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And they can be saved. 
Amen. 

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Aren't you glad that you know 
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Amen. 
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could put together in our 
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They say that in reality, there 
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spoken twice in the world. 
That's what they say, that as we

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put our words together, they're 
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But it doesn't matter how many 
different phrases that we may 

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say, 1 Jesus is enough for the 
longest sentence. 

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Just to sum up, Amen. 
I've used it when I've been down

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and despondent and said Jesus 
and what my prayers seemed like.

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I couldn't get the words 
together of Jesus would be 

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sufficient. 
I've been in an automobile 

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whenever I seen pending danger 
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could have been involved in, and
I didn't really have time to put

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works together, but a simple 
Jesus was sufficient. 

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I've cried out for people of my 
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and I didn't know how to pray 
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So I just prayed a simple Jesus,
Amen. 

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And it was the prayer that was 
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For whatever was necessary. 
I'm glad I know Him, and I'm 

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glad that I know the power 
that's invested in His name. 

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At the name of Jesus every knee 
shall bow, and every tongue 

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shall confess Of things in 
heaven, things in earth, and 

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things beneath the earth, that 
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Amen. 
I'm glad I know Him, don't you? 

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Hallelujah. 
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in the House of the Lord God's 
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all day. 
I feel it even now. 

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I'm glad there's multi facets to
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If all we ever did was come in 
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scream and holler. 
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we weep. 
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articulate words. 
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in all it's the multiplicity 
sides of our God, Amen. 

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Genesis chapter #42 and go there
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Want to read just a few verses 
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want to rehearse in our ears 
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Want to rehearse in our ears? 
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and this is a large segment of 
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Joseph takes up many, many 
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Genesis, some that we've not 
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and verse 21. 
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Joseph has already been sold 
into slavery. 

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He's already been taken away. 
Famine is already proliferating 

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and across the land of Egypt and
then and elsewhere. 

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their father. 
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verse #21 the Bible says, and 
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are the brothers. 
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very guilty concerning our 
brother. 

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We're speaking about Joseph and 
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soul when he beside us, and we 
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Therefore is this distress come 
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You remember they come before 
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They didn't realize it was him 
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They're accused of being spies. 
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And Reuben answered them, 
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saying, do not sin against the 
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In the day that that the things 
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not hear. 
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also this, his blood is 
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And they, these brothers, knew 
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for he's speaking to them by an 
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They're in Egypt. 
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interpreter to his Hebrew 
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and they think that Joseph needs
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and wept, returned to them again
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from them Simeon and bound him 
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I'm going to rehearse something 
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simply 2 words. 
He understands, He understands. 

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I've shook my head not 
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this life, but I always come 
back to Ground Zero that he 

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understands if we can ask the 
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little while. 
Father, I thank you Jesus today 

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You're the Omni present. 
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no bounds. 
You know no limitations. 

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I pray God you would help us in 
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I'm thankful, Lord, for your 
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this morning and God yet again 
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I pray, Lord, that you 
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would come alongside God in this
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to thank you, Lord Jesus, for 
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God in our lives, I praise you 
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Lord, bring the Lord my heart, 
Lord, and I bring the Lord my 

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soul. 
God, we lay it down before your 

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feet this evening in the lovely 
name of Jesus Christ that we 

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pray. 
Amen and Amen. 

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Everybody say Amen. 
You may be seated tonight. 

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an account of things that come 
into life or maybe even in our 

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own personal lives that 
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There's things that happen. 
You read stories or maybe have 

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been a product or an experiencer
of some of these things 

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yourself. 
We hear about parents that lose 

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their toddlers or their infants 
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heart sinks down to our ankles 
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type of scenario when for nine 
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the womb and they're expecting 
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see that child grow and all the 
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life. 
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of school and that first day of 
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they'll get married and so on 
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always to be a finish line that 
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not going to happen now. 
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stand with their hands clasped 
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who struggled with terminal 
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nursing home beds, almost 
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their loved one that they've 
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mind and also body. 
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and put a hand on the shoulder. 
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families that, that embrace one 
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home and he describes to his 
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let me go today, I, I'm not 
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That that, that time and what we
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we're now suffering from a loss 
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abuses that can happen inside of
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siblings, you know, that are 
blaming themselves for something

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else to happen to one of their 
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And it's all these type of 
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what we call real life. 
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I would love to be able to tell 
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again of the water and the 
spirit, that all those things 

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just disappear and go away. 
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There's some things that are 
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called life from the very 
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now. 
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interrupt our otherwise joyful 
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We're a part of the fabric of 
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We see people that are hurting 
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mean well, and we show up and we
tell them, and I understand when

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in reality, we really don't 
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That's true. 
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Amen. 
Right. 

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We, we, I, I know that there may
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lost a loved one and that one 
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the relationship between that 
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different. 
It's not identical to your 

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relationship and who you lost. 
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dynamics and all of that, that 
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that, that we understand that we
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Sometimes those are comfortless 
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side of having went through 
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pain. 
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words are are insufficient 
sometimes and any voice that 

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comes to you, no matter how 
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lacks discomfort. 
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there's nobody in this life that
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it's almost then in those 
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he is, can condescend down to 
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humanity and he can start to 
relate to you and I that God 

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that the scripture says took on 
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that was a man of sorrows and 
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relates to us. 
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misconception. 
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the earth and God is way far in 
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And there's no way that a God 
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to manage and to operate upon 
that he could understand my 

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circumstance or understand where
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How, how could that high and 
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something that Paul McGee is 
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How could I, even as as a human 
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world, grab the attention of a 
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Yet folks, I want you to know 
that God has a ear tuned into 

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your need. 
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can be sitting along the wayside
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David, have mercy on me. 
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the Bible says, stood still 
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I have great confidence today 
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the middle of our dilemma, that 
our great God in heaven can turn

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an ear of attention and an eye 
of concern toward our need as 

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well. 
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you through the Scripture that 
God relates much to us as Joseph

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related to his brethren. 
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characters throughout the 
Scripture that if we were to 

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look at them, they are 
foreshadowing the role of the 

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Lord Jesus Christ there for 
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We look at David and there are 
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tongue and groove and give us a 
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Christ. 
Their, their lives just trace a 

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symbolical path of the Lord, 
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than others. 
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evaluate that we can see Jesus 
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We can see, if you will, the 
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Joseph's life, if you will. 
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There's much more than the ones 
that I'm going to share with you

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this evening. 
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Joseph suffered persecution by 
his own brothers. 

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He suffered persecution by his 
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scripture that Jesus is 
suffering persecution by his 

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brethren. 
We read in the Old Testament a 

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close connection with him, that 
Joseph is sold for 20 pieces of 

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silver. 
Jesus throne. 

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Amen. 
Judas is receiving 30 pieces of 

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silver for the chance of 
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The Bible declares that Joseph 
was highly favored of his 

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father. 
His father made him that coat of

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many colors to distinguish him 
and denote the favor that he had

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upon his life before he ever 
went down in humility into 

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slavery. 
We understand a man that God 

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favored his son so to speak, 
that God had an eye of attention

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upon Jesus. 
We read in scripture that Joseph

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resisted the temptation of 
Potiphar's wife and suffered A 

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unjust imprisonment. 
We know that Jesus was tempted 

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in all ways, like you and I are,
yet was without sin and yet died

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because of sin. 
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scripture that Joseph felt 
forgotten by the Butler who's he

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interpreted that he was 
forgotten. 

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The Bible says for at least a 
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Butler. 
Hey man, how many times? 

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Even Jesus, whenever he left 
this earth, he kept it in our 

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ears that they the people would 
not forget him. 

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He wanted them to remember who 
he would be. 

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No doubt he forgotten felt 
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And so we see all of these 
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Amen to Joseph being only 
exalted, 2nd in command only to 

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Amen, Pharaoh. 
He forgave those that had done 

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him wrong. 
He looked them in the eyes, 

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Amen. 
He had a spirit that is willing,

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Amen, to offer forgiveness to 
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him to death. 
And so in the picture of Joseph,

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we see the picture of our 
Savior, Amen. 

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Everybody has to come to Joseph 
for relief. 

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Everybody's got to come to 
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perish. 
Joseph in essence, in his day 

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was a kind of sort of a 
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that were hungry and those that 
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Everybody's got to come to 
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salvation. 
So all of these things in 

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Joseph's life, these areas, 
these degrees, it typifies our 

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Lord Jesus Christ who suffered 
persecution of his own by the 

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Jews and by Judas, one of the 12
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silver, but he's highly favored 
of his father. 

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He was humiliated by being 
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Testament said curse is any man 
that hangeth on a tree. 

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He's in his garden, Gethsemane, 
Amen. 

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And he's saying, Father, if it 
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from me. 
But nevertheless, Amen, I'm 

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going to allow your will to be 
done. 

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He's on the cross and he's 
crying out, my God, my God, why 

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hast thou forsaken me? 
I know he's tipping them off for

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Psalms 22 because that's how it 
begins. 

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But it also no doubt there must 
have been some type of feeling 

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that here the disciples fled, 
here Judas betrayed him, here 

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Peter denied him. 
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less at the foot of the cross. 
He must have felt overwhelmed. 

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But all these things were the 
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know. 
They were making the road. 

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They were making the path for 
His ascension. 

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And from the cross of all 
places, he says, Father, forgive

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them, for they know not what 
they do. 

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And he stands eternally in 
Scripture as the door to the 

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sheepfold. 
And if any man's going to get in

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the sheepfold, it is by him you 
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So his life and the glimpses of 
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character of Joseph. 
Everybody doing OK. 

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So before our text tonight, 
Joseph has just called his 

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brothers. 
They've come needing provision 

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and he calls them spies. 
And he demanded that you all. 

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The next time you come and stand
before me, I want you to have 

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this youngest brother that you 
speak of to be here as well. 

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Because having your youngest 
brother Benjamin here is going 

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to verify your words, whether or
not you are indeed spies or not.

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He says if you do this, this is 
going to help save your lives. 

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Please, folks, you must 
understand at this moment, his 

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brother, Sister Krista, does not
recognize that that is Joseph, 

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their brother. 
They do not recognize that this 

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is the same boy that they sowed 
into slavery and they put down 

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into a pit waiting for a caravan
to come by. 

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They do not realize this is the 
same boy. 

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And so, as this has been said, 
the brothers are kind in a 

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huddle over here and they're 
having a family meeting. 

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They're starting to talk among 
themselves and they're being, 

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they're starting to accuse one 
another in the circle. 

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I told you we should have never 
done that. 

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I told you this would catch up 
with us sooner or later. 

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Amen. 
They're saying all this stuff. 

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Joseph is right there in their 
presence because to their 

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understanding, he needs a 
interpreter in order to know 

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what they're saying. 
So they're going to speak at 

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liberty and Hebrew to one 
another, thinking Joseph is 

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oblivious to what they're 
saying, to what they are 

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discussing. 
Hey, man, Hallelujah. 

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They thought they were receiving
this interrogation from Joseph. 

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Impossible harm from Joseph 
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treated Joseph, they thought 
they were starting to put all 

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the lines together. 
I know we've all done it. 

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This is happening to me because 
of XYZ from my past. 

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No, nobody's human right here 
tonight. 

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Nobody's human. 
How many times have you chalked 

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up something bad going on in 
your present? 

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Because maybe if something bad 
you remember that you did from 

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your past. 
You drew the line, God didn't 

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draw it, but you drew the line. 
This is happening to us because 

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of how we acted to Joseph. 
This this is just the proverbial

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reaping what we have sown type 
of principle. 

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And so as they talk the matter 
over in the Hebrew tongue, they 

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are not suspecting, Sister 
Krista, Amen, that Joseph 

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understands. 
They think this man is a native 

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of Egypt. 
He's speaking the Egyptian 

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language. 
He's understood us only by 

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virtue of an interpreter. 
He can't know what we're saying,

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what we're discussing, what our 
intent is. 

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They were unaware that Joseph 
understood every word all along 

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while that interpreter was 
speaking and giving them the 

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impression that here is an 
Egyptian powerhouse second only 

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to Pharaoh that cannot speak 
their language. 

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And so they just kept talking 
and kept speaking and kept 

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discussing. 
And the malady of the brothers 

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is that they were in listen that
they were in Joseph's presence, 

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but did not know that he 
understood them. 

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They were right there among the 
one that they had done wrong 

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against, but they did not 
understand that he understood 

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them. 
He heard every word. 

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He heard the fear in their 
voice, He heard the sorrow in 

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their explanation. 
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Joseph did understand their 
words. 

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If I can say it like this, 
Joseph could feel what they were

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feeling. 
He knew the sorrow and them 

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remorse that was in their voice.
What was affecting them was 

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affecting him in that moment. 
He could he, the Bible says in 

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one place. 
He had to excuse himself from 

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their presence that he might 
weep. 

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Why? 
He was identifying with their 

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feelings. 
Honey, if I can put this in the 

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context of how Joseph often 
mirrors the Lord Jesus Christ, 

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I've come to tell you tonight 
that there are times we think 

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that God doesn't understand our 
language and that God doesn't 

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understand our sorrow and God 
doesn't understand our fear, and

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God doesn't fear understand our 
trepidation. 

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And we think, how could God 
understand what's going on? 

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He speaks a different language 
than not. 

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I speak. 
He's on a different plane than 

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what I'm on. 
But ladies, and I'm here to tell

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you tonight, all of that sorrow,
all of that pain, all of that 

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anxiety, all of that fear, all 
of that disappointment. 

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He's not missed one syllable. 
He's not missed one word. 

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He God, understands. 
Oh yes, Oh yes. 

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How? 
How can it happen? 

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How can he understand my 
finances? 

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How can he understand a broke 
down vehicle? 

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How can he understand sickness 
in a home and a family? 

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How can he understand? 
Folks, I'm telling you, it may 

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seem like you're talking a 
different language or live in a 

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different world, but God does 
understand. 

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We can't grasp the concept. 
We can't grasp the idea, but God

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understands. 
And I'm telling somebody tonight

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we need to realize we're 
standing in the very presence of

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that God and he understands. 
We're standing in the very 

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presence of that God and he's 
here and we're they knew not. 

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The Bible says plainly they knew
not that Joseph understood them.

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That's the reason why we still 
have scriptures like we do today

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from Genesis, the revelation, 
like I already alluded to in 

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Isaiah. 
That's the reason why the Bible 

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reminds us He was despised. 
That's the reason why the Bible 

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reminds us he was rejected of 
men. 

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That's why it tells us he was a 
man of sorrows and that he was 

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acquainted with grief. 
Why you? 

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Why you saying that through the 
scriptures? 

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Why you putting pin to page? 
Because my people need to 

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understand days from the moment 
that these are written for every

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generation to come, that I 
understand where they are. 

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I understand what they're 
thinking. 

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Someone say man, everybody's 
ever been betrayed. 

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He understands everybody that 
suffered the loss of a dear 

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friend, Lazarus. 
He understands. 

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The Bible says he went to a well
and in his humanity the Bible 

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says that he was weary with the 
journey. 

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He knows what it's like to feel 
weary, tired, exhausted. 

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He's experienced. 
Listen to me, your God in the 

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flesh as Christ Jesus has 
experienced what it's like to be

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loved one moment and then be 
hated in the next. 

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He understands. 
He's dealt with loneliness. 

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He's dealt with anger. 
Tables flipping. 

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He's dealt with anger, he's 
dealt with disappointment. 

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Peter saying get behind me, you 
save us. 

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Not the things. 
He's had frustration. 

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He's dealt with the pains of 
death personally. 

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Someone say, man, he's seen the 
hurting, he's seen the sick, 

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he's seen the disease, all of 
that in their misery. 

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And the Bible says in Scripture 
when he saw that he had 

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compassion because it touched 
him so deeply. 

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So your God's not some 
intangible being so far away 

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that he cannot be reached in the
outer galaxies. 

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No, he's reached with your 
concerns and he's reached with 

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your situations. 
And I love this because even 

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when we first come to God, Zach,
sometimes we think, is there a 

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certain language? 
Is there a certain way I got to 

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pray to God in order to have 
God's attention? 

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Do I, do I use the King James, 
do I get my vows and these in 

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there just right? 
O thou great Heavenly Father, of

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all the earth that encircleth 
the throne of heaven, let thy 

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beloved Son, which stand here 
meek and mild, as a pour spirit 

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upon the earth, have thine 
attention for a moment in the 

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eternity, that I might make my 
supplication known unto thee. 

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Hogwash, Missy. 
I can say God, I'm in a mess and

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He understands what I'm talking 
about. 

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I can say, God, I don't know 
what to do, and that's 

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sufficient. 
That knocks on Heaven's doors 

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and he leans over with his ear. 
His arms not short, his ears are

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not heavy. 
It'll take a special language to

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get the attention of your God. 
You just got to talk to him. 

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Amen. 
Thank God there isn't. 

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Thank God that there's not a God
language that I got to utter in 

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order to be understood. 
It's not my Bible language 

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that's that's reaching him. 
It's not my arts and my these 

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and thou vows that are reaching 
him. 

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Me doing that, Sister Ray is not
going to make God more 

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attentive. 
Oh, he's speaking King James. 

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Well, let me see what this. 
No, no, no, no, no. 

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He understands far better than 
we realize, because when even 

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you can't cry anything with your
lips, God can still hear the cry

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of your heart. 
Brother Reese, God understands 

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the undeveloped vocabulary of a 
child. 

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He understands the slobbering, 
snotting prayer of a Sinner. 

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Let's try. 
Come in, come on. 

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And all of these things not 
going to hold you along. 

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All these things affect him as 
is pictured and embolized in the

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character of Joseph. 
Joseph's hearing everything he's

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saying it was your fault. 
He's saying no, it's my fault. 

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We should have done this and 
that. 

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He's hearing all this and he 
says, if you all just pardon me 

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for a moment, I need to step out
over here. 

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What's he doing? 
He's weeping over there in one 

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place there in the Script. 
The Bible says that the 

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household of the Egyptians heard
the cry, heard the cry of Joseph

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weeping over in reality, the 
misunderstandings of his 

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brothers that thought he don't 
know what's going on. 

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I wonder if we could clue our 
ear in Brother Fred and hear the

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cry of heaven over where we are 
hear the cry of heaven over what

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we're frustrated about hear the 
cry of heaven over. 

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We feel like is a a merciless 
happening in our life. 

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If we could hear it, we would 
hear the cry of heaven saying I 

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just wish they understood that I
understand where they are. 

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You'll stay with me. 
I won't hold you much longer. 

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He understands. 
We see this over and over in 

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scripture. 
We we could pull story after 

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story. 
Elijah has won the greatest, 

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greatest accomplishments, 
perhaps in his known prophetic 

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life. 
Battle, the prophet of Belen of 

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the Grove on Mount Carmel. 
Excellent victory. 

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He posed the question to Israel 
and to them, Why hockey? 

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Between two opinions, Some of 
you know the story. 

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They went through the process of
rebuilding the altar and having 

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times of offering sacrifices 
that they could get the 

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attention of their God, Elijah. 
When his time comes, he repairs 

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the altar, he makes his 
sacrifice, he bathes it with 

455
00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:39,800
water, and it's during the time 
of famine and drought. 

456
00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:43,520
Fire falls from heaven. 
The God that answers by fire is 

457
00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:46,440
what he and he began with. 
Let him be God. 

458
00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:49,160
And so God showed himself and 
proved himself. 

459
00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:53,840
And from that very moment of the
mountain, he goes to another 

460
00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:59,240
mountain and he starts a journey
with a servant, but then finally

461
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:02,440
leaves his servant and he finds 
himself there all alone. 

462
00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:06,880
And in that moment, Sister Ray, 
you know what Elijah's saying 

463
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:08,760
just had the greatest victory in
his life. 

464
00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:13,600
And he's saying, God, don't you 
just just rub me out of 

465
00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:22,360
existence on this planet because
I'm, I'm, I'm the only one 

466
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:24,680
that's here trying to do 
anything. 

467
00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:28,040
This is your God. 
Listen to me. 

468
00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:33,520
This is your God. 
God doesn't come in like some 

469
00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:37,640
parent. 
And it's like, I can't believe 

470
00:32:44,380 --> 00:32:45,940
that you're acting the way 
you're acting. 

471
00:32:50,620 --> 00:32:53,180
You remember, you remember when 
your dad had My dad had bigger 

472
00:32:53,180 --> 00:32:56,920
belts than this and you heard 
that thing click through every 

473
00:32:56,920 --> 00:33:02,680
little loop on the pants sound 
like somebody running over a 

474
00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:07,960
rumble strip. 
That meant to me. 

475
00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:14,400
Slow down. 
I didn't come in with his. 

476
00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:18,520
You good for nothing? 
Giving up throwing up your 

477
00:33:18,520 --> 00:33:20,160
hands? 
No. 

478
00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:27,040
Does it come in yelling? 
Because what happens? 

479
00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:30,840
Elijah didn't see him in the 
earthquake, didn't see him in 

480
00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:38,040
the boisterous wind. 
God comes in a still small voice

481
00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:45,720
and even has him lay down, rest,
and while he's resting has an 

482
00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:55,080
Angel making food and a cruise 
of water so that when he wakes 

483
00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:59,320
up, he says you eat this because
the journey is going to be long.

484
00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:05,120
Well, that just don't make 
sense. 

485
00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:07,600
No, because that's 
understanding. 

486
00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:15,159
That's understanding. 
He says. 

487
00:34:15,159 --> 00:34:18,239
I seen how you fought. 
I seen how you kept the faith. 

488
00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:20,639
I see how you're drained 
emotionally. 

489
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:24,600
I'm going to allow you to rest. 
I'm going to. 

490
00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:26,920
I'm going to allow you together,
your thoughts back together. 

491
00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:30,440
I'm not going to be insensitive.
I'm going to go right where you 

492
00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:32,560
are. 
I'm going to provide food. 

493
00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:34,400
I'm going to provide water. 
I'm going to provide 

494
00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:35,920
instruction. 
I'm going to provide 

495
00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:38,400
encouragement. 
Why God? 

496
00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:47,639
Because I understand. 
If we bow our heads here today, 

497
00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:56,880
he understands. 
Go on, put it on the list, 

498
00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:01,400
whatever it may be that you 
think that, well, there's no 

499
00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:03,440
way. 
There's no way that he would 

500
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:06,880
understand this. 
He does. 

501
00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:09,960
There may be someone standing 
here tonight. 

502
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:12,760
Maybe it's been weeks. 
Maybe it's been months that 

503
00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:15,240
you've been contending with some
things that you thought, man, if

504
00:35:15,240 --> 00:35:18,120
I, if I just get the language of
God right, he'll hear me. 

505
00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:20,560
If I just get the language of 
God right, he'll, he'll be 

506
00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:22,920
attentive to me and he'll look 
into my situation. 

507
00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:25,720
No, Sir, no ma'am. 
From the moment it entered your 

508
00:35:25,720 --> 00:35:30,720
life, God understood. 
From the moment that you just 

509
00:35:30,720 --> 00:35:34,600
hung your head in dejection and 
your hands just dropped to your 

510
00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:38,920
your side and your knees became 
feeble and they quaked, God 

511
00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:43,160
understood. 
He understood he's not afar off,

512
00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:44,920
He's close. 
He's not. 

513
00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:48,080
The Bible says we should seek 
the Lord while he yet may be 

514
00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:50,880
found. 
For he's not far, everybody say 

515
00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:54,880
not far. 
He's not far from every one of 

516
00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:57,880
us. 
So what you need tonight, What's

517
00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:01,480
your situation tonight? 
You can talk to him, you can 

518
00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:06,680
reach out to him, you can lean 
upon him and He understands far 

519
00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:09,800
better, far greater than what we
can even comprehend. 

520
00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:12,600
He understands. 
This altar is open tonight, 

521
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:15,560
Amen. 
For people that need a God that 

522
00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:19,840
understands them, people that 
need a God that can understand 

523
00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:24,160
the circumstances, people that 
need a God, Amen, that can step 

524
00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:28,560
into the dismal picture of life 
and bring meaning and bring hope

525
00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:31,000
and bring security and bring 
encouragement. 

526
00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:33,080
This altar is open for everyone 
of us. 

527
00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:36,880
Shall we come right now? 
Can we come right now, God? 

528
00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:41,360
Oh God, Lord, if I can just 
feel, Lord, your hand up on my 

529
00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:45,600
shoulder, If I can just feel 
your hand, Lord, holding mine, 

530
00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:49,680
it'll give me the reassurance, 
oh Lord, that I need to face 

531
00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:53,080
tomorrow. 
God, if I just know, Lord Jesus,

532
00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:58,120
that I'm not at this by myself, 
that I'm not just at this Lord 

533
00:36:58,120 --> 00:37:02,120
alone, God, if you'll just come 
alongside me, You're that 

534
00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:04,720
comforter. 
The scripture says the comforter

535
00:37:04,720 --> 00:37:06,520
which is the Holy Ghost, 
Hallelujah. 

536
00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:08,120
And the Greek, it's the 
paracolid. 

537
00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:11,560
It's that which comes alongside.
He's that to us. 

538
00:37:11,720 --> 00:37:14,240
He'll come alongside us, 
Hallelujah. 

539
00:37:14,240 --> 00:37:17,120
His presence will be made known,
Hallelujah. 

540
00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:20,360
He'll help, He'll aid. 
He'll bring security. 

541
00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:23,520
Hallelujah, Jesus. 
Hallelujah. 

542
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:27,360
Jesus, Yes, God. 
Yes, God, yes God. 

543
00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:31,000
He's never left me. 
He's never forsaken me. 

544
00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:35,840
He'd be with me all we, even 
into the end of this world, of 

545
00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:37,440
this world, of this world.
