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Pastor Mark Driscoll here from Real Faith.

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Oh, you guys look good. Welcome to Real Man. Good to see you guys. Best night of the week.

Super excited to see you as always. Just let me ask this. How many of you were the new guys?

Just raise a hand. All right, just welcome the new guys. We're honored to have you, man.

You made a great choice. This is the best place you could be tonight,

literally, surrounded by the best man, and God has a great future for you. If we've not met,

my name is Pastor Mark. I have the honor of teaching. We're looking at the life of a guy named

Joseph. And his story is an epic one. It takes the concluding chapters of the book of Genesis,

and he serves as a mentor

and an example for us. We meet him when he's in his teens and by the end of the story, he's over

100 years of age. So it looks at his entire life. And he's not a perfect man, but he's a godly

man and he's a good man and he's an integrist man. He's one of the best men in the Bible.

And so as we're studying his life, I want him to be a mentor to you.

It's very difficult sometimes to find a man that you look up to, that you can learn from,

who's been through the kind of things that you actually honor him and you respect him because

he walks with a limp, he's got a few scars and his life hasn't

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