Are You Living For Yourself? | Torah | Genesis 37:1-11

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🗓️ 31 March 2022

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What are you living for? Yourself? Your family? Your career? God? What's your purpose? Do you have a clear mission for your life? In today's episode, Patrick shares how God reacts to Joseph living for himself in Genesis 37:1-11. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it with others, so others can find it too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Facebook, and Twitter @TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passages: Genesis 37:1-11 Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now.

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life.
0:09.0	In the time it takes to get to work.
0:10.6	I'm Patrick Miller.
0:11.6	Right now we're going through the first book of the Bible, Genesis.
0:14.7	Victor Frankel was a therapist in Vienna in the years leading up to World War II and he became famous
0:21.4	by rejecting the theories of a different German named Sigmund Freud.
0:26.0	Now Freud claimed that the secret to battling depression was to unpack your past.
0:30.0	And so he took his clients on a journey through the complexes that they developed as children in the hope that this would set them free as adults.
0:38.0	But Franco believed that the secret to battle depression, it wasn't found in in your past the secret was found in the future
0:45.2	sure going through your past stuff that mattered but having a mission and a purpose in life
0:50.8	that mattered far far more and so this explains why he asked his patients a really jarring question.
0:58.0	He would ask them, why don't you commit suicide? Now, please keep in in mind I am not giving recommendations on
1:05.1	how to encourage friends who have suicidal thoughts. I actually would not
1:08.6	recommend that question. You should help get them connected to a professional or if they're saying that they're going to do something you should call the police.
1:16.0	But remember, Frankel was a professional and he used this question to force his patients to articulate their reason for living and not dying.
1:25.2	Why don't you commit suicide?
1:27.6	Franco was of Jewish descent, so when the Nazis began to ship Jews off to concentration camps, he knew that his time was limited.
1:34.8	A month before his own imprisonment, he was engaged to a woman that he loved. The Nazis put him, his
1:39.8	fiance, and his entire immediate family into different camps. And while he was there he realized that if his theory was right it would be able to work even there even in a concentration camp and so he made it his personal mission to help other prisoners to survive by helping them fix their eyes on the future.
1:58.8	He encouraged everyone around him to articulate what they were living for so that they had something to fight for in the
2:05.2	midst of the terrible labor, the hunger, the torture. And while he couldn't protect them from
2:10.0	Nazi violence, he could protect them from the despair that took so many lives.
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