1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,200 Today. We are reading Genesis. 2 00:00:02,200 --> 00:00:05,160 Chapter 37 Verses. Five through. 11 And this is a 3 00:00:05,160 --> 00:00:07,040 very. Short portion. 4 00:00:07,240 --> 00:00:09,880 Of the story of. Joseph in Genesis. 5 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:13,760 Joseph had a dream. And we? 6 00:00:13,760 --> 00:00:15,480 Told it to his. Brothers they hated. 7 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:18,280 Him all the more. He said to them. 8 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:21,480 Listen to this dream I had. We were binding. 9 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:23,800 Sheaves of. Grain out in the field when 10 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:26,720 suddenly my. Sheaf rose and stood. 11 00:00:26,720 --> 00:00:29,960 Upright while your sheaves. Gathered around. 12 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:33,520 Mine and bowed down to it. His brothers said. 13 00:00:33,520 --> 00:00:35,760 To him do you? Intend to reign over. 14 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:38,680 Us. Will you actually rule us? 15 00:00:39,160 --> 00:00:41,160 And they hated. Him all the more. 16 00:00:41,160 --> 00:00:43,560 Because of his dream. And what he had. 17 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:46,000 Said then he had another. Dream. 18 00:00:46,480 --> 00:00:48,080 And he told it. To his brothers. 19 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:49,920 Listen, he said. I had another. 20 00:00:49,920 --> 00:00:52,280 Dream and this. Time the sun. 21 00:00:52,280 --> 00:00:54,800 Moon and 11. Stars. 22 00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:57,000 Were. Bowing down to me. 23 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:00,600 When he told his. Father as well as his brothers, 24 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:02,760 His father rebuked. Him and said. 25 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:05,160 What is this dream? You had will. 26 00:01:05,160 --> 00:01:07,160 Your mother. And I and your. 27 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:09,680 Brothers, actually. Come and bow down. 28 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:13,840 To the ground before you. His brothers were jealous. 29 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:16,720 Of him but his. Father kept the matter. 30 00:01:16,720 --> 00:01:18,280 In his mind. May the. 31 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:19,840 Lord, add his. Blessing to the. 32 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:21,920 Reading and hearing of. His. 33 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:26,480 Word we are talking. About dreams today, particularly 34 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:29,080 what happened happens when dreams. 35 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:34,120 Hit reality and and these. Two dreams that Joseph had. 36 00:01:34,520 --> 00:01:37,200 We're clearly God-given dreams. And they? 37 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:41,200 Clearly hit reality really, really fast and when that 38 00:01:41,240 --> 00:01:43,560 happens. Particularly in a system stacked 39 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:45,440 against you. How do we stay faithful? 40 00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:49,080 How do we stay faithful to the? Call of God to the dreams that 41 00:01:49,080 --> 00:01:53,680 God has given us. Not everyone's a dreamer. 42 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:56,440 God doesn't. Give dreams visions. 43 00:01:57,480 --> 00:01:59,680 Inspirations to every single. Person. 44 00:01:59,960 --> 00:02:03,000 And and that doesn't make. People that get dreams or 45 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:06,080 visions or inspirations more valuable or somehow more 46 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:07,760 important or closer to God and others. 47 00:02:07,880 --> 00:02:09,919 It's just that. God relates to different people 48 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:11,240 in different ways. But I got. 49 00:02:11,240 --> 00:02:13,360 A hunch we've got some. Dreamers and some. 50 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:15,400 Visionaries in the room. Here today. 51 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:18,080 And and even if you know even if. 52 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:20,720 You're not a dreamer or a visionary. 53 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:23,320 I suspect someone in your life is. 54 00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:25,040 And so I think. There's something in this 55 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:27,200 message. For all of us here today. 56 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:31,560 About when dreams hit reality. It's a, it's a, it's a, you 57 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:33,240 know. Well, let's talk about Joseph. 58 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:36,680 And and his dreams and and a little bit of the reality he 59 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:38,760 hit. This business of. 60 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:40,560 Dreams hitting reality. It's easy. 61 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:43,000 When we have these dreams, to kind of think of them as. 62 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:45,480 Plans. This is where my life is going. 63 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:47,360 This is the direction my life is heading. 64 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:49,720 There there are a couple of of rather. 65 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:52,280 Famous statements about. That there's a a. 66 00:02:52,280 --> 00:02:54,640 General from from kind of the late. 67 00:02:54,640 --> 00:02:57,320 Middle Ages, or actually maybe even as. 68 00:02:57,360 --> 00:03:00,880 As late as the. The. 1800s His name? 69 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:03,920 I'm going to mispronounce it. Helmuth von Maltkey. 70 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:06,320 The elder. I cannot remember. 71 00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:09,160 He's either Prussian or Austrian, I don't remember 72 00:03:09,160 --> 00:03:11,920 which, and. Even if you've never heard of 73 00:03:11,920 --> 00:03:13,720 him, you've. Probably heard. 74 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:16,440 One of the famous quotes from him or. 75 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:18,440 At least a paraphrase of that quote. 76 00:03:18,640 --> 00:03:23,280 He was a very well respected, very highly respected. 77 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:27,280 General military leader, particularly when it came to. 78 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:31,160 Strategic planning as. As a as a military leader. 79 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:33,800 And one of the things that. He used to say. 80 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:35,000 Is that no? Plan of. 81 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:37,680 Operations extends with certainty. 82 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:42,120 Beyond the first encounter with the enemy's main forces that, 83 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:45,880 like his name, is a mouthful. And that statement has been. 84 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:48,040 Shortened and paraphrased to something you might have. 85 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:51,040 Heard before which? Is no plan survives contact? 86 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:54,160 With the enemy. Whatever plan you might have, 87 00:03:54,160 --> 00:03:57,480 whatever plan anyone might. Have the first point where we 88 00:03:57,480 --> 00:04:00,880 start to. Execute that plan and meet 89 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:03,600 resistance. Then the plan. 90 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:06,120 Changes. It adjusts. 91 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:10,240 It has to be modified. Mike Tyson, who, in my humble 92 00:04:10,240 --> 00:04:13,200 and very inexpert opinion, is probably the greatest 93 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:15,200 heavyweight boxer. Maybe the greatest. 94 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:19,680 Boxer ever to have lived so far. Said it in a little more 95 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:23,360 colorful way. Back in the early 2000s, when he 96 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:25,560 was going to fight Lennox Lewis, it was being. 97 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:29,000 Interviewed. I don't know ESPNH BO1 of those. 98 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:31,320 Shows was interviewing him. Way back. 99 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:33,080 Then and they said, hey, you know. 100 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:37,200 Lennox Lewis says he's got a real plan on how to fight. 101 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:40,040 You to. Which Mike Tyson replied, 102 00:04:40,320 --> 00:04:45,720 everyone has a plan until they get hit and and that was Mike 103 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:47,920 Tyson's strategy and it proved to be true. 104 00:04:47,920 --> 00:04:52,040 Lennox Lewis's plan lasted just about up to the time that he got 105 00:04:52,040 --> 00:04:55,240 punched really hard in the face. By Mike Tyson and. 106 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:56,920 Everyone has a plan till they get hit. 107 00:04:56,920 --> 00:04:59,000 When we get hit. Those plans has to. 108 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:02,040 Change have to change. Or adjusted in some way. 109 00:05:02,040 --> 00:05:05,720 Shape or form, this was what this was Joseph's reality. 110 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:09,680 Joseph had. These dreams and and. 111 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:13,800 Joseph, you know. Again, we don't get a lot of 112 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:15,440 internal dialogue. We don't get a lot of 113 00:05:15,440 --> 00:05:18,840 personality descriptions for a lot of characters in the Bible, 114 00:05:18,840 --> 00:05:20,480 but there are some clues. Here. 115 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:25,000 In Genesis chapter 30. Seven about how Joseph received 116 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:25,680 these. Dreams. 117 00:05:25,840 --> 00:05:27,040 And it was. Probably with a little. 118 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:31,200 Bit of arrogance we. Know this because of what has 119 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:32,720 already happened that we didn't read. 120 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:36,000 Joseph we know is is 1 of 12 brothers. 121 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:38,000 He's got ten older. Brothers. 122 00:05:38,280 --> 00:05:40,000 And one younger brother, Benjamin. 123 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:45,000 And and he's so he's one of 12 and he's, he's way. 124 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:49,640 Down the line of succession to inherit his father's estate and. 125 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:51,960 Fortune. Birth order was everything. 126 00:05:52,280 --> 00:05:53,880 And he would have to have. Ten older. 127 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:56,800 Brothers would have to die before he got to. 128 00:05:56,800 --> 00:05:58,320 Be in charge. Of his father's. 129 00:05:58,320 --> 00:06:05,600 Household, but even though he was #11 out of 12, the youngest 130 00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:08,480 of his brothers to be sent out into the fields at all at this 131 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:10,080 point. He goes out into the fields 132 00:06:10,080 --> 00:06:11,720 where his brothers, who have for. 133 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:15,960 Years been managing their. Fathers flocks together, he goes 134 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:17,920 out. He watches them and then he. 135 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:21,360 Comes back home and tells dad they're not doing a. 136 00:06:21,360 --> 00:06:24,360 Very good job. My brothers are not. 137 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:28,520 This did not. Create good positive. 138 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:31,520 Emotions between his brothers. And him. 139 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:34,280 And then he. Starts having these dreams where 140 00:06:34,280 --> 00:06:37,480 his brothers first. All. 11 of his brothers. 141 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:40,120 Come. And bow down to him. 142 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:42,920 And then? Not only his brothers, 11 143 00:06:42,920 --> 00:06:45,320 brothers, but. His mother and father. 144 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:48,160 Come and. Bow down to him. 145 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:54,360 Why would you tell that story to your older brothers? 146 00:06:55,720 --> 00:06:57,560 If you didn't want to get a. Little. 147 00:06:57,560 --> 00:06:59,600 Bit of you know. Hey, guys. 148 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:02,360 You think you've got it over me now, but. 149 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:04,360 One of these days. You're going to kneel. 150 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:07,960 Before me and we are told in the. 151 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:10,720 Holy word of God that his brothers hated. 152 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:13,200 Him all the more. Because of his. 153 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:17,840 Dreams and. So with these dreams. 154 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:20,800 With whatever plans Joseph was. Formulating on the. 155 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:23,200 Basis of these dreams. They hit a. 156 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:25,360 Really hard reality and. Joseph. 157 00:07:25,560 --> 00:07:26,400 Got. Hit. 158 00:07:26,640 --> 00:07:30,680 Really hard by his brothers, quite literally they they. 159 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:34,200 Beat him near to death in response to. 160 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:37,000 His dreams they threw. Him into an empty. 161 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:39,440 Cistern and they. Sold him into. 162 00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:44,000 Slavery to a group of people. Passing through the country on 163 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:49,480 their way to a foreign land. Now that. 164 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:51,600 Kind of response I. Believe. 165 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:55,240 Can only appropriately be described in the. 166 00:07:55,240 --> 00:08:01,480 Immortal words of Ron Burgundy. Boy, that escalated quickly. 167 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:04,720 I mean, that really got out of hand fast. 168 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:07,440 You jumped up a notch. It did, didn't it? 169 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:10,640 Yeah. That escalated real quickly. 170 00:08:11,320 --> 00:08:14,240 You tattle on us, you tell us your dreams, we're going to beat 171 00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:16,840 you up, nearly kill you, and then sell you as a. 172 00:08:16,840 --> 00:08:19,160 Slave. And by the way, they took. 173 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:21,360 Some of his clothing dipped it in. 174 00:08:21,360 --> 00:08:22,560 Sheep's. Blood or goat? 175 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:24,560 'S blood and told their dad he was. 176 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:29,880 Eaten by a lion. Bye, bye, Joseph. 177 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:32,640 I think. Perhaps a? 178 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:37,320 Bit of an overreaction. To a bratty little brother so. 179 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:39,760 Anyone here who's? Don't do that to. 180 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:41,520 Your younger. Siblings, just. 181 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:46,640 Saying. Just saying, but Joseph's 182 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:48,080 dreams. Got a? 183 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:49,800 Really hard dose of. Reality. 184 00:08:49,800 --> 00:08:51,360 There are a couple. Of things I want us to. 185 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:53,760 Take out of the story the first thing I want us to take out of 186 00:08:53,760 --> 00:08:55,560 this. Which is maybe. 187 00:08:55,560 --> 00:08:58,120 The most obvious thing to take out of the story? 188 00:08:58,120 --> 00:09:03,440 Is be cautious about who you. Share your dreams with right not 189 00:09:03,440 --> 00:09:04,600 everyone. 'S going to get it. 190 00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:08,760 Not everyone's a visionary. Not everyone's a dreamer. 191 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:11,800 And and. Sometimes when we share our 192 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:15,080 dreams with people. They take great delight. 193 00:09:15,080 --> 00:09:18,960 In knocking them down. They take great delight. 194 00:09:19,240 --> 00:09:23,360 And saying it'll never happen. You're crazy, you're arrogant, 195 00:09:23,520 --> 00:09:26,080 you're stupid, you're flighty. Just get. 196 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:28,040 Back to the business at Light, you know. 197 00:09:28,040 --> 00:09:30,800 Don't. Don't dream, don't plan, don't 198 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:32,400 imagine, Just. Do your job. 199 00:09:32,400 --> 00:09:36,240 And get on with. It do your stuff, be careful 200 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:37,320 about who. You share your dreams. 201 00:09:37,320 --> 00:09:42,160 With. Elon Musk has. 202 00:09:42,160 --> 00:09:46,120 Experienced this and and. Elon Musk is somewhat there's I 203 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:48,400 don't know if there's anyone in the world that's more visionary 204 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:51,760 than Elon Musk is right now. I'm not making any comment one 205 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:54,360 way or another about whether his dreams and visions are from God. 206 00:09:55,320 --> 00:09:58,640 But he's a visionary. And and. 207 00:09:58,840 --> 00:10:00,400 You probably know. He started. 208 00:10:00,400 --> 00:10:02,680 He helped. Start the company PayPal. 209 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:05,520 Which is an online. Payment service if you don't 210 00:10:05,520 --> 00:10:07,360 know what that is. I use PayPal a lot. 211 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:10,120 It's a safe, secure way to make online. 212 00:10:10,120 --> 00:10:12,480 Purchases. My dad uses it. 213 00:10:13,520 --> 00:10:15,120 But he. Thinks he's buying from 214 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:18,400 scammers, which tells you a little bit about my dad that 215 00:10:18,400 --> 00:10:19,960 he's willing to. And he's like, well. 216 00:10:19,960 --> 00:10:22,440 If it's a scam, PayPal will. Give me my money back and they 217 00:10:22,440 --> 00:10:23,360 do. And he? 218 00:10:23,360 --> 00:10:26,000 Does it a lot. But that's neither here nor 219 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:29,200 there. I'm sorry. 220 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:33,840 He bought electric heaters. With the promise in the 221 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:36,760 advertisement that they would reduce his electric bill to. 222 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:39,080 Zero. There you go. 223 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:41,120 But PayPal gave him his money back. 224 00:10:43,360 --> 00:10:45,480 Elon Musk made a. Ton of money. 225 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:48,640 With PayPal. And some other things. 226 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:51,760 And he was looking at what to do with his. 227 00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:52,960 Money. And he had. 228 00:10:53,240 --> 00:10:57,440 A vision, and his vision is that the human race. 229 00:10:57,440 --> 00:11:01,360 Must become an interplanetary species in order to survive. 230 00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:05,440 And so he's going to build. A rocket ship company. 231 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:10,680 And call it SpaceX. And every smart person around 232 00:11:10,680 --> 00:11:13,840 him told him he was an idiot. He. 233 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:16,800 Was stupid, he was. Throwing his money away. 234 00:11:17,520 --> 00:11:19,520 There is no money to be made. In that. 235 00:11:19,520 --> 00:11:21,640 It's too expensive. God, it's why. 236 00:11:21,640 --> 00:11:24,080 Governments are the only ones that send rockets. 237 00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:24,840 Into. Space. 238 00:11:25,040 --> 00:11:27,240 This is crazy. This is nuts. 239 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:29,880 This is insane, except. It wasn't. 240 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:35,960 And now Elon Musk. Is the richest man in the world 241 00:11:35,960 --> 00:11:38,080 on the way to becoming the world's first trillionaire? 242 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:42,160 And SpaceX launches more. Rockets every. 243 00:11:42,160 --> 00:11:46,640 Year than every other business and government combined. 244 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:55,520 Extraordinary, but to get. From where he started to that 245 00:11:55,520 --> 00:11:58,280 vision being. Realized and still in process. 246 00:11:58,280 --> 00:12:02,680 We haven't made it to Mars yet. Musk has had to deal. 247 00:12:02,680 --> 00:12:06,640 With a lot of people who said it's impossible, you're stupid, 248 00:12:06,760 --> 00:12:07,720 you. Can't do it. 249 00:12:08,960 --> 00:12:11,440 Be cautious about who. You share you, you know at some. 250 00:12:11,440 --> 00:12:13,120 Point along the way. If it's a crazy. 251 00:12:13,120 --> 00:12:15,520 Outlandish, you know, dream and and I don't. 252 00:12:15,520 --> 00:12:18,240 Mean those words critically. Because they're really. 253 00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:20,000 Good dreams are crazy and outlandish. 254 00:12:20,680 --> 00:12:23,200 Joseph's dreams were crazy and outlandish. 255 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:26,640 There will be people. That think it's nuts and 256 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:28,040 impossible. And will never happen. 257 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:32,400 And we have to. Be prepared for that, but it's 258 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:33,080 also. Good. 259 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:35,800 To not just broadcast our dreams. 260 00:12:37,080 --> 00:12:40,920 And and and invite. Constant public critique. 261 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:44,200 But to go about. The business, the work that God 262 00:12:44,200 --> 00:12:45,920 has given us of pursuing those dreams. 263 00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:47,360 So be cautious. About who you. 264 00:12:47,360 --> 00:12:49,840 Share your dreams with The other thing to remember is this. 265 00:12:49,840 --> 00:12:54,040 Receiving a dream or a vision or a calling or a promise from God 266 00:12:54,040 --> 00:12:56,400 does not make you better than anyone else. 267 00:12:57,560 --> 00:13:00,440 God did not. Give Joseph these dreams as a 268 00:13:00,440 --> 00:13:03,480 sign to Joseph or anyone else. That Joseph was. 269 00:13:03,480 --> 00:13:06,280 Better than his brothers. Better than his parents. 270 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:10,800 That's not why. We'll talk about the why in a 271 00:13:10,800 --> 00:13:15,120 little bit, but that's not why. Teresa of Avila, who is, who is? 272 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:22,040 One of the the great Christian spiritual writers. 273 00:13:22,040 --> 00:13:26,240 And thinkers and livers. She she passed away years ago. 274 00:13:27,160 --> 00:13:30,240 But she was one who God gave. Visions and dreams. 275 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:33,800 And people would come and they would shower her with praise and 276 00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:36,120 admiration and respect and Teresa said. 277 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:39,800 No, no. And she? 278 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:41,680 Said it this way, God really only gives. 279 00:13:41,680 --> 00:13:43,960 Visions to people. Whose faith is so? 280 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:45,640 Weak. They can't hear him in any other 281 00:13:45,640 --> 00:13:50,200 way. Now that I can't verify that's. 282 00:13:50,200 --> 00:13:54,160 True or not but. The humility that she's. 283 00:13:54,160 --> 00:13:56,360 Expressing there is incredibly. Important. 284 00:13:57,240 --> 00:14:00,080 That God. Certainly doesn't give people 285 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:02,480 visions because they're. Better than other people? 286 00:14:02,800 --> 00:14:04,840 He doesn't give one. Person dreams because they're 287 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:06,880 better. Than the people he doesn't give 288 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:10,480 dreams to. The dream was not. 289 00:14:10,480 --> 00:14:14,720 About Joseph, it was sort. Of about Joseph but. 290 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:17,040 Not really about Joseph. The important. 291 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:20,360 That Joseph was in it, but he wasn't the main character and 292 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:22,360 there's a risk. We run when we make ourselves 293 00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:24,240 the main. Character of the visions. 294 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:25,720 Of the dreams that. God gives us. 295 00:14:25,840 --> 00:14:28,400 When we make ourselves the protagonist, when we make 296 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:31,400 ourselves the main character, then we tend to put ourselves 297 00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:32,840 up. High and other people. 298 00:14:32,920 --> 00:14:35,880 Become instruments and tools for achieving our. 299 00:14:35,880 --> 00:14:39,000 Visions and our dreams. And that's not a good spot to. 300 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:41,400 Be in. It's not a Christ like spot. 301 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:43,720 To be in so receiving dreams and visions. 302 00:14:43,720 --> 00:14:44,680 Callings. They don't make you. 303 00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:50,760 Better than other people? And third thing, a God-given 304 00:14:50,760 --> 00:14:53,680 dream. Is not a promise of an easy Rd. 305 00:14:55,520 --> 00:14:57,360 I've encountered that. In my own life. 306 00:14:57,360 --> 00:14:59,360 I encountered that in others as I've talked to them. 307 00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:02,160 They get a vision they get. A sense of calling from God. 308 00:15:02,320 --> 00:15:04,640 This is the thing to do. This is the direction to go. 309 00:15:04,640 --> 00:15:06,800 This is where I want you. To to, to go. 310 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:09,560 To be, to do the ministry, the mission, the dream, the vision, 311 00:15:09,840 --> 00:15:14,200 and then and then you get. Hit and then your plans make 312 00:15:14,200 --> 00:15:17,640 contact with the enemy. And things get. 313 00:15:17,640 --> 00:15:21,280 Really hard. A God. 314 00:15:21,280 --> 00:15:23,000 Given dream is not a promise of an easy. 315 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:29,120 Road Joseph had a very hard Rd. He went from being. 316 00:15:29,120 --> 00:15:32,440 Daddy's favorite? Son to being a. 317 00:15:32,440 --> 00:15:37,120 Slave to a. Traveling caravan of slave. 318 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:40,160 Traders and then a. Slave to an official. 319 00:15:40,160 --> 00:15:43,520 In Egypt. And then when you think, wow, 320 00:15:43,560 --> 00:15:45,240 you know, it can't get much worse than. 321 00:15:45,240 --> 00:15:49,000 That it can. So he went from being a slave. 322 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:52,680 To being a prisoner. Because his owner's. 323 00:15:52,680 --> 00:15:54,840 Wife. Accused him of misconduct. 324 00:15:55,080 --> 00:16:00,120 Falsely accused him of. Misconduct and. 325 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:05,280 Joseph was thrown in jail. And he spent years in jail. 326 00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:09,800 The road. Joseph traveled. 327 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:11,280 I cannot. Imagine a much. 328 00:16:11,280 --> 00:16:15,120 Harder Rd. Betrayed by your family? 329 00:16:16,080 --> 00:16:18,040 Physically. Beaten by your family? 330 00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:23,160 Decided that rather. Than just killing you. 331 00:16:23,160 --> 00:16:26,040 Which their thought process was first we're going to kill him. 332 00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:29,520 And then they were like, what? Why should we kill him when we 333 00:16:29,520 --> 00:16:30,800 can make money? Off of him. 334 00:16:32,040 --> 00:16:36,000 And so they sold. Him, and now he's a stranger in 335 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:37,360 a strange. Land and the only. 336 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:40,360 Person or people in the world that cared about him at all. 337 00:16:40,920 --> 00:16:47,400 Think he's dead anyway so no one's coming to get him and then 338 00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:51,840 you go to jail. Joseph had a hard. 339 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:57,080 Road, that vision, that promise of God, was not, not. 340 00:16:58,480 --> 00:17:02,600 Not some sort of yellow. Brick Fantasy The road in which? 341 00:17:02,600 --> 00:17:07,040 Everything is is working out OK. It's up. 342 00:17:07,280 --> 00:17:08,839 It's. Down it's back it's. 343 00:17:08,839 --> 00:17:11,720 Forward. How do I go from being a younger 344 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:14,800 brother with a dream of all of my family bowing? 345 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:17,839 Down to me. How do I get? 346 00:17:17,839 --> 00:17:25,480 There, from an imprisoned slave, God-given dreams. 347 00:17:26,599 --> 00:17:28,600 Almost a promise of. Challenges ahead. 348 00:17:28,840 --> 00:17:31,600 Rather than an easy Rd. but if if if the. 349 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:33,240 Purpose of a. Dream is not to. 350 00:17:33,240 --> 00:17:36,280 Give us an easy road and and it was the thing. 351 00:17:36,600 --> 00:17:38,120 I was tempted in when. I was first. 352 00:17:38,120 --> 00:17:39,640 Putting the sermon together. I had a. 353 00:17:39,640 --> 00:17:42,400 Point in here that that saying that the reason God gave. 354 00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:44,280 Joseph this dream was that it gave him. 355 00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:47,160 Encouragement and inspiration through the dark times. 356 00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:48,640 He. Could look at that dream and 357 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:50,560 hold on to that dream and if he really believed. 358 00:17:50,560 --> 00:17:52,280 It that could. Give him encouragement and 359 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:53,800 inspiration through the dark times. 360 00:17:54,120 --> 00:17:56,000 The problem is, is that's not what the Bible says. 361 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:57,160 So I took that. Part out of the. 362 00:17:57,160 --> 00:17:59,680 Sermon like try not to preach things that the Bible doesn't 363 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:04,560 say. What the Bible says is that 364 00:18:04,880 --> 00:18:06,680 Joseph. Never even thought of that. 365 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:10,560 Dream for years. There's nothing in the Bible. 366 00:18:10,560 --> 00:18:12,760 That, says Joseph, was. Clinging to that dream. 367 00:18:13,080 --> 00:18:15,600 As a promise from God that. Everything will get better. 368 00:18:18,120 --> 00:18:20,160 As far. As we know, Joseph did not think 369 00:18:20,160 --> 00:18:22,720 of that dream. Again, until his brothers. 370 00:18:22,720 --> 00:18:25,200 Years later were actually. Bowing before him. 371 00:18:27,880 --> 00:18:31,240 So what's the purpose of the? Dream, I think the. 372 00:18:31,240 --> 00:18:35,240 Purpose of the dream. Is this to reveal? 373 00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:37,600 God's sovereign. Power and purpose. 374 00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:40,240 God gave Joseph the. Dream. 375 00:18:40,800 --> 00:18:42,800 So that Joseph would. Know he was. 376 00:18:42,800 --> 00:18:44,520 Not the star. Of his own life. 377 00:18:45,960 --> 00:18:48,160 He was not the. Far from being. 378 00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:50,800 The king of his family. He's not even the king of his 379 00:18:50,800 --> 00:18:52,400 own life. God is the King. 380 00:18:52,600 --> 00:18:54,840 God is in charge. And that everything that 381 00:18:54,840 --> 00:18:56,960 happened to him along. The way was part of God's. 382 00:18:56,960 --> 00:19:00,200 Sovereign power and sovereign. Purpose Joseph had. 383 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:01,920 A dream. His brothers bowing down to him, 384 00:19:01,920 --> 00:19:04,520 Joseph gets sold into slavery. And Egypt he gets. 385 00:19:04,520 --> 00:19:07,400 Thrown into jail while he's in jail, perhaps? 386 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:09,880 Because he's in jail. He meets someone. 387 00:19:09,880 --> 00:19:12,640 Else who's in jail? Who gets released? 388 00:19:12,640 --> 00:19:15,160 And becomes and is. Restored to a position of high 389 00:19:15,160 --> 00:19:19,120 authority in the Pharaoh's. Palace and. 390 00:19:19,120 --> 00:19:22,240 Having known that person when the Pharaoh has a dream. 391 00:19:23,960 --> 00:19:27,880 And Joseph's former cellmate knows that Joseph interprets 392 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:29,720 dream. Pharaoh has a dream that his 393 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:31,600 wise. Men, his magi cannot. 394 00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:33,400 Interpret and this other servant. 395 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:35,680 Says to the Pharaoh. Look, I met this guy in jail. 396 00:19:35,680 --> 00:19:36,640 His name? Was Joseph. 397 00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:38,960 He's a. Servant of God, he interprets 398 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:42,400 dreams, and so Pharaoh calls Joseph out and he tells him the 399 00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:43,840 dream. Joseph says. 400 00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:45,120 Here's. The meaning of your dream. 401 00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:48,720 God has told me. This is the meaning of your 402 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:49,080 dream. There's. 403 00:19:49,880 --> 00:19:53,400 Going to be 7. Very prosperous years in Egypt 404 00:19:53,960 --> 00:19:56,640 where the harvest will be great. There will be ample. 405 00:19:56,720 --> 00:19:58,760 Food there will be. Bountiful food. 406 00:19:58,920 --> 00:19:59,920 It's going. To be wonderful. 407 00:19:59,920 --> 00:20:01,720 For seven. Years and then after that 408 00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:03,480 there's going to be 7 years of famine. 409 00:20:03,680 --> 00:20:07,400 When nothing's going to grow and so we need to take. 410 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:10,240 The next seven years. And store up. 411 00:20:10,240 --> 00:20:12,400 Food so that we'll have food to eat. 412 00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:14,600 During the famine and. Pharaoh said. 413 00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:19,120 You are the man. And Pharaoh put Joseph in. 414 00:20:19,120 --> 00:20:20,560 Charge of his whole. Kingdom. 415 00:20:20,760 --> 00:20:24,000 The only one Joseph was answerable to in the entire 416 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:30,440 Kingdom of Egypt was the king himself, Pharaoh himself, so God 417 00:20:30,440 --> 00:20:32,880 elevated. Joseph to that position. 418 00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:35,080 Well, the Pharaoh. On the. 419 00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:38,320 Surface elevated, Joseph. To that position. 420 00:20:39,040 --> 00:20:40,400 And then when the famine. Hit. 421 00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:42,600 It wasn't just in Egypt. It stretched up into. 422 00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:45,720 Canaan and his family was running out of food. 423 00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:48,520 In fact, they did. Run out of food and Jacob sent 424 00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:50,040 Joseph. 'S brothers all except. 425 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:53,360 Benjamin down to Egypt. Because he'd heard there was. 426 00:20:53,360 --> 00:20:58,720 Food in Egypt and they get down there and it's been. 20 years 427 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:00,680 and they don't recognize their brother. 428 00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:05,600 Why would they? They they get down there, they, 429 00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:08,400 they go to the guy in charge. They know he's the second in 430 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:10,040 command of the whole Kingdom. He's the one that's. 431 00:21:10,280 --> 00:21:13,360 Governing and and and and. And making all the decisions 432 00:21:13,360 --> 00:21:16,360 about food distribution. Is Joseph, but they don't know 433 00:21:16,360 --> 00:21:18,560 it's Joseph. He's got a different name. 434 00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:20,400 Pharaoh gave him a new name. He doesn't. 435 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:22,240 He looks like an Egyptian, not like a. 436 00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:24,680 Hebrew and he's. Up on the throne, he's got 437 00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:26,960 power, he's got authority. He's all there. 438 00:21:27,120 --> 00:21:30,600 And the brothers come and they ask him for food and every 439 00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:32,400 single. One of them bows down before 440 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:37,120 him, and. That's when the Bible. 441 00:21:37,120 --> 00:21:40,840 Tells us that Joseph. Remembered his dream. 442 00:21:43,120 --> 00:21:45,040 Of his brothers. Bowing down before him. 443 00:21:48,400 --> 00:21:50,320 And at this point? Joseph has a choice. 444 00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:55,040 Now, well, this point. Yeah, let me do. 445 00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:56,840 This first this. Point Joseph has a. 446 00:21:56,840 --> 00:21:59,040 Choice. On what to do. 447 00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:04,640 One choice is to despise his brothers. 448 00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:07,040 And seek revenge against them because of the. 449 00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:08,400 Great evil they did. To him. 450 00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:13,560 They mocked him. You think? 451 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:16,160 You're going to rule over us and now? 452 00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:19,360 Joseph can say, hey, I'm Joseph. And look. 453 00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:22,880 I rule over you. And now? 454 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:26,120 This tables are stacked. The system's stacked in the 455 00:22:26,120 --> 00:22:28,080 other way. I have all the power and you 456 00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:28,680 have. None. 457 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:35,000 Grovel, you worms that could have been. 458 00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:40,040 His response or yet? Another choice, thankfully. 459 00:22:40,040 --> 00:22:43,720 He chose the other thing. Not immediately. 460 00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:46,760 He tested him first. But he could recognize. 461 00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:48,720 He could seek. Revenge. 462 00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:50,880 Or he could. Recognize and surrender to the 463 00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:53,360 hand and. Purpose of God including. 464 00:22:53,360 --> 00:22:55,560 His brother's role. In God's purpose. 465 00:22:56,560 --> 00:22:59,040 Now we tested him, he wanted to see if they'd. 466 00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:01,640 Grown up in. He'd wanted to see if they were. 467 00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:03,440 Still, the sort of people that would. 468 00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:06,560 Betray a younger brother just to make their own lives a little 469 00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:09,320 bit better. And he tested them. 470 00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:11,880 They passed the test. Not going to get into all the 471 00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:13,040 details. Of that today. 472 00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:16,520 They passed the test. And when he finally. 473 00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:19,960 Revealed himself to his. Brothers, this is what he said. 474 00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:24,560 Do not be distressed and do not be angry with yourselves for 475 00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:27,000 selling me here. Because it was to. 476 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:30,840 Save lives that God sent me. Ahead of you for two years. 477 00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:33,160 Now there has been. Famine in the land and for the 478 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:34,280 next. Five years. 479 00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:37,160 There will be no. Plowing and reaping, but God 480 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:40,840 sent me ahead of you. To preserve for you a. 481 00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:43,720 Remnant on Earth and to save your. 482 00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:49,560 Lives by a great. Deliverance, Joseph. 483 00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:56,480 In that moment remembered his dream and he realized and he 484 00:23:56,480 --> 00:24:00,600 knew and he understood that the reason why God had given him 485 00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:05,000 that dream was so that when this moment came, he would know that. 486 00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:08,560 Everything that had. Happened to him was the hand of 487 00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:15,320 God and that he was there not to dominate or punish his brothers. 488 00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:19,280 But to save lives, To save his brothers. 489 00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:23,560 That God had done all of this. Whatever. 490 00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:25,360 His brother's intentions, whatever. 491 00:24:25,360 --> 00:24:26,880 Great in it. Was a great. 492 00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:28,000 Evil, they did. To him. 493 00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:33,520 It was a great evil. That they did to him, but that 494 00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:34,680 was. God's tool. 495 00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:39,440 That God used. To put Joseph in a position. 496 00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:42,000 Where God wanted. Joseph in order. 497 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:45,960 To save his. Family not punish his family. 498 00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:50,080 That was the choice. And that's the choice. 499 00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:53,840 Joseph made. He chose to accept this truth 500 00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:56,360 that. God's intent trump's our. 501 00:24:56,360 --> 00:24:58,320 Intent and our. Feelings. 502 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:02,080 God's intent. Trump's all of that. 503 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:09,760 Years later, so Joseph. Brings his whole family down to 504 00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:10,680 Egypt. For the rest. 505 00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:12,560 Of the famine. So there's going to be. 506 00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:14,880 Famine for five more years. Why not? 507 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:17,200 You know, go back, get that, you know. 508 00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:19,160 Get the whole family, bring him down. 509 00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:24,360 And the whole family will stay here and you'll have. 510 00:25:24,360 --> 00:25:27,400 Plenty during this famine. And I will provide for you. 511 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:33,400 I'll make sure that you have enough then years. 512 00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:35,320 Later, Jacob, their father. Dies. 513 00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:38,960 And and and the. Brothers are like Dad. 514 00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:42,880 'S dead. What's Joe going to do now? 515 00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:45,840 We know. Joseph loved his dad. 516 00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:47,520 We know Dad loved. Joseph. 517 00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:51,640 Now Dad's gone. What's little Joey? 518 00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:54,920 Going to do. And they were afraid. 519 00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:57,280 That he had. Just been bidding his time. 520 00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:00,160 But Joseph. Even years later. 521 00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:03,400 Says this to them. You intended to harm. 522 00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:06,240 Me but God. Intended it for good. 523 00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:09,640 To accomplish what is now. Being done the. 524 00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:17,200 Saving of many lives. Because of the evil they did to 525 00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:21,440 Joseph. Joseph was in a position. 526 00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:24,880 For God to. Use him to save many lives. 527 00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:29,120 And not just his family. Many, many, many, many. 528 00:26:29,120 --> 00:26:32,760 Other lives as well. That was God's. 529 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:35,880 Intent. That was God's purpose, whatever 530 00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:38,600 his brothers. Intended God's intention trumped 531 00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:42,280 they meant evil that. Takes a back seat. 532 00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:44,880 God meant good. That's why I'm here. 533 00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:48,000 That's why I went. Through that difficult Rd. 534 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:51,560 That's why I suffered. All of those things so that I 535 00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:55,640 could be in a position not to judge, not to condemn, not. 536 00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:59,640 To punish. But to save to save. 537 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:09,680 That's why God gives dreams. So that when the when the dream 538 00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:12,360 intersects with reality, we can know that it was. 539 00:27:12,360 --> 00:27:14,080 God's doing. Not ours. 540 00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:17,840 That we can give. All the credit for all and all 541 00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:19,840 of the glory, for all of the good to God. 542 00:27:20,120 --> 00:27:23,280 And we can now see all of the. Heartache and all of the 543 00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:25,400 suffering along the way. As part of. 544 00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:30,200 God's direction and God's purpose and God's plan and as 545 00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:32,040 painful. As it was, it brought me to a. 546 00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:35,920 Point where I was in a position. To help save others. 547 00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:41,520 We have a tradition in in the United. 548 00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:43,880 Methodist Church and I I think it's. 549 00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:47,040 One of the most. Beautiful prayers ever written. 550 00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:50,560 Is a prayer that John Wesley wrote, and he encouraged all 551 00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:52,360 Methodists to pray it as part of a new. 552 00:27:52,360 --> 00:27:55,840 Year's service, probably. Prayed it here. 553 00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:57,200 Before it's in the. Hymnal. 554 00:27:58,040 --> 00:27:58,640 It's we. We. 555 00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:00,880 Call it a covenant. Prayer in the Wesleyan 556 00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:02,920 tradition. Because in the Methodist Church, 557 00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:04,840 we like long complicated. Names. 558 00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:08,600 But this is the. Prayer that Wesley taught. 559 00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:13,800 Methodists to pray? And I think it. 560 00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:16,280 Fits so well with Joseph's attitude. 561 00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:21,680 Here, Father in heaven, I am no longer my own, but yours. 562 00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:28,360 Put me to what you will rank me with whom you will put me to 563 00:28:28,360 --> 00:28:30,640 doing. Put me to suffering. 564 00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:34,240 Let me be employed by you. Or laid aside. 565 00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:38,440 By you let me be exalted. For you or brought low for you. 566 00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:42,960 Let me be full, let me be empty, Let me have all things, let me 567 00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:46,520 have nothing. I freely and heartily yield all 568 00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:49,520 things to your pleasure and your disposal. 569 00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:52,400 And now O. Glorious and blessed God. 570 00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:56,120 Father, Son and Holy Spirit, you are mine and I am. 571 00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:57,720 Yours. So be it. 572 00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:00,520 And the covenant which I have made on earth. 573 00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:02,880 Let it be ratified. In heaven. 574 00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:05,080 Amen. Amen. 575 00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:11,320 Wesley Teaching. Followers of Jesus today. 576 00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:16,000 To live like Joseph did, then whatever God has planned for me. 577 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:18,440 Whether it's great prosperity. Or great poverty. 578 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:21,480 Whether it's, it's, it's. Tremendous work to. 579 00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:24,160 Do or being set aside with nothing to do. 580 00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:29,720 Whether it's, whether it's, it's praise or whether it's 581 00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:31,880 rejection, whether it's good, whether it's. 582 00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:34,280 Painful whether it's bad. Whether it's joyful. 583 00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:36,800 Whatever it is, God. Whatever you want, we're. 584 00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:39,080 Yours. We're yours. 585 00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:42,000 You get all. Of the glory your. 586 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:44,920 Word and your will and your purposes be done. 587 00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:47,880 I believe This is why God gives us. 588 00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:52,600 Dreams to know that God. Is at the center of the story. 589 00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:56,160 God is the main character and he invites. 590 00:29:56,160 --> 00:29:59,400 Us to trust him. Through all of the. 591 00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:01,720 Darkness. And all of the pain and all of 592 00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:06,280 the struggle all along the way. And to see his. 593 00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:09,600 Purpose for us. Is not to judge, not to condemn, 594 00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:12,560 not to seek. Revenge not to punish. 595 00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:14,720 But to save. In Jesus name. 596 00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:16,440 Amen. Amen.