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Genealogy of Jesus part 3: The Lion of Judah ( and Perez) · The Living Freed Podcast

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  Hey y 'all, I'm Hanna Liz, a coastal living,
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  Jesus living, NC native, and this is the Living
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  Freed podcast. Where we discuss intentionally
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  living our lives to the fullest that God has intended,
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  having those late -night, open -heart, friend
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  convos, not letting others, ourselves, or ideas
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  hold us down, allowing Jesus to free us of the
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  chains that we didn't know we were holding on
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  to. You can see the full show notes attached
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  to this episode, and if you loved this episode,
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  please leave me a review. All right y 'all, let's
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  dive into our weekly catch -ups. This week, gosh,
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  what have I been up to is the best question ever.
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  Honestly, am I fully refreshed from Iceland?
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  I would say there was one day where I finally
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  felt back to normal of like, oh my gosh, I have
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  all this energy, what is tired, she's never heard
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  of it, yada, yada, yada. And now I'm on my weekend
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  and I'm exhausted. like actually truly exhausted
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  but it is what it is um what is in is outside
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  walks the weather has cooled down we're in false
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  fall as we call it here in north kakalaki and
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  i have truly enjoyed walking outside for about
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  an hour a day um instead of going to the gym
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  yes i know i need to go to the gym i need to
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  go lift weights but the weather has been so beautiful
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  it is definitely raining every day but we get
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  a couple hours of sun and it's just not a million
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  degrees anymore we don't feel like we live in
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  Satan's armpit so I'm taking advantage of it
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  before summer comes back full swing probably
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  next week what is out um gosh uh what's out is
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  flip -flops I went to church on Sunday as I do
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  every Sunday and People wear flip -flops to church
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  and I don't know why it just x me out. I don't
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  like to see other people's feet I couldn't stop
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  looking because there's this one time I was at
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  church and I mean this time we sat outside this
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  one time we sat inside and I remember I was sitting
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  with my friend McKenna and this family to my
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  right like one seat over They all took their
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  shoes off. It's not even that they were wearing
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  flip -flops like they all genuinely took their
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  shoes off We were inside and I don't I don't
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  like that. That was weird It was not the vibe
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  and like first off no one wants to see your naked
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  feet too Like what if they smell you probably
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  don't know if they smell but the rest of us will
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  be able to tell you if it smells or if your feet
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  smell so like No, I don't think anyone, especially
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  just social decorum and very anti flip flops,
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  unless you're at the beach in a pool. If you've
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  listened to the Modesty podcast, you know that
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  I feel that way about flip flops. It's not a
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  modesty thing. It's I don't want to see anybody's
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  feet because they gross me out type of thing.
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  Yeah. Anyways, that's all I have for you right
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  now. Let's go ahead and dive in into today's
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  episode. Alright y 'all, we are going to continue
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  our journey down memory lane of Jesus' lineage.
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  Last time we talked about Jacob and Esau, and
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  today we're going to talk about Jacob's middle
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  son, Judah. Judah's story actually picks up just
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  as Joseph, the coat of many colors guy, gets
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  sent off to Egypt. Judah comes in with his story
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  in Genesis chapter 38. Let me tell you there
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  is a lot to unpack there so we won't read it
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  all but I'll give you the best overview I can
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  but no promises. Okay so Judah gets married not
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  once but twice and has three sons that get named
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  within the first three verses of the chapter.
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  There's really no need to go over those names,
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  though, because two of the three die pretty early
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  into the story. But before they die, Judah acquires
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  a wife for his oldest. That's what that wife's
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  name is Tamar. But then his oldest son dies.
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  So he tells his other son to sleep with his dead
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  brother's wife, as they did in that day, to get
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  her pregnant. Now, his son sleeps with her, but
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  he refuses to get the girl pregnant. And then
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  he dies because, well, God said so. He ain't
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  gonna let him do Tamar dirty like that. After
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  both sons are dead, Judah tells her to go back
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  to her family and stay there until his youngest
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  is ready for her. So she does just that. Sometime
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  passes and one of Judah's wives dies. But life
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  goes on and a little later in chapter 38, girly
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  pop aka Tamar hears he is traveling to shear
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  some sheep with his son and sees that Kiddo is
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  all grown up but hasn't been given to her yet.
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  So she shows up no longer in morning clothes
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  but chilling with the Veylon sitting on the side
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  of the road that they should be passing through
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  on and then Judah mistakes her for a prostitute
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  aka a sex worker. Our guy Judah saw her with
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  the Veylon and just assumed she was a part of
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  the sex cult that had been hanging around and
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  asked her to have sex with him and that he'd
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  give her a go as payment. Our girl had a plan.
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  So she said, I need insurance of this. So give
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  me your staff and a couple other things of yours.
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  And after that combo, they slept together. I
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  want to give a side note in history that cult
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  they assumed she was with or that cult he assumed
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  she was with was a fertility pagan cult that
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  believed that not just using sex to get money
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  or obviously to get pregnant, but having sex
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  was an act of worship to their God. and that
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  it was a part of the rituals to help with the
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  harvest and other things. Let's get back to the
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  story though. Judah's a man of his word in this
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  instance and sends his kid, sends his friend
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  with the goat because God forbid he go himself.
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  That friend can't find her and Judah basically
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  says let's leave it because this is already embarrassing
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  enough for me anyways. Homie finds out Tamar
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  is pregnant three months later and says let's
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  burn her at the stake. or something like that
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  she's like sure but first identify the stuff
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  for me real quick so I can give it back to my
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  sperm donor because you know they belong to him
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  and Judah goes and Judah's all of a sudden like
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  oh crap now we are going to jump over and read
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  verses 27 through 30 oh yeah read verses 27 through
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  30 in chapter 38 one second let me flip there
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  when the time of her labor came there were twins
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  in her womb And when she was in labor, one put
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  out a hand, and the midwife took and tied a red
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  scarlet thread on his hand, saying, this one
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  came out first. But as he drew back his hand,
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  behold, his brother came out, and she said, what
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  a breach you have made for yourself. Therefore,
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  his name was called Perez. Afterwards, his brother
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  came out with the scarlet thread on his hand,
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  and his name was called Zara. Now, that's not
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  the end of Judah's story. His story picks back
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  up in Joseph's because while he was busy thinking
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  his daughter -in -law was to prostitute, Joseph
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  was busy in Egypt doing the hard work. In chapter
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  42, we know Joseph's brothers come to Egypt in
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  search of food because of the famine throughout
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  the whole country. And Joseph says, I'll give
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  you food this time, but don't come back without
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  your youngest brother if you need more in the
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  future. Well, they needed more. And Jacob tells
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  Judah to go back and get more food. But he's
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  like, but dad, I can't unless we bring Ben with
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  us. We all know how that turned out. So let's
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  jump ahead at the end of chapter 46 and read
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  verse 28. because I noticed something interesting
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  and I want to share it with you. Okay, so verse
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  28 in the really the end the end of chapter 46
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  is talking about Jacob being reunited with Joseph
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  but verse 28 says he as in Jacob had sent Judah
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  ahead of him to Joseph to show the way before
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  him and they came into the land. Okay, so this
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  is what I find interesting with connections.
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  Is Jacob is Israel. We remember when God gave
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  him a new name. So Israel sent Judah ahead to
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  show the way, to lead the way, to make a way.
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  Why I find this interesting is we've gone from
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  Israel being the focus point of a people group
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  in history to now also Judah leading the way
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  and eventually being a kingdom. The kingdom that
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  King David will reign in one day. All right,
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  we are going to get back to the story again.
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  Sorry for my additional side note. So later in
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  the story, Jacob gets ready to die and blesses
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  all his sons. In Judah's blessing, we will read
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  it in chapter 49, verse 8 and 9. I've always
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  wondered how those blessings work if it's more
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  of like a prophetic prayer from a parent to a
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  child or if it's spirit led or if they just you
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  know had a book written down somewhere of what
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  you say over each kid depending on how many children
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  you have. But anyways I find his blessing very
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  interesting um Because of what we see happening
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  in the future with well, yeah, what we see happening
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  in the future and what we see when we look back
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  at history Alright, so I know this is a shorter
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  one. Honestly, there wasn't a whole lot on Judah
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  So let's do a quick recap. So who was Judah?
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  He was the son of Jacob not the oldest and not
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  the favored youngest He was married had sex with
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  what he thought was a cult prostitute but turned
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  out to be his daughter -in -law He was an unconventional
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  leader whose people will one day be turned into
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  a kingdom. If I would name his story, I would
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  definitely call it the Unconventional Brother.
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  I think we all have people in our life like Judah,
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  where we look at them and think, hmm, that's
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  an interesting choice. Or maybe we are those
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  people. But the great thing about that is we
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  learn that God loves not just to use, but loves
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  to love those people and the choices that they
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  make too. Alright, so we are going to take a
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  minute and talk about Perez. Well, you know,
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  while I have you here, there isn't much. His
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  name means to breach and he is mentioned in Ruth
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  chapter 4, 11 through 12. He's mentioned in Numbers
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  and First Chronicles, Nehemiah and briefly in
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  a few other books in the New Testament. All of
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  them saying just about the same thing, which
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  is he's the son of Judah and he's the father
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  of another guy that comes around. and so on and
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  so forth and part of the lineage of Jesus. What
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  we did see in the brief insight of Prez's story
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  was that he was also a twin. He wasn't meant
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  to come out first, but he did because God had
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  other plans. Some scholars say that this is a
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  metaphor of Jesus coming and the first breakthrough
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  of the kingdom of God. Anyways, that's just some
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  food for thought for you. And that's quite literally
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  all I have for you today. I hope you enjoyed
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  this short snippet into the timeline of Jesus's
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  lineage. We are going to jump into prayer. Hey,
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  God, thank you so much for letting us study the
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  timeline of your son's birth, the people who
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  make up the history of what went into his DNA
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  on his human side, and the history that goes
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  into who we are, and how loving, forgiving you
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  are, and how you find love and use for all of
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  our stories that no one's too far gone. or too
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  boring, or not doing enough, or doing too much.
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  Because as you're using one brother to plan for
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  the future through a famine, you are using the
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  other brother to plan for the future for the
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  world. I ask that we all find something out of
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  this today that we can apply to our lives. And
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  in your son's name, in Jesus' name, amen. Thanks
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  so much for listening to the Living Freed podcast.
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