Paul, on the verge of giving up is given a major victory. Then God gives Him a much needed season of rest.

We often pile on the Pharisees and Sadducees for seeing all they did and not believing. Yet we ignore those that did believe.

My point this morning is this, Jesus preached to men who hated Him so much they ultimately plotted to have Him killed.

However, some believed. When you are down thinking no one is hearing, keep on. They are, we may not know till we get to the other side but keep on witnessing, testifying, and being a testimony.

The Pharisees and Sadducees saw the demons cast out, the deaf to hear, the blind to see, the lame to walk but they did not believe.

They did not want to believe for it would mess up their power, their authority and their money.

We will cover days 5,6 and 7 of Creation.

The Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul and the Lord sent a bitter spirit to trouble Saul.

In Matthew 6 we get a Model prayer, A template if you will.

The Apostles ask Jesus to teach them how to pray and He gives them a model that we can benefit from.

That is how the Bible starts. God set all in motion, God made all you see, feel, hear, smell and touch.

If you can not agree with that then throw your Bible out and go fishing. For the Holy Bible the Word of God says God created all. You can not be a Christian and disagree with that.

All of our Bible is predicated on "In the beginning God".

The 7 churches of Revelations, many can name the churches of Ephesus, Laodicea,and Philadelphia, but few know Pergamos.

God has said, in Words written in red, that if they do not repent He Himself will come and will stand against them.

The Nicolaitans have infiltrated the church and they are teaching self indulgence, all things are lawful so do it. God hates that.

They are teaching the ways of Balak and Micah, buying the leaders to hear what they want to hear rather than what God says.

Many will say that Joseph prospered because God ordered his steps, and God did. Many will say Joseph prospered because God blessed him, and God did.

But Joseph could have lain with Potiphar's wife, could have been sullen and morose and not interpreted the dreams, could have been dejected and asked Pharaoh what he, a prisoner, could do to help Pharaoh.

He did not. He stayed faithful to God! That is why he was blessed. Not because he was Jacob's son, not because he was Joseph.

He was faithful.

The big reveal. Now that they know their brother is alive, they have to go tell their father that they have been lying for 20 yrs, that they have been deceiving him.

Oh how he must have wanted to take a belt to them!!

Joseph is the most powerful in all the land of Egypt, yet before wishing you could be him remember the pit, the prison, betrayed by everyone he knew in life to get to this point.

He had to go through a lot to get a lot. Remember this when you have ideas and dreams of grandeur.