#S076 - “A No Win
Situation” (Part 2)
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Welcome to the Breath of life.
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Television Ministries broadcast
with Pastor Debleaire Snell.
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In today's episode,
Pastor Snell will continue part
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two of the powerful
message “A No Win Situation”.
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Now let's go deeper
into the word of God.
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And so the word sends to us
here in Genesis 39 and verse
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nine, Can y'all stay in
the word with the pastor today?
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So Joseph says there is no one
greater in this house than I,
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nor has he kept
anything back from me but you,
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because you are his wife.
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How can I do this?
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Great wickedness
and sin against God?
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Excuse me, verse eight.
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But the Bible says, But He what
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the Bible says
he what he refuse.
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In other words, number three,
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Joseph strength was
not in his resisting.
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His strength
was in his refusing.
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Okay,
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I hear me on this.
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Joseph's strength was
not in how well he resisted.
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It was actually in how
immediately he refused it.
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See, one of the things
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I don't think we do, where we
don't give Joseph enough credit
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is that there are some
that actually kind of believe
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that Joseph was not
attracted to Potter for his wife
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because he is this
young guy and maybe she is
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just this older woman
that Joseph would not feel
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but understand
that even though Joseph
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is a man of God,
he is still a man.
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Okay, your
brother's somebody brand new.
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He is still a man.
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And we're not exactly
sure how old Joseph is,
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but if he has been in Egypt
for 2 to 3 years, he is in a 17
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or 18 year old man who
has reached his sexual prime.
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And, you know, heart is at that
age, it is all you think about
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and is crazy because
there is an assumption
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that part of his wife is
this wrinkled up, great cougar.
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That's not the truth,
because what scholars suggest
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is that in Egyptian culture,
oftentimes men married women
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that were much
younger than they were,
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so that even if
part of her was 40 or 50,
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his wife may be a 25 year old,
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buoyant and bouncy young lady
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that has everything
that would appeal to Joseph.
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Not now. How do
you believe that?
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Because if she one had
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the devil wouldn't
put her in front of him.
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In other words,
the devil laying on
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putting that in front of
you that don't appeal he's
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going to make sure is tailor
made are y'all hear me today
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to your
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weaknesses and your desires
and to understand that Potter
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for his life meets
a variety of needs.
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One Joseph is alone,
so she provides company.
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He is a minority and
she provides support.
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She literally affirms his gifts.
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And literally, as
an 18 year old man,
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she is able to give him
relief from the sexual tensions
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that he deals with
on a day to day basis.
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But the thing I love
about Joseph is that it wasn't
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his strength to resist.
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It was his ability or
willingness to refuse. It's
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another word song.
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See, I need you
to hear me on this.
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This is not a situation
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where Joseph thought
this over a bunch of times.
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This is not a
scenario where he weighed
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the pros and the cons and that
he considered the consequences.
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And he just came down
to the right conclusion.
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No, the world lets us
know that as soon as it was
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proffered, Joseph refused it.
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In other words, I need
somebody to hear me on this,
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because in the Hebrew that word
refuse is the word my queen.
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And it literally means
and abso lute rejection.
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It means to not even
make it a matter of thought,
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and it actually means to
express distaste or the offer.
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In other words, your
word, Joseph, does not placate
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this joint.
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He's not like, Well,
maybe if you weren't married
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or if it was a
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different kind of situation,
maybe you and I could get down.
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But there is everything in
his demeanor that says, I'm
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not even giving
this thought today.
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See, Joseph didn't
just resist temptation
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because the resisting temptation
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kind of sometimes has this idea
that, man, I thought it over
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a bunch of
times, but I just left.
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It landed in the right way.
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It is to suggest
that I was pulling myself
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in that direction.
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And I got close and
I stepped away from it.
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It is to suggest, man,
that literally I was about to,
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but I resisted
at the last moment
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and say Resisting is good,
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but how many of us know you
will only resist evil so long?
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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I like that.
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Can you hear me today?
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See? See? I need
somebody in the stand.
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The reason you can't
even think things over.
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The reason you shouldn't
entertain certain offers too
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long.
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The reason you shouldn't
just waive the consequences
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is because if you
think things over too long,
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anything starts making sense.
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In other words, if
you give it too much
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evaluation that
which does not appeal, that
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which you know is unintelligent,
you think about it long enough
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and it'll start
making sense to you.
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But see this thing I
need somebody to get you.
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See the strength of Joseph's
ability to refuse it actually
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flowed out of
Joseph's personal resolve.
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You see, one of the things
I want to say really quickly
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is that young people,
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you got to have some
resolve about some things.
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There's got to be
some things in your life
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that you have
already predetermined.
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You've got to have
some non-negotiable axioms
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that does that, that are
not pliable or adjustable
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based to the circumstances
of the situations you may face.
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You've got to have some
convictions that you live out
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no matter how things are going,
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whether they are going
well or whether they are bad.
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You've got to have some
ethics that are not flexible.
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I hear me today, Church.
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You've
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got to have some
things in your life that win.
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Certain things appeal.
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You ain't even
got to pray about it
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because you already
know God's will about it.
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You ain't got to ask nobody
for because God has already
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spoken and made
certain things clear.
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So friends of
mine like told you,
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I don't suppose to be an
example to anybody, anything.
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But I've got some non-negotiable
axioms in my life.
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I got some things
that I don't adjust
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based upon who I'm talking to.
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It doesn't change
based upon situation.
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Some of those axioms are these
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like one of the
things I've simply decided
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is that I'm not going to
be a respecter of persons.
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I'm not going to
treat you a certain way
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because of your last name
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or because of who
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your family is in
the church, or because of
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how much you may have.
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It's funny
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because when I
started a breath of life,
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somebody said, Man,
Pastor, you will have to learn
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how to be political
and know how to do this
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for that person,
that for the other person.
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I made it clear you might
need to find somebody else,
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because that's not how I move.
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I'm going to show all men
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dignity who are
created in the image of God.
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I hear me today, church.
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I got some convictions.
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One of my conviction is,
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no matter what, I'm not
going to leave my house.
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And in fact, I was
counseling with a young couple
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and they were
asking they were saying,
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we hear you, Pastor,
but what if this happens?
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And what if that happens
and one of the other happens?
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And I had to let them know
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that your outcome is not decided
as you evaluate what happens.
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You've got to have a conviction
that says, come what may.
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It's not a matter of if
we going to work it out.
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It's just a matter of how
we're going to work it out.
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I hear what I'm saying.
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In other words, I
have made it a conviction
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that no matter what,
I am going to forgive.
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I know with the pastor today
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I don't decide to
forgive based upon the offense.
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That comes because of
what I do with breath of life.
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I have five or six
entities that every week
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they decide to throw me online
and tear down everything I say.
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But I've just
made it up in my mind
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that I'm going to
live at peace with all man
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and realize that
when they come from me,
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they ultimately have
to deal with the Lord.
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So I'm going to forgive
regardless of what they do.
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Do you realize church?
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I have literally
made it up in my mind
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that gratitude is a value in
my life, so that my gratitude
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is not going to be
based upon how it's going.
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I've made it up in my
mind that whether I have money
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or I don't, I'm
going to praise the Lord.
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I've made it up in my
mind that whether you like me
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or you don't, I'm
going to praise the Lord.
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Is there anybody that
has gratitude as a value
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that doesn't have to wake
up and decide how it's going?
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In order to praise the Lord.
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But you wake up every
morning and say, This is the day
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that the Lord has made.
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I'm going to
rejoice and be glad in it.
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See, somebody said,
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Let me see how church goes
before I decide to praise them.
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But you've got to have
gratitude as a value that says
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from the rising of the sun
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to the going down of the same
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that the name of the
Lord is to be praised.
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Oh, you hear me?
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Today sets.
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So you have some stuff that don'
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So. So this the
thing I want to say.
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Because sometimes
when we think about Joseph,
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we try to put him in
this perfect, inhuman category
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as he is.
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If he is just a
straight laced rule follower,
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that just gets everything right.
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No, that's not who he is.
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So you see what I need somebody
to understand about Joseph?
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He is simply,
Oh, say this, right.
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He is simply a man
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whose heart is
fully devoted to God.
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No, no.
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What you're seeing in
his story is what happens
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when your heart is
fully devoted to God.
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And see, I need somebody to
understand this about morality.
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That the highest
form of morality.
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It is simply unconditional
love for Jesus Christ.
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Oh, no, no.
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You're not getting this
the highest form of morality.
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It is just unconditional
love for Jesus Christ.
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And in fact, what did Jesus
say is the greatest commandment?
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It wasn't. Don't steal.
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I don't commit adultery.
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The greatest
commandment is simply to love me
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with all your heart
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and with all your soul
and with all of your strength.
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And to be clear sense
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that morality is not
about what you say no to.
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It's about who you say yes to.
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Okay.
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See? See, when
Joseph says no, Joseph
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is not just honoring a role.
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He's
prioritizing a relationship.
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Okay.
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No, no. Hear me on this.
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He is not just
honoring an arbitrary rule.
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He literally is is honoring our
prioritizing a relation ship.
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That's why he literally
puts his righteous action
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in the context
of that relationship
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when he talks
about it for his wife.
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He lays out tears.
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Number one, he
has respect for her.
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Number two, he says, I
have respect for my boss.
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In fact, Ellen
White makes it clear
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that part of her did
not treat Joseph as a slave.
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But she says he
meant her Joseph as a son.
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But at the top of
that tier pyramid,
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he has a relationship with God
that he prioritizes and says,
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How can I commit
this sin against God's?
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In other words, true morality.
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It is not worried
about the consequences.
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It's worried
about the relationship.
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How about Hear me today?
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What kept him from doing it?
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He wasn't worried
about her getting pregnant.
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He wasn't worried
about somebody finding out.
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He wasn't worried about what
part of her is going to say.
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See, I need you to know that
as long as you just avoid saying
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to avoid the consequences,
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you're just going
to create crafty ways
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to get away with
the consequences.
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But you never get righteous
until it is a relationship
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that drives your
do's and your don'ts.
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Are you are hearing
what I'm saying today friends
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and see
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this is why I love for God
is the key to great morality.
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Because how many of us
understand that when I say
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an unconditional yes to God,
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I simultaneously
say no to temptation.
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Who? God
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said, I need somebody to
understand that my yes to God,
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I don't have to
turn around and say no.
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They are the same action
so that when I say yes to God,
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I literally am
turning my back on the world
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and see how many of us
know that the strength of my
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Yes determines
the strength of my no.
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So that when I give weak yeses,
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I'm going always have
diluted no's and see the reason
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I don't have the
strength to say no to nothing.
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Okay. Let me
push along this side.
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The reason we ain't
got the strength to say
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no to nothing is because
we've never said yes to someone
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and say This is where it is.
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See, we think that when I
see him, that's what destroys
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the relationship.
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We think that when I yield,
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that's what we
kins the relationship.
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No, when I said that
doesn't weaken the relationship,
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it just reveals the weakness
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that's already
there in the relationship.
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Are you all kiss me
on this fence and see?
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This is why you
got to understand
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what Jesus said in
Matthew. Chapter six.
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In verse 24, he says, No
man can serve two masters
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because either
he's going to love one
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and he's going
to hate the other.
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Y'all still with me today?
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CHURCH He says
you can't serve two
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because he's going to love one
or he's going to hate the other.
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And see, Jesus is giving us
this powerful relational truth
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that love is so concentrated
that it can't be split
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between two objects.
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No, no, you can't
love two at the same time.
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And so he didn't just say,
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if you going to love one
are the other. In other words,
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these are not two
separate conscious decisions.
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He says love for one
is to automatically result
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in hate or neglect
of the other thing,
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so that
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if I'm in love with God
and fully concentrated on him,
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it's going to result in
a neglect or a turning away
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from the former
life or the form.
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Away I go with the pastor today.
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See, let me say it this way.
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I remember,
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you know, when I
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when I was at Andrew's
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and I start dating my
wife before we got serious,
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you know, I had, you
know, my guy friends, my homies.
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I had some platonic
friends who were girls.
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But I need you to know
that there was something
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it was actually an involuntary
thing that when I start
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getting I getting with her
and I start really digging her,
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that was such a
radical shift in my priorities.
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That was a shift in my
values where I began to give her
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my time.
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I begin to give
her my attention.
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Because what love does is it
can only focus on one at a time
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and see what love did
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was it brought neglect
to other relationships.
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So much so that my friends
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was just like, Yo,
dude, are we all right?
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Did we do something wrong?
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I mean, maybe I
was wrong or caught up.
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I own it, but I got the girl.
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Come on and say,
man, ah, call me soft.
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Call me and back.
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Hey, but I put a ring on it up.
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Oh, no, not in
the bathroom today.
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Oh I feel the
internet coming from me that.
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Yo, so what I'm saying is that
when I got with her, guess what?
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It showed up
with neglect to them.
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And what I'm saying is
when you get with Jesus is go
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create a neglect to that
which was contrary to him.
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Are y'all hear
me today, friends?
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You see love k love
two things at one time.
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So ladies, when he
comes you and says, well,
00:17:16.83\00:17:18.47
I love you, but I
think I love her too.
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The devil is a lie.
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You need to refuse
that offer our invitation
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because you can't have love in
two directions at the same time.
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And this is crazy story church
00:17:34.92\00:17:37.89
because see, this is
why you've got to doubt
00:17:37.92\00:17:40.26
living with God because
sometimes you're going to face
00:17:41.42\00:17:44.03
what looks like
a no win situation.
00:17:44.89\00:17:48.10
I mean, this is a catch 22.
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If he does it and lays with
her and gives her what he wants,
00:17:52.37\00:17:55.70
he offends and disrupts things
with his relationship with God.
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But then if he does not do it,
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he has to deal with the
wrath of a woman scorned.
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And this is why friends
of mine, I promise you, I'm
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not going to keep you
long, too much longer.
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Hey, man, this is why you
got to prioritize reputation.
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I mean, you got to prioritize
character over reputation.
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Y'all stay with me
00:18:25.97\00:18:26.70
because you're
saying I don't see,
00:18:27.77\00:18:29.60
you know, where you
win is because, see,
00:18:29.64\00:18:31.34
this is what I need somebody
to get that righteousness done.
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Create a reward.
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Righteousness is its own reward.
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No, no. God, God, God.
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No, no, no.
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You don't do righteousness
in order to be rewarded.
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Righteousness and
relationship is its own reward.
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Y'all are.
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Y'all are hearing
me today, friends.
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You don't do things
in order to get rewarded.
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Righteousness is
actually its own reward.
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And see the reason.
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This is why some of
us don't abide in Christ.
00:19:01.87\00:19:03.54
Because we only want to do
good in order to receive good.
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And as soon as we don't receive
good, we stop doing good.
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Because the only reason we did
it was so we could get a job,
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get cleared, get a man,
get a girl, get promoted.
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But how many of us
know that if you only in it
00:19:16.42\00:19:17.89
for the benefits, you
won't be in it very long?
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So where is
00:19:23.22\00:19:23.83
Joseph Winn in this story?
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This is why
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character matters.
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Joseph.
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I mean, Potter for his wife.
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I mean, she got proof.
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She got evidence,
she got Joseph's robe.
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And Karen comes up with a story
00:19:43.14\00:19:45.28
about how this minority came in
00:19:45.98\00:19:48.68
and just tried to do
whatever he wanted to with me.
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And it's your fault
because you let him in.
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And this is why
character matters,
00:19:55.69\00:20:00.33
because Potter often
knew Joseph's character
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and he knew the
character of his wife.
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And you knew that if he believed
00:20:08.04\00:20:11.07
that his wife was
telling the truth,
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how many of us know that Joseph
wouldn't have been put in jail?
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He would have cut
off Joseph's hand.
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And so even though
Joseph was put in the jail,
00:20:22.72\00:20:26.25
Joseph could still praise God.
00:20:26.96\00:20:29.06
Because even though they
slandered his reputation,
00:20:30.16\00:20:33.13
when your reputation
is slandered, guess what?
00:20:34.13\00:20:36.80
Character stands up.
00:20:36.83\00:20:38.50
Character speaks.
00:20:39.83\00:20:42.10
Character won't stay
silent, character speaks
00:20:42.14\00:20:46.21
for you and rules that
you don't even get to go in.
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Reputation comes and it goes.
00:20:51.51\00:20:54.02
But when you are a man
00:20:54.58\00:20:56.99
or a woman of God,
it testifies for you.
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It talks to
you, for me, for you.
00:21:01.36\00:21:04.23
Your character is your
greatest defense attorney.
00:21:05.26\00:21:08.96
You are here in
this thing today. Church.
00:21:09.00\00:21:11.70
Listen, I want to share this
00:21:11.73\00:21:13.03
with anybody
that's ever been lied
00:21:13.07\00:21:14.80
on, anybody ever
been lied on before?
00:21:14.84\00:21:17.04
Anybody ever been talked about?
00:21:17.07\00:21:19.17
See, I love when anybody says,
00:21:19.21\00:21:20.88
I want to give you this
statement. I'm almost done.
00:21:20.91\00:21:22.88
Literally.
00:21:22.91\00:21:23.98
Listen what she says,
she says it's on the screen.
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But if you can't hear
it from me, while slander
00:21:26.18\00:21:29.05
may blacken the reputation,
it cannot sustain the character.
00:21:30.25\00:21:34.16
Oh, God, man,
I'm about to explode.
00:21:35.02\00:21:37.59
It can stain, though.
00:21:37.63\00:21:38.83
It can mess up the reputation,
but it can't stain the character
00:21:38.86\00:21:41.90
that is in God's keeping.
00:21:42.53\00:21:44.47
So long as we do
not consent to sin,
00:21:45.33\00:21:47.57
there is no power,
whether human or satanic,
00:21:48.57\00:21:51.14
that can bring
stain upon the soul.
00:21:52.01\00:21:53.74
A man whose heart is
state upon God is just the same.
00:21:54.84\00:21:58.21
In the hour of his most
difficult, most afflicting trial
00:21:58.25\00:22:01.98
and most
discouraging surrounding
00:22:02.82\00:22:04.19
as when he was in prosperity,
and when the light and favor
00:22:05.42\00:22:08.09
of God seemed upon
him, his words, his motives,
00:22:08.12\00:22:11.79
his actions may
be misrepresented
00:22:12.63\00:22:14.66
and falsified, but
he does not mind it
00:22:15.50\00:22:18.63
because he has
greater interests at stake.
00:22:19.60\00:22:21.57
Like Moses, he
endures that seeing him,
00:22:22.50\00:22:24.61
who is in visible
looking not at the things
00:22:25.61\00:22:27.88
which are seen, but the
things which are unseen.
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Can somebody say
hallelujah today?
00:22:31.38\00:22:33.98
In other words, I
want to tell somebody
00:22:34.85\00:22:36.55
to get out of the
image management business,
00:22:37.49\00:22:39.39
get out of the
reputation defending business.
00:22:40.42\00:22:42.62
Because when
you've got a character
00:22:43.49\00:22:44.83
that is in the center,
some similar similitude of
00:22:44.86\00:22:47.76
Jesus Christ, it speaks
for you, it defends you,
00:22:47.83\00:22:51.63
and God will fight the
battles that you cannot fight.
00:22:52.77\00:22:55.84
I are here today.
00:22:57.77\00:22:59.54
Last thing I want to say
and I'm done is this for thing
00:22:59.57\00:23:02.74
this teaches us is that favor
00:23:02.78\00:23:05.91
is portable
00:23:06.31\00:23:08.28
o saints. See?
00:23:11.39\00:23:15.06
There are going to be times
00:23:15.72\00:23:16.73
where it looks like
you're in a no win situation,
00:23:16.76\00:23:20.06
but you're never
in a no win situation.
00:23:20.96\00:23:24.10
You're just in a
delayed win situation.
00:23:25.00\00:23:28.77
Okay, y'all,
y'all still I hear me?
00:23:29.60\00:23:32.71
See, understand the
reason why a believer wins
00:23:33.74\00:23:36.95
ultimately is
because favor is portable.
00:23:36.98\00:23:41.68
Okay, I see.
00:23:42.65\00:23:45.49
I need somebody understand that
00:23:45.52\00:23:46.82
favor is not
sedentary, it is not stagnant.
00:23:46.86\00:23:50.93
But the favor
of God is portable.
00:23:51.73\00:23:53.96
Are y'all with me today?
00:23:54.00\00:23:55.63
This is why you should
never do anything or compromise.
00:23:55.66\00:23:59.93
Just to get a
position or to keep a position.
00:24:00.04\00:24:03.47
And why?
00:24:03.51\00:24:04.47
Because God's favor is portable.
00:24:04.51\00:24:06.74
See, notice what
the Bible says. France.
00:24:07.68\00:24:09.31
That even though
Joseph is sentenced
00:24:10.11\00:24:13.42
to prison,
00:24:13.45\00:24:17.42
the Bible says that God's favor
00:24:17.45\00:24:21.19
was upon him and the
prison so that the favor
00:24:22.22\00:24:26.13
was not
attached to his position.
00:24:26.16\00:24:29.10
His favor was
attached to him to.
00:24:29.90\00:24:35.17
In other words, church.
00:24:35.74\00:24:36.71
We went around trying
to hold on to relationships
00:24:36.74\00:24:39.54
and jobs and titles
because you think you're
00:24:39.57\00:24:42.58
just so blessed to
be in the position.
00:24:42.61\00:24:46.11
But it is because you're blessed
that you're in the position
00:24:47.32\00:24:50.92
so that God
doesn't bless the office.
00:24:51.82\00:24:54.59
God bless the location.
00:24:54.62\00:24:56.99
The favor of God is
attached to the servant
00:24:57.96\00:25:00.93
that is working
in the ways of truth.
00:25:01.76\00:25:04.33
Are y'all here in
this thing today, friends?
00:25:04.37\00:25:06.57
In other words, I need
somebody to never fight
00:25:06.60\00:25:09.17
to maintain this or maintain
that because the favor of God
00:25:10.41\00:25:12.84
is portable.
00:25:12.87\00:25:13.78
Do you realize that
even though part of her
00:25:13.81\00:25:15.68
had to do something when
he sent Joseph to prison,
00:25:15.71\00:25:19.55
what he did was he sent the
favor that was on his house.
00:25:20.68\00:25:25.15
He sent that favor
down to the jail house.
00:25:25.19\00:25:28.19
He actually
outsourced his own blessing.
00:25:29.12\00:25:31.43
He actually cut off his
nose in order to spite his face.
00:25:32.63\00:25:36.36
And what I'm saying to
somebody as I take my seat,
00:25:37.40\00:25:39.67
that you got to realize that
the favor of God is upon you.
00:25:40.90\00:25:43.61
Do I have seven or eight
folks that know promotion
00:25:44.71\00:25:47.31
don't come from the East
and don't come from the West?
00:25:47.34\00:25:51.18
But that promotion
comes from the Lord
00:25:52.08\00:25:54.58
and that my favor goes with me
00:25:55.28\00:25:57.85
wherever it is that I go.
00:25:58.49\00:26:00.66
So don't worry.
00:26:01.29\00:26:02.42
If they fire you from the
job, when they send you out,
00:26:02.46\00:26:06.63
they send out the
favor of the office.
00:26:07.46\00:26:09.70
Don't worry if they unfriend you
00:26:10.40\00:26:12.83
when they unfriend you,
they unfriend in their favor.
00:26:14.00\00:26:16.74
Don't worry.
00:26:18.67\00:26:19.74
If they broke up with
you when they broke up with
00:26:19.77\00:26:23.55
if they broke up with
the blessings and the favor
00:26:23.58\00:26:29.05
of the most high God, I
say in favor as part of them.
00:26:30.15\00:26:34.02
That's why the 23rd Psalm
00:26:34.66\00:26:36.66
says goodness and mercy
00:26:37.23\00:26:39.49
shall follow me
00:26:41.16\00:26:43.33
all the days of my life.
00:26:44.23\00:26:46.57
Savior is part of all.
00:26:47.67\00:26:49.80
It's why Deuteronomy 28
00:26:49.84\00:26:51.94
says that if I
keep his commands,
00:26:52.71\00:26:54.51
that the blessings of
the Lord will chase you down
00:26:55.61\00:26:59.11
and overtake you
because favor is part of.
00:27:00.15\00:27:03.42
So guess what?
00:27:04.19\00:27:05.32
Don't worry about being
afraid cause Huntsville is new,
00:27:05.35\00:27:09.06
but favor will follow
you from Los Angeles here.
00:27:10.13\00:27:13.19
It'll follow you from New
York here it'll follow you
00:27:13.23\00:27:16.80
from Jamaica here
it'll follow you from Haiti.
00:27:16.83\00:27:20.30
Here it'll follow
you from Trinidad here.
00:27:20.34\00:27:23.51
Don't worry about it.
00:27:24.21\00:27:25.31
Follow it you.
00:27:25.34\00:27:27.14
Because favor
won't just follow you.
00:27:27.18\00:27:29.38
It'll beat you.
00:27:30.71\00:27:31.68
Where you're going.
00:27:31.71\00:27:34.62
Can we praise him for his faith?
00:27:35.58\00:27:37.62
Can we praise him for his grace?
00:27:39.05\00:27:41.19
Is that your blessing or
00:27:41.76\00:27:44.26
is upon you,
00:27:44.66\00:27:46.49
not your situation?
00:27:47.60\00:27:49.10
Give him little
praise in this place.
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today.
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