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Pastor Mark Driscoll here from Real Faith.

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Welcome to Real Men.

We're glad, honored to have you.

Let me just ask any new guys, first-time visitors in the house.

Welcome, gentlemen. Good to have you.

You made a great decision.

We're blessed to have you with us.

My name is Mark, if we've not met.

We've got this week and next, and then we

conclude real men for the semester. There'll be a lot of programming here at Trinity Church

during the summer and also online in real faith. But we're looking at the life of Joseph. And if

you've got a Bible, today we're in Genesis chapter 49. And we're asking the question about the loyalty test. And so Joseph is a man.

We've been studying his life now for almost a few months, but he started out as a guy who was a

teenager. He was a little soft, a little over-mothered, a little pampered, a little too homeward

in his orientation, and was a little bit

pretentious and thought a bit much of himself. And he had a destiny and a calling on his life,

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