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 What a blessing.

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 If you have your Bibles, I want you to turn to Genesis chapter 42.

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! Genesis chapter 42.

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 We have been studying Joseph in the book of Genesis,

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! at the end of Genesis, and we took some time off for Easter,

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 and I want us to revisit this interesting and refreshing account in Genesis this morning.

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 As a reminder, Joseph was a favorite child of Jacob.

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 Jacob did not work him as hard as he did his brothers.

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 Jacob let him stay at home when he sent his other boys out to the fields.

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 And he also gave him that coat of many colors that the original language tells us was a long-sleeved cuffed coat.

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 In other words, it wasn't a working coat.

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 It was a take-it-easy coat at the house with Mama.

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 And that clothing made him stand out.

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 And there's signs that he was proud of that.

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 It's kind of like wearing Nike Airs when everybody else was wearing Walmart specials, you know.

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 He was standing out from everybody else.

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 And when that coat of many colors was ripped off of him,

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 and he was thrown into a dry well, his brothers thought that was the end of it.

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 They took that coat, ripped it up, put animal blood on it,

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 called it a freak, wild animal act,

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 and thought they'd got a life a lot better without their bratty, bothersome, boisterous brother.

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 And then in a combo of a bond of brothers as well as the greed of brothers,

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 instead, they sold him.

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 They sold their own brother for the price of a common slave

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 and sent him into the enemy camp, which were the Egyptians.

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 Now they go back home to ease the father a few days and move on with life.

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 It would seem their memory of Joseph lasted no longer than the silver that they received for him.

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 But the reality is that's not so.

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 And today, we see their encounter with Joseph many years later.

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 Little did they know of his journey,

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 for after they sold him into slavery,

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 he excelled in the household that he was placed in

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 until he was falsely accused and sent to prison.

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 While in prison, again, he excelled

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 to the top of what a prisoner could ever serve in prison.

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 And he also won an audience through his dream interpretation.

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 And that audience ended up being the Pharaoh of Egypt.

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 And in that interpretation of Pharaoh's dream,

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 he explained that there was a famine that was coming.

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 And he explained how that needed to be managed

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 in order to handle the coming famine.

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 And the famine came just like he said.

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 And Pharaoh, when he heard the management plan,

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 he took him out of prison and put him into the job of the governor of Egypt.

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 He was the acting executive figure in all the land.

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 And when the famine came, just like he said it would,

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 Egypt managed it well because of his leadership.

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 And they became the breadbasket for all the known world.

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 That famine also hit Joseph's dad and his brothers.

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 And they began to starve.

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 And so his dad, Jacob, sent 10 of them to Egypt to get grain.

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 He held back one.

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 He had another favorite, by the way.

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 But he held back one in case something happened to him.

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 And we pick up the account when they arrive in front of Joseph.

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 It's in verse 6 of Genesis chapter 42.

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 And it says this.

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 Now Joseph was the governor over the land.

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 He was the one who sold to all the people of the land.

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 And Joseph's brothers came and bowed themselves before him

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 with their faces to the ground.

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 Joseph saw his brothers and recognized them.

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 But he treated them like strangers and spoke roughly to them.

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 Where did you come from?

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 He said.

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 And they said.

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 And they said.

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 From the land of Canaan.

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 To buy food.

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 And Joseph recognized his brothers.

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 But they didn't recognize him.

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 And Joseph remembered the dreams that he had dreamed of them.

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 And he said to them.

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 You're spies.

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 You've come to see the nakedness of the land.

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 And they said to him.

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 No, my lord.

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 Your servant have come to buy food.

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 We are all sons of one man.

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 We are honest men.

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 Your servants have never been slaves.

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 So now Joseph is accusing them of being slaves.

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 And for three days.

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 He held them.

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 He threatened them.

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 He messed with them.

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 Just like older brothers deserve.

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 As one who have two older ones.

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 Now I want you to remember something.

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 He looked like an Egyptian.

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 They came in looking like Duck Dynasty.

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 But he looked like an Egyptian.

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 Which means that he probably had a shaved head.

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 And he wore makeup.

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 And he had on all their garb.

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 And because he was royalty.

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 He had on a bunch of garb.

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 They didn't have a clue who he was.

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 And then this happens in verse 18.

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 On the third day.

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 Joseph said to them.

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 Do this and you'll live.

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 For I fear God.

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 If you are honest men.

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 Let one of your brothers remain confined.

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 Where you are in custody.

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 And let the rest go.

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 And carry grain.

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 For the famine.

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 Of your households.

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 And bring your youngest brother to me.

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 So your words will be verified.

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 And you shall not die.

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 And they did so.

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 Then they said to one another.

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 In truth we are guilty.

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 Concerning our brother.

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 In that we saw the distress of his soul.

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 When he begged us.

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 And we didn't listen.

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 And that is why.

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 This distress has come upon us.

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 And Reuben answered them.

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 Did I not tell you.

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 Did I not tell you.

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 You not to sin against the boy.

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 But you didn't listen.

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 Now.

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 There comes a reckoning.

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 Of his blood.

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 They didn't know that Joseph understood him.

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 For there was an interpreter.

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 Between them.

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 And then Joseph turned away from them.

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 And wept.

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 And he returned to them.

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 And spoke to them.

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 And he took Simeon from them.

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 And bound him.

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 Before.

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 Their eyes.

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 And Joseph gave orders.

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 To fill their bags with grain.

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 And to replace every man's money.

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 In his sack.

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 And to give him provisions for the journey.

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 This was done.

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 For them.

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 So they pay the money.

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 And as they give the sacks away.

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 To get the grain put back in.

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 They put the money.

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 Back in their bag.

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 As well as.

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 Additional.

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 To take care of them.

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 On the way home.

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 And they get down the road a bit.

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 And one of them looks in his bag.

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 And goes.

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 Uh oh.

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 We had a mess.

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 We left without paying.

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 In verse.

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 28.

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 They wonder.

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 They said.

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 What is this.

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 That God has done to us.

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 They had no clue.

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 What was happening.

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 And then he goes on.

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 To say this.

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 And they emptied their sacks.

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 Behold.

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 Every man's bundle of money.

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 Was in his sack.

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 And when they and their father.

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 Saw their bundles of money.

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 They were afraid.

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 And Jacob.

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 Their father said to them.

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 You have bereaved me.

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 Of my children.

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 Joseph is no more.

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 Now Simeon is no more.

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 And now you would take Benjamin.

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 All this has come.

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 Against me.

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 Then Reuben said to his father.

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 Kill my two sons.

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 If I don't bring them back to you.

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 Put him in my hands.

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 And I'll bring him back to you.

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 Paul Jacob said.

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 My son shall not go down with you.

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 For his brother is dead.

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 And he's the only one left.

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 If harm should happen to him.

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 On the journey that you're to make.

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 You would bring down my gray hairs.

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 With sorrow.

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 To Sheo.

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 Horrible.

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 The plot thickens my friend.

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 The reality is.

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 When we willingly.

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 Sin against a holy God.

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 We underestimate.

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 The consequences of our sin.

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 It is a common stance.

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 We underestimate.

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 The consequences of our sin.

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 The weight of the guilt.

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 The memory of the mistake.

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 The haunting presence.

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 Of the memory.

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 It was also true.

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 For these brothers.

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 And I believe.

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 That God gives us.

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 This account in scripture.

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 For us to learn from their mistakes.

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 So that when we see.

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 What their mistakes were.

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 We don't make the same.

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 Mistakes.

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 And the key is this.

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 Sin comes.

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 At a great cost.

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 And this morning.

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 I want to take just a few moments.

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 To look at the personal.

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 And the interpersonal consequences.

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 Of the guilt.

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 Of sin.

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 Sin guilt.

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 Sears.

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 Your conscience.

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 In verse 21.

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 It says this.

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 Then they said to one another.

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 In truth.

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 We're guilty concerning our brother.

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 In that we saw the distress of his soul.

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 When he begged us.

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 And we didn't listen.

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 That's why this distress.

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 Has come upon us.

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 Now when I say that it sears your conscience.

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 Sear means to mark.

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 To emblazon with fire.

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 To leave a lasting mark.

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 And the.

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 The conscience of these brothers.

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 Were seared by the guilt.

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 Of their act.

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 They are now middle-aged fathers.

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 With families of their own.

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 And they probably have never mentioned the violence.

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 That they committed against their brother.

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 To each other.

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 They did their best to forget it.

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 To banish it from their mind.

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 But the reality is.

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 They could not.

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 And it comes rushing up.

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 Before them.

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 It reminds me of King David.

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 After his catastrophe of sin.

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 If you remember the story.

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 King David.

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 Slept with another man's wife.

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 And then put his.

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 Put her husband.

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 At the front of the battle scene.

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 In order to cover up his own sin.

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 And when he got caught.

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 Or at least confronted.

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 By the prophet Nathan.

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 He says in Psalm verse 51.

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 It's his great confession to God.

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 He says.

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 For I know my transgressions.

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 And my sin is ever.

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 Before me.

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 It don't go away.

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 It's like somebody face guarding you in basketball.

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 It's just.

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 That's all you see.

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 They're just right up in your face.

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 And even when God forgives and forgets.

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 We often have a hard time.

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 Forgiving.

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 Ourselves.

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 We often have a hard time.

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 Forgetting.

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 It marks us.

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 But how worse it is.

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 When we never confess.

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 When we never receive.

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 Forgiveness.

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 In the Edgar Allan Poe classic.

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 The Telltale Heart.

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 It tells the story of a murderer.

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 Who buried the body of the person that he murdered.

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 Under the floorboards of his house.

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 And when he went to bed that night.

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 He began hearing the heart of the dead.

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 He began to hear it beat.

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 The next day the authorities came to his house.

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 To investigate.

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 And while they were walking among his house.

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 He could hear that dead man's heart beating.

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 It grew louder.

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 And louder.

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 He tried to make noise.

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 And muffle it out.

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 But it just grew louder.

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 The police acted as if they knew nothing.

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 That they heard nothing.

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 And even turned to leave.

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 He thought they have to hear that.

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 It's got to be a setup.

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 So instead in a state of panic.

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 He confessed.

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 And he showed them where the body was.

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 He never realized.

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 He never realized.

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 It was not the victim's heart that he heard.

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 It was his own heartbeat.

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 That he heard.

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 Beating within his own chest.

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 A seared conscience.

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 The haunt of guilt.

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 And I'm telling you it's hard to leave.

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 But not only that.

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 Sin guilt also leads to the blame game.

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 In verse 22 it says.

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 And Reuben answered them.

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 Did I not tell you not to sin against the boy?

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 But you didn't listen.

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 So now there comes a reckoning for his blood.

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 I think Reuben was probably the most noble of them.

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 But who are we comparing him to?

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 I mean his brother sold him into slavery.

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 He spoke on Joseph's behalf.

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 And he had him sold instead of killed.

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 But really nothing else.

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 And now they're like a car full of bank robbers.

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 Looking for a plea bargain.

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 I mean they're pointing fingers at each other.

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 And trying to make sure somebody else takes the blame.

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 I mean I might be guilty.

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 But I ain't as guilty as he is.

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 Well the problem folks.

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 Is not the guilt level of someone else.

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 The problem when it comes to sin.

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 Is not that you and I may be guilty.

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 The problem is that you and I are guilty.

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 And it does not help to point at someone else.

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 For our guilt.

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 It never does.

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 Don't blame your sin on somebody else.

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 We've been doing it since the first of humanity.

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 I mean in the garden.

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 Adam pointed at Eve.

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 And Eve sinned.

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 And she pointed at the snake.

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 And we've been doing it ever since.

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 We live in a world that relieves itself by pointing a finger at someone else.

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 And the reality is it's not popular.

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 I get that.

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 But let's call it what it is.

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 It's sin.

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 I mean you might be addicted to it.

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 But it's sin.

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 We may have a dependence upon it.

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 But it's sin.

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 We might have a hard time not doing it.

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 But it's sin.

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 And Satan has a strong hold on us.

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 When we try to come up with excuses to continue in the same pattern that's an ungodly pattern in our lives.

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 When we willfully disobey God or participate with others who are disobeying God.

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 We sin against an almighty God.

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 And I want to be clear this morning.

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 I'm not saying that other people's mistakes or other people's persuasions did not play a part in our action.

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 Of course it did.

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 But I'm saying that each one of us have to face a holy God and realize that what we've done wrong is sin against God.

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 And in our sin guilt we need to go to God.

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 We need to point our attention to the Father.

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 And we need to point at ourselves in his counsel.

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 Instead of pointing at everybody else.

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 Because our tendency is always to blame others.

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 That's what sin guilt does.

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 I mean I might have done it but it wasn't really my fault.

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 You know.

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 Blames others.

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 Not only that but sin guilt also it strains relationships.

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 In verse 36 it says this.

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 And Jacob said to them.

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 You bereave me of my children.

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 Joseph is no more.

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 Simeon is no more.

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 He's the one that stayed behind.

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 And now you would take Benjamin.

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 Because Joseph demanded to see Benjamin.

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 All this has come against me.

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 So not only was there a strained relationship among the participants who were pointing fingers at each other.

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 But now there's a strained relationship with one of the victims.

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 Which is Joseph's father.

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 Jacob.

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 Now.

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 In verse 36.

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 The truth in Jacob's heart comes spilling out.

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 He had lost his trust in his boys.

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 But I'm going to tell you something.

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 The reason why I didn't spend several weeks on Jacob and studying his life.

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 Is because he's a mess.

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 He's a mess.

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 I didn't know how I was going to clean it up every Sunday before we got done.

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 I mean he's a mess.

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 When you look at how he raised those sons.

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 They were influenced.

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 No doubt.

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 He was a passive father.

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 And the passivity that Jacob had as a father.

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 Continued to haunt him.

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 If you'll look back in chapter 34 of Genesis.

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 His daughter Dinah is raped.

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 And he does nothing about it.

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 His sons overreact.

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 I'm a little with them on this by the way.

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 But anyway.

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 And they kill every man in the city that the guy came from.

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 They're all guilty of it.

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 That's a little overreaction.

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 And then in Genesis 35.

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 It says.

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 It says.

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 That.

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 After having 12 sons.

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 With four different women.

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 One of his sons.

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 Slept with.

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 A half brother's.

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 Mother.

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 That's the definition of dysfunction.

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 And his passivity.

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 In raising them.

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 Was he loved the son.

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 That was the easiest.

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 To raise.

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 And that was Joseph.

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 Now get me.

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 Their sin was not Jacob's fault.

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 But being a passive father.

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 Didn't help anything.

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 And now a father's sin.

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 And listen.

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 And a parent who hands off their children.

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 That's sin.

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 Okay.

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 A passive father.

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 Who don't do his job.

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 That's sin.

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 And now a father's sin.

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 Sets the stage for his son's will for sin.

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 Against Joseph.

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 So many years later.

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 And all of that comes rushing back.

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 When they come back from Egypt.

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 Absent of Simeon.

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 Jacob's sin.

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 Combined with his son's sins.

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 Have weighed upon their life.

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 Until now it is erupting.

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 Do you remember what I told you when I began?

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 We always underestimate the cost of sin.

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 Sin's always bigger.

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 And affects more than we ever thought it would.

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 It strains relationships.

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 But not only that.

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 Sin guilt also brings continual grief.

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 I want you to listen to the pain of a panicked father.

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 In verse 38 he said,

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 My son shall not go down with you.

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 For his brother is dead.

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 He's talking about Joseph.

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 And he is the only one left.

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 If harm should happen.

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 Talking about the one he left at home.

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 If harm should happen to him on the journey that you are to make.

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 You would bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.

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 Man I can't take anymore.

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 He is in a state of panic.

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 And he feared something else would happen.

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 And not knowing the truth about Joseph.

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 He now feared for his other sons.

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 And the point is this.

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 They didn't think about their daddy when they sold Joseph.

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 They thought about themselves.

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 They didn't think about the difference that it would make in their daddy's life.

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 And Jacob never realized the significance of neglecting his children when he was raising them.

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 And sin will make you blind like that folks.

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 Sin will close your mind to the vast nature of the consequences of your sin.

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 And the guilt not only haunts the guilty.

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 But the grief of a loved one's sin will haunt the grieving loved ones as well.

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 And the haunt of guilt is horrible.

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 And this is the good news today.

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 It does not have to be.

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 It does not have to be.

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 I spoke of David earlier.

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 About his sin with Bathsheba.

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 And the prophet Nathan confronts him.

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 And David repents.

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 And his prayer is preserved for us in scripture.

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 It's in Psalm 51.

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 I want to read a portion of that.

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 In verse 7 he says.

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 Purge me with hyssop and I shall be clean.

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 Wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.

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 I mean he knew that only God could take away his sin.

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 He knew that only God could wash away his sin.

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 Reminds me of the old hymn.

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 And what can wash away my sin?

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 Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

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 It's the only hope we got.

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 The only hope we have is through a God forgiving us and removing us of our sins.

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 Removing our sins.

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 Scripture says that he will remove them as far as the east is from the west.

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 In verse 8 he says.

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 Let me hear joy and gladness.

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 Let the bones that you have broken rejoice.

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 The only way healing is going to come my friend.

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 The only way the hurting inside will stop is if the joy of the Lord will return to a forgiven soul.

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 He continues.

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 Hide your face from my sins and blot out my iniquities.

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 Iniquities.

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 I mean the only way God can see your sins, cannot see your sins is if they no longer exist.

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 And the only way that your sins no longer exist is if he removes them.

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 Then in verse 10 he says.

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 Create in me a clean heart, O God.

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 And renew a right spirit within me.

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 He is speaking of a cleansing and restoring that only God can do.

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 He says.

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 Cast me not away from your presence.

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 And take not your Holy Spirit from me.

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 Restore to me the joy of your salvation.

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 And uphold me with a willing spirit.

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 David knew how to worship.

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 And he knew that in sin, that sin in his life would hinder the movement of the Spirit of God in his life.

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 If you have a hard time hearing the Holy Spirit in your life, it's probably because you've tried to nullify him.

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 Try to quiet him.

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 When the Spirit of God does not move in this place when we come together.

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 It's because there's unconfessed sin that needs to be dealt with.

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 That hinders the work of God.

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 Every one of us can hinder the work of God.

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 And when there's unconfessed sin in your life.

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 And when sin, guilt is hanging on you like a cheap suit.

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 You need to rest in 1 John chapter 1 verse 9.

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 When it says if we confess our sins.

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 That means that we agree with God on our sins.

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 It don't mean that we pray, Lord, if I've done anything wrong.

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 That's a Greek word for that.

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 Baloney.

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 We have done something wrong.

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 If we confess, if we agree with God on the weight of our sin.

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 I encourage folks when they pray and ask God for forgiveness.

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 Name your sin.

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 Name it before the Lord.

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 He knows what it is.

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 And we need to recognize it.

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 And we need to face up to it.

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 And deal with it.

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 We need to agree with Him on the weight of that sin.

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 Scripture says that if we'll do that, He is faithful and just to forgive us of our sins.

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 This is the cool thing.

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 That if He could do it but wouldn't do it, we'd be messed up.

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 And if He would do it but couldn't do it, we'd be messed up.

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 But Scripture says that He can do it and He will do it.

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 And because of that, my friend, if we confess our sins, He's faithful and just to forgive us of our sins.

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 And I love this last part.

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 My favorite part.

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 And cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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 You know what that means?

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 That means that if you get really honest with God today and you confess your sins before God and you name them before God.

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 I mean you even write them down on a sheet of paper.

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 And take time to think about it.

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 What you've done against God.

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 When you get to the bottom of that list after thoroughly going through it.

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 I got news for you.

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 Me, you, all of us.

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 We're not going to name all our sins.

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 Even in our best efforts.

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 We're so good at it, it's come natural.

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 That's the sin nature in us.

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 And the reality is that Scripture says that if we're honest before God, we agree with Him on the weight of our sin.

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 We ask Him to forgive us and to cleanse us.

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 That He'll remove all of our unrighteousness.

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 He'll wipe the slate clean.

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 So if you're getting worn out in a pattern of sin, agree with God on the matter.

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 Confess it and walk away from it.

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 May their experience be a warning for us.

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 Because I believe that's why it's there.

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 In 1984, Ivanka Airlines, a Colombian airline that still flies today, had a jet that crashed into the side of a mountain.

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 And they couldn't figure out why.

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 They looked frantically for the black box to give them indication that recorded the last things that happened to figure out what went wrong.

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 And when they found the black box, they discovered that in the last several minutes of the flight, that the pilot had received a warning to pull up.

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 That the warning was constantly being given to him.

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 Pull up.

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 Pull up.

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 And it was being given to him in English because the majority of international flights still have a warning system that speaks in English.

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 And instead of listening to the advice and the warning, the last voice they heard on the black box was a recording of the Spanish pilot saying,

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 Shut up, Grinco.

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 Shut up, Grinco.

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 And he reached over and flipped the switch to silence the warning.

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 Minutes later, a 747 full of people crashed into the side of a mountain, killing everyone on board instantly.

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 I tell that story because there's a perfect example of what we often do when the Holy Spirit is trying to guide us to safety from the temptations that we face.

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 And in our actions, if not in our actions, if not in our words, we tell him to shut up.

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 And we cut the warning off.

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 And we face the consequences of our sin.

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 That is much more than we could ever imagine.

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 The bad news is we're all guilty.

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 The good news is we can find forgiveness and cleansing in the Lord Jesus.

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 And if you're here this morning and you've never surrendered your life to the Lord Jesus,

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 you've never asked him to forgive you of your sins and to come into your life and to change you,

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 you've never committed your life to follow him from this day forward

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 and give up on being the pilot of your own life and give it over to him,

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 then today's the day, my friend.

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 Scripture says today's the day of salvation.

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 And I'm thankful that anyone and everyone that calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

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 That's what Romans 10, 13 tells me.

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 If you've never given your heart and life to the Lord Jesus,

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 I encourage you to do it today.

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 Maybe you've done that privately, but you've never acknowledged it publicly.

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 And by Jesus' example and by his commission, he tells us to do it through baptism,

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 just like we did a little while ago with these two.

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 If you've never been baptized as a believer, I'm telling you,

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 it can be a hindrance in your life.

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 It can be a stumbling block for you.

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 It's a step of obedience that you need to follow.

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 You come and I'll be happy to guide you in that.

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 We're not going to do it this morning.

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 Don't panic.

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 But we'll talk about it.

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 Maybe you're here this morning and God's leading you to Pickens First Baptist Church.

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 You've worshipped with us and you've seen that God's doing a work in our midst.

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 And you feel like God's calling you to be a part of that.

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 I'd love to guide you in that.

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 Help you with that.

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 Or maybe, like the vast majority of us here, you know you're a sinner.

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 And maybe for some that's here, there's a pattern, there's a stronghold in your life that you need to stop.

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 You need to listen to the warning.

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 And follow his lead and trust him.

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 He loved you enough to die for you.

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 He loves you enough to live for you.

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 And you know what?

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 He actually intercedes for you.

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 He actually sits at the right hand of the Father and prays for us.

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 He loves you dearly and he knows you better than you know yourself.

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 So don't you ever think that you're not enough?

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 We may not think you're enough, but I'll tell you one who does.

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 The Lord Jesus Christ does.

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 He loves you dearly and he'll change your life.

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 Christian, he'll change your life if you'll just follow him.

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 So let's get our hearts right today.

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 Let's learn from some brothers' stupid mistakes.

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 And let's get our heart right today.

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 And I realize that you can do that where you stand in just a moment when we sing.

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 But if you've never given your heart and life to the Lord,

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 please allow me the opportunity to share my faith with you.

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 You come.

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 As soon as we stand to sing, you just step right out.

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 Don't hesitate.

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 If you've never acknowledged that publicly, you step right out.

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 God's leading you to this church.

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 You step right out.

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 But I don't ever want you to do anything that God's not leading you to do.

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 I don't want you to do more than what he wants you to do.

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 I don't want you to do less than what he wants you to do.

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 I just want us all to be obedient and follow the Lord Jesus today.

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 Heavenly Father, I love you.

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 I thank you, Lord, for Joseph's life and for his brothers and for the examples that you give us.

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 God, help us to respond in obedience as you speak to us personally, Father.

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 In Jesus' precious name, amen.

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