1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:18,600 I want to continue in our series of sermons handling God's dark room. 2 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:28,600 Before God can deliver us, he must first develop us. 3 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:37,600 And the only way film can be developed is in a dark room. 4 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:47,600 The only way a strong Christian can be developed is in a dark room. 5 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:58,600 One of the greatest characters in the Old Testament is Joseph. 6 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:18,600 Joseph is beloved by his father to the extent that his father's love engenders the hatred of his own brothers. 7 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:32,600 There's this dynamic in this family that has been going on now for some generations. 8 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:42,600 Isaac is favored over Ishmael. 9 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:48,600 Jacob is favored over Esau. 10 00:01:48,600 --> 00:02:04,600 And this family dysfunction continues with Jacob, who is Israel, loving Joseph more than his other brothers. 11 00:02:04,600 --> 00:02:17,600 He loves him so that he makes him a technically colored coat, a coat of many colors. 12 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:33,600 And that coat figures prominently in the story because there was going to be a problem with a coat that winds Joseph up in prison. 13 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:49,600 Joseph is loved by his father, hated by his brothers, because not only does he wear this little coat every day, Joseph is a dreamer. 14 00:02:49,600 --> 00:03:04,600 Being young and naive, he has the temerity to tell not only his brothers, but his father, his dreams. 15 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:16,600 And his dream is interpreted that the sun and the moon will bow down before his star. 16 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:24,600 His sheath will be standing upright, and the other sheaths will bow down before him. 17 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:40,600 And the Bible says that his brothers hate him not because they can't stand that little coat, but because he has the nerve to talk about his dreams. 18 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:52,600 One day the father sends the brothers out to graze, and they are a long time coming back home, and so he sends Joseph to check on them. 19 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:58,600 They're supposed to be in the family grazing lands of Shechem. 20 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:06,600 But when Joseph gets to Shechem, he inquires about them, and a man says they've gone on to Dofer. 21 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:19,600 Joseph walks another 60 miles to check on his brothers in Dover, and they see him before he sees them. 22 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:25,600 They say, here comes this dreamer. Let's kill him. 23 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:31,600 Let's take his life and see what will become of his dreams. 24 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:41,600 And when he gets there, his brothers sees him, but the older brother Rubin decides not to shed their brother's blood. 25 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:48,600 They put him in a little pit, and Rubin wants to let the brothers cool off. 26 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:56,600 While Rubin is away, an Ishmaelite caravan on the way to Egypt happens by, 27 00:04:56,600 --> 00:05:04,600 and these brothers take their brother out of a pit and sell him in the slavery. 28 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:11,600 But the Lord was with Joseph. 29 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:25,600 Because when you are of superior character, it does not matter where they put you, you shine. 30 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:33,600 They can put you in the back seat in the choir. 31 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:40,600 But if the Lord is with you, you'll shine in the back seat. 32 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:43,600 You don't have to be the president to shine. 33 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:46,600 You don't have to be in charge to shine. 34 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:50,600 Just make sure God's hand is on your life. 35 00:05:50,600 --> 00:06:00,600 And wherever the enemy places you, God will see to it that the cream will always rise to the top. 36 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:03,600 Fret not yourself. 37 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:05,600 I wish I had a Bible reader. 38 00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:11,600 Because of evil doers, neither be envious against those who work iniquity. 39 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:13,600 You know the rest of it. 40 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:16,600 God will see to it. 41 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:19,600 God will make sure. 42 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:30,600 God will handle it so that just before they try to destroy you, they stumble and they fall. 43 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:33,600 Here is the story. 44 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:35,600 They sell him in the Egypt. 45 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:39,600 He winds up a servant in Potiphar's house. 46 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:45,600 While in Potiphar's house, the Lord is with him. 47 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:50,600 And the Lord being with him, the Lord having his hand on Joseph, 48 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:55,600 Potiphar notices that there's something different about this man. 49 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:59,600 He makes him over his whole house. 50 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:04,600 Joseph is steward over everything in Potiphar's house. 51 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:14,600 Mrs. Potiphar, because the scripture says really when you get home, Joseph was good looking. 52 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:16,600 Handsome. 53 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:18,600 Dashing. 54 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:26,600 Kind of like somebody I know. 55 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:28,600 Toll. 56 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:30,600 Dark. 57 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:34,600 Handsome. 58 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:38,600 And Mrs. Potiphar, I want you to listen to this. 59 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:39,600 Say it. 60 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:43,600 Lie with me. 61 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:46,600 She didn't beat around the bush. 62 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:54,600 It wasn't no being coy and dropping hints and smelling good and wearing Victoria's secret in front of him. 63 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:58,600 It wasn't no playing with her. 64 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:06,600 She said, listen, come to bed with me. 65 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:09,600 And listen to Joseph's response. 66 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:15,600 Joseph did not say, I will not. 67 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:21,600 He said, I cannot. 68 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:24,600 Somebody don't help me talk it. 69 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:38,600 I cannot dishonor my master, Potiphar, but I really cannot dishonor God. 70 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:42,600 Because it's not a matter of manhood. 71 00:08:42,600 --> 00:08:47,600 It's a matter of integrity. 72 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:57,600 And throughout the story, we will find that courage and conviction will always inspire confidence. 73 00:08:57,600 --> 00:09:03,600 People will put confidence in you if you stand by the courage of your convictions. 74 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:12,600 Because a principle is not a conviction until you can stand by it when you're tempted. 75 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:16,600 I wish I had somebody to help me here. 76 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:26,600 A principle is not a conviction until you can stand by it when it's unpopular. 77 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:32,600 And for days, Mrs. Potiphar tried to seduce him. 78 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:39,600 And Joseph one day had to run from the seduction. 79 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:47,600 And when he ran from the seduction, here's that coat again. 80 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:56,600 He comes out of his coat running from her sexual advances, which was really sexual harassment. 81 00:09:56,600 --> 00:10:05,600 Because there was no he to movement. 82 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:08,600 I wish I had two or three more witnesses here. 83 00:10:08,600 --> 00:10:17,600 Because listen brothers and sisters, sexual harassment is not about sex, it's about power. 84 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:21,600 And Mrs. Potiphar had the power. 85 00:10:21,600 --> 00:10:32,600 And if Joseph did not do what she said, he could have been killed, but he'd rather die than dishonor God. 86 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:41,600 And so when Joseph would not take her sexual harassment, he ran out of his coat, left it in her hand, 87 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:54,600 and she screamed and all of the servants came in and she was holding Joseph's coat and accused them of rape. 88 00:10:54,600 --> 00:10:58,600 All the women ain't being sexually harassed. 89 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:01,600 That's a mean in the text. 90 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:08,600 Because it's not about sexual favor, it's about power. 91 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:17,600 But he, in his courage and conviction, overwhelmed her power. 92 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:28,600 And not to be disgraced, not to be made a fool of because hell has no fury. 93 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:34,600 Like a woman scorned. 94 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:39,600 You don't want me, huh? 95 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:44,600 All right, okay, okay. 96 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:49,600 Okay, Joe, you don't want me. 97 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:57,600 She screams, the servants come, and she tells her husband, this boy you brought in here, 98 00:11:57,600 --> 00:12:04,600 tried to take advantage of me, and Potiphar has Joseph thrown in prison. 99 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:08,600 But listen, God's hand is still on him for this reason. 100 00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:12,600 God's hand is still on him for this reason. 101 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:21,600 That kind of charge does not deserve prison. 102 00:12:21,600 --> 00:12:26,600 That kind of charge deserves death. 103 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:32,600 Potiphar was supposed to kill Joseph. 104 00:12:32,600 --> 00:12:38,600 Because when you read the Old Testament, there are no prisons in the Old Testament. 105 00:12:38,600 --> 00:12:44,600 Punishment for crime in the Old Testament was death. 106 00:12:44,600 --> 00:12:48,600 But God's hand is on him. 107 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:55,600 And even in an accusation as serious as rape, when he should have been put to death, 108 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:59,600 he's put in prison. 109 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:10,600 But Joseph's case reveals how God can make everything bend to his purpose. 110 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:16,600 Joseph was in prison because Potiphar wanted to punish him. 111 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:24,600 But he was really in prison because God wanted to promote him. 112 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:33,600 Sometimes God uses confinement as refinement. 113 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:43,600 Sometimes God leaves your inn so he can lead you out. 114 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:49,600 God has a plan to promote us to a deeper level of service, 115 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:54,600 and often lead through a painful experience. 116 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:59,600 Jeremiah 2911 says, I know the plans that I have for you. 117 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:09,600 Plans to prosper you, to give you a future, and an expected end. 118 00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:12,600 Your enemies don't expect it. 119 00:14:12,600 --> 00:14:15,600 They expect you to go down. 120 00:14:15,600 --> 00:14:21,600 But if you trust God and God's hand is on you, the expected end is that in the midst of your trouble, 121 00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:25,600 God will help you hold your head up. 122 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:29,600 I need somebody here who's held your head up through your divorce. 123 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:33,600 You held your head up through your sickness. 124 00:14:33,600 --> 00:14:36,600 You held your head up through people lying on you. 125 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:40,600 You held your head up when your back was up against a wall. 126 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:56,600 You can shout this morning because he said I will keep him in perfect peace if you keep your mind. 127 00:14:56,600 --> 00:14:59,600 Stayed on me. 128 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:02,600 I got the hurry here. 129 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:06,600 But there's a problem in this text. 130 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:09,600 There's a problem of handling God's dark room. 131 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:19,600 A.W. Tozer, one of my favorite Christian writers, A.W. Tozer writes that when the Lord will use you greatly, 132 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:26,600 He must first hurt you deeply. 133 00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:28,600 He hurt Job. 134 00:15:28,600 --> 00:15:32,600 God hurt Job. 135 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:40,600 And Job's had to say, though he slayed me, yet will I put my trust in him. 136 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:52,600 All the days of my appointed time, I'm going to wait until my change comes. 137 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:56,600 Paul said I had a phone in the flesh. 138 00:15:56,600 --> 00:16:02,600 The messenger of Satan to buffet me lest I should be exalted above measure. 139 00:16:02,600 --> 00:16:05,600 And I went to the Lord three times and asked him to move it. 140 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:11,600 But God said my grace is sufficient. 141 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:13,600 I want you to get this. 142 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:15,600 Now this is the shout. 143 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:18,600 Satan brought it. 144 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:24,600 But God sent it. 145 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:33,600 And God sent it to mature Paul. 146 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:40,600 And God sends trouble and trial and heartbreak and sickness and death in our families. 147 00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:47,600 Not to break us, but to bless us. 148 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:54,600 And somebody can help me testify that I would not be the strong Christian I am this morning. 149 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:58,600 If it had not been for the trouble that I went through. 150 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:00,600 It was good for me. 151 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:03,600 I need one or two more Bible readers. 152 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:10,600 The Psalmist said it was good for me that I had been afflicted, that I might learn God's statute. 153 00:17:10,600 --> 00:17:12,600 There's some things you can only learn in the dark. 154 00:17:12,600 --> 00:17:15,600 There's some things God can only show you in trouble. 155 00:17:15,600 --> 00:17:26,600 There's some things God can only prove to you when you can't see your way. 156 00:17:26,600 --> 00:17:31,600 It was bad enough to be sold as a sleeve. 157 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:35,600 All because of that little coat. 158 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:40,600 But now to be branded as a rapist. 159 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:44,600 All because of that little coat. 160 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:52,600 He wrecked his career by his goodness. 161 00:17:52,600 --> 00:17:56,600 See how flat that fail? 162 00:17:56,600 --> 00:18:02,600 He wrecked his career by his goodness. 163 00:18:02,600 --> 00:18:12,600 You can be right and still be misused. 164 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:17,600 Just because you come to church don't mean everybody going to like you. 165 00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:25,600 Just because you're singing the choir or deacon at this church does not mean people will not malign your character. 166 00:18:25,600 --> 00:18:27,600 Talk back to me if you can. 167 00:18:27,600 --> 00:18:31,600 Lies will be told on you and people can make up the most vicious lies. 168 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:39,600 You don't know how to get that stuff in their mind because you can't think like what you're incapable of thinking like. 169 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:44,600 If you're not an evil person you can't think like an evil person. 170 00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:48,600 If you're not a low down person you can't think like a low down person. 171 00:18:48,600 --> 00:19:05,600 But just keep on walking right because the steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord and no good thing will he withhold from him who walks up right there. 172 00:19:05,600 --> 00:19:13,600 The problem is Joseph did right and still went to prison. 173 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:16,600 That's the problem. 174 00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:19,600 I'm speaking for myself now. 175 00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:30,600 As a Christian when I do the best I can and I'm misunderstood and God doesn't correct the misunderstanding. 176 00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:33,600 That's the problem for me. 177 00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:35,600 I can't tell God what to do. 178 00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:37,600 I can't tell God how to work it out. 179 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:39,600 I can wind all I want. 180 00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:41,600 I can pull my hair out if I want. 181 00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:45,600 There are some things in life you just have to go through. 182 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:52,600 But when you come out on the other side of it you will know that the Lord was with you. 183 00:19:52,600 --> 00:19:58,600 Because there are some things you're not going to be able to come out of unless the Lord delivers you from it. 184 00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:04,600 Don't go fishing on Sunday. Don't go out of town on Sunday. 185 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:11,600 Come to church on Sunday and tell somebody if it had not been. 186 00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:13,600 Have I got a witness here? 187 00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:16,600 I need somebody who's been lied on. 188 00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:18,600 Somebody who's been cheated on. 189 00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:22,600 Somebody whose reputation has been almost destroyed. 190 00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:29,600 But God still let you stand. 191 00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:32,600 He will. 192 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:35,600 Yes, He will. 193 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:37,600 I said He will. 194 00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:39,600 He will. 195 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:41,600 He will open doors. 196 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:44,600 He will answer prayers. 197 00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:46,600 He will dry your tears. 198 00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:49,600 He will make your pathway straight. 199 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:57,600 He will make your enemies your foots too. 200 00:20:57,600 --> 00:21:01,600 I don't know how He's going to do it. 201 00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:05,600 I don't know when He's going to do it. 202 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:11,600 I think I could go through it better if God told me when I was going to get out. 203 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:14,600 Sometimes it takes a month. 204 00:21:14,600 --> 00:21:18,600 Sometimes it takes 15 years. 205 00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:22,600 But when you come out. 206 00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:26,600 Because listen, while you're in it, 207 00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:29,600 many people see, 208 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:34,600 but a few people know. 209 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:40,600 Few people know that you're laughing to keep from crying. 210 00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:46,600 Few people know that you don't want to go home because there's so much a mess there. 211 00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:53,600 Few people know that your family despises you because of the way God is blessing you. 212 00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:57,600 Few people know that when you show up here on Sunday morning looking good, 213 00:21:57,600 --> 00:22:00,600 you got to go to hell on Monday morning at your job. 214 00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:04,600 That's why you keep coming to church because you need strength for what you got to face. 215 00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:07,600 Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. 216 00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:14,600 I don't know how folk make it who don't know Christ. 217 00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:20,600 But in the midst of his problem, 218 00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:23,600 that's a provision. 219 00:22:23,600 --> 00:22:30,600 Because the Bible says the Lord was with Joseph. 220 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:36,600 Regardless of what true believers have to go through, 221 00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:39,600 Isaiah 43 and 2 says, 222 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:45,600 when you pass through the water, I'll be with you. 223 00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:50,600 And through the river, they will not overflow you. 224 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:56,600 And when you walk through the fire, you will not be burned. 225 00:22:56,600 --> 00:23:02,600 Neither shall the flame kindle on you. 226 00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:05,600 You know the story. 227 00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:09,600 Shedrach, Meshach, and Abednego said, 228 00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:13,600 King, we're not careful to answer you in this matter. 229 00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:18,600 Because the God we serve is able. 230 00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:23,600 And he will deliver us out of your hand. 231 00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:31,600 But if not, here's our resolution. 232 00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:35,600 We still will not bow. 233 00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:39,600 The king heated the furnace seven times hotter than it was normally heated. 234 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:42,600 Threw them in and the men who threw them in were incinerated. 235 00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:45,600 And they fell in the midst of the burning fire with furnace 236 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:50,600 with wall caps, wall coats tied around their wrists and their ankles. 237 00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:58,600 They threw them in and the Bible says, when the king looked in, 238 00:23:58,600 --> 00:24:07,600 instead of seeing three, he saw four. 239 00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:15,600 And the fourth one looked like the Son of God. 240 00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:18,600 And he must have been in there because the book of Revelation says, 241 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:21,600 his hair was like lambs' wool. 242 00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:24,600 His eyes were like flames of fire. 243 00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:26,600 His feet were like marble stone. 244 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:33,600 And his legs were like polished brass as though they burned in a fire referent. 245 00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:43,600 He said, I see four, listen to this, loose dancing in the fire. 246 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:45,600 The King James version says walking around, 247 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:47,600 but the accurate translation was, 248 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:56,600 the Lord is my life. 249 00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:58,600 You're going to help me shout, won't you? 250 00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:00,600 And my salvation. 251 00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:02,600 Whom shall I fear? 252 00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:05,600 The Lord is the strength of my life. 253 00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:07,600 Of whom shall I be a friend? 254 00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:09,600 When the wicked. 255 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:12,600 Somebody ought to help me testify. 256 00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:16,600 Even my enemies and my foes came upon me to eat up my flesh. 257 00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:24,600 They stumbled and they fell, and then God let me steal. 258 00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:27,600 I need a shout out right here. 259 00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:33,600 I need a true believer right here who's been in your house by yourself. 260 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:37,600 And you thought about where God brought you from. 261 00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:40,600 And how many doors God had opened for you. 262 00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:43,600 And before you knew it, you were washing dishes. 263 00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:45,600 And you just got happy. 264 00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:47,600 You just thought praise in God. 265 00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:49,600 Why are you sitting on the sofa? 266 00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:53,600 You just praise in God while you're driving on 59. 267 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:56,600 People looking at you, singing and praising God. 268 00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:58,600 And they think you're losing your mind. 269 00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:04,600 You ain't crazy. 270 00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:12,600 I sing because I'm happy. 271 00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:18,600 I sing because I'm free. 272 00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:24,600 His eye is on the sparrow. 273 00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:27,600 And I know. 274 00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:31,600 I said I know. 275 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:33,600 Oh, brother and sister. 276 00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:35,600 I'm through. 277 00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:38,600 I've got to run the late Charles and preach. 278 00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:41,600 I ain't got time to play with y'all all day. 279 00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:43,600 I'm through. 280 00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:45,600 The problem. 281 00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:48,600 Come with some provision. 282 00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:50,600 But the provisions. 283 00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:53,600 Come with some privileges. 284 00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:56,600 That's some privileges. 285 00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:59,600 That come with serving God. 286 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:01,600 I'm through. 287 00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:06,600 But this morning when I, when I was getting dressed. 288 00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:09,600 I take my shirts to the cleaners because I want them to stand stiff. 289 00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:11,600 I want my collar to be stiff. 290 00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:14,600 I want my cuffs to be stiff. 291 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:19,600 But sometimes my, my suits get wrinkled. 292 00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:24,600 And Amelia got a little doohickey. 293 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:27,600 That she put some water in. 294 00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:29,600 Turn it on. 295 00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:33,600 And steam my coat. 296 00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:36,600 It was wrinkled when I put it on. 297 00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:39,600 But she put that steamer on it. 298 00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:44,600 And it knocked the wrinkles out. 299 00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:47,600 I got wrinkled this past week. 300 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:59,600 But Jesus. 301 00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:05,600 Put some steam on it. 302 00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:08,600 You gonna help me close this, won't you? 303 00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:11,600 There's a, there's some similarities. 304 00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:14,600 Between Joseph. 305 00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:17,600 And Jesus. 306 00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:20,600 I said there's some similarities. 307 00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:22,600 Between Joseph. 308 00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:24,600 And Jesus. 309 00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:27,600 I'm gonna get back to the little steam machine here in a minute. 310 00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:30,600 But there's some similarities between Joseph. 311 00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:33,600 And Jesus. 312 00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:38,600 And Joseph was beloved by his father. 313 00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:42,600 God said this is my beloved son. 314 00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:45,600 Talking about Jesus. 315 00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:49,600 In whom I am well pleased. 316 00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:52,600 Joseph lived with his father. 317 00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:56,600 Before he suffered in Egypt. 318 00:28:56,600 --> 00:29:00,600 In the beginning was the word. 319 00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:04,600 It was with God. 320 00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:07,600 You gonna help me close this, won't you? 321 00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:11,600 Joseph was hated by his own brothers. 322 00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:14,600 Jesus came to his own. 323 00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:19,600 And his own received him not. 324 00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:22,600 Joseph was sent by his father. 325 00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:26,600 For his brother's welfare. 326 00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:29,600 God sent Jesus. 327 00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:33,600 Your and my welfare. 328 00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:38,600 Joseph's brothers plotted to kill him. 329 00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:42,600 The chief priest scribes and elders. 330 00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:46,600 Plotted to kill Jesus. 331 00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:49,600 You gonna help me finish this, won't you? 332 00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:51,600 Listen, brothers and sisters. 333 00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:55,600 Potiphar tried to save Joseph. 334 00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:58,600 Because instead of having him stoned. 335 00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:01,600 He put him in prison. 336 00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:05,600 Pilate tried to save Jesus. 337 00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:10,600 By offering the people a man named Barabbas. 338 00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:15,600 Joseph was stripped of his clothing. 339 00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:19,600 Jesus was stripped of his clothing. 340 00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:24,600 Joseph was sold for the price of redemption. 341 00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:29,600 Jesus was sold for 30 pieces of silver. 342 00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:32,600 Joseph's blood was sprinkled on, 343 00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:35,600 a goat's blood was sprinkled on a coat. 344 00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:39,600 As a scapegoat for Joseph. 345 00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:43,600 Jesus' blood was shed on Calvary. 346 00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:49,600 As a scapegoat for your sins and mine. 347 00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:51,600 Joseph told the cup-barra, 348 00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:55,600 when you get up, remember me. 349 00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:59,600 Jesus said, as often as you drink this cup. 350 00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:03,600 And eat this bread, you show forth my death. 351 00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:06,600 Until I come back again. 352 00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:10,600 Joseph was finally taken up out of prison. 353 00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:14,600 Jesus was finally raised from the dead. 354 00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:17,600 But here is the difference this morning. 355 00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:20,600 When Joseph came up out of prison. 356 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:23,600 Nothing happened. 357 00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:27,600 But when Jesus came up out of the grave. 358 00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:30,600 I wish I had somebody. 359 00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:33,600 He led captivity captive. 360 00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:36,600 He set all men free. 361 00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:39,600 When Jesus rose from the grave. 362 00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:43,600 He wrote my name in the Lamb's book of life. 363 00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:47,600 When Joseph got up from the dungeon, nobody shouted. 364 00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:50,600 But early one Sunday morning. 365 00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:53,600 Some women went down to the tomb. 366 00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:56,600 And an angel said, why? 367 00:31:56,600 --> 00:32:01,600 Seek ye the living among the dead. 368 00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:03,600 He's not here. 369 00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:06,600 He's risen as he said. 370 00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:11,600 Come see the place where the Lord was laid. 371 00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:14,600 And they went all over Jerusalem. 372 00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:18,600 Telling everybody that Jesus got up from the grave. 373 00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:23,600 Brothers and sisters, this morning if there are some wrinkles in your character. 374 00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:27,600 If there is some wrinkles in your conduct. 375 00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:31,600 If there are some wrinkles in your personality. 376 00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:35,600 I don't have a little steam device for you this morning. 377 00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:38,600 But I know a man from Galilee. 378 00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:40,600 If you're in sin. 379 00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:43,600 He can set you free. 380 00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:46,600 I need a witness this morning. 381 00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:50,600 Who know that there are some wrinkles in you right now. 382 00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:53,600 You've got some mess in you right now. 383 00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:56,600 You've got some junk in you right now. 384 00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:59,600 Some decisions you wish you hadn't made. 385 00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:03,600 Some wrong roads you wish you hadn't traveled. 386 00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:06,600 Some things you wish you could go back and fix. 387 00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:09,600 Some skeletons in your closet. 388 00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:14,600 But I know a man who has a steam device. 389 00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:17,600 It's called the blood of Jesus. 390 00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:22,600 What can wash away my sin? 391 00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:27,600 Nothing but the blood of Jesus. 392 00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:32,600 What can make me whole again? 393 00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:36,600 Nothing but the blood of Jesus. 394 00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:39,600 If you saved this morning. 395 00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:42,600 And don't care who's looking at you. 396 00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:45,600 If you know you've been born again. 397 00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:48,600 And you don't care what they put on Facebook about you. 398 00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:52,600 If you know God's hand is on you. 399 00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:55,600 And your enemy is trying to stop you. 400 00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:58,600 If you know God is made away for you. 401 00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:01,600 And you don't mind testifying. 402 00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:04,600 Don't wait until the battle is over. 403 00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:06,600 Go ahead. 404 00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:08,600 Shout right now. 405 00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:11,600 Don't wait until you get to work tomorrow. 406 00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:15,600 Don't wait until you get home this afternoon. 407 00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:17,600 Go ahead. 408 00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:19,600 Tell him thank you. 409 00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:21,600 Thank you. 410 00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:23,600 Thank you. 411 00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:25,600 Thank you. 412 00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:27,600 Thank you. 413 00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:29,600 That on a hill. 414 00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:31,600 Call Calvary. 415 00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:33,600 He died. 416 00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:35,600 But he died. 417 00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:37,600 But he died. 418 00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:39,600 Suddenly morning. 419 00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:42,600 He took his little steam device. 420 00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:44,600 Wrapped out all my wrinkles. 421 00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:47,600 And here I am this morning. 422 00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:49,600 Wash. 423 00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:51,600 In the blood of the lamb. 424 00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:54,600 If you know you've been washed. 425 00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:56,600 Why don't you grab somebody? 426 00:34:56,600 --> 00:34:59,600 I need you to use your preaching voice. 427 00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:01,600 Tell somebody. 428 00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:04,600 Come on preach it like I'm preaching. 429 00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:08,600 Tell them I know I've been washed. 430 00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:16,600 Come on use your preaching voice. 431 00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:21,600 I know I've been washed. 432 00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:29,600 Maybe they don't want to hear it. 433 00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:32,600 They want to express their name inside of you. 434 00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:35,600 I know I've been washed. 435 00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:43,600 You preaching your first sermon. 436 00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:46,600 Tell somebody else. 437 00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:50,600 I know I've been washed. 438 00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:58,600 I've been redeemed. 439 00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:00,600 I've been washed. 440 00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:02,600 In the blood of the lamb. 441 00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:07,600 What can wash away my sin? 442 00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:10,600 Nothing but the blood of Jesus. 443 00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:12,600 Won't He do it? 444 00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:14,600 Won't He wash you? 445 00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:16,600 Won't He cleanse you? 446 00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:29,600 And knows all of.