Joseph's fear of God and his consciousness of God’s plan for his life empowered Joseph to overcome where others had failed:

1. Joseph was unsupervised, so no one was watching and no one would know…except God who was the judge of all the earth.
2. Potiphar completely trusted Joseph, so Joseph could have created and taken advantage of situations …except Joseph responded faithfully to Potiphar’s trust.
3. Joseph had risen quickly to his position authority which could have made him arrogant and self-indulgent…except Joseph had handled responsibility in his father’s house before and he knew how far and fast a man can fall from his position.
4. Joseph had a reason to think life owed him something and that he needed to take whatever he could when he could to get ahead since he was a foreigner, in a foreign land, speaking a foreign language because he had been betrayed by his brothers and forced into slavery…except he knew God had a plan and this was not the way the two dreams had ended.
5. Joseph already had access to everything that Potiphar had, but for this one thing. Eve and Adam found self-justification for taking that one forbidden thing in a situation similar to Joseph’s…except Joseph told himself that he was content with what he had.

Wisdom and self-control prevented Joseph from separating himself from God’s plan. Finally, in the Genesis account we encounter a man who will fear God and live in obedience to God’s ways and wisdom. This man will suffer, but he will always rise and prosper.

"There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained."
- Winston Churchill

Dinesh D'Souza makes these statements and supports them in his bestselling book, "What's So Great About Christianity."

1. Christianity is the main foundation of Western civilization, the root of our most cherished values.

2. The latest discoveries of modern science support the Christian claim that there is a divine being who created the universe.

3. Darwin's theory of evolution, far from undermining the evidence for supernatural design, actually strengthens it.

4. There is nothing in science that makes miracles impossible.

5. It is reasonable to have faith.

6. Atheism, not religion, is responsible for the mass murders of history.

7. Atheism is motivated not be reason but by a kind of cowardly moral escapism.