Hello, friends, welcome
to 3ABN Sabbath School Panel.
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I'm John Lomacang.
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Thank you for
joining us from week to week
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as we walk through
God's Word together.
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We're now
starting lesson number six,
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Finding Rest in Family Ties.
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And we're talking
about dysfunction at home.
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What an amazing title?
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I'll be covering that one.
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But this lesson is
going to challenge you.
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It's going to
talk about the places
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that we need to
be strengthened more
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in our family ties,
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husband with wife,
children, with parents.
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So you don't want to miss this.
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You want a copy of the
lesson, go to ABSG.Adventist.org
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and download a copy
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or better yet
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go to one of our local
Seventh-day Adventist churches
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and join in an energetic
study with brothers and sisters.
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But nonetheless, join
us now as we talk about
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how to find rest in families
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and how to deal with
all those dysfunctions.
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Welcome to 3ABN
Sabbath School Panel.
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Once again, I'm John Lomacang.
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We have some
amazing panelists today.
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You know them all,
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but we're going
to have fun talking
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about this
amazingly challenging topic,
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dysfunction.
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Is your family a
dysfunctional family?
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I don't want to know,
but if it is, in fact,
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I don't think there's
a family on the planet
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that has more
than one person in it
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that doesn't have some kind
of dysfunction to deal with.
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It's a serious topic.
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You might
smile, you might laugh,
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but you might
frown and say, wow,
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I need to get
this thing under wraps
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and God need to
give me direction.
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But before we do any of that,
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let's go ahead and meet
our family members today.
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To my left is the
incomparable lady from Texas,
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Shelley Quinn.
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It's funny how you still
consider yourself a Texan,
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even though we've
been here nearly 20 years.
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Oh, I love Sabbath School.
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We're so glad
that you're joining us.
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We study to share with you,
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but we also
share with each other
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and learn so much.
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So thanks for joining us.
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And my sis from New
York, Yvonne Shelton.
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Good to have you here, Sis.
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Thank you, my dear brother.
It's wonderful to be here.
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I love being on the
set with all of you,
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because it's such a blessing.
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Like there's always
something new to get to gain.
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And so, thank you so much
for the invitation to be on.
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That's right.
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And I say this with a smile
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until I found out
Jill's name was Jill.
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I used to call her Julie.
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And now she is the
Vice President of 3ABN,
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Head of Operations
and so many other gifts.
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Good to have you here, Jill.
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Thank you, Pastor John.
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Privileged to be here
and we have a list today.
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That's right. That's good.
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And my, hey, my
basketball buddy.
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And we've been in the
trenches together so many times.
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Good to have you here, Danny.
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It's good to be here as always.
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And I always feel
like I'm kind of out-manned
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when a woman, I
guess you'd say that,
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set with all of you,
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but I learned so much.
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I'm happy to be here
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and happy to be
with you at home.
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Okay. Well, why don't you
have our prayer for us today?
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I'll do it.
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Lord, we thank You
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for Your
blessings and Your love.
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And as always, we thank
You for Your plan of salvation.
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Now, Lord, we pray
for a special anointing
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of the Holy Spirit
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upon each one of us
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that's taking
part each one at home
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that's taking part in
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and Sabbath School
teachers around the world.
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And so today is
something that we all need.
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It's from You.
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We thank You for,
Lord, for the answers
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that You're going to give us.
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John's talking
about dysfunction.
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This whole world is
not functioning right,
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but soon and very soon,
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when you come back
in the clouds of glory,
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all the old things
will be passed away
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and behold all will become new.
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We look forward to that.
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Until then, Lord, thank You
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for Your
blessings and Your love.
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In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
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Amen. Wow.
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You know, the
writers of this lesson
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really tackled a topic
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that does need
to be talked about
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because the
healthier the family,
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the healthier the church,
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the healthier the marriage,
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the healthier the church,
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the healthier the children,
the healthier the church.
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So why would the
devil not want to cause
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the family to be dysfunctional?
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How can we say I'm so glad
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I'm a part of the family of God,
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but we're all crazy?
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And somebody once said,
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"The church is a
hospital for sinners."
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I sometimes think
as an insane asylum.
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When you think of
some of the things
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that we have to deal
with as church leaders,
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but you know, that's true
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because sometimes
you can come to church
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and feel like you
are glad to be there.
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Sometimes you can go to church,
whatever the denomination, say,
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what am I doing here?
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All of us at
one point or another
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deal with some kind of
challenging dysfunction.
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But the piece that we find is
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the Lord knows that
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whoever we were in Christ,
we can all be a new creation,
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new husbands, new
families, new relationships.
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And the Lord
looks at us where we are
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and is not content
to have us stay there.
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The memory text for this
week is in 2 Peter 3:17-18.
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Listen to what the
Lord says in His Word.
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"You therefore, beloved,
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since you know this beforehand,
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beware lest you also fall
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from your own steadfastness,
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being led away with
the error of the wicked,
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but grow in the
grace and knowledge
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of our Lord and
Savior Jesus Christ.
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To Him be the glory
both now and forevermore."
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And I'm dealing with Joseph.
I think that says a whole lot.
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The children of Jacob,
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Joseph was one of
the children of Jacob
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and the 12 children came
from four different women
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from an impatient man
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and a wife who made the
most ridiculous suggestion.
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My wife will never
make that recommendation.
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Can't have a kid,
well, here's my maid.
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You know, it started out crazy.
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How can something
that started out that way
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become corrected
just very quickly?
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Well, I'm not
going to read all of it
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because it's very, very long,
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but I would challenge you
to read Genesis Chapter 34.
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And it talks about Dinah,
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the daughter of
Leah and Shechem.
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How Shechem saw Dinah.
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He saw that she was a
beautiful young woman.
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He wooed her. He...
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I'm going to say this the
way the Bible communicated.
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He took
advantage of her sexually
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and brought dishonor to her.
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Her brothers found out about it,
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Simeon and Levi,
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and the father
Jacob found out about it.
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And he tried to fix it
by saying, well, you know,
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now that we have
become inappropriate,
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let me try to
find a way to fix this.
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Why don't you let me marry her?
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And they said,
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"Well, you're not circumcised.
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If you've got to marry her,
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you've got to at least qualify."
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So they finally agreed
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if you and your men
all get circumcised,
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maybe we could
get something done.
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So Shechem decides to do that.
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And Hamor his father
and, which was a Hivite.
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They decided to
follow along in the pattern.
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But Simeon and Levi said,
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"I don't like what
they did to my sister."
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While they were
healing from the circumcision,
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Simeon and Levi
took it upon themselves
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to kill Hamor and Shechem,
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and all the men
that were with him.
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And Jacob found
out about it and said,
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"You have
brought dishonor to me."
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The Perizzites
and the Canaanites
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are going to hear about this.
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And now our name
is going to be dirt.
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He used the word,
actually the Bible uses
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the word obnoxious
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among the
inhabitants of the land.
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And they're going to try
to find a way to deal with us.
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What a dysfunction.
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You can't unkill someone.
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You can't undo dishonor.
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And this was something that
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the Bible begins by sharing
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how the
dysfunction was permeated
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through the family.
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Let's go ahead and
add some more to that.
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You look back on the
rival between the mothers,
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the mothers in that family.
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I cannot imagine
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how Jacob was able
to hold that together.
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How do you please?
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And then Solomon, well,
let's not even go there.
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That's just a whole
complete dysfunction altogether.
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What gives me courage is
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the Lord can look at
dysfunctional people and say,
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that's where you are now,
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but that's not
where you're going to be
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when I'm done with you.
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But why did Simeon
and Levi do what they did?
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You know,
Genesis Chapter 49 lists
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all the characteristics
of the sons of Jacob,
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and Simeon and Levi
were two of the worst.
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Genesis 49:5 says,
Simeon and Levi are brothers,
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instruments of cruelty
are in their dwelling place."
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They were cruel,
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not lightly cruel.
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The word cruel
there means violent.
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So it was nothing for them
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to take this matter
into their own hands.
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It was nothing
for them to consider
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to perpetrate murder
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and as they
thought to honor my sister
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because of what
had been done to her,
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but it goes further than that.
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Let's go to Genesis 35:22.
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The Bible talks about
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another strange
dysfunction in the family.
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Genesis 35:22, it says,
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"And it happened, when
Israel dwelt in that land,
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that Reuben went
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and lay with Bilhah
his father's concubine,
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and Israel heard about it.
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Now the sons of
Jacob were twelve."
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What happened
is, Reuben figured,
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well, my dad is old now.
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No big deal.
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And he went
ahead and went to bed
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with his father's concubine.
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One of the mother of
some of his brothers.
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How dysfunctional is that,
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incestuous
relationships in the family.
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Let's keep going.
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Now Jacob adds fuel to the fire
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by showing preference to Joseph.
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Look at Genesis 37:3,
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"Now Israel loved Joseph
more than all his children,
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because he was the
son of his old age.
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Also, he made him a
tunic of many colors."
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And when you read the
story, Joseph had a problem.
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He had dreams.
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And he said, you know,
last night I dreamt that
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you're going to
kneel to me today.
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I mean, how many wouldn't want
to choke a brother like that?
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You, how many
brothers did you have?
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Three. Okay.
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I mean, you're
the youngest, right?
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Yeah.
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So you know what
it's like to be tormented?
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Well... I can torment too.
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You can torment too.
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They can give and take.
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And it's still
the same way today.
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You guys still love
having fun together,
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but Joseph was
one of the hated ones.
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And I could imagine they said,
"We need to get rid of him."
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So they put him in a pit
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and they sold
them to the Midianites
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and he ended up in Egypt,
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ended up in prison needlessly
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for something
being falsely accused of.
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But later on, God
turned that around
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and saved his family.
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Well, let's even go further now.
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We have Judah
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and his
dysfunction in Genesis 38:15.
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And, Shelley, I'm
going to, in a moment,
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I'm going to pass you
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a whole lot of stuff to unravel.
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All right. Okay.
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But we're talking
about dysfunction right now.
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Genesis 38:15,
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it talks about Judah
impregnating his sister-in-law.
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Daughter-in-law. I
mean, sorry, daughter-in-law.
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Thank you.
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Thinking that
somehow she was a harlot
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because of her disguise.
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Genesis 38:15,
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"When Judah saw her,
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he thought she was a harlot
00:11:48.70\00:11:50.04
because she had
covered her face."
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She knew she was,
she knew who she was,
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but what is strange
to me is she understood
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the relationship to the family
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and did not
disclose her identity.
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Dysfunctions, we're
just getting started.
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When you look at
Genesis Chapter 49,
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you'll find the dysfunctions
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are continually
talked about there,
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but let me bring out
three very important points
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before I pass the
broken torch to Shelley.
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One is, let's go
to John, 1 John 3:1-2.
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And this should give all of us
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that are part of
some kind of dysfunction.
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I was born in a
dysfunctional home.
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My mom and dad were not married.
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My dad's name was not
on my birth certificate.
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My mom left me at
a babysitter house,
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how about that.
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And I was raised by a babysitter
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till she was, till I was 12.
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She passed away.
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I was left to raise
myself from that point on.
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A lot of dysfunction,
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but praise the
Lord, look at me today.
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God can do amazing
things with those He calls.
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This text always
gives me encouragement
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because it talks
about who we were
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and who we are becoming.
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1 John 3:1-2,
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"Behold what manner of love
the Father has bestowed on us,
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that we should be
called children of God!"
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Think about what
we just talked about
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and then think about
being called children of God,
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because these are the 12 tribes.
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All the
dysfunction I talked about,
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these were the 12 tribes
of the children of Israel
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that are indicators
of what we must overcome.
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The Bible says,
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"Therefore the
world does not know us,
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because it did not know Him."
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But look at verse 2.
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"Beloved, now we
are children of God,"
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when?
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Now.
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But look God is not done,
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"And it has not
yet been revealed
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what we shall be,
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but we know that
when He is revealed,
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we shall be like Him, for
we shall see Him as He is."
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God chooses us
not because of us,
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but in spite of us.
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Secondly, God chooses us
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and changes our
standing before Him.
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1 Peter 2:9,
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"But you are a
chosen generation,
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a royal
priesthood, a holy nation,
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His own special people."
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When God chooses us,
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young man, young
lady, husband, wife,
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God never
chooses us and leave us
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the way He found us.
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And finally, God
accepts us as we are,
00:14:01.07\00:14:03.74
but does not become content
with leaving us that way.
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Philippians 1:6,
00:14:08.61\00:14:10.35
"Being confident
of this very thing
00:14:10.38\00:14:13.38
that He who has
begun a good work in you
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will complete it
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until the day of Jesus Christ."
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As the songwriter says,
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one day, these hands of mine
will touch the hands of God.
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Hold on. God is not done yet.
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Amen.
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Thank you. That
was a great opening.
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Monday's lesson is
Choosing a New Direction.
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When you talk about
dysfunctional families,
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I think you all know
00:14:35.34\00:14:36.67
JD was working on his
doctorate in psychology
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when he quit school.
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But, when he met me
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and got to know
my family, he said,
00:14:41.71\00:14:43.81
"I thought I'd seen it all."
00:14:43.85\00:14:45.18
He said,
00:14:45.21\00:14:46.55
"Your family is
the most dysfunctional
00:14:46.58\00:14:47.92
I've ever met."
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So we all come from dysfunction.
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But as Monday's
lesson is talking about
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choosing a new direction.
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Man, that's what it's
all about is when you wake up
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and choose a new direction.
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You know,
sometimes life can change
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directions on a dime.
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I mean, you know, your
personal status changes,
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circumstances around you
are completely unfamiliar.
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It is emotionally disorienting.
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So just imagine
the emotional pain
00:15:20.58\00:15:23.69
and trauma of Joseph.
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Here he is the favorite baby boy
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and by the way, parents,
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you create dysfunction
00:15:30.46\00:15:32.89
when you show preference
for one of your children.
00:15:32.93\00:15:37.03
And so Joseph had
been shown preference
00:15:37.07\00:15:40.50
by his father, Jacob.
00:15:40.54\00:15:42.70
His 11 brothers hated him
and he was a little showy.
00:15:42.74\00:15:47.44
But what, what's going on
00:15:47.48\00:15:50.15
is think of how he had gone
from this coat of many colors
00:15:50.18\00:15:54.85
that's now been torn
from him, put in a pit.
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Now he's in change and
he's on his way to Egypt.
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Think about the
change, the sorrow,
00:16:02.06\00:16:06.90
his, he, how he must have
felt about his change in status.
00:16:06.93\00:16:12.43
He worried
about daddy back home,
00:16:12.47\00:16:14.70
his loving father,
who was so doting on him,
00:16:14.74\00:16:18.44
who would be
suffering from pain,
00:16:18.47\00:16:20.78
but here though
Jacob made a mistake
00:16:20.81\00:16:25.25
in showing preference.
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There is something that
Jacob did that was right.
00:16:26.75\00:16:30.12
Jacob had taught Joseph
about the God of heaven.
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Jacob had told him how
he had been in a fugitive,
00:16:35.62\00:16:41.06
basically an exile
00:16:41.10\00:16:42.86
and how God had
turned it around.
00:16:42.90\00:16:45.57
So here as Joseph
is on his way to Egypt,
00:16:45.60\00:16:51.24
something happened,
00:16:51.27\00:16:53.31
he's going in a
different direction,
00:16:53.34\00:16:56.24
but he chooses a new direction
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because he chose to
make a personal commitment
00:16:59.91\00:17:04.99
to the God of heaven.
00:17:05.02\00:17:06.35
I have to tell you something.
00:17:06.39\00:17:08.12
Spirituality is not faith
00:17:08.16\00:17:13.40
or spirituality is
not passed on genetically.
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God has no grandchildren.
He only has children.
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And it requires that we make
00:17:21.20\00:17:25.57
a personal commitment
to choose our direction.
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So what I'd like to do is
take you through six points
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about a personal commitment.
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If you want to
choose a new direction,
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you've got to make
this personal commitment.
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Point number one,
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personal commitment
requires sincere prayer.
00:17:43.76\00:17:47.60
Deuteronomy 4:29, God says,
00:17:47.63\00:17:51.57
"From there you will
seek the Lord your God,
00:17:51.60\00:17:53.90
and you will find Him
00:17:53.94\00:17:55.94
if you seek Him
with all of your heart
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and with all your soul."
00:17:59.24\00:18:01.38
Wow.
00:18:01.41\00:18:02.74
Are you seeking God
00:18:02.78\00:18:04.11
with all of your heart and soul?
00:18:04.15\00:18:06.01
I want to add
Jeremiah 29 to that.
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I'm going to read
verses 11 through 13,
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but I love...
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Well, I remember
when I was first reading,
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I'd always read 11.
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And then when I get to
12, I think, wait a minute.
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Listen to that.
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Eleven says, God speaking,
00:18:21.86\00:18:24.33
"I know the plans I have for you
00:18:24.37\00:18:26.70
declares the Lord,
00:18:26.74\00:18:28.97
plans to prosper
you and not to harm you,
00:18:29.00\00:18:32.37
plans to give you
a hope and a future."
00:18:32.41\00:18:35.81
Now look how verse 12 begins.
00:18:35.84\00:18:38.08
"Then you will call upon
Me and come and pray to Me,
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and I will listen to you."
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What do you mean then?
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When is then?
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When you recognize that
God has a plan for your life,
00:18:50.03\00:18:54.76
that's what wakes you up
00:18:54.80\00:18:56.40
to seek Him with
all of your heart.
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And I'm telling you today,
God has a plan for your life.
00:18:58.70\00:19:02.00
And He says, you will seek Me.
00:19:02.04\00:19:04.41
You will find Me
00:19:04.44\00:19:05.77
when you seek Me
with all of your heart.
00:19:05.81\00:19:08.04
God has always
provided us the grace
00:19:08.08\00:19:11.61
by which we can
believe, which we can repent,
00:19:11.65\00:19:15.32
turn around and come to Him,
00:19:15.35\00:19:17.35
but we've got to call
upon Him in sincere prayer.
00:19:17.39\00:19:20.36
Number two,
00:19:20.39\00:19:21.72
personal commitment
should be unwavering.
00:19:21.76\00:19:26.09
Love Joshua 24:15.
00:19:26.13\00:19:28.60
I have a plaque on my
wall at home with this.
00:19:28.63\00:19:31.33
Joshua says,
00:19:31.37\00:19:33.13
"If it seems evil to
you to serve the Lord,
00:19:33.17\00:19:36.60
choose for yourselves
this day whom you will serve,
00:19:36.64\00:19:41.81
whether the gods,
00:19:41.84\00:19:43.24
your fathers served
00:19:43.28\00:19:44.61
that were on the
other side of the river,"
00:19:44.65\00:19:46.72
these little G pagan gods,
00:19:46.75\00:19:49.48
or the gods of the
Amorites, little G pagan gods.
00:19:49.52\00:19:55.19
"But as for me and my
house, we will serve the Lord."
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That has to be a daily decision.
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That's part of your
personal commitment.
00:20:02.53\00:20:06.23
Colossians 3:1-3 says,
00:20:06.27\00:20:08.67
"If you then were
raised with Christ,
00:20:08.70\00:20:11.84
seek the things which are"
00:20:11.87\00:20:13.88
where? "Above."
00:20:13.91\00:20:17.48
He says,
00:20:17.51\00:20:18.85
"Where Christ is sitting
at the right hand of God.
00:20:18.88\00:20:20.82
Set your mind on things above,
not on the things of the earth.
00:20:20.85\00:20:26.12
For you have died
00:20:26.15\00:20:28.42
and your life is
hidden with Christ."
00:20:28.46\00:20:30.76
Number three,
00:20:30.79\00:20:32.13
personal commitment
requires a daily fellowship.
00:20:32.16\00:20:36.77
In 1 Chronicles 16:11, it says,
00:20:36.80\00:20:41.10
"Seek the Lord and His strength.
00:20:41.14\00:20:43.97
Seek His face forevermore."
00:20:44.01\00:20:47.44
You know, the
Psalmist David said,
00:20:47.48\00:20:49.81
"Oh, Lord, when
You said seek My face,
00:20:49.84\00:20:52.58
I said to you,
Your face, I will seek."
00:20:52.61\00:20:56.75
So what does it
mean to seek God's face?
00:20:56.79\00:21:02.06
This means that
we're turning to God
00:21:02.09\00:21:04.73
in total 100% devotion,
00:21:04.76\00:21:08.80
desiring intimate
fellowship with Him
00:21:08.83\00:21:12.73
that we are coming to know God
00:21:12.77\00:21:16.07
and God's face
00:21:16.10\00:21:18.41
is just His personal
presence in our life.
00:21:18.44\00:21:21.01
Okay.
00:21:21.04\00:21:22.38
Number four, personal commitment
00:21:22.41\00:21:23.75
recognizes
accountability to God.
00:21:23.78\00:21:27.92
Psalms 14:2,
00:21:27.95\00:21:30.22
"The Lord looks down
00:21:30.25\00:21:31.59
from heaven upon
the children of men
00:21:31.62\00:21:33.36
to see if there
are any who understand,
00:21:33.39\00:21:37.76
who seek God."
00:21:37.79\00:21:40.10
Now, this is
depicted in human terms
00:21:40.13\00:21:43.06
as far as the Lord
looking down from heaven
00:21:43.10\00:21:45.57
and surveilling the human race.
00:21:45.60\00:21:48.00
Actually God
knows the hearts of all,
00:21:48.04\00:21:51.91
but you know
what I love about God.
00:21:51.94\00:21:54.91
He is not
ignorant of my actions,
00:21:54.94\00:21:58.38
but He always
remembers I am but dust.
00:21:58.41\00:22:00.68
Yes. That's right.
00:22:00.72\00:22:02.05
Isn't that wonderful? Yes.
00:22:02.08\00:22:03.45
His intimate knowledge
of us recognizes our frailty
00:22:03.49\00:22:08.92
and our helplessness if
we're left to ourselves.
00:22:08.96\00:22:11.76
So He is always
there to give us help.
00:22:11.79\00:22:14.30
Number five,
00:22:14.33\00:22:15.66
personal commitment requires
00:22:15.70\00:22:18.93
gaining insight to
God's standard of truth.
00:22:18.97\00:22:25.54
Proverbs 8:10 says,
00:22:25.57\00:22:28.68
"Receive my
instruction, and not silver,
00:22:28.71\00:22:33.78
and knowledge
rather than choice gold."
00:22:33.82\00:22:37.12
Receive.
00:22:37.15\00:22:38.49
We've got to order our
lives by God's instructions.
00:22:38.52\00:22:43.53
And that will bring us rest.
00:22:43.56\00:22:46.49
His rest is not found in
wealth and worldly pursuits.
00:22:46.53\00:22:50.67
Listen, I've got rich relatives.
00:22:50.70\00:22:52.70
I know a lot of rich friends
00:22:52.73\00:22:54.50
who don't find any
joy in their money.
00:22:54.54\00:22:57.31
They don't have
that peace of mind.
00:22:57.34\00:23:01.08
Covetousness, greed, envy
00:23:01.11\00:23:04.11
and fraud disturb our thinking.
00:23:04.15\00:23:08.22
You know what the Bible says?
00:23:08.25\00:23:09.68
No one can serve two masters.
00:23:09.72\00:23:12.32
He go, you can't
serve God and mammon.
00:23:12.35\00:23:15.16
So number six,
00:23:15.19\00:23:18.03
we, personal commitment.
00:23:18.06\00:23:20.03
Here's the sixth point.
00:23:20.06\00:23:22.60
We should not procrastinate
00:23:22.63\00:23:25.80
on making a personal commitment.
00:23:25.83\00:23:28.34
Isaiah 55:6-7,
00:23:28.37\00:23:32.67
"Seek the Lord
while He may be found,
00:23:36.14\00:23:41.15
call upon Him while He is near.
00:23:41.18\00:23:46.02
Let the wicked forsake his way,
00:23:46.05\00:23:50.13
and the unrighteous,
00:23:50.16\00:23:52.49
unrighteous man
forsake his evil thoughts.
00:23:52.53\00:23:58.10
Let him return to the Lord
and He will have mercy on him."
00:23:58.13\00:24:03.24
Choose a new direction.
00:24:03.27\00:24:05.07
"And to our God, for He
will abundantly pardon."
00:24:05.11\00:24:09.41
Mercy and grace is
available to all who seek God,
00:24:09.44\00:24:14.78
desiring forgiveness,
deliverance from sin.
00:24:14.82\00:24:17.82
He, if we cast
ourselves on God's mercy,
00:24:17.85\00:24:21.76
He will give us rest.
00:24:21.79\00:24:24.43
We can return to
the Lord, repent,
00:24:24.46\00:24:27.83
turn around and
choose a new direction.
00:24:27.86\00:24:31.07
Amen. Amen.
00:24:31.10\00:24:32.43
Amen. I like
that. Thank you. Yeah.
00:24:32.47\00:24:33.94
So where you are is
not your final frontier.
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Welcome back to our
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We're going now
to Tuesday's lesson,
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Finding True Self-Worth.
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Yvonne?
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Thank you.
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So far, these lessons
have been just so rich.
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My lesson is
Finding True Self-Worth.
00:25:29.82\00:25:33.06
And we've been studying Joseph
00:25:33.09\00:25:35.60
and the
dysfunctional environment
00:25:35.63\00:25:37.27
in which he was raised.
00:25:37.30\00:25:38.63
Think about it.
00:25:38.67\00:25:40.00
Joseph grew up feeling special
because of his dad's favoritism
00:25:40.04\00:25:43.97
and hated
00:25:44.01\00:25:45.34
also because of his
father's favoritism.
00:25:45.37\00:25:47.84
We see this in
Genesis 37:3-4, which says,
00:25:47.88\00:25:52.11
"Now Israel loved Joseph
more than all his children,
00:25:52.15\00:25:55.65
because he was a
son of his old age.
00:25:55.68\00:25:58.05
Also, he made him a
tunic of many colors,
00:25:58.09\00:26:00.99
but when his brothers saw
that their father loved him
00:26:01.02\00:26:03.63
more than all his brothers,
00:26:03.66\00:26:05.23
they hated him
00:26:05.26\00:26:06.59
and could not
speak peaceably to him."
00:26:06.63\00:26:10.27
So here you have it,
father, kind, brothers, mean.
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Father,
affectionate, brothers, distant.
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Father, provider,
brothers, selfish.
00:26:18.27\00:26:21.68
Father, protective,
brothers, murderous.
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Where do you think Joseph
sense of self-worth came from?
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Often, we derive
it from our families
00:26:29.12\00:26:31.62
and close relationships.
00:26:31.65\00:26:33.46
Joseph's situation
yielded mixed signals,
00:26:33.49\00:26:36.79
beloved and hated,
cherished and rebuffed.
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And then to add insult to injury
00:26:40.16\00:26:42.20
at the hand of
his hateful brothers,
00:26:42.23\00:26:44.20
he became a slave to
be bought or sold at will.
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He was sold into a family
00:26:47.70\00:26:49.30
of a new language,
culture, and religion.
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So let me share three
points that stuck out to me
00:26:52.51\00:26:55.58
in relating Joseph's situation
to his sense of self-worth.
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Point number one,
00:26:59.91\00:27:01.25
your condition is
just your position.
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In other words,
00:27:04.99\00:27:06.32
if you find yourself
00:27:06.35\00:27:07.69
at the bottom of the heap today,
00:27:07.72\00:27:09.19
it's just a temporary situation.
00:27:09.22\00:27:11.76
Where you are today
00:27:11.79\00:27:13.33
doesn't necessarily mean
that you'll be there tomorrow.
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Amen.
00:27:16.56\00:27:17.90
Don't let your current situation
00:27:17.93\00:27:19.40
define who you are.
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I love Psalms
28:13-14, where it says,
00:27:21.67\00:27:26.27
"I would have lost heart
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unless I had believed
00:27:28.31\00:27:29.78
that I would see
the goodness of the Lord
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in the land of the living.
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Wait on the Lord,
be of good courage,
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and He shall
strengthen your heart.
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Wait, I say, on the Lord."
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Joseph found himself
in a world of trouble,
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hated by his brothers,
00:27:47.13\00:27:48.53
falsely accused
by his boss's wife,
00:27:48.56\00:27:50.77
incarcerated, a
foreigner in a strange land
00:27:50.80\00:27:53.94
and alone.
00:27:53.97\00:27:55.30
And yet in the
end, Joseph was on top.
00:27:55.34\00:27:58.77
He had a position of leadership,
00:27:58.81\00:28:00.84
a beautiful wife,
power, status in his community.
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And he was on top. He
was on top of the world.
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Joseph would have
been a very confused guy
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if he's solely relied
upon his earthly relationships
00:28:12.39\00:28:15.39
to determine his
sense of self-worth.
00:28:15.42\00:28:17.86
Instead, he knew that
his God had taken care of him
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and he was accountable to Him,
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as you mentioned, Shelley.
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Ellen White in
Patriarchs and Prophets says,
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and I quote,
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"Joseph served the Lord
with an undivided heart.
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He met the trials of
his lot with fortitude
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and performed every
duty with fidelity."
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He didn't bemoan his
position when he was down.
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He just continued to be faithful
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to his God and his duties.
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Thus, his position
at rock bottom changed.
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He was consistently elevated
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until he was second in
power to the Pharaoh himself.
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This kind of
consistent elevation
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can happen for
any child of the king
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if we're faithful in our
duties and responsibilities.
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That's good.
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Point number two,
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your sense of
self-worth must be rooted
00:29:07.74\00:29:10.61
in your
relationship with God, not man.
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How does God see us?
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Isaiah 43:1 says,
00:29:16.02\00:29:18.29
"Fear not, for
I've redeemed you,
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I've called you by
your name, you are Mine."
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There is something so intimate
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about being called by your name
by the Creator of the universe.
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Imagine that the most
powerful prestigious being
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ever wants a deep
relationship with you.
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Why wouldn't that
boost your feelings
00:29:38.44\00:29:40.08
of worth and value?
00:29:40.11\00:29:42.11
In Micah 3:17, it says,
00:29:42.14\00:29:46.35
"They shall be Mine
says the Lord of hosts
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on the day that I
make them my jewels."
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He calls us His. He
calls us His jewels.
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And in Romans 8:14, Paul says,
00:29:55.22\00:29:59.63
"That if we're
led by God's spirit,
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we are sons and
daughters of God."
00:30:01.63\00:30:03.97
And in 1 John 3:1-2, it says,
00:30:04.00\00:30:06.53
"Behold, what manner of love
00:30:06.57\00:30:08.00
the Father has
bestowed upon us."
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Pastor John, you read this.
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"That we should be
called children of God.
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Therefore, the
world does not know us
00:30:13.91\00:30:15.64
because it did not know Him.
00:30:15.68\00:30:17.75
Beloved, we are
now children of God
00:30:17.78\00:30:20.92
and it has not yet been revealed
00:30:20.95\00:30:22.32
what we shall be,
00:30:22.35\00:30:23.69
but we know that
when He is revealed,
00:30:23.72\00:30:25.62
we shall be like Him,
00:30:25.65\00:30:27.02
for we shall see Him as He is."
00:30:27.06\00:30:30.16
Had Joseph derived his
sense of worth from men,
00:30:30.19\00:30:33.23
he would have lost.
00:30:33.26\00:30:34.60
He would have
been most miserable.
00:30:34.63\00:30:36.46
He had no earthly
familiar report, support,
00:30:36.50\00:30:40.34
for many years of his life.
00:30:40.37\00:30:42.70
Joseph knew his God.
00:30:42.74\00:30:44.67
He knew that,
00:30:44.71\00:30:46.04
although he didn't have
00:30:46.07\00:30:47.41
his beloved
earthly father with him,
00:30:47.44\00:30:49.38
his heavenly Father
00:30:49.41\00:30:50.88
was watching
over him constantly.
00:30:50.91\00:30:53.31
He knew that he
had to be accountable
00:30:53.35\00:30:56.35
to the Almighty.
00:30:56.38\00:30:57.72
And point number three,
00:30:57.75\00:30:59.32
our confidence
should be in Christ
00:30:59.35\00:31:02.12
more than in ourselves.
00:31:02.16\00:31:03.63
Jeremiah 17:7 says,
00:31:03.66\00:31:05.99
"But blessed is the
one who trusts in the Lord
00:31:06.03\00:31:08.83
whose confidence is in Him."
00:31:08.86\00:31:11.70
The whole idea of self-esteem
00:31:11.73\00:31:14.24
emerged out of a movement
00:31:14.27\00:31:15.80
that swept
through the United States
00:31:15.84\00:31:17.37
like a whirlwind
in the 80s and 90s.
00:31:17.41\00:31:20.68
A recent internet
article that I read said
00:31:20.71\00:31:25.35
that it changed how countless
organizations were run,
00:31:25.38\00:31:29.08
how an entire generation
millennials was educated
00:31:29.12\00:31:32.45
and how that generation
went on to perceive itself
00:31:32.49\00:31:35.42
quite
favorably, as it turns out.
00:31:35.46\00:31:38.39
As it turned out,
00:31:38.43\00:31:39.76
the central claim
underlying the trend
00:31:39.79\00:31:42.36
that there's a
causal relationship
00:31:42.40\00:31:43.90
between self-esteem
00:31:43.93\00:31:45.63
and various positive outcomes
00:31:45.67\00:31:47.34
was almost
certainly inaccurate."
00:31:47.37\00:31:51.24
The leading proponent
of this line of thought
00:31:51.27\00:31:54.24
was a guy named
John Vasconcellos.
00:31:54.28\00:31:56.78
I'm going to call him John
V because it's a hard name.
00:31:56.81\00:32:00.18
He was a California
legislator for 38 years
00:32:00.22\00:32:03.59
and was said to be an idealist
00:32:03.62\00:32:05.22
who was convinced that
00:32:05.25\00:32:06.59
humans had untold,
untapped greatness,
00:32:06.62\00:32:09.89
but his idealism emerged
out of his own long attempts,
00:32:09.92\00:32:14.23
long running attempts to
control his anger problems.
00:32:14.26\00:32:18.10
He discovered
research on self-esteem
00:32:18.13\00:32:20.20
that showed that people
00:32:20.24\00:32:21.57
with high versus low self-esteem
00:32:21.60\00:32:23.44
reacted in different
ways to various challenges
00:32:23.47\00:32:26.61
and instances of adversity.
00:32:26.64\00:32:28.71
John V felt that
00:32:28.74\00:32:30.08
if low self-esteem
00:32:30.11\00:32:31.45
is tied to so many
maladaptive responses,
00:32:31.48\00:32:34.08
to so many forms
of underachievement
00:32:34.12\00:32:36.08
and bad behavior,
00:32:36.12\00:32:37.45
then surely raising
kids in adult self-esteem
00:32:37.49\00:32:40.76
could bring with
an untold benefits.
00:32:40.79\00:32:42.99
He began to lobby Sacramento
00:32:43.02\00:32:45.26
to launch a statewide
self-esteem commission
00:32:45.29\00:32:48.33
to study the public policy
implications of self-esteem.
00:32:48.36\00:32:52.33
And that
commission, as it turned out,
00:32:52.37\00:32:55.87
just got off to a slow start.
00:32:55.90\00:32:58.67
It picked up steam
00:32:58.71\00:33:00.04
with a steady stream of research
00:33:00.08\00:33:01.41
purporting to
confirm John V's theory
00:33:01.44\00:33:04.08
that
self-esteem lay at the heart
00:33:04.11\00:33:05.85
of many personal and
societal difficulties.
00:33:05.88\00:33:09.88
The problem with
this research was
00:33:09.92\00:33:12.05
that it was fairly
anecdotal and low quality.
00:33:12.09\00:33:15.42
There was a social scientist,
00:33:15.46\00:33:17.03
a social psychologist by
the name of Roy Baumeister,
00:33:17.06\00:33:20.60
who studied self-esteem
00:33:20.63\00:33:22.16
and very likely
authored a lot of this research.
00:33:22.20\00:33:25.70
He found that
there were problems
00:33:25.73\00:33:28.14
with the research.
00:33:28.17\00:33:29.60
And so, what we
find is that Joseph,
00:33:29.64\00:33:33.68
we go back to Joseph here,
00:33:33.71\00:33:35.64
and we know that
00:33:35.68\00:33:37.25
Joseph himself found
his self-esteem in God,
00:33:37.28\00:33:43.32
his confidence in God.
00:33:43.35\00:33:47.96
Joseph had a sense of his value
00:33:47.99\00:33:51.23
as a result of his
intense relationship with God.
00:33:51.26\00:33:54.73
He relied on Him
00:33:54.76\00:33:56.56
to give him the answers
to properly interpret dreams.
00:33:56.60\00:34:00.57
He knew that the gift
wasn't just something innate.
00:34:00.60\00:34:04.77
It was from God Himself.
00:34:04.81\00:34:07.74
In Genesis 41:16,
00:34:07.78\00:34:11.61
Joseph, when told by Pharaoh
00:34:11.65\00:34:13.38
that he could
interpret the dream,
00:34:13.42\00:34:15.62
corrected him and said,
00:34:15.65\00:34:17.85
"It is not in me.
00:34:17.89\00:34:19.52
God will give
Pharaoh an answer of peace."
00:34:19.55\00:34:22.79
Joseph's confidence
was in God, not in himself.
00:34:22.82\00:34:27.66
He knew the source of all wisdom
00:34:27.70\00:34:30.70
was to be found in
God and not in men.
00:34:30.73\00:34:34.47
So, no matter what
we're going through,
00:34:34.50\00:34:37.34
no matter where
you are right now,
00:34:37.37\00:34:39.87
you can trust God.
00:34:39.91\00:34:41.24
We can know that we have value
00:34:41.28\00:34:43.75
because He gave His life for us.
00:34:43.78\00:34:46.78
We matter
00:34:46.82\00:34:48.62
because we're
created in His image
00:34:48.65\00:34:51.25
and He loves us.
00:34:51.29\00:34:53.46
Ephesians 2:10 says,
00:34:53.49\00:34:55.12
"We are His workmanship
00:34:55.16\00:34:56.73
created in Christ
Jesus for good works,
00:34:56.76\00:34:59.29
which God prepared beforehand
that we should walk in them."
00:34:59.33\00:35:04.37
In God and in God alone,
00:35:04.40\00:35:08.04
in God only can we
find our true self-worth.
00:35:08.07\00:35:13.94
Amen. Amen. Thank you so much.
00:35:13.98\00:35:16.04
Thank you.
00:35:16.08\00:35:17.41
Thank you, Pastor John
and Shelley and Sis Yvonne,
00:35:17.45\00:35:19.15
powerful.
00:35:19.18\00:35:20.52
I love that. Not a
pseudo self-esteem...
00:35:20.55\00:35:23.15
That's right. But
biblical self-worth.
00:35:23.18\00:35:25.29
It's powerful.
00:35:25.32\00:35:26.89
I have Wednesday's lesson,
00:35:26.92\00:35:28.26
which is Doing
Relationships God's Way.
00:35:28.29\00:35:31.29
So, let's flip
over to Genesis 39.
00:35:31.33\00:35:33.09
We're going to walk
through 10 verses there.
00:35:33.13\00:35:35.40
Genesis Chapter 39
00:35:35.43\00:35:37.07
as each member of the panel
already brought out so well.
00:35:37.10\00:35:40.87
Joseph grew up in
a dysfunctional home.
00:35:40.90\00:35:43.44
There was envy and jealousy.
00:35:43.47\00:35:45.07
There was hatred and bitterness.
00:35:45.11\00:35:47.08
There was a desire for
revenge and a desire for power.
00:35:47.11\00:35:50.45
There was lust and sexual sin.
00:35:50.48\00:35:53.58
And somewhere on that journey,
00:35:53.62\00:35:55.78
when he was sold as a
slave from the land of Canaan,
00:35:55.82\00:35:58.72
as he traveled to
Egypt, he made a choice.
00:35:58.75\00:36:02.22
He would serve
the God of his fathers
00:36:02.26\00:36:05.93
and he also discovered
his self-worth in God.
00:36:05.96\00:36:10.37
So, we pick up the
story in Genesis 39:1,
00:36:10.40\00:36:13.54
we're going to
have five takeaways
00:36:13.57\00:36:15.44
from these 10 verses
00:36:15.47\00:36:16.91
and then five lessons
00:36:16.94\00:36:18.27
for how you and I
can deal with temptation.
00:36:18.31\00:36:21.91
Verse 1,
00:36:21.94\00:36:23.28
"Now Joseph had
been taken down to Egypt.
00:36:23.31\00:36:25.48
And Potiphar, an
officer of Pharaoh,
00:36:25.51\00:36:27.55
captain of the
guard, an Egyptian,
00:36:27.58\00:36:30.35
bought him from the Ishmaelites
who had taken him down there."
00:36:30.39\00:36:35.36
I want to tell you right
now, when all seems lost,
00:36:35.39\00:36:38.16
God is still in control.
00:36:38.19\00:36:40.70
You might be in
your Egypt experience.
00:36:40.73\00:36:44.10
You might feel as if you
have been sold as a slave,
00:36:44.13\00:36:47.54
God is still in
control of your life.
00:36:47.57\00:36:51.14
Verse 2,
00:36:51.17\00:36:52.51
"The Lord, He was with Joseph,
and he was a successful man,
00:36:52.54\00:36:57.15
and he was in the house
of his master, the Egyptian."
00:36:57.18\00:37:00.42
Takeaway number two,
when you least expect it,
00:37:00.45\00:37:03.15
God will
intervene in your situation.
00:37:03.18\00:37:07.56
He thought he was alone.
00:37:07.59\00:37:08.92
He thought he was in Egypt.
00:37:08.96\00:37:10.29
He thought
everything was against him.
00:37:10.33\00:37:12.09
And yet God, God blessed him.
00:37:12.13\00:37:14.40
God showed up.
00:37:14.43\00:37:16.60
Joshua 1:5. This
is Joshua, right?
00:37:16.63\00:37:18.83
When he takes over the
people from Moses and God says,
00:37:18.87\00:37:22.67
"No man shall be
able to stand before you
00:37:22.70\00:37:24.67
all the days of your life.
00:37:24.71\00:37:26.31
As I was with
Moses, I will be with you.
00:37:26.34\00:37:29.54
I will not leave
you, nor forsake you."
00:37:29.58\00:37:32.81
Are you alone? God
will never leave you.
00:37:32.85\00:37:35.98
Jeremiah 1:19. I
love this promise.
00:37:36.02\00:37:38.59
And I think it's a new
promise that I've found,
00:37:38.62\00:37:40.59
it's not new, but I
just discovered it recently.
00:37:40.62\00:37:43.19
It says,
00:37:43.22\00:37:44.56
"They will fight against you,
00:37:44.59\00:37:45.93
but they shall not
prevail against you,
00:37:45.96\00:37:48.46
for I am with you, says
the Lord to deliver you."
00:37:48.50\00:37:51.57
Are you in battled?
God will deliver you.
00:37:51.60\00:37:55.70
The next verse, Genesis 39:3-4,
00:37:55.74\00:37:59.14
"And his master saw
that the Lord was with him
00:37:59.17\00:38:01.14
and that the Lord made
00:38:01.18\00:38:02.51
all he did to
prosper in his hand.
00:38:02.54\00:38:05.08
So Joseph, he
found favor in his sight,
00:38:05.11\00:38:07.22
and served him.
00:38:07.25\00:38:08.58
Then he made him
overseer of his house,
00:38:08.62\00:38:11.22
and all that he had
put under his authority."
00:38:11.25\00:38:14.86
Takeaway number three,
00:38:14.89\00:38:16.46
when you faithfully
serve God, God will honor you.
00:38:16.49\00:38:21.86
Proverbs 22:29.
00:38:21.90\00:38:23.77
I really like
this in King James.
00:38:23.80\00:38:25.33
It says,
00:38:25.37\00:38:26.70
"Seest thou a man
diligent in his business?
00:38:26.74\00:38:29.00
He shall stand before kings,
00:38:29.04\00:38:31.61
he shall not
stand before mean men."
00:38:31.64\00:38:34.84
Joseph faithfully served his God
00:38:34.88\00:38:37.65
in the midst of overwhelmingly
difficult circumstances.
00:38:37.68\00:38:42.38
And God honored that.
00:38:42.42\00:38:44.15
Next verse,
verse 5, Genesis 39:5,
00:38:44.19\00:38:48.12
"So it was, from the time
00:38:48.16\00:38:49.69
that he had made him
overseer of his house
00:38:49.72\00:38:51.79
and all that he had,
00:38:51.83\00:38:53.53
that the Lord blessed
the Egyptian's house," why?
00:38:53.56\00:38:57.40
"For Joseph's sake,
00:38:57.43\00:38:59.27
and the blessing of the Lord
00:38:59.30\00:39:00.64
was on all that he had in
the house and in the field."
00:39:00.67\00:39:02.50
I love this one.
00:39:02.54\00:39:03.87
Takeaway number four,
00:39:03.91\00:39:05.24
when you belong to God,
other people are affected.
00:39:05.27\00:39:08.11
You see, no man or
no woman is in island.
00:39:08.14\00:39:11.51
We all have influenced.
00:39:11.55\00:39:13.58
And because God was
blessing Joseph's life,
00:39:13.62\00:39:17.52
God blessed the
household of Potiphar as well.
00:39:17.55\00:39:19.95
Potiphar wasn't a believer.
00:39:19.99\00:39:21.46
He didn't honor the
true God, but what happened?
00:39:21.49\00:39:24.63
God blessed the
entire household.
00:39:24.66\00:39:27.10
If you read in 1 Corinthians
7, we won't turn there,
00:39:27.13\00:39:30.77
but there's this
whole passage of marriage
00:39:30.80\00:39:32.97
of believing spouses
with unbelieving spouses.
00:39:33.00\00:39:36.97
And the Word of God says that
00:39:37.01\00:39:40.18
the unbelieving
spouse can be influenced
00:39:40.21\00:39:43.24
or won to the Lord
00:39:43.28\00:39:45.55
through the influence
of a believing spouse.
00:39:45.58\00:39:48.38
So, are you in a
home that's divided?
00:39:48.42\00:39:50.42
Do you have children
that don't walk with God?
00:39:50.45\00:39:53.15
Are you in a work environment
00:39:53.19\00:39:55.12
where your
coworkers don't know God?
00:39:55.16\00:39:58.86
Guess what?
00:39:58.89\00:40:00.23
God blesses your life,
00:40:00.26\00:40:02.00
and other
people will be affected
00:40:02.03\00:40:05.53
because of the Holy Spirit
anointing coming out of you.
00:40:05.57\00:40:08.84
Let's look at
verse 36, Genesis 39,
00:40:08.87\00:40:11.74
the first half of verse 36,
00:40:11.77\00:40:13.68
"Thus, he left all that
he had in Joseph's hand.
00:40:13.71\00:40:17.68
And he, that's Potiphar
00:40:17.71\00:40:19.05
did not know what he had
00:40:19.08\00:40:20.42
except for the
bread, which he ate."
00:40:20.45\00:40:23.22
Takeaway number five,
00:40:23.25\00:40:24.59
when you follow God,
other people will trust you.
00:40:24.62\00:40:28.39
Potiphar trusted Joseph
00:40:28.42\00:40:30.66
with everything
that was in his house,
00:40:30.69\00:40:33.09
except for the food.
00:40:33.13\00:40:34.46
Now we see a
turning point in the story
00:40:34.50\00:40:36.53
and trouble in
paradise begins to come up.
00:40:36.56\00:40:39.60
Let's look at the
second half of verse 36.
00:40:39.63\00:40:42.54
Now Joseph was, thank you, 6.
00:40:42.57\00:40:45.21
Genesis 39:6, the second half.
00:40:45.24\00:40:48.14
Joseph was handsome
in form and appearance.
00:40:48.18\00:40:52.31
Now I don't know,
it's very interesting
00:40:52.35\00:40:54.32
why the Word of God
mentions what Joseph looks like.
00:40:54.35\00:40:56.69
We don't know
what Elijah looks like.
00:40:56.72\00:40:58.12
We don't know what
Elisha looked like.
00:40:58.15\00:40:59.79
We don't know what Jeremiah
the prophet looked like.
00:40:59.82\00:41:01.99
We don't know what Mary,
00:41:02.02\00:41:03.36
the mother of Jesus looked like.
00:41:03.39\00:41:04.73
And why?
00:41:04.76\00:41:06.09
Because God says
it doesn't matter
00:41:06.13\00:41:07.46
on the outward appearance,
00:41:07.50\00:41:08.83
the Lord looks at the heart.
00:41:08.86\00:41:10.20
That is what matters.
00:41:10.23\00:41:11.57
Why does it even reference this?
00:41:11.60\00:41:12.93
And it says,
form and appearance.
00:41:12.97\00:41:14.90
Did you notice that?
00:41:14.94\00:41:16.27
Joseph was handsome
in form and appearance.
00:41:16.30\00:41:18.11
If you look at
those two Hebrew words,
00:41:18.14\00:41:20.64
form literally means
the form or the figure.
00:41:20.68\00:41:23.85
Appearance means the
countenance, the face.
00:41:23.88\00:41:27.38
So, Joseph was a
good looking man.
00:41:27.42\00:41:29.08
He was handsome.
00:41:29.12\00:41:30.45
His face was good looking,
00:41:30.49\00:41:31.82
and he had a good
looking body as well.
00:41:31.85\00:41:33.69
So, Potiphar's wife
took notice of this.
00:41:33.72\00:41:37.43
Let's look in verse 7,
00:41:37.46\00:41:38.79
"And it came to
pass after these things
00:41:38.83\00:41:40.63
his master's wife cast
longing eyes on Joseph,
00:41:40.66\00:41:44.37
and she said, 'Lie with me.'
00:41:44.40\00:41:45.83
But he refused and
said to his master's wife,
00:41:45.87\00:41:48.70
'Look, my master does not know
00:41:48.74\00:41:50.91
what is with me in the house,
00:41:50.94\00:41:53.38
and he has committed
all that he has to my hand.
00:41:53.41\00:41:55.88
There is no one
greater in this house than I,
00:41:55.91\00:41:58.68
nor has he kept back
anything from me but you,
00:41:58.71\00:42:00.92
because you are his wife.
00:42:00.95\00:42:03.75
How then can I do
this great wickedness,
00:42:03.79\00:42:06.65
and sin against God?'
00:42:06.69\00:42:09.52
So it was, as she
spoke to Joseph day by day,
00:42:09.56\00:42:12.23
that he did not heed her,
00:42:12.26\00:42:13.86
to lie with her
or to be with her.'"
00:42:13.90\00:42:16.06
So, let's look at some lessons
00:42:16.10\00:42:17.43
just that I see
from this passage
00:42:17.47\00:42:19.33
and how we can
deal with temptation.
00:42:19.37\00:42:23.10
Lesson number one,
make decisions on principle,
00:42:23.14\00:42:27.18
not by how you feel.
00:42:27.21\00:42:29.68
Did Joseph
desire Potiphar's wife?
00:42:29.71\00:42:31.81
We're not told
that specifically,
00:42:31.85\00:42:33.38
but we do know
she came on to him.
00:42:33.42\00:42:35.38
We also know if you study
what the Egyptian woman wore,
00:42:35.42\00:42:38.62
I would say probably
00:42:38.65\00:42:40.22
there was some sort
of desire going on there.
00:42:40.26\00:42:43.36
You know, the Word of
God says in James 1:14-15,
00:42:43.39\00:42:48.10
"Each one is tempted
00:42:48.13\00:42:49.70
when he is drawn away of
his own desires and enticed.
00:42:49.73\00:42:53.34
Then, when desire has conceived,
00:42:53.37\00:42:55.54
it gives birth to sin,
00:42:55.57\00:42:57.47
and sin, when it is
full-grown, it brings death."
00:42:57.51\00:43:01.61
You see, sometimes we feel
like the feelings are wrong.
00:43:01.64\00:43:04.01
Feelings aren't wrong.
00:43:04.05\00:43:05.38
It is when we cherish.
00:43:05.41\00:43:06.75
It's when we dwell on them.
00:43:06.78\00:43:08.62
That is when it turns into sin.
00:43:08.65\00:43:11.75
You know, there's this
analogy I always loved.
00:43:11.79\00:43:13.76
You can't stop the birds
from flying over your head,
00:43:13.79\00:43:16.19
but you can certainly stop them
00:43:16.22\00:43:17.56
from making a nest in your hair.
00:43:17.59\00:43:20.00
Another words,
it goes in one ear,
00:43:20.03\00:43:22.50
it can go out the other ear.
00:43:22.53\00:43:24.10
But when we
dwell, when we linger,
00:43:24.13\00:43:27.00
when we make
decisions based on how we feel,
00:43:27.04\00:43:29.90
and we indulge in that decision,
00:43:29.94\00:43:32.87
that becomes sin.
00:43:32.91\00:43:35.31
Lesson, number two,
00:43:35.34\00:43:36.91
make decisions on
how it affects God,
00:43:36.95\00:43:40.32
not yourself for others.
00:43:40.35\00:43:41.68
What did Joseph say?
00:43:41.72\00:43:43.05
How can I do this
wickedness and sin against God?
00:43:43.08\00:43:45.05
Well, clearly it would be
against Potiphar and the rest,
00:43:45.09\00:43:47.89
but how can I do
this and sin against God?
00:43:47.92\00:43:50.19
I think about Adam
and Eve in the beginning,
00:43:50.23\00:43:52.29
they took a fruit
00:43:52.33\00:43:53.66
and what could they have said?
00:43:53.70\00:43:55.03
It didn't hurt anybody else.
00:43:55.06\00:43:56.46
Do you ever say that?
00:43:56.50\00:43:57.83
Oh, I'm not hurting anybody.
00:43:57.87\00:43:59.57
This is only affecting me.
00:43:59.60\00:44:01.84
It has nothing to do with,
00:44:01.87\00:44:03.20
or if we both agree,
it's just between us.
00:44:03.24\00:44:05.37
It doesn't impact anyone else.
00:44:05.41\00:44:07.24
Look at the untold misery.
00:44:07.28\00:44:09.38
Look at what happened
00:44:09.41\00:44:10.78
as a result of Adam and Eve's
one choice to step into sin.
00:44:10.81\00:44:15.78
It clearly
affected the entire world.
00:44:15.82\00:44:17.79
And when we sin, it
is not against ourselves.
00:44:17.82\00:44:22.29
And clearly sin
can be against self,
00:44:22.32\00:44:24.13
but is most
importantly, it's against God.
00:44:24.16\00:44:27.43
Lesson number three.
00:44:27.46\00:44:28.80
Once you've made your
decision, stick with it.
00:44:28.83\00:44:31.57
Potiphar's wife tempted Joseph,
the Bible says day after day,
00:44:31.60\00:44:35.07
but he did not change his mind.
00:44:35.10\00:44:36.77
Sometimes we make a decision,
00:44:36.81\00:44:38.14
we say, God, I
want to do it Your way.
00:44:38.17\00:44:39.97
And then we turn around
00:44:40.01\00:44:41.34
and, oh, I'm going
to change my mind today.
00:44:41.38\00:44:42.98
No, every day, make
that decision for God.
00:44:43.01\00:44:46.61
Principle number four and five
00:44:46.65\00:44:48.18
are not implicitly
in the Word of God,
00:44:48.22\00:44:50.59
but it's there.
00:44:50.62\00:44:51.95
Number four is to accept
the power of the Holy Spirit.
00:44:51.99\00:44:54.32
Joseph could not
in his own strength
00:44:54.36\00:44:57.13
resist this temptation.
00:44:57.16\00:44:59.79
Galatians 5:16.
00:44:59.83\00:45:01.16
"I say then: Walk in the Spirit,
00:45:01.20\00:45:02.90
and you shall not
fulfill the lust of the flesh."
00:45:02.93\00:45:06.30
Principle number five,
00:45:06.33\00:45:07.67
utilize the power
of the Word of God.
00:45:07.70\00:45:10.14
If we hide God's
Word in our heart,
00:45:10.17\00:45:13.07
you and I can be
victorious over temptation.
00:45:13.11\00:45:16.54
Amen. Wow. That's great.
00:45:16.58\00:45:18.71
All of it's been
such an eye-opener.
00:45:18.75\00:45:20.58
I'm sitting here
listening and it's like,
00:45:20.62\00:45:23.15
there's this old saying,
if it weren't for bad luck,
00:45:23.18\00:45:25.82
I'd have no luck at all.
00:45:25.85\00:45:27.49
I mean, we all could sit here
00:45:27.52\00:45:29.26
and say that in our own lives,
00:45:29.29\00:45:31.39
but it's showing
that there's victory.
00:45:31.43\00:45:33.19
God can give us
victory over dysfunction
00:45:33.23\00:45:35.43
no matter where we come from.
00:45:35.46\00:45:37.43
Now, mine is The
Great Controversy
00:45:37.47\00:45:39.23
Up and Personal.
00:45:39.27\00:45:40.74
And I think we could
also entitle this lesson,
00:45:40.77\00:45:44.14
life just isn't fair.
00:45:44.17\00:45:45.81
I mean, but I'm
going to use the but,
00:45:45.84\00:45:48.98
but the Lord is with you.
00:45:49.01\00:45:50.65
All right? Life isn't
fair, but the Lord is with you.
00:45:50.68\00:45:53.11
Now, I grew up with
three older brothers
00:45:53.15\00:45:54.85
and a younger sister
00:45:54.88\00:45:56.22
and it always seemed like
00:45:56.25\00:45:57.69
the older brothers got
to do things I couldn't do.
00:45:57.72\00:46:00.36
So, I would say, I'd say,
00:46:00.39\00:46:01.72
"Well, dad, I
want to do that too."
00:46:01.76\00:46:03.76
"Son, you're too
young. Your day will come."
00:46:03.79\00:46:06.56
Then I'd see my little
sister, eight years younger
00:46:06.59\00:46:08.96
getting to do some things.
00:46:09.00\00:46:10.33
I'd say, "Dad, I
want to do that."
00:46:10.37\00:46:11.70
"Oh, son, you're too
old to do stuff like that.
00:46:11.73\00:46:14.00
You're too old."
00:46:14.04\00:46:16.14
I would think
life just isn't fair.
00:46:16.17\00:46:19.14
Well, Joseph
was thrown in prison
00:46:19.17\00:46:21.24
for something he didn't do.
00:46:21.28\00:46:22.74
Now he may have
asked where's God,
00:46:22.78\00:46:24.88
in course, you all set it up
00:46:24.91\00:46:26.78
that he had a relationship
with the Lord, Jesus Christ.
00:46:26.82\00:46:29.78
He could've said, I
did not commit the sin
00:46:29.82\00:46:31.75
with Potiphar's wife
yet why am I in prison?
00:46:31.79\00:46:35.36
You know, where's
God when I need Him?
00:46:35.39\00:46:36.96
He could have done
all of those things,
00:46:36.99\00:46:38.33
but he didn't.
00:46:38.36\00:46:39.69
The good news is he
did not question God
00:46:39.73\00:46:41.96
or God's plan for his life.
00:46:42.00\00:46:44.13
Now Genesis 39:21 says,
"The Lord was with him."
00:46:44.17\00:46:48.07
I want you to
put your name there.
00:46:48.10\00:46:49.97
The Lord is with me,
whatever your name is,
00:46:50.01\00:46:52.61
the Lord is with me.
00:46:52.64\00:46:53.98
Get that into your mind.
00:46:54.01\00:46:55.34
And I promise you,
00:46:55.38\00:46:56.71
you're going to find the victory
00:46:56.75\00:46:58.08
that you all have
been talking about.
00:46:58.11\00:47:00.08
This is why it's so important
00:47:00.12\00:47:01.58
to develop a
personal relationship
00:47:01.62\00:47:04.19
through prayer
and daily Bible study
00:47:04.22\00:47:06.19
with the Lord.
00:47:06.22\00:47:07.56
We must live by
faith and not by sight.
00:47:07.59\00:47:09.79
Some of you have
already said that.
00:47:09.82\00:47:11.99
Now Satan is a master deceiver
00:47:12.03\00:47:13.80
and attempter and
a master discourager.
00:47:13.83\00:47:16.46
Now I want you to
listen to this one.
00:47:16.50\00:47:18.40
He loves to feed our
emotional offended sign
00:47:18.43\00:47:21.57
that he can read
all over our face
00:47:21.60\00:47:23.91
when something
doesn't go our way.
00:47:23.94\00:47:25.67
I'm talking about
facial and body expressions.
00:47:25.71\00:47:27.84
Satan can't read our minds.
00:47:27.88\00:47:29.54
But when we're like,
somebody says something to you,
00:47:29.58\00:47:34.08
you know, you do this.
00:47:34.12\00:47:35.68
Now, you think he
doesn't have a heyday
00:47:35.72\00:47:37.55
when you fall into that trap.
00:47:37.59\00:47:39.39
See great peace have
they which love thy law
00:47:39.42\00:47:42.46
and nothing shall offend them.
00:47:42.49\00:47:44.66
So, we have to
learn in this life
00:47:44.69\00:47:46.96
that on this planet,
nothing, it just isn't fair.
00:47:47.00\00:47:50.67
Good is not always rewarded.
00:47:50.70\00:47:52.13
And evil is not
always immediately punished.
00:47:52.17\00:47:55.20
So, there's a great
controversy going on,
00:47:55.24\00:47:57.21
which we know about.
00:47:57.24\00:47:58.57
And it's the spiritual conflict,
00:47:58.61\00:47:59.94
our lives and relationships.
00:47:59.97\00:48:01.71
The lesson says this,
I thought it was so good.
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Our miniature reflections
of the great controversy
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between God and Satan,
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that is raging through the ages
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and were, folks, we're
right in the middle of that.
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And it's amazing to be here
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in the closing
moments of earth's history,
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but there's some
good news for all of us.
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We never have to be discouraged.
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You know why?
Heaven's on our side.
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We have God the Father,
the Son, the Holy Spirit,
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literally all
heaven is on our side.
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So, when we trust God
and His will for our life,
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we can't lose.
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Greater is he that is in us
than he that is in the world.
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I mean this is
some good news, folks.
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I don't care where you've
been, what's your background is,
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how downtrodden you
seem, John, you left, abandoned
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doesn't make any difference.
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Greater is he that is in you now
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than he that is in the world.
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Satan has no control over you.
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God has control
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when you put your
life into His hands.
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In Joseph's case,
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he could find
rest even in prison.
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I can't imagine
that, I would hate prison,
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but he found rest even in prison
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because the Lord is with him.
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Remember that,
stick, don't lose that.
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In prison he
could have meditated
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on the
unfairness of his situation.
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He could have been withdrawn.
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He could have given up
on God, but what did he do?
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He made the best
of his circumstances,
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but there's a reason.
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Joseph had peace in
the midst of the storm.
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And you all
established that while ago.
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It was because
of his relationship
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that he learned
about God from his father.
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Now, was he
probably unhappy at times
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for being thrown in prison
for something he didn't do?
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He wasn't guilty.
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I absolutely, I'm sure he was.
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But while in
prison, the lesson says,
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Joseph works with the
real and not the idea.
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And, so that's a great lesson
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for how we should
deal with unfairness
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because things aren't
fair that's all there is to.
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Deal with what's real.
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We can't
re-imagine everything, right?
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And make it real the
way we want it to be.
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That's a new word I've
been learning, re-imagine.
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So, we can't just re-imagine
everything and it changed.
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But because of
Joseph's stableness of mind
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and character,
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because of his trust in God,
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Joseph did what?
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He flourished.
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He didn't just
get by, he flourished.
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Now, where did, where
was he when he flourished?
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He was in prison.
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It wasn't like he
was out on his own.
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It says, the Bible
says, he flourished in prison.
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And how is that possible?
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Genesis 39:21-40.
I won't read it all.
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But it says,
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summary tells
us that Joseph says
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that the prison
keeper gave Joseph charge.
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And I think you mentioned
that over everything, right?
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Over all, or at least
all the other prisoners
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and even trusted him.
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I mean, this is amazing.
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Now Potiphar could
have ordered Joseph killed
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for what he was accused of.
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He could have, but
he didn't. You know why?
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Because it's
probably, we're going to say
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probably Potiphar
didn't believe what,
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that he knew Joseph
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probably knew his
wife, I would assume.
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So, he didn't really believe it,
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but they had to
worry about his reputation.
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So, he, the family's reputation,
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so, you know, put him in jail.
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We don't have to know
all behind the scenes,
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but we do know
that Joseph's commitment
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to serve God at all costs
found favor in the prison,
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found favor in the eyes
of the Lord and the Pharaoh.
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And later he was restored
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and became a
great leader in Egypt.
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I mean, what more could you want
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when you're following God.
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You see, we've
got to worry about
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our life is not what we want
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is what God wants for our lives.
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We just have to be
willing to trust Him.
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Nothing can happen in your life
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that's not God's
will for your life.
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Think about that.
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Nothing's going to
happen that's not God's will.
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Yes. It may
seem like it is time.
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But the truth is God says,
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and Shelley, I
used the same scripture.
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Didn't see it in my lesson,
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but Jeremiah 29:11,
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how can you do it,
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"For I know the
plans I have for you
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declares the Lord,
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plans to
prosper, plans," to what?
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"Plans to prosper
you and not to harm you
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and plans to give
you hope and a future."
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That's right. See,
life's not always fair.
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My dad would tell me
when I complained about
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not getting to do something
with the older brother,
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son, life is not
fair on this earth.
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Just that's the way
it is. Get used to it.
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That's what he would
tell me. That's the way it is.
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He would say, if
everything were perfect,
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we wouldn't be here,
we'd already be in heaven.
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So, get used to the
fact life's not fair.
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But what do we do?
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We trust God with our
life because the Lord is what?
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He's with us.
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I have to admit that
it took many years for me
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to understand really
the statement my dad was,
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what he was saying here.
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But I really think I do now
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because it's what's
God's will for my life
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and your life,
not what our will is.
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And so, I said, you
know, I really think about it.
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Matthew 5:45 says,
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"That ye may be
children of your Father
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which is in heaven:
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for he maketh his
sun to rise on the evil
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and on the good,
He sendeth the rain
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to the just and the unjust."
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Now, I guess I'm kind
of thinking like my dad,
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because I haven't figured out
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why we, Christians seem to think
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that everything is
supposed to turn out
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the way we want it
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just because we
prayed about something.
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That doesn't mean
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God's going to make it turn out
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the way you want it
or the way I want it.
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You know why? He
sees the whole picture?
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We don't.
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In our, we pray
for things it could,
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we say, "Oh, He
didn't answer our prayer."
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No, He did. I promise you.
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You can trust God.
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He answered the prayer
and what's best for us.
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And Matthew 26,
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I'm going to say sometimes
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God answers
prayers the way we want,
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sometimes He doesn't.
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But I think it's important
to understand how Jesus prayed.
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Matthew 26:39,
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"And he went a little
farther and fell on his face
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and prayed saying, O my
Father, if it be possible,
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let this cup pass from me:
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nevertheless not as
I will, but thou wilt."
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We should
remember that when we pray,
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we have to trust Jesus
that He will answer our prayers
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for what is best
for our situation.
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He sees all, He
knows all, we don't, right?
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So therefore, like Joseph,
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we should never be discouraged
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and always show
complete trust in the Lord.
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No matter what
the outcome may seem
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to the human eye,
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we should walk by
faith and not by sight.
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We live in a sinful world.
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Life will throw us some curves,
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but we should
never be discouraged.
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The Bible says
that all who live godly
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shall suffer persecution.
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So, for living godly, expect it.
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But if we believe it,
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then why do we
doubt God every time
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something doesn't go our way.
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We should be praying,
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"Lord, not my
will, but thine be done."
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There comes a point in our lives
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that we like
Joseph have to trust God.
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And remember why
we're here on earth
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in the first place.
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And that is to serve the Lord,
be a witness to all nations.
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The Bible says Matthew 28:18-20,
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"Go ye therefore baptizing
them in the name of the Father,
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the Son and the Holy Spirit."
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I cannot believe
that our time is gone.
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I've had so many notes here,
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but the only way we can navigate
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through this world of sin
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and I wrote this down,
because I never forget it.
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I use it. I've used
it for many, many years.
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Only way we can get
through, I can get through,
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turn your eyes upon Jesus,
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look full in His wonderful face,
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and the things of
earth will grow strangely dim
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in the light of
Christ's glory and His grace.
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Don't give up,
heaven's on your side.
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Amen. Amen.
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Well, thank you,
Danny, Jill, Yvonne, Shelley.
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Go ahead and summarize
what you've covered today.
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I was just thinking,
choosing a new direction.
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You know, the Bible
tells us in Romans 6:16,
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we are slave to
whomever we obey.
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We are either slaves to sin,
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which results in death
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or slaves to obedience,
which will result in life.
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So, choose you this day Jesus,
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His gentle yoke.
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And you can be saved
by His grace and mercy.
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Amen.
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We are all looking to
find out who we are and who,
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whose we are is the
more important question.
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We know that we can find
true self-worth in Jesus.
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We don't need to
look at ourselves,
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look at Jesus.
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Amen.
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When you think about
dealing with temptation,
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your temptation
might seem overwhelming
00:56:12.70\00:56:14.90
and you might be, I'm
in the midst of addiction
00:56:14.94\00:56:17.84
or I can't break free.
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Whoever the Son
sets free is free indeed.
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Look to Jesus and
He can set you free.
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Amen. That's right.
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Jesus is the author
and finisher of our faith.
00:56:27.92\00:56:30.82
And while life is
not fair on this earth,
00:56:30.85\00:56:33.42
remember that soon and very soon
00:56:33.46\00:56:35.59
we'll be able to look
up in the Eastern skies.
00:56:35.62\00:56:38.33
We'll see them break.
00:56:38.36\00:56:39.69
We can say,
00:56:39.73\00:56:41.06
"Lo, this is our
God whom we waited for.
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He has come to save us."
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Be faithful till the end.
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Amen. Amen.
00:56:46.23\00:56:47.57
And all we've
learned today in our lesson
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is God can turn
any situation around.
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The beauty of
the story of humanity
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is not how we began,
00:56:53.68\00:56:55.34
but how we're
going to end in Christ.
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If anyone is in
Christ, he is a new creation.
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Old things have passed away,
00:57:00.58\00:57:02.38
behold, all
things have become new.
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And there's a passage
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just kind of hidden in Isaiah 61
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that I want to share with you.
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When Isaiah focuses on
the frailty of humanity,
00:57:11.16\00:57:14.13
he also focuses on
the power of Christ.
00:57:14.16\00:57:16.10
He says,
00:57:16.13\00:57:17.47
"Instead of your shame,
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speaking about Joseph and Jacob
and all these dysfunctions,
00:57:18.87\00:57:21.97
instead of your shame,
00:57:22.00\00:57:23.34
there shall be a double portion.
00:57:23.37\00:57:25.61
Instead of dishonor,
00:57:25.64\00:57:26.98
they shall rejoice in their lot.
00:57:27.01\00:57:29.11
Therefore, in their land,
00:57:29.14\00:57:30.51
they shall
possess a double portion.
00:57:30.55\00:57:33.05
They shall have
everlasting joy."
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Isaiah 61:7.
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And so, we've
seen the transition
00:57:37.05\00:57:38.45
from who we are in our own lives
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and our own walk
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to who we are
becoming in Christ.
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And praise the Lord,
that's the double hander
00:57:43.39\00:57:44.89
as Danny would say,
00:57:44.93\00:57:46.29
but we don't want
you to forget that
00:57:46.33\00:57:47.66
God is not done with you yet.
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So, stay tuned
for the next lesson
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because as we
continue in the trajectory,
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lesson number
seven is about Rest,
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Relationship and Healing.
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Look forward to seeing you then.
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Amen.
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