WEBVTT 00:00:00.010 --> 00:00:02.890 How many are ready for God's Word? Do I have 00:00:02.890 --> 00:00:06.190 permission to preach tonight? Praise Jesus. I'm 00:00:06.190 --> 00:00:10.890 going to preach tonight. I will tell you something. 00:00:11.210 --> 00:00:15.289 That trip to Auschwitz -Birkenau, and I know 00:00:15.289 --> 00:00:18.890 that with Dennis and Linda, I don't pronounce 00:00:18.890 --> 00:00:22.510 it right, but I'll do my best. But anyway, it 00:00:22.510 --> 00:00:26.179 was a life -changing experience. For me, I wept 00:00:26.179 --> 00:00:29.920 many, many times in those three or four hours 00:00:29.920 --> 00:00:32.880 that I was there. And it had a very impactful, 00:00:33.079 --> 00:00:37.240 simply because, not because I'm really, you know, 00:00:37.240 --> 00:00:40.420 that I want to look at evil things. It's just 00:00:40.420 --> 00:00:43.079 that sometimes in America, we have a tendency 00:00:43.079 --> 00:00:46.380 to live in a bubble. And because we have a tendency 00:00:46.380 --> 00:00:50.020 to live in a bubble, we don't realize how evil 00:00:50.020 --> 00:00:53.079 evil is. And that is why I feel like our call, 00:00:53.159 --> 00:00:56.200 the call of the church, is to destroy the works 00:00:56.200 --> 00:00:58.479 of the enemy. Can I hear an amen for that right 00:00:58.479 --> 00:01:02.060 now? Listen, I want you to turn with me to the 00:01:02.060 --> 00:01:06.140 book of Genesis, Genesis chapter 15, verse 15. 00:01:06.280 --> 00:01:09.840 I'm going to read out of the NIV tonight in a 00:01:09.840 --> 00:01:12.340 moment, but it's going to take me a few minutes 00:01:12.340 --> 00:01:18.269 to go there. I'm going to mention something that 00:01:18.269 --> 00:01:23.189 over the last couple of months, you know, it 00:01:23.189 --> 00:01:28.950 was probably two months ago, at our home, we 00:01:28.950 --> 00:01:32.400 have a large living room kitchen. and then there's 00:01:32.400 --> 00:01:36.560 like a den, and then there's another bedroom, 00:01:36.739 --> 00:01:41.060 and that den that is kind of my prayer room, 00:01:41.159 --> 00:01:45.640 my library, is where I sit and I study and work 00:01:45.640 --> 00:01:48.459 on my calendar, do everything I do in that room. 00:01:48.799 --> 00:01:52.659 And Meliana, you know, she rarely comes in there. 00:01:53.340 --> 00:01:56.099 It's not that it's off limits. There's no door. 00:01:56.260 --> 00:01:59.900 She can walk right in anytime, but usually she's 00:01:59.900 --> 00:02:03.319 in the living room or the kitchen, and I got 00:02:03.319 --> 00:02:07.700 up to get a bottle of water, and I walk out in 00:02:07.700 --> 00:02:10.620 the living room, and she's crying. She's, and 00:02:10.620 --> 00:02:13.699 my wife doesn't cry very much. She's not that, 00:02:13.719 --> 00:02:16.000 she's not sensitive, but that's not like her 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:19.620 nature, and she was crying, and I said, honey, 00:02:19.759 --> 00:02:26.719 why are you crying? What had happened is, because 00:02:26.719 --> 00:02:30.439 in our world, in our circle, in our prophetic 00:02:30.439 --> 00:02:34.439 circle, there has been an attack, and there has 00:02:34.439 --> 00:02:38.699 been an attack and abuse on the prophetic. Where 00:02:38.699 --> 00:02:43.199 different ministers and ministries, before they 00:02:43.199 --> 00:02:48.520 go to a church, they would study the social media, 00:02:48.620 --> 00:02:54.219 the Facebook, the Instagram, a person's profile. 00:02:54.300 --> 00:02:56.819 Excuse me, my wife needs the language. A person's 00:02:56.819 --> 00:02:59.680 profile. They would then write some highlights 00:02:59.680 --> 00:03:03.300 down. And then what they would do is rather than 00:03:03.300 --> 00:03:05.919 being led by the Spirit of God, Sister Linda, 00:03:06.080 --> 00:03:08.099 this is exactly what they did. They would tell 00:03:08.099 --> 00:03:10.400 people their address, where they were born, all 00:03:10.400 --> 00:03:12.479 these kinds of things. Not based on the word 00:03:12.479 --> 00:03:15.439 of knowledge or on prophetic gift, but based 00:03:15.439 --> 00:03:17.780 on information that they got from social media. 00:03:18.020 --> 00:03:23.650 Come on. And my wife... We found that out. My 00:03:23.650 --> 00:03:26.569 wife was weeping because they showed a video 00:03:26.569 --> 00:03:31.689 of a lady who really believed that this was a 00:03:31.689 --> 00:03:35.050 word from the Lord and was weeping and had traveled 00:03:35.050 --> 00:03:38.710 all across the country, but all it was is something 00:03:38.710 --> 00:03:43.539 of information given by that minister. from a 00:03:43.539 --> 00:03:45.560 leader. And I don't want to mention names tonight, 00:03:45.719 --> 00:03:48.740 but I will tell you something right now. When 00:03:48.740 --> 00:03:52.460 Miliana shared that, that grieved me. That grieved 00:03:52.460 --> 00:03:54.979 me deeply. Because, you know, where's the fear 00:03:54.979 --> 00:03:58.080 of God? Where's the fear of God? Where's the 00:03:58.080 --> 00:04:00.819 fear of God? That God's people are not meant 00:04:00.819 --> 00:04:03.659 to be abused. Come on. They're not meant to be. 00:04:03.800 --> 00:04:09.379 And then where emotionally are you fractured 00:04:09.379 --> 00:04:12.300 that you've got to make up a prophetic word to 00:04:12.300 --> 00:04:14.599 prove that you hear from God? You either hear 00:04:14.599 --> 00:04:17.379 from God or you don't. You follow what I'm saying? 00:04:17.930 --> 00:04:20.589 And so I went into an in -depth study of the 00:04:20.589 --> 00:04:23.449 life of Joseph, and the Lord said this to me. 00:04:23.490 --> 00:04:26.290 He says, I want to raise up Joseph -like prophets 00:04:26.290 --> 00:04:28.930 in this generation. I want to raise up Joseph 00:04:28.930 --> 00:04:32.149 -like prophets in this generation. And when I 00:04:32.149 --> 00:04:34.610 look at this, in a moment, I'm going to get to 00:04:34.610 --> 00:04:40.389 Genesis 15, chapter 50, verse 15. Before I do 00:04:40.389 --> 00:04:42.750 that, I'm going to have to lay some groundwork 00:04:42.750 --> 00:04:46.300 of where I'm going tonight. And because I look 00:04:46.300 --> 00:04:49.180 at Joseph's life, and it seems like, no, it's 00:04:49.180 --> 00:04:52.180 not like a life I want to live, but it's a very 00:04:52.180 --> 00:04:56.600 powerful one because you think about this. You 00:04:56.600 --> 00:04:59.120 know that our warfare, the warfare that we have, 00:04:59.220 --> 00:05:03.060 the things that we go, sometimes isn't what happens 00:05:03.060 --> 00:05:08.980 outside the home or outside the church. It's 00:05:08.980 --> 00:05:13.310 on the inside. That many times the warfare is 00:05:13.310 --> 00:05:17.649 not on the outside, it's on the inside. The attack, 00:05:17.930 --> 00:05:21.310 not necessarily from the outside, but on the 00:05:21.310 --> 00:05:26.370 inside. And what do they attack on the inside? 00:05:27.470 --> 00:05:31.889 They attack the dream. The dream from God, the 00:05:31.889 --> 00:05:36.439 God dream. And in Joseph's case, And he didn't 00:05:36.439 --> 00:05:39.699 get attacked by the Amalekites or another nation. 00:05:39.819 --> 00:05:43.220 It was his own brothers that were jealous of 00:05:43.220 --> 00:05:47.980 his dream. And I have to say something to you. 00:05:49.339 --> 00:05:52.779 When I look at Joseph's brothers, you know, whom 00:05:52.779 --> 00:05:58.199 God actually birthed the tribes of Israel out 00:05:58.199 --> 00:06:03.860 of, these guys were a mess. I would have kicked 00:06:03.860 --> 00:06:06.279 them out of my church. Come on. I would have 00:06:06.279 --> 00:06:08.120 kicked Judah out of my church. I would have kicked 00:06:08.120 --> 00:06:10.279 Reuben out of the church. I would have kicked 00:06:10.279 --> 00:06:12.500 Levi out of the church. I would have kicked them 00:06:12.500 --> 00:06:14.920 all out of my church because these guys are a 00:06:14.920 --> 00:06:19.740 mess. I would never ever want to even have any 00:06:19.740 --> 00:06:23.519 dealings with these people. They simply, one 00:06:23.519 --> 00:06:26.300 of the things that they did to Joseph is, you 00:06:26.300 --> 00:06:27.639 know, because they don't like his dream, they 00:06:27.639 --> 00:06:29.540 want to kill him. Reuben says, let's not kill 00:06:29.540 --> 00:06:32.709 him. Let's throw him in a pit. Come on. You know, 00:06:32.709 --> 00:06:36.389 and then sell him to Ishmaelite slaves, right? 00:06:36.529 --> 00:06:39.610 So they got to somehow prove, you know, because 00:06:39.610 --> 00:06:42.470 they got to tell their father Jacob, you know, 00:06:42.490 --> 00:06:46.370 where's Joseph? So they've got to make up a lie. 00:06:47.430 --> 00:06:50.790 And so they actually take his coat of many colors. 00:06:51.189 --> 00:06:55.089 They cut it up and they dip it in goat's blood. 00:06:55.129 --> 00:06:58.279 Come on. And because they don't have DNA testing 00:06:58.279 --> 00:07:01.259 in those days, they can't prove, they can't tell 00:07:01.259 --> 00:07:04.259 between goat's blood and human blood. And they 00:07:04.259 --> 00:07:10.079 present the coat of many colors to their father, 00:07:10.279 --> 00:07:14.379 Jacob, and watch him weep over a lie. You've 00:07:14.379 --> 00:07:17.779 got to be messed up psychologically. You've got 00:07:17.779 --> 00:07:21.339 to be twisted in your conscience to let something 00:07:21.339 --> 00:07:23.779 like that. There must be a depth of bitterness 00:07:23.779 --> 00:07:26.519 and hatred that you would allow your own father 00:07:26.519 --> 00:07:30.680 to weep for a lie. Come on. And Joseph experiences 00:07:30.680 --> 00:07:34.420 this. And then, Joseph, what happens, ladies 00:07:34.420 --> 00:07:36.399 and gentlemen? And then, of course, he gets sold 00:07:36.399 --> 00:07:42.069 into slavery. And then all of a sudden Potiphar, 00:07:42.069 --> 00:07:45.790 they bought him. God raises him up. God blesses 00:07:45.790 --> 00:07:47.850 him in Potiphar's house. And then he's accused 00:07:47.850 --> 00:07:52.829 of raping a woman he never touched. You know 00:07:52.829 --> 00:07:55.970 what I'm saying? And it is like, I mean, what 00:07:55.970 --> 00:08:00.189 God? You got a target on this guy? You got a 00:08:00.189 --> 00:08:02.589 target on this guy? Because every time he tries 00:08:02.589 --> 00:08:06.319 to do something right, he gets attacked. And 00:08:06.319 --> 00:08:10.079 then we find him in the prison. We find him in 00:08:10.079 --> 00:08:13.279 prison. And I'm thinking in my mind, there's 00:08:13.279 --> 00:08:17.000 something I need to share with this body. Here's 00:08:17.000 --> 00:08:21.040 what set Joseph apart. It's not that he suffered 00:08:21.040 --> 00:08:24.250 personal attack. It's not that he suffered attack 00:08:24.250 --> 00:08:27.129 from the family. It's not that he was mistreated 00:08:27.129 --> 00:08:30.069 or misrepresented or even accused of things that 00:08:30.069 --> 00:08:32.610 he didn't do. That happens to every single person 00:08:32.610 --> 00:08:35.070 at one level or another. The thing that set him 00:08:35.070 --> 00:08:39.870 apart is this. Here he was in a prison. And he 00:08:39.870 --> 00:08:42.429 could have just sat back and said, listen, is 00:08:42.429 --> 00:08:46.129 this what I get for serving God? Is this what 00:08:46.129 --> 00:08:49.049 I get for doing everything? Is this what I get 00:08:49.049 --> 00:08:52.960 for standing for morality? Is this what I get 00:08:52.960 --> 00:08:55.379 for getting a dream? I didn't make up this dream. 00:08:55.600 --> 00:08:58.379 You are the one that gave me the dream. Is this 00:08:58.379 --> 00:09:01.539 what I get for doing everything right? Come on. 00:09:01.840 --> 00:09:05.240 He could have wallowed in his change and wallowed 00:09:05.240 --> 00:09:07.759 in his bitterness and wallowed in resentment, 00:09:07.860 --> 00:09:11.080 ladies and gentlemen. But this is what set Joseph 00:09:11.080 --> 00:09:15.220 apart. And God, and we're not a large crowd tonight, 00:09:15.460 --> 00:09:18.740 but God wants to set every single person in this 00:09:18.740 --> 00:09:22.629 house apart. That we're not like everybody else. 00:09:22.730 --> 00:09:26.269 Come on. We go through the same things, but we 00:09:26.269 --> 00:09:29.549 react a lot differently than everybody else. 00:09:29.629 --> 00:09:33.070 Come on. Here he is sitting. Actually, Psalms 00:09:33.070 --> 00:09:36.090 says that he was in a dungeon. He was in chains. 00:09:36.490 --> 00:09:39.470 He was locked up with fetters. I mean, he was 00:09:39.470 --> 00:09:43.289 suffering. But what I love about Joseph is this 00:09:43.289 --> 00:09:46.870 one thing. Here in the middle of his prison, 00:09:47.009 --> 00:09:50.919 he still served. Come on, church. Are you hearing 00:09:50.919 --> 00:09:53.019 what I'm saying? And this is something we have 00:09:53.019 --> 00:09:56.419 to understand, young people. There are moments 00:09:56.419 --> 00:09:58.620 when we feel like we're in emotional prison, 00:09:58.799 --> 00:10:02.620 in a physical prison, in a spiritual prison. 00:10:02.759 --> 00:10:04.879 But here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to 00:10:04.879 --> 00:10:08.580 still serve when I'm in the prison. Are you hearing 00:10:08.580 --> 00:10:11.220 me? You're hearing me? Because we all find ourselves, 00:10:11.299 --> 00:10:14.019 I'm going to serve when I'm depressed. I'm going 00:10:14.019 --> 00:10:17.340 to serve. Kathy was at church today. She just 00:10:17.340 --> 00:10:19.779 lost her husband. Come on. I'm going to serve 00:10:19.779 --> 00:10:22.360 when I'm grieving. Come on. I'm going to serve 00:10:22.360 --> 00:10:25.159 when I'm suffering. I'm going to serve when I'm 00:10:25.159 --> 00:10:28.399 going through something. Come on. Because what 00:10:28.399 --> 00:10:31.639 happens is if I only serve when things go well, 00:10:31.759 --> 00:10:37.269 then my serving is conditional. But I'm going 00:10:37.269 --> 00:10:39.009 to serve in the middle of my pain. I'm going 00:10:39.009 --> 00:10:41.470 to serve in the middle of my sorrow. And I'm 00:10:41.470 --> 00:10:43.590 going to serve when I don't understand. I'm still 00:10:43.590 --> 00:10:47.029 going to serve. I'm going to serve people because 00:10:47.029 --> 00:10:50.389 how you serve God is to serve people. It's how 00:10:50.389 --> 00:10:53.309 you serve God. Because we think that worship 00:10:53.309 --> 00:10:55.710 is just lifting our hands, listening to Pastor 00:10:55.710 --> 00:10:59.129 Darren saying, I can do that all night. But really, 00:10:59.210 --> 00:11:02.450 there's another form of worship is learning how 00:11:02.450 --> 00:11:06.669 to serve when I'm suffering. And here he is suffering, 00:11:06.950 --> 00:11:09.769 but he's got this prophetic gift that he's carrying. 00:11:10.350 --> 00:11:12.850 He's got this ability to dream and this ability 00:11:12.850 --> 00:11:16.250 to interpret dreams and ability to hear from 00:11:16.250 --> 00:11:19.629 God. Because a lot of people want to serve in 00:11:19.629 --> 00:11:21.289 the palace, but they don't want to serve in the 00:11:21.289 --> 00:11:25.250 prison. Oh, come on. You follow what I'm saying? 00:11:25.370 --> 00:11:28.149 They want to serve on the platform, but they 00:11:28.149 --> 00:11:29.990 don't want to serve in the children's church. 00:11:31.019 --> 00:11:35.000 I'm just telling you. I'm not talking about this 00:11:35.000 --> 00:11:36.700 church. I'm talking about the church down the 00:11:36.700 --> 00:11:40.039 street. Come on. You know what I'm saying? I 00:11:40.039 --> 00:11:42.659 want to serve in Lincoln, but I don't want to 00:11:42.659 --> 00:11:45.159 serve in Petersburg. Come on. You know what I'm 00:11:45.159 --> 00:11:48.360 saying? Think about this. I want to serve when 00:11:48.360 --> 00:11:50.860 it's comfortable. I want to serve when I get 00:11:50.860 --> 00:11:53.379 appreciated. I want to serve when I get an offering. 00:11:53.559 --> 00:11:56.059 I want to serve when I get accolades. I want 00:11:56.059 --> 00:12:00.210 to serve when I get affirmed. But not Joseph. 00:12:01.809 --> 00:12:04.789 Because if Joseph served based on conditions, 00:12:04.990 --> 00:12:08.049 he would have never interpreted the dream from 00:12:08.049 --> 00:12:14.509 the baker and the cupbearer. But he decided to 00:12:14.509 --> 00:12:18.590 serve. Because I can tell you something. I have 00:12:18.590 --> 00:12:26.059 found this out. I get healed when I serve. I 00:12:26.059 --> 00:12:33.639 get excited when I serve. Pastor Darren mentioned 00:12:33.639 --> 00:12:39.139 about people being weary. Sometimes I get weary. 00:12:39.240 --> 00:12:41.799 Even Jesus got weary from the journey when he 00:12:41.799 --> 00:12:44.600 journeyed before he met the woman at the well. 00:12:44.679 --> 00:12:47.419 It says that Jesus was weary from the journey. 00:12:47.639 --> 00:12:50.580 It's not a sin to be weary. You're human when 00:12:50.580 --> 00:12:55.639 you're weary. But what made him come alive, what 00:12:55.639 --> 00:12:59.100 made him come alive is not the miles of walking 00:12:59.100 --> 00:13:02.000 all day. What made him come alive when that woman 00:13:02.000 --> 00:13:05.139 came alive that he served. Come on, are you hearing 00:13:05.139 --> 00:13:07.620 me? Because I'm telling you, ladies and gentlemen, 00:13:07.779 --> 00:13:11.740 the way spiritual boredom, worriness, all the 00:13:11.740 --> 00:13:15.700 things that we struggle with, that this is what 00:13:15.700 --> 00:13:19.860 happens. It's cured when I serve. Come on. Now, 00:13:19.879 --> 00:13:23.700 Joseph decides to serve the cupbearer and the 00:13:23.700 --> 00:13:26.679 baker. And, of course, he gives the baker the 00:13:26.679 --> 00:13:30.320 word. It comes to pass the baker is murdered, 00:13:30.440 --> 00:13:33.659 died. He's died in prison. Then the cupbearer 00:13:33.659 --> 00:13:38.899 is released just like Joseph prophesied. And 00:13:38.899 --> 00:13:44.000 when he was walking out of prison, Joseph says 00:13:44.000 --> 00:13:50.029 to the cupbearer, remember me. But he's not remembered. 00:13:52.330 --> 00:13:57.929 At that moment, you could have shut down. Because 00:13:57.929 --> 00:14:01.210 you've got to ask yourself this question. Am 00:14:01.210 --> 00:14:05.490 I serving to be remembered? Or am I serving to 00:14:05.490 --> 00:14:11.090 love people? I'm serving to love people. Not 00:14:11.090 --> 00:14:14.529 whether I'm remembered or not. Whether you forget 00:14:14.529 --> 00:14:17.190 me, it doesn't matter because God does not forget. 00:14:17.850 --> 00:14:22.429 You follow me? So at that moment, but there's 00:14:22.429 --> 00:14:24.110 something I know that I love about this whole 00:14:24.110 --> 00:14:26.610 narrative. And I'll get to Genesis 50 in a moment. 00:14:27.850 --> 00:14:32.850 But even though the cupbearer had forgotten him, 00:14:32.950 --> 00:14:39.850 his dad thought he was dead. There was a God 00:14:39.850 --> 00:14:43.549 that remembered him. And God puts the king asleep. 00:14:43.649 --> 00:14:45.750 And God puts Pharaoh asleep. And when he puts 00:14:45.750 --> 00:14:48.929 Pharaoh asleep, With Pharaoh, with all his access 00:14:48.929 --> 00:14:53.250 to his wise men and his prophetic voices that 00:14:53.250 --> 00:14:56.950 he has access to, nobody can interpret the dream 00:14:56.950 --> 00:15:03.009 of Pharaoh. Until it gets to be so, so intense 00:15:03.009 --> 00:15:06.970 that the cupbearer opens his mouth and says to 00:15:06.970 --> 00:15:11.509 the Pharaoh, oh king, forgive me. Because while 00:15:11.509 --> 00:15:17.039 I was in prison, come on, I met. A Hebrew slave. 00:15:17.500 --> 00:15:21.960 Everybody say a Hebrew slave. Interesting. Because 00:15:21.960 --> 00:15:26.000 this is exactly what I know. You know that people 00:15:26.000 --> 00:15:30.259 in this room, people in the world, sometimes 00:15:30.259 --> 00:15:32.539 when they're desperate to hear from God, they 00:15:32.539 --> 00:15:35.820 don't care where you came from. They don't care 00:15:35.820 --> 00:15:38.799 about your background. Because when I was in 00:15:38.799 --> 00:15:42.059 D .C., when they asked me to prophesy over them, 00:15:42.240 --> 00:15:44.860 they didn't ask me where I was from. They didn't 00:15:44.860 --> 00:15:48.279 know I was an ex -con. Come on. They didn't know 00:15:48.279 --> 00:15:52.460 that I was in jail. All they knew is they heard 00:15:52.460 --> 00:15:55.820 that I hear from God and they wanted me to prophesy 00:15:55.820 --> 00:15:59.220 over them. Church, I pray that we would get a 00:15:59.220 --> 00:16:01.440 reputation. Oh, come on. That we would get a 00:16:01.440 --> 00:16:04.100 reputation in this community and all the other 00:16:04.100 --> 00:16:06.299 churches that you get a reputation that we hear 00:16:06.299 --> 00:16:08.940 from God. Come on. You follow what I'm saying? 00:16:09.200 --> 00:16:12.200 Because right now, we need a reputation that 00:16:12.200 --> 00:16:15.139 we hear from God. Because right now, I'm telling 00:16:15.139 --> 00:16:17.519 you, especially on the West Coast, and I'm out 00:16:17.519 --> 00:16:20.700 on the West Coast a lot more than I am out here 00:16:20.700 --> 00:16:23.759 in the Midwest or the South or the East Coast. 00:16:23.980 --> 00:16:26.879 I'm on the West Coast the most. And out on the 00:16:26.879 --> 00:16:28.879 West Coast, people are questioning the reality 00:16:28.879 --> 00:16:31.259 because of what happened in Bethel, what's happened 00:16:31.259 --> 00:16:34.179 in all this prophetic movement. But I'm going 00:16:34.179 --> 00:16:37.159 to tell you, there are men and women that stand 00:16:37.159 --> 00:16:40.059 for righteousness and hear from God. Come on. 00:16:40.879 --> 00:16:44.820 And so, show the cupbearers why there was a Hebrew 00:16:44.820 --> 00:16:49.379 slave. And he told me, he told me the dream, 00:16:49.419 --> 00:16:52.220 and everything he said came to pass. Oh, come 00:16:52.220 --> 00:16:58.799 on. Very powerful. Pharaoh is so desperate, even 00:16:58.799 --> 00:17:03.179 though culturally Egyptians don't like Hebrews, 00:17:03.519 --> 00:17:06.339 especially a slave, especially someone in prison. 00:17:06.640 --> 00:17:09.339 He didn't care, and he immediately brings Joseph 00:17:09.339 --> 00:17:14.450 out. And there's something about this moment 00:17:14.450 --> 00:17:18.150 where now Joseph is standing before Pharaoh. 00:17:18.210 --> 00:17:22.329 Now, there's no promise of release. There's no 00:17:22.329 --> 00:17:25.009 promise of redemption. There's no promise of 00:17:25.009 --> 00:17:30.190 justice. And he hears Pharaoh say, I heard it 00:17:30.190 --> 00:17:35.650 said of you. Everybody said that. I heard it 00:17:35.650 --> 00:17:43.440 said of you. I don't always agree when people 00:17:43.440 --> 00:17:46.839 say, I don't care what you think. I don't always 00:17:46.839 --> 00:17:51.839 agree with that statement. Because I want it 00:17:51.839 --> 00:17:55.359 said of me. Now, notice where this comes from. 00:17:55.619 --> 00:17:59.140 This does not come from a brother. This does 00:17:59.140 --> 00:18:01.519 not come from a father. It doesn't come within 00:18:01.519 --> 00:18:05.299 the household. It comes from a leader, a king 00:18:05.299 --> 00:18:08.450 of a nation. It comes from the world. Because 00:18:08.450 --> 00:18:10.829 we've got to ask ourselves, what is the world 00:18:10.829 --> 00:18:14.390 saying about the church right now? Are you following 00:18:14.390 --> 00:18:18.730 what I'm saying? Does the church have a reputation 00:18:18.730 --> 00:18:23.990 that they hear from God? Come on. Unfortunately, 00:18:24.329 --> 00:18:29.500 they don't right now. But Paul made mention, 00:18:29.759 --> 00:18:31.539 and I want you to write this scripture down, 00:18:31.640 --> 00:18:33.700 and I don't want to mess this up, so I'm going 00:18:33.700 --> 00:18:37.200 to turn there, and I'm going to read it because 00:18:37.200 --> 00:18:40.640 it is actually, Meliana, one of the most powerful 00:18:40.640 --> 00:18:47.279 statements in scripture. And it says, And Ephesians 00:18:47.279 --> 00:18:53.500 chapter 3, ladies and gentlemen, verse 10, and 00:18:53.500 --> 00:18:57.740 it says this. It's so powerful that through the 00:18:57.740 --> 00:19:00.819 church. Everybody say through the church. Everybody 00:19:00.819 --> 00:19:03.940 say through the church. It didn't say through 00:19:03.940 --> 00:19:07.640 the government. It didn't say through the education. 00:19:07.900 --> 00:19:10.099 It said through the church. I got there. Praise 00:19:10.099 --> 00:19:14.500 God. It says, to this intent that now the manifold 00:19:14.500 --> 00:19:17.299 wisdom of God. Everybody say the manifold wisdom 00:19:17.299 --> 00:19:20.279 of God. How many want to release the manifold 00:19:20.279 --> 00:19:24.400 wisdom of God? Now, listen what Paul says. This 00:19:24.400 --> 00:19:28.039 is a promise. To the intent that now the manifold 00:19:28.039 --> 00:19:33.109 wisdom of God be made known by the church. It 00:19:33.109 --> 00:19:37.910 didn't say by Trump. Didn't say by Biden. Didn't 00:19:37.910 --> 00:19:42.849 say by Illinois. It didn't say by some leader. 00:19:43.089 --> 00:19:47.829 It said by the church. That the wisdom of God, 00:19:47.990 --> 00:19:50.730 the manifold wisdom of God would be made known 00:19:50.730 --> 00:19:53.930 through the church. Now let me ask you right 00:19:53.930 --> 00:19:57.349 now, is the wisdom of God being made known through 00:19:57.349 --> 00:20:00.869 the church right now, today? Because honestly, 00:20:02.059 --> 00:20:05.500 Meliana, who I don't go on social media, but 00:20:05.500 --> 00:20:09.839 she's now my journalist, my reporter, my newscaster. 00:20:12.940 --> 00:20:18.880 But right now, even much of the church is embattled 00:20:18.880 --> 00:20:21.779 over false prophecy and the reality of the prophetic. 00:20:21.960 --> 00:20:24.440 That doesn't sound like the manifold wisdom of 00:20:24.440 --> 00:20:28.930 God being made known through the church. Listen, 00:20:28.930 --> 00:20:32.730 it's his intent that the manifold wisdom of God 00:20:32.730 --> 00:20:37.490 would be known through the church to the principalities 00:20:37.490 --> 00:20:41.930 and powers in heavenly places. Oh, I get fired 00:20:41.930 --> 00:20:45.289 up with that. I get really fired up with that. 00:20:45.470 --> 00:20:50.769 So that is why Pharaoh said to Joseph, I heard 00:20:50.769 --> 00:20:55.029 it said of you. Come on. I heard it said of you 00:20:55.029 --> 00:20:58.990 that when you hear a dream, you can interpret 00:20:58.990 --> 00:21:03.069 it. What's being said about us? What's being 00:21:03.069 --> 00:21:06.450 said about us? Come on. Not what's being said 00:21:06.450 --> 00:21:09.589 by our spouses or our immediate family, but what's 00:21:09.589 --> 00:21:13.910 being said by the world. I want the community. 00:21:14.069 --> 00:21:17.369 What is being said about faith assembly in the 00:21:17.369 --> 00:21:20.799 community? I want the community and I want my 00:21:20.799 --> 00:21:23.619 brother's church over there downtown and all 00:21:23.619 --> 00:21:25.339 the churches that are representing what's being 00:21:25.339 --> 00:21:28.380 said about your home church. That it said, oh 00:21:28.380 --> 00:21:31.420 yeah, I heard it said of you. That when you hear 00:21:31.420 --> 00:21:34.359 a dream, you can interpret it. That you hear 00:21:34.359 --> 00:21:37.500 from God. Is there anybody that want to demonstrate 00:21:37.500 --> 00:21:40.400 the manifold wisdom of God to this generation? 00:21:40.839 --> 00:21:44.440 I heard it said of you. That when you hear a 00:21:44.440 --> 00:21:47.339 dream, you can interpret it. Now, when he said 00:21:47.339 --> 00:21:53.359 that, You've got to understand something. Joseph 00:21:53.359 --> 00:22:00.240 has gone through hell, literally, 13 years of 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:06.960 it. He's been thrown in a pit, lied by his brothers, 00:22:07.019 --> 00:22:12.960 abused, misrepresented by an evil woman, and 00:22:12.960 --> 00:22:16.549 now he's standing before Pharaoh. And the ball 00:22:16.549 --> 00:22:21.549 is in his court. He's now given permission by 00:22:21.549 --> 00:22:24.190 the most powerful man of an empire that could 00:22:24.190 --> 00:22:29.309 change his life overnight. You know why I know 00:22:29.309 --> 00:22:32.910 that Joseph is a real prophet? You know why I 00:22:32.910 --> 00:22:35.849 know he's not false? Because you know what a 00:22:35.849 --> 00:22:39.009 false prophet would do? Oh yeah, I can really 00:22:39.009 --> 00:22:43.309 hear from God. I've got this reputation. But 00:22:43.309 --> 00:22:46.470 before I hear from God, I want you to go arrest 00:22:46.470 --> 00:22:50.950 my brothers. Before I hear from God, I want you 00:22:50.950 --> 00:22:56.390 to put Potiphar's wife in prison. And then what 00:22:56.390 --> 00:22:58.609 I want you to do is I want you to set me up with 00:22:58.609 --> 00:23:02.589 a mansion in Maui. Come on. And then I want a 00:23:02.589 --> 00:23:05.509 private plane. Then I'll interpret your dream. 00:23:05.890 --> 00:23:09.220 Joseph didn't do any of that. Come on. Because 00:23:09.220 --> 00:23:12.740 he understood, freely have I received, freely 00:23:12.740 --> 00:23:15.400 do I give. Come on, you follow what I'm saying? 00:23:15.640 --> 00:23:18.920 That I'm not going to prostitute the gift. The 00:23:18.920 --> 00:23:22.140 gift's not for sale. The gift is not for my own 00:23:22.140 --> 00:23:26.740 gain. I'm here to serve you. Come on, whether 00:23:26.740 --> 00:23:30.200 you release me from prison or not, whether you 00:23:30.200 --> 00:23:33.079 do something for me or not is not the issue. 00:23:33.160 --> 00:23:36.380 You are a tormented soul that need to hear from 00:23:36.380 --> 00:23:38.759 God. God's given me this gift, and I'm going 00:23:38.759 --> 00:23:40.579 to serve you whether I have to go to prison, 00:23:40.660 --> 00:23:42.539 back to prison or not. Are you hearing what I'm 00:23:42.539 --> 00:23:44.460 saying, ladies and gentlemen? See, that's the 00:23:44.460 --> 00:23:47.269 kind of people God wants to raise up. That you 00:23:47.269 --> 00:23:51.690 can't buy me. I'm not for sale. Because my integrity 00:23:51.690 --> 00:23:54.829 is more important than my promotion. Come on. 00:23:54.890 --> 00:23:59.309 Oh, come on. And so, and then all of a sudden 00:23:59.309 --> 00:24:03.710 when he says that, he says, yes. He says it. 00:24:03.710 --> 00:24:07.809 Here's the thing. He says, I can't. That's what 00:24:07.809 --> 00:24:10.250 he says. I can't. That's his first response. 00:24:10.369 --> 00:24:14.569 I can't. I get that. What do you mean you can't? 00:24:16.009 --> 00:24:18.490 You know, I can't. That's what he says. I cannot 00:24:18.490 --> 00:24:22.809 do it. That's what he says. But then he says, 00:24:22.990 --> 00:24:29.910 but God will. Everybody say, I can't, but God 00:24:29.910 --> 00:24:34.230 will. Church, when I say I can't, but God will, 00:24:34.309 --> 00:24:36.410 I don't have to look at Facebook to get a prophetic 00:24:36.410 --> 00:24:40.430 word. Are you hearing what I'm saying? I can 00:24:40.430 --> 00:24:43.680 prophesy, but God will. I can't give a word of 00:24:43.680 --> 00:24:46.259 knowledge, but God will. I can't heal anybody, 00:24:46.579 --> 00:24:49.900 but God will. I can't walk in a word of wisdom, 00:24:49.980 --> 00:24:52.339 but God will. Oh, come on. I'm just going to 00:24:52.339 --> 00:24:55.180 be an open vessel because I know that if I'm 00:24:55.180 --> 00:24:58.480 willing, He's willing to use me in the middle 00:24:58.480 --> 00:25:01.279 of my brokenness, in the middle of my prison, 00:25:01.460 --> 00:25:04.559 in the middle of my struggle. Can I get an amen 00:25:04.559 --> 00:25:07.319 right now? There's going to be an impartation 00:25:07.319 --> 00:25:12.359 tonight in this room. I can't, but God will. 00:25:14.059 --> 00:25:20.759 And God did. With Joseph not knowing that there 00:25:20.759 --> 00:25:24.680 was going to be a promotion or not. He interpreted 00:25:24.680 --> 00:25:30.339 the dream before he was given an offer. But listen 00:25:30.339 --> 00:25:39.240 to this. At that moment, he not only interprets 00:25:39.240 --> 00:25:44.930 the dream, He gives Pharaoh a strategy to save 00:25:44.930 --> 00:25:50.009 the nation. Because not only do I need a prophecy, 00:25:50.309 --> 00:25:54.190 I need the strategy how to fulfill the prophetic 00:25:54.190 --> 00:25:59.410 word. You follow what I'm saying? Because people 00:25:59.410 --> 00:26:01.210 can prophesy, oh, you're going to have this great 00:26:01.210 --> 00:26:02.690 ministry, or you're going to have this, or you're 00:26:02.690 --> 00:26:05.109 going to do this. But how? Give me the practical 00:26:05.109 --> 00:26:09.990 ways of how to. And what set Joseph apart of 00:26:09.990 --> 00:26:12.799 any... any prophet in human history, and they 00:26:12.799 --> 00:26:15.599 were great throughout Scripture, what set him 00:26:15.599 --> 00:26:19.619 apart is that he not only gave Pharaoh the word, 00:26:19.779 --> 00:26:23.819 he gave Pharaoh the how -to implement it to save 00:26:23.819 --> 00:26:28.500 his nation. Oh, come on. And when he did that, 00:26:28.599 --> 00:26:32.200 Pharaoh and his men are sitting there stunned. 00:26:32.339 --> 00:26:37.799 Come on. And because he looks at him in one second, 00:26:37.819 --> 00:26:42.130 he says, what is he doing in a dungeon? I'm going 00:26:42.130 --> 00:26:43.970 to bring him out of the dungeon. I'm going to 00:26:43.970 --> 00:26:45.990 put him in the palace and make him the prime 00:26:45.990 --> 00:26:49.490 minister of this nation. Come on. Just like that. 00:26:51.430 --> 00:26:56.289 Something happened. Because, and I'm going to 00:26:56.289 --> 00:27:00.789 get to Genesis 50, verse 15. I am. It takes me 00:27:00.789 --> 00:27:06.269 a few minutes. But he also gave Joseph a wife. 00:27:07.509 --> 00:27:09.569 Please don't forget what I'm going to tell you. 00:27:12.589 --> 00:27:18.430 And Joseph has two sons. And in Genesis 41, verse 00:27:18.430 --> 00:27:22.769 15, it says, Joseph named his firstborn Manasseh 00:27:22.769 --> 00:27:29.009 and said, it's because God made me forget all 00:27:29.009 --> 00:27:33.950 my troubles and all my father's household. That 00:27:33.950 --> 00:27:39.920 spoke to me. Because I'm sure around here, And 00:27:39.920 --> 00:27:43.660 some of you who have been to church for a long 00:27:43.660 --> 00:27:46.480 time, you've heard messages about forgiveness. 00:27:47.619 --> 00:27:51.619 About forgiving our sister or our brother. That 00:27:51.619 --> 00:27:55.440 it's very, very important. I believe I'm still 00:27:55.440 --> 00:27:59.420 married after 41 years because of the power of 00:27:59.420 --> 00:28:04.779 forgiveness. Come on. Honestly. You forgive your 00:28:04.779 --> 00:28:09.220 spouse. You forgive those that hurt you. We all 00:28:09.220 --> 00:28:13.759 know that. But I've recently become aware of 00:28:13.759 --> 00:28:15.799 something, because has this ever happened to 00:28:15.799 --> 00:28:19.660 you? Where you've been in a conflict with somebody, 00:28:19.720 --> 00:28:24.859 and all of a sudden, in the middle of that conflict, 00:28:25.000 --> 00:28:30.500 they bring up something out of your past. Has 00:28:30.500 --> 00:28:32.960 that ever happened to anybody in the room? Of 00:28:32.960 --> 00:28:37.349 course, the rest of you are lying. Come on. This 00:28:37.349 --> 00:28:41.950 happened to me, you know. That, oh, I thought 00:28:41.950 --> 00:28:47.130 you forgave me. But then when there was a conflict, 00:28:47.230 --> 00:28:52.470 something out of your past in the conversation 00:28:52.470 --> 00:28:56.349 was brought to surface. Well, when I see that, 00:28:56.430 --> 00:29:00.349 and I see a person do that, this is exactly what 00:29:00.349 --> 00:29:03.630 goes through my mind. Because, see, we talk about 00:29:03.630 --> 00:29:07.039 forgiveness, and we should. But we don't talk 00:29:07.039 --> 00:29:14.980 about forgetting. Because forgiveness doesn't 00:29:14.980 --> 00:29:18.839 mean, Pastor Darren, I'm sorry. Or he doesn't 00:29:18.839 --> 00:29:22.279 mean, Father John, I'm sorry. I calculated. We 00:29:22.279 --> 00:29:26.779 made a mistake this morning. 1998 is when we 00:29:26.779 --> 00:29:31.779 met. That's, what, 28 years ago. That's a long 00:29:31.779 --> 00:29:35.319 time. I don't think we've had a conflict in 28 00:29:35.319 --> 00:29:37.859 years. We might have. You know, that's good. 00:29:39.059 --> 00:29:42.799 Right, that I'm aware of. Come on. Yeah, go camping 00:29:42.799 --> 00:29:45.839 with me. Go camping with me, he just said. Come 00:29:45.839 --> 00:29:48.279 on. Then we're going to have a conflict. Yeah, 00:29:48.339 --> 00:29:50.200 that's probably because he showed me in the storm. 00:29:50.460 --> 00:29:53.079 And I was making my wife jealous because there 00:29:53.079 --> 00:29:54.759 was northern lights. He should have gone with 00:29:54.759 --> 00:30:01.170 me, you know. But anyway. We have conflict with 00:30:01.170 --> 00:30:03.210 people. In the midst of the conflict, in the 00:30:03.210 --> 00:30:05.890 midst of the argument, there's something out 00:30:05.890 --> 00:30:09.230 of your past they say. And doesn't that kind 00:30:09.230 --> 00:30:13.130 of shock you? Because what's the first thing 00:30:13.130 --> 00:30:18.029 you think? Well, I thought you forgave me. See, 00:30:18.150 --> 00:30:22.029 what's amazing about Joseph is what made him 00:30:22.029 --> 00:30:28.140 such a dynamic leader. Not only did God give 00:30:28.140 --> 00:30:30.380 him the ability to forgive his brothers, because 00:30:30.380 --> 00:30:32.700 when he became prime minister, he didn't go after 00:30:32.700 --> 00:30:34.980 his brothers, and he didn't go after Potiphar's 00:30:34.980 --> 00:30:41.940 wife. What made him such a powerful voice and 00:30:41.940 --> 00:30:45.539 leader... Is his ability. See God doesn't wipe 00:30:45.539 --> 00:30:48.279 away our memory. He still had those memories. 00:30:48.299 --> 00:30:50.579 Of being thrown in the pit. He still had those 00:30:50.579 --> 00:30:52.960 memories of being in prison. He still had those 00:30:52.960 --> 00:30:54.799 memories of going to court. And being accused. 00:30:55.119 --> 00:30:59.019 God doesn't erase our memory. But what happens 00:30:59.019 --> 00:31:02.089 is. This is exactly what happens. What happens 00:31:02.089 --> 00:31:04.970 is, ladies and gentlemen, God gives us the ability 00:31:04.970 --> 00:31:08.069 that it's not rehearsing in our mind every time 00:31:08.069 --> 00:31:10.809 there's a conflict because we really have already 00:31:10.809 --> 00:31:13.750 settled it in our soul. We really have forgiven 00:31:13.750 --> 00:31:17.089 and we really have forgotten. And I feel like 00:31:17.089 --> 00:31:19.630 there's someone here tonight. I don't know who 00:31:19.630 --> 00:31:22.849 you are, but God wants to give you a gift. That 00:31:22.849 --> 00:31:26.410 same gift that Joseph who had the ability to 00:31:26.410 --> 00:31:30.029 forgive and forget all his troubles in his father's 00:31:30.029 --> 00:31:32.589 house. God wants to do that to you. Come on. 00:31:33.210 --> 00:31:35.789 Because we've all had trouble. We've all had 00:31:35.789 --> 00:31:38.609 trouble in our past. We may even have trouble 00:31:38.609 --> 00:31:41.450 in our present. But there's a God of heaven that 00:31:41.450 --> 00:31:44.890 forgives and causes us to forget that we don't 00:31:44.890 --> 00:31:48.029 walk around looking for revenge. We don't walk 00:31:48.029 --> 00:31:50.890 walking to get even. We don't walk around to 00:31:50.890 --> 00:31:54.730 get back. And that leads me now after 31 minutes 00:31:54.730 --> 00:32:01.750 to my text. And I don't have time to go into 00:32:01.750 --> 00:32:04.170 the rest of the narrative of Joseph's life because 00:32:04.170 --> 00:32:10.369 there's so much. But listen to this. Genesis 00:32:10.369 --> 00:32:17.089 50 verse 15. He restores the brothers. But listen 00:32:17.089 --> 00:32:20.349 to this. It says, when Joseph's brothers saw 00:32:20.349 --> 00:32:25.349 that their father was dead, they said, perhaps 00:32:25.349 --> 00:32:30.119 Joseph will hate us. And may actually repay us 00:32:30.119 --> 00:32:33.319 for all the evil which we did to him. Oh, come 00:32:33.319 --> 00:32:41.660 on. Church, when I read that, when I read that, 00:32:41.700 --> 00:32:44.700 and I've read it before. It's not that I haven't 00:32:44.700 --> 00:32:48.539 read it, but I didn't read it. I read it, but 00:32:48.539 --> 00:32:51.779 it didn't register. I read it, but there was 00:32:51.779 --> 00:32:55.640 no revelation until recently. And this is exactly 00:32:55.640 --> 00:32:59.039 what went through my mind. This is exactly what 00:32:59.039 --> 00:33:01.859 I want to communicate these few verses that I 00:33:01.859 --> 00:33:05.000 have in the time remaining here tonight. That 00:33:05.000 --> 00:33:09.940 here are people who have been forgiven. There 00:33:09.940 --> 00:33:13.799 was no indication that Joseph did everything 00:33:13.799 --> 00:33:17.299 in his power. Everything within his rulership 00:33:17.299 --> 00:33:25.980 to take care of his brothers. But they assume. 00:33:26.779 --> 00:33:31.400 That as long as Jacob's alive, they're protected. 00:33:32.579 --> 00:33:39.539 But now that the father is removed, Joseph is 00:33:39.539 --> 00:33:44.380 not going to protect them anymore. He's going 00:33:44.380 --> 00:33:50.819 to punish them. Church, that means that they 00:33:50.819 --> 00:33:58.519 never felt forgiven. They never knew that they 00:33:58.519 --> 00:34:06.180 were truly forgiven. So now that they believe 00:34:06.180 --> 00:34:09.579 that they've never truly been forgiven, now they're 00:34:09.579 --> 00:34:18.179 walking around with guilt. Now, can you imagine? 00:34:19.460 --> 00:34:24.440 Now, now they've actually have become men. They 00:34:24.440 --> 00:34:28.019 have become people who have not come to grips 00:34:28.019 --> 00:34:34.519 with their past. They haven't forgiven themselves. 00:34:36.739 --> 00:34:39.099 And because they haven't forgiven themselves, 00:34:39.219 --> 00:34:42.800 they assume that Joseph hasn't forgiven them 00:34:42.800 --> 00:34:47.380 either. Now church, if I had more time, this 00:34:47.380 --> 00:34:49.460 is exactly what I'd do because there's a theological 00:34:49.460 --> 00:34:53.110 term called Christology. It's where we look at 00:34:53.110 --> 00:34:57.550 Old Testament characters like Abraham and Moses 00:34:57.550 --> 00:35:01.050 and others and David, and we connect them that 00:35:01.050 --> 00:35:03.989 they are types of Christ. Well, when you look 00:35:03.989 --> 00:35:08.070 at that statement, Christology, Joseph is the 00:35:08.070 --> 00:35:11.570 perfect type. Here was Israel who was forgiven. 00:35:11.650 --> 00:35:14.429 Come on. Here were people that were forgiven. 00:35:14.530 --> 00:35:17.829 And there's people sitting in churches that God 00:35:17.829 --> 00:35:20.429 has already forgiven, but they're still not free. 00:35:20.550 --> 00:35:23.869 Come on. God has already redeemed them from their 00:35:23.869 --> 00:35:26.289 past, but they're still not walking in freedom. 00:35:26.809 --> 00:35:29.969 They're still in a place of condemnation. They're 00:35:29.969 --> 00:35:33.210 still in a place of guilt of what they have done 00:35:33.210 --> 00:35:36.130 or what they are doing. I want to tell you that's 00:35:36.130 --> 00:35:39.360 a lie. Come on. That's a lie. And they assume 00:35:39.360 --> 00:35:42.179 that the only reason they're still alive is because 00:35:42.179 --> 00:35:44.699 of someone else. Can I tell you something right 00:35:44.699 --> 00:35:47.639 now? Everybody in this room who has accepted 00:35:47.639 --> 00:35:51.960 Christ as your Savior is fully forgiven and fully 00:35:51.960 --> 00:35:55.559 redeemed and fully restored. Can I hear an amen 00:35:55.559 --> 00:35:59.099 right now? I have things that I'm ashamed of. 00:35:59.260 --> 00:36:02.380 I have things in my past that I can't repeat 00:36:02.380 --> 00:36:04.920 over this microphone. But there is something 00:36:04.920 --> 00:36:07.440 called the blood of Jesus. There is something 00:36:07.440 --> 00:36:10.000 called the Christ of Jesus. There is something 00:36:10.000 --> 00:36:13.480 that he did that redeemed me from my past. You 00:36:13.480 --> 00:36:16.059 may have not forgiven me, but he forgave me. 00:36:16.099 --> 00:36:22.320 Come on. They're thinking. They're actually living 00:36:22.320 --> 00:36:29.610 a lie. They're actually. They have outward freedom, 00:36:29.710 --> 00:36:35.869 but inward bondage. But listen to this. So they 00:36:35.869 --> 00:36:40.409 sent word to Joseph saying, your father has left 00:36:40.409 --> 00:36:47.329 these instructions before he died. Oh, can I 00:36:47.329 --> 00:36:54.860 tell you that Jacob never left. instructions 00:36:54.860 --> 00:37:02.159 to the brothers. They made that up. Why do people 00:37:02.159 --> 00:37:10.900 lie? Why do you lie? Why do I lie? You know why 00:37:10.900 --> 00:37:17.940 we lie? Self -preservation. We think that the 00:37:17.940 --> 00:37:24.769 lie is going to protect us. Which is a lie. It's 00:37:24.769 --> 00:37:28.710 the truth that sets us free, not the lie. So 00:37:28.710 --> 00:37:32.190 in order to, for their own self -protection and 00:37:32.190 --> 00:37:38.349 preservation, they decide to lie. And when I 00:37:38.349 --> 00:37:43.610 hear, when I find out people who lie, it's because 00:37:43.610 --> 00:37:48.070 they're more afraid of the truth. And that's 00:37:48.070 --> 00:37:51.980 what we call deception. Come on. They're deceived, 00:37:52.400 --> 00:37:55.239 thinking that, well, I'll make up this lie and 00:37:55.239 --> 00:37:59.099 that will protect me. Which that's not the way 00:37:59.099 --> 00:38:05.840 of the kingdom. So, here's the moment now. Because 00:38:05.840 --> 00:38:10.400 they can't imagine, they can't imagine living 00:38:10.400 --> 00:38:13.019 in a place where there's no revenge. There's 00:38:13.019 --> 00:38:16.960 no, you know what, I've already forgiven you. 00:38:17.059 --> 00:38:19.739 You're freely forgiven. They can't imagine that. 00:38:20.840 --> 00:38:23.360 Because then this is what it says in verse 17 00:38:23.360 --> 00:38:27.840 of Genesis 50. Very, very powerful. This is what 00:38:27.840 --> 00:38:32.940 you are to say to Joseph. I ask you to forgive 00:38:32.940 --> 00:38:36.599 your brothers their sins and the wrongs they 00:38:36.599 --> 00:38:40.900 committed in treating you so badly. Now, please 00:38:40.900 --> 00:38:43.820 forgive the sins of the servants of the God of 00:38:43.820 --> 00:38:48.559 your father. Now, listen to this. This has changed 00:38:48.559 --> 00:38:55.940 my life. When their message came to him, Joseph 00:38:55.940 --> 00:39:03.559 wept. Say it with me, Joseph wept. Say it again, 00:39:03.639 --> 00:39:16.739 Joseph wept. Let's be honest. The brothers were 00:39:16.739 --> 00:39:26.130 the problem. Get over it, guys. You're making 00:39:26.130 --> 00:39:29.550 up lies. You've been fully restored. I brought 00:39:29.550 --> 00:39:32.610 your family out of Palestine. I've provided for 00:39:32.610 --> 00:39:36.170 you. There's nothing that I have done to harm 00:39:36.170 --> 00:39:38.469 you. Come on. And now you're thinking I'm going 00:39:38.469 --> 00:39:46.230 to hurt you. And Joseph weeps. And when I've 00:39:46.230 --> 00:39:52.250 read that in the past, I'm assuming that He's 00:39:52.250 --> 00:39:54.949 weeping over his brother's condition. And that 00:39:54.949 --> 00:40:00.130 is partly true. Because honestly, I do want to 00:40:00.130 --> 00:40:02.929 be the kind of leader, the kind of prophet that 00:40:02.929 --> 00:40:07.130 weeps over people that are hurting. I can't not 00:40:07.130 --> 00:40:10.010 acknowledge the fact that this is what they think. 00:40:11.230 --> 00:40:14.570 That I don't want to be insensitive to their 00:40:14.570 --> 00:40:17.030 need for redemption and forgiveness. Come on. 00:40:17.130 --> 00:40:19.650 Even though that all forgiveness and redemption 00:40:19.650 --> 00:40:25.420 has already been paid for. He weeps. But I've 00:40:25.420 --> 00:40:30.119 never seen this before. I don't believe, Dennis, 00:40:30.260 --> 00:40:34.260 that Joseph just wept for his brothers. I believe 00:40:34.260 --> 00:40:39.360 Joseph wept for himself. And I'll tell you why. 00:40:40.980 --> 00:40:43.320 I believe because, see, Joseph's the leader. 00:40:44.340 --> 00:40:47.280 How many leaders in the house? How many leaders 00:40:47.280 --> 00:40:49.400 in the house? Everybody should raise your hand. 00:40:49.460 --> 00:40:50.860 You're leading somebody. You're leading something. 00:40:52.199 --> 00:40:55.599 See, we're leaders. We're leaders. And see, as 00:40:55.599 --> 00:40:58.280 a leader, this is why I believe Joseph Webb. 00:40:58.460 --> 00:41:02.400 As a leader, I believe Joseph was not only weeping 00:41:02.400 --> 00:41:04.280 for his brothers, but he's weeping himself because 00:41:04.280 --> 00:41:05.860 this is exactly what's going through his mind, 00:41:05.880 --> 00:41:12.079 I believe. That what kind of leader am I? What 00:41:12.079 --> 00:41:16.880 kind of person am I? What kind of brother am 00:41:16.880 --> 00:41:20.880 I? What kind of prophet am I? What kind of prime 00:41:20.880 --> 00:41:25.880 minister am I that all of a sudden that you don't 00:41:25.880 --> 00:41:31.880 feel forgiven? What have I projected? What have 00:41:31.880 --> 00:41:35.719 I said through my body language, through my words, 00:41:35.739 --> 00:41:38.500 or through my silence that you're now walking 00:41:38.500 --> 00:41:43.179 around with a chip on your shoulder? He weeps. 00:41:43.739 --> 00:41:46.500 And I think that sometimes what happens is that 00:41:46.500 --> 00:41:50.260 we don't weep enough. We don't cry out enough. 00:41:50.619 --> 00:41:54.119 Because let me just tell you right now. I'm weeping 00:41:54.119 --> 00:41:57.519 for Iran. Come on. I'm weeping for Venezuela. 00:41:58.539 --> 00:42:01.199 I'm weeping for the nations of the earth. Come 00:42:01.199 --> 00:42:04.880 on. Because I have a friend of mine who is in 00:42:04.880 --> 00:42:09.159 northern acquaintance of ours. He's a missionary. 00:42:09.179 --> 00:42:13.940 And he's in northern Iraq. He's smuggling Bibles 00:42:13.940 --> 00:42:17.659 into Iran. Come on. He's in harm's way. He's 00:42:17.659 --> 00:42:21.679 ISIS. The Kurds are protecting him. And it's 00:42:21.679 --> 00:42:26.719 absolutely crazy. And people get all upset that 00:42:26.719 --> 00:42:30.519 we attacked Iran because of our gas prices. Come 00:42:30.519 --> 00:42:34.239 on. That our gas went up. How terrible. What 00:42:34.239 --> 00:42:38.239 a terrible leader. But do you realize that you're 00:42:38.239 --> 00:42:40.519 not going to hear this on the news. My friend 00:42:40.519 --> 00:42:45.260 told, I heard this, that 80 ,000 Iranians that 00:42:45.260 --> 00:42:47.539 wanted freedom were murdered by the government. 00:42:49.320 --> 00:42:51.599 Are you hearing what I'm saying, ladies and gentlemen? 00:42:51.800 --> 00:42:55.519 And everybody's up in arms. And you know what? 00:42:55.579 --> 00:42:57.519 That's an injustice. Come on, are you hearing 00:42:57.519 --> 00:43:00.539 me? When is the last time we weeped for the injustice? 00:43:01.159 --> 00:43:04.039 When was the last time? But people are all upset 00:43:04.039 --> 00:43:07.780 about gas prices. Come on. We've got to put things 00:43:07.780 --> 00:43:10.360 in perspective, ladies and gentlemen. We're talking 00:43:10.360 --> 00:43:14.460 about human life here. I don't, I don't, I mean, 00:43:14.599 --> 00:43:20.099 I travel a lot. It's expensive. It's hard. It's 00:43:20.099 --> 00:43:22.659 hard for Americans. I get it. But at the end 00:43:22.659 --> 00:43:25.739 of the day, we're more upset about our convenience 00:43:25.739 --> 00:43:28.420 than we are the death of our brother or our sister. 00:43:28.639 --> 00:43:31.400 Where are the tears of the prophet? Where will 00:43:31.400 --> 00:43:37.280 we weep like Joseph? And so Joseph weeps. And 00:43:37.280 --> 00:43:40.539 when he weeps, this is exactly what happens. 00:43:43.280 --> 00:43:48.489 He weeps. Verse 18. His brothers then come and 00:43:48.489 --> 00:43:52.170 throw themselves down before him. We are your 00:43:52.170 --> 00:43:56.690 slaves, they said. But you have to understand, 00:43:56.929 --> 00:44:05.550 Joseph doesn't want them to be his slaves. I 00:44:05.550 --> 00:44:11.469 want you to be my brother. You know what I appreciate 00:44:11.469 --> 00:44:17.769 about Pastor Darren Palmer? and Pastor Cammie 00:44:17.769 --> 00:44:23.809 Palmer is they didn't come to Lincoln to raise 00:44:23.809 --> 00:44:28.789 up a congregation to fulfill their vision. They 00:44:28.789 --> 00:44:38.329 came to Lincoln to serve. The congregation, our 00:44:38.329 --> 00:44:43.409 congregation aren't our slaves. They're our brothers 00:44:43.409 --> 00:44:46.780 and our sisters. Yes, we have a hierarchy of 00:44:46.780 --> 00:44:49.980 honoring the pastor in leadership and the five 00:44:49.980 --> 00:44:54.320 -fold ministry that God sends. But people aren't 00:44:54.320 --> 00:44:59.219 slaves to respond to every one of my whims. Come 00:44:59.219 --> 00:45:02.639 on. You follow what I'm saying? And they bow 00:45:02.639 --> 00:45:05.420 down and say, we are slaves. And I love what 00:45:05.420 --> 00:45:07.500 Joseph does. Because you know what I'm saying? 00:45:07.679 --> 00:45:10.360 Because you have that kind of power that Joseph 00:45:10.360 --> 00:45:13.400 has. You can easily get corrupted by that kind 00:45:13.400 --> 00:45:17.460 of power. Because power can corrupt people. In 00:45:17.460 --> 00:45:19.980 fact, when people, you never know how people 00:45:19.980 --> 00:45:22.679 will react until they're given power. And what 00:45:22.679 --> 00:45:25.519 set Joseph apart, here he was given power. Pharaoh 00:45:25.519 --> 00:45:27.699 wasn't running the nation. Pharaoh wasn't running 00:45:27.699 --> 00:45:30.300 anything. He was just worried about what he was 00:45:30.300 --> 00:45:32.360 going to eat that night. Joseph was doing everything. 00:45:32.559 --> 00:45:36.699 But Joseph did not use the power, his power to 00:45:36.699 --> 00:45:40.019 corrupt people or for his own gain. And that 00:45:40.019 --> 00:45:42.039 says that he was a righteous man. Are you hearing 00:45:42.039 --> 00:45:44.690 what I'm saying? Because the church wants power, 00:45:44.869 --> 00:45:47.449 Darren. But guess what? Are we going to use that 00:45:47.449 --> 00:45:50.949 power for our own permission? Or are we going 00:45:50.949 --> 00:45:54.250 to use that power to serve other people? Can 00:45:54.250 --> 00:45:58.429 I hear an amen right now? So at that moment, 00:45:58.630 --> 00:46:03.130 he says to them, but Joseph said, don't be afraid. 00:46:03.190 --> 00:46:07.570 Am I in a place of God? Because you think about 00:46:07.570 --> 00:46:12.349 this. This is what grieves me, Miliana, about 00:46:12.349 --> 00:46:16.130 the prophetic movement and what's happening. 00:46:17.369 --> 00:46:21.070 You know, and a lot of times these certain prophets 00:46:21.070 --> 00:46:24.530 that I won't mention, that they've elevated them 00:46:24.530 --> 00:46:31.639 in the place of God. And I do believe in honoring 00:46:31.639 --> 00:46:34.420 the five -fold ministry. Next week we have a 00:46:34.420 --> 00:46:38.280 man who's got a Ph .D. from AGTS. He's in the 00:46:38.280 --> 00:46:41.199 office of a teacher. We will elevate him. We 00:46:41.199 --> 00:46:44.179 will bless him. We're going to take care of him 00:46:44.179 --> 00:46:47.840 as he's coming to our church because they don't 00:46:47.840 --> 00:46:50.539 need a prophet. We're a very prophetic church. 00:46:50.659 --> 00:46:54.840 Everybody prophesies. It's a very, very prophetic 00:46:54.840 --> 00:46:56.920 church. Everybody that comes in the room just 00:46:56.920 --> 00:46:59.860 is prophesying. I get that. And we need that 00:46:59.860 --> 00:47:02.079 type of thing. But we didn't need another prophet 00:47:02.079 --> 00:47:04.730 to come to our church. We need a teacher. Because 00:47:04.730 --> 00:47:07.449 I want the church to be well -rounded. I need 00:47:07.449 --> 00:47:09.710 a teacher because I need a teacher to correct 00:47:09.710 --> 00:47:12.690 my theology sometimes or keep me right on track. 00:47:12.849 --> 00:47:14.829 Come on. Are you hearing what I'm saying? That's 00:47:14.829 --> 00:47:17.269 why we bring the five -fold ministry in. But 00:47:17.269 --> 00:47:19.670 ladies and gentlemen, I love what Joseph said. 00:47:19.849 --> 00:47:24.110 He said, am I in the place of God? In other words, 00:47:24.110 --> 00:47:26.769 because he had an opportunity as a prime minister 00:47:26.769 --> 00:47:36.460 and as a leader to escalate people's guilt. Can 00:47:36.460 --> 00:47:42.340 I say this to you? Over the almost five years 00:47:42.340 --> 00:47:48.360 now that my wife and I have pastored this church 00:47:48.360 --> 00:47:55.579 in Tucson, we've had conflict. In fact, we've... 00:47:56.420 --> 00:47:59.860 Called leaders over to our home. We brought correction. 00:48:00.079 --> 00:48:03.039 I don't really like that. I think Meliana, if 00:48:03.039 --> 00:48:07.219 there was a tenth spiritual gift, Meliana would 00:48:07.219 --> 00:48:12.539 have the gift of correction. You know what I 00:48:12.539 --> 00:48:16.179 mean. And so anyway, she corrects me every day. 00:48:16.219 --> 00:48:22.510 Come on here. But I do the same thing. I want 00:48:22.510 --> 00:48:24.349 to just make her, she wants to make me better 00:48:24.349 --> 00:48:30.630 and I want to make her better. But anyhow, there's 00:48:30.630 --> 00:48:34.170 an opportunity for Joseph to escalate the brother's 00:48:34.170 --> 00:48:41.829 guilt. Because I found this out. When people 00:48:41.829 --> 00:48:44.469 are in a place of vulnerability and guilty and 00:48:44.469 --> 00:48:48.869 feel condemnation, do we escalate their guilt 00:48:48.869 --> 00:48:56.219 or do we alleviate it? And great leaders, and 00:48:56.219 --> 00:48:59.559 I've been around some great leaders, they don't 00:48:59.559 --> 00:49:02.960 escalate the person's guilt. They look for a 00:49:02.960 --> 00:49:05.320 moment to redeem them from their guilt. Can I 00:49:05.320 --> 00:49:08.159 hear an amen? And that's what he did. He said, 00:49:08.239 --> 00:49:11.239 am I in the place of God? But listen to this. 00:49:12.860 --> 00:49:17.760 But you, because in other words, he acknowledges 00:49:17.760 --> 00:49:20.639 their wrongdoing, but he refuses to weaponize 00:49:20.639 --> 00:49:25.340 it. Because if you do something wrong to me, 00:49:25.440 --> 00:49:31.400 I can weaponize that against you. And we do have, 00:49:31.699 --> 00:49:35.199 and this is why I do not like what's happening 00:49:35.199 --> 00:49:37.719 in the body of Christ from Eliana. Something 00:49:37.719 --> 00:49:42.619 was at fault. Then this is what bothers me. It's 00:49:42.619 --> 00:49:46.699 not that certain false prophets or prophets have 00:49:46.699 --> 00:49:48.960 gotten exposed. I get that. God will do that. 00:49:49.610 --> 00:49:52.250 But I'm worried about the ministries that have 00:49:52.250 --> 00:49:55.690 exposed them. Come on. Are you hearing what I'm 00:49:55.690 --> 00:49:58.389 saying? And they've exposed them to the world 00:49:58.389 --> 00:50:01.429 or exposed them to the rest of the church because 00:50:01.429 --> 00:50:04.050 what they have done is they have used what they've 00:50:04.050 --> 00:50:07.070 done wrong as a weapon against them not to see 00:50:07.070 --> 00:50:09.530 them redeemed and restored. Come on. I'm worried 00:50:09.530 --> 00:50:13.769 about them. Nobody knew you on social media. 00:50:13.889 --> 00:50:16.070 You didn't have a platform. You didn't have a 00:50:16.070 --> 00:50:18.690 YouTube channel. You had nothing. You were just 00:50:18.690 --> 00:50:21.070 sitting in a pew twiddling your thumbs, and now 00:50:21.070 --> 00:50:23.670 so -and -so sins, and now you have a million 00:50:23.670 --> 00:50:27.489 views on your YouTube channel because someone 00:50:27.489 --> 00:50:29.849 else has sinned. So that means you have to continue 00:50:29.849 --> 00:50:33.829 to make up content in order to get a platform. 00:50:34.030 --> 00:50:36.449 Instead of going to the Word of God and doing 00:50:36.449 --> 00:50:39.030 what the Word of God says, love covers a multitude 00:50:39.030 --> 00:50:42.360 of sins. If your brother sins, go to him. If 00:50:42.360 --> 00:50:44.780 he doesn't repent, then go bring a brother. If 00:50:44.780 --> 00:50:47.199 they don't repent, then go bring him before the 00:50:47.199 --> 00:50:49.239 whole church. Come on. Instead of doing Matthew 00:50:49.239 --> 00:50:52.480 18, 18. And so what happens, what I love about 00:50:52.480 --> 00:50:55.400 Joseph is Joseph doesn't use what his brothers 00:50:55.400 --> 00:50:58.340 did. He acknowledges the wrongdoing but doesn't 00:50:58.340 --> 00:51:01.099 weaponize it. Come on. And how many understand 00:51:01.099 --> 00:51:03.659 that that's how we are to be? Can I hear an amen 00:51:03.659 --> 00:51:11.590 right now? Now, notice this. He says this. You 00:51:11.590 --> 00:51:15.630 intended to harm me, but God intended for the 00:51:15.630 --> 00:51:18.869 good to accomplish what is now being done, the 00:51:18.869 --> 00:51:24.590 saving of many lives. What God meant for evil, 00:51:24.630 --> 00:51:29.510 God turned it around for good. Last verse. So 00:51:29.510 --> 00:51:33.530 then, don't be afraid. I will provide for you. 00:51:33.570 --> 00:51:37.329 This is amazing. Don't be afraid. I will provide 00:51:37.329 --> 00:51:43.510 for you. And he reassured them and spoke kindly 00:51:43.510 --> 00:51:49.809 to them. Don't forget what I'm going to tell 00:51:49.809 --> 00:51:57.070 you. How many have ever had a conflict with someone? 00:51:59.610 --> 00:52:02.650 Thank you for being honest. Almost all of you 00:52:02.650 --> 00:52:05.050 raised your hand except the two teenagers over 00:52:05.050 --> 00:52:15.480 here. They must be perfect. But I want to tell 00:52:15.480 --> 00:52:24.099 you something. When conflict is not fun, I don't 00:52:24.099 --> 00:52:30.840 enjoy it. I think Meliana likes it, but I don't 00:52:30.840 --> 00:52:37.260 like it. I'm teasing her. How many know that 00:52:37.260 --> 00:52:41.900 when there is conflict and you have to face someone 00:52:41.900 --> 00:52:44.980 that you have to talk about things to? Difficult, 00:52:44.980 --> 00:52:48.000 what we call difficult conversation. How many 00:52:48.000 --> 00:52:50.559 know that the emotional temperature in the room 00:52:50.559 --> 00:52:55.639 is pretty intense? It's not like Darren on the 00:52:55.639 --> 00:52:58.300 piano soaking in the presence of God. Come on. 00:52:58.980 --> 00:53:03.699 It's not like that. It's intense because it's 00:53:03.699 --> 00:53:07.880 as if the emotional temperature is way sky high. 00:53:07.940 --> 00:53:14.500 Come on. It's been my experience over my short, 00:53:14.619 --> 00:53:19.820 I'm going to be 64 in September, and Malian and 00:53:19.820 --> 00:53:23.059 I will be, it'll be next year that we'll have 00:53:23.059 --> 00:53:26.500 been 30 years traveling and we'll be in ministry 00:53:26.500 --> 00:53:29.980 full time now for 30 years. It'll be next year. 00:53:32.329 --> 00:53:36.590 And it's been my experience because how many 00:53:36.590 --> 00:53:39.329 want to be great leaders? How many want to be 00:53:39.329 --> 00:53:42.250 a great leader? I mean, you want to be a great 00:53:42.250 --> 00:53:45.329 leader. I want to be not only a great leader, 00:53:45.369 --> 00:53:47.349 I want to be a great father. I want to be a great 00:53:47.349 --> 00:53:50.409 husband. I not only want to be a great communicator, 00:53:50.449 --> 00:53:53.110 I want to be great in everything that God called 00:53:53.110 --> 00:53:54.730 me to do. Are you following what I'm saying? 00:53:56.949 --> 00:53:59.869 And I've discovered something. I've witnessed 00:53:59.869 --> 00:54:02.690 something, especially with my spiritual father, 00:54:02.829 --> 00:54:06.670 Dr. James Morocco, who has 900 church plants 00:54:06.670 --> 00:54:13.309 now and a $40 million budget. That's what ran 00:54:13.309 --> 00:54:19.070 through their ministry last year. But what Joseph 00:54:19.070 --> 00:54:22.869 does when he says to them, don't be afraid. I 00:54:22.869 --> 00:54:26.489 will provide for you and your children and reassured 00:54:26.489 --> 00:54:29.900 them and spoke kindly to them. Now, they're guilty. 00:54:30.000 --> 00:54:35.519 They did wrong. They know that. But what Joseph 00:54:35.519 --> 00:54:39.719 does is he lowers the emotional temperature in 00:54:39.719 --> 00:54:47.679 the room. Because I've tried this. I've done 00:54:47.679 --> 00:54:54.940 this with my wife. It works. When the emotional 00:54:54.940 --> 00:54:59.659 temperature rose up, And usually because I did 00:54:59.659 --> 00:55:03.880 something wrong. Come on. Or she misunderstood 00:55:03.880 --> 00:55:07.820 or assumed something. I've noticed that it really 00:55:07.820 --> 00:55:11.840 works because the natural thing is to get defensive. 00:55:15.019 --> 00:55:18.780 And the natural thing is to defend your right. 00:55:18.920 --> 00:55:24.280 Come on. You're wrong, I'm right. That usually 00:55:24.280 --> 00:55:26.719 doesn't go anywhere. That doesn't work out very 00:55:26.719 --> 00:55:31.179 well. But when you lower the emotional temperature 00:55:31.179 --> 00:55:36.659 in the room, all of a sudden, you and the person 00:55:36.659 --> 00:55:39.280 that you're in conflict with or has a conflict 00:55:39.280 --> 00:55:45.159 with you starts to think clearly. And everything 00:55:45.159 --> 00:55:51.019 changes. That's why Joseph reassured them and 00:55:51.019 --> 00:55:57.199 spoke kindly. To them. Oh my gosh. Because this 00:55:57.199 --> 00:56:04.320 is the thing. If you were here this morning and 00:56:04.320 --> 00:56:08.920 during my sermon, I mentioned that Saul went 00:56:08.920 --> 00:56:14.320 and sought a medium. You were in the big metropolis 00:56:14.320 --> 00:56:20.059 of Petersburg doing what God called you to do. 00:56:20.940 --> 00:56:29.710 Serving. When Meliana was using that example 00:56:29.710 --> 00:56:34.670 of Saul going to see a medium, my wife, because 00:56:34.670 --> 00:56:36.769 of her broken English, some of you that weren't 00:56:36.769 --> 00:56:40.409 here this morning, you know what she said from 00:56:40.409 --> 00:56:44.090 the pulpit? Media! They went and saw a media. 00:56:46.469 --> 00:56:51.289 And I'm sitting there, and now I want a conflict. 00:56:51.329 --> 00:56:55.840 Come on. So I can't do that. I can't correct 00:56:55.840 --> 00:56:59.239 her in front of the church. And so I walked up 00:56:59.239 --> 00:57:02.880 with my iPad with the scripture so she could 00:57:02.880 --> 00:57:07.480 read it. And I pointed to it. And then I sat 00:57:07.480 --> 00:57:12.699 back down. I said, oh, gosh. Oh, gosh. You know, 00:57:12.719 --> 00:57:16.780 because English is her second language. Then 00:57:16.780 --> 00:57:21.949 I went back. And looked up the root word for 00:57:21.949 --> 00:57:25.730 medium. And the root word for medium, brother, 00:57:25.849 --> 00:57:32.309 is media. And in my wife's broken English, she 00:57:32.309 --> 00:57:35.309 was originally right. Come on. She had the right 00:57:35.309 --> 00:57:39.989 interpretation. And I can tell you this. The 00:57:39.989 --> 00:57:44.389 media is not going to lower the emotional temperature 00:57:44.389 --> 00:57:52.579 in the room. And what we need in America is more 00:57:52.579 --> 00:57:56.059 prophetic voices and more people that hear from 00:57:56.059 --> 00:57:58.400 God that know how to walk in a room and lower 00:57:58.400 --> 00:58:03.059 the temperature. In order to speak kindly to 00:58:03.059 --> 00:58:05.800 people, to treat them with dignity, honor, and 00:58:05.800 --> 00:58:08.860 respect, and change the atmosphere so people 00:58:08.860 --> 00:58:13.300 can think clearly. Can I hear an amen right now? 00:58:13.559 --> 00:58:16.800 How many in the house believe God spoke to you 00:58:16.800 --> 00:58:19.659 tonight? Raise your hand right now. Lift your 00:58:19.659 --> 00:58:23.159 hands toward heaven all over the house tonight. 00:58:23.519 --> 00:58:26.440 Father, we thank you for your word. It's a lamp 00:58:26.440 --> 00:58:29.340 unto our feet, and it is a light upon our path. 00:58:29.480 --> 00:58:32.199 I thank you for what you're doing even right 00:58:32.199 --> 00:58:34.980 now by the power of the Holy Spirit.