Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, May 27th.

If you find it difficult to let go of the pain caused by others, take heart.

You are not alone.

The story of Joseph offers a powerful example, teaching us to embrace forgiveness and extend grace to one another. If you have been deeply hurt in the past

and you are still struggling with the capacity to forgive the person who wronged you,

if you will listen very carefully to this message, God could set you free, liberate you from the awesome sense of the weight of an

unforgiving spirit. The Bible has a lot to say about forgiveness, but at no place in the

scripture does it say that I can ever justify an unforgiving spirit.

Every aspect of life is affected by an unforgiving spirit.

One of the most beautiful examples of a forgiving spirit is to be found in the Old Testament.

And one of the best ways that teach a great spiritual principle is to find somebody in the Bible who is the perfect example

of that principle. I don't know of anybody in the Old Testament who could even begin to match

the attitude that Joseph had, who understood, who experienced hurt, but whose forgiving spirit is so

evident. So if you'll turn to the 50th chapter

of the book of Genesis, the last chapter of the book of Genesis, Joseph, if you'll recall,

was sold into a caravan going to Egypt as a teenager. And now the scripture says his father has

died. They carried his bones up into Canaan,

where his father requested to be buried. And now Joseph, the prime minister, is back, and his brothers

are carrying on a conversation. The scripture says in verse 14 of the 50th chapter,

and after he had buried his father, Joseph

returned to Egypt, he and his brothers and all who had gone up with him to bury his father.

When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, what if Joseph should bear a grudge

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