Joseph

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oh x lee just sent me a text that she can x hear me x good news x all right i gave this um this talk of x this presentation x uh a couple years back x to cyc to the kids i don't think i gave x it to you guys but if i did x you're hearing it again because x repetition steve x is the mother of all learning x repetition steve x is the mother of all learning x all right so uh one you know we have a x wonderful list of characters in x scripture um that paul's tells us that x their lives their actions were for our x learning all of the things that we read x about in the old testament and now in x the new testament they're written for us x it was certainly written for the people x uh whose lives they affected but they x they apply to us is now we can gain x a lot of insight x into uh god's plan and purpose but most x importantly for me anyways is what are x the life lessons that we can get out of x the stories of these individuals of um x of faith you know we just read in our x readings uh the faith chapter 11 uh x hebrews 11. x and you know we have these wonderful x cloud of clouds of witnesses uh that the x writer of the hebrew says uh that are x we're encompassed by these you know x these these great men and women of faith x and we want to be part of those people x as well and so it's always good to kind x of remind ourselves about the x characteristics of righteous and godly x individuals uh that lived according to x god's uh will and wayne so one of those x people was joseph so without getting x into too much of the background about we x know that they were in the land of x canaan he was uh x he was one of the twelve sons of uh x jacob and we know from scripture x particularly from genesis the 37th x chapter that joseph was his favorite x right remember you know the kind of all x the shenanigans that went on in jacob's x life with you know labe and label was x always you know playing you know fast x and loose with the different agreements x that they had x uh we know that jacob loved rachel but x uh laban did the old switcheroo x and uh he ended up marrying you know x both leah in and rachel and that's going x to cause considerable x uh friction within jacob's family right x given the fact that rachel can't you x know she's barren at this time and she's x she's pleading with jacob you know do x something and jacob was going what am i x going to do i'm not i'm not a god i x can't do anything so anyways uh jacob x and rachel do finally have children and x joseph is the oldest of rachel's x children we know that benjamin is going x to be born as well but x um x rachel's going to die in childbirth x right uh so anyways so joseph x jacobs sees some kind of qualities and x joseph like oh this guy he's got her x together really smart right um he gives x him a coat of many colors and so this x was really a big deal we look at him x like hey what's the big deal gave him a x game of coat wow big deal but this was x actually jacob x passing on the authority of the family x to joseph now think about that for a x second x you know you have this he's a younger x brother right x and uh you know you have people like x reuben and juder and all of these other x kind of x strong-willed individuals as we're going x to find out right and here's joseph x yeah i'm i'm in charge of the family now x i'm going to be in charge of the family x they're like yeah i don't i don't think x so my guy so uh anyway so this is jacob x jacob's like hey here you go it's the x authority of the family obviously his x brothers are extremely jealous at that x right so we kind of get a little insight x into the the family dynamics with uh 37 x right we're not going to look at each x verse but x you know joseph is going to have dreams x uh the first one uh was about oh we'll x take a look at this in the 37th chapter x of um x of uh genesis x so there's a couple sequences of dreams x that joseph is gonna have right x um x verse five x well verse four kind of gives us a x little insert right x uh ver well i'm gonna say verse three x now israel loved joseph more than all x his children x because he was the son of his old age x and he made him a code of many colors x and when his brethren saw that their x father loved him more than all his x brethren x they hated him and could not speak x peaceably x unto him x well that's just a wonderful family x dynamic isn't it like they couldn't even x speak to him peaceably kindly in a x normal fashion they hated him so bad so x all of this tension and all of these x kind of negative emotions are building x up within the brothers right x and joseph clearly is playing favoritism x here x uh you know and you know we always say x with our kids you know oh we we love x them all the same right my mother used x to say that but we know the truth x we know the x truth with jason oh jason just walked in x he missed that one x [Laughter] x all right um x so the first dream verse five so given x all this background information right x joseph x um he's gonna he's gonna share these x dreams with people right this is not x gonna smooth things over at all x joseph dreamed a dream verse five tells x us and he told it to his brethren they x hated him yet more oops right he's like x hey i had this dream guys yeah we don't x care about your dream we still hate you x we actually hate you more now x and he said unto them here i pray you x this dream which i dream for behold we x were binding sheaves x in the field and lo my shiva rose x and also stood upright and behold your x sheaves stood around and made obeisance x to my sheaf x right so just imagine like an older x brother it'd be like x my youngest brother ben x saying hey i had a dream x and all you guys are bowing down to me x what x right he's thinking about and joseph x wants to share this dream with his x brothers like i had this dream dreams x were very important right in the ancient x world in biblical times um and so he's x sharing this like hey maybe this will x kind of um x you know help you to understand why you x know x jacob my father has chosen me i had this x dream you guys are bowing down to me x right x and so uh they said shell verse eight x thou shalt are you gonna reign over us x you think you're gonna have dominion x over us and they hated him for his x dreams and for his words verse 9 and he x dreamed yet another dream and he told it x to his brother now this is interesting x brothers and sisters because the first x dream didn't go over too well x right so joseph's going to say okay you x don't accept that dream let's talk about x this dream x and he dreamed yet another dream behold x i had dreamed to dream more and behold x the sun and the moon and the eleven x stars made obesity to me x so now it's you know it's kind of the x sheaves now we're talking about the x heavenly constellations x kind of escalating a little bit here x right x um x and so even x even jacob at this time like it was too x much for jacob x and he says uh x and he told it to his father and to his x brethren and his father rebuked him x what are you talking about x what is this dream that thou hast x dreamed shall i and thy mother and thy x brethren indeed come to bow down x ourselves to thee and the earth x wow so even jacob is that he's having x trouble right with some of these uh some x of these dreams and so um without x getting into too much detail moving on x here uh x jacob gave joseph a lot of x responsibility as a young man like he x he's he sent them out to dathan which is x not where they were it's a considerable x journey like it's not hundreds and x hundreds of miles but you know you had x to go up to date and they would that's x where they were sharing sheep they had x some kind of festival up there for the x sharing of sheep and jacob hadn't seen x them in a while wanted to know what was x going on with his brethren and so joseph x comes and all of a sudden this is going x to be the catalyst right x this is our this is the opportunity for x the brethren to get rid of joseph get x rid of him right now all right um x and so let's see x yeah so they're uh they're up at uh x uh dothan and here's a very um x verse 18 and when they saw him afar off x even before he came near unto them they x conspired against him to slay him x think about think about the mentality of x that brothers and sisters think about x your own family your own siblings x think about where you have to be x mentally to conspire x to kill your own flesh and blood x but this is where we were right this is x where we were with within jacob's family x within israel's family right the chosen x people of god x they have this incredible internal x fighting that's going on that's going to x lead to while they're going to try to x kill joseph completely innocent kid x maybe you know boasted a little too much x about his future status maybe but to x kill him come on x so um his is the line verse 19 and they x said one to another x behold this dreamer cometh here comes x the dreamer here he's got he's got all x these dreams x come now therefore and let us slay him x and cast him into some pit and we will x say some evil beast has devoured him and x we shall see x what will become x of his dreams x now it's interesting brother this is x that last section um x we will see what becomes of his dreams x that's actually on i believe x a section of this verse is on the martin x luther king jr x memorial in washington dc right i have a x dream speech and they pulled this here x and says uh you know we will we will see x what becomes of his dreams and so x there's a parallel there with the you x know martin luther king jr in his dream x i have a dream his his vision of a x future of america living in racial x harmony with each other um x it's a different type of dream than what x joseph was was talking here but there x were people opposed to martin luther x king there was people opposed to joseph x too based upon his dreams and what they x represented and so dreams are very x powerful x um you know you have like one of these x really intense dreams that you remember x i forget like 95 of my dreams but the x five percent of that i remember real x doozies x i do i'm not responsible for the things x that go on when i'm dreaming all right x so um they conspire to kill joseph and x blame it on a wild animal right and it's x interesting you see reuben right here x reuben said hey you know let's not shed x blood and his reasoning was that he x might rid him out of their hands to x deliver him to his father again x so there's always there's like a x conspiracy within a conspiracy x ruben wants to save joseph out of the x hands of these people he's got some x morality reuben does anyway he feels x responsible as the oldest like i gotta x control these guys he was really the one x guy outside of jacob that could probably x control all of these brothers right but x it was hard to do x um next okay x all right no frozen maybe x yes okay x so reuben the oldest tries to stop uh x killing uh joseph x um they take him they throw him back x in the well his plan was to come back x and save him and bring bring him back to x jacob right it was the plan of reuben x um but the brethren they had definite x other ideas they wanted to get rid of x them okay if we can't kill him uh let's x let's get rid of this guy and so they x looked at a way to make money off of x this x we make money off of our brother x so okay we won't kill him but let's just x let's just sell them into slavery x sell them into slave plan b sell them x into slavery right um and so uh a x caravan of the ishmaelites the x midianites right who they were related x to by the way right they were related to x like their cousins are coming hey we're x going down to uh we're going down to x egypt you guys got anything here that x you want to bring us back uh down to x egypt get sell at a good price x oh yeah we got this kid right here 17 18 x year old kid young strapping buck right x here let's move him along x and so 20 20 pieces of silver right x which is going to be a connection with x christ as well x there's that kind of echo where christ x is going to be betrayed for 30 pieces of x silver by his brethren x the jewish people um x and so uh joseph's gonna head down x uh x you know to egypt as a slave so he goes x from x being the favorite of jacob in this kind x of small little uh little tribe of x people you know 70 people or so x and he's going to go from that position x of authority where he's having dreams x and now he's stripped of all of that the x code is stripped all the authority is x gone x and he's by himself as this young kid x right as a slave everything is taken x from him and he's got to go down to a x foreign land x family is gone think about think about x the emotion involved in that in fact we x get a little insight into that and if we x look at genesis 42 x and this is kind of afterward right when x um x when right before joseph reveals himself x to his brethren x but uh let's see yeah 20 verse 21 x in um x let's see x yeah genesis x 42 21 x and they said one to another this is the x brethren okay so the joseph's brethren x are talking to each other x and they said to each other we are very x guilty x concerning our brother x in that we saw the anguish x of his soul when he besought us x and we would not hear x therefore is this the stress come upon x us x right so they're remembering back you x know 20 years later or whatever they x still remembered the anguish x you know imagine joseph kind of x you know yelling out to his brothers x please don't do this x you know just think about that that's x and so they remembered it so it had to x be a traumatic event it certainly was a x traumatic event for joseph we know that x but it was i think on a certain x underlying level it was also traumatic x as well x for the brethren x when they looked on on their past x behavior like they're remembering like x oh man that was it was really bad what x we did to him we still remember like x imagine you know kind of the cries that x joseph is yelling out to his brethren x think about what he said x right like jason don't sell me into x slavery what are you doing x so x uh x it's a different level maybe sometimes x yes x yeah say that in the microphone great x point go ahead x thanks steve x did the older brethren have children you x know later and then x this became as their families grew they x could understand more what it was like x if someone were to sell their kid as a x slave yeah that's a that's a great point x jason i think that there was a maturing x of the brethren as well and i think they x had their own families and now they have x an emotional connection to a child x and just you know imagine because we x know that when um x when jacob is given the uh coat of many x colors that's covered in goat blood you x know he couldn't be comforted it says x and so i think they as fathers are going x to have those same emotions and they're x going to look back and say that was x awful like it was unforgivable and now x god is punishing us for what we did to x him so yes great great point x just that growth of character where they x saw x joseph being taken away and it didn't it x didn't mean anything to them right they x were just so callous to it yeah but they x went through life experiences that they x actually grew yes which is so important x for us and i walk in the truth to you x we're all at different places at x different times and that's why it's so x healthy that we can get different x perspectives because we all have x different experiences right yeah that's x a great point it it meant something it x didn't mean anything to them they're x like problem solved see you later but x now looking back on it because of those x changes and because of the different x relationships that they had they looked x at it differently their perspective x changed absolutely yeah um and so you x know not only had they done this now x they're going to conspire to tell this x lie x to jacob they kept this light going for x for decades x this lie going with his with their x father never told him the truth he's x never going to know until he's reunited x with uh with jacob so think about just x think about the family dynamics that are x going on during this time in this family x right x um x everything in the bible is not perfect x right it's not perfect this was not a x perfect situation at all these were x serious family issues that jacob was x trying to manage remember simeon and x levi you know with the whole diana thing x remember that story where you know x diane's going she's looking at you know x she's going out and seeing everybody and x anyways you know x there's an event um you know and whether x or not diana you know wanted to marry x this person whatever they go and they x kill all the sheikamites right x they kill them all so these are some of x the i think it gives an insight into the x mentality of the brothers like they x weren't these were hardcore guys x who were not to be trifled with they x could sell their brother in slavery they x could kill the whole town don't matter x doesn't matter x all right so boom jacob is inconsolable x he could you know his daughters go in x you know to try to comfort his his x daughters-in-law try to go in would not x be comforted for a very long time right x okay x so uh joseph is brought down into egypt x the captain of the god potiphar so he x was a very powerful man the captain of x the guard he was actually in charge of x pharaoh security x not a bad gig very important kind of x like the head of the secret service x a man of considerable power and x authority and so this is the environment x this is the household that joseph goes x in now for whatever reason x you know joseph x finds favor in the eyes of part of it x like hey this guy has potential x he obviously picks up languages x right he picked up the egyptian language x relic pretty quickly x and that's the way you should learn a x language by the way they say anyways is x to be completely immersed in that jason x probably speaking hebrew fluently now x right x um you immerse yourself and you pick it x up and so joseph was a pretty smart guy x and he picked up that language and then x he had some kind of leadership qualities x that his father saw well guess what part x of asari as well what does potiphar do x gives him complete control of his x household right like yo you run the show x i don't have time for this you work with x my wife on the running of the household x so um god is going to be with joseph x we're told and he's going to bless him x and he's put in a position of authority x and power in potiphar's house x which is interesting because the dreams x now are kind of slowly being um x you know the the foundation of those x dreams is being laid because those x dreams are going to come true absolutely x going to come true right x um x so x part of our potiphar's wife probably x doesn't spend a lot of time in the house x because he's got a lot to do which x leaves joseph the other slaves the other x members of the household and potter for x his wife we're not we don't know her x name but she's there as well and so um x you know potter for you know once part x of his wife wants to have a relationship x with uh joseph and so you know tries to x you know manipulate the situation sends x all of the uh slaves out falsely accuses x joseph joseph joseph keeps himself pure x in this situation x is not taken in x but potiphar accuses uh joseph of you x know of sexual assault x which didn't happen obviously and so x he's falsely accused x and uh he's sent to prison x which is interesting why would he be x sent to prison like wouldn't this be x something you know a slave x tries to harm a a noble woman in egypt x that would kind of be like death x wouldn't it you'd think it'd be like x yeah that's death x but he's not he spared that death and x you wonder what that dynamic with x potiphar and potter for his wife were x right did he spare joseph because he x knew that x you know the wife was you know x a little off i don't know anyways he's x sent to prison he's going to do the best x that he can in this very difficult x situation x so think about this x you know this is joseph's life x it really is like this wave x uh he's you know sold into slavery down x right as low as you can go oh hold on x hold on up x head to the household of pharaoh x this is a great job this is very nice x down he's back in prison again right x and so uh you know our lives are a lot x like that aren't they maybe not to the x extent of joseph's where you have these x massive up and downs but usually you x know your life our lives are all right x so he's in prison x the only person that joseph has x is god x so this this is a situation that he's in x a foreign land x and you know he's accused of uh of an x inappropriate behavior now he's stuck in x jail x by the way x um x the prison system in egypt x um was kind of like an open courtyard x type of situation depending on you know x what you had done x and so potiphar would have read some x things on this but part of who would x probably be would have been in charge of x the security of the jails as well but x you had a lot of freedom within these x deals was that within the confines of it x you could walk around you could talk to x people but you couldn't leave those x confines that that was really the jail x so anyways x all right x going on he sent to pharaoh's prison x joseph continues to trust in god through x all of this x okay through all of these ups and downs x um x and god is going to be merciful to him x and so i think there's a lesson there as x well brothers and sisters in our lives x right our life usually goes like this x right maybe sometimes you know really x something bad happens in our lives is x really challenging and it affects our x faith and it's very stressful x right but then there's other times when x things are going great x both of those times brothers and sisters x in joseph's life he never forgot about x god x and so there's a lesson there as well x for us x you know when we when everything's going x great in our lives just hitting on all x cylinders x can't get any better x what's our relationship with god do we x is god part of our everyday existence do x we start our day with god through prayer x is he on our minds throughout the day x or when we get low and bad things are x happening where's god in our lives x see god was in joseph's life regardless x of the ups and downs x and so that's a that's a reflection x reflective question that we have to ask x ourselves in our lives where is god x where is god in all of this in our lives x we know where he was with joseph's life x um again joseph has these amazing x leadership qualities i guess right he's x put in charge now of the jail okay not x part of his x you know household but hey i'm the big x guy in the jail right x um x there is some kind of palace intrigue x that goes on in pharaoh's in pharaoh's x house right the butler and the baker x right the butler is in charge of x serving the king right particularly wine x and stuff like that but he also you know x you gotta you gotta taste it and make x sure that there's no poison in it these x guys not only were making the food x stuffs and the drinks they were in x charge to make sure that there was no x poison in it now supposedly x um there was some kind of palace coup x where these two guys here um x were involved in this palace coup to get x rid of this pharaoh right by poison x and so you have the butler and baker x pharaoh didn't know which one was x involved but they're both thrown into x prison okay and they both had dreams and x um x and joseph is gonna hear their dreams x the butler first well we'll take a look x at it and um x let's see here x yeah in genesis 41 x uh 40 sorry x um so they're going to be put into uh x into jail in egypt and they're each x going to have a dream x and joseph came and then and then he x says then and he looked upon them and x said behold they were sad so that's x interesting that joseph x was aware of the emotional state of x these people x of you know it's like why are you sad x like he was perceptive that way you know x like people are x observant um x you know there's different people that x cannot kind of observe when you're like x maybe struggling with something they x observe things a little bit different x some people don't observe things right x and that's that's okay some people are x very observant like you see that no i x didn't see anything what are you talking x about look right x we're all at different levels anyways x joseph is going to see that they're sad x and he goes over and asks him which i i x think is interesting on like a like in a x relationship level x like that's a good that is a good sign x or a good characteristic of a leader x like knowing about the people that x you're you're associated with like x what's their emotional state these two x guys sad x hey what's the story x and so they tell them right and um the x chief butler he has a dream x uh clusters of great in the in in verse x 11 and pharaoh's cup was in my hand and x i took the grapes and pressed him into x pharaoh's cup and i gave the cup into x the hand right and the interpretation of x that dream was in three days he's going x to be lifted up into his position again x phew x right x ah the baker not so much right i got x some bad news for you my man x after three days you're x dead x oh thank you x so x two different directions right one and x the dreams came true and so x joseph x is gonna say look the only thing that x the only payment that i want is x remember me remember me when you go back x to your station right tell pharaoh about x me tell tell people my story x didn't happen forgot about joseph x isn't that human nature though brothers x and sisters like the butler like this x guy x he was kind to you x he helped you out he listened to your x dreams he saw that you were sad he tried x to you know he gave you an x interpretation that interpretation came x true x now you're back into your original x position x don't even know that guy x right i think on some level x the butler uh x wanted to forget about the whole thing x right and so joseph was kind of part of x that i don't want to think about jail x like you know i think he was embarrassed x that he probably had to go into jail and x you know that's for the low people x i'm the butler i'm pharaoh's butler x right x anyways forgets about joseph x gone so he's languishing in prison think x about the psychological aspect of that x of joseph kind of sitting in prison x forgotten again x right x you know i wonder if he was kind of x making connections with what happened x with him and his brother right he's x stuck in a pit x you know and now he's stuck in prison x again x can't get out x it's pretty demoralizing brothers and x sisters you know he never lost his faith x though which i think is incredible never x lost his faith always gave god the x credit x uh for the things that happened in his x life he tells his brothers that x in fact we're gonna find out we probably x won't get get to it today but um x he's gonna say that this whole plan was x for god to save his people to save his x family so he went through all of these x things x in order for god to put him in a x position to save his family x um x which is interesting x all right we talked you know we we went x over this right um joseph pleads with x the butler to remember him when he gets x out of prison he doesn't do it x okay x joseph's gonna stay in prison for x another two x years sitting in prison x we got more dreams though x dreams are everywhere in this story x right you have the dreams of josie we x have the dreams of the butler and the x baker and now we have pharaoh's dream x and he's got he's he's got a couple x dreams now you know x um x joseph had two two dreams the butler and x baker those two dreams and now pharaoh's x gonna have two drapes like an x interesting connection right that little x thread of dreams throughout this story x the power of dreams in the ancient world x you know power of dreams actually is x going to uh save egypt at this time x because pharaoh has these dreams x seven fat cattle they're grazing in a x meadow really big fat x fatty cows x um x and then seven skinny and sick cattle x show up and they eat the fat cattle x now we can look at this you know from a x modern point of view x where we're not like individually x dependent x upon like cattle and x wheat and stuff like that in other words x we don't have our own farms we're not x growing our own food we have someone x else take care of that we know we go to x the supermarket you know we'll buy three x items you don't get out of there for a x hundred bucks x that's a different story so anyways you x know we that's not really part of our x existence but to pharaoh his whole x existence the whole x entity of egyptian civilization was x dependent x upon x the rise and the fall of the nile so if x the nile doesn't flood x they're not going to get these fat x cattle x they're not going to have enough food to x feed these cattle they're not going to x have enough food for themselves so this x was a major thing this was a national x security issue x this was an existential x threat to egyptian civilization x at this time okay and so just to kind of x reiterate that he's got a he's got a x second dream x and so we have the cattle that are x affected the livestock the second dream x is going to affect x a lot of the agriculture as well so both x both kind of sides of the agricultural x foundation of egypt are affected in x pharaoh's dream okay seven stalks of x wheat ready to harvest right all the x kernels of wheat ready to go harvest x those babies so much bread unbelievable x egypt is that was considered the bread x basket of the ancient world particularly x during roman times okay there was x actually two harvests x in egypt because of their climate and x because of the flow of the nile and so x you could have a x summer harvest and a winter harvest of x wheat x so there's a different growing season so x in that that period of time they could x grow x you know twice as many much food so x anyways so uh seven seven thin ears are x gonna come up damage stock they're gonna x look gross and they're going to devour x the seven good ears of uh of wheat x pharaoh is obviously very troubled at x this like this is a major concern like x when a pharaoh has a dream like this x you know the the gods are definitely x talking to him directly absolutely this x is what he thought in his mind he's x trying to figure out what this means now x we can look back on it x because we have the story or like it's x very clear what your dreams are saying x but obviously it wasn't clear to pharaoh x right now they had a whole elaborate x thing x with the magicians and everything in the x priest we talked about this when we x talked about magicians and charlatans x and stuff like that so there was a whole x deal associated with the interpretation x of dreams but even the magicians and the x wise men of egypt couldn't figure it out x no idea what this means x uh guys there's some there's several x clues here i think but anyways x they didn't know x this whole the dreams of pharaoh now x have just engulfed the palace x in the whole government of egypt like x this is big like pharaoh had dreams did x you hear pharaoh had dreams no one knows x what the dreams were x and so this gets you know the butler is x going to hear this x he sees pharaoh every day so he's going x to hear about this x it's interesting now x the butler sees his opportunity to x ingratiate himself with pharaoh like x this this is a time and it's interesting x um you know what he says um x in x genesis 41 x in verse nine x they couldn't interpret the dream verse x nine then spake the chief butler into x pharaoh saying x i do remember my faults this day right x what a what a great way to start a x conversation right but he's you know x he's showing respect obviously to him x right pharaoh was wroth with his x servants and put me in ward and the x captain of the gods house both me and x the chief baker so he's recounting now x to pharaoh look i had a similar x situation i also had a dream he told me x that i was gonna uh be giving back my x job he told the baker that he was gonna x die it came to pass this hebrew i think x he can interpret dreams for you x pharaoh's like great bring him in so far x joseph's got to go through the whole um x ritual of egyptian cleansing right he x had a bathe and everything he had to x shave his hair right he had to look x presentable he's going to pharaoh um and x so he gives the interpretation of the x dream very simply hey seven years of x plenty it's to be incredible x i keep on thinking my phone's vibrating x all right seven years of plenty which is x going to be followed by seven years of x famine x and so he says look pharaoh this is what x you got to do so not only does he x interpret the dream joseph's got a plan x you know we don't x don't come to me with a problem come to x me with a solution x fair of you know x joseph came joseph came to pharaoh with x a solution you know it wouldn't i don't x think it would be as powerful if joseph x comes up and just gives the dream right x and then pharaoh goes well what do you x think we should do i don't know x right he says look at this is what we x have to do we've got to someone has got x to be in charge of this like you know x our civilization is on the line x um and we've got to store up all of this x extra food that we're going to have in x the land of plenty so it lasts us x through the seven years of famine x well lo and behold who who x whoms among us here is better than x joseph he interprets the dream he's got x this great plan x boom governor x right ups and downs again right of x joseph's of joseph's life he goes from a x slave x to being governor of all egypt x i'm like joe biden when he whispers x governor x all right he's he's like governor of all x egypt um you know from from being a x slave x judy i'm sorry for that joke x all right so he he's given the complete x control over um x over egypt to kind of you know make sure x and organize x getting all of this extra food into x silos x so joseph now is in charge of the x governor let's remember back to joseph's x dreams x all right now we're getting into a x situation where guess what a lot of x people are going to be bowing down to x joseph both egyptians x and other people as well x so um just as joseph said seven years of x plenty incredible harvest just oh x we're planting new crops you know we're x building new canals we're just the x bounty is unbelievable x and so um x the great famine comes and it's gonna x last for seven years and because joseph x is a great manager and a leader x egypt has enough food to survive while x all the other countries around them are x struggling to survive it was a really x bad famine x i think i think the it says you know the x famine was sores really bad in the land x now we're not told what caused this x famine x but it's a worldwide famine so it's not x just a famine in egypt so it may not x have been dependent upon the nile but x climate changes in this area may have x affected the rainfall down in the x southern portion of x of ethiopia in that area where the nile x river x gets all of its water i forget the name x of those mountains but they capture all x that water and it flows into the x mediterranean things change obviously x climate change because in the holy land x in canaan the famine was sworn everybody x from this region x is going to come to egypt to get extra x food thanks to joseph so joseph is not x only saving his family x but he's literally saving the whole like x middle east right the egypt and also the x whole of the middle east at this time x atlanta kanan is um hit hard by this x they have money so they have resources x but they don't have food so let's take x the resources that we have the money we x hear that egypt has food bring some of x this money and some other things and x bring it down x uh to egypt to buy food and so joseph is x really you know i wouldn't say joseph is x a micro manager i don't think he was x but he knew what was going on right he x knew how he had a whole operation of x distribution right but it's also a way x of x egypt saving itself it's also a way of x egypt of of getting money as well they x have all this extra grain x so finally after decades x joseph and his brothers now come face to x face with each other x right and guess what they do x well they bow down to joseph x right and so that dream is fulfilled x joseph is the governor of all egypt x um x joseph knows who they are x you know after 20 years right if you x look at pictures like 20 years ago of me x i look relatively the same i mean i've x obviously gotten older x but 20 years like you you still you just x look like the like an old an older x person right you still have the same x facial features and i'm sure when x joseph's looking at his brother he's x like oh yeah that's definitely reuben x look at these guys x right you haven't changed a bit x uh you know levi and simeon are looking x for fights you know whatever so anyways x he sees them they don't know who he is x because number one he's speaking x egyptian x number two he looks like an egyptian x because his head is shaven he's dressed x like an egyptian x they think the last time they knew about x joseph he was a slave he was a nobody x so how could this guy possibly be joseph x so he wasn't computing in their brains x they were very confused about a lot of x stuff that was going on x um x he he cries when he when he sees them x he cries x i think it sees i think i i wonder how x long it took joseph to kind of get over x um how he was treated you know we think x that you know he joseph obviously was a x very faithful god-fearing person but he x was also human being right now he had an x opportunity to seek revenge and get into x the brother it was perfect x what a perfect set up for joseph x oh i got another dream for you guys x right x uh he has a different mentality you know x brother jason was talking about things x in our lives that change us x well joseph went through some things as x well x and it changed him x he certainly had gotten over he x certainly had forgiven his brothers and x sisters his brothers for what he had x what they had done to him so he was a x different person but anyways he's gonna x he wants to see what type of individuals x he's dealing with because the last time x he saw his brothers it wasn't great x so we accused the zimmer being spies you x come down now we're just coming here for x food now you are spies you're gonna spy x out the land x um so we put simeon into jail x uh he wants to see benjamin right so we x know the story they put the sacks full x of grain x and in it joseph puts the money as well x and so they're like freaked out by this x they get back and not only do they have x the grain but they have the money as x well they just had this kind of run in x with a pretty gruff x individual who was the governor of egypt x it wasn't great and now they're really x freaked out by this they got the they x got the big sacks of corn which is great x but they also have their money and so x they tell jacob this story and jacob's x like what is going on every time i send x you guys to do something there's a x problem x so uh x you know he tells the story and jake and x it's like the one thing that jacob x doesn't want to give up x you know the other son by rachel is x beloved x well what does this guy want x he wants benjamin x oh you know jacob's like it never ends x with these guys x it's kind of like uh you know david with x the sons of zaraga these sons of zero x why are too hard for me you know i think x jacob probably said that about his kids x these kids x i think we've all said that about our x kids x all right so anyways uh we'll finish x this up uh the food runs out as we know x jacob is running out of options he has x to send benjamin down they end up in x joseph's house for a meal they're having x he speaks kindly to his brothers they're x having a great time x you know there's a x couple of strange things going on x they're seated according to uh age x come on x you know joseph's just kind of messing x with them now right he's according to x age and also gives um like five times x the amount of food dementia x which is great and they're like what is x going on but they're having a nice meal x okay leave it alone there's a couple x crazy things going on okay no problem x right x um x joseph gives them as much food as they x they want um they x but he puts the silver the his silver x cup like his cup x uh very you know there was symbolic x meaning in the egyptian culture to that x silver cup we won't get into it but it x was it was very it was like a symbol of x his authority and power x anyways joseph puts it into benjamin x sack x right like benjamin says oh x he's he's grabbing things left and right x right um x they when they find out they you know x they say they they're beyond they're x beside themselves they are now x despairing x you see what has happened here brothers x and sisters joseph 20 years before x was the one that was despairing x now it's his brothers that are desperate x like they they're now x the brothers now are kind of forced x almost to kind of relive the anguish of x joseph x right x and judah kind of steps up and says look x let benjamin go i'll stay in his place x i'll be your servant please which is x interesting because judo is kind of x slimy character right he was a little x slimy character but he's changes as well x he's changed into a leader he's x sacrificing himself now x for benjamin no one sacrificed x themselves for joseph at that time no x one did right they'd get rid of this guy x and so joseph is moved by this he's x moved by it and now he comes he clears x the house and he cries with a loud voice x you know he can't hide it any longer now x we have this wonderful reunion x right and he says this is a great line x this is what joseph says now therefore x be not grieved x nor angry with yourselves don't forgive x yourselves he's telling he's telling his x brothers to forgive themselves right x that ye sold me hither x for god did not send me before you for x god did send me before you to preserve x life this was the reason why i'm here x this is why i had to go through these x things x joseph recognizes that it was god it was x in god's hand all along x i'm gonna let's leave let's leave with x this with this thought right um x you know how many times in our lives x have we been in a situation where we x don't know how to get out of it we don't x know the end of it just like kind of x like joseph sitting in the pit he x couldn't see an end of that x but god knows the end from the beginning x and it wasn't until joseph went through x 20 years of ups and downs in egypt that x he could look back and look and say x it was god all along x god brought me here for a particular x purpose x sometimes when we're going through these x kind of down times in our lives it can x be hard to see the hand of god x it can be hard to know what the ultimate x plan is going to be for our lives x now x but joseph remain faithful and we need x to remain faithful as well during those x ups and downs times in our lives okay so x this is the other thing too now they x move down into the land of goshen goshen x by the way brothers and sisters the best x land some of the best land in egypt x really x primo land okay lessons for us x number one trust in god right even when x times become difficult forgiveness x do we forgive in our lives despite the x horrible things they did to him jesus x tells us to forgive 70 times seven right x we should do all to the glory of god in x joseph's life regardless of his x circumstances he glorified god and x everything that he did he gave god the x glory not himself when he could have x glorified himself right x god is in control and has a plan x you know we just talked about this and x then five x remember who you are x remember who we are who are we joseph x never forgot his heritage his home his x homeland his family his culture x and his religious beliefs despite being x in a foreign land x right and that's a lesson right that's a x lesson actually that i think other great x men of uh women of faith are going to x take and apply to their lives x particularly i'm just thinking off the x top my head daniel you think daniel x daniel was in a very similar search x situation right there's also dreams x involved in that as well but we know x that daniel remained true to his beliefs x as the x as did joseph