R.C. Sproul

Your servants are not spies.

Here you have truth mixed with lies.

We are all one man's sons.

That's true.

We are honest men.

That's not true.

Your servants are not spies.

That is true.

But he said, no, you've come to see the nakedness of the land.

And they said, your servants are 12 brothers, the son of one man in the land of Canaan.

And in fact, the youngest is with our father today, and one is no more.

So inadvertently, they're revealing information to Joseph that Joseph wants desperately to hear.

Now he knows that his brother Benjamin is still alive.

And he also realizes that they're assuming that he

Joseph is dead.

But Joseph said to them, It is as I spoke to you, saying, You are spies.

In this manner you shall be tested by the life of Pharaoh.

Interesting oath that he swears by Pharaoh.

You shall not leave this place unless your youngest brother comes here.

send one of you and let him bring your brother, and you shall be kept in prison, that your words may be tested to see whether there's any truth in you.