Genesis 37 The Dreamer Cometh - Pastor Bruce Mejia

In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.

Okay, we are in Genesis chapter 37 from here on out up until Genesis chapter 50.

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The focus really shifts to just being all about Joseph.

And so from chapter 37 to 50, it's basically the chronicles of Joseph.

With the exception of chapter 37, that really focuses on that weird story with Judah.

Okay, if you've read through Genesis, you know what I'm talking about. We'll deal with that later.

I'm sorry, chapter 38 where it talks about Judah and Onan and Ur and so forth.

And one of the reasons I think that that story is kind of just inserted within the chronicles here of Joseph

is because of the fact that Joseph ended up being a better representation of Jesus Christ far more than Judah.

And of course we know that Judah, you know, that's from where Jesus Christ is going to come from

but you know, he isn't necessarily a typology of Jesus Christ.

Joseph actually operates far better, far greater of a typology of Jesus than Judah.

But Judah is mentioned in chapter 38 because from Judah you have Phares

and Phares essentially comes into the genealogy of Jesus Christ.

So it's all still about Christ.

And so the Lord is trying to help us realize that, you know, he's using imperfect menders,

imperfect people within the genealogy of Jesus.

But that's why I believe Genesis 38 is being mentioned there.

But from Genesis 37 and on, it's all about Joseph.

And quite frankly, I'll be honest with you, this is probably my favorite part of the book of Genesis.

When I read through the story of Joseph, it's very emotional.

There's a lot going on and it's just a lot of great representations, typologies, illustrations of Jesus Christ.

So let's start in verse number one.

It says,

So right off the bat, we're seeing that Joseph is obviously reporting to his dad regarding the deeds of his brethren.

It specifically says that he's bringing up their evil report.

Whether that means that they're dishonest, they're doing things that are not right,

they're doing things that would be displeasing in the eyes of the father.

And this is one of the reasons why Joseph's brethren despised him.

We're going to see later on some other reasons, but primarily we also see here that it's because of the fact that he's testifying of their evil report.

So the first illustration, representation of Christ here is that Jesus, just as Joseph, also came to Israel and he testified of their evil deeds, right?

Go to John chapter 2 if you would.

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John chapter 2, hold your place there in Genesis 37, and let's go to John chapter 2.

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As you're turning there, I'm going to read to you from John chapter 3 in verse number 20.

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It says,

Look at Genesis chapter 2 if you would, in verse number 23.

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It says,

And of course we know that Jesus throughout his ministry was constantly calling out the Jews.

He was constantly calling out the Pharisees.

He was bringing up their evil report.

The fact that they were teaching for doctrines, the commandments of men, the fact that they didn't really believe in Moses because they rejected him.

He was constantly preaching against them, right?

And so we see this parallel with Joseph that the first illustration, typology that we come across is his ability to bring up the evil report.

Now let me just say this is that when it comes to preaching, that's what we're supposed to do.

We're obviously supposed to exhort people, build people up, comfort people,

but the Bible says that we're also supposed to bring up the evil report of others, right?

Correct others.

The Bible says to preach the word, be instant in season, out of season,

reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all along suffering and doctrine.

Meaning that it's our job as preachers, pastors, to bring up the evil report of this world.

To preach against the fornication, preach against drunkenness, preach against the sins of society.

And you know what? That's one of the reasons why people are going to hate us.

That's one of the reasons people are going to hate you.

Maybe your family and friends have separated you from their company.

It's not necessarily because there's something wrong with you.

It's because there's something wrong with them.

And it's because of the fact that you're exposing the sinfulness of their actions,

what they believe or their deeds and so forth.

And so we can't expect to be loved by the world.

We can't expect to live a godly life and not have people criticize us

or be angry with us because it's our job to call out the sin, to bring up that evil report.

So we can look at Joseph and say, oh man, he's just a little snitch.

He's just ratting on his brothers. He's bringing up the evil report.

And no one likes to snitch for sure, but let's just be honest.

He's probably telling the dad about things that they're doing that are bad.

They're wicked. They're being dishonest.

Maybe they're doing things that are sinful.

And Joseph's coming back and he's bringing this report like, hey,

they're doing some wicked stuff over there.

I just want to let you know they're being lazy.

Maybe they're not working.

They're claiming that they're doing one thing, but they're actually doing the exact opposite.

And obviously when you're in the world, no one likes to snitch,

but at the end of the day, the Bible tells us to be honest though.

To be truthful, to be honest, to expose lies

and to make sure that we are individuals of integrity

and not being this individual that just, well, I don't want to get in trouble.

I want to be liked by my co-workers.

I want to be liked by my family and friends.

So I'm just going to turn a blind eye to sinfulness and criminal acts or whatever it may be.

It's not right to do.

We need to be like Joseph and bring up the evil report to the Father.

Verse 3 says,

Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children

because he was the son of his old age.

And he made him a coat of many colors.

So Joseph is favored of his father, Jacob,

and we see there because of the fact that it's the child of his old age

and the parallel that we can derive from this is the fact that God told Jesus,

this is my beloved son and whom I am well pleased.

He loved the Lord Jesus Christ.

That is his son.

And it specifically says that he made his son a coat of many colors.

So he made him this coat.

It's a raid with a variety of different colors.

Not my style, right?

But maybe his dad meant well or whatever.

And you think to yourself, what is the parallel there to Jesus Christ?

How does this relate to Jesus Christ?

Well, we're going to see what's going to be done to the coat later.

But I personally believe that the reason he gave him that coat of many colors

and why it parallels Jesus Christ

is because Jesus was made in the likeness of sinful flesh.

And when we talk about sinful flesh,

we're talking about everyone in this world no matter what color you are, right?

You know, red and yellow, black and white,

they are all precious in his sight.

So he took upon himself the form of sinful flesh.

And then later on, we see that this same coat is dipped in what?

Blood.

Why?

Because without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sins.

And so every kindred and tongue and nation

is given the opportunity to be covered in the blood

of the Lamb of God who should take away the sins of the world.

So I believe that this coat of many colors represents all nations, kindreds and tongues.

Look at verse 4 here.

It says,

And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren,

they hated him and could not speak peaceably unto him.

So they don't like that he's favored above everyone else.

And obviously, you know, if we're to address this in a practical way,

it's never good to show favoritism to one child over the other, right?

You should love your children equally and not show some sort of favor

because you don't want to cause resentment in your other children

because if you're favoring one over the other,

your other children are going to know about it, right?

They're going to know that you're kind of lenient with this person.

You are favoring them.

You bless them more.

You know, you despise the other.

And that's not right to do.

You know, I believe that we as parents should make sure that we equally love all our children.

And here's the thing, like, you know, I have six kids.

I have a lot of kids.

I got six.

And I can honestly tell you with integrity of heart that I love all my children equally, okay?

And I don't favor one over the other.

If you're like, if you could just lose one, what would you lose?

None of them.

I love all my children.

And I can't picture my life without any one of them, you know?

And it's not like when I'm showing affection to one,

it's just like, oh, yeah, this is my favorite one right here.

Now, grandparents have a tendency to be that way towards their kids.

You know, kids sometimes, they're just like, this is the one.

But parents shouldn't be that way.

You know, we need to make sure that we favor our children.

You're like, what if I think one is cuter than the other or something like that?

You know, we need to just recognize that they're all beautiful in their own way, okay?

And, you know, we need to favor them and not, you know, cause, provoke them

to feel a sense of resentment because, oh, I just like this one more than the other or something like that.

It's wrong to do.

Jacob shouldn't do this.

And, you know, it's wrong for him to do this because, you know, he's obviously causing his other sons

to have bitterness not only towards Jacob, but more so towards Joseph.

And Joseph's not doing anything wrong, right?

And so don't be the parent that just shows favoritism towards one over the other

because, well, you know, we just get along better.

Or, you know, I just like this one more or something like that.

Well, if that's true, just don't verbalize it, okay?

Don't verbalize it and work on loving your children equally

because it's not right to have one favored over the other.

Now, it says here that they hated him and could not speak peaceably with him,

meaning that they're angry at him.

They're bitter towards him.

They don't want him to be in their company.

It says in verse 5 in Joseph dreamed a dream and he told it to his brethren

and they hated him yet the more.

So what does this mean?

You know, obviously we're going to look at the dreams that he's having

and they're very prophetic dreams.

These are dreams that are being given to him by God.

But let's address the practical aspect of this passage

and then we're going to get into the application

what this is actually illustrating in a spiritual way.

The practical thing is this, you know, if you are an ambitious person, right?

And, you know, your ambition, you know, you got to be careful

who you share your ambitions with.

Why? Because sometimes people are just haters.

You share your ambition, your goals and what you want to do

and, you know, sometimes people are, they're just like,

they just don't like the fact that you want to succeed.

You know, you share your dreams, so to speak

and then people, all they have to do is just want to criticize you

and try to stop you from succeeding, stop you from going forward.

You know, make sure you share your ambitions with ambitious people

or people that are in support of your success, okay?

Now, look, obviously, if you come to me and share your ambition

and it's a stupid idea, I'm going to tell you, okay?

Like, I think I'm going to open a lottery shop or something, you know?

And, you know, that's a stupid idea.

It's sinful, you know, obviously we need to be realistic about

goals and dreams and visions, right?

When I say vision, I'm talking about a dream,

some sort of ambition that you might have.

But at the end of the day, you know,

you need to make sure that you share your dreams

and your ambitions with the right kind of people.

Because I'm just going to tell you right now, in this world,

even amongst Christians, you have haters.

People who, oh, man, this guy, he wants to do this

or he has this ambition.

I don't think that's going to work.

You and I, you shouldn't do that.

I wouldn't try that if I were you.

You can't even do this or that or the other.

You know, when those types of words come out of someone's mouth,

just mark it down, this person is filled with envy.

What happened to Joseph's brothers?

What are they filled with?

Envy.

He told the dream and they're just like,

who does this guy think he is?

He's younger than us.

You know, he's having all these dreams or whatever,

that this is what he's going to do and they hate him for it.

So on a practical level, you know,

make sure you share your goals and successes,

if they're realistic, of course,

with people who are also realistic

and are willing to help you, encourage you

and are willing to just support you in that endeavor.

You know, I've been around people where

if I share a specific goal,

they're just like, oh, oh, okay.

You know, you say, how often do you share those dreams

with that person?

Nothing.

I don't share them with them anymore.

Because obviously I don't want to be around people

that douse your flame,

that just discourage you, right?

And again, you shouldn't want to share things like that

with haters because haters typically don't like to see you

succeed and they'll often,

even if they think that what you're doing will succeed,

they would do everything humanly possible

to demoralize you, okay?

Maybe you have a business venture

that you're trying to get off the ground, okay?

You're trying to succeed in a certain area.

You know, you better be careful sharing that goal

with a family member who hates on you, okay?

With a specific friend that just hates on you

or something like that.

Get around people who brainstorm with you.

Get around people who are willing to just add to the ideas.

Ask you how it's going.

Not like, oh, you know, whatever.

You know, I don't think that's going to work or whatever.

I tried that already or something.

Well, yeah, you didn't succeed

because you probably suck at it.

So, you know,

and you probably didn't have a good idea

to go along with it or something.

The point being here is that, you know,

I get that Joseph had the dream

but he probably shouldn't have shared it with his brothers

because his brothers are already bad.

And of course, he's sharing it with people

who are already mad at him for bringing up an evil report.

You understand?

And so, you know, be careful with that.

And, you know, I have family members

that I don't share anything with.

Because sometimes family members are haters, man.

You know, a prophet is not without honor.

Save it his own country.

That's what the Bible says.

And so often family members could look at you like,

well, you know,

I remember when you were this and this, that and the other.

I'd rather just let my success speak for itself.

Right?

So, let the numbers talk.

Let the numbers talk.

The success talk.

The goals talk.

The achievements talk.

Rather than trying to brainstorm with people

who don't want to see you succeed.

Okay?

And I've just learned that when it comes to

striving and endeavoring to accomplish something big,

you just ought to keep it to yourself

until it gets to a certain level.

That's my opinion, you know?

My opinion is if you are striving to accomplish something big,

you're like, you have a goal that you want to accomplish.

Maybe it's like weight loss or something, right?

Or maybe it's gains that you want to make.

Maybe it's a certain amount of money that you're trying to get.

Maybe it's like a side business

that you're trying to get off the ground.

Keep it hush, hush.

Share it with maybe only one other person.

Maybe your wife, your husband or something.

A very close friend.

But don't go blabbering about it

to everyone else because I'm just telling you right now

people can demoralize you.

So I just keep it hush, hush until the numbers blow up

and then people just start asking you about it

like, this is what I'm doing, you know?

I'll give you a really raw example.

You know, the Instagram, for example, you know?

I've had people just before the Instagram blow up

hate on the page.

Just hate on the content.

Hate on the page.

This is what you should be doing.

Is that any other?

And, you know, that's not going to work

and, you know, talking down on it.

And that was my fault for just sharing some of the goals

that I have, right?

And look, obviously not every idea you have

is going to take off, okay?

That's how things work.

Be a person who brainstorms.

Be a person who comes up with a library

and a catalog of ideas because eventually one will work.

And the way you get one to work is if you come up

with a bunch of different ideas.

So I've made a mistake of sharing stuff with people

and, you know, luckily I just didn't listen to them.

I just kept at it

and now here I am a year later

and it's blown up, right?

And so I realized like, oh, you know,

I got to be careful because if I listen

to the advice of these other individuals

then you know what?

I wouldn't have experienced the same success

because I would have been like, oh, they're right.

Maybe I shouldn't even try or something like that.

You know?

And, you know, don't base

whether you want to pursue a particular goal

based off of what other people think about it.

You know what I mean?

Like if I told someone a year ago, like,

I'm just going to make content about the Jews

and I'm confident that it's going to blow up,

I'm sure people would have been like,

no, you shouldn't do that.

You should be more well-rounded.

You know?

Be more well-rounded

and talk about other things.

You're not going to grow that.

Well, guess what?

I guess you're wrong, okay?

And people think like, oh,

you're just like a one-trick pony.

It doesn't work that way.

Instagram is a niche.

That's how it works.

You know what works when you drive in

one particular topic?

That's what works, okay?

You think I don't get tired about talking

about Jews all the time?

Jews are a grief unto me, okay?

They're grievous and they're vexing to my soul.

I don't like to think about Jews, okay?

They make me mad.

They make me frustrated.

So you think I'm just like,

can't wait to do it again?

I'm just doing what I know works.

You say, well, did you get any advice?

Nope.

Just test things out.

You have a goal.

You implement it and you let the number

speak for themselves.

People are like, well, yeah, you grew,

but you should be a little more well-rounded.

Well, you know, well-rounded doesn't

really work for a lot of people, though.

And so at 190,000 followers,

I think if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

At the end of the day, right?

And let me also say this.

Don't take advice from people who have

not succeeded in your area, okay?

You know, I'm trying to cut weight

and I'm doing decent, but I'm just

going to tell you right now, I'm not

going to learn from people who are

600 pounds, right?

It's not going to happen.

It's not going to happen.

It's just the way it works, you know?

I'm not going to take health advice

from a vegan or a vegetarian.

Well, actually, the science behind...

Let me look at your calves real quick.

What's going on here, you know?

What's going on here?

Well, actually, if you...

I'm not interested.

You're a bad representation of this whole topic.

I'm not interested in getting advice

from people who have not succeeded

in the area that I want to succeed in,

okay?

You know, you say, who do you get

advice from when it comes to church things?

Well, my sending pastor is one of them.

You say, why?

Because he succeeded.

The man has succeeded extensively.

Pastor Anderson has succeeded extensively.

So, yeah, that's who I want to get advice from, right?

I'm not going to get it from some, you know,

church out there who's running five.

Why would I get advice from...

I think the way we should do it is...

Bro, you're running five people in your church.

You're not the poster boy for success

on church growth here.

The point being here is that you need to make sure

that you dream, dream big,

but don't make the same mistake that Joseph made

and just share it with people who hate you.

You know?

And here's the thing.

Here's the best thing.

Here's the great thing about being hush-hush

about your goals until you succeed

is that if it doesn't succeed, no one knows about it.

So no one knows you failed.

You know what I mean?

Like, oh, that didn't work.

And just...

Mark it out.

I've had ideas that just failed,

but you don't know about them because I didn't tell you about them.

Okay?

And look, I have a podcast right now

and it's blowing up.

It's doing absolutely great.

I'm thankful to God for it

and it's just reaching a lot of people.

It's called the Engrafted Word.

I had this idea back in 2019.

This is something that I've been wanting to do for years.

And I literally already had the name.

I had episodes recorded.

I had this entire vision.

But, you know, I just, you know,

I just felt like it wouldn't succeed.

I didn't really have all the details.

And I never really shared it with anybody.

And I'm kind of glad I did it

because maybe six years ago,

you know, when I came up with the idea,

if I shared it with someone,

people would be like,

oh, that doesn't really work.

You know, it's not going to really blow up.

It's not going to really do anything.

And that probably would have demoralized me, you know?

So I'm glad that when I decided to, like, implement it,

I didn't tell anybody.

It just blows up.

So let the numbers speak for themselves.

Dream, have goals, have things you want to achieve.

Share with people who are going to aid you, you know,

and they're not going to demoralize you.

They're going to promote you.

They're going to support you.

And they're going to be real with you.

You don't want to be around a bunch of yes men either.

You want to be around people

who actually tell you the truth, right?

Like, this diet you're on, you're still fat.

So I'm just, I know you think you're losing weight,

but you're not really losing weight.

You know what I mean?

You're still fat.

All right, bro.

Thanks.

You know?

You're looking out, bro.

You know?

But here's the thing.

If you're losing weight, don't be a hater.

Make that, let that person know.

Hey, yeah, you look a little thin.

A little bit, you know?

It looks like it's working a little bit.

Or, you know, hey, you know, you've grown some muscle.

You look a little bigger or whatever.

Be around people who are just going to be realistic

and real with you.

They're not going to be haters, okay?

So that's the practical aspect of this passage.

What is a spiritual application here?

Well, obviously we know that he's dreaming a dream,

but, you know, we can say a dream is a vision.

The Bible says, well, there is no vision.

The people perish, but happy is the man to keep it the law.

And so this could be synonymous with, like, preaching, right?

When we preach to people, we're telling them

the vision of God's Word.

So what is he doing?

He's, like, preaching to his brothers.

He's prophesying to his brothers

of things that must shortly come to pass.

And what happens?

They hate him for it.

And, you know, this is the result of preaching.

People just hate you for it.

Now, may it never be said, though,

that when the man of God gets behind the pulpit,

Passover here gets behind the pulpit and starts preaching

that the people who are hating it

are the people in the congregation.

You better not be hating this preaching.

If you do, just leave and just don't come back

because you can't handle preaching.

You know, we should embrace preaching.

The Bible says, despise not prophesying,

meaning that you should have this love relationship

with the preaching of God's Word

and not despise it.

You know, obviously we all love preaching

when the sermon is against someone else,

but we should like it even if it's against us.

And look, folks, I've been there in the congregation

where the pastor's preaching against your sin

and then your face is just red.

I've been there.

I remember, like, my father-in-law preaching against me

and I'm just like, I'm like, he's talking about me.

Like, he's just divulging what I just told him

and he's just preaching against me right now.

But I wasn't mad at him.

I was like, pfft, can't believe this guy.

I'm never gonna ask him for any advice ever again.

You know what it caused me to do?

To just get right with God.

That's what you're supposed to do.

If you get bitter instead of better,

then you don't love preaching.

You just love to hear people scream

and preach against other people except for you.

Loving preaching is when you love preaching

against others and against yourself.

Amen.

So he's dreaming a dream.

He's telling it to his brother.

He's preaching to them.

He's prophesying.

That's what preaching is, prophesying.

He's prophetically addressing

what's gonna take place in the future

and what's the result.

They hate him for it.

Now we expect for the unsafe to hate us for it, right?

We expect for people who are limp-wristed,

soft-sew Christians to hate this kind of preaching.

We expect the Calvary Chapel types,

the non-denom types to hate this

because of the fact that they can't handle it, right?

So, you know, they hated us without a cause,

but sometimes it's just like they just hate us

because of the truth.

We're preaching the truth.

We're proclaiming the Word of God.

And we're not using this liberal

Christian-ese or something like that.

Let me just say something really controversial right now.

Jesus is God.

You know, it's like...

Let me just say something really controversial right now.

You shouldn't sin.

Oh, thank you, Sherlock.

Let me just say something really controversial right now.

We need to be in church.

You know?

Here's something controversial.

Faggots! How about that?

God hates homos! How about that?

How about quoting Leviticus 2013?

How about preaching from Romans chapter 1?

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How about expounding upon Genesis chapter 19?

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How about preaching against divorce?

How about preaching against alcohol?

How about preaching against fornicators and adulterers?

Oh, no, because then you'll get hated for it, right?

How about preaching against faggots and transvestites

and pedophiles and saying that they deserve the death penalty?

How about that?

You know, that's my dream.

But you know what the result of that is that people hate you for it.

And so they hated him for it.

They hate him because he's favorite of his father,

just like the Jews hated Jesus because he was beloved of the father.

They hated him because he brought up their evil report just as Jesus brought up the evil report of the Jews.

And they hated him for his preaching just like the Jews hated Jesus for his preaching.

Again, I mean, there's instances in the gospels where Jesus Christ is preaching the house down

and they're picking up stones to stone him because they can't handle what he's saying.

They don't like what he's saying.

They perceive that he's spake this against him.

That's what the Bible says.

Like, oh, you're talking about us, huh?

You know, in Matthew chapter 21,

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we have Jesus saying that the Kingdom of God should be taken from you

and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.

And he's saying that, you know, the stone with which the builders rejected,

the same as becoming the head of the corner,

this is the Lord's doing and how marvelous it is in our eyes.

And then what does the Bible say?

It says of the Jews, I think he's talking about us.

And they hated him for it.

It's like, yeah, he is talking about you guys.

And so we have Joseph essentially preaching to his brothers about this dream

and then they're just increasing in their hatred towards him.

Look at verse 6 and he said unto them,

Here I pray you this dream which I have dreamed.

For behold, we were binding sheaves in the field

and lo, my sheaf arose and also stood upright

and behold, your sheaf stood round about

and made obeisance to my sheaf.

And his brothers said unto them,

Shout thou and deed reign over us

or shout thou and deed have dominion over us

and they hated him yet the more for his dreams and for his words.

So obviously Joseph doesn't have a whole lot of discretion.

He's like, let me tell you, this dream,

like I'm better than you.

Like we're binding sheaves and we all got these bundles

but my bundles bigger and then your sheaves

are just like bowing down to me and they're just like

and keep in mind, he's the younger brother.

Now what is the spiritual application here?

Well, you know, we can apply this to Old and New Testament.

The brothers representing the Jews and the Old Testament,

Joseph representing believers and the New Testament.

And you know what? The Old Testament bows down.

The sheaf of the Old Testament bows

to the sheaf of the Gentiles in the New Testament.

You know, the Bible literally says regarding the Jews

in Revelation 3.9, you know,

they would say they are Jews and are not

but are the synagogue of Satan.

I will make them to come and worship before thy feet

and to know that I have loved thee

just as Jacob loved Joseph,

just as the sheaves of the brothers bowed down

to Joseph's sheaf in like manner.

Jesus says, I'm going to make them to bow down

before your feet and to know that I have loved thee.

So the sheaf of the brothers, that Old Testament,

the accumulation of all those salvation

of the Old Testament will bow and be pale

in comparison to the amount of people

that the New Testament sheaf will produce.

Understand? Because at the end of the day

more people have been saved from the time of Christ

or the time or the institution of Israel

to the conclusion of the Old Testament.

Why? Because of the fact that they were supposed to be

allotted to the Gentiles, they were not.

And of course the New Testament now includes

Gentiles among believing Jews.

So they hated him for it. They were just like,

and it says in verse 8,

shall thou indeed reign over us?

Isn't that exactly the problem that Jews

had about regarding Jesus?

They didn't want Jesus to reign over them.

Are you going to reign over us?

Shall thou indeed have dominion over us?

Yes! Yes, he will.

It says in verse 9,

and he dreamed yet another dream

and told it to his brethren

and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more

and behold, the Son of the moon

and the eleven stars made obeisance to me

and he told it to his father and to his brethren

and his father rebuked him

and said unto him, What is this dream

that thou has dreamed?

Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren

indeed come to bow down ourselves

to thee, to the earth?

So, you know, Joseph, God bless him

but he's just, he's not learning here.

You know, if my brother started hating me,

I'm like, I don't think I'm going to tell him anymore.

Like, these guys are mad at me right now

and I'm getting all these dreams.

I should go talk to someone else.

But to a certain degree he kind of did,

he went and told his father

and his father rebuked him.

He was very upset.

And keep in mind his father loved Joseph

but he doesn't like this dream that he's having.

And you know, this is kind of like

what you have with Jesus

and his stepfather and, of course, his earthly mother

who they just couldn't really understand and grasp,

you know, that he must be about his father's business.

Right?

So he's telling this dream,

he is demonstrating that basically

his mom, and of course his mom at this point

has passed away.

But that his father and his brothers,

basically the entire nation of Israel

is going to be in,

they're going to be subject to Joseph

and we, because we know the story,

this is referring to what's going to take place in Egypt.

Verse 11,

And his brethren envied him

but his father observed the same.

This is very similar to what Mary said

when they lost Jesus

and she observed the same in her heart.

But it states here that his brethren envied him.

So why do they hate Joseph?

It's because they hate his status.

They want what he is.

They want that same favor.

They want what he has.

And look, envy is rottenness of the bones.

That's what the Bible says.

And we as Christians need to make sure

that we are not envious people.

We need to keep that in check

because every Christian has the propensity to be envious.

We see someone succeed,

someone possess the things that we want,

have the status that we would want,

the acclamations, the praise of others,

whatever it may be,

and there could be a sinful inclination to say,

well, I want that.

I want the position that this person has.

I want to be like this person.

And then you begin to envy that person

and that is a sinful thing to do.

You've got to be content with who you are.

And look, if you don't like

not receiving praise for certain deeds

or accomplishments, then do something.

Here's what you're supposed to do as a Christian.

Number one, rejoice when your brother or sister succeeds.

That will help you squelch the envy

even if it just kind of hurts you to do it.

Just do it anyways

because you've got to subject it to flesh.

The flesh is like,

they're saying he did a good job.

I don't think I'm better or something like that.

Go over and say, you know what, he did do a good job.

You did a fantastic job.

You're doing a great job

and that'll help you kill the envy.

But let me just say this, if that's not enough

then go do something greater then.

Go do something greater,

go accomplish something,

go get better at what you do

and you know what?

You will receive praise for it.

But just don't be an envious person.

Trying to tear people down

just because they're more successful

than you or something like that.

What's stopping you from being successful?

It's not the person who's succeeding,

it's you.

You're the lazy individual.

You're the person without vision.

You're the person without dreams, without ambition.

You're the brokey, okay?

Go do something about it

instead of envying others for the things that they have.

And look, at the end of the day

there's instances where envy is sinful

and you can't try to do better

in order to, you know,

achieve the same success because the Bible tells us

that we should not envy sinners.

Sometimes Christians envy

unsafe people and it's not right to do that

and there's nothing that you can do

to achieve what they have

because God doesn't want you to have that.

God doesn't want you to be a wicked person, right?

You know, these young people today

let me say this, you need to stop envying

people like Clave.

The Muggers.

Oh man, I just wish

I was just like him or something.

And look, this guy has a lot of influence.

You old timers, you guys, you know,

just tune me out right now.

This is for the younger people.

You know, a lot of people are into this guy.

But let me just say this,

if you're a dude into that guy, you're acting like a faggot.

Super gay, looks maxing thing.

That's super faggoty.

It's un-Christian.

It's a godless attitude to have.

Okay? It's vain

and God's not pleased with that.

And what it demonstrates is that you're envious of the wicked.

You're envious of sinners.

I mean, that guy is a major fornicator.

He's extremely wicked.

He's extremely prideful.

He's not a representation of Christianity.

Well, I'm just trying to like integrate that

into like who I am and make myself better.

How about you just like

exercise thyself rather onto godliness?

I don't see a verse in the Bible

that says just, you know,

part of godliness is just improving

bone smashing,

getting plastic surgery or something like that.

Just you can visibly look better

in Mugg or something.

You know, why don't you spiritually Mugg?

It's supposed to be the most important.

Get soul saved, read the Bible,

you know, keep under your body,

bring it into subjection,

learn how to rule your own spirit

and you're like, well,

you know, I just want to be attractive,

you know, well, you know.

If you're not, praise God

because then that means certain sins

are just not available to you.

And that's a blessing.

It's funny, but it's a blessing though.

You know, that is a blessing.

Because you know, there's people who maybe

in this world, according to this world,

standards are attractive and you know what,

they're going to destroy their lives.

So if you're chopped, you're ugly,

praise God for that, you know what I mean?

Well, how am I supposed to get married?

Look, there's a lot of women in this world,

one of them has to want you.

How many, what's the,

what we're at right now in the population

of the world, like 6 billion?

8 billion?

Come on.

There has to be one.

Has to be.

And when you have God on your side,

you have godliness,

you have all these things going for you,

you have the Lord on your side,

you know, a prudent wife is of the Lord.

So you don't have to rely upon

the evil people of this world

to get yourself a woman,

because let me just tell you, that guy,

all he's teaching you is how to get bad women.

Just godless, wicked women.

A bunch of whores and sluts.

So that's off the table for you,

if you're a Christian, okay?

You know,

the point being here is that

we should not envy sinners.

But we should also not envy other Christians.

Just improve yourself.

Ask God for his favor.

Pray God, Lord, please favor me.

You know, give me your power,

show me favor,

may your hand be upon me.

Annoy me with the Holy Spirit of God.

Give me boldness.

Help me to just succeed as a Christian.

Pray that down, amen.

Instead of being like Joseph's brother,

just envious of him because he's

preaching against their sin.

He's ambitious. He's doing all these great things.

Look at verse 12.

And he said to him,

here am I.

And he said to him,

go, I pray thee,

see whether it be well with thy

with thy brethren,

and well with the flocks,

and bring me word again.

So he sent him out of the veil of

Hebron, and he came to sheik'em.

So what we have here

is the Father sending the son

to see the state of

the brethren, right?

So the way we can apply this is like,

God the Father sending Jesus Christ

unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel

to see how they fare.

Okay?

And they basically respond

the exact same way

that Israel responded to Jesus.

He came into his own

and his own received them not.

It says in verse number 15,

and a certain man found him.

Behold, he was wandering in the field,

and the man asked him saying,

what seekest thou?

And he said, I seek my brethren,

tell me I pray thee,

where they feed their flocks.

And the man said,

they are departed.

Hence, for I heard them say,

let us go to Dothan.

And Joseph went after his brethren

and found them in Dothan.

And when they saw him afar off,

even before he came near into them,

they conspired against him

to slay him.

This is extremely evil.

Think about this.

Okay?

You know,

you are sent by your father and Aaron

to see how your brethren do,

where they are, just to get a report.

Your brothers, your blood brothers,

see from afar off,

and all they can do is try to

conspire to murder you.

They're like, what can we do to kill him?

I mean, that's hatred.

That's like, deep hatred.

And look, I have family members

that I just don't get along with at all,

but there's not an ounce of hatred

to the point where I would want them to die.

You know, unless there's, of course,

there's a reprobate,

but I don't even think about them at all.

And even then,

I'm not conspiring to kill them.

I mean, think about that.

This is extremely wicked.

It's evil,

but it also illustrates the fact

that that's exactly what the Jews did to Jesus.

They conspired to kill him

from the beginning of his ministry

all the way to the end.

It says in verse 19,

and they said,

one to another,

behold, this dreamer cometh.

Come now, therefore,

and let us slay him

and cast him into some pit.

And we will say,

some evil beast hath devoured him,

and we shall see

what will become of his dreams.

So this demonstrates that, you know,

sometimes you can piss people off

when you're preaching God's word

to the point where they'll be willing to kill you.

And we see that in the Bible.

You can piss people off

with your preaching so bad

that they'll blow up your church.

They will bomb your church

because they just don't like what you say.

It's a free country,

but they don't care.

They will bomb you.

They will assault you.

They will kill you

just because they don't like what you believe

and what you preach.

They conspired.

And, you know, these conspirators,

they're not honest.

They're already making up the story

of what they're going to say,

of what happened.

And in fact, you know,

prior to getting bombed

when we were being protested,

they were making all kinds of stuff up.

Now, a lot of the stuff they said were true.

Okay?

You know, I did say

they won't find us here in the ghetto.

You can quote me on that.

Okay?

I did say that pedophiles and homos

should be put to death.

Good with that.

But some of the other stuff they were saying

is just like, I don't think I ever said that.

You know, like, the main person,

you know, was coming up and saying,

he's part of the International Federation Baptist.

I'm like, dang, I'm international.

She said, oh, IFB.

Like, the dumb broad

didn't even do her homework

to figure out what IFB even meant.

It was just like, IFB,

International Federation Baptist.

Sounds like a wrestling thing or something.

Well, let me just say this.

You know, evil people

do no homework

when it comes to stuff like that.

It's like Paul Winberg, right?

You know, he made this film

and then he's like adding Pastor Stuckey on there,

but he can't even get the name of the church right.

And this is supposed to be

just this great investigative documentary

exposing the man of God.

The guy can't even get his facts straight.

It's ridiculous.

You know, the International Federation Baptist.

I was like, man, I'm known internationally, apparently.

But they don't care.

They don't care about the facts.

They just want to, you know,

hire men of the baser sort.

They want to accumulate

all these false accusations

to rile up the population

to get people to just hate you.

And unfortunately, in the day and age in which we live,

it's not hard to rile people up.

Online.

They don't need any facts to rile people up.

You could just make videos,

especially with AI now,

and just boomers believe it, right?

Gen Xers, boomers,

and millennials will believe it.

You know, just like,

now all of a sudden,

all of a sudden the ice wall

is just clearly seen now, isn't it?

It's like, oh, so many clear footage,

so much clear footage of the ice wall.

Now, how convenient.

Now the AI is just so good.

Now the ice wall is just present or something, right?

And that's not the only thing.

They do this for everything.

And you know what?

Boomers are just like, I knew it.

Skinwalkers, I knew it.

Look at this clear footage of skinwalkers.

They don't need the actual facts.

They don't need any legitimate footage.

They're willing to believe just anything, okay?

And so they're conspiring against him.

It says in verse 20,

come now therefore let us slay him.

Cast him into some pit.

That's actually verse 21.

And Reuben heard it,

and he delivered him out of their hands

and said, let us not kill him.

And Reuben said into them,

shed no blood,

but cast him into this pit

that is in the wilderness

and lay no hand upon him

that he might rid him out of their hands

to deliver him to his father again.

So, you know,

Reuben's not necessarily the most moral guy

as we saw in the previous chapters.

But, you know, he has his limits.

And one thing he's not willing to cross

is the boundary of murdering his brother.

So he's trying to act like he's going along

with the conspiracy,

but he's like, well, let's not kill him.

Just put him in this pit.

But in his mind,

he's going to come back

and deliver him out of the pit

once the brothers are gone

and then bring him back to his dad.

It says in verse 23,

and it came to pass

when Joseph was coming to his brethren

that they stripped Joseph out of his coat,

his coat of many colors that was on him,

and they took him and cast him into a pit.

And the pit was empty.

There was no water in it.

And they sat down to eat bread.

They lifted up their eyes

and looked and behold,

the company of Ishmaelites came from Gilead

with their camels,

barren, spicer and balm and myrrh,

going to carry it down to Egypt.

So, we see that they're stripping up of his garments

just as we see with Jesus Christ

when he was being taken to the cross.

They removed his garments.

They parted his garments.

They cast lot for his garments

just as they did with Joseph.

Verse 26,

What profit is it

if we slay our brother

and conceal his blood?

Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites

and let not our hand be upon him

for he is our brother

and our flesh

and his brethren were contempt.

So, this is really sad.

You know, they're basically

going to sell him into slavery.

Think about this.

You're 17 years old.

You're literally just doing what your dad

asked you to do.

And then your brothers

first conspired to kill you.

But then they're like,

well, what good is that to us?

We don't benefit from that.

Let's just sell him.

It's super sad.

Now, obviously we've read the story

and hopefully you've already

read the book of Genesis.

But you can see why this is so emotional

at the very end, right?

When Joseph can just, like,

kill them all.

He could just, like,

off all of them

because he's remembering all this.

He was sold into slavery

literally taken out of the country

out of his nation

away from his loving father

from his family

just because his brother

envied him.

It says in verse number 29

and Reuben returned unto the pit

and behold Joseph was not in the pit

and he rent his clothes

and he returned to his brother

and said, the child is not

and I, where the shall I go?

And they took Joseph's coat

and killed the kid of the goats

and dipped the coat in the blood

and they sent the coat of many colors

and they brought it to their father

and said, this have we found

no now, whether it be

thy son's coat or no.

So, this is the lie they're coming up with

and obviously this is a picture

of the fact that, you know,

you have the coat of many colors

that represents the kindreds,

tongues and nations

being dipped in the blood

of Jesus Christ and in fact,

you have in Revelation 19

the garment that Jesus Christ is wearing

is dipped as a vesture as

there was dipped in blood,

the Bible says, right?

So they do that, they remove that,

they conspire, they lie about it

and this is exactly

what the nation of Israel did

when Jesus Christ resurrected

out of the pit, right?

They conspired to lie,

they made up a story

that they stole his body away,

you know, and their pain off,

the Roman soldiers to basically

go with that narrative

because they're just lying about it.

Now, put yourself in Jacob's shoes, right?

When you hear this report

that a beast killed your son,

that's what they're

basically implying here.

It says in verse number 33

and he knew it

and said, it is my son's coat

and evil beast had devoured him.

Joseph is without doubt

rent in pieces.

So we obviously see that

they sell Joseph to the

Ishmaelites for 20 pieces of silver

just as Jesus Christ was also

sold by Judas

for 30 pieces of silver as well, right?

You have that same,

that parallel there.

Verse 35 says in all his sons

and all his daughters rose up to come for him

but he refused to be comforted

and he said, for I will go down

into the grave unto my son

mourning thus his father

wept for him. So this is really sad, you know?

He's under this impression

that Joseph is dead,

that he's been mauled by an animal

and eaten by an animal

and Joseph, just in a moment's notice

life changed for him.

Life completely changes from him.

And you think to yourself like

why would this happen? Why would God allow this to happen to Joseph, right?

And the conclusion is this

God can't override

the will of man.

The evil will of man

they're going to carry out

whatever it is that they want to do.

Obviously we can bank on the protection of God

but at the end of the day

God has given free will to man

to do evil things

and we can rely upon

the protection of God. But we also have to realize

that if we are

the recipients of someone else's evil will

we know for a fact

that all things still work together for good

to them that love God. To them who are the called

according to his purpose.

Because man a lot of evil was done. We're going to see over the next couple chapters

obviously 38 has nothing

to do with Joseph, you know?

But over the next couple of chapters

we're going to see a lot of evil that's done to Joseph

like just, he's just wrong

time and time again

just lied about

forgotten

abandoned, right? Just

absolutely defrauded

just being wrong. But what happens each time

the Lord is with Joseph.

And look folks

if someone does evil unto you

you better make

sure that the Lord is with you.

If you wanted to work together

for good

if you wanted to end like Joseph's story

you better make sure that the Lord is with you

because I'm telling you right now

there's Christians who people have done evil to

but because they're not walking with God

they don't have God with them

they don't have God's blessing

they just end in that situation

and what happens they become bitter

resentful

out of the will of God

lives are destroyed and they become this

byword and proverb of a person

who is just simply the innocent recipient

of someone else's evil deeds

you know we don't know the future

we don't know what's going to happen in our personal lives

but we do know that there's evil people out there

and you know what sometimes they're just

not restrained they can mess with

us they can do evil unto us

they can wrong us and you know what

we can't control that all we

can control though is if the Lord is with us or not

your primary goal as a Christian

should always be to make sure that

God is with you and I'm not

saying like say God is with you

that doesn't make God with you

I know the Lord

there's a bunch of unsay people that say that stuff

only God can judge me

yeah we know that's why you're in hell

Tupac

you know oh man

I just know that the Lord is with me

are you sure about that

you sure about that

you better make sure you're abiding in the vine

you better make sure you're in church

you better make sure you're reading the Word of God

better make sure that you're praying

better make sure that you're obeying the commandments of the Lord

better make sure you're keeping your heart clean

you better make sure that you are

walking with God

you're in agreement with the Lord because

can two walk together except to be agreed

be in agreement with the Lord

and his commandments

make sure that you're serving the Lord

so you can say with confidence

the Lord is with me

and look you're gonna need that

sometime this year

you're gonna go through a situation

I'm like man I don't know if the Lord is with me or not

you know

why do you not believe he's with you

well because I'm involved in sin

well yeah that'll do it

you better make sure you repent

better make sure you get right with God

you better make sure you know what the will of the Lord is

I mean the Bible literally says

be not unwise

but understanding what the will of the Lord is

see that you walk

circumspectly not as fools

but as wise the Bible says

saying that the Lord is with me

is not enough my friends

the Bible specifically says

you better make sure that you're wise

you walk circumspectly

that you understand what the will of the Lord is

and you understand

what God requires of you

you better make sure that you're obedient to the Lord

to make sure that the Lord is with you

and you know what

Joseph is wrong for years

but the Bible just constantly tells

the Lord is with Joseph

the Lord is with Joseph

the Lord is with Joseph

and so you know

we're going to be taking through a pretty crazy trip

a gnarly trip for Joseph

and we see his emotions

and everything that takes place

but the overarching theme of Joseph

is like God is just with him

throughout every single step

and look just keep in mind that with Joseph

this happened over a span of a couple decades

so if you're in a situation

where you're going through a hard time

just remember Joseph went through a hard time

for a long time

you know

and without having the written word of God

there's only

the prophetic word of God right

the verbal word of God there was no written Bible

at this particular time

you have the written word of God

verse 36 says in the Median nights

sold him into Egypt

unto Potiphar

an officer of Pharaohs

and a captain of the guard

and I love how the Bible is written

it just kind of leaves us with that cliffhanger going into chapter 38

and then of course 39 is where we

pick up with Potiphar

what's the point of the chapter here

the point of the chapter is that

God ended up using Joseph

in such a great manner

through all this whole situation

this whole debacle

to demonstrate that the Lord is with him

and he ended up using him to be a

typology of Jesus Christ

Joseph didn't know that

he didn't know that

everything that was happening to him

was supposed to represent the Lord Jesus Christ in the future

you know he didn't know that

Judah was supposed to be the one

to really represent the Lord Jesus Christ

but obviously

chapter 38 he messes that up

so God ends up turning his attention

towards Joseph

and Joseph just ends up becoming this beautiful picture

of Jesus and everything that he went through

and so let's pray

Father we thank you so much for your word

thank you for the life of Joseph

and help us to recognize

Lord the importance

of just prophesying

dreaming

having a vision of the word of God

but recognizing that not everyone

who hears the dream is going to like it

not everyone who hears the vision

is going to approve of it

and in fact not only will people hate us for it

the Bible also says

that they will envy us for it

and they're going to be willing to take

some extreme measures

to shut us up

and I pray that if anything Lord

that we learn from tonight is that

we have you with us every step of the way

and maybe something

that we're confident in on a daily basis

help us Lord as we

learn from the life and the chronicles here of Joseph

to apply these principles to our lives

in Jesus name we pray amen