Fear (False Evidence Appearing Real): Fear of Rejection (Part 2)

In today's message, Apostle Townsend continued with the message titled FEAR  (False Evidence Appearing Real). His thought was still To fear anything or anyone is to make them your god, and he continued to ask the question "Who or what scares you the most?" referencing Job 3:25.  The subcategory that he began teaching on was the fear of rejection and he taught on the fear, or pressure, of social familiarity and family rejection.

Transcript

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Greeting sisters and brothers of Christ. Today's service was on the continuation of fear, false evidence appearing real. The thought was to fear anything or anyone is to make them your God. Ask yourself while listening, who or what cares you the most?

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Amen. Glory to God. We are thankful to God for the service thus far. I won't prolong the time. We'll get straight into the word of God. And you know, I don't know if you guys have noticed, but your preacher has been under an hour on a regular basis. Hallelujah. Uh, even some cases under 45 minutes. Hey, glory. And so we're gonna get started uh this morning and try to get this thing out to you and move on as as swiftly as possible, but we're not gonna rush the Holy Ghost. If God gets loose and get busy, uh, we'll be here a minute. That's that's not up to me. Hallelujah. So again, let's read from Psalms 34, verses 1 through 4. We're talking about fear or false evidence appearing as something that's real or something that we should really give creden to or lend our attention to, which is actually a lie. It's a lie, okay? Uh, for anything or anyone, excuse me, to fear anything or anyone is to make them your little G-O-D. Okay. And do you actually know what scares you most? Do you actually know what scares you most? Sometimes we don't know until we're confronted with it. Glory to God. So in Psalm 34, 1 through 4, the word of God says, uh, David says, I will bless the Lord at all times. Somebody say all times. Let me read that again. I will bless the Lord at all times, his praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul shall make its boast in the Lord. The humble shall hear of it and be glad. Oh, magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together. Then here it is. I sought the Lord, David says, and he heard me and delivered me from all my fears. I sought the Lord, he heard me and delivered me from all my fears. That is the fear of rejection, the fear of failure, the fear of people, and the parent or the mother of all fears fought. F O D, the fear of death. Father God, in the name of Jesus, guide my heart, my mind, and my tongue. Lord God, allow me to not give any unnecessary commentary. But Lord God, only that which you are preordained for this time.

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Thank you, Jesus.

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Now may the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my strength and my redeemer in Jesus' name. Amen. So we said to you that we believe, according to first uh first Timothy chapter, oh, excuse me, I think it's 2 Timothy chapter 1, verse 7. Uh, somebody fight check me on that. 2 Timothy chapter 1 verse 7, that the Lord has not given unto us the spirit of fear, but of power, of love, and of a sound mind, which tells me that Satan desires to take us or render us powerless with fear. He wants us to fall out of love because of fear, amen. And he wants us to lose our mind because of fear. So God is telling us what the spirit of fear comes to do and what it's for. So, first of all, to rent to neuter me, to render me powerless. Thank you, sweetheart. It is 2 Timothy chapter 1, verse 7. Thank you, sweetheart. I always love a fact check. Okay, so to render us powerless, to get us out of the spirit of the power of God, to get us to move into our own power, which against him is guess what? You might as well you might as well consider yourself as having no power at all. Okay. So he says, you know, James said, Submit to God, resist the devil, and then he will flee. There's no resisting the devil without first submitting to God. Come on, somebody. A lot of times you hear the quote, resist the devil and he'll flee. Listen, not if you don't have any power to overcome him. He ain't going nowhere. Okay, so that's why we got to make sure we stay with the text where it says, submit to God, then you will be enabled, right? You will be able to resist him. And then he's gonna take off and go somewhere else where he can find somebody else who will humble themselves to his fear and allow him to become their God. Now, these four forms of fear that my bishop taught in his lifetime, he taught four F-O-R, the fear of rejection, thoth, F-O-F, the fear of failure, thought, F-O-P, the failure, excuse me, the fear of people, and thod, f O D, the fear of death. Now, every type of fear is to bring us to the the level of fear to where we fear death. I actually believe that the way I'm sharing these different types of demonic activity about fear, the in the order that I'm delivering them to you. And that's the thing about the apostolic. The apostolic, we love order, amen. We love to help people to be able to build from the ground up, not from the ceiling down, but from the ground up. And so is the fear of rejection, right? The fear of rejection. We talked about how between the ages, uh, they call it toddlehood, which is a word I never used before. Toddlehood from the ages of three to five is when we are first presented or introduced to the fear of rejection when they Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, they wouldn't let him play in any reindeer games. Come on, somebody. And so there are times that when we want to be a part and we want to play, but they exclude us. And that thing will stick with you. And if you ain't careful, that thing will stay with you. And I'm so thankful and grateful to the mothers who are always giving positive reinforcement uh to their children. My wife told my sons when they were little boys, you're kings, you're kings, you're kings. And by golly, they believed it. They are glory to God, and to this day they walk in that. Hallelujah. I didn't say they walk straight all the time, but I say they walk in that confidence that came from mama. Then there is the fear of failure. We get to the place to where, glory to God, where we just feel like it's gonna be the end of the world if we ever fail. But be believe it or not, believe it or not, a winner is just an individual who lost enough and didn't quit. Ah, glory to God. What'd you just say, preacher? I say a winner is really just an accessful, a successful uh failure. In other words, you lose long enough, you're gonna hit it sooner or later. A broke clock is right twice a day. Come on, somebody. There's gonna come a time when you're gonna be right on time and you're gonna get it right, even if it lasts for a hot New York minute. And then there's the fear of people. We have to come to the place to where we don't listen, we're not moved by the crowd. We're moved by the cloud. Come on, somebody, we're not the children of Israel, they weren't moved by the crowd, they were moved what by the cloud. Glory to God, and then the fear of death. This is the mother of all fears, but this is actually what the enemy is trying to build your fear level up to. See, the very thing that Jesus came and did, which he overcame the grave. Come on, somebody, he overcame the grave. The enemy knows he can't just start there, so he starts and he works his way up and builds up your level of fear. But he gives you a little bit at a time and he starts when you start trying to walk, and there's no father on the other side when the mom releases the child to start walking, or there's no mother on the come on, somebody, there's no mother on the other side, so the child don't have nobody to look at. Remember when Peter was walking on water, as long as he kept his eyes on Jesus, come on, somebody, as long as he kept he did not sink. He didn't start to sink until he took his eyes off Jesus, he didn't start to fail until he glory to God, until he took his eyes off Jesus. Most children will walk sooner if they got both parents, one behind them and one in front of them. Glory to God. They know where they're coming from and they can see where they're going. Oh man, I'm preaching myself something kind of happy already. They see where they're coming from, they feel where they're coming from, they know they're coming from a place of love, and they walk into the Father. Come on, somebody, and they walk. Oh man, see, see what y'all did? Let me get out of there. So the fear of rejection, the fear of rejection, just in the way of a rehearsal. Social rejection begins as early as toddlehood and preschool around three to five years old, when children first start to engage in complex peer play, the reindeer games. Research shows that kids this age can actively exclude others from games or groups, and they already possess the cognitive or the mental ability or capacity to recognize and feel distressed by this exclusion. Glory to God. We got to keep the babies in prayer. The human brain is wired. Watch this now. The human brain is wired to process social disconnection as pain very early on, meaning the emotional distress of being left out is felt as soon as social awareness develops. So he comes early, Satan, he comes early and often. Somebody said with me, Satan comes early and often. Satan comes what? He comes early and often. Glory to God. So even if God allows you to run him off, he's coming back. I say what he he's coming back. And so we talked on last week, we spoke to you on last week about how Jesus got separated from his mom and dad, right? He got separated from his parents when they went down to Jerusalem for the senses or to be counted. Amen. And then later on they found him and he kind of you know rebuked his own mother when he said, Mom, did you not know that I must what? Be about my father's business. And then he asked his mom, he said, Why did you seek me? And I added in, I gave the commentary. Did you seek me for me? Or did you seek me for yourself? Did you seek me so I can do better? Or did you seek me so you can feel better? Come on, somebody. Hallelujah! Hallelujah. Because if you were seeking me so that I can do better, then you would know that I had to be about my father's business because that's how I'm gonna do better. Glory to God. And if I do better, and the Bible talks about how he went down, and even after that, he was subject to his parents. And I and I gave the caveat. I said, Listen, just because God gives you a revelation does not mean that you can step out of order, that you can now get out of line. Okay, just because God gave, I don't make me take you to uh to Peter. Peter in Matthew 16, around verse 13, when they were going coming into the region of Caesarea Philippi, and the Lord gave Peter the revelation of who Jesus was. The father gave Peter the revelation of who Jesus was, and not long after that revelation, he started rebuking Jesus and telling Jesus that he wasn't going to do the mission that the father gave him. Oh my god, isn't that something? Isn't that something? So we understand that Jesus went down and was subject to his parents, and he grew in stature, wisdom, and knowledge, favor. He grew and he grew and he grew. See, revelation is not growth, revelation is information from God. Okay, hallelujah. Because listen, God won't give me a revelation until I can actually handle it.

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Come on. Now you say that something right now.

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So God gave, oh my God. So God gave Jesus, he had the revelation of what he was supposed to be doing, but he was still able to control himself or to manage himself to where he didn't get uh uh disrespectful and disobedient and insubordinate to his parents. Jesus is our what? He's our mentor, our model, and our motivator. So now we want to begin to talk about watch this being rejected by your family. Not listen, that that just doesn't include your mom and daddy. Okay, now we're talking about your siblings also. Not only that, we're talking about folks from the hood, folks from the crib, folks where you grew up. Glory to God. Because whenever you go back where you grew up and you're not what you were when you left, they're gonna have a problem with that. I say they're gonna have a problem with that. Glory to God. And even if they don't speak it, it's in their heart. We'll close with that later. Even if they don't tell you, they're seething, they're seething because they see something in you, like I said earlier, that's not in them.

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You gotta preach it, sir.

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And so they gotta try to back you down, they gotta try to punk you down, they gotta try to bring you down. Glory to God, because they already down, and so if they can't listen, if they can't lift themselves up, they want to bring you down so they can feel like they up. But everybody just going low, that's all that's happening. Everybody going low, lower, lower. Okay, okay, the fear, or if you will, the pressure of social familiarity and family rejection. That's what we're gonna talk about today. We only got one more Sunday to talk to y'all about this fear of rejection, and we should be able to move on, all right? To the fear of uh failure. We should we should be able to move on to five, but let's finish with uh four. The fear, or if you will, not throwing parenthetically, the pressure of social familiarity and family rejection. Write this down what I'm about to say, because this happens in every case. Familiarity breeds contempt. Let me say that again. Familiarity breeds contempt. Listen, I work with so many people over the years, and I've given too much to some people. I've spent too much time with some people, I've made myself available, I've given access to myself because I'm just the giver, I'm just the lover, I'm just the kind of person that wants to see everybody succeed. But everybody is not with me for the same or the right reasons. Hello, hello, and if they stay with you long enough, my bishop used to teach the wolf, the wolf spirit, he can run long. In other words, he can stay with you a long time and then all of a sudden turn around and bite you. And when he bites you, you never saw it coming. That's the wolf spirit. How many of y'all remember the uh the old fable where there was a scorpion and there was a frog? There was a scorpion and there was a frog. And here is the scorpion at the riverbank wanting to cross, but he cannot swim. And so he sees Mr. Frog, whom he knows can swim and does very well in the water, and he says, Mr. Frog, are you going over? Mr. Frog says, I always go over and back because I'm a frog, I can do that. I got it like that. And so Mr. Scorpion says, Well, the next time you go over, can I catch a ride on your back? And Mr. Frog says, No, sir, you may not, because you are a scorpion, and if I give you a ride on my back, you're going to sting me and we'll both drown. The scorpion said to Mr. Frog, Listen, why would I kill myself? I do, oh my god, I'm feeling something. Why would I kill myself? Why would I drop a lot of poking and prodding? Mr. Frog bought in and gave Mr. Scorpion a ride. What do you know? They get to the middle of the river, and Mr. Scorpion stings him, and they're both sinking. And Mr. Frog says, I thought you told me, you told me over and over again that you would stay with me, that you wouldn't do this to me, that you wouldn't sting me, that you wouldn't kill us both. He, Mr. Scorpio, says, I meant what I said when I said it, but I'm a scorpion, and scorpions always sting.

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You see that?

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So even though some people mean it when they tell you, I'll be with you, Apostle, I'm gonna be with you, Apostle, I'll never leave you nor forsaken. At the time, they actually believed it until it was time to cross the river. Oh man, I'm feeling something. Oh Lord, I'm feeling something. And so why? Because the spirit of familiarity will always breed contempt. No matter how long a person is with you, there's always the possibility that they're holding some level of contempt for you. Especially if you hold a position that they think they should have. Especially if they hold a position, glory to God. If you hold a position that they think now they have moved past you, sir, glory to God. Oh, I pray not to give too much commentary. Let me move on. Because I feel the spirit saying to me, You're doing some things now, son. Okay, so we can read of the Lord's reception by his own hometown folk and family once his public ministry had begun. They didn't really bother him until he had fans. What Jesus had fans? Well, if you read in Matthew chapter 4, it talks about and Luke how his fame went out. See, some people are not followers or disciples, some people are fans. When they think a preacher going somewhere. Come on, somebody. When they think a preacher got something. So we see here in Mark chapter 1, excuse me, forgive me, Mark chapter 6, verses 1 through 6, it says this. Then he went out from there and came to his own country. And his disciples followed him. Are you there? Mark chapter 6, verse 1 through 6, verse 2. And when the Sabbath had come, he began to teach in the synagogue. And many hearing him were astonished, saying, Where did this man get these things? He's back at he's back home now. He's back on the block, uh Elder Rory. And they're wondering, he didn't leave here like this, but he's coming back with some stuff that he didn't leave with. Glory to God. Where did this man get these things? And what wisdom is this which is given to him? That such mighty works are performed by his hands. Is this not? Here comes the contempt. Here comes the revealing of the contempt, uh, Ebony. Is this not the carpenter? He they're bringing him down, they're trying to bring him down in their minds, the son of Mary and brother of James, Joseph, Judas, and Simon. And are not his sisters here with us? So I throw him parenthetically, who does he think he is? So they were what? Offended at him. But Jesus said to them, I throw him parenthetically, not expecting nothing else but this. He says, A prophet is not without honor except in his own country, among his own relatives, and in his own house. We'll talk about that next week when we talk about the spouse. We'll talk about Job and his wife. So it's not just about the whole glory to God. This, see what I'm trying to get you, see, this thing gets closer and closer and closer. If Satan can't get you to quit and to want to ball up in the fetal position and die from other children as you're in your adolescence and childhood, then he'll Try to do it with your siblings in your family. Then he'll try to do it sometimes with your own parents. Come on, somebody. And if none of that works, he's gonna try to get you with your community. He's gonna try to get you with your community, but he's just building up this thing. He's just building up this thing, he's just getting you to a place. See, when you were in in toddlerhood, toddlerhood, he was laying a foundation. He was laying a he copies God with everything. He was laying a foundation. And once the foundation was laid, then he goes and he builds on that fear until he builds a fear edifice in your heart or in your soul or in your mind. That then the Peter principle comes into effect. What is the Peter principle? It means to go this far and go no further. It means that you reach the ceiling. But God is saying, I'm gonna break that glass ceiling if you allow me to be the leader, to be the mentor, the model, and the motivator in your life. We're gonna break through that glass ceiling that the enemy has been building this house of fear all these years. Glory to God. Then it says here in verse number five in uh Mark chapter six. Now he could, oh my god, they don't know. Listen, you're hindering your own blessing. Now he could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people or a few sick folk and healed them. And he marveled because of their unbelief. He marveled because of their unbelief. Then he went about the villages in a circuit teaching. So, what are you saying? Exactly what you're hearing. We ain't called everybody. We must get the revelation of a difference that everywhere and to everyone we are not called. To everywhere and to everyone, we are not called. We must learn to speak only where we can be heard. We need to get the revelation that we must get the revelation of a difference that to everywhere and to everyone we are not called. We must learn to speak only where we can be heard. Some people, watch this now, even though they want to hear you, they can't hear you because they've been blinded and they've been deafened to the word of God. That's what sin does for you. It dulls your senses, it dulls your senses. So in 2 Corinthians chapter 4, verses 1 through 6, it reads this. Therefore, since we have this ministry, Paul says, Again, everybody, you can't, you ain't gonna get through. You ain't gonna get through to everybody. And it's not because you're not a good preacher, it's not because you're not a good witness, it's not because you don't have the right testimony, it's not because you don't have the right words. The devil got there first. What'd you say? I say the devil got, and he's been building that edifice in that person's heart, in that person's mind, in that person's spirit all this time. By the time you get there, it's bigger than what you can release. Oh, I'm feeling something, man. I'm feeling something. Therefore, Paul says in 2 Corinthians chapter 4, verse 1 through 6 Therefore, since we have this ministry, we got this ministry now, as we have received mercy, we do not lose heart trying to minister to everybody. Verse 2 but we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the what? Truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are already, I thought parenthetically already perishing, whose minds, pick this up in the spirit, whose minds, the little G-O-D, the little G-O-D, the God of this age has blinded, who do not believe, least the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them. For we, I'm talking about us, those on the right hand of God. For we we didn't talk about goats, we're talking about the sheep in verse 5. For we do not preach ourselves, but we preach Christ Jesus the Lord and ourselves your bondservants for Jesus' sake. For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. So let me read verse number three again. But even if our gospel is veiled, are you seeing this in 2 Corinthians chapter 4, verse 3? He says, But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. See, when you were coming up, your siblings, your mom, your people back home, they should have got that stuff out their heart then. So by the time God sends you back, oh, we're almost done. But by the time God sends you back, because they haven't done their own work. Come on, somebody, because they haven't done their own work. See, we all gotta do our own work. Nobody can do my work for me. I got to listen, I have to become self-aware. I have to come to the revelation of my own shortcomings and my inabilities. Glory to God. I gotta I gotta make peace with that, and and then I gotta take a piece of God and put it on that. Come on, somebody, but I gotta make peace with my own shortcomings and my own dysfunctions, and I gotta seek God and I gotta seek out the necessary help. I gotta do my own work. Somebody's saying, Do you believe in uh psychologists and psychiatrists? Well, if you believe in mental health, glory to God. I'm not gonna tell you not to go to the doctor if you have pancreatitis. I'm not gonna tell you not to go to the doctor if you have some physical illness. Well, I'm not gonna tell you not to go to the shrink if you have some mental illness. Oh, come on, somebody. We know Jesus is first, but come on, Jesus might use their help, he might want to use their help. He might be in there, he he might be the one pulling the strings. When we pray, when somebody's going into surgery, we pray that God guide their their hands, that God guide their mind. Come on, somebody, you ain't a doctor, I'm not a doctor. We didn't go to school for this stuff. We got to go to the professional, we got to go to the subject matter expert if we want God to be oh hallelujah. Unless He's gonna perform a miracle by the laying on of hands, by the speaking of his word. He may want to perform the miracle by doing something with the doctor and showing that doctor something that the doctor never learned in school. That's also hello, that's also a miracle. Oh, by the way. We gotta stop. Watch this now. We gotta watch and be careful of what we what our expectations are as far as what a miracle is. We gotta stop trying to tell God what a miracle is. When I know something that I didn't know that helps me in my life, that was a miracle for me. So he's still working miracles. Glory to God. I say he's still working miracles. Now, also, I want to talk to you about something else. Because why in the world does God allow us to go through some of the things we go through? Why in the world does God allow us to be rejected and hurt and downtrodden? Have you ever asked yourself that question? I know I have. I know I have. But I believe a little insight by hindsight could reveal for us one of the major reasons the Lord allows family rejection. Watch this now, an alienation of affection. I believe it's for our own protection. Let me say that again because somebody thinks I'm just trying to wrap. I believe a little insight by hindsight could reveal for us one of the reasons the Lord allows family rejection and alienation of affection, it's for our own, in many cases, protection. So rejection, Kim, is sometimes for protection. Because there's some people that if they hadn't rejected you, you would have never got to where God wanted you to be. You would have stayed right there with them. See, because watch this now, you chose them, you chose to be around them, so that's why you feel rejected. You wanted to be accepted. God may not have put them in your life, you may have inserted yourself into their life. Which means when you came to them, they saw you coming and they knew that they had something, or you suspected that they had something that you wanted. So you've already given them the control without you even knowing it. It happened to me, and guess what? It can happen to any of us. Remember, even Jesus was betrayed, he had 12 disciples, and one of them was a devil. So as soon as you start saying it can never happen to me, I think it already has. I remember I was sitting up talking to this senior apostle, and uh I told him things I shouldn't have told him. Uh-oh. I told him things I should not have told him. And and some years later, the Lord he he flashed that back. He took me in the spirit. Remember, hindsight is 2020. He flashed me back to the day that I met this guy and sat down, and and and and the Lord said, See, right there, you told him everything he needed to be deceptive. You trusted too quick, son. You released too much. Glory to God. In other words, what are you saying, Apostle? Everybody ain't for me. I don't care how long they come or how long they stand. I have to tell people over and over again, oh, I've been with you since so and so and so. Longevity does not automatically equate to legitimacy. Just because you've been here, don't mean you actually have been here. It never matters what state you're in, it only matters what state you're in. Glory to God. Let me get out of there. Look, let's look at the amplified Bible version from Genesis chapter 37, verses 1 through 6, as we close. Did y'all hear that? As we close. So Jacob, that is Israel, this is Genesis 37, verses 1 through 6. And we're looking at the amplified Bible version. When you have it, just look up at me. Give me a thumbs up. See, I really need you to follow me on this. Thank you, son. So here we go. Verse 1, Genesis chapter 37, amplified version. Not amplified, classic, not New King James Version, Amplified Bible version. For somebody to say he ain't reading what that says. So Jacob, that is, in parentheses, Israel, lived in the land where his father Isaac had been a stranger, sojourner, resident, alien in the land of Canaan. These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, when he was seventeen years old, I should say seventeen years young, was shepherding the flock with his brothers, that is, with Dan, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. The boy was with the sons of Bilha and Zilpha, his father's secondary wife. See, that's why we don't need a whole lot of wives right now. His secondary wives. And my wife just said, you know, that the polygamy, why is it always just the man getting to have a bunch of wives? Why don't come on, somebody? Why the wife can't have a bunch of husbands? That tells you right, that's it. Something is broke with that system. Glory to God. How many of y'all seen a polygamous marriage the other way where a woman got four or five husbands? It don't happen. It don't happen. So polygamy is another uh misogynistic foolishness uh doctrine. Come on, somebody. So here we wife and Joseph brought back a bad report about his brothers to his father. Verse 3. Now Israel, that is Jacob, loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age. And he made him a distinctive multicolored tunic. His brother saw, see, they pick up on it. His brother saw that their father loved Joseph more than all of his brothers, so they hated him and could not find it within themselves to speak to him on friendly terms. The Bible also says, I believe, in the original King James or even the new King James, they could not speak peaceably with him. What does this mean? If somebody keeps saying ugly stuff to you, it's something ugly in their heart towards you. When somebody, oh, I'm just joking. No, that's dog humor. No, that uh you trying to tell me what you really think of me and still be able to hang around me. Hello, somebody. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. Uh, I I can't say it the way my father-in-law used to say it, but I can say this, and y'all can pick up the rest. 99% of boo-boo is true. 99% of boo-boo is true. They just throw a crop against the wall to see what'll stick with you. Glory to God. Glory to God. So, so, so verse number five. Now Joseph dreamed a dream. Here it comes. Now, Joseph, are you in verse five? Genesis 37. Now Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his, he told it to the enemy, and they hated him even more. Glory to God, Lord, have mercy. It wasn't enough that the dad had a love for him, and the dad was showing favoritism to him, and his brothers had already noticed that. His brother, see, some things that we're doing as parents, we don't know how perceptive some of the other children are. That's why we got to be real careful, y'all. And even with the grand sugars and even with the great grand sugars, we got to be real careful. Glory to God. Because some people your heart just go to, some children your heart just go to in a different kind of way. But you got to conceal that. I'm not saying that's a sin. I'm not saying that's evil. You can't, like Dean Green say, I'm not in control of what I remember. You're not in control and what your heart goes to. Okay? Some things just gonna touch your heart in a different way, but you are in control of your flesh and what you do with it. Yeah, I am in control of that. Like the homosexual say, I'm not in control. I can't, God made me like this. Well, God made me like this for heterosexual, but I ain't sleeping around. Come on, somebody. You may not be in control of how you were made. Not saying I agree with it, it was made that way. Don't hear what I'm not saying, but you are in control of what you do with what's been made. Let me get out of there. That was free, but I gotta move on. He said to them in verse 6, please listen to the details of this dream which I have dreamed. And he told them the dream. And that telling them of that dream prematurely is what got him thrown in a pit. Really, it was supposed to get him killed. But one of his older brothers talked him out of it and said, What profit? In other words, if we're gonna kill him, we need to at least make some money off him. We need to at least take out a policy on him if he's gonna die, if we're gonna kill him. And so he said, Then they end up selling him, right? We know the rest of the story of how Joseph's brothers tried to destroy him and his future by selling him to traitors who brought Joseph down to Egypt to serve as a slave in part of his house. Joseph went down into a pit, then was taken down to Egypt in Genesis 3:9 and 1. You see how he just keeps going down. He keeps going down. Joseph was taken down into the prison, and everywhere he was taken down to, the Bible says that the Lord was with him.

unknown 39:37

Glory to God.

SPEAKER_00 39:40

Everywhere he was taken down to, the Bible says, and the Lord was with him. So you've been taken down, guys. You've been taken down, we've all been taken down, right? But the reason we are where we are right now is because the whole time we were down, God was down in there with us. Okay. So I'm gonna read the end of this matter, and Joseph is going to reveal to his brothers that it wasn't what they did, but it was what God was doing. Let me say that again. It's not what somebody did to me, it's what God is doing for me or doing in me. And guess what? Even sometimes he's doing what he's doing in me for the ones who are doing this to me. I just said something. Kim got that look. Sometimes what they're doing to me, God has allowed it because of what he's doing in me for them. Revelation of the difference. If we don't get this revelation, we're gonna stay upset with people who did us wrong.

unknown 40:46

Nah, nah.

SPEAKER_01 40:47

You mean tell me I got deep regular.

SPEAKER_00 40:50

And so God is clearly saying, I allow certain amounts of rejection for your protection, but not only yours for theirs. See what we do is we get the wrong heart with this stuff, and then the one that God was going to use, see, Joseph was a type of Christ. The one who goes to the see, Jesus went to the grave for me. That's why the Bible says he was the first fruit from the grave. Oh, I'm feeling something, and so God will allow pain in one that he has given the strength to endure, he will allow that pain so that this very ones who caused the pain, come on, somebody, under demonic influence, God still loved them and want to save them. And God used the one that they hurt how and how distraught were Joseph's brothers, the same ones who tried to kill him, the same ones who tried to destroy him, God using now, oh glory to God, to deliver them, to provide for them. Imagine how the hardness of their hearts must have melted. But all Joseph had to do was say, I'm gonna treat them just like they treated me. I'm gonna do to them now. I'm in, I'm in, I'm listening, I'm second in command of Pharaoh. Whatever I can have all their hands cut off. But he didn't do that, he didn't do that. I'm gonna read and close. And then y'all guys can the Holy Spirit can do the rest with your heart. Genesis 45, verses 1 through 11, New King James Version. After his brothers came down to Egypt because there was a famine, and Jacob sent them there to get some grain. This is what happened. Genesis 45 and 1. Then Joseph could not restrain himself because they didn't, he was so different, they his brothers didn't even recognize him. Then Joseph could not restrain himself before all those who stood by him, and he cried out, Make everyone go out from me. So no one stood with him while Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and he wept aloud, and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh they heard it through the doors, through the walls. That's how much he was crying and so glad to see his brothers that hated him. So then Joseph said to his brothers, I am Joseph. Does my father still live? But his brothers could not answer him, for they were dismayed in his presence. Their hearts was melting. Verse 4 And Joseph said to his brothers, Please come near to me. Joseph is letting them know I'm not gonna do what you do to you what you did to me. I'm not gonna do it. I'm not gonna return evil for evil, I'm gonna overcome evil with good. But that's the heart of Joseph. That's why God knows that He can allow certain things to happen to certain people because they have the heart of God. And God has guarded their heart. Proverbs 123, because through it will flow the issues of life. See, the issue right now is poverty, the issue right now is famine. The issue right now is starvation. So the issues of life are gonna flow through my heart. So my heart's gotta be right toward God because I don't know what God is setting up here. So they came near. Then he said, I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.

unknown 44:32

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 44:33

But now do not therefore be grieved or angry with yourselves, because you sold me here. Watch this now. For God sent me before you to preserve life. Verse 6. For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are still five years, he's prophetic now, in which there will be neither plowing nor harvesting. Verse 7, and God sent me before you to preserve a posterity for you in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. So now it was not you who sent me here, but God, and He has made me a father to Pharaoh and Lord of all Pharaoh's house and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt. Hurry and go up to my father and say to him, Thus says your son Joseph, God has made the Lord of all Egypt. God has made me, excuse me, Lord of all Egypt. Come down to me, do not tarry. Come, Dad, come quickly. You shall dwell in the land of Goshen, the best land, the greenest land. And you shall be near to me, you and your children, your children's children, your flocks and your herds, and all that you have. There I will provide for you. Least you and your household and all that you have come to poverty, for there are still five years of famine left. This thing is not over until God says it's over, and He took me into the world. Egypt was considered the world, we were considered the world. He took me from righteousness and holiness and put me in the world so that I could learn the world's system and come back and preserve the people of God.

unknown 46:33

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 46:39

Joseph is a type of Christ. What does Christ mean? Christ means anointed one, chosen one, the one that the Lord says to the minds and the ears and the hearts of man, this is my beloved son, in whom I'm well pleased. Hear ye him. See, if you got the right heart, God will give you the voice. If you got the right heart, God will give you the word. God can't trust his word to everybody. I heard my daughter talk earlier from Romans chapter 10, verse 17. Faith comes, oh, I feel something. Faith comes by what? Hearing and what? Hearing by the word of God. Faith comes by what? Hearing and what hearing by the word of God. So you may hear me read the word, but you got to hear the rhema in your spirit.

unknown 47:36

You got to.

SPEAKER_00 47:37

So we're not, and when you look this up, when you study this out, that hearing is not just talking about the written and spoken word of God, it's mainly talking about what you hear through a preacher, what you hear through rumor, what you hear through circulation of a message, not what you read, but what you heard in the ear that gave you special revelation. Father God, we thank you now when we pray, Lord God, that you would use us, Lord God. And if there's anything in my heart, and Lord God, I know that there is. I know I'm not right. Because you said in Jeremiah, I believe 17 and 9, that the heart is deceitful and desperately wicked. Who can know it? It's deceitful, it's desperate above all things, you say, who can know it? I can't even know my own heart. But God, you know my heart. You know my heart. That which is bitter and that which is sweet. Lord God, milk the sweet out of my heart and drain the bitter for disposal. Lord God, that I can be used to advance your kingdom in the earth in a crooked and perverse generation. In Jesus' name. Amen.