15th Annual Present Truth Conference Botswana Africa

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Present Truth Lifestyle Conference

The Power of the 3 Angels Messages

Eric Walsh

In the Court of the Creator: 1st Angels Message

The Collapse of Confusion: 2nd Angels Message

Marked for Death or Sealed for Life: 3rd Angels Message

The Power of Letting Go

I'm gonna jump right into this and get to our Scripture reading for this session.

Our Scripture reading from this session comes from Luke chapter 23, starting at verse 34.

The Scripture says, And they parted his raiment and cast lots.

Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." Our message This afternoon is entitled, The Power of Letting Go.

The Power of Letting Go, Forgiveness as an Agent for Healing.

Father God, once again I ask in a special way today, a day Lord when the entire world pauses to remember that you came to earth, wrapped in the flesh of a human baby.

Today, Lord, I ask in a special way that you be with us again.

Instead, Father, let us hear a word from the throne of grace.

This is our prayer in Jesus's precious and holy name.

So we're gonna start in the book of Genesis chapter 50, 1 of my favorite Bible stories.

And let me, let me come down again, let me, let me, let me give the backdrop of this story.

This is 1 of the most troubling stories in all of the Bible in my opinion.

Joseph is Jacob's favorite son at the time and the reason for that is because his father had in a sense violated really what God would have wanted him to do and had many wives.

So, Joseph is the son of Jacob's favorite wife.

Now, if that wasn't bad enough when he had all the brothers he had, Joseph was crazy enough that when he had a dream that would predict that 1 day his brothers would bow to him, Joseph was crazy enough to run down the stairs of his house, sit at the breakfast table, and as they were having breakfast that morning, some scrambled tofu, amen, Joseph was crazy enough to actually say to his brothers the dream.

I don't think so, but his brothers' hatred for him grew so greatly that they intended to actually murder their own brother.

They wanted him dead, which speaks to what they felt about their father, right?

They were willing to hurt their father terribly because they were worried in the old Jewish system the oldest son usually got like a double portion of the inheritance.

Everybody else would split the rest of it.

They were worried that because Joseph was the favorite, he would get the lion's share of the inheritance.

There was a lot going on, a lot of anger.

Their mothers probably had whispered in each of those brothers ears words against Rachel and against Joseph.

And so you can imagine that the brothers were filled with hatred.

While they were out, the father sends Joseph to look for them and wearing his beautiful technicolor coat, and when he gets, they see him coming, they plot to kill him.

If it wasn't really for 2 of the brothers, Reuben and Judah to some extent, they would have killed Joseph.

But I believe it was Judah who said, listen, instead, you know, why don't we make some money off of this guy?

They took their brother and threw him in a pit.

As the Ishmaelites were coming by, they sold their brother into slavery.

I want you to picture what it would have been like for Joseph as he was probably either walking or on the back of some sort of a cart being pulled away by the Ishmaelites, as he looked back, as these brothers get smaller and smaller in the distance, can you imagine the heartbreak that ran through Joseph as he cried out, I'm your brother.

Can you imagine how he screamed, no, no, I love you, don't do this.

Can you imagine the pain that ran through Joseph as his brothers laughed at his demise?

And eventually they disappeared against the horizon?

And When he gets to Egypt, can you imagine the pain that he suffers when he has to stand on a slave block and is sold as a young, fit, handsome man, sold to 1 of Pharaoh's high commanders and he's sold into Potiphar's house?

Can you imagine as he now has to learn all of the customs and ways of the Egyptians in order to serve in Potiphar's house?

How he has to learn in a completely new language.

You see, when you see black people come from North America, the Caribbean, South America, 1 thing that unites all of us is that pretty much every single 1 of us are the descendants of slaves.

And let me submit to you that that haunts us to this day.

That legacy, in fact when Barack Obama was elected and everyone was saying we have a black president, there are many black Americans that he does not represent us.

His father is Kenyan and his mother is white.

Slavery takes hold of you and I can imagine you have to become a completely different person.

Joseph is able to do good work in that house as he gets stronger, as he becomes fluent.

He homeschooled him very well back in Canaan.

And so he picked up the language quickly.

He had to learn every custom, every tradition, how the Egyptians eat, where they lay their silverware, everything had to be learned perfectly if he was going to serve.

Eventually Potiphar's wife comes after Joseph.

This is 1 of the weirdest twists in the whole story because there are a lot of people who would have said, ah, fortune came to Joseph that the master's wife wanted him.

Because Joseph could have tried to parlay that into favor inside the house.

Instead, Joseph was raised to be so pure that rather than be defiled or to do some wickedness against God, he slips out of his coat and like Usain Bolt, he goes flying out of that house.

She accuses him of being inappropriate towards her.

Her husband finds out, and 1 of the hallmark signs in the scripture that the husband actually still had some level of trust and belief in Joseph is that he sends him to prison rather than killing him.

This is the second time Joseph avoids death.

So he goes from being a hated brother in a pit to a slave to now a criminal in a prison.

And in those days, they did not build prisons.

We incarcerate more people than many of the regimes we claim are so terrible in the world.

The largest women's prison in the world is in California.

I preach at the women's prison at least 2 times a year.

There weren't many prisons then, so this was a unique place, and really it was more for political reasons like the butler and the baker that people were sent to that prison.

But 1 of the things the story tells us is that no matter how bad, don't miss this, no matter how bad Joseph's predicament gets, he always remains kind.

In fact, the key to Joseph's liberation is his kindness.

And part of the reason many people in the world cannot find liberation is because they have not found the key to being liberated, which is to remain kind no matter how bad your circumstances are.

He's so kind that when the butler and baker comes after he's been in jail so long not knowing what's gonna happen to him the scripture tells us he is concerned for their well-being when he sees that they are distraught and hence he interprets the dreams he's able to tell the butler listen when you go back to Pharaoh please tell him about me I can imagine Joseph that the day when his all of the prophecy came true and the butler went back to Pharaoh, I bet Joseph began to gather the few little things he had, swept out his cell and sat there waiting for him to be released in the next day or 2.

Instead he sat in the prison waiting to be released for how long?

I would argue that those were probably the 2 most difficult years of his entire ordeal waiting for God to finally vindicate him.

But the day comes, he's vindicated, he's able to tell Pharaoh his dream, he's able to then set up a plan in which to manage the famine that was coming.

And he goes from pit to slave in Potiphar's house, to prisoner to vice president.

You see, in Potiphar's house, he learned the ways and customs of the Egyptians, the language of the Egyptians, so that when he was in government, he could function as a high-class Egyptian.

While he was in prison, the spirit of prophecy tells us, he learned the laws and the ways of the justice system of Egypt so that when he was in government, he could exact and understand how the judicial system in Egypt worked, which was a relatively sophisticated system.

Every step of what he went through had lessons that he needed when he got to where God was sending him.

And let me tell you something about life, no matter how terrible your life gets, if you pay attention, every day there are lessons that God is giving you so that you will later on be able to more completely satisfy your purpose.

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The Power of Letting Go

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