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Speaker 1: How different that is from the spirit of this world.

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Speaker 1: which you have designed me. Help me rejoice when others

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Speaker 1: In Jesus name. Amen, stay tuned to immerse yourself in

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Speaker 1: the greatest stories ever told from pray Do dot COM's podcast,

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Speaker 1: Heroes in the Bible.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for joining me in this thrilling episode of

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Speaker 2: Heroes in the Bible as we journey through the life

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Speaker 2: of Joseph, one of the most amazing individuals in all

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Speaker 2: I trust you discovered principles from the life of Joseph

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Speaker 2: your host for today's podcast. In the previous episode, Joseph's brothers,

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Speaker 2: It was his sacrificial love for us that compelled him

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Speaker 3: Prelude to Chapter Ten hours had passed, and the thundering

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Speaker 3: Joseph said quietly. He placed his hands behind his back

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Speaker 3: was not for revenge. Joseph sat in a place of power, influence,

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Speaker 3: He had them to blame for his suffering. However, God

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Speaker 3: Joseph shook his head. I cannot simply let them leave.

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Speaker 3: As Anath asked, Joseph was silent for a moment. I

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Speaker 3: Asanath hugged Joseph tightly and leaned her head against his chest.

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Speaker 5: You have endured more than any one else. I know

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Speaker 3: Joseph nodded and held his wife Klaus. The two of

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Speaker 3: He wondered if God had the same will for his brothers. Perhaps,

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Speaker 3: Joseph whispered into the night, they must go through a

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Speaker 3: He said sternly, I am the prophet of Egypt. I

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Speaker 3: What can we say to clear our names? Joseph paused

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Speaker 3: Tell me Joseph, in all your dreoming, did you ever

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Speaker 3: Joseph raised his scepter at Benjamin, you, young man, you

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Speaker 3: Judah raised his hand to Joseph and said, Zabnathpineha, please

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Speaker 3: Joseph noticed something profoundly different in Judah, something he had

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Speaker 3: Judah shook his head and lifted his arms to Joseph

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Speaker 3: with labored breathing, Judah said, take me instead. Joseph's heart

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Speaker 2: This episode ends with the dramatic moment we've all been

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Speaker 2: waiting for throughout this study. It has been worth waiting for,

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Speaker 2: has it? More than twenty years have passed since joseph brothers,

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Speaker 2: a passing caravan of merchants headed to Egypt. During these years,

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Speaker 2: Joseph has changed. He has recognized that God's hand has

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Speaker 2: been on him through everything he has experienced, and that

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Speaker 2: God has used his story, his life, his experiences to

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Speaker 2: prepare him for this moment of reconciliation, healing, forgiveness, and restoration.

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Speaker 2: But before Joseph revealed his identity to his brothers, he

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Speaker 2: wanted to subject them to one final exam. What better

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Speaker 2: way to see if they had changed, and to see

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Speaker 2: declared guilty of Steve eating Joseph's silver cup and threatened

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Speaker 2: with harsh punishment and imprisonment. I'm sure Joe wondered, Can

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Speaker 2: I trust my brothers? Have they thought of change, grown up,

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Speaker 2: looked to God a little more than the dedicate life

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Speaker 2: all through the years these were decadent men. Have they changed?

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Speaker 2: Joe needed to know, and he asked the steward to

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Speaker 2: place his cup in Benjamin's green sack. Joseph could help,

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Speaker 2: but wonder how their brothers would react when it was found.

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Speaker 2: If Joseph's planned was to test his brothers, I think

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Speaker 2: we could safely say that they passed with flying colors.

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Speaker 2: Do you notice the pain they expressed when Joseph's cup

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Speaker 2: was found in Benjamin's sack? They even tore their clothes,

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Speaker 2: a visible sign of their grief for that's and anguish.

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Speaker 2: Then Judah, the brother who had counsel selling Joe into

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Speaker 2: exchange for Benjamin. He offers to become a slave himself

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Speaker 2: if Benjamin can be set free. Judah's speech, I believe,

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Speaker 2: is one of the most dramatic and beautiful orations in

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Speaker 2: the entire Bible. Like the Savior who would one day

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Speaker 2: come from his lineage, Judah offered to take the sin

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Speaker 2: place by saying punish me instead. Judah's concern for his

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Speaker 2: past sin in his life. As we recall all that

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Speaker 2: Joe's experienced his harsh treatment by his brothers, his years

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Speaker 2: years of waiting in prison until the cup bearer remembered

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Speaker 2: his promise. I think Joseph would say it was all worthwhile.

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Speaker 2: He has learned to trust the heart of God and

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Speaker 2: appreciate how God uses the circumstances mountaintops and valleys, uses

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Speaker 2: these experiences to test us, to try us, to refine us,

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Speaker 2: us to be. We've also seen all that God did

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Speaker 2: to bring his brothers to dramatic moment of reconciliation. God

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Speaker 2: used hunger, harsh treatment, solitude, unexpected kindness, and a time

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Speaker 2: of testing to bring them to the point where repentance

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Speaker 2: another and write with God because they do had seen

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Speaker 2: the Lord's hand in their lives. Now there's one more

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Speaker 2: incredible episode to come, and I can't wait to share

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Speaker 2: it with you. Don't miss it. You can listen to

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Speaker 2: Heroes in the Bible on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and the

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Speaker 2: Prey dot com app. Thank you for joining me on

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Speaker 2: this amazing journey through Joe Joseph's story of tragedy, triumph, betrayal, forgiveness,

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Speaker 2: and in the end, exaltation,