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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - How To Sort Out The Drama Life Brings | March 3, 2025
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- Taffi: i'm going to continue on to some things that i believe
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- The lord wants me to share with you, and i just pray and trust
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- That it'll be something that will really resonate
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- And just put you in a place where you can begin to walk
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- In victory like never before.
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- We've been hearing a lot about how god's ways are different
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- From our ways, and, of course, we know that.
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- We know that we're learning how to follow him so that we can
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- Begin to walk in his ways.
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- And so for a few weeks now creflo has been talking about
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- His thoughts are not our thoughts and his ways
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- Are not our ways.
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- And so i want to continue along the line this morning and i want
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- To deal with something that i believe will really be a
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- Blessing to your life.
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- Want to look at some of the family systems in the bible and
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- Begin to look at how things have gotten us to where we are to a
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- Point where we must begin to examine this area of our lives
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- So that we can begin to see more of his ways and his thoughts and
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- His plans being manifested.
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- So we're going to look at some situations as it relates to some
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- Things that i believe are very, very common in our life
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- In this day in time.
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- So i guess if we were to begin, the bible talks about how many
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- Are the afflictions of the righteous.
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- But the lord, what?
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- Delivers them out of them all.
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- There's a scripture that talks about how, you know, we're going
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- To endure and encounter persecution.
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- Amen?
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- And there are going to be obstacles that are going to be
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- Against us in our lives and in our families, particularly in
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- The area of drama.
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- And that's what i want to spend a little talk--a little bit
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- Talking about this morning because i don't know about you,
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- But many of us are exhausted by the never-ending drama in our
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- Lives and in the lives of other people.
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- Never-ending drama.
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- We going to look at some examples of that.
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- We don't really have to look far because i don't stand here today
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- As one who is drama-free, never known anything about drama,
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- Never known drama.
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- I'm not talking from a textbook about drama.
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- I know drama.
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- And it will confirm and affirm some things today because we'll
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- See that families in
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- The bible went through the same thing.
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- And so many of us are exhausted by the never-ending drama in
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- Life and in the lives of others.
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- While some of us try to escape drama,
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- Some people dive headfirst.
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- Drama is part of life.
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- Yet what about continual drama?
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- Could this be a sign that drama keeps finding us, oh, i want to
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- Ask you this morning, world changers, or are you finding it?
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- You stay real still.
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- Won't nobody know we talking about you and your family.
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- So there are two kinds of drama.
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- The drama, number one, that life brings--how many of you know
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- Life will bring drama?
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- It will.
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- Covid brought what?
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- A lot of drama.
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- People together more than what they ever imagine brought
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- Drama, death like none other,
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- People transitioning, loss, loss
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- Of jobs, loss of family, loss of people.
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- So drama can come from what life brings.
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- The second kind of drama is the drama that we create through our
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- Response to life, through how we react,
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- Through our reaction to
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- Things that occur in our life.
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- You know, god allows things in our lives.
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- And in many instances it's how we respond to what he allows in
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- Our lives that has a lot to do with maybe our upbringing, maybe
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- Our belief, maybe what we value, our expectations.
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- These are things that can in many instances create a response
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- That comes out of nowhere.
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- Drama. creflo is very punctual.
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- Sometimes when i'm running late, we can have a little drama on
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- The way to church.
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- But you know what?
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- Now, see, he believes on being on time.
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- That's important. that's valuable.
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- And so sometimes when we have expectations and people may not
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- Know what our expectations are, we can many instances respond in
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- A way that can bring about drama.
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- So we want to sort out the drama this morning,
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- The drama that life brings because not all drama
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- Is because we bring it on ourselves.
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- So our upbringing, our personality, baggage from past
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- Wounds can trigger dramatic reactions to different degrees.
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- How many of you know we can be near someone who erupts?
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- Y'all are real quiet.
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- I'm just saying ain't going to erupt today.
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- We can be near someone who erupts or the target of slander
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- Or the victim of passive aggressiveness, a person who
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- Wants to take out their frustrations on someone else.
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- Sometimes we are blindsided with disappointment or events that
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- Has a scrambling to keep sanity.
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- Some may say this morning,
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- "pastor taffi, i don't do drama."
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- Is drama something that we do like you do dishes,
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- Like we do laundry?
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- But i'm just saying definitively what that means.
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- "i don't do life because life in many instances brings drama."
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- What they mean is, "i'm tired of the drama.
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- I don't put up with the drama.
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- I'm going to avoid the discomfort and no longer going
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- To be around people who bring it."
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- So when we say, "i don't do drama," does that mean,
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- "take this because i don't receive it?"
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- So we have to ask ourselves--as much as we would like to shut
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- Down the chaos, the confusion of our lives and say we don't
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- Do it or, "i'm done with it,"
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- Somehow it has a way of creeping into our lives.
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- Drama, as you and i both know, it has a way of coming
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- Unexpectedly out of nowhere suddenly without any notice,
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- Without any regard.
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- It just happens.
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- You know why?
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- Because it's part of life.
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- Drama happens everywhere because life is happening where?
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- Everywhere.
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- Seasons come, seasons go.
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- And it happens because what?
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- Our emotions are real.
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- Amen. petty.
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- There's petty drama and then there's painful drama.
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- Drama happens when unexpected circumstances hit and we are
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- Unprepared to handle them.
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- Some of you came this morning and left drama at home, but in
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- Jesus's name that drama will not be waiting for you when you
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- Leave here today.
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- God will have dealt with that.
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- We've declared in jesus's name.
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- So drama happens when we come up against family members or people
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- With different personalities who carry with them their own set of
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- Emotional baggage, expectations, values, and beliefs.
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- And like i said earlier, just being around people sometimes
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- Can elicit drama.
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- Now, let's look at this in luke chapter 10, verse 38.
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- Luke 10, verse 38.
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- Let's look at some pain--some petty drama first.
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- Petty.
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- Petty.
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- I can relate to this.
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- You know, i can--you know,
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- We can be petty betty sometimes, you know.
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- It's an illustration that we have talked about in many times
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- Past, and we're going to look at it today because we're talking
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- About families and how god's going to bring it all together
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- In the end.
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- Amen?
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- All right, verse 38, "as they entered their travel," reading
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- From the message translation, "jesus entered a village.
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- A woman by the name of martha welcomed him and made him feel
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- Quite at home.
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- She had a sister, mary, who sat before the master, hanging on
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- Every word he said.
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- But martha was pulled away by all she had to
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- Do in the kitchen."
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- So we see mary was what?
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- Hanging on every word.
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- Martha on the other hand was pulled away by all that she had
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- To do in the kitchen.
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- We don't know if the kitchen was dirty.
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- Maybe she showed up and there were dishes all in the sink.
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- Maybe this was all martha's idea--this is all mary's idea
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- Martha wasn't doing what needed to be done.
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- But the scripture says that martha was pulled away by all
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- She had to do in the kitchen.
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- "later, she stepped in," this is martha, "interrupting them.
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- 'master, don't you care that my sister has abandoned
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- The kitchen to me?
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- Tell her to lend me a hand.'"
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- Somebody say drama.
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- Petty drama, but nevertheless got a little drama brewing.
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- Little drama because mary was--
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- Got a little drama in the sound system this morning.
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- But martha was, you know, in the kitchen, and she was upset with
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- Mary because mary was hanging on jesus's word.
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- It's like, "mary, you know what's going on in this kitchen
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- And you know that jesus can wait or you can hang on the word
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- Later, but i need for you to recognize what's going on."
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- And so he--she feels a need to interrupt.
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- And then jesus says here in verse 40,
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- "martha, dear martha, you're fussing far too much--"
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- Fussing far too much.
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- How many of you know that's drama?
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- "far too much and getting yourself worked up over--"
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- What? "nothing.
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- One thing only is essential, and mary has chosen--it's the main
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- Course, and it won't be taken from her."
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- So i want us to understand that, you know, there can be
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- Situations such as this that are small, but nevertheless
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- It is a part of life, and how we respond makes
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- All the difference in the world.
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- Mary was minding her business listening to jesus, and then
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- Here comes martha.
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- Let's look at a painful situation in the bible of a
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- Family over in genesis chapter 45.
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- This may be a story that many of you are familiar with because it
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- Is something that we often have heard about joseph and how, you
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- Know, the things that he went through being sold in slavery by
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- His brothers, his family, and it was a very hurtful thing.
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- We can only begin to imagine the things that joseph was feeling.
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- And the bible talks about that in chapter 42 through verse--all
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- The verses there into chapter 50.
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- And so we understand some things because that is a lot.
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- I can only begin to fathom the things that were taking place.
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- But there's such a thing as painful drama.
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- Joseph went through rejection.
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- His brothers sold him into slavery and they staged his
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- Death, then they suddenly reappear into his life.
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- Look at chapter 45 of the book of genesis, and let's look at
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- How drama can be painful stuff.
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- And we'll just choose these two.
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- Just there are others i won't look at for the sake of time,
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- But they are there in the bible.
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- And i encourage you to even look at it and be able to relate with
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- Some of the ways in which they dealt with the situations in
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- Their families and then their lives.
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- So this was joseph who at that time had already been developed
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- And had grown on, no longer a slave, but god began to put him
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- In a position of authority.
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- And so, again, i'm reading from the message translation.
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- Verse 1, it says, "joseph couldn't hold himself in any
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- Longer, keeping a front before all the attendants.
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- He cried out, 'leave.
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- Clear out.
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- Everyone leave.' so there was no one with joseph when he
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- Identified himself to his brothers."
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- This is him seeing his brothers for the very first time after he
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- Had been sold and things had transpired over years and times.
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- He had told his attendants to leave.
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- And then we see here what joseph's respond is.
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- He says--it says here in verse 2,
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- "but his sobbing was so violent
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- That the egyptians couldn't help but hear him.
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- The news was soon reported to pharaoh's place."
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- That joseph's brothers were here.
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- And joseph identified himself to his brothers.
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- He had not seen his brothers.
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- This was years that had passed, and all of a sudden they feel
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- The need to go to a place to have their needs met, and joseph
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- Was there in charge.
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- And so joseph, he tells everyone who's there at the time to,
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- "give me a moment," because he wanted to identify himself
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- To his brothers.
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- And then it says, "joseph spoke to his brothers:
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- 'i am joseph.
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- Is my father really still alive?'
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- But his brothers couldn't say a word.
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- They were speechless.
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- They couldn't believe what they were hearing and seeing.
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- 'come closer to me,' joseph said to his brothers.
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- They came closer.
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- 'i am joseph your brother whom you sold into egypt.'"
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- Get your seatbelt on.
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- Tighten it up real tight, i'm telling you.
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- Look at what joseph says.
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- "but don't feel badly.
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- Don't blame yourselves for selling me.
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- God was behind it."
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- [congregation applauding]
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- Taffi: god was behind it.
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- And this morning, i want you to think about the fact the drama
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- You might be going through or that you're seeing other people
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- Go through, god might be behind that thing.
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- Debbie, i--debbie, i thought about all the women in human
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- Trafficking and we've had opportunity to
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- Serve and minister to.
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- Because this is a perfect example of slavery,
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- Human slavery, and anti-trafficking,
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- But look at the fact that might be where god is getting them
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- Away so that, even in joseph's situation where god was behind
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- The whole thing and preserving them.
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- And so, joseph's response [exhaling]
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- If we could get a hold of this.
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- He says don't feel badly.
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- He says, "don't blame yourselves for selling me.
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- God was behind it."
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- Repeat this prayer after me right now.
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- Heavenly father, come into my life, save me.
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- I believe jesus died and shed his blood for my sin.
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- Come into my heart right now.
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