S6E25 How Do I Work Through Bitterness and Forgiveness

Because when we invite the Holy Spirit, the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit into our lives, he wants to go through our lives and say, huh, not sure if I like this here.

And he likes to go through our lives and point out areas that need to change.

He likes to do some spring cleaning in our lives.

Because when you get saved, you're not the same person and God will not leave you the same person.

He's not interested the way you are.

You can come to Christ as you are, but I can guarantee you he will not leave you the way you are.

Sometimes the Lord will put his finger on our lives and point out something that we have difficulty with.

Some things are easy to give up.

Some of the lads, when they enter into the men's home, they say, well, you know what? The drugs, I'm really glad to let go of those.

I'm glad to say goodbye to the heroin.

I'm so glad to say goodbye to the drinking, but I don't want to give up the cigarettes.

I really struggle with that.

And sometimes God will put his finger on our lives and ask us to give up something that we don't want to give up.

And he will work in our lives.

We're in Genesis chapter 42 this morning, and we're considering a man who had some pretty big things happen in his life.

Joseph had a rough start to his life.

If it wasn't part of his wife falsely accusing him, it was a butler who had forgotten him.

If it wasn't the butler who forgot him, it was Potiphar himself who imprisoned him under false pretenses.

But none of these things would have happened if Joseph's brothers hadn't sold him into slavery to a foreign godless nation.

Some offenses go very deep for us.

Some offenses are really hard to deal with, and it raises the question, how do you deal with it? What do you do when God puts his finger on your life and he says, I want you to deal with this thing here? You've just gotten saved, perhaps.

Or else you've gotten right with God after years of wandering.

And you're on fire.

And you want to be on fire.

And you want to keep going on for God.