Season 4 Genesis 37:25-30 (Joyelle Lee)
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Genesis 37:25-30
37:25 Then, just as they were sitting down to eat, they looked up and saw a caravan of camels in the distance coming toward them. It was a group of Ishmaelite traders, taking a load of gum, balm, and perfume from Gilead down to Egypt.
37:26 JUDAH (4th son) said to his brothers, “What will we gain by killing our brother? We’d have to cover up the crime.
37:27 Instead of hurting him, let’s sell him ( 3 words that changed EVERYTHING) to those Ishmaelite traders. After all, he is our brother—our own flesh and blood!” And his brothers agreed. (JUDAH’S SUGGESTION LED TO all that’s transpired in the Bible… the same line of Jesus!!)
37:28 So when the Ishmaelites (Ishmael; Hagar & Abram’s son— cousins to Israelites) who were Midianite traders came by, Joseph’s brothers pulled him out of the cistern and sold him to them for twenty pieces of silver ( a male slave was sold for 20 pieces of silver, at this time)
“And the traders took him to Egypt. {Joseph’s on way to Egypt where they won’t see him for another 22 years.)
37:29 Some time later, Reuben returned to get Joseph out of the cistern. When he discovered that Joseph was missing, he tore his clothes in grief.
37:30 Then he went back to his brothers and lamented, “The boy is gone! What will I do now?” (Reuben showing his plan was for SELFISH gain🥲)
⁃ the brothers believe they’re DESTROYING the dreams— but they’re FULFILLING the dreams (THE IRONY)
JUDAS = he wasn’t used to HARM Jesus, but DISARM satan
This is not UNUSUAL story but a typical-biblical story of how…
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God takes the strength of the enemy to fulfill His mission & ultimate victory
(JUDO JESUS!)
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(Lets talk about the HEART of the brothers…)
GENESIS 37:25
“Then, just as they were sitting down to eat…”
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DISASSOCIATION =
a protective trauma response
• a safety TECHNIQUE your mind uses to PROTECT you from the full impact of your
• disconnecting from your thoughts, feelings, memories, and surroundings.
The brothers have DIS-ASSOCIATED & detached themselves from any FEELINGS towards their brother!)
• The brothers were able to EAT while their brother was screaming, pleading, crying, begging to be rescued🥲
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What CAUSED disassociation in the brothers?
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“Trauma” is popular word in our culture
• But TRAUMA can be caused by excessive rejection/abandonment in the heart of a child.
(ABANDONMENT of emotional neglect , too!)
👉Ignoring needs of my heart
Spirit of REJECTION:
(Rejection mindset)
• The word rejection comes from the Latin word meaning to throw-back.
Rejection is a judgment of worthiness— deciding that something or someone is not worth value or significance.”
The level of REJECTION the brothers experienced runs DEEP!
… and then they pass it onto their brother Joseph
• It’s generational — & it’s piled up on top of the 10 patriarchs of the faith! (& on DINAH, the sister)
• REJECTION IS:
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1. the most common emotional wound
AND
2. the most painful emotional wound
🔥 the fruit of Rejection IS= shame (I am something wrong)
🔥 “Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.” Gen 2:25
…. Because they were fully ACCEPTED (NOT ABANDONED)
SHAME= self-blaming (I’m the problem )
✝️🔥”WHEREVER LOVE WAS ABSENT— Rejection seeks to invade! “🔥
🔥Rejection/abandonment is ‘perceived’ FACTS minus TRUTH
STATS:
👉 The same areas of our brain are activated when we experience rejection as when we experience physical pain.
👉Tylenol known to lessen rejection pain!
👉 Being asked to recall a rejection made people score significantly lower on IQ tests.
• that dry cistern was a mirror reflection of the brothers hearts … DRY…EMPTY.
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Jer 2:13
“For my people have done two evil things: They’ve abandoned me— the fountain of living water. And they’ve dug for themselves cracked cisterns that can hold no water at all”
Hurt people hurt people.
If your inner well is dry— all you have to offer OTHERS is a dry cistern
But if your inner well is FULL of Living Water— you have LIFE to offer others!!!
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🔥ANGER/RAGE:
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• Rejection that sits in the human heart too long turns to rage
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ANGER MANIFESTS From:
⁃ Unresolved trauma (lies attached to the trauma)
⁃ unmet needs
⁃ unprocessed grief
⁃ fears
⁃ pain
⁃ deep seeded hurt/rejection
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FESTERS UNDER SURFACE
• “If you’re hysterical, it’s usually historical.”
A N G E R :
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• a secondary emotion.
• It MASKS the real raw primary emotion.
Anger provides a
Neuro-chemical release
from the brain that serves as a Self-Soothing & numbing agent.
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Anger is addictive!
• Anger protects me from having to “feel” the real RAW emotion to the situation.
🔥 It’s more “satisfying” to feel angry
than to acknowledge pain associated with vulnerability.
🔥 Anger cannot make pain disappear -
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1. It only distracts you from it
2. & THEN places pain onto others.
There’s NO SUCH thing as “ANGER MANAGEMENT!”
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There’s no “MANAGING ADDICTION” — ONLY ERADICATING IT!
• The enemy knows we’ve become fully dependent on this chemical release.
🔥🔥 satan doesn’t want you to believe it’s an addiction— only an EMOTION!
⁃ John 14:27
“peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you. I do not give as the world gives to you. Do not let your hearts be TROUBLED “
Troubled=
“An inward commotion.”
“To strike ones spirit with fear & dread.”
”to perplex the mind with fear & doubts.”
Bitterness is a cancer to the soul.
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HEB 12:15 — a bitter root troubles me but defiles many
Often we’re too busy cursing them to recognize how God is using them
The 12 future tribes of Israel HAD to have ANGER removed in order to accomplish Gods purpose!
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AND… Undeserved forgiveness (LOVE) is the REMEDY to spirit of anger (Joseph GAVE TO bothers… Jesus gives to us!!!!)
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“Sometimes when you're in a dark place you think you've been buried, but you've actually been planted”.
Joseph wasn’t BURIED, but planted—
🔥It’s ONLY in the planting do we grow ROOTS!!!
• ROOTS are formed often LONG before there’s any sign of life outside the ground!
“The gift that is ON you will destroy you, if the character that’s IN you can't sustain you. The inner ROOTS of discipline and character matter more than the outer show of gifts & talents.”
~ Christine Caine
• A seed has to die & the outer shell has to be stripped off (HIS ROBE) to germinate, and become something NEW!
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🔥What in your life needs to be STRIPPED OFF???
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⁃ a person (wrong order)
⁃ A habit
⁃ A secret
⁃ A past
⁃ An addiction
⁃ An unforgiveness
⁃ A passiveness
⁃ A fear
⁃ Shame
⁃ Pride
⁃ Narcissism
⁃ A lifestyle
⁃ A friendship circle
⁃ A thought pattern
⁃ A false identity
⁃ A lie about God
⁃ A lie about you
John 12:24
“I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat is planted in the soil and dies, it’ll remains alone. But its death will produce MANY NEW kernels—a plentiful harvest of NEW lives.
“Pain has potential locked into it, to make you who God has purposed you to be”
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🔥BOTH God & satan CAN put you in a PIT.
One’s the death of you;
the other’s to multiply you.
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YOU CHOOSE!
Deut 30:19
“Today I’VE given you the choice between life and death, between blessings and curses. Now I call on heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Oh, that you would choose life, so that you and your descendants might live!”
GOD IS A: supernatural- MULTIPLIER!!
But….
satan is a: demonic-DIVIDER
(defeater, destructer, destroyer, demotor, depletor, )
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JUDE 18-19 “In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires. These are the people who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts and do not have the Spirit.”
BUT…. GOD IS A MULTIPLIER:
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(1)
MATT 13:3-8
“Listen! A farmer went out to plant some seeds. As he scattered them across his field, seed(#1) fell on a footpath, and the birds came and ate them.
Seed (#2) fell on shallow soil with underlying rock. These seeds sprouted quickly because the soil was shallow. But the plants soon wilted under the hot sun, and since they didn’t have deep roots, they died.
Seed (#3) fell among thorns that grew up and choked out the tender plants.
Still seed (#4) 🙌 fell on fertile soil, and produced a crop that was 30, 60, even a 100 X as much as had been PLANTED! (NOT BURIED!)
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• John 6:12
“After everyone was full, Jesus told his disciples, “Now gather the leftovers, so that nothing is wasted.”
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“So they picked up the pieces and filled 12 baskets with scraps left by the people who had eaten from the five barley loaves.”
⁃ 12 baskets of scraps for 12 disciples.
⁃ 12 baskets of scraps for 12 brothers
⁃ THE MIRACLE WAS THE “SCRAPS!” (The ‘throw-back’)
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Mark 8 — 7 loaves & a few small fish
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2 King 4:1-2- Elisha & widow (1 SMALL jar oil)
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Job 42:10
“ after Job prayed for his friends(the little he had), the Lord gave him twice as much as before!”
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Exodus 16:5
“ on the sixth day they will gather manna, when they prepare it, there will be twice as much as usual.”
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Acts 7:54
(Stephen’s death SCATTERED - & multiplied believers!)
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Is 51:2
“ for I called Abram when he was but one. Then I blessed him and made him many!”
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Abram to over 2MILLION Israelites that left Egypt!!!!
• ALL these stories involved TRUSTING God with our LITTLE— to accomplish what we never could on our own!
Psalm 20:7
“Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God!”
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SHANNON Story- “When we’re craving salty chips, we may actually be thirsty for water”
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🔥What SALTY CHIPS of the The world are you craving?
⁃ The REMEDY:
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DWELLING/ SABBATH:
(The 4TH command!!!)
🔥the WELL where the water NEVER runs dry
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PSALM 91:1
“Whoever (1) DWELLS in the (2) SHELTER of the most high= will (3) REST in the shadow of the Almighty.”
1. DWELL: (‘Yo-Seeb’ Hebrew)
• To Sit down
• To Remain
• To Settle in
• To Marry
2. SHELTER: (‘be-see-ter’)
• A covering
• A hiding place
• A secret space
(A safe place where your heart can be tended to with Care)
3. REST: (‘Yit-lo-naan’)
• TO ABIDE
• To stop
• To stay permanently
• To be obstinate (“stubbornly, refusing to change one’s opinion, despite attempts from the world to persuade want to do so!”)
Matt 11:28
“Come to me (DWELL) all of you who are weary & carry heavy burdens. I’ll give you REST!” (ABIDE!!!)
John 15:4
“ABIDE in me & I in you…. You cannot bear fruit unless you ABIDE/REST/ REMAIN in me!”
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“When you produce much fruit— you are my disciples!”
(John 15:8)
(And in order to produce fruit.. you have to FIRST be buried )