Welcome to a year in the Bible with daily grace. The Bible tells one big story of redemption.

And we want to spend five minutes every day journeying through the Bible from start to

finish and exploring how all of it points to Jesus.

Hey, hey, welcome back to a year in the Bible with daily grace. I am Joanna Kimbrill and

I am your host for this book of Genesis. And today we are talking through four chapters,

Genesis 43 through 46. The last chapter ended with Simeon in custody in Egypt and the rest

of Joseph's brothers back in Canaan. Now, sometime has passed because Jacob and his sons are

running out of food and Jacob want some to go back to Egypt for more. Judah promises

to take responsibility for bringing Simeon back. And honestly, Jacob has no other choice.

He sends them with gifts and double the money they need for food to try to win favor with Joseph.

And he prays to the Lord to show them mercy. Now, when Joseph sees his brothers coming,

he tells the servants to prepare a meal. But the brothers are terrified at why Joseph would be

bringing them into his house. And so they try to explain themselves and that they don't know how

the money got in their bags and to repay double. But in the midst of their striving to justify

themselves and to somehow repay, Joseph says, peace your God and the God of your fathers put the

money in your sacks. What a beautiful picture of Jesus Christ to come. In all of our striving and

scrambling to make up for our faults and sins, Jesus provides the payment, his own life,

and he makes peace with us and God. When it was time for the meal, the brothers presented

the present to Joseph. But Joseph seemed more interested in them and their family. He asks that

their father is still alive. And of course, it's Joseph's father too, remember. And he meets Benjamin,

his brother for the first time. He has so much compassion for his brothers, the brothers who

wanted to kill him and sold him into slavery, that he has to run out of the room before he bursts

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