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 Good morning.

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 For those of you who don't know me, my name is Chris.

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 I'm on the pastoral staff here, and it's after the typhoon.

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 It's good to see all of you in one piece this morning.

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 We're going through a series, a six-part series, looking at faith and work together.

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 We're going to be looking at some different stories through the Bible.

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 And just kind of getting a picture of how the Bible talks about our work.

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 Last week, we started off talking about our work as worshipped.

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 And I told the story, the very famous parable of the three bricklayers.

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 If you remember, we talked about a guy walking along, and he sees somebody laying bricks,

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 and he asks him the question, what are you doing?

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 And the guy says, I'm laying bricks.

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 He comes to the next person, walking along, sees him doing the same thing, building a wall there.

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 And he asks him, what are you doing?

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 He says to him, I'm building a church building.

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 He walks along to the next person, sees another guy building a brick wall, laying bricks, asks him, what are you doing?

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 The guy says to him, I'm building the house of God to the glory of God.

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 And we said last time that those three kind of different images show us three different ways of looking at work.

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 One looks at work like a job.

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 That's the first one, just a task you've got to do.

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 The second person looks at job as like a career.

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 You know, there's something I've got to achieve, something I've got to get to.

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 The third person sees their work as a calling, their work as something of a higher purpose, something which is about worship to God.

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 And we said that secular research is showing us increasingly that if you want to find meaning in work,

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 you've got to have something bigger than yourself, higher than yourself, more satisfying than yourself to make your work meaningful.

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 And we very briefly talked about how God is a God who works.

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 And we are made in his image to reflect him.

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 And if we want to live truly human lives, we work, but we work in such a way that it's about him, not about us.

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 There was a former Dutch prime minister who was called Abraham Kuyper.

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 This is for Henrika here.

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 And she said, sorry, he said, not she, he.

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 He said, there's not one square inch in the whole domain of human existence in which Christ, who is sovereign over all, does not cry, mine.

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 Not one thing in the whole of human existence that God does not cry, mine, over.

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 And yet the question is whether that is true of our work or whether we're a bit more like, you know, the seagulls in Finding Nemo who are like, mine, mine, mine.

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 Are we like that?

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 My fulfillment, my security, my finances, my money, and that's how we view our work.

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 It's mine.

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 And so we kind of separate our lives into like a nice little bento box, you know, God over here, my work over here.

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 And the gospel is going to come into us and say, if you want to know what it leads to live as a Christian and what is the majority of your life, you've got to get the Bible's view of work.

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 So, and just remember, we said work is anything you do that is not leisure.

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 So if you're a homemaker, if you're a student, if you're a volunteer, all of that is work, okay?

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 So today we just want to, I want to develop the idea a little bit more, kind of put in some more flesh in looking at the story of Joseph and looking at the idea of work as a calling and work as service to God, okay?

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 And so what we're going to do, we're going to skim through the story of Joseph.

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 We've just seen a couple of passages there.

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 I'm basically going to skim, it's 13 chapters, the story, so I'm going to kind of give you a skim overview and then I want to pull out some threads from it, which tell us something about what calling and service means for us in our work, okay?

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 So that's kind of where we're going to go.

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 Let me go through the story.

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 So you can have some of your bulletin open.

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 I'm going to give you some more that's not there.

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 But basically, Joseph is a very talented, arrogant teenage brat, okay?

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 He's the kind, you know, I've already started a mobile app company at the age of 10.

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 You know, he's that kind of guy.

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 He's like 17 years old.

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 He's the most loved son of his father.

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 He's a visionary in the literal sense of the word because he's having dreams about himself being the greatest in his family and all the rest of his family bowing down and worshiping him, basically.

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 He's the one who's the most successful person.

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 So he's got ambition, this guy.

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 And, you know, even if you have a kind of dream like that, it's not very sensitive to go and tell your family that that's exactly what's going to happen.

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 But this guy, his ambition is all about his status, his respect.

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 He doesn't care what other people think because when he's great, they're just going to have to acknowledge it.

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 But what happens later in the story is not exactly the career path that I think he would have chosen.

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 Out of anger, his brothers throw him into a pit, then sell him to foreign traders.

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 And basically, he gets trafficked to be a domestic helper to the head of the secret service in Egypt.

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 He's a rich, this guy's a rich man who's got slaves.

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 This master is called Potiphar.

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 So here is Joseph in a foreign country.

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 He's in a different culture with a different religion and people looking down on him like a migrant worker.

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 And he's trapped.

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 But instead of getting depressed, and maybe he did for a little while, but the story doesn't say that.

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 He doesn't say, okay, this is not where my passion is.

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 I'm a leader.

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 I'm supposed to be fulfilled in my job.

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 Well, this guy doesn't have much of a choice.

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 Okay, in chapter 39, what he does, he just basically gets on faithfully doing his job well.

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 He does his job well, and it tells us Joseph was such a good employee that he gets promotion to the chief household manager.

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 And, you know, he uses his skills, and God's grace is with him, and the master's business just flourishes.

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 And just as Joseph thinks, oh, my career is beginning to take off again, Potiphar, the master's wife, kind of takes a bit of a liking to him.

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 Joseph's a bit of a looker.

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 And so Potiphar's wife tries to kind of get in bed with him, and he resists.

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 He says, listen, I can't do that.

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 I love my employer.

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 I love God.

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 How can I do this thing against God?

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 The wife kind of keeps coming back and keeps coming back.

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 He resists.

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 Eventually, the wife says, basically, falsely accuses him of sexual harassment.

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 So, from the point of getting up, moving up the ladder, suddenly Potiphar hears about this.

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 Joseph's right back down in prison.

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 And he's in prison for about 10 years, okay?

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 10 years.

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 And he's been doing his work really well.

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 He's been trying to honor God in everything, and look where it's got him.

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 Right back down in the bottom.

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 Life is unfair.

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 Think of the opportunity cost, okay?

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 He's like prime time in his life to really be developing, and he's back in prison.

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 And while he's kind of languishing in prison, it's really interesting, because if I was there,

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 I'd be incredibly depressed.

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 I'd be kind of, oh, I can't believe what's going on.

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 Joseph gets on and sees in prison there's some things he can do.

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 So, he's actually, he gets on serving everybody else, and eventually he gets promoted to overseeing

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 the other prisoners, which, I mean, I guess that's a promotion.

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 And it says the Lord was with him in the pain.

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 Then we come on to a little bit of the story which we had in the bulletin.

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 Chapter 40.

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 Two government ministers, okay?

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 The cupbearer and the baker.

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 Now, I know they're not kind of government positions now, but they were then.

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 And they get arrested and thrown in prison, okay?

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 Government corruption is nothing new, okay?

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 They get arrested.

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 They get thrown in this prison, and Potiphar puts Joseph in charge of looking after them,

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 okay?

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 Now, what does Joseph do?

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 He's this high-flying, ambitious Jewish boy who's languishing now in prison, right in the

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 prime of his life.

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 He just gets on and serves them.

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 He gets on and serves them.

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 Even though they're on the opposite team, they represent the very people who are oppressing

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 him.

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 And one day, he's bringing breakfast to these guys.

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 You know, it's mundane, ordinary work.

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 And, you know, I'd be thinking, these guys are the enemy camp.

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 Why should I treat them nicely?

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 Why should I give them anything special?

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 Why should I serve them?

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 That's what I'd be thinking.

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 But Joseph comes in, and he doesn't do that.

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 He goes in, and he sees that the cupbearer and the baker there, they've got a few issues

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 going on.

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 They seem troubled.

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 So he takes the time to ask them, hey, guys, what's going on?

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 And what they sell him is that they've just had a dream.

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 They've had a dream.

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 And in this dream, they don't know what's going on.

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 And they're worried about this dream.

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 And it's very interesting because Joseph could have been just so wrapped up in the stuff that

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 he's doing, like I'm getting wrapped up in the stuff that I do, and feeling sorry for

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 himself about the unfairness of the situation, that he doesn't notice them.

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 But he notices them.

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 He asks them what's going on.

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 He listens to them.

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 And then he says, hey, listen, I belong to God, and God's a guy who kind of helps me with

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 dreams.

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 So let me interpret your dream for you.

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 And what he does, he's there at the right time, and he gives hope to the cupbearer, basically

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 saying, you're going to get out of prison.

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 And he tells the other guy, the baker, that judgment is coming on you.

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 Now, Joseph, as I think I would in that situation, he basically says, cupbearer, when you get

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 out, listen, I've helped you.

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 You kind of remember me down here and help me get out as well.

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 Okay?

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 Fair deal, right?

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 Fair deal.

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 Do you know what happens?

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 Cupbearer gets out of prison, becomes restored to the government again, forgets all about Joseph.

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 Completely.

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 For two years.

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 I mean, just imagine that.

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 You've tried to help this guy out.

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 I mean, that would have been getting to me by now.

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 I don't know about you.

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 But I've been looking out for others.

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 I've been trying to serve God.

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 But they're only looking out for themselves.

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 And the moment I've given them help, then they're out of there.

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 No gratitude.

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 No thanks.

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 I'd be thinking, where's God?

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 God, forgotten, alone, abandoned, trapped.

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 I don't know if you've ever felt like that.

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 I don't know if you've ever felt like that in a workplace.

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 But that's, I think, how Joseph must have felt.

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 Two years go by.

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 Story's still going.

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 We're getting somewhere.

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 Two years go by.

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 The king of Egypt, Pharaoh, has a dream.

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 No one can interpret him.

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 The cupbearer finally remembers after two years.

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 There's a guy who can interpret dreams.

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 Pharaoh calls Joseph.

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 Joseph interprets his dream and says,

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 there's going to be a famine here soon.

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 You need to have a great project manager

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 who's going to be able to sort this job.

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 Pharaoh looks at the guy, realizes,

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 Joseph, man, he's a smart young kid.

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 He's got ideas.

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 So he hires him.

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 He hires him to be prime minister of Egypt.

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 Now, just think about that kind of career progression.

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 Okay?

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 That's a little up and down, right?

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 And the crazy thing is,

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 there wasn't even a vacancy.

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 Joseph couldn't even have applied for the job,

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 even if he'd wanted to.

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 Both as a migrant worker,

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 but also no one knew that this famine was coming.

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 But God, all the time,

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 throughout the whole of this up and down cycle,

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 had something bigger that was going on,

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 a bigger call on his life.

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 Because, you see,

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 once Joseph got to that title of prime minister,

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 you see, before, when he was a young kid,

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 he thought, I'm going to rule,

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 and it's going to be all about me.

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 When finally God takes him through to that place at the end,

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 where he is actually second in command,

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 everyone is bowing the knee to him,

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 it's no longer about the title.

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 It's no longer about the fame.

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 It's no longer about the respect.

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 It's about serving a people who are facing starvation.

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 And so what he does,

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 he uses the management skills that he's learned all the way through,

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 and he uses it to create kind of a warehouse system,

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 which practically and tangibly

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 puts food on people's tables.

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 You see, his work has become about loving and serving real people,

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 even if they're foreigners,

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 people who have oppressed him.

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 And he sees all the time,

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 you go to chapter 45,

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 right at the end,

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 right at the end,

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 his brothers come back to him,

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 they're expecting him to be taking revenge on him.

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 But what he says to them,

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 and it's quite incredible,

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 he says basically to them,

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 in chapter 45 on your bulletin,

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 he says,

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 hey guys,

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 don't be distressed or angry with yourselves

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 because you sold me here.

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 You know, this isn't a bitter guy.

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 For God sent me before you to preserve life.

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 Verse 7, he says,

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 God sent me before you to preserve you.

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 Verse 8, he says,

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 it was not you who sent me,

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 but God.

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 He has made me a father to Pharaoh.

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 God was calling me.

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 God was sending me.

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 Now that's very interesting.

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 Because he's begun to see that

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 the opportunities that he's been given

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 are to be used,

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 and the talents he's been given

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 are to be used both to serve and worship God

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 and to love other people.

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 Total change from right at the beginning.

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 So what do we get from this story?

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 I mean, it's a fascinating story,

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 and I do encourage you to go back

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 and actually read the whole story.

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 It's amazing how it works out.

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 Because this story is a story

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 about calling and about work as service.

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 You see,

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 in the Bible,

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 God sends many people.

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 God sends Moses to Pharaoh.

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 God sends prophets to Israel.

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 God sends the apostles out to the world.

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 But here,

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 God sends Joseph

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 to work in a secular organization,

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 a government.

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 But for Joseph to work out

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 and get to that point,

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 it takes him 13 years.

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 13 years of not knowing,

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 really,

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 where he was going at all.

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 So,

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 what does this tell us about calling?

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 The very interesting thing is

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 a lot of modern researchers

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 are now telling us,

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 we need to find our calling.

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 You need to find your vocation in life.

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 But the way you've got to do it

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 is find your passion.

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 Okay?

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 Find your passion.

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 And do your passion.

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 Follow your dream.

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 Be true to yourself.

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 If you can't find a fulfilling job

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 and you love chocolate,

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 go and open a chocolate shop.

00:16:10.759 --> 00:16:11.000
 Okay?

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 Do a startup.

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 Do something

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 which is going to kind of

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 follow your dream.

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 And you know,

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 that's fine.

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 There's some great things about that.

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 But the problem is

00:16:20.319 --> 00:16:22.019
 many of us haven't lived enough life

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 to know what our passion is.

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 I finished university.

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 I had no idea

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 what I wanted to do in life.

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 And I find most graduates

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 that I meet don't.

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 Right?

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 And I found many people

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 who've opened the chocolate shop

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 soon discover

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 they can't pay the bills

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 because chocolate only gets so far.

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 And so they come with life

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 kind of gets in the way

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 of your passion

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 and your dreams sometimes.

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 And so there's another way

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 we resort to making decisions

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 about work.

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 And what we do

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 is we choose the job

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 which makes us the most money,

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 gives us the most status

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 and the most security.

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 And you know,

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 maybe,

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 I don't know about you,

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 but many of us

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 are just doing the jobs

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 that we're doing

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 because our parents

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 pushed us that direction.

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 Or maybe,

00:17:04.559 --> 00:17:05.980
 if you're a domestic helper,

00:17:06.339 --> 00:17:07.220
 just the needs

00:17:07.220 --> 00:17:08.039
 of the situation

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 just to get money

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 have kind of pushed you

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 into a certain place

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 and you don't have a passion

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 for where you are.

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 But you just kind of

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 followed along

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 with the expectations

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 and you kind of ended up

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 where you are today.

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 And so that's often

00:17:22.719 --> 00:17:23.359
 why we struggle

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 with the idea of calling

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 because it doesn't sound

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 very kind of spiritual.

00:17:27.219 --> 00:17:27.399
 You know,

00:17:27.619 --> 00:17:28.819
 I went for a job interview

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 at Morgan Stanley

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 and I got the job.

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 It doesn't sound

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 like a very spiritual calling.

00:17:34.239 --> 00:17:34.459
 Right?

00:17:35.699 --> 00:17:36.899
 But what is this story

00:17:36.899 --> 00:17:37.619
 telling us?

00:17:38.719 --> 00:17:39.719
 What is this story

00:17:39.720 --> 00:17:40.299
 telling us?

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 I think it's telling us

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 a few things.

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 I think firstly,

00:17:42.759 --> 00:17:43.799
 this story is telling us

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 if you want to find a calling,

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 a calling starts

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 with a caller.

00:17:48.960 --> 00:17:49.200
 Okay?

00:17:50.279 --> 00:17:51.460
 It's not rocket science.

00:17:51.700 --> 00:17:51.860
 Right?

00:17:53.360 --> 00:17:54.180
 Notice Joseph.

00:17:54.339 --> 00:17:54.600
 Joseph,

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 whether he's up or down,

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 whether he's at the heights

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 or whether he's

00:17:57.779 --> 00:17:58.779
 at the low points,

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 God is the centerpiece

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 of his life.

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 Did you get that?

00:18:02.380 --> 00:18:04.220
 When he's resisting Potiphar,

00:18:04.380 --> 00:18:04.579
 he says,

00:18:04.960 --> 00:18:05.779
 Potiphar's wife,

00:18:05.839 --> 00:18:06.039
 he says,

00:18:06.140 --> 00:18:07.299
 this is sin against God.

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 In prison,

00:18:08.420 --> 00:18:08.740
 he says,

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 God is with me.

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 And he experiences love.

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 When he's meeting

00:18:11.759 --> 00:18:12.460
 with his brothers,

00:18:12.559 --> 00:18:13.160
 at the end,

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 he's like,

00:18:13.559 --> 00:18:14.380
 God has sent me.

00:18:14.640 --> 00:18:15.579
 God is just this kind

00:18:15.579 --> 00:18:16.680
 of continual theme

00:18:16.680 --> 00:18:17.660
 going all the way through.

00:18:20.279 --> 00:18:21.960
 The Puritans,

00:18:22.100 --> 00:18:23.720
 who were kind of Protestants,

00:18:24.519 --> 00:18:25.259
 English Protestants

00:18:25.259 --> 00:18:26.740
 about 400 years ago,

00:18:26.779 --> 00:18:27.640
 used to talk about

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 a primary calling

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 and a secondary calling.

00:18:30.500 --> 00:18:30.660
 Okay?

00:18:31.079 --> 00:18:31.519
 They took this

00:18:31.519 --> 00:18:32.079
 from the Bible.

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 They took the primary calling.

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 Like in John,

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 it says,

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 God calls us,

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 first of all,

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 primarily into relationship

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 with himself.

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 That is your first calling.

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 If you're a Christian here,

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 you are called.

00:18:44.560 --> 00:18:45.100
 Did you know that?

00:18:45.660 --> 00:18:46.480
 You are called.

00:18:46.580 --> 00:18:47.040
 You are called

00:18:47.040 --> 00:18:48.300
 into relationship with God.

00:18:48.940 --> 00:18:50.400
 That is the first call.

00:18:51.320 --> 00:18:51.519
 Okay?

00:18:51.820 --> 00:18:52.840
 The second call

00:18:52.840 --> 00:18:54.320
 is he then provides you

00:18:54.320 --> 00:18:55.580
 with gifts and talents

00:18:55.580 --> 00:18:56.380
 and opportunities

00:18:56.380 --> 00:18:57.040
 and resources

00:18:57.040 --> 00:18:57.860
 to steward

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 and to use

00:18:58.980 --> 00:18:59.840
 for his glory.

00:18:59.839 --> 00:19:02.519
 and that's what you do

00:19:02.519 --> 00:19:03.179
 with your life

00:19:03.179 --> 00:19:04.000
 to worship him.

00:19:04.119 --> 00:19:05.559
 That's the secondary call.

00:19:05.980 --> 00:19:06.099
 Okay?

00:19:06.599 --> 00:19:07.279
 First call,

00:19:07.399 --> 00:19:08.059
 who you are.

00:19:08.159 --> 00:19:08.879
 Secondary call,

00:19:10.240 --> 00:19:11.519
 so first to God

00:19:11.519 --> 00:19:12.459
 and as a Christian,

00:19:12.659 --> 00:19:13.919
 second to work for him

00:19:13.919 --> 00:19:15.459
 and they kind of overlap together.

00:19:16.500 --> 00:19:17.699
 But if you don't make

00:19:17.699 --> 00:19:18.959
 the first call

00:19:18.959 --> 00:19:21.099
 your priority,

00:19:21.619 --> 00:19:22.379
 then you're going to miss

00:19:22.379 --> 00:19:23.220
 the second call.

00:19:24.220 --> 00:19:24.439
 Okay?

00:19:25.019 --> 00:19:25.279
 Now,

00:19:25.480 --> 00:19:26.399
 that may sound

00:19:26.399 --> 00:19:27.139
 just very obvious,

00:19:27.139 --> 00:19:27.419
 but

00:19:27.420 --> 00:19:30.580
 think about it.

00:19:30.640 --> 00:19:32.019
 If someone calls you

00:19:32.019 --> 00:19:32.539
 on the phone,

00:19:33.460 --> 00:19:33.720
 okay,

00:19:34.160 --> 00:19:35.660
 what's your first thought?

00:19:36.580 --> 00:19:37.240
 Is it,

00:19:37.380 --> 00:19:38.700
 I wonder if this phone call

00:19:38.700 --> 00:19:39.539
 is going to fulfill me?

00:19:40.680 --> 00:19:41.360
 Is it,

00:19:41.580 --> 00:19:42.860
 I wonder if this really

00:19:42.860 --> 00:19:43.880
 fits my passion

00:19:43.880 --> 00:19:44.800
 to come and pick up

00:19:44.800 --> 00:19:45.539
 this phone call

00:19:45.539 --> 00:19:46.100
 at this moment?

00:19:47.700 --> 00:19:48.019
 No,

00:19:48.080 --> 00:19:49.600
 the first question you ask is,

00:19:49.740 --> 00:19:50.500
 who's calling?

00:19:51.279 --> 00:19:51.580
 Right?

00:19:52.120 --> 00:19:52.940
 Who's calling?

00:19:54.220 --> 00:19:54.940
 And the word,

00:19:54.940 --> 00:19:55.560
 I don't know if you know

00:19:55.560 --> 00:19:56.779
 the word vocation

00:19:56.779 --> 00:19:58.619
 is the Latin word

00:19:58.619 --> 00:19:59.779
 which means call.

00:19:59.980 --> 00:20:00.740
 So if you want to find

00:20:00.740 --> 00:20:01.980
 a vocation in life,

00:20:02.039 --> 00:20:02.539
 you've got to know

00:20:02.539 --> 00:20:03.619
 who is calling you.

00:20:03.920 --> 00:20:04.819
 And the Bible says,

00:20:05.220 --> 00:20:05.519
 God,

00:20:05.759 --> 00:20:06.960
 the creator of the universe

00:20:06.960 --> 00:20:07.720
 in whose image

00:20:07.720 --> 00:20:08.420
 you are made,

00:20:08.779 --> 00:20:09.559
 is the one

00:20:09.559 --> 00:20:11.559
 who calls you

00:20:11.559 --> 00:20:13.399
 to himself.

00:20:15.940 --> 00:20:17.160
 It's not about you,

00:20:18.000 --> 00:20:19.279
 it's not about your fulfillment,

00:20:20.099 --> 00:20:21.599
 and everything that you do

00:20:21.599 --> 00:20:22.779
 flows out of this now.

00:20:22.779 --> 00:20:23.539
 So it's not,

00:20:23.720 --> 00:20:24.399
 does this job

00:20:24.399 --> 00:20:25.460
 make me feel valued?

00:20:25.720 --> 00:20:26.839
 That's the wrong question.

00:20:27.740 --> 00:20:28.980
 The first question is,

00:20:29.720 --> 00:20:30.759
 who's calling you?

00:20:33.379 --> 00:20:34.259
 That's important

00:20:34.259 --> 00:20:34.859
 because this,

00:20:34.899 --> 00:20:35.440
 if you think

00:20:35.440 --> 00:20:36.319
 your first calling

00:20:36.319 --> 00:20:37.460
 is to primarily

00:20:37.460 --> 00:20:38.940
 to pursue your passion,

00:20:39.059 --> 00:20:40.319
 to find a fulfilling job,

00:20:40.440 --> 00:20:41.379
 to gain influence,

00:20:41.440 --> 00:20:42.720
 if you think that's first,

00:20:43.500 --> 00:20:44.399
 then when God puts you

00:20:44.399 --> 00:20:45.099
 in situations

00:20:45.099 --> 00:20:46.059
 like with Joseph,

00:20:47.059 --> 00:20:47.460
 you know,

00:20:47.779 --> 00:20:48.480
 in prison,

00:20:48.639 --> 00:20:49.500
 don't seem to be finding

00:20:49.500 --> 00:20:50.579
 any fulfillment,

00:20:50.579 --> 00:20:51.579
 you know,

00:20:51.759 --> 00:20:52.779
 you're with a load of idiots

00:20:52.779 --> 00:20:53.859
 in your office,

00:20:54.319 --> 00:20:54.659
 okay,

00:20:55.019 --> 00:20:55.799
 they don't fit

00:20:55.799 --> 00:20:57.179
 your personality type,

00:20:57.839 --> 00:20:59.000
 you're going to get depressed,

00:20:59.740 --> 00:21:00.259
 complaining,

00:21:00.659 --> 00:21:01.839
 thinking life is unfair,

00:21:02.319 --> 00:21:03.000
 hating your boss,

00:21:03.139 --> 00:21:03.839
 hating your clients,

00:21:03.980 --> 00:21:05.000
 hating everybody else,

00:21:05.419 --> 00:21:06.279
 because you thought

00:21:06.279 --> 00:21:07.859
 the secondary calling

00:21:07.859 --> 00:21:08.839
 was actually more important

00:21:08.839 --> 00:21:09.480
 than the primary.

00:21:10.879 --> 00:21:11.139
 I mean,

00:21:11.199 --> 00:21:11.960
 why in Hong Kong

00:21:11.960 --> 00:21:13.480
 do we have to change job

00:21:13.480 --> 00:21:14.339
 every single year?

00:21:16.079 --> 00:21:17.359
 Because we wanted to find

00:21:17.359 --> 00:21:18.500
 fulfillment in it,

00:21:18.579 --> 00:21:18.899
 right?

00:21:18.900 --> 00:21:19.019
 Right?

00:21:21.640 --> 00:21:22.340
 But if,

00:21:22.560 --> 00:21:23.600
 even if you're down there,

00:21:23.700 --> 00:21:25.140
 or even if you're made

00:21:25.140 --> 00:21:26.400
 to be the prime minister,

00:21:26.519 --> 00:21:26.700
 you know,

00:21:26.820 --> 00:21:28.200
 you become the boss,

00:21:29.080 --> 00:21:30.000
 everything's going well,

00:21:30.120 --> 00:21:31.400
 everything's going successfully,

00:21:32.080 --> 00:21:33.780
 if you don't make

00:21:33.780 --> 00:21:35.060
 that primary call

00:21:35.060 --> 00:21:36.060
 the primary call,

00:21:37.220 --> 00:21:38.120
 you're not answering

00:21:38.120 --> 00:21:39.140
 that call to him,

00:21:39.240 --> 00:21:39.620
 you're going to be

00:21:39.620 --> 00:21:40.680
 like the cup bearer

00:21:40.680 --> 00:21:42.680
 who just forgets

00:21:42.680 --> 00:21:45.380
 about Joseph's service,

00:21:45.500 --> 00:21:46.560
 you'll forget about God,

00:21:46.580 --> 00:21:47.480
 and you'll kind of be like,

00:21:47.480 --> 00:21:47.900
 yeah,

00:21:47.940 --> 00:21:48.740
 I'll pray occasionally

00:21:48.740 --> 00:21:49.480
 when I'm in trouble,

00:21:50.099 --> 00:21:51.360
 but basically work

00:21:51.360 --> 00:21:52.259
 is all about you.

00:21:54.279 --> 00:21:55.400
 But if you know

00:21:55.400 --> 00:21:56.120
 the caller

00:21:56.120 --> 00:21:58.420
 is your priority,

00:21:59.160 --> 00:21:59.779
 you're going to be

00:21:59.779 --> 00:22:00.620
 constantly on the phone

00:22:00.620 --> 00:22:00.980
 to him.

00:22:02.740 --> 00:22:03.440
 You're going to be

00:22:03.440 --> 00:22:03.759
 constantly,

00:22:03.860 --> 00:22:04.620
 because it's relationship

00:22:04.620 --> 00:22:05.420
 throughout your day,

00:22:05.539 --> 00:22:06.140
 checking in

00:22:06.140 --> 00:22:06.819
 before a meeting,

00:22:07.019 --> 00:22:07.420
 help,

00:22:07.839 --> 00:22:08.180
 okay?

00:22:08.519 --> 00:22:09.360
 You're not going to be

00:22:09.360 --> 00:22:10.160
 like a teenager

00:22:10.160 --> 00:22:11.860
 in a boarding school

00:22:11.860 --> 00:22:13.000
 who only ever calls

00:22:13.000 --> 00:22:13.519
 their parents

00:22:13.519 --> 00:22:14.519
 when they run out of money,

00:22:14.519 --> 00:22:16.720
 right?

00:22:17.139 --> 00:22:18.539
 But isn't that so often

00:22:18.539 --> 00:22:19.660
 how we treat God,

00:22:20.299 --> 00:22:22.019
 particularly in our work days?

00:22:23.220 --> 00:22:24.079
 I do.

00:22:24.960 --> 00:22:26.400
 I get so wrapped up

00:22:26.400 --> 00:22:28.079
 in the busyness

00:22:28.079 --> 00:22:29.119
 of what I want to do

00:22:29.119 --> 00:22:29.819
 that I forget

00:22:29.819 --> 00:22:30.279
 I'm actually

00:22:30.279 --> 00:22:31.039
 to be relating

00:22:31.039 --> 00:22:31.680
 to the one

00:22:31.680 --> 00:22:32.900
 who has called me.

00:22:35.720 --> 00:22:36.559
 So calling

00:22:36.559 --> 00:22:38.279
 is a day-to-day relationship,

00:22:39.440 --> 00:22:39.700
 okay?

00:22:39.819 --> 00:22:40.259
 It's not just

00:22:40.259 --> 00:22:40.879
 kind of a big,

00:22:41.039 --> 00:22:41.579
 you don't just

00:22:41.579 --> 00:22:42.339
 have a kind of

00:22:42.339 --> 00:22:43.180
 once-off call

00:22:43.180 --> 00:22:43.700
 to your parents

00:22:43.700 --> 00:22:44.340
 and that's it.

00:22:44.519 --> 00:22:46.060
 It's a day-to-day relationship.

00:22:46.860 --> 00:22:47.279
 And the more

00:22:47.279 --> 00:22:47.880
 you become

00:22:47.880 --> 00:22:49.320
 sensitive to his voice

00:22:49.320 --> 00:22:50.299
 in the day-to-day,

00:22:50.519 --> 00:22:51.400
 the more you'll begin

00:22:51.400 --> 00:22:52.160
 to understand

00:22:52.160 --> 00:22:53.200
 and hear his voice

00:22:53.200 --> 00:22:54.180
 in the bigger decisions

00:22:54.180 --> 00:22:55.380
 that you have to face.

00:22:56.420 --> 00:22:57.279
 If you've only ever

00:22:57.279 --> 00:22:58.460
 tuned into your voice

00:22:58.460 --> 00:22:59.640
 in the small things

00:22:59.640 --> 00:23:00.180
 of life,

00:23:00.600 --> 00:23:02.320
 then it's going

00:23:02.320 --> 00:23:03.000
 to be really tricky

00:23:03.000 --> 00:23:03.820
 to try and understand

00:23:03.820 --> 00:23:05.279
 what is God calling you to

00:23:05.279 --> 00:23:06.799
 in these bigger decisions

00:23:06.799 --> 00:23:07.680
 of job choice.

00:23:08.940 --> 00:23:09.960
 So that's the first thing.

00:23:10.060 --> 00:23:11.600
 Calling starts

00:23:11.600 --> 00:23:12.279
 with a caller.

00:23:12.279 --> 00:23:13.359
 Secondly,

00:23:13.759 --> 00:23:15.599
 calling requires

00:23:15.599 --> 00:23:17.639
 day-to-day faithfulness.

00:23:18.079 --> 00:23:18.480
 I don't know,

00:23:18.539 --> 00:23:19.680
 if I'm to ask you

00:23:19.680 --> 00:23:20.420
 right now,

00:23:20.940 --> 00:23:22.779
 what has God

00:23:22.779 --> 00:23:23.639
 called you to?

00:23:24.879 --> 00:23:26.180
 Thinking secondary calling.

00:23:26.279 --> 00:23:26.740
 What has God

00:23:26.740 --> 00:23:27.399
 called you to?

00:23:28.240 --> 00:23:29.200
 Can you answer me?

00:23:30.960 --> 00:23:31.920
 Can you answer me?

00:23:34.420 --> 00:23:34.940
 Because

00:23:34.940 --> 00:23:38.480
 here is where

00:23:38.480 --> 00:23:39.399
 we often struggle.

00:23:39.400 --> 00:23:42.820
 we have both

00:23:42.820 --> 00:23:43.140
 the,

00:23:43.340 --> 00:23:43.500
 okay,

00:23:43.560 --> 00:23:43.960
 he's called me

00:23:43.960 --> 00:23:44.460
 into a relationship

00:23:44.460 --> 00:23:45.000
 with himself,

00:23:45.120 --> 00:23:45.600
 he's called me

00:23:45.600 --> 00:23:46.340
 to do something,

00:23:46.540 --> 00:23:47.200
 but sometimes

00:23:47.200 --> 00:23:47.820
 we're kind of like,

00:23:47.880 --> 00:23:48.000
 well,

00:23:48.040 --> 00:23:48.820
 I get a bit fuzzy

00:23:48.820 --> 00:23:49.420
 in between.

00:23:49.880 --> 00:23:50.820
 I'm not quite sure

00:23:50.820 --> 00:23:51.440
 where I am.

00:23:51.700 --> 00:23:52.300
 And sometimes

00:23:52.300 --> 00:23:53.420
 I meet so many people

00:23:53.420 --> 00:23:53.840
 who feel like

00:23:53.840 --> 00:23:54.660
 I'm missing out

00:23:54.660 --> 00:23:55.360
 on God's call.

00:23:56.080 --> 00:23:56.280
 You know,

00:23:56.340 --> 00:23:57.019
 I'm not doing

00:23:57.019 --> 00:23:58.200
 what I'm passionate about.

00:23:59.640 --> 00:24:00.400
 And yes,

00:24:00.680 --> 00:24:02.300
 if you have a choice,

00:24:02.780 --> 00:24:03.860
 passion is one

00:24:03.860 --> 00:24:04.880
 of a number of clues

00:24:04.880 --> 00:24:05.560
 to steer you

00:24:05.560 --> 00:24:06.080
 to a calling.

00:24:06.200 --> 00:24:06.380
 You know,

00:24:06.460 --> 00:24:06.780
 Joseph,

00:24:07.000 --> 00:24:07.700
 he seems to be

00:24:07.700 --> 00:24:08.519
 pretty good at management

00:24:08.519 --> 00:24:09.339
 all the way through,

00:24:09.779 --> 00:24:10.039
 okay?

00:24:10.279 --> 00:24:11.039
 There are interests,

00:24:11.139 --> 00:24:11.579
 there are gifts,

00:24:11.700 --> 00:24:12.319
 there are abilities,

00:24:12.480 --> 00:24:13.680
 they can guide you,

00:24:13.980 --> 00:24:15.240
 but we've got to be careful

00:24:15.240 --> 00:24:15.980
 a little bit

00:24:15.980 --> 00:24:16.759
 that we don't make

00:24:16.759 --> 00:24:17.559
 the idea of calling

00:24:17.559 --> 00:24:18.400
 all about me.

00:24:19.200 --> 00:24:20.619
 Because in most of history,

00:24:20.960 --> 00:24:21.660
 most people have never

00:24:21.660 --> 00:24:22.680
 had a choice of jobs.

00:24:23.039 --> 00:24:23.400
 You know that?

00:24:24.200 --> 00:24:24.460
 Like,

00:24:24.579 --> 00:24:25.700
 because poverty meant

00:24:25.700 --> 00:24:26.680
 that you had to do anything

00:24:26.680 --> 00:24:27.359
 just to get food

00:24:27.359 --> 00:24:27.920
 on the table.

00:24:28.859 --> 00:24:29.879
 Joseph doesn't have

00:24:29.879 --> 00:24:31.000
 much of a career choice.

00:24:31.339 --> 00:24:31.440
 Now,

00:24:31.480 --> 00:24:32.220
 we've got far more

00:24:32.220 --> 00:24:33.160
 career choice than him.

00:24:33.559 --> 00:24:34.160
 Sometimes you wish

00:24:34.160 --> 00:24:34.559
 you didn't have

00:24:34.559 --> 00:24:35.259
 so many choices

00:24:35.259 --> 00:24:36.660
 because it makes it easier,

00:24:36.740 --> 00:24:36.900
 you know,

00:24:36.920 --> 00:24:37.480
 like a menu.

00:24:37.480 --> 00:24:38.799
 You've only got 50 choices

00:24:38.799 --> 00:24:39.279
 on the menu.

00:24:39.400 --> 00:24:39.920
 It's so much harder

00:24:39.920 --> 00:24:40.579
 to make a decision,

00:24:40.700 --> 00:24:40.900
 right?

00:24:43.259 --> 00:24:44.900
 But in the midst

00:24:44.900 --> 00:24:47.500
 of slavery,

00:24:47.740 --> 00:24:48.360
 unfairness,

00:24:48.480 --> 00:24:48.960
 injustice,

00:24:49.259 --> 00:24:49.539
 famine,

00:24:49.680 --> 00:24:51.220
 a kind of restricted choice,

00:24:51.539 --> 00:24:52.500
 Joseph still finds

00:24:52.500 --> 00:24:54.079
 a calling in God,

00:24:54.660 --> 00:24:56.019
 which I find encouraging.

00:24:56.980 --> 00:24:58.240
 I find that encouraging

00:24:58.240 --> 00:25:00.059
 because if you feel,

00:25:00.120 --> 00:25:00.759
 if you feel like

00:25:00.759 --> 00:25:01.319
 you're trapped

00:25:01.319 --> 00:25:02.059
 in your work

00:25:02.059 --> 00:25:02.900
 and you don't feel like,

00:25:02.960 --> 00:25:03.980
 I don't really get

00:25:03.980 --> 00:25:04.960
 where the meaning is,

00:25:04.960 --> 00:25:05.900
 or you're even

00:25:05.900 --> 00:25:07.160
 in a high-flying job

00:25:07.160 --> 00:25:07.779
 and you're in

00:25:07.779 --> 00:25:08.819
 even a great position

00:25:08.819 --> 00:25:09.720
 but you're like,

00:25:09.860 --> 00:25:11.840
 I can't sense

00:25:11.840 --> 00:25:12.640
 where the call

00:25:12.640 --> 00:25:13.579
 is in this,

00:25:14.660 --> 00:25:15.420
 then Joseph

00:25:15.420 --> 00:25:16.120
 has got a lot

00:25:16.120 --> 00:25:17.400
 of hope for us

00:25:17.400 --> 00:25:20.059
 because Joseph,

00:25:20.740 --> 00:25:21.259
 I don't think

00:25:21.259 --> 00:25:21.900
 when he's in prison

00:25:21.900 --> 00:25:22.500
 he's like going,

00:25:22.600 --> 00:25:22.740
 oh,

00:25:22.799 --> 00:25:24.279
 I feel really called

00:25:24.279 --> 00:25:24.980
 here.

00:25:25.620 --> 00:25:26.579
 But what he does,

00:25:26.660 --> 00:25:27.279
 he gets on

00:25:27.279 --> 00:25:28.620
 in his day-to-day work

00:25:28.620 --> 00:25:29.559
 and he gets on

00:25:29.559 --> 00:25:31.340
 and does faithfully

00:25:31.340 --> 00:25:32.440
 what he's there

00:25:32.440 --> 00:25:32.980
 to do.

00:25:33.299 --> 00:25:34.299
 He uses

00:25:34.299 --> 00:25:35.579
 the talents

00:25:35.579 --> 00:25:36.460
 God has given him,

00:25:37.079 --> 00:25:37.980
 the place

00:25:37.980 --> 00:25:39.039
 where God has placed him,

00:25:39.220 --> 00:25:39.880
 the needs

00:25:39.880 --> 00:25:40.980
 and the opportunities

00:25:40.980 --> 00:25:42.299
 which are around him

00:25:42.299 --> 00:25:43.700
 and he gets on

00:25:43.700 --> 00:25:44.200
 and does it.

00:25:44.759 --> 00:25:45.400
 He gets on

00:25:45.400 --> 00:25:46.059
 and serves.

00:25:46.599 --> 00:25:47.259
 And that's where

00:25:47.259 --> 00:25:48.220
 you find your calling.

00:25:48.660 --> 00:25:49.559
 Just not like

00:25:49.559 --> 00:25:50.220
 a big voice

00:25:50.220 --> 00:25:50.779
 kind of saying

00:25:50.779 --> 00:25:51.519
 it's there,

00:25:51.880 --> 00:25:52.180
 okay?

00:25:52.779 --> 00:25:53.440
 Now some people

00:25:53.440 --> 00:25:54.220
 do have that strong,

00:25:54.299 --> 00:25:54.920
 and that's great

00:25:54.920 --> 00:25:55.860
 but I find most people

00:25:55.860 --> 00:25:56.299
 don't.

00:25:57.480 --> 00:25:58.180
 Most of us,

00:25:58.259 --> 00:25:58.720
 it's actually

00:25:58.720 --> 00:25:59.640
 as we look around

00:25:59.640 --> 00:26:00.920
 the situation we're in

00:26:00.920 --> 00:26:01.519
 and what God

00:26:01.519 --> 00:26:02.120
 has given us

00:26:02.120 --> 00:26:02.519
 and we say,

00:26:02.519 --> 00:26:03.160
 okay,

00:26:03.819 --> 00:26:04.720
 let me get on

00:26:04.720 --> 00:26:05.379
 and be faithful

00:26:05.379 --> 00:26:06.960
 day-to-day.

00:26:08.579 --> 00:26:09.519
 I heard this story

00:26:09.519 --> 00:26:10.740
 of a young lawyer

00:26:10.740 --> 00:26:11.639
 in New York.

00:26:12.440 --> 00:26:12.819
 At heart,

00:26:12.879 --> 00:26:13.639
 she was really passionate,

00:26:13.759 --> 00:26:14.660
 wanted to be an artist.

00:26:15.940 --> 00:26:17.740
 But when she got

00:26:17.740 --> 00:26:19.000
 to choosing her degree,

00:26:19.639 --> 00:26:20.779
 she decided to do law

00:26:20.779 --> 00:26:22.139
 because that's where

00:26:22.139 --> 00:26:22.980
 she could make money,

00:26:23.339 --> 00:26:23.639
 right?

00:26:24.539 --> 00:26:26.440
 And art exactly

00:26:26.440 --> 00:26:27.059
 doesn't kind of

00:26:27.059 --> 00:26:27.960
 exactly pay well.

00:26:27.960 --> 00:26:29.420
 so she joins this law firm

00:26:29.420 --> 00:26:31.039
 and after a while

00:26:31.039 --> 00:26:31.880
 she just kind of feels

00:26:31.880 --> 00:26:32.900
 like I'm just missing,

00:26:33.259 --> 00:26:34.860
 missing my call.

00:26:34.960 --> 00:26:35.500
 This is not where

00:26:35.500 --> 00:26:36.259
 I'm passionate about.

00:26:37.460 --> 00:26:38.380
 And she would go

00:26:38.380 --> 00:26:39.000
 to her pastor

00:26:39.000 --> 00:26:39.259
 and say,

00:26:39.340 --> 00:26:39.660
 pastor,

00:26:39.779 --> 00:26:40.460
 should I quit?

00:26:42.000 --> 00:26:43.200
 And just as she got

00:26:43.200 --> 00:26:44.160
 to the point of quitting,

00:26:45.420 --> 00:26:46.240
 she got a promotion.

00:26:48.559 --> 00:26:49.799
 And then this kind of cycle

00:26:49.799 --> 00:26:50.759
 continued for a number

00:26:50.759 --> 00:26:51.000
 of years.

00:26:51.059 --> 00:26:51.920
 She was good at her job

00:26:51.920 --> 00:26:52.340
 but, you know,

00:26:52.440 --> 00:26:53.519
 she just wanted to get out.

00:26:53.579 --> 00:26:54.460
 She gets to the point again

00:26:54.460 --> 00:26:55.119
 of wanting to quit

00:26:55.119 --> 00:26:55.940
 and get out of the job

00:26:55.940 --> 00:26:56.440
 and then she gets

00:26:56.440 --> 00:26:57.059
 another promotion.

00:26:58.079 --> 00:26:59.039
 And this kind of cycle

00:26:59.039 --> 00:26:59.879
 goes on and she's like,

00:26:59.940 --> 00:27:01.059
 God, why are you doing this?

00:27:01.079 --> 00:27:01.819
 And finally she gets

00:27:01.819 --> 00:27:02.559
 offered a position

00:27:02.559 --> 00:27:03.700
 as a partner in the firm.

00:27:04.740 --> 00:27:05.099
 She's like,

00:27:05.119 --> 00:27:05.559
 but I don't even

00:27:05.559 --> 00:27:06.319
 want to be here.

00:27:08.180 --> 00:27:09.879
 And finally,

00:27:10.539 --> 00:27:11.319
 just in talking to

00:27:11.319 --> 00:27:12.079
 a pastor one day,

00:27:12.079 --> 00:27:13.460
 she suddenly realized

00:27:13.460 --> 00:27:15.639
 her passion

00:27:15.639 --> 00:27:17.400
 as to be an artist

00:27:17.400 --> 00:27:19.339
 meant that all the

00:27:19.339 --> 00:27:20.519
 normal temptations

00:27:20.519 --> 00:27:21.319
 of power,

00:27:21.740 --> 00:27:22.079
 money,

00:27:22.079 --> 00:27:22.220
 money,

00:27:22.399 --> 00:27:23.579
 status that drove

00:27:23.579 --> 00:27:24.799
 most of the other lawyers

00:27:24.799 --> 00:27:25.839
 in her law firm,

00:27:26.059 --> 00:27:27.139
 they weren't temptations

00:27:27.139 --> 00:27:27.859
 for her at all

00:27:27.859 --> 00:27:30.059
 because she wanted

00:27:30.059 --> 00:27:30.799
 to be an artist.

00:27:32.919 --> 00:27:34.399
 But that meant

00:27:34.399 --> 00:27:36.579
 she could analyze

00:27:36.579 --> 00:27:38.539
 and see clearly

00:27:38.539 --> 00:27:39.879
 issues which others

00:27:39.879 --> 00:27:40.500
 couldn't because

00:27:40.500 --> 00:27:41.179
 they were tainted

00:27:41.179 --> 00:27:42.819
 by their own self-interest.

00:27:43.659 --> 00:27:45.759
 It meant that she

00:27:45.759 --> 00:27:46.740
 was actually in a position

00:27:46.740 --> 00:27:48.199
 to lobby for change

00:27:48.199 --> 00:27:49.279
 within the company

00:27:49.279 --> 00:27:50.899
 and working practices,

00:27:50.900 --> 00:27:52.440
 conditions for junior

00:27:52.440 --> 00:27:53.120
 staff,

00:27:53.300 --> 00:27:54.640
 without any kind

00:27:54.640 --> 00:27:55.560
 of sense of like

00:27:55.560 --> 00:27:56.880
 her own

00:27:56.880 --> 00:27:59.259
 self-interest

00:27:59.259 --> 00:28:00.040
 being at stake.

00:28:01.600 --> 00:28:02.100
 And she began

00:28:02.100 --> 00:28:02.940
 to see that

00:28:02.940 --> 00:28:04.100
 God had placed her

00:28:04.100 --> 00:28:04.840
 there for such

00:28:04.840 --> 00:28:05.480
 a reason

00:28:05.480 --> 00:28:08.780
 and she just

00:28:08.780 --> 00:28:09.620
 had to be faithful

00:28:09.620 --> 00:28:11.140
 and God was using it.

00:28:11.180 --> 00:28:11.700
 Now it took her

00:28:11.700 --> 00:28:12.460
 quite a few years

00:28:12.460 --> 00:28:13.140
 to find that.

00:28:13.940 --> 00:28:14.960
 Now I'm not saying

00:28:14.960 --> 00:28:15.519
 that you shouldn't

00:28:15.519 --> 00:28:16.500
 change jobs.

00:28:16.500 --> 00:28:18.680
 I have.

00:28:19.180 --> 00:28:20.380
 But I am saying

00:28:20.380 --> 00:28:22.599
 that some of us

00:28:22.599 --> 00:28:23.740
 need to learn

00:28:23.740 --> 00:28:25.539
 to see where

00:28:25.539 --> 00:28:26.700
 we're up to

00:28:26.700 --> 00:28:27.819
 and maybe to see

00:28:27.819 --> 00:28:28.539
 that God

00:28:28.539 --> 00:28:29.599
 wants to use you

00:28:29.599 --> 00:28:30.259
 and there is a bigger

00:28:30.259 --> 00:28:31.779
 picture with where you are

00:28:31.779 --> 00:28:32.619
 than necessarily

00:28:32.619 --> 00:28:33.759
 what we see day to day

00:28:33.759 --> 00:28:34.440
 and he calls us

00:28:34.440 --> 00:28:35.359
 to be faithful with it.

00:28:35.700 --> 00:28:36.460
 Some of you may have

00:28:36.460 --> 00:28:37.480
 no idea why you're

00:28:37.480 --> 00:28:38.319
 working where you are

00:28:38.319 --> 00:28:40.640
 but you don't have

00:28:40.640 --> 00:28:41.619
 to have the big picture

00:28:41.619 --> 00:28:42.900
 to realize that God

00:28:42.900 --> 00:28:44.299
 is doing and painting

00:28:44.299 --> 00:28:45.140
 a bigger picture

00:28:45.140 --> 00:28:46.400
 than you can ever realize.

00:28:48.240 --> 00:28:49.560
 Some of us may actually

00:28:49.560 --> 00:28:50.560
 have to leave our jobs

00:28:50.560 --> 00:28:51.380
 because we're holding

00:28:51.380 --> 00:28:52.040
 on to our jobs

00:28:52.040 --> 00:28:53.740
 because we're wanting

00:28:53.740 --> 00:28:54.940
 the financial status

00:28:54.940 --> 00:28:55.640
 and security

00:28:55.640 --> 00:28:56.520
 and the gifts

00:28:56.520 --> 00:28:57.120
 and the passions

00:28:57.120 --> 00:28:57.780
 and the talents

00:28:57.780 --> 00:28:58.540
 and the opportunities

00:28:58.540 --> 00:28:59.300
 and the needs

00:28:59.300 --> 00:29:00.660
 that you see around you

00:29:00.660 --> 00:29:02.000
 there are opportunities

00:29:02.000 --> 00:29:02.780
 for you to move

00:29:02.780 --> 00:29:03.420
 into those

00:29:03.420 --> 00:29:04.660
 but you're not doing it

00:29:04.660 --> 00:29:05.480
 because of fear

00:29:05.480 --> 00:29:06.040
 because you're trying

00:29:06.040 --> 00:29:06.580
 to hold on

00:29:06.580 --> 00:29:07.560
 to those other things.

00:29:08.700 --> 00:29:09.940
 And so we need wisdom

00:29:09.940 --> 00:29:12.460
 to ask God

00:29:12.460 --> 00:29:14.000
 to speak

00:29:14.000 --> 00:29:15.220
 to get godly counsel

00:29:15.220 --> 00:29:16.480
 from people around us

00:29:16.480 --> 00:29:17.400
 to see God

00:29:17.400 --> 00:29:19.420
 with what you've given me

00:29:19.420 --> 00:29:21.640
 it's no longer

00:29:21.640 --> 00:29:22.819
 and Tim Keller says this

00:29:22.819 --> 00:29:24.279
 when we begin

00:29:24.279 --> 00:29:25.140
 to see our work

00:29:25.140 --> 00:29:26.279
 as a way of service

00:29:26.279 --> 00:29:26.680
 to God

00:29:26.680 --> 00:29:27.259
 and our neighbor

00:29:27.259 --> 00:29:28.599
 the question regarding

00:29:28.599 --> 00:29:29.400
 our choice of work

00:29:29.400 --> 00:29:30.039
 is no longer

00:29:30.039 --> 00:29:31.480
 what will make me

00:29:31.480 --> 00:29:32.339
 the most money

00:29:32.339 --> 00:29:33.940
 give me the most status

00:29:33.940 --> 00:29:35.380
 or even the most fulfillment

00:29:35.380 --> 00:29:36.660
 the question

00:29:36.660 --> 00:29:37.599
 must now be

00:29:37.599 --> 00:29:38.839
 how

00:29:38.839 --> 00:29:40.519
 with my existing

00:29:40.519 --> 00:29:41.119
 abilities

00:29:41.119 --> 00:29:42.159
 and opportunities

00:29:42.159 --> 00:29:43.579
 can I be

00:29:43.579 --> 00:29:44.579
 of greatest service

00:29:44.579 --> 00:29:45.339
 to others

00:29:45.339 --> 00:29:46.779
 knowing what I do

00:29:46.779 --> 00:29:47.699
 of God's will

00:29:47.699 --> 00:29:48.879
 and human need

00:29:48.879 --> 00:29:50.439
 and sometimes

00:29:50.439 --> 00:29:51.839
 it's just being faithful

00:29:51.839 --> 00:29:53.339
 where he's placed us

00:29:53.339 --> 00:29:55.339
 until he opens

00:29:55.339 --> 00:29:55.959
 another door.

00:29:58.139 --> 00:29:58.599
 So calling

00:29:58.599 --> 00:29:59.559
 requires a caller

00:29:59.559 --> 00:30:00.719
 calling requires

00:30:00.719 --> 00:30:02.119
 day-to-day faithfulness

00:30:02.119 --> 00:30:03.139
 and you'll see God

00:30:03.139 --> 00:30:04.099
 working out a picture.

00:30:04.500 --> 00:30:04.859
 Third thing

00:30:04.859 --> 00:30:08.359
 how calling

00:30:08.359 --> 00:30:09.179
 looks like

00:30:09.179 --> 00:30:09.719
 day-to-day

00:30:09.720 --> 00:30:10.839
 okay

00:30:10.839 --> 00:30:11.539
 what calling

00:30:11.539 --> 00:30:12.000
 looks like

00:30:12.000 --> 00:30:12.380
 day-to-day

00:30:12.380 --> 00:30:13.660
 I think there are

00:30:13.660 --> 00:30:14.339
 two things

00:30:14.339 --> 00:30:15.480
 that the gospel

00:30:15.480 --> 00:30:16.240
 shows us

00:30:16.240 --> 00:30:16.920
 and this passage

00:30:16.920 --> 00:30:17.400
 shows us

00:30:17.400 --> 00:30:18.000
 one is

00:30:18.000 --> 00:30:19.079
 we take pride

00:30:19.079 --> 00:30:19.759
 in our work

00:30:19.759 --> 00:30:21.180
 the second is

00:30:21.180 --> 00:30:22.180
 we see people

00:30:22.180 --> 00:30:24.079
 beyond the task

00:30:24.079 --> 00:30:24.500
 okay

00:30:24.500 --> 00:30:26.299
 Joseph

00:30:26.299 --> 00:30:29.319
 is placed

00:30:29.319 --> 00:30:30.259
 in this position

00:30:30.259 --> 00:30:31.319
 he becomes

00:30:31.319 --> 00:30:32.259
 the second

00:30:32.259 --> 00:30:32.839
 in command

00:30:32.839 --> 00:30:33.819
 with all these

00:30:33.819 --> 00:30:34.799
 management skills

00:30:34.799 --> 00:30:35.380
 and abilities

00:30:35.380 --> 00:30:36.460
 that he's been given

00:30:36.460 --> 00:30:39.059
 and he realizes

00:30:39.059 --> 00:30:40.200
 that this is about

00:30:40.200 --> 00:30:41.140
 serving people

00:30:41.140 --> 00:30:42.539
 this is about

00:30:42.539 --> 00:30:43.420
 loving people

00:30:43.420 --> 00:30:44.680
 he's carrying out

00:30:44.680 --> 00:30:45.640
 two of the great

00:30:45.640 --> 00:30:46.819
 commands of the Bible

00:30:46.819 --> 00:30:47.640
 love God

00:30:47.640 --> 00:30:48.740
 love your neighbor

00:30:48.740 --> 00:30:50.000
 through his work

00:30:50.000 --> 00:30:51.559
 do you realize actually

00:30:51.559 --> 00:30:52.759
 you carry out

00:30:52.759 --> 00:30:53.279
 those commandments

00:30:53.279 --> 00:30:53.960
 in your work

00:30:53.960 --> 00:30:55.039
 I don't know if you realize that

00:30:55.039 --> 00:30:56.579
 you see

00:30:56.579 --> 00:30:57.799
 how does he do that

00:30:57.799 --> 00:30:59.200
 he takes pride

00:30:59.200 --> 00:30:59.860
 in his work

00:30:59.860 --> 00:31:00.259
 you know

00:31:00.259 --> 00:31:01.120
 Joseph makes sure

00:31:01.120 --> 00:31:01.940
 he's got the best

00:31:01.940 --> 00:31:03.460
 storage distribution

00:31:03.460 --> 00:31:04.640
 system available

00:31:04.640 --> 00:31:05.560
 okay

00:31:05.560 --> 00:31:07.240
 he's not cutting corners

00:31:07.240 --> 00:31:07.780
 he's not saying

00:31:07.780 --> 00:31:08.980
 I need to go and pray

00:31:08.980 --> 00:31:09.560
 and I'll leave

00:31:09.560 --> 00:31:10.960
 I'll leave the logistics

00:31:10.960 --> 00:31:11.720
 to somebody else

00:31:11.720 --> 00:31:12.220
 no he's

00:31:12.220 --> 00:31:12.800
 he's

00:31:12.800 --> 00:31:14.600
 he's doing the good job

00:31:14.600 --> 00:31:15.440
 because he knows

00:31:15.440 --> 00:31:16.300
 people are going to starve

00:31:16.300 --> 00:31:17.220
 if he doesn't do it

00:31:17.220 --> 00:31:18.640
 and often

00:31:18.640 --> 00:31:19.759
 that kind of setting up

00:31:19.759 --> 00:31:20.240
 of systems

00:31:20.240 --> 00:31:21.000
 it's administrative

00:31:21.000 --> 00:31:22.040
 it's mundane

00:31:22.040 --> 00:31:22.940
 but he knows

00:31:22.940 --> 00:31:24.200
 that it was sustaining life

00:31:24.200 --> 00:31:25.020
 for families

00:31:25.020 --> 00:31:26.980
 and so he did it well

00:31:26.980 --> 00:31:28.700
 now some of us may struggle

00:31:28.700 --> 00:31:29.480
 yeah I don't feel like

00:31:29.480 --> 00:31:30.680
 I'm feeding starving people

00:31:30.680 --> 00:31:31.420
 with my trading

00:31:31.420 --> 00:31:31.980
 or something

00:31:31.980 --> 00:31:32.600
 but

00:31:32.600 --> 00:31:34.620
 when I go to the bank

00:31:34.619 --> 00:31:37.299
 to get money

00:31:37.299 --> 00:31:39.899
 my first concern

00:31:39.899 --> 00:31:40.419
 is not

00:31:40.419 --> 00:31:43.199
 I hope they tell me

00:31:43.199 --> 00:31:43.779
 about Jesus

00:31:43.779 --> 00:31:44.579
 when I go there

00:31:44.579 --> 00:31:46.939
 my first concern

00:31:46.939 --> 00:31:47.819
 when I go to the bank

00:31:47.819 --> 00:31:49.119
 is that I get good service

00:31:49.119 --> 00:31:49.899
 right

00:31:49.899 --> 00:31:52.099
 and if when I go down

00:31:52.099 --> 00:31:52.459
 you know

00:31:52.459 --> 00:31:54.899
 I don't know if you've ever seen this

00:31:54.899 --> 00:31:56.319
 I sometimes go down to the bank

00:31:56.319 --> 00:31:57.719
 and I go to get served

00:31:57.719 --> 00:31:59.059
 and then the people behind it

00:31:59.059 --> 00:32:00.039
 just chatting to each other

00:32:00.039 --> 00:32:00.359
 and like

00:32:00.359 --> 00:32:01.659
 I'm kind of like an interruption

00:32:01.659 --> 00:32:02.819
 you ever felt that

00:32:02.819 --> 00:32:04.759
 I don't feel loved

00:32:04.759 --> 00:32:05.539
 at that moment

00:32:05.539 --> 00:32:06.879
 right

00:32:06.879 --> 00:32:08.679
 or you receive a letter

00:32:08.679 --> 00:32:09.480
 and it's just filled

00:32:09.480 --> 00:32:10.619
 with all these typos

00:32:10.619 --> 00:32:11.339
 and I feel like

00:32:11.339 --> 00:32:12.359
 couldn't you be bothered

00:32:12.359 --> 00:32:14.639
 couldn't even proofread it

00:32:14.639 --> 00:32:15.139
 right

00:32:15.139 --> 00:32:17.179
 you see

00:32:17.179 --> 00:32:18.119
 is that how much

00:32:18.119 --> 00:32:19.559
 your work means to you

00:32:19.559 --> 00:32:19.819
 no

00:32:19.819 --> 00:32:20.839
 Joseph would say

00:32:20.839 --> 00:32:21.700
 and the Bible would say

00:32:21.700 --> 00:32:21.839
 no

00:32:21.839 --> 00:32:23.220
 take pride in your work

00:32:23.220 --> 00:32:24.019
 do your work

00:32:24.019 --> 00:32:24.899
 so well

00:32:24.899 --> 00:32:25.799
 because actually

00:32:25.799 --> 00:32:27.159
 that's a way of loving people

00:32:27.159 --> 00:32:28.240
 right

00:32:28.240 --> 00:32:29.439
 whatever you're doing

00:32:29.440 --> 00:32:30.640
 whether it's cleaning

00:32:30.640 --> 00:32:31.960
 whether it's

00:32:31.960 --> 00:32:33.620
 number crunching

00:32:33.620 --> 00:32:34.380
 whatever it is

00:32:34.380 --> 00:32:35.220
 do it well

00:32:35.220 --> 00:32:37.220
 it's a way to love God

00:32:37.220 --> 00:32:38.180
 and love your neighbor

00:32:38.180 --> 00:32:40.920
 but the other thing is this

00:32:40.920 --> 00:32:43.700
 to love God

00:32:43.700 --> 00:32:44.420
 and love our neighbor

00:32:44.420 --> 00:32:45.320
 through our work

00:32:45.320 --> 00:32:46.299
 to serve

00:32:46.299 --> 00:32:48.500
 we go beyond the tasks

00:32:48.500 --> 00:32:49.820
 and we see people

00:32:49.820 --> 00:32:51.440
 even

00:32:51.440 --> 00:32:52.960
 the snobbish

00:32:52.960 --> 00:32:53.559
 arrogant

00:32:53.559 --> 00:32:55.259
 self-consumed enemies

00:32:55.259 --> 00:32:56.519
 like the cup bearer

00:32:56.519 --> 00:32:58.859
 we see them

00:32:58.859 --> 00:33:00.980
 made in God's image

00:33:00.980 --> 00:33:02.000
 and we treat them

00:33:02.000 --> 00:33:02.900
 like people

00:33:02.900 --> 00:33:03.619
 you know

00:33:03.619 --> 00:33:04.319
 Joseph

00:33:04.319 --> 00:33:06.359
 has had a hard time

00:33:06.359 --> 00:33:07.200
 from these guys

00:33:07.200 --> 00:33:09.059
 he's got every right

00:33:09.059 --> 00:33:09.420
 to think

00:33:09.420 --> 00:33:10.539
 this is not fair

00:33:10.539 --> 00:33:12.099
 I'm going to treat them badly

00:33:12.099 --> 00:33:12.819
 but he doesn't

00:33:12.819 --> 00:33:14.680
 he goes out of his way

00:33:14.680 --> 00:33:15.339
 to ask

00:33:15.339 --> 00:33:16.079
 how are you doing

00:33:16.079 --> 00:33:17.799
 how are you doing

00:33:17.799 --> 00:33:19.220
 you know

00:33:19.220 --> 00:33:21.079
 I heard some

00:33:21.079 --> 00:33:23.859
 a member of our congregation

00:33:23.859 --> 00:33:24.660
 went to hospital

00:33:24.660 --> 00:33:26.139
 and you know

00:33:26.140 --> 00:33:26.920
 while they were there

00:33:26.920 --> 00:33:28.880
 doctor came past

00:33:28.880 --> 00:33:30.220
 came to see them

00:33:30.220 --> 00:33:31.140
 basically says

00:33:31.140 --> 00:33:31.360
 hey

00:33:31.360 --> 00:33:32.460
 you've got this problem

00:33:32.460 --> 00:33:33.920
 don't know

00:33:33.920 --> 00:33:34.620
 you might not get

00:33:34.620 --> 00:33:35.440
 you might be paralyzed

00:33:35.440 --> 00:33:36.520
 in one part of your body

00:33:36.520 --> 00:33:37.160
 and

00:33:37.160 --> 00:33:38.759
 yeah

00:33:38.759 --> 00:33:39.100
 okay

00:33:39.100 --> 00:33:39.800
 we hope you'll be

00:33:39.800 --> 00:33:40.560
 out of hospital soon

00:33:40.560 --> 00:33:41.440
 and then left

00:33:41.440 --> 00:33:44.980
 a Christian doctor

00:33:44.980 --> 00:33:46.759
 came

00:33:46.759 --> 00:33:48.280
 to them

00:33:48.280 --> 00:33:50.280
 and sat down

00:33:50.280 --> 00:33:50.800
 with them

00:33:50.800 --> 00:33:51.940
 and spent five

00:33:51.940 --> 00:33:53.060
 ten minutes

00:33:53.059 --> 00:33:53.559
 with them

00:33:53.559 --> 00:33:56.039
 just explaining

00:33:56.039 --> 00:33:56.480
 to them

00:33:56.480 --> 00:33:57.220
 the process

00:33:57.220 --> 00:33:57.759
 of what was going

00:33:57.759 --> 00:33:58.139
 to happen

00:33:58.139 --> 00:33:58.879
 listened to some

00:33:58.879 --> 00:33:59.879
 of their inquiries

00:33:59.879 --> 00:34:00.500
 and things

00:34:00.500 --> 00:34:00.980
 and just

00:34:00.980 --> 00:34:02.579
 was there for them

00:34:02.579 --> 00:34:03.960
 treating them

00:34:03.960 --> 00:34:04.940
 like a human being

00:34:04.940 --> 00:34:06.779
 do you know

00:34:06.779 --> 00:34:07.259
 that member

00:34:07.259 --> 00:34:08.119
 came to me

00:34:08.119 --> 00:34:08.420
 and said

00:34:08.420 --> 00:34:08.799
 you know

00:34:08.799 --> 00:34:10.219
 there was such

00:34:10.219 --> 00:34:10.820
 a difference

00:34:10.820 --> 00:34:11.539
 between the way

00:34:11.539 --> 00:34:12.559
 the Christian person

00:34:12.559 --> 00:34:12.920
 did it

00:34:12.920 --> 00:34:13.199
 and the way

00:34:13.199 --> 00:34:13.860
 the other person

00:34:13.860 --> 00:34:14.119
 did it

00:34:14.119 --> 00:34:14.799
 one just saw it

00:34:14.799 --> 00:34:15.400
 as a job

00:34:15.400 --> 00:34:16.360
 one saw me

00:34:16.360 --> 00:34:17.460
 as a human being

00:34:17.460 --> 00:34:20.420
 and you know

00:34:20.420 --> 00:34:20.880
 whether it's

00:34:20.880 --> 00:34:21.619
 your secretary

00:34:21.619 --> 00:34:22.179
 whether it's

00:34:22.179 --> 00:34:23.079
 the receptionist

00:34:23.079 --> 00:34:23.519
 whether it's

00:34:23.519 --> 00:34:24.179
 the cleaners

00:34:24.179 --> 00:34:24.659
 whether it's

00:34:24.659 --> 00:34:25.519
 your colleagues

00:34:25.519 --> 00:34:26.880
 do we see

00:34:26.880 --> 00:34:27.420
 the people

00:34:27.420 --> 00:34:28.519
 as human beings

00:34:28.519 --> 00:34:30.039
 and do we

00:34:30.039 --> 00:34:30.699
 take the time

00:34:30.699 --> 00:34:31.420
 to love them

00:34:31.420 --> 00:34:33.199
 you know

00:34:33.199 --> 00:34:35.019
 there was a

00:34:35.019 --> 00:34:36.440
 president

00:34:36.440 --> 00:34:37.159
 of one marketing

00:34:37.159 --> 00:34:37.539
 firm

00:34:37.539 --> 00:34:38.000
 he said

00:34:38.000 --> 00:34:39.220
 he said this

00:34:39.220 --> 00:34:39.480
 he said

00:34:39.480 --> 00:34:40.679
 I owe much

00:34:40.679 --> 00:34:41.240
 of the health

00:34:41.240 --> 00:34:41.940
 of my business

00:34:41.940 --> 00:34:43.260
 to my COO

00:34:43.260 --> 00:34:44.260
 Jill Evans

00:34:44.260 --> 00:34:44.820
 he said

00:34:44.820 --> 00:34:45.720
 he used to go

00:34:45.720 --> 00:34:46.260
 I used to go

00:34:46.260 --> 00:34:46.880
 about making

00:34:46.880 --> 00:34:47.820
 day by day

00:34:47.820 --> 00:34:48.860
 making decisions

00:34:48.860 --> 00:34:49.680
 in response

00:34:49.680 --> 00:34:50.260
 to events

00:34:50.260 --> 00:34:51.100
 and situations

00:34:51.100 --> 00:34:52.440
 rarely thinking

00:34:52.440 --> 00:34:53.160
 about the people

00:34:53.160 --> 00:34:53.720
 involved

00:34:53.720 --> 00:34:54.160
 I don't know

00:34:54.160 --> 00:34:54.800
 do you ever do that

00:34:54.800 --> 00:34:55.280
 I do that

00:34:55.280 --> 00:34:56.180
 all the time

00:34:56.180 --> 00:34:59.180
 but Jill

00:34:59.180 --> 00:35:00.760
 his colleague

00:35:00.760 --> 00:35:01.900
 regularly asks us

00:35:01.900 --> 00:35:02.660
 to look at things

00:35:02.660 --> 00:35:03.660
 from another perspective

00:35:03.660 --> 00:35:04.800
 to see people

00:35:04.800 --> 00:35:05.860
 in their unique

00:35:05.860 --> 00:35:06.680
 circumstances

00:35:06.680 --> 00:35:08.460
 she quietly asks

00:35:08.460 --> 00:35:09.320
 in a response

00:35:09.320 --> 00:35:10.420
 to some emergency

00:35:10.420 --> 00:35:11.800
 I wonder what

00:35:11.800 --> 00:35:12.500
 must be happening

00:35:12.500 --> 00:35:13.880
 over at their shop

00:35:13.880 --> 00:35:14.500
 for them to be

00:35:14.500 --> 00:35:15.500
 responding to us

00:35:15.500 --> 00:35:16.120
 like that

00:35:16.119 --> 00:35:17.519
 what chaos

00:35:17.519 --> 00:35:18.359
 must be causing

00:35:18.359 --> 00:35:19.739
 them to tyrannize

00:35:19.739 --> 00:35:20.359
 us

00:35:20.359 --> 00:35:22.579
 man that's tough

00:35:22.579 --> 00:35:24.279
 the light goes on

00:35:24.279 --> 00:35:24.659
 he says

00:35:24.659 --> 00:35:25.639
 for just a few minutes

00:35:25.639 --> 00:35:26.319
 and we think about

00:35:26.319 --> 00:35:26.859
 their boss

00:35:26.859 --> 00:35:27.519
 or the pressure

00:35:27.519 --> 00:35:28.359
 they have

00:35:28.359 --> 00:35:29.239
 after some business

00:35:29.239 --> 00:35:29.960
 or some business

00:35:29.960 --> 00:35:30.339
 failure

00:35:30.339 --> 00:35:31.219
 and it often

00:35:31.219 --> 00:35:32.299
 softens us

00:35:32.299 --> 00:35:33.380
 and causes us

00:35:33.380 --> 00:35:34.159
 to be gentler

00:35:34.159 --> 00:35:35.759
 as we enter conflict

00:35:35.759 --> 00:35:36.519
 or some difficult

00:35:36.519 --> 00:35:37.279
 negotiation

00:35:37.279 --> 00:35:39.159
 he says this

00:35:39.159 --> 00:35:39.980
 in helping us

00:35:39.980 --> 00:35:41.239
 to see ourselves

00:35:41.239 --> 00:35:42.359
 as servants

00:35:42.359 --> 00:35:43.599
 of those around us

00:35:43.599 --> 00:35:44.679
 she has changed

00:35:44.679 --> 00:35:45.440
 our whole model

00:35:45.440 --> 00:35:46.159
 of business

00:35:46.159 --> 00:35:51.220
 can we see people

00:35:51.220 --> 00:35:52.079
 and I'm not saying

00:35:52.079 --> 00:35:54.940
 you may be in a situation

00:35:54.940 --> 00:35:56.659
 where you

00:35:56.659 --> 00:35:58.079
 are like in prison

00:35:58.079 --> 00:35:58.740
 and you're trapped

00:35:58.740 --> 00:35:59.579
 with two people

00:35:59.579 --> 00:36:00.320
 in your office

00:36:00.320 --> 00:36:01.179
 or in your workplace

00:36:01.179 --> 00:36:02.019
 or at your home

00:36:02.019 --> 00:36:03.960
 or you may be

00:36:03.960 --> 00:36:04.800
 in a position

00:36:04.800 --> 00:36:05.420
 where you are

00:36:05.420 --> 00:36:06.320
 overseeing

00:36:06.320 --> 00:36:07.400
 many many people

00:36:07.400 --> 00:36:10.179
 but do you see

00:36:10.179 --> 00:36:11.519
 the people around you

00:36:11.519 --> 00:36:13.259
 do you see them

00:36:13.259 --> 00:36:14.139
 and the thing is

00:36:14.139 --> 00:36:15.019
 what stops us

00:36:15.019 --> 00:36:16.099
 seeing them so often

00:36:16.099 --> 00:36:16.960
 is because we feel

00:36:16.960 --> 00:36:18.059
 like things are unfair

00:36:18.059 --> 00:36:19.460
 we're mistreated

00:36:19.460 --> 00:36:20.460
 there are difficulties

00:36:20.460 --> 00:36:21.440
 around us

00:36:21.440 --> 00:36:22.320
 and I know

00:36:22.320 --> 00:36:23.219
 that's so tough

00:36:23.219 --> 00:36:26.199
 but Joseph

00:36:26.199 --> 00:36:27.539
 is different

00:36:27.539 --> 00:36:27.940
 and you know

00:36:27.940 --> 00:36:28.920
 the Bible has

00:36:28.920 --> 00:36:32.300
 an even greater

00:36:32.300 --> 00:36:33.080
 Joseph

00:36:33.080 --> 00:36:35.840
 because what's

00:36:35.840 --> 00:36:36.700
 fascinating

00:36:36.700 --> 00:36:37.400
 in this story

00:36:37.400 --> 00:36:38.420
 the parallels

00:36:38.420 --> 00:36:39.420
 between Joseph

00:36:39.420 --> 00:36:40.120
 and Jesus

00:36:40.120 --> 00:36:42.420
 are huge

00:36:42.420 --> 00:36:43.400
 you see

00:36:43.400 --> 00:36:44.180
 Jesus Christ

00:36:44.180 --> 00:36:44.780
 was also

00:36:44.780 --> 00:36:45.840
 the beloved son

00:36:45.840 --> 00:36:46.640
 of his father

00:36:46.640 --> 00:36:48.360
 he was hated

00:36:48.360 --> 00:36:49.700
 and tyrannized

00:36:49.700 --> 00:36:51.420
 by his people

00:36:51.420 --> 00:36:52.860
 he was thrown

00:36:52.860 --> 00:36:53.560
 into a pit

00:36:53.560 --> 00:36:54.960
 accused of wrong

00:36:54.960 --> 00:36:55.580
 though he was

00:36:55.580 --> 00:36:56.840
 utterly innocent

00:36:56.840 --> 00:36:59.980
 blamed for mistakes

00:36:59.980 --> 00:37:00.980
 that he didn't make

00:37:00.980 --> 00:37:02.960
 and yet he continued

00:37:02.960 --> 00:37:03.639
 to serve

00:37:03.639 --> 00:37:04.619
 his accusers

00:37:04.619 --> 00:37:07.059
 he said

00:37:07.059 --> 00:37:08.579
 I did not come

00:37:08.579 --> 00:37:09.760
 to be served

00:37:09.760 --> 00:37:11.360
 but to serve

00:37:11.360 --> 00:37:13.159
 and to give my life

00:37:13.159 --> 00:37:13.920
 as a ransom

00:37:13.920 --> 00:37:14.679
 for many

00:37:14.679 --> 00:37:18.559
 and you see

00:37:18.559 --> 00:37:20.380
 he does that

00:37:20.380 --> 00:37:21.440
 not just for random

00:37:21.440 --> 00:37:22.420
 people out there

00:37:22.420 --> 00:37:22.900
 he says

00:37:22.900 --> 00:37:23.679
 I do that

00:37:23.679 --> 00:37:24.760
 for you

00:37:24.760 --> 00:37:26.539
 I came to serve you

00:37:26.539 --> 00:37:28.780
 and you know

00:37:28.780 --> 00:37:30.780
 how I often respond

00:37:30.780 --> 00:37:31.320
 and I think

00:37:31.320 --> 00:37:32.480
 how we often respond

00:37:32.480 --> 00:37:32.820
 we say

00:37:32.820 --> 00:37:33.600
 thank you Jesus

00:37:33.600 --> 00:37:34.620
 that's great

00:37:34.620 --> 00:37:35.900
 just like the cup bearer

00:37:35.900 --> 00:37:36.920
 and then we go off

00:37:36.920 --> 00:37:37.980
 and forget about him

00:37:37.980 --> 00:37:40.000
 and wouldn't that

00:37:40.000 --> 00:37:40.720
 annoy you

00:37:40.720 --> 00:37:41.300
 if you were like

00:37:41.300 --> 00:37:42.140
 if someone did that

00:37:42.140 --> 00:37:42.560
 to you

00:37:42.560 --> 00:37:44.080
 but do you know

00:37:44.080 --> 00:37:44.980
 how Jesus keeps

00:37:44.980 --> 00:37:45.500
 responding

00:37:45.500 --> 00:37:46.440
 it says he keeps

00:37:46.440 --> 00:37:47.340
 serving

00:37:47.340 --> 00:37:48.540
 he keeps showing

00:37:48.540 --> 00:37:49.120
 grace

00:37:49.120 --> 00:37:50.280
 he shows forgiveness

00:37:50.280 --> 00:37:51.080
 on the cross

00:37:51.080 --> 00:37:51.540
 he says

00:37:51.540 --> 00:37:52.900
 father forgive them

00:37:52.900 --> 00:37:54.120
 and he keeps

00:37:54.120 --> 00:37:55.300
 reaching out to you

00:37:55.300 --> 00:37:56.540
 again and again

00:37:56.540 --> 00:37:56.900
 and he says

00:37:56.900 --> 00:37:58.280
 I want to be with you

00:37:58.280 --> 00:37:59.600
 whether you're in the prison

00:37:59.600 --> 00:38:00.519
 or whether you're out

00:38:00.519 --> 00:38:01.400
 in the highest place

00:38:01.400 --> 00:38:02.280
 I want to be there

00:38:02.280 --> 00:38:02.940
 with you

00:38:02.940 --> 00:38:04.640
 and the caller

00:38:04.640 --> 00:38:05.900
 is constantly

00:38:05.900 --> 00:38:07.440
 calling you

00:38:07.440 --> 00:38:08.160
 saying

00:38:08.160 --> 00:38:09.100
 I'm here

00:38:09.100 --> 00:38:10.500
 I'm here

00:38:10.500 --> 00:38:11.640
 I'm here

00:38:11.640 --> 00:38:13.019
 will you pick up

00:38:13.019 --> 00:38:13.580
 his call

00:38:13.580 --> 00:38:17.180
 because when you see

00:38:17.180 --> 00:38:18.500
 that grace like that

00:38:18.500 --> 00:38:19.580
 is shown to you

00:38:19.580 --> 00:38:20.440
 even though you

00:38:20.440 --> 00:38:21.200
 treat others

00:38:21.200 --> 00:38:22.560
 in so many different ways

00:38:22.560 --> 00:38:23.340
 in a culture

00:38:23.340 --> 00:38:25.340
 where it's all about me

00:38:25.340 --> 00:38:27.059
 he's serving you

00:38:27.059 --> 00:38:29.100
 that actually begins

00:38:29.100 --> 00:38:30.380
 to change your own heart

00:38:30.380 --> 00:38:31.220
 so when you begin

00:38:31.220 --> 00:38:31.960
 to see

00:38:31.960 --> 00:38:35.240
 the people around you

00:38:35.240 --> 00:38:36.480
 who do exactly

00:38:36.480 --> 00:38:37.180
 the same thing

00:38:37.180 --> 00:38:37.680
 to you

00:38:37.680 --> 00:38:41.220
 you run back

00:38:41.220 --> 00:38:41.780
 to him

00:38:41.780 --> 00:38:43.640
 with grace

00:38:43.640 --> 00:38:45.140
 you realize

00:38:45.140 --> 00:38:45.980
 his kindness

00:38:45.980 --> 00:38:46.500
 and then that

00:38:46.500 --> 00:38:47.360
 frees you

00:38:47.360 --> 00:38:48.400
 from making work

00:38:48.400 --> 00:38:49.100
 all about your own

00:38:49.100 --> 00:38:49.480
 fulfillment

00:38:49.480 --> 00:38:51.059
 it frees you

00:38:51.059 --> 00:38:51.660
 from making it

00:38:51.660 --> 00:38:52.260
 all about getting

00:38:52.260 --> 00:38:53.280
 everything for yourself

00:38:53.280 --> 00:38:54.920
 it frees you

00:38:54.920 --> 00:38:56.960
 about the frustration

00:38:56.960 --> 00:38:58.159
 and I know

00:38:58.159 --> 00:38:58.659
 we have to do it

00:38:58.659 --> 00:38:59.300
 again and again

00:38:59.300 --> 00:38:59.659
 and again

00:38:59.659 --> 00:39:00.200
 because we keep

00:39:00.200 --> 00:39:00.980
 getting frustrated

00:39:00.980 --> 00:39:02.920
 but in that call

00:39:02.920 --> 00:39:03.420
 do you see

00:39:03.420 --> 00:39:04.680
 he's saying

00:39:04.680 --> 00:39:06.099
 when you're free

00:39:06.099 --> 00:39:07.180
 from having to just

00:39:07.180 --> 00:39:09.079
 wrestle with all

00:39:09.079 --> 00:39:09.820
 the unfairness

00:39:09.820 --> 00:39:10.519
 and all the bitterness

00:39:10.519 --> 00:39:11.200
 and why are they

00:39:11.200 --> 00:39:11.900
 not doing this

00:39:11.900 --> 00:39:12.380
 and why are they

00:39:12.380 --> 00:39:12.619
 not doing it

00:39:12.619 --> 00:39:13.159
 when you're free

00:39:13.159 --> 00:39:13.700
 from all of that

00:39:13.700 --> 00:39:14.860
 you begin to see people

00:39:14.860 --> 00:39:17.519
 you begin to see people

00:39:17.519 --> 00:39:19.740
 so the call

00:39:19.740 --> 00:39:20.420
 of this is

00:39:20.420 --> 00:39:21.880
 look to the caller

00:39:21.880 --> 00:39:23.420
 in your work

00:39:23.420 --> 00:39:25.079
 every day

00:39:25.079 --> 00:39:26.900
 every hour

00:39:26.900 --> 00:39:28.400
 help

00:39:28.400 --> 00:39:30.099
 can't do this

00:39:30.099 --> 00:39:30.519
 God

00:39:30.519 --> 00:39:34.000
 but then ask him

00:39:34.000 --> 00:39:34.820
 right now

00:39:34.820 --> 00:39:37.119
 who has he placed

00:39:37.119 --> 00:39:37.960
 around you

00:39:37.960 --> 00:39:39.980
 for you to serve

00:39:39.980 --> 00:39:40.920
 and for you to love

00:39:40.920 --> 00:39:42.880
 by doing your work

00:39:42.880 --> 00:39:43.420
 well

00:39:43.420 --> 00:39:44.380
 because you know

00:39:44.380 --> 00:39:45.300
 if you try and love

00:39:45.300 --> 00:39:45.820
 people and you're not

00:39:45.820 --> 00:39:46.500
 doing your work well

00:39:46.500 --> 00:39:47.000
 they're just going to

00:39:47.000 --> 00:39:47.599
 think you're an idiot

00:39:47.599 --> 00:39:49.639
 right

00:39:49.639 --> 00:39:51.879
 but if you're working

00:39:51.879 --> 00:39:52.519
 well

00:39:52.519 --> 00:39:53.079
 but actually

00:39:53.079 --> 00:39:54.579
 you also take the time

00:39:54.579 --> 00:39:57.699
 to just take an interest

00:39:57.699 --> 00:39:58.379
 in people

00:39:58.379 --> 00:40:01.519
 that has so much

00:40:01.519 --> 00:40:02.299
 power

00:40:02.299 --> 00:40:04.000
 I used to

00:40:04.000 --> 00:40:04.539
 I had one

00:40:04.539 --> 00:40:06.019
 receptionist

00:40:06.019 --> 00:40:06.500
 I used to

00:40:06.500 --> 00:40:07.400
 every morning

00:40:07.400 --> 00:40:07.900
 I'd just take

00:40:07.900 --> 00:40:08.440
 two minutes

00:40:08.440 --> 00:40:09.119
 just say hi

00:40:09.119 --> 00:40:10.599
 after a year

00:40:10.599 --> 00:40:11.480
 of just saying hi

00:40:11.480 --> 00:40:11.900
 hi

00:40:11.900 --> 00:40:12.519
 just finding out

00:40:12.519 --> 00:40:13.019
 how she's doing

00:40:13.019 --> 00:40:13.839
 after a year

00:40:13.839 --> 00:40:15.759
 she started going

00:40:15.759 --> 00:40:16.599
 back to church

00:40:16.599 --> 00:40:20.500
 in the moment

00:40:20.500 --> 00:40:21.460
 you don't always know

00:40:21.460 --> 00:40:22.259
 what's going on

00:40:22.259 --> 00:40:23.219
 but if you're faithful

00:40:23.219 --> 00:40:24.599
 with what he's given you

00:40:24.599 --> 00:40:26.659
 God will do something

00:40:26.659 --> 00:40:27.819
 so much greater

00:40:27.819 --> 00:40:29.000
 than you could have imagined

00:40:29.000 --> 00:40:30.500
 and there will be meaning

00:40:30.500 --> 00:40:31.420
 and purpose

00:40:31.420 --> 00:40:32.179
 in your work

00:40:32.179 --> 00:40:33.179
 let me pray