Thank you. If you want to climb a mountain, it's smart to seek advice from those who have already reached the summit, but it's important to hear what they learned at the base long before they began their climb.

Today on Truth for Life,

Alistair Begg considers a man who rose to great heights, but he begins with some important

lessons learned in the dungeon. You will recall that we left Joseph in the dungeon. We learned a number of lessons from his

response to his circumstances and finalized our study last time by paying attention to the fact

that he seized the opportunity, even though his own predicament was grave, to look out for the well-being of others.

And he did not miss the chance to help others. He could so easily have done so as a result of some

selfish preoccupation. But he exercised his responsibilities and his privileges with great care and compassion.

And particularly, as we're told here, in the lives of two individuals, individuals who are

identified as being a cup bearer and a chief baker. And we should not somehow denigrate their role as a result of that, but recognize that

within the framework of Pharaoh's government, these were strategic responsibilities. As we said

before, anything to do with the provision of food and the infrastructure that related to that,

particularly anything that the pharaoh would be eating

was a matter of great concern. And so only a certain group of people would be appointed to that

kind of task. Now, these two chaps found themselves in the jail. Indeed, they were in the same dungeon

as the one in which we discovered Joseph. And in the course of time, we're told that

they had these dreams. And in the course of Joseph's response to these dreams, we are going to

discover a number of lessons. We should know just in passing that by means of these dreams, we are reminded of the fact that God is able to impress upon the hearts of men and women, even of those who do not know him, an awareness of his presence. He is able to impress upon the hearts of men and women, even those who do not know him,

an awareness of his presence.

By your own testimony, and I speak with some of you, you would be honest enough to say that

you have not come to a personal living faith in Jesus Christ, but for some reason you are

here, and you have begun to conclude that somehow or another, God is

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