Intro: Bitterness held over from high school

I. Joseph and his Brothers

A. Competition and Comparison

1. The poison it can bring to a relationship

2. How God can use bad situations for good

B. What they got over

1. Their jealousy

2. The pain of serious abuse

3. How they got over it

C. What does bitterness or being easily offended do to you?

II. Our obligation to forgive

A. God’s perspective

B. How do you judge genuine repentance?

C. What if no one is repenting?

D. Forgive as the Lord forgave you

III. The capacity to really do this

A. Sharing the divine nature

B. “Put on …”

1. Is it a front or a goal?

2. Obsessing about a past wrong

3. Visualizing reconciliation

C. The emergence of the qualities of God

Do you have any past mistreatment about which you are bitter?

How is becoming a better person superior to revenge?