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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Resentment | September 4, 2025
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- Dr. ed young: everybody did what was right, but they were wrong.
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- It's the last verse of the book of judges.
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- Judges 25:21 says, "there was no king in the land of israel
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- So everybody did what was right in their own eyes."
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- In their own eyes.
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- When everybody, when you and i, we do what's right from our
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- Human, horizontal perspective, everything ends up wrong.
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- The expression is, "i want to do my own thing."
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- And that's where we are, and it leads us to resentment.
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- Envy leads to resentment.
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- It leads to bitterness.
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- Ann landers said that if you carry resentment around,
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- It's like having someone you despise live free without rent
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- In your head.
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- It's like the story in the iowa high school.
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- Miss homecoming queen got upset at miss harvest queen because
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- She stole her boyfriend.
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- So miss homecoming queen took a belt and strangled
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- Miss harvest queen in resentment.
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- Hmm.
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- So how do you handle resentment?
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- We're going to look at two ways of handling resentment.
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- One way is you handle it with horizontal living.
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- Horizontal livers handle resentment horizontally.
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- We encounter a problem, we look down, and we look around,
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- And that's how we deal with it, in the flesh.
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- We say, "well, i'm just being practical.
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- I'm just being down to earth with this problem, with this
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- Challenge, with this resentment."
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- We're horizontal folks.
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- Those who are vertical folks, resentment comes, they look up
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- And above, and they seek god and his input and his understanding
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- To give us perspective when resentment enters our lives.
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- So the bottom line, are you a horizontal person
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- Or a vertical person?
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- And we're going to see how horizontal people
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- Handle resentment.
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- Enter big jacob, his 12 sons.
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- Remember who big jake is?
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- He's one of the patriarchs.
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- He's one of the vips of the old testament.
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- Abraham, isaac, jacob.
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- Jacob, whose name means "cheat, supplanter, con artist."
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- But his name was changed to israel, remember?
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- And now god has blessed big jake.
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- He lives in canaan. he has these 12 sons.
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- And now i want you to notice how ten of these sons--let's put
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- Joseph and benjamin to the side.
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- Let's look how ten of these sons are horizontal livers.
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- They live a horizontal lifestyle.
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- And look what happens when resentment
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- Comes into their life.
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- They see joseph, who is the favorite of their dad.
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- By the way, jacob was a terrible father.
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- If you want to read an illustration of how not to be
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- A dad, just studied jake.
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- He had it down to a science.
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- He showed favorites.
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- Joseph was his favorite because he was--he was the son of his
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- Favorite wife, who was rachel.
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- And therefore he looked after joseph, spent time with joseph,
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- Didn't make joseph work as the other brothers did, gave joseph
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- One of those new armani jackets that you get down at the mall
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- That was striped and bright.
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- I mean, joseph was the apple of his daddy's eye, and jacob
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- Made no mistake about it.
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- He was his favorite boy.
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- And on top of that, joseph didn't handle it very well.
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- Though joseph lived a vertical life, had a real sensitivity
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- For god as a teenager, yet he kept sharing with his brothers
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- How one day god was gonna put him in a position way above
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- Them, and they of course resented that.
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- And also, he was a son who always told his daddy the truth
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- About his brothers.
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- It's terrible to be brought up in a family where your brothers
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- And sisters always tell the truth about you, isn't it?
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- I mean, that will mess up any home.
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- That was joseph.
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- He was naive, he was immature, but he had a sense of god,
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- A sense of god's will about his life.
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- But the other ten brothers hated joseph.
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- Now, what kind of guys were these brothers?
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- Let me tell you what happened before they sold
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- Joseph into slavery.
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- Reuben was the oldest son and he committed incest with one of his
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- Dad's concubines in order to usurp the power of his father.
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- That was the oldest boy.
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- Simeon and levi were guilty of genocide in that they wiped out
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- A whole tribe, needlessly, a whole tribe of people.
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- Guilty of mass murder, mass slaughter, genocide.
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- And then judah slept with his daughter-in-law tamar,
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- Impregnated her, as she passed herself off
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- As a canaanite prostitute.
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- And all the rest of them join together and conspired to kill
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- Joseph and get him out of the way.
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- And finally, they sold him as a slave to be taken
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- Off into egypt.
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- Now, remember who this family is.
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- This is god's select, elect, blessed, called out family
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- To be his redemptive agent for all the world.
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- If you can find a more messed up, fouled up, lowdown,
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- Conniving, immoral group of people on this earth, please
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- Tell me where they are, than this patriarchal, covenant
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- Family that god had uniquely blessed and called to be his
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- Family through which the messiah would be born.
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- Hello!
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- I know this bible is true for a lot of reasons, but one reason
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- Is there is nobody here in which god does--pulls any punches.
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- He tells everything exactly like it is.
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- Have you noticed that?
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- What in the world is going to happen?
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- What happened to these people?
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- The truth is they forgot that god was real, so they
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- Were flat earth folks.
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- They're here and now.
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- Get it while you can.
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- And therefore, is it any wonder that these ten brothers with
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- That kind of resume, with that kind of dossier, with that
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- Kind of background, would say, "hey, it's no big deal.
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- Just take joe and kill him. get him outta here.
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- We're tired of his prudish atmosphere, his telling on us,
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- And his superiority with god.
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- We're tired of all that. kill him."
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- And they sold him finally as a slave.
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- You see, what happened to these boys and their dad, they forgot
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- The reality of god.
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- They got so prosperous because jacob was a big shot in canaan.
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- Oh yeah, he was big in canaan.
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- So were his boys and their wives and their families.
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- It was a prestigious family.
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- They were the rockefellers of their day.
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- Oh yeah.
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- Now, remember something.
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- For every one person that can handle success, there are
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- Ten that can handle failure or mediocrity.
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- Success is tough.
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- They didn't handle it very well.
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- They forgot him.
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- And even when joseph was sold as a slave and they reported
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- With that coat--you know, that multicolored armani jacket
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- That his dad had given him?
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- It had blood on it and his father assumed that he'd been
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- Killed by an animal.
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- Even as they reported that, jacob didn't say
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- A thing about god.
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- God's name is not mentioned in that moment.
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- You believe that, how far you can get away?
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- Now, we see how horizontal living,
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- Let's see how vertical living operates.
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- These were horizontal folks.
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- Joseph was a vertical guy.
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- You see the difference.
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- First of all, god was real to joseph in the displacements
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- Of life.
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- He was prestigious son, wealthy family, man, top of the ladder.
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- His brothers put him in the pit.
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- He's sold as a slave, taken off into a foreign country,
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- Different language, different culture.
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- He's a nobody. he's a nothing.
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- He's a slave.
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- But to joseph, god was real in the displacements of life.
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- He was still a vertical guy.
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- He still looked up to god.
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- Now, all of us know displacements.
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- We want to be here, but we're there.
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- We want to live there, but we're living here.
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- We wanted this relationship, we got that relationship.
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- We want this vocation, we got that vocation.
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- But in all of it with joseph, god was real.
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- That's the genius of those who live vertically.
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- Different from those who live horizontally.
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- God was real in displacements of life.
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- Then god is real in the temptations of life.
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- Joseph was bought by potiphar, who was the commander-in-chief
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- Of the army of pharaoh.
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- Hey, big shot there.
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- He had a wife, and you can be sure his wife was miss egypt.
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- That much money, that much position, i mean, he could
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- Just attract anybody he wanted to attract.
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- You can believe she had chemistry and beauty
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- And she was something.
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- And joseph was honored in potiphar's house because he
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- Was a man of integrity.
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- And the bible says everything joseph touched
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- Became successful.
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- That happens to people even in a slave posture when god is real.
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- God is real.
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- He became over all of potiphar's household.
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- And mrs. potiphar looked at this young, handsome, jewish guy
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- In the prime of life and she propositioned him.
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- She said, "come and sleep with me."
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- His answer tells us everything you need to know about joe.
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- It's a classic.
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- He looked at her he said, "let me tell you something.
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- I can't do that because your master trusts me.
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- He's put me over everything in this house.
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- Everything in this house, i'm in charge of.
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- I can have everything this house, but you.
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- Your master trusts me."
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- He said, "the second reason i can't do it," he says,
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- "because you are his wife."
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- He reminded himself who he was, trustworthy.
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- He reminded her who she was, the wife of potiphar.
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- Then he gave the third reason he said, "i can't do it is
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- Because god sees me."
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- See, that's our vertical guy, isn't it?
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- Isn't that the dimension that we need if we are horizontal livers
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- Like jacob and his ten sons.
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- No, joseph was a vertical, vertical liver.
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- He looked up.
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- Therefore, god was real in the temptations of life.
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- And now we see god was real and the injustices of life.
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- Remember what happened?
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- Mrs. potiphar, though she propositioned him day after day,
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- Mrs. potiphar finally grabbed his coat and tore his coat
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- When he ran away from temptation.
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- Joseph had a lot of coat problems, didn't he?
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- And said--and told her husband, "he tried to sport with me,"
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- King james translation.
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- Potiphar believed his wife, sent joseph to prison.
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- But in prison, joseph knew that god was real in
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- The injustices of life.
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- You see, he was treated unjustly.
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- He was convicted for that which he did not do, when he
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- Was innocent, but still god was real.
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- And he came to the top of the heap until the head jailer
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- Looked at joseph to run everything in the jail.
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- Man, that's something, isn't it?
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- And then finally, he interpreted dreams of two of the prisoners.
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- He got both of them accurate.
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- One of them, the cupbearer, was restored to the right hand
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- Of pharaoh as his wine taster.
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- And when he left, the cupbearer said, "you've been so wonderful
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- To me, joseph, as a fellow prisoner, and you predicted
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- That i'd be released.
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- I'm going to remember you to pharaoh."
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- Two years went by.
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- Little verse in there said, "he forgot joseph."
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- Didn't remember him.
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- But with joseph, god was real in the injustices of life.
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- But then one day, remember pharaoh's
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- Dream he dreamed about?
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- There was a time of skinny cattle and fat cattle.
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- And none of the soothsayers could understand what god
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- Was saying to pharaoh.
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- And so the cupbearer said, "you know,
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- There was a guy back in prison.
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- What was his name?
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- Boy, he could read--he could see the mind of god.
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- He would understand what's going on in egypt.
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- He would interpret your dream."
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- He said, "what's his name?"
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- Said, "oh yeah, joe, joe, it was joe,
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- That's who it was."
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- And so pharaoh sent for joseph, and joseph went.
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- By the way, the bible--i like it.
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- He shaved, he changed his coat again, you know?
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- You see, the israelites didn't shave.
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- They had beards. the egyptians were clean-shaven.
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- I think it's interesting to know that joseph tried to adapt where
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- He'd be pleasing to pharaoh, see?
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- And he went before him, he said, "pharaoh, i
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- Can interpret this dream.
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- There are gonna be seven years of prosperity and seven
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- Years of famine.
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- You've got to find somebody who's going to take
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- Care of the goods for seven years of prosperity so you can
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- Eat the seven years of famine."
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- Pharaoh said, "that's the dream.
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- That's the interpret. that's god's understanding."
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- And joe said, "you better get somebody who can handle
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- This situation.
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- You better get the wisest man in egypt."
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- Pharaoh said, "you know, you're the
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- Only one who understood this.
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- You must be the wisest man in egypt," and he made joseph, joe,
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- A hebrew right out of prison, he put him right in the
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- Middle of the palace.
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- That's a big promotion, isn't it, from a prison into a palace?
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- That's a quantum leap.
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- Now, i've got a question for you.
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- How in the world is almighty god going to bring this wayward
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- Family that he had so blessed and selected back into
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- Covenant with him?
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- How's god gonna do this?
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- How is god going to heal this family?
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- He heals us the same way individually as he heals
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- Collectively, as he heals family today.
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- Take your bible, look at it with me in chapter
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- Number 42 of genesis.
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- I'm going to take you on a quick trip.
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- This is the healing. how does god work?
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- You know the story.
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- God works, first of all, through a hungry stomach.
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- You know, the best preacher in the world is hunger.
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- Best preacher in the world's cancer.
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- Best preacher in the world is heartache.
- 00:17:13.779 --> 00:17:15.547
- Best preacher in the world is brokenness.
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- We just sorta cool it through the life till, vroom.
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- Then we realize we've been living on the basis of our own
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- Fleshly strength and power.
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- We realize we've forgotten the vertical,
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- Which is the reality of god.
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- That happens, doesn't it? that's what happened here.
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- And they were just cooling it there in canaan
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- Until chapter 42.
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- "then jacob saw that there was grain in egypt, and jacob said
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- To his son, 'why are you staring at one another?
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- Behold, i have heard there is grain in egypt.
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- Go down there and buy some for us from that place
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- So that we may live and not die.'"
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- So he sent these brothers down there, ten of them.
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- When they went before the area to get grain, there
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- Was joseph on the throne.
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- He recognized his brothers. he called them forward.
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- He said, "why are you here?" they said, "to buy grain."
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- He said, "no, you're here to spy out the land."
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- See, god is using joseph as a redemptive agent
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- With his brothers.
- 00:18:15.140 --> 00:18:16.475
- They said, "oh no, no, we're--" so he put them in jail.
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- There's injustice.
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- What goes around comes around. he puts 'em in jail three days.
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- And then he lets them out of jail and he said,
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- "tell me about your family."
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- They told about benjamin and their dad.
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- And he said, "i'll tell you what, i think
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- You're here to spy out the land.
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- I'm going to keep one of you here."
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- He took simeon, who was the bully of them all.
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- He tied them up--he tied him up and said,
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- "we'll keep simeon here.
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- If you'd come back for more grain to prove you've been
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- Tellin' the truth about your family, bring your brother
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- Benjamin with ya or i'm not gonna give you any more grain.
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- I'm not gonna let simeon go."
- 00:18:54.513 --> 00:18:56.348
- And so the brothers got out of there.
- 00:18:56.348 --> 00:18:58.717
- But notice, as they were getting out of there, they recognized
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- What was going on in their life.
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- Look at chapter number 42, verse number 21, "truly we are guilty
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- Concerning our brother."
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- This is joseph.
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- This is 20 years before.
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- "because we saw the distress of his soul when he pleaded with us
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- From the pit, yet we would not listen.
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- Therefore this distress has come upon us."
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- There is conviction of sin after all these years.
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- All the lowdown, rotten, scummy stuff they had done as brutes,
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- As bullies, as murderers, as adulterers, as rapists, all
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- Of that, what they remembered was how they treated joe.
- 00:19:36.989 --> 00:19:41.727
- They were convicted of their sin.
- 00:19:41.727 --> 00:19:43.962
- They didn't know who joseph was up there before.
- 00:19:43.962 --> 00:19:46.064
- They had no idea.
- 00:19:46.064 --> 00:19:47.399
- He was some egyptian potentate, the prime minister.
- 00:19:47.399 --> 00:19:51.436
- But now as he talked to them, they said, "oh,
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- It's because of our brother."
- 00:19:54.006 --> 00:19:55.340
- Then there's confession of sin.
- 00:19:55.340 --> 00:19:56.742
- Look at verse 22, "reuben answered them, saying,
- 00:19:56.742 --> 00:20:00.579
- 'did i not tell you?'"
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- I told you so.
- 00:20:01.913 --> 00:20:03.415
- "'do not sin against the boy.'"
- 00:20:03.415 --> 00:20:05.083
- That was joseph, way back 20 years.
- 00:20:05.083 --> 00:20:06.852
- "and you would not listen.
- 00:20:06.852 --> 00:20:08.186
- Now comes a reckoning for his blood."
- 00:20:08.186 --> 00:20:13.659
- Oh, uncovering a lot of stuff here, aren't we?
- 00:20:13.659 --> 00:20:18.797
- Conviction, confession, and now i want you to see how
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- The repentance comes.
- 00:20:22.200 --> 00:20:23.535
- They go back home.
- 00:20:23.535 --> 00:20:25.170
- They tell their dad what happened.
- 00:20:25.170 --> 00:20:26.538
- He said, "look, i'm not letting you take benjamin.
- 00:20:26.538 --> 00:20:28.707
- I've lost joseph and now simeon.
- 00:20:28.707 --> 00:20:31.943
- You've lost simeon there to this egyptian guy.
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- I'm not gonna let you take benjamin down there."
- 00:20:34.446 --> 00:20:36.181
- But what happened?
- 00:20:36.181 --> 00:20:37.616
- They ran out of grain.
- 00:20:37.616 --> 00:20:39.017
- This a seven-year famine, folks.
- 00:20:39.017 --> 00:20:41.687
- So they had to go back in order to live, so they go back again
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- And jacob says, "well, take benjamin."
- 00:20:44.556 --> 00:20:49.227
- And up stands a fourth brother, judah.
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- Not reuben, the oldest.
- 00:20:55.267 --> 00:20:56.868
- Not simeon, not levi, but judah stands forward and says,
- 00:20:56.868 --> 00:20:59.938
- "dad, i will stand for benjamin.
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- I guarantee you he'll come back or i'll give my boys
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- Or i'll give my life."
- 00:21:07.646 --> 00:21:10.148
- Judah stands up as a substitute.
- 00:21:10.148 --> 00:21:14.252
- Question: what tribe was jesus born in?
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- Judah. judah.
- 00:21:22.327 --> 00:21:27.432
- So they go back, joseph greets them, takes them into the
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- Palace, and says, "take 'em out.
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- I wanna give 'em a meal there in my palace."
- 00:21:34.506 --> 00:21:36.475
- And immediately, they're upset.
- 00:21:36.475 --> 00:21:37.843
- They say, "oh my goodness, he's really going to
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- Do something to us."
- 00:21:39.444 --> 00:21:40.779
- You see, when you've got this great guilt running around in
- 00:21:40.779 --> 00:21:43.915
- Your life, ladies and gentlemen, even when you're blessed, even
- 00:21:43.915 --> 00:21:46.985
- When you're prosperous, even things are goin' right,
- 00:21:46.985 --> 00:21:49.054
- You can't shake it if god hadn't dealt with it.
- 00:21:49.054 --> 00:21:54.059
- Doesn't matter what happens, oh, it's still there.
- 00:21:54.059 --> 00:21:58.296
- It still stinks. it's still rotten.
- 00:21:58.296 --> 00:22:00.766
- It's still painful. it's still debilitating.
- 00:22:00.766 --> 00:22:03.435
- So everything happens and they think, "oh, wait a minute.
- 00:22:03.435 --> 00:22:05.103
- What's gonna happen next?"
- 00:22:05.103 --> 00:22:06.438
- And joseph was just batting them around.
- 00:22:06.438 --> 00:22:09.908
- And now i want you to see what happened.
- 00:22:09.908 --> 00:22:13.111
- They put the silver cup, remember, in benjamin's bag
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- When they left.
- 00:22:15.247 --> 00:22:17.048
- Joseph went out and said, "hey, he's the one that stole my
- 00:22:17.048 --> 00:22:20.252
- Silver cup off the table after i treated you so royally.
- 00:22:20.252 --> 00:22:23.622
- He is the one."
- 00:22:23.622 --> 00:22:24.956
- And that is when judah steps up and says, "oh no, kill me.
- 00:22:24.956 --> 00:22:28.860
- I'll be your slave.
- 00:22:28.860 --> 00:22:30.195
- Not-uh, not benjamin."
- 00:22:30.195 --> 00:22:32.464
- See, joseph saw in the process those sorry, lowdown,
- 00:22:32.464 --> 00:22:37.702
- Rotten brothers, they were goin' through a change.
- 00:22:37.702 --> 00:22:40.872
- They were convicted of their sin, they confessed their sin,
- 00:22:40.872 --> 00:22:44.142
- And now we see repentance of their sin as judah
- 00:22:44.142 --> 00:22:47.412
- Stands forward to say, "no, it'll break my dad's heart.
- 00:22:47.412 --> 00:22:50.549
- It'll break my father's heart.
- 00:22:50.549 --> 00:22:51.883
- Let benjamin go back," see?
- 00:22:51.883 --> 00:22:54.586
- Verse 5, chapter 45, "now do not be grieved or angry with
- 00:22:54.586 --> 00:22:58.557
- Yourselves, says joseph, because you sold me here, for god sent
- 00:22:58.557 --> 00:23:03.795
- Me before you to preserve life."
- 00:23:03.795 --> 00:23:05.630
- Verse 7, "god sent me before you to preserve you for a
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- Remnant in the earth."
- 00:23:09.234 --> 00:23:10.569
- Verse 8, "now, therefore, it was not you who sent me here,
- 00:23:10.569 --> 00:23:13.972
- But god."
- 00:23:13.972 --> 00:23:15.307
- Verse 9, "hurry up and go tell my father, and say to him, 'thus
- 00:23:15.307 --> 00:23:19.978
- Says your son joseph, "god has made me lord of all egypt."'"
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- You see the difference in joseph and his brothers?
- 00:23:24.416 --> 00:23:27.252
- Do you see it clearly?
- 00:23:27.252 --> 00:23:28.653
- Joseph, because god was real, he saw in every situation
- 00:23:28.653 --> 00:23:32.591
- Of life that god was working.
- 00:23:32.591 --> 00:23:34.426
- God was moving.
- 00:23:34.426 --> 00:23:36.194
- And the brothers just saw the horizontal stuff.
- 00:23:36.194 --> 00:23:39.898
- I, me, my, my, my prestige, my power, my ability.
- 00:23:39.898 --> 00:23:43.969
- But look how god worked to change those boys.
- 00:23:43.969 --> 00:23:51.309
- Conviction.
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- Confession.
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- Repentance.
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- Forgiveness that was offered by joseph.
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- Then they go back and get big jake and bring him.
- 00:24:00.685 --> 00:24:04.022
- And now jacob, if you read the scripture,
- 00:24:04.022 --> 00:24:06.057
- Begins talking about god.
- 00:24:06.057 --> 00:24:08.860
- Jacob's come back home.
- 00:24:08.860 --> 00:24:11.396
- And then they go to egypt.
- 00:24:11.396 --> 00:24:13.632
- Oh, they're blessed so magnificently there in
- 00:24:13.632 --> 00:24:16.067
- The land of goshen.
- 00:24:16.067 --> 00:24:18.069
- Jacob goes and puts his hand and blesses pharaoh.
- 00:24:18.069 --> 00:24:21.573
- They have 14 years of wonderful worship and wonderful blessings
- 00:24:21.573 --> 00:24:26.211
- There in egypt until big jake dies.
- 00:24:26.211 --> 00:24:29.848
- And then the brothers, 50th chapter of genesis, they say,
- 00:24:29.848 --> 00:24:34.019
- "boy, now that our daddy is dead, man, he will get
- 00:24:34.019 --> 00:24:37.989
- Revenge on us now.
- 00:24:37.989 --> 00:24:40.191
- He's going to remember what we did to him.
- 00:24:40.191 --> 00:24:42.761
- He's gonna come and kill us all."
- 00:24:42.761 --> 00:24:47.299
- And when they told joseph this, he wept.
- 00:24:47.299 --> 00:24:50.802
- He wept.
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- Vertical people, whom god is real, are a mystery
- 00:24:53.805 --> 00:24:59.744
- To horizontal people about whom god is dim or not there.
- 00:24:59.744 --> 00:25:06.985
- See, they can't understand that.
- 00:25:06.985 --> 00:25:09.888
- Vertical people have absolutely no room, absolutely no room
- 00:25:09.888 --> 00:25:19.097
- For envy, revenge, bitterness, or resentment.
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- Ed: there's never been a better time than right
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- Now to make god a priority in your life.
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- That's why we've created this 90 day devotional, "putting god
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- First," number one.
- 00:25:42.354 --> 00:25:44.255
- And when you and i do that, he is faithful to give the
- 00:25:44.255 --> 00:25:47.325
- Direction of guidance you and i need every day to walk
- 00:25:47.325 --> 00:25:50.895
- Through life.
- 00:25:50.895 --> 00:25:52.230
- It is my prayer that this devotional will help you to
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- Become all that god has designed you to become.
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- Male announcer: call today or go online at winningwalk.org to get
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- ♪♪♪
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- Ed young: are you a horizontal or a vertical person?
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- When trouble comes, do you look around and seek to solve
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- The problem yourself or do you look up and seek god's
- 00:26:29.134 --> 00:26:33.338
- Perspective and know that he is at work in your life?
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- The good news for all of us who fall into the trap of horizontal
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- Living is that healing and forgiveness are available
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- To you and to me.
- 00:26:44.516 --> 00:26:46.184
- We need to quit looking around to our circumstances and start
- 00:26:46.184 --> 00:26:49.487
- Looking up for his answers, for his solution.
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- Do you want to know what it means to become
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- A vertical living person?
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- Call the number on your screen.
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- People are waiting to talk to you about a brand-new life
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- In jesus christ.
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- Not an improved life, but a brand-new life in jesus christ.
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- And let me thank you for watching today, and don't forget
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- To tune in next week right here on "the winning walk."
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