 It is the second quarter of the teens cornerstone connection lesson of 2023. For lesson two, we have Baraka on the mission stories. The orchestra, we have Lee and Gorge on the saxophone, Sakai on the trumpet, Suvira on the clarinet, Amy and myself on the violins. Lastly, we have the Sabbath School panel, which is done by the Nairobi Central teens, along with their teen teachers. Enjoy. Happy Sabbath, viewers. My name is Baraka, and I'll be taking us through the second mission story for this quarter. Like the previous one, this mission story will be coming from the country of Romania. And I'll start off by giving out some interesting facts about the country. The modern jet engine was invented by a Romanian man by the name Henry Coanda in the 1950s. Romania is known to be one of the most geographically diverse countries in Europe. And the Adventist message was first preached in Romania in 1869 by Michael Bellin. 10-year-old Catalin wasn't very excited about visiting Mrs. Marinella. Mrs. Marinella and Catalin's mom would regularly have Bible study together. However, Catalin was not interested at all in the Bible study. Like most of us, he only went for the food. Mrs. Marinella would often make saravina, which is a kind of Romanian pastry with cream and a cherry on top. He really enjoyed this cake, but he had zero interest in the Bible study. However, one day something changed as he was eating the cake while listening to the Bible study. He overheard Mrs. Marinella reading from Exodus chapter 20 verse 8, which says, remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. At first, this made no sense at all to Catalin, but the more he listened, the more he began to understand that Saturday was not just any day. It was an important day of the week. Soon enough, his behavior began to change as he stopped doing homework on Saturday. He would postpone his chores to the next day, and he began to read the Bible for himself to find out more and more about why Saturday is an important day. He found he discovered his new favorite verse that was Daniel 12 verse 3, which says, and they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever. From what he understood from this verse, the more you bring people to God, you'll shine like stars forever, which motivated him to invite more and more of his friends for the Bible study, and ultimately to church. The 13th Sabbath offering, a portion of it will go to building an afterschool center for children like Kathleen, where they can learn about God and read the Bible and get to know Jesus better. Sons and daughters of the most high, I greet you all in the name of Jesus Christ. And happy Sabbath. Happy day. Would like to invite you or rather to welcome you on this lesson two, second lesson for this quarter entitled, Can You Do It? But first, before we proceed, I'd like us to introduce the panel. My name is Mi Gok Misau. My name is Grace Waseke. I am Salmon Sipakati. My name is Bendithian Silas. And I am Jonan Magana. Thank you so much, Grace. We'll be happy to pray for us. Okay, let's bow our heads forward of prayer. Our kind and loving father, thank you so much for taking care of us and for enabling us to see another Sabbath. And right now, as we prepare to dig deep into your word, may you be our guide, open up our hearts and help us to understand everything that you're trying to tell us today. In Jesus' name I pray, amen. Amen. Amen. Okay, happy Sabbath everyone once again. Happy day. Yeah, so we'd like to get into our lesson for today. But before we get into that, we'd like to connect it to the previous lesson we did. So this is lesson two in our quarter. And last Sabbath, we studied about Joseph. You know, life is hard work, how he worked so hard to get to his position in the Egyptian government. Now today is a story about reunion. Remember, Joseph, he got to Egypt because he was sold by his brothers. So in this lesson today, we see him reconnecting with his brothers. But before that, let me just give a brief story, okay? It was Sunday, January 8th, 1956. So we have five young missionaries. They flew into the Amazon jungle to go and minister to the natives in Amazon, one of the Indian tribes. Their names were Jim, Nate, Ed, Peter, and Roger. Now these five young people went to Amazon. That was on a Sunday. Now the next day on Monday, their five bodies were found floating on a river in the Amazon. This was the five young missionaries they had been killed by those Indians that had gone to minister to. Now, go back to the United States, where the young missionaries came from. And one of them, their father, was called Dr. Makali. He was so heartbroken by the death of his son. But in his heartbreak, he said, Lord, I just pray for the day that I will see these young people who murdered my son, be transformed by your love so I can just wrap my arms around them and just tell them God loves you. It takes a lot of effort to say that. Now, three years after that death, a sister to one of the missionaries and a widow to one of the missionaries decided to do a mission to the same place where the relatives were killed. So they went there and this time they were successful. They managed to convert so many people. And then some of the Indians who were converted actually baptized the sons belonging to one of the missionaries they had been killed before. And one of the sons who was baptized, his name was Jonathan, right? So Jonathan was called back again by the same Indians about 40 years later to help them establish the fast church there. Now, the question that rains in our lesson today is, could you do it? Could you forgive someone who killed someone that you loved? Now, our story today doesn't really have much to do with murder, more like attempted murder. So we're going to see what really happened to Joseph. What is this that he dared to do and that we asked, could we do it? Silas, what do you think about this? Could you take us, do some of your thoughts on this? I don't mind. So can go through the, what do you think section? Before we start it, I'd ask Salmon to please read for us the book of Romans. Romans 12, 17, repay no one evil for evil. Have regard for good things in the sight of all men. Okay, so I'll read Matthew five or seven and it says, blessed are the merciful, for they shall be shown mercy. So in this lesson we asked, what do you think? Like, what would you like to change in your brother or sister or best friend? And we asked to list five things which would like to change and six things we like. So for me I'd like to change my brother's temper. Why, why his temper? Because he likes, it's unclean. Yeah, so I'd like to change his temper. Is there something you like about him though? Because I'm sure there like two things you might like about him. Okay, his creativity and also how fast he thinks. Well, interesting, interesting. Well, you can get some thoughts on someone else, you can choose someone. Okay, so shall we go, what do you think? Interesting question. From my side, I think what I like about my brother, I have so many brothers, but I'll just, I won't point the name. He's gifted in teaching the word of God and expounding on it. And also his diligence in prayer, when he says that he wants to pray for a certain time, he's very disciplined and commits himself into prayer. Maybe an area of improvement that I've seen will be the aspect of being willing to be taught and also to be shown the direction, sometimes somebody might be stubborn, but I think, and I guess that's part of nature and life. So that's the area that I think will require some improvement. Okay, okay, thank you for those insights. Silesia and Shamigok. Now I'd like to get into our story, but before we get into that, and someone is going to take us through it. So our story is about forgiveness. Basically, that's the theme, the recurring theme. If you were to get away with something in this lesson today is the theme of forgiveness. And we are told that we cannot love our enemies. Let me just surprise you guys. You know, you cannot love your enemies. I know, right? But it's only through Christ's love living in us that we're able to do that. It's not like it's totally impossible. It is possible, but only with Christ. Amen. All right. So Salmon, tell us what is our story about today? Okay, so our story is from Genesis 45. And here is Joseph sitting at his seat, very supreme high. And his brothers, they can as well be regarded as his enemies. So he orders everyone to get out except from his brothers, who have no idea what is happening. And we don't know that standing before them is their long lost brother. So Joseph discloses the secret and says, I am your brother, the one you sold into slavery. So his brothers are frightened. They know they're going to die. From everything we interact with, from movies, TV shows, people are mistreated, but they come up, they rise and they get revenge. To those who mistreated them. So Joseph is at this place, but what does he decide to do? He forgives them. Amen, amen. So he asks them if his father is alive, but they're still speechless really. It's not normal. They know they're going to die. So he comforts them, they weep together. And they say that their father is alive. And so soon after the news goes to Pharaoh, and Pharaoh tells them to bring their father to the land of Egypt. They'll give them the best of their land. Because if it weren't for Joseph, they wouldn't have been that best of that land. They wouldn't have utilized it. So Pharaoh decides to give the fever back. So Joseph's brothers go with chariots and they go to Jacob. So they tell Jacob that they are, that Joseph is alive, but Jacob is in disbelief. But after seeing all the chariots, okay, it's true. There's no way his sons acquired all those chariots. Yeah, definitely. Yeah, so he accepts and he goes back to, he goes to Egypt to see his long lost son before he dies. Amen, amen. Thank you Salomon for that. And we also get a very interesting insight from the same lesson. Chemi Gok probably can take us through that. We have some very interesting factor or something to think about in the did you know section of our lesson. Do you mind reading through that? Yes, indeed. What you're learning here first is the Bible says something very interesting about Jacob that he loved Joseph more than the sons. No wonder he got upset with the children at that time. Joseph was also in slavery for about 10 years and still he forgave his brothers. The question is will you forgive somebody who has hurt you that much? So for 10 years you can imagine how Joseph was feeling. Slavery was a common practice in the ancient times and it was possible to put yourself into slavery if you owed too many people too much money. After Joseph working on Pharaoh's behalf he had taken all the money that the Egyptians had and all the wealth he had acquired all the livestock over a period of time. And I guess this is what made him to acquire a lot of power over a period of time because of the wisdom and the intelligence that he had. Amen, true that and from the previous lesson we learned that it was during the time of drought and the Egyptians had spent all their money during the seven years of drought and they spent all their money buying the grain. Once they were out of money what Joseph did something very wise he took their land in return for giving them food and that's all later on in the long run the Pharaohs owned almost all of the land in Egypt. So that was thanks to Joseph. Yeah, right, indeed. Thank you that Shamigok, Salmon. There's some questions you can get from this lesson. Do you mind just reading us through some of the questions? Yeah, so how much is too much to forgive? How much is too much? The Bible says 70 times seven. How much is too much? Would you forgive someone who's wronging you every time, every time now and then, minute and a minute? Would you mind after you've said all that? Okay, it's a very interesting thing to think about because when a culture where I call it the cut off culture or if someone wrongs you you cut them off you delete their number you don't talk to them again and we don't really have the heart of forgiveness in us anymore but as we had said before it is not easy to forgive people. Let alone someone who wrongs you every single day and you see them but Christ calls for us to love and forgive, okay? There is a verse that in fasts, in Philippians, yes, Philippians 4 verse 12 and 13 you know I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me. All things includes even forgiveness. It's a hard thing to do but with Christ it's we are able to forgive people. So nothing is too much to forgive. Okay, so why did Jacob love Benjamin and Joseph more than his other sons, Jimmy Gok? Just from the facts that I had mentioned earlier we are told that Jacob loved Joseph. At that time he was the favorite before he was sold off to the Egyptians but we are also seeing the previous stories and the previous lessons that we've learned that Jacob also loved Rachel, right? More than Leah. So perhaps we may also conclude safely that the reason why Jacob loved Joseph and Benjamin was it because they were all springs directly from Rachel who was the most loved by Jacob. I think Jimmy Gok that brings in the aspect of favoritism. Yes. I think parents can also divide their children unknowingly. Just showing love to their favorite child. They don't know how much they're damaging the family in the long run. And that affects them in the sense that when growing up you will want to compensate as a child. You'll want to do much more so that you can be able to be loved just like the other person is being loved. But again if your efforts have not been recognized by your parents it's most likely that when you grow up you'll feel like there's some certain emptiness that you're having of affirmation that your parent never gave you. And so if you get this affirmation from somebody else then it's most likely that you'll be influenced by the outside world as opposed to being influenced positively with your parents because they are the first center of instructions or instructor to your life. So I think that's an encouragement to all of us that just in case you're out there and you're offering favoritism to one child or the other even teachers for example. Let's consider to be fair and just like Jesus Christ was fair and just. Amen. Yes Salman. Okay so I have a few more. And so here's one. Would you want to exact revenge on the people who harmed you once you had power? I think Grace can give us a thought on that, all right? Hey honestly for me I'm like a, sorry. I'm like a peace loving kind of person because I know if I exact revenge on these people they're going to make my, you know, my reign more complicated than it already is. So I think I'd rather just put it out. And just to interject again, forgiveness is a very interesting thing because it heals the person who's forgiving more than the person who's being forgiven. You know when you have a grudge in your heart you don't know who's actually hurting more than the person you hold in the grudge against. So by forgiving you're actually relieving yourself. You're doing yourself a favor. Yeah and I don't know why it's hard for us to just once you know just do ourselves a favor and forgive people. It doesn't harm to forgive, right? Maybe just to add on that as well teacher Jonan. I read somewhere that my statement that cut my eye that when you forgive you live a better life. But when you do not forgive, you live a better life. But it's upon us to choose and that choice is borne by you. Choose to forgive. When you forgive you live a better life. Amen, amen. I like that quote, I like that quote. You just write it down somewhere and probably just send it to the audience somewhere. Right? There's one more question in the Sunday part. Someone you can probably just give your insights on that. Do you think you could be so forgiving to people who have done horrible things to you? And do you have the ability to forgive those around you for the little things they do to you? And where does this ability to forgive come from? Okay, the first one is a bit complicated because this person keeps on bugging you even if it's a little thing, it's growing. You've forgiven him but he still brings it up. You're supposed to forgive and forget. You've forgotten it but he's still bringing it back to you. It's becoming an issue. That's when you cut, you cut him off. Okay, okay. Maybe just to turn the help in refining that point, you see when you say you're cutting that person off, it looks like you still have that grudge. Perhaps you can consider to create a boundary because sometimes somebody can cause you to sin just because of what they are still doing. So creating boundaries also will help. Imaginary boundaries so that somebody can know that this is how far you can go or this is how far you can take. Perhaps that can help in terms of how we can relate or manage our relationship with other people. Yes, true. And also that can also add to the question again. Probably someone can also give us your insight. Like where does the ability to forgive people come from? Is it, do we have the ability in ourselves, you can just start forgiving people right now or do we have another power, a higher power that helps us to forgive? It's quite obvious that the power of forgiveness comes from God. True. Amen. Also forgiveness is a divine act, all right? It's also salvational. Remember when Jesus Christ was at the cross in as much as he was persecuted, he still said, Father forgive them for they do not know what they were doing. So agreeing with what Salmon is saying that it stems from God's power. We can only do this through the powerful of Jesus Christ. Amen, amen. And now before we continue with our lesson we can get a brief music interlude from the orchestra. Welcome back to a lesson. Now we'll move on to the next section where we'll have Silas read for us our key text. Silas. The key text of our lesson, which is from the book, Genesis chapter 45, verse four and five. And it says, then Joseph said to his brothers, come close to me when they had done so. He said, I am your brother, Joseph. The one is sold into Egypt and now do not be distressed and do not be angry with yourselves for selling me here because it was to save lives that God sent me ahead of me. Amen, amen. Tell us what you get from that and probably some questions that might arise from the key text. Okay, so like Joseph had finally accepted that they didn't, him being sold to Egypt wasn't only for their brothers getting rid of him but it was also to help other people and save people's lives. Yeah, so I have a question here. What does it tell us about Joseph's belief in God's plan for his life? May I answer? I believe it shows that Joseph believed in God's plan for his life because God doesn't promise that in our lives, since we believe in him, are going to be like smooth. He tells us that they're going to be rocks and ruts along the way but Joseph trusted in the process even though he was sold to slavery and then accused falsely by a part of his wife then thrown to jail. He still believed that God had a plan for him and he was able to see that materialize. Amen, amen. That's a good point. So the next question, what does it tell us about his brother's sense of duty? Shall we go? I think what I'm learning from their brothers is an aspect of humility, realizing that they made a mistake, realizing that a sense of regret, right? And so for me, what I'm picking from them is even when we do something wrong, let us be willing to stoop low to accept that you've done something wrong and have the attitude to reconcile. And I think that is what I saw from the brothers. They were willing to reconcile, they were willing to, they had accepted that they had done some wrong. And so when we fall guilty, even when you're going against God or even against somebody, make the first step and come and say, I'm sorry or please forgive me. And then you open that door to reconcile. Amen, amen. Thank you for that. Silas, Grace and Shamigok. Also, we can read through these very deep quote by Ellen White from the book, Purchasing Prophets in the Flashlight. I'd like Grace to read that for us. Hey, so this quote comes as you've heard from Patriarchs and Prophets page 230. Joseph was satisfied. He had seen in his brothers the fruit of true repentance. Upon hearing Judah's noble offer, he gave orders that all but these men should withdraw. Then, weeping aloud, he cried, I am Joseph, does my father yet live? His brothers stood motionless, numb with fear and amazement. All their ill treatment of him passed before them. So here we see that he had seen in his brothers the fruits of true repentance. So how did he do that? Well, I think we all know the story of how when the brothers came to Egypt, he first accused them of being spies and put the money back in their bags, then invited them for a feast, told them to bring Benjamin along with them next time and all that. He was actually testing them in all that they were doing. Like in the instance of telling them that they're spies and asking about Benjamin and all that stuff, he wanted to know whether they were still as heartless as they were with him, because Benjamin was their favorite son. Not Joseph, sorry, Jacob's favorite son. And they wanted to know whether they held him in contempt and envied him the same way they did to Joseph. So he brought about all that spy business so that he could know that. And they saw that they actually don't feel jealous of him at all. And this even materialized more because we can see that if we are to fast forward a little bit, that when they went for the feast, you know, when they came back the second time, Benjamin was given like more food than the rest, but they didn't see them like, but he didn't see them like holding him in contempt or anything like that. And then the final test, you can see that when Joseph Silvercup was found in Benjamin's sack, Judah offered to stay behind and be Joseph's slave, but to let Benjamin go home so that their father does not suffer any more heartbreak than he already had. So this is what convinced Joseph that their hearts had truly changed. They're at first selfish, hearts had become selfless and they cared about their father and they weren't jealous of anyone anymore. So this is what now made Joseph comfortable to reveal who he truly was to his brothers. Amen, amen. I like that insight. And I know it also talks about how Joseph just did all this out of the love he had for his family and his father. Joseph missed his family. He hadn't seen them for so many years and really wanted, you know, he extended the olive branch to his brothers, wanting them to be whole again. And that's why he really wanted his father, Jacob and the rest of the family to come and join him in Egypt as they see he later does. Thank you for that, Grace. Let's go. Yes, maybe just to chip in. It's also important for us to note dear viewers that even in God's kingdom, God moves fast. God does not tell us to forgive others before he does it. The reason why he tells you to forgive is because he forgave us. He first forgave us. We love him because he first love us. So before, when, for example, you're a child of God, you're a believer, you're a Christian and somebody harms you, be the first one to make the first move. Because you know what? Even the garden of Eden, the first person to make the first move was actually God. He had to go and look for Adam and Eve, yet it was Adam and Eve who had wronged God. And so it's a learning that we need to take that in the process of reconciliation, in the process of forgiveness, it is God's people, it's the believer to make the first move towards forgiveness. Amen. Thank you for that insight. So we'll move to the next part of our lesson, right? So we have a section in our lessons we have, we can just flip to it, the punch lines, okay? Just like everyone just flip to the punch lines, you're going to get some bit of some questions from you guys, okay? So when you look at those verses in the punch lines, all right, you want to just think deeply about them, okay? Now out of all those verses, which verse do you most wish you could share with that? That one person always annoys you. There's always that one person in life. You can't tell me that you don't have an enemy. Everyone has, there's always that one person, okay? So which verse would you most wish you could share with someone whose actions annoy you? Jimmy Gock. All right, I think for me, what I picked the most was Romans 12 verse 17, which was earlier mentioned or we read it, do not repay. So for me, repaying evil for evil is something that I would like to really always talk about whenever I see somebody who has annoyed me, to remind them that it is not a must to give a negative response to it. When you do it positively, like Joseph did, by making the first move to forgive, then chances are very high that you're going to coexist peaceably and lovingly. Christ way. Amen, amen. And how do you think they will react if you told them that? I think they'll react positively because the Bible tells us a slow answer turns away wrong. And so if you choose to show love to the one who has angered you or wronged you, chances are very high that they will also be drawn closer to you because love attracts love. Amen, amen. Thanks for that. And also, I want to add on that, if I were to say a verse that's not in the punchlines, I know it's in the book of Proverbs. Not sure exactly where, but it says, if your enemy is hungry, given something to eat, if thirsty, given something to drink, in that way you'll heap calls of fire upon his head. Wow, amen. You know, Ashwin, it's a fact when people are hungry. A hungry man is an angry man. At times even food is the answer. Some will just be angry at you because they're hungry. So just be wise about it. Thanks for that. Salmon, which verse would you go for? I'd say Proverbs 19, 11. A person's wisdom yields patience. It is to one's glory to overlook and offence. That's a diverse. You don't have to really concentrate on everything. All right, that's what the verse says. Sometimes you can just overlook. If someone just steps on your shoe, you can just wipe it off. It's nothing big deal, right? Yeah, you know, like when you do that, if the person is intentionally bothering you, they'll see if it's of no use because you're not getting bothered. You're living your life. True, true. Thanks for that. That's the time they decide to do it more and more and more and more. Exactly, exactly. And how do you think you'd, that person, in reality, you told them that verse, Salmon? Depends on the person. Depends on the person, aha? No. People who are not, who don't read the Bible, it's like a face to call them Pagan schools. In school, they say, I don't go to church, but I'm a Christian. Yeah, I've seen that. Christianities in my heart, that's what they say. So, okay, some, those who know the Bible a bit, they may take it into act, but some, they laugh. Yes, definitely. Yeah, but as long as you've told them, they have witnessed you telling them, they don't have to follow. True, true. When your part is done, you've done the Lord's purpose. We leave it to them. Amen, I like that. And as Semi Gokhad said before, you take the first step. So as long as you never take the step, they'll never learn that you're trying to forgive them, you're trying to tell them that this thing hurts me. Thank you for that, Salmon. Okay, Grace, you can read for us Mark 11, 25. Probably give us what your thoughts on that. Okay, it says, and when you start praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive them, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins. Now, this reminds me of the Lord's prayer where it says, forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us, like it's two-way. You cannot expect God to forgive you if you've not forgiven the person who's wronged you. True, true, true. And yeah, what goes around comes around, right? Like in Joseph's father's, you know, Jacob, Jacob he lied, it came back around, and Laban also lied to him. You know, Joseph, it is said in the spirit of prophecy that Joseph learned to forgive out of what his uncle, Esau, remember? Jacob had stolen the bath right from Esau, but Esau forgave Jacob, and Joseph took a mental note from that. Also, later on in life, Jacob, I mean, Joseph had so many wrongs, but every time he went back to God to just pray, ask God for forgiveness, God always forgave him. And that taught Joseph the virtue of forgiveness. Shamigok, do you think that the longer you wait after someone has hurt you, the easier it is going to get for you to forgive them? Well, that's a trick question, but because some people say that they'd rather take some time out, they cool off, then they can go to reconcile or forgive. Others prefer to forgive immediately. I would also, my temperament and how I respond rather I forgive immediately. When you forgive immediately, it becomes easier for you to begin looking for a solution and an alternative or even reconcile. And there's a difference between forgiveness and reconciliation. I'd say that when you forgive, it's because you've asked God to help you so that he can give you the power to be able to forgive. Now, forgiveness is not equal to reconciliation, but forgiveness is equal to love. And so the quicker you forgive, then it means that that's an act of love. That's a push that comes from the divine power who is Jesus Christ. Amen, amen, I like that. And then later on, now you can reconcile. So you have to forgive fast before you reconcile. And that's what Joseph did. He forgave fast, and that is why he would still entertain them and tolerate them. By the time he was reconciling with them, he had already forgiven them. True. You can reconcile with someone who you have not forgiven. The Bible says, can two work together unless they agree? So you have to be in agreement with the person before you can move one together with them. So this is a question to us and to the audience. Just think about this. Is this someone in your life who has wronged you? Who you think they really deserve your forgiveness? Have you forgiven them? And even not why? And what are you waiting for? Because you're hurting yourself in the long run. Shamigok, as you almost come to a close of the lesson, you can read for us Proverbs 19, verse 11. Probably just give us your thoughts on that. Proverbs 19, verse 11, the Bible says, a person's wisdom yields patience. It is to one's glory to overlook an offense. It is to one's glory to overlook an offense. In other words, when you overlook an offense, you are actually giving God glory. When you see, when you read Acts chapter 17, verse 30, the Bible tells us that even God responds in that manner. He says that in times of ignorance, he overlooks. And so when you choose to overlook an offense, then God also is glorified in that manner. It's not easy. Like I mentioned earlier, it is not something that we can do it by ourselves, but when you allow the Holy Spirit to guide you, then it is a divine act. And so it is possible for the Holy Spirit to also influence you in that direction. This leads me to the question that I'd like to place on the panelist. That looking at Joseph's willingness to forgive, what do we learn from it, especially when it comes to understanding the ways of God? Maybe I can ask Brother Silas to give us an answer on that. What do you think? Given that Joseph's willingness to forgive, what does it teach us when you look at how God also responds to our lives? In the Lord's prayer, that we should, God should forgive us as we forgive others. Amen. So, the more you forgive others. I think you can also, you know, like Silas, or we can just help you out with that. We're trying to say that Joseph understood who God was. All right. And in his understanding of the character of God and how God forgives us, he also knew that that's what he's supposed to do. I mean, I think that's, I can also add to what Silas was trying to say in that. Yeah, so it's a vindication of God's color. Amen. What about his love for his family? Maybe I can ask Brother Salmon to give me a thought. I'm sure he loved his family very much. And he really missed his family. But cool interest, the roots, now that his brothers were there and they had changed, he had nothing more but to forgive, which is what he did. All right. But a question I was wondering, if different people did that to him and still came, I'm sure he would have forgiven them because he forgave his brothers because they had changed. So there's a question which was asked earlier, when you're forgiven, should you change? You should definitely change. Amen. These are the fruits of changing. If their brothers hadn't changed, this would have been death situation. I like that. All right. Maybe I can talk to Teacher Jonan as you conclude to us. What about God's plan in the aspect of forgiveness? God's plan. Yes, Ed Griss had said before, as we were starting the lesson, you know, Joseph understood God's plan for his life. And we see when he was reconciling with his brothers, he told them, it is not your fault that you sold me to Egypt. It was God's plan that you sent me to Egypt because in actual sense, Joseph saved his brothers, his whole family when he was in Egypt and essentially the whole world, the non-world at the time, you know? So Joseph understood that every single thing that happened in his life, it was God's plan. And it was leading him to somewhere to achieve a greater goal in his life. All right. So we come to the end of our lesson for today. But before we leave, I'll just give you each of our panelists just like 30 seconds. Give us what's your parting shot? You can start with Shamigok. All right. I think what I'd say to our viewers is that this lesson is really, really interesting. It is a challenge to us. Number one, from the aspect of the ones who were wrongdoers, looking at the siblings to Joseph, what I'm learning is that there is an aspect of humility that we must come with. The attitude to reconcile must be there so that the other person can also be motivated to forgive. So when you wrong somebody, be motivated to reconcile and live peaceably with them. Number two, there's something else that I'm picking is forgiveness is an act of love and God is love. So the only way we can go to forgive and forget is when we embrace Jesus Christ truly and when we are converted truly so that now the evidence of Christ in us is when we choose to forgive our friends, our family, our, and any other person we relate to. May the Lord bless you. And I hope you're going to forgive when you go out there. Amen. Thanks you, Miigok. Grace? Well, my parting shot is that if we want to be forgiven by God, we must forgive ourselves. And this is, this has been shown in my final quote, which comes from Steps to Christ page 97 and it says, when we come to ask for mercy and blessing from God, you should have a spirit of love and forgiveness in our hearts. If we expect our own prayers to be heard, we must forgive others in the same manner and to the same extent as we hope to be forgiven. And I'm pretty sure when it comes to our sins and God, we want to be forgiven a lot because we mess up all the time literally. So if you want to be forgiven that much as God, we should also be willing to forgive that much. So forgive as you want to be forgiven. Salman, what did you learn from this lesson? I'd say, change. Change. Change is really typical. So change, change, it's a must. We should have change in our lives. To be forgiven, you must change. Don't expect forgiveness without changing. Don't ask God for forgiveness. If you haven't changed your intentions, yeah. True. You need to change. Thank you very much. Silas, what do you learn? I don't want to say that we learn that we need to forgive others for us to be forgiven. Not that God wants to do better trade, but so that you understand that you need to forgive someone. Yeah. I like that, you know. The reason why God wants us to forgive others is so that we can understand how much it takes for Him also to forgive us. Okay, and so my final closing comment is from our Adventist fundamental beliefs. That's our belief number 14. Unity in the body of Christ, you know. Every single body has different parts. You know, the body has different parts and they all do different functions. But just because the body parts may not really, they might clash at times, doesn't mean that they stop working. So the same way in church, in the Christian community, we also need to have that unity. And it comes with forgiving each other when we're wrong each other. Okay, so thank you all so much for joining us for this second lesson. And we hope you'll be with us in the next lesson, the third lesson, which is I see, I hear, I know, we look forward to having you in our next session. And I would like to ask Salmon to pray with us as we close. Let's pray. All kind and loving. Father, thank you for being with us as we've done the whole lesson and completed it. Please guide us and help the audience to follow us and follow you that you may be known. In Jesus' name we pray and believe. Amen. Amen.