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I'm so glad he was on the scene and the trustee board is most elated that he's applauded by the governor. And you know at this time of the year we would always do something for the president. And so every day we want to sort of anniversarize Dr. MacDowd. You know You know what that means, don't you?

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Anaphysiology. You know what anaphysiology means. All right, well, the anaphysiolization of Dr. McDaniel is what we want to do today. Now, there will be persons available to give you one of these envelopes,

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and you can put your gift for God to make better. Here comes a director of the institute who has done a magnificent job with some oil. But you get one of these, and what's going around is coming around. So if you have honored somebody who is a leader, when your honor day comes, you'll need it again.

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And so let us not be reluctant to give generously and to give with a sensitivity of the significance of Dr. McDaniel for this moment in the history of this institution. We can do that, can't we, brother? We will do that, won't we? All right. Now, right after this morning worship, please remain, all pastors, all preachers, all delegates to this Institute. We are fortunate to have Dr. Jimson. Dr. Jimson, we know him, don't we? One of the giant figures of our time.

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as the newest member of the trustee board of Bishop College. I think we ought to say amen for Dr. Jensen. Our board will be enhanced and enriched by the presence of this man and this man. He is the correspondent secretary of our National Baptist Convention.

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He's the pastor of the tremendously great Manzion Baptist Church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He is as loved in Louisiana as the Loyola family. So he's, you know yourself now. So Dr. Jefferson is coming at this moment and make a statement in the interest of this college.

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Dr. Jefferson, come on. Thank you very much, Dr. Scott. Presider, members of the clergy, and our assisters who have come today to this great institution, I will be brief.

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My friend, Brother Scott, has said to you that I'm perhaps the newest member of the Board of Trustees of Bishop College. I cherish the position and I am honored that the men of the board have granted me this privilege to be a part of the Board of Trustees of Bishop College. Now I am not amazed at the plight, the

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financial plight of Bishop College because I am the product of a school similar to Bishop in Selma, Alabama. I finished Selma University High School some years ago, and that school was always struggling, trying to keep the doors open. But my brethren and my sisters, I believe wholeheartedly that the time has come and is

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far spent that we as Baptists in this nation would keep on letting a school like Bishop College drag along because we don't support it. Say amen. I said to the board as a new member, Neophyte, that we've got to do some things that we have not done.

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Now I love everybody. I love white people just like I do black people. I have passed the point of color in my religion. I can accept every man for what he is.

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I do not see people as it relates to their color. In other words, I'm trying to say to you that I've reached a pinnacle in my own Christian life. Now, I believe that it's wonderful that we've had our distinguished white brethren,

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and we can't get along without them any more than they can get along without us. We need each other. But I think perhaps as we sit in these chapels and in these buildings across this campus, We must not be satisfied to sit in this Collins Chapel and not do our part.

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Amen. There are enough Baptist preachers in here right now to underwrite Bishop College's budget. Right now. If we would decide to do it.

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I don't believe in begging. God fixed it where I didn't have to be. But God has also fixed it that we must do something for ourselves. Now don't look at me as a National Baptist because God is not paying any attention to what convention you belong to.

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I just happen to be National Baptist because I was born in a National Baptist home. But I am, first of all, a child of God. And my convention affiliation has nothing to do with my relationship with you. I am your brother.

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And I believe and I firmly understand God that He wants us to do something now rather than to keep on begging Him and worrying Him to death. Now, I'm not going to take a lot of time, but brother, let me tell you something. If we would just take a thousand dollars for our anniversaries, we could keep this school

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of begging and going around with these students here who are the part of our civilization and our society right now in believing that we are on a higher. We've been hearing sermons all our lives. We've been preaching all of our lives.

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It's time to do something with our religion. I said to the board that I'm gonna send a check for $2,500 from our church when I get back home. And I'm gonna give to the school right now $1,000.

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And I believe, I don't have to hold out on you, don't get that in your head, I'm a struggling Baptist preacher, but I know when I die, my wife is not going to put anything in my shroud. I can't take it with me. And all that I have belongs to God.

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And my brethren, don't say Jimmerson is trying to campaign for anything, because I'm not. Because I subscribe to the fact that what God has for you, no man can keep it from you. And if God has something for Jimmerson on his agenda, it will come off. And if God does not have it on his program,

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no matter what I do with your brethren, I won't get it. And some of you National Baptists know what I'm talking about. I'm up here because I love Negro people.

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And I didn't just start loving them when I got on the Board of Trustees. Pardon the personal reference. I led the first bus boycott for black people in the South.

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Martin Luther King came to Baton Rouge and got the know-how from me. There are a few people scattered around who know this. Read his book, "Strive Toward Freedom," and he'll tell you in the index where he got his blueprint from.

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I had five bodyguards in Baton Rouge to stay alive, paid for by the Negro people of Baton Rouge. I've had crosses burned on my lawn because I believed in us. I have been to jail because of us.

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So I'm not talking to you today because I just got on the board of trustees. I believe in Negro people. The same people I fought in Baton Rouge for years, two weeks ago, honored me as their most outstanding citizen by the National Conference of Christian Jews as the man who has done

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the most in human relations. [Applause] I'm the only minister, black or white, that has been invited to join the Chamber of Commerce in Baton Rouge. So don't think I'm a Johnny-come-lately. I'm saying to you this morning in the car

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at P. Collins Chapel that it's time for us as Baptist preachers to stop playing with with God. This is a day unlike any other day we've had in American history. People are worried about Reagan, President Reagan. Let me treat him with respect because he is my of President Reagan. But I'm not concerned about his cuts. I'm not concerned about what

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he's doing to us as a race or minorities, because there's enough work as preachers in this nation to feed every home and mouth in America. All we have to do is to do it and and stop being satisfied to ride in a big car and say I'm the pastor of this church and our people's heart.

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Schools like Bishop, schools like Bishop having to beg. Get out there and stand on the campus and look across and see all of the landscape of this building, all of this campus rather.

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given to us by our friends, and we don't have enough money and enough religion to keep them up. That's a terrible indictment! Now, Brother Scott is going to see to it that I'm going to get the names of every Baptist preacher here. Remember, I don't care what convention you belong to, because God's not going to ask us that when we get up there. He's not concerned about what convention you're in, and it's time for Baptists to stop having so many devilish conventions anyhow.

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If we would bring our conventions together, we could move mountains! We don't have to murder, but we can just come through and take it apart. That's all we need. You don't have to love me.

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Just respect me. And let's do this thing together. I know it's a lot of men in here that are going to give $1,000 just like me. I'm not going to ask you to stand, but I don't want you to lie.

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But I do want you to pray over it. I want you to pray over it sincerely, because there's nobody in the world who can make pledges like Negroes. We can pledge to the world and give nothing. We come up here year after year and hear these great preachers in the Minister's Institute

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go back home, don't think about Bishop until we call again. But Bishop needs to go on every day. I take my seat by saying, "My brethren, it's later than you think." We don't have much time to do what we're going to do.

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I have only just a minute, only 60 seconds in it. I didn't seek it. I didn't choose it. I must suffer if I abuse it.

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Just a tiny little minute, but eternity is in it. [APPLAUSE] We're glad to have Dr. Jimmerson on the Bishop College's board. Amen.

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[MUSIC - "THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER"] ♪ Gracious Lord ♪ ♪ No tender voice like Thine ♪ ♪ Can peace afford ♪

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♪ I need Thee, oh I need Thee ♪ ♪ Every hour I need Thee ♪ ♪ Oh, bless me now, my Savior ♪ ♪ I come to Thee ♪

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♪ I need Thee every hour, stay Thou nearby ♪ ♪ I need Thee every hour ♪ ♪ Stay Thou near ♪ The mutations lose their power.

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[Chorus singing] But now I'm nigh. [Chorus singing] [Chorus singing]

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[Chorus singing] I need thee. Oh, I need thee. Everywhere I need thee.

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Oh, bless me now, my Savior, I owe to Thee. The chorus again. I need Thee, oh, I need Thee. Every hour I need Thee, O let me now I say, God, I love Thee.

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Let me see that. [INAUDIBLE] [SILENCE] To the Honorable Interim President, Dr. Vernon McDaniel.

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To the Presiding Minister, Dr. Washington. To the Director of the 52nd Annual L.K. Williams Ministers Institute, Chairman of the Department of Religion, Dr. John D. Mangrum; to my beloved President of the Oklahoma Baptist State Convention, Dr. T. Oscar Chappell, Sr.; to this magnanimous

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gathering of great prophetic preachers from across the nation, the faculty, student body, We thank God for this unmerited privilege to share in this institute together. It is an awesome feeling to be caught in the squeeze between Dr. Miles Jones, who preached last night and Dr. E.P. Hill pending this evening. Somebody know what I'm talking about.

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But it's good to be here. And I'm thankful that I'm a part of this great movement. I'm thankful to God for the presence of my father, moderator of Northwestern District Association, Dr. Emil Bailey, and to my brother, who also pastors in the city of Tulsa, Dr.

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Melvin Lewis Bailey. I hope that you would consider with me three passages of Scripture. In the book of Genesis, the first chapter, the first verse, the fiftieth chapter and twentieth verse, last but not least, in the Gospel of John, the twelfth chapter, and the

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32nd verse. "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth, but as for you he fought evil against me, but God made it unto good to bring to pass as it is this day to save much people for life. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me."

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I hope that we would prayerfully consider for our subject these words, "When God Designs the Program." We all must admit directly or indirectly that there are several fundamental and foundational truths revealed in the book of Genesis that ought to be extrapolated, elaborated, and

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elucidated, that substantiates its perpetual and permanent value. Theology, the study of God. Cosmology, the study of the universe. Anthropology, the study of man. Sociology, the study of society.

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Heretology, the study of seeing. Ethnology, the study of races. And so, Tyriology, the study of salvation. Not, if you will, the study of God.

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As revealed in the book of Genesis, sets forth God in a threefold capacity. God as creator, king and redeemer. The study of the universe, according to Genesis, is that the universe or the cosmos is a product of the will of God.

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But William Barclay says that the existence of the world is evidence of the love of God, in that God is love. Love cannot exist by itself. If God is love, then there must be somebody to love. Therefore, the act of creation is of necessity by the very being of God,

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which triggers the will of God. For if God had been only power, light and robust, then there would be no universe. But the record declare that God so loved the world. The study of man in Genesis reveals how man is a mingling of dust and deity, dirt and divinity.

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The study of society set forth in Genesis projects the cycle of society as being the family of the home. For the strength of the nation is determined by the health of the family. The study of sin unfolded in Genesis is man's deliberate disobedience and rebellion against the will of God. Dr. Leslie B. Weatherhead describes the will of God as God's intentional will, God's circumstantial will, and God's ultimate will.

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The study of races reveals man's confederate efforts to prostitute the power of God for the forces of evil. The study of salvation, as revealed in Genesis, is that salvation comes from God to man. Therefore, if man is to be saved, then God must become the Redeemer, and the Word must

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become flesh. So long as you will that the book of Genesis discloses revelation, reason, relationship, and redemption. G. Campbell Martin said, "Investigation is a perfectly proper exercise of the human mind." Genesis reminds man that there are parts beyond which he is unable to go. This

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It manifests the need for an apocalypse, a need for a revelation. A revelation is not necessarily an impartation of some truth in the scheme of creation, but is often a disclosure and discovery of what God has already given. No wonder the word is footnoted, "Seek and ye shall find."

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The whole of the Christian religion stands or falls on the adequacy and the accuracy of the first chapter of Genesis, the first verse, and the first five words. In the beginning God created. There is nothing to hold anything together if Genesis 1 and 1 is not true. In the beginning God created.

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There can be no foundation for any eruption if Genesis 1 and 1 is not true. In the beginning God created. There can be no conclusion for any apprentice if Genesis 1-1 is not true.

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In the beginning God created. There can be no subsequent scriptures if Genesis 1-1 is not true. In the beginning God created.

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There can be no miracles if Genesis 1 and 1 is not true. In the beginning God created. There can be no God nor all if Genesis 1 and 1 is not true. In the beginning God created.

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There can be no heaven or earth If Genesis 1 and 1 is not true, there can be no right to conquer the gods. If Genesis 1 and 1 is not true, there can be no truth to set man free. If Genesis 1-1 is not true, there can be no Alpha or Omega.

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If Genesis 1-1 is not true, there can be no grace for justification, grace for sanctification, I'm raised for commodification. If Genesis 1-1 is not true, Genesis presents a divisional trichotomy.

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Generation, degeneration, and regeneration. Generation projects the stars of life on his desk. Degeneration projects the stars of life at its worst. But regeneration projects the stars of life born again.

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The star, through its exalted propensity. The book of Genesis pleases the life of Jones the bomber, the most prophetic means of the will of God. To reveal what happens when God designs the program. When God designs the program, prominence ensures the plan.

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That is the difference between earthly insurance coverage and God's providential power. For we understand that insurance compensates, but providence controls. Insurance can only approach, but providence prepares. The insurance is subjective.

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The providence is solemn. The insurance is silent or timely. The providence is infinite and timeless. The insurance is earthbound.

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But providence is both earthly and heavenly. The insurance is temporary, but providence is eternal. The insurance is conditional, but providence is unconditional. The insurance deals with facts and figures, but Providence deals with faith and the future.

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The land of Providence can be deviated circumstantially, but not ultimately. Let me put a footnote here. This is one reason God designed the church and the college and established it in the world. For it suggests that somebody has deviated from the will of God. The church school is a character witness that somebody has deviated from the will of God.

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night service and family, or charity witnesses that somebody has deviated from the will of God. The atrocities in a grammage of it are indictments that somebody has deviated from the will of God. Regenomics is an indictment in that it places the opera upon the pinnacle of prosperity and puts the poor on the auction block for a 10% discount.

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Somebody has deviated from the will of God. There are more young people working in ballrooms than enrolled in colleges in the United States. Some of them have deviated from the will of God. More than 100,000 young women become voters annually.

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and the statistics on the American general are not yet in. It is an indictment that somebody has deviated from the will of God. This nation harbors three times as many criminals as students enrolled in institutions of higher education. It is an indictment that somebody has deviated from the will of God.

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The incline in crime is an indictment. An aggravated rape every hour. An aggravated assault every hour. Murder every 40 minutes. That is an average of five suicides daily.

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A birthday occurs every 22 seconds. I tell you, it is an enlightenment. Somebody has deviated from the will of God. The dreams of Joseph were glimpses of the providence of God.

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You know, my brothers and sisters, if you're close enough to God, God will show you what you need to know. If you're close enough. Sometimes a handshake will tell the story.

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So note that when God designs the program, Providence not only ensures the plan, but when God designs the program, the past, the present,

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and the future are one. History does not apply to God. God needs no baggage. God does not have to operate by calendar.

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There are no weeks, months, years, decades, scrolls, curations, centuries, eras, millenniums. Only the year of now. The past, present, and future are just now with God. There is no sustain is not yet with God.

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There is no sustain is not now with God. There are no pages with God, just the Word. The Old and New Testament is just the Word with God. The vision of breakdown of the Bible is designed for human benefit.

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Statistics of the King James Version. Five books of law, the twelve books of history, the five books of poetry, the five books of major prophets, the twelve books of minor prophets, the four gospels,

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the book of church history, the fourteen epistles, a start for the apostle Paul, The seven general epistles, the water apocalypse, the 3,566,480 letters, the 733,746 words, The 31,163 verses, the 1,189 chapters, the 66 books of the Bible, the 29 books of the Old Testament, the 27 books of the New Testament.

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He's just a man with God. He's just a man. There are no serenades with God, no counties, no states, no nations, no countries, no continents with God. It's just the earth. The earth is the Lord's.

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And the fullness thereof, the world and thee that dwell therein. So we understand that when God designs the problem, providence not only ensures the plan, the past, present, and future are not only one with God, but when God designs the problem, evil becomes the footstool of the good.

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The providence of God sustained Johnson because and in spite of the cruelties of his brothers. It was in Dauphin when the brothers of Johnson cahooted up to kill him by leaving him to die in a ditch. But God intercepted their malicious plans, and so they resolved to sell him to an Israelite cattle bank. But what they did not understand was that every step was unscheduled with God.

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in spite of part of his wife, who made false allegations against him. The providence of God was still in process. You cannot believe everything you see, and you ought not tell everything you hear. All that loved him was placed in prison for more than 30 years of his life for a crime that he did not commit.

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Even there, God came to see about him. Even there, God gave him dreams and their interpretation. Until one day, the Pharaoh had a disturbing dream. Joseph revealed God's design to him. So Pharaoh made Joseph his right-hand man in Egypt.

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The seven good years of surprise were placed in the storehouse. Before the seven bad years of famine, to secure their survival, Canaan was affected by the famine. Where the father and eleven brothers of Joseph did live, the sons of Jacob had to come to Egypt to secure food during the famine. But what they did not...

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