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Audio Interchange File Format  |  1996-02-21  |  2.3 MB  |  1 channel  |  22,050 sample rate  |  54 seconds
Transcription: In Joseph's time, God mostly worked behind the scenes. In fact, on the surface it often seemed that Joseph got the exact opposite of what he deserved. He explained a dream to his brothers and they threw him in a cistern. He resisted a sexual advance and landed in an Egyptian prison. He interpreted another dream to save a cellmate's life and the cellmate forgot about him. Yet, and perhaps this is why Genesis devotes so much space to him, Joseph never stopped trusting God. Joseph came to see God's hand in the tragedies of his life. Being sold into slavery, for example, eventually turned out for ...