1 00:00:00,001 --> 00:00:02,600 Alrighty, get those swords out. 2 00:00:02,600 --> 00:00:06,640 We're in Genesis chapter 42. 3 00:00:06,640 --> 00:00:12,520 Exciting times. 4 00:00:12,520 --> 00:00:20,240 Might need to duck, you never know. 5 00:00:20,240 --> 00:00:21,800 But we've been reading about a leader 6 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:24,800 that was filled with the Spirit of God. 7 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:26,320 I know that's something that we should pray 8 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:29,100 for Donald Trump. 9 00:00:29,100 --> 00:00:32,640 Pray for Joe Biden if he's willing. 10 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:36,040 That the Spirit of God would lead them. 11 00:00:36,040 --> 00:00:38,120 I think we saw the hand of God yesterday 12 00:00:38,120 --> 00:00:39,960 on Trump's life. 13 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:46,000 He's not ready for him to leave this world yet. 14 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:48,720 Until the Lord's ready to lead this world, 15 00:00:48,720 --> 00:00:50,800 ready for people to leave this world, 16 00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:52,600 the bullet won't hit the mark. 17 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:55,000 But when it's ready to leave, 18 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:58,320 you can't duck fast enough. 19 00:00:58,320 --> 00:00:59,760 The time for everything under the sun, 20 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:01,720 the Bible tells us. 21 00:01:01,720 --> 00:01:05,160 And this is a time for us as citizens 22 00:01:05,160 --> 00:01:08,400 of our country to be praying, 23 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:11,440 be seeking the Lord's face, be bold. 24 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:14,160 The Bible says the righteous are as bold as a lion. 25 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:16,580 And I don't know how righteous you see yourself, 26 00:01:16,580 --> 00:01:18,840 but as believers, there's a righteousness 27 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:20,680 that you and I have in Christ Jesus 28 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:23,680 that is second to nothing else. 29 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:26,480 So I just pray that you would find yourself 30 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:30,200 in that place and that we would do our part 31 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:31,800 and be willing to do that. 32 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:35,920 So I was encouraged by the response 33 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:39,800 of President Trump yesterday afterwards. 34 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:44,920 So come on, man, bring it on. 35 00:01:44,920 --> 00:01:52,440 So anyway, as we look at this scripture today 36 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:55,600 and in chapter 42, we see famine coming. 37 00:01:55,600 --> 00:01:57,240 We remember a couple of weeks ago, 38 00:01:57,240 --> 00:02:01,200 we looked at Joseph interpreting the dreams of Pharaoh 39 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:05,200 with the seven fat cows and the seven skinny cows. 40 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:08,200 The skinny cows gobbling up the fat cows 41 00:02:08,200 --> 00:02:11,320 and the grain heads that were blighted 42 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:14,840 swallowed up the fat, plump, full grain heads. 43 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:18,920 And Joseph tells Pharaoh, "These dreams are one." 44 00:02:18,920 --> 00:02:22,520 Right, there's gonna be seven years of plenty 45 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:25,360 and then seven years of famine. 46 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:30,360 So God in his sovereignty showed Joseph 47 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:34,840 through Pharaoh's dream what the next 14 years 48 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:36,440 was gonna be like. 49 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:39,200 Wouldn't that be cool, right? 50 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:42,160 This is what the next 14 years is gonna look like. 51 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:45,720 I don't think we're gonna be here for the next 14 years. 52 00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:48,080 Right, I think Jesus might be coming. 53 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:52,760 So, but that's just who the Lord is. 54 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:54,880 He tells the future before it happens. 55 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:59,880 And Pharaoh believes him and tells him, 56 00:02:59,880 --> 00:03:03,160 "Golly, you seem to have it going on. 57 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:04,600 "You go ahead and take the lead. 58 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:08,000 "You'll be only second to me in all the kingdom 59 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:10,000 "from the dungeon to the throne." 60 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:15,360 Joseph is a type of Jesus, right? 61 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:19,360 And when Jesus died, the Bible talks about it's in, 62 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:21,360 I'm sorry, I can't remember if it's first or second Peter, 63 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:23,320 but it talks about Jesus going 64 00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:27,280 into the lower parts of the earth and preaching. 65 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:29,800 I think we've talked about this here before, 66 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:32,920 but he doesn't preach, he preached to the prisons, 67 00:03:32,920 --> 00:03:36,200 the spirits who were in prison. 68 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:40,880 Some think that that was the angels that rebelled. 69 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:43,520 But Jesus made a proclamation. 70 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:45,800 He went down into the depths, 71 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:49,060 but then he came up out of the grave 72 00:03:49,060 --> 00:03:51,340 and then ascended to this room. 73 00:03:51,340 --> 00:03:54,280 There's probably more Christ-like pictures 74 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:55,480 with the person of Joseph 75 00:03:55,480 --> 00:04:00,000 than maybe any single person in all of the scripture. 76 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:04,300 But the fact is, is there was gonna be seven years of plenty 77 00:04:04,300 --> 00:04:06,280 and that's the good news. 78 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:09,680 And the bad news is seven years of famine. 79 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:12,680 And that would be tough. 80 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:14,280 As we went down to Gooding last night, 81 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:16,460 I do a cowboy church down there once a month. 82 00:04:16,460 --> 00:04:18,040 As we're going between Gooding and Wendell, 83 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:19,040 I don't know if you've ever been there, 84 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:24,040 but you talk about a dry parched, it was 105 degrees. 85 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:27,600 And it was scary. 86 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:30,640 I mean, 'cause the grass is like this high and it's brown. 87 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:34,520 It's almost beyond brown, it's so dry. 88 00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:37,020 And so it wouldn't take much of a spark to start a fire, 89 00:04:37,020 --> 00:04:40,040 but there's not as a lot of stuff that can live 90 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:42,460 in that kind of environment very long. 91 00:04:42,460 --> 00:04:48,720 And the Bible tells us about famine. 92 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:54,080 And drought, and that it can be a judgment of God. 93 00:04:54,080 --> 00:04:57,560 God created the world as a good environment, 94 00:04:57,560 --> 00:04:59,680 which would normally provide ample water 95 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:00,840 and food for mankind. 96 00:05:00,840 --> 00:05:03,280 However, the productiveness of the earth 97 00:05:03,280 --> 00:05:07,040 is related to people's obedience to God. 98 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:10,660 Right, you remember Adam and Eve? 99 00:05:10,660 --> 00:05:13,220 They were naked. 100 00:05:13,220 --> 00:05:16,000 It wasn't 105 degrees. 101 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:18,920 They would have been lobsters, right? 102 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:23,160 They were naked, they were in a perfect environment. 103 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:26,080 Their body didn't have to work too hard. 104 00:05:26,080 --> 00:05:28,480 The food was readily available. 105 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:31,040 It was like, and then what happened? 106 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:33,160 They sinned, right? 107 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:34,980 You remember what God tells Adam. 108 00:05:34,980 --> 00:05:37,320 He says, "By the sweat of your brow, 109 00:05:37,320 --> 00:05:39,580 "there's gonna be seed time and harvest. 110 00:05:39,580 --> 00:05:41,380 "There's gonna be hot and cold. 111 00:05:41,380 --> 00:05:43,740 "There's gonna be weeds that you're gonna have to pull 112 00:05:43,740 --> 00:05:45,880 "and they're gonna stick you." 113 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:47,520 And he had to kill, right? 114 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:50,720 God killed animals to cover their sin. 115 00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:55,720 So their disobedience to God brought this famine to them. 116 00:05:55,720 --> 00:06:03,480 Cain, he resulted his killing of Abel, 117 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:06,080 resulted in unfruitfulness. 118 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:08,240 And Israel's relationship with God 119 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:10,960 also was directly affected. 120 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:12,920 The fertility of the promised land. 121 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:15,440 And when the people obeyed God, the land was productive 122 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:19,360 'cause it was called a land flowing with milk and honey. 123 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:20,200 Right? 124 00:06:20,200 --> 00:06:21,760 Remember when they come back and the grapes, 125 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:24,960 like the grapes were the size of grapefruits, you know? 126 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:29,960 And it was true then, it's true now, 127 00:06:29,960 --> 00:06:37,480 and it's gonna be true in the future, right? 128 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:44,160 And I think that it can be connected to a spiritual, 129 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:49,200 a spiritual dryness or famine. 130 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:52,280 And I think there's a spiritual famine in the land. 131 00:06:52,280 --> 00:06:54,080 And people are looking for things 132 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:56,160 that will water their soul. 133 00:06:56,160 --> 00:07:01,160 Just this week, they had the paranormal circus, right? 134 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:06,200 People on purpose dancing with demons. 135 00:07:06,200 --> 00:07:11,560 Right here in Idaho Falls, the paranormal circus. 136 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:14,200 Now, praise the Lord, he moved on a good dude's heart 137 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:16,720 that I met with here the other day and had coffee with 138 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:20,320 and we talked and he had a little tent revival meeting 139 00:07:20,320 --> 00:07:22,080 at Cate Curley Park. 140 00:07:22,080 --> 00:07:23,760 I thought, what a contrast, right? 141 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:25,560 Here you got paranormal, 142 00:07:25,560 --> 00:07:28,560 people are looking for something spiritual, 143 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:30,480 and it is spiritual. 144 00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:33,400 It's just really dark, right? 145 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:35,760 And it's not good. 146 00:07:35,760 --> 00:07:39,240 And yet people are looking for something. 147 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:42,920 They want their soul soothed. 148 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:43,960 Don't you want that? 149 00:07:43,960 --> 00:07:45,960 I want that. 150 00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:50,120 But I think I need to go to the one who created me 151 00:07:50,120 --> 00:07:55,120 because he condemns seeking any other gods, right? 152 00:07:55,120 --> 00:08:00,480 So the future, those who find themselves in drought 153 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:02,360 during the millennial reign of Christ, 154 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:06,120 it talks about it in Zechariah chapter 14. 155 00:08:06,120 --> 00:08:08,080 If you have a Bible, you could turn there real quick. 156 00:08:08,080 --> 00:08:10,640 Chapter 14, verse 16, it says, 157 00:08:10,640 --> 00:08:15,240 "And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left 158 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:16,840 "of all the nations," 159 00:08:16,840 --> 00:08:18,360 this is after the tribulation period, 160 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:19,820 left on the earth, 161 00:08:19,820 --> 00:08:22,360 "of all the nations which come against Jerusalem 162 00:08:22,360 --> 00:08:26,440 "shall go up from year to year to worship the king." 163 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:27,280 Who's that? 164 00:08:27,280 --> 00:08:31,000 That's Jesus in Jerusalem. 165 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:34,840 They're gonna go up year to year, pay homage. 166 00:08:34,840 --> 00:08:39,840 "And worship the king, the Lord of hosts, 167 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:44,140 "and to keep the feast of tabernacles. 168 00:08:44,140 --> 00:08:48,820 "And it shall be that whichever of the families of the earth 169 00:08:48,820 --> 00:08:54,160 "which do not come up to Jerusalem to worship the king, 170 00:08:54,160 --> 00:08:58,920 "the Lord of hosts, on them there will be no rain." 171 00:08:58,920 --> 00:09:02,040 See, he'd be dried up. 172 00:09:04,700 --> 00:09:06,640 Dry farming is fascinating to me. 173 00:09:06,640 --> 00:09:08,120 We don't have a lot here in Idaho. 174 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:10,040 Usually it's just wheat, right? 175 00:09:10,040 --> 00:09:11,540 There's some dry farm hay. 176 00:09:11,540 --> 00:09:15,900 But back in the Midwest, most everything's dry farm. 177 00:09:15,900 --> 00:09:18,440 They dry farm sugar beets. 178 00:09:18,440 --> 00:09:21,220 I don't know if you guys know much about, 179 00:09:21,220 --> 00:09:23,240 I mean, about farming, 180 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:27,780 but sugar beets take a lot of water, a lot. 181 00:09:27,780 --> 00:09:31,240 And some of those places just get downpours 182 00:09:31,240 --> 00:09:33,060 of inches of rain. 183 00:09:33,060 --> 00:09:36,680 We wouldn't do so well with that here in Idaho. 184 00:09:36,680 --> 00:09:38,520 My sister, she lives in Brownsville, Texas. 185 00:09:38,520 --> 00:09:40,200 I've been calling her these last couple of weeks 186 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:44,600 as barrel was barreling down on Texas, right? 187 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:45,840 To check it out. 188 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:48,360 And I said, "Sis, are you gonna get anything from barrel?" 189 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:49,460 She said, "Probably not." 190 00:09:49,460 --> 00:09:51,560 She says, "We've been in a drought, 191 00:09:51,560 --> 00:09:55,640 "but this hurricane season is coming on pretty fast." 192 00:09:55,640 --> 00:09:57,260 She says, "Since it started," 193 00:09:57,260 --> 00:10:00,200 and they've had a few tropical disturbances and stuff, 194 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:01,340 she says, "Right here at my place, 195 00:10:01,340 --> 00:10:03,120 "we've got nine inches of rain." 196 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:06,680 And that's like in a two or three week period. 197 00:10:06,680 --> 00:10:07,700 I said, "Nine inches of rain? 198 00:10:07,700 --> 00:10:09,280 "That's what we get in a year, right?" 199 00:10:09,280 --> 00:10:11,360 I think we get 11 or 12 here. 200 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:15,900 But God controls these things. 201 00:10:15,900 --> 00:10:22,540 And God will deal with disobedience. 202 00:10:22,540 --> 00:10:28,400 And many times disobedience would come on the land 203 00:10:28,640 --> 00:10:32,460 where there would be judgment and drought. 204 00:10:32,460 --> 00:10:36,520 1 Kings 8, verses 35 and 36 says, 205 00:10:36,520 --> 00:10:39,680 "When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain 206 00:10:39,680 --> 00:10:41,940 "because they have sinned against you, 207 00:10:41,940 --> 00:10:45,780 "when they pray toward this place and confess your name 208 00:10:45,780 --> 00:10:49,000 "and turn from their sin because you afflict them, 209 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:53,280 "then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, 210 00:10:53,280 --> 00:10:56,920 "your people Israel, that you may teach them good, 211 00:10:56,920 --> 00:10:59,180 "the good way in which they should walk 212 00:10:59,180 --> 00:11:01,280 "and send rain on your land, 213 00:11:01,280 --> 00:11:04,700 "which you have given to your people as an inheritance." 214 00:11:04,700 --> 00:11:08,100 Also, the New Testament reports that the famine 215 00:11:08,100 --> 00:11:10,680 will be a part of God's coming judgment, right? 216 00:11:10,680 --> 00:11:13,160 In Matthew chapter 24, Jesus talks about it. 217 00:11:13,160 --> 00:11:14,920 In Revelation chapter six. 218 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:23,800 But I think that the spirit of the Lord 219 00:11:26,120 --> 00:11:28,000 is looking on a lot of dry ground. 220 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:36,240 And that moisture, that really life is being withheld 221 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:40,280 because of disobedient hearts. 222 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:46,800 And so I just pray today that you would be 223 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:51,600 considering your own soul 224 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:54,800 and being filled with the spirit of the living God. 225 00:11:54,800 --> 00:11:58,800 It seems like he's on the move, right? 226 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:00,600 When you look and you talk to people, 227 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:02,980 and when I talked to this fellow the other night 228 00:12:02,980 --> 00:12:06,040 that's doing the tent meeting, I mean, it's just like, 229 00:12:06,040 --> 00:12:09,120 I could just sense the spirit of the Lord is moving. 230 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:11,360 He's moving on people's hearts. 231 00:12:11,360 --> 00:12:12,840 He's prompting people. 232 00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:17,560 He's calling people to himself. 233 00:12:17,560 --> 00:12:20,480 God loves us. 234 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:22,880 God has opportunity for us. 235 00:12:22,880 --> 00:12:26,240 God's gonna present himself to us, 236 00:12:26,240 --> 00:12:32,160 but we have to respond and we have to do it his way, right? 237 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:38,880 And come before him with bowed hearts and bowed knees 238 00:12:38,880 --> 00:12:40,880 and humble ourselves. 239 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:45,880 And so we're gonna read here out of chapter 42 240 00:12:45,880 --> 00:12:50,720 and I'm gonna read just the first five verses here. 241 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:51,840 So let's pray. 242 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:53,040 Lord, thank you. 243 00:12:53,040 --> 00:12:56,960 Thank you for, Lord, this incredible picture 244 00:12:56,960 --> 00:12:59,360 that we have in the book of Genesis, Lord, 245 00:12:59,360 --> 00:13:02,200 and the life of Joseph and the stuff going on 246 00:13:02,200 --> 00:13:03,960 in the world at that time, Lord, 247 00:13:03,960 --> 00:13:08,460 and how dry it was and how it's so pictures today, Lord. 248 00:13:08,460 --> 00:13:12,380 So many people are in fear and they're hungry 249 00:13:12,380 --> 00:13:14,560 and they don't even know what for, Lord, 250 00:13:14,560 --> 00:13:17,240 and they're trying to satisfy that hunger 251 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:20,360 that is really for you with other things. 252 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:22,920 And so, Lord, I just pray that today you would, 253 00:13:22,920 --> 00:13:24,460 Lord, speak to our hearts, Lord, 254 00:13:24,460 --> 00:13:27,240 and that this word would have a way in us, 255 00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:30,720 and Lord, that we wouldn't pull back. 256 00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:32,320 Lord, even if you put your fingers 257 00:13:32,320 --> 00:13:34,320 on some of those things in our lives, Lord, 258 00:13:34,320 --> 00:13:38,000 that are sensitive, Lord, and maybe painful, 259 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:41,540 and Lord, you just desire to set us free. 260 00:13:41,540 --> 00:13:44,880 Jesus, you told us you come to set the captives free. 261 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:47,360 And so whatever has us captive, Lord, 262 00:13:47,360 --> 00:13:50,680 whether it's sins of our past, whether it's failures, 263 00:13:50,680 --> 00:13:53,600 and Lord, not just measuring up 264 00:13:53,600 --> 00:13:55,600 to what we think we should be, 265 00:13:55,600 --> 00:13:58,240 oh, Lord, may we have the mind of Christ Jesus, 266 00:13:58,240 --> 00:14:00,640 and may you have your way in us 267 00:14:00,640 --> 00:14:02,640 by your Holy Spirit today, Lord, 268 00:14:02,640 --> 00:14:04,320 and just draw us near, Lord, 269 00:14:04,320 --> 00:14:08,680 that we would experience the presence of the mighty one, 270 00:14:08,680 --> 00:14:11,560 the one that can truly bring change to our lives. 271 00:14:11,560 --> 00:14:13,440 And Lord, I know that the change 272 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:15,480 that has come in my life over the years is, 273 00:14:15,480 --> 00:14:17,720 I know it's not me, I know it's you, 274 00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:20,400 and your power, Lord, and we thank you 275 00:14:20,400 --> 00:14:23,640 for that sovereignty that you have over our lives 276 00:14:23,640 --> 00:14:24,960 and over this world, Lord, 277 00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:27,080 and the crazy things we've seen going on. 278 00:14:27,080 --> 00:14:29,080 So meet us in this place this morning, 279 00:14:29,080 --> 00:14:31,760 in Jesus' name, amen. 280 00:14:31,760 --> 00:14:35,080 So when Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, 281 00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:38,960 Jacob said to his sons, "Why do you look at one another?" 282 00:14:38,960 --> 00:14:40,960 And he said, "Indeed, I have heard 283 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:42,660 "that there is grain in Egypt. 284 00:14:42,660 --> 00:14:45,340 "Go down to that place and buy for us 285 00:14:45,340 --> 00:14:48,080 "there that we may live and not die." 286 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:51,880 And so Joseph's 10 brothers went down to buy grain in Egypt, 287 00:14:51,880 --> 00:14:55,400 but Joseph did not send Joseph's brother, Benjamin, 288 00:14:55,400 --> 00:14:58,360 with the brothers, for he said, 289 00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:01,240 "Lest some calamity befall him." 290 00:15:01,240 --> 00:15:04,160 And the sons of Israel went to buy grain 291 00:15:04,160 --> 00:15:06,520 among those who journeyed, 292 00:15:06,520 --> 00:15:09,560 for the famine was in the land of Canaan. 293 00:15:09,560 --> 00:15:13,760 So it sounds like it's not just Israel going to Egypt, 294 00:15:13,760 --> 00:15:18,760 but the whole world is affected by this famine, 295 00:15:18,760 --> 00:15:22,060 and yet Egypt has grain. 296 00:15:22,060 --> 00:15:28,300 God has put salvation in place. 297 00:15:28,300 --> 00:15:29,720 Isn't that cool? 298 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:32,240 I mean, I love this Bible 299 00:15:32,240 --> 00:15:37,040 because it's such a agrarian type book, right? 300 00:15:37,040 --> 00:15:42,040 It uses agriculture and livestock and stuff 301 00:15:43,040 --> 00:15:46,680 to paint a picture that is, 302 00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:50,880 it's so powerful because it's full of life and death. 303 00:15:50,880 --> 00:15:53,320 The livestock world, right? 304 00:15:53,320 --> 00:15:56,720 I don't know if anyone's ever grown up 305 00:15:56,720 --> 00:16:00,840 raising cattle or sheep or dogs and cats and chickens, 306 00:16:00,840 --> 00:16:02,380 and they die. 307 00:16:02,380 --> 00:16:05,960 They die all the time, right? 308 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:08,760 And people planting seeds. 309 00:16:08,760 --> 00:16:13,760 Every spring, the whole countryside screams the resurrection. 310 00:16:13,760 --> 00:16:17,360 That which was dead and laid fallow, 311 00:16:17,360 --> 00:16:20,800 all of a sudden, all this life starts coming up. 312 00:16:20,800 --> 00:16:29,120 And, but when a drought comes, then comes death. 313 00:16:29,120 --> 00:16:35,680 And I think we see it right off the bat 314 00:16:35,680 --> 00:16:38,680 when Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, 315 00:16:38,680 --> 00:16:42,040 he said to his sons, "Why are you guys looking at each other? 316 00:16:42,040 --> 00:16:45,540 Why are you looking at each other? 317 00:16:45,540 --> 00:16:51,160 These guys, these 10 boys, there's 11 boys here, 318 00:16:51,160 --> 00:16:52,280 but there's 10 of them, 319 00:16:52,280 --> 00:16:56,200 and they're probably thinking, we got to go to Egypt? 320 00:16:56,200 --> 00:16:59,220 That's where we abandoned our little brother to. 321 00:16:59,220 --> 00:17:01,960 He may have died there. 322 00:17:01,960 --> 00:17:05,400 We don't know, but we got to go down there 323 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:08,840 because simply our life is on the line. 324 00:17:08,840 --> 00:17:10,840 We might die too. 325 00:17:10,840 --> 00:17:13,760 And they're looking at each other thinking, oh, wow. 326 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:18,000 You know, I shared this last night, 327 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:20,480 and I don't know why it seems to be 328 00:17:20,480 --> 00:17:22,160 so appropriate right here. 329 00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:24,040 And I'm gonna get to this again at the end, 330 00:17:24,040 --> 00:17:29,040 but your sin is never very far from you, right? 331 00:17:29,040 --> 00:17:34,400 Your sin is, and especially when it's unconfessed 332 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:35,600 and it's covered, 333 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:41,480 he who tries to cover his sin will not prosper. 334 00:17:41,480 --> 00:17:46,620 You will not prosper when you try to cover it up. 335 00:17:46,620 --> 00:17:49,240 I can't tell you the men that I've talked to 336 00:17:49,240 --> 00:17:52,640 over the years in ministry that have cheated on their wives 337 00:17:52,640 --> 00:17:55,820 and have told me this will go to the grave with me. 338 00:17:55,820 --> 00:17:58,560 And I'm thinking, you're a fool. 339 00:17:58,560 --> 00:18:00,520 You're a fool. 340 00:18:00,520 --> 00:18:03,840 If you can't come clean with this, 341 00:18:04,840 --> 00:18:09,680 you're in trouble because it will be a nagging, 342 00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:14,680 haunting, life-sucking thing in your life. 343 00:18:14,680 --> 00:18:19,880 You will not prosper. 344 00:18:19,880 --> 00:18:22,360 And these guys haven't been prospering. 345 00:18:22,360 --> 00:18:24,480 No doubt their hair is probably getting gray 346 00:18:24,480 --> 00:18:27,880 or either that or it's already fallen out, right? 347 00:18:27,880 --> 00:18:31,700 And there's 10 of them, right, 348 00:18:31,700 --> 00:18:36,700 that were conspirators in this abandoning of Joseph. 349 00:18:36,700 --> 00:18:39,880 There was Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, 350 00:18:39,880 --> 00:18:43,960 Isaacar and Zebulun, and the four handmade sons, right? 351 00:18:43,960 --> 00:18:46,080 Dan and Naphtali and Gad and Asher. 352 00:18:46,080 --> 00:18:49,200 So these 10 men, no doubt, 353 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:51,760 they're feeling some guilt right now, 354 00:18:51,760 --> 00:18:54,520 thinking, could you imagine having a lie? 355 00:18:54,520 --> 00:18:55,880 It's been 21 years. 356 00:18:55,880 --> 00:18:59,200 Their dad still thinks Joseph is dead. 357 00:18:59,980 --> 00:19:04,220 And that's why he keeps Benjamin back. 358 00:19:04,220 --> 00:19:06,220 I'm sure Benjamin probably had a little fit. 359 00:19:06,220 --> 00:19:07,740 No, I wanna go. 360 00:19:07,740 --> 00:19:10,180 You know, how that youngest child thing, 361 00:19:10,180 --> 00:19:11,780 you know, I remember my brother Rick, 362 00:19:11,780 --> 00:19:14,540 he was just a tag along, you know? 363 00:19:14,540 --> 00:19:17,380 He was always just back there, kind of just annoying, 364 00:19:17,380 --> 00:19:19,500 but he was always with us. 365 00:19:19,500 --> 00:19:22,840 I remember one time, and he always cut the brunt 366 00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:24,860 of all the violent things. 367 00:19:24,860 --> 00:19:27,220 It happened more to him than anyone else. 368 00:19:28,220 --> 00:19:31,680 One time we were around this crab apple tree 369 00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:33,160 and we stirred up a hornet's nest 370 00:19:33,160 --> 00:19:36,460 and this hornet landed right here on his neck. 371 00:19:36,460 --> 00:19:39,580 And I go, I'll get him. 372 00:19:39,580 --> 00:19:41,800 And I picked up this dirt clog that's about this big 373 00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:42,640 and went wham. 374 00:19:42,640 --> 00:19:48,240 Almost killed him, almost knocked him out. 375 00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:49,580 Killed the hornet though. 376 00:19:49,580 --> 00:19:53,120 Poor kid. 377 00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:59,700 So maybe Jacob was wise in keeping Benjamin back. 378 00:19:59,700 --> 00:20:00,940 I don't know. 379 00:20:00,940 --> 00:20:05,420 But he wasn't about to lose another son, right? 380 00:20:05,420 --> 00:20:10,420 And so keeping this secret for 20 years 381 00:20:10,420 --> 00:20:14,620 must have truly caused a leanness 382 00:20:14,620 --> 00:20:16,980 or a dryness in their soul. 383 00:20:16,980 --> 00:20:22,300 Were not to cover or to confess. 384 00:20:22,300 --> 00:20:25,780 I wonder what would happen if they just went to Jacob 385 00:20:25,780 --> 00:20:28,920 and said, hey, Joseph's not dead, dad. 386 00:20:28,920 --> 00:20:29,760 We lied to you. 387 00:20:29,760 --> 00:20:39,660 Parents, have you ever had your kids lie to you? 388 00:20:39,660 --> 00:20:41,860 All my kids have lied to me, all of them. 389 00:20:41,860 --> 00:20:44,560 Stinking liars. 390 00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:48,140 And you know they're born that way. 391 00:20:48,140 --> 00:20:51,420 I did not have to teach them how to lie, 392 00:20:51,420 --> 00:20:53,420 but they got it from me, obviously. 393 00:20:55,500 --> 00:20:56,760 But they're just liars. 394 00:20:56,760 --> 00:21:00,140 They have to be taught the truth 395 00:21:00,140 --> 00:21:03,180 and encouraged in the truth. 396 00:21:03,180 --> 00:21:05,980 That's why we need Jesus. 397 00:21:05,980 --> 00:21:10,980 And so these 10 boys, they load up, 398 00:21:10,980 --> 00:21:15,180 they take their father's advice, they head to Egypt. 399 00:21:15,180 --> 00:21:16,340 And in verse six, it says, 400 00:21:16,340 --> 00:21:18,380 "Now Joseph was governor over the land, 401 00:21:18,380 --> 00:21:22,760 "and it was he who sold to all the people of the land. 402 00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:24,380 "And Joseph's brothers came 403 00:21:24,380 --> 00:21:27,320 "and bowed down before him with their faces to the earth. 404 00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:30,160 "And Joseph saw his brothers and recognized them, 405 00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:32,540 "but he acted as a stranger to them 406 00:21:32,540 --> 00:21:34,720 "and spoke roughly to them. 407 00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:38,180 "Then he said to them, where do you come from? 408 00:21:38,180 --> 00:21:40,540 "And they said, from the land of Canaan to buy food. 409 00:21:40,540 --> 00:21:42,260 "So Joseph recognized his brothers, 410 00:21:42,260 --> 00:21:44,060 "but they did not recognize him. 411 00:21:44,060 --> 00:21:46,040 "And then Joseph remembered the dreams 412 00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:49,360 "which he had dreamed about them and said to them, 413 00:21:49,360 --> 00:21:52,820 "you are spies, you have come to see 414 00:21:52,820 --> 00:21:54,780 "the nakedness of the land. 415 00:21:54,780 --> 00:21:56,980 "And they said to him, no, my Lord, 416 00:21:56,980 --> 00:22:00,120 "but your servants have come to buy food. 417 00:22:00,120 --> 00:22:03,400 "We are all one man's sons, we are honest men. 418 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:05,800 "Your servants are not spies." 419 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:10,340 Right, right? 420 00:22:10,340 --> 00:22:14,420 So here they come before Joseph, 421 00:22:14,420 --> 00:22:18,300 the governor of the known world at that time, 422 00:22:18,300 --> 00:22:21,380 he's in this place, 423 00:22:21,380 --> 00:22:25,180 he holds in his hands the sustenance 424 00:22:25,180 --> 00:22:29,260 of the whole wide world and his brothers come before him 425 00:22:29,260 --> 00:22:30,740 and what do they do? 426 00:22:30,740 --> 00:22:33,780 They hit their knees, they bow before him. 427 00:22:33,780 --> 00:22:39,360 Not knowing what they're doing, 428 00:22:39,360 --> 00:22:40,780 you realize what they're doing, right? 429 00:22:40,780 --> 00:22:43,920 They're fulfilling a prophecy, 430 00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:46,740 a prophecy of their little brother who told them, 431 00:22:46,740 --> 00:22:51,340 you're gonna come and you're gonna bow before me. 432 00:22:51,340 --> 00:22:54,940 And so, 433 00:22:54,940 --> 00:23:02,340 when Joseph's brothers, David Guzik says, 434 00:23:02,340 --> 00:23:06,120 plotted murder against him and sold him into slavery, 435 00:23:06,120 --> 00:23:09,660 they did it with the specific intention 436 00:23:09,660 --> 00:23:12,380 of defeating his dreams. 437 00:23:12,380 --> 00:23:19,580 And yet what God has said and God has established 438 00:23:19,580 --> 00:23:23,300 will come to pass, right? 439 00:23:23,300 --> 00:23:25,780 It doesn't matter what you do, 440 00:23:25,780 --> 00:23:29,460 it doesn't matter what a sniper does on a roof, right? 441 00:23:29,460 --> 00:23:30,940 It doesn't matter. 442 00:23:30,940 --> 00:23:33,980 God is gonna have his way. 443 00:23:33,980 --> 00:23:37,580 If he says it, it's gonna come to pass. 444 00:23:37,580 --> 00:23:42,540 And instead, by sending Joseph to Egypt, 445 00:23:42,540 --> 00:23:45,580 they provided the way that the dreams would be fulfilled. 446 00:23:45,580 --> 00:23:48,460 That's what they did. 447 00:23:48,460 --> 00:23:49,660 They took part in that. 448 00:23:49,660 --> 00:23:52,260 They're the ones that sent him to Egypt 449 00:23:52,260 --> 00:23:55,460 that he might save the whole world. 450 00:23:55,460 --> 00:23:58,540 One commentator says, 451 00:23:58,540 --> 00:24:02,620 Joseph is the picture of Romans 8, 28. 452 00:24:02,620 --> 00:24:07,620 Who would have thunk that God causes all things. 453 00:24:07,620 --> 00:24:10,620 Some of us think, well, God causes some things. 454 00:24:10,620 --> 00:24:14,100 No, God causes all things to work together 455 00:24:14,100 --> 00:24:16,620 for the good of those who do what? 456 00:24:16,620 --> 00:24:18,820 Love him, right? 457 00:24:18,820 --> 00:24:21,820 Joseph loves God. 458 00:24:21,820 --> 00:24:24,500 I'm thinking maybe some of his brothers love God. 459 00:24:24,500 --> 00:24:30,140 But this whole story is the greatest example. 460 00:24:30,140 --> 00:24:33,300 I love what R.A. Torrey said about Romans 8, 28. 461 00:24:33,300 --> 00:24:38,300 He said, "Romans 8, 28 is a soft pillow for a tired heart." 462 00:24:38,300 --> 00:24:41,500 Isn't it though? 463 00:24:41,500 --> 00:24:45,700 When we just don't get the craziness. 464 00:24:45,700 --> 00:24:46,820 Boy, is it crazy. 465 00:24:46,820 --> 00:24:50,700 Just this last couple of weeks, 466 00:24:50,700 --> 00:24:54,180 just being around people that are right at death's door 467 00:24:54,180 --> 00:24:57,660 and talking to them and seeing what happened yesterday 468 00:24:57,660 --> 00:25:02,660 and the world is just seems to be in turmoil. 469 00:25:02,660 --> 00:25:05,780 And yet we have this. 470 00:25:05,780 --> 00:25:08,420 It's all gonna work out. 471 00:25:08,420 --> 00:25:10,740 It really is. 472 00:25:10,740 --> 00:25:12,940 It's all working out. 473 00:25:15,340 --> 00:25:17,780 Now, Joseph sees his brothers. 474 00:25:17,780 --> 00:25:18,820 They don't recognize him. 475 00:25:18,820 --> 00:25:21,020 He's in a Egyptian culture, right? 476 00:25:21,020 --> 00:25:23,420 They would shave off all their hair, right? 477 00:25:23,420 --> 00:25:26,620 And wear different attire, speak a different language. 478 00:25:26,620 --> 00:25:29,020 But the one cool thing I heard this week, 479 00:25:29,020 --> 00:25:31,660 they would braid these cool looking goatees 480 00:25:31,660 --> 00:25:36,020 out of horsehair and then clip them into their chin whiskers. 481 00:25:36,020 --> 00:25:38,980 So he probably had this cool looking goatee. 482 00:25:38,980 --> 00:25:43,260 It's kind of like those guys with the reverse man bun 483 00:25:43,260 --> 00:25:46,420 on their, they put ponytails all the way down it 484 00:25:46,420 --> 00:25:47,460 and they got this. 485 00:25:47,460 --> 00:25:53,580 So, and Joseph was 17 years old the last time they saw him. 486 00:25:53,580 --> 00:25:57,220 Man, how young people change so fast. 487 00:25:57,220 --> 00:25:59,660 I, being at the school for 20 years 488 00:25:59,660 --> 00:26:01,220 and sometimes I'll see the kids. 489 00:26:01,220 --> 00:26:02,980 I might've seen them when they were 13 or 14. 490 00:26:02,980 --> 00:26:04,900 Now I see them and they're 24, 25. 491 00:26:04,900 --> 00:26:07,220 I'm going, who are you? 492 00:26:07,220 --> 00:26:08,660 I mean, they change a lot. 493 00:26:08,660 --> 00:26:12,700 But the thing about his brothers is 494 00:26:12,700 --> 00:26:14,180 they were older than him. 495 00:26:14,180 --> 00:26:15,820 So they probably didn't change much. 496 00:26:15,820 --> 00:26:18,580 He's going, oh, here they are. 497 00:26:18,580 --> 00:26:22,900 There's old Rube, Samian, Judah. 498 00:26:22,900 --> 00:26:25,820 Tried rescuing me, you know. 499 00:26:25,820 --> 00:26:30,740 Dan and Naphtali and Gad and Asher, stinking dirty dogs. 500 00:26:30,740 --> 00:26:32,640 Maybe I ought to just kill all of you. 501 00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:36,040 Why couldn't he? 502 00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:39,820 He could have, but God had a hold of his heart. 503 00:26:39,820 --> 00:26:42,620 Can I ask you today, does God have a hold of your heart? 504 00:26:43,380 --> 00:26:45,980 Can things like this come and happen to you? 505 00:26:45,980 --> 00:26:48,140 Or you experience things like this 506 00:26:48,140 --> 00:26:51,460 and you keep your heart soft before the Lord 507 00:26:51,460 --> 00:26:53,380 and just let him have it. 508 00:26:53,380 --> 00:26:55,340 Just let him have your heart. 509 00:26:55,340 --> 00:27:01,500 Years ago, I remember when somebody explained to me a vessel. 510 00:27:01,500 --> 00:27:04,460 I didn't even know what a vessel was. 511 00:27:04,460 --> 00:27:06,980 It says being a vessel of the Lord is like being a tube 512 00:27:06,980 --> 00:27:10,080 that has an opening on both ends, right? 513 00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:12,640 You got an opening here and an outlet here. 514 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:16,360 And God pours his life into you as a vessel 515 00:27:16,360 --> 00:27:20,320 that it might go out and affect the world that you live in. 516 00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:22,580 That's what it's like to be a vessel. 517 00:27:22,580 --> 00:27:23,580 Really? 518 00:27:23,580 --> 00:27:24,860 Yeah. 519 00:27:24,860 --> 00:27:26,260 That's what God wants to do. 520 00:27:26,260 --> 00:27:30,440 I go, wow, I want to be a vessel. 521 00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:34,160 And then I met a cowboy buddy 522 00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:37,620 that I shared a good message one day 523 00:27:37,620 --> 00:27:38,660 and he come up and shook my head 524 00:27:38,660 --> 00:27:40,100 and he said, good vesseling. 525 00:27:40,100 --> 00:27:45,740 You want some good vesseling? 526 00:27:45,740 --> 00:27:46,580 Right? 527 00:27:46,580 --> 00:27:49,420 Be yielded, let the Lord have your heart. 528 00:27:49,420 --> 00:27:52,140 Don't get bitter when these things come. 529 00:27:52,140 --> 00:27:54,300 Doesn't mean you get stupid, right? 530 00:27:54,300 --> 00:27:55,860 Joseph here isn't stupid. 531 00:27:55,860 --> 00:28:00,220 He's keeping his cards pretty close to his chest going, 532 00:28:00,220 --> 00:28:01,860 I'm not showing you guys nothing. 533 00:28:01,860 --> 00:28:07,860 Didn't mean that he didn't love them or care about them, 534 00:28:07,860 --> 00:28:09,700 but he wasn't gonna just, blah. 535 00:28:09,700 --> 00:28:13,440 Right? 536 00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:17,300 He was gonna use some discretion. 537 00:28:17,300 --> 00:28:18,340 It's interesting. 538 00:28:18,340 --> 00:28:20,660 He doesn't reveal himself. 539 00:28:20,660 --> 00:28:22,620 Joseph recognizes his brothers, 540 00:28:22,620 --> 00:28:27,120 but they did not recognize him. 541 00:28:27,120 --> 00:28:31,900 In this, Joseph is another picture of Jesus. 542 00:28:31,900 --> 00:28:33,300 We see Jesus 543 00:28:36,220 --> 00:28:41,100 knows and recognizes us long before we ever recognize him. 544 00:28:41,100 --> 00:28:43,220 Right? 545 00:28:43,220 --> 00:28:48,180 I heard about Jesus as I was growing up, 546 00:28:48,180 --> 00:28:53,180 but I didn't fully understand who and what he was, 547 00:28:53,180 --> 00:28:58,540 but he knew everything about me. 548 00:28:58,540 --> 00:29:02,180 That's why when I was 23 and I understood 549 00:29:02,180 --> 00:29:05,740 that this Jesus knew everything about me 550 00:29:05,740 --> 00:29:07,840 and I knew really nothing of him, 551 00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:12,000 but he knew everything about me and he still loved me. 552 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:15,180 It was absolutely overwhelming. 553 00:29:15,180 --> 00:29:20,940 And it says that as Joseph sees his brothers 554 00:29:20,940 --> 00:29:24,260 and recognizes them, he remembers his dream, 555 00:29:24,260 --> 00:29:25,860 which he had dreamed about them. 556 00:29:25,860 --> 00:29:30,380 And remember, he got chastised by them. 557 00:29:30,380 --> 00:29:32,820 Obviously, that's what launched him 558 00:29:32,820 --> 00:29:34,620 into being sold into slavery, 559 00:29:34,620 --> 00:29:39,620 but his dad rebuked him also, but it's happening. 560 00:29:39,620 --> 00:29:41,740 They're bowing before him. 561 00:29:41,740 --> 00:29:47,260 Now, Joseph sees 10 of them, 562 00:29:47,260 --> 00:29:49,900 but in his dream, there were 11. 563 00:29:49,900 --> 00:29:53,020 So Joseph knows that something else is up 564 00:29:53,020 --> 00:29:56,900 'cause he's no dummy, obviously. 565 00:29:56,900 --> 00:30:00,660 He's already proved that, but he's biding his time. 566 00:30:00,660 --> 00:30:05,660 And they try to present themselves, 567 00:30:05,660 --> 00:30:12,460 says there in verse 11, "But we're honest men." 568 00:30:12,460 --> 00:30:14,580 Really? 569 00:30:14,580 --> 00:30:15,580 Honest men? 570 00:30:15,580 --> 00:30:19,900 You could have fooled me. 571 00:30:19,900 --> 00:30:22,140 And I'm sure Joseph is thinking the same thing. 572 00:30:22,140 --> 00:30:23,300 Honest men? 573 00:30:23,300 --> 00:30:27,460 You may honestly have come to Egypt to buy food, 574 00:30:27,460 --> 00:30:29,940 but honest men, that's your character? 575 00:30:30,940 --> 00:30:32,900 Are you concerned about your character? 576 00:30:32,900 --> 00:30:38,060 I know I am a character. 577 00:30:38,060 --> 00:30:39,020 I don't know. 578 00:30:39,020 --> 00:30:43,100 I'm not overly concerned of what people think of me. 579 00:30:43,100 --> 00:30:45,380 I'm very concerned of what God thinks of me. 580 00:30:45,380 --> 00:30:52,180 I mean, I ride my wife's townie down our road 581 00:30:52,180 --> 00:30:56,100 with a little nice little turquoise basket on it. 582 00:30:58,100 --> 00:31:00,340 People that know me driving by honking going, 583 00:31:00,340 --> 00:31:04,140 "Pastor Scott, a townie and a turquoise basket, really?" 584 00:31:04,140 --> 00:31:07,540 I'm not real concerned what people think of me. 585 00:31:07,540 --> 00:31:10,660 I am concerned of what God thinks of me. 586 00:31:10,660 --> 00:31:14,060 And I wanna be right with him. 587 00:31:14,060 --> 00:31:18,580 And sometimes I'm a little rough 588 00:31:18,580 --> 00:31:22,300 around the edges with people, and I apologize for that. 589 00:31:22,300 --> 00:31:26,420 But ultimately, I want to be God's man. 590 00:31:26,420 --> 00:31:29,860 And I think because of these guys' history, 591 00:31:29,860 --> 00:31:31,620 they're not in that place yet. 592 00:31:31,620 --> 00:31:34,500 And so when they say they're honest men, 593 00:31:34,500 --> 00:31:36,780 Joseph goes, "No, you're not. 594 00:31:36,780 --> 00:31:39,500 "You're looking for somebody that's vulnerable. 595 00:31:39,500 --> 00:31:41,060 "You're spies." 596 00:31:41,060 --> 00:31:45,220 And that word spies there, it means to walk around. 597 00:31:45,220 --> 00:31:47,860 In other words, to look around and see where there's a hole 598 00:31:47,860 --> 00:31:49,740 or where there's an unlocked door 599 00:31:49,740 --> 00:31:52,420 or where there's a possession that's not covered up. 600 00:31:52,420 --> 00:31:53,500 That's what you are. 601 00:31:55,700 --> 00:31:58,140 And I think he was spot on. 602 00:31:58,140 --> 00:32:00,380 And so, 603 00:32:00,380 --> 00:32:07,460 he practices two things here very powerfully 604 00:32:07,460 --> 00:32:10,140 in verses 12 through 20, read it with me. 605 00:32:10,140 --> 00:32:11,060 It says, 606 00:32:11,060 --> 00:32:17,460 "But he said to them, 607 00:32:17,460 --> 00:32:21,440 "But no, you have come to see the nakedness of the land. 608 00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:24,220 "And they said, your servants are 12 brothers, 609 00:32:24,220 --> 00:32:27,180 "the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. 610 00:32:27,180 --> 00:32:29,820 "In fact, the youngest is with our father today 611 00:32:29,820 --> 00:32:31,540 "and one is no more. 612 00:32:31,540 --> 00:32:33,060 "But Joseph said to them, 613 00:32:33,060 --> 00:32:36,700 "It is as I spoke to you saying you are spies. 614 00:32:36,700 --> 00:32:39,060 "In this manner, you shall be tested. 615 00:32:39,060 --> 00:32:42,940 "By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not leave this place 616 00:32:42,940 --> 00:32:45,320 "unless your youngest brother comes here. 617 00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:49,220 "Send one of you and let him bring your brother 618 00:32:49,220 --> 00:32:51,660 "and you shall be kept in prison 619 00:32:51,660 --> 00:32:53,500 "that your words may be tested 620 00:32:53,500 --> 00:32:55,900 "and see whether there is any truth in you 621 00:32:55,900 --> 00:32:59,820 "or else by the life of Pharaoh, surely you are spies. 622 00:32:59,820 --> 00:33:03,620 "And so he put them all together in prison three days. 623 00:33:03,620 --> 00:33:06,620 "And then Joseph said to them the third day, 624 00:33:06,620 --> 00:33:09,020 "Do this and live for I fear God. 625 00:33:09,020 --> 00:33:10,820 "If you are honest men, 626 00:33:10,820 --> 00:33:15,000 "let one of your brothers be confined to your prison house, 627 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:19,100 "but you go and carry grain for the famine of your house 628 00:33:19,100 --> 00:33:21,940 "and bring your youngest brother to me 629 00:33:21,940 --> 00:33:26,280 "so your words will be verified and you shall not die." 630 00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:31,940 So first he practices restraint. 631 00:33:31,940 --> 00:33:33,580 He doesn't kill them. 632 00:33:33,580 --> 00:33:34,860 These guys are pretty vulnerable. 633 00:33:34,860 --> 00:33:36,500 You talk about vulnerable, right? 634 00:33:36,500 --> 00:33:37,340 They're vulnerable. 635 00:33:37,340 --> 00:33:38,480 They don't have no food. 636 00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:40,760 Their family is in jeopardy. 637 00:33:40,760 --> 00:33:45,760 And he knows that if he doesn't give them what they need 638 00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:47,560 that they're gonna die. 639 00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:51,460 So at first of all, he's kind of a little aggressive. 640 00:33:51,460 --> 00:33:54,740 He says, all right, all of you stay here. 641 00:33:54,740 --> 00:33:56,940 One of you go get Benjamin. 642 00:33:56,940 --> 00:33:58,980 No doubt he put him in prison for three days. 643 00:33:58,980 --> 00:34:00,900 He gave himself some time. 644 00:34:00,900 --> 00:34:03,580 That's wisdom, right? 645 00:34:03,580 --> 00:34:05,180 That's the second thing we're gonna look at. 646 00:34:05,180 --> 00:34:07,080 But he restrains himself. 647 00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:10,020 It says in James 1, 19 and 20 says, 648 00:34:10,020 --> 00:34:11,340 "So then my beloved brethren, 649 00:34:11,340 --> 00:34:14,220 "let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, 650 00:34:14,220 --> 00:34:16,720 "slow to wrath, for the wrath of man 651 00:34:16,720 --> 00:34:19,420 "does not produce the righteousness of God." 652 00:34:19,420 --> 00:34:23,180 He probably had a tendency to be a little wrathful 653 00:34:23,180 --> 00:34:24,660 and rightly so. 654 00:34:24,660 --> 00:34:26,220 I'm gonna pay back. 655 00:34:26,220 --> 00:34:29,660 You stinking dirty dogs, I got you now, right? 656 00:34:29,660 --> 00:34:31,740 But he doesn't. 657 00:34:31,740 --> 00:34:34,020 He gives himself three days, right? 658 00:34:34,020 --> 00:34:35,100 He's slow. 659 00:34:35,100 --> 00:34:37,080 He's slow to get angry, right? 660 00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:38,620 He's slow to speak to these guys. 661 00:34:38,620 --> 00:34:40,080 He's giving himself time. 662 00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:41,520 That's restraint. 663 00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:45,420 Proverbs 16, 32 says, "He who is slow to anger 664 00:34:45,420 --> 00:34:47,320 "is better than the mighty. 665 00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:49,820 "And he who rules his spirit, 666 00:34:49,820 --> 00:34:51,920 "than he who takes a city." 667 00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:55,320 Right, he's being wise here. 668 00:34:55,320 --> 00:35:00,780 He's not being hasty and getting himself in a pickle 669 00:35:00,780 --> 00:35:03,580 and then thinking, "Oh no, now what do I do?" 670 00:35:03,580 --> 00:35:06,700 Proverbs 29, 11, "A fool vents all his feelings, 671 00:35:06,700 --> 00:35:09,180 "but a wise man holds them back." 672 00:35:09,180 --> 00:35:10,740 Joseph is taking his time. 673 00:35:16,340 --> 00:35:19,860 And so, he's thinking to himself, 674 00:35:19,860 --> 00:35:21,980 "I have their lives in my hand." 675 00:35:21,980 --> 00:35:26,360 You know, God has your life in his hand. 676 00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:31,760 What do you do with that? 677 00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:33,900 I don't know about you, I fear and tremble. 678 00:35:33,900 --> 00:35:39,900 I fear and tremble knowing that I deserve God's judgment. 679 00:35:39,900 --> 00:35:43,480 And it helps me, right? 680 00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:44,840 It helps me to confess. 681 00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:46,840 It helps me to come clean. 682 00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:51,840 And so, he's giving them an opportunity also to think. 683 00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:59,400 So firstly, he practices restraint. 684 00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:02,520 The next thing he practices is wisdom, right? 685 00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:05,360 And at first, he says in verse 16, 686 00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:08,320 "You are all staying here except one go back." 687 00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:09,800 Then he changes his mind. 688 00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:12,560 So the three days gave him time to change his mind. 689 00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:14,760 He's thinking, "No, if I do that, 690 00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:18,960 "then all the families of those other nine brothers 691 00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:21,400 "could be in jeopardy of starving to death." 692 00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:23,340 He says, "All right, all of you go back, 693 00:36:23,340 --> 00:36:24,400 "I'll keep one of you. 694 00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:27,360 "I'll keep one of you. 695 00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:32,160 "And then bring Benjamin back here. 696 00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:37,160 "And after that, I'll let him go." 697 00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:41,840 Proverbs 29, 11, I just read that to you, sorry. 698 00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:46,560 But in verse 18, he tells them, he says, "I fear God. 699 00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:47,600 "I fear God." 700 00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:50,480 Joseph makes this connection. 701 00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:54,040 The word God there is the same word that we see 702 00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:56,200 throughout the book of Genesis, 703 00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:59,500 connected to Genesis chapter one, one, 704 00:36:59,500 --> 00:37:03,520 in the beginning, God, Elohim, the creator of the universe. 705 00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:06,680 He's not presenting an Egyptian God. 706 00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:10,680 He's presenting a God that these boys are familiar with. 707 00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:11,920 He said, "I fear God. 708 00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:16,920 "I fear God more than I am disgusted with you." 709 00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:21,760 And I think that's where we need to stay. 710 00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:25,760 Yesterday, after the attempt on Trump's life, 711 00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:28,760 they were talking about the anger of the people, 712 00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:31,680 how people were getting so, they were so angry. 713 00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:33,320 And a lot of them had to stay there, 714 00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:35,360 and no doubt had to be questioned by the police, 715 00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:36,440 whether they were a suspect 716 00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:39,080 or whether they were a witness or whatever. 717 00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:40,440 But they were getting mad. 718 00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:46,080 And, "Be slow to anger," the Bible says. 719 00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:49,960 Yeah, I think we should get angry at injustice. 720 00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:54,960 The Bible says, "Be angry and do not sin." 721 00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:59,240 You can be angry, just don't let that anger carry you over 722 00:37:59,240 --> 00:38:01,400 into something that you're going to regret. 723 00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:06,000 And so Joseph is possibly kind of upset 724 00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:07,280 with his brothers here, 725 00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:14,360 but he's using wisdom, and it seems to be sensible, right? 726 00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:21,880 "I fear God, so here's your chance to prove yourself, 727 00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:24,600 "whether you're truly honest men, 728 00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:28,720 "and whether there is any truth in what you say." 729 00:38:28,720 --> 00:38:29,760 Truth is important. 730 00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:32,520 Truth is very important. 731 00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:38,840 And this is your chance to come clean, 732 00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:41,080 to get right, right? 733 00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:43,520 To deal with your past. 734 00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:47,760 Your soul's parched, you've been packing this sin around 735 00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:52,560 all these years, and here's your chance. 736 00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:59,680 So, which brings us to verse 21, and it says, 737 00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:01,120 "And they did so. 738 00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:04,600 "Then they said to one another, 739 00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:08,400 "we are truly guilty concerning our brother, 740 00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:10,680 "for we saw the anguish of his soul, 741 00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:13,880 "and when he pleaded with us, and we would not hear, 742 00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:16,840 "therefore this distress has come upon us." 743 00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:21,000 Over the years, counseling with people, 744 00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:23,240 this is so common. 745 00:39:23,240 --> 00:39:27,720 When something bad happens, people constantly go back, 746 00:39:27,720 --> 00:39:31,800 it's happening because I did that, right? 747 00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:35,080 Because I did that, because I sinned, 748 00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:37,800 and that now God's paying me back. 749 00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:39,320 You realize it doesn't work that way. 750 00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:41,200 Sin has a consequence, and I'm not saying 751 00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:43,160 there's not consequences to sin, 752 00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:46,800 but when sin is confessed, the Lord takes that, 753 00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:50,240 and He cleanses it, and you are washed free from it. 754 00:39:50,240 --> 00:39:59,640 And so, they're remembering big time what they did. 755 00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:06,280 Maybe this is their chance for their soul to be refreshed, 756 00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:10,400 right, that they would be encouraged. 757 00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:17,720 And it goes on, and it says, 758 00:40:17,720 --> 00:40:21,640 I just wanna read Joseph's response here. 759 00:40:21,640 --> 00:40:24,480 "This is why, therefore, this distress has come upon us. 760 00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:26,840 "And then Reuben answered them, saying, 761 00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:28,880 "'Did I not speak to you, saying, 762 00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:32,480 "'Do not sin against the boy, and you would not listen?'" 763 00:40:32,480 --> 00:40:35,880 Poor Reuben, I think he's got some kind of a complex. 764 00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:38,080 After doing the thing with his dad's handmaid, 765 00:40:38,080 --> 00:40:39,880 now he's trying to justify himself. 766 00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:43,200 "Therefore, behold, his blood is now required of us. 767 00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:45,480 "But they did not know that Joseph understood them, 768 00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:48,200 "for he spoke to them through an interpreter, 769 00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:52,560 "and he turned himself away from them and wept. 770 00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:56,000 "And then he returned to them again and talked with them, 771 00:40:56,000 --> 00:40:57,960 "and he took Simeon from them 772 00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:00,880 "and bound him before their eyes." 773 00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:06,920 He's like, okay, they're recognizing what they did was wrong. 774 00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:11,400 Isn't that how we get right? 775 00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:14,360 With God and with each other? 776 00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:16,320 You know, 1 John 1, 9, 777 00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:19,840 if you confess your sin, he's faithful and just to forgive 778 00:41:19,840 --> 00:41:22,880 you of your sin and cleanse you from all unrighteousness. 779 00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:24,760 They just recognize it. 780 00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:28,760 Somebody has rightly said, "Repentance is agreeing with God." 781 00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:32,600 I think there's truth in that. 782 00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:36,200 You agree with God that what you did was wrong. 783 00:41:36,200 --> 00:41:38,920 And then you're on your way to getting healed 784 00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:40,200 and set free from that. 785 00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:45,240 So in a sense, they're kind of confessing here. 786 00:41:45,240 --> 00:41:46,400 What's it do to Joseph? 787 00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:50,360 It touches his heart. 788 00:41:50,360 --> 00:41:55,840 "When I have gone to my wife and my kids 789 00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:58,220 "and confessed my sin to them, 790 00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:02,800 "and I'm sincere," it touches their heart. 791 00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:06,400 It restores that relationship. 792 00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:07,640 Just as we confess to God, 793 00:42:07,640 --> 00:42:09,720 we confess one to another as well, right? 794 00:42:09,720 --> 00:42:13,840 My kids, they used to pat me. 795 00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:15,560 They would pat me on the back. 796 00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:19,480 And sometimes I would start crying. 797 00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:22,080 I feel like a weenie, you know? 798 00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:25,280 Here my boys are going, "Was it that bad, dad? 799 00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:26,920 "It's okay, I forgive you." 800 00:42:28,560 --> 00:42:31,000 'Cause the last thing I wanna do is hurt my kids. 801 00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:33,600 But I do. 802 00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:34,760 I'm such a jerk. 803 00:42:34,760 --> 00:42:37,920 But to go to them, 804 00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:41,220 and I think I grained more ground with my children 805 00:42:41,220 --> 00:42:44,560 when I would go to them and ask for forgiveness. 806 00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:47,520 And they would look at me like, "Really?" 807 00:42:47,520 --> 00:42:49,020 "Yeah, really. 808 00:42:49,020 --> 00:42:51,700 "I wanna be right with you, I love you. 809 00:42:51,700 --> 00:42:55,860 "And my wife, and she's been so gracious over the years. 810 00:42:55,860 --> 00:42:58,660 "Why she hasn't just said, 'You're on your own, buddy.'" 811 00:42:58,660 --> 00:43:03,180 But why won't we do that? 812 00:43:03,180 --> 00:43:06,260 Is because we hang on to stuff, and we stuff it, 813 00:43:06,260 --> 00:43:09,420 and we stuff it just like these guys did for 20 years, 814 00:43:09,420 --> 00:43:12,540 and your soul becomes dry and cracked, 815 00:43:12,540 --> 00:43:14,500 and I don't even know if God can use it 816 00:43:14,500 --> 00:43:16,720 when you're in that place. 817 00:43:16,720 --> 00:43:20,680 And with a word sometimes, with an attitude, 818 00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:25,420 you can be free from that and be refreshed, right? 819 00:43:25,420 --> 00:43:28,180 (pages rustling) 820 00:43:28,180 --> 00:43:33,460 Numbers, Moses wrote, "And be sure of this, 821 00:43:33,460 --> 00:43:35,500 "your sin will find you out." 822 00:43:35,500 --> 00:43:36,820 It'll chase you down. 823 00:43:36,820 --> 00:43:39,520 There's gonna be a day of reckoning, right? 824 00:43:39,520 --> 00:43:46,300 This whole famine thing, Sterling always asked me, 825 00:43:46,300 --> 00:43:47,820 "Hey, what's your title?" 826 00:43:47,820 --> 00:43:49,420 And I said, "My title's famine." 827 00:43:49,420 --> 00:43:52,260 This whole famine thing, 828 00:43:52,260 --> 00:43:55,740 when it translates to a spiritual famine, 829 00:43:55,740 --> 00:43:57,660 it's laid out probably no better 830 00:43:57,660 --> 00:44:01,420 than in Amos 8, verses 11 to 12, and it says this. 831 00:44:01,420 --> 00:44:04,380 "Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord God, 832 00:44:04,380 --> 00:44:07,680 "that I will send a famine on the land, 833 00:44:07,680 --> 00:44:12,280 "not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, 834 00:44:12,280 --> 00:44:14,860 "but of hearing the word of the Lord. 835 00:44:14,860 --> 00:44:18,780 "They shall wander from sea to sea, and from north to east. 836 00:44:18,780 --> 00:44:22,280 "They shall run to and fro, seeking the word of the Lord, 837 00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:24,460 "but shall not find it." 838 00:44:24,460 --> 00:44:33,900 And just like this famine is gonna bring reconciliation 839 00:44:33,900 --> 00:44:38,140 to these brothers, this famine right here, 840 00:44:38,140 --> 00:44:41,020 I pray would bring a reconciliation 841 00:44:41,020 --> 00:44:43,540 between people and their God. 842 00:44:43,540 --> 00:44:44,580 And what is it? 843 00:44:44,580 --> 00:44:46,340 It's God's word. 844 00:44:46,340 --> 00:44:49,180 God primarily speaks to you through his word. 845 00:44:49,180 --> 00:44:51,300 Years ago, I heard my little brother told me 846 00:44:51,300 --> 00:44:53,180 he was in a restaurant. 847 00:44:53,180 --> 00:44:54,460 He'd just become a senior pastor. 848 00:44:54,460 --> 00:44:57,240 He was a senior pastor at 26, go figure that. 849 00:44:57,240 --> 00:44:59,260 And he's sitting in it, 850 00:44:59,260 --> 00:45:01,940 and this old pastor had overheard a conversation 851 00:45:01,940 --> 00:45:02,940 that he was having. 852 00:45:02,940 --> 00:45:04,540 He went over and he sat down next to him, 853 00:45:04,540 --> 00:45:07,580 and he said, "The hardest thing you will ever do as a pastor 854 00:45:07,580 --> 00:45:10,120 "is to get the people in your congregation 855 00:45:10,120 --> 00:45:11,400 "to read the word of God. 856 00:45:11,400 --> 00:45:14,200 "That is the hardest thing you will ever do. 857 00:45:14,200 --> 00:45:17,380 "When they are self-fed, they will take care of themselves. 858 00:45:17,380 --> 00:45:23,920 "But instead, they're gonna look to you to spoon-feed them 859 00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:25,540 "and baby them along." 860 00:45:25,540 --> 00:45:26,940 I'm sorry, I won't do that. 861 00:45:26,940 --> 00:45:29,320 You're on your own. 862 00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:34,580 I love coming here, I love sharing God's word, 863 00:45:34,580 --> 00:45:38,740 but ultimately, you have got to be in the word of God. 864 00:45:38,740 --> 00:45:40,820 Let him speak to you personally. 865 00:45:40,820 --> 00:45:42,940 He primarily, "God, what do I do? 866 00:45:42,940 --> 00:45:43,800 "Read his word. 867 00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:45,420 "He's gonna tell you what to do. 868 00:45:45,420 --> 00:45:47,340 "He's gonna open and close doors. 869 00:45:47,340 --> 00:45:49,780 "The longer you do it, the more sensitive you get 870 00:45:49,780 --> 00:45:51,140 "to the moving of his spirit, 871 00:45:51,140 --> 00:45:53,260 "and it's easier to walk with him." 872 00:45:53,260 --> 00:45:58,460 And so just start putting the word of God in your heart, 873 00:45:58,460 --> 00:46:01,060 communing with him, talking to him, 874 00:46:01,060 --> 00:46:02,700 confessing our sin to him. 875 00:46:02,700 --> 00:46:09,380 And there will be times of refreshing for your soul. 876 00:46:09,380 --> 00:46:12,900 I'm gonna do something I learned from Gordon Boyle. 877 00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:15,560 Gordon used to do these things 878 00:46:15,560 --> 00:46:17,360 where he would just read through scriptures. 879 00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:18,640 He wouldn't name the scripture. 880 00:46:18,640 --> 00:46:21,200 He would just read about five or six different scriptures 881 00:46:21,200 --> 00:46:22,920 all over the Bible altogether 882 00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:25,040 and let it kind of speak for itself. 883 00:46:25,040 --> 00:46:26,800 So that's how I'm gonna close today. 884 00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:31,800 First scripture, I'm just gonna tell you, 885 00:46:31,800 --> 00:46:32,800 and then I'm gonna go through. 886 00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:34,840 And if you wanna copy this, I can give you one later. 887 00:46:34,840 --> 00:46:39,840 But Acts 3:19, it says, "Repent therefore and be converted, 888 00:46:40,180 --> 00:46:42,960 "that your sins may be blotted out, 889 00:46:42,960 --> 00:46:45,760 "so that the times of refreshing may come 890 00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:47,880 "from the presence of the Lord. 891 00:46:47,880 --> 00:46:50,000 "Behold, I will do a new thing. 892 00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:53,840 "Now it shall spring forth, shall you not know it? 893 00:46:53,840 --> 00:46:57,360 "I will even make a road in the wilderness 894 00:46:57,360 --> 00:46:59,140 "and rivers in the desert. 895 00:46:59,140 --> 00:47:02,000 "They are new every morning. 896 00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:03,640 "Great is your faithfulness, 897 00:47:03,640 --> 00:47:06,160 "for I know the thoughts that I think towards you, 898 00:47:06,160 --> 00:47:09,040 "says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, 899 00:47:09,040 --> 00:47:11,760 "to give you a future and a hope. 900 00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:16,320 "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. 901 00:47:16,320 --> 00:47:17,440 "Old things have passed away. 902 00:47:17,440 --> 00:47:19,720 "Behold, all things have become new. 903 00:47:19,720 --> 00:47:24,280 "The Lord your God is in your midst. 904 00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:26,480 "The mighty one will save. 905 00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:29,080 "He will rejoice over you with gladness. 906 00:47:29,080 --> 00:47:32,600 "He will quiet you with his love. 907 00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:35,500 "He will rejoice over you with his singing. 908 00:47:35,500 --> 00:47:37,420 "Create in me a clean heart, O God, 909 00:47:37,420 --> 00:47:40,400 "and renew a steadfast spirit within me. 910 00:47:40,400 --> 00:47:43,520 "The Lord is my shepherd, and I shall not want." 911 00:47:43,520 --> 00:47:49,520 Are you dry? 912 00:47:49,520 --> 00:47:52,700 Come to the waters, the waters of life. 913 00:47:52,700 --> 00:47:54,440 Jesus is the water of life. 914 00:47:54,440 --> 00:47:55,460 He's the bread of life. 915 00:47:55,460 --> 00:47:56,580 Are you hungry? 916 00:47:56,580 --> 00:47:58,240 Come. 917 00:47:58,240 --> 00:48:00,020 Be sustained, be filled. 918 00:48:00,020 --> 00:48:06,800 Come, let us reason, says the Lord. 919 00:48:07,460 --> 00:48:09,600 All you have to do is come to him humbly, 920 00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:12,800 and he'll meet you right there. 921 00:48:12,800 --> 00:48:13,700 Let's pray. 922 00:48:13,700 --> 00:48:14,560 Lord, thank you. 923 00:48:14,560 --> 00:48:17,640 The truth of your word is so powerful, 924 00:48:17,640 --> 00:48:22,120 Lord, that you just call us to this place, 925 00:48:22,120 --> 00:48:25,400 this lifestyle of seeking you, 926 00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:29,060 of repenting of our sin, of drawing near. 927 00:48:29,060 --> 00:48:31,580 You tell us if we draw near to you, 928 00:48:31,580 --> 00:48:32,860 you will draw near to us. 929 00:48:32,860 --> 00:48:34,540 So Lord, would you do that? 930 00:48:34,540 --> 00:48:35,580 Would you do that? 931 00:48:36,480 --> 00:48:39,160 This afternoon, in our hearts. 932 00:48:39,160 --> 00:48:43,740 And if you've just been dry, and you just say, 933 00:48:43,740 --> 00:48:44,580 "You know what? 934 00:48:44,580 --> 00:48:46,600 "I just need filled with the Holy Spirit. 935 00:48:46,600 --> 00:48:49,600 "I need that indwelling," or, "I need salvation. 936 00:48:49,600 --> 00:48:51,920 "I don't know, I don't have the confidence 937 00:48:51,920 --> 00:48:54,660 "that I'm going to heaven when I take my last breath." 938 00:48:54,660 --> 00:48:57,260 I just wanna give you the opportunity to do that. 939 00:48:57,260 --> 00:49:00,500 One or the other, if you need salvation, 940 00:49:00,500 --> 00:49:02,580 and you just want to have the confidence 941 00:49:02,580 --> 00:49:05,940 that you're going to heaven when you pass from this life, 942 00:49:05,940 --> 00:49:07,260 I want you to stand to your feet. 943 00:49:07,260 --> 00:49:08,620 Just stand to your feet. 944 00:49:08,620 --> 00:49:10,540 Or if you feel like, "I just need the Holy Spirit 945 00:49:10,540 --> 00:49:12,460 "leading me and directing me, 946 00:49:12,460 --> 00:49:15,620 "and empowering me to read God's word, and to know it, 947 00:49:15,620 --> 00:49:19,760 "and to be able to use it as the sword that it is," 948 00:49:19,760 --> 00:49:21,100 you stand to your feet. 949 00:49:21,100 --> 00:49:22,400 I just wanna pray for you. 950 00:49:22,400 --> 00:49:26,340 Lord, we just thank you so much. 951 00:49:26,340 --> 00:49:29,260 Thank you for the power of your Holy Spirit. 952 00:49:29,260 --> 00:49:31,580 Lord, the hunger for your word, Lord, 953 00:49:31,580 --> 00:49:33,260 it has to come from you. 954 00:49:34,700 --> 00:49:36,660 And then you make these connections 955 00:49:36,660 --> 00:49:40,020 that just infuse us with life as we read it. 956 00:49:40,020 --> 00:49:42,540 And you remind us of your sovereignty, 957 00:49:42,540 --> 00:49:46,740 that you're sovereign over every one of our lives, Lord, 958 00:49:46,740 --> 00:49:50,820 that you direct and you redirect, Lord, 959 00:49:50,820 --> 00:49:54,660 and you cause us to step this way and that way. 960 00:49:54,660 --> 00:49:57,060 And you make those appointments with the people 961 00:49:57,060 --> 00:50:00,060 that you would have us be ministers to, Lord. 962 00:50:00,060 --> 00:50:02,980 And we don't even know about it, but you do. 963 00:50:02,980 --> 00:50:06,300 You got an incredible plan for everyone in this room, 964 00:50:06,300 --> 00:50:07,980 and especially those who are standing, Lord. 965 00:50:07,980 --> 00:50:10,340 Would you fill them with your Holy Spirit, Lord? 966 00:50:10,340 --> 00:50:12,820 They're just, by way of standing, Lord, 967 00:50:12,820 --> 00:50:16,660 they're acknowledging their need to be filled, 968 00:50:16,660 --> 00:50:19,780 to have the Holy Spirit within them, Lord. 969 00:50:19,780 --> 00:50:21,260 And so I pray that you would do that. 970 00:50:21,260 --> 00:50:22,940 I pray that for all of us, Lord. 971 00:50:22,940 --> 00:50:24,560 And in these days, Lord, 972 00:50:24,560 --> 00:50:27,840 that we would be instant in season and out of season, 973 00:50:27,840 --> 00:50:30,380 that we would be ready for all those appointments 974 00:50:30,380 --> 00:50:33,420 that you give us on a daily basis, Lord, 975 00:50:33,420 --> 00:50:35,460 that we wouldn't shy away from them, Lord, 976 00:50:35,460 --> 00:50:39,340 but that we would be, as your word says, as bold as a lion. 977 00:50:39,340 --> 00:50:41,920 And so, Lord, we thank you for the lion 978 00:50:41,920 --> 00:50:44,700 of the tribe of Judah that indwells us, 979 00:50:44,700 --> 00:50:47,060 the lion, the Lord Jesus. 980 00:50:47,060 --> 00:50:49,960 And so, Lord, we just ask that you would fill us up. 981 00:50:49,960 --> 00:50:53,220 Lord, refresh our dry souls, Lord, 982 00:50:53,220 --> 00:50:54,900 and give us peace, we pray. 983 00:50:54,900 --> 00:50:57,940 And in Jesus' Holy name, amen, amen. 984 00:50:57,940 --> 00:50:59,820 These guys are gonna lead us in a song. 985 00:50:59,820 --> 00:51:00,940 If you need prayer, the prayer team 986 00:51:00,940 --> 00:51:02,300 will be over here to the right. 987 00:51:02,300 --> 00:51:04,060 You come on up. 988 00:51:04,060 --> 00:51:07,100 God bless you, have a great week in Jesus.