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Jacob is dead, and Joseph's brothers are terrified. They sold him. They watched him disappear toward Egypt. And for seventeen years they have lived under a brother who has every reason and every resource to settle the account. The only thing holding him back, as far as they can tell, was their father. Now their father is gone. So they do what frightened people do. They send a message ahead of themselves rather than going in person. They lean on the authority of a dead man instead of trusting the mercy of a live one. They offer themselves as slaves, hoping to hand back exactly what they took. And Joseph weeps. This message walks through Genesis 50 and the three actions in Joseph's answer that make a heart of forgiveness possible. God's judgment is not ours to carry. His mercy is not ours to keep.

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From Series: "The Genesis Of The Family"