Hey church family, if you've got your Bibles, I hope you do for this special edition of DeVos.

We're going to continue in this conversation of how do you know what God's called in your life is.

And today I want to talk to you about character.

You see, because character is just doing what's right, according to God's word, no matter the cost, no matter the circumstances.

That's what character is. Character is often related to what you'll hear the words character

and integrity together. Integrity just means living one life. It comes from the word

integer. So as we've been studying the shema, the love, the Lord your God with all, heart,

soul, mind, and strength, that means that we don't have these divided lives where we live one way

in one environment and a different way in a different environment. And the reason the character

matters a bunch is because

if you don't have character to sustain you, then you'll never be able to walk in God's call for

you. And oftentimes, God's call in our life happens in one place, and we don't actually get to

fulfill it for a really long time, and it will

be our character that sustains us from today until that day. Now, we're going to try to study

13 chapters of the Bible. So this is the first time I've used notes, and it's just, I've got to look

over different chunks of the scriptures, because what I want to do is I want to look at the story

of Joseph, the Old Testament Genesis Joseph. So we're going to pick it up in Genesis chapter 37,

and I'm going to try in 15 minutes or so, give you an overview of his entire life and just let you

see how his character came through. And again, character doesn't mean you're awesome. Character,

the way I want us to think about it is this. Character is doing what anyone would do that

knew that God was with them no matter what. That's what character is.

Character is doing what anybody would do that knows that God is who he says he is and he always

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