Lessons from the Life of Joseph - Week 1, Day 4 - The Gospel Truth

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Andrew Wommack’s daily TV program: Gospel Truth To subscribe to Andrew’s email newsletter: http://www.awmi.net/youtube-subscribe/ We have begun a brand new series to share with you: Lessons from the Life of Joseph. We can learn so much from the lives of those who loved God and His Word. God even tells us in His Word that all things that happened to those in the Old Testament were written for our learning ( I Corinthians 10: 1-11 ), even to help us not make the same mistakes. Let's learn from the life of Joseph the biblical principle that the choices we make when we come under life's pressures will determine our outcome. 00:08 Andrew continues to teach about the life of Joseph. 01:25 (Psalm 105:19) “Until the time that his word came: the word of the Lord tried him.” And that’s talking about until the time that this word God had given him through these dreams came to pass, then these words that God had given him; this vision that God had given him, of what his purpose for his life was, it's what kept him together. It tried him. It purified him. 01:55 He will put a desire in your heart. A dream in your heart, and the purpose of this is because you need that dream there to enable you to go through the hardships and the things in between the time that God gives this revelation and when you see it come to pass. 03:24 The same thing works in the spiritual realm. God will give you a goal, a hope. He will paint this picture of what He wants to do in your life. The reason that’s important is because in between the time that He gives that vision to you, and when you see it come to pass, there’s going to be some hardship. Not necessarily caused by God, but just in this world, you’re going to suffer tribulation. 04:51 I had a dream, a desire, that it was going to be big, and it was going to reach millions of people worldwide. And yet, did you know that immediately everything in my life began to look contrary to that. 06:50 Because I had that dream, it made me think that you know what, I AM going to survive this. I AM going to live through that, and I believe that exact same thing happened with Joseph. Joseph embraced these dreams. He believed them. 07:12 You have to pursue the things of God, in faith, for them to come to pass. They do not just automatically by fate, sovereignly come to pass. 08:26 This was premeditated murder. These were evil men. (Genesis 37:18-20) 9:50 God used Rueben to keep them from killing him. 11:27 God uses all of this ungodliness, and all of these things that are going on, but that doesn’t mean that God causes it. 14:59 I don’t believe that God caused his brothers to hate him. His brothers hated him of their own free will. God’s not the author of this hate, but God preserved his life, and He may have just taken Joseph and sold him into slavery, because that was infinitely better than staying with these ungodly brothers who were eventually going to kill him. 16:35 The actual Greek word, Parakletos, and it means to take hold together with us. When you start interceding, and you’re doing it with all of your heart, in faith, then the Holy Spirit takes hold together with you and intercedes through you. He doesn’t intercede for you without your cooperation. It’s not you without Him. But when you intercede in faith, the Holy Spirit takes hold together with you, AND that means, if that’s being done (you interceding in the power of the Holy Spirit), THEN things work together for good. (Romans 8:26-28) 17:50 If you are resisting the devil, if you love God, if you are interceding in the power of the Holy Spirit then, and only then, can God take anything that happens and work it together for good. But that doesn’t mean God caused those things to happen. God can just work it together for good. 20:30 Joseph plead for mercy, and the brothers just ignored him and put him in this pit, and later sold him into slavery. He was sold into slavery by his own brothers. (Genesis 42:21) “And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.” 22:31 You shall not bear false witness (Exodus 20:16) & links to next video ============================================ Andrew Wommack Ministries http://www.awmi.net/ https://www.facebook.com/AWMinistries https://twitter.com/andrewwommack https://instagram.com/andrewwommack/ https://www.pinterest.com/andrewwommack/ ======================================================

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