Peace In The Plot Armor // Missing Peace (Part 5) // Pastor Tim Ross

Welcome to Transformation Church Podcast, where we represent God to

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God will transform your life. Do today's message?

Would you stand to your feet for the reading of

God's Word. We have been in a series called The

Missing Piece. This is week five of six and we

have been talking every week about what happens when you

get your peace back. What happens to your nervous system,

what happens to your mind, what happens to your relationships

when you actually have the shalom that Jesus promised he

would give us in the Gospel, according to Saint John,

chapter number fourteen, verse number twenty seven, Shalom I leave

with you. Shalom might give you, but not as the

world gives, which strongly implies that the world does have

a version of peace, but it's an imitation. It doesn't last.

He says, but not as the world gives. So neither

be thou troubled or afraid. He was literally saying, I'm

not giving you something that gives you chill bumps on Sunday.

I'm giving you something that regulates your nervous system on

Sunday night Monday morning in traffic. When you get to

work fulu with them bosses on your job and them coworkers,

family members. You can have a regulated nervous system. You

get to have your emotions. Your emotions don't get to

have you. And today I draw your attention to just

three verses in the Book of Genesis, because time does

not afford me to read twelve chapters. I would love

to do it in like a Bible study setting, but

I won't be able to do it here. So I

draw your attention to three verses. The first two are

in the Book of Genesis, chapter number forty five, Verses

seven and eight. Here's what the Word of the Lord says.

But God sent me ahead of you.

I feel, ooh, the storyteller in me is just having

fits because I have to. I have to insert you

into a narrative that has been developing since Genesis thirty seven.

And here I have the audacity to drop you into

chapter forty five. But I'll come back and give you

some context. But this is what Joseph says to his brothers.

But God sent me ahead of you, you to ensure

a remnant in the land and to keep you alive

for a great escape. So now it wasn't you. You

didn't send me here, but God, and he made me

as a father to Pharaoh, lord over his whole house,

and ruler over the entire land of Egypt. Genesis, chapter

number fifty, Verse number twenty. Joseph, again talking to his brother,

says this, yes, you yourselves planned evil against me.

God planned it for good.

Ooh, Resistor urged him. God planned it for good in

order to bring about what it is this day, to

preserve the lives of many people. If you're taking notes

on this message, the title of this message is peace

in the plot, Armor, Peace in the plot. Armor. Let's

pray and then we'll sit down, shall we, Holy Spirit,

give us peace in the plot that you've planned for

our purpose. In Jesus' name, Amen, you may be seated. Genesis,

chapter number thirty seven records.

The life story of a young man name Joseph.

Joseph is one of the two children born to j

slash Israel, who is a child of the woman he

originally fell in love with and worked so many years

to have a life with. Joseph and his brother Benjamin

are the sons of Jacob through their mother Rachel.

Rachel dies.

While giving birth to Joseph's younger brother, Benjamin. He is

a child of Jacob's old age, and he is favored

by his father. Scripture says that he was favored over

all his other brothers. Jacob just had an infinity for Joseph.

I believe it was because it was with Rachel, with

whom he had fallen in love with initially, and the

fact that this was his first born son through that union.

I believe he just had an endearment to Joseph as

a parent. I know Jacob loved all of his kids,

but you know, you got them one kid or a

couple of those kids that you're just like.

You know what.

I can't say it out loud, but you my favorite.

I don't tell your siblings, but.

You and I just get along. We click.

And he made for his son a coat of many colors.

So the brothers already knew they had been seeing the

interaction that Jacob had with this particular son. They knew

he was favored, but then Jacob exasperated it by giving

him a coat.

So now he has this coat of many.

Colors that he loves he loves this coat that his

father gave him.

He's wearing this coat. He loves this coat.

He understands what this coat means to him, how it

makes him connect with his father.

He's wearing the coat. On top of that, Joseph is

a snitch. Let's just keep it a buck.

A lot of times we glaze over the character flaws

of such people in the Bible. But they're human just

like us. These are not stories of superheroes. These are

real men and women that lived in a narrative that's

recorded in scripture. Joseph was a snitch. He told on

his brothers whenever they were doing something wrong. He would

report back to his father. His father trusted him in

that way, and he would come home and he'd be like, ooh,

Daddy Simeon down there shrimping, Rubin Levi and Judah, Oh,

I saw him over this girl's house. Anybody anybody got

neat younger siblings, they'll snitch. I was that sibling. I

just went you know. Sometimes Preacher tried to make it

seem like it was always the other person. Now, I

had an older brother that was ten years older than me.

Whenever he did something, I went straight to my mom

and daddy and be like, Mama, there go dad. Men,

Joseph's wearing this caught of many colors. He's he's out

in the field. His brothers start hating him. When Joseph

was seventeen years old, he had a dream, a very

unique dream. The dream was so compelling to him that

he he couldn't keep it to himself. He had a

dream that they were gathering the harvest in outside, and

he had gathered his bundle the sheaves, and his brothers

had gathered their sheaves, and then he saw in the

dream that all of their sheafs came to his sheaf

and bowed down before him.

Now, for however, rude, crude, or.

One time, these brothers were, they were still in the

covenant of God, and they had the interpretation of dreams.

We know they had the interpretation of dreams because when

they heard Joseph's dream, they weren't just like, man, you

trip and get out of here. They were like, wait

a minute. They instantly interpreted and said, do you think

we're gonna bow down to you?

One day? They immediately interpreted the dream.

Can I just pause and say that, even though you

might find somebody that's wavered. Don't think that God's gifting

is gonna leave them. I don't know who that's for,

but for any judgmental people in the room. Don't think,

just because somebody might be backsliding or they're not living

in the ways of the Lord, that when.

God gives them the gift.

He's gonna take it back just because they're.

Not using it for his glory. He he has this

dream and he shares it with him.

Now, I just want to say, my advice to Joseph

would have been, Hey, if you are the favorite of

your father and he gave you a coat of many colors,

and then God gives you.

A great a dream, here's what you don't do.

If you gonna wear the coat, don't tell the dream.

And if you don't tell the dream, don't wear the coat.

But please resist the earth to put on the coat and.

Give the dream. Do one or the other, but not both.

Joseph's brothers, Skipture says, hated him even more so they plotted.

And this is how you know these dudes was gangster.

They didn't plot to beat him up like older siblings

due to a younger siblings oftentimes. No, they were like

let's kill him. We'd be waving flaggs about twelve tribes

of Judah, be like the twelve drives of Israel.

You'll be like that joker. Let's kill him.

And it was Reuben that says, no, no, no, we should

not shed our brother's blood. So then Judah comes in

and is like, you know what, there's a pit over there.

Let's throw him in the pit. So they throw him

in the pit.

Now I want you to imagine that at seventeen years old,

Joseph has a dream that one day his whole family

is gonna bow down and be serving him.

But now he finds himself in a pit.

Scripto says that there was an empty pit with no

water in it, and Joseph is thrown into the pit.

Can you imagine him at the bottom of that pit

trying to compare the analysis between the dream he had

and the reality he now lives in. Anybody beside me

had a word that you got from God, and the

reality of where you are does not match the word

that you got from God.

And you're trying to you're trying to reconcile.

Wait, God, I heard you just say in my dream

that my whole family was going to be subservient to me,

that they were going to be submitted to me. But

now I find myself in a pit. Joseph is in

the pit by himself. Scripture says that the pit was empty,

but I know better.

Than to just read what the text says. The text

does say.

That the pit was empty, but the pit was only

empty until Joseph.

Got in it.

For the moment Joseph got in the pit, the pit

was no longer empty. It wasn't just filled with Joseph.

It was also filled with the dreams that Joseph had.

That empty pit was now filled with the purposes and

the plans.

Of God for what God wanted to do in Joseph's life.

Joseph is in the pit, and he's trying to figure

out what's going to happen to his life. I don't

know if he was there for hours. I do not

know if he was there for days. But one of

the brothers was just like, you know what, we just

can't leave him in this pit to starve and die.

Let's sell him. It just keeps getting progressively worse.

These brothers, these are not the kind of family members

you want. I thought about killing you but on second thought,

we threw you in the pit, and then on third thought.

We thought we would just sell you into slavery.

We don't care what happens with you. So the Midianites

come by some traveling merchants and they sell Joseph to

the Midianites for thirty pieces of silver. They bag the money,

and then they say, I wonder what we're gonna do.

With the story of what we did to Joseph.

Ruben is the one that told him to come and

throw him in the pit. And Ruben, the way the

text explains it, Ruben's this is implied. It's not literally

like like like spelled out. But I believe Ruben told

him to throw him in the pit so he could

come back.

At night and bring him out of it.

When Ruben came back, he was already gone because he

was sold into slavery. So Ruben comes back and goes

what happened to what happened to Joseph, And they were like, oh,

we sold him into slavery. Then he said, well, we're

gonna tell a father. He was like, well, we got

his coat. Let's kill an animal, dip it in the blood,

and take it back to his daddy and let his

daddy give the narrative. So they come back to Jacob

with the bloody coat of Joseph, and they hand it

to him and.

Say do you.

Recognize this coat? They know exactly what happened, but they're

gonna let him draw the conclusion. Hey, dad, do you

recognize this coat? And he goes, oh, my goodness, this

is my son's coat. An animal must have maulted him

out in the wilderness. And they were like, yuh, what

you said? Straight up? What did you say?

Again?

The animal must have model in the wilderness. That's exactly

what happened, and he must have picked him clean, because

we didn't see none of him. We just saw the coat.

So Joseph goes from being hated betrayed to pit it

and so, and he sold to a young man named Potiphar.

Potiphar has rank in UH, the the the egip, the

Egyptian UH political system, and and he hires Joseph to

work in his house because Joseph is so favored. Thank you,

Holy ghost, I'm gonna take my time. Because Joseph is

so favored, he winds up the chief in Potiphar's house.

Can I just say that when God puts favor on you,

it works anywhere. I'm gonna say that again for somebody

that doesn't believe it. When God gives his favor to

you in places favor on your life, it will work anywhere.

So in the company of his father, he had on

a coat, but his favor wasn't in what was on him.

It was in what was in him.

That favor was in Joseph, whether he ever wore that

coat again or not. When he was in the pit,

he had favor. When he was sold, he had favor.

When he was in Potiphar's house, he had.

Favor.

He's in Potiphar's house, he quickly becomes the chief of

everything that is in Potiphar's house. He gets promoted, promoted, promoted,

until he is over everything. Scripture says that he is

a handsome young man, so handsome that he catches the

attention of Potiphar's wife, because favor is attractive, Favor is

absolutely intoxicated. If you get God's favor on your life,

people would just want to be around you just because

you have that thing on you that they want. And

so Potiphar's wife catches the attention of Joseph and she

is smitten by him and Potiphar's wife. Oh, she for

the streets.

I'm so sorry missus Potiphar.

But you for the streets. The attraction that she has

she cannot keep to herself.

She literally tells Joseph, you need to come to bed

with me. Read the text.

She says, come lie with me, come hop into bed

with me. When Potiphar go to work, it could be

me and you. Joseph is like, no, man, you're not

about to get me fired.

The favor that God has placed on my life.

Has given me favor in your husband's house.

You gotta talk like that.

When people trying to make you commit adultery, you gotta

start reminding them that they are already married too.

You know what I'm saying.

They trying to act like it's a thing between.

Me and you.

Your husband said, ma'am, have you forgot you married? I'm

not gonna call your husband mister Potterphar, I'm.

Gonna call him your husband.

Your husband has given me authority over everything in the house.

The only thing he hasn't given me permission to do

is touch you.

Because you're married to him.

Then this is how you know, Joseph has fidelity to God.

He says, how could I send before God and your husband?

Pump your husband. I have to report to God. The

only reason why I'm in this position is because of

what God has done for me.

And I'm not about to ruin it for seven minutes

with you arbitrary number.

I guess you gotta work fast when other people is

in the house.

I don't know.

He declines her offer, and Scripture says, every single day

he came to work, she came after him. When he

came to work, she went to work, lie with me,

come in here. Oh, you look so good today, you

so handsome. Look at your muscles and things.

They're so strong, rare.

And every single day he was like, not about that life.

I'm not about that life. I'm not about that life.

I'm not about that life. I don't even know if

I'm ever going to see my family again. I got

to make the best of the situation I'm in. I

still have a vision of the dream that I had

circling in my head. This is not the reality of

what I saw in my head. But this is the

reality of where I am right now, and I'm not

going to ruin it over a temptation every single day.

Scripture says, he declined, he declined the offer, he declined

the offer, He declined the offer until one day. Scripture says,

when nobody else was working in the house, Joseph went

in the house to do his duties. Can I just

pause and say to anybody that would be wise enough

to listen. The reason why Joseph was able to handle

the temptation of Potiphar's wife on all of those other

days is because there was always someone else in the house.

And when you have accountability around you, the only thing

your temptation can do is taunt you. Lie with me,

Lie with me, Lie with me, sleep with me, sleep

with me, sleep with me.

She had to kind of say it on the low.

Why there were other people in the house, there were

other ears that were listening. But on the day when

no one else was in the house, Joseph no disrespect.

Joey was foolish enough that he could go head up

with his temptation accountability around him, And on every other

day when there was another person in the house, the

only thing Potiphar's wife's temptation could do was taught him.

But the moment accountability was removed. It took him. Scripture

says that she grabbed him because there was nobody else.

In the house.

Your temptation just taunts you when you have accountability, But

when there's no accountability, your temptation will grab you. And

now you're in a different situation when it grabs you.

Then when it was just talking to you, the temptation

grabbed him. And the only way I think Paul, who

was a Pharisee and knew the whole old Testament back

and forth, forth and back, I think when he writes

the words flea fornication, it came from here.

Because she grabbed.

His garment, and it had to be a loose garment

because your boy did the most sophisticated slip out of

that garment you have ever seen. Listen and went running.

He wasn't like, hey man, we can't do that. You

know I already told you. Mister Fireifer wouldn't be happy

about that. Ma'am, you need to control yourself.

No.

Scripture says, he slipped out of that garment and he was.

Like, lady crazy, I'll get fired because.

Your nasty butt can't keep your hands to your zeal.

He ran.

That's the only way you get away from fornication. Well,

I'm gonna look at this camera and say that the

only way you're gonna get away from that fortnication is

to run. It is not going to be because you

make a negotiation with it. You gotta get on your

two feet and run up out of there.

I'm tired of.

People falling into sexual seeing outside of marriage, talking about you.

Know what, then this one thing just led to another.

No it didn't. We was just chilling. But then the

next thing, you know, the next thing you know, No, No,

that's not the way fortication goes before you knew it. No,

before you know, you can get shot. I was just

walking down the street before you knew it.

Pow pal pal.

The next thing you know can happen in a car accident.

I was trying to make a left on Mingo Road

and the next thing you know, bang, Well, let me

tell you what you can't next thing you know, sex.

He made it incredibly intimate and difficult to have by accident.

This would be the quiet part of the sermy.

Some of y'all need some track shoes. You're talking about

un understand how I keep faulting? I do? You don't run.

You're still trying to negotiate with a temptation that the

Lord's telling you to run from.

You need accountability in your life.

You wouldn't be having them reckless conversations if somebody else

was in your DMS, if somebody else has your passwords,

you wouldn't be talking like that. If you knew somebody

else was gonna be watching, you wouldn't be doing all that.

Joseph ran he had integrity, but we have to acknowledge

his stupidity, the stupidity to try to go head up

against your temptress with no accountability, because now it's your

word against hers. And ooh, she lied. That's how scandless

she is.

She was so.

Taken aback by his rejection that she had to make

up a lie. She couldn't stand the fact that this young,

strapping man would not compromise his morals to satisfy his flesh. So,

with the garment left in her hands, she just went.

Okay't this man just.

I mean, I'm fine. This worked on all the other

people out I done slept with many a assistant of

my husband's.

I thought this dude was gonna be as easy as

I don't like the fact that he did.

That, my ego is hurt. The service run in, missus potipher,

what's wrong? That young man that my husband hired came

in here and tried to put himself on me, but

I screamed and he ran.

He left his coat.

Joseph steadily coming out of his garments, out of his robe,

out of his tunic. He's not gonna let anything he's

wearing make him compromise the vision that God has given him.

So now my boy rise up in prison.

He winds up in prison. Can you imagine you have

been hated, betrayed, pitted, sold lied on, and now put

in prison. Joseph is in prison. And while he is

in prison, to a fair rows inner court employees or

in prison is where the cup bearer and the baker,

they both have dreams. Joseph interprets their dreams. For the

cup bearer, the cupbearer's interpretation of his dream was that

even though you got in trouble with Pharaoh, you're gonna

be restored into Pharaoh's court and you will hand him

a drink again, and Pharaoh will be in love with

you again, and you will serve him again. But for

the baker, don't you hate when you get a prophetic word,

and it ain't happy when the Lord is like Thus

said the Lord, you're about to go through something you like.

I don't even want that word. Don't don't come to me.

That's when we get all technical with First Corinthians. That

does not encourage me. I didn't feel exhorted by that.

I don't feel comforted by that. Not a prophetic word.

The baker has a prophetic word through a dream, and

Joseph interprets it and he goes, hey, I'm so sorry,

but in three days you're gonna meet Pharaoh as well,

but he gonna take off your head because Pharaoh's still Pharaoh.

He's a gangster. Here's what Joseph says to the cup bearer,

the one that's gonna live, Will you please remember me

when you get to Pharaoh and get me out of

this situation because I didn't do nothing. Missus Potteriper lied

on me. The baker gets.

Out, gets his head cut off.

The cup bearer is restored to Pharaoh's court, and he

forgets about Joseph for two whole years. Can you imagine

thinking that in the next couple of hours, cut bearer

I interpreted his dream. I know, homie, go hook me up.

A day goes by, five days go by, a week

goes by. I know he didn't forget about me like that. Man.

I interpreted his dream. He's back in Pharaoh's court. Six

months goes by, a year goes by, Two full years

go by, and then Pharaoh has a dream. Pharaoh has

a dream that cannot be interpreted by anybody in his

inner court. And then the cupbearer says, oh, my goodness,

I've sinned. There's a dude that I was locked up

with two years ago.

He interpreted my dream. I'm sure he can interpret yours.

Joseph is released from prison and brought into Pharaoh's court,

and Pharaoh explains a dream to him. He said, I

saw some fat cows, but then they were eaten by

some skinny cows. I saw plentiful stalks of corn, but

then they were eaten up and swallowed up by these

really dry, parched, thin, emaciated stalks of corn. And Joseph says,

don't worry about that. This is a good dream, Pharaoh,

but I know what it means. You had two dreams,

but it's only one meaning have seven years of plenty

and then you're gonna have seven years of famine, and

the famine's gonna be so rough it's almost gonna be

like you didn't have the seven years of plenty. And

Pharaoh said, I appreciate you interpreting my dream. And Joseph says, hey,

because this is gonna happen, you need to get somebody

highly skilled in administration to be over all the stuff

that I just told you. And Pharaoh said, that person

is you. He says, you are about to be my

second in command. I'm bestowing everything to you the same

authority you had in Potiphar's house. Scratch that, I'm promoting

you to being the second in command only to me.

When people hear you, they hear me. As a matter

of fact, pull my chariot around. I want you to

get in my chariot and you're gonna do a lap

around the city so people understand when they see you

in my chariot that you have the same authority as

I have. Now, I'm telling you all of this because

I need you to understand everything that Joseph has gone

through and the disposition that he continued to have through.

Everything that he went through.

He had a dream when he was seventeen years old,

and the hatred and the betrayal of his brothers did

not make him forget.

About the dream that he had.

The pit he was thrown in did not make him

forget about the dream that he had. Here's why this

was such an important message that I believe needed to

be in this Peace of Mind series, because many times

we allow our present circumstances to change our inner narrative

based on what we're going through. Joseph had a dream,

a word from God, that he was going to be

in this position of authority. So even when his brothers

hated him, he did not walk around.

Saying, man, I'm just hated, nobody likes me. I can't

believe I'm going through all of this.

When he was put in the pit, his inner narrative

did not change to this is it for me. I

thought God had a plan for me, But now I'm

just in this pit, So I guess this is round

supposed to be for the rest of my life. When

he was sowed into slavery, he never had the inner

narrative of I'm a slave.

I was sold out by my brother and I'm just

a slave, and.

So I'm just gonna I guess I'm just gotta have

a slave mentality because I'm a slave. I mean, look,

I'm literally a slave, so I must be a slave. No,

he never let go of what he had on the

inside of him, which was I am loved by my

Father and I have a purpose from God on this earth.

So even though this is my reality, it is not

my mentality.

I hope this is helping somebody.

You can be in a situation that is the worst

of the worst of the worst, but you have to

remind yourself of what the word of God has been

spoken of over your life, and you have to stand

on that word even when all your circumstances are saying

the contrary. Joseph never took on the mentality of what

was happening to him. Hated, He never felt hated, even

though he was hated, betrayed. He never let that become

his narrative. Pitted, he never let that become his narrative. Enslaves,

he never let that become his narrative. Being told he

was a rapist, he never let that become his narrative.

Forgotten for two years. He never let that become his narrative.

Whatever the situation was, he was still like, I'm a

child of God. I'm a child and favored of my father,

and it doesn't matter what you say, say about me

to me, or put me through, It'll never change what

I know is on the inside of me. I think

this is a good place for me to explain what

plot armor is. Plot armor is a term that I

think is specifically assigned to gen Z. I never knew

what this word meant until my sons were talking one day.

My sons are.

Into anime, and they're into all of these different type

of cartoons, and they would say things like, oh, my goodness,

that person has plot armor, and I'd be like, what

is that? And they'd be talking about another scene. They'd

be like, oh, dude, that dude should have been there,

but he.

Got plot armor. So I had to go look it up.

Whenever my sons use something I don't know, I have

to go google it because I refuse to.

Be left out.

It doesn't have to become part of my vocabulary, but

I will indeed figure out what they are talking about.

Let me tell you what plot armor means. I don't.

After I explain this, I think a hundred of y'all

gonna lose y'all.

Minds, Can I tell you what plot armor is.

Plot armor is when the author of the narrative deems

a character so important that even though there's situations and

circumstances that come up that should have killed them, because

the author deems that this person needs to live because

he has a purpose for him later.

In the story.

If they get shot, they can't die. If they get

lied on, they can't get in trouble. If they fall,

they gotta get back up. If they go down, God's

got to bring them out. And when I saw the

definition of plot armor, Charles, I said to myself, now,

wait a minute. If that is the reality of what's

going on in anime, I've already received too many scriptures

in the Word of God that let me know that

I've had plot armor the moment he spoke.

Me into it.

Do I got anybody that's getting the revelation that there's

a plot armor on my life? Because I should have

died when I went through what I went through last year.

I should have lost my mind when I went through

what I went through. But God must still have a

purpose from me because I'm still high five at least

three people, and tell him.

I'm still here. I'm still here. I'm still here.

The enemy tried to take me out, but I'm still here.

The enemy tried to wipe me out, but I'm still here.

The enemy tried to find me out, but I'm still here.

The enemy tried to blind me out, but I'm still

I'm still here. I'm still here with nothing around me,

I'm still here with everybody against me, I'm still here

in front of my haters, I'm still here, portrayed by

my family.

I'm still here. I'm still I'm still here.

I gotta have the plot armor of the Holy Ghost,

because there's no way being sexually abused at the age

of eight.

I'm not making that up now, that's my life.

There's no way I should have been sexually abused at

the age of eight and still here. Poor an addicted

and still here. Low self esteem, still here, suicidal ideation,

still all of hell has to be scratching their head

when they look at you, like we threw everything at her,

but she's still. We threw everything at him, but he's still.

How are you still? There's no way you should be still.

Joseph becomes second in command to Pharaoh, and he understands

he has plot armor. He knew, hated, This wasn't gonna

be the end of this story. He knew betrayed. This

can't be the end of my story. He knew in

the pit, this can't be the end of my story.

He knew when he got sold into slavery. Can't beat

into my story. But Joseph, it's your reality. It's my reality,

but it's not the end. I wish a hundred people

really got that. It's your reality, but it's not the end.

I'm going through. So I'm twenty three, says Yay. I

walk through the valley of the Shadow of Death. I

will fear no evil for thou art. Here's the key, Yay,

do I go. This is a real prophetic jessh somebody

do this to do it again, Do this one more time.

Do this.

That's what you're going through.

I know it's the reality of your situation, but you're going.

I'm not staying here, but I am going.

I'm gonna take pictures of what.

It looks like so when I get out, I can

show you what I made it. The devil is a lie.

I don't live at this address. I'm just going I

came up in poverty, but I came up. Yes I

was abused, but that's just something.

That I went.

Joseph is second in command to his brothers, I mean

second in command to Pharaoh, and the family gets so

bad that his brothers show up. His brothers have to

come down to the place that he ended up based

on what they did. And when they get down there,

Joseph has changed so much that he recognizes them, but

they don't recognize him. Can I just say, you don't

have to look like what you've been through. I don't

know who I'm talking to in here, but you don't

have to look like what you've been through.

I want your testimony.

To be so plot armored that when you tell it,

people don't even believe you. Will you give your testimony,

people are gonna say, stop lying. You didn't go through

all that. You're making some of that up. You don't

look like what you've been through. Who I'm trying to quit?

Joseph got there, his brothers arrived.

He knew them, they didn't.

Know him, and they couldn't descern that it was him

because he was speaking a different language than them. He

spoke to them through an interpreter, Joseph got down to

Egypt and learned a different language because the different language

that he learned was important to the next level of

promotion in his life. I don't know who I'm preaching to,

but God is saying He's trying to teach you a

different language because of the promotion he wants you to

go into.

You can't stay.

I know you from the hood, and I know you

like keeping it real. But God's trying to teach you

a different language so you can get promoted in the

place that he wants to put you into. I firmly

believe the text us and say this, but I firmly

believe if somebody would give me the theological of freedom,

I firmly believe that Joseph's only reason for the two

years stretch was for him to be fluent in the

Egyptian tongue so that when he interpreted Pharaoh's dream, he

didn't have to interpret it through a translator, because the

translation could have given a Pharaoh the off putting idea

of like, oh, this is just some Hebrew dude that

interprets dreams. But because he submitted to the place he

was in and he never changed the mentality that he had.

He said, oh, you need me to learn this new language.

Okay o, lah MOUI b in comstas being beneath those

win Us, not just win us thought of this man

that better than all I thought those. I mean, they

didn't speak Spanish over there. But I'm just saying, that's

the language I'm learning because God has an assignment for

me in Latin America, and I'm gonna be fluent in

this language so I can be promoted to do the

same thing I've been doing in English in North America

and in English speaking territories. I will be in Latin America.

Are they in Latino America? That's son, that's me bro

bro pi pro pisito my purpose that word. I have

class on Monday, y'all. Chill got two years, give me

two years. He saw them, they didn't see him, and

he put them through a series of tests. I don't

have time to talk about that. But then it just

got too overwhelming. He realizes that his brother Benjamin was

still alive. He realized his Daddy was still alive. He

couldn't take it anymore. He kicked everybody out except his brothers,

and he told his brothers who he was and his

brothers lost it. We did all that to you and

you still here. We thought you was gonna die in

that pit. We sold you into slavery. We had an

obituary for you in our hearts. We even repented to

ourselves even after the fact. We knew he did wrong,

but we knew you were dead. And Joseph is like,

I had too much plot armor to be dead. Baby,

Do you actually think that you were behind this situation?

Here's what's she says, That's why I read you forty

five verses seven and eight, because Joseph literally looks at

him and he says, Hey, I just gotta let you

know you ain't the one that sent me down here.

This is how you know that he never changed his

inner narrative. This how you know a negative inner narrative,

never compromised what.

God had purpose and planned in.

His life, because he literally says, you didn't bring me

down here. The Lord brought me down here, and the

Lord brought me down here to save your life. He

was never bitter with them, He was never petty with them,

He was never vindictive with them, because if you're bitter, petty,

and vindictive, God can't bless anybody but you. But when

you choose to have a heart that's opened and a

heart that forgives people, even that despitefully tried to use

you and terminate you, God says, I can now open

up the windows of heaven and pour you out of blessing.

Not only you don't have room to receive, but nobody

else will round you can receive it.

Joseph says, you didn't send me down here.

The Lord did. And I had enough plot armor to

deal with everything that was thrown at me between seventeen

and thirty.

And now here's what I want you to know.

Go get the rest of the family, because my blessing

is not just for me and my kids. You want

to know why God gave me as much plot armory

as he gave me, Because he wants me to be

a blessing to generations. God just don't want me to

be a blessing to my kids. He wants me to

be a blessing to my kids, my kids, kids, my

kids kids kids, You, your kids, your kids, kids, kids.

Everybody's getting blessed. God didn't send you down here. God

sent me down here. He just took what you planned.

This is Genesis fifty twenty.

He took what you planned. Because this is what I

love about Joseph.

Even though he's forgiven them, he doesn't allow that to

change the reality of what they did and how.

They did it. He said, yes, what you did.

Was meant for evil, and I love how it's translated

into TLV because there's no butt there, there's a period.

What you planned was absolutely Diabola Cault period.

But God also had a plan now from the hood.

And in the hood, we used to play a game

called big Bank Tank Little bank, and big Bank Tank

Little bank. Was basically like a little petty gambling game,

and it was basically like who got more money We

gonna were about to find out. Okay, So here's what

Joseph was saying to his brothers. You had a plan,

so cute tried to kill me, kill me in a pit,

some me into slavery.

But God had a plan. And if you weigh the plans, like.

Your plan versus God's plan, God looked at what you

did when you threw me in the pit and said, oh,

you thought the pit would cause a problem. This pit

was a propeller for purpose.

I'll raise your pit cause this big bank take a

little bit.

I'll raised your plan by my plan, and let's see

who plan works. So do everything that you're going to do,

because everything you do, I have a plan on top

of the plan that you had for this man. And

what you saw at the end of Joseph's life was

a man who was never jaded by the experience he

went through to get to the place that he saw

in his dream when he was seventeen. And we've already

done enough shouting in this service to last us until

next week. So I feel no pressure to end this

or some we already did that.

My assignment was to come after your inner narrative.

This is not even about what the enemy's doing in

your life. It's about the story you're telling yourself. What

are you telling yourself about this season of your life.

God has abandoned me. God forgot about me. Nobody loves me.

He's left me out here. He's sent me through all

of this.

I can't tell you how many people have the craziest

in the narratives that God is the one that made

them go through stuff.

It's not the truth, but God can use it. He

can repurpose the plans of the enemy.

But God's not putting you through some American ninja obstacle course.

To see if you had faith.

No, you just live in a life, and some people's

lives are more difficult than others.

But to say that God is just up.

There life, I just choose you to go through a

bunch of hell. Now we're going through stuff, but that

doesn't mean that stuff has to.

Go through us.

Yes, I was sexually abused. I don't live my life

as one that's been a used. That's not the inner

narrative I tell myself. Yes I had a porn addiction.

I do not live my life every day thinking about

a porn addiction. I have low self esteem. I don't

live my life every day talking about just go to

low self esteem.

Now, these are things I've been through.

It doesn't define who I am before the foundations of

the world. God called me to be his son. Hear me,

not a preacher, not a pastor, not an apostle, a son.

He didn't call me to give me a position.

He called to give me a place, and my place

as a son trumps any position that He could ever

give me. All those positions are temporary. Who I am

is his son, and I've been able to resist the

reality of my situation because of the mentality. I got

too much plot on her. It's a bad season we're

going through, but we're going through it. It's a bad

thought I'm having, But it's just a bad thought i'm having.

I am not what I am thinking. I am not

where I.

Am, I am not what I currently have to do.

I'm going through.

I hope this just.

Gives a new meaning to when somebody tells you I'm

just going through something right now, get happy for them. Oh,

I'm so happy you didn't stop. Oh my god, I'm

so happy you didn't stop. You still going through. Yeah,

I'm still going through.

I'm so happy you still going through.

You didn't stop, you didn't make that place your permanent address.

I'm so happy you still going through.

But it's been two years. So happy you still going through.

You know, God ain't gonna leave you right there. You

know you're gonna be on the other side of this

thing at some point, but you're still going Put your

hand on your chest and just say I got plot armor.

Say it again, Say I got plot armor. Say it

with attitude. I got plot armor.

I'm built to go through this. What I've been through,

should have already killed me. The fact that I'm still

here means I got too.

Much plot armor.

There's too much purpose that he still has on my life.

There's too much that he still wants me to do

in the earth.

When it's over, it's over, But.

The fact that it's not over means that there's still

something that he.

Wants me to do. I got plot armor, and so do.

You.

I want this to be for somebody that's in this

room that has not given their life to Jesus Christ.

You might be watching online. You have not given your

life to Jesus Christ, but you rock with us, like

you like what we do. You like y'all cool.

I'm not down with all that.

I don't know what y'all was doing all that shouting for,

But like, I need to give my life to Jesus,

and I need to give my life to Jesus because

I can't act like it's been me that survived all this.

There's been someone greater at work behind the scenes. I'm

not that smart, I'm not that street smart. I'd be

making moves, but I could not have made all the

moves I've made to be where I am right now.

This has to be the work of someone greater, and

it has been. It's been the Lord. He's the one

you should have been. He's the one you should have

lost your mind. He's the one that has kept you saying,

kept you here, kept you in your right mind. I

know it's been rough, but God's given you enough plot

armor to make it through. If you are here under

the sound of my voice, and you have never given

your life to Jesus Christ, and you're like today's day,

I need to give my life to Jesus. I just

want you to stand to your feet. I'm one of

those guys that we're not raising your hand and stand

up if you really want to give your life to Jesus, Like,

just take a stand for Jesus Christ. Say I want

him in my life, and I want to step into

the plot armor that God has for me. I see you,

I see you, I see you. Anybody else I need

to give my life to Jesus right now, right now.

Just stand right where you are.

I'm not gonna have for you to come up, but

wherever you are, just stand, because if you can't stand here,

you can't stand out there.

Just stand.

I need to give my life to.

Jesus right now.

Now listen, If you are around somebody that's standing, I

just want you to stand alongside them. I want them

to know that they're not alone. If you're to the

left of the right of that person, would.

You just stand right next to them, because I want

them to.

Know that they're not alone. That God.

Has you surrounded.

From the time you stood up, you already had support.

From the time that you stood up, you were already

in a family. From the time that you stood up,

there was already a purpose and a plan that God

had for your life. You might be watching from home,

you could just be standing. Maybe you were laying in

the bed the whole time you were watching them. To

just stand up right in the living room, right where

you are, and we just just repeated this after me,

and let's say it as a family, shall we? Dear God,

I admit I've made mistakes. I admit I need a savior.

I asked that you change my heart to change my motives.

I believe you lived, you died, and you rose again

just for me. Please change me, renew me, and transform me.

I'm yours in Jesus' name. I pray Amen. Can we

clap our hands. For those that just came into the family, Oh,

come on, you can do better than that. The Family

of God just got bigger. Somebody just decided to live

a transform life.