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A Closer Look At Exodus 1:1-7, Increasing In The Land
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Feb 20, 2025
All the generation that moved to Egypt because of the famine died off, Joseph included. And their numbers was 70. But they kept the mandate of God. Just as Adam and Eve were told to multiply and increase, the people of Israel kept the commandment of the Lord to multiply and increase in numbers. God had already told Abraham that the people were going to live in a foreign land that wasn’t theirs for 400 years. I’m sure that those words were passed down from generation to generation; so they knew that they were going to be in the land for that long, and they probably kept recalling the words and promises of the Lord in Egypt in order to keep them from despairing. We'll be taking a closer look at Exodus 1:1-7 today, see video above Scripture References: Exodus 1:1-7 Genesis 15:13-16 Genesis 45:16-23 Genesis 46:1-4 Genesis 46:33-34 Genesis 47:5-6 Genesis 50:22-26
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hello good morning this is tae-hee Bach
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is calm and today we're going to be
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diving into the book of Exodus we're
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gonna start off with chapter 1 but
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before we do that we need to kind of set
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the background before we actually get
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into the study so let me go into my
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slide and you can follow on my screen
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and then we're gonna get to exactly what
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I wanted to say here in the beginning
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now in the background this is important
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to know the background now if you
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remember in Genesis 15 God tells Abraham
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and I'm gonna read off the screen then
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the Lord said to Abram know for certain
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that your offspring will be sojourners
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in a land that is not theirs and it will
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be servant there and they will be
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afflicted for 400 years but I will bring
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judgment on the nation that they serve
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and afterward they shall come out with
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great preparations as for you you shall
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go to your fathers in peace you shall be
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buried in a good old age and they shall
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come back here in the 4th generation for
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the iniquity of the amorite is not yet
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complete now this is the promise God
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gives to Abraham he tells them exactly
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what's gonna happen this is what I love
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about Scripture like the prophetic word
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of God God already knows what's gonna
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happen because he's eternal he knows was
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in past present and future he is eternal
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so this is exactly wise is a law of when
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people ask questions about how do you
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know this is the Word of God one of the
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best things to sell people is their
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internal evidence which is the biblical
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prophecies ok history is embedded in the
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scripture God tells Abraham what is
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gonna happen and he does happen so let's
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move on from there now here's the thing
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now the people of Israel they go to
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Egypt and then once the generation moved
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to Egypt because of the famine that they
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died off like all the people that went
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there and
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I'm talking about Joseph's entire family
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their numbers were 70 they all died
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Joseph included but the people that went
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there they had keys and then they had
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grain keys and all that kind of stuff so
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they kept demanded of God just as Adam
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and Eve were told to multiply and
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increase in numbers the people of Israel
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they kept the commandment to multiply
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increase in numbers this is a mandate
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from God so and God already told Abraham
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that if people were going to leave in a
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foreign land that wasn't there for 400
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years so I'm sure like those words were
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passed down from generation to
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generation through oral history so they
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knew that they were going to be there
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for a long time so they probably kept
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recalling the words and the promises of
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the Lord in Egypt in order to keep them
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from despairing okay so now this is the
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background
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let me read Exodus 1 verse 1 to 7 and
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we're gonna dissect a little bit about
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it okay we're gonna talk about a couple
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of things so that's let's exit here and
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let's go back there now I'm reading from
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the ESV so chapter 1 verse 1 to 7 these
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are the names of the sons of Israel who
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came to Egypt with Jacob each with his
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household Reuben Simeon Levi Judah
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Issachar Zebulun and Benjamin and then
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you have Dan and Naphtali GAD and Asher
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all the descendants of Jacob were 70
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persons Joseph was already in Egypt and
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we know how he got there then Joseph
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died and all his brothers and all that
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generation they also died but the people
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of Israel were fruitful and increased
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greatly they multiplied and grew
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exceedingly strong so that the land was
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filled with them okay so we see what's
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going on here right so we already talked
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about the background so the question is
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this what kept the people of Israel so
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strong and grounded
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so first thing is this we need to look
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at all the favor
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the first wave of Israelite received in
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Egypt while Joseph was still Prime
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Minister we need to talk about how they
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were received in Egypt okay now in
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Genesis 45 verse 16 to 23 I can read off
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my screen and you follow with me when
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the report was heard in Pharaoh's house
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Joseph's brothers have come it pleased
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Pharaoh and his servants and Pharaoh
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said to Joseph say to your brothers do
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this load your beasts and go back to the
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land of Canaan and take your father and
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your household and come to me and I will
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give you the best of the land of Egypt
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and you shall eat the fat of the land
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and you Joseph are commanded to say to
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this take wagons from the land of Egypt
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for your little ones and for your wives
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and bring your father and come have no
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concern for your goods for the best of
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all the land of Egypt is yours the sons
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of Israel did so and Joseph give give
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them wagon according to the command of
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Pharaoh and give them provisions for the
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journey to each and all of them he gave
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a change of clothes but to Benjamin he
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gave three hundred shekels of silver and
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five changes of clothes to his father he
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sent as follows 10 donkeys loaded with
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good things of Egypt and ten female
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donkeys loaded with grain bread and
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provision for his father on the journey
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then he sent his brothers away and our
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stay departed he said to them do not
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quarrel on the way because you know how
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daddy's with those brothers you know how
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they are and let's also look at the
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promises God made to Israel formerly
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known as Jacob as he took his entire
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family enroute to Egypt this isn't
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Genesis 46 verse 104 he says so Israel
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this referring to Jacob took his journey
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and with all that he had and came to
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Beersheba and offered sacrifices to the
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god of his father Isaac and God spoke to
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Israel in visions of the night and said
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Jacob Jacob
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and he said Here I am and then he said I
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am God the god of your father do not be
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afraid to go down to Egypt for there I
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will make you into a great nation I
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myself keep that in mind I will make you
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into a great nation I myself will go
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down with you in Egypt and I will also
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bring you up again and Joseph's hand
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shall close your eyes okay and let's
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also look at where the Israelite is
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settled when they went to Egypt we're
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gonna read of it we're gonna read about
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it in Genesis 46 verse 33 and 34 and
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Genesis 47 verse 5 to 6 when Pharaoh
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calls you and says this is Joseph
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speaking to his brothers what is your
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occupation you shall say your servants
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have been keepers of livestock from our
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youth even until now both we and our
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fathers in order that you may dwell in
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the land of Goshen for every Shepherd is
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an abomination to the Egyptian you right
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away we already see like seeds of
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prejudice and kind of oppression the
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Egyptians kind of look down on anybody
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that was a shepherd you can read it here
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for every Shepherd is an abomination to
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the Egyptians so they didn't want to
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mingle with the Shepherd dummy the
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Egyptians at the same time this was a
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good thing for the people of Israel
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because guess what they needed to
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preserve their relationship with God so
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living together with the Egyptian could
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have caused a little bit of problems
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so Joseph foresaw that and he said look
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we're gonna live in a land of Goshen
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let's move on then Pharaoh's say to
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Joseph your father and your brothers
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have come to you the land of Egypt is
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before you settle your father and your
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brothers in the best of a land let them
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settle in the land of Goshen and if you
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know any able man among them put them in
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charge of my livestock so you see that
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they enjoying a lot of favor this is the
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first wave now we also less let's also
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read Joseph's address to his brothers
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before he dies this is in Genesis 50
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verse 22 to 26 so what did Joseph know
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so Joseph remained
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Egypt he and his father's house Joseph
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lived a hundred and ten years and Joseph
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saw Ephraim's children of the third
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generation the children of also of makyo
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the son of Manasseh we're counted as
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Joseph's own and Joseph said to his
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brothers I'm about to die what God will
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visit you and bring you up out of this
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land to the land that he swore to
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Abraham Isaac and Jacob then Joseph made
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the sons of Israel swear saying God will
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surely visit you again he's reminding
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them some point God would come back and
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take you out of here dad will surely
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visit you and you shall carry up my
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bones from here basically is telling
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them even though I live in Egypt my
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citizenship is not in Egypt I'm a
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citizen of heaven so he's basically
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telling them look I live here but I
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don't make this place my own place
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because I know where I'm from I am from
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heaven because this is my destination
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I'm a child of God so like I said in my
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commentary it shows us that Joseph knew
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about the promise of God to Abraham God
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told Abraham your descendants are gonna
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be in the lane for four hundred years
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and they will be slaved there but I'll
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come and rescue them so Joseph knew
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about that so he therefore a knew before
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he passed that someday as God a decreed
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it there will be a new president in
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Egypt that was going to mistreat the
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children of Israel but Joseph also knew
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the sovereignty of God for he had
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experienced it through the treachery of
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his brothers remember the solemn has
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left Egypt so he went there so he
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understood being mistreated okay so with
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all this data given to them the people
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of Israel were thriving in Egypt because
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they were told about a good hand of the
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Lord and his promises upon them so they
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were afflicted let's not take that away
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they were struggling just like Joseph
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was in Egypt I mean he went to party
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first house was there like a slave then
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they won he was thrown in jail still
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struggling he was sold by his brothers
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so he suffered but in all this God was
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sovereign God's hand was upon him
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even though he was going through the
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suffering there was still the good
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Providence of the Lord and the good hand
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of the Lord was upon him and he'd never
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lost hope I'm sure there were time with
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Joseph questioned whether he was ever
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gonna get out of that but he also moved
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Providence of God he also knew the good
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hand of the Lord was upon him so that
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kept him from despairing and this is the
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same thing now the people of Israel were
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going through like through in Egypt they
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were in the land as servants they were
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shepherd they were looked down upon but
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at the same time God hand was upon them
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because they multiplied greatly they
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didn't allow what they were going
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through to keep their eyes away from
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God's hands upon them so there was
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almost like yes we are struggling but we
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know that God had said somewhere in
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Scripture that we will be here for 400
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years but at some point he will rescue
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us and I kept him from being from living
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in despair they kind of knew that God
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has it was upon us so no matter what
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happened we know that we will prosper
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now the prosperity that they are talking
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about his nunna prosperity from having
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no problems at all he's just known that
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God is with you in the midst of your own
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difficulty and that keeps you from
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totally just shutting down this is why
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scripture says they were increasing and
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growing strong in a lane so they were
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still struggling but they were growing
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strong because their eyes was focused on
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the Lord Himself okay but then a lot of
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things changed because sometimes even if
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you are slave and you're going through
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all this there are some things that just
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get too hard and it gets to the point
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where you can't take it anymore and
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that's what happened in the beginning of
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verse 8 I'm gonna read verse 8 and I'm
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gonna invite you to look forward to the
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next study now scripture says in verse 8
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now there are rules a new king of over
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Egypt who did not know Joseph
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okay trouble begins this is where
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trouble begins and we're gonna stop here
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today and we're gonna talk about our
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next time so for now I just want you to
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keep your eyes on what we are told here
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the people of Israel in Egypt okay this
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is the land that God told Abraham they
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were gonna be there and they're gonna be
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there for 400 years and they were gonna
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be mistreated they were gonna be
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afflicted now the affliction wasn't it
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was it was it was hard hard for them to
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live in a place like this because he
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wasn't their own lane but God told them
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I'm gonna come and I'm gonna rescue you
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so that had that had to have been like
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passed down from generation to
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generation that God gave us a promise
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guys let's not lose hope he said he will
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come and rescue and I know that through
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it all
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sometimes they probably went and they
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were they were doubting like is he ever
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gonna happen now I know what you guys
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said but we are struggling does God see
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our problems does God recognize that we
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are struggling
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yes God is involved in every single
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aspect of our life he's not like distant
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he's not a God has removed from us
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scripture says somewhere
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he's an ever-present help in times of
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trouble so God is involved in the
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intricate part of our lives so when
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people say what is God in all this the
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same place where he was before the
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things happen he is always involved
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because he is sovereign and scripture
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says also says somewhere nothing not
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even a lift from from the tree prior to
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asking God for permission
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so I'm saying all this to say that do
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not lose hope even in the midst of the
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the most difficult affliction that
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you're going through if you're a child
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of God God's providence will see you
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through it and we're gonna pick up on
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verse 8 next time okay thank you and
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have a wonderful day