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Speaker 3: Before this story, we learned how Joseph was Israel's favorite

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Speaker 4: this terrible situation, this sordid situation, God would bring good

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Speaker 4: this unchanging, eternal truth. Dear God, thank you for showing

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Speaker 4: us the danger of strength from the path of your will.

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Speaker 4: Thank you God that when we sin, when we do

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Speaker 4: you can even bring good out of our situation, because

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Speaker 4: Thank you for always being a good God, a faithful God,

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Speaker 4: a holy God in Christ's name. Amen, Thank you for

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Speaker 4: listening to Today's Bible in a Year podcast. I'm Jack

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Speaker 4: Graham from Dallas, Texas, and before we go, I want

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