WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.200 --> 00:00:06.080 Welcome to Transformation Church Podcast, where we represent God to 2 00:00:06.120 --> 00:00:09.279 the lost and found for transformation in Christ. We're so 3 00:00:09.400 --> 00:00:12.359 glad you're here and wherever you're listening from, we believe 4 00:00:12.560 --> 00:00:15.199 God will transform your life. Do today's message. 5 00:00:15.640 --> 00:00:17.120 I hope you're doing good this morning. 6 00:00:17.519 --> 00:00:23.120 My name is Charles, and I'm glad you're here today. 7 00:00:23.719 --> 00:00:27.640 A fun piece of information, which is this past week 8 00:00:27.640 --> 00:00:30.960 I found out I was old. So that's why I 9 00:00:31.039 --> 00:00:34.159 got readers. I got readers this past week. And here's 10 00:00:34.159 --> 00:00:36.200 why I got them because a friend went to. 11 00:00:36.159 --> 00:00:37.079 Do an impression of me. 12 00:00:38.000 --> 00:00:44.399 I'll leave this friend unnamed, but he's our youth pastor, and. 13 00:00:44.320 --> 00:00:45.880 He went like this. He said, watch us, watch this. 14 00:00:46.359 --> 00:00:51.280 So the Bible says, So first of all, you wait 15 00:00:51.280 --> 00:00:53.359 till your eyes go you six foot twelve, you're gonna 16 00:00:53.359 --> 00:00:59.119 be needing big glasses. Okay, any all right, here we go. 17 00:00:59.159 --> 00:01:03.000 This is what the Bible says. Genesis, chapter number fifty. 18 00:01:04.159 --> 00:01:05.120 Where are we gonna start here? 19 00:01:05.120 --> 00:01:10.280 We're gonna start in verse number fourteen, Genesis fifty, Verse fourteen. 20 00:01:10.439 --> 00:01:16.319 After burying Jacob, Joseph returned to Egypt with his brothers 21 00:01:17.319 --> 00:01:19.840 and all who had accompanied him to his father's burrier. 22 00:01:21.280 --> 00:01:22.560 But now that their father was. 23 00:01:22.519 --> 00:01:29.239 Dead, Joseph's brothers became fearful. Now Joseph is going to 24 00:01:29.280 --> 00:01:32.200 show his anger and pay us back for all the 25 00:01:32.239 --> 00:01:37.760 wrong we did. So they sent a message to Joseph 26 00:01:38.159 --> 00:01:44.799 before your father died. He instructed us to say, we're sorry. 27 00:01:45.599 --> 00:01:49.560 Please forgive your brothers for the great wrong they did 28 00:01:49.560 --> 00:01:54.239 to you, for their sin and treating you so cruelly. 29 00:01:55.640 --> 00:01:58.159 So we, the servants of God your father, begged you 30 00:01:58.239 --> 00:02:02.480 to forgive our sin. When Joseph received the message, he 31 00:02:02.519 --> 00:02:07.040 broke down and he wept. Then his brothers came and 32 00:02:07.040 --> 00:02:09.240 threw themselves down before Joseph. 33 00:02:09.560 --> 00:02:11.479 Look, we are your slaves, they said. 34 00:02:12.680 --> 00:02:13.759 But Joseph applied. 35 00:02:14.719 --> 00:02:15.879 Do not be afraid of me. 36 00:02:17.319 --> 00:02:21.039 Am I God that I can punish you. You intended 37 00:02:21.039 --> 00:02:26.759 to harm me. You intended to harm me, but God intended. 38 00:02:30.280 --> 00:02:31.759 I gotta say this because I'm not gonna preach it 39 00:02:31.800 --> 00:02:34.000 in the sermon. But those are the same word there. 40 00:02:34.639 --> 00:02:36.520 It's the same Greek word in the original language. And 41 00:02:36.520 --> 00:02:38.439 why I'm saying that is because we sing things like, 42 00:02:38.719 --> 00:02:40.800 oh the devil did it, but then God turned it. 43 00:02:42.000 --> 00:02:44.560 God is not so weak that he has to turn anything. 44 00:02:44.560 --> 00:02:50.080 The devil's doing. He's greater than the devil, so in 45 00:02:50.240 --> 00:02:53.840 his sovereignty and his understanding of the plan of our life, 46 00:02:53.919 --> 00:02:56.759 he accounted for that to go wrong, and he already 47 00:02:56.840 --> 00:03:01.159 knew it was gonna make you better. I don't have 48 00:03:01.280 --> 00:03:03.280 to make the God does not have to make do 49 00:03:03.800 --> 00:03:06.400 with stuff the devil is doing, and try to get 50 00:03:06.400 --> 00:03:08.000 it together. And oh, let me see if I can 51 00:03:08.080 --> 00:03:08.719 work this out. 52 00:03:09.639 --> 00:03:10.479 He already knows. 53 00:03:11.960 --> 00:03:18.800 Readers back on, you intended to harm me, but God 54 00:03:18.800 --> 00:03:22.240 intended it all for good, for he brought me to 55 00:03:22.400 --> 00:03:27.919 this position so I could save the lives of many people. 56 00:03:29.240 --> 00:03:34.039 So don't be afraid. I will continue to take care 57 00:03:34.080 --> 00:03:39.360 of you. So he reassured them by speaking kindly to them. 58 00:03:40.479 --> 00:03:46.199 The title of my sermon today three words, three important words, 59 00:03:46.280 --> 00:03:50.439 three powerful words, three words I think we need to embrace. 60 00:03:50.599 --> 00:03:52.759 Three words that I think will help you get through 61 00:03:53.120 --> 00:04:01.879 your week, your month, and your year. I was wrong. 62 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:08.879 There was a second where I thought I wasn't gonna 63 00:04:08.919 --> 00:04:16.519 make it, But thank God, I was wrong. I spent 64 00:04:16.560 --> 00:04:18.800 a lot of my life afraid of what people thought 65 00:04:18.800 --> 00:04:21.439 about me, and I thought that my failures were gonna 66 00:04:21.439 --> 00:04:21.959 define me. 67 00:04:22.079 --> 00:04:26.319 But thanks be to God, I was wrong. 68 00:04:27.839 --> 00:04:30.120 I thought that last season of loneliness was gonna be 69 00:04:30.120 --> 00:04:31.319 the last season I would. 70 00:04:31.079 --> 00:04:33.639 Ever know, but thank god I was wrong. 71 00:04:33.720 --> 00:04:36.759 I thought anxiety was gonna always be my portion, but 72 00:04:37.360 --> 00:04:39.959 I was wrong. I thought his mercy only ran to 73 00:04:40.040 --> 00:04:43.120 good people, but I was wrong. I thought the grave 74 00:04:43.240 --> 00:04:46.319 was gonna hold him, but thank god I was wrong. 75 00:04:46.480 --> 00:04:50.480 I thought that my family's lineage was gonna keep on going, 76 00:04:50.879 --> 00:04:54.000 but thank god I was wrong. They said we wouldn't 77 00:04:54.040 --> 00:04:56.480 have a baby, and I believed it for a second, 78 00:04:56.519 --> 00:05:00.439 but thank god I was wrong. They said that this 79 00:05:00.560 --> 00:05:04.639 season would be my whole lifestyle, but thank god. 80 00:05:05.399 --> 00:05:06.199 I was wrong. 81 00:05:07.120 --> 00:05:09.560 I started to slip in the water when Jesus told 82 00:05:09.560 --> 00:05:11.399 me to get out, and I thought I was gonna. 83 00:05:11.160 --> 00:05:16.319 Drown, but he reached down. Thank God I was wrong. 84 00:05:17.839 --> 00:05:19.800 Spent a lot of my life trying to be right, 85 00:05:19.839 --> 00:05:23.319 but I'm grateful that there were some things. 86 00:05:24.839 --> 00:05:28.759 I got wrong. I was wrong. I was wrong. I 87 00:05:28.839 --> 00:05:31.920 was wrong, and I'm glad I was wrong. 88 00:05:33.720 --> 00:05:35.839 I was certain about some things and how they were 89 00:05:35.839 --> 00:05:41.279 gonna go, but I was wrong. I thought I knew 90 00:05:41.360 --> 00:05:45.680 how my life was gonna go, but I was wrong. 91 00:05:48.639 --> 00:05:58.560 Dear God, would you change us? Would you encounter us. 92 00:06:01.360 --> 00:06:01.800 Would you. 93 00:06:03.879 --> 00:06:07.399 Help us to see our lives and our future and 94 00:06:07.439 --> 00:06:13.040 our children the way you see them. We need your presence, 95 00:06:13.120 --> 00:06:15.920 we need your glory, We need your goodness, we need 96 00:06:15.920 --> 00:06:18.199 your mercy. And I think you over these next couple 97 00:06:18.240 --> 00:06:21.040 of moments that we spend together, that you would lead 98 00:06:21.120 --> 00:06:24.279 us and that you would guide us. It's in the 99 00:06:24.279 --> 00:06:29.160 beautiful name of Jesus we pray. And everybody said, Amen, Amen, Amen, 100 00:06:30.199 --> 00:06:32.000 Zach you just rock with me, man, because we're gonna 101 00:06:32.000 --> 00:06:37.879 get straight to business. We've been talking about fear, and 102 00:06:39.040 --> 00:06:41.399 I want to introduce something to you today that I 103 00:06:41.399 --> 00:06:43.279 think is vitally important. 104 00:06:42.879 --> 00:06:47.120 For not only the way you think, but the way 105 00:06:47.160 --> 00:06:47.519 you live. 106 00:06:49.879 --> 00:06:54.399 And here's the central theme of today's sermon. The most 107 00:06:54.480 --> 00:07:01.160 dangerous thing about fear is not that it makes you emotional, 108 00:07:03.079 --> 00:07:03.360 is that. 109 00:07:03.319 --> 00:07:04.120 It makes you certain. 110 00:07:06.759 --> 00:07:12.680 There's nothing like the certainty of fear, the certainty of 111 00:07:12.839 --> 00:07:16.360 knowing what's gonna happen, and fear has a way of 112 00:07:16.439 --> 00:07:19.360 doing that to all of us. Fear will have us 113 00:07:19.399 --> 00:07:23.560 certain about stuff there's no way we can know. Fear 114 00:07:23.600 --> 00:07:26.879 will have you obsessed with stuff that you can't control, 115 00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:31.560 and fear will cost you. The very thing fear is 116 00:07:31.600 --> 00:07:37.120 promising you, it's protecting, and today I just want to 117 00:07:37.160 --> 00:07:40.800 take a couple of moments to submit to you that 118 00:07:40.959 --> 00:07:45.720 maybe fear has been lying to you, because there's nothing. 119 00:07:45.560 --> 00:07:49.319 Like being certain. There's nothing like just knowing. 120 00:07:50.319 --> 00:07:52.199 I mean, for a second, I know we got the 121 00:07:52.199 --> 00:07:54.120 piano with us, so it's just to stay with me. 122 00:07:54.319 --> 00:07:56.920 But do you remember when you were young, how certain 123 00:07:56.959 --> 00:08:01.519 you were, how much you knew. Oh, I know exactly 124 00:08:01.560 --> 00:08:03.839 how my life is gonna go. I know exactly how. 125 00:08:04.199 --> 00:08:07.120 I mean that. I can bet you there is nobody. 126 00:08:06.639 --> 00:08:10.519 More certain than like a sixteen or seventeen year old 127 00:08:10.560 --> 00:08:13.600 with no job, no opportunities, no future, and they just 128 00:08:13.639 --> 00:08:17.199 be knowing something from about a certain section in our 129 00:08:17.279 --> 00:08:18.279 churches right over here. 130 00:08:19.519 --> 00:08:22.199 They just nothing I already know. 131 00:08:24.959 --> 00:08:32.480 But there's nothing like maturity that turns your certainty into mystery. 132 00:08:33.159 --> 00:08:34.759 I don't know if you've had this experience, but the 133 00:08:34.759 --> 00:08:38.720 older I've gotten, it feels like I got more questions. 134 00:08:40.080 --> 00:08:42.320 I felt like, oh, the older you get, the more 135 00:08:42.399 --> 00:08:43.320 sure you become. 136 00:08:43.600 --> 00:08:44.759 And in some ways it's true. 137 00:08:44.799 --> 00:08:49.279 But in some other ways, I've been wrong enough times 138 00:08:49.279 --> 00:08:51.559 about stuff I knew I was gonna be right. 139 00:08:51.480 --> 00:08:57.320 About to know maybe I don't know as much as 140 00:08:57.320 --> 00:08:58.080 I think I know. 141 00:08:59.480 --> 00:09:03.159 Genesis, after number thirty seven, we meet a certain seventeen 142 00:09:03.240 --> 00:09:07.399 year old. His name is Joseph, and Joseph isn't anybody. 143 00:09:07.480 --> 00:09:13.480 He's a favored son. His great grandfather started this whole thing, 144 00:09:14.759 --> 00:09:20.480 Abraham Abraham Isaac Jacob. Jacob's name gets changed to Israel. 145 00:09:20.919 --> 00:09:26.559 He has twelve boys, one of them Joseph, and Joseph 146 00:09:26.840 --> 00:09:29.159 is seventeen years old when he meet him, and the 147 00:09:29.159 --> 00:09:32.639 Bible gives us detail in Genesis thirty seven that his 148 00:09:32.799 --> 00:09:36.960 daddy loves him more than all his other kids. Now 149 00:09:37.120 --> 00:09:39.200 you're not technically supposed to be saying that out loud, 150 00:09:41.240 --> 00:09:42.240 but his daddy don't care. 151 00:09:42.440 --> 00:09:44.159 He doesn't care at all. 152 00:09:44.240 --> 00:09:46.159 He loves him so much he gives him like a 153 00:09:46.200 --> 00:09:47.960 special jacket that he don't give. 154 00:09:47.919 --> 00:09:52.039 To nobody else. He gives him his jacket. 155 00:09:52.840 --> 00:09:55.159 The Bible tells us that around seventeen years old, that 156 00:09:55.200 --> 00:09:59.799 he has a dream, and in his dream, he's a 157 00:10:00.120 --> 00:10:05.039 he's stars, and his brothers are other stars, and all 158 00:10:05.039 --> 00:10:08.840 of a sudden, his brothers start to bow to him. 159 00:10:09.000 --> 00:10:11.039 And then he has another dream, and in this dreams, 160 00:10:11.279 --> 00:10:13.159 they're all bundles of wheat, and his is in the 161 00:10:13.200 --> 00:10:18.879 center and all his brothers bow to him. And with 162 00:10:18.919 --> 00:10:22.879 a dream like that and a coat like he had, 163 00:10:23.960 --> 00:10:27.840 I'm sure he was certain. Oh, I know how this 164 00:10:27.879 --> 00:10:32.000 is gonna go. Step number one. I gotta go tell 165 00:10:32.039 --> 00:10:36.919 my brothers. Bible tells O. Joseph rolls up on his 166 00:10:37.000 --> 00:10:45.159 brothers and he says, hey, y'all, I got a dream 167 00:10:45.159 --> 00:10:47.440 that black people and white people. 168 00:10:51.559 --> 00:10:53.840 The white man, instead of checking it has bounced. 169 00:10:53.879 --> 00:10:55.840 Come on, somebody, y'all don't know that about Martin Luther 170 00:10:55.879 --> 00:10:58.720 King jer At first, I have a dream speech. He 171 00:10:58.759 --> 00:11:00.159 comes up to his brothers and he tells some of 172 00:11:00.200 --> 00:11:02.120 the dream and he says, hey, listen, I don't know 173 00:11:02.440 --> 00:11:04.080 you know, I know you kind of mad at me 174 00:11:04.120 --> 00:11:06.399 because you know I got the coat. It ain't nothing 175 00:11:06.440 --> 00:11:10.159 about it but a g thing. But anyways, I had 176 00:11:10.200 --> 00:11:15.320 this dream and in the dream, you know I didn't 177 00:11:15.320 --> 00:11:18.879 I didn't give myself the dream. 178 00:11:17.559 --> 00:11:19.759 But you were bowing to me. 179 00:11:21.960 --> 00:11:23.840 And I can only imagine this ain't even biblical. 180 00:11:23.919 --> 00:11:25.960 This is just brothers. I got a brother. I know 181 00:11:25.960 --> 00:11:28.720 how brothers get down. Brother, you don't shut up right 182 00:11:28.720 --> 00:11:33.960 now'll be quiet. Ain't nobody bowing to you. Ain't nobody 183 00:11:34.000 --> 00:11:36.360 bout to be little do But I'm serious. I'm serious, bru. 184 00:11:36.480 --> 00:11:39.919 Hey, listen, I had a dream. 185 00:11:40.000 --> 00:11:41.639 I had another one too, Bro. Anybody want to hear 186 00:11:41.639 --> 00:11:42.200 your second dream? 187 00:11:42.200 --> 00:11:43.240 We don't hear the first dream. 188 00:11:44.399 --> 00:11:47.159 You better be quiet, no, bro, just listen, Just listen. 189 00:11:47.200 --> 00:11:48.919 That's probably it's just different. It's different. It's different. 190 00:11:49.200 --> 00:11:50.960 But don't play with me if this is the same. 191 00:11:51.039 --> 00:11:53.720 If you about to say something stupid, don't say it now, bro, 192 00:11:53.840 --> 00:11:58.919 Just listen. I swear all right, go ahead. So we're 193 00:11:58.919 --> 00:12:02.360 all in the field, right and then I'm in the middle, 194 00:12:03.480 --> 00:12:05.000 and y'all start the boy if he. 195 00:12:05.039 --> 00:12:07.120 Don't be quiet with this dream, I promise you. 196 00:12:11.679 --> 00:12:14.120 And the Bible tells us that he tells him the dream, 197 00:12:14.159 --> 00:12:17.279 and they start resenting him. 198 00:12:17.639 --> 00:12:19.120 And you may be familiar with this story. 199 00:12:19.159 --> 00:12:20.679 You may not, but if you grew up in church, 200 00:12:20.720 --> 00:12:23.720 we all kind of know Joseph's story. He's a young man, 201 00:12:23.879 --> 00:12:26.440 he has a dream, and we kind of skip through 202 00:12:26.480 --> 00:12:28.840 his story. He goes from the pit to the palace, 203 00:12:28.879 --> 00:12:30.600 to the pit to in charge, and we do all 204 00:12:30.639 --> 00:12:31.120 these things. 205 00:12:31.240 --> 00:12:33.840 But I want to zone in for a moment. 206 00:12:36.200 --> 00:12:40.279 On the fear of a seventeen. 207 00:12:39.720 --> 00:12:40.840 Year old man. 208 00:12:41.919 --> 00:12:46.320 That the Bible tells us gets jumped by his eleven brothers. 209 00:12:48.559 --> 00:12:53.720 And thrown into a pit. This is what happened. 210 00:12:54.200 --> 00:12:59.159 The Bible tells us that he's walking up and they 211 00:12:59.159 --> 00:12:59.759 see him coming. 212 00:12:59.799 --> 00:13:01.519 Look, I'm gonna I'm gonna read it for you. Just 213 00:13:01.519 --> 00:13:03.000 say all. I'm thinking like, man, he just making all 214 00:13:03.000 --> 00:13:03.279 this up. 215 00:13:03.600 --> 00:13:06.080 Man, come on, get out of here. Genesis thirty seven. 216 00:13:06.120 --> 00:13:08.519 I believe it is right here, Genesis thirty seven, eighteen. 217 00:13:08.600 --> 00:13:11.440 When Joseph's brothers saw him coming, they recognized him from 218 00:13:11.440 --> 00:13:15.159 a distance. As he approached, they made plans to kill him. 219 00:13:15.679 --> 00:13:18.639 Here comes that dreamer. Come on, let's kill him and 220 00:13:18.639 --> 00:13:20.039 throw him into one of these cisterns. 221 00:13:20.480 --> 00:13:24.480 We'll tell our father wild animal has eaten him. But 222 00:13:24.639 --> 00:13:28.960 Ruben heard their scheme. Let's not kill him, and Ruben 223 00:13:29.000 --> 00:13:31.000 makes a plan. He says, listen, we'll just throw him 224 00:13:31.039 --> 00:13:34.320 in there. And Ruben's plan is to come back and get. 225 00:13:34.159 --> 00:13:35.519 Him when the other brothers leave. 226 00:13:37.759 --> 00:13:39.919 But if you think about the scene, I mean, this 227 00:13:39.960 --> 00:13:42.080 is a seventeen year old that this is. He is 228 00:13:42.120 --> 00:13:46.480 my brothers, this is my people, this is my family. 229 00:13:48.080 --> 00:13:50.720 What's up, guys? Hey, come here real quick. 230 00:13:50.799 --> 00:13:54.879 Let's talk to you, all right, what's up? 231 00:13:54.919 --> 00:13:55.480 God? 232 00:13:55.840 --> 00:14:02.639 Hey, come over here. What's going on? Guys? What's up 233 00:14:02.679 --> 00:14:05.679 with the vibes are a little weird? 234 00:14:06.200 --> 00:14:07.559 No, man, we ain't. 235 00:14:08.240 --> 00:14:13.399 We're done with the dream and stuff. Come here, Hey, yo, stop? 236 00:14:13.919 --> 00:14:19.480 What are y'all? Guys? And the Bible tells us eleven brothers. 237 00:14:20.720 --> 00:14:25.480 Grabbed their little brother and throw him into a pit. 238 00:14:28.399 --> 00:14:34.440 This is where certainty starts to fade for our character Joseph. 239 00:14:34.600 --> 00:14:39.200 Because I just knew. I knew God gave me this dream. 240 00:14:39.799 --> 00:14:41.320 I knew he was talking to me. 241 00:14:41.919 --> 00:14:43.240 I knew he had a plan. 242 00:14:43.919 --> 00:14:46.639 I knew I wasn't like everybody else. I knew that 243 00:14:46.720 --> 00:14:48.799 he put something in me. I just knew that it 244 00:14:48.840 --> 00:14:51.360 wasn't gonna be my story like everybody else's story. I 245 00:14:51.480 --> 00:14:54.000 just knew that it meant something different when God spoke 246 00:14:54.039 --> 00:14:56.159 to me. I just knew that he called me out 247 00:14:56.279 --> 00:14:57.879 before I was in my mother's womb. 248 00:14:57.679 --> 00:14:59.320 And he had a plan to prosper me and not 249 00:14:59.440 --> 00:15:04.120 to I just you knew it, And all of a sudden, 250 00:15:05.240 --> 00:15:06.200 what you think you know? 251 00:15:08.159 --> 00:15:15.960 You don't know no more. He was wrong. He was 252 00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:21.320 wrong about his brothers. Because I thought your family was 253 00:15:21.320 --> 00:15:26.799 the place you go to get your dreams. Reassured, supported 254 00:15:28.120 --> 00:15:32.879 and encouraged. But sadly, Joseph's not the only one to 255 00:15:32.919 --> 00:15:38.480 find out that you can be wrong about people. The 256 00:15:38.519 --> 00:15:42.440 Bible tells us he's in the pit, and this is 257 00:15:42.440 --> 00:15:43.759 what happens when you're in a pit, when you're in 258 00:15:43.799 --> 00:15:45.240 a dark season, when you thought your life was going 259 00:15:45.279 --> 00:15:46.799 to go one way and it starts going another way. 260 00:15:47.039 --> 00:15:50.120 Is your certainty has to It starts fading a little bit, 261 00:15:50.159 --> 00:15:52.919 but not too much, because the Bible tells us that 262 00:15:52.919 --> 00:15:55.039 they change up the plan and they come to get it. 263 00:15:56.559 --> 00:15:58.159 And now this is where the story turns, because if 264 00:15:58.200 --> 00:16:00.440 I'm Joseph, I'm in the pit, and I hear my 265 00:16:00.480 --> 00:16:03.919 brother say, yo, Joe, Joe, you down now? 266 00:16:05.519 --> 00:16:08.200 Yeah, I'm down here. What's up? Hey, man, we're gonna 267 00:16:08.200 --> 00:16:16.039 get you out. I knew y'all was playing. Hey, don't 268 00:16:16.080 --> 00:16:19.519 even worry about it. They get him out, no doubt. 269 00:16:19.559 --> 00:16:20.799 He starts to feel hope again. 270 00:16:21.919 --> 00:16:26.080 I'm good, I'm good, I'm good. And then it says 271 00:16:26.120 --> 00:16:34.039 there's travelers going by, and they sell him to these strangers. 272 00:16:37.919 --> 00:16:43.600 Wrong again, Joseph. Then the Bible tells us his story 273 00:16:43.639 --> 00:16:45.639 progresses a little bit. He finds himself in Egypt, and 274 00:16:45.679 --> 00:16:47.759 he finds himself working for a man named Potiphar, and 275 00:16:47.799 --> 00:16:51.120 Potiphar is a big deal. He's in charge. And no doubt, 276 00:16:52.200 --> 00:16:54.639 this is gotta be the dream. 277 00:16:55.120 --> 00:17:00.759 This is definitely it. This is definitely it. Brother's gone. 278 00:17:01.879 --> 00:17:07.079 I'm out of slavery. I've worked my way up, I've 279 00:17:07.079 --> 00:17:09.640 got a decent job. This is god to be a 280 00:17:09.720 --> 00:17:11.799 dream that he showed me when I was seventeen. 281 00:17:11.880 --> 00:17:13.000 This is it, for sure? 282 00:17:15.559 --> 00:17:20.720 Wrong again, that ain't the dream, Joe, because the Bible 283 00:17:20.759 --> 00:17:24.000 tells us that Potiphar's wife had an eye for Joseph. 284 00:17:25.079 --> 00:17:27.440 Now we always make light of this. I've definitely done it. 285 00:17:27.960 --> 00:17:31.680 Cougar came in, it's all josephin ain't nothing like an 286 00:17:31.720 --> 00:17:32.519 Egyptsuan cougar. 287 00:17:32.559 --> 00:17:39.559 He's like what he was that me. But the accusations 288 00:17:39.559 --> 00:17:40.200 are not a joke. 289 00:17:42.599 --> 00:17:44.880 Accusations can change your life. 290 00:17:45.519 --> 00:17:46.799 And he did nothing wrong. 291 00:17:51.000 --> 00:17:54.680 And there goes that certainty gone again. 292 00:17:56.440 --> 00:17:59.599 In prison. And what you don't know. 293 00:17:59.519 --> 00:18:01.799 About this unless you study into the scripture is from 294 00:18:02.519 --> 00:18:06.279 seventeen years old when he has the dream, working his 295 00:18:06.319 --> 00:18:08.599 way up in Potiphars and then thrown in jail. He's 296 00:18:08.640 --> 00:18:15.359 thirty years old. Years I guess they forgot about me. 297 00:18:17.240 --> 00:18:17.640 I guess. 298 00:18:19.160 --> 00:18:21.920 And it's interesting with fear is when your life starts 299 00:18:21.960 --> 00:18:27.359 going like this, Fear starts telling you stories of certainty. 300 00:18:28.079 --> 00:18:34.640 You didn't hear God. You ain't special, you think. 301 00:18:34.519 --> 00:18:35.319 God spoke to you. 302 00:18:37.000 --> 00:18:43.119 No, you'll always be overlooked. You'll always be like your dad. 303 00:18:45.240 --> 00:18:48.119 People will always know you by the mistakes you made. 304 00:18:49.559 --> 00:18:52.039 It doesn't matter how hard you try, it doesn't matter 305 00:18:52.079 --> 00:18:53.000 how hard you work. 306 00:18:53.319 --> 00:18:54.359 This is your story. 307 00:18:54.400 --> 00:19:01.880 Now, Joseph is in the pit, he's in prison, and again, 308 00:19:01.920 --> 00:19:08.079 I mean, his whole life is this roller coaster of certainty, fear, certainty, fear, certainty, fear, 309 00:19:08.119 --> 00:19:11.440 and it's this limbo. And there's these two people in 310 00:19:11.480 --> 00:19:17.240 the prison, a baker and a cupbearer, and they come 311 00:19:17.279 --> 00:19:23.079 to him and they're having dreams. And here's what you 312 00:19:23.119 --> 00:19:24.519 need to know, just to encourage somebody. 313 00:19:24.680 --> 00:19:25.240 No matter what. 314 00:19:25.279 --> 00:19:27.480 Season you're in, no matter how dark it may feel, 315 00:19:27.640 --> 00:19:28.880 God still put that gift on. 316 00:19:28.799 --> 00:19:29.640 The inside of you. 317 00:19:30.960 --> 00:19:32.880 And no matter where anybody puts you, it doesn't matter 318 00:19:32.920 --> 00:19:35.039 if they hire you, it doesn't matter if they promote you. 319 00:19:35.240 --> 00:19:37.359 They can't touch the gift on the inside of you 320 00:19:37.400 --> 00:19:38.440 because they didn't put it there. 321 00:19:41.519 --> 00:19:42.519 Sometimes we like to. 322 00:19:42.480 --> 00:19:44.680 Wait, like I'm gonna wait to do my gift until I. 323 00:19:44.680 --> 00:19:47.240 Really everybody can see it. But Joseph is in a 324 00:19:47.359 --> 00:19:49.200 prison with two people. 325 00:19:48.920 --> 00:19:51.559 That can do nothing from him, and he's sitting there thinking, well, 326 00:19:51.559 --> 00:19:53.240 why I'm down here, I might as well make a 327 00:19:53.240 --> 00:19:55.519 difference while I'm down here. I might as well do 328 00:19:55.599 --> 00:19:57.640 what God made me to do. While I'm down here, 329 00:19:57.759 --> 00:19:59.599 I might as well make the devil mad. While I'm 330 00:19:59.599 --> 00:20:01.920 down here, I might as well do something that's not 331 00:20:02.000 --> 00:20:02.440 about me. 332 00:20:03.400 --> 00:20:07.160 And they have these two dreams and there's a lot 333 00:20:07.160 --> 00:20:08.200 of Bible will come in today. 334 00:20:08.200 --> 00:20:10.359 Genesis thirty seven is Genesis fifty Go read it for 335 00:20:10.400 --> 00:20:12.000 yourself this week, just to make sure I ain't making 336 00:20:12.079 --> 00:20:16.279 up no parts of this story. He sits there two 337 00:20:16.400 --> 00:20:19.400 dreams and he's like, hey man, so good news and 338 00:20:19.440 --> 00:20:24.200 bad news. You gonna die, You're gonna get out in 339 00:20:24.200 --> 00:20:26.799 a couple of days, and you're gonna die. You though, 340 00:20:27.440 --> 00:20:31.359 you're gonna get out, and you're gonna get promoted. They're like, really, 341 00:20:31.960 --> 00:20:33.720 of course, the one guy that's down here, Look, she line, 342 00:20:33.720 --> 00:20:34.599 you don't know nothing. 343 00:20:35.960 --> 00:20:38.119 Nothing like you ever get a prophetic word line. 344 00:20:38.160 --> 00:20:38.759 They don't know nothing. 345 00:20:41.119 --> 00:20:42.200 It happens. 346 00:20:43.599 --> 00:20:48.200 Gets out, one man dies, the other man gets promoted 347 00:20:48.240 --> 00:20:49.279 back to his position. 348 00:20:49.039 --> 00:20:50.240 Of the cup bearer of the king. 349 00:20:50.599 --> 00:20:54.200 The only problem is Joseph asked, Yo, when you get out, 350 00:20:57.279 --> 00:21:02.240 don't forget about me like my brothers did. Don't forget 351 00:21:02.240 --> 00:21:06.799 about me like everybody else. Just promise me one thing. 352 00:21:06.839 --> 00:21:10.599 When you get out of here, remember me. 353 00:21:13.559 --> 00:21:14.519 He doesn't remember. 354 00:21:14.279 --> 00:21:21.960 Him until there's a scripture that says, your gift will 355 00:21:21.960 --> 00:21:26.960 make room for you. And Pharaoh had a lot of 356 00:21:27.000 --> 00:21:30.160 magicians around him, but he didn't have no profits. 357 00:21:31.559 --> 00:21:32.279 There's a difference. 358 00:21:33.599 --> 00:21:37.559 He starts being tormented by these dreams, and at just 359 00:21:37.640 --> 00:21:44.039 the right time, the cup bear remembers Joseph, Yo, King, 360 00:21:44.079 --> 00:21:44.400 there was. 361 00:21:44.440 --> 00:21:46.599 This guy in prison. 362 00:21:47.720 --> 00:21:51.880 I don't know if he's still there, but he can 363 00:21:52.079 --> 00:21:56.319 his god be telling him what's going on. Goes and 364 00:21:56.319 --> 00:21:59.200 gets Hi brings before the king. He says, hey, listen, 365 00:21:59.200 --> 00:22:02.799 it's gonna seven years famine. You need to store up, 366 00:22:03.920 --> 00:22:05.599 and then there's gonna be there's gonna be seven years 367 00:22:05.599 --> 00:22:08.000 of plenty. You need to store up during that time, 368 00:22:08.359 --> 00:22:09.759 and then there's gonna be seven years of famine. 369 00:22:09.759 --> 00:22:11.240 And if you store up, and here's. 370 00:22:11.039 --> 00:22:13.240 The beautiful thing about our God, this is what I 371 00:22:13.240 --> 00:22:15.440 want to say real quick. Everybody that God is talking 372 00:22:15.480 --> 00:22:17.039 to ain't called to be a preacher. 373 00:22:19.359 --> 00:22:26.960 This is business strategy, This is economical insight. This is it. Everybody. 374 00:22:26.960 --> 00:22:28.480 You have a moment at the altar and it's like, 375 00:22:28.640 --> 00:22:30.759 I need to be on the host team. No, you 376 00:22:30.799 --> 00:22:34.039 don't go back to your job and let God speak 377 00:22:34.079 --> 00:22:37.519 to you about how to change that industry. 378 00:22:37.599 --> 00:22:39.880 If we all up in here, who's helping the people 379 00:22:39.920 --> 00:22:43.720 out there? So do what God made you to do. 380 00:22:43.880 --> 00:22:47.440 Start that business, run that company, create the app. I 381 00:22:47.440 --> 00:22:49.880 don't know what it is, but God will empower you 382 00:22:50.119 --> 00:22:52.400 and give you divine wisdom. 383 00:22:51.960 --> 00:22:56.400 And insight to make a difference. He gives him this wisdom, 384 00:22:56.599 --> 00:22:57.680 and again here we go. 385 00:22:57.799 --> 00:23:01.160 This is got to be the dream. This is got 386 00:23:01.160 --> 00:23:04.440 to be the dream. Why because it's kind of the dream. 387 00:23:04.680 --> 00:23:05.599 Because some people. 388 00:23:05.400 --> 00:23:06.079 Are bowing to me. 389 00:23:07.680 --> 00:23:10.200 And here's the thing I've learned in my own life 390 00:23:10.400 --> 00:23:16.920 that fear will have you negotiate with your dream. This 391 00:23:17.000 --> 00:23:22.680 is close enough. This is I've been single so long. 392 00:23:22.720 --> 00:23:26.039 They're close, and they're close. They're not exactly what I saw. 393 00:23:26.079 --> 00:23:28.960 They're not exactly what God showed me. They're not exactly 394 00:23:29.000 --> 00:23:32.799 don't treat me exactly the way, but I can't be alone. 395 00:23:32.880 --> 00:23:41.440 So this this is probably this is probably it not 396 00:23:41.559 --> 00:23:50.160 the dream from Genesis thirty seven. It's Genesis fifty. We 397 00:23:50.279 --> 00:23:56.759 find out the moment when his dreams come true. Genesis 398 00:23:56.799 --> 00:24:03.440 chapter number forty five. Joseph reveals his identity as the heading. 399 00:24:03.519 --> 00:24:09.920 Joseph could stand it no longer. There were many people 400 00:24:09.960 --> 00:24:13.279 in the room, and he said, isn't his attendants out 401 00:24:13.720 --> 00:24:19.440