{"id":1280,"date":"2012-02-17T09:18:08","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T15:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/?p=1280"},"modified":"2012-02-17T09:18:08","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T15:18:08","slug":"genesis-3723-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/?p=1280","title":{"rendered":"Genesis 37:23-24"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em><strong>So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe\u2014the ornate robe he was wearing\u2014 and they took him and threw him into the cistern. The cistern was empty; there was no water in it.<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When we look at this passage a little deeper we see some reasons why Joseph\u2019s brothers would hate Joseph to the point of betraying him. Notice that Joseph was wearing his robe when he came to his brothers. Joseph was showing off his father Jacob\u2019s favor yet again. Joseph reminds us that pride can cause a huge amount of pain in our lives. It will take a long path of humility before Joseph and his brothers can be reunited again.\u00a0 ~ Dave Whitehead, Senior Pastor, <a href=\"http:\/\/GraceNYC.org\" target=\"_blank\">GraceNYC.org<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"ylb-container\" style=\"background-color:E6E6E6\">\n                   <a href=\"#\" class=\"ylb-close\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/wp-content\/plugins\/mtx-license-plugin\/images\/close-icon.png\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t   <p><div style=\"background-color: #F8F8F8; color: #3B5D9B; font-style: italic;  font-size: 10px;\">\r\n<fieldset style=\"border: #FFF dotted 1px;\" >\r\n<legend><strong>Iowa Web Network<\/strong><\/legend>\r\n<span style=\"padding-left: 15px;\">This article is subject to Creative Common License.  You can reproduce content, but citing the source and the author\u2026<\/span>\r\n<\/fieldset><\/div><\/p>\n               <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe\u2014the ornate robe he was wearing\u2014 and they took him and threw him into the cistern. The cistern was empty; there was no water in it. When we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/?p=1280\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[12,56],"class_list":["post-1280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-testament","category-readings","tag-genesis","tag-old-testament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1281,"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions\/1281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowawebnet.com\/havefaith\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}