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- We all want a
ride or die brother,
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that kind of has our
back no matter what.
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But who actually has
a brother like that?
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Well, it turns out you do.
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Have you ever watched a movie
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with such an insane
twist at the end
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that it changes,
like, everything
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about what you just watched?
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Well, that's what the
day is going to be like.
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We're going back in
time to dive into the story
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of Joseph in Genesis.
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It's a crazy but true story
of backstabbing brothers,
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revenge, super weird dreams,
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and not one but two
jaw dropping plot twists
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that change everything.
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Through it all, we'll see
how Joseph actually holds
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the key to unlock our
understanding of Jesus
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and find our way
home to a brother
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who has our back no matter what.
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Hi. I'm Kyle.
This is Crossroads.
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And today we're unpacking
the story of Joseph in Genesis.
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It's a riches to rags
back to riches story
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so popular that it's been
made into a Broadway musical.
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But it's actually about you.
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It's also about
brothers behaving
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in the absolute worst
way to each other
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and ends with two
jaw dropping plot twists
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that no one saw coming.
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Well, except for now you,
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because I just told
you about them.
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One is inside the story
itself, and the other,
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it's going to completely
change how you see Genesis
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and the entire Old
Testament of the Bible.
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So who was Joseph?
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Well, he's the guy
both Jesus's stepdad
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and me are named after.
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Joseph is literally
my middle name.
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It's also my oldest
son's middle name
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and my dad's first name
and his dad's middle name
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and his dad's first
name and on and on
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back to the beginning of
history, you get the idea.
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But despite having his
name, I went decades
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before discovering the
true meaning and depth
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of the story of Joseph.
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And when I did, it turned
the Old Testament of the Bible
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from a sometimes boring
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and often unrelatable
history lesson
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into this breathtaking
and faith building
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accomplishment of
God, an actual miracle.
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And that turn started
when I finally understood
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the story of Joseph.
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See, the biblical
record of humanity
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up until the time of
the story of Joseph
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can be summed up very simply:
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It's brother against brother.
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First, Cain kills his
younger brother Abel,
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and then Abraham's
sons fight each other
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as Isaac against Ishmael.
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And then Isaac sons
fight each other too
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Jacob against Esau.
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And here we are again
now at the fourth generation
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of this same exact family,
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the same story
starts playing out
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brother against brother,
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more accurately,
brothers against brother.
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Why?
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Because Joseph was the
clear favorite in the family.
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Kind of like my little
brother Jeff in my family.
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Hey, Jeff.
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Come on, if we're honest, like,
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you drove a better
car in high school.
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You got braces.
I didn't get those.
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You even got better
clothes, like Joseph.
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Now, you've probably
heard that his father, Jacob,
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gave Joseph a fancy
coat of many colors.
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Well, it turns out probably not.
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See, the original language that
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the idea of many
colors comes from
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is more accurately
translated as ornate robe,
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which would have been
a robe with long sleeves.
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It was actually a
common thing to give
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that kind of robe to
only one of your sons.
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The reason is that one
boy was always given
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the role of foreman
over the others.
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And while the others
had to roll up their sleeves
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to do work, the foreman
got to leave his sleeves long.
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The thing is, that
honor and that job
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was supposed to
go to the oldest son,
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but Joseph actually
had ten older brothers,
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all of whom were super
pissed about being passed over.
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Let's pick up the
story in Genesis 37:
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Now, his brothers at this point
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are in their twenties
and their thirties,
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and have a 17 year old
little brother for a boss.
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Not a great start, right?
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But then it gets way
worse because Joseph has
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a divine dream
that basically says
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not only does his
father Jacob favor him,
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but God does, too.
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And for some reason,
Joseph thought it would be
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a great idea to tell
that to his brothers.
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Shockingly, it turned
out to be a bad idea,
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made his brothers so jealous
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that they literally
wanted to kill him.
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Thankfully, Reuben,
the oldest brother,
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was thinking that
might be taking it
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a little bit too far.
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And so he persuades
them to throw Joseph
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into a deep, dark
water cistern instead.
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Now, today, if you
go to the Middle East,
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you can still see
these ancient cisterns
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way out in the countryside.
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They're like these little
small holes in the ground
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that open in these big,
large underground caverns
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that are full of water.
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And also, as the
locals will tell you,
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they're also full of snakes.
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So, not like the
greatest place to be.
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Now, after some time
passed with Joseph
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down in the snake
infested darkness,
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the brothers see
these slave traders
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off in the distance
heading to Egypt.
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And they decide to
sell Joseph to them.
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And then they take his coat,
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pour animal blood all
over it so that their father
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would think Joseph
had been attacked
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and dragged off by wild animals.
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You know, they're thinking
like, problem solved.
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No more annoying,
little brother. Done.
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So, Jeff, you got a better car,
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you got the braces,
get better clothes.
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But I think I deserve
a little bit of credit
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because I chose not to
follow the biblical playbook
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on how to treat
your little brother
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and I never once,
never, not even one time
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threw you into a snake pit
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and then sold you
to slave traders, did I?
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I could have, because
that would have been biblical,
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just over here doing
what the Bible says.
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See, unfortunately,
Joseph didn't have
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an awesome brother like me.
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See, from there he
would actually endure
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13 years as a
slave and a prisoner.
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But it's in the lowest
moments of his life that
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Joseph starts to
stand completely apart
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from everyone else who gets
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a lengthy biography
in the Bible.
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See, Joseph acts
righteously all the way through.
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That just means he had
right standing with God.
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He did the things that
God wanted him to do.
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But every other
major biblical character
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who gets the full treatment
makes obvious mistakes.
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Like Noah gets super drunk.
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Abraham basically treats
his wife like a prostitute.
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King David kills a guy
and then steals his wife.
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That's pretty bad.
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Moses He screws up so badly,
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he doesn't even get
into the promised land.
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But not Joseph, he
was a righteous man.
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See, he's so trustworthy
that the warden actually
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put Joseph in charge
of all the other prisoners.
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Joseph's goal, it seemed to be
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to serve other
people above himself.
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And then, after 13 long
years of being a slave
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and a prisoner, when
he was 30 years old,
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Pharaoh had a dream that
no one else could interpret,
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except for Joseph.
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Now, the dream was
about this coming famine.
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And Joseph's
interpretation provided
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the blueprint to save Egypt.
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Pharaoh was so grateful
that he set Joseph
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over his entire kingdom.
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Genesis 41 says:
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Pharaoh's like, "Hey,
you get my palace.
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You get the sweet view
of the pyramids being built.
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I don't know. It's awesome.
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Get to drink Egyptian margaritas
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and look over
everything. It's incredible."
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But I want you to make
sure you don't miss this.
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Joseph's brothers' sin threw
him down into the darkness,
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but Joseph rose from there
and inherited a kingdom.
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And then the first
plot twist happens.
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Those same brothers show
up in front of Joseph in need,
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but they have no clue it's him.
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He's older. He's
filled out a little bit.
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Maybe he's got one of those
sweet Egyptian goatee things
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like braided and square.
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Maybe those dope King
Tut hats, I don't know.
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The point is, he
looked way different
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from that skinny kid
they threw in the pit.
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A famine, which was
brought on by a drought
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in the Middle East
had ravaged their home.
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That's why they were
standing in front of him.
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They wanted to buy grain.
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But imagine being
Joseph in this moment.
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Your backstabbing brothers
who sold you into slavery
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are in the palm of your hand.
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What would you do?
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Well, Joseph chooses
to break the mold
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of every brother story
that came before him.
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See, rather than take
revenge on his brothers,
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he has compassion on them.
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Rather than execute
justice, he extends grace.
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Rather than send them away
empty handed, you know,
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go back to where you came from,
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he actually pulls up
chairs for them at his table.
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He forgives them.
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He even invites them
to come live with him.
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And then he gives
them the very best part
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of his entire kingdom.
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It's a super fertile
area called Goshen.
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Joseph says in Genesis 45:
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Their brother, the Lord of
the land, had their backs.
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Do you know who else
has a brother like that? You.
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Ready for the second plot twist?
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The story of Joseph
and his brothers
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is actually about you
and your brother Jesus.
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See, you and I are the
brothers who lose their way
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and Jesus is Joseph
welcoming us home.
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- Now, let's see
what that answer is.
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Kyle, tell me first.
- I'm not going to tell you.
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You've got to keep watching.
- Okay.
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- The question to ask
about the Old Testament
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of the Bible, which
includes Genesis,
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is to whom or
what is it testifying?
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On the surface, Genesis
appears to be a history book.
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It's many stories
about many people.
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And while Genesis
does contain many stories
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about many people,
the twist at the end is
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it turns out its primary purpose
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is to tell us one
story about one man.
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See, the Book of Genesis
is the Book of Jesus.
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And that's not my
idea, it's Jesus's.
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See, when He was talking
about how to read Scripture,
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specifically the five
books written by Moses,
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which start with
Genesis, Jesus said:
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Jesus was super
clear: the testament
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or the testimony is about Him.
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That means all the
stories in all the books
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that came before Jesus,
they were preserved
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explicitly and primarily
to tell us about Him.
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Every life is meant to
help us understand His life.
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Every story is meant to
help us understand His story.
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Every journey to
find and remake home
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is meant to help us find
and remake our home in Him.
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We miss that, it's
because we tend to treat
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Scripture the way
that we treat Google.
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It means we just basically
just read the books
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like any other biographies.
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We just look for life
application, tips and tricks,
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and habits to replicate,
mistakes to avoid.
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Please hear, there's nothing
inherently wrong with that.
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I've taught those
things in the past.
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I'm sure I will in the future.
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But there's a massive
problem if that's all we do.
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Because Jesus said
the story isn't there
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to tell us about the people
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and give us practical life tips.
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It's there to tell us about Him,
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and its purpose is
to tell us about Him
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in such a powerful way
that our faith is increased
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to the point that we believe
He must be the Messiah.
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Did you know that finding Jesus
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in the Old Testament
Scriptures is
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the most faith
building experience
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that you can possibly have?
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It's a more powerful
piece of evidence
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than Jesus himself
going on a walk with you.
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I know that sounds crazy,
but the Gospel of Luke
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actually records
this amazing story
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that happens right after
Jesus's resurrection.
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Before anybody had seen
Him, some of His followers
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who'd been with Him
only three days earlier,
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they were going on a walk
on a road called Emmaus.
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It went from Jerusalem to
this town called Emmaus.
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And Jesus actually shows up
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and just starts walking
with them, just starts going.
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Only get this, they
didn't recognize it's Him,
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which is crazy because
they had plenty of time.
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Some sources say that
Emmaus is seven miles
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from Jerusalem,
but that's actually
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an outdated understanding.
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It's really 17 miles away.
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See, Emmaus means hot spring.
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And 17 miles from
Jerusalem today you'll find
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these ruins of a Roman
bath built over a hot spring,
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which, I mean, human
moment here, right?
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If you spent three
days in the grave,
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wouldn't a spa be the first
place you'd want to go too?
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Right? I mean, it makes
sense why He's going there.
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But the point is, these
people had hours and hours
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of hiking with Jesus
to have the moment
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where they're
like, "Oh, it's you.
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I see you now, man. It's crazy."
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But they didn't. They didn't.
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Which actually appears
to piss off Jesus a little bit
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because He insults them.
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Jesus says this in Luke 24:
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And then shortly
after they sit down
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at a table with Jesus,
He takes bread and wine,
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He breaks it, He
hands it to them,
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and suddenly they see
Him, and then He's gone.
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And the Scripture actually
quotes them as saying:
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It doesn't say that
their quote was,
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"Dang, man, weren't
our hearts burning
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that whole time He was
walking right next to us?"
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No. It was the moment
that He explained
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how Scripture has been
about Him the entire time.
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They're so blown away,
they get up from the table,
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and immediately they ran
17 miles back to Jerusalem
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in their Birkenstocks
to tell everybody else.
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You ever been so excited
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about what you
read in the Bible that
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you just jumped up and
you started running 17 miles
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to a buddy's house
just to tell him?
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Me neither.
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The chances are there
are incredible insights
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waiting for you in Scripture
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if you'll give it a
shot and dig in.
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And I know that
can be intimidating,
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which is why we've
made this thing
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we're calling the
Bible Challenge
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and why we built
the Crossroads App,
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so that we can do it together.
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- Do you know
where you're going?
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To get different
results in life,
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you're going to have to
do some different things.
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And if you're up for
adventure this year,
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do the Bible Challenge with me.
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Read every day, get inspired,
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and see what others are saying.
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I believe the Bible
is more than a book
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that's meant to sit on a
shelf and just collect dust.
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It's meant to take
you somewhere in life.
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What about you?
Where are you going?
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Download the Crossroads App
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and do the Bible
Challenge today.
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- The Book of Genesis
is the Book of Jesus.
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It's not coincidences
and, oh, my gosh,
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those two things are
kind of the same. No.
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It is the story of Jesus.
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And when you read it that way,
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it actually increases
your understanding of Him.
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So He's actually
been in every episode
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of this series so far.
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He was in the story
of Abraham and Isaac.
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Remember how the
sacrifice that God provided
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to spare Isaac was a ram
with its head caught in thorns.
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It's the ram of God.
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Did you know that
Jesus is the ram of God
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which takes away
the sins of the world?
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Now the Bible
uses the word lamb.
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You might have heard it
that way, the lamb of God.
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But the lamb that was
sacrificed on Passover
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was actually a one
year old male sheep,
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a full grown and
powerful ram with horns.
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See, God provided a ram
in place of Abraham's son,
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a ram with his head
caught in thorns.
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A millennia later, God
provided a ram, Jesus,
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with his head caught in
thorns as a sacrifice for us.
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Jesus didn't walk to
the Cross powerless.
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He went to the Cross
full of power, a strong ram.
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We get that from
the story of Isaac.
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That's how we know it.
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It testifies to who Jesus
really is. He's all over it.
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He's in the story of Jacob.
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00:17:02
Jacob had a dream
and saw a ladder
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moving like an escalator
between earth and heaven
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with angels going up and down.
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And then centuries
later, Jesus says
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to this guy named
Nathaniel, "What will you think
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if you see angels ascending
and descending on Me?"
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In other words, Jesus
unlocks it for him,
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He says, "I'm the ladder.
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I'm the way between
heaven and earth."
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Jesus was even in
the story of creation
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as the Apostle John
would come to understand
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and write about Him.
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In the beginning was the Word,
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one of the names for Jesus.
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00:17:38
What would translate
as "word" from the Greek
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is the word "logos," which
means not just a word,
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but The Word or The Why.
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See, Jesus is The Why of God.
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He's all over the story.
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Jesus saw Himself
in every story.
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And if you read
Scripture like He read it,
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your faith in Jesus and
your understanding of Him
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will deepen and
become unshakable,
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because you'll see
just how unassailable
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the story of Jesus
really is, how the details
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of His life just improbably
and yet perfectly fit
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with the mold God
was carefully laying out
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millennia before He
was born. It's crazy.
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But of all the stories
about Jesus in Genesis,
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Joseph is the most
powerful and clear.
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Why?
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Because whether
we realize it or not,
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one of the deepest parts
of each of our journeys
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to find our way home is to stand
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in front of our brother.
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The story of Joseph
and his brothers
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is the story of you and
your brother, Jesus.
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Remember, my
family name is Joseph,
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but I'm not Joseph in the story.
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I'm the brothers in the story,
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and you are too.
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See we betray, we
injure, we sell out.
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But we have a brother, Jesus.
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And if you believe in
Jesus, He is your brother.
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Romans 8 says:
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Like Joseph, our brother
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was taken down into
darkness by our sin.
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And like Joseph,
He didn't stay there,
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but he rose from the
darkness to inherit a kingdom.
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And here's what I want you
to know more than anything.
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When you show up
before Him in His palace,
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He won't condemn you.
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He won't give you
what you deserve.
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00:19:39
Instead, you know what He'll do.
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He'll pull up a
chair at His table.
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He will lay out a
lavish spread for you
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and He will give you the
very best part of His Kingdom,
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not because you deserve it,
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but because you're His brother.
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But I just wonder
if you believe that.
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I know I haven't always,
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and sometimes I still
struggle to believe it.
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It feels so much
more believable that
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the perfect brother would
reject in imperfect me,
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for all the reasons that
I'm sure Joseph's brothers
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were terrified, like,
"Oh, my gosh, you know,
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like, I don't measure up."
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I haven't done the things
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I know Jesus
would want me to do.
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00:20:14
And honestly, I still don't.
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00:20:16
But you know what
I'm most afraid of
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when I imagine showing
up in front of Him,
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that scene playing
out in my actual life?
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You know, I'm most afraid of?
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It's not that He'd
be angry with me,
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it's that He'd be ashamed of me.
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00:20:29
You ever felt that way,
like Jesus is probably
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mostly just ashamed of
you, kind of embarrassed
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00:20:35
that you're His
brother? We all have.
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I have really good news.
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Do you know your
brother is like Joseph?
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He's not ashamed of you.
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00:20:46
Hebrews 2:11 says:
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You know Jesus
isn't ashamed of you.
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He's proud of you.
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00:21:01
He loves you even
though you've messed up
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00:21:04
and still will, because
you're His brother.
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00:21:07
Maybe up to this
point in your life
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all you've ever
done is curse Him.
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00:21:11
Maybe you've
actively told people,
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00:21:12
"I don't believe this
stuff. It's a bunch of crap."
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00:21:14
Maybe you've done
everything you know is wrong,
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00:21:16
up to this point you've
never done it right.
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00:21:18
It doesn't matter.
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00:21:21
You show up
before Him right now,
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00:21:23
He's going to
pull out His chair,
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He's going to say,
"Welcome home."
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How is that possible?
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00:21:30
It's because He's
already taken care of you.
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00:21:33
He's already covered you.
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00:21:35
He's already made you clean.
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00:21:37
John 15:3 says:
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And what word has
Jesus spoken to you?
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He said, "Welcome
home. You're loved here.
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00:21:50
You're safe here. I have
everything you need."
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00:21:54
Maybe you want to do
what Joseph's brothers did
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after Joseph told them he
was making a home for them.
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Genesis 45 says:
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Maybe right now you
want to just talk with Jesus.
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00:22:09
We're going to do this
song called Bloodline
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00:22:12
that talks about
how we are loved.
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00:22:16
Why? Because we're
in the bloodline of Jesus.
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00:24:14
- Just like you saw in a
Bible Challenge promo,
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you too can join
the Bible Challenge
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and it's really easy.
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You can download the
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and read each day
and journal each day.
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I'm in there. Kyle's in
there. We want you to join.
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- It's been phenomenal.
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00:24:27
Hey, look, there's so much more
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00:24:29
to the Book of Genesis
than we had time to get to,
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00:24:31
which is why we made
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It's completely free.
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Available at
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Get one.
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See you guys next
week on Crossroads.
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00:24:40
- I'm John. Nice to meet you.
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00:24:41
You may have heard of me.
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00:24:42
I'm kind of Jesus's
best friend. No big deal.
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00:24:45
Not really sure how I
ended up here in America.
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00:24:47
I've been seeing a lot of sites
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00:24:49
and it's different from Israel.
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00:24:51
And colder and worse.
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00:24:55
It's bad. It kind of
sucks. I'm sorry.
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00:24:57
You want to know about
Jesus, not me. Yeah. Classic.
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00:25:01
Oh, what am I
reading? This thing?
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00:25:02
Okay. Come to Crossroads
Church for the next series:
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00:25:07
Jesus, according to
his alleged best friend
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00:25:10
and hear all about
who Jesus was.
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00:25:13
Quick note, not alleged.
True. It's in the Bible.
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00:25:17
It doesn't matter who wrote it.
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00:25:19
[tone]
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00:25:20
- Let's just say Peter
wasn't the only disciple
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who could walk on water.
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00:25:27
Am I getting shekels
for this or what's up?