By way of an introduction, I invite you to open your Bibles to Romans chapter 8. Romans 8. We read this wonderful chapter last week in our elder board meeting. I feel like I say this all the time. It's one of the greatest chapters in the Bible. It provides great perspective and assurance for believers. If you're not familiar with the passage, Romans 7 through 9, I would highly encourage you to spend a lot of time there because it will answer your questions about our two natures, God's sovereignty and his plan to redeem those whom he has called. It's worth your time. I'm going to read a couple of verses starting in verse 28 because I want to get across a particular fact. God is sovereign and divinely orchestrating all things together to ultimately achieve his purpose. Verse 28, and we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God. to those who are called according to his purpose. For those whom he foreknew, he also predestined to become conformed to the image of his Son, so that he would be the firstborn among many brethren. And these whom he predestined, he also called. And these whom he called, he also justified. And these whom he justified, he also glorified. Believer, we can be assured that no matter the situation, no matter the illness, the setback, the pain, whatever the trouble may be, that God is working all of that together for good. And our highest good is being conformed into the image of Christ. It's important to remember that. It's important to remember that even Jesus, God's only begotten son, suffered during his time on earth. Suffering is part of the human experience. That's what our main point is going to drive at. But believers can be assured that God is using all things to conform us into the image of his son, which ultimately brings glory to himself. Today we're going to be learning about a man that suffered immensely. He was betrayed, he was lied about, he was unjustly imprisoned, and ultimately elevated to the second highest position of the most powerful country on earth. Today we're going to learn about a man that eventually held the power of life and death in his hands over those that had mistreated him. And he chose to fear God instead of taking vengeance for himself. Today we're going to be learning about Joseph and how God used the horrible abuse that he suffered to keep alive the family that he had chosen to eventually bring our Savior into the world. But before we go any further, let's open in prayer. Father God, there is something so redeeming, so gratifying in knowing that you use everything, all things, both good and bad, to ultimately accomplish your purposes. Today, Lord, as we look at Joseph, I pray that your Holy Spirit would use your scriptures to bring about an understanding of how you redirect man's evil toward one another and bring about an end that we can hardly fathom. Father, thank you for this example that we can look at and gain understanding from. Please help us to worship you well today. May we be edified, encouraged, and built up with the right knowledge of you. It's in Christ's name we pray. Amen. Because Joseph's narrative doesn't really start until Genesis chapter 37, it might escape our notice that for 17 years he's grown up around the people that are in his family. He has an idea of who these people are. Really, I don't think we can understand Joseph's faithfulness, his reverence for God, his kindness to those who hated him, unless we understand that context. He saw changes in his family. He saw actions of his family members that must have been incredibly formative. One of the things that Joseph learned was that his father, Jacob, he worked a job he didn't like for his grandfather, who had changed his wages unfairly 10 times to take advantage of him. but God had prevented Laban from hurting him. In reality, every time that Laban tried to take advantage of Jacob, God actually did the inverse. He blessed him instead. Joseph, he likely understood that his father had fled from his grandfather because God had told him to. He understood his father's faithfulness. even despite a very real fear that his brother Esau would eventually try and kill him. He threatened to do so. He must have seen his father's obedience and noticed that he walked with a limp, earned from wrestling with the Lord all night until the Lord blessed him. I think I missed a one. I cannot imagine that Joseph's father reconciling with his brother that had threatened to kill him, that didn't make an impact on young Joseph. All of these things are built into Joseph. When we go into chapter 37, we don't come to a blank slate. He has experienced all these things. He saw his father becoming more and more serious about his faith. And he must have understood that his father had received incredible blessings that God had promised to Abraham and Isaac. This young boy learned about the God that his father worshipped. Furthermore, Joseph learned about his brothers. and how vicious this pack of young men could be. All of these things help form a perspective for Joseph that gives us a sense of why he did the things that he did. These snippets of context help us understand that he had seen a contrast, a difference, and he had chosen, even at an early age, who he would emulate and model his life after, and it wasn't his brothers. If you haven't already opened your Bibles to Genesis chapter 37, please do so. The first thing that we notice in this text is that Joseph is the hated favorite because his father loved him more than all his brothers. Verse 1. Now, Jacob lived in the land where his father had sojourned, in the land of Canaan. These are the records of the generations of Jacob. If you remember from last week, that word generations is poledot in Hebrew. When you see that word generations in the book of Genesis, that is a major structural divider. So we're entering a new portion of the text. Back in the scriptures here, Joseph, when 17 years of age, was pasturing the flock with his brothers while he was still a youth, along with the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives. And Joseph brought back a bad report about them to their father. Now, Israel, that's Jacob, he loved Joseph more than all his sons. because he was the son of his old age. And he made him a very colored tunic. The first paragraph, it tells us so much. Jacob has returned to Canaan after working for his father-in-law, and he has entrusted his wealth to four brothers, Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. And they have shown themselves to be poor stewards of their father's flocks. Well, Joseph, he told his father what he had seen his older half-brothers do. And whatever it was, as well as the fact that he was favored by his father, treated well, whatever it was that he reported on, it caused their hatred of him to begin to swell. Verse 4. His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and so they hated him and could not speak to him on friendly terms. Then Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him even more. He said to them, please listen to this dream which I have had. For behold, we were binding sheaves in the field and lo, my sheaf rose up and also stood erect. And behold, your sheaves gathered around and bowed down to my sheaf. Then his brother said to him, are you actually going to reign over us? Or are you really going to rule over us? So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words. Let's stop there. Three times the text says, Joseph's brothers hated Joseph. And it's kind of a general rule in scripture when you see something repeated, there's emphasis there. What kind of emphasis is there when it says that his brothers hated him? Three times. It's practically screaming off the page. They hated They hate him for his words. They hate him because his brother, his father loves him. And they hate him for his dreams. As I read this, I'm reminded of Jesus. There's so many parallels between Joseph and Jesus. He is loved by his father. He's hated by his kinsmen. He's hated because of his words. He's hated because eventually everyone will bow the knee before him, just like the sheaves bow before Joseph. This story contains so many parallels between Joseph and Christ. Not the least is his obedience. Just like Joseph obeyed his father, Christ obeyed his father. Verse 12. Then his brothers went to pasture their father's flock in Shechem. Israel said to Joseph, Are not your brothers pasturing the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them. And he said to him, I will go. I think he knew what he was saying when he said that. Then he said to him, go now and see about the welfare of your brothers and the welfare of the flock and bring word back to me. So he sent him from the valley of Hebron and he came to Shechem. The distance between Hebron and Shechem, that's 50 miles. And the distance between Shechem and Dothan, that's about 10 miles. A man found Joseph, and behold, he was wandering in the field. And the man asked him, what are you looking for? He said, I'm looking for my brothers. Please tell me where they are pasturing the flock. Then the man said, they have moved from here. For I heard them say, let's go to Dothan. So Joseph went after his brothers and found them at Dothan. Joseph's brothers are pasturing the flock at Dothan. They're supposed to be 50 miles away in Shechem, and his father sends him from Hebron to check on them, but they aren't there. They've moved on to Dothan. It's another 10 miles. Can I give us a takeaway? Obedience is a hallmark of Joseph's life. He is constantly found obeying. He obeyed his father. just like Christ obeyed his father. This obedience to our father should be a hallmark of our lives as well. I think it's interesting. In Hebrews 5a, it says that Christ learned obedience from the things which he suffered. Here's something for us to consider. Have we ever suffered for our obedience? If not, could it be because we're not obeying? Suffering is part of the Christian experience. It is definitely not normal not to suffer. Christians go through their whole life And they should expect to suffer. Pick up your cross and follow me. Pick up the instrument of death and follow me. We're supposed to die to ourselves daily. If you're not suffering, you need to ask yourself why. And if it's not because of disobedience, if it's something else, you need to ask yourself Let's jump back into the text. Joseph, he arrives in Dothan, and it's here in Dothan that Joseph's brothers, they act on their hatred. They see him coming off in the distance, coming from the south, and they hate him so much that they are whipped into a fury and plot against him to make him suffer. Verse 18. When they saw him from a distance, and before he came close to them, they plotted against him to put him to death. They said to one another, here comes this dreamer. Now then come, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits, and we will say a wild beast devoured him. Then let us see what will become of his dreams. But Reuben, Reuben's the oldest, Reuben heard this and rescued him out of their hands and said, let us not take his life. Reuben further said to them, shed no blood, throw him into this pit that's in the wilderness, but do not lay hands on him, that he might rescue him out of their hands to restore him to his father. So it came about when Joseph reached his brothers that they stripped Joseph of his tunic, the very colored tunic that was on him. And they took him and threw him into the pit. Now the pit was empty without any water in it. Then they sat down to eat a meal. And as they raised their eyes and looked, behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead. with their camels bearing aromatic gum, balm, and myrrh on their way to bring them down to Egypt. These men are hardened. They've been fermenting in their own juices for far too long. How many days and nights have they gossiped and slandered that favored brother of theirs? When Joseph arrives, he is stripped of his glorious robe. He's thrown into a dry hole in the ground, and his brothers sit down to eat a meal. First they threaten to kill him, and then they're like, well, no, what else could we get out of it? I wonder if it was a nice meal that Joseph had even carried to them. You know, Jacob was a good cook. It was a home-cooked meal, 60 miles away. I wonder. You know, these guys, this little group that they have, they had, what do they call that, a negative feedback loop. They start hearing the same things over and over and over. Yeah, let's get that guy. Let's get that guy. And they ruminate on that, and they ponder over it. How would I kill Joseph? Well, there's a pit over there. That would be clean. Folks, hearing's a warning, okay? What we put our minds on, what we dwell on, especially evil plans like that, we will find an opportunity to make that happen. That's a strong warning to dwell on what is pure and what is good and right and lovely and not on taking our own vengeance as these men were doing. The story here is a warning If we daydream about taking our own vengeance, if we plot in our mind and practice in our head what evil we would do given the opportunity, eventually we will get that opportunity. Do not dedicate any brain space toward developing your plans and how you'd get even with those that have wronged you. We need to leave room for the Lord to act. That's what Romans 12 says. It says, the Lord says, vengeance is mine. I will repay. He's going to set things right. And we can be guaranteed that whatever he does, it will be plenty sufficient. We can trust him to sort things out. Well, let's continue in the text and finish out this chapter. Verse 26, 20 shekels and three torn tunics. Judah said to his brothers, what profit is it for us to kill our brother and cover up his blood? Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay our hands on him, for he is our brother, our own flesh, and his brothers listen to him. Then some Midianite traders passed by. So they pulled him up and lifted Joseph out of the pit and sold him to the Ishmaelites for 20 shekels of silver. By the way, you know, there's 10 brothers there and they're planning this and they sell them for 20 shekels. That's two shekels a piece. It's about 20 bucks. What's the life of your brother worth? $200 total, $20 a piece. what he was valued at. Unbelievable. Thus they brought Joseph into Egypt. Now Reuben returned to the pit, and behold, Joseph was not in the pit. So he tore his garments. He returned to his brother and said, The boy is not there. As for me, where am I to go? So they took Joseph's tunic and slaughtered a male goat and dipped the tunic in the blood. And they sent the very colored tunic and brought it to their father and said, we found this, please examine it to see whether it is your son's tunic or not. When then he examined it and said, it is my son's tunic. A wild beast has devoured him. Joseph has surely been torn to pieces. So Jacob tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days. Then all his sons and all his daughters arose to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. And he said, surely I will go down to Sheol in mourning for my son. So his father wept for him. Meanwhile, the Midianites sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, Pharaoh's officer, captain of the bodyguard. As these Midianite traders are taking their new acquisition down to Egypt, I cannot help but wonder how close Joseph got to Hebron. I mean, those trade routes, there's only two major ones. There's the King's route and there's the Via de Mar. It's the way of the sea. There's only those two major routes. How close did Joseph come to Jacob's camp? Every step that Joseph took after that was just one more step that took him further and further away from everything he had ever known. He was alone. He was betrayed. He was sold for virtually nothing. Joseph suffered. But he's not the only one. So did his father, and ultimately, so will his brothers too. The brothers, they couldn't have known, could they? When they brought that blood-soaked tunic to their father, but they were gonna, they're gonna have to look him in the eye for 22 more years before they were forced to confess their evil sin. 22 years of seeing the tear-stained eyes of a father who they had ripped away his only beloved son. Knowing that they had crushed him with their deceit. Jacob even said he was going to cry until he died. That's horrible. That is bleak and tragic. But folks, as we look at this text and think through all the implications, let us not forget that Joseph's suffering had meaning. It had value. It had purpose. We can infer from that and from other texts that our suffering also has value. It is not meaningless. It is not pointless. It has purpose. God is going to take Joseph's suffering, Jacob's suffering, and use it not only to preserve him but also save his family and ultimately preserve the lineage of the Savior that saved us. God is sovereign and he can and does use all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose. Praise God that our life is not just one raw nerve getting stomped over and over and over again. All of those seasons of pain, of trouble, they have a point. And someday we will get to see how God wove all of that together better than any multicolored tunic. Let's drop into chapter 39. We're going to skip chapter 38 because I can summarize it really briefly. Chapter 38 is a text on Judah that presents him as a foil, a contrast. between his immorality and Joseph's moral superiority. So I'm going to leave it at that. You should read chapter 38 just like every other text in the Bible, but we're going to continue on in chapter 39. In chapter 39, we can see that through all this hardship, the Lord was with Joseph. Now, Joseph had been taken down to Egypt, and Potiphar, an Egyptian officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the bodyguard, bought him from the Ishmaelites, who had taken him down there. The Lord was with Joseph. So he became a successful man, and he was in the house of his master, the Egyptian. Now, his master saw that the Lord was with him, and how the Lord caused all that he did to prosper in his hand. Joseph, despite the suffering, he's actually being carefully guarded by the Lord. Even though he was sold into slavery, the Lord caused him to have tremendous success, so much so that even his pagan master could see that he was blessed because of Joseph. He didn't have to worry about anything except for what he ate. I mean, talk about a trustworthy servant. The text doesn't give any kind of indication what kind of markup Joseph got from the traders, but I have to think that Potiphar thought he got a better end of the deal. Not only was he successful, but verse 6 says he was a good-looking kid. That last statement in verse 6, which I didn't read down to that point, but it prepares us from the coming incident. In verses 7 through 18, as his master's wife looked with desire at Joseph. This is the contrast that I was talking about with Judah. So, Joseph is morally superior to Judah. Verse 7. It came about, after these events, that his master's wife looked with desire at Joseph, and she said, Lie with me. But he refused, and said to his master's wife, Behold, with me here my master does not concern himself with anything in the house. And he has put all that he owns in my charge. There is no one greater in this house than I. And he has withheld nothing from me except you, because you were his wife. How then could I do this great evil and sin against God? Not what we would expect. We would expect him to say sin against my master or sin against you. I find it very instructive that Joseph understood that any sin was a direct assault on God. Here's a key takeaway. A proper fear of the Lord is a safeguard against evil. Are you hounded by indwelling sin? Are you constantly tempted by a particular sin? I would hesitate to suggest that none of us are. We're all tempted by sin. A very good tool, and I love tools, a very good tool in our fight against temptation is to remember to whom we are accountable. The all-powerful, omniscient creator of the universe who shakes mountains with his power. We're accountable for how we live our life and for what we do. Even though our sins are paid for through Jesus Christ, we should never take that as a license to sin. May God forbid that His children defile themselves with sin. Rather, they ought to reverence their Heavenly Father and fear Him, enough to obey Him. Remembering to whom we are accountable is a safeguard against evil. Well, I think most of us know the rest of the story. Eventually, Potiphar's wife, she snatches at him, she grabs at the boy, and he flees. He runs away. He runs so fast, he runs right out of his clothes. And she lies about the incident to her husband. Even in spite of all this, the Lord gives him favor. Verse 19, now when his master heard the words of his wife, which he spoke to him saying, this is what your slave did to me, his anger burned. Just pause there. It does not say that his anger burned against Joseph. I don't want to read too much into the text, but this man had power over life and death. He could have aced Joseph, snuffed him out like that, and nobody would have blinked an eye, but he didn't. Verse 20. So Joseph's master took him and put him into the jail, the place where the king's prisoners were confined, and he was there in the jail. But the Lord was with Joseph and extended kindness to him and gave him favor in the sight of the chief jailer. The chief jailer committed to Joseph's charge all the prisoners who were in the jail, so that whatever was done there, he was responsible for it. The chief jailer did not supervise anything under Joseph's charge because the Lord was with him, and whatever he did, the Lord made to prosper. Even though Joseph is wrongly imprisoned, he's not executed. as a man with Potiphar's power could easily have done. Which makes me wonder if Potiphar doubted his wife's story. The text doesn't say, it just says that he was put in a prison and there he found favor. Let's hop down into chapter 40. And in chapters 40 and 41, Joseph faces being forgotten by those he helps, but he's eventually freed and helped save his family from famine. Verse one, then it came about after these things, the cupbearer and the baker for the king of Egypt offended their Lord, the king of Egypt. Pharaoh was furious with his two officials, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker, so he put them in confinement in the house of the captain of the bodyguard. He didn't know that Joseph was in Potiphar's basement, but that's what it looks like here. He put them in confinement in the house of the captain of the bodyguard in the jail, the same place where Joseph was imprisoned. The captain of the bodyguard put Joseph in charge of them, and he took care of them. and they were in confinement for some time. Then the cupbearer and the baker for the king of Egypt, who were confined in jail, both had a dream the same night, each man with his own dream and each dream with its own interpretation. When Joseph came to them in the morning and observed them, behold, they were dejected. He asked Pharaoh's officials who were with him in confinement in his master's house, why are your faces so sad today? What a question. We're in prison, mate. What are you talking about? Then they said to him, we've had a dream and there is no one to interpret it. Then Joseph said to them, do not interpretations belong to God? Tell it to me, please. Just based on the text and the words that are used and the phrasing, I get the impression that Joseph has a good perspective. A right perspective. He's seeing things clearly. Although he's in prison, far from home, yet he cares enough about these two servants of the king. Why the long face? Why are you sad today? Well, I think we're familiar with the story. These men, they retell their dreams to Joseph and he interprets each one correctly and it eventually comes true. The chief baker is hung and the chief cupbearer is ultimately restored. Unfortunately, I bit off way more than I could chew. I thought I could do chapters 37 through 50. I was totally wrong. We're not gonna get all the way through, so this is gonna be a two-part sermon. We don't have all the time that I would like to go through the text, but really, Joseph, he pleaded with the cupbearer, don't forget me. Do me a kindness and get me out of this dungeon. Now that I've helped you, you help me. But he totally, he forgets about Joseph. And then he waits. Joseph sits there wondering, what's going on? Until two years later when Pharaoh has a dream and his cupbearer remembers, oh yeah, there's this guy, he knows how to tell dreams. Where did I leave him? Oh yeah, back in prison. I have a final key takeaway. One of the things we as Christians have to get right is we're not to take our own vengeance. We heard about that earlier. Instead, we are to wait on the Lord. Joseph has been doing a lot of waiting. That's what Joseph had to do. He had to wait for two whole years wondering, what happened to that guy? I mean, I know I interpreted that dream right. Where is he? How could he forget me? He had to wait and wait and wait and wait on the Lord for his deliverance. But he also had to know he wasn't abandoned. That begs the question, do we think that we have been forgotten by the Lord because we're in a particular situation and it doesn't change year after year after year? God does not abandon his children ever. Not when times of blessing and seasons of good are happening, not in seasons of pain. While we wait, while we suffer, we need to remember that our suffering has meaning has value, eternal value, and eternal weight of glory waits for those who have suffered for the Lord. Furthermore, it produces faithfulness, it produces endurance, it produces obedience. Suffering has value. I know in our modern evangelical day, we don't like, especially in America, we don't like suffering, and who does? But on the other side of glory, we're gonna look back and see what God has done, and we're gonna know what He had in mind, and what He had in store, and what the value actually was. God uses our suffering to bring into our minds a reliance upon Him, an ability to see Him work that we could not possibly appreciate any other way. So as you are suffering, and I know there are people in this room that are suffering, be encouraged. You're not forgotten. You're not lost. You're not misplaced. God is not allowing you to undergo one iota of a session suffering, that He has not produced a benefit for you. As we close out the text in chapter 41, I'm just going to summarize Pharaoh's two more dreams. He has two more dreams about some cattle. There's some fat cattle, seven fat cows, and there's seven lean cows, and these seven lean cows eat the seven fat cows. And he has a following dream. He has seven ears of grain that are plump and fat and good, growing out of the Nile, and then seven withered ears of grain that eat the seven fat ears. In verse 10, let's see here, the cupbearer, you know, he's called up with everybody else. The king, he's got this dream. What do I do? What do I do? Nobody can interpret it. He's like, oh yeah, I know this guy. Let's start in verse 9. Then the chief cupbearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, I would make mention today of my own offenses. Pharaoh was furious with his servants, and he put me in confinement in the house of the captain of the bodyguard, both me and the chief baker. We had a dream on the same night. He and I, each of us dreamed according to the interpretation of his own dream. Now Hebrew youth was with us a servant of the captain of the bodyguard and we related them to him and he interpreted our dreams for us To each one he interpreted according to his own dream just as he interpreted for us So what happened he restored me in my office, but he hanged him Up until this moment Joseph he's sitting in prison and He doesn't know what's coming around the corner. But, cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck. You hear him coming down the stairs. Door opens. They grab Joseph. They pull him out. They shave him. They put him in clean clothes. They throw him in front of Pharaoh and say, do your thing. and he interprets Pharaoh's dream. Furthermore, he gives Pharaoh counsel. He says, you are going to see incredible agricultural produce in the next seven years. Put it to work. Use it. Save it. Save it up because there's going to be seven full years of famine after the fact. He does that. He says, oh, are we going to find a man with as much wisdom as this? and he gives him his ring of power saying, you are the second most powerful man in the land. 15 minutes ago, he was in prison, right? And I don't say that to trivialize it or to even build up our hopes that something like that is going to happen to us when we are suffering, but we don't know. The Lord knows, and it's good that He knows, and it's good that we don't know. If we knew what the Lord knew, I don't think we would be happier. We know enough. The more we look at God's Word, the happier we will be if we understand it. I'm just going to conclude the passage. If you would turn to 1 Peter, 1 Peter chapter 3, Just one parting or a couple of parting thoughts before we leave for the day about suffering. I think we all see it coming down the pipe. Persecution seems to be around the corner if we look at Canada. Canada is a bellwether. our faith is going to force us to obey, and they'll probably be suffering as a result. So, we're going to get some counsel from the Apostle Peter. 1 Peter 3, verses 14 through 18. But even if you should suffer for the sake of righteousness, you are blessed. Do not fear their intimidation and do not be troubled, but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence, and keep a good conscience, so that in the thing in which you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ will be put to shame. For it is better, if God should will it so, that you suffer for doing what is right, rather than for doing what is wrong. For Christ also died for sins, once for all, the just for the unjust, so that he might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit." Our suffering has meaning, has value, even if it takes a lifetime to go through. As I conclude, I just want to remind us all, it is of the utmost importance that we remember that God is on the throne. He doesn't take a day off. He doesn't throw us to the wolves. He is sovereign. He loves those who believe Him, who have taken Him at His word and put their trust in Him. and he is going to use everything ultimately to bring him glory. We can entrust our here and our future to him. Let's stand and I'll close in prayer. Father God, we thank you for the good example that Joseph was. What a remarkable man that saw the example of his father and developed a real faith in you. We see His faith over years and years and His obedience to you. And I pray, Lord, that we would not think of that as an impossible example, but as something that is right for us to, something that we're to model. I pray that our obedience would bring How do I say? The acknowledgement from those that are around us that we are different and that we obey our Lord through thick and thin, no matter the cost, no matter that we might suffer for our obedience. I pray that As we obey you, as we get opportunities to showcase our faith, I pray that you would be glorified, Lord. It's only because of what Christ did that we have any claim to your redemption. and it's because of him and because of what he has done at Calvary that we honor you. We look forward to seeing you face to face one day and telling you how deeply we love you. It's in Jesus' name we pray.