December 24, 2021 6:00 am
Forgiveness is not ignoring a matter but resolving it before God. Joseph's experiences of being sold and jailed did not enslave his faith to bitterness, showing that true faith can overcome adversity.
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Maybe others have done something to you and you just won't let it go. Or maybe you've done something to you and you won't forgive yourself.
Maybe you blame God. To forgive is to not ignore but it is to settle it. It is to resolve the matter. It is to put it in its place before God and not in its place before you. Or someone else. Who is not forgiven?
Join us after today's message to hear more information about Cross Reference Radio. Specifically how you can get a free copy of this teaching. Now here's Pastor Rick with the conclusion of his study called Forgetting Those Things in Philippians chapter 3. Later, after being sold by his brothers, he was then sold to Potiphar and most of you know the story. Then he was jailed for obeying God. For holding true to God. He was jailed for obeying God in the house that he contributed so much to.
He was a blessing where he was. We read in Genesis 39, and his master saw that Yahweh was with him and that Yahweh made all he did to prosper in his hands. His own brothers sold him and then he is sent to jail for refusing to sin.
What taste did that leave in Joseph's mouth? What did that do to his religion? To his belief in God? To be so abandoned by God? No blessings going on. In fact, when something seemed to be a blessing, it turned into a disaster. But those things could not enslave his faith to bitterness. It did not work. If hell was trying to...
