00:00 Introduction and Welcome

00:09 Youth Retreat Updates

01:07 Preparing for Sunday Service

02:38 Genesis 38: Judah and Tamar

06:31 Genesis 39: Joseph in Potiphar's House

10:26 Genesis 40: Joseph Interprets Dreams

11:37 Closing Prayer and Reflections

Hey, everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the daily Bible podcast.

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Glad that you're back with us.

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I'm still flying solo while

the youth are on their retreat.

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And pastor rod is out there with them.

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They do get back today though Saturday.

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So be praying for safe, travel

for them on the way back home.

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And I can't wait to hear what they have

learned about and what they have studied.

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Um, exciting to, to, uh, to

think about how God's gonna use

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that and continue to bear fruit.

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Long after this weekend's down.

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So pray for those things.

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Continue to keep them in mind.

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As you are thinking about them

throughout the day to day, maybe some

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of your parents going to be picking

them up, make sure that you have

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good conversations with the students.

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Talk to them about, Hey, what,

what was your treat like?

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What'd you learn about don't settle for

yes or no answers, but facilitate that

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discussion, ask open-ended questions.

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What was the best thing that

you learned about this weekend?

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What changes do you want to make

as a result of this weekend?

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Uh, what, what was the scripture passage

that pastor rod preached on this weekend?

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Um, ask those kinds of questions.

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How was your con your,

your small group time?

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Prob and, and B take that active

interest in their lives, parents, as you.

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Uh, interact with them

as they are coming home.

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This, uh, this weekend from the retreat.

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Uh, it is Saturday and we are

getting ready for church tomorrow.

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And, uh, I believe it yesterday.

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Uh, most of you received

probably an email in your inbox.

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That is something that we're going

to start doing now, which is going

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to give you an update and kind of a

forecast of the weekend, kind of a

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snapshot of the weekend, sermon out a

little bit longer than what you will

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find in the bulletin most weekends.

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And then it's also going to

have two other things on that.

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So it's going to be given a

snapshot of the weekend sermon.

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That's going to come from me.

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And then you're gonna have an

opportunity to download the bulletin.

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And so the bulletin is going to

be available for you before you

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even get to church on Sunday

digitally, if you want that.

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And so that'll be available for you there.

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And then it's also going to

have our link to our compass.

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NTX weekend worship Spotify playlist.

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And so that is updated every single week.

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And it's updated with the set list

that we sing that weekend in worship.

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And so you'll be able to click on that.

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Listen to some of that.

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Those songs before you get to

church on Sunday, make sure number

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one, that you're familiar with

them and just ready to worship.

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And so that the goal of this email,

that's going to go out on Fridays.

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It's not an announcements email.

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It's not, Hey, this is

what's coming up at compass.

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This is all about our weekend service.

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And it's all to facilitate and help

you get ready to worship on Sunday.

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And so, uh, that will be hopefully in your

inbox by the time that you're listening

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to this, that we'll have gotten there.

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At some point on Friday.

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And you will have that as

a resource moving forward.

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As we continue to try to just improve

what we do here as a church, we want to

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do everything that we do with excellence.

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And this is a way that we're trying to

make that we can service just a little

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bit more intentional, a little bit

better help you prepare to come in and

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worship together on Sunday morning.

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Well, let's get into our Bible reading for

the day we are in Genesis 38 through 40.

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Genesis 38 through 40.

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And in 38, we take a break from Joseph.

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And, uh, what we take a break from

Joseph to focus on is not great.

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I mentioned Rubin's not great.

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Well here, just Judah.

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And though Judah is going to

produce the line of Christ.

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Um, Judah was not a stalwart

character in and of himself.

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And we see that here.

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In this situation.

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And so Judah, uh, goes

in and takes a wife.

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Uh, of Canaanite origin.

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And that that's not a good thing.

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And as a result, she, he has children

by her, including earlier and Onin.

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Uh, and, and these proved to be wicked.

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Children, wicked sons.

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Um, and you have a situation here

with a young woman named Tamar

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and, and earn his first born.

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The first born of Judah takes

Tamar to be his wife and.

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Or ends up dying.

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And so then Onin is told, Hey, you

need to fulfill your obligations.

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And this was part of the way

that, that the next of kin.

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Worked during this time.

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A person's align at lineage

was incredibly important.

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And so the way it would work is

the brother of the deceased brother

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would go into that man's wife.

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And produce offspring to continue

the line, the name of his brother,

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if his brother was not able

to have children yet by her.

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So that's, what's being instructed

here, owning doesn't do this.

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There's other details there.

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And so Judah is going to be in the

wrong here because he sees that Earl

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and Onin are both killed and, and, and

because of their wickedness, ultimately

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this is God's judgment being raw.

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And so Judah is hesitant.

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Doesn't want to give.

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His next son and that would

have been Shayla to her.

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And so he says, why don't you wait.

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And this was not according to custom.

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This was not according to the law,

that the time this was wrong of Judah.

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To do this.

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And so, uh, Tamar is left to her

self to say, okay, how am I going to

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perpetuate the line of my two husbands?

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How am I going to perpetuate

and be cared for myself?

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Because children would

care for their parents.

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And so what she ends up doing

is, again, not justifiable.

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I'm not trying to say what she did

was right, because it's not, but she

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goes, and she deceives you to, uh,

acting like a prostitute and basically.

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Uh, gets him to provide for her that

the air that she was due, that, that.

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Judas son should've

provided for her in place.

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And so it's a.

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It's a messy scene.

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The title of this chapter for me

is just bad, bad, bad, more bad.

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And then at the very end good.

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And the reason why at the very end

good is, uh, this whole messy situation

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of the death, of the taking the wife

from the Canaanite woman and then the

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death of earth, the death of Onin,

and then the deception by Tamar.

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And then what Judah does with Tamar.

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all results in the end, in something

that's not awful because this is

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like I mentioned the line of Christ.

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And so if you look all the way

down to verse 29, Uh, tomorrow

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is going to give birth to twins.

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And the one of the twins is a man

is going to become a man name Perez.

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Okay.

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Perez is the one that is going

to perpetuate the line of Christ.

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So we talked about it yesterday,

even in the infighting in Joseph's

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family, God is still doing things.

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God is still in control.

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God is still working.

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Even here in the midst of all

of this badness in this evil,

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in this wickedness, in this.

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Uh, this immorality and chapter 38.

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God is still working.

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God is not going to be

bumped off of his, his will.

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His plan is not going to be derailed.

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By the sinfulness of mankind, but that's,

what's happening here in chapter 38.

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This is a glimpse into, what's

going to be the line of Christ.

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And, uh, Judah is the, the

head of the line of Christ.

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The line of Judah, right, is

what Jesus is going to be called.

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And this is a little bit of a scene

into how that line is perpetuated.

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It's not pretty.

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It is not pretty, but Perez is

going to be the one that's going

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to perpetuate the line of Christ.

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You can look at Matthew one three

to see that Matthew one, three.

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Alright, Genesis 39.

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Uh, then we shift back to Joseph.

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All right.

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So we're, we're back with Joseph.

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Joseph finds himself in Potiphar's house.

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Potiphar's the one that is, is, uh,

this Ishmaelite caravan had sold him to.

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And so Pottipher had Joseph as a slave and

as an extension of the Abrahamic covenant,

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because Joseph is one of the sons there in

that line, God blesses Pottipher for all

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that he has, uh, for, for Joseph's sake.

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And so anything that that is happening in

Potiphar's house seems to be going well.

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And that leads Potter to say, Hey,

this seems to be as a result of this.

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There's Israelite slave that I have.

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So he promotes Joseph.

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And this is going to be a

common theme in Joseph's life.

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This promotion, God blessing him.

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And at least his promotion.

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And unfortunately it also leads to

his being noticed by Potiphar's wife.

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Uh, Potiphar's wife begins to try to

seduce Joseph and she is pursuing him.

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And, uh, in, in, in.

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And wants to do all

kinds of wicked things.

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And basically.

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Um, Joseph continues to resist and

he resists to the point to the point

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that she finally orchestrates a

situation wherein, um, she's going to

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be able to be alone with him, and she

thinks that it'll work at that point.

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Uh, Joseph's integrity remains intact.

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Uh, that's the key word in

this chapter is integrity.

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Joseph's integrity to

remain remains intact.

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And she then humiliated and angry accuses

him of trying to force himself upon her.

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And, uh, he is taken and

put in jail as a result.

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And, uh, it's interesting here.

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I have to imagine Potter for understood

the type of woman that he was married to.

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Uh, because if this was.

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Any other man, and this was

truly the situation that had

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taken place that he had tried.

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This, this Israelite slave had

tried to force himself upon.

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This man's wife.

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I don't think that Joseph

is living after this.

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I think part of her has to save face.

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I think part of her has to, uh,

defend his wife's character, even

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though she's not worthy of it.

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And so I think that's why Joseph

finds himself in prison and not dead.

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Uh, that in God's obvious provision

and protection of him, but Joseph finds

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himself in jail with really no opportunity

to think that he's getting out.

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This is not the American jail,

uh, or American judiciary system.

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He can't appeal to anyone he's

not getting out of this situation.

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So while he's there, while he's in

prison, again, God's blessing him

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and God blessing everything that,

that Joseph touches basically.

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And so the jailer notices Joseph's

blessings again, because of what, because

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of the Abrahamic covenant God's blessing

those that, that bless Joseph got his.

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Is that, or that, that bless

him, that bless his people.

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And so that's why things are going well.

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So the jailer promotes Joseph

and even give some charges.

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We're going to see here in the next

chapter, over a few of the inmates and.

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Um, Yeah, this is just

an interesting chapter.

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One thing of note that struck me this

time, reading through a story that I've

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read multiple times, it's familiar to us.

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Uh, is in verse 39.

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A lot of times we think of David when we

think of David's sin against Bathsheba.

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When David says in his prayer and Psalm

51, He says against you and you alone.

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Have I sinned?

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And we think of David as an example of

somebody who understood the gravity of our

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sin being first and foremost against God.

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But here Joseph

understands the same thing.

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Joseph has speaking to Potiphar's

wife, as she's trying to seduce him.

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And he says in verse nine, he is not

greater in his house than I am, nor

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has he kept back anything from me,

except you, because you are his wife.

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And we expect him to say,

how could I sin against him?

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Just like you expect David

to say, how could I I've I've

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sinned against vast Sheba.

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I say, I've sinned against Uriah.

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I've sinned against all of these people.

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But instead David says

I've sinned against God.

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Look at 39 9, Joseph says,

how then can I do this great

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wickedness and sin against God?

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Joseph's passion for his integrity

was connected to his relationship

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with God that's who he was concerned.

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About sending against not against a

part of her, even though that would

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have been sitting against Pottipher,

but, but really he was saying, man,

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I'm I don't want to sin against God.

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So Joseph's integrity.

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He's a commendable man, for sure.

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In so many different ways.

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Chapter 40 then, like I said, Joseph

has given charge over two of the

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prisoners in particular, one being the

cup bearer, the other being the baker.

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And they both have dreams and they

both tell the dreams to Joseph.

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And one is favorable that for the cup

air, Joseph tells the cup bearer, you're

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going to be restored to your position.

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You're going to be.

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I brought out of the prison and you're

going to be the King's cup air again.

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And he says, remember me,

remember me when this happens

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and sure enough, it, it happens.

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He is promoted back to his position.

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Although we're going to find out.

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He doesn't remember Joseph.

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Uh, and then the other

one here is the baker.

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The baker kind of thinks, oh,

well, this guy's dream was good.

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Well, what about my dream?

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And he tells his dream to Joseph,

but for the baker, unfortunately,

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things are not going to work out

in his favor in the same way.

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Uh, Joseph says to the baker, you know

what, you're going to be executed.

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Uh, actually things are not going

to go well for you and sure enough.

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That's exactly what happens there.

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And the tragic.

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A note of.

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Of chapter 40 is verse 23.

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Yet the chief cup bearer did not

remember Joseph, but forgot him.

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And in verse one of chapter 41,

which I know is tomorrow, but just

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know it says after two whole years.

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And so for two years, Joseph

is going to left, be left in

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prison and, and forgotten.

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Uh, not by God, but by the cup

bearer, God's going to remember

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Joseph and we'll see what happens

there in the next chapter.

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As we jump in there tomorrow.

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But let me pray.

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And then we'll be done with this

episode of the daily Bible podcast.

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God, we are grateful that you are

sovereign even over the mess in life.

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And so we want to trust you.

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We want to be men and women of

integrity as Joseph was in chapter 39.

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We want to be so passionate about

our godliness and our holiness.

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Not.

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Uh, for, for other reasons, but, but

ultimately, because it is first and

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foremost about our relationship with you.

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It's about our, our witness.

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It's about our.

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Uh, our intimacy with you and

sin interrupts and breaks and

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Mars, all of those things.

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And so we want to be holy people

because you are a holy God.

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So help us Lord to consider the

gravity of our sin and to focus on

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being men and women of integrity.

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We pray as we ask this in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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