R.C. Sproul

I'll let all of you go home except one.

First, only one could go home.

The rest stay in prison.

Now he flip-flops that and says, one of you stays and the rest of you can go home.

And this is your test.

We mentioned in our session today that Joseph played a kind of game.

He entered into a masquerade in which he feigned greater anger towards his brother than he actually felt.

And in so doing, in one sense, mirrored and reflected the way God sometimes manifests himself to us.

Have you ever had the experience of assuming that God was so angry with you that there would be nothing you possibly could do to assuage his wrath?

and to restore a right relationship with Him.

I think it's very important for us as Christians to understand the chastening of God and to understand that even when we come under the discipline of God and God appears, as it were, with a frown on His face,

That this, in reality, is a manifestation of his loving kindness and his filial care for us as his children.

Now, we know that from the word of God.

So we ought never be in despair even when we fall into sin and when we come and repent for which God's chastening is designed to cause us to do.

We ought not then be afraid for the permanent anger of God, but knowing that He loves us.

As they went down the road, a multitude of people came around and put their coats and palm branches on the ground in front of Davy and Jesus.

They began to sing, shout, and wave palms in the air, saying, Hosanna, blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel.

The Donkey Who Carried a King One day a little boy named Riley came home from playing with some other boys in his neighborhood.

He was crying as he came into the kitchen to find his mother.

She saw him and asked, Riley, what's wrong?