Opening The Way for Family Reconciliation

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Opening The Way for Family Reconciliation

• Genesis 421-7 4414-34

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Opening The Way For Family Reconciliation

• Family reconciliations are hard to achieve
• Josephs family relationships were badly
  fractured

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A. Ten Sleeping Consciences 421-7

• The seven year famine begins
• Ten middle-aged brothers
• Ten sleeping consciences
• Meeting Joseph in Egypt

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B. Two Testing Exams 427-20, 25-26 441-13

• The vertical test where were they
  spiritually?
• The horizontal test their attitude to family
  members?

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C. The Exam Results 4221-23,28 4414-34

• Their consciences were reactivated
• They admitted personal responsibility for sin
• There was evidence of genuine change of attitude

Avoid putting band-aids on boils!Ask the Lord
for courage to move forward