I'm I'm Sometimes God will orchestrate circumstances in our lives to uncover buried guilt or hidden sins, giving us a second chance to repent.

But is remorse the same thing as repentance?

Today on Truth for Life, Alastair Begg explores the Bible's definition of genuine repentance and explains why it's vital for our salvation.

Having read the second half of chapter 42, it ought to be clear to all of us that this story is building, that the pressure in it is building up.

That the famine, which had happened as God said it would, has turned the thoughts of Jacob towards Egypt, because only in Egypt was there food to be found at this time, and he has dispatched

his sons, ten of them at least, to make the journey into Egypt, taking with them money,

etc., so that they would secure the provisions necessary for the starving

households that they had left behind.

And last time, as we looked in the opening half of Chapter 42, we had described for us this

quite amazing scene, whereby Joseph, as it says in verse 6, the governor of the land, selling the grain to the people,

in some encounter, which was probably unique insofar as we can't imagine that Joseph was

involved in giving out all the grain to the multitudes of people who came, but it was

providential that he would be present on this

particular occasion, and when he looks out on the crowd, in the midst of all of those unnamed

and unknown faces, he suddenly picks out his ten brothers. And suddenly, 20 years of his life, presumably flashes back before him.

And he's back instantaneously in his mind's eye to that cruel scene whereby these same

fellows had taken him because they were so despitefully jealous of him, and had sold him after a spell in the pit,

which almost led to his death, had sold them to these Ishmaelite travellers,

who had, of course, in turn, sold them in to the custody of Potiphar's household.

Now, if you try and get underneath the story, if you try and enter

into the event, thinking as you do of what it would be like for you to be in the circumstances

of Joseph, who, after all, was simply an ordinary man of like passions as we, how do you think

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