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[2812.02 --> 2812.44] he told her,
[2812.48 --> 2814.28] my master does not concern himself
[2814.28 --> 2815.28] with anything in the house.
[2815.54 --> 2816.48] Everything he owns,
[2816.56 --> 2817.82] he's entrusted to my care.
[2818.30 --> 2821.08] No one is greater in this house than I am.
[2821.30 --> 2823.22] My master has withheld nothing from me
[2823.22 --> 2824.46] except you,
[2824.76 --> 2825.90] because you are his wife.
[2826.88 --> 2830.14] How then could I do such a wicked thing
[2830.14 --> 2831.98] and sin against God?
[2833.00 --> 2835.06] And though she spoke to Joseph day after day,
[2835.14 --> 2837.20] he refused to go to bed with her,
[2837.62 --> 2839.18] or even be with her.
[2840.40 --> 2842.68] One day he went to the house to attend to his duties,
[2842.68 --> 2844.56] and none of the household servants were inside.
[2844.90 --> 2846.82] She caught him by his cloak and said,
[2847.08 --> 2848.18] Come to bed with me.
[2848.18 --> 2851.08] But he left his cloak in her hand
[2851.08 --> 2852.76] and ran out of the house.
[2853.56 --> 2855.94] When she saw that he had left his cloak in her hand
[2855.94 --> 2856.82] and ran out of the house,
[2856.98 --> 2858.70] she called to her household servants,
[2858.82 --> 2859.04] Look!
[2859.34 --> 2860.06] She said to them,
[2860.18 --> 2861.90] This Hebrew has been brought to us
[2861.90 --> 2863.12] to make sport of us.
[2863.54 --> 2865.62] He came in here to sleep with me.
[2866.02 --> 2866.74] But I screamed.
[2867.02 --> 2868.30] When he heard me scream for help,
[2868.36 --> 2869.64] he left his cloak beside me
[2869.64 --> 2870.76] and ran out of the house.
[2871.76 --> 2873.34] She kept his cloak beside her
[2873.34 --> 2874.56] until his master came home.
[2874.56 --> 2876.88] Then she told him this story,
[2877.38 --> 2878.92] That Hebrew slave you brought us
[2878.92 --> 2880.56] came to me to make sport of me.
[2880.70 --> 2882.20] But as soon as I screamed for help,
[2882.44 --> 2884.04] he left his cloak beside me
[2884.04 --> 2885.34] and ran out of the house.
[2886.56 --> 2888.22] When his master heard this story,
[2888.56 --> 2890.14] his wife was telling him, saying,
[2890.56 --> 2892.36] This is how your slave treated me?
[2892.46 --> 2894.00] He burned with anger.
[2895.08 --> 2896.22] Joseph's master took him
[2896.22 --> 2897.36] and put him in prison,
[2897.52 --> 2899.64] the place where the king's prisoners were confined.
[2900.86 --> 2902.72] But while Joseph was there in the prison,
[2902.84 --> 2903.96] the Lord was with him.
[2903.96 --> 2905.04] He showed him kindness
[2905.04 --> 2906.08] and granted him favor
[2906.08 --> 2908.02] in the eyes of the prison warden.
[2908.46 --> 2910.00] So the warden put Joseph in charge
[2910.00 --> 2911.76] of all those held in the prison,
[2911.96 --> 2913.12] and he was made responsible
[2913.12 --> 2914.50] for all that was done there.
[2914.96 --> 2916.16] The warden paid no attention
[2916.16 --> 2917.66] to anything under Joseph's care
[2917.66 --> 2919.70] because the Lord was with Joseph
[2919.70 --> 2921.00] and gave him success
[2921.00 --> 2922.30] in whatever he did.
[2923.32 --> 2924.32] The word of the Lord.
[2927.64 --> 2929.72] So we've covered the narrative to this point,
[2929.80 --> 2931.08] but let's quickly remember perhaps
[2931.08 --> 2933.30] what we've learned these past few weeks
[2933.30 --> 2934.60] from this story.
[2934.74 --> 2935.36] So at first,
[2935.76 --> 2937.54] we learned that there is always hope
[2937.54 --> 2940.32] because God has victory over the future.
[2941.22 --> 2943.26] We know that at the end of this story,
[2944.12 --> 2945.40] Joseph's dreams that he had
[2945.40 --> 2946.42] at the beginning of the story
[2946.42 --> 2947.06] do come true,
[2947.18 --> 2949.12] and we know that at the end of history,
[2949.46 --> 2951.80] God's plans for eternity will play out.
[2952.54 --> 2953.88] Through God's sovereignty,
[2954.10 --> 2956.30] meaning through his complete authority
[2956.30 --> 2958.74] over everything that he has created,
[2959.26 --> 2961.46] God already has victory over the future,
[2962.08 --> 2963.64] even over our future,
[2964.26 --> 2965.18] so we can have hope.
[2966.38 --> 2967.20] And then last week,
[2967.24 --> 2969.66] we learned that God is always at work.
[2970.70 --> 2972.58] We should remember meanwhile,
[2972.98 --> 2973.74] if you recall.
[2974.30 --> 2975.64] In the trials we face,
[2975.82 --> 2976.98] when things seem rough,
[2977.30 --> 2979.22] even if we never see or comprehend
[2979.22 --> 2980.24] what God is up to,
[2980.90 --> 2982.76] God is always at work.
[2982.76 --> 2985.90] When suffering enters our world,
[2986.60 --> 2989.26] and suffering can mean so many things.
[2989.80 --> 2991.52] There's suffering on like a macro level,
[2991.58 --> 2992.70] on a global front,
[2993.12 --> 2993.26] right,
[2993.30 --> 2994.64] like war and persecution,
[2995.00 --> 2995.80] and then there's suffering
[2995.80 --> 2996.66] that's more localized,
[2997.50 --> 3000.02] things like grief and anxiety.
[3001.28 --> 3002.80] Suffering can be hard to define