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WHY DID JESUS COME FROM THE TRIBE OF JUDAH and NOT from ANOTHER SON of JACOB · truthunedited

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  Speaker 1: Why did Jesus come from the tribe of Judah and
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  Speaker 1: not from any other son of Jacob? There is a
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  Speaker 1: chapter hidden in the middle of Genesis that almost nobody
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  Speaker 1: talks about. It interrupts the greatest story in the Old Testament,
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  Speaker 1: the rise of Joseph, to show you the worst night
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  Speaker 1: of another brother's life. A roadside, a seal left in
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  Speaker 1: a stranger's hand, and two words in Hebrew that change
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  Speaker 1: the bloodline of the Messiah forever. Jacob had twelve sons.
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  Speaker 1: The firstborn slept with his father's concubine. The second and
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  Speaker 1: third massacred an entire city. The eleventh saved a nation
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  Speaker 1: from famine, and God still did not give him the crown.
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  Speaker 1: He gave it to the fourth, the one who sold
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  Speaker 1: his brother for twenty pieces of silver and ordered a
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  Speaker 1: woman burned alive. By the end of this video, you
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  Speaker 1: will know what those two words were. and why God
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  Speaker 1: built the throne of the Messiah on the worst brother
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  Speaker 1: in the family. Jacob had twelve sons, and the family
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  Speaker 1: was broken before any of them were born. He loved Rachel.
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  Speaker 1: He was given Leah. And God, seeing that Leah was unloved,
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  Speaker 1: opened her womb while Rachel remained childless. And the first
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  Speaker 1: four sons of Israel were born to a woman trying
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  Speaker 1: to earn a love she would never receive. She named
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  Speaker 1: the first one Reuben. See a son, because she believed
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  Speaker 1: that now her husband would love her.
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  Speaker 2: He did not.
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  Speaker 1: She named the second Simeon, Herd, because the Lord had
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  Speaker 1: heard she was unloved. The third was Levi, Attached, because
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  Speaker 1: surely now, she said, my husband will become attached to me.
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  Speaker 2: He did not.
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  Speaker 1: Three sons, three cries for the same man's attention. three
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  Speaker 1: names that are monuments to rejection, and then the fourth.
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  Speaker 1: And something changed. She stopped naming her sons after her pain.
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  Speaker 1: She called this one Yehudah, from the Hebrew Yadah, to
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  Speaker 1: give thanks, to praise. She said, This time I will
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  Speaker 1: praise the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: She stopped striving. She stopped begging.
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  Speaker 1: The son she named in that single moment of surrender
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  Speaker 1: would carry the scepter of the Messiah. Remember his name.
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  Speaker 1: It means praise, and it was given by a woman
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  Speaker 1: who had finally stopped reaching for something she could not have.
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  Speaker 1: Rachel bore sons later, Joseph, the favorite, the one Jacob
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  Speaker 1: loved above all others, and Benjamin, the youngest, whose birth
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  Speaker 1: killed his mother. The concubines bore four more, twelve sons
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  Speaker 1: in total, twelve tribes, one nation, and among them one
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  Speaker 1: line would carry the throne. The question is why it
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  Speaker 1: went where it went, because the first three candidates destroyed themselves.
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  Speaker 1: Reuben was the firstborn. In the ancient world, that meant everything.
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  Speaker 1: The Bekorah, the birthright, belonged to the eldest son by default,
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  Speaker 1: the double portion of the inheritance, the leadership of the family,
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  Speaker 1: the priestly function, the right to speak first, to decide,
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  Speaker 1: to rule, Reuben had all of it simply by being born.
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  Speaker 1: One verse takes it away. Genesis 35, 22. Reuben went
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  Speaker 1: and lay with Bilhah, his father's concubine, and Israel heard
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  Speaker 1: of it.
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  Speaker 2: That is the entire account. One act, one verse.
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  Speaker 1: And Jacob says nothing, not a word, not a rebuke,
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  Speaker 1: not a judgment. He heard and he waited for decades.
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  Speaker 1: But in the ancient Near East, What Reuben did was
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  Speaker 1: not merely lust. Taking a ruler's concubine was a political act,
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  Speaker 1: a public claim to his authority. When Absalom later took
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  Speaker 1: David's concubines on the palace roof in full view of Israel,
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  Speaker 1: everyone understood what it meant. He was seizing the throne.
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  Speaker 1: Reuben was doing the same thing. He was reaching for
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  Speaker 1: his father's position while his father was still alive. Jacob
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  Speaker 1: heard it. Jacob understood it. and Jacob filed it away
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  Speaker 1: for a conversation he would not have until he was
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  Speaker 1: on his deathbed. Simeon and Levi, the second and third sons.
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  Speaker 1: Their disqualification begins with a crime that was not theirs.
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  Speaker 1: Their sister Dinah went out to visit the women of
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  Speaker 1: the land, and Shechem, the son of the local ruler,
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  Speaker 1: saw her, took her, and violated her. The crime was real.
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  Speaker 1: The response was an atrocity. Simeon and Levi told the
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  Speaker 1: men of Shechem that they would agree to intermarriage on
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  Speaker 1: one condition.
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  Speaker 2: Every male in the city must be circumcised.
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  Speaker 1: Circumcision, the covenant sign given to Abraham, the physical mark
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  Speaker 1: of belonging to God's people, used as a negotiating tool.
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  Speaker 1: The men of Shechem agreed. And on the third day,
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  Speaker 1: when the pain was worst, when the men could barely stand,
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  Speaker 1: Simeon and Levi drew their swords. every male in the city, dead.
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  Speaker 1: They looted the town. They took the flocks, the herds,
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  Speaker 1: the women, the children. They turned a father's grief into
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  Speaker 1: a massacre and a covenant sign into a weapon. Jacob
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  Speaker 1: was horrified. You have brought trouble on me, he told them.
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  Speaker 1: You have made me a stench to the inhabitants of
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  Speaker 1: the land. He did not praise their loyalty. He did
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  Speaker 1: not honor their anger. He condemned them. And like the
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  Speaker 1: incident with Reuben, he stored it. He would speak again.
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  Speaker 1: At the end, three sons ahead of Judah, all three disqualified,
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  Speaker 1: not by an enemy, not by a foreign power, by
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  Speaker 1: their own hands. Reuben reached for power he had not
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  Speaker 1: been given. Simeon and Levi chose a violence so excessive
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  Speaker 1: it turned a covenant sign into a murder weapon. The
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  Speaker 1: line narrows. The fourth son is standing. But the question
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  Speaker 1: is not whether Judah is next in line. The question
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  Speaker 1: is who he actually is. Because the first words we
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  Speaker 1: ever hear from the founder of the king tribe are
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  Speaker 1: about money. Not the firstborn. Not the righteous one. The
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  Speaker 1: next one, standing. And what he does next will make
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  Speaker 1: you wonder why God chose him at all. Joseph, the favorite,
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  Speaker 1: the dreamer, the boy in the decorated coat, is hated
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  Speaker 1: by his brothers. They strip his robe. They throw him
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  Speaker 1: into an empty cistern, and they sit down to eat.
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  Speaker 1: The boy is in the pit. They are eating bread.
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  Speaker 1: And while they eat, a caravan of Ishmaelite traders appears
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  Speaker 1: on the horizon. Judah speaks, his first recorded words in
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  Speaker 1: all of Scripture. What profit is it if we kill
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  Speaker 1: our brother and conceal his blood? Come, Let us sell
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  Speaker 1: him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be
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  Speaker 1: upon him, for he is our brother, our own flesh.
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  Speaker 1: Read that carefully. He does not save Joseph because it
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  Speaker 1: is right. He saves him because a living brother is
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  Speaker 1: worth twenty pieces of silver, and a dead one is
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  Speaker 1: worth nothing. The argument is commercial. The language is transactional.
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  Speaker 1: The first thing the founder of the Messianic tribe ever
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  Speaker 1: says out loud is, is a cost-benefit analysis on his
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  Speaker 1: brother's life. They sold Joseph. They dipped the coat in
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  Speaker 1: goat's blood. They brought it to their father and let
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  Speaker 1: him draw his own conclusion. And Jacob tore his clothes
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  Speaker 1: and mourned for his son and refused to be comforted.
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  Speaker 1: And then, one verse later, something happens that almost nobody notices.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis 38, verse 1. At that time Judah went down.
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  Speaker 2: From his brothers. He left. The Hebrew is deliberate.
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  Speaker 1: He went down, he descended. After the sale, after the
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  Speaker 1: blood on the coat, after watching his father's grief, and
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  Speaker 1: knowing he was the one who had suggested the price,
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  Speaker 1: Judah could not stay in that house. He could not
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  Speaker 1: sit across from a father mourning a son who was
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  Speaker 1: not dead.
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  Speaker 2: So he walked away.
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  Speaker 1: He went south, away from the family, away from the
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  Speaker 1: land where he had grown up. He married a Canaanite woman,
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  Speaker 1: the daughter of a man named Shua, and he had
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  Speaker 1: three sons, Ur, Onan, and Shelah. He built a separate
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  Speaker 1: life in a separate place, and he did.
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  Speaker 2: Not go back.
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  Speaker 1: The man who would carry the scepter began his story
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  Speaker 1: by walking away from everyone. The question that hangs over
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  Speaker 1: the rest of this film is whether he would ever
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  Speaker 1: come back. Here is something almost nobody notices, and once
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  Speaker 1: you see it, you cannot unsee it. Genesis 37 ends
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  Speaker 1: with Joseph being sold into Egypt. Genesis 39 begins with
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  Speaker 1: Joseph arriving in Potiphar's house. The greatest story in Genesis,
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  Speaker 1: Joseph's rise from slave to ruler of Egypt, is underway.
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  Speaker 1: And between those two chapters, the editors of Genesis stopped it.
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  Speaker 1: They inserted a completely different story. a story about Judah.
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  Speaker 2: Genesis 38 is.
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  Speaker 1: Not a digression. It is not a footnote that wandered
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  Speaker 1: into the wrong place. It was put there deliberately, right
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  Speaker 1: where the reader is leaning forward to follow Joseph, so
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  Speaker 1: that nobody could read past it.
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  Speaker 2: The hero's journey is paused.
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  Speaker 1: So you can watch the worst chapter of the worst
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  Speaker 1: brother's life. Because without this chapter, there is no messianic line.
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  Speaker 1: Judah's firstborn, Er, married a woman named Tamar. Ur was
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  Speaker 1: wicked in the sight of the Lord, the text does
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  Speaker 1: not say how, and the Lord put him to death.
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  Speaker 1: Tamar was a widow with no son. In the ancient world,
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  Speaker 1: this activated a law older than Moses, later codified in
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  Speaker 1: Deuteronomy 25. The Leveret Obligation When a man died without
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  Speaker 1: a son, his brother was legally required to marry the
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  Speaker 1: widow and raise a child in the dead man's name.
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  Speaker 1: The child would carry the dead brother's inheritance, his legal identity,
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  Speaker 1: his place in the family. This was not optional. It
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  Speaker 1: was a binding duty, a protection for widows in a
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  Speaker 1: world where a woman without a husband and without a
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  Speaker 1: son had no legal standing, no inheritance, and no future.
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  Speaker 1: Judah gave his second son, Onan. Onan took the marriage.
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  Speaker 1: He took the intimacy. But he refused the responsibility. He
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  Speaker 1: would not give Tamar a child, because the son would
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  Speaker 1: not legally be his. He kept the pleasure and withheld
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  Speaker 1: the purpose. And God took his life. Two sons dead.
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  Speaker 1: One son left, Shelah still young, and Judah told Tamar
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  Speaker 1: to go back to her father's house and wait until
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  Speaker 1: Shelah was grown.
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  Speaker 2: He promised.
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  Speaker 1: He had no intention of keeping it. He was terrified
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  Speaker 1: his last son would die too. So he sent the
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  Speaker 1: widow home with a lie. Tamar waited.
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  Speaker 2: Sheila grew up.
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  Speaker 1: She watched him become a man, old enough to marry,
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  Speaker 1: old enough to fulfill the obligation. No one came, no message,
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  Speaker 1: no wedding, no explanation. Judah had abandoned his legal duty
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  Speaker 1: to a woman who had done nothing wrong, who had
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  Speaker 1: buried two husbands and born no children. who was sitting
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  Speaker 1: in her father's house with no future and no recourse,
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  Speaker 1: no court she could petition, no authority that would compel him.
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  Speaker 1: In the ancient world, a widow without a son was
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  Speaker 1: as close to invisible as a human being could be.
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  Speaker 1: And Judah had made her invisible on purpose, so she
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  Speaker 1: did the one thing she could. She took off her
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  Speaker 1: widow's garments, put on a veil, and sat at the
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  Speaker 1: crossroads of Anahim, on the road where Judah would pass,
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  Speaker 1: on his way to shear sheep. He saw her. He
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  Speaker 1: did not recognize her. He assumed she was a prostitute.
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  Speaker 1: He approached her, negotiated a price, a young goat from
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  Speaker 1: his flock, and she asked for a pledge until the
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  Speaker 1: goat arrived. He gave her three things, his seal, his cord,
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  Speaker 1: and his staff, the three objects that identified him as
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  Speaker 1: uniquely as a fingerprint. He handed over his identity to
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  Speaker 1: a woman whose face he never saw. Three months later,
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  Speaker 1: word reached him. Tamar, your daughter-in-law, is pregnant by prostitution.
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  Speaker 1: His response was immediate. Four words in Hebrew. And they
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  Speaker 1: came out without hesitation. Bring her out and let her
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  Speaker 1: be burned.
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  Speaker 2: Not a trial. Not an investigation. Not a question. Burned.
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  Speaker 1: The man who had broken his promise, who had abandoned
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  Speaker 1: his obligation, who had slept with a woman on a roadside,
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  Speaker 1: ordered the death penalty for the same act he had committed.
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  Speaker 1: And this is the moment the entire messianic line turns on.
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  Speaker 1: Tamar sent a message. She sent the seal. She sent
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  Speaker 1: the cord. She sent the staff. And she said, By
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  Speaker 1: the man to whom these belong, I am pregnant. Please
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  Speaker 1: examine them. Whose seal and cord and staff are these?
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  Speaker 1: Judah looked at them, and he knew. Genesis 38, verse 26.
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  Speaker 1: Two words in Hebrew. The most important sentence in the
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  Speaker 1: ancestry of Jesus Christ. Tzedekah mimini. She is more righteous
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  Speaker 1: than I. He did not deflect. He did not blame
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  Speaker 1: the woman. He did not construct an excuse. He confessed
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  Speaker 1: publicly in front of everyone. The woman he had ordered
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  Speaker 1: burned was righteous.
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  Speaker 2: He was not. She acted because he failed her. The
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  Speaker 2: guilt was his. He said so.
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  Speaker 1: The tribe of the Messiah was not born from a victory.
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  Speaker 1: It was born from a confession. Not the firstborn. Not
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  Speaker 1: the favorite. Not the righteous one. The one who turned around.
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  Speaker 1: Tamar bore twins. During the birth, one hand reached out,
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  Speaker 1: and the midwife tied a scarlet thread around the wrist.
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  Speaker 1: This one came first, but the hand pulled back, and
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  Speaker 1: the other brother broke through instead. They named him Perez,
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  Speaker 1: from the Hebrew paratz, to breach, to break through. The
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  Speaker 1: expected firstborn, marked with the thread, did not inherit. The
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  Speaker 1: unexpected one broke through. This is the pattern of the
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  Speaker 1: entire Bible. Abel over Cain, Isaac over Ishmael, Jacob over Esau,
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  Speaker 1: David over his brothers. And now, at the very origin
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  Speaker 1: of the messianic line, it happens again. The breakthrough child.
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  Speaker 1: The one nobody marked. Perez is in the direct line
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  Speaker 1: to David and to Jesus of Nazareth. Twenty years pass.
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  Speaker 1: The brothers are in Egypt. standing before the governor of
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  Speaker 1: all the land, the most powerful man in the country
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  Speaker 1: after Pharaoh. They do not know who he is. They
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  Speaker 1: do not recognize their own brother. Joseph has tested them,
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  Speaker 1: and the test is surgical. He has planted a silver
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  Speaker 1: cup in Benjamin's bag.
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  Speaker 2: Silver.
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  Speaker 1: The last time Judah handled silver in connection with a brother,
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  Speaker 1: it was twenty pieces, paid for a boy pulled out
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  Speaker 1: of a pit. Now silver appears again, hidden in the
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  Speaker 1: bag of the youngest brother, Rachel's surviving son, the last
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  Speaker 1: piece of their father's heart. Joseph accuses Benjamin of theft.
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  Speaker 1: He demands that Benjamin remain as his slave and the
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  Speaker 1: rest go home free. It is a perfect mirror. Benjamin
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  Speaker 1: is in the exact position Joseph was in 20 years earlier,
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  Speaker 1: the favored son about to be enslaved. while the older
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  Speaker 1: brothers walk away. Joseph is watching. He wants to know
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  Speaker 1: one thing. Will they do it again? Will they sell
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  Speaker 1: another brother and walk home with a story? Judah steps forward.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis 44, verses 18 through 34. It is the longest
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  Speaker 1: speech by any character in the book of Genesis. And
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  Speaker 1: it is delivered by the man who, 20 years earlier, said,
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  Speaker 1: What profit is it about the brother standing in front
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  Speaker 1: of him He tells the governor everything, their father, the
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  Speaker 1: lost son, the grief that has never healed. He describes
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  Speaker 1: an old man whose life is bound up in this
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  Speaker 1: boy who has already lost one son from the wife
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  Speaker 1: he loved and cannot survive losing the second. He says,
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  Speaker 1: if the boy does not come back with us, our
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  Speaker 1: father will die. His gray head will go down to
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  Speaker 1: the grave in sorrow. And then, the sentence that closes
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  Speaker 1: the longest arc in the book. Now, therefore, please let
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  Speaker 1: your servant remain instead of the boy as a slave
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  Speaker 1: to my Lord, and let the boy go back with
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  Speaker 1: his brothers. The man who sold one brother into slavery
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  Speaker 1: for twenty pieces of silver now offers himself as a
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  Speaker 1: slave for another. The man who walked away from his
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  Speaker 1: family now refuses to leave without his brother. The man
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  Speaker 1: whose first words in Scripture were, What profit is it
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  Speaker 1: now calculates no profit at all, only cost, his own freedom,
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  Speaker 1: his own life, given freely for someone else. Joseph breaks.
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  Speaker 1: He cannot hold it any longer. He sends every Egyptian
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  Speaker 1: out of the room, and he weeps so loudly that
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  Speaker 1: the household staff hear him through the walls. And then
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  Speaker 1: he says five words, I am Joseph. Is my father
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  Speaker 1: still alive? And the family that was shattered by a
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  Speaker 1: sail on a road is restored by a speech in
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  Speaker 1: a palace. The speech that breaks the Savior is delivered
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  Speaker 1: by the brother who sold him. And the man who
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  Speaker 1: stands in another man's place, taking the punishment meant for
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  Speaker 1: someone else, is the man God will choose to carry
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  Speaker 1: the line of a Messiah who will do exactly the
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  Speaker 1: same thing. Not the firstborn, not the favorite, the one
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  Speaker 1: who came back. Jacob is dying. And before he calls
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  Speaker 1: all twelve sons together, he does something first. Genesis 48.
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  Speaker 1: He summons Joseph and Joseph's two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh,
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  Speaker 1: and Jacob adopts them. They shall be mine, he says.
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  Speaker 1: Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine, as Reuben and Simeon are.
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  Speaker 1: He takes Joseph's two boys and elevates them to the
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  Speaker 1: rank of his own sons, two tribes, where every other
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  Speaker 1: son received one. That is the double portion. That is
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  Speaker 1: the Bekorah, the firstborn's inheritance, transferred from Reuben, who defiled it,
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  Speaker 1: to Joseph, who earned it. Joseph gets the inheritance. But
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  Speaker 1: watch what happens next, because the crown goes somewhere else.
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  Speaker 1: Jacob calls all his sons together and speaks over every
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  Speaker 1: one of them. Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might,
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  Speaker 1: the first sign of my strength, excelling in honor, excelling
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  Speaker 1: in power. Unstable as water, you shall not excel, because
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  Speaker 1: you went up to your father's bed and you defiled it.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis 49, 3 and 4 The Bilhah incident, named at last,
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  Speaker 1: decades of silence, broken on a deathbed. The firstborn stripped.
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  Speaker 1: He will not excel. Simeon and Levi are brothers. Weapons
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  Speaker 1: of violence are their swords. Cursed be their anger, for
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  Speaker 1: it was fierce, and their wrath, for it was cruel.
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  Speaker 1: I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis 49, 5-7. The Shechem massacre condemned. Both tribes will
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  Speaker 1: be scattered. Levi will later be redeemed. The tribe will
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  Speaker 1: become the priestly tribe, but they will receive no territory
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  Speaker 1: of their own. Simeon will be absorbed into Judah's land
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  Speaker 1: and effectively disappear. The penalty stands, and then Judah, and
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  Speaker 1: the temperature of the oracle changes completely. Judah, your brothers
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  Speaker 1: shall praise you. Your hand shall be on the neck
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  Speaker 1: of your enemies. Your father's sons shall bow down before you.
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  Speaker 1: Judah is a lion's cub. From the prey, my son,
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  Speaker 1: you have gone up. He crouches down, he stretches out
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  Speaker 1: like a lion, like a lioness.
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  Speaker 2: Who dares to rouse him?
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  Speaker 1: The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's
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  Speaker 1: staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes, and to
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  Speaker 1: him shall be the obedience of the peoples. Genesis 49-30
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  Speaker 1: 8 through 12. The scepter, the rod of a king,
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  Speaker 1: not given to the firstborn, not given to the favorite,
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  Speaker 1: given to the fourth son, the one who sold a brother,
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  Speaker 1: abandoned a widow, confessed his sin on a public road,
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  Speaker 1: and offered himself as a substitute in an Egyptian palace,
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  Speaker 1: until Shiloh comes. The Hebrew is debated, and this channel
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  Speaker 1: does not build cases on words that are not settled.
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  Speaker 2: Three readings exist.
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  Speaker 1: Some take Shiloh as a place, until he comes to Shiloh,
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  Speaker 1: the city where the tabernacle would stand. Some take it
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  Speaker 1: as a title, the peaceful one. And the oldest Jewish translations,
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  Speaker 1: the Targum Onkelos and the Targum Jonathan, read it as messianic,
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  Speaker 1: until he comes to whom it belongs. A king is
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  Speaker 1: coming from Judah, and when he arrives, the nations will obey.
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  Speaker 1: The reading is ancient, and the weight of tradition leans messianic.
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  Speaker 1: Take that as the strongest reading, not as the only one.
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  Speaker 1: Now look at what just happened. The viewer watched two
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  Speaker 1: scenes back to back. In Genesis 48, Joseph received the inheritance,
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  Speaker 1: two tribes for his two sons. In Genesis 49, Judah
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  Speaker 1: received the scepter. And centuries later, the chronicler sat down
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  Speaker 1: and explained it in one verse that almost nobody catches.
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  Speaker 1: 1 Chronicles 5, verses 1 and 2. Reuben was the
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  Speaker 1: firstborn of Israel, but because he defiled his father's marriage bed,
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  Speaker 1: his rights as firstborn were given to the sons of Joseph,
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  Speaker 1: son of Israel, so he could not be listed in
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  Speaker 1: the genealogy as firstborn. Though Judah was the strongest among
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  Speaker 1: his brothers, and a ruler came from him, The birthright
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  Speaker 1: belonged to Joseph. That is the chronicler explaining what the
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  Speaker 1: viewer just watched. The birthright was split. Three tribes received
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  Speaker 1: what one should have held. Joseph received the inheritance. Levi
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  Speaker 1: would later receive the priesthood. And Judah received the one
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  Speaker 1: piece that cannot be passed down by birth order alone,
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  Speaker 1: the crown. And this is where the story reaches its
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  Speaker 1: deepest point, and you have to sit with it. Joseph
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  Speaker 1: is the hero of Genesis. He is the dreamer who survived,
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  Speaker 1: the slave who became a prince, the man who saved
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  Speaker 1: his family and an entire nation from starvation. He is
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  Speaker 1: more righteous than any of his brothers from beginning to end,
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  Speaker 1: and every reader of Genesis knows it. He never falters.
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  Speaker 1: He resists Potiphar's wife. He forgives the men who sold him.
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  Speaker 1: He weeps over the father he was taken from. He
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  Speaker 1: is by every measure the better man, and the crown
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  Speaker 1: did not go to him.
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  Speaker 2: Joseph never needed to repent. He never fell. He never
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  Speaker 2: had a.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter like Genesis 38, where the only way forward was
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  Speaker 1: through confession. And that is precisely why the crown went
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  Speaker 1: somewhere else. Because God does not build the messianic line
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  Speaker 1: on competence. He builds it on the thing Judah learned
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  Speaker 1: on the side of a road, holding his own seal
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  Speaker 1: in his hand, looking at the woman he had wronged.
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  Speaker 1: The ability to say, I was wrong. She is more
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  Speaker 1: righteous than I. Take my life instead of his.
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  Speaker 2: Substitution. Confession. Coming back.
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  Speaker 1: That is the foundation of the throne. Now follow the line,
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  Speaker 1: because it tells you something that no sermon will. Perez,
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  Speaker 1: the breakthrough child, born from a scandal on a roadside,
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  Speaker 1: to Hezron, to Ram, to Aminadab, to Nashon, the tribal
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  Speaker 1: leader of Judah during the wilderness wandering, Nashon to Salmon.
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  Speaker 1: And then the line does something unexpected. Salmon marries Rahab.
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  Speaker 1: Matthew's genealogy names her without further identification. But the traditional reading,
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  Speaker 1: and almost certainly the right one, is that this is
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  Speaker 1: the Rahab of Jericho, a Canaanite woman, a prostitute. the
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  Speaker 1: woman who hid the Israelite spies on her roof when
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  Speaker 1: the city was about to fall, who tied a scarlet
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  Speaker 1: cord in her window, the signal that marked her household
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  Speaker 1: for survival while every other wall came down. She chose
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  Speaker 1: Israel's God over her own city, and she walked into
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  Speaker 1: the Messianic line, a foreign woman, a woman from the
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  Speaker 1: oldest profession. standing in the direct ancestry of Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Salmon and Rahab produce Boaz, and Boaz marries Ruth, a Moabitess.
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  Speaker 1: Moab was the nation born from Lot's incest with his
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  Speaker 1: own daughter. Deuteronomy says, No Moabite shall enter the assembly
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord, even to the tenth generation. And yet,
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  Speaker 1: Ruth walks into the line of the Messiah, not because
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  Speaker 1: of her bloodline, Her bloodline should have excluded her, but
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  Speaker 1: because of what she said to her mother-in-law, Naomi, on
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  Speaker 1: a road out of Moab, when Naomi told her to
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  Speaker 1: go home, to go back to her own gods and
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  Speaker 1: her own people, Ruth refused. Where you go, I will go.
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  Speaker 1: Where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be
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  Speaker 1: my people. Your God will be my God.
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  Speaker 2: She chose.
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  Speaker 1: And the line received her. Boaz and Ruth produce Obed.
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  Speaker 1: Obed produces Jesse. Jesse produces David, the shepherd boy from Bethlehem,
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  Speaker 1: the youngest of eight sons, overlooked by his own father
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  Speaker 1: when Samuel came looking for a king. And God makes
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  Speaker 1: David a promise that seals the line forever. 2 Samuel
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  Speaker 1: chapter 7 Your house and your kingdom shall endure before
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  Speaker 1: me forever. Your throne shall be established forever. The throne
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  Speaker 1: is now locked. It runs through Judah, through David, and
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  Speaker 1: it will not move. And when Matthew sits down to
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  Speaker 1: write the genealogy of Jesus, Matthew chapter 1, the first
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  Speaker 1: page of the New Testament, he does something no genealogy
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  Speaker 1: in the ancient world does. He names women, four of them,
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  Speaker 1: only four, Tamar, who conceived the messianic line because Judah
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  Speaker 1: abandoned her. Rahab, a Canaanite prostitute who chose Israel's God
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  Speaker 1: over her own city. Ruth, a Moabitess who chose to
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  Speaker 1: stay when she had every right to leave. And Bathsheba,
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  Speaker 1: named not as Bathsheba, but as the wife of Uriah,
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  Speaker 1: the woman David took. The scandal that nearly destroyed the dynasty.
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  Speaker 1: Matthew is not listing names. He is making a theological
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  Speaker 1: argument with his genealogy. He is telling anyone who will
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  Speaker 1: read it that the line of the Messiah was never
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  Speaker 1: pure by human standards. It ran through scandal, through outsiders,
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  Speaker 1: through women who entered by grace and not by blood.
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  Speaker 1: Every one of them should not have been there. Every
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  Speaker 1: one of them was. And the line ends, or rather begins,
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  Speaker 1: with a child born in Bethlehem, from the tribe of Judah,
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  Speaker 1: from the house of David. The author of Hebrews builds
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  Speaker 1: an entire case on what this means and a king
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  Speaker 1: from a tribe Moses never associated with the priesthood, and
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  Speaker 1: yet a priest as well, not from the order of Levi,
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  Speaker 1: but from the order of Melchizedek, the king-priest who appeared
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  Speaker 1: to Abraham centuries before Levi was born. King and priest
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  Speaker 1: from a single man, from a tribe nobody expected. The
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  Speaker 1: Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David,
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  Speaker 1: The title Christ carries in the book of Revelation, chapter 5,
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  Speaker 1: verse 5, when all of heaven is searching for someone
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  Speaker 1: worthy to open the scroll. And the elder says, Do
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  Speaker 1: not weep. The lion of the tribe of Judah has triumphed.
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  Speaker 1: The lion of the tribe of Judah. Trace that title backward,
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  Speaker 1: and it passes through David, through Ruth, through Rahab, through Boaz,
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  Speaker 1: through Perez, born on a roadside from a scandal. through Tamar,
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  Speaker 1: who held a seal in her hand and told the truth,
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  Speaker 1: and through Judah, who looked at that seal and said,
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  Speaker 1: For the first time in his life, the hardest words
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  Speaker 1: a man can say. She is more righteous than I.
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  Speaker 1: Reuben had the birthright. Joseph had the dream. Levi had
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  Speaker 1: the priesthood. Judah had a confession. And God built the
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  Speaker 1: throne on the confession. Not because sin is small, not
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  Speaker 1: because what Judah did was acceptable, but because what he
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  Speaker 1: did after, the moment he stopped blaming, stopped deflecting, stopped
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  Speaker 1: walking away and turned around, is the single quality that
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  Speaker 1: separates the chosen from the discarded in every story God
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  Speaker 1: has ever told.
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  Speaker 2: He came back.
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  Speaker 1: He looked at himself honestly. He said the truth out loud.
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  Speaker 1: And twenty years later, When a brother's life was on
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  Speaker 1: the line, he did not calculate the profit. He offered
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  Speaker 1: his own. The Messiah did not come from the tribe
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  Speaker 1: that never fell. He came from the tribe that fell
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  Speaker 1: the hardest and came back. The line was.
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  Speaker 2: Never about purity.
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  Speaker 1: It was about grace, grace that does not ask whether
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  Speaker 1: you deserve to be in the story, only whether you
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  Speaker 1: are willing to turn around. His name was Yehudah, It
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  Speaker 1: means praise. His mother gave him that name on the
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  Speaker 1: day she stopped reaching for something she could not earn.
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  Speaker 1: And 2,000 years later, the lion who carries his tribe's
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  Speaker 1: name would do what Judah learned to do on a
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  Speaker 1: road outside Enaim, take the guilt that belonged to someone
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  Speaker 1: else and carry it himself. Not the firstborn, not the favorite,
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  Speaker 1: not the righteous one, the one who came back. That
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  Speaker 1: is the tribe God chose, and that is the grace
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  Speaker 1: the Messiah would carry. If this video has blessed you,
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