Welcome. Welcome to Truth for Life, and before we begin today's program, we want to invite you to keep listening after Alistair's message to hear an update about his book, The Man on the Middle Cross.

Today, we're continuing our study of God's providence in the life of Joseph.

We'll explore the topic of responding to hardship.

Do you endure it without becoming bitter?

When you've been mistreated, do you seek revenge rather than offering forgiveness?

Alisturbeg reminds us of the nature of true biblical forgiveness.

He's beginning in the book of Hebrews.

I can't expound this whole chapter and hope to get back to Genesis 50, but I want to

give you an outline through

it for your own personal study and encouragement. I want you to notice a number of things,

and I'll simply say them without expansion. Notice here that all that God wants has been

accomplished in the giving of His Son, and all that we need in terms of salvation has been accomplished.

We are in Christ, verse 10 tells us, those who have been made holy through the perfect work of Jesus Christ.

The sacrifice of Jesus on the cross is in need of no

contingency plan. It was a once and for all sacrifice. God the Father planned this salvation,

and God the Son procured this salvation, and God the Spirit applies this salvation. You see, what was the great need

of the sacrifice of Jesus? What was the problem? Not our predicament, but God's wrath.

So that in the dying of the Son, the Father's wrath is propitiated. Christ takes the burden of our sin

and our rebellion and our guilt on Him. And we, as a byproduct, discover the wonderful provision

of forgiveness and freedom and hope. Because in the death of Christ,

he has done all in relationship to sin. He has done all in relationship to God, and he has done

all in relationship to Satan. Verse 13, since that time he waits for his enemies to be made

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