:43,060 The straw that broke? The camel's back. 90 00:05:44,090 --> 00:05:48,440 For Joseph's brothers, they saw that their father loved Joseph. 91 00:05:48,450 --> 00:05:51,540 More than all of them, but it was not towards. 92 00:05:51,610 --> 00:05:53,970 Their father that they directed. Their mirth. 93 00:05:55,210 --> 00:05:58,730 Rather, it was Joseph they hated on. 94 00:06:00,210 --> 00:06:03,280 It was Joseph to. Whom they could not speak on 95 00:06:03,290 --> 00:06:06,060 friendly terms. Joseph. 96 00:06:06,070 --> 00:06:09,320 Could hardly be blamed for his father's favouritism, could he? 97 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:13,440 This was more of a hospital pass for Joseph. 98 00:06:14,840 --> 00:06:20,140 Undoubtedly, their respect for Jacob diminished and maybe the 99 00:06:20,150 --> 00:06:22,940 reason why they played the harlot together when they. 100 00:06:22,950 --> 00:06:26,280 Thought no one was. Watching in a manner that 101 00:06:26,290 --> 00:06:29,580 dishonoured both their Father and God. 102 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:34,530 Also. I think 10 is too many. 103 00:06:34,540 --> 00:06:39,530 To look after sheep. David Sheppard alone. 104 00:06:40,310 --> 00:06:42,550 And found time. To meet with God. 105 00:06:43,840 --> 00:06:47,730 The teen brothers seemingly had more time to get up to mischief. 106 00:06:49,260 --> 00:06:52,210 Joseph strikes. Us early on as being his own 107 00:06:52,220 --> 00:06:54,410 man. He was made. 108 00:06:54,420 --> 00:06:56,280 Of different. Stuff to his brothers. 109 00:06:56,950 --> 00:07:00,930 He didn't fall into group think or allow himself to be drawn 110 00:07:00,940 --> 00:07:03,650 into his brother's antics or sell his. 111 00:07:03,660 --> 00:07:05,710 Soul in a futile. Attempt at his brothers 112 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:09,480 acceptance and approval No. Doubt he had to do a lot of. 113 00:07:09,490 --> 00:07:12,200 Selective listening. To overlook. 114 00:07:12,210 --> 00:07:16,700 Provocation and offence to turn the other cheek and to have. 115 00:07:16,710 --> 00:07:20,570 A pretty thick. Skin to contemplate a lifetime 116 00:07:21,510 --> 00:07:26,610 and that toxic environment with any sort of optimism. 117 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:30,550 Yet that's the veritable. Path he was following. 118 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:35,920 But Joseph was also God's. Man chosen. 119 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:42,280 Cooled out. Even Spirit felt that's right. 120 00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:48,550 Joseph had the Spirit of God as it tested. 121 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:55,020 Directly by Pharaoh and chapter 41 verified through his gifting 122 00:07:55,970 --> 00:07:59,900 to interpret dreams. Illustrated through his. 123 00:07:59,950 --> 00:08:04,560 Knowledge of good and evil and demonstrated in his discernment 124 00:08:04,570 --> 00:08:09,730 and wisdom, exemplified by his ability to govern and rule at 125 00:08:09,740 --> 00:08:16,230 the highest level. Not unlike Daniel just when the 126 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:19,150 Spirit of God entered Joseph. We aren't told, but I will 127 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:22,810 conject that this happened. Before he was 17. 128 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:29,390 Before this narrative begins here, God called Samuel. 129 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:33,730 Directly when he was but a boy. And that varied. 130 00:08:33,799 --> 00:08:40,400 Coloured coat, said Joseph. Apart not only by Jacob, but by 131 00:08:40,409 --> 00:08:44,970 God. This man will be different. 132 00:08:46,410 --> 00:08:50,340 Even the name means to add symbolising, fruitfulness, 133 00:08:50,410 --> 00:08:56,230 blessing and increase these God-given endearing qualities at 134 00:08:56,240 --> 00:08:57,510 a young age. Could well. 135 00:08:57,520 --> 00:09:01,320 Explain Jacob's delight in this particular sun. 136 00:09:02,420 --> 00:09:05,550 It wasn't. Joseph's job to hide. 137 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:08,860 God's favour. Or diminish God's. 138 00:09:08,870 --> 00:09:12,710 Blessing for the comfort or. Appeasement of his brothers 139 00:09:14,350 --> 00:09:17,580 neither or Joseph to apologise for his moral. 140 00:09:17,590 --> 00:09:19,860 Fortitude, integrity and conviction. 141 00:09:21,550 --> 00:09:24,850 That Joseph drew such. Derision from his brothers was 142 00:09:24,860 --> 00:09:27,450 simply. Evidence of their depravity? 143 00:09:28,300 --> 00:09:33,120 Unbridled jealousy. Unrestrained hatred More. 144 00:09:33,130 --> 00:09:38,320 Akin to spiritual suicide. On their part, we see a similar. 145 00:09:38,330 --> 00:09:46,220 Spiritual suicide. From the second man, Kane and 146 00:09:46,230 --> 00:09:49,220 Genesis. 4/4 the. Lord had regard for Abel and for 147 00:09:49,230 --> 00:09:53,830 his offering, but for Cain and his offering, God had no regard. 148 00:09:54,610 --> 00:09:56,690 This is not just about the offering. 149 00:09:57,650 --> 00:10:01,020 This was the heart God had regard for Abel. 150 00:10:02,070 --> 00:10:09,380 But for Kane, God had no regard. So what if God if God regards 151 00:10:09,390 --> 00:10:11,450 Joseph? Amongst his brothers. 152 00:10:12,360 --> 00:10:15,010 He regarded David amongst his brothers, didn't he? 153 00:10:16,390 --> 00:10:19,040 And seeds of jealousy. Also took root and cane and 154 00:10:19,050 --> 00:10:21,660 began to sprout and. Got aware that jealousy. 155 00:10:21,670 --> 00:10:26,020 Was morphing into hatred provides opportunity for Kane to 156 00:10:26,030 --> 00:10:31,500 deescalate and Genesis 4/7. If you do. 157 00:10:31,510 --> 00:10:34,120 Well, will not your countenance be lifted up? 158 00:10:34,130 --> 00:10:37,920 God. Says to Cain, And if you do not 159 00:10:37,930 --> 00:10:42,560 do well, sin is crouching at the door, and it's desirous for you, 160 00:10:42,570 --> 00:10:48,340 but you must master it. That jealous and emerging hatred 161 00:10:48,350 --> 00:10:52,090 in the heart of Kane, crouching ready to pounce. 162 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:57,440 It seeks to control you, but you must overcome it, in other 163 00:10:57,450 --> 00:10:58,430 words. There's a way out. 164 00:10:58,440 --> 00:11:01,760 For Kane. There's a way out for Joseph's 165 00:11:01,770 --> 00:11:04,790 brothers is a way out. For you and me. 166 00:11:07,020 --> 00:11:09,370 God is faithful. Who will not allow you to be 167 00:11:09,380 --> 00:11:11,550 tempted beyond? What you are able? 168 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:14,240 But with the temptation. Will provide the way of escape. 169 00:11:14,250 --> 00:11:19,140 Also, let's pick up again back. In verse 2. 170 00:11:19,880 --> 00:11:23,010 And Joseph? Brought back a bad report about 171 00:11:23,020 --> 00:11:26,090 his brothers. I said this. 172 00:11:26,100 --> 00:11:29,620 Was significant. Was a tittle tattle. 173 00:11:30,530 --> 00:11:35,370 No, this was never about throwing his brothers under the 174 00:11:35,380 --> 00:11:39,820 bus for one upmanship. This was about good and evil. 175 00:11:40,660 --> 00:11:44,700 Respect for his father. And honour to the God of 176 00:11:44,790 --> 00:11:48,510 Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. We don't know. 177 00:11:48,520 --> 00:11:52,220 What the report was. Well, I guarantee it wasn't 178 00:11:52,450 --> 00:11:56,450 watering the sheet from the wrong well or not pulling the 179 00:11:56,460 --> 00:12:01,020 rag. Ward has brothers finding 180 00:12:01,030 --> 00:12:04,000 comfort in their frustration and resentment. 181 00:12:04,350 --> 00:12:07,880 And in front of Joseph. Did some sort of evil. 182 00:12:07,890 --> 00:12:10,540 In the sight of God, that also brought. 183 00:12:10,550 --> 00:12:14,470 Shame on their father. Charter 38. 184 00:12:14,480 --> 00:12:18,150 Gives us a hint. Gina was pretty quick to play 185 00:12:18,160 --> 00:12:21,580 the harlot there. And if there's anything? 186 00:12:21,630 --> 00:12:26,030 To like father like. Son Judith sons followed in his. 187 00:12:26,040 --> 00:12:31,290 Footsteps. Genesis 38 seven due to oldest 188 00:12:31,300 --> 00:12:33,430 son Ear was evil. In the sight of. 189 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:40,390 God and God killed him. Duda's second son, Onan, did 190 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:44,080 something displeasing. In the sight of God. 191 00:12:45,670 --> 00:12:47,250 And God. Took his life too. 192 00:12:49,110 --> 00:12:52,970 Something went down of which reporting to his. 193 00:12:52,980 --> 00:12:57,810 Father was just. The right thing to do, and I 194 00:12:57,820 --> 00:12:59,430 don't think for a moment that these. 195 00:12:59,440 --> 00:13:02,350 Brothers of Joseph. Weren't working overtime. 196 00:13:02,360 --> 00:13:04,770 To draw. Joseph into their group. 197 00:13:04,780 --> 00:13:10,000 Think of gaming with God enticing him. 198 00:13:10,040 --> 00:13:12,920 To be accepted. You know. 199 00:13:13,350 --> 00:13:16,200 Be one of the Bros. The. 200 00:13:16,260 --> 00:13:21,060 Reward for Joseph relief. From insult and abuse a vain. 201 00:13:21,070 --> 00:13:27,360 Offer of their approval. But once complicit Josephs and 202 00:13:27,370 --> 00:13:34,850 sneered forever, isn't he? Disqualified Why should he keep 203 00:13:34,860 --> 00:13:37,090 his brother's dirty little secrets? 204 00:13:37,400 --> 00:13:40,270 And in so doing. Implicate himself by 205 00:13:40,280 --> 00:13:44,870 association. I'm telling you, Joseph the man, 206 00:13:46,180 --> 00:13:49,150 probably the only reason God didn't strike those 10. 207 00:13:49,200 --> 00:13:54,050 Brothers dead. Right then was Joseph, young 208 00:13:54,060 --> 00:13:57,470 man, young woman be. Careful of the price. 209 00:13:57,480 --> 00:14:00,210 Of friendship, acceptance and the. 210 00:14:00,220 --> 00:14:06,740 Approval of others like Joseph. Reporting the misdemeanour lay 211 00:14:06,750 --> 00:14:08,040 down a marker. Early. 212 00:14:08,910 --> 00:14:13,580 Put your stake in the ground. It only gets harder the longer 213 00:14:13,670 --> 00:14:16,670 longer it's left. In fact, once. 214 00:14:16,680 --> 00:14:19,980 You've lost that credibility. Or integrity. 215 00:14:20,270 --> 00:14:25,190 It's pretty much game over Joseph's passion for God and 216 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:26,280 honour. For for. 217 00:14:26,290 --> 00:14:30,010 His father outweighed any desire for acceptance from his 218 00:14:30,020 --> 00:14:33,690 brothers, but it only made the price on. 219 00:14:33,700 --> 00:14:37,890 Joseph's head grow. Well, I've introduced. 220 00:14:37,900 --> 00:14:41,990 The characters you get the gist. This is not happy families. 221 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:48,010 Jacob favours Joseph. God favours Joseph. 222 00:14:48,340 --> 00:14:53,300 And for good reason. Then something dramatic happens. 223 00:14:54,380 --> 00:15:00,550 God speaks through Joseph. In a dream, in fact, two dreams, 224 00:15:01,040 --> 00:15:03,860 God reveals. God reveals. 225 00:15:03,870 --> 00:15:07,530 If you like 3 points in a sermon, write these down. 226 00:15:08,770 --> 00:15:15,890 God reveals, Joseph relates, Israel rejects. 227 00:15:16,790 --> 00:15:19,460 God is revealing. What is to take place? 228 00:15:19,530 --> 00:15:22,540 This is prophetic. Revelation in a dream. 229 00:15:22,990 --> 00:15:29,120 The first dream fulfilled near term, the second both near term 230 00:15:29,890 --> 00:15:32,550 and far term, perhaps even millennial. 231 00:15:33,560 --> 00:15:35,410 And it's God's. Intention that Joseph. 232 00:15:35,420 --> 00:15:38,350 Relate those dreams to. His brothers and father. 233 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:41,570 They are for his family and they aren't designed. 234 00:15:41,580 --> 00:15:46,080 To be kept secret, Joseph relates. 235 00:15:47,500 --> 00:15:51,920 Given what we already know, this is bound to create an 236 00:15:51,930 --> 00:15:56,010 interesting dynamic, he said. Please, please listen to the 237 00:15:56,020 --> 00:16:00,320 stream. Which I have had, for behold we 238 00:16:00,330 --> 00:16:03,190 were. Binding sheaves in the field and 239 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:06,650 low my sheave. Rose up. 240 00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:11,000 And also stood erect. Your sheaves. 241 00:16:11,470 --> 00:16:14,970 Gather around my sheep and bowed down. 242 00:16:16,040 --> 00:16:18,320 Well, that was like Red Rag football. 243 00:16:19,500 --> 00:16:22,300 They fired up. Are you actually? 244 00:16:22,310 --> 00:16:26,060 Gonna rain over us. Are you really gonna? 245 00:16:26,070 --> 00:16:29,060 Rule over us. That didn't seem to need the 246 00:16:29,070 --> 00:16:33,580 dream explained, did they? So they hated him even more for 247 00:16:33,590 --> 00:16:35,440 his dreams and. For his words. 248 00:16:36,190 --> 00:16:39,380 The problem? For his brothers was this was 249 00:16:39,390 --> 00:16:41,620 God's. Revelation not. 250 00:16:41,630 --> 00:16:47,740 Josephs, God's words, God's. Warning usually for the benefit 251 00:16:48,090 --> 00:16:52,170 of the recipients so they have time to change or repent. 252 00:16:54,430 --> 00:16:57,420 Now he had still another dream and related to his brothers and 253 00:16:57,430 --> 00:16:58,580 said. Loo I've had. 254 00:16:58,590 --> 00:17:04,579 Still another dream and behold, the sun, the moon, and 11 stars 255 00:17:04,589 --> 00:17:10,490 were bowing down to me. I'm not sure Jason was looking 256 00:17:10,500 --> 00:17:13,280 forward to telling them after their reaction to the first one, 257 00:17:15,119 --> 00:17:16,819 even as father. Rebuked him. 258 00:17:18,569 --> 00:17:22,310 What does the stream that you have had shall on your mother 259 00:17:22,319 --> 00:17:25,520 and your brother's actually come to bow ourselves down before you 260 00:17:25,530 --> 00:17:31,390 to the ground and huh, yawn, yawn. 261 00:17:32,220 --> 00:17:36,460 The sad sex jealousy. Only grew while his father 262 00:17:36,470 --> 00:17:40,340 sensed something was going on and kept the saying in mind. 263 00:17:40,390 --> 00:17:43,040 A little bit like. Jesus's mother, who treasured 264 00:17:43,050 --> 00:17:47,080 these things in her heart, this repeating of a dream. 265 00:17:47,130 --> 00:17:51,410 This double. Telling telling happenings twice 266 00:17:51,420 --> 00:17:53,200 for and. Peers is used frequently. 267 00:17:53,210 --> 00:17:56,110 By the writer and the account. Of Joseph's life. 268 00:17:56,170 --> 00:18:00,120 To dramatic effect for the removal of doubt and the 269 00:18:00,130 --> 00:18:02,540 elimination of chance. That what God? 270 00:18:03,210 --> 00:18:05,420 Has determined will certainly come. 271 00:18:05,430 --> 00:18:13,340 To pass 3. Israel rejects the dreams Jacob, 272 00:18:13,350 --> 00:18:15,560 whose name was changed to Israel together. 273 00:18:15,570 --> 00:18:20,110 With his 12. Sons represents the earliest and 274 00:18:20,120 --> 00:18:23,650 most succinct form of national Israel, doesn't it? 275 00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:30,870 Now we move to our next scene. And a today that starts. 276 00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:34,890 Out like any other. Jacob says Joseph, your brothers 277 00:18:34,900 --> 00:18:36,690 are. Pastoring the flock at Chicken. 278 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:42,430 Will you check they're alright? And check the sheep and report 279 00:18:42,440 --> 00:18:47,090 back to me. Come and I'll send you to them. 280 00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:51,890 What would you be thinking? Of of that prospect. 281 00:18:53,650 --> 00:18:57,280 They hate me. I feel like a lipper before my 282 00:18:57,290 --> 00:18:59,950 own brothers. They don't understand me. 283 00:19:00,280 --> 00:19:03,170 They can't stand me. I wanna. 284 00:19:03,180 --> 00:19:07,940 See me like a hole in the head. So what does Joseph say to that? 285 00:19:07,950 --> 00:19:15,620 Assignment. Yep, I'll go, I'll go. 286 00:19:16,970 --> 00:19:21,220 His love for his father greater than self preservation. 287 00:19:25,510 --> 00:19:28,830 Willing to do his father's bidding with nothing in it for 288 00:19:28,840 --> 00:19:38,450 himself, at great personal risk of insult and injury, I think. 289 00:19:38,460 --> 00:19:43,320 Of Isaiah the prophet. Here I am seeing me to the 290 00:19:43,330 --> 00:19:46,250 people who don't want to listen and the people who don't want to 291 00:19:46,260 --> 00:19:49,900 hear. Had fallen tents and purposes 292 00:19:50,780 --> 00:19:53,710 Jacob could be sending. Jacob to his death that day. 293 00:19:55,180 --> 00:20:00,980 And to a Hornets nest. A dove to a pack of wolves. 294 00:20:03,050 --> 00:20:08,100 And off Joseph goes, not oblivious to the challenges. 295 00:20:08,110 --> 00:20:12,060 That lay ahead. But certainly fearless, perhaps 296 00:20:12,070 --> 00:20:16,220 naive, perhaps hoping today things will be different, 297 00:20:17,070 --> 00:20:21,720 Certainly trusting God. No sign of them are. 298 00:20:21,730 --> 00:20:25,670 Check em. With Josephs. 299 00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:29,980 Wandering around kicking daisies, we would understand if 300 00:20:29,990 --> 00:20:33,520 Joseph's not in a huge hurry for another serving of insults, 301 00:20:33,530 --> 00:20:35,490 scorn and abuse. We get it. 302 00:20:36,580 --> 00:20:38,990 But I'd rather. Spit suspect his nearness. 303 00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:43,910 To God's heart gave him. Courage and inspiration Check 304 00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:46,830 out the heart of God and these. Words of Jesus. 305 00:20:47,560 --> 00:20:54,770 And look. Kept to six first. 22 to 23 Ohh 306 00:20:54,780 --> 00:20:57,130 no do get the preach from Luke after all. 307 00:20:58,920 --> 00:21:02,190 Blessed are. You when men hate you and 308 00:21:02,200 --> 00:21:06,920 ostracise you and insult you and scorn your name as. 309 00:21:06,930 --> 00:21:09,570 Evil for the sake. Of the Son of Man. 310 00:21:10,500 --> 00:21:13,450 Be glad in that day and leap for joy. 311 00:21:14,540 --> 00:21:16,740 Be glad in that day and leap for joy. 312 00:21:17,750 --> 00:21:21,640 For behold your reward. Is great in heaven for in the 313 00:21:21,650 --> 00:21:24,300 same. Way their fathers used to treat 314 00:21:24,310 --> 00:21:29,210 the prophets. Joseph was God's man, simply 315 00:21:29,220 --> 00:21:33,390 undeniable, and a man finds him wandering in the. 316 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:34,930 Field. What are you? 317 00:21:34,940 --> 00:21:36,830 Looking for I'm looking for my brothers. 318 00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:39,250 Please tell me where they are pasturing the flock. 319 00:21:40,390 --> 00:21:43,450 Then the man said they have moved from here. 320 00:21:43,460 --> 00:21:46,130 I heard them say, let us go to Dothan. 321 00:21:46,540 --> 00:21:49,240 And that was quite. Convenient, wasn't it? 322 00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:54,730 Sometimes when these strangers turn up and key moments, they 323 00:21:54,740 --> 00:21:57,790 are an Angel of the Lord. That's happened before. 324 00:21:58,490 --> 00:22:01,080 An Angel gave Hagar directions in the desert. 325 00:22:01,870 --> 00:22:04,500 An Angel guided Abraham, servant toward. 326 00:22:04,510 --> 00:22:07,760 A wife of Isaac. We aren't told that. 327 00:22:07,770 --> 00:22:09,760 Specifically, but I rather suspect. 328 00:22:10,470 --> 00:22:13,960 Things aren't left to chance, for there was a divine 329 00:22:13,970 --> 00:22:18,280 appointment to be had. With those brothers that day, a 330 00:22:18,290 --> 00:22:21,240 bit like. Jesus and John 44 and he had to 331 00:22:21,250 --> 00:22:25,440 pass through Samaria for that divine appointment. 332 00:22:25,530 --> 00:22:29,730 Or the woman at the well. So Joseph went after his 333 00:22:29,740 --> 00:22:31,310 brothers and found them in Dothan. 334 00:22:32,500 --> 00:22:35,570 Dothan was not a small. Detour. 335 00:22:36,730 --> 00:22:41,640 Perhaps 25K I ran one league. Of the telco Ultra. 336 00:22:41,810 --> 00:22:47,330 Earlier this month, little under 3 hours. 337 00:22:48,170 --> 00:22:56,150 So, say six hours. Or a young 17 year old, maybe 338 00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:59,950 faster than me, walking over those trails. 339 00:22:59,960 --> 00:23:05,600 He will need some water. I'm also picking that Joseph was 340 00:23:05,750 --> 00:23:08,330 packing supplies from home. For his brothers. 341 00:23:09,070 --> 00:23:15,930 After all, there were no shops out in the in the fields when 342 00:23:15,940 --> 00:23:19,070 Jesse sent Josh, when Jesse sent David to check on the. 343 00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:23,600 Welfare of his brothers. David took with him roasted 344 00:23:23,610 --> 00:23:28,570 grain bread and cheese. When I do the rounds of my 345 00:23:28,580 --> 00:23:30,930 workers doing the mahi. Perhaps with? 346 00:23:31,180 --> 00:23:33,890 Chainsaws and hand cutting lines and the scrub. 347 00:23:34,070 --> 00:23:36,380 It just seems right. To pack a cold Coke. 348 00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:41,010 Or Red Bull and some snacks to give them a boost in the 349 00:23:41,020 --> 00:23:44,810 afternoon rather than just turn up empty handed. 350 00:23:46,150 --> 00:23:48,630 Levi and Jack and both attest to that. 351 00:23:49,950 --> 00:23:52,320 Where am I going with? Us you'll see shortly. 352 00:23:54,180 --> 00:23:56,590 When they saw him from a distance and before he came 353 00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:59,730 close to them, they plotted against him to put him to death. 354 00:24:00,120 --> 00:24:03,270 They said to one another, Here comes this dreamer. 355 00:24:05,300 --> 00:24:09,390 Now then, come and let us kill them and throw them into one of 356 00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:11,690 the pits. And we will say a wild. 357 00:24:11,700 --> 00:24:16,820 Beast devoured him, Then let's see what become of his dreams. 358 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:23,680 Just seeing. Joseph in the distance was 359 00:24:23,690 --> 00:24:26,870 enough. The plot to kill him 360 00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:31,620 spontaneous. The alibi Effortless. 361 00:24:32,490 --> 00:24:35,790 The decision unanimous. Why? 362 00:24:38,070 --> 00:24:41,270 Because I've already murdered them 1000 times in their hearts. 363 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:47,120 Whoever hates his brother. As a murderer, they've already 364 00:24:47,130 --> 00:24:51,250 snuffed them out 100 times in their imaginings where the 365 00:24:51,260 --> 00:24:54,450 rooted and jealousy or anger and. 366 00:24:54,460 --> 00:24:57,010 Insatiable appetite of murderous. 367 00:24:57,020 --> 00:25:02,770 Intent left unchecked and variably find its fulfilment and 368 00:25:02,780 --> 00:25:04,520 the taking. Of life. 369 00:25:05,870 --> 00:25:08,060 But there is another side to this equation. 370 00:25:08,450 --> 00:25:12,650 It is possible. Is it possible to take a life? 371 00:25:12,690 --> 00:25:20,280 Without God's permission. Sam 13916. 372 00:25:21,610 --> 00:25:25,990 Your eyes have. Seen my unformed substance, and 373 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:30,820 in your book were written the days that were gained for me, 374 00:25:30,830 --> 00:25:33,380 when as yet there was not one of them. 375 00:25:35,110 --> 00:25:39,300 This was not Joseph's. Time, despite their murderous 376 00:25:39,310 --> 00:25:41,150 intent. God has the final. 377 00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:43,910 Say, and it wasn't to be that day. 378 00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:49,450 In fact, Joseph lived. To 110 enough time to fulfil all 379 00:25:49,460 --> 00:25:54,080 of God's and 10 God intended of them along with blessing upon 380 00:25:54,090 --> 00:25:58,560 blessing. I've had my own. 381 00:25:58,570 --> 00:26:04,230 Brushes with death. Ahead of my time, one was 382 00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:06,520 particularly notable. A man thought. 383 00:26:06,530 --> 00:26:10,000 He would resolve his father's. Grievance with me while using a 384 00:26:10,010 --> 00:26:14,170 steel bar on a secluded. South Waikato Farm. 385 00:26:16,180 --> 00:26:18,290 He had history. With pea and violent. 386 00:26:18,300 --> 00:26:20,600 Assault with a weapon. Ali did not know that at the 387 00:26:20,610 --> 00:26:27,970 time he approached me furnishing this weapon, I reminded him that 388 00:26:27,980 --> 00:26:29,450 the matter. Was scheduled. 389 00:26:29,540 --> 00:26:33,780 In the Small Claims Tribunal and IT. 390 00:26:33,790 --> 00:26:38,630 Would be resolved there. He made some phone calls. 391 00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:43,410 So did I. I rang a friend. 392 00:26:45,010 --> 00:26:50,740 If I don't call you back today. This is where I am and I rang 393 00:26:50,750 --> 00:26:53,300 111. I'm being prevented from leaving 394 00:26:53,310 --> 00:26:57,850 a property. Well, in that conversation a gap 395 00:26:57,860 --> 00:27:04,660 opened up and I told 111 I was going to take it despite his 396 00:27:04,670 --> 00:27:06,640 attempts to block my. Path I drove. 397 00:27:06,650 --> 00:27:09,280 Past and my Nissan Patrol towing a trailer. 398 00:27:10,350 --> 00:27:11,980 I knew there was one more closed. 399 00:27:11,990 --> 00:27:15,350 Gate at the Cowshed. Mike. 400 00:27:15,360 --> 00:27:17,510 Arrived at that gate on his quad bike. 401 00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:20,580 The same time as me and. With a cloud of dust. 402 00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:26,490 I knew the situation was grim and I didn't really want my 403 00:27:26,500 --> 00:27:29,400 children to lose their father in these circumstances. 404 00:27:31,550 --> 00:27:33,400 I didn't want to smash. Through a gate. 405 00:27:35,350 --> 00:27:41,180 Or charge around in my Ute. I said God, this is not what I 406 00:27:41,190 --> 00:27:42,410 was expecting. Today. 407 00:27:43,980 --> 00:27:48,250 This is your problem, although a little forced. 408 00:27:48,260 --> 00:27:52,500 By circumstances I got to experience full. 409 00:27:52,550 --> 00:27:58,380 Surrender to God's sovereignty. That what would happen next was 410 00:27:58,390 --> 00:28:01,610 God's determination and. That was OK. 411 00:28:03,350 --> 00:28:09,510 I was calm and at peace. Mike appeared in a flash, 412 00:28:10,570 --> 00:28:17,870 brandishing his steel bar, frothing at the mouth and 413 00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:19,910 screaming something unintelligible. 414 00:28:21,650 --> 00:28:24,640 I sat there with my hands on the wheel, looking at him 415 00:28:24,710 --> 00:28:26,520 approaching through my side window. 416 00:28:28,190 --> 00:28:34,050 Within moments, the end of that steel bar came through the side 417 00:28:34,060 --> 00:28:38,190 window, aimed right at my head being. 418 00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:42,660 Deflected ever so slightly. By tempered glass. 419 00:28:43,980 --> 00:28:45,780 An impact at the top of my shoulder. 420 00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:50,120 Now there wasn't even a window between us. 421 00:28:50,780 --> 00:28:53,710 He was still. Screaming, something froth 422 00:28:53,780 --> 00:28:56,150 bubbling from his mouth. Pipe. 423 00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:58,730 Raised. I knew what he had in mind. 424 00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:06,440 I knew his intent just to raise my arm and self defence would 425 00:29:06,450 --> 00:29:08,700 have been an invitation. For that colour. 426 00:29:08,710 --> 00:29:13,090 Blow to my temple. With my hands still resting on 427 00:29:13,100 --> 00:29:16,130 the steering wheel, I kept my gaze. 428 00:29:16,140 --> 00:29:20,960 On the whites of his eyes. I looked to the back of the 429 00:29:20,970 --> 00:29:25,300 whites of his eyes. Trying to get some connection, 430 00:29:27,060 --> 00:29:33,020 then I said these 7 words. Don't do it, Mike. 431 00:29:33,770 --> 00:29:37,460 Don't do it. With the fairness. 432 00:29:37,470 --> 00:29:39,720 Of a school teacher to the the people. 433 00:29:39,890 --> 00:29:42,290 Don't do it, Mike. Don't do it. 434 00:29:43,210 --> 00:29:45,010 I did not shift my gaze from the. 435 00:29:45,020 --> 00:29:47,740 Whites of his eyes. I've looked death. 436 00:29:47,830 --> 00:29:52,040 In the eyes without fear or anxiety, I. 437 00:29:52,050 --> 00:29:55,640 Tell you it's amazing. And the same for all of us. 438 00:29:56,780 --> 00:29:59,070 Hopefully not in my circumstances. 439 00:30:00,490 --> 00:30:06,150 He hesitated. I slowly opened my car door, 440 00:30:06,370 --> 00:30:09,850 repeating those words, not taking my. 441 00:30:09,860 --> 00:30:14,130 Eyes off his. Hands now by my side. 442 00:30:14,180 --> 00:30:19,520 We stood face to face. I slowly stepped backwards. 443 00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:26,260 And when I was outside the range of 1 thrust I turned and ran, 444 00:30:29,410 --> 00:30:32,260 not looking back until I jumped the nearest fence. 445 00:30:33,770 --> 00:30:37,310 Run away and live to run another day. 446 00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:41,890 He certainly didn't chase me. Maybe he was relieved that I 447 00:30:41,900 --> 00:30:45,050 left. I often wonder what he was 448 00:30:45,060 --> 00:30:50,160 thinking in those moments. Who is this man staring me down 449 00:30:50,170 --> 00:30:56,690 with nothing in his hands? No Fear takes my blow to his 450 00:30:56,700 --> 00:31:01,250 head as if nothing happened and then instructing me. 451 00:31:02,490 --> 00:31:05,060 Without a doubt. God took over my thoughts and 452 00:31:05,070 --> 00:31:08,340 words. He constrained Mike's murderous 453 00:31:08,350 --> 00:31:11,040 intent, his thoughts and actions. 454 00:31:12,260 --> 00:31:15,910 And don't think for a moment God wasn't restraining Joseph's 455 00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:19,700 brothers and it was Ruben who spoke first. 456 00:31:21,910 --> 00:31:24,920 But Ruben heard this and rescued him out of their hands and said, 457 00:31:24,930 --> 00:31:26,780 let us. Not take his life. 458 00:31:27,110 --> 00:31:30,570 Reuben further said shed no blood, Throw him into the pit 459 00:31:31,910 --> 00:31:35,190 that is in the wilderness, but do not lay hands on them. 460 00:31:36,270 --> 00:31:38,200 And Ruben intended to sneak back later. 461 00:31:38,210 --> 00:31:42,580 To secretly rescue Joseph, Sir Joseph arrives. 462 00:31:42,590 --> 00:31:47,080 At the camp of Olivia's to this scheming, they grab him, strip 463 00:31:47,090 --> 00:31:48,560 him of the. Very coloured coat, he's. 464 00:31:48,570 --> 00:31:52,120 Wearing and rather than murder, throw him in a. 465 00:31:52,130 --> 00:31:55,340 Pit while they have. A committee meeting over lunch. 466 00:31:57,290 --> 00:32:00,190 Why does the rider add this detail? 467 00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:03,860 And I took him. And threw him into. 468 00:32:03,870 --> 00:32:12,130 The Pit without any water in it. Then they sat down to eat a meal 469 00:32:14,810 --> 00:32:18,420 with one hand, indulging their jealousy and hatred by subduing 470 00:32:18,430 --> 00:32:21,360 and silencing their brother and a whole without even 471 00:32:21,370 --> 00:32:23,640 consideration of some water to drink. 472 00:32:24,620 --> 00:32:26,810 Even Jesus got. Vinegar. 473 00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:34,920 This was personal while there are other hand shamely indulging 474 00:32:34,930 --> 00:32:36,340 their hunger. With the food. 475 00:32:36,350 --> 00:32:38,920 He had kindly carried over 25. Kilometres. 476 00:32:38,930 --> 00:32:43,920 For them, just in case you were thinking. 477 00:32:44,270 --> 00:32:46,490 They were nice brothers. Not to kill them. 478 00:32:48,050 --> 00:32:55,840 They aren't nice men that crash. They have no style, no 479 00:32:55,850 --> 00:32:59,860 conscience, no weakness, no scruples. 480 00:33:01,430 --> 00:33:07,440 I shouldn't have an appetite. I should be vomiting gutless 481 00:33:07,510 --> 00:33:13,010 wonders. The trying their father's trust 482 00:33:15,730 --> 00:33:20,290 tonight, Jacob. The enjoyment of Joseph, God's 483 00:33:20,300 --> 00:33:23,640 gift and blessing robbing. Joseph of his joy. 484 00:33:23,710 --> 00:33:26,360 Exuberance and innocence, the very things. 485 00:33:26,370 --> 00:33:30,310 They were so jealous of. And vainly attempting. 486 00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:33,170 To thwart God's purposes have revealed. 487 00:33:33,180 --> 00:33:36,970 And Joseph's dreams, all for their moment. 488 00:33:36,980 --> 00:33:40,210 Of self. Gratification and momentary. 489 00:33:40,220 --> 00:33:45,060 It was. Sin is a messy business that 490 00:33:45,070 --> 00:33:48,650 really goes smoothly or according to plan. 491 00:33:49,690 --> 00:33:52,180 The simplicity of this account. Belies what? 492 00:33:52,190 --> 00:33:54,720 Really. Happened in Joseph's accosting 493 00:33:54,730 --> 00:33:58,300 to slavery and many years later. Chapter 42. 494 00:33:58,310 --> 00:34:01,450 Provides an insight into a vastly different reality. 495 00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:07,600 For those brothers. When they said to one another. 496 00:34:08,030 --> 00:34:12,530 Truly, we are guilty of our brother because we saw the 497 00:34:12,540 --> 00:34:15,350 distress of his soul. When he pleaded. 498 00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:18,350 With us. Yet we would not listen. 499 00:34:19,810 --> 00:34:22,219 Therefore, this distress. Has come upon us. 500 00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:27,250 They didn't listen to Joseph cries at the time because they 501 00:34:27,260 --> 00:34:32,250 enjoyed his pleading. Weren't they reversing the dream 502 00:34:32,260 --> 00:34:37,929 They rejected rewriting the future, so they thought there 503 00:34:37,940 --> 00:34:40,230 sheaves of grain are upright. Erect. 504 00:34:40,659 --> 00:34:43,250 It's Joseph Sheaf. That has bowed down. 505 00:34:44,300 --> 00:34:47,639 Fold it. Over crying out, pleading for 506 00:34:47,650 --> 00:34:52,730 mercy, they were putting that dream to bed once and for all. 507 00:34:53,750 --> 00:34:58,040 Instead, his pleading haunted them like God Decane after he 508 00:34:58,050 --> 00:35:01,440 bludgeoned able to death an explosion of jealous rage and 509 00:35:01,450 --> 00:35:06,340 then hit Abel's body in a shallow grave and the Lord said 510 00:35:06,350 --> 00:35:08,390 to Cain, where is. Able your brother. 511 00:35:09,700 --> 00:35:13,110 I don't know my supposed to be keeping tabs on them. 512 00:35:15,420 --> 00:35:16,830 God said what have. You done? 513 00:35:17,900 --> 00:35:20,870 The voice of your brother's. Blood is crying to me from the 514 00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:23,220 ground. That's chilling. 515 00:35:24,470 --> 00:35:28,500 No sin is able to be hidden from God's gaze or scrutiny. 516 00:35:29,580 --> 00:35:32,640 You might be forgiven of past sin, but it doesn't mean you 517 00:35:32,650 --> 00:35:34,380 aren't. Still haunted with regrets. 518 00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:40,110 Or even answered them saying. Did I tell you? 519 00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:42,900 Do not send against the boy. And you would not listen. 520 00:35:43,340 --> 00:35:46,070 Now comes the reckoning. For his blood. 521 00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:49,790 Senators, always messier than you think. 522 00:35:49,860 --> 00:35:54,060 Whatever it is. Yeah, may have been Reuben's 523 00:35:54,070 --> 00:35:56,360 idea not to kill. Joseph, but it was Judas. 524 00:35:56,370 --> 00:35:58,560 Idea to put him on a camel train to Egypt. 525 00:36:00,590 --> 00:36:04,620 Judith gave 3 reasons that seemed to gain traction with his 526 00:36:04,630 --> 00:36:07,820 brothers. What's the profit on us killing 527 00:36:07,830 --> 00:36:08,700 them? We can sell. 528 00:36:08,710 --> 00:36:11,630 Them to the Ishmaelites. As a slave and make some good 529 00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:16,290 coin, we can get them out of our lives permanently, guaranteeing 530 00:36:16,300 --> 00:36:20,370 Joseph and his dreams are dead and buried and we don't need to 531 00:36:20,380 --> 00:36:25,370 kill our brother after all. He is our flesh, the very 532 00:36:25,380 --> 00:36:28,010 coloured robe. The symbol of both Jacob and 533 00:36:28,020 --> 00:36:30,390 God's favour on Joseph is smeared. 534 00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:32,150 With goats blood. And the. 535 00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:35,270 Story of a terrible. Animal attack is fabricated. 536 00:36:36,530 --> 00:36:38,020 Jacob. Would have wanted. 537 00:36:38,030 --> 00:36:41,990 To to see the body. Just like you and I would want 538 00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:48,970 to, whatever its condition, he would have had some doubts, the 539 00:36:48,980 --> 00:36:51,070 brothers now. Live with the lie. 540 00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:55,940 And there is no end to that. Meanwhile, Jacobs distraught. 541 00:36:56,800 --> 00:36:59,310 Sit up to. Grieve and orchestrated lie. 542 00:36:59,380 --> 00:37:04,290 As beloved and honourable son, to all intents dead, he refuses 543 00:37:04,300 --> 00:37:06,860 the comfort of his ten sons, and rightly so. 544 00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:11,640 Meanwhile, Josephson Chains. As. 545 00:37:11,650 --> 00:37:15,980 The slave he now has, the traders are hardly going to hand 546 00:37:15,990 --> 00:37:19,540 over 20 shackles of silver and let them run off into the 547 00:37:19,550 --> 00:37:20,320 desert. Are they? 548 00:37:22,060 --> 00:37:23,870 Torn from the. Father he loved. 549 00:37:24,750 --> 00:37:29,570 Betrayed by the only brothers he had forcefully deported from 550 00:37:29,580 --> 00:37:34,700 Canaan, the land of promise, and on his way to an uncertain. 551 00:37:34,750 --> 00:37:39,630 Future as a slave. In a foreign country, Joseph's 552 00:37:39,700 --> 00:37:41,980 dreams. Shattered. 553 00:37:44,610 --> 00:37:50,130 I'm sorry children, this is not a nice place to finish. 554 00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:54,920 Usually our plans and intentions don't turn out. 555 00:37:54,930 --> 00:37:59,020 The way we expect or hope. There are lots of surprises, but 556 00:37:59,030 --> 00:38:02,550 not usually this bad. And it's going to get worse for 557 00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:05,430 Joseph before it gets better. Part 2. 558 00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:10,100 Hopefully next year when lightning strikes twice, more 559 00:38:10,110 --> 00:38:12,460 dreams and an amazing insight into. 560 00:38:12,470 --> 00:38:14,530 God, his purposes. And power. 561 00:38:15,470 --> 00:38:17,370 Bad things happen to good people. 562 00:38:18,180 --> 00:38:21,770 What's ahead for Joseph as what's ahead for us? 563 00:38:21,820 --> 00:38:26,410 Abundance, surplus elevation more than he. 564 00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:29,050 Could ever have hoped. For or imagined. 565 00:38:29,740 --> 00:38:32,540 A real topology. Of what is going to happen. 566 00:38:34,460 --> 00:38:38,030 As Joseph gives us a preview. Of what's to come to us in an 567 00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:42,390 eternal Kingdom. The final Part 3 where when bad 568 00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:45,660 plus bad equals goods like saying 1 + 1 = 7. 569 00:38:46,450 --> 00:38:49,820 Yep, it is. That's how things work out in 570 00:38:49,830 --> 00:38:54,180 God's economy. What you intended for evil, God 571 00:38:54,190 --> 00:38:55,190 meant for good.