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0:00And I before I even read this scripture,
0:02I want you to know that what I'm about
0:03to read is in the Bible. All right?
0:06Somebody say, "It's in the Bible." It's
0:07in the Bible. It's in the Bible. What
0:09I'm getting ready to read to you. So, I
0:11don't want you to think that I'm making
0:12this up. This is in the Bible. Watch
0:15this. I'm reading out of the Foster
0:18International Version. It says this.
0:20Watch this. Genesis 39. It says this. 39
0:23verse number six. So, he left all that
0:25he owned in Joseph's care. He wasn't
0:27concerned about anything except the food
0:29he ate. Then watch what it says. Joey
0:33was wellbuilt and handsome.
0:38What does your Bible say?
0:40Well, that's close.
0:42I'm just teasing. I'm just teasing.
0:45Joseph was wellb built and handsome.
0:49That's extremely important. Joseph.
0:51Joseph. We've been We've been talking
0:52about Joseph for the entire month.
0:54Joseph is well built and hands. All
0:56right. Uh, now that you're in Genesis
0:57chapter number 39, let's go down to our
0:59real scripture. I was just I just threw
1:00that in there. Uh, let's go to the real
1:03scripture. Genesis 39, verse number 11
1:06says this. She grabbed him by his
1:09clothes and said, "Come to bed with
1:13me." But he ran outside and left his
1:16clothes in her
1:19hand. She grabbed him by his clothes.
1:22And this is what she said. She said,
1:23"Come come to bed with
1:25me." But he ran
1:28outside and left his clothes in her
1:32hand. I want to put a tag on this text
1:34and teach from this topic. You can have
1:37that, but you can't have this.
1:41You may have your seats in the hands.
1:44Yeah. Yeah. Y'all like, "Okay." All
1:46right, pastor. Where we going today?
1:49Unless you've been living under a rock
1:50or in a cave, then you are aware because
1:53it's all over news outlets, all over
1:55social media, all over TMZ shade room.
1:59It's it's everywhere. Uh that is that
2:01there are influential individuals both
2:04in sports, entertainment, media, and
2:06even the political sphere that have
2:08recently come under fire for let's just
2:11say some extracurricular
2:13activities. Are y'all here?
2:17Some individuals are currently living in
2:20I'm sorry. Some individuals are
2:21currently in court fighting off
2:23allegations. Others trying to settle
2:26civily outside of the system. Some are
2:28even taking to social media to try and
2:30win the public relations war in the eyes
2:33of the people. Either way, if 2025
2:36hadn't shown us anything, it has shown
2:39us in the most simplest terms what's
2:41done in the dark will come to the light.
2:46Uh, by the grace of God, y'all stay with
2:48me for a moment. Y'all y'all All right,
2:50everybody. Okay, we good? By the grace
2:52of God, the guilty will be charged, the
2:55innocent will be exonerated, but either
2:57way, the truth will eventually come out.
2:59Before you think that this is a message
3:00about them, stay with me. It's not.
3:03Nobody drives in their car 20, 15, 30
3:07minutes, wherever it is, however long
3:09you had to drive to go and and find out
3:11about something that they can Google.
3:14Nobody comes to church to catch the
3:16latest
3:18tea. The only tea we want is the text.
3:22Amen. That being said, there are some
3:25powerful principles that we got to pull
3:27from some of these individuals and how
3:29they navigate their situations and not
3:32only them, but how it's navigated in the
3:35text that we're in. Joseph finds himself
3:37in a similar type of situation. It is
3:39interesting that with all of the gifting
3:41that they had and all of the aspirations
3:44that they set out to accomplish and all
3:46of the odds that these individuals in
3:48the sports and the entertainment sphere
3:50have defied and with all of the records
3:52that they have broken with all of the
3:54dreams that they have dreamt, there's
3:57still something that seeks to drag down
3:59the dreams of these dream chasers.
4:02Because most dream chasers don't realize
4:05that influence can reveal infections.
4:10Yeah. Most dream chasers don't realize
4:13that influence can reveal infections.
4:16Infections where? In our
4:19character. This ain't for them. This is
4:21for us, right? So, so because when we
4:24talk about being a dream chaser, we're
4:26often focused on fulfilling the dream
4:28and and and and the success and and and
4:30what God is calling us to do. And that's
4:32real. But success can reveal sickness
4:36and popularity can reveal pollution. Thi
4:40think about it. God calls us to
4:43something and sometimes we don't
4:45understand it fully. It is almost as if
4:49God gives information on a need to know
4:51basis.
4:53He He tells us enough to get us out
4:56there but not everything because we
4:58would never leave.
5:02All right. All right. All right, I got a
5:03question. Anybody any dream chasers in
5:05the building? Any dream ch meaning I'm
5:07doing what God has called me to do.
5:09That's my desire. That's my aim. We get
5:11excited about what's possible. We We are
5:14elated about our potential. We're even
5:17enthusiastic about our purpose. But
5:19watch this. Along with all that
5:20excitement, I'm going somewhere. All
5:22that elation and all that enthusiasm, I
5:25want to inform us that a God-given dream
5:28will always come with things. Watch
5:31this. You may dread, you must dodge, and
5:35you need to defeat.
5:40Okay. Got to do some work on my
5:44birthday. A God-given dream will always
5:48come with some things you may dread, you
5:51must dodge, and you need to defeat.
5:55Dream chasers not only are prepared to
5:58handle the aspects of what they dream
6:01for, they are prepared to handle the
6:04aspects of the dream that they
6:07dread. There is uh oh a backside to
6:10every blessing.
6:14More of anything means more of
6:17everything.
6:19More promotion, more pressure,
6:23more influence, more scrutiny. More
6:26clients, more hours at work. More
6:29anointing, more attack. Biggie said,
6:31"More money, more
6:35problems. Accept the call to ministry.
6:38Have to deal with betrayal."
6:42Career elevation. People now perceiving
6:45you as something that they never known
6:46you to be. But put it on your ass. It's
6:49like we was just friends yesterday. Now
6:51that I got the promotion, now we're know
6:52what
6:55happened. There's a backside to every
6:59blessing. And the reason that God is
7:03withholding some blessings is not
7:05because we're not ready for the
7:07blessing. Maybe it's because we're not
7:09ready for the backside of it.
7:13Not that you're not ready for the
7:14promotion. You're brighter than your
7:16boss, smarter than your supervisor, but
7:19can you handle the pressure that comes
7:20with the promotion?
7:24Not that you're not ready for the
7:25position, not that you're not ready for
7:27the call, but can you handle your
7:28calendar when you're in high demand?
7:35There there's a backside, y'all. All
7:37right. There's a backside. And every
7:40dream has aspects of the dream that the
7:43dreamchaser dreads.
7:45I I just got to let you know that. I got
7:47to let you know that because we have a
7:48church full of c creatives and and
7:50entrepreneurs and and influencers and
7:53influential people. All of us have
7:55influence. Uh and I think that's
7:58beautiful. But I think it's important to
8:00understand that there's a part of the
8:03dream that you're going to dread. I know
8:06you dreamed of owning a company, but can
8:09you handle the dread of having to lay
8:12people off that you love?
8:18It's
8:19quiet. I should have preached something
8:21else for my birthday message. I had
8:24another one. I should have next I'll
8:26preach the next one next week. I don't
8:27know. The dream is being called to
8:29ministry flowing in your God-given
8:31purpose.
8:32The dread is having people call you
8:35something that you've never
8:38been. The dread is having people make up
8:40a narrative about one chapter of your
8:43life.
8:45Oh yeah, you're anointed, but are you
8:48anointed for the attack?
8:52Not not not can you prophesy,
8:57not can you lead worship,
9:00not can you preach, not can you
9:03administrate, can you handle
9:06hate, can you handle pressure, can they
9:10throw spears at you and you not feel the
9:12need to pick it up and throw it back?
9:19David in the cave rolled up on Saul.
9:22Saul was out to kill David. David was so
9:24smooth. He rolled up on the cave on
9:26Saul, cut a piece of Saul's robe off and
9:29said, "I could have killed you."
9:32They was in the They was in the palace.
9:34Lord have mercy. This is good to me.
9:36They were in the palace and Saul was so
9:39jealous of
9:41David. Saul picked up a spear, threw it
9:44at David. David dodged it. it went into
9:47the
9:47wall. The reason that that's important
9:49is because David was a warrior.
9:52David could have grabbed that same
9:55spear, pulled it out, and killed Saul.
10:00So, when we talk about David being a man
10:02after God's own heart, do you realize it
10:04was because of those types of behaviors,
10:07not the promotion, but what do I do
10:09under pressure?
10:14There's some things you gonna have to
10:16every dream chaser, there's an aspect of
10:18the dream that you're going to dread.
10:19Not only I'm really preaching the text
10:22already if y'all follow me. I'm
10:24preaching the text. I'm doing great on
10:25time. So So when you start Oh, okay.
10:28Okay. There's aspects of the dream that
10:29you're going to have to dread. And then
10:30there's aspects of the dream that, watch
10:32this, you're gonna have to dodge and
10:34others that you're going to have to
10:36defeat.
10:38Oh man, this is so good.
10:41Not only are dream chasers preparing
10:43themselves to handle what they dread,
10:44they understand some things you must
10:47dodge and others you must defeat. When I
10:51dodge something, I'm staying away from
10:52it on purpose.
10:56That's a good place to put a note. When
10:58I dodge something, I stay away from it
11:00on purpose. When I defeat something,
11:02it's something that I can't stay away
11:03from. I can't outsmart it. So, I got to
11:06overcome it.
11:08There are some things we've got to learn
11:10to dodge and other things we got to
11:12learn to defeat. Dream chasers know
11:16this. Some battles you fight and others
11:20you flee.
11:23Man, I'm preaching better than y'all
11:25saying
11:26amen. Some battles you fight,
11:30others you flee. In the street, we fight
11:34whoever jump up.
11:36And some of us have brought our street
11:39mentality into our spirituality. And
11:43that's not how you fight in the spirit.
11:48Is this too much?
11:50You can't just jump up and fight
11:53everything that comes in front of you
11:55because you're not strong enough.
12:00All
12:01right. Okay.
12:04In the street, you fight whoever tries
12:06you. No, no, they tried
12:08me,
12:10right? You you you really to lose just
12:13because they tried you. They they tried
12:15me. But in the spirit, you need to know
12:18uh you you need to know uh that every
12:20now and then you need to put on a pair
12:22of Nikes
12:25and just
12:28run
12:30forest the the Okay, I'll unpack that.
12:33I'm preaching the text. I'm just
12:35hovering over the text, but I'm really
12:37preaching the text. Y'all will see what
12:38I mean in a moment. 1 Corinthians 6:18.
12:40It's not on the screen, but it's so
12:41good. It's worth writing down. Talking
12:43about some some battles you fight,
12:45others you flee. 1 Corinthians 6 and 18
12:47says this. Paul says, watch what Paul
12:49said. Paul says this. This is not Pastor
12:51Joey. Paul said, "Run from sexual sin."
12:59King James, flee.
13:03run from sexual sin. No other sin
13:07clearly uh affects the body as this one
13:09does. For sexual sin is a sin against
13:11your own body. Some of us, uh-oh, are
13:15trying to fight something. We need to be
13:17fleeing.
13:18You're going to keep falling because you
13:20won't flee. You keep going over there,
13:22you're going to fall. What do you think
13:24is going to happen? That much closure in
13:27the world.
13:29We just need to talk about some stuff.
13:34Y'all all right?
13:38Cuz when you had said I had one of the
13:44what? So then there are certain
13:46environments there certain battles we
13:47don't
13:48fight. We got to stay away from I don't
13:52even want to be in the room.
13:56Hello. Oh man.
13:59I don't know what kind of birthday
14:00message this is. Nobody's buying the
14:03book
14:06now. Congratulations. One copy
14:09sold. So, we've got an individual in the
14:12day that's giving us a master class on
14:13having a dream and implementing this
14:16framework of dream of dreading, dodging,
14:18and defeating. He he shows us this. You
14:20got to go back to Fresh Flex to catch
14:23the episodes leading up to this. We're
14:25in week four of this. We've been
14:26journeying through the life of Joseph.
14:28So, so I I can't go and unpack
14:30everything, but just just suffice it to
14:32say that Joseph was considered a
14:34favorite and Joseph had favor on his
14:36life and and his father brought him a
14:38code of many colors and his brothers
14:40didn't like that. They put him in the
14:41pit and they sold him off the slavery
14:43and uh he found themselves in all types
14:45of situations that he did not desire to
14:48be in. He found himself in a pit. They
14:50ripped his ripped his jacket off and
14:52tore it up and beat him up and put him
14:53in the pit. And we realize something. We
14:55realize something out of Joseph's life.
14:57We realize that God doesn't just rescue
15:00from the pit, he redeems it.
15:04So what does that mean to us? That means
15:05to us that if we ever find ourselves in
15:07a dark season, a season of despair, a
15:10season of grief, a season of sorrow, a
15:13season that we would much rather be out
15:15of, God says, "I don't just pull you
15:18out. Yes, I do. I will pull you out. But
15:21not only will I pull you out, I will let
15:23you be allowed to pull out of it a
15:26lesson you would not have learned had
15:28you not been in it. There are some
15:30seasons God doesn't stop. He allows us
15:33to go through so that we can learn
15:35something for the next place that he's
15:37taking us. So just just a little you got
15:40to go back to fresh flicks. So so so for
15:42the so so so yeah uh the IshRaelites the
15:46Ishelites are coming down and the
15:48brothers sell Joseph into slavery. They
15:51they sell him and uh uh the IshRaelites
15:55take him. The Ishraelites take him. And
15:57the Bible says this in Genesis chapter
15:59number 39 verse number five. Uh uh the
16:02Egyptian Piper. Oh God. Piper purchases
16:06Joseph from the
16:08IshRaelites. Piper an Egyptian officer
16:12purchases Joseph from the Ishelites. So
16:16now Joseph has been purchased into
16:18slavery. The Bible says this, Genesis
16:2039:5, it says this, from the time uh uh
16:23from the time of uh of the Lord, the the
16:26from the time on the Lord blessed the
16:27Egyptians house because of Joseph. We
16:29dealt with that last week. Therefore,
16:31the Lord's blessing was on everything
16:33Piper owned in his house and in his
16:35field. That's 39 and5. Watch this is
16:37extremely important. This dreamchaser
16:39was favored by God. I'm going fast
16:40because I got to get somewhere. And uh
16:42the Bible says that as he was in uh this
16:45Egyptians house, the Egyptians officer's
16:48house whose name was Piper. This word
16:50officer means either a highranking
16:53officer or it is literally translated in
16:56the original language as a unic. Y'all
16:58say unic. You might not know what a unic
17:01is, but a unic is an individual who has
17:02been castrated. Okay. Do I need to go
17:05further? We good? Amen. All right. So,
17:09hang on to that. That might be
17:10important. So here it is. We find Joseph
17:14in the house of Piper who is the the uh
17:17the head security guy for Pharaoh.
17:21High position. And in his time there,
17:24the Bible says that the Lord blessed the
17:26Egyptians house because Joseph was
17:29there. Some people don't realize that
17:31the reason they're blessed is because
17:33you're in their presence.
17:35Okay. All right. So here it is. Uh uh uh
17:39uh Piper's Potterer put Joseph over
17:42everything. Everything the Bible says
17:44everything that Piper was over. Joseph
17:46was over. Resources, Joseph was over.
17:48Money, Joseph was over security, Joseph
17:51was over. Distribution of food, Joseph
17:53was over. Everything that Piper was
17:56over, Joseph was over. That's extremely
17:58important. While Joseph was in Pterer's
18:00house, he wasn't there two years. He was
18:02there 11 years. He rose to a degree of
18:05influence that he now had reign over
18:08everything. The only thing Piper worried
18:10about was what Piper was gonna
18:13eat. That's the Bible. The Bible said
18:16Potterer didn't have any cares in the
18:17world. All right. Now, let's get to the
18:20text. All right. This is this gonna mess
18:23you up. I'm skipping some back there.
18:25Y'all got to roll with me. Here it is.
18:28Uh
18:29Piper saw Joseph and saw the favor on
18:33Joseph through how Joseph was
18:35serving. Jacob, Joseph's father, saw
18:38Joseph and saw the favor and made Joseph
18:41his favorite. Bought him a coat. So
18:44Joseph has this idea of favorite rolling
18:46in his entire life. This is extremely
18:49important. It's gonna mess you up. Jacob
18:53saw Joseph and saw favor.
18:57Piper saw Joseph and saw
19:01favor. Piper's wife saw Joseph and saw
19:07favor. But we see a different
19:09reaction from Jacob and Piper than we do
19:14from Piper's wife. Stay with me, y'all.
19:18All right. This is so good to me. I love
19:20teaching the Bible, y'all. I love this.
19:23Watch this. All right. So, Joseph's
19:27favor was
19:28attractive to
19:31Jacob, to
19:33Piper, and to Piper's wife.
19:38The favor on our lives attracts
19:42um partners
19:45and pests.
19:51It attracts friends and foes.
19:56The anointing on our lives, I'm coming
19:58to get
19:59you.
20:01Attracts friends and foes. Watch this.
20:05And here's the part we have to either we
20:08dread. Here's the part we got to be
20:11careful to dodge if needed. And here's
20:13the part that some of us have to just
20:16defeat. The same thing that attracts
20:19elevation attracts temptation.
20:24Okay. All
20:27right. The favor not only attracted the
20:31elevation and put him in the highest
20:33position, it attracted temptation. The
20:37promotion at the job not only provides
20:41elevation. Can I come get somebody?
20:45The new position, the new calling, the
20:48the anointing, the favor on your life is
20:52not only attractive to people that want
20:55to push you up higher. It's attractive
20:58to people who want to pull you down
21:00further.
21:04If I'm helping somebody say, "This is
21:06good to me."
21:08Good for me.
21:10So now here is
21:12Joseph. Favor on his life. Temptation at
21:15his door.
21:20His brothers beat him up, put him in the
21:23pit. Betrayal. Sold him into slavery.
21:26Brokenness. Now he's gaining influence
21:28with Potterer. He's found a place of
21:30belonging. We got an individual who has
21:32experienced brokenness. Now he's
21:34experiencing belonging. But I don't know
21:37if Joseph was ready for the the
21:41brokenness. So God had to get him ready.
21:48God got him ready in a season he didn't
21:51know he needed to be ready
21:53because of a dream that he had. Y'all
21:55staying with me?
21:57So now because of the rise of elevation,
21:59he's got a now he has now he has now
22:02graduated into temptation.
22:06What temptation? I'm glad you asked.
22:07Genesis 39 verse number 6 and 7 says
22:09this. So he left all that he owned in
22:11Joseph's care. He wasn't concerned about
22:12anything except the food he ate. Joseph
22:14was wellbuilt and handsome. Uh after a
22:17while his master's wife began to desire
22:20Joseph. So she
22:23said, "Come to bed. Come to bed with
22:28me." She didn't say it like that. She
22:31said, "Come to bed with me." Your
22:33version might say, "Come lie with me."
22:36I started to name the message, "You
22:38lying."
22:41She says, "Come to bed with me." She She
22:43tempts Joseph with what tends to take
22:46down so many.
22:51Y'all hear? She tempts Joseph with the
22:54same thing that takes down so many, a
22:57good feeling. Because so many people are
23:01driven by their feelings. So many dream
23:03chasers, we're driven by our feelings.
23:06We only move on what we're passionate
23:07about,
23:13man. And uh that same blessing can be a
23:18curse when you only move on what you're
23:20passionate about because we are born in
23:23sin and shaven iniquity. I'm passionate
23:26about some things.
23:30All right, let's get back to the
23:32text. We all have the propensity to be
23:35passionate about something that not
23:37necessarily is pushing us in the right
23:40direction. Piper's wife was tempting and
23:44Piper's wife's tempting and seductive
23:46spirit um isn't just after Joseph. Oh,
23:51I'm good on time, too. It isn't just
23:53after Joseph. So if we read this text,
23:56if we read it like a historical book,
23:59then we just learn about
24:00Joseph. You didn't drive all the way to
24:03Fresh Church to just learn about
24:07Joseph. Piper's wife represents
24:13something. Piper's wife represents
24:15anything that attempts to lure us away
24:18from our Lord and lead us into a life of
24:21lust.
24:23Time
24:24She tempts Joseph with something that
24:26will be beneficial for him temporarily
24:30but detrimental to him eternally.
24:34She she tempts Joseph. But Joseph who is
24:37in the Old Testament a picture of of a
24:41coming Christ. Joseph shows us something
24:43that Jesus later cements. He shows us
24:46how to handle temptation.
24:49This is good. It's not on the screen,
24:51but it's good to me. Hebrews 4:15. For
24:53we have not a high priest, which cannot
24:56be touched with the feelings of our
24:58infirmities. Watch this. But was in at
25:00all points tempted like we were and
25:04without sin.
25:07She is no uncertain terms asking Joseph
25:11to choose a few minutes of a feeling
25:13over a lifetime of
25:15faithfulness. And Piper's wife is not
25:19just after Joseph.
25:22Oh no, that's way too easy. I'm not
25:24letting you off the hook that easy. Oh
25:26no, I'm not letting us off the hook. Oh,
25:29that's a shame what Piper's wife tried
25:31to come to do for Joseph and get Joseph.
25:34What if I told you Piper's wife
25:36represents something? Maybe Piper's wife
25:39is after
25:41us. Come here, you dreamchaser. Maybe
25:45maybe Piper's wife represents anything
25:47that attempts to lure us away from our
25:49Lord and lead us into a life of
25:54lust. Y'all here. I should have preached
25:57something else on the book launch, son.
25:59This is not the This is a bad sermon for
26:01the launch
26:03book. Hey, Dream Chaser. Maybe Piper's
26:06wife is after you. Maybe yours is not
26:09sexual seduction. Maybe you're good in
26:11that department and you felt good. It's
26:14like, I like this sermon. It's for
26:15everybody
26:16else. Maybe it's unforgiveness. Maybe
26:18it's
26:19self-righteousness. Maybe it's
26:21unadressed emotional
26:23issues that are often times asking us or
26:27giving us a statement of uh come lay
26:30with me. Maybe it's anxiety that comes
26:33knocking saying will you do me a favor?
26:35Come lay with me.
26:39May maybe it's it's loneliness that
26:41comes knocking. It says, "Would you do
26:42me a favor? Come lay with me." Maybe it
26:46maybe maybe it's situational depression
26:49that comes knocking, saying, "Would you
26:51do me a favor? Come lay with me." In
26:54other words, come compromise a lifetime
26:56of faithfulness for a few minutes of a
26:58good feeling with me. M maybe it's Are
27:01y'all here?
27:04Maybe maybe Piper's wife showed up this
27:07morning. Don't go nowhere. Stay in this
27:09bed with me.
27:13May maybe Piper's wife is a snooze. But
27:18maybe maybe Piper's wife shows up
27:20differently
27:22depending on what's your thing. Oh no,
27:26everybody's not tripping off uh laying
27:28in bed with somebody else. don't know.
27:30But maybe it's that shady deal that
27:32you're trying to turn your head to, but
27:33you know the money is
27:35good. Maybe it's claiming other people's
27:39kids on
27:43you. Maybe it's the PPP loan that ain't
27:47really you got nobody's business, no
27:50employees. just
27:55m maybe maybe
27:57maybe it's the maybe it's the pride or
28:01maybe it's the self-righteousness that
28:04that what's the only thing that's right
28:06is what you come up
28:07with. Maybe it's the insecurity that
28:10comes knocking and saying come lay with
28:12me. Don't don't go don't be who you've
28:15been called to be. Come be with me.
28:18Some of us have people in our phone
28:21that's part of wise.
28:24It's quiet in here. This is just turned
28:27into a Presbyterian church or something.
28:30Jesus
28:31Christ. That was funny. All
28:35right. Uh, are you a dream chaser having
28:39to deal with part of his wife? Don't
28:41answer. I want you to make a
28:42declaration. I'm not preaching today.
28:44I'm teaching. I got eight, four, five
28:46minutes. Lord have mercy. Um, I just
28:48want you to declare that you can't have
28:50me. I need you to say, "You can't have
28:52me. You can't have me. Depression, you
28:55can't have me. Anxiety, you can't have
28:57me." No, I'm called. I'm called to
29:00something greater. I'm called to
29:01something further. I'm called to
29:03influence, not just now, but for
29:05generations.
29:07Piper's wife represents anything that
29:10attempts to lure us. Did you know that
29:12some of the things that attempt to lure
29:13us are some of the things that we're
29:14praying for?
29:18Did you know that we could be praying
29:20for a financial breakthrough, God give
29:22it to us, and then it lure us away from
29:24him? Did you know Oh, see I can't do
29:29this. I can't even say this. I can't say
29:31this at the fresh church. I can't I got
29:33six minutes. Did you
29:35know that a lot of times this is this is
29:38why the book is so important because
29:39somebody got to say this stuff. I have
29:41no agenda. All right. Did you know a lot
29:44of times In my 10 years of pastoring,
29:49what I found is that when people get
29:52what they've been praying to God for,
29:54they get the stuff and then they leave
29:56God.
29:58Did you know how many women I can say
30:01this have gotten the man and left God?
30:05How many men have gotten the woman?
30:08Y'all here and left God. How many people
30:11have gotten the money and left God? And
30:14then we're saying, "God, where were
30:15you?" God's like, "Where were you?"
30:21Pray for the position. God can't find
30:24us.
30:27All right, I got to hurry up. I got to
30:28skip. I'm skipping back there, y'all.
30:30Y'all roll with me.
30:31Um, she grabbed Joseph and said, "Come
30:35to bed with me." But watch what Joseph
30:36says. I got to hurry up. Joseph says
30:38this. He says this. Verse number eight
30:40says, "But Joseph refused and said to
30:43her, "My master doesn't concern himself
30:45with anything in the house. He trusts me
30:47with everything he owns. No one in this
30:49house is greater than I am. He's kept
30:51nothing back from me except you because
30:54you're his wife. How could I do such a
30:58wicked thing and sin against God?"
31:01Although, verse number 10, although she
31:03kept asking Joseph day after day, he
31:06refused to go to bed with her. for watch
31:09this to even be with her.
31:12Lord have mercy. I got to hurry up and
31:14close. Piper's wife didn't ask one time.
31:18The Bible says after some time, she kept
31:20pursuing him.
31:22And you're thinking about her pursuing
31:24him in terms of lust. Make it bigger
31:26than that. All of us got Piper's wife
31:29coming after us with something else
31:32that's not just going to present itself
31:34to us one time.
31:38It's going to come back over and over
31:41again checking to see if that refusal is
31:44still valid.
31:46I know you said no this time, but what
31:48about tomorrow?
31:52I wish I had time, y'all. Man, listen.
31:54Okay. Okay. I got to make this a book.
31:57I'm I don't know
31:59something. She kept
32:02asking. She kept asking. She kept
32:05pursuing. She kept pursuing. Um the
32:07opportunities kept coming. Uh the
32:10temptation is ever present. Temptation
32:12to be jealous is everpresent. Contation
32:15to covet is ever present. Temptation to
32:18neglect prayer and study is ever
32:20present. Oh, I'm so busy. I got stuff to
32:22do. I got to go to work. And God is
32:23like, "Okay, go to work then. I I I got
32:25to do this." And God's like, "Go ahead,
32:26go do that then." But but you don't
32:28understand that Piper's wife is just
32:30consistently presenting the temptation
32:32in front of us. And God is sitting there
32:34like, "Yo, I thought you was a dream
32:35chaser. I thought you was after my
32:37dream. Look like you after yours."
32:44He said, the text says that Piper's wife
32:47refused to go to bed with her. And watch
32:49this. I'm I got I got to end here. I
32:51have to. He refused to be with her.
32:56Joseph said, "I don't even want to be
33:00where you are."
33:01Now you see that's a different level of
33:03of faithfulness right there. It's not I
33:06need to learn how to handle myself in
33:08the right space. No, no, no, no, no, no,
33:10no, no, no. You're trying to fight
33:13something. You need to be
33:14[Music]
33:16fleeing. It I remember I was the person
33:22in here and they know I'm telling the
33:24truth. I This is not bad. I used to go
33:27to the gym all the time. All the time.
33:30Every morning. 8:00, 9:00 for about two
33:32and a half, three years straight. Cool.
33:35And all of a
33:36sudden, I started noticing something. I
33:40used to do my workout, whatever, me, you
33:42know, we used to go work out and it was
33:45this
33:45woman and I used to say, "Ain't no way
33:49you doing the same workout I'm
33:51doing." Now we working on Come on. I'm
33:56220bs. I'm building muscle. Ain't no way
34:00we got the same. This you're a personal
34:02trainer. We're not training the same
34:04way.
34:05I was trying to figure out how in the
34:08world you keep going to the same
34:11machines that's right next to me. I'm
34:15living leg press 400 something pounds.
34:18She leg pressed 35
34:21pounds. I said I said, "Well, what in
34:24the world?" I said, "Well, let me see
34:25something. Let me go over here." I went
34:26to, you know, the pull down. I'm like,
34:28you're not doing this
34:34now. Say, you know what? Let me do
34:36something that ain't even on the script.
34:39Something I don't even do. I don't even
34:40do deadlifts like picking up. I said,
34:43you got to be kidding
34:44me. Say, you know what? You can have the
34:47whole gym. I'll go make my own.
34:51[Applause]
34:53If I'm lying, I'm flying. It's your gym.
34:56Yeah, I'm not fighting something.
34:58Sometime I got to run from something.
35:00And some of us are trying to fight
35:02something that we're not strong enough
35:04to fight.
35:09You trying to throw hands with the
35:10devil.
35:14You You can listen. Y'all need to text
35:16some people say, "You know what? You can
35:18have the whole job. I'm looking for
35:19another one.
35:21There's too much temptation around you.
35:28Okay, 20 seconds
35:31left. I haven't even gotten to what I
35:34planned on getting to.
35:36The reality is is that we need to start
35:40knowing when to fight and knowing when
35:44to flee.
35:47Some of the cycles we we are
35:48consistently in, it's because we trying
35:51to fight something you need to be
35:52running from. But I ain't soft. Okay.
35:55You still stuck though.
36:01That too real for us. And again, the
36:03Piper's wife represents not only just
36:07lust of the flesh in terms of sexual
36:10immorality. Piper's wife can represent
36:12whatever is lusting after you and me and
36:14us.
36:16You can have it. P. Joseph said, "I
36:19don't want to lay with you." Let me be
36:20clear. You see how clear he was? He
36:22wasn't leaving it halfway open. Some of
36:24y'all got this just in case anointing.
36:26Like y'all like a fire alarm, you know,
36:28in case a fire alarm break the glass,
36:30you don't close somebody completely off
36:32because just in case you get
36:34[Music]
36:36Nobody is buying the book
36:38today. I should have said this message
36:40for another
36:42Sunday. But if I'm your pastor, it's my
36:46job to tell you this. It's my job to
36:48show this in the scripture. I'm not in
36:50position to get likes and shares. I I
36:52don't care about that. I promise you, if
36:54it was two people in here, I'd be
36:55preaching the same way. I'd be laughing
36:56at my own jokes.
36:59Some somebody got to tell us this
37:00because we're not getting to the place
37:02we want to go spiritually and we keep
37:05stumbling over stuff.
37:07So, so dream chasers, understand
37:11something. Dreamchasers not only steward
37:15um what's in their pockets, they steward
37:19their
37:21presence. That there are some places I'm
37:24not even going. I don't want the invite.
37:27I'm not even mad you didn't invite me. I
37:30wasn't going anyway.
37:34All right. Some of us are still getting
37:36upset about people not allowing us into
37:39spaces we shouldn't be in anyway.
37:45They ain't even telling me about it.
37:47Good.
37:48Maybe they see the favor on you that you
37:51don't see yet.
37:57I don't even want to be in that
37:58conversation. Y'all have it. Y'all have
38:00that group chat without me.
38:07Only at the fresh church.
38:10Somebody got a fan over there,
38:14y'all. Where them fans
38:16at? Where them fans? All
38:20right. I don't even want to be in the
38:23same
38:25environment. You You can You can have
38:28it because the Bible says this in Psalms
38:3113. Watch this. It's going to mess you
38:33up. Psalm 13 is right here on the
38:35screen. 2021. Walk with the wise and
38:37become wise. But a companion of fools
38:41suffers harm.
38:44Disaster pursues
38:46sinners, but the righteous are rewarded
38:49with good.
38:51This scripture is a picture of
38:53Joseph. Walk with the wise and become
38:56wise, but a companion of fools suffers
38:59harm. Meaning, I don't even have to be a
39:02fool in order to suffer harm. I just
39:04have to hang with them.
39:06If I'm hanging with fools, their foolish
39:08behavior is going to rub off on me, the
39:11dreamchaser.
39:14So, what Joseph's brothers didn't
39:17understand is
39:19that when they put him in the pit, they
39:22helped
39:25him. When they put him in the pit, they
39:27helped him. They got him
39:30away from foolish people, his brothers.
39:36They man, if I had time, if I had time,
39:39I would tell you how God orchestrated a
39:42pit to separate Joseph from people that
39:46Joseph would have never separated
39:48himself from.
39:52So God had to let Joseph go through some
39:54stuff.
39:55Watch this. Watch this. Uhoh. Joseph
40:00ran, refused to, and said, I don't want
40:03to come to bed with you. I'm
40:06good. I don't even want to be with you.
40:10So, let's see what her response is.
40:12Verse number 11 and 12. One day, he went
40:15into the house to do his work and uh one
40:20of the uh household and none of the
40:21household servants were there. Verse
40:23number 12. She grabbed him by his
40:25clothes and said, "Come to bed with me,
40:31but he ran
40:33outside, left his clothes in her
40:36hand." Do you understand what Joseph
40:39just did? Joseph understood the power of
40:43protecting his character.
40:46That if something was going to be
40:48brought on him, they would have to just
40:50make it up.
40:53Oh god. They would have to come up with
40:56their own narrative. They they would
40:58have to literally lie. She said, "Come
41:00lie in the bed with me." That's
41:02literally what she did. She lied on
41:04Joseph. So So So I'm getting ahead of
41:06myself. So So So some of us need to run.
41:08Stop trying to fight. Stop trying to
41:10fight and run. Cut off the relationship.
41:12Cut off the bad the bad deal. Not just
41:14romantic relationship. I'm talking about
41:16social relationships as well. I'm
41:18talking about the relationship that we
41:20have with certain things as well, y'all.
41:23All right,
41:25she grabbed his coat and uh Okay, I'm
41:31done when I tell you this. She grabbed
41:33his coat. She grabbed his coat. The
41:36brothers when they wanted to try to do
41:40something to Joseph, they grabbed his
41:42coat, threw him in the pit. Fast
41:44forward. Piper's wife, when she wanted
41:47to do something negative to Joseph, she
41:50grabbed his coat. The brothers grabbed
41:53his coat and thought that it was over
41:56for him. Piper's wife grabbed his coat
41:59and thought that it was over for him.
42:02She came up with a lie because she
42:04thought she had something on him.
42:07But she didn't understand that the thing
42:09that got Joseph to where he was was not
42:11what he had on him. is who he had in
42:13him.
42:18So Joseph in no uncertain terms was
42:21saying you can take whatever you want to
42:24take from
42:25me. Piper's w you can take whatever you
42:29want to take. You can have the job. You
42:31can have the relationship. You can have
42:34the money. You can have the position.
42:36You can have the influence. You can have
42:38the impact. You can have the network.
42:41You can have all of that stuff because
42:43that stuff does not define who I am. The
42:47favor is not the stuff. The favor is the
42:50substance. And greater is he that's
42:53within me that.
42:57So you can have that,
43:01but you can't have this.
43:05You can't have who I am.
43:08You can have that.
43:11But you can't have this. My integrity,
43:14my character. And now here's the thing.
43:17Here's the thing. When you look at the
43:19text,
43:20um, Joseph maintaining his character
43:23cost him
43:24something because you're going to have
43:26to always choose. What do you want? The
43:29applause of man or the affirmation of
43:32God. So she lied on Joseph. Joseph get
43:35thrown in prison. And there's some other
43:36stuff that happens. And everywhere
43:38Joseph went, he rose to the
43:41top. Everything they tried to do to him
43:43didn't work. Why? Because he kept his
43:46character. Character is not
43:49perfection. It's not perfection. It's
43:51not, "Oh, I ain't never did anything
43:53wrong, man.
43:54Please, come on, man. This ain't that,
43:56church. Come on. You, we are human.
43:59We're gonna do things wrong. But the
44:01question is, where do I run when I'm
44:03wrong?
44:06Do I run to my
44:09father or do I run in
44:12silence? Do I hide or do I try to
44:17heal? You can have that but not
44:21this. The choice is
44:25ours in Jesus name. Come on, do me a
44:28favor. Would y'all stand put stand to
44:30your feet? Put your hands together if
44:31you got something.