06/09/2026
📖Hatred and Forgiveness📖
📌 Today’s Message from Genesis 50:15-21
After their father Jacob died, Joseph’s brothers were terrified. They thought, “Now Joseph will hate us and pay us back for all the evil we did to him.”
🙇♀️But Joseph’s response was powerful:
✅“Do not fear, for am I in the place of God?
As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good…
So do not fear; I will provide for you and your little ones.”
(Genesis 50:19-21)
✅What a beautiful picture of true forgiveness!
Joseph didn’t deny the pain or the wrong that was done to him.
Yet he chose not to repay hatred with hatred.
He saw God’s bigger purpose and chose mercy, kindness, and care instead.
✅Today’s message challenges us:
When people hurt us, will we hold on to hatred… or will we follow Joseph’s example and choose forgiveness?
✅Forgiveness doesn’t mean the wound never happened. True forgiveness doesn’t ignore the hurt — it hands the hurt over to God and refuses to let hatred take root.
✅It means we refuse to let bitterness control us, and we trust God to turn even the painful things for good.
✅🙏May the Lord help us to release hatred and walk in the freedom of forgiveness.
✅🙏Let’s pray for soft hearts and the strength to let go.
Thank you Ptr. Paul Eduard U. Abellano for preaching God’s Word to us today! God bless you🙏🥰