Genesis 44:18–34
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in an age of cheap apologies and flimsy regrets. Our therapeutic culture has taught us to confuse worldly sorrow, which is little more than the sadness of getting caught, with true repentance, which is a gift of God that fundamentally changes a man from the inside out. For twenty-two years, the sons of Jacob have been living with a ghost. They sold their brother into slavery, dipped his robe in goat's blood, and lied to their father's face. They have been living a lie, and that lie has been eating them alive from the inside. Now, God in His severe mercy has orchestrated a scenario, a divine sting operation, through the very brother they betrayed. Joseph has been testing them, pressing them, putting them in a situation that precisely mirrors their original crime. The central question is this: are they the same men?