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If you would open up your Bibles
to Genesis chapter 37 in Genesis

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chapter 37, where we're going to
be continuing our study in the 

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life of Joseph. 
Joseph this morning. 

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And while you turn there, I want
to welcome everyone who has made

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it this morning to worship God 
and like the song we just sang, 

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we pray that His name is 
glorified this morning. 

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And what we do. 
I want to thank each and 

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everyone. 
If you're a visitor, please come

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back. 
You're welcome back each and 

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every time that we meet here. 
If there's any questions 

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regarding the services that we 
have here, the operation, the 

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things that are said, please ask
one of the brethren after 

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services and we'll do the best 
we can to answer the questions 

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that you may have. 
This is our third study in the 

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book of Genesis concerning 
Joseph. 

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We've already gone through kind 
of his early life, what it was 

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like for him growing up. 
And then the first portion of 

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chapter 37. 
And now it brings us to our 

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second study in chapter 37. 
And we'll begin reading in verse

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18, verse 18, and we'll read 
through the end of the chapter. 

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And it says there now that when 
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before he came near them, they 
conspired against him to kill 

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him. 
Then they said to one another, 

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Look, this dreamer is coming, 
come, therefore let us now kill 

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him and cast him into some pit, 
and we shall say some wild 

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beasts has devoured him. 
We shall see what will become of

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his dreams. 
But Reuben heard it, and he 

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delivered him out of their 
hands, and said, Let us not kill

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him. 
And Reuben said to them, Shed no

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blood, but cast him into this 
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and do not lay a hand on him, 
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out of their hands and bring him
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So it came to pass, when Joseph 
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had stripped Joseph of his 
tunic, the tunic of many colors 

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that was on him. 
Then they took him and cast him 

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into a pit, and the pit was 
empty, there was no water in it.

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And they sat down to eat a meal.
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looked, and there was a company 
of Ishmaelites coming from 

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Gilead with their camels bearing
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their way to carry them down to 
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So Judas said to their brothers,
what prophet is there if we kill

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our brother and conceal his 
blood? 

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Come, let us sell him to the 
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not our hand be upon him, for he
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and his brothers. 
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Then the Midianite traders pass 
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So the brothers pulled Joseph 
up, up and out and lifted him 

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out of the pit and sold him to 
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of silver. 
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Then Reuben returned to to the 
pit, and indeed Joseph was not 

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in the pit, and he tore his 
clothes and he returned to his 

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brothers and said, the lad is 
gone, the lad is no more, and I,

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where shall I go? 
So they took Joseph's tunic. 

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Kill the kid of goats and dip 
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Then they sent the tunic of many
colors, and they brought it to 

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their father and said we have 
found this. 

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Do you know whether it is your 
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And he recognized it and said It
is my son's tunic. 

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A wild beast has devoured him. 
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into pieces. 
Then Jacob tore his clothes, put

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sackcloth on his waist, and 
mourn for his son many days. 

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And all his sons and his 
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But he refused to be comforted, 
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into the grave to my son. 
This in mourning. 

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Thus his father wept for him. 
Now the Midianites had sold him 

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into Egypt to Potiphar, an 
officer of Pharaoh and a captain

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of the guard. 
We'll be studying these few 

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verses here this morning. 
The last time we saw Joseph, 

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Joseph was the object of his 
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He was the object of his 
brother's hatred, and he was the

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object of God's providential 
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And I mentioned that there's 
probably no greater illustration

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in the Old Testament of the 
truth of God's providential care

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that we've been kind of been 
touching on here recently, which

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we find in the life of Joseph. 
Joseph was not at the mercy of 

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chance or fate. 
He was not driven along by some 

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blind impersonable force and 
nor, nor are we, Jesus says to 

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his disciples in Matthew 6, He 
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things? 
Why worry about this? 

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Why worry about that? 
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leave that to the pagans, He 
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Just leave that to them. 
Just keep your eyes on me and 

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I'll take care of you. 
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Sparrow that falls to the ground
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And the very grass of the field 
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And Jesus is going to look after
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So in other words, it's a 
wonderful picture of as well, a 

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truth that we see in Romans 828.
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things Paul writes, God works 
for the good of those who love 

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him, and those have been called 
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And all of our days, all of our 
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of our heartaches, our fears, 
our failures are being worked 

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out by God in the end. 
And we're thankful for that, the

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loving, compassionate care of 
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So with our focus on Joseph, I 
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Joseph was sent back to his 
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We see in verse 14 here, a 
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than the verses that we're going
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And Joseph was sent to check on 
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obedient to his father's 
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He was given the responsibility 
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well-being of his brothers and 
what they're doing and actually 

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to see how the flock of sheep 
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He said. 
His dad says, Joseph, I want you

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to go. 
I want you to check in your 

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brothers. 
I want to check on the flock and

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bring back word to me 
straightforward instructions, 

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very clear, very understandable.
And every father really wants to

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teaches their kids this 
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Everybody, everyone who's a 
father understands this. 

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To increasingly give our 
children opportunity to force 

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them into areas where they're 
going to have to figure things 

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out. 
Sometimes put our kids in 

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situations, let them go ahead 
and and take care of things on 

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their own to to hopefully they 
find their responsibilities and 

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in the end be standing on the 
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And Jacob in the process of 
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understanding the disasters 
maybe he took on with his other 

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sons, his other children, maybe 
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his son Joseph. 
So he says, I want you to go. 

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I want you to check and I want 
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And so Joseph, go ahead and 
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house down the road. 
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road, he could never have 
imagined that it would be 20 

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long years before he ever looked
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again. 20 long years before he 
got another hug from his dad, 20

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long years before he had 
conversations to enjoy the 

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warmth of his father, to to just
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He never knew that. 
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sweet sorrow. 
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this for a moment. 
Do you think his dad, do you 

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think Jacob watched his son 
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down the road? 
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he did. 
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watched him walk away and we 
think he said goodbye, waved 

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goodbye. 
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goodbye and said goodbye. 
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father maybe watched him a long 
way, watched him walk a far 

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distance, walking out into the 
distance and his dad just kind 

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of watching and watching and 
watching as he parted every gaze

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of his father, even in the 
distance was a gaze of gaze of 

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love and compassion that that 
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And fathers, we understand this.
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ourselves praying for our 
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praying for our kids when 
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their own. 
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We say, Lord bless this child, 
watch over him, keep him and 

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bring him back safely. 
Us as fathers understand that 

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for any kid and mothers as well.
But I want to say that there is 

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a last time for every journey. 
There is a last time for every 

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goodbye. 
We'll never know when the last 

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goodbye is that we say to a 
loved one, the last goodbye that

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we'll say to our wife. 
We'll never know when it's the 

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last time to maybe hug or kiss 
our mothers goodbye. 

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We'll never know when that day 
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And so it's good to make a big 
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one another. 
It's a good idea to make much of

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our goodbyes and much of our 
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So I don't want us to miss the 
chances in the common simple 

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everyday events that we have in 
our life to cherish these 

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moments. 
So we just picture in our mind 

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Joseph saying see you dad, I'll 
be back. 

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See you dad, see you Joseph, 
have a good trip, come back 

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soon. 
Come back safe. 

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Just do what I told you to do, 
report and come back. 

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See you dad. 
I'll be back soon. 

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And I think those words may have
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for 20 years before he saw his 
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It must have been the last 
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heard at that time that he 
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And so in verse 15, we can only 
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wandering around in the fields 
comes upon a random guy and, and

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this guy says to Joseph, you 
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Joseph says, I'm looking for my 
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They're somewhere out here with 
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And this guy tells Joseph, well,
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a few more miles over to Dothan.
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and we can imagine as he 
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thinking in his mind where where
his brothers are AT and the 

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potential reception that he's 
going to receive from his 

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brothers. 
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heart grow fonder, right? 
Lizzie and I were just talking 

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about this the other day. 
Being a part makes you grow 

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fonder of each other, right? 
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Well, not in Joseph's case. 
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weren't, you know, worrying a 
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How are they going to speak to 
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Were they going to start 
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Or they're still going to hate 
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You know, are they going to 
abuse him? 

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Maybe Joseph wondered about his 
dreams while he was out there 

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traveling to find his brothers. 
His dreams kept coming back to 

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his mind. 
Strange and haunting dreams. 

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There's almost a simplicity 
about Joseph at this point in 

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his life. 
And verse 28 tells us that he 

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was actually sold. 
He was sold for 20 shekels. 

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It looks like I had that messed 
up and it didn't amount to much.

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Just a couple of shekels. 
You know, you think about it, 

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Ten brothers, 20 shekels, a 
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each brother. 
Not much. 

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What are they going to do with a
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selling this dirty money? 
If you want to say, I can only 

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imagine that you have that. 
I'll got horrible money rotting 

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in your pocket from selling your
brother into slavery. 

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But what led to him being sold? 
And we'll need to go back a few 

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verses to understand that we see
that they see him coming in the 

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distance. 
And in verse 18, verse 18 says 

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they saw him afar off where they
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Now how did they see him? 
How did they recognize him afar 

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off? 
And he may have one maybe a kind

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of a gate about him. 
You know, there's horse people 

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in here who understand the gait 
of a horse. 

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You know, Lizzie's really good 
at recognizing a horse from a 

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distance that she may recognize 
because of the gate, because it 

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walks the way it walks, the way 
maybe it swings its head or 

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whatever. 
Maybe, maybe these brothers 

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recognize the way he was 
walking, but I don't think so. 

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I think they recognize it 
because he had his coat on, 

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right? 
Just coat him any colors. 

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They recognize that that was 
Joseph from a distance. 

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They saw him. 
They knew who he was. 

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They saw him coming. 
They couldn't think of anything 

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else except for that coat, 
because that coat represented 

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everything that they did tested 
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And it was just absolutely just 
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Joseph, we're told, to rouse 
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We can read that in verse 4 of 
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They saw him in the distance and
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they had a chance to even hear 
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Joseph was coming to see him, 
they began to plot to kill him. 

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And they said, here comes the 
dreamer, verse 20. 

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We'll kill him. 
We'll throw him into a pit. 

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We'll lie about it and it'll 
say, well, Ferocious Animal laid

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him up and then we'll see if 
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dreaming about that. 
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to one one another. 
Over time these brothers had 

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sowed seeds of hatred in their 
heart and these seeds had found 

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fertile soil in these brothers 
heart and it grew and they 

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watered it with jealousy. 
They cultivated them with 

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selfish selfishness and now they
begin to flower and bloom into 

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an ugly, selfish, horrible 
spreading virus like substance 

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in these boys hearts. 
And their hatred was actually 

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mostly all of it was 
disproportionate to any and all 

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of Joseph's offenses against his
brothers. 

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You see, Joseph didn't buy the 
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He didn't specifically go buy 
that coat for himself. 

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His father made it for him. 
Joseph didn't initiate the 

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dreams. 
Those were given to him by God. 

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They come from another source 
not of his own. 

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And so their hatred of him was 
absolutely disproportionate to 

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the any false offence that he 
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And it needs to be a reminder 
for us that hatred does not need

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a reason. 
Hatred does not need a reason. 

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When a man or a woman hates, 
they just hate for whatever 

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reason they have in their mind. 
And that it needs just a small 

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corner of a selfish heart. 
And in that and from that little

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place, that hatred, the fury of 
venom and vengeance will be 

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coming out in ways that are 
unexplainable. 

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Now the original plan for his 
future according to his brothers

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is here in verse 18. 
Is there in verse 18. 

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They wanted to conspire against 
him to kill him. 

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But now I want to turn the focus
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Reuben comes with an 
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he proposes an amendment to the 
to the motion.