Roche Coleman Ministries: The Infusion Broadcast

Roche Coleman: He challenges us and he reminds us that he is still God and there is no other. Now I challenge you today. What's God saying in your mind? What's he speaking to you? What is he drawing you to and from? How does God want to soften and move your heart? How does God want to remind you that he is present in what you're going through?

We looked at it last week, Isaiah, be still. He wanted us to be still. He wanted us to recognize thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee. You and I can't run from our mind. It's there with us, constant companion. And God wants our mind to be on him.

It's my desire that your mind would be on the Lord and you don't allow hatred, you don't allow jealousy and envy to creep in when you have a helper, an indispensable companion like the Lord who is there to assist you in whatever season of life you find yourself.

Guest (Male): Thank you for tuning in today to join us on the Infusion Broadcast with Roche Coleman Ministries. We all have people in our lives who we find difficult to relate to or those who we really cannot get along with. We carry our pain and hurt, and yet we see God blessing them.

Why is that, we wonder? Well, it's because God works with human nature. Our current series is titled God: A Present Help, and today Dr. Coleman brings part two of the message God Works with Imperfect Vessels.

Roche Coleman: And the Bible says Isaac loved Esau. He loved him. He liked him. That's my boy. He knew the scent of him, how he smelled like outdoors, he'd been working. He might have put on cologne, maybe not.

But then the Bible says Rebecca loved Jacob. Jacob cooked and he had on nice linen slacks all the time and smelled good, manicured, and she loved that about him. But Isaac said, "I like that old rustic Esau." And it created a tension in the family. Stay with me. It created tension.

Because they divided their loyalties and it divided those boys, and it created a problem in the family. Watch this. And now we see Jacob repeating the sins of the father. He has his children and he loves Joseph more than he loves the other ten.

This is not generational curse. I hear people saying that all the time. "Oh, this is generational curse." It's not generational curses, it's generational choices. And the problem is that Jacob refused to make the choice to love those boys that he has conceived and love them with the love of God.

It's difficult, but nevertheless, there must be a love for all the children, even those who are wayward children, even those who cost us more money and more havoc, we still have to love them in the name of Jesus. Help me, Holy Ghost.

And it created a tension. This love is going to create a rift in this family. And I want to let you know that there are many people sitting in here right now, many of you watching on live stream, and there's strife in your family right now because of the family tension.

Point number two, we have the love of the father in one, but point number two, we have the hatred of the brothers. These brothers can see the love that Jacob has for Joseph, and it creates problems because the people that we love, it is hard to hide the love that we have.

I like what the text says here because it explains that to us. And part of this love is challenged because of what the older brothers do. The Bible lets us know they're out in verse two. They are with the flocks. Jacob sent Joseph to go out to those brothers.

And when he goes out there, he sees something that's going on that's not quite right. He comes back home and he tells Jacob, the father, "Dad, let me tell you what they out there doing." Remember, the text lets us know he's at 17 years of age. He's a child. He's young, but he doesn't realize that he should have kept his mouth shut.

And those of us who grew up in larger families understand. There's a rule that's not written but known, and you better keep your mouth shut because Mom and Dad won't always be here to protect you. Joseph had not understood the unwritten rule of the family.

He tells Dad and gives this bad report, verse two. And the Bible is going to let us know that those brothers never forgot that. And to add to the situation, in verse three, because of Jacob's love for Joseph, he makes him a coat of distinction, this very multicolored tunic.

And this was a symbol, an outward expression of the different love, of the dichotomy that would exist between these brothers in this family. And it caused a rift between the brothers. Verse four lets us know the brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and so they hated him. And that hatred manifested itself in the inability to speak kind words to their brother.

You want to know if you hate somebody? How do you speak to them? How's your exchange? Is it, "Hey, how you doing? Really nice to see you," or is it, "Hey, what's up?" You keep it moving. Don't really tarry too long here because I don't really like you anyway and you know I don't like you. But I'm speaking because I have to be professional and courteous, and I am a Christian. Here it is. They hated him.

Saints, I want to tell you something. Hatred, anger is dangerous. It is dangerous, and you have to be very careful how you live your life that you don't allow hatred to metastasize because it will in your entire body and it will create this inner beast within that will destroy you from within to without. And that's what happens to these brothers.

I want you to see this now. It's incredible as you look at it. Joseph is a young man, and when you're young, you don't know what you don't know. Joseph has a dream. The Bible says that he has this dream. After he has this dream, he goes and he tells his brothers, and the Bible says, verse five, they hated him even more after the dream.

He's wearing this multicolored tunic, believed to be without sleeves, and it was very distinctive and symbolized the dichotomy between him and his other brothers. Now he has a dream, and he doesn't understand because he's a child, he's young, that you cannot reveal sometimes the things that you might know to others, that some things you need to retain, keep to yourself, and remain silent.

But Joseph reveals the dream to his brothers and they hate him for the dream. Joseph had not been to the school of being able to read body language and understand certain gestures to grasp that these guys are not for you, Joseph. They hate you to the core.

As you're prancing around in your nice colored jacket, the favorite sitting up in here while we're working, we don't like you, and when we get a chance, we're going to deal with you. And you've got to understand, these guys were some surly guys. If that were not enough, he had a second dream. After the second dream, he goes back and he tells them the dream.

Oh, my goodness. Why does he tell them the second dream? It was because of one thing: he's youthful, young, and he does not understand what is going on. I want to say something to you young kids in here that's 25 and under, young kids, also those of you viewing me online.

Listen to me. I want to say this in the most compassionate and gracious way I can, and I don't mean this in a pejorative sense. But I want you to hear me. Listen to me. I'm going to use a word that's going to sound bad, but it's not bad. It's a healthy word.

You're foolish. You're foolish because you don't understand the danger of this world that you live in. You don't understand that there are people who will sit down with you and eat lunch with you. They will ride with you or you ride with them, and all the time they are plotting to try to rape, to try to rob, to try to kill you and try to put you in an adverse situation.

You think they're your friend and you don't have the discernment to understand that this is a wicked and a violent world that we live in. And I'm going to tell you something. You don't get it. There are people who are engaging with you on social media and you think that they're your friend.

They are preying, P-R-E-Y, on you, and you don't understand it. Joseph in his youthfulness, he doesn't understand what is going on. So he reveals the dream to them. And when he reveals the dream to his brothers, the Bible lets us know not only they hate him even more, they are jealous of him.

They're angry and they're jealous. Jealousy is this monster and jealousy will take control and jealousy compels us to do things that we thought we would never do. There are many siblings in here right now, many of you have siblings that are jealous of you.

Some of you online right now, you might have a sibling that is jealous of you, or you are jealous of one of your siblings. And it has created a rift, created a rift and tension in your family. And no matter how kind you try to be to those siblings and how gracious you try to be, there's a hatred, there's a disdain, and you know it.

And you understand how to tread around it. But I want to let you know that the same God who loves you loves your sibling. He does. And that's what's going on here with these brothers who are angry with Joseph. And that's point three. I want you to understand the jealousy of the brothers.

Just jealousy comes because they see the dichotomy. But Joseph doesn't grasp how much danger he's in. You see, Joseph doesn't understand that these are straight killers that he's dealing with. Pastor, what are you saying? Let me explain it to you.

You have to go back and look in Genesis. And what you will see is that there was an occasion where their sister was raped. Dinah was out in the fields and Hamor's son Shechem saw Dinah and he wanted her. He rapes her, which is a horrible crime.

After he rapes her, he comes to their home and he tells Jacob, "Hey, I want to marry your daughter." Hamor, the father of Shechem, Shechem who's raped Dinah, they all come. He says he wants to marry, his heart is with her.

And so Jacob hears what has happened, Dinah has been raped, and Jacob, the Bible says, he's silent as the grave. The brothers are out in the field and they come to the house, and they're like, "What's going on?" They say, "What? He raped our sister Dinah?"

Bilhah is the mother of Dinah, and she's also the mother of Simeon, Levi, and Judah. And so Simeon and Levi said, "This is not right." Jacob is silent, he won't do anything. Simeon and Levi said, "We got it. It's cool. It's cool." They approach Shechem and say, "You want to marry our sister? Fine, we'll let you marry her.

We'll marry your women too. But here's the deal: y'all got to get circumcised." Circumcision is a painful surgery if you're young, but if you're old, it is debilitating. So he said all the men in the city have to be circumcised.

They all get circumcised, and after three days when they laid up sore and they can't move for the circumcision, Simeon and Levi take their swords and they kill every man in the city. And they take all the women, the children, the wealth, the cattle, and they take it for themselves.

And Jacob gets mad. "You're going to make me an odor in this land." They said, "Well, he shouldn't have dealt with our sister like that and defiled her." These ten brothers are killers. You all don't understand. These dudes don't mind mixing it up.

They love a good fight. They don't care. And Joseph is oblivious to it in his youth, and these guys now hate Joseph. Do you see the picture? Joseph is revealing dreams and talking about all this greatness. "You guys are going to bow down, I'm going to be your leader." And they say, "Heh, there's going to be some bowing down up in this camp."

Joseph is oblivious of what's going right before him, and he doesn't understand how deadly and dangerous anger can be. A man had flown from Las Vegas to Detroit for a birthday celebration, true story. He went to celebrate the birthday of his mother. And so when he finished, he got his flight and he flew back to Las Vegas to his home.

His wife was supposed to be there to pick him up from the airport, and he just knew she'll be there. And so she was not. So he calls his wife. He says, "Hey, baby, I'm here." She doesn't show up. He calls again. She still doesn't show up. So he's waiting.

So he decides to take an Uber home. He Ubers home and he is mad, ticked to the highest level. He gets home, she's there in the bed. He's so mad. He says she's sleep. He says, "I'm just not going to bother her. I'm not going to even worry with it."

He gets in the bed, he puts a pillow between them, and he lays there and goes to sleep. The next morning he wakes up, still angry. He reaches over and realizes she's dead. She was dead when he got in the bed. She was dead all night and his anger had blinded him so much so that he refused to realize that death was right there next to him, a cold, lifeless corpse, because the anger, the hatred, a feeling being wronged, this infraction had created a literal division between him and her.

Hatred is dangerous. It's so dangerous it's going to lead these brothers to the point where they say, "We're going to kill our own brother." Saints, I want to tell you something. Even in the context of enemies, opposition, feeling abandoned and alone, God is still with you. He's still with you.

There's some of you right now, you walked in, you're angry, you walked in here ticked. It's all on your face. It's amazing what you can see from four feet up. Body expressions, it's hard to get it off the face. But you can see like, man, they had a rough night.

Somebody wasn't in the car when they got ready to come to church this morning. You can't hide it. Our body language reveals more than we think. But a young Joseph cannot decipher because of his foolish, youthful, unwise state. He doesn't see what's going on.

But it's this jealousy is going to lead to a whole set of problems in the lives of this boy as well as his brothers. One of the things I want you to see as we come to a close, want you to see this: God is extending his help and grace to Jacob, to Joseph, but also to the brothers.

Think with me and stay with me. These brothers who are hating their brother, I mean have a jealousy toward their brother, they also have to deal with their inner being, their inner man. And when they go to their beds at nighttime to go to sleep, I want to let you know that those brothers also have to deal with the invisible hand of God that is moving in their mind.

The one thing none of us will ever be able to escape, we'll never escape God's hand that moves in the mind, especially in those moments of quietness and still. God has designed sleep as the place and the moment where he can speak to our minds at a different level.

God has given the nighttime when we are to cease from our activity where he will move in your inner being in the mind. And God will whisper, he will speak, and he challenges us and he reminds us that he is still God and there is no other. Now I challenge you today. What's God saying in your mind? What's he speaking to you?

What is he drawing you to and from? How does God want to soften and move your heart? How does God want to remind you that he is present in what you're going through? We looked at it last week, Isaiah, be still. He wanted us to be still.

He wanted us to recognize thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee. You and I can't run from our mind. It's there with us, constant companion. And God wants our mind to be on him.

It's my desire that your mind would be on the Lord and you don't allow hatred, you don't allow jealousy and envy to creep in when you have a helper, an indispensable companion like the Lord who is there to assist you in whatever season of life you find yourself. If you believe that give the Lord a handclap of praise.

Guest (Male): Our impact fact for today is this: although invisible and nonverbal, God is present and moving in every situation. Don't miss that. You see, so often we're searching for that solution in so many areas and trying to find it, and what we don't realize is that the solution is only found in our God.

God has given the answers and we try to find them everywhere except in his word, but that is where they reside. Get in the word of God. Let's pray, let's meditate on the word of God. And our bodies, our mind resist that.

Why does it resist? Because the enemy understands that when we get in the word of God and we stay in it, that we'll have a new level of peace and a level of understanding that this world can never give us. And so my prayer is for you: whatever season you're in, whatever you're going through, remember, God is your present help and he'll help you in your times of trouble.

Roche Coleman: Let's pray. Father, we thank you, we love you, we give you praise and we give you glory. Lord, I ask that you be with us today. Touch the sheep of your pasture and let them know that Lord, you are with them. We thank you, we love you, we ask in Jesus' name, amen.

Guest (Male): Amen. God extends his grace to Jacob's entire family in spite of the obvious and blatant dysfunctions in their home. Friends, there's hope for our families. Before we ask God to change those around us, I hope we can all be personally certain about our relationship with Jesus Christ.

If you've never accepted him as your savior and Lord of your life, or have doubts about your salvation, we encourage you to make certain of that today. Please write to us at info@rochecolemanministries.org or if you'd like to speak to us, our number is 346-386-4621.

And after you do so, I hope you'll find a local church to attend. If you're in the Houston or surrounding areas, please stop by the Impact Church of the Woodlands where Dr. Coleman serves as the senior pastor. The worship times on Sundays are at 8:00 and 10:45, and the church is located at 5401 Shadowbend Place, The Woodlands, Texas, 77381.

In closing, our impact thought for today is: although invisible and nonverbal, God is moving in every situation. Yes, each of our situations, and he is a very present help in time of our need. Let's ask him to help us through the situations unique to us. God bless you.