| 'You are called to be fruitful' | Caleb Mitchell | 19th April 2026 |

[00:00:06] Speaker A: I want to start with a question. I started with a question last time. The question this time is who is the most gifted person you know? Now, I'm not asking for Taylor Swift. I'm asking for someone you actually know. And this is not a rhetorical question. So just hands up, most gifted person you know. Yes. Vicki. Simon. Why is he the most gifted person you know? Because he's. He can play instruments and is very dedicated in his practice. Wow, Love that. And he does play his instrument here. Thank you. Yes, brilliant. So he's, he's gifted musically. [00:00:48] Speaker B: I think the most gifted, inspiring person I know is just horn. She just is awesome. She inspires me to be a better Christian. She inspires people around her. She can cook, she can play, she cares. She's just an all round wonderful person. I bless the know her. [00:01:08] Speaker A: That is amazing. We need more of Jill in our lives. Okay, anyone else? Anyone else? Most gifted person you know? Anyone? Oh, Simon. Are you going to say Vicky? Okay. I mean, you can. I'm going to have to say my dad, he was a world title winx champion. Wow. Okay. There are gifted people everywhere. Aren't they fantastic? Okay. All right now, next question. What is your greatest gift? So now we just need to park the British mentality of saying you're not very good at things. What is your greatest gift? Come on, Paul. I'm quite good at shooting things. When you say shooting things, you mean literally shooting? When I left school. Okay. So there's always an Olympic sport there for you as well. Anything fantastic. Any other. I'm coming at the back. Yeah, great. That's okay. [00:02:06] Speaker B: My greatest gift is hospitality. I just love people. People. And I love feeding them. [00:02:12] Speaker A: That is brilliant. That is fantastic. Thank you. Anyone else? Come on, one more. Just park that British feeling. Just tell me what you're good at. Being a jack of all trades. Okay. So you're actually good at everything. That's what we need. Great. Fantastic. I love that. Okay. I, growing up, I wanted to be a footballer, like many, many of us. And I loved Cristiano Ronaldo. Now, I don't know if you know who that is. One of the greatest footballers ever played for my team, Manchester United. Also one of the greatest teams ever. And I thought just to show you the kind of thing I was trying to emulate growing up, I thought I should just play a quick video of Cristiano Ronaldo. Come on. There we go. Cristiano Ronaldo. What a player. Now here's the thing. I wasn't that gifted at football. That was a bit of a problem, I would say. My dad, he was very gifted. Almost all of that talent went to one of my brothers. Now, one of my brothers is here today. I would say he got some of it, but one of our other brothers kind of got 90%. So my brother Ruach is at the back there. He's a good footballer. Now, the thing is, I wanted to be like Ronaldo because the world tells us that we should desire gifting, we should desire to be the best, and that that is the way we're going to be fulfilled. That is the way to happiness. But that's not what the Bible tells us. The Bible teaches us that being gifted is the only is only the first part of the story. But how we steward that gifting is way more important to God. So today I'm going to talk a little bit about the story of Joseph from the Old Testament. Now, I don't know if you know your Bible well, but let me tell you, it's a long passage. So you were pleased to know that I found this video which is going to summarize the story for us. So Joseph, Joseph was gifted. He was gifted prophetically, he was wise. But what I want us to think about to start with, is what was the fruit of those gifts. So turn with me to Genesis 37. We're going to read part of the story starting at verse one. Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed, the land of Canaan. This is the account of Jacob's family line. So we're at Genesis 37. Joseph, a young man of 17, 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. Now, Israel, that's Jacob, 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 robe for him. 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. Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him all the more. He said to them, listen to this dream I had. We were binding sheaves of grain out in the field, when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheeps gathered round mine and and bowed down to it. 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. 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 11 stars were bowing down to me. 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? His brothers were jealous of him. But his father kept the matter in mind. Now his brothers had gone to graze their father's flocks near Shechem. And Israel said to Joseph, as you know, your brothers are grazing the flocks near Shechem. Come. I am going to send you to them. Very well, he replied. So he said to him, go and see if all is well with your brothers and with the flocks. And bring word back to me that he sent him off from the valley of Hebron. We're going to skip a couple of verses. 16 so Joseph went after his brothers and found them near Dothan. But they saw him in the distance. And before he reached them, they plotted to kill him. Here comes that dreamer. They said to each other. Come now, let's kill him and throw him in one of these cisterns. And say that a ferocious animal devoured him. Then we'll see what comes of his dreams. When Reuben heard this, he tried to rescue him from their hands. Let's not take his life, he said. Don't shed any blood. Throw him into the cistern here in the wilderness, but don't lay a hand on him. Reuben said this to rescue him from their hand from them and take him back to his father. When Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe, the ornate robe he was wearing. And they took him and threw him into the cistern. The cistern was empty. There was no water in it. As they sat down to eat their meal. They looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were loaded with spices, balm and myrrh. And they were on their way to take them down to Egypt. Judah said to his brothers, what will we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood? Come now, let's sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay our hands on him. After all, he is our brother, our own flesh and blood. His brothers agreed. So when the Midianite merchants came by. His brothers pulled Joseph up out of the cistern. And sold him for 20 shekels of silver to the Ishmaelites who took him to Egypt. When Reuben returned to the cistern, and saw that Joseph was not there, he tore his clothes. He went back to his brothers and said, the boy isn't there. Where can I turn now? Then they got Joseph's robe, slaughtered a goat and dipped the robe in the blood. They took the ornate robe back to their father and said, we found this. Examine it to see whether it is your son's robe. He recognized it and said, it is my son's robe. Some ferocious animal has devoured him. Joseph has surely been torn to pieces. Then Jacob tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and mourned for his son many days. All his sons and daughters came to comfort him. But he refused to be comforted. No, he said, I will continue to mourn until I join my son in the grave. So his father wept for him. Meanwhile, the Midianites sold Joseph in Egypt to Potiphar, one of Pharaoh's officials, the captain of the guard. We're going to move on to Genesis 39 and just read a little bit about Joseph and Potiphar starting at verse 2. The Lord was with Joseph, so that he prospered and lived in the house of his Egyptian master. When his master saw that the Lord was with him and that the Lord gave him success in everything he did, Joseph found favor in his eyes and became his attendant. Potiphar put him in charge of his household, and he entrusted to his care everything he owned. From the time he put him in charge of his household out of all that he owned, the Lord blessed the household of the Egyptian. Because of Joseph. The blessing of the Lord was on everything Potiphar had, both in the house and in the field. So Potiphar left everything he had in Joseph's care. With Joseph in charge, he did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate. Now, Joseph was well built and handsome. And after a while, his master's wife took notice of Joseph and said, come to bed with me. But he refused. With me in charge. She told her, my master does not concern himself with anything in the house. Everything he owns has been entrusted to my career. No one is greater in this house than I am. My master has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God? And though she spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her or even be with her. One day he went into the house to attend his duties, and none of the household servants was inside. She caught him by his cloak and said, come to bed with me. But he left his cloak in her hand and ran out of the house. When she saw that he had left his cloak in her hand and had run out of the house, she called her household servants. Look, she said to them, this Hebrew has been brought to us to make sport of us. He came in here to sleep with me, but I screamed. When he heard me scream for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house. She kept his cloak beside her until his master came home. Then she told him this story. That Hebrew slave you brought us came to me to make sport of me. But soon as I screamed for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house. When his master heard the story his wife told him, saying, this is how your slave treated me, he burned with anger. Joseph's master took him and put him in prison, the place where the king's prisoners were confined. But while Joseph was there in the prison, the Lord was with him. He showed him kindness and granted him favor in the eyes of the prison warden. So the warden put Joseph in charge of all those held in the prison. And he was made responsible for all that was done there. The warden paid no attention to anything under Joseph's care because the Lord was with Joseph and gave him success in whatever he did. We're going to pause there. So, Joseph, let's just think back to the start of his story. He has this dream. He's favored by his father. Now, I can assure you, if I saw any hint of favoritism towards one of my brothers, I was on it and speaking to my parents. But they were very good. They were very fair. Should Joseph have told his brothers about the dream he had? Have a little think about that. He had this prophetic dream. Was it wise to tell his brothers about it? I'd say it probably wasn't. And it probably was rooted in pride. He thought, brilliant. I'm going to rule over my brothers. And yet I'm currently one of the youngest. The result was that actually his brothers became even more jealous and hated him even more. And they sold him to be a slave. But God was with him, and it grew in wisdom. And the thing was, even though he was a slave, he was free because he trusted God. He didn't harbor unforgiveness or bitterness towards his brothers. In fact, that isn't mentioned at all until he sees his brothers again. If he had given into temptation with Potiphar's wife, I think he would have been enslaved. He would have been a slave to his own desires. That said, you know you want this, you need this. He would have taken something that didn't belong to him, his master's wife. He said, it doesn't belong. You know, Potiphar's given me everything apart from you, because you are his wife. And he would have sinned against God. You know, sometimes we can dress these things up and say, oh, you know, he could have said, well, I need this relationship. I need intimacy. But he didn't. He said, how can I do such a wicked thing and sin against God? So Joseph remembered what he had to lose. His innocence, the trust of his master, but probably most importantly, his inner peace. So he flees that temptation. And that is the model for us when we're trying to resist temptation, to just flee it. We are more than our desires, and we must learn with God's help to master them and not to be mastered by them. Now, it costs Joseph, doesn't it, to resist that temptation? But God saved him. You see, in those times, if someone was suspected or was believed to be guilty of the kind of crime that Potiphar's wife is accusing him of, he would have been put to death. But he's not. He's thrown in prison. And that may be because Potiphar doesn't fully believe that story. And interestingly, the captain of the guard, that's the prison where Joseph is, is Potiphar. And he puts him in charge of all the prisoners. So Joseph was wise and faithful to God while he was there. And I think sometimes in life we have these moments, a bit like Joseph did with Potiphar, where God allows us to be tested. Now, you may not know much about me or my life, but I spent quite a while acting professionally. And when I was on that journey of trying to train and become an actor, I was 19, we were living near Nottingham, and I had been in this play at this amateur theatre. It was good standards. And they told me about another play they were doing called the Graduate. Now, that's been made into a film, but it's also a play. And they said, caleb, you would be brilliant in this play. We think you are ideally cast for this play. And I thought, oh, great, sounds exciting. But then I read the play and I realized that this character that everyone was saying would be perfect for me had these scenes with this other character, these sex scenes. I thought, oh, no, I don't know if I want to do that. I felt in my spirit that this wasn't right. But there was also this big part of me that thought, yeah, but this could really help me. This could be great experience. I had this Moment, like I was standing on the edge of a precipice, and I had to decide, will I trust in God and choose to honor him, or will I pursue acting and make that my idol? And I chose to honor God. I said, do you know what? Thank you. I know you're all telling me this, that I should go for this role, but I'm not going to go for it. And I remember someone saying to me, you know, if you want to be a serious actor, at some point, you've got to do serious roles. And I remember that as I progressed. But God was so faithful to me and he honored me for that decision. And interestingly, I was at a drama school. There were two plays, and I read the play. I read both of them, and I thought, I do not want to be in that play because the themes and the content is horrible. But I thought, I've got to audition for both. And I thought I was like, oh, do I not do a good audition for that one and do a good one for the other one? Anyway, I did my best of both. But God, I was cast in the first one. And that for me, was God saying, look, I'm looking after you and I'm protecting you. So if you're in that position, just think really hard about whether you're going to give in to that temptation, whatever that may be, or whether you're going to honor God. And when we look at Joseph's life, we see that the fruit of him honoring God was abundant. So Joseph, he was a great leader. He had this gift of leadership, didn't he? Wherever he went, I mean, apart from with his brothers. At the start, he was a leader in Potiphar's house, in prison, and eventually in Egypt. Now, I think what's really interesting is for us to think about what the fruit of his leadership was. God blessed Potiphar's household because of Joseph. Now, he could have used that position for himself, but he didn't. Potiphar saw that God was real because of the way Joseph led. It says when his master saw that the Lord was with him and that the Lord gave him success at everything he did, Joseph found favor in his eyes and became his attendant. So there's something amazing about the fact that his leadership, just by leading with integrity and honoring God, it revealed God to his boss. And I think that's incredible. So then he finds himself in prison and he's put in charge of all the prisoners. And there's this moment. Now, I'm not going to read this bit because we're limited on time, but he's in prison. And he asks these prisoners, why do you look so sad today that now this is the cupbearer and the baker. Now, he could have chosen to have a mentality of being a victim, a victim mentality. He had a lot of valid reasons to be angry. He'd been sold into slavery, he'd been falsely accused and thrown into prison. Of anyone in scripture, you could say, well, he was a victim, and in many ways he was an innocent victim. But he didn't continue to blame others for his circumstances or believe that the world was out to get him. He didn't avoid taking ownership for his own sin and his own wrongdoing. And he was not disempowered. He said, my identity is rooted not in being a victim, but in God. God is still at work in my life. So he concerned himself with others. He said, why are you so sad? And they told him about these dreams, and they were troubled by these dreams. Again, there's this moment where he could have taken glory for himself. Now, I've acted a lot in life, and at the end it's great. People hopefully clap and they're really pleased with your performance and all of that. It's so tempting to say, yes, look at what I did. This is a moment where he could have said, yes, I can interpret dreams because of me. But he doesn't. He says, do not interpretations belong to God? Do not interpretations belong to God? He wanted to bring peace to their troubled souls. And he was faithful, delivering quite a difficult message. To one, he said, you will be raised up by Pharaoh and restored to your position. And to the other, you will have your body impaled on a spike. So if you're thinking, oh, I don't want to deliver this bad piece of news, even though I feel like it's right, just think of Joseph and think, at least I don't have to tell someone, you're going to be killed. So the fruit of his leadership was good, because actually, it's probable that the baker was guilty of treason. So Joseph was powerful. He had a position, didn't he? How did he use what was the fruit of that authority? We're going to read a little bit of Genesis 41. So we're going to start at verse 15. And this is really when Pharaoh has had a dream. So 41, verse 15. Pharaoh said to Joseph, I had a dream and no one can interpret it. But I have heard it said of you that when you hear a dream, you can interpret it. I cannot do it, replied Joseph to Pharaoh. But God will give Pharaoh the answer he desires. Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, in my dream, I was standing on the bank of the Nile, when out of the river there came up seven cows, fat and sleek, and they grazed among the reeds. After them, seven other cows came up, scrawny and very ugly and lean. I had never seen such ugly cows in all the land of Egypt. The lean, ugly cows ate up the seven fat cows that came up first. But even after they ate them up, no one could tell that they had done so. They looked just as ugly as before. Then I woke up in my dream. I saw seven heads of grain, full and good, growing on a single stalk. After them, seven other heads sprouted, withered and thin and scorched by the east winds. The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads. I told this to the magicians, but none of them could explain it to me. Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, the dreams of Pharaoh are one and the same. God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do. The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good heads of grain are seven years. It is one and the same dream. The seven lean, ugly cows that came up afterwards are seven years. And so are the seven worthless heads of grain scorched by the east wind. They are seven years of famine. It is just as I said to Pharaoh. God has shown Pharaoh what he is about to do. Seven years of great abundance are coming throughout the land of Egypt. But seven years of famine will follow them. Then all the abundance in Egypt will be forgotten, and the famine will ravage the land. The abundance in the land will not be remembered because the famine that follows it will be so severe. The reason that the dream was given to Pharaoh in two forms is that the matter has been firmly decided by God, and God will do it soon. And now let Pharaoh look for a discerning and wise man and put him in charge of the land of Egypt. Let Pharaoh appoint commissioners over the land to take a fifth of the harvest of Egypt during the seven years of abundance. They should collect all the food of these good years that are coming and store up the grain under the authority of Pharaoh, to be kept to the cities for food. This food should be held in reserve for the country, to be used during the seven years of famine that will come upon Egypt, so that the country may not be ruined by the famine. The plan seemed good to Pharaoh and to all his officials. So Pharaoh asked them, can we find anyone like this man, one in whom is the spirit of God. Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, since God has made all this known to you, there is no one so discerning and wise as you. You shall be in charge of my palace and all my people are to submit to your orders. Only with respect to the throne will I be greater than you. Joseph was faithful and wise. He had to wait a long time for the word of God to be fulfilled over his life. It says in the Scriptures that when he became. When he was put in charge by Pharaoh over basically everything, he was 30 years old, 13 years from when he had that dream with his brothers. Now, often we're impatient, aren't we? If God has spoken a word over our lives, we want it to be fulfilled. Now it says in the scriptures in Lamentations 3, the Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him. It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord. When I was 17, I was thinking about what I wanted to do with my life and I felt this call from God to go into acting. So I applied for drama school. Didn't get in. I took a gap year. I applied for eight drama schools. I didn't get in. So I went to university and I studied drama. And I felt that was right afterwards I joined Salt Mine as an actor, which is a Christian theatre company, and I got in straight away. And it was five years since that first call on my life to go into acting that I got into Salt Mine. And during that time in my life, and I believe in our lives when we're waiting, God is forming us into his likeness. He's preparing us for what lays ahead, what lies ahead. Imagine if Joseph had been put in charge of everything that Pharaoh had for him when he was 17, would he have been in a position to lead selflessly, to give glory to God, or would he have been able to resist the temptations that would have been there? I think he might have struggled. Now Joseph's faithfulness is rewarded with responsibility. And ultimately God uses him to save Egypt and to save his own family from famine. He uses. He grows his skills in administration and leadership, his knowledge of Egyptian culture, so that he's ready to prepare an entire country for seven years of famine. And interestingly, he remembers God's faithfulness to him when he names his children. So this is later, in Genesis 41, he says he named his firstborn Manasseh, saying, it's because God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father's household. And the second, he named Ephraim and said it is because God has made me fruitful in the land of my suffering. So often we resist and we try to get away from suffering, but actually, sometimes God is saying, I want you there and I'm going to make you fruitful. It can seem like the world is going wrong. I'm sorry, I'm aware of time, but just a few more minutes, if that's okay. I work for the British Transport Police. I work as a video producer, making videos of all different kinds. And I had some video equipment that I needed to take back into Exeter police station. And I go in there and I see one of the officers sitting there called Ben. And I say, hey, how are you? They said, oh, living the dream. And that's code. They all say that to me every time I go in. That's code for atrociously. But I'm alive and we're getting through it. And I said, oh, oh, that's a shame. We get chatting and he says, oh, you know, just the world, isn't it? Everything's going wrong. The world's going down the pan. I said, oh, what makes you say that? And sometimes I've just said, oh, yeah, I know what you mean. I said, well, what makes you say that? He said, well, cost of living wars in Iran, Ukraine, Gaza, terrible things going on. They have this sort of sense of despair now when Joseph arrives on the scene, there's a sense the world is going wrong. Because actually, God's given Abraham a promise that he will be the father of many nations. But Jacob has got children by different wives, and there's division and violence between them. There's unrighteousness and intermarriage with foreign nations. His brothers, I don't know if you noticed, his brothers want to defeat the plan of God for his life by saying, you know, we'll see what becomes of this dream. They wanted him to die. But no one can defeat God's plans. Now, interestingly, please do read this. If you read on in Genesis 41, you'll get to read about his brothers, but I want to just touch on it. So his brothers were enslaved by this terrible choice they'd made. They sell Joseph into slavery. They lie to his dad about what's happened to him. And they don't want to go to Egypt, but they're driven there by hunger, and they don't want to go because they know that Joseph is there, enslaved, or maybe dead. And so when Joseph sees them, they've come to him and said, we need food. He recognizes them. And God uses Joseph to test Them to see if they've changed, but also to reveal their need to be saved and to be forgiven given. So God tests them by so Joseph, he questions them about Benjamin, his. His youngest brother. And then he puts the silver they bought to pay for the food back in their sacks. And they get home and he wants to know, what are they going to do with that money they sold him for 20 shekels of silver? What are they going to do with this money? They decide eventually to return it. Now, when they come back again, they expect to be seized as slaves, but they're actually shown great honor. They eat with Joseph and then he tests them again by framing Joseph for the theft of this cup. And they come back and instead of. It's interesting, when they discover the theft, they all tear their clothes in sorrow and horror and they all go back to Egypt. They don't abandon their brother as they did with Joseph. They go back and they bow before him, fulfilling that dream that he had. Now, interestingly, in this moment, and I want to quote it because I think it's really interesting, Judah, who was the one who said, let's sell Joseph, he says, let me take the place of Benjamin. He says, now then, please let your servant remain here as my Lord's slave in place of the boy and let the boy return with his brothers. How can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? No, do not let me see the misery that would come on my father. What change? He's willing to take his brother's place rather than let him stay as a slave. Joseph reveals who he is. He forgives them and shows compassion on them. And the whole family moved to Egypt and the relationship between him and his brothers is restored. And Abraham's God's promise to Abraham is one step closer to being fulfilled. Now, Joseph is a foreshadowing of Jesus. The world seems to be going wrong. And Jesus comes and said, I am the Savior that you need. I am the one who will save you from your wrongdoing and restore you to right relationship with me. Just go back to my story with Ben, my little chat. We get chatting and I say to him, so why do you think everything's going wrong? What's the reason? He said, well, because, you know, we as a nation, we're a Christian nation, but we've gone away from those values. That's really interesting. We get chatting and he reveals that, oh yeah, I'm a Christian, but I don't think you need to go to church. I don't think you need to read your Bible to be a Christian. I was like, oh, that's. That's interesting. He said, I was christened as a child, so, you know, I'm a Christian. And I said, well, in Romans 3:23, it says, all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. I didn't quite quote it as perfectly as that, but I quoted that verse and I said it suggests that the starting point for becoming a Christian is. Is an acknowledgement that I've done stuff wrong and that I need a savior. I said, do you think you need to be saved? And he thinks for a moment and he says, I'm pretty sure I'm a Christian already. I said, well, there's one way to be sure, and that's to give your life to Jesus right now. I said, do you want to do that? He hesitates. I think it's really interesting because it's so easy to look at the world and think they're the problem. Those people out there need to change. But actually the problem is in here. Our selfishness, our pride, our sin. We need a savior to come into our world to see our sin and to reconcile us and restore us to right relationship with God. Sadly, Ben declined to be a Christian, become a Christian, but I did get to pray for him. And the thing I love about Joseph is that we see a man who, you know, he's faithful, but he is just a man. It's so easy to look at these people and think that is unattainable. I've been a Christian for a long time, since I was 7. And I have not been perfect at all. I've made big mistakes, but I've never really got away from God. Thought I'm going to just abandon this idea of being Christian. And the thing is, every now and again, I get this temptation, this feeling that perhaps, do you really know what it's like out there? Maybe you should try that other way. How do you know that what you have right now is the best thing, is the right thing, is the most fulfilling life. But when I read about Joseph, I see a man who was faithful and his legacy was life. He chose to honor God in all things. And that is the way to a fruitful, fulfilled life with God. Why don't we stand, Matt? Could you guys just come up with the band? You are called to be fruitful. You're called to use your gifts, your position and your time to be fruitful in God's kingdom. What is God's Word over your life? What's he called you to? Perhaps you don't know what that is. Maybe you need someone to pray for you, that you would get a sense of what His Word is. Or maybe you need patience as you're being prepared for that Word to be fulfilled. Are you like Joseph when actually the Word is being fulfilled? He's leading Egypt, but he needs to be faithful. He needs help to resist temptation and to trust in God. Or are you like Joseph's brothers who need a savior, who need to repent of their wrongdoing and to be restored to relationship with God?