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Welcome to Gospel Truth with Andrew

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Womack, celebrating 55 years

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of ministry. You

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instilled in me the truth of

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the Word of God and in

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my husband's that led to my

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healing and the changes

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in my life and my family's life

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and in our future. And now

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here's Andrew. Welcome to

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our Monday's broadcast of the Gospel Truth.

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Today I'm continuing a series that I started

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a week ago talking about lessons from Joseph.

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I've got a brand new book out on

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this. First time we've released this. This is

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a 200 page book and

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we're asking for a donation of

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any amount. I don't want to

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deny people getting this and so you

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send something and we'll send it to you.

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We have a suggested donation. But then here's

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a brief summary of that book

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and this is just a 50 page book. We're

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giving this away as a gift to you so

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you can get that if for some

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reason you could not or would not get

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the larger book. And then we also

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have CDs and DVDs that were taken

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from a television program and we also

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have a USB that will have the

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CD and the DVDs on there. And

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we'll give out all of that information at the end

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of the program today. I've already

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covered a lot of material about Joseph and

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we're now in Genesis chapter 39

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where Joseph was sold into slavery.

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And yet he was a prosperous man in the

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eyes of the Lord. Man

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I made a big point out of that. That really ministers

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to me. You got to see yourself the way that God

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sees you. Not the way that

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other people see you and many times not even

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the way you see yourself. You

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got to get an image of you doing

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what God called you to do. And so

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he served Potiphar and because of it Potiphar

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promoted him. You don't promote people who

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are miserable bitter

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angry upset

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sucking their thumb complaining about

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how life. treating

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them. This says volumes about Joseph.

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He was a faithful man and

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here he was rejected by his

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family. While most people would just

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be crushed by this, Joseph

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was still prosperous and

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he was still trusting God. Because of

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it, he was promoted and then the

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master's wife tried to seduce him and

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get him to have sexual relationships with

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her and he refused that

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because he honored his master, a person

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that was oppressing him, a person

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who had bought him and turned

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him into property. There's many people

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today that would be so offended

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by that that they would never

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do anything to help this person.

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Joseph honored his master and would

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not sin against him and he

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respected his master and the honor

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that his master had given him.

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Boy, that's really good. You know,

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in the New Testament it says servants

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obey them that are over you, not

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only the good and gentle but also

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the forward. Those who are misusing their

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power. This would translate to us today

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to about serving a person

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who's over you in

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a business like your boss or manager and

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some of them don't treat you right but

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you still ought to treat them right. You

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ought to do the right thing and if

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you'll do that, God will promote you. So

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he would not yield to his master's

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wife seduction because he honored

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his master but the main thing and

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this is what I really emphasized on

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last Friday's program is, he says how

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could I do this great wickedness and

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sin against God? And

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man, that has become a major

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influence in my life. I've just determined

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that I'm going to do what's right

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in the sight of God not based

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on whether it gets, whether

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I could get by with it,

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whether anybody will know about it.

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That's not what motivates me. I do what's right

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in the sight of God. You know

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when I'm out on the road, I'll have people give me

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money. Sometimes

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it's just a dollar. or something

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and they'll give it personally to me. But I

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was at one meeting this last year where I

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forgot the exact figures, but I had people give

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me something like 12 or $15,000. There

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was cash that was just putting my

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hand. Did you know, according to

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the way most people do that, I could just take

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that. But I don't believe that

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that's the way that God would want me

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to do things. So I put it into

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the ministry. They didn't say that I had

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to put it into the ministry. It was

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personal gifts to me. Now, if a person

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tells me that I do not want this

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to go into the ministry, this is a

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personal gift to you, I might accept that.

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But I'm saying I could take a lot

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of money, kind of in a sense, under

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the table and do things like that. But

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that's not what I believe God wants me

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to do. And so

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you have to get to where you do what's

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right, not whether you can get by with it,

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whether you are ever going to

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be held accountable to it. God is going

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to hold you accountable. And

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that's just a major, major influence

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in my life. So he refused

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to submit to the master's wife's

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seduction. And in verse 10, it

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says, and it came to pass as

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she spake. This is talking about the master's

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wife, spake to Joseph day by day, trying

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to seduce him, that he

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hearken not unto her to lie by

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her or to be with her. Here's

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another great thing. Joseph is just a

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great example. And he

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had this great attitude. He was

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serving his master. He refused this

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seduction by the master's wife. And

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it says day by day, she tried

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to wear him down. But he wouldn't

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agree to have sexual relationships with her

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or to be with her. Again,

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this is a great principle.

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The scripture says you flee

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fornication. You resist the devil,

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James 4, 7, but you

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flee fornication. You can't get away

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from the devil. You

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can't flee from the devil. You have to resist

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the devil. But there are things. things you can

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get away from. And one of them is

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fornication. You have

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to flee fornication is what the Scripture says.

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Joseph here, he wouldn't even be

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with her. He avoided being with

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this woman because he knew that

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she was trying to seduce him. There

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are so many Christians that if you could

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imagine this that like, here's a lion, draw

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right here and over there is sin and

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over here is doing the right thing. There's

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so many Christians that they won't, they don't want

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to get into sin, but they'll get as close

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to it as they can. It's

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like they're walking this line and if they

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just have a slightest little puff of wind

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come, it could blow them over into

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that thing. But man, I'd

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do it the opposite. Like if here's sin, man,

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I'm going to get as far over here

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so that I couldn't trip and fall across that

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line. There's a

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lot of people that will flirt with

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sin. There's people that will put themselves

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in embarrassing situations, in situations where even

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if they don't sin, it could be

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construed as sin. The scripture says, Paul

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was talking about handling money

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and he said, we provide for things honest, not

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only in the sight of God, but also in

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the sight of men. So

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it's not a matter of you just doing the right thing in

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the sight of God, you need to

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do the right thing in the sight of men. You

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know, because of that, I will not

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go someplace with a woman by herself.

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If she needs counseling or something, I

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have an executive assistant that

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always sits in with me and says, if

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I ever talk to a woman, I would

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not ride somewhere with a woman. Maybe if

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it's across the street or, you know, there

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might be some exception, but I'm not going

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to take a trip with a woman. I'm

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going to do things that not

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only are honest, but couldn't

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be construed as being immodest

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or wrong in some way. And

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this is what Joseph did. See, he

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wouldn't even submit to her. He didn't lie

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with her, but he also wouldn't even be

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seen with her. He avoided her as much

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as he could. Man,

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there's a great lesson. to learn in this. You

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need to learn this. I had a pastor of

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a church that

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was a large church. He had

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multiple campuses and he

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told me that, you know, he will

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never counsel a woman along and he

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would never counsel a woman more than

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one time because if the

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woman came in like if she was

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having marital problems most of the time

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it's because she's spiritual seeking

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the Lord. The husband's not spiritual

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so say, here she comes and

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talks to a man who is

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considered spiritual. Everything she wished her

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husband was and they're talking about

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this and it's just like striking

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a match next to, you know,

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gasoline or something like that. It's just

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a matter of time until it explodes and

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because of that man we have made some

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decisions. Did you know on our

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doors in our offices we

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have a lot of cubicles but the offices that

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have a door there's also a slit on it

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so that you can see in so that you

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can't go in there and take a person

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of the opposite sex in there and be

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doing something. We've done a lot of things

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just to avoid the appearance

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of evil and this is

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what Joseph did. I learned this from

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Joseph. There's other examples in the

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Bible but this is one of the main things that

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I learned this right here so he wouldn't even consent

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to be with her. And

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in verse 11 it says it came to pass

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about this time that Joseph went into the house

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to do his business and there was none of

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the men of the house therein. So in other

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words he avoided being with

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her but this time he was doing something

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that he was committed to

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do so he was just doing what

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he had to do to carry on his business.

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And it says in verse 12 that

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she caught him by his garment saying

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lie with me and he left his

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garment in her hand and

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fled and got him out. Man

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Joseph wasn't going to have any part

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of this. He wasn't diplomatic about it. Man

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he fled from that woman like

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she was the person who was plague. And

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you might question whether he should have taken his

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garment with him, but we don't know exactly what

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happened. She probably had hold of it and wouldn't

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let go. And so he just decided, I'll let

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you have the garment, but you aren't going to

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have me. And he fled.

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And look at this. It

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says in verse 13, and it came to

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pass when she saw that he had left

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his garment in her hand and

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had fled forth that she called unto

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him the man of her house and

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spake unto them saying, see, he

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hath brought in an Hebrew unto us

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to mock us. He came in unto

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me to lie with me and

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I cried with a loud voice. And it

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came to pass when he heard that I

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lifted up my voice and cried that he

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left his garment with me and fled and

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got him out. And she laid up the

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garment by her until her Lord came

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home. In other words, here's

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another thing to learn through this. She

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said that she loved him. I'm sure

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that she tried to make this look

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great and oh, I just love you.

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I'm so passionate about you. I've got

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to have this relationship, but it wasn't

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love. It was lust and you

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can prove it because when she didn't get

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her way, her love

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turned into hatred. Did

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you know David had a son, Amnon,

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who had a sister Tamar who was

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very beautiful and he wanted to have

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sexual relationships with her. And of course

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it was not appropriate to have sex

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with your sister. So anyway, it's a

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long story, but he wound up raping

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his sister. And then

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after he had humiliated her, he told

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her to leave and she says, why you've already

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humiliated me. It'd be better for you to marry

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me now than to turn me out like this.

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And anyway, it says that he hated her

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so that the hatred he had for her

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was greater than the love that he had

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for her. And this is

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something that you just need to learn

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that any type of illicit sexual desire

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for a person is never God. It's

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not God's kind of love. It is

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earthly, it is sensual, it is devilish,

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it's inspired by the devil, and

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if you just step out of line

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the slightest way, they will turn on

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you in a heartbeat. There's

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some of you watching this program that you've had

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a sexual relationship. You may be in a relationship,

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a marriage, or just

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a relationship with somebody right now,

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but it wasn't God that put it together. It was just nothing but

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lust, and you can verify

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what I'm saying, that it's

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not true, love. God's

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kind of love overlooks

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a multitude of sins, covers

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a multitude of sins, but this

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earthly, sensual, devilish love, man,

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it is self-serving, self-seeking. The moment

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you don't get your way, you

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hate them. This woman who said

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that she loved Joseph so much,

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man, she hated him when he wouldn't submit

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to her, and she was willing

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to have him committed to prison, and

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she lied about him and did all of these things.

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I guarantee you, if you're having a

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relationship with anybody, and if it's just

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the flesh, if it's just lust, if

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it's not God's kind of love, it will not

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last, and they'll turn on you the first time

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you get out of line. You

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can learn that right here. You can learn that through Amnon,

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what he did with his wife Tamar, with

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his sister Tamar. This

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is another lesson that you can learn. So

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she lied about him, and when Potiphar

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came home, we don't know

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if it just was at the end of the day or

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if he had been on a trip or something, but when

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he came home, it says in verse 17, she

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spoke unto him according to these words, saying,

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the Hebrew servant which thou hast brought unto

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us came in unto me

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to mock me, and it came to pass, as

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I lifted up my voice and cried, which is

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an absolute lie, she was

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totally misrepresenting the whole thing, that

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he left his garment with me and fled out.

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And it came to pass when his master

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heard the words of his wife, which she

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spoke unto him, saying, after this manner did

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thy son come in unto me? that

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his wrath was kindled and

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Joseph's master took him and put him

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into a prison, a place where the

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king's prisoners were bound and

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he was there in the prison. Now there's

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a lot of detail that's left out.

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We don't know if Joseph was ever

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given an opportunity to say what

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really happened. But

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you know, it's very possible that what good

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would it have done? Was this master going

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to sit there and accuse his wife of

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lying about this whole thing? It's

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possible that there really was no purpose

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in even trying to defend himself. It's

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possible that he was never given an

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option to defend himself. But

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it's also possible that

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Joseph just depended upon God

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to defend him. You know,

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I've had some people lie about me.

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I've had some famous ministers that are

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on television and cut a large swath.

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And I mean, we're famous people. And

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I've had them brand me a cult

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and lie about me and say things. And

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you know what? I could have defended myself, but

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I just decided that you know what? I don't

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know why they did what they did. And

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I just left it in God's hands. And

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it took about 15 or 20

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years, but 20 years later, that exact minister

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and I had given money to them even

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after they branded me as a cult, they

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were in need. And I sent money to

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them. And I just went ahead

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and loved them and said nice things about them.

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I even ministered with them one time in a

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conference together. And I didn't even criticize

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them or say anything to them about what they said.

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And about 15 or 20 years later, we

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were both going to be on TBN. We

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were both in the green room waiting on

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this. And this person, this minister came to

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me and said, man, I just love your

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teaching. I watch you every day on television.

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And they changed phone numbers with me,

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invited me to come if we ever needed to

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get away, that Jamie and I could

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come to their house and just spend some time

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away. And they just love me

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now. And I've been on their program. and

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I've done things with them. I don't know what

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happened. They never did apologize. But

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you know what? God just defended

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me. And now

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we're friends. And

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I don't know what happened. I still don't

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understand that whole thing. But I

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know that God put it together. I've had

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this happen with other people. One guy who

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branded me a cult. I wound up coming

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up on stage and grabbing me by the

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feet and crying and dropping his tears on

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my boot. And in front of 700 people

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apologized for

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what he said. And I never, I

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didn't even know him before that time. I

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never criticized him. I never retaliated. You

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know, the scripture says in many

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places, but Romans chapter 12, vengeance

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is mine, thus saith the Lord.

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I will repay. And

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you know, if you get in and

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defend yourself, then you take away God

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defending you. But if you'll

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just leave things up to God. Now, there may be

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some time that

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if somebody was criticizing me for

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the gospel and criticizing my doctrine,

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I might stand up and defend the doctrine.

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I have done that and I will do

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that. But if somebody's just attacking me and

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lying about me, that's not that

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important of a deal. And

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I've used this example before, and some of you have

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heard it, but it's a great example

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that when I was still in the Baptist

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church and I was preaching

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things that weren't Baptist doctrine, I

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was being criticized and people

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just were railing on me all of the time.

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And I went to a meeting and

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a man called me out and he

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said, I see you like a runner on a track,

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one of these oval tracks, quarter of a mile track.

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And he said, I see you running on this track.

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And he said, you're leading the race. And

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yet the people in the grandstands are yelling at

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you and telling you you're doing it all wrong.

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And I see you getting off of the track

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and going up into the grandstands to

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argue with the spectators. And

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he said, even if you win the argument,

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you're gonna lose the race. And then he

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said, that's the Lord. You stay

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on track, stay on track.

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And that has just become, again, one

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of the main things in my life, that

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if a person is going to attack my doctrine, I'll

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stand up for the Word of God, and

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I'll speak the Word, and I'll counter false

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doctrine. But if it's a personal attack, I'm

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not going to get into the grandstands. Even if

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I win the argument, I'm going to lose the

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race. Satan is going

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to win if I start spending

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my time defending myself. So

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I say all of this to say that this

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may be what happened with Joseph. We

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don't have that much detail here

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in Scripture, whether he just never

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defended himself and he

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left it up to God, whether he was never

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given an opportunity to defend himself. We

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don't know exactly what happened. But

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nonetheless, he was unjustly taken

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from this position that he

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had earned in Potiphar's house

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to where he was very,

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very successful, and he was

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just doing things right. Potiphar

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respected him. The other people respected

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him. And

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yet he was lied about, and here

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he goes down into prison. And the

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prisons in those days were not like

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our prisons today, where

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people have their own flat-screen TV and

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gourmet meals, and they get to go

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out in the yard and exercise. I

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mean, that's still prison, but man, this

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wasn't that kind of a prison. This

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was a bad situation, and

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it was unjust. It

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was unjust that he had been hated by

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his brothers. His father calls that not Joseph.

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Then it was unjust that his brothers tried to

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kill him. And then it was

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unjust that his brothers sold him into slavery. And

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yet he stayed faithful through all those

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things. Now, here he is unjustly accused

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when he was absolutely, had

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nothing but integrity in this situation.

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You know, if you suffer because

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you've done something wrong, that's one thing. you've

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done the right thing and you suffer.

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That's harder to bear. And

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there's a lot of people that would

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put up with shame, suffering, criticism, demotion

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or something if it was something that

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you deserved. But when you know

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that you deserve better, that's

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harder to take. But if

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Joseph would have gotten in to bitterness,

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if he would have said it's not

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fair, if he would have been griping

20:23

and complaining, he never would have come

20:26

out of that prison. And

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likewise, you aren't going to come out of your prison

20:31

if you sit there and let circumstances

20:33

make you bitter. Boy,

20:36

this is important what I'm saying. These

20:39

things that happened to Joseph were not his fault.

20:41

He did not bring this upon himself.

20:44

And yet, he still had a good attitude

20:46

through all of these negative things that happened.

20:49

There's some people watching this program

20:51

that maybe you've been treated unjustly,

20:53

maybe people have lied about you

20:56

and because of it, you feel

20:58

justified in being angry and bitter

21:00

and having unforgiveness. But

21:02

many of you have heard this saying

21:04

before that when you have unforgiveness towards

21:06

somebody, that's like you drinking poison, thinking

21:09

it's gonna hurt them. Unforgiveness

21:11

hurts you worse than the person

21:14

that you will not forgive. That

21:17

person that did you wrong has probably

21:19

gone on and forgotten about you. But

21:22

here you are still nurturing that

21:24

thing and that unforgiveness. But

21:26

you gotta get past it. Man, Jesus said that

21:28

you've got to forgive. If you

21:30

don't forgive, your heavenly father won't forgive you.

21:33

If you have been forgiven this huge

21:36

debt, that there is no way you

21:38

could have ever paid it. And

21:40

yet, somebody else has done something to

21:43

you comparative to what God has forgiven

21:45

you over, it is nothing in comparison.

21:47

You've got to forgive. You

21:50

gotta get past this. And

21:52

again, I know that God is speaking directly

21:55

to somebody through me today, that

21:57

you need to get over this. Joseph.

21:59

could have gone down into prison

22:01

and just said, what's the use?

22:03

I've stayed faithful to God even

22:05

after being hated by my brothers,

22:08

sold into slavery, put into a

22:10

person's house, and

22:12

then the master's wife lied

22:15

about me, and all of this is unjust. They could

22:17

have just given up and said, what's the use? But

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you know what, he had a vision, and

22:22

he never let go of that

22:24

vision. He never gave

22:27

up on the fact that God had showed

22:29

him. Someday he would be exalted, and his

22:31

brother and father would come and bow down

22:33

to him. You gotta hold

22:35

on to what God has told you, and

22:37

don't let what other people have done to

22:39

you make you bitter. You always

22:41

have a choice, whether you become bitter

22:43

or better. I don't

22:46

care how bad things are going. And

22:48

man, you can learn this through Joseph. What

22:51

a great example of a guy who has

22:54

put up with more problems, more

22:56

bad stuff happening to him than have

22:58

happened to any of you watching this

23:00

program. And if Joseph did

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it, you can do it. You

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You can also order resources or

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receive prayer by calling our helpline

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at 719-635-1111. Michael

26:24

was born in 2003, a

26:26

healthy baby, but right after,

26:29

probably the first month

26:31

or two, we started seeing rashes. By

26:35

the time he was a year old, we had gotten

26:38

him diagnosed. He was allergic to

26:40

gluten, eggs, dairy,

26:43

nuts. Then

26:45

the asthma started when he was about

26:47

two or three years old. One

26:50

time he started having an

26:52

asthma attack. He was gasping for

26:54

air and literally arching his back,

26:57

and I thought he was going to die in my

26:59

arm. We saw ourselves

27:01

going to the ER twice a year. We had

27:04

gone to the doctor and he told him, this is something

27:06

that he's never going to grow out of. This is something

27:08

you're going to have to learn to deal with the rest

27:10

of your life. So

27:13

we prayed together for what I think

27:15

is the first time in our marriage. The two of

27:17

us just prayed and said, God, what

27:19

are we missing? At

27:21

this moment, a neighbor invited them

27:23

to a healing night. We

27:26

took Michael up and he got prayed for. We

27:29

went home and with the approach

27:31

of, well, Michael, either the word is

27:33

true or it's not. Either

27:35

Jesus has stripes, you are

27:37

healed or you're not. You're healed

27:40

now. So

27:42

here's some pizza. I

27:45

don't know if it was 20 minutes or an

27:47

hour later. Heaven brings Michael into me and

27:50

he's covered from head to toe

27:52

and high and he can't breathe.

27:55

I just started reading scriptures over him. Isaiah 53 and

27:57

1 Peter 2, 24. I

28:01

watched the hives disappear from

28:03

that boy's body. It was

28:05

bit by bit and we really had to ease into it,

28:08

just because it was everything against what had ever been

28:10

taught. It just took a

28:12

few months until Michael was completely free

28:15

of all symptoms, where

28:17

he could eat anything he wanted to, and

28:20

just walk in that healing. Our

28:22

lives have been completely changed. Now

28:24

it's normal for me and my brothers to go and

28:27

play soccer with friends.