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Dr. Tony Evans | The Pattern of Detours | May 1, 2022
- Tony Evans: Remember, your blessing includes you,
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- but it's not only about you.
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- Detours.
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- Detours are distractions from the original intended
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- route that you had planned to go.
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- They take you off the beaten path.
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- It takes you longer than you had planned to be using to arrive at
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- where you are hoping to go.
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- If you're here today and you want your destiny,
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- I would not be being fair to the Word of God if I didn't tell you
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- that there are gonna be dry spots where nothing appears to
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- be happening and you find yourself stuck.
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- If you are a believer in Jesus Christ today,
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- you have a destiny.
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- I'm telling you to let you know that when God is ready to move,
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- it don't take long.
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- Tony: Today I wanna look at the pattern of detours.
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- Detours have a pattern about them that you should look
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- for if you know you're not in the place that you
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- had planned to be in.
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- And there's not a person here today who is not in a detour,
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- come from a detour, headed to a detour,
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- because life is full of detours.
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- There are three things I wanna talk about today about
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- the pattern that detours take, the route of detours.
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- 'Cause, you know, detours usually have twists and turns.
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- You gotta go up here and turn here and come back here and go
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- over there in order to get back on the main road taking you
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- to where you plan to go, and where God wants you to go
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- is your destiny.
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- The first aspect of a detour which we've kind of introduced
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- is detours always involve test.
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- Detours involve a test.
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- I love 2 Chronicles chapter 32, verse 31,
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- because it says, "The purpose of a test is to reveal what's
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- in your heart."
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- The purpose of a test is to reveal.
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- God already knows what's in your heart,
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- but the test is designed to reveal it.
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- 'Cause, see, our hearts are deceitful, the Bible says.
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- They trick us, and so God wants you to really see what's
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- deep down inside of you, and it comes out with a test.
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- So, a test is adverse circumstances.
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- Joseph is in a test because he's now a slave in a situation he
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- never planned to be in, and it is adverse.
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- He's in the pit, no water, sold into slavery by his own family,
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- and verse 1 of chapter 39 says he's taken to Egypt
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- and Pharaoh--the captain of the bodyguard buys him
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- from the Ishmaelite.
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- He's been bought and sold like property.
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- He's in a bad situation, but as we ended last week it says,
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- "The Ishmaelites were taking him to Egypt," and when we fast
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- forwarded to the end of the story,
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- Joseph says, "God brought me to this place."
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- So, watch this now, don't miss this,
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- when you're going through a test,
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- I'm not talking about a test you create.
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- I'm talking about one that God put you in.
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- When you're going through a test,
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- don't mistake the hand of man for the hand of God.
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- Or don't mistake the hand of God for the hand of man.
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- See, people put him in this situation.
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- His daddy set him up for this situation,
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- gave him a coat.
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- His brothers were jealous of him,
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- his brothers put him in the pit, his brothers planned
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- to kill him, his brothers sold him, his brothers gave him
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- to the Ishmaelites.
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- These are people messing with this man's life.
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- But if you only see what people are doing and you miss what God
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- is doing, then you miss the divine purpose of the detour.
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- People were allowed to be used by God to move him from where he
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- was to the next step of where God wanted him to be.
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- So, don't think just 'cause it's people it's not God.
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- It's only not God if it's sin, but if it's not sin,
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- then look for the hand of God even though it's coming through
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- the hand of man.
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- Joseph has had many reasons to believe God has abandoned him.
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- And you have those feelings when you're in a deep pit.
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- Where is God?
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- Why did God put me here?
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- Why won't God get me out of here?
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- Or if he got me out of here, why did he get me out of here like
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- this so then now I'm nothing but cheap property?
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- Where are you God?
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- That's what happens during a test,
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- it seems like God's phone line is busy,
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- he's gone silent on you.
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- But remember the purpose of a test is to develop you.
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- So, many of us iron shirts or had shirts ironed
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- before we came today, or maybe, ladies, you ironed your blouse,
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- you did that to get the wrinkles out,
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- you did that to get the wrinkles out.
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- The blouse may have been clean, but it had wrinkles in it,
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- you needed to get the wrinkles out.
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- Joseph had some wrinkles.
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- We found out that he was a tattletale on his brothers,
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- that he flaunted the coat in front of his brothers to show
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- that, you know, he was the most loved son.
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- We saw that he had some wrinkles,
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- he wasn't a bad kid, but he was immature,
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- so God had to put him in a situation to iron
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- the wrinkles out.
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- Now, why do you iron wrinkles out of your shirt
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- and out of your blouse?
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- 'Cause you plan to put it on and you wanna look good in it.
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- So, what God does is he puts us in test and he allows the heat
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- to hit us, and steam is rising out of us.
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- It's not 'cause he's trying to burn us,
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- he just plans to wear us and wants to look good
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- when he puts us on.
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- So, he allows the fire of testing to bring steam
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- out of our lives.
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- He's not being mean, he's not being mad,
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- he just wants to iron out the wrinkles so that he looks
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- good when he identifies with you.
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- The first aspect of the detour that God takes us all on--nobody
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- escapes this who wants to be in God's will and experience God's
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- destiny--is a test, an adverse circumstances that God
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- create to allow us.
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- And now Joseph is living a life he didn't plan on.
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- His daddy didn't raise him to be a slave,
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- but that's what he is now.
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- It leads to number two, the second route on the detour
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- to destiny of the pattern that God uses is training.
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- We're told to learn through testing,
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- so testing is designed to provide training.
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- Look at verse 2.
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- "The Lord was with Joseph, he became a successful man.
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- He was in the house of his master.
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- His master saw the Lord was with him,
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- and God caused all that he did to prosper at his hand.
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- Joseph found favor in his sight and became his personal servant.
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- He put everything he had under Joseph's charge."
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- Okay, let's deal with training number one,
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- spiritual training.
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- The Lord was with Joseph.
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- Wait a minute, the Lord was with Joseph as a slave.
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- The Lord was with Joseph being bought and sold.
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- The Lord was with him, in other words,
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- he did not let his circumstance compromise
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- his spiritual relationship.
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- See, it's easy to get mad at God in a trial when actually
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- the trial is the occasion to draw near to God.
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- It says, "The Lord was with him," watch this,
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- while his life was going south 'cause he's a slave now.
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- But it says, "The Lord was with him."
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- Folk wanna run to God in the trial when they've had
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- no God before the trial, wonder why they can't see God come out
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- now that I'm in the trial, 'cause there was not closeness
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- being accumulated along the way.
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- But it says of Joseph, the Lord was with him.
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- He had cultivated a spiritual relationship as his priority,
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- and God was with him, watch this,
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- and his life is going south.
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- He's a slave now.
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- But he gives you the key, here is the key to making it
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- during your season of trial.
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- It says, "He became a successful man
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- 'cause the Lord was with him."
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- Not because of who he knew, not because of his contacts,
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- not because of his notoriety, not because of his name,
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- not because of his bank account.
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- He said, "He became a successful man--"
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- listen to me, if the Lord is not with you, I don't care
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- who you know, what contacts you have,
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- what power you think you have.
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- He said--the reason he was a success as a slave is
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- 'cause the Lord was with him.
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- See, a lot of us know God without knowing Jehovah.
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- Jehovah is when God reveals himself to you,
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- so when it says the Lord was with Joseph,
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- he's saying there was a relationship hookup here.
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- This wasn't religion, this was relationship.
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- The Lord--they had a relationship,
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- and the Lord was with him, and the Lord made him a success.
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- So, there must be the spiritual relationship that drives you,
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- particularly when life has gone left on you like it did
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- on Joseph.
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- And the Lord blessed him as a slave so that he climbed
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- the ranks to become his personal assistant,
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- and everything underneath Potiphar's house
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- was under Joseph.
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- Now, watch this, watch this.
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- The purpose of trials, one of the purposes is
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- to develop us and to train us.
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- Don't miss this.
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- Joseph is now second in command in Potiphar's house, okay?
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- But what Joseph didn't know is that down the line,
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- he's gonna become second in command in all of Egypt.
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- That's a whole nation.
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- He doesn't know that yet 'cause he doesn't know
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- the details of his destiny.
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- So, what God does is he gives him a job as a slave,
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- makes him second in command in Potiphar's house so homeboy
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- could get some experience in leadership,
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- management, handling staff, dealing with problems.
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- He lets him as a slave develop a skillset,
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- 'cause he knows in his destiny he's gonna be over all of this.
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- See, a lot of folk wanna be all of this,
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- but they don't know how to be over all of this,
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- and if you can't handle this,
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- God's not ready to give you that.
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- So, if you want that, you better take care of this so that
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- when you wind up with that, you've got enough experience
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- from this to handle that the right way.
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- Watch this, he's working, watch this,
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- for a non-Christian.
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- Potiphar is a pagan, he's not a believer.
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- He's working in a non-Christian company but look what it says
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- about Joseph.
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- Verse 5, "The Lord blessed Egyptian's house on account
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- of Joseph.
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- Thus, the Lord's blessing was upon all that he owned
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- in the house and in the field."
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- That means everything, all of his property.
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- In other words, the Christian was the best employee he had.
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- You see where I'm going?
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- Because it says in verse 3, "Now his master saw that
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- the Lord was with him."
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- But this is a pagan man.
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- How a pagan man gonna see the Lord is with you?
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- There's only two ways: word and deed.
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- That is, he was a witness with his mouth,
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- but he backed it up with his feet.
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- He didn't talk about Jesus and turn in sloppy work,
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- nor did he do good work and skip the fact that his faith
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- was the basis of how he worked.
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- It was word and deed.
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- He didn't talk about Jesus all day and get nothing done,
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- but he didn't get stuff done and leave Jesus out.
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- It was word and deed, 'cause he wasn't just working
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- for a paycheck, he was working for a person.
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- And the Lord was with him.
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- Is the Lord with you in your career?
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- Now, watch this, watch this, watch this,
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- don't miss this, his job was not his destiny.
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- 'Cause, see, a lot of us have made our jobs
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- our destiny, you see?
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- His job, this job, he getting ready to leave this job.
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- In fact, in a few minutes he getting ready to get fired.
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- Joseph is getting ready to get fired from his job.
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- If he put all of his marble,
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- "Oh, I'm second in command in Potiphar's house," if he put all
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- of his marbles in his job, he's gonna be severely disappointed,
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- 'cause he getting ready to lose his job,
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- the man's getting ready to get a pink slip.
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- So, your job is not your destiny.
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- Your job may just be preparation for your destiny,
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- 'cause he's gonna learn skills in his job that God is gonna use
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- for his kingdom.
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- But God cares more about the development of the dreamer
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- than the experience with the dream, why?
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- Because when he gives you whatever dream he has for you,
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- he wants to know that your shoulders can bear
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- the weight of the opportunity.
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- 'Cause if you get to a place that fulfills the dream but you
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- can't bear the weight of your character to handle the dream
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- that you hold, you and the dream collapse.
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- So, he wants to develop
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- the person before he gives you the purpose.
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- And the detour is designed to develop that.
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- Training, spiritual depth, skill development,
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- and he still hasn't hit his destiny yet.
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- It's gonna take 22 years for him to hit chapter 50, okay?
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- And he's gonna get a major break after 13 years,
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- and the total thing is 22 years, so chill.
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- The third part of the pattern of detours, temptation.
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- There was a test, there was training,
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- and now there's temptation.
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- Temptation is solicitation to do evil.
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- It is solicitation to disobey God,
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- it's being solicited to disobey God.
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- Okay, let's get his straight, temptation is not sin.
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- The Bible says that the Spirit of God,
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- Matthew 4, led Jesus into the wilderness to be tempted
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- of the devil, yet the Bible says Jesus was without sin.
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- So, being tempted is not equal to sinning.
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- Sinning is yielding to the temptation,
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- not having the temptation, okay?
- 00:16:55.773 --> 00:16:58.109
- Every--we all face temptations, okay,
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- that's not a sin, it's the yielding that makes it sin.
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- So, the Lord is with Joseph, the Lord sent him
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- to Pharaoh's house, and he runs into Mrs. Potiphar.
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- We're told in the end of verse 6,
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- "Now Joseph was handsome in form and appearance.
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- It came about after these events that his master's wife looked
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- with desire at Joseph," verse 7 says,
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- "and said, 'Lie with me.'"
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- This is not a subtle sister. Sister is getting to the point.
- 00:17:30.808 --> 00:17:37.715
- "Come on, Joe, let's knock some boots."
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- [congregation laughing]
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- But verse 8 says, "He refused and said to his master's wife,
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- 'Behold, with me here, my master does not concern himself
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- with anything in the house, and he has put all things
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- that he owns in my charge.'"
- 00:18:07.078 --> 00:18:09.580
- And now he gives the zinger.
- 00:18:09.580 --> 00:18:11.482
- "There is no one greater in this house than I,
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- and he has withheld nothing from me except you,
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- because you are his wife.
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- How then could I do this great evil and sin against God?"
- 00:18:19.991 --> 00:18:27.031
- He has now been solicited by Mrs. Potiphar.
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- He's been solicited for a sexual relationship.
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- She's come right out and said it.
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- Verse 10 says, "And she came to him day after day."
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- So, she not gonna leave him alone.
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- And there's no place he can go, 'cause he works there.
- 00:18:49.153 --> 00:18:53.958
- But Joseph says, "No," and there are two reasons we say no
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- to temptation when we do.
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- One is fear of consequences, that's the negative reason.
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- We don't want the reprisal that could take place,
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- and so the negative reason is, even if I wanna do it,
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- I won't do it, 'cause I don't want the consequences of having
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- done it, so the fear of consequences.
- 00:19:14.445 --> 00:19:20.017
- Joseph knew that everything had been placed under his hand,
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- and he knew that is being--that could be jeopardized here.
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- But then he gives the positive reason and the dominant reason,
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- he gives it at the end of verse 9, he says,
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- "How then could I do this great evil and sin against God?"
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- Here it is, and we all need to learn this principle.
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- The reason we sin more is because we love God less.
- 00:19:53.384 --> 00:19:58.122
- People who love God hate sin and hurt when they do it.
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- People who don't love God get over the hump.
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- Joseph didn't sin because he valued his relationship.
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- He did not want to displease God,
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- he did not want to unravel the God who had brought him
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- to this place of blessing, even as a slave.
- 00:20:25.349 --> 00:20:31.289
- And one of the reasons God allows detours is to become
- 00:20:31.289 --> 00:20:35.459
- extended is development has not occurred enough for us to choose
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- him over the most enticing things in our lives.
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- It is when we choose him over the most enticing things
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- in our lives, and I'm talking about sinful things,
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- when we choose him, it shows that we've grown in our love
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- for him.
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- Even the thing that calls our name the most.
- 00:21:00.785 --> 00:21:05.289
- "Abraham, give me your son Isaac,
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- the one you love the most."
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- That's not easy, that's not hard,
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- he's gotta say no every single day,
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- and so if you are in this situation of a temptation,
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- the thing is to cultivate this relationship with God so that
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- you love him more so that you hate that more,
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- even if it's something that is appealing.
- 00:21:28.746 --> 00:21:36.487
- Well, she accuses him of rape.
- 00:21:36.487 --> 00:21:42.293
- It happened, verse 11, "That he went into the house.
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- None of the men were there.
- 00:21:45.563 --> 00:21:47.198
- She caught him by the garment," verse 12,
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- "She caught him by the garment, saying,
- 00:21:49.200 --> 00:21:51.035
- 'Lie with me,' and he left his garment in her hand
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- and fled and went outside.
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- And when she saw he had left his garment in her hand and had fled
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- outside, she called to the men of the household and said,
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- 'See, he brought this Hebrew to make sport of me.
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- He came in, I screamed, and he left his garment.'"
- 00:22:06.217 --> 00:22:11.522
- Now, here's the situation.
- 00:22:11.522 --> 00:22:15.259
- He's in a no win deal.
- 00:22:15.259 --> 00:22:17.728
- He can't win this one.
- 00:22:17.728 --> 00:22:19.830
- He's been accused of rape, nobody saw it,
- 00:22:19.830 --> 00:22:22.933
- and she got the material in her hand to prove it,
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- and she the boss's wife.
- 00:22:26.637 --> 00:22:29.807
- He can't win this one.
- 00:22:29.807 --> 00:22:34.178
- Anybody in here ever had anybody lie on you?
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- And they win, the lie wins, 'cause nothing you can say
- 00:22:39.650 --> 00:22:44.922
- can get you out of this one, no appeal you can make,
- 00:22:44.922 --> 00:22:48.859
- 'cause she's got the evidence even though she's the liar.
- 00:22:48.859 --> 00:22:53.097
- She can prove that you tried to rape me.
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- I can prove it.
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- Her husband comes home, and when her husband comes home,
- 00:22:57.802 --> 00:23:01.806
- she speaks to him, verse 17, "Then she spoke to him
- 00:23:01.806 --> 00:23:06.610
- with these words, 'The Hebrew slave who you brought
- 00:23:06.610 --> 00:23:10.548
- to us came into me and made sport of me,
- 00:23:10.548 --> 00:23:12.316
- and I raised my voice and screamed.
- 00:23:12.316 --> 00:23:14.351
- He left his garment beside me and fled outside.'
- 00:23:14.351 --> 00:23:18.923
- Now, when his master heard these words from his wife when she
- 00:23:18.923 --> 00:23:22.259
- spoke to him, saying, 'This is what your slave did to me,'
- 00:23:22.259 --> 00:23:26.130
- his anger burned, so Joseph's master took him
- 00:23:26.130 --> 00:23:29.500
- and put him in jail."
- 00:23:29.500 --> 00:23:31.569
- That's called a pink slip.
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- He's fired, and he's been the best thing going.
- 00:23:35.406 --> 00:23:41.979
- But remember, Joe is on a detour.
- 00:23:41.979 --> 00:23:46.383
- He's on a detour to destiny, and detours involve
- 00:23:46.383 --> 00:23:49.987
- negative experiences that God either creates
- 00:23:49.987 --> 00:23:53.090
- or lets somebody else create.
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- Therefore, don't mistake the hand of God
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- for the hand of man, 'cause God was letting the lie of a woman
- 00:24:01.332 --> 00:24:04.368
- move Joseph to the next layer of his destiny.
- 00:24:04.368 --> 00:24:08.706
- And that's why you gonna learn, I think,
- 00:24:08.706 --> 00:24:11.141
- in the fourth message leading up to the "Destiny" series
- 00:24:11.141 --> 00:24:12.910
- why forgiveness is critical to you realizing your destiny,
- 00:24:12.910 --> 00:24:18.282
- 'cause God will use evil to get you there.
- 00:24:18.282 --> 00:24:28.225
- So, you're on a road, you're on a turn,
- 00:24:28.225 --> 00:24:30.427
- or you will be.
- 00:24:30.427 --> 00:24:32.963
- That's cause God loves you enough to take you somewhere
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- and develop you till you get there.
- 00:24:35.266 --> 00:24:37.768
- You can prolong the--you can prolong the detour,
- 00:24:37.768 --> 00:24:41.372
- but you don't have to prolong it if you will draw near to him
- 00:24:41.372 --> 00:24:45.876
- in the midst of it, say no to that which breaks his heart
- 00:24:45.876 --> 00:24:48.646
- and yes to that which brings his heart joy,
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- confess any failure you had yesterday.
- 00:24:51.649 --> 00:24:54.485
- You can't change yesterday, but if you start today,
- 00:24:54.485 --> 00:24:57.922
- you can move toward a better tomorrow
- 00:24:57.922 --> 00:25:00.658
- 'cause you're still here.
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- ♪♪♪
- 00:25:02.159 --> 00:25:07.865
- Tony: When God brings us to detours,
- 00:25:07.865 --> 00:25:10.167
- he's bringing us into a place of development.
- 00:25:10.167 --> 00:25:14.872
- He's creating or allowing a trial in order to train us
- 00:25:14.872 --> 00:25:21.745
- to trust him.
- 00:25:21.745 --> 00:25:24.381
- Because of the uncertainty and the unexpected nature
- 00:25:24.381 --> 00:25:27.685
- of detours, do we trust him when we can't see him
- 00:25:27.685 --> 00:25:31.722
- or feel him simply because we're operating on his Word?
- 00:25:31.722 --> 00:25:37.261
- That training includes even temptations.
- 00:25:37.261 --> 00:25:41.632
- He even will allow the devil to try to draw us from him
- 00:25:41.632 --> 00:25:45.002
- to see how serious we are about our commitment to him.
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- So, when you're on a detour knowing that you're taking
- 00:25:50.074 --> 00:25:52.743
- a test and now it's time to pass it so you can go
- 00:25:52.743 --> 00:25:57.314
- to the next spiritual level of growth.
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- ♪♪♪
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- ♪♪♪
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- Tony: I'm standing here in Alaska,
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- one of the most glorious places in God's great creation,
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- and I wanna invite you to join me and our
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- We're going to enjoy great fellowship,
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- great fun, great food, and I'm looking forward to meeting
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