WEBVTT 00:00:00.261 --> 00:00:04.181 Let's appreciate the worship team. 00:00:04.181 --> 00:00:04.440 Amen. 00:00:04.440 --> 00:00:10.301 And you're looking good, better than yesterday and tomorrow. 00:00:10.301 --> 00:00:11.263 Yeah, you shine. 00:00:11.263 --> 00:00:16.184 Let's appreciate them once again for leading us so so well. 00:00:16.184 --> 00:00:20.699 May the Lord bless you and for those watching us online, karibu Sanna. 00:00:20.699 --> 00:00:26.417 We thank God that you could join us this evening. 00:00:26.417 --> 00:00:33.320 Uh, thank you for the blessing of the Lord, that a thousand elsewhere. 00:00:33.320 --> 00:00:40.743 So you are in the right place at the right time and God will minister to you in such a mighty and great way. 00:00:42.165 --> 00:00:43.643 I bring us a message today. 00:00:43.643 --> 00:01:00.780 As we focus on thanksgiving and just thanking God for keeping us and watching over us since the beginning of the year up to now, we have a reason to rejoice and we are set up for breakthrough. 00:01:00.780 --> 00:01:03.746 You are set up for breakthrough. 00:01:03.746 --> 00:01:06.680 That's where you say amen. 00:01:06.680 --> 00:01:34.305 Yes, you are set up for breakthrough because, as I read my Bible every day, I have never read any scripture that says and the Lord was defeated or the Lord could do exceedingly, abundantly, above all you can ask or think. 00:01:34.305 --> 00:01:45.001 So you know it's good for us to understand that that is the God we serve that is able to do exceedingly. 00:01:45.001 --> 00:01:47.182 He will exceed you in his goodness. 00:01:47.182 --> 00:01:54.024 Therefore, as we enter into this time of just the delivery of God's word. 00:01:54.024 --> 00:02:00.823 I want to say that God is your breakthrough, hallelujah. 00:02:00.823 --> 00:02:04.980 It doesn't matter the situation you face. 00:02:04.980 --> 00:02:10.109 Breaking through means God coming through for you in that situation. 00:02:10.109 --> 00:02:13.711 You are set up for breakthrough. 00:02:13.711 --> 00:02:25.582 Genesis 37 from verse 12 to 19 Genesis 37. 00:02:25.603 --> 00:02:33.528 Now his brothers have gone to grace their father's flocks near, near Shechem. 00:02:33.528 --> 00:02:41.461 And Israel say to Joseph as you know, your brothers are grazing the flocks near Shechem. 00:02:41.461 --> 00:02:45.463 Come, I'm going to send you to them. 00:02:45.463 --> 00:02:47.140 Very well, he replied. 00:02:47.140 --> 00:02:56.800 He also said to him go and see if all is right and bring a word back to me. 00:02:56.800 --> 00:03:00.981 Then he said, sent him off from the valley of Hebron. 00:03:01.342 --> 00:03:10.926 When Joseph arrived at Shechem, a man found him wandering around the fields and asked him what are you looking for? 00:03:10.926 --> 00:03:22.836 Are you wondering and and and asking yourself when will my breakthrough come? 00:03:22.836 --> 00:03:23.639 I'm telling you. 00:03:23.639 --> 00:03:26.881 He replied I'm looking for my brothers. 00:03:26.881 --> 00:03:30.700 Can you tell me where they are grazing their flocks? 00:03:30.700 --> 00:03:33.942 They have moved on from here. 00:03:33.942 --> 00:03:38.555 The man answered I had them say let's go to Dothan. 00:03:38.555 --> 00:03:43.401 So Joseph went after his brothers and found them near Dothan. 00:03:43.401 --> 00:03:54.461 But they saw him in the distance and before he reached Dothan he came to the house. 00:03:54.461 --> 00:04:01.764 Here comes that dream and they say to each other, continue to verse twenty. 00:04:01.764 --> 00:04:12.247 Come now, let's kill him and throw him into one of these systems and say that a ferocious animal devoured him. 00:04:12.247 --> 00:04:18.067 Then we'll see what becomes of his dreams. 00:04:19.430 --> 00:04:23.665 I think Joseph was being sent by his father. 00:04:23.665 --> 00:04:46.846 I'm trying to imagine, you know when, when you read the story of Joseph I don't want you to imagine what you will imagine that, after all, at the two prince of Egypt, you know, you, you already know I want you to work with me like you didn't know or like you are with Joseph at that particular moment. 00:04:46.846 --> 00:04:51.447 It will make a lot of people think that he was the sons of Jacob. 00:04:51.447 --> 00:04:55.252 He was the most loved, the most preferred of all the others. 00:04:55.252 --> 00:05:10.322 His father prepared for him a special quote which meant for him he was not going to be a shepherd, he was supposed to be the one who just asked about things how are things, how is everything happening? 00:05:10.322 --> 00:05:12.464 He was like a supervisor of the rest. 00:05:12.464 --> 00:05:18.317 So you will not go and take care of his father's ship because he had nothing to do. 00:05:18.317 --> 00:05:19.262 There is only. 00:05:19.262 --> 00:05:26.903 He had a court, he had authority at the authority of the father and therefore going to take care of his father's ship was beyond him. 00:05:26.903 --> 00:05:35.625 Therefore, the father sent him so that he can be able to, to bring feedback to the father about how his brothers are doing. 00:05:35.625 --> 00:05:39.723 I say again you are set up for a breakthrough. 00:05:39.723 --> 00:05:42.108 You are set up for a breakthrough. 00:05:46.019 --> 00:06:09.608 The story of Joseph Carver, statham, when Jesse sent David to go and take bread to his brothers at the battle front and when he was sent to take bread to his brothers at the battle front, that was a set up for his breakthrough. 00:06:09.608 --> 00:06:15.367 I say again, the story of Joseph Carver's 13 chapters of the book of Genesis. 00:06:15.367 --> 00:06:16.949 If you didn't know, 13 chapters. 00:06:16.949 --> 00:06:25.185 It is like the book of Second Corinthians, you know, and a whole book written because of one man. 00:06:25.185 --> 00:06:32.581 It is even has more chapters than the book of Galatians, philippians and other New Testament books. 00:06:32.581 --> 00:06:36.786 This is the story of a breakthrough, a person set up for breakthrough. 00:06:36.786 --> 00:06:40.963 I'm talking about his brothers. 00:06:40.963 --> 00:06:47.362 That was the set up for his breakthrough. 00:06:48.685 --> 00:06:50.550 Suppose that day you would have been told. 00:06:50.550 --> 00:06:52.050 You know, stay in the house. 00:06:52.050 --> 00:06:55.146 You know just. 00:06:55.146 --> 00:06:56.141 You know, lounge around. 00:06:56.141 --> 00:07:01.721 You know, feel good, because you're my favorite son, stay around here, let's have a good time. 00:07:01.721 --> 00:07:10.552 Nothing will have probably happened, but it was like we were doing. 00:07:10.552 --> 00:07:15.105 And remember, these eleven brothers didn't like him. 00:07:15.105 --> 00:07:19.528 It's like he was being set up to go among those who didn't like him. 00:07:19.528 --> 00:07:24.875 They were full of envy, they were jealous, and remember what we just read. 00:07:24.875 --> 00:07:27.862 They said here comes the dreamer. 00:07:27.862 --> 00:07:35.148 Let us kill him and let's see what will become of his dreams. 00:07:35.148 --> 00:07:43.242 You are going to be set in the pit, joseph in the pit and media. 00:07:43.242 --> 00:07:53.261 Give us Genesis thirty-seven from verse twenty-three to twenty-five, genesis thirty-seven from verse twenty-three to twenty-five. 00:07:53.625 --> 00:08:04.507 The Bible says when Joseph came to his the onythrope he was wearing and they took him and threw him in the cistern. 00:08:04.507 --> 00:08:07.019 The cistern was empty. 00:08:07.019 --> 00:08:08.523 There was no water in it. 00:08:08.523 --> 00:08:11.800 They sat down to eat their meal. 00:08:11.800 --> 00:08:16.180 They looked up and saw a caravan of fish in my lights, coming from Gilead. 00:08:16.180 --> 00:08:25.399 Their camels were loaded with spices, bam mir, and they were on their way to take them down to Egypt. 00:08:25.399 --> 00:08:35.263 You just say to his brothers what will we gain if we give our brothers, if we kill our brother and cover up his blood? 00:08:35.263 --> 00:08:39.985 Come, let's sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay our hands on him. 00:08:39.985 --> 00:08:44.485 After all, he's our brother, our own flesh and blood. 00:08:44.485 --> 00:08:45.899 His brothers agreed. 00:08:45.899 --> 00:09:03.018 When the media nights Marchant came by, his brothers, his brothers pulled Joseph up out of the cistern and sold him for 20 shekels of silver to the Ishmaelites who took him to Egypt. 00:09:05.375 --> 00:09:11.407 I can imagine Joseph coming and all of a sudden, there is hostility around him. 00:09:11.407 --> 00:09:23.464 The first thing they say is that they are going to kill him, they are going to destroy him, humiliated him, took his coat and took it apart. 00:09:23.464 --> 00:09:32.424 That was part of the breakthrough Humiliation at the place of your breakthrough. 00:09:32.424 --> 00:09:34.160 His brothers felt nothing. 00:09:34.160 --> 00:09:36.179 They had no emotions for him. 00:09:36.179 --> 00:09:37.423 They were numb. 00:09:37.423 --> 00:09:40.563 They were full of jealous, bitterness, anger. 00:09:40.563 --> 00:09:44.684 All this was vented on Joseph. 00:09:45.095 --> 00:09:48.524 For them, it was a moment to just vent their anger. 00:09:48.524 --> 00:09:51.383 It was a moment for them to show resentment. 00:09:51.383 --> 00:09:55.184 It was at a moment for them to just say who is this Joseph? 00:09:55.184 --> 00:09:57.841 What does he think he is? 00:09:57.841 --> 00:10:07.583 They humiliated him, they tore his coat, they disgraced him and threw him in the pit. 00:10:09.475 --> 00:10:23.424 Let me tell you, even when you are disgraced, even when you are humiliated, when God is with you, you are set up for breakthrough. 00:10:23.424 --> 00:10:39.748 Even when you are humiliated, even when they despise you, even when they say things about you, like they did with Joseph, it is set up for your breakthrough. 00:10:39.748 --> 00:10:48.488 For Joseph, at that particular moment, you can imagine how he felt. 00:10:48.488 --> 00:10:51.741 You can imagine the humiliation. 00:10:51.741 --> 00:10:54.720 I can imagine what they were discussing. 00:10:54.720 --> 00:10:56.304 Who are you At, aona, leo? 00:10:56.304 --> 00:10:59.965 You know he always thinks he is the one whose life we shall see. 00:10:59.965 --> 00:11:15.268 I can imagine the anger that was vented upon him, the tearing of his cloak, his gown, the one which was the identity of the love of the Father in him, and throwing him into the pit. 00:11:15.268 --> 00:11:22.167 Let me tell you, even in that humiliation, the dream was not lost. 00:11:22.167 --> 00:11:24.879 The dream was not lost. 00:11:24.879 --> 00:11:31.147 They were just doing the right thing, in spite of it being a humiliation. 00:11:31.147 --> 00:11:37.265 They were triggering Joseph to the place of his breakthrough. 00:11:38.514 --> 00:11:41.582 Your humiliation will turn into your honor. 00:11:41.582 --> 00:11:48.066 I say again your humiliation will turn around into an honor. 00:11:48.066 --> 00:11:56.149 When the fulfillment of God's purpose in your life comes, god will be exalted in your challenge. 00:11:56.149 --> 00:11:59.198 The breakthrough moment will come. 00:11:59.198 --> 00:12:04.087 Your few humiliation and pain is only for a moment. 00:12:04.087 --> 00:12:09.966 Paul says these momentary troubles, they are for a moment. 00:12:09.966 --> 00:12:16.066 They are not going to last, because we have a God who comes through for us. 00:12:17.934 --> 00:12:20.001 Do you know Jesus was also humiliated. 00:12:20.001 --> 00:12:24.063 Jesus was humiliated in John 19.23. 00:12:24.063 --> 00:12:26.240 Jesus was also humiliated. 00:12:26.240 --> 00:12:26.975 Do you know? 00:12:26.975 --> 00:12:31.629 He was stripped of his garment, the undergarments remaining. 00:12:31.629 --> 00:12:45.248 When the soldiers, the Bible says, crucified Jesus, they took his clothes, divided them into four shares, one for each of them. 00:12:45.248 --> 00:12:51.144 The undergarments remaining hey, the undergarments remaining. 00:12:51.144 --> 00:12:55.780 These garments were seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom. 00:12:55.780 --> 00:13:00.825 Let's not tear it, they say to one another. 00:13:00.825 --> 00:13:04.543 Let's decide by Lord who will get it. 00:13:04.543 --> 00:13:09.144 Even Jesus was humiliated. 00:13:09.144 --> 00:13:16.768 The moment of his humiliation was also the moment of his glory, hallelujah. 00:13:17.775 --> 00:13:23.807 Jesus was put on a cross and he died a shameful, humiliating death. 00:13:23.807 --> 00:13:36.522 Yet in the course of his death and suffering and pain, he became our breakthrough In every situation we shall ever face in this world. 00:13:36.522 --> 00:13:48.421 Jesus overcame the enemy, jesus overcame sin, jesus overcame death in his humiliation they buried him, thinking he will not be raised again. 00:13:48.421 --> 00:13:53.708 And on the third day the grave was broken. 00:13:53.708 --> 00:14:05.802 There was a breakthrough and Jesus today is seated at the right hand of the Father, interceding for your breakthrough. 00:14:05.802 --> 00:14:10.964 I say today again you are sent for a breakthrough. 00:14:10.964 --> 00:14:16.201 Will you be going through a humiliation? 00:14:16.201 --> 00:14:25.447 Take heart, focus on God and not on those who are humiliating you. 00:14:25.447 --> 00:14:35.328 Don't allow bitterness and anger and resentment to control or take control of you. 00:14:35.328 --> 00:14:43.703 Let the Holy Spirit minister patience, let the Holy Spirit minister kindness to you. 00:14:43.703 --> 00:14:50.087 Let the Holy Spirit give you the love to share with those who are humiliating you. 00:14:50.087 --> 00:14:58.288 I say again your humiliation will be turned into honor because you are set up for a breakthrough. 00:14:59.615 --> 00:15:06.908 When they put him in the pit, they didn't know that there was a caravan coming of the Ishmaelites. 00:15:06.908 --> 00:15:14.207 They said, instead of killing him, why don't we sell him to the Ishmaelites? 00:15:14.207 --> 00:15:26.423 Unlike Jesus, who was sold for 30 pieces of silver, so was Joseph sold for some pieces of silver sold to the Ishmaelites? 00:15:26.423 --> 00:15:33.207 Now you can imagine Joseph in the pits being told talk a talk, get out of the pit. 00:15:33.207 --> 00:15:38.145 I know they were not telling him softly, they were telling him get out of the pit. 00:15:38.145 --> 00:15:40.081 Who do you think you are? 00:15:40.081 --> 00:15:57.835 And they handed him over to the Ishmaelites and they knew that from that very point, the dream he was dreaming about and the dreamers future and his breakthrough moment would never happen. 00:15:57.835 --> 00:16:07.518 I say again may your humiliation be turned into dignity because God is setting you up for breakthrough. 00:16:07.518 --> 00:16:16.653 Joseph in the pit was an example of humiliation that would later on turn into honor. 00:16:16.653 --> 00:16:27.722 But he was also set for breakthrough because if he didn't go to the pits, the Ishmaelites would not have been able to get him so that he gets to Egypt. 00:16:27.722 --> 00:16:31.443 It was still part of the grand plan of things. 00:16:31.443 --> 00:16:36.605 God set up all these things to happen at the appropriate time. 00:16:38.315 --> 00:16:43.927 Joseph in Potiphar's house Genesis 39, verse 2 and 2, 5,. 00:16:43.927 --> 00:16:45.471 The Lord was with. 00:16:45.471 --> 00:16:47.958 The Lord was with. 00:16:47.958 --> 00:16:57.460 I say the Lord was with Joseph so that he prospered and he lived in the house of the Egyptian masters. 00:16:57.460 --> 00:17:08.925 When his master saw that the Lord was with him and that the Lord gave him success in everything he did, joseph found favor in his size and become his attendant. 00:17:08.925 --> 00:17:19.136 Potiphar put him in charge of his household and he entrusted to his care everything he owned. 00:17:19.136 --> 00:17:34.486 From the time he put him in charge of his household and of all that he owned, the Lord blessed the household of the Egyptian because of Joseph. 00:17:34.486 --> 00:17:44.994 The blessing of the Lord was on everything Potiphar had, both in his house and also in his field. 00:17:44.994 --> 00:17:49.906 Potiphar left everything in the hands of Joseph's care. 00:17:49.906 --> 00:17:57.567 With Joseph's in charge, he did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate. 00:17:57.567 --> 00:18:01.234 Now Joseph was built and handsome. 00:18:01.335 --> 00:18:16.123 I don't want to continue to the other parts, but let me say this, amidst being taken after slaves now, I wanted to walk with me and imagine that there were many people buying slaves. 00:18:16.123 --> 00:18:21.058 Hello, many people are buying slaves. 00:18:21.058 --> 00:18:26.832 Probably there was this businessman who was operating from Alexandria. 00:18:26.832 --> 00:18:39.940 Probably there was this other one operating from Cairo, but there was Potipha, specially prepared by God that he would be the one to buy Joseph. 00:18:39.940 --> 00:18:44.295 Because Joseph had a destiny to accomplish. 00:18:44.295 --> 00:18:47.384 There was a breakthrough moment for him. 00:18:47.384 --> 00:18:50.794 Let me tell you you are set up for breakthrough. 00:18:50.794 --> 00:18:59.595 Are you seeing God setting up things for Joseph, bringing the Ishmaelites at the right time? 00:18:59.595 --> 00:19:06.237 Joseph is being sold as a slave and probably somebody from Alexandria said ah, I don't want that one. 00:19:06.237 --> 00:19:09.507 Maybe someone from Cairo said I don't want that one. 00:19:09.507 --> 00:19:12.253 But God had set up Potipha. 00:19:12.253 --> 00:19:23.474 God has set up Potipha that Potipha would be the one appointed to take Joseph as a slave in his house. 00:19:25.076 --> 00:19:30.605 Did you know that Joseph was not an Egyptian? 00:19:30.605 --> 00:19:34.170 Joseph was a Jew. 00:19:34.170 --> 00:19:38.196 Therefore, he was not speaking Egyptian language. 00:19:38.196 --> 00:19:41.423 He did not understand Egyptian culture. 00:19:41.423 --> 00:19:44.856 Therefore, he took time to learn the language. 00:19:44.856 --> 00:19:54.898 He took time to understand the culture and he began serving the family as a servant. 00:19:54.898 --> 00:20:01.835 You know, sometimes you'll be brought down to a certain level, but it is not for nothing. 00:20:01.835 --> 00:20:07.708 God is setting you up for a breakthrough, hallelujah. 00:20:07.708 --> 00:20:21.717 Probably if Joseph would have been bought by a businessman operating vehicles in Karyobangi or somewhere in Egypt, the dream would not have been accomplished. 00:20:21.717 --> 00:20:33.578 But God set apart Potipha, who was very close to the king, the one in charge of security. 00:20:33.578 --> 00:20:35.462 God picked him. 00:20:35.462 --> 00:20:42.439 He said you are my instrument, you are the one I have chosen to take care of Joseph. 00:20:42.439 --> 00:20:46.869 I say again you are set up for your breakthrough. 00:20:46.869 --> 00:20:54.204 Even when it doesn't seem so, you are set up for your breakthrough. 00:20:55.607 --> 00:20:59.375 We continue to read about Joseph and God favoring him. 00:20:59.375 --> 00:21:02.201 He was a man favored by God. 00:21:02.201 --> 00:21:06.853 Even in Potipha's house the Lord was with him. 00:21:06.853 --> 00:21:14.594 Let me tell you, it doesn't matter whether you are in the pit, it doesn't matter whether you are in Potipha's house. 00:21:14.594 --> 00:21:21.366 When the Lord is with you, you are greatly favored. 00:21:21.366 --> 00:21:24.913 You are greatly favored. 00:21:24.913 --> 00:21:28.443 You are walking with God in your company. 00:21:28.443 --> 00:21:34.199 They may not be paying you that money, but you are greatly favored. 00:21:34.199 --> 00:21:41.979 Yes, you are in this institution and probably you are feeling humiliated and probably you have not been promoted. 00:21:41.979 --> 00:21:48.957 I say again you are highly favored of God and set up for your breakthrough. 00:21:50.480 --> 00:21:54.510 You know the Bible talks about a few people in the Bible who are handsome. 00:21:54.510 --> 00:22:00.401 The first one was Joseph and the Bible says he was handsome. 00:22:00.401 --> 00:22:02.124 He was really handsome. 00:22:02.124 --> 00:22:10.132 The other one who was handsome was David and the other one who was saying David was ready and good, looking at his teenage. 00:22:10.132 --> 00:22:13.278 The other one was handsome, was Absalom. 00:22:13.278 --> 00:22:23.086 Now you can imagine this handsome man living in Potipha's house and according to some historians, people who worked for kings were Unaks. 00:22:23.086 --> 00:22:31.651 I repeat, people who worked for kings were probably Unaks, and it is possible or probably true that Potipha was a Unak. 00:22:31.651 --> 00:22:33.615 That was a real setup. 00:22:33.615 --> 00:22:52.116 You can imagine this handsome man being left with this in this house taking care of everything, with this woman who is flirting around him, trying to interfere with the direction and agenda of God for him. 00:22:52.116 --> 00:23:03.577 And this is what Joseph says far be it from me that I should go to bed with you and sin against God. 00:23:03.577 --> 00:23:15.299 Far be it from me that I should go to bed against you, not sin against your husband, sin against God. 00:23:15.299 --> 00:23:18.486 That was Joseph's standard. 00:23:18.486 --> 00:23:25.097 Joseph was serving God and was not serving Potipha. 00:23:25.097 --> 00:23:33.696 And whatever he was doing in Potipha's house was for the glory and for the honor of God. 00:23:34.659 --> 00:24:15.896 Where you have been assigned as a worker, where you have been assigned in whatever position, are you able to deliver, like Joseph, when God has appointed you in that institution, you are God's agent, you represent God in that institution and because you are there, you are set for breakthrough If you believe in God, if you are working with God, it doesn't matter the situation around you. 00:24:15.896 --> 00:24:34.219 When you've made it your deliberate commitment to serve God, whether you are a slave, whether you are in whichever position, be it in that institution, god will be honored by your service. 00:24:34.219 --> 00:24:44.318 Are you in that institution simply because of the salary, or are you in that institution because you serve God? 00:24:44.318 --> 00:24:50.690 Joseph was representing God in that house. 00:24:50.690 --> 00:24:59.805 No wonder he said Far be it from me that I should sin against my God. 00:24:59.805 --> 00:25:07.583 What would have happened, suppose he decided he was going to go that direction? 00:25:07.583 --> 00:25:15.458 Probably he could have been found out, because your sins will finally find you out. 00:25:15.458 --> 00:25:24.569 Joseph said Far be it from him to sin against God. 00:25:24.569 --> 00:25:36.036 Let me tell you, in order for you to break through, you must make a commitment to work with God In that office. 00:25:36.036 --> 00:25:42.652 You must make a deliberate commitment to work with God, regardless of what happens. 00:25:43.232 --> 00:25:45.700 We cannot compromise with the enemy. 00:25:45.700 --> 00:25:50.973 We cannot shake hands with the devil and expect to get to our breakthrough. 00:25:50.973 --> 00:25:53.440 It will not happen. 00:25:53.440 --> 00:25:55.565 We must put a position. 00:25:55.565 --> 00:25:59.916 We must put a stand, because the enemy is there. 00:25:59.916 --> 00:26:02.263 The enemy of our destiny is there. 00:26:02.263 --> 00:26:04.790 The enemy of our breakthrough is there. 00:26:04.790 --> 00:26:09.297 We must put a stand. 00:26:09.297 --> 00:26:13.943 And Joseph put his stand. 00:26:13.943 --> 00:26:16.468 He could not compromise. 00:26:16.468 --> 00:26:19.213 He could not compromise his faith. 00:26:19.213 --> 00:26:20.738 He had every reason. 00:26:20.738 --> 00:26:24.147 After all, the husband is not there. 00:26:24.147 --> 00:26:27.155 After all, he's far away from home. 00:26:27.155 --> 00:26:29.864 After all, nobody is watching. 00:26:29.923 --> 00:26:33.113 The Bible says that Potiphar told everyone to leave. 00:26:33.113 --> 00:26:40.048 He thought that was the opportune moment to get hold of Joseph. 00:26:40.048 --> 00:26:48.564 But Joseph said Far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by going to bed with you. 00:26:48.564 --> 00:26:50.813 We must put a stand. 00:26:50.813 --> 00:26:53.617 We must put a position for God. 00:26:53.617 --> 00:26:59.971 We cannot compromise our faith and expect that we shall break through. 00:26:59.971 --> 00:27:03.558 We must put a position with our God. 00:27:03.558 --> 00:27:05.623 We must stand with our God. 00:27:05.623 --> 00:27:20.587 We must stand by faith, believing in this God that whatever will happen, whatever comes, like Shadrach, like Mezhak, like Abednego, we shall not bow to the idols of the Babylonians. 00:27:20.587 --> 00:27:26.967 We shall not eat their food because we shall not covenant with the kingdom of darkness. 00:27:26.967 --> 00:27:28.570 We are called of God. 00:27:28.570 --> 00:27:30.356 We are the light of the world. 00:27:30.356 --> 00:27:32.824 We are arising and shining. 00:27:32.824 --> 00:27:35.833 We are not double minded or double sided. 00:27:35.833 --> 00:27:44.438 We are walking straight and not cutting corners, because we are the called out ones, called out by God and of God. 00:27:44.438 --> 00:27:46.061 We are in the world. 00:27:46.061 --> 00:27:48.147 But we are not of the world. 00:27:48.147 --> 00:27:49.731 We are different. 00:27:49.731 --> 00:27:59.971 Hallelujah, yes, we are set up for breakthrough if we will take our position with God. 00:28:01.814 --> 00:28:03.396 So Joseph was accused. 00:28:03.396 --> 00:28:07.726 He was accused of sexual advances. 00:28:07.726 --> 00:28:09.930 You know what happened? 00:28:09.930 --> 00:28:21.250 He was accused While he was being taken in the pit, they took his cloak and tore it apart and put blood on it. 00:28:21.250 --> 00:28:36.090 When he was getting out of Potiphar's house, potiphar's wife was holding his cloak of dignity and moral integrity. 00:28:36.090 --> 00:28:47.570 What Potiphar's wife was holding was a cloak of dignity and moral integrity. 00:28:47.570 --> 00:28:51.662 That was not going to change because of fabrication. 00:28:51.721 --> 00:28:55.429 Let me tell you God is watching, hallelujah. 00:28:55.429 --> 00:28:57.236 God is watching. 00:28:57.236 --> 00:28:58.557 Stay on course. 00:28:58.557 --> 00:29:01.460 Stay on course. 00:29:01.460 --> 00:29:03.342 God is watching. 00:29:03.342 --> 00:29:05.463 Don't compromise. 00:29:05.463 --> 00:29:08.467 You are set for big things. 00:29:08.467 --> 00:29:13.050 You cannot afford to compromise. 00:29:13.050 --> 00:29:17.160 Let's say, joseph compromised. 00:29:17.160 --> 00:29:19.784 What would have become of his brothers? 00:29:19.784 --> 00:29:22.568 What would have become of the nation of Israel? 00:29:22.568 --> 00:29:25.634 What would have become of the future of our faith? 00:29:25.634 --> 00:29:29.123 Probably the nation of Israel would not have existed. 00:29:29.123 --> 00:29:34.634 Probably all of them would have died in farming and therefore Jesus would not have come and therefore there was not going to be salvation. 00:29:35.316 --> 00:29:57.243 But because Joseph took a position, hallelujah, and he said I will not sell my inheritance for pleasure of a few minutes, probably you have compromised your faith and shook hands with the enemy. 00:29:57.243 --> 00:30:04.717 It is time to turn around, because our God gives us second chances, hallelujah. 00:30:04.717 --> 00:30:13.634 You are still set for a breakthrough, because Jesus has died on the cross for you and he was pierced for your transgressions. 00:30:13.634 --> 00:30:18.059 And he says come to me if you confess your sins. 00:30:18.059 --> 00:30:26.351 I am faithful and just, I will forgive you and cleanse you of all your unrighteousness. 00:30:26.351 --> 00:30:30.318 Joseph did not have that privilege. 00:30:30.318 --> 00:30:32.721 Jesus had not died yet. 00:30:32.721 --> 00:30:36.846 Jesus had not died yet. 00:30:36.846 --> 00:30:42.290 But for you and I, there is no excuse for compromise. 00:30:42.290 --> 00:30:46.342 Hallelujah, jesus has died on the cross. 00:30:46.342 --> 00:30:48.404 We have power to overcome sin. 00:30:48.404 --> 00:30:50.288 We can say no to these things. 00:30:50.288 --> 00:31:02.147 Joseph chose to say no and he ended up in prison, in castration, for a crime he never committed. 00:31:02.647 --> 00:31:04.691 Joseph in prison. 00:31:04.691 --> 00:31:10.910 Now he goes to the prison, and that was to check his attitude. 00:31:10.910 --> 00:31:12.595 What was his attitude going to be? 00:31:12.595 --> 00:31:17.602 I can imagine he must have said now Everything about me is falling apart. 00:31:17.602 --> 00:31:21.407 I don't see any dream. 00:31:21.407 --> 00:31:23.230 I don't see my dream coming through. 00:31:23.230 --> 00:31:25.878 I am moving from bad to worse. 00:31:25.878 --> 00:31:35.018 I was in the pit In Israel, now sold to the Egyptians, far away from my dream Right now. 00:31:35.018 --> 00:31:37.122 I was in Potiphar's house. 00:31:37.122 --> 00:31:40.990 I am trying to live rightly and I am sent into the prison. 00:31:40.990 --> 00:31:43.615 Where is hope in the prison? 00:31:43.615 --> 00:31:49.240 But I say again, you are set up for your breakthrough. 00:31:49.240 --> 00:31:52.464 You are set up for your breakthrough. 00:31:52.464 --> 00:31:54.948 What the enemy intends for evil? 00:31:54.948 --> 00:31:57.911 God is still working for your good. 00:31:59.455 --> 00:32:06.488 While in prison, he would have chosen to complain and ask God, why have you put me here? 00:32:06.488 --> 00:32:10.634 Oh God of heaven, you know that I did not do these things. 00:32:10.634 --> 00:32:13.461 Oh God, you know I did not compromise. 00:32:13.461 --> 00:32:15.805 How am I in this jail? 00:32:15.805 --> 00:32:20.634 Oh God, could you have sent angels to come and get me out of this jail? 00:32:20.634 --> 00:32:23.238 Oh God, why couldn't you do this? 00:32:23.238 --> 00:32:25.040 Why couldn't you do that? 00:32:27.503 --> 00:32:43.486 Listen, joseph was not in an ordinary prison, hello, joseph was in a prison where a pharaoh's prisoners were kept. 00:32:43.486 --> 00:32:47.631 Hello, are you following? 00:32:47.631 --> 00:32:57.666 There is a prison for other prisoners and there is a prison for the king's prisoners. 00:32:57.666 --> 00:33:12.905 So, even in the context of the types of prisons he was in, his was a bit different, because it was for the prisoners that the king had put in jail. 00:33:12.905 --> 00:33:19.286 Different because there was a set up for his breakthrough. 00:33:19.286 --> 00:33:26.446 There was the cabbera and the baker and a dream that needed interpretation. 00:33:26.446 --> 00:33:35.276 Therefore, can you imagine Potiphar chose to put him in that jail and not in any other one? 00:33:35.276 --> 00:33:41.656 Is it possible that Potiphar probably knew that Joseph would not commit that kind of sin? 00:33:41.656 --> 00:33:57.498 Is it possible that he decided let me put him in this jailhouse of those prisoners of the king, because there's a level of benefit of doubt likely that this one may not have committed it? 00:33:57.498 --> 00:34:04.827 Is it likely that God was orchestrating how he would eventually end up in the palace? 00:34:04.827 --> 00:34:15.246 But through the cabbera and the baker, there was a dream that needed interpretation, set up for the breakthrough. 00:34:15.246 --> 00:34:17.922 He could not go to an ordinary prison. 00:34:17.922 --> 00:34:25.998 He had to be taken to a different kind of prison because there was a set up for his breakthrough. 00:34:28.114 --> 00:34:30.300 The test of moral integrity is real. 00:34:30.300 --> 00:34:40.597 Today there is sex all over the place, sexual advances being made In today's world. 00:34:40.597 --> 00:34:43.085 There is a lot of compromise. 00:34:43.085 --> 00:34:48.565 We have emerging gender issues like LGBTQ. 00:34:48.565 --> 00:34:52.923 I don't know whether it will get to Z at this rate. 00:34:52.923 --> 00:34:57.324 We must put a position for God. 00:34:57.324 --> 00:34:58.619 We must flee. 00:34:58.619 --> 00:35:00.418 We must flee. 00:35:00.418 --> 00:35:05.519 We must run away from all these things, no matter what kind of prison. 00:35:05.519 --> 00:35:23.708 They put us Now in the prison, thinking that all is lost, and probably you could be thinking that for you, all is lost and you are losing hope and saying what is left of me. 00:35:23.708 --> 00:35:31.626 I'm at the end of the tether, but that is the next step to your breakthrough. 00:35:34.114 --> 00:35:42.489 The cabaret had a dream and the baker had a dream because God was with Joseph. 00:35:43.414 --> 00:35:52.657 He gave Joseph the ability to interpret dreams and Joseph interpreted this dream and he talked about in three days. 00:35:52.657 --> 00:35:58.400 In three days, god was with Joseph, god worked with Joseph. 00:35:58.400 --> 00:36:10.623 He gave Joseph the ability to interpret dreams and Joseph would always say it is not my strength, it is not by my power, it is not because I am who I am. 00:36:10.623 --> 00:36:13.597 It is because of God's grace in my life. 00:36:13.597 --> 00:36:24.985 Joseph interpreted the dream and even after interpreting the dream in the prison, he is hoping that the cabaret will remember him. 00:36:24.985 --> 00:36:31.126 So he asked down the line the promotion is not coming from men. 00:36:31.126 --> 00:36:35.824 Listen, the promotion is not coming from men. 00:36:35.824 --> 00:36:39.481 The promotion is coming from God. 00:36:39.481 --> 00:36:47.403 It is the Lord who is promoting you, it is the Lord who is taking you to the next level. 00:36:47.403 --> 00:36:51.463 It is the Lord who is breaking through for you. 00:36:51.463 --> 00:36:54.097 I have tried. 00:36:54.097 --> 00:36:58.105 He told the cabaret please remember me. 00:36:58.105 --> 00:37:31.807 Probably, if the cabaret would have remembered Joseph, maybe Joseph would have been taken back to Israel and probably Pharaoh's dream could not have been interpreted, and because Pharaoh's dream could not have been interpreted, then the children of Israel would have remained in Egypt without a delivery, remained in Israel without a deliverer, since there was not going to be food for them to survive on, since Joseph would not have been able to meet the king. 00:37:31.914 --> 00:37:33.219 Do you see the setup? 00:37:33.219 --> 00:37:51.407 There is a setup for you and you are breaking through, set up for breakthrough, and Joseph interprets the dream, waits for two years and there is no answer. 00:37:51.407 --> 00:37:55.143 Have you been waiting and trusting God for an answer? 00:37:55.143 --> 00:38:02.786 Let me tell you in its time, god will break through for you. 00:38:02.786 --> 00:38:11.961 Sometimes your breakthrough requires other things to be done and probably you have waited and also almost losing hope. 00:38:11.961 --> 00:38:15.360 Let me tell you your breakthrough moment is coming. 00:38:15.360 --> 00:38:17.125 It takes other things also. 00:38:17.125 --> 00:38:23.065 Somebody must be promoted for you to be able to take that position. 00:38:23.065 --> 00:38:27.023 The economy must change for certain things to happen for you. 00:38:27.023 --> 00:38:29.197 God is still working. 00:38:29.197 --> 00:38:30.121 Don't lose hope. 00:38:30.121 --> 00:38:31.244 God is still working. 00:38:31.244 --> 00:38:34.903 There are things that need to be aligned so that your time comes. 00:38:36.275 --> 00:38:53.798 For these two years, joseph had to serve the prison and for those two years there was preparation in Egypt that the dream of Pharaoh would come at the appointed time Joseph in the palace. 00:38:53.798 --> 00:38:58.306 The dream is interpreted. 00:38:58.306 --> 00:39:21.117 Joseph talks to the cabera, the cabera forgets, and now the cabera remembers there is this prisoner, who was in prison, who was able to interpret my dream Two years later. 00:39:21.117 --> 00:39:27.083 Genesis 41, verse 9 to 16,. 00:39:27.083 --> 00:39:33.271 Genesis 41, verse 9 to 16. 00:39:33.271 --> 00:39:40.617 Then the chief cabera say to Pharaoh oh, today I'm reminded of who I am, with my shortcomings. 00:39:40.617 --> 00:39:51.965 Pharaoh was once angry with this servant and he imprisoned me and the chief baker and the house of the captain of the God. 00:39:51.965 --> 00:39:59.286 Each of us had a dream the same night and each dream had a meaning of its own. 00:39:59.286 --> 00:40:18.086 Now Ayang Hebrew was there with us, a servant of the captain of the God who told him our dreams and he interpreted them for us, giving each man the interpretation of his dream, and things turned out exactly as he interpreted them to us. 00:40:18.086 --> 00:40:23.346 I was restored to my position and the other man was impaled. 00:40:24.114 --> 00:40:26.521 I don't want to continue with that scripture because you know it. 00:40:26.521 --> 00:40:36.436 God set up that the cabera would eventually return to Pharaoh's table to serve him with wine. 00:40:36.436 --> 00:40:44.168 And Pharaoh is disturbed by a dream and Joseph has to come and something happens. 00:40:44.168 --> 00:40:58.826 When he appears before Pharaoh, he's shavened, he's dressed up, he removes the prison clothes and he puts on new ones because things are changing for him. 00:40:58.826 --> 00:41:04.023 Please take us to Genesis 41, verse 33. 00:41:09.083 --> 00:41:13.896 And now let Pharaoh look for a designing and wise man. 00:41:13.896 --> 00:41:20.637 After interpreting the dream and telling Pharaoh what will happen, joseph does not say I am the one. 00:41:20.637 --> 00:41:26.936 I can imagine how we would have been the one saying I am the one who is able to do these things. 00:41:26.936 --> 00:41:35.478 And now let Pharaoh look for a discerning and wise man and put him in charge of the land of Egypt. 00:41:35.478 --> 00:41:42.210 He is saying find a discerning man, put in charge of Egypt. 00:41:42.210 --> 00:41:48.648 And probably within the setting of Egypt, there was a minister in charge of food security. 00:41:48.648 --> 00:41:52.157 Probably there was a minister in charge of agriculture. 00:41:52.157 --> 00:41:56.625 Probably there was a minister who was in charge of, you know, irrigation. 00:41:57.606 --> 00:42:06.927 That day, because of the interpretation of the dream, things had to change because of Joseph. 00:42:06.927 --> 00:42:09.090 He gave his CV. 00:42:09.090 --> 00:42:16.289 By interpreting the dream, he also gave an unprecedented solution to the problem in Egypt. 00:42:16.289 --> 00:42:21.782 And Pharaoh says who else can handle this office but you? 00:42:21.782 --> 00:42:23.766 What does he do? 00:42:23.766 --> 00:42:27.737 Genesis 41, from verse 41 to 47. 00:42:27.737 --> 00:42:30.059 Genesis 41, 41 to 47. 00:42:30.059 --> 00:42:34.224 The Bible says from verse 41. 00:42:34.224 --> 00:42:42.581 So Pharaoh said to Joseph, I hear by put you in charge of the whole land of Egypt. 00:42:42.581 --> 00:42:49.619 Then Pharaoh took his signet ring from his finger and put it on Joseph's finger. 00:42:49.619 --> 00:42:51.364 He dressed him with. 00:42:51.364 --> 00:42:55.072 I wanted to read this he dropped. 00:42:55.072 --> 00:42:56.476 He dressed him with. 00:42:56.476 --> 00:42:58.818