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say grace say favor favor it's it's the
same grace and favor is the same you
look at the Amplified it brings every
time he says Grace in the New Testament
in the bracket unmerited favor favor you
don't deserve now today you must be
careful there are people trying to
redefine Grace we cannot redefine what
is established we have no to remove the
ancient landmarks and you don't take my
word for it take Romans 11:6 for the
definition of Grace Grace is not all
right Grace is not uh uh something that
God gives you that if you don't you know
if you let me put it this way Grace is
not an
empowerment Grace produces empowerment
today there's a redefinition saying
grace is an
empowerment and and and and whoever
started this heard me preach in a
conference where I said the woman caught
in the uh uh in adultery Jesus said to
her neither do I condemn you go and sin
No More Jesus first gave her the gift of
no condemnation and the gift of no
condemnation must come first the church
says go and sin no more then we won't
condemn you Jesus says I don't condemn
you now go and sin no more so the gift
of no condemnation empowered her to go
and sin no more years ago I've been
preaching that so somebody got that and
twist the whole thing around and say
grace is an empowerment it is not Grace
produces empowerment unmar favor
produces
empowerment amen but Grace is not
empowerment let Romans 11 verse6 says
very clearly all right it says that for
if it's by Grace then is normal of Works
otherwise Grace is nor more grace now if
it is of works then it's no more grace
otherwise works is no more works so you
see that both grace and works are
antithesis
amen so Grace is unearned un deserve
unmar favor work is all deserve Merit
deserving okay it's all human effort so
back to this I'm giving you a picture
right now because you need to understand
that Joseph had favor from God if it
just depend on his good looks because
the Bible says Joseph is handsome and
I'll tell you a reason that later on it
tells you that he's handsome okay but it
doesn't tell you he's handsome
now why because God wants you to know
that it's not his handsomeness or your
prettiness that gets you the job that
gets you the open door that gets you the
the the the success that you want God
wants to know that it his favor so a lot
of us we are still depending on the
flesh we are depending on things that is
actually obstructing favor so God
doesn't bring the fact that he's
handsome
here it brings it later at a point that
we understand so he says here Joseph
found favor so favor is unearned
undeserved and and he sered piper then
Piper made Joseph overseer of his house
and all all that he had he put under his
authority look at verse 5 so it was from
the time that he had made him oversee of
his house and all that he had the Lord
blessed the Egyptians house for Joseph's
sake I have no doubt many of you your
company is blessed because you are there
amen your organization is blessed
because you are there amen I have no
doubt this nation is blessed because we
are here amen we are not to be a you
know a
pain or a bane to our nation complaining
complaining all the time let's be a BL
saying amen we are called to bless amen
and the the the the one that is getting
the benefit is an
Egyptian so forget about this you know
only God will only bless uh a Christians
let me tell this because of the
Believers God will bless whoever you are
associated with that's why God doesn't
want you to anyhow just get into an a
relationship or a uh a contract with
with an unbeliever where you have to
compromise your your moral integrity and
all that and do things his way amen why
he's getting your blessing but you're
getting all his bad
things not a good deal not a good deal
amen but they will be blessed they will
be blessed because of you all right so
God bless everything in Egyptian's house
thus he left all that he had in Joseph's
hand and he did not know what he had
except for the bread which he ate and
that's really letting go then it tells
you now Joseph was handsome in form and
appearance okay why because of the next
verse the next verse says th he uh it
came to pass after these things his
master's Wife cast longing eyes on
Joseph and she said lie with me now this
is not tell lies with
me okay so let me just tell you this a
lot of a lot of people have this idea if
if the Lord prospers me why do why do I
get into trouble because he's about to
get into trouble now he didn't sleep
with her
okay listen
carefully in fact he resisted her
advances Joseph actually said in Hebrew
how can I
commit all right
gadra Gad is kohen Gad like high priest
big priest high priest Gad big Gad is
Big all right R is evil how can I commit
this big evil adultery in the eyes of
Joseph was great evil
amen Pastor Prince and and this was
before the Ten Commandments was
given Moses is not even an idea at that
time Joseph lived long before the Ten
Commandments and he called adultery
great evil but Pastor Prince I believe
Sin is Sin listen
friend Jesus categorized sins he told
Pontius Pilate the one who delivered me
to you has the greatest
sin so there are measures of sin
now one sin is enough to send anyone to
hell but there are
different categories of sin amen if a
guy is bad tempered a leader is bad
tempered he will not be he will be told
he might be you know uh uh uh uh uh uh
confronted with but usually he will not
lose his position but if a leader
commits adultery it's a different thing
no one can come and say this Sin is Sin
no they accept the grace amen I don't
expect amen I'm saying amen for myself
praise God I'm preaching it man praise
the Lord so you need to know that the
good news is coming don't worry so I'm
just saying that Joseph had a sense of
divine favor so he could say no he was
far from his family nobody would know in
fact sleeping with the boss's wife would
put him in in in in good uh favor with
her she can open doors for him amen she
already open one
doorway the physical door so the thing
is this you know I mean He he'll be in
good standing isn't it so there are ways
that you can actually do things that
will put you in good standing with your
business partners and things like that
or are you depending on the favor of God
are you willing not to compromise stand
up for moral Excellence that will
glorify Christ and do things right
expect God's favor to make up for the
difference then you can say you you you
know you are like Joseph amen but if you
are compromising you are cheating you
are conniving you are you are you are
not telling the truth all the time and
then you prosper then you say it's God's
favor it's not God's
favor
amen praise the Lord now you must
understand God's vision for you is you
be like Joseph that's God's vision for
you but God doesn't want you depending
on your flesh on your works on your
effort can I have a good amen so his
problems were about to start not because
he yielded Temptation because he
rejected Temptation so some people have
this idea if God favors me and I do
what's right how come I get into trouble
the next thing you know is that the wife
and hell has no fury like a woman's
scone amen Joseph Prince chapter 1:2 no
it's not original with me it is actually
William Shakespeare it's not in the
Bible by the way amen hell has no fury
like a woman's scone I'm sure the
Chinese have their own
version like guys don't dare tell their
wife directly so they speak in
Parables for example they don't tell
their wives you know um they just tell
their wife it's not it's not that I I I
I hate your relatives it's just that
that I love your mother-in-law more than
mine you're a bit slow this morning
never mind all right
okay yeah one guy said that to his wife
he never saw her again for three
months the beginning of the fourth month
he saw her a little bit from the corner
of his eye
okay never mind okay it came to pass
after these things all right so it came
to pass after these things the Lord
prospered him a lot of people say Pastor
I confess I'm the righteous of God in
Christ and now next thing I know I get
into trouble well the trouble is
designed by God as a stepping stone
because he's about to end up in prison
Ah that's a stepping stone amen and he's
about to interpret the dreams of the
King's Butler who later on will tell the
king about him and because of his
testimony Joseph will not just be
brought out of prison but out of Piper's
house to stand in the presence of the
most powerful Monarch during that time
so you think about it all you know
people say I confess I'm the righteous
of God in Christ and I get into trouble
why this trouble hey it is still the
favor of God one thing about the trouble
is that it's like the sheep in the ocean
okay as long the water don't get ins the
ship no problem you are in the midst of
the trial but God will not allow the
trial to get into you you will Tri in
the midst of the trial so to drop this
idea that when God prospers Everything
You Touch there's no trouble there will
be trouble but the trouble is like you
know it's like uh Stepping Stones it's
like the devil throw you all kinds of
stone and you are in a in a hole you got
nowhere to go out he throw you stones
and all that am and the stone never hit
you but you built from that stone you
built a
leather you build a stepping stone
literally all the way out amen the devil
throws lemons you make
lonate amen it's it's that kind of thing
when favor is on you that even the bad
things turn for good because if the
brothers never were jealous of him they
never would have sold him off if they
didn't sell him off he would end up in
Egypt if he didn't end up in Egypt he
wouldn't be in Piper's house where
Piper's wife saw him him if it's not for
Piper's wife who lied about him he'll
not be thrown into prison if he wasn't
in prison he won't be in position in
place to interpret the dream of the
king's Butler if he never interpret the
dream he'll still be there but one thing
led to another and next thing you know
he became the most powerful man able and
empowered to save his family and many
others