Not Many Men Can Carry a Full Cup

My wife's cup. It's full. It's almost ready to overflow if my hands start to stop shaking. Isn't it amazing my hand doesn't shake until you have water so full? Why is that? I don't know what that is. A cup. Not many men can carry a full cup. That's the title of today's sermon. I hope by the end you will understand exactly what I'm talking about.

As I think it's so very important for all of us to understand that.

My title comes from a line in a book that I read probably ten years ago now by Chuck Swindoll.

And the book was on the character and life of Joseph in the Bible.

And he used the line with Joseph that not many men can carry a full cup.

But Joseph could carry a full cup.

I bring that up because if I gave Bruce the keys to a 2019 Bentley, brand new, would you like to have that? I'll try to grab that one and then turn. Very expensive car. Would it change you? Would it change you? Would it change you? No. Most of us, oh, we got in that car and we would... shoulders would be back a little bit, wouldn't they? Right?

We would be kind of a... well, and you wouldn't mind if a friend pulled up beside you. Oh, hey!

Or if you were a beat-up Vega, I don't know whether you'd be doing that.

Money, prestige, things can change us. I don't know if you've ever noticed, but I never saw so many Ferraris, Bentleys, Porsche, Lamborghinis. We were good in Tennessee if you had one or two. Here you've got one or two every block down in certain parts of Miami. And they like to be seen. You can hear their motor, honey, or they kind of rev it up a little bit, right? When they come by you.

Well, I like to talk about Joseph.

You have to understand, Joseph, from the Bible, was a great-looking God. Scriptures tell us this.

He was a very, very good-looking man.

He made Brad Pitt look like Danny DeVito, okay?

He had it all.

He had good looks.

He had a brilliant mind. A mathematical genius is what he would be called.

He had a mind that could just remember. He didn't need... At their time, he didn't have to be like the other wise men of Egypt. He didn't have to have an abacus.

He had it up here. He was brilliant!

He also had an incredible work ethic.

He would work most of us under the table. He would be a person you would, if you were an employer, would want a man like Joseph. Because he took the bull by the horns. He went ahead and did things. He didn't have to wait. He figured things out.

And he applied himself to his job.

He was wise beyond his years.

Incredible wisdom.

You might say he had it all.

He had it all.

But, I must say, one of his greatest qualities that you may have never thought about before was, he was oh so thankful.

He was a very thankful man.

Sets us an incredible example.

But he was not only thankful for what he had, for his talents, his abilities, his gifts.

He was thankful for Hesse. Hesse. H-E-S-E-D. Hesse. Dive into it a little bit later.

But before I explain this powerful Hebrew word, let us devour the story of Joseph from Scripture.

But we'll do it in reverse.

We'll look at the first part of the story of Joseph when he is about 57 years of age.

So we'll go to first. But I hope you'll find it interesting that there is more, there are more Scriptures written about Joseph than anyone else in the entire book of Genesis. That's right. More than Abraham, more than Isaac, and more than Jacob.

You think his life was important?

Was Abraham not an example to us? The faithful? Father of the faithful? We see the story of Isaac and Jacob. We see the various Noah. We see all these things. But yet, of all the patriarchs of the Bible, more lines written about Joseph than any of the others.

The Bible was given to us for exhortation, but it gives us examples. It helps us to see where we've been, where we're going, and where we are right now.

So let's go there, if you will, go with me to Genesis 50.

Genesis 50.

We won't cover the part that most people really know, and that is from where Joseph was actually born to when he was 17 years of age, and his coat of many colors that I know are young people that are in Sabbath school class. Understand?

But I'd like to go to Genesis 50, read from the New King James, and let's go down to verse 15. Here we have the story of Jacob having died. He's passed, and now there's Joseph and his brothers. Joseph is 57 years old. Let's read. Verse 15, when Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said perhaps Joseph will hate us and may actually repay us for all the evil in which we did to him.

Joseph 57.

They're thinking about something that happened 40 years prior. They're saying, wait a minute, this happened 40 years ago. You talk about not letting it go. We all have these problems probably not 40 years, but they obviously did. Now he died, Jacob. He was 147 years old, as Scriptures tell us. But when he entered into Egypt with his sons and all his family, he was 130. So he'd actually had 17 years he had been in the land of Goshe, with his children, grandchildren, and even great-grandchildren. So here, Joseph had had 17 years with his father. His long-lost son had been found, as Jacob had found out through the story. And now, his father had died. And his brothers were worried. Wait a minute. He's powerful. He's the second most powerful man in all of Egypt. You know, was Joseph faking all these 17 years when he was treating them well, and because the father was around? That's what they're reading into the story. So verse 16, So they sent messengers to Joseph, saying, Before your father died, he commanded, saying, Thus you shall say to Joseph. Really? Do you think he said this? They were known to tell a few stories before to get their way, weren't they? Thus you shall say to Joseph, I beg you, please forgive the trespass of your brothers and their sins, for they did evil to you. Interesting. They were in the land of Goshen, and here down by Memphis on the Nile River is where Joseph would have been with the Pharaoh.

Quite a few miles, a distance, but they decide to tell to send someone to make sure he knew. There he said, Now please forgive the trespass of your servants, of the God your Father. And then this interesting part of this verse, And Joseph wept when they spoke to him. These messengers came, and they delivered this message, and Joseph wept. Did he weep because he knew his father wouldn't say anything like that? Did he weep because, Man, all the things I've done for you over these last 17 years, and it comes to this?

Or did Joseph weep because they feared him, and they did not love him, even with brotherly love? Verse 18, Then his brothers also went. So obviously they wanted to be sure. So they sent messengers, and then they came down themselves. They personally met with Joseph. Which would have been what? They would have had to send ahead because you just didn't meet somebody like Joseph. You had their reservations. You don't just go up and say, Vice President Pence, I need to see you tomorrow about 2 o'clock. It didn't work that way in this country. It didn't work that way in Egypt either. Verse 18, Then his brothers also went and fell down before him.

I think they were scared? He fell down before his face and they said, Behold, we are your servants. Brothers? Is this how brothers that are close, that love each other? Is this how family acts or comes together? It doesn't appear so, does it? Verse 19, Joseph said to them, Do not be afraid, for am I in the place of God?

He said, Am I in the place of God? Am I to judge you? But he also brought up something that they didn't. God. There was a relationship between Joseph and his God. Oh, they brought up about Jacob, didn't they? But they didn't really bring up about God. Verse 20, But as for you, you meant evil against me. But, what's the word? God. God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive.

Now, therefore, do not be afraid. I will provide for you and your little ones, and he kindly comforted them and spoke kindly to them all. Did he show the love of God? Absolutely. Did he bring God back into the picture? Yes. And he was actually saying here, You guys meant it for bad, but God meant it for good. God blessed us all through this thing. God continues to bless us. God is the one. What a wonderful example. Would he have been justified to do something?

Oh, now that's how it is. Nobody's going to see. No! Because he didn't answer. Joseph didn't answer to Jacob. Joseph answered to God. And he was laying out for them the love that God has. This incredible example. Joseph was thankful to God because he had a relationship with God. Isn't that what we all should have?

This incredible example for us? Let's go back and look at how Joseph looked at life and realize how much God treasured him and how much God had worked with him down through the years. So let's go back some years to Genesis 45. Genesis 45. Genesis 45, and we'll start there in verse 4 because it actually tells that this is where he revealed himself to his brother. He told him who he was after all these years that he was actually a brother. But look at what is said here in verse 4. He said, And Joseph said to his brothers, Please come near to me, and they came near. And he said, I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.

Was there a time to say, guess what you did? You know what you did? Guards! He didn't do it, did he? No. Actually, he says, But now, do not therefore be grieved or angry with yourselves, because you sold me here. For God sent me before you to preserve life. A relationship with God. He knew God was with him in the good times, in the bad times. For these two years, the famine has been in the land, and there are still five more years in which there will be no neither plowing nor harvesting.

And God sent me before you to preserve a posterity for you in this earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. He knew why he was there. You look back sometimes at some of the things that you've gone through, and know that God was with you, with you there when you were at the peak, and he was also there when you were in the lowest of valleys.

This is what Joseph realized. He knew he had the love of God in his life. What an incredible example. Finally, verse 8, So now it was not you who sent me here, but God. And he has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt. It was God who brought him there. And he was actually giving thanks to God.

And he was thankful for God's goodness. Now, go over to turn back, so we go back a little more, in chapter 41. Chapter 41. Two years earlier, or could have been even more, because his sons were born. In Genesis 41, verse 51, He says, And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh. Manasseh. Which means, For God has made me forget all of my toil and all of my father's house. 52. And the name of the second son, he called Ephraim. He said, For God has caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.

Have we thanked God for those afflictions that have brought us to this point in our lives? Brought us to be the person that we are now. He was thankful for Hesseh.

And he reminded God, talked to God. Just like we're able to talk to God, aren't we? We have a relationship. And it's a big, big deal to God, and it should be an even bigger deal to us. For this incredible relationship. Let's go back to chapter 39, as we can wrap this story up about Joseph.

Chapter 39, verse 20. Here we have where Joseph was doing right and was persecuted because he did something right by following his God, and he was actually thrown then in prison. In verse 20, Then Joseph's master took him and put him into the prison, a place where the king's prisoners were confined.

And he was there in prison, telling you he wasn't running around. But the Lord, as Scripture says, but the Lord was with Joseph and showed him mercy. Showed him mercy. And he gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison. Have you ever had that happen in your life where something looked bad and then all of a sudden you turn around and it's turned out to be pretty good?

And you realize God was the one that made it happen? If you have never done that, perhaps you need to try to realize that he's there. Verse 22, And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hands all the prisoners who were in the prison. Whatever they did there, it was his doing. He was even, at the lowest point, promoted. Why? He could handle a full cup. He could handle a Bentley in today's world and not shake him loose from God's incredible hand.

The Bible tells us we were in his hand. Verse 23, The keeper of the prison did not look into anything that was under Joseph's hand because the Lord was with him and whatever he did, the Lord made it prosper. That incredible relationship. It's not only the goodness, but it's the mercy of God. Even in our down there, he's merciful. Let's go over to chapter 39, same one, but in verse 2, as he is sold as a slave into Egypt.

In verse 2, the first thing he said, And the Lord was with Joseph, and he was a successful man. He's a slave! But the Lord was with him and he's successful. Because what? God was using this. It's a training ground. He was going to have to go down, but God was going to be there to bring him back up. Doesn't that describe our lives? I wish it didn't, but there are some awfully high points, but boys are some low points.

And sometimes we just pray, oh, can I just stay in the middle, God? But he's in charge. He's in charge. He said, The Lord was with Joseph, and he was a successful man, 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 he did to prosper in his hand. So Joseph found favor in his sight and served him. Then he made him overseer of his house, and all that he had, he put in his hand. So it was, from the time that he had made him overseer of the house and all that he had, that the Lord blessed the Egyptian. What does Scripture say? I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse those who curse you.

So the Lord blessed the Egyptians house for Joseph's sake. This man was getting richer and richer and richer because of Joseph's sake. Not because of what he did, not because of any righteousness that Potiphar did, certainly not for his wife's sake. And the blessings of the Lord was in all that he had in the house and in the field. Joseph had to look back at 57. All those 40 years as his brother looked back and said, he's going to kill us, he's going to torture us, he's going to treat us as bad as we treated him.

I know he's going to do it! And you know they all probably thought that way. As they look back on 40 years. But if you think of Joseph, what do you think he thought about? As he could look back at the same time. He didn't think of evil, he thought of good. He thought of the greatness that God had brought into his life. All those hills and valleys, God was with him.

See, Joseph not only believed in God, he believed God. He believed what God said. Why? Where would that come from? Do you think perhaps? I know growing up when I was young, my father would sit around at times at night when he wasn't working, and he would tell me stories of his life. Many of you tell your sons, and the only I'm sure you do, and various people here, you talk to your sons, and you tell them about your life. So they can kind of learn and not have to learn sometimes the hard way. And you tell them the good stories and sometimes even the bad stories. Can you imagine Jacob, even in his last 17 years that he got to spend with his son, that he had been estranged from all those years?

Can you imagine Jacob reflecting back on his trip as he was leaving at the end of the day? Fleeing his brother who was going to kill him. And he's working his way to Haran, and he stops one night and looks up at the stars and grabs him a pillar, a stone to lay his head on. And he goes to sleep, and he has this incredible dream about the latter. A stairway, might say, an angel's coming up and down. And I'm sure he would have told Jacob, or Jacob would have told him those stories, because it was incredible.

We even talk about Jacob's latter even today. But can you believe he would have told him that at that time God spoke to him and said, I am with you, and will be with you wherever you go? I think Joseph understood that. He knew his father had a relationship with God, and now he did.

A big one. And he had to look back and think, God, that's a promise. God made his father a promise. And can you imagine that trip as his hands were tied behind his back, as he was a slave and taken to Egypt and put up on the auction block?

Can you imagine that time, because he did have even before that a relationship with God, because God was actually talking to him through dreams and couldn't understand everything, but made him see things that he would later understand. And how he would have been talking to God. He just didn't all of a sudden pop up and have a relationship with God. But now he would have said, God, be with me like, like my, you're with my father.

God, wouldn't we, any of us do that? You know? I think if any of us men happen to be driving around somewhere and all of a sudden we got pulled over and the guy goes, no, you did this and throw the handcuffs on us and take us to jail, you know, in the back of that police car, I'm going to be praying. I think most of you would be, too. God, I don't know what I did, but help me.

So you can see how Joseph, that relationship would have been. And Jesus Christ in Matthew 28, verse 20, actually tells his disciples, which I'm looking at a room full of them now. And he said, I am with you always, even to the end of this age. We have that relationship. Do you believe it? You believe that we have that incredible relationship with God?

That he loves us that much? Joseph certainly did. And he saw it. He saw it revealed through 40 years of his life. May God never forsook him. God was always there. Have you ever regretted signing a contract? I have. I was 19, 20, 20 years old. May have been 21. I signed a contract to work out at this cosmopolitan gym. It was the only gym in Murfreesboro, Tennessee at the time. I had two jobs. I was working two jobs at the time. But the winter was a little bit slow, so I joined this gym.

They get you in there. Oh, look how you can look. And I'm 20, I'm thinking, oh, yeah, I want to look like Joseph. So I signed this contract for two years, for $19 a month, which was a lot back then. And so the first month or two, I went. Yeah, whenever I could get time. But then as the weather got better, I was in construction. I was also working the farm. So next thing you know, I was working 60, 70 hours a week.

I didn't have time, time to go to a gym. But guess what? That still came out of my checking account every month. And I got to where I didn't even go, like months, six months at a time. And I was still paying. And oh, I regretted that contract. But I signed it. And so they were going to get it. We've all done that. Hopefully I'm not the only one here, right?

Yep. Even Amos said he did. Yes. But haven't we also signed a contract that we're so glad we did? Maybe it's an insurance policy. Oh, I need to sign that contract next day. You wreck your car. You're going, whoosh, wow. That is so good. But a contract, a covenant, as it's sometimes called in the Bible, or an agreement, they're basically all the same with one idea. And that is, we're talking about a promise. A promise, brethren. You remember the same, don't hear it much anymore. Some of you that actually have a little gray in your hair will probably remember this as much as I do.

My word is my bond. Remember when we had a country where my word is my bond? If I tell you there, I'll be there. If I say, I'm going to be there, I'll be there. Right? That was really big. Really, really important. Or perhaps you seal the deal with a handshake. We don't hear of that very much anymore, do we? Oh, let's shake on. Oh, oh, I'll sell you this house for 150,000. Let's just shake on it.

Why? Not lawyers. Honesty issues today? Right?

Not so much your word as your bond.

It is something for us to really think about.

I had a man that I actually worked for and probably did work with. And he had a company, as a matter of fact, before I ever started my company, I went to him and got plenty of advice. And he had a company for 14 years. It was very prosperous. It had a great business. And he told me one thing that I never...it's one of the few things he told me that I didn't really put into practice.

I said, well, what do you do on contracts? How are your contracts, you know, the work that you've done? He said, I've never had a contract. I said, you've never had a contract? No. People come in or I go out and I say, well, it's going to be this amount. I tell them how much it's going to be and then I go do the work and after it's done, I get paid. I said, wait a minute. Yeah, but aren't there people who beat you? They just didn't pay you? He said, 14 years, 3 people. And he said, 2 came in within the next year and paid because I would see them out at a restaurant. I go, hey, how's that piece of work that I did gone? He said, pretty soon they decided they'd rather just go in and pay it than to see me at a restaurant and go, oh yeah, it's really... Can you imagine trying to do that today? In Miami? Murfreesboro, Tennessee is one thing. Miami? Totally different. There's an EDM we use in America. It's called You Can Take It To The Bank.

You can take it to the bank.

Joseph did. He believed God and he believed what God said. And he lived his life in the good times in the back. And the reason he believed was because of this powerful Hebrew word. And that word is... HESED. HESED. I want to go into that as we finish up here today. HESED. As a matter of fact, if you see it in Hebrew, it will actually have a transliteration, and a C in front of it. But it's not CHESED, it's like the C actually means that there's a guttural sound. So that... HESED. When they say that word. It means there's something when they... There's a little more to it than just your average word. HESED.

See, God explains this meaning of HESED. And the meaning behind is covenant, his agreement. I'd like to go there because it's pointed out where this word is used. Let's go to Exodus, if you will. Exodus 34. Exodus 34. Exodus 34. Verse 5. We see the story, the golden calves have happened, and he threw down the stones and broke them, and then he had to go back up before God. And so that's where we pick up in 34. Exodus 5. So then the Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there and proclaimed the name of the Lord. You know what's great about this? The Lord came down, was with Moses. This is not somebody's story. This is a first-hand account. Moses was there. He's telling what happened. Better than any movie you can imagine. And the Lord passed before him in verse 6 and proclaimed the Lord. The Lord God. Merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abounding in hesed. Hesed. The word translated there is goodness. Is goodness in your body? Because it's hesed. That's the Hebrew word for goodness. Abounding in hesed and truth. Hmm. Keeping mercy for the thousands, forgiving iniquity, and transgression and sin. This is from God's own mouth. He's telling him that I, who he was, what he was about. And Moses could see it and understand it. You know the Hebrew word hesed. There is no single word in the entire English vocabulary that captures its meaning. Just isn't. It's a unique, very unique word.

And the hesed is one of the richest and most beautiful and powerful words in the entire Old Testament. Yet there's probably a lot of people who never, never thought about the Hebrew word hesed. Because it's not just a word that people feel. It is a love that we do. It's where actions are involved.

To define hesed in English, if you're taking notes, to define it in English, it means mercy, loving kindness, gratitude, and goodness all combined together. It's that powerful word. It's such a big word that one word can't describe it. And we're talking about the love of God. Talking about the love of God. It means unfailing love, loyal love, deep devotion. It is deeper than you even can imagine. We can see it in the agreement in our wedding vows, right? It's not just, I love you, it's like Dwight and Stacey, the last ones I married. Okay? And they make a vow. They go through the wedding vows. They make a promise to each other. They make a covenant with each other. They actually make a contract. And what do we say? That I'm going to love you. Remember Dwight? In sickness and in health. In the good times and in the difficult times. The closest thing we have to it, the closest way we can understand hiss, is that incredible, incredible love. Doesn't end when somebody's sick or somebody has a bad attitude. It's so much deeper, so much richer than that. This love of God that he has for us. Remember the story of a professor. A professor for 25, 30 years, and he actually had the opportunity to become the president of a college. And he'd worked with all this time, all that time. And when he got the appointment, he found out just after he had become president of the college, something he'd looked for a long time, he was very good at his job. His wife, he found out, had dementia. And it was an accelerating type. She was going downhill so fast that only after a few months on the job, he decided he had to quit. And he quit so he could be with his wife after all those years. And about a year later, another professor came to him and said, Yes, I actually want to visit your wife. She doesn't know anything anymore. He says, Yes, that's true. He said, Wait a minute. She doesn't even know who you are. Why won't you come back and come back and get your job back? He said, No, she doesn't know who I am, but I know who she is. And that's the woman I made that promise to. That's integrity, but that's hesed. That's a deep, that's a deep, deep kind of love. I like to call it an everlasting love. You hear songs and so forth, but God, God, even if we pass through this world and we don't, it's everlasting because He says, I'm going to spend eternity with you. How wonderful. But you see, Joseph understood this because God never left him, never forsook him. He was there in every good time and every bad time.

And Joseph knew it was, it was just the way God was. And he accepted that and he was thankful for this relationship, this hesed. It's amazing sometimes that you, as husbands and wives, you kind of, something has to happen before you, because you just kind of drift through life together and then when something tragedy happens, it kind of pulls you together.

With us, sometimes something kind of bad has to happen before we, oh God, thank you. Sorry, God, I have not been as close to you as I need to be. I have to say sometimes, thank you for the reminder, God. Are we thankful for God's steadfast, committed, everlasting love for us, His hesed, His bond? Because this is what He promised. This is His bond. He's promised us He can't lie. He's going to keep His end of the bargain. What did He say? Romans 8? Nothing can separate us from the love of God.

One last example before I end here, I'd like you to go with me because there's someone who understood this hesed, this love of God, if you will turn with me to 2 Samuel. And it was David, of course. A man after God's own heart, you would kind of see that he does have this understanding. But I'd like you to turn with me to 2 Samuel. Let's go to chapter 7 first. Chapter 7 and verse 18. Remember verse 18, at the actual heading of this chapter, it said, God's thanksgiving, David's thanksgiving to God. Are we thankful? Anybody on this earth should be thankful this week. This Thanksgiving week, it should be us. Brethren, it must be us. It must be us. Look at David. Everything had come together. He had made this covenant with God. The ark was brought to Jerusalem. And then we come to verse 18. Then King David went in and set before the Lord. How about you? I found a park just yesterday that nobody was there. And there was a bench by itself, and it just secluded the park. I had to sit for just a few minutes. First thing I did was thank God that he brought me to that park. It gives me a place to retreat and talk to him. Then King David went in and set before the Lord, and he said, Who am I, O Lord God? And what is my house that you have brought me this far? And yet this is a small thing in your sight, O Lord. And you have also spoken of your servant's house for a great while to come. Is this the manner of man, O Lord God? Do you do this to everyone? Now, what more can David say to you? For you, Lord God, know your servant. For your word's sake, and according to your own heart, you have done all these great things to make your servant know them. Turn over to chapter 9. Second Samuel chapter 9. You think David didn't understand Hisset? He wanted to be like God. He was a man after God's own heart. God wants us to be like him. He wants us to be like him. He wants us to be able to have this Hisset in us. This unfailing, everlasting love. And then chapter 9, as David's administration all takes place, everything's in line now. He had battled, he fought all these years, but now everything was where it should be. Chapter 9, verse 1. Now, David said, Is there still anyone who is left of the house of Saul, that I may show him Hisset? That's the word. Now, mine is translated, kindness. Anybody else have something else? Kindness? Kindness. That I may show kindness. You see, there was goodness, there was kindness, there was loving kindness, there was like so many words. This is such a big, big word. And to do it is even bigger than the word itself. He said that I may show him kindness for Jonathan's sake. And there was a servant of the house of Saul whose name was Zebah. So when they had called him to David, the king said to him, Are you Zebah? And he said, At your service. Then the king said, Is there not still someone of the house of Saul, to whom I may show the kindness, the Hisset of God? You talk about paying it forward? We've just been given something new in our lives, haven't we? We need to pay this Hisset forward. And Zebah said, Yes, there is still a son of Jonathan, who is lame in his feet. And jump down to verse 7. So David said to him, Do not fear, for I will surely show you Hisset, kindness, for Jonathan your father's sake, and will restore you all the land of Saul your grandfather, and you shall eat bread at my table continuously.

What a beautiful example for us.

Now let's turn to one other place, and then we'll wrap up today. I'd like you to turn to Psalm 107. Psalm 107 is the one chapter in the Bible where the word Hisset is used more time in that chapter than any other time, in any other chapter in the Bible that is used. Let's go there. We have a song we sing, right? We sing it in there and it says, His mercy never fails. His Hisset never fails. Let's go and read just the places where it has the word Hisset, in case you want to write it down in your Bible, because I did. Psalm 107 from the New King James, verse 1, Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good. For His mercy, Hisset, endures forever. Verse 8, Oh, that man would give thanks to the Lord, for His Hisset goodness. Verse 9, For He satisfies the longing soul, and fills the hungry soul with, what goodness, Hisset. Verse 15, Oh, that man would give thanks to the Lord, for His goodness. 21, Oh, that man would give thanks to the Lord, for His goodness. Redundant? Don't think so. It's something we need to have. We need to know. Finally, in verse 31, Oh, that man would give thanks to the Lord. For His Hisset, His goodness. Brethren, not many men can carry a full cup. Joseph could. Not many of us can carry a full cup. But all of us, like Joseph, can be thankful, especially during this week, this Thanksgiving week, for God's Hisset. His unfailing love that God has for each and every one of us. David said, Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord God. I say, Thank you, Father, for this incredible example in your Word. Thank you, God, for so many things that we enjoy. Thank you for your Hisset.