(Genesis) Genesis 37:12-39:10 — Joe Focht

Joseph’s Spiritual Heritage and God-Given Vision

Genesis chapter 37 we are looking at Joseph, the son of Jacob's old age, the son in one sense that has the benefit of being raised under Joseph more than being raised under Israel more than being raised under Jacob, the he's raised under the man who's halting on his thigh who's limping and I believe has the benefit of the broken heart now of this old saint who loves him and esteems him.

Reuben has forsaken his birthright going into one of his father's concubines. It seems as we go through this chapter and into the next chapter that some of the other brothers are involved in some of the Canaanite worship.

Joseph brings an evil rapport to his father of some of the things they're doing. It seems like this young man has a heart for God and that he remembers the day they put away their foreign gods, the day that Rachel his mother died on the side of the road, the day they returned to the worship of the true and living God.

It seems that those things are somehow emblazoned upon his heart even as a young man. And God gives him two dreams. You remember one with the shocks of grain and how the other shocks of grain come down and bow down before his shock of grain and it says his brothers hated him for telling them that dream.

They hated him the more and then yet Joseph has another dream. The sun and the moon and the stars came and they made obeisance to his star and then even Jacob says shall even your mother and I come and bow down before you.

But it says Jacob held those things in his heart. He pondered them. So we find Joseph now a young man hated of his ten older brothers, despised by them. And I think part of the blame is Jacob's. No doubt he is favoring Joseph and to favor one of your children over the others is certainly a seedbed for all kinds of problems.

It was between Isaac and Ishmael and it was between Jacob and Esau and it is now in Jacob's family as he favors Joseph over his other sons. And some say that Joseph was plagued by pride that he should not have shared his dream with his brothers and yet the sharing of the dream becomes his ticket to Egypt.

Again we read this morning in Psalm 105 that God knew that he was going to break the staff of bread from the entire sphere of the earth there. That whole Mediterranean region and that there would be a great famine.

And he says there in Psalm 105 that he sent a man before them whose name was Joseph. You know as we read the story it's his brother's envy and jealousy and selling him to the Ishmaelites. But from the divine perspective God is sending him there to Egypt.

And the sharing of the dream with his older brothers stirred their envy and it became the very thing then that caused him to be sent to Egypt. And it would be important later, the years later, when they would be reunited and Joseph would forgive them for them then to remember this wondrous dream that God had given him and how it had finally reached its fulfillment.

But we're seeing Joseph as this young man with vision. A young man with dreams in his heart. And again how desperately we are in need of young people today in this world with vision. That see above the carnal world that we live in.

That see the things that God has set before them. That can look and see that holy city on the horizon with the streets of gold and the walls of jewels. Abraham lived his life looking for that city. Again and Peter writes that if we have left off with brotherly love and kindness and we have left off with charity and we left off with these things that we have become barren and unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And it says there that we can no longer see afar off and that we've forgotten that we're cleansed from our old sins. That somewhere along the way we can lose perspective. And the losing of perspective is is not no longer being able to see afar off.

No longer having vision that goes beyond this world that that produces hope and an anchor to our souls that draws above this world. And no longer remembering that we're a sinner as anyone else is cleansed by the wondrous work of Christ.

Well Joseph is a young man with that kind of perspective. He has a vision. He is looking for something spiritual above and beyond this world. He has taken to his heart the stories of of Adam and of Noah that were passed to him and of his grandfather Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob.

And he is he is looking for greater things. Again a Sunday morning we shared a man walking through a construction site asking a laborer what he was doing and the laborer kind of irritated saying well I'm laying bricks what does it look like I'm doing you know it doesn't make a scientist to figure this out.

Further on in the same construction site asking a man what he was doing same thing and the man answered I'm building a cathedral. Just the difference in perspective you know one man is laying his life one brick at a time and the drudgery of life the endless pile of wash for the moms and the and the little kids and the driving to work every day and whatever it might be life becomes one brick at a time.

You know someone asked Ruth Graham about her marriage with Billy Graham and said what is the you know they've been married for so many years and such an enduring relationship and they said what is the hardest thing about marriage and she said it's so daily and I think that when we measure life that one brick at a time it is it becomes such a labor we lose perspective we no longer can see far off but for a man to be building and saying I'm building a cathedral I'm putting things in place that are that are producing something that is going to affect a future generation it's going to touch other lives it's going to take us along from here it's going to have an impact it means something what I'm doing yes it's one brick at a time but it's going somewhere it's doing something.

And Joseph was a young man of vision like that we pick him up where his older brothers are probably out tending the flock griping about his dreams. Verse 12 says his brother and went to feed their father's flock.

Chapter 37. Verse 12 in Shechem about 50 miles from Hebron where Jacob is dwelling. And Israel said unto Joseph do not thy brethren feed the flock in Shechem come and I will send thee unto them. And he said to him here am I ready to yield to whatever his father wanted.

And he said to him go I brethren and well with the flocks and bring me word again. So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron and he came to Shechem. Now possibly Jacob is worried because it was there where Simeon and Levi had destroyed a whole town.

And maybe still thinking about that concerned he hasn't heard from them. I get a feeling that the older brothers are glad to get away from Jacob and away from Joseph. This little sissy brother with a technicolor dreamcoat you know.

And there are 50 miles away tending the flocks. So Joseph comes to Shechem. Certain man found him and behold he was wandering in the field. The man asked him saying what are you seeking. He said I seek my brethren.

Tell me I pray thee where they feed their flocks. The man said they are departed from here for I heard them say let us go to Dothan now no doubt the sons of Jacob are known Dothan about 15 miles more towards Megiddo.

From there the local locals knew who the the children of Israel were. He said I heard them say they're heading towards Dothan. And Joseph went after his brethren and found them in Dothan. Now Dothan means two cisterns and the place of two cisterns and maybe one of those that they rode Joseph in.

And when they saw him afar off they saw that many colored coat coming over the horizon even before he came near unto them. They conspired against him to slay him. Not too much no big deal for Simeon Levi.

And they said one to another behold here comes the dreamer come now. Therefore let us slay him and cast him into some pit. We will say some evil beast has devoured him and we shall see what will become of his dreams.

Then let's kill him and tell dad that a beast ate him and then we'll see what happens to these dreams these guys telling us about. And Reuben heard it the oldest and he delivered him out of their hands and said let us not kill him.

Now Reuben may be guilty about the fact that he slept with Bilhah his father's concubine and forfeited the birthright. He's the oldest. He says no he feels the most responsible. He says no let's not kill him.

Reuben said unto them shed no blood but cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness and lay no hand upon him that he might rid him out of their hands. Reuben wanted to rid Joseph out of their hands to deliver him to his father again.

He has a plan he'd like to get Joseph back to Jacob back to Israel. They came to pass when Joseph was come unto his brethren it just says that they stripped Joseph out of his coat his coat of many colors that was on him and they took him and threw him into a pit and the pit was empty.

A sister there was no water in it so it doesn't tell us they had a conversation or anything. Joseph walks up and just say they took their brother stripped him out of his coat and threw him into a pit.

Now when we get to chapter 42 it'll tell us there as as the sons of Israel come down to Egypt to buy grain and they're going through the trials that Joseph put them through there. They don't know that Joseph yet is there their consciousness bothering them.

And they're saying they're saying this is because what we did to our brother did he not plead with us out of the pit. So it doesn't give us that detail here. But evidently as they strip him he's he's pleading with them and they throw him into the pit.

And Joseph evidently is crying unto his older brothers. He is pleading with them and it says. And they sat down to eat. So they said grace. And they lifted up their eyes and looked and behold a company of Ishmaelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh going to carry it down to Egypt.

They thought oh this is great. Now it was the Lord. This was the ticket for Joseph to go ahead of them as he will say to preserve life. And Judah said unto his brother and what profit is it if we slay our brother and conceal his blood.

Come let us sell him to the Ishmaelites and let not our hand be on him for he is our brother and our flesh. And his brethren were content. They said that's a great idea. And then they're past the Midianites merchantmen.

And they drew and lifted Joseph out of the pit and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. And they brought Joseph into Egypt and Reuben returned. Evidently he wasn't there when they sold Joseph.

Reuben returned under the pit. Behold Joseph was not in the pit and he tore his clothes and he returned unto his brethren and said the child is not. And I wither shall I go. I'm the oldest. Now it's going to come on me.

What has happened to him. And they took Joseph's coat then and they killed a kid of the goats and dip the coat in the blood. And they sent the coat of many colors. And they brought it to their father and said this have we found no.

Now whether it be thy son's coat or not. And he knew it and said it is my son's coat. And evil beast have devoured him. Now an evil beast had devoured him. It's called envy. It's called jealousy as an evil be.

Certainly that had devoured him. You know it's interesting as you read in Galatians the works of the flesh adultery fornication lasciviousness of worth. When it comes to the next group it begins with envy and then goes to murder.

And it puts envy in the same grouping as murder. I think how often envy is is where murder begins and is certainly it is an evil beast. The interesting thing of course is many years before this Jacob had put the the skin of a goat upon his hands and deceived his father Isaac in his old age.

And now the blood of a goat is brought to him upon the the coat of Joseph and he is being deceived. It's coming back is reaping in a in a way what he has sewn. The deception is coming his way. All the the apples haven't fallen far from the tree.

The sons are little chips off. The old Jacob said this is his coat and evil beast has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces. And Jacob tore his clothes and put sackcloth upon his loins.

And he mourned for his son many days. And all of his sons and daughters now evidently had more daughters than Dinah because it's plural here and she we had read about her earlier but it's plural. All the sons and daughters rose up to comfort him but he refused to be comforted.

And he said for I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept over him. He lost the Deborah Rachel whom he loved. Now Joseph and I'm sure the older brothers have many discussions.

I can't believe that's Karen. I feel lousy as we know we shouldn't have done this. And Ruben said I told you I wasn't there but I've been there. What happened. And Joseph saying I'm glad I told you guys not to kill him.

At least he's alive somewhere you know you can imagine what they're doing. And verse 36 says the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar an officer of Pharaoh's and captain of the guard. It seems that he was the head of the executioners.

Judah’s Compromise and the Messianic Line

Now chapter 38 is a strange chapter will go through it. It is stuck in here. Chapter 37 at the end of the book really gives us the history of Joseph and brings us down to Egypt and we see God preparing the way to bring Jacob and his sons down there 75 souls I think it will say and then turn them into a great nation.

But we've the camera flips back to the brothers up in Canaan and we have this one snapshot of what's going on there and I believe it's because it is a picture of Judah and the Messianic line. And and and then we will go in the next chapter back down to Egypt will be there for many chapters with Joseph.

So this is kind of a a strange chapter just slipped in here is the only insight we have into what's happening back at home base. Really. And it says it came to pass at that time that Judah went down from his brethren and turned in to a certain a dual might whose name was higher and Judah saw their daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was sure and he took her and he went into her and she conceived and bear a son and he called his name her and she conceived again embarrass on and now she's the one naming the second time she called his name on and she yet again conceived and bear a son and called his name Shayla and he was a chesed when she bore him.

Now it just gives the here's Judah separating himself from his brother. Maybe he is convicted. You know he is the one who said let's sell them to these media nights let's do this. And Judah gets away from dad who's mourning and brokenhearted from his brethren and he heads down to one of his Canaanite friends.

And no doubt as he takes this Canaanite woman he's also taking her way of life. He's taking her gods along with her. There are things here that do not lend themselves to the kind of separation will see in the next chapter.

Here it says Judah himself went down into the Canaanite territory. The next chapter says Joseph against his will was brought down to Egypt. And there's a contrast certainly between these two men. It says Judah took a wife for her.

His firstborn son were six whose name was Tamar. Now she shows up in the genealogy of Jesus in Matthew chapter one she's a Canaanite and her Judas firstborn was wicked in the sight of the Lord. So the Lord slew him and handles that problem.

We're not sure what's going on. He he evidently has learned some of the attitudes of his uncle's who seem to be scoundrels. His mother is a Canaanite. It seems by the harshness of the verse doesn't say just the Lord slew him.

It seems the Lord is passive it seems allows him to die. You know God sustains our lives as Daniel is brought into the feast in the southern palace in Babylon as an old man. And Belshazzar is there in the handwritings on the wall as Daniel interprets that he said you have not given glory to the God and whose hand your breath is.

And Daniel says our very next breath is in the hand of God. He keeps our heart beating. He keeps our breath going. He has taken those again. Bodily functions of those are involuntary muscles. You know certain muscles are voluntary.

You can put your hands your mouth certain things you can do. Thank God we don't have to remember to breathe. Thank God we don't have to remember for our heart to beat. Since we turn our favorite TV show we die you know.

Or get caught in traffic and forget about your heart and yelling at the guy. You know I mean thank God they're involuntary muscles. And it says our very next breath is in his hand. So what it says here is the Lord allowed him to die just simply allowed her to die.

No doubt he was involved with idolatrous practice and he was wicked in the sight of the Lord. And Judah then says to own in the second son go in unto thy brother's wife and marry her and raise up seed unto thy brother knows the first mention of this practice.

It is recorded in ancient inscriptions from her of the Caldes and different parts of the world. We call it from the book of Leviticus the lever right marriage where if a brother would die without having children the next brother in line would bear the responsibility to go into his wife so that she would conceive and then bear seed which would be considered his older brother that that had died.

We call it the the lever which is from the Latin which means a husband. It's a Latin word for husband's brother. That's why we called a lever right marriage now evidently before it's written in the law it's it's known and it has particular meaning here because God had made the promises to Abraham that through his seed all of the nations of the world we blessed that there was a messianic promise made.

And though now this is mingled with the Canaanites still there is some sense in Judah that your brother has died. Our family has this legacy go into your brother's wife and raise up seed to thy brother and own in knew that the seed should not be his and it came to pass when he went in unto his brother's wife that he spilled it on the ground his seed lest that he should give seed to his brother and the thing which he did displease the Lord wherefore he slew him also so as he went into his brother's wife he allowed his seed to spill on the ground and instead of allowing his brother's wife to conceive and God saw that as an evil thing and he slew him.

Now it's not talking about masturbation oftentimes that is pointed out here in this chapter is here and we'll deal with this. He was the tenses here is whenever he went into his brother's wife. So there's a continual process here that's implicated in the in the grammar.

And evidently what was happening as he was going into this woman for pleasure for sexual pleasure but he was despising this idea of the birthright because he knew that if she conceived that the son would not be his and the inheritance would go to his brothers older brothers wives children that though they were his it wouldn't be his inheritance and and there's there's also part of their spiritual legacy attached to this.

So he's despising the birthright as he saw he is going into his brother's wife for pleasure on a continual basis. We don't know how long it went on and every time he spills a seat on the ground instead of allowing her to conceive and in that God again saw the wickedness in his heart and considered it evil and again allowed him to die.

Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter-in-law remain a widow at my father's house till Sheila my son be grown. Evidently he is a good bit younger for he said lest her adventure he die also now Judah suspicious I don't know every time one of my son's marries this woman they end up dead.

And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house so that. But now she is still promised now that Sheila the last son and in the process of time the daughter of Shua Judah's wife died and Judah was comforted and went up onto his sheep shears and Timnath he and his friend Hira the Adulamite.

And it was told Tamar saying behold thy father-in-law goeth up to Timnath to shear his sheep and she put off her widow's garments from offer and covered her with a veil and wrapped herself and sat in an open place which is by the way to Timnath for she saw that Sheila was grown and she was not given.

She was not given unto him to wife. So time goes by. Judah is not keeping his word to give this last son to her. He now has gone up the Timnath. The years have gone by. It's told her what's happened and she's realizing well Sheila's grown and Judah's not even in.

You know he's leaving the area here I am waiting. He hasn't kept his word. So she goes and she puts on the the clothing of a harlot. She puts on the veil that the temple prostitute would wear the Canaanite temple prostitute.

She disguises herself as a prostitute and she sits by the side of the road. She's a Canaanite. It's what she understands. And she sits by the side of the road in an open place on the way the Timnath for she saw that Sheila was grown and she was not given to him to be her wife.

When Judah saw her he thought her to be a harlot because she had covered her face and he turned in under her by the way and said go to I pray thee let me come in unto thee. For he knew not he knew not that she was his daughter-in-law.

And she said well what will you give me that thou mayest come into me know there's no coinage in that day. So she's a to playing the role the prostitute he says are you open for business. She says yes.

He says what's your price. And she said well what you will you give me. He said well I will send the kid from my flock. And she said well what will you give me as a pledge. Until you said what do you give me in the meantime so that I I know I'm not going to get ripped off.

And he said what pledge shall I give thee. And she said well give me your signet and your which is the seal. The family give me your bracelets and I staff that is in my hand. And he gave it to her and came in under her and she conceived by him.

Now you can see there's a lot of swindlers in this family. There's a lot of this is a this is some family. And she arose and went away and laid by her veil from her and put on the garments of her widowhood again.

And Judas sent the kid by the hand of his friend the Adulamite. He said hey Ira do me a favor go find this prostitute. Give her this kid from the flock and get back my signet ring and my bracelets my staff.

So he sent by the friend of the is a friend the Adulamite to receive his pledge from the woman's hand. But Ira found her not. Then he asked the men of that place saying where is the harlot. That was openly by the wayside.

And they said there's no harlot in this place. We know the harlots in there. There is no harlot that sits in this place. And he returned to Judah and said I cannot find her. And also the men of that place said that there was no harlot in this place.

And Judah said well let her take it to her then lest we be ashamed. Behold I sent this kid. You haven't found her. He said okay let it die. She's got my signet. She's got my bracelets and she has my staff.

She's we can't find her. I don't want to make a big deal out of it. I want a disgrace to come on the family. Let's just let it quietly slip away. God never lets his kids get away with that kind of thing.

And it came to pass about three months after that that it was told Judah saying you know Tamar your daughter-in-law hath played the harlot and also behold she is with child by whoredom. And Judah said bring her forth and let her be burned.

You know this is ultimate male chauvinism. You know he's out running around but his daughter-in-law is pregnant set her on fire. You know our sins look so much worse on someone else. Don't they. Because we understand why we do them and we have all our excuses.

But when someone else doesn't they just look terrible. You know it reminds me of course of the story of David. David had taken Bathsheba and got her pregnant and tried to cover it up in the same way that we never God's kids never get away with that kind of thing.

And about a year later Nathan the prophet comes and says David let me tell you a story. There was a man here Jerusalem had one little lamb that he loved like his own children. He loved this land is a wealthy man in the area had many lambs and a traveler came.

Now we know the traveler is this is by Nathan the prophet. God says to Satan in the beginning of Job have you seen my servant Job. As you're traveling to and fro throughout the earth. Nathan says the traveler came and David was tempted and sinned and took Bathsheba.

Nathan says to David and when the traveler came he sent and fetched that one lamb that this poor man had to himself and slaughtered it and offered it up and broke the heart of this man. And David says where is that guy.

Let him be killed. Put that guy to death you know. And Nathan pointed his finger and said David you're the man. And now here Judah you know same family same lineage. My daughter-in-law is pregnant. Bring her out and burn her.

And when she was brought forth she sent to her father-in-law saying by the man who these are am I with child. And she said discern or see if you can figure out who's are these. This signet and this bracelet and the staff Judah see if you can put the pieces together.

And Judah acknowledged them and he said she has been more righteous than I because that I gave her not to Sheila my son and he knew her again. No more. Now we're tracing here the Messianic line. It is remarkable in Matthew chapter one as we're given the genealogy of Jesus Christ.

First of all normally a woman was never included in the genealogy. There are four women there. Tamar who is a Canaanite gets pregnant by her father-in-law Rahab who was a harlot Ruth who was a Moabite and Bathsheba who evidently was a Hittite from the Hittite family.

All of them through circumstances that you would not want on your record if you were going to be the Messiah. But he came to be amongst sinners to take his place with us to save us. And his grace was there all along.

And here in this strange chapter plugged in here in the story of this remarkable man Joseph with a very sterling character one of the most remarkable men in all of Scripture. We take this side trip to look at Judah who is troubled and compromising and yet the father of the Messiah.

And how remarkable that God never had. He doesn't hide the sins of his people. He's not ashamed. Tamar now bears these children came to pass in the time of her travail that behold twins were in her womb and it came to pass that she traveled that the one put out his hand and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread saying this one came out first.

Now you know this is hard labor. You have twins and the first one sticks his arm out first. You're in hard labor because that's worse than breach. You know the first ones reaching out this way and there's another one behind him pushing so the midwife sees the arm come out ties a thread on his finger and evidently he pulls back in.

Then came to pass as he drew back his hand that behold his brother came out. So his brother knocked him out of the way and she said. The midwife she laughed said how has broken for you. I can't believe you little guy that you did this and you broken forth this breach be upon the.

Therefore his name is called Paris and he is the one through whom the lineage of the Messiah comes. Paris which means breach because he kicked his brother out of the way and got out before he did. And afterward came out his brother that had the scarlet thread upon his hand and his name is called Zara.

Now it's interesting because of the very thing that Judah hoped to avoid was this younger brother Joseph becoming the heir of the inheritor of the family rights. And they sold him they were envious of him.

And yet here in his own lineage the very same thing happens. The older one you know the one that's coming out first puts his hand out draws it back in. The younger one then is born first and the elder ends up serving the younger and the younger ends up being the one through whom the Messianic line comes.

So God kind of giving us this strange picture of things back on the home front. Now we come back to Egypt. Here in chapter 39 the Joseph was brought down to Egypt and Potiphar an officer of Pharaoh captain of the guard and Egyptian bought him of the hands of the Israelites which had brought him down there.

Joseph’s Faithfulness in Potiphar’s House

Now we're not given the details. Evidently Joseph is put on the auction block. What a humiliating circumstance if you can try to imagine that. And people are bidding on him strong legs and teeth you know they're bidding on him on the auction block and he's bought as a slave by Potiphar the captain of the guard and an officer of Pharaoh and brought back to Potiphar's house.

Now verses 2 through 6 kind of set Joseph up in Egypt and give us a picture of God's faithfulness and his faithfulness in the house of Potiphar. That then brings us around to his temptation. And then his imprisonment were following him on the way to the throne next to Pharaoh.

Some it says the Lord was with him and he was a prosperous man. This is Joseph and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian and his master saw that the Lord was with him and that the Lord made all that he did to prosper in his hand.

And Joseph found grace in the site site of Potiphar and he served him and he made him overseer of his house. And of all that he had he put into his hand. They came to pass from that time that he had made him overseer of his house and over all that he had that the Lord blessed the Egyptians house for Joseph's sake.

And the blessing of the Lord notice was upon all that he had in his house and also in the field. So it's interesting. Here is Joseph brought down to Egypt. Evidently he takes inventory. He looks around.

He says alright Lord you gave me this dream all that I didn't have a copy of the New Testament of a copy of the Old Testament didn't have church to go to the fellowship of the Saints. 17 years old alone in Egypt.

What an important role you as grandparents and parents play in the lives of your children. Jacob had been a scoundrel for so much of his life. And yet even in his old age as Israel with when when his spirit was finally broken before God he had such a powerful influence in the life of this young man.

Here he now comes down to Egypt. He is sold on the auction block. He's brought into the house of pot of earth. In the Bible says whatsoever thou doest do it under the Lord with all of your might wherever you are to serve the Lord.

And we're going to see as we follow Joseph along. He's not the servant of Potiphar. He's the servant of the Lord. He's not the prisoner or the slave of Potiphar. He's the slave of the Lord. You know Paul says as he writes some of his epistles Paul and Timothy bond slaves of Jesus Christ do laws.

Which is not a servant as a slave as someone who has no rights. And Paul viewed himself that way as bought with a price. His life was not his own. And somehow remarkably this young man has that perspective.

And by the way most of the time when we are Joseph talk about the Lord. He uses the title God. He knows the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob. He knows about God never appears to Joseph. God doesn't appear that we have record of from Jacob.

He appeared to Jacob. We don't have God appearing to someone again until he appears to Moses at the burning bush. So here is Joseph a young man without some of the advantages that we have. He doesn't have an Old Testament.

He doesn't have a New Testament. He doesn't have the fellowship of the Saints. He has a dream. He has something that God has placed within his heart a heavenly vision. And he's there in Egypt. And God gives him no supernatural appearance.

And yet he's committed his life to the Lord. And yet in the middle of those circumstances he gives himself to the Lord in such a way as he decides I'm gonna be a good steward over the things that belong to part of her because what God would want me to do.

It's the same thing God wants us to do where we work no matter what our boss is like you know he treats us like a slave. Because you know what they'll see about you. They make note that the Lord is with you.