1 00:00:01,520 --> 00:00:02,800 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdik. 2 00:00:02,840 --> 00:00:05,840 Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 3 00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:07,760 Speaker 1: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. 4 00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:10,959 Speaker 2: Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope 5 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:13,080 Speaker 2: it gives your perspective to see God is moving. 6 00:00:12,920 --> 00:00:14,640 Speaker 1: In your life. Enjoy the message. 7 00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:20,160 Speaker 2: This is a scripture in Genesis chapter thirty seven, verse 8 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:25,239 Speaker 2: five that has in it so much so many of 9 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:29,280 Speaker 2: you who know the story of the biblical character Joseph 10 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:32,239 Speaker 2: will be tempted to fast forward again to the end 11 00:00:32,280 --> 00:00:34,720 Speaker 2: of the story, and I will challenge you not to, 12 00:00:34,840 --> 00:00:37,599 Speaker 2: because this is where the sermon starts today in Genesis 13 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:40,720 Speaker 2: thirty seven, verse five. For a few weeks out of 14 00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:43,760 Speaker 2: every year, I plan my teaching to be independent of 15 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:46,520 Speaker 2: a series. A lot of times I teach around one theme, 16 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:49,199 Speaker 2: but then I clear parts of the calendar intentionally. I've 17 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:52,320 Speaker 2: learned to do this now in thirteen years of pastoring, 18 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:55,080 Speaker 2: that you just need to leave a little room for 19 00:00:55,200 --> 00:00:56,720 Speaker 2: some things that have been in your heart. 20 00:00:57,080 --> 00:00:58,680 Speaker 1: This particular message. 21 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:00,960 Speaker 2: I was able to share some of the content with 22 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:03,000 Speaker 2: our staff last year and really been waiting for an 23 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:05,200 Speaker 2: opportunity to share it with you, and so I'm very 24 00:01:05,240 --> 00:01:06,720 Speaker 2: excited about it today. 25 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:08,760 Speaker 1: But just one verse to get us started. 26 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:12,440 Speaker 2: In Genesis, chapter thirty seven, verse five, the Bible says 27 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:15,720 Speaker 2: Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to 28 00:01:15,760 --> 00:01:21,520 Speaker 2: his brothers, they hated him all the more so for 29 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:24,960 Speaker 2: everybody who's thinking that when you get a good idea, 30 00:01:24,959 --> 00:01:28,200 Speaker 2: everybody's going to go fund you, they're not, and that 31 00:01:28,319 --> 00:01:31,440 Speaker 2: everybody's going to support you. And understand you don't expect 32 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:33,440 Speaker 2: that because this message. I want to speak to you 33 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:35,399 Speaker 2: about your dreams today, the dreams God has put in 34 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:37,520 Speaker 2: your heart, but I want to talk about it from 35 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:41,920 Speaker 2: an unusual subject heading called the danger of a dream. 36 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:45,440 Speaker 2: And this message comes with a warning label. If you 37 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:49,480 Speaker 2: like your nice, little comfortable version of the way life 38 00:01:49,560 --> 00:01:53,000 Speaker 2: is supposed to be, slip out now click off, now 39 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:56,440 Speaker 2: watch a ted talk. But this message is for somebody 40 00:01:56,520 --> 00:01:59,400 Speaker 2: who has a God given dream or he's starting to 41 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:00,040 Speaker 2: sense it. 42 00:02:00,240 --> 00:02:00,960 Speaker 1: And I just pray. 43 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:03,560 Speaker 2: In fact, let's pray right now, Lord, open our hearts 44 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:07,000 Speaker 2: to receive what you say and then give us the 45 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:11,040 Speaker 2: courage to obey it. That's our prayer in Jesus' name, Amen, 46 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:22,600 Speaker 2: you may be seated. I wonder a lot of the 47 00:02:22,639 --> 00:02:25,880 Speaker 2: time what my kids will remember about their childhood, and 48 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:27,919 Speaker 2: I'm scared they'll remember all the scenes I want them 49 00:02:27,919 --> 00:02:30,920 Speaker 2: to delete. It seems like they remember the times I 50 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:32,919 Speaker 2: got mad more than the times I bought them stuff, 51 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:38,040 Speaker 2: and I don't like it. But I will say that 52 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:40,520 Speaker 2: some of the things that stand out to me about 53 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:44,800 Speaker 2: my childhood, particularly my teenage years, are some of the 54 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:48,120 Speaker 2: more random incidents. One thing that I remember from my 55 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:51,200 Speaker 2: childhood and my mom remembers it a little differently than 56 00:02:51,240 --> 00:02:52,799 Speaker 2: I do, but she's out of town today, so I 57 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:54,160 Speaker 2: can tell this story. The way I want to tell 58 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:59,080 Speaker 2: it is when I was auditioning for this band, and 59 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:01,480 Speaker 2: I won't bore you with the long story, but my 60 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:04,880 Speaker 2: dream from age seventeen on was to be a pastor. 61 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:07,840 Speaker 2: But before that, I wanted to be a punk rocker 62 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:11,720 Speaker 2: and I almost had the chance because I was at 63 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:13,040 Speaker 2: the North Charleston Coliseum. 64 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:15,760 Speaker 1: Have I told you this story? Robert best story ever? 65 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:19,480 Speaker 2: Green Day was playing at the North Charleston Coliseum and 66 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:23,800 Speaker 2: Billy Joe Armstrong called me up on stage and gave 67 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:28,440 Speaker 2: me his guitar to play a guitar solo. And it 68 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:30,640 Speaker 2: was something he had been doing every night on tour. 69 00:03:30,919 --> 00:03:34,000 Speaker 2: He was looking for the most talented kid in the room, 70 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:37,360 Speaker 2: which that night was me, or just whatever kid looked 71 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:40,800 Speaker 2: the most excited, or whatever the case was, and he 72 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:43,240 Speaker 2: put his Fender Stratocaster around my neck. 73 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:44,600 Speaker 1: True story. 74 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:50,880 Speaker 2: I'm fifteen years old and I played the guitar solo 75 00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:56,120 Speaker 2: for a three chord song called Knowledge by the band 76 00:03:56,320 --> 00:03:59,680 Speaker 2: Operation Ivy. I still remember how the song went, but 77 00:03:59,720 --> 00:04:01,280 Speaker 2: I'm not sing it for you right now because it's 78 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:01,680 Speaker 2: waste of time. 79 00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:03,400 Speaker 1: We need to get back to Genesis thirty seven. 80 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:06,160 Speaker 2: But what that set off was kind of like a 81 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:09,000 Speaker 2: chain of events where I became a lot more popular 82 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:12,920 Speaker 2: in school, and I was so excited. The next morning, 83 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:15,280 Speaker 2: I woke up and I was listening to the radio 84 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:19,800 Speaker 2: and the DJ his name was the Critic, was talking 85 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:22,840 Speaker 2: about the Green Day Show. And I was getting ready 86 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:26,320 Speaker 2: for school listening to the radio, still excited, only slept 87 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:29,240 Speaker 2: about an hour, excited to get to school, excited to 88 00:04:29,279 --> 00:04:30,720 Speaker 2: be like how you like me now to all the 89 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:33,920 Speaker 2: girls who didn't pay me attention the day before. And 90 00:04:34,839 --> 00:04:38,600 Speaker 2: he goes, oh, he said the Green Day Show last night. 91 00:04:38,839 --> 00:04:41,200 Speaker 2: He said it wasn't a very great show, but there 92 00:04:41,279 --> 00:04:44,039 Speaker 2: was one part he said there was a kid who 93 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:49,400 Speaker 2: got up on stage and ripped on guitar. He was 94 00:04:49,480 --> 00:04:53,160 Speaker 2: the highlight of the show. He stole the show. His 95 00:04:53,279 --> 00:04:56,320 Speaker 2: word's not mine. I'm very humble. I would not say 96 00:04:56,360 --> 00:04:58,200 Speaker 2: it that way, but that's the way he said it. 97 00:04:58,240 --> 00:05:01,880 Speaker 2: That's the way the critics said it. And so I 98 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:04,080 Speaker 2: called in. I called the radio station. I was like, 99 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:06,200 Speaker 2: you got to put me through. That's me he's talking about. 100 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:07,680 Speaker 2: I'm about to go to school right now. I got 101 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:09,440 Speaker 2: to leave in like five minutes. My mom's waiting for me. 102 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:11,320 Speaker 2: But that was me he was talking about on stage 103 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:13,279 Speaker 2: that played guitar. Put me through to the critic, and 104 00:05:13,279 --> 00:05:14,840 Speaker 2: they put me through to the critic and I said, hey, 105 00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:16,599 Speaker 2: that was me you're talking about. He said, well, hey, kid, 106 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:18,640 Speaker 2: bring your demo tape by because I told him had 107 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:20,240 Speaker 2: a band, and he was like, bring your demo tape 108 00:05:20,240 --> 00:05:21,719 Speaker 2: by and we'll play it on the air. We didn't 109 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:23,440 Speaker 2: have a demo tape, but that's all right because we 110 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:26,320 Speaker 2: eventually saved three hundred dollars made a demo tape. 111 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:27,560 Speaker 1: I took it to the critic. He played it on 112 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:28,679 Speaker 1: the air, and when I was leaving. 113 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:31,480 Speaker 2: This is several months later, he said by the way, 114 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:34,400 Speaker 2: I am putting together a band. It'd be kind of 115 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:36,400 Speaker 2: cool to have a fifteen year old kid in the band. 116 00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:38,320 Speaker 2: So if you want to audition for it, you learn 117 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:40,800 Speaker 2: these songs and you can audition from my band. Well, 118 00:05:40,839 --> 00:05:42,719 Speaker 2: I thought that'd be amazing because we'd be playing at 119 00:05:42,760 --> 00:05:45,239 Speaker 2: the Music Farm and we'd be playing all around truston 120 00:05:45,279 --> 00:05:47,479 Speaker 2: South Carolina, and that'd be pretty cool gig for a 121 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:49,560 Speaker 2: fifteen year old. So I locked myself in the room. 122 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:52,880 Speaker 2: I start learning all the songs on the tape. A 123 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:59,159 Speaker 2: tape A tape is and my mom walks in one night. 124 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:00,800 Speaker 2: This is all I'm gonna say this, because I promise, 125 00:06:00,839 --> 00:06:02,120 Speaker 2: I know you didn't come to hear me talk about 126 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:04,600 Speaker 2: my nostalgic fifteen year old memories, but come out of dream. 127 00:06:05,520 --> 00:06:07,960 Speaker 2: My mom walks in, picks up the tape, and all 128 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:10,880 Speaker 2: of the songs on the tape had cusswords in the title. 129 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:13,560 Speaker 2: And then even the name of the band had a 130 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:15,599 Speaker 2: cussword in the name of the band. And Buck's laughing 131 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:17,840 Speaker 2: because the name of the band is so inappropriate. I 132 00:06:17,880 --> 00:06:20,120 Speaker 2: can't say it in church, I can't even allude to 133 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:22,080 Speaker 2: it in church. But that was the band I was 134 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:25,560 Speaker 2: auditioning for and my mom, who was a Methodist minister's daughter, 135 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:28,120 Speaker 2: had old fashioned monks corner values, and she's like, what 136 00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:30,279 Speaker 2: is this. I'm like, this is the band I'm auditioning before. 137 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:32,240 Speaker 2: And she said, if you think I'm going to let 138 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:35,560 Speaker 2: you go audition for this band, You've lost your mind. 139 00:06:35,640 --> 00:06:37,440 Speaker 2: If you think I'm gonna let you audition for a 140 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:41,200 Speaker 2: band called the Beads, then you've lost your mind, to 141 00:06:41,279 --> 00:06:47,640 Speaker 2: which I said, then I'll run away from home. You 142 00:06:47,720 --> 00:06:51,039 Speaker 2: will not stand in the way of my dream, right 143 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:57,920 Speaker 2: because a dream will make you bold. And we never 144 00:06:57,960 --> 00:07:00,560 Speaker 2: got to find out whether or not I would have 145 00:07:00,560 --> 00:07:04,200 Speaker 2: had the courage to pack it all up and head 146 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:06,719 Speaker 2: out on the mean streets a monk's corner on my 147 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:09,760 Speaker 2: own to chase my dream, because I auditioned for the 148 00:07:09,760 --> 00:07:11,600 Speaker 2: band and I didn't make it. But the point of 149 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:14,200 Speaker 2: the story that I'm trying to tell you is this 150 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:19,400 Speaker 2: that a lot of times the dream we start out with, 151 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:24,160 Speaker 2: the dream that we think we see in one stage 152 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:28,200 Speaker 2: of our life, will show up later in our life 153 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:32,760 Speaker 2: in a different dimension, and it will be such a 154 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:36,360 Speaker 2: different dimension that we will not even recognize the dream 155 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:41,640 Speaker 2: as the original dream. The Bible says that when Joseph 156 00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:46,120 Speaker 2: was seventeen years old, he had a dream, and his 157 00:07:46,280 --> 00:07:51,400 Speaker 2: brothers hated him all the more for it. That phrase 158 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:55,680 Speaker 2: all the more lets me know that Joseph's brothers already 159 00:07:55,880 --> 00:08:00,520 Speaker 2: didn't like him, And we can argue if we want to, 160 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:04,720 Speaker 2: about whether Joseph was wise to share with his brothers 161 00:08:04,760 --> 00:08:07,320 Speaker 2: the content of his dream. There is such a thing 162 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:10,640 Speaker 2: as talking too much, posting too much. There is such 163 00:08:10,640 --> 00:08:13,240 Speaker 2: a thing as sharing too much. There is such a 164 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:16,080 Speaker 2: thing as thinking that everybody else wants to hear what 165 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:19,440 Speaker 2: God has put on your heart. But one thing that 166 00:08:19,480 --> 00:08:23,280 Speaker 2: we can conclude from the text, even from a biological perspective. 167 00:08:22,880 --> 00:08:27,880 Speaker 1: Is that Joseph was different. And one thing I've noticed 168 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:31,960 Speaker 1: about having a dream is that a dream makes you different. 169 00:08:33,800 --> 00:08:37,200 Speaker 2: Joseph was different from his brothers, not only in his aspirations, 170 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:39,680 Speaker 2: but he was he was from a different mother. 171 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:42,720 Speaker 1: They shared the same father, Jacob. 172 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:45,760 Speaker 2: And if I listed their names, you might recognize a 173 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:49,240 Speaker 2: few of them. They were the patriarchs of the tribes 174 00:08:49,280 --> 00:08:52,920 Speaker 2: of Israel. But Joseph didn't come through the same mom 175 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:56,120 Speaker 2: that his brothers came through. He was the son of Rachel, 176 00:08:56,120 --> 00:08:59,640 Speaker 2: the pretty one that his Dad really liked and when 177 00:09:00,679 --> 00:09:04,680 Speaker 2: Joseph saw that Rachel his favorite wife, Holley, you're my 178 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:06,320 Speaker 2: favorite wife, by the way, I want to put that 179 00:09:06,360 --> 00:09:08,800 Speaker 2: in this message. 180 00:09:08,360 --> 00:09:09,320 Speaker 1: Had given him a son. 181 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:12,440 Speaker 2: He liked him, he liked him extra special, and he 182 00:09:12,520 --> 00:09:17,679 Speaker 2: treated him special, and he felt differently about Joseph than 183 00:09:17,679 --> 00:09:19,920 Speaker 2: the other boys. To the point I don't know if 184 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:22,600 Speaker 2: you've if you've read the story lately, but you remember 185 00:09:22,640 --> 00:09:28,240 Speaker 2: he bought him Magucci coat, and and Joseph's always wearing 186 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:29,200 Speaker 2: it around all the time. 187 00:09:29,240 --> 00:09:31,160 Speaker 1: He's like, you like my coat. And his brothers are like, 188 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:34,440 Speaker 1: we hate your coat. You like you like my coat? 189 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:36,480 Speaker 1: You like my coat? You know, They're like, we we 190 00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:41,760 Speaker 1: hate we we hate you. We we hate you because 191 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:42,480 Speaker 1: you're different. 192 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:47,960 Speaker 2: Okay, Now, I have a teenage son right now, and 193 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:50,360 Speaker 2: one of the things that I'm trying to work out 194 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:55,800 Speaker 2: with him in real time is that people accept what 195 00:09:56,000 --> 00:10:01,520 Speaker 2: is the same, but they eventually respect what is different. 196 00:10:06,760 --> 00:10:12,320 Speaker 2: People eventually come around and respect what stands out. But 197 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:16,000 Speaker 2: what happens to most of us is that the moment 198 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:20,200 Speaker 2: we start to realize the differences between us and other people, 199 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:26,120 Speaker 2: we downplay our distinctives in order to fit in and 200 00:10:26,240 --> 00:10:27,960 Speaker 2: conform with culture. 201 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:30,760 Speaker 1: One thing I'm proud. 202 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:33,000 Speaker 2: About when I read about Joseph, And I know it's 203 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:35,640 Speaker 2: weird to say that I'm proud of Joseph like he cares, 204 00:10:36,280 --> 00:10:38,679 Speaker 2: but I'm proud that he had the courage to wear 205 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:42,840 Speaker 2: his coat anyway, you know what I mean. It may 206 00:10:42,880 --> 00:10:46,120 Speaker 2: have been unwise, but I'm proud of him that. 207 00:10:46,120 --> 00:10:48,360 Speaker 1: He was not afraid to show up in the. 208 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:52,000 Speaker 2: Room looking different because he was clothed with the fabric 209 00:10:52,040 --> 00:10:54,839 Speaker 2: of the favor of his father. And I wonder, are 210 00:10:54,880 --> 00:10:59,040 Speaker 2: you courageous enough to wear your coat? Because a lot 211 00:10:59,040 --> 00:11:01,960 Speaker 2: of times, what I've found that God will begin to 212 00:11:02,040 --> 00:11:06,160 Speaker 2: show you things about yourself, about your life, about your calling, 213 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:09,520 Speaker 2: about your direction, about what He's put inside of you, 214 00:11:09,920 --> 00:11:13,480 Speaker 2: about the gifts He's given you. But someone will, someone 215 00:11:13,559 --> 00:11:17,000 Speaker 2: will actually beat the distinctive out of you. If you 216 00:11:17,040 --> 00:11:20,480 Speaker 2: don't know clearly enough that I have a calling from God, 217 00:11:20,760 --> 00:11:23,680 Speaker 2: who is greater than people, and if he is for me, 218 00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:27,080 Speaker 2: who can be against me? Touch somebody next to you 219 00:11:27,120 --> 00:11:27,959 Speaker 2: and say, I'm gonna. 220 00:11:27,760 --> 00:11:28,640 Speaker 1: Wear my coat. 221 00:11:29,920 --> 00:11:33,199 Speaker 2: Even if people criticize me for it. I'm not ashamed 222 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:35,439 Speaker 2: to walk in the love and the favor of God. 223 00:11:35,960 --> 00:11:38,120 Speaker 1: Oh we need some Christians. 224 00:11:37,920 --> 00:11:40,520 Speaker 2: Who don't check their coat at the door of culture, 225 00:11:40,880 --> 00:11:44,440 Speaker 2: who are unashamed to be optimistic about the future because 226 00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:47,080 Speaker 2: you know God is already there, if He is the 227 00:11:47,160 --> 00:11:48,960 Speaker 2: author and the finisher of your faith. 228 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:53,840 Speaker 1: You see what I'm saying. 229 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:57,840 Speaker 2: A dream will make you different, and it takes courage 230 00:11:57,920 --> 00:11:58,760 Speaker 2: to be different. 231 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:01,400 Speaker 1: It takes to speak different. 232 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:05,199 Speaker 2: If you get a hold of a dream, or better said, 233 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:07,840 Speaker 2: if a dream gets hold of you from the throne 234 00:12:07,880 --> 00:12:12,280 Speaker 2: of God, it'll make you walk different, talk different, think different, 235 00:12:12,559 --> 00:12:16,480 Speaker 2: eat different, drink different, party different, texts different. 236 00:12:16,640 --> 00:12:23,840 Speaker 1: It'll make you different. Dream will make you different. 237 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:29,720 Speaker 2: And I'm glad that Joseph had the courage to be different, 238 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:35,319 Speaker 2: and I wonder do we have the courage to be different. 239 00:12:38,520 --> 00:12:40,840 Speaker 1: The weird thing about. 240 00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:44,640 Speaker 2: Our church is that a lot of times people will 241 00:12:45,040 --> 00:12:49,200 Speaker 2: be attracted to our church because it's different, and then 242 00:12:49,240 --> 00:12:53,480 Speaker 2: when they get to the church, they start trying to 243 00:12:53,520 --> 00:12:55,200 Speaker 2: tell us how we need to make it like the 244 00:12:55,280 --> 00:12:56,920 Speaker 2: church that they left to come to the church that 245 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:00,560 Speaker 2: was different. Yeah, I don't want to say amen to 246 00:13:00,640 --> 00:13:06,480 Speaker 2: the preacher today. It's the truest thing, Like you're attracted 247 00:13:06,480 --> 00:13:11,000 Speaker 2: to something because it's different, and they even say it's 248 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:13,880 Speaker 2: a marriage that before marriage, opposites attracted and then opposites attacked. 249 00:13:13,920 --> 00:13:17,079 Speaker 2: Because you're attracted to what's different, you're drawn to what's different, 250 00:13:17,559 --> 00:13:18,559 Speaker 2: not at first. 251 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:19,960 Speaker 1: At first you fear it. 252 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:23,720 Speaker 2: That's why they had to take the Old Town Road 253 00:13:23,720 --> 00:13:27,280 Speaker 2: off of the Billboard charts on country music because it 254 00:13:27,320 --> 00:13:30,719 Speaker 2: was too different. They couldn't they couldn't find a category 255 00:13:30,800 --> 00:13:33,280 Speaker 2: for it, and they said, it's not country enough, but 256 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:36,000 Speaker 2: it's not rap enough, and we don't know what it is. 257 00:13:36,040 --> 00:13:41,440 Speaker 1: It's different. That's why they crucify Jesus. You know, you 258 00:13:41,440 --> 00:13:42,320 Speaker 1: don't have many preachers. 259 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:44,840 Speaker 2: They can put a little Nasaks and Jesus in the 260 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:49,640 Speaker 2: same paragraph. But he was so different, we don't know 261 00:13:49,679 --> 00:13:53,200 Speaker 2: what to do with him. He's grace and truth. He's different. 262 00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:57,800 Speaker 2: Somebody shot him different. And I don't mean different in style. 263 00:13:57,840 --> 00:14:01,840 Speaker 2: I mean different in substance. I don't mean different just 264 00:14:01,840 --> 00:14:05,440 Speaker 2: for the sake of difference, because that's frankly kind of annoying. 265 00:14:05,520 --> 00:14:07,520 Speaker 1: And there's always a temptation, you know. 266 00:14:07,679 --> 00:14:10,079 Speaker 2: I've noticed that some people just want to be different, 267 00:14:10,559 --> 00:14:13,600 Speaker 2: just to be different. But there's nothing different about being different. 268 00:14:13,679 --> 00:14:16,880 Speaker 2: To be different, there's something about being different because you 269 00:14:16,880 --> 00:14:21,760 Speaker 2: have a different set of values and a different dream. See, 270 00:14:21,760 --> 00:14:25,240 Speaker 2: I don't just dream of making it through the day. 271 00:14:25,280 --> 00:14:28,040 Speaker 2: I don't just dream of surviving my life. I don't 272 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:28,560 Speaker 2: just dream. 273 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:30,600 Speaker 1: When you get a dream, it'll make you different. 274 00:14:31,560 --> 00:14:34,640 Speaker 2: You'll start sacrificing, and people will think you're crazy because 275 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:37,240 Speaker 2: of what you sacrifice. Even if you go on a 276 00:14:37,280 --> 00:14:39,640 Speaker 2: diet because you have a dream to lose twenty pounds, 277 00:14:39,640 --> 00:14:41,760 Speaker 2: the first thing that everybody around you is going to say. 278 00:14:41,680 --> 00:14:45,040 Speaker 3: Is you're not fine anymore. You used to meet someone's fine. 279 00:14:45,040 --> 00:14:47,400 Speaker 3: You used to just eat all the time when you 280 00:14:47,400 --> 00:14:50,000 Speaker 3: ain't contained. Why are you now. Don't let the fact 281 00:14:50,040 --> 00:14:52,640 Speaker 3: that they don't have the discipline to eat something different 282 00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:54,760 Speaker 3: cause you to give up on a goal that. 283 00:14:54,760 --> 00:14:56,360 Speaker 1: You set that's real for your life. 284 00:14:57,240 --> 00:14:59,400 Speaker 2: And if it's true with the diet, it's much more 285 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:03,680 Speaker 2: true with I wonder have you been dumbing down yourself 286 00:15:04,360 --> 00:15:07,720 Speaker 2: because to be different is too painful, And if you're 287 00:15:07,720 --> 00:15:11,200 Speaker 2: not careful, you will be conformed to the patterns of 288 00:15:11,240 --> 00:15:14,280 Speaker 2: this world, rather than being transformed by the renewing of 289 00:15:14,360 --> 00:15:14,880 Speaker 2: your mind. 290 00:15:15,480 --> 00:15:16,760 Speaker 1: Christians are supposed to. 291 00:15:16,800 --> 00:15:20,760 Speaker 2: See different, think different, understand different. 292 00:15:21,080 --> 00:15:22,480 Speaker 1: It's a different perspective. 293 00:15:22,840 --> 00:15:27,960 Speaker 2: I always thought that Joseph's life was a story about perseverance. 294 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:30,640 Speaker 2: You know, Joseph had a dream when he was young, 295 00:15:30,920 --> 00:15:31,760 Speaker 2: and then he had to go. 296 00:15:31,680 --> 00:15:32,920 Speaker 1: Through a lot of things. 297 00:15:32,640 --> 00:15:35,400 Speaker 2: But you know, don't give up because eventually you will 298 00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:39,880 Speaker 2: achieve your dream. Yet, that is a cultural understanding of dreams, 299 00:15:39,920 --> 00:15:43,359 Speaker 2: not a Christian understanding of dreams, not a scriptural understanding 300 00:15:43,400 --> 00:15:46,240 Speaker 2: of dreams. And we have a really bad habit of 301 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:50,360 Speaker 2: taking a concept like a dream and then overlaying our 302 00:15:50,560 --> 00:15:55,560 Speaker 2: own preferences and our own prejudices on that concept, and 303 00:15:55,640 --> 00:15:57,920 Speaker 2: so we make it what it's not, and. 304 00:15:57,880 --> 00:15:58,920 Speaker 1: We miss what it is. 305 00:16:01,520 --> 00:16:06,360 Speaker 2: Because it's really common for people to say, follow your dreams. 306 00:16:07,520 --> 00:16:11,240 Speaker 1: Yet, if you study the life of Joseph, and. 307 00:16:11,240 --> 00:16:13,960 Speaker 2: I mean really read every single word John and Tittle, 308 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:17,120 Speaker 2: every single invention, every single period in Comma, like I 309 00:16:17,160 --> 00:16:20,960 Speaker 2: did preparing to preach this, you will see a phrase 310 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:23,800 Speaker 2: iterated over and over again, no matter what he went through, 311 00:16:23,840 --> 00:16:27,440 Speaker 2: that says, the Lord was with Joseph. That's a statement 312 00:16:27,480 --> 00:16:31,560 Speaker 2: about God's presence. You will see that wherever he was, 313 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:36,200 Speaker 2: God promoted him, and that's a statement about purpose. But 314 00:16:36,320 --> 00:16:39,720 Speaker 2: the story of Joseph is not about getting a dream 315 00:16:39,840 --> 00:16:42,960 Speaker 2: and holding on tight to the dream and persevering, because 316 00:16:42,960 --> 00:16:45,560 Speaker 2: I used to think this was the story of Joseph, Like, don't. 317 00:16:45,440 --> 00:16:47,920 Speaker 1: Let anybody talk you out of your dream. 318 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:50,400 Speaker 2: If your mom told you that you're going to be 319 00:16:50,480 --> 00:16:53,760 Speaker 2: the next you know, the next whatever. Just hold on 320 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:56,040 Speaker 2: to your dream. And then anybody who doesn't agree with 321 00:16:56,080 --> 00:16:57,000 Speaker 2: your dream as a hater. 322 00:16:58,920 --> 00:16:59,320 Speaker 1: Maybe not. 323 00:17:01,680 --> 00:17:03,760 Speaker 2: Maybe your mom just loved you too much to hear 324 00:17:03,760 --> 00:17:05,600 Speaker 2: the bad notes you were hitting and you're not supposed 325 00:17:05,600 --> 00:17:06,800 Speaker 2: to be a professional singer. 326 00:17:09,960 --> 00:17:13,800 Speaker 1: Does the thought No, I'm sick of it. I'm really 327 00:17:13,840 --> 00:17:16,640 Speaker 1: sick of it because we take Joseph. It's not fair 328 00:17:16,640 --> 00:17:19,600 Speaker 1: to Joseph. Joseph went through this whole life. He was 329 00:17:19,640 --> 00:17:21,000 Speaker 1: called and chosen, and. 330 00:17:20,960 --> 00:17:22,679 Speaker 2: There was all kinds of conflict that came along. 331 00:17:22,800 --> 00:17:25,000 Speaker 1: And we're like, Joseph had a dream. Do you have 332 00:17:25,040 --> 00:17:27,280 Speaker 1: a dream? Would you like to open your own company? 333 00:17:27,480 --> 00:17:29,720 Speaker 2: Be like Joseph, have a dream, and then you can 334 00:17:29,720 --> 00:17:31,880 Speaker 2: make it from the pit to the palace. 335 00:17:32,440 --> 00:17:35,000 Speaker 1: Hold on in the pit, because there's a palace on 336 00:17:35,040 --> 00:17:35,720 Speaker 1: the other side. 337 00:17:36,160 --> 00:17:38,239 Speaker 2: Let me go into it for a moment. That is 338 00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:42,879 Speaker 2: not the story of Joseph's life. The story of Joseph's 339 00:17:42,920 --> 00:17:46,080 Speaker 2: life has nothing to do with if you have a 340 00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:48,480 Speaker 2: dream that you can think of that's big enough, God 341 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:49,960 Speaker 2: is obligated. 342 00:17:49,359 --> 00:17:50,280 Speaker 1: To bless it. Watch this. 343 00:17:52,040 --> 00:18:01,040 Speaker 2: Joseph didn't ask God for a dream. Joseph did not 344 00:18:01,119 --> 00:18:05,040 Speaker 2: make a vision board. That doesn't mean you can't make one. 345 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:08,479 Speaker 2: I've made a few myself. Let's just be clear that 346 00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:10,800 Speaker 2: we mean the same thing when we say a dream, 347 00:18:12,760 --> 00:18:15,360 Speaker 2: and then and then it becomes very devastating. 348 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:19,119 Speaker 1: Watch this, because your dream can become a distraction. 349 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:26,120 Speaker 2: Joseph's dream was very specific and epic, and it had 350 00:18:26,160 --> 00:18:29,760 Speaker 2: broad implications, you know. And he tells his brothers his dreams. 351 00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:31,399 Speaker 2: He comes out in his coat one day and they're like, 352 00:18:31,480 --> 00:18:33,919 Speaker 2: oh God, this guy. And so he comes over and 353 00:18:33,960 --> 00:18:35,080 Speaker 2: they're like, you talk to him this time. 354 00:18:35,119 --> 00:18:36,760 Speaker 1: I'm sick of talking to him. He's like, hey, guys, 355 00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:40,520 Speaker 1: guess what I had a dream. You want to hear 356 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:41,840 Speaker 1: my dream. 357 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:44,960 Speaker 2: They're like, no, we hate your dream, we hate your coat, 358 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:47,760 Speaker 2: we hate your voice, we hate you You're different. 359 00:18:48,080 --> 00:18:50,040 Speaker 1: But he didn't really, he didn't really care if they 360 00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:51,639 Speaker 1: wanted to hear it. He was going to tell him anyway. 361 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:54,840 Speaker 2: Joseph needed a journal, by the way, so he could 362 00:18:54,840 --> 00:18:56,639 Speaker 2: write some of this down and not tell other people. 363 00:18:57,080 --> 00:18:59,200 Speaker 2: He needed somewhere he could just process his dreams where 364 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:02,080 Speaker 2: he didn't let other people get involved too soon. Nevertheless, 365 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:05,920 Speaker 2: even Joseph's inability to discern the nature of the dream 366 00:19:05,920 --> 00:19:07,760 Speaker 2: and who was capable of handing it, played a part 367 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:09,560 Speaker 2: and leading him to the place where he could do 368 00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:12,840 Speaker 2: the dream that God put in his heart. 369 00:19:13,720 --> 00:19:15,320 Speaker 1: Did you feel God on that what I just said? 370 00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:20,640 Speaker 2: Because God's dream for my life will involve my decisions, 371 00:19:20,960 --> 00:19:24,479 Speaker 2: even if my decisions are immature. God will use some 372 00:19:24,520 --> 00:19:27,440 Speaker 2: of the desires in your heart that aren't good desires 373 00:19:27,520 --> 00:19:31,000 Speaker 2: at first. But Psalm thirty four thirty seven four says, 374 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:33,440 Speaker 2: if you delight yourself in the Lord, he will give 375 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:34,720 Speaker 2: you the desires of your heart. 376 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:37,360 Speaker 1: And he will take the desires that you had. 377 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:40,240 Speaker 2: And purify them, and he will rinse them, and he 378 00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:42,639 Speaker 2: will separate the wheat from the chaff to bring you 379 00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:46,000 Speaker 2: to an ultimate place, a purpose. But when Joseph started 380 00:19:46,040 --> 00:19:48,440 Speaker 2: sharing his dream with his brothers, it was all about him. 381 00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:52,679 Speaker 4: Hey, I had a dream, and it was awesome. We 382 00:19:52,760 --> 00:19:55,840 Speaker 4: were binding our sheaves of grain, and we were in 383 00:19:55,920 --> 00:19:59,840 Speaker 4: let your sheaves started bowing down to my sheaves. 384 00:19:59,680 --> 00:20:01,960 Speaker 1: And and in that awesome and they're like, no, it's 385 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:03,840 Speaker 1: not awesome. We hate your dream, we hate your cod 386 00:20:03,920 --> 00:20:06,119 Speaker 1: we hate you. And he's like, but then I had 387 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:09,520 Speaker 1: another dream, and in this dream there were eleven stars. 388 00:20:09,520 --> 00:20:11,400 Speaker 1: I don't know why Joseph sounds like Keanu reeves. 389 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:15,240 Speaker 2: There were eleven stars and a sun and the moon, 390 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:17,119 Speaker 2: and they were all bowing down to me. 391 00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:20,480 Speaker 1: In my dream awesome. And they're like, no, we don't 392 00:20:20,560 --> 00:20:21,080 Speaker 1: like your dream. 393 00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:23,760 Speaker 2: In fact, we hate your dream so much that we 394 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:25,000 Speaker 2: are about to push you in. 395 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:26,720 Speaker 1: A pit and leave you for dead. 396 00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:29,280 Speaker 2: And if it hadn't have been for Reuben, who decided 397 00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:31,400 Speaker 2: we should at least get twenty shekels of silver out 398 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:33,199 Speaker 2: of this boy, there's no need to kill him when 399 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:35,440 Speaker 2: we can profit off of him, they wouldn't have sold 400 00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:36,800 Speaker 2: him to the Ishmaeli Caravan. 401 00:20:36,840 --> 00:20:38,120 Speaker 1: They would have left him for dead. 402 00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:43,199 Speaker 2: But understand that even Joseph's decision to speak about his 403 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:47,640 Speaker 2: dream prematurely was part of what God used to motivate 404 00:20:47,640 --> 00:20:50,159 Speaker 2: his brothers to push him in the pit. At the 405 00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:53,760 Speaker 2: same time they did that, and Ishmaelik Caravan was setting 406 00:20:53,760 --> 00:20:57,240 Speaker 2: out to bring whoever they would pick. 407 00:20:57,160 --> 00:20:59,720 Speaker 1: Up along the way back to the place of slavery. 408 00:20:59,760 --> 00:21:02,080 Speaker 2: Now it was a place of slavery at that point, 409 00:21:02,119 --> 00:21:04,560 Speaker 2: but it would ultimately become a place of deliverance. I'm 410 00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:07,640 Speaker 2: gonna teach the Bible today because when Joseph was picked 411 00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:10,639 Speaker 2: up and put in Potterphar's house, he served so well 412 00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:14,520 Speaker 2: in Potterphar's house that everything Potiphar put under him prosper. 413 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:17,760 Speaker 2: And so when Potiphar saw how Joseph served, he promoted 414 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:20,359 Speaker 2: him to a position of influence. But he wouldn't have 415 00:21:20,359 --> 00:21:22,840 Speaker 2: been in Potiphar's house to begin with if he hadn't 416 00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:24,639 Speaker 2: been pushed in a pit, and he wouldn't have been 417 00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:26,359 Speaker 2: pushed in a pit if he didn't wear a coat. 418 00:21:26,560 --> 00:21:28,480 Speaker 2: And so when you leave your coat in the closet 419 00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:31,159 Speaker 2: and downplay your dream to fit in with people who 420 00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:33,719 Speaker 2: don't like you because you're different, you can't end up 421 00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:36,080 Speaker 2: in the position you need to be in. I'm preaching 422 00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:40,120 Speaker 2: to somebody who's different. The more like Christ you become, 423 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:43,560 Speaker 2: the more different from culture you will be. And it's 424 00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:46,119 Speaker 2: all right to be weird, and it's all right to 425 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:47,280 Speaker 2: have hope. 426 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:47,680 Speaker 1: And it's all. 427 00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:50,200 Speaker 2: Right to have vision, and it's all right to. 428 00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:50,960 Speaker 1: Know who you are. 429 00:21:54,520 --> 00:22:01,000 Speaker 2: And all of this happened because Joseph had a dream, 430 00:22:01,119 --> 00:22:08,000 Speaker 2: And yet Joseph's dream looked nothing when it finally happened, 431 00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:12,040 Speaker 2: like it looked in the distance when he first saw it. 432 00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:14,639 Speaker 1: Can you relate to this. 433 00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:23,399 Speaker 2: How sometimes marriage looks different in the distance than it 434 00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:25,680 Speaker 2: does after twenty years. I need all my people who 435 00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:29,439 Speaker 2: have been married over twenty years to just wave at 436 00:22:29,480 --> 00:22:32,600 Speaker 2: me real quick and let me know that it's so 437 00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:40,760 Speaker 2: much different, so much different, so much better, so much harder, 438 00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:46,440 Speaker 2: so much different. Not like the movies that I saw, 439 00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:50,160 Speaker 2: not like the songs that I heard. 440 00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:53,080 Speaker 1: Different, It's just different. 441 00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:58,520 Speaker 2: Because when Joseph is young, he sees shiny stars, but 442 00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:02,280 Speaker 2: sometimes when it comes up closer, it's not so shiny anymore. 443 00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:06,920 Speaker 2: Having kids is different. This is where me and Holly 444 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:12,199 Speaker 2: are different. She always dreamed of being a parent. I 445 00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:13,800 Speaker 2: didn't dream of being a parent. I dreamed of being 446 00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:20,439 Speaker 2: a punk rocker and then a preacher. But one of 447 00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:22,280 Speaker 2: our staff members was having a baby the other day 448 00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:24,800 Speaker 2: and he was telling me how happy he was, and 449 00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:26,880 Speaker 2: he was like, O always dreamed of being a dad, 450 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:28,640 Speaker 2: And that made me feel sorry for my kids, because 451 00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:34,639 Speaker 2: I'm like, I didn't even like kick in as a 452 00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:38,600 Speaker 2: dad until they were five you know that's so worthless. 453 00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:43,280 Speaker 2: In fact, if we can really be honest and not 454 00:23:43,320 --> 00:23:47,800 Speaker 2: put this one online. I dreaded being a dad because 455 00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:49,840 Speaker 2: all I ever saw kids do was make people have 456 00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:58,119 Speaker 2: to leave restaurants before they finish their meal. So you know, 457 00:23:58,240 --> 00:24:03,280 Speaker 2: like now, there is no greater delight in my life 458 00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:09,879 Speaker 2: than my kids thirty percent at the time, There's no 459 00:24:10,119 --> 00:24:14,160 Speaker 2: greater investment. There's nothing I'm more passionate about. There's nothing 460 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:16,439 Speaker 2: that can just wake me up more and make me 461 00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:19,480 Speaker 2: realize what matters more. But it wasn't the thing I 462 00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:24,600 Speaker 2: dreamed about. It was the thing that I did, and 463 00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:27,760 Speaker 2: when I did it, God gave me the desire for it. 464 00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:32,159 Speaker 1: But it didn't start as a dream. It started as 465 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:33,280 Speaker 1: a duty. 466 00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:37,720 Speaker 2: This is so critical for a world and a time 467 00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:40,640 Speaker 2: where all we're ever told is follow your dreams. There 468 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:44,359 Speaker 2: is no record in Genesis thirty seven, thirty eight, thirty nine, 469 00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:47,840 Speaker 2: forty forty one, two forty three, forty four, forty five 470 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:51,040 Speaker 2: where the Bible says and Joseph remembered his dream and 471 00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:54,480 Speaker 2: pushed on through because when life gets hard, you got 472 00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:58,000 Speaker 2: to have a dream, and sometimes life will give you hurdles. 473 00:24:58,240 --> 00:24:59,840 Speaker 1: But you know, this is really. 474 00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:02,840 Speaker 2: Allward or this little motif I've gotten myself into right here, 475 00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:07,080 Speaker 2: this little, this pastic motivational speaker thing that I've set 476 00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:07,520 Speaker 2: up here. 477 00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:11,200 Speaker 1: But just follow your dreams. You know what I can't find. 478 00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:14,800 Speaker 2: In Genesis where Joseph followed his dream. What I saw 479 00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:18,640 Speaker 2: in Genesis was Joseph's dream followed him. 480 00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:23,880 Speaker 1: So watch this. I don't follow dreams. I follow Jesus, 481 00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:27,359 Speaker 1: and when I do, dreams follow me. 482 00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:37,320 Speaker 2: Joseph's dream followed Joseph. It followed him to Potterphar's house, 483 00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:41,280 Speaker 2: it followed him to prison, it followed him into Pharaoh's court, 484 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:45,439 Speaker 2: because dreams follow me when I follow Jesus. If you 485 00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:48,679 Speaker 2: look behind your life, you will see very clearly that 486 00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:51,080 Speaker 2: some of the things that God did for you, and 487 00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:53,399 Speaker 2: some of the doors he opened for you, and some 488 00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:55,560 Speaker 2: of the ways he made for you, and some of 489 00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:59,280 Speaker 2: the opportunities that he granted for you were accidental from 490 00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:03,360 Speaker 2: your perspective. But I've got good news for you. God's 491 00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:05,920 Speaker 2: dream for you is bigger than your dream for you. 492 00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:09,400 Speaker 2: Just because it doesn't look shiny when you see it 493 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:12,320 Speaker 2: doesn't mean it isn't real. God said, you've got the 494 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:15,280 Speaker 2: right dream. 495 00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:21,679 Speaker 1: You just need to see it differently. The fact of 496 00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:24,720 Speaker 1: the matter is. 497 00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:26,679 Speaker 2: That some of us are standing in the middle of 498 00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:31,240 Speaker 2: our dream, but we can't see it because it feels 499 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:33,840 Speaker 2: different than we thought it would when we first saw it. 500 00:26:37,119 --> 00:26:41,320 Speaker 1: And I believe in dreams. I had a dream about you. 501 00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:45,800 Speaker 2: I dreamed that you would be here in this church, 502 00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:47,800 Speaker 2: and God did that. 503 00:26:49,359 --> 00:26:52,520 Speaker 1: But it's a lot different than I thought it would 504 00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:58,840 Speaker 1: be because y'all are different, and it's different. Y'all are different. 505 00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:01,160 Speaker 2: You're different than the person three seats down for you, 506 00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:03,960 Speaker 2: and you grew up in vacation Bible school, and they're 507 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:07,080 Speaker 2: thinking like Joseph is when that Jesus' dad, And they 508 00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:09,399 Speaker 2: were like this, I don't and I'm trying to appreach 509 00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:15,199 Speaker 2: to all these different people. It's just different. It's different 510 00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:18,600 Speaker 2: because you picture like Joseph had a dream. Have you 511 00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:22,080 Speaker 2: got a dream? Everybody had a dream. You had a dream, 512 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:24,000 Speaker 2: Doctor King had a dream. 513 00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:26,720 Speaker 1: You have a dream. It's not the same kind of dream. 514 00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:30,560 Speaker 2: You know, this was a This was a dream that 515 00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:32,680 Speaker 2: Joseph didn't decide for himself. 516 00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:35,600 Speaker 1: Don't follow your dreams. 517 00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:39,000 Speaker 2: Because what if your dream was just the first draft? 518 00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:49,520 Speaker 2: Are you open to a revision? I wanted to I 519 00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:52,600 Speaker 2: wanted to be a punk rocker. I wanted to sing songs, 520 00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:55,959 Speaker 2: but I didn't know God was gonna let me write 521 00:27:56,000 --> 00:28:00,000 Speaker 2: songs and pastor a church that churches around the world 522 00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:01,320 Speaker 2: world would sing. 523 00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:04,520 Speaker 1: As an expression or as an anthem of faith. 524 00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:08,639 Speaker 2: It wasn't my dream, but God took that desire and 525 00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:09,440 Speaker 2: he gave me the dream. 526 00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:11,280 Speaker 1: And I don't have to be the one singing the song. 527 00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:15,240 Speaker 2: I just want to be a part of it. 528 00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:17,160 Speaker 1: It's the value of a bigger picture. 529 00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:21,080 Speaker 2: But your dream can be a distraction because now you're 530 00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:22,159 Speaker 2: not following Jesus. 531 00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:24,720 Speaker 1: You're following your dreaming. When your dream takes you down an. 532 00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:27,399 Speaker 2: Unexpected path, you start to complain and freak out and 533 00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:31,280 Speaker 2: get frustrated, and you are missing the dream because you 534 00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:34,080 Speaker 2: will not wake up to the reality. Sometimes we don't 535 00:28:34,119 --> 00:28:41,400 Speaker 2: know the difference between a dream and a fantasy. I 536 00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:46,800 Speaker 2: told our staff recently, this is the dream when you're 537 00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:51,120 Speaker 2: frustrated in ministry. Remember that some of you were watching 538 00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:53,600 Speaker 2: elevision church online before you came to work here, and 539 00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:55,520 Speaker 2: you thought, oh, if I could ever get there one day. 540 00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:59,880 Speaker 2: But you didn't know that the baptism tank was gonna 541 00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:01,760 Speaker 2: be half full when you got here, and you'd have 542 00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:03,560 Speaker 2: to fill it up right before and next time you 543 00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:05,760 Speaker 2: next time you have to get here and the volunteers 544 00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:07,600 Speaker 2: don't show up, and next time you have to just 545 00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:11,600 Speaker 2: just say to yourself, this is the dream. 546 00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:14,520 Speaker 1: Huh. 547 00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:16,200 Speaker 2: Waking up in the middle of the night as a 548 00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:18,240 Speaker 2: new mom, this is the dream. Even if you have 549 00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:20,080 Speaker 2: to fake a smile. The devil won't know the difference. 550 00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:22,840 Speaker 2: All I see is that you're smiling. This is the dream. 551 00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:28,160 Speaker 2: And yet it won't feel like American idol. And yet 552 00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:31,320 Speaker 2: it won't feel like an Olympic gold medal ceremony, because 553 00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:31,800 Speaker 2: it's not that. 554 00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:33,800 Speaker 1: Kind of dream. 555 00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:37,640 Speaker 2: By the time Joseph's dream finally came true, because dreams 556 00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:43,120 Speaker 2: do come true, it was two decades later. Not only 557 00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:46,800 Speaker 2: been falsely in prison, not only had he been forgotten about, 558 00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:51,280 Speaker 2: not only had he been misunderstood, not only was he 559 00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:54,720 Speaker 2: incarcerated for a crime he didn't commit, but in the 560 00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:56,840 Speaker 2: process of it, he was unappreciated for his part in 561 00:29:56,840 --> 00:30:01,000 Speaker 2: someone else's freedom. Yet, when he finally got to his dream, 562 00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:04,560 Speaker 2: he realized something that is very hard for us to 563 00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:10,680 Speaker 2: comprehend in an Instagram world. That God develops dreams in 564 00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:16,560 Speaker 2: the dark room and The issue is that we have 565 00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:19,760 Speaker 2: an Instagram expectation, but we serve a darkroom God. 566 00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:26,360 Speaker 1: For the four of y'all who are clapping, I'm gonna 567 00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:29,640 Speaker 1: keep preaching. When you get your picture. 568 00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:35,000 Speaker 2: Really developed by a professional, they don't post it ten 569 00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:38,600 Speaker 2: seconds after they took it with a prefabricated filter by 570 00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:43,520 Speaker 2: Instagram incorporator. They take it into a special room and 571 00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:47,600 Speaker 2: they do special things in a special room. If any 572 00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:50,160 Speaker 2: of y'all ever had to drop some film off at CVS, 573 00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:52,920 Speaker 2: if any of you ever had to go through a 574 00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:56,400 Speaker 2: season of your life where you had to trust a professional, 575 00:30:57,200 --> 00:30:59,480 Speaker 2: where you had to put something in the hands of God, 576 00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:05,920 Speaker 2: where you had to hand him the negatives, and trust 577 00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:10,240 Speaker 2: him to take the negatives and take them into the 578 00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:13,840 Speaker 2: secret place of the Most High, and take them into 579 00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:16,920 Speaker 2: the place of his purpose, and take them into the 580 00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:19,680 Speaker 2: place of his wisdom, and take them into the mystery. 581 00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:22,600 Speaker 2: And trust him that if I put it in his hands, 582 00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:25,600 Speaker 2: and if I have the patience to let it develop, 583 00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:28,920 Speaker 2: if I have the patience to know that every scene 584 00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:32,280 Speaker 2: of my life is playing a part in the bigger picture, 585 00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:34,800 Speaker 2: not of the dream that I had, but of the 586 00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:38,080 Speaker 2: desire that was in God's heart, and I might be 587 00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:40,360 Speaker 2: standing in the middle of a dream that I don't 588 00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:43,760 Speaker 2: have the clarity to see right now because the picture 589 00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:47,520 Speaker 2: does not match for my preference. But watch this, I'm 590 00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:52,040 Speaker 2: willing and ready and able to trust God even in 591 00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:56,800 Speaker 2: the dark places of my disappointment, because I understand that 592 00:31:56,840 --> 00:32:00,560 Speaker 2: some of God's greatest work happens in the dark where 593 00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:03,760 Speaker 2: I don't understand. And I'm feeling around, and I thought 594 00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:05,680 Speaker 2: I was going to be done with this by now, 595 00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:08,080 Speaker 2: and I thought i'd be different by now. And this 596 00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:10,160 Speaker 2: is not how they put it on the box, and 597 00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:12,680 Speaker 2: this is not how the Hamburger looked on the commercial. 598 00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:15,640 Speaker 2: But here I am God, and I trust you, not 599 00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:19,120 Speaker 2: my dream. I trust you, not my idea. I will 600 00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:23,200 Speaker 2: not make my ideas my idol. I'm worshiping you, I'm 601 00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:38,600 Speaker 2: serving you. It's not about position, it's about purpose. So 602 00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:42,320 Speaker 2: when he finally had his dream come true, it was 603 00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:45,800 Speaker 2: not in the form of shiny stars. It was in 604 00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:50,640 Speaker 2: the form of his eleven brothers who betrayed him, coming 605 00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:54,920 Speaker 2: to him and asking for food. And Joseph is in 606 00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:59,040 Speaker 2: Pharaoh's court distributing the grain for not only that nation, 607 00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:02,000 Speaker 2: but for all the surrounding nations. And he looks up 608 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:04,239 Speaker 2: at his brothers who hurt him, who are standing with 609 00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:10,800 Speaker 2: their hands out, and realizes, this is the dream. I'm 610 00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:16,720 Speaker 2: at the center. But it's not for status, it's for service. 611 00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:29,840 Speaker 1: Has God been trying to get you to see that 612 00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:31,560 Speaker 1: in your own life? Lately? 613 00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:39,160 Speaker 2: We attach ourselves to a version of a dream that 614 00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:41,400 Speaker 2: may not have even come from God to begin with. 615 00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:46,600 Speaker 2: And what if the greatest thing God is going to 616 00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:50,280 Speaker 2: do through your life is what He is going to 617 00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:54,080 Speaker 2: allow you to contribute to somebody else's Are you open 618 00:33:54,120 --> 00:34:02,800 Speaker 2: to that dream? When the angel came to marry, he said, 619 00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:06,480 Speaker 2: you're gonna have a baby. When the Angel came to 620 00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:09,719 Speaker 2: Joseph in a dream, he said, you're gonna help her. 621 00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:14,399 Speaker 2: What if the dream God has for me isn't even 622 00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:20,200 Speaker 2: about me. It's the danger of a dream to start 623 00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:22,680 Speaker 2: thinking like this is what my kids are gonna grow 624 00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:27,160 Speaker 2: up and do, Okay, Like get your Harvard mug out 625 00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:29,160 Speaker 2: of your coffee mug cabinet. 626 00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:32,319 Speaker 1: And what if your kid doesn't turn out to do 627 00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:33,440 Speaker 1: what you wanted him to do. 628 00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:37,880 Speaker 2: What if God has a different dream for them? What 629 00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:43,279 Speaker 2: if it's better, What if it's deeper. What if the 630 00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:45,040 Speaker 2: reason God lets your dream. 631 00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:46,520 Speaker 1: Die is because it wasn't big enough. 632 00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:55,920 Speaker 2: When we put too much pressure on a dream to 633 00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:59,719 Speaker 2: come true, we allow our dream to become a di 634 00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:04,440 Speaker 2: traction from the season that we're in. And I preached 635 00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:07,160 Speaker 2: this way because if Joseph had gone around looking for 636 00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:10,759 Speaker 2: stars for his dream, you know, reach for the stars. 637 00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:12,880 Speaker 2: But it wasn't in the form of a star that 638 00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:15,560 Speaker 2: the dream came. It was in the form of his brothers. 639 00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:18,040 Speaker 2: It was in the form of his responsibility. 640 00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:21,439 Speaker 1: It was in the form of a duty. You don't 641 00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:25,440 Speaker 1: have to have some grand, dynamic dream to serve God. 642 00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:29,280 Speaker 2: Stop feeling guilty because you don't have some huge dream 643 00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:34,200 Speaker 2: to end cancer, or to or to start a new 644 00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:37,480 Speaker 2: to start a new ministry, or to maybe like be 645 00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:41,200 Speaker 2: the next Bill Gates or Elon Musk or go to space. 646 00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:43,480 Speaker 1: Maybe you don't have the talent for that. 647 00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:45,920 Speaker 2: You don't have to have a huge dream, but you 648 00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:50,319 Speaker 2: do need to serve a purpose in this season. And 649 00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:56,239 Speaker 2: I wonder, is there's somebody here watching online who was 650 00:35:56,280 --> 00:36:00,160 Speaker 2: standing right in the middle of the dream, but it 651 00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:02,080 Speaker 2: looks different than it did in the distance. 652 00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:04,359 Speaker 1: This is the. 653 00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:11,279 Speaker 2: Dream to know him, to serve him, to love him. 654 00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:16,839 Speaker 2: And there's two types of people in the room. Some 655 00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:20,200 Speaker 2: of you were discouraged because you had a dream and 656 00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:23,799 Speaker 2: it didn't happen, hasn't happened yet, don't know if it will. 657 00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:29,840 Speaker 1: And others are disillusioned because you're in your dream, but 658 00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:31,359 Speaker 1: it's different than you thought it was going to be. 659 00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:35,360 Speaker 1: You're standing in the middle, but it's your brother's around you. 660 00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:42,759 Speaker 2: God said that today was going to be a day 661 00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:47,400 Speaker 2: for you, for you to see the dream for what 662 00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:51,600 Speaker 2: it really is and let go of the illusion of 663 00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:54,760 Speaker 2: what you thought it would be. If you stand right now, 664 00:36:56,040 --> 00:37:02,040 Speaker 2: I'll pray for you. 665 00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:05,680 Speaker 1: You could put your notebook down. I'm done teaching. 666 00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:11,279 Speaker 2: It's one of those things that we all have to 667 00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:16,560 Speaker 2: deal with at different points in our life, to realize 668 00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:19,720 Speaker 2: that this is what I saw, but it just doesn't 669 00:37:19,719 --> 00:37:20,319 Speaker 2: feel the same. 670 00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:24,840 Speaker 1: Are you open to a different dream. 671 00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:28,440 Speaker 2: Maybe it's not even a different dream, maybe it's just 672 00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:34,480 Speaker 2: a more mature version of it. The Disciples had a 673 00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:38,080 Speaker 2: dream for Jesus, you know, he's going to restore the 674 00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:41,200 Speaker 2: Kingdom of Israel. When they saw him hanging on the cross, 675 00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:43,760 Speaker 2: they didn't know what to do with that. That wasn't 676 00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:45,920 Speaker 2: the way they saw liberation. But that's the way he 677 00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:49,759 Speaker 2: did it, and it is in the process of doing it, 678 00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:52,400 Speaker 2: and it is in the process of accepting it. 679 00:37:52,719 --> 00:37:54,080 Speaker 1: That greater faith is born. 680 00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:59,440 Speaker 2: Father, Today I thank you for the illumination that you've 681 00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:04,480 Speaker 2: given us through your word and by your spirit. I 682 00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:06,640 Speaker 2: felt like you were using me while I was preaching 683 00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:09,320 Speaker 2: to speak to somebody on a personal level, and I 684 00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:11,719 Speaker 2: want to thank you for that because I want to 685 00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:14,000 Speaker 2: be used by you. But now God, I want to 686 00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:16,400 Speaker 2: step out of the way, and I want them to 687 00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:19,400 Speaker 2: hear what they need to hear from you, because it 688 00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:21,000 Speaker 2: didn't turn out the way they dreamed. 689 00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:23,400 Speaker 1: It's different. 690 00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:29,440 Speaker 2: It doesn't look so shiny anymore, it doesn't look so 691 00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:34,239 Speaker 2: sexy anymore. Now it's time for them to embrace the 692 00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:37,799 Speaker 2: purpose for the season that you've placed them in and 693 00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:40,480 Speaker 2: let go of the one that may never come, or 694 00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:45,000 Speaker 2: let go of the one that was. This is the dream. 695 00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:48,759 Speaker 2: Somebody make that confession. This is the dream. And so 696 00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:51,680 Speaker 2: God give them the perspective to go back into their lives, 697 00:38:51,719 --> 00:38:55,600 Speaker 2: go back into their homes, go back into their jobs, and. 698 00:38:55,640 --> 00:38:56,880 Speaker 1: See it how you see it. 699 00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:00,840 Speaker 2: In a world that's obsessed with stats, us in position, 700 00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:06,080 Speaker 2: make us servants of purpose to serve your purpose in 701 00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:08,799 Speaker 2: every season that we're in and to find our satisfaction 702 00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:09,160 Speaker 2: in that. 703 00:39:10,719 --> 00:39:11,839 Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us. 704 00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:14,600 Speaker 2: Special thanks to those of you who give generously to 705 00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:18,160 Speaker 2: this ministry. 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