2026.08.16 Sunday 1st Service
“Joseph’s Bartizan” (Genesis 37:1-11)
Genesis 37:1-11
Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed, the land of Canaan.
2 This is the account of Jacob’s family line.
Joseph, a young man of seventeen, was tending the flocks with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives, and he brought their father a bad report about them.
3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons, because he had been born to him in his old age; and he made an ornate[a] robe for him. 4 When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.
5 Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him all the more. 6 He said to them, “Listen to this dream I had: 7 We were binding sheaves of grain out in the field when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around mine and bowed down to it.”
8 His brothers said to him, “Do you intend to reign over us? Will you actually rule us?” And they hated him all the more because of his dream and what he had said.
9 Then he had another dream, and he told it to his brothers. “Listen,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”
10 When he told his father as well as his brothers, his father rebuked him and said, “What is this dream you had? Will your mother and I and your brothers actually come and bow down to the ground before you?” 11 His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.
Summary
※ Build a certain bartizan of God.
1. Remnant — Find what you are bound to become, find what and how you should study. Make money come to you. Prepare 300%.
2. New believer — Turn every situation into a blessing.
3. Foreigner — Do not lose your heart to present difficulties; consider it your own home and prepare for the future.
4. Those who have no helper — The Comforter, the Holy Spirit, will guide you, remind you, and be with you forever.
5. The elderly — A calling for old age
▣ Introduction
1. What to see first when you arrive at the field
1) Natural — It is only natural. I must change, and I must save the other person.
2) Inevitable — It was shown to me.
3) Absolute — God’s plan
2. The secret of world evangelization that Joseph had — the offspring of the woman would crush the head of the serpent (Genesis 3:15).
3. Joseph, who went as a spiritual emperor giving answers to the emperor with this
1) Family gospelization — the sheaves bowed.
2) World evangelization — the sun, moon, and stars bowed.
3) Enter into absolute impossibility, nobody, and nothing with this covenant.
▣ Main — What the Remnant Must Take With Them
1. Enjoy the emperor’s secret prayer you can do alone (Genesis 37:1-11).
1) Prayer 300% — Joseph, who learned to pray amid life’s greatest suffering
2) Build the strength to pray alone.
3) You must be able to enjoy Christ, who is the key to the bartizan, journey, and guidepost of the Throne.
2. Enjoy the emperor’s secret prayer in the midst of hardship (Genesis 39:1-6).
1) The road being dragged off as a slave — He knew it was the road to the fulfillment of the dream.
2) Potiphar’s house — He cleaned and ran errands in prayer.
3) Work, economy 300% — Blessing came upon that house, and he became the household steward.
3. Enjoy the emperor’s secret prayer in the midst of false accusation (Genesis 40).
1) The Remnant’s precise path is “nobody” — there was no one to help.
2) Nothing — the Remnant’s real place of answered prayer is elsewhere.
3) Politics 300% — He gained the power of prayer and became chief of the prison.
4. Enjoy the emperor’s secret prayer that sees the secret of God at work within events.
1) The chief cupbearer’s incident of forgetting Joseph (Genesis 40:23) — God’s absolute plan was contained within it.
2) Joseph, who became a spiritual emperor who saved the emperor because of the dream Pharaoh dreamed
3) Evangelism 300% — “The Lord God will make it known.”
5. Enjoy the emperor’s secret prayer that enters into the blessing of accomplished world evangelization.
1) World salvation
2) Family salvation
3) Joseph, who promised to take responsibility for his brothers and future generations to the end
▣ Conclusion
1. Hold this covenant firmly and build a bartizan until prayer is answered.
1) Hold onto the Throne’s bartizan, journey, and guidepost, and pray — the bartizan rises.
2) 24, 25, 00 become possible.
3) A Summit prayer that conquers the world comes out.
2. Because the covenant is eternal, Joseph’s faith was the same when he was a slave, when he was prime minister, and when he met his brothers.
▷ Young adults — finish everything within 10 years. When you get older, you must do evangelism and missions.
3. The bartizan, journey, and guidepost of the Throne — they must be heard as reality, not as empty or abstract talk.
Transcript
▣ Introduction
※ Build a certain bartizan of God.
Not many months remain this year. We must build a certain bartizan. Also, the Remnants finished the convention and went each to their own places. We must build God’s bartizan.
1) Remnant
There are things Remnants hear the most. You’ve probably heard the question, “Who should I meet in order to succeed?” Don’t be deceived by such talk — prepare what you are bound to become. People will keep telling you to study, study. Don’t be deceived — you must find what and how you should study.
When I was studying, there were about six hundred students in my class alone. Some studied hard to receive scholarships. Others just studied as a matter of course. I didn’t do that. I thought, “I must do evangelism to save the world in the future,” and I connected all my studying to that. I made 300% preparation. There’s nothing more to say after that. The Remnant must find what and how to study. As you go through life, people around you will keep talking about money, money. Don’t chase after money. That is a disaster. You must make money come to you. That is the blessing. The Remnant must not be deceived. From now on, there will be great changes. This is the AI era —
there will be shocking developments. And so you’ll hear people here and there saying, “Invest here! Do this! Do that!” A lot of it will come flying at you. And in the end, most of it will collapse. But you must not follow it. The Remnant, I tell you, must prepare 300%. Do not live like Joseph’s brothers. Joseph’s brothers spent their whole lives begging.
2) New believers
Those who first come to faith will love this word “blessing.” The Bible isn’t written that way, and the gospel isn’t that. It’s that I will turn every field of your life into a blessing. That is the gospel and God’s plan.
3) Foreigners
Also, many foreigners are here. You will have your hearts taken up much by present difficulties. That is being deceived. You must think of this as your own home and prepare for the future. You must think of the church as your home and prepare for the future.
4) Those who have no helper
There will be some who say, “I have no one to help me.” Good news. John 14:16 says the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, will guide you. It said He would remind you of everything. It promised He would be with you forever.
5) The elderly
Nationally there’s not much that can be done about it, but the elderly are often told the word “prepare for retirement” over and over. I don’t think that way. The Bible doesn’t say that. It’s not retirement preparation, but a calling for old age. In the Bible there are many people who accomplished great works in old age. That kind of word keeps killing people.
1. What to see first when you arrive at the field
When the Remnant goes to the field, confusion comes right away. At those times you must see three things. There’s no need to be tested or misunderstand anything. What’s the first thing you should do?
1) Natural
You think, “Why is my family like this?” What’s the first thing you must see? Natural. “Why are Joseph’s brothers like this?” Natural. There’s no need to be tested. You cannot change your brothers — you must change yourself. You cannot change your father — you must change yourself and save your father. That’s exactly what Joseph did. Do the brothers ever change? They never change to the very end. Of course not.
2) Inevitable
But why did this happen to me? Inevitable. Right? It was shown to me. Inevitable.
3) Absolute
What is God’s plan? See it as absolute.
This must always be in you — natural, inevitable, absolute. “Why did such a problem come to my family?” It’s natural, of course. Then why? Why me? Inevitable. For what purpose? Absolute. This is what Joseph saw.
99.9% of people speak something that is actually wrong and out of line with Scripture. If you’re deceived by that, you’ll suffer your whole life. You must go forward with the answer.
A junior who was always idle and jobless came to me once. I said to him, “Don’t look for a job. Look for who God made you to be. That’s far quicker. Right now you’ve lost yourself. You’re not that kind of person, but you’ve completely lost your way. The job isn’t the problem.” That’s all I said, and he burst into tears. “No one has ever said that to me.” “It’s not my own words — it’s what the Bible says.” You must never be deceived — hold onto the covenant.
2. The secret of world evangelization that Joseph had
There was one important secret within Joseph. What was it? A secret of world evangelization — what was it? God gave it to Abraham and passed it to Isaac. But Jacob actually missed that part. Naturally, Jacob’s sons, the brothers, all missed it too. Joseph took hold of it. What was it? He took hold of the secret that saves the world. “The offspring of the woman will crush the head of the serpent.” That is the message passed down to that family.
3. Joseph, who went as a spiritual emperor giving answers to the emperor who moves the world with this
With this, Joseph went as a spiritual emperor. But wait — is “spiritual emperor” even a biblical term? We must confirm this first. We really must confirm it. All seven Remnants, without exception, are not merely kings. They went and gave answers to the emperor who moves the world.
1) The sheaves bowed.
The sheaves bowing meant a message that saves the family. The ten brothers couldn’t understand it.
2) The sun, moon, and stars bowed.
“The stars bowed, and the moon and sun bowed” — this means world evangelization will happen. 99.9% cannot understand it. But the covenant Joseph held was fulfilled.
3) Enter into absolute impossibility, nobody, and nothing with this covenant.
You must go forward with this. So enter into absolute impossibility, nobody, and nothing.
▣ Main — What the Remnant Must Take
1. Enjoy the emperor’s secret prayer you can do alone (Genesis 37:1-11).
This is first. What the Remnant must take with them. Enjoy the emperor’s secret prayer you can do alone. Alone. This is the first point. You must be able to do it alone. That is today’s passage.
1) Prayer 300% — Joseph, who learned to pray amid life’s greatest suffering
Joseph’s greatest life suffering came. His mother died. That was the greatest suffering. Benjamin, who never even saw his mother’s face at birth, was actually better off. Joseph was at the exact age when he most loved and needed his mother, and she died. And he had so many older brothers above him. These brothers kept tormenting him. At this point, Joseph learned prayer. Today’s message is Prayer 300%.
2) Build the strength to pray alone.
The Remnant must build the strength to pray alone. Then it’s finished. That’s the most important thing. Where is the worldwide Remnant right now? You must be able to pray. You must check this.
3) The key to the bartizan, journey, and guidepost of the Throne is Christ
The key to the bartizan, journey, and guidepost of the Throne is Christ, and you must be enjoying that blessing. No one needs to help you. You truly must enjoy this in reality. Just a little effort, and the door opens. In fact, just five minutes a day opens the door. In some ways, if Remnants simply attend worship well on Sunday, the door opens.
2. Enjoy the emperor’s secret prayer in the midst of hardship (Genesis 39:1-6).
This is second. Enjoy the emperor’s secret prayer in the midst of hardship.
1) The road being dragged off as a slave
Genesis 39:1-6. He was suddenly dragged away. Suddenly. He was being dragged away, this. It wasn’t like being put in a car and taken. He was dragged. When you’re dragged, you don’t get to eat on time or wash your face. He was dragged. But Joseph clearly held onto the dream he had told his brothers. He knew that this was the road leading there. Later he told his brothers about it.
2) Potiphar’s house
You must have an emperor’s prayer that can be exercised in the midst of hardship. And so the place he arrived was Potiphar’s house. In Potiphar’s house he began cleaning and running errands.
3) Work, economy 300%
How great was the secret of prayer he held? Blessing from God began to come upon that house. And so, instead of being a slave, his status changed — he became household steward.
That’s the point — He himself received grace there, and that house was blessed. Later his status was changed. He became household steward. Absolutely.
3. Enjoy the emperor’s secret prayer in the midst of false accusation (Genesis 40).
This is third. There will be times you suffer unjust things too. To others, it may look like you are ruined. This is the emperor’s prayer amid false accusation. It’s recorded in Genesis chapter 40.
1) The Remnant’s precise path is “nobody”
There was no one to help. He was falsely accused and thrown into prison, and there was no one to help. This is important. The Remnant’s precise path is nobody. Understand?
2) Nothing
Because the Remnant’s true place of answered prayer is elsewhere, it is nothing.
3) Politics 300%
There was no one at all to help — he was thrown into prison. But it turned out that this was the place where political prisoners were held. There too God’s work happened again. That means he did not collapse there either, and he gained the power of prayer. This time he was changed into the chief of the prison. Politics 300%. He gained it all. And these weren’t ordinary political prisoners — they were politicians held under a mighty emperor.
4. Enjoy the emperor’s secret prayer that sees the secret of God at work within events.
This is fourth. What must the Remnant do? You must have the emperor’s prayer that sees the secret of God working within events. Within events.
1) The chief cupbearer’s incident of forgetting Joseph (Genesis 40:23)
Genesis 40:23 says, “Yet the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph.” What kind of betrayal is that? Why? He interpreted the dream so well, ensuring that man’s survival, and yet he was forgotten. The Remnant need not feel betrayed over such things. Understand? God’s absolute plan was contained there. Joseph was imprisoned until he was thirty. He was thrown in as a teenager and held until thirty.
2) Joseph, who became a spiritual emperor who saved the emperor because of the dream Pharaoh dreamed
Then something happened to the king of Egypt. As you know, this king kept having a strange, recurring dream that could not be interpreted. There were famous sorcerers and diviners surrounding that emperor. As you know, Joseph gets to meet Pharaoh. That is what makes him a spiritual emperor who saves the emperor.
3) Evangelism 300% — “The Lord God will make it known.”
There he says something important. He was asked, “Can you interpret dreams?” He said, “I cannot.” How surprised the king must have been. And then he said something even more important. “The Lord God will make it known.” He said this. He said something extremely important. What do we call that? Evangelism 300%. Everything was already prepared.
5. Enjoy the emperor’s secret prayer that enters into the blessing of accomplished world evangelization.
Finally, that day came. That’s the fifth point. That day is sure to come.
1) World salvation
The king personally recommended him and made him prime minister. If anyone else had recommended him, the king could have said okay. But it was the king who recommended him. Who could stop it? And he said, “Do with Egypt as you please.” The emperor said this. “Do as you please with the land of Egypt.” So, world salvation, world evangelization began to take place. As Joseph said, the whole world had to come to Egypt to buy grain.
2) Family salvation
At last, he saves his family. So 70 family members are received in Egypt as honored guests and made to move there.
3) Joseph, who promised to take responsibility for his brothers and future generations to the end, to the anxious brothers
That’s not all. Because Joseph’s brothers knew what they had done to Joseph, they were always uneasy. After Jacob passed away, Joseph wept loudly. As prime minister, if the prime minister weeps loudly, it will be known throughout the whole palace. His brothers heard that weeping and were afraid again. Then Joseph said something. He speaks honestly then. “My brothers meant evil toward me. But God turned it to good for me. I will take responsibility for my brothers and future generations to the end.” He said this. He completely enjoyed this blessing of accomplished world evangelization.
▣ Conclusion
1. Hold this covenant firmly and build a bartizan until prayer is answered.
Remnants across the nation and the world today, hold this covenant firmly and build a bartizan until you are answered in prayer.
1) Hold onto the Throne’s bartizan, journey, and guidepost, and pray
Hold onto the Throne’s covenant bartizan, journey, and guidepost, and if you pray just a little, a bartizan rises in you.
2) 24, 25, 00 become possible.
Once the bartizan is established, then 24, 25, eternity become possible.
3) A Summit prayer that conquers the world comes out.
From this point, a Summit prayer that conquers the world comes out. It’s the same for everyone. God has prepared the same thing equally for you. Otherwise you’ll suffer your whole life and die.
2. Because the covenant is eternal, Joseph’s faith was the same when he was a slave, when he was prime minister, and when he met his brothers.
What was Joseph’s distinguishing feature? When he was dragged off as a slave, his faith was the same. When he became prime minister, his faith was the same. When his brothers came and met him, his faith was the same. Why? Because the covenant is eternal. I truly hope believers will find this blessing. Honestly, from what I see, most people never find it. And so they end up suffering greatly through life. It’s not even suffering because of gospel work — it’s suffering just to make a living. It’s hard even to keep up with unbelievers. That’s why people live such difficult lives all the time.
※ Young adults — finish everything within 10 years. When you get older, you must do evangelism and missions.
I said this at the young adults retreat this time. Finish everything within 10 years. When you get older, you must do evangelism and missions, like a doctor who has already made his mark. There was a famous businessman from America who came to Korea. What was his name? “I retire at 45,” he said. “Why?” someone asked. “Because after 45 you should be spending money. That’s how successful you should be by then,” he said. And it really turned out that way for him. So I tell young adults, “Finish everything within 10 years.” God has already prepared that blessing. We are simply the ones who missed it.
3. The bartizan, journey, and guidepost of the Throne — they must be heard as reality, not as empty or abstract talk.
The bartizan of the Throne might sound like empty talk. It must be seen as reality. Anyone who has not seen it is the one living in empty talk. The journey and guidepost of the Throne might sound like some abstract talk. It must be heard as reality. Anyone who doesn’t know this is truly living and dying in abstraction. Why? “Who is God? Where is He?” — living and dying in abstraction like a dream. “What is the answer? How does world evangelization happen?” — everything becomes abstract. This must become reality. You are now seeing this blessing, both at the Remnant Convention and right now.
Today our former National Assembly Speaker Esmon is the last one remaining. He’s here to attend worship and then leave. He’s a man who has connections across all 14 islands. So I told him to do world evangelization. He himself received so much grace that this kind of preparation is now happening so that he can do world evangelization. How much grace he has received — I’ve seen it directly.
He said he would treat me as his older brother. So I said, “Listen to your older brother.” “Exercise, and pray,” I told him. He does exactly that.
World evangelization is a matter of course. Will you receive the blessing of the Throne? It’s a matter of course. May Remnants around the nation and the world enjoy this blessing, in the name of Jesus Christ, I bless you.
Prayer
Thank You, God. Let this hour also be a time of that grace. Let all day today be a time to gain that strength. Let it become the beginning of saving the world by God’s power. We pray in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.