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00:00:01 [Applause] [Music] now joseph had been taken down to egypt whatifer an egyptian who was one of pharaoh's officials the captain of the god bought him from the ishmaelites who had taken him there the lord was with joseph so that he prospered and he lived in the house of his egyptian master when his master saw that the lord was with him and that the lord gave him success in everything he did joseph found favor in his eyes and became his attendant potiphar put him in charge of his household and he entrusted to his care
00:00:41 everything he owned from the time he put him in charge of his household and all that he owned the lord blessed the household of the egyptian because of joseph the blessing of the lord was on everything fortified had both in the house and in the field so potiphar left everything he had in joseph's care with joseph in charge he did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate now joseph was well built and handsome and after a while his master's wife took notice of joseph and said come to bait with me
00:01:15 but he refused with me in charge she told her my master does not concern himself with anything in the house everything he owns he has entrusted to my care no one is greater in this house than i am my master has withheld nothing from me except you because you are his wife how then could i do such a wicked thing and sin against god and though she spoke to joseph day after day he refused to go to bed with her or even be with her one day he went into the house to attend his duties and none of the household
00:01:50 servants was inside she caught him by his cloak and said come to bed with me but he left his cloak in her hand and ran out of the house when she saw that he had left his cloak in her hand and had run out of the house she called her household servants look she said to them this hebrew had been brought to us to make spot of us he came in here to sleep with me but i screamed and when he heard me scream for help he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house she kept his cloak beside her until his master came home then she told
00:02:27 him the story that hebrew slave you brought us came to me and to make spot on me but as soon as i screamed for help he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house when his master heard the story his wife told him saying this is how your slave treated me he burned with anger joseph's master took him and put him in prison the place where the king's prisoners were confined but while joseph was there in the prison the lord was with him he showed him kindness and granted him favor in the eyes of the prison warden
00:03:02 so the warden put joseph in charge of all those held in the prison and he was made responsible for all that was done there the warden paid no attention to anything under joseph's care because the lord was with joseph and gave him success in whatever he did the word of god well good morning church praise god that we can still meet together in one spirit wherever it is you are that you are watching this thanks to technology and the hard-working av team here at fbc we can still listen together worship together pray
00:03:37 together as one body of christ you all know my wife salome she's very much into into carpentry and one of the latest projects that she did uh was to make this pallet wall um and pallet wood is basically uh those boards that you find at the back of supermarkets right its job is basically to keep food off the floor right so this there's two blocks of wood you would stack onions or whatever kind of food you want on it and it it just makes it easier for forklifts to be able to pick it up and transport
00:04:10 it to wherever it needs to go and once they're done with it they pretty much just throw it away because the the wood is very it's it's almost useless right it's not very symmetrical so you can't make nice tables or chairs out of them uh some of them are dented they're scratched if they've been left out in the rain they're moldy right so we got our hands on a couple of uh cheap pieces of uh of pallets uh and we took it to our house and we had to to dismantle it so it was hammering involved and and then once once we dismantled the
00:04:40 pieces we had to sand it we had to saw it to the to the right size uh and then and then varnish it and and put it up on a wall and now it's it's really quite beautiful it's like a piece of nature on the wall and gives really nice contrast against the white wall background that that we have and today we're going we're going to see how god does the same thing in our lives he takes things that are broken he fixes them and molds us into something that's beautiful the story of joseph as familiar to all
00:05:14 of you i'm sure he's one of the 12 sons of jacob one of only two sons of rachel who was his favorite wife and as a youth he was he was arrogant yeah he had a loose tongue he he didn't really think about what he said or did which made him very unpopular among his brothers who decided one day to take his robe to sell him as a slave to dip his robe in in god's blood and to present it to their father jacob and say a ferocious animal has has ripped joseph apart and that's where we pick up the story today
00:05:45 in chapter 39 where joseph arrives in egypt and he's bought as a slave by a man named potiphar but before we go on let's uh let's say a word of prayer heavenly father we we thank you lord for your word god i pray that your truth would come alive today father god i pray that you protect me from the evil one protect me from any falsehood father god i pray that your word would go out and it would not return void it would touch lives and it would heal souls pray this lord in jesus name amen all right in verse 1 we read that
00:06:29 potiphar is one of pharaoh's officials the captain of the guard now when we read this in english right the captain of the guard we tend to think of of potiphar as sort of the the head of the bodyguards right but but it's it's likely not that position it is likely actually a military role and a highly ranked one at that right if we look at another passage in 2 kings 25 10 it says this the whole babylonian army under the commander of the imperial guard that's that term again right the commander of the imperial guard
00:07:03 broke down the walls around jerusalem so this term the same term is used to describe the general that led the babylonian army to destroy jerusalem and to take her inhabitants captive potiphar was likely one of egypt's top military generals and remember that egypt is the superpower at the time which makes potiphar one of the most powerful men in all the world and over the years joseph becomes his right hand man potiphar notices something something different about this joseph boy right let's read verse three
00:07:43 when his master saw that the lord was with him and that the lord gave him success in everything he did joseph found favor in his eyes and became his attendant potiphar put him in charge of his household and he entrusted to his care everything he owned from the time he put him in charge of his household and of all that he owned the lord blessed the household of the egyptian because of joseph the blessing of the lord was on everything potiphar had both in the house and in the field something about the way
00:08:12 joseph carried himself something about the way he performed his duties the way he spoke to his peers and his superiors the way he treated other people the pace in which he he learned the the egyptian language the pace in which he learned new skills right he seemed to have a level of competence that that was far beyond anyone else in the household he seemed to have a discernment far beyond his years now of course it doesn't say any of this i'm i'm just conjecturing but but those of you who are employers right
00:08:46 isn't aren't these the characteristics that you would look for in your employees right integrity diligence compassion kindness politeness being being well spoken being honest here's a quick question how does our work ethic reflect on christ right what what do people think about us from the way that we work from the way that we treat others from the way that we speak to others well that's that's just food for thought that's that's a side note you can have that one for free but let's move on we read that joseph
00:09:21 was not just potiphar's personal assistant he was put in charge of everything potiphar owned from the household to the field right see in verse four the blessing of the lord was on everything part of her had both in the house and in the field joseph was put in charge not only of potiphar's living quarters but also his side business right and just to give us some perspective of what joseph was running here do you remember back in genesis 14 when abraham's nephew lot gets kidnapped what does abraham do
00:09:54 he takes 318 trained men trained servants born in his household and he goes after law and he rescues him now this is not counting the women the children or the elderly so if i were to ballpark it surely abraham would have had i don't know 600 servants at least right and abraham was just a wealthy immigrant living in the land of canaan potiphar is the second most powerful man in the world surely he had at least that many servants if not more now now um right and joseph was in charge of feeding them
00:10:36 clothing them caring for them working out their schedules their tasks and and joseph did such a good job in everything that he was tasked with that he was given more and more and more responsibility until there was nothing left to give right everything went under joseph's purview in today's terms that's uh joseph was the head of potiphar's advisory board he was his hr manager his financier right his investment broker his real estate agent he was the ceo of potiphar industries with 600 employees
00:11:12 under him because the lord was with him and gave him success now things start to go downhill we read in verse six so potiphar left everything he had in joseph's care with joseph in charge he did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate now joseph was well built and handsome and after a while his master's wife took notice of joseph and said come to bed with me joseph was sold as a slave at 17 years old and he became prime minister of egypt at 30. so at this point he he must be early 20s mid-20s
00:11:54 right and he's risen in the ranks and he's caught the attention of this loose woman who is potiphar's wife it would have been all too easy he he could have arranged the schedules of the servants so that he could be alone with her every day often it takes a bit of work you know a bit of coaxing a few flirtatious encounters a few expensive gifts a lot of charm to to lure someone in to have an affair right but not so in this case potiphar's wife was willing and ready at a moment's notice it would have been all too sweet
00:12:35 the act itself we understand has a has a pull factor all on its own right but as humans as sinners we're envious by nature have you seen that experiment that they showed on ted where they had two monkeys and they called it the the fairness experiment so the monkeys are trained to do a task and whenever they do the task they get a slice of cucumber as a reward and so the first monkey does does the task gets a cucumber very happy with it eats it second monkey does the same task but receives a grape oh
00:13:10 first monkey does the task again receives a cucumber you know what he does he throws it back at the scientist right and the second monkey does the same task gets a grape first monkey does the task again gets a cucumber he throws it back at the scientist starts rattling the cage banging the floor and trying trying to reach for the grapes right and oftentimes we're exactly like those monkeys the only reason we want certain things is because someone else has them sometimes the thing that we want most is the thing that we
00:13:44 cannot have we are envious by nature it would also have been all too sweet because she was a powerful woman perhaps she could have got him a salary or added benefits i don't know whether he was earning a salary or not perhaps she could have given him his freedom in exchange for his services quote unquote right your net work is your net worth and some of us listening now spend a lot of time networking rubbing shoulders with people that we want to collaborate with work with pitch to invest in right what better way for joseph to
00:14:27 advance his prospects than to be rubbing shoulders quite literally with the wife of the second most powerful man on earth on the flip side if he did not sleep with her she could have turned on him she could have made his life miserable spread a bad report about him which is what we find out she does right at the end of the story right she could have made him the lowest of the slaves the ones the one who who cleans the latrines or washes down the animals i don't know right she could have made his life
00:15:02 miserable so you see here there is a lot more at stake than what we realize at first glance joseph has everything to gain but he also has everything to lose and so how does he overcome well let's find out verse 8. but he refused with me in charge he told her my master does not concern himself with anything in the house everything he owns he is entrusted to my care no one is greater in this house than i am my master has withheld nothing from me except you because you are his wife how then could i do such a wicked thing
00:15:41 and sin against god and though she spoke to joseph day after day he refused to go to bed with her or even be with her how does he overcome well the first thing is he does not sugarcoat sin oftentimes what what what we do with our sin is we stop calling it sin we start to make excuses it's only this once i won't do it again everyone else is doing doing it who who am i hurting right i i can't help it it's my weakness i was sold as a slave i've been working so hard for years i deserve some downtime
00:16:23 i can just i can just imagine satan you know sort of sitting on joseph's shoulder whispering into his ear into the night joseph joseph self-indulgence it's not self-indulgence you know what this is joseph self-promotion that's what it is you can rise in the ranks you could be free not working okay let's let's try something else um joseph joseph you know what she's going to do if you don't sleep with her so it's really self-defense right protect yourself self-defense that's what it is not working okay okay
00:17:12 joseph joseph stand up straight chest out come on be a man fulfill your potential this is self-actualization that's what it is go get her tiger not working let's see let's see joseph joseph you're a good you're a good christian man aren't you right you believe in god excellent excellent two to others as you would have them do to you come on you've seen potiphar he's an old man right his wife she has needs you know what this would be you know what this would be joseph self-sacrifice that's right that's what it would be go
00:17:59 on go in there i can just imagine satan sitting on his shoulder saying all these things and even without satan we have all the excuses that that we come up with absurd as they are bouncing around in our heads right very few of us are willing to call sin out for what it is to call a spade a spade to call the things that we are tempted towards wickedness before a holy god look at how he responds in verse 9 how then could i do such a wicked thing and sin against god he refuses to sugarcoat it he calls it out for what
00:18:45 it is sin before a holy god and notice again notice what he says he says sin against who god joseph understood that it would have been a sin against potiphar it would have been a sin against potiphar's wife yes he understood that but most of all it would have been a sin against almighty god joseph saw sin it's not just breaking some moral code on the on on the horizontal plane no he saw it as idolatry on the vertical plane putting something above god that in essence that's what sin is right any
00:19:24 sin that we we are tempted towards right is idolate idolatry against god putting something above god and so what that's what makes sin so vile so horrid so horrendous so wrong is that it is an offense before a holy god it is not just on the horizontal plane if it was then sure if potiphar's wife really wanted it if potiphar would never find out then yeah it would not be so bad if it was just on the horizontal plane but it is not joseph had the right view of sin on the vertical plane he saw it as
00:20:03 taking a bucket of paint and pouring it on the white robes of god when king david committed adultery he sinned against bathsheba he sinned against his loyal friend uriah and had him murdered he sinned against the whole nation of israel he abused his power and position but when he pens that famous psalm of repentance psalm 51 he says o god against you you only have i sinned and done what is evil in your sight you see david had the same understanding that joseph did many years before that sin is always
00:20:44 first and foremost a sin and offense against a holy god so let's recap how did joseph overcome number one he did not sugarcoat sin number two he understood the holiness of god number three he did not play with fire now i think that we would all agree that uh sleeping with potiphar's wife would have been wrong right i think we would all agree with that but answer me this honestly in your heart what if joseph just held her hand just picked her on the cheek from time to time just flirted with her a little bit would
00:21:26 that be so wrong if there is a forest fire coming for us we ought to run we ought to run as fast as we possibly can away from it but many of us try to go as close to the fire as we can don't we yolo right what's life with a without a little excitement fbc is a church of what close to a thousand attendees every week and with a with a crowd this size i imagine and i'm quite certain that there are many of us who are playing with fire some of you are privately meeting people that you have no business meeting
00:22:14 with going places you have no business in going silently chatting with people you have no business chatting with right in a crowd this size i know for a fact that there are many of you who are dabbling in and even addicted to pornography right every study that i've read every poll that is out there says that pornography is a pandemic that has ravaged the globe and even the global church that's right the church has not escaped this uh these are some statistics from studies that i gathered from online 64 percent of
00:22:59 christian men admit to viewing porn monthly 37 of christian men admit to viewing porn weekly 55 of married christian men admit to viewing porn monthly 25 of christian men erase internet browsing history to conceal porn use seventeen percent of christian men install a computer install a computer or phone app to enhance viewing porn and it's not just limited to men it's women as well right we would be naive to think that this is just a man's problem 60 of christian women admit to having significant struggles with lust
00:23:37 40 of christian women admit to be involved in sexual sin in the past year 20 of christian women struggle with looking at pornography on an ongoing basis not even the clergy is exempt one in five youth pastors and one in seven youth pastors use porn on a regular basis and are currently struggling now these next statistics boggled my mind 68 of divorce cases involve one party meeting a new lover over the internet 56 percent of divorce cases involve one party having an obsessive interest in pornographic
00:24:14 websites pornography is more widespread and deadly than anything else that we've ever witnessed it is a parasite that is eating the church alive it is cutting her legs out from under her it is staining the sacred name that she stands for and it is ruining the effectiveness of her ministry if you are dabbling in pornography i urge you i plead with you to reconsider if you're addicted to pornography i will plead with you to get the help that you need right here in fbc there are three elders there are four pastors there's even a
00:24:58 counseling team that's more than a lot of churches can say we are blessed to have a counseling team here at fbc so you have the resources there they're they're they're wanting to hear from you they want to help you they want to minister to you the bible often tells us to resist the devil right to stand firm to be courageous to to put on the armor of god right but when it comes to sexual temptation do you know what the bible says it says run run it says flee second timothy chapter 2 verse 22 so flee youthful
00:25:40 passions so flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness faith love and peace along with those who call on the lord from a pure heart joseph understood this he knew better than to play with fire look at verse 10 he refused to go to bed with her or even be with her he did not even want to get close he never wanted to find himself alone with potiphar's wife it was too dangerous verse 12 went but he left his cloak in her hand and ran out the house right most of us would loiter there a little while not
00:26:22 joseph as soon as he finds himself in this position and she's got him by the cloak he says forget the cloak and he runs for his life don't allow yourself to be in a situation where you can be compromised how did joseph overcome he did not sugarcoat sin he understood the holiness of god and he dared not play with fire verse 13 when she saw that he had left his cloak in her hand and had run out of the house she called her household servants look she said to them this hebrew has been brought to us to make sport of us
00:27:09 he came here to sleep with me but i screamed when he heard me scream for help he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house joseph's worst nightmare has now come true potiphar's wife is framing him framing a slave for attempting to rape an owner that's a serious serious allegation it costs joseph his career his name his prospects his reputation his position what little freedom he had his comfortable lifestyle his well-being but you know joseph left with one thing intact his purity he left
00:27:54 with one thing intact his purity his integrity joseph had no price all that the church today both the global church and us here at fbc would hold ourselves to that same standard he considered his purity of greater value than everything he had we treat our purity like chump change pornography used in the church is just as prevalent as outside the church more and more churches are now becoming open to their members living lgbtq lifestyles the rates of divorce without proper precedence are higher than they have ever been in the church
00:28:41 fornication affairs cohabitation adultery are rampant when is this sin going to stop if you don't think that sexual immorality has serious consequences has serious repercussions if you don't think that it will cost you your life then you are a fool and you know nothing of god look at the word of god proverbs 5 verses 3 to 5. for the lips of the adulterous woman drip honey her speech is smoother than oil but in the end she is bitter as gall sharp as a double-edged sword her feet go down to death her steps lead
00:29:26 straight to the grave look at the imagery that the bible gives us death grave 1 thessalonians 4 verses 3 to 5 it is god's will that you should be sanctified that you should avoid sexual immorality that each of you should learn to control your own body in a way that is holy and honorable not in passionate lusts like the pagans who do not know god did you get that last bit not in passionate lust like the pagans who do not know god you know what that means that means your sexual purity is the yardstick on which
00:30:03 to judge whether you know god or not hebrews 13 4 marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bid kept pure for god will judge the adulterer and the sexually immoral we don't hear this being taught in churches very often do we right a lot of a lot of global church leaders shy away from saying this and i'll be honest with you there's a little a little bit of trepidation in my heart to speak on this right but it's the word of god it's true as a preacher as all and i have the same responsibility as all the other
00:30:43 preachers to preach the word of god and to teach the whole counsel of god i can't skip over these things just because they're uncomfortable one corinthians 6 verses 9 to 10 do not be deceived neither the sexually immoral nor nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of god jude verse 7 in in a similar way sodom and gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality
00:31:21 and perversion they serve as an example of those who will suffer punishment of eternal fire i don't know how much clearer the bible can be it is clear sexual immorality will cost you your life and if you do not repent it will cost you your salvation trust me trust me when i say that of all people i know this i understand this you want to know how i know this is true it's because i myself struggle with pornography for many years it was an addiction that i couldn't seem to shake right i would come clean i
00:32:06 would apologize but sure enough just give it some time a few days a few weeks a few months i would be back to square one i used to write uh handwritten letters to god right so when i hit the bottom and i i thought to myself enough is enough i would write out sort of like a contract right never again god and i would sign it i would put a date on it i'll fold it up and and put it away but sure enough given enough time i would find myself back in the same place and so for years for years i was hooked on pornography
00:32:46 and then i got married and all my problems went away said no married person ever right youths who are listening to this don't think that just when just when you get married uh all these issues will will go away no no no in fact i would i would go as far as to say it becomes exponential it becomes worse right every uh of this time now before my pornography use was just hurting myself now it was hurting my wife as well right every time i clicked on those sites i committed adultery in my heart and i broke my marriage vows every
00:33:30 single time i clicked on those sites i samuel take you salome to be my wedded wife and i do promise and covenant before god and these witnesses my life to you in all love and honor in our duty and service and our faith and tenderness to live with you to cherish you according to the ordinance of god in the holy bond of marriage to be your loving and faithful husband in plenty and in want in joy and in sorrow in sickness and in health till death do us part those were my vows i'm sure your vows are somewhat similar
00:34:07 right but every time i clicked on those sites in all love and honor broken you know duty and service broken in all faith and tenderness broken to cherish you broken to be your loving and faithful husband broken now if the statistics are true if they're accurate there are plenty of men and women who are currently right now breaking their marriage vows on a regular basis right plenty of people who are seeking out clicking on erasing paying for content that is absolutely vile in the eyes of god and if that's you please listen to my
00:35:02 voice please hear me out because i'm speaking from experience i've been there i've been to the bottom of the pit it will cost you everything it will cost you your life and you will lose everything that you hold dear i can tell you that when it says in proverbs 3 in the end she is bitter as gall sharp as a double-edged sword her feet go down to death her steps leads straight to the grave i can tell you that it is true there was nothing sweet about that time it was all bitter nothing minor about it
00:35:40 it cut deep and it took years to heal nothing life-giving about it it was all dead but let me tell you something else god demonstrated his love by reaching down into the muck into the dirt to find me to take hold of me it was as though he dropped something as uh as precious as an engagement ring into a toilet bowl and he looked down and he saw how disgusting it was he saw how horrendous it was but he didn't care he rolled up his sleeves he put his hand down he found me he picked me up he plucked me out and he washed me clean
00:36:25 through the accountability of three of my close guy friends through over a year of counseling and through difficult and heart-wrenching confessions he freed me and he healed my marriage god gave salome the strength to persevere to forgive and forgive and forgive sometimes through tears she would forgive me but by god's grace in her heart she chose to see the man that i could be not the man that i was she chose to see the things that i could do not the things that i had done i can stand before you here today
00:37:10 because of the sweet sweet grace of god and the persevering love of my wife and that's that's exactly the reason why jesus died on the cross isn't it it's so that we can be reconciled back to the father so that we can be healed so that we can uh be free from the guilt and the shame of our past sin the brokenness of our past so we could have the power to live in purity so that we can be turned from pallid wood into a pallet wall it is through the gospel that people like you and i broken shattered
00:37:56 dented scratched rough unsymmetrical can be made into something beautiful something elegant something worthy of putting on display will there need to be some some sawing yes yes there will will there need to be some sanding yes some hammering yes there will sanctification and discipline is never ever fun at the time it is always painful it is always difficult but in the end the result is that you can be a piece of wood that holds up other pieces of wood that holds up other pieces of wood that form
00:38:41 the beautiful canvas that is a pallet wall no matter how dark your past is no matter how far you have strayed god is willing to forgive you god is able to fix you if he can fix me if he can rescue me surely he can fix you there is nothing that you have done that he cannot forgive that he cannot fix the power of the cross is stronger than anything you have ever done i guarantee you that because it's in the word of god right i can stand before you here today and share my shameful past because as far as the east is from the
00:39:24 west so far has he removed my transgressions from me because therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in christ jesus because his grace is sufficient for me and his power may manifest in my weakness therefore i will boast all the more in my weakness because when i'm weak then i am strong because i'm convinced that neither death nor life neither past nor present neither angels nor demons nor any powers nor anything else in all creation can separate me from the love of god that is in christ
00:40:01 jesus my lord i purposely i purposely wore a white shirt today to signify to you the purity that i have now because of the cross right i am forgiven god does not see me as sam the unfaithful sam the sinner he sees me as sam righteous holy blameless and the story of joseph that we read today in chapter 39 is a picture of exactly that right joseph was righteous he was blameless he did nothing wrong he committed no crime potiphar's wife on the other hand was unfaithful she was loose out of control
00:40:47 promiscuous and unfortunately that is an illustration of you and i and just as joseph paid the price for a crime he did not commit jesus paid the price for crimes he did not commit he paid the price for yours and my sin find your way to the foot of the cross because it is only there that you can find the forgiveness and the freedom that you seek other christians can can help to bring you there sure they can be a crutch to help you but they are powerless to give you any lasting change only the gospel can do that
00:41:31 repent and find your way to the foot of the cross the church both our church and the global church needs men and women like joseph men and women who will not exchange their purity for anything who have no price that is the bedrock on which the church must be built that is the bedrock on which families must be built ministries must be built if not it will all crumble i have a classmate who is a missionary in kenya so him his wife and his three kids what they do is the work that they do is they organize um
00:42:17 evangelistic rallies right for huge crowds of kenyans they also do discipleship in the bush where they would go out and seek people to to evangelize to and to disciple i have another friend who's a missionary in germany and the work that he does is to disciple people to bring kingdom culture to their workplace or to their universities i have another friend in uh who works in nepal along with her parents uh training missionary leaders there in nepal one of the guys in my discipleship group is uh is going to japan in a couple of
00:42:55 weeks time for work and we're praying for him because he's looking for mission agencies that he can work with uh to disciple and to bring the gospel to the japanese people and to serve them we just heard today that there are christians being persecuted killed tortured imprisoned all over the world today you get my point you get what i'm trying to say there is work to be done there is kingdom work to do god has specific things for you to do god has designed and engineered your life your upbringing your education who
00:43:36 your parents are who your siblings are who your friends are he has engineered all of that to mold you to do specific tasks to fulfill his plan of bringing the gospel to every tribe every tongue and every nation but he can only he can only commission pure vessels did you get that he can only commission pure vessels think about this because of joseph's integrity he was dragged off to jail which led to him meeting the cupbearer which led to him interpreting the cupbearer's dreams which led to him meeting pharaoh and
00:44:21 interpreting pharaoh's dreams which led to him becoming the prime minister of egypt which led to him saving thousands if not millions of people from the famine including his own family which led to the jewish line being preserved which led to jesus being able to come down to die on the cross for all our sins did you get that without knowing it joseph's decisions to be pure played a role in you and i being saved joseph's decisions to be pure led to our salvation your purity your integrity however much it is costing you today
00:45:09 has implications for generations to come but on the flip side so does our impurity right every single time we compromise our integrity it could be that time that knocks over the domino for generations and generations of needless suffering let us be men let us be women who make that decision every single day every single moment of our lives to be pure not just for the sake of our families but for the sake of christ for the sake of his church for the sake of his mission for generations to come let's pray
00:46:00 father we want to confess that we have sinned though we know that there is forgiveness in the name of jesus and so lord we ask we ask for your forgiveness we ask that you make us pure purify us lord from all unrighteousness and forgive us for what we have done father god there is work to do make us pure vessels commission us to go out and to do your work to see your kingdom come to the ends of the earth i pray this in jesus name amen
