The You're going to do you.

Do you do you do you do you do

do you respond when life doesn't go the way you expected? Some people question God's

care or assume they're being punished, but today on truth for life,

Alistairbegg examines one man's surprising response to a devastating change in his circumstances,

and he looks at God's role in that trial.

Can I invite you once again to turn with me to Genesis and to the 39th chapter?

And as you open to that part of the Bible, let's pause once again and ask God to help us as we study it together.

Lord, we thank you that you have chosen

that when your word is preached in the power of your spirit,

that your voice is heard.

And so we pray that that may be our experience now.

Not the futility of listening simply to a man talk about an ancient book, but the reality of

you choosing to take mere broken, fallible human instrumentation and by the power of your

Holy Spirit to match your word to lives this morning, some of whom in this instant are not even

ready to hear your truth. Only you can do this and to you alone we look. Save us then Lord from every distracting

influence and to help us to concentrate on you as you speak to us for Jesus sake.

Amen. The picture with which the chapter opens, with which the other one concludes,

is not that of Joseph, now in Egypt, going from place to place looking for a job, but rather it is

Joseph in the context of an auction.

And in order for us to get a picture of it, we should probably think in terms of

cattle auctions. And you will be privileged to observe the procedure as it unfolds with regularity as the door swings open and one

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