Hey, you're listening to A Year in the Bible with Daily Grace. I'm Shelby and I'm here with Scott.

Hey Shelby. Hey, and we're in Genesis 37 through 39. Big moment. We've made it. We've made it.

We're here. We're here at Joseph's story. And this is going to take us through the rest of the book of Genesis.

And man, if you're familiar with Joseph's story, you probably love it.

If you're not familiar with it, I think that you're really going to enjoy it because

we see God just be faithful beyond what you can imagine in this story.

Sure do. Yeah, I love this story.

Like so many Christians, there's just so many moments

of beauty in God's grace in these chapters,

but, you know, that's later.

We gotta start with some conflicts.

We do, we gotta start with the conflict.

Every good story has to have a central conflict.

So the conflict is really with Jacob.

So this is Abraham's grandson.

And the conflict is he's showing favoritism to his son, Joseph,

which is interesting because Jacob should know better

in anyone the consequences of favoritism.

His own father had favored his brother Esau over him. Jacob had favored one of his

wives, Rachel, over his other wife, Leah, a lot of conflict ensued. And here he's shown

favoritism to Joseph, which predictably causes the older brothers to hate him. And then Joseph

starts having these dreams, interesting dreams,

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