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A Closer Look At Exodus 1:8-10, Trouble Amplified
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Feb 20, 2025
This is a continuation of our study of the first chapter of the book of Exodus. Last week, we looked at v1-7, if you've missed that presentation, I'll invite you to visit the post below https://tayibs.com/2020/06/05/a-closer-look-at-exodus-11-7-increasing-in-the-land/ Today we'll look at v8-10, 8 Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. 9 And he said to his people, “Behold, the people of Israel are too many and too mighty for us. 10 Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and, if war breaks out, they join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land.” Be sure to watch the video above in its entirety Scripture References: Exodus 1:8-10 Genesis 47: 13-26 Genesis 46:31-34
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hello good morning this is Taibbi art is
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calm and today we're gonna pick up our
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study on the book of Exodus we started
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off on chapter one and we talked about
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verse 1 through 7 and we mentioned on
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the big migration how Jacob and all his
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sons seventy to get seventy all together
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they moved from the land of Canaan and
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they went to Egypt and to live in a land
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of Goshen so we talked about why they
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moved because there was a famine so
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everyone needed food and Joseph was
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prime minister so he called for his
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brothers and his entire family and he
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moved into the land of goshen so while
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they were living in Goshen they had
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children and the original generation all
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died off so Joseph died all his brothers
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died his dad died and all the initial
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and original generation died but they
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had children because as told
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to Adam and Eve God told Adam and Eve
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multiply in the landing increase so the
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Jews kept demanded so they kept on
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multiplying in the increase in the land
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and and then in Genesis 15 we talked
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about how and died at hole Abraham your
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descendants are gonna be in a land not
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theirs for 400 years and they're gonna
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be afflicted and we talked about how in
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spite of their affliction the people of
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Israel still thrived they were still
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multiplying they were still increasing
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because they remembered there are the
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promises of God and that kept him
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grounded but then sometimes even if and
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even though God is still with you
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trouble can amplify and that's what
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happened and that's what we're gonna
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pick up today we were gonna talk about
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verse 8 and 10 because there's a new
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president a new king that comes to power
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and he knows nothing but Joseph I mean
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he does nobody Joseph what I don't think
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he cares at all and that's what we're
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gonna pick up today okay let me read the
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verse and we're gonna get into
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understanding the details around it so
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this is Exodus 1 verse 8 to 10 now
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scripture says now there are rows a new
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king over Egypt who did not know Joseph
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and he said to his people behold the
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people of Israel are too many and too
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mighty for us come
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let us deal shrewdly with them lest they
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multiply and if war breaks out they join
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our enemies and fight against us and
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escape from the land now this is not
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good news for the people of Israel
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because here comes his king who
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basically cares nothing about what
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Joseph had done and Joseph did for the
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land of Egypt and he comes in and he
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says look we need to come up with a plan
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to get rid of these people to try to
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exploit them and this is what we're
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gonna be analyzing today so let's go to
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my slide and we're gonna read a couple
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of things here so again I say in verse
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eight this is what we are told this new
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president or King he might have heard
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about Joseph but he's a fraction to what
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shows of anything that Joseph had done
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was as good as dead
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he did not care so in the sense that he
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didn't care a bit about Joseph's
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achievement
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he showed contempt toward Joseph and his
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kindness toward Egypt like he didn't
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care about the fact that Joseph had done
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so much for the land of Egypt he did not
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care because Joseph had literally like
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saved the entire land what that meant
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absolutely nothing to this new president
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and that's probably because many years
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had passed and maybe Joseph's exploit
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and Joseph's achievement were not passed
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down from generations to generations
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things tend to die down as years go by
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like the guy goes well I heard but is
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Joseph's okay that's 400 years ago I
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don't care like this is kind of the
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attitude that he had this new president
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he heard about yourself and how Joseph
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had done all these things but to him he
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meant absolutely nothing he was like
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zero I don't care what yourself are done
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I heard about his Joseph look give me a
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break that's kind of like how he
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approached this new situation so first
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let's read about what Joseph did in the
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land of Egypt for the Egyptians and all
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the people all together so let's let's
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find that out we're gonna read on
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Genesis 47 and we're gonna read like a
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couple of key things here like in
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Genesis 47 from verse 13 to 26 this is
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what we are told now there was no food
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in all the land
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that's the land of Egypt
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for the famine was very severe so that
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the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan
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languished by reason of the famine and
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Joseph gathered up all the money that
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was found in the land of Egypt and in
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the land of Canaan in exchange for the
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grain that they bought and Joseph
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brought the money into Pharaoh's house
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and when the money was all spent in the
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land of Egypt in the land of Canaan all
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the Egyptians came to Joseph and said
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give us food why should we die before
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your eyes for our money's gone and
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Joseph Ezard gives your livestock and
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I'll give you food in exchange for your
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livestock if your money is gone so they
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brought their livestock to Joseph and
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Joseph give them food in exchange for
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the horses the flocks and herds and the
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donkeys he supplied them with food in
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exchange for all their livestock that
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year and when the idea was ended they
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came to him the following year and said
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to him we will not hide from our Lord
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that our money is all spent the herds of
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livestock are my Lords there is nothing
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left in the sight of my lord but our
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bodies in our land why should we die
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before your eyes both we and our land
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bias bias and our land for food and we
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if our land will be servants to Pharaoh
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and give us seed that we may live and
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not die and that the land may not be
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desolate so Joseph bought all the land
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for of Egypt for Pharaoh for all the
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Egyptians sold their fields because the
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famine was severe on them the land
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became pharaoh's as for the people he
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made servants of them from one end of
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Egypt to the other only the land of the
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priests he did not buy for the priests
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had fixed allowance from Pharaoh and
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lived on the allowance that Pharaoh gave
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them therefore they did not sell their
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land then Joseph said to the people
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behold I have this day brought you and
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your land for Pharaoh now he a seed for
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you and you shall sow the land and at
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the harvest you shall give a faith to
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Pharaoh and four-fifths shall be your
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own a seed for the field and as food for
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yourself and your household and as food
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for your little ones
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and they said you have saved our lives
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meet please my lord we will be servants
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to Pharaoh
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so Joseph made it they started concern
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in the land of Egypt and he stands to
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this day that Pharaoh shall have the
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faith the land of the priests alone did
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not become Pharaoh's now you can see
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from here what Joseph's are done like
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this guy was one of the greatest
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administrator to live in the land of
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Egypt he organized the land and while
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everybody else was lacking in food he
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preserved a land from total destruction
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and as people came he provided them with
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food
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he gave them what they needed in
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exchange for their money their lands and
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all that he gave to Pharaoh so basically
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he saved Pharaoh's kingdom by giving him
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everything so Pharaoh became even more
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powerful than he was before
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so Joseph Dunn did all this and guess
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what
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let's go back to the slide what do we
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find out this King the new King cares
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nothing about what Joseph had done for
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him like he doesn't understand her if
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you have what you have today is because
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of what Joseph had done and that meant
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little to nothing to this new king well
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now we need to ask ourself a question
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what was the new king fearing so much
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and verse 10 gives us the answer here's
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the thing like he liked the blessings
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the Israelite were giving him but he
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didn't like the favour they were under
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he understood look these people are here
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and they are serving us so I like that
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but I don't like this whole joseph's
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thing like just because joseph did all
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this i don't want them to get this favor
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you understand us so he began to get
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really annoyed he liked the benefit they
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were given but he didn't like the fact
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that they had a favor like Joseph's name
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was attached to everything you didn't
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like that you liked what they were doing
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to him and do for him but he didn't like
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the fact that Joseph was attached to
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this thing so he also what was the thing
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that he was feeling that the Israel like
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they lived in the land of caution but
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they were increasing in numbers and he
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calls the new king a lot of fears you
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have these people that you are basically
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like
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they are like your servants where they
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are increasing in number so he's always
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thinking there might be an insurrection
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someday there might be a revolt
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there might be something so he's always
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thinking we need to monitor these people
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we need to find a way to keep them under
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control so this is his fear
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so his fear was that he will they will
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eventually like leave the land and what
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will become of all the benefits they
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provided so his fear was like look these
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people are helping me here I like what
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they are doing but they are increasing
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in numbers and I don't like that we need
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to keep that number under control we
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need to kind of press them down yes they
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are increasing yes they are doing all
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this for us but I'm fearing the fact
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that one day if we have somebody that
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war against us they might join our
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enemies and leave the lane so I don't
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like that so I have to find a plan to
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control their minds to oppress them to
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keep them under my thumb and this is why
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he was thinking okay so he was fearing
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those those things so let's go to verse
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9 and 10 so we need to find out where
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the Jews were living and why is that
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important for us to understand let me
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move my thing here now Joseph
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strategically placed the Israelite in
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the land of goshen to prevent them from
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being abused by the Egyptians since they
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hated a shepherd like if you'll read in
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Genesis 46 31 to 34
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we are told something let's read that
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then Joseph said to his brother sent to
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his father's household I will go up and
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speak to Pharaoh and I will say to him
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my brothers and my father's household
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who were living in the land of Canaan
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have come to me the man our Shepherd
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they stained livestock and they have
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brought along their flocks and herds and
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everything they owned when Pharaoh calls
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me in and asks what is your occupation
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you should answer your servants have
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tended livestock from our boyhood on
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just as our fathers did then you'll be
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allowed to settle in the region of
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Goshen for all Shepherds are detestable
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to the Egyptians so basically the
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Egyptians they look down on Shepherd I
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thought they were less than there are
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less than anything they dig basically
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thought shepherd were disgusting that
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they couldn't mingle with it with a
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shepherd so
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Joseph said look I don't want you guys
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to suffer this kind of abuse because I
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know how mental abuse and physical abuse
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and this kind of stuff can weigh down on
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you so I'm gonna preserve you and I'm
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gonna make you I'm gonna allow you to
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live in a land of goshen so Joseph
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wasn't being he was being strategic he
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understood look if I left if I leave in
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our Lama people my brothers the Israel
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to live with Egyptian they're gonna be
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so mistreated Dada I don't want that so
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I'm gonna allow them to leave the land
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of goshen so they can pan out that's not
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the only reason there's also one other
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thing like Egyptian believed in many
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gods
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so Joseph is thinking if I'll let these
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people mingle with this Egyptians
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they're gonna get polluted because
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they're gonna start to mingle and there
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they are religion and and what they
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believe is gonna start to spread within
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my people and I don't want that I want
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to preserve the integrity of that they
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are love for Yahweh so Joseph understood
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that there could be repercussions so he
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said to to to to Pharaoh will you allow
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my people to live in the land of caution
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they are Shepherd and I know you
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Egyptians don't like Shepherds so please
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just let them live here for the sake of
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preserving my people from being abused
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but also I'm thinking for the sake of
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preserving them from embrace and all
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these other gods so you understand he
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had like spiritual implications because
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Joseph was smart enough to understand
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that if our loudest people because if I
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allowed him to leave with the Egyptian
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there might be idolatry and Joseph
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wasn't gonna allow that to happen so he
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said let my people live in the land of
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cush and yes they can come in in a
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minger with you but they're gonna go
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back to where they belong and this is
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their the mindset of Joseph behind all
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that let's go to the to the next
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actually this is the last life so
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basically we understand what is going on
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in this case here the new king cares
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nothing about yourself he wants the
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benefit that he gets from the people of
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Israel but he doesn't like them and it
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sounds like you can you can think of it
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and stretch it a little more like you
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think about slavery the slaves were
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taken from like African countries and
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they were taken against their will
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to another land right
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now the oppressor who's the master loved
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the fact that his slave is working for
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them by the same time he's trying to
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oppress them keep them from panning out
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like the slaves were like the the
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Israelite where were expanding he didn't
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like that he liked the benefit they
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provided but he didn't like the fact
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that they were expanding because that
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was fear like if these people are
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getting bigger and bigger and we are
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flicking them with all his works
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chances are someday they're gonna revolt
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and he did not like that so he tried to
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find ways to oppress them and this is
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what we're gonna look at on the next on
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our next session
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what plains Pharaoh comes up with and
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how evil he was so we're gonna learn
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about that in the next session but for
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now we understand that God's hand were
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still on the people of Israel because in
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spite of their affliction that they were
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under they were still growing and as a
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result Pharaoh got scared and he devised
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a devious plan and that's what we're
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gonna look to next week so I invite you
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to to look forward to that okay thank
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you again and have a wonderful day