Outline // Sunday School #5: Joseph & The Coat of Many Colors

Genesis 37:18-20
Joseph was UNOFFENDABLE.

The enemy LOVES to divide a church!  He loves it!  Because a unified church is TERRIFYING to the enemy.  A unified church is POWERFUL, and a praying church is EFFECTIVE!  God moves on behalf of a unified, praying church, so of course the enemy wants us divided and offended at each other. Of course he wants us gossiping, and judging each other.  

The enemy is a mocker. The dreamer…the favorite…the one who’s soooo blessed and highly favored….it’s DRIPPING with jealousy and mockery.

2 Peter 3:3 / Jude 1:18-19
Mockers have no fear of the Lord.  And they use their mocking to justify all kinds of evil behavior.
Psalm 1:1-3
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO ENTERTAIN A MOCKER.  You do not have to stand around with sinners.  You hear someone mocking or letting their jealousy show, or gossiping around you, or whatever it is.  YOU DO NOT HAVE TO ENTERTAIN IT.  You WANT to entertain it.  

JEALOUSY makes you do CRAZY things.  Jealousy is SO destructive.

Start being GRATEFUL for what He HAS given you, and stop focusing on what you DON’T have.  Begin by writing a gratitude list! Gratitude is the antidote to SO MANY spiritual maladies.

Proverbs 27:4 / Proverbs 14:30

Absolutely no man, woman, child, or devil can ever get you out of the will of God, except you.  
No one, but you, can knock you off course.
Bitterness clouds everything.  It’s like a shade put over your eyes, once you let bitterness in, it taints everything you see.
Genesis 45:5-8
Genesis 50:19-21
YOUR attitude, YOUR faith level, YOUR level of offense with God (or His people)  is the only thing that can get you out of the will of God.
Psalm 37:23 / Proverbs 16:9
Offended people = it’s all about ME. How badly I’ve been treated…how tough I’ve had it.
They can’t see the preparation of God in it.
1 Peter 1:6-7
Isaiah 48:10
From John Bevere: “Often the thing that looks like an abortion of God’s plan actually ends up being the road to its fulfillment…if we stay in OBEDIENCE and FREE FROM OFFENSE.”

Search your heart. Repent of offense, jealousy, mockery, bitterness.