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Genesis chapter 38 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Genesis chapter 38, let us pray. Our Lord God who reigns on high.
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  We thank you, Father, for another day to come and worship
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  you, Lord in spirit and truth. We thank you God for giving us
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  life and life abundant. We thank you, Lord, for all the
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  many blessings that you're pouring out on us, God, that we
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  don't deserve and we didn't earn it.
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  God. We don't even want it, Father,
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  but all we care about is Jesus Christ high and lifted up above
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  every single person, every single entity, every feeling and
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  emotion. God, every single one of our
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  experiences. Lord, we lift Jesus Christ high
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  up above it all. We look upon him today and we
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  are saved. God, we call upon his name today
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  and we receive salvation. God, we thank you for giving us
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  Jesus and the blood that covers us from the top of our head to
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  the soles of our feet, every single molecule, every single
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  atom, all, all of the cellular level.
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  God, we give it all over unto you.
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  Lord, we repent. Lord, we lay ourselves prostate
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  before you. God, we receive our salvation.
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  Lord, we see the Kingdom of God is near.
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  Lord, we step into the reality that you're moving all around
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  us. God that you have great plans
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  for those who love you, Lord, and we are yours.
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  Lord, we trim our Wicks, we fill the lamps.
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  God, we wait upon you. Lord, we see our redemption
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  drawing near. We see the leaves on the fig
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  tree. God, and we just wait, Father,
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  but help us to wait. Well.
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  Help us to be out in the harvest.
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  God, help us to come out there. God, beckon us out on the water.
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  Let us walk with you. Father, everywhere that you go,
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  let us not be overcome and overwhelmed.
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  God, break off depression and anxiety.
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  God break off perversion. God, break off spiritual pride
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  in the name of Jesus. God, I pray that we'll be the
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  spiritual leaders of our families.
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  God, help us to walk with you in all arenas, in every single
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  season, in all circumstances. God, for you are preeminent.
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  You are worthy to be praised. You are our everything.
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  God, speak to us today. God, I pray that you will
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  strengthen the church, strengthen the family.
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  Lord, I pray for marriages. God, I pray for the prodigals to
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  return home. God, I pray that righteous
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  leaders will take residence in the land.
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  We love you, Father, and it's in your holy and precious and
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  powerful name we pray King Jesus, Amen.
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  Well, let's start in verse one. When it came to pass at that
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  time that Judah went down from his brothers and turned to a
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  certain Abdullah might, whose name was Hydra.
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  So here we're going to get to see why God is going to send
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  this family down into Egypt for 400 years and into slavery and
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  bondage. You're going to get to see why
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  because they were starting to get polluted and diluted.
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  They were starting to get washed out, friends.
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  And we're going to see it right here in this story, verse 2.
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  And Judah there, a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was
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  Shua. And he took her and went into
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  her three. She conceived and bore a son.
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  And he called his name air. And that's exactly what
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  happened. He erred.
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  Friends, this is a great error and he should not have done so.
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  But we're going to see in the lineage of the Messiah that
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  God's going to take this lineage here and all of the things that
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  have happened, and He's going to graft in some of the most
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  heinous acts that mankind has ever done against him, and he's
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  going to use it for great good. And you're going to see it in
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  the lineage of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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  What an amazing thought that no matter what we have done in this
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  life, God can take it and He can use it, friends, for ministry
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  and He can use it for great good.
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  And no one friend is disqualified.
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  If you have breath in your lungs, there's still hope for
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  you. You cannot believe the lies of
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  the enemy who wants to get you to believe that you've gone too
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  far, that it's too late, that you are not loved and not part
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  of God's eternal blessing and plans.
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  If you are hearing this, and if you have breath in your lungs,
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  it's not too late. Surrender to them today.
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  Friends don't air as Judah did here For and he conceived again,
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  and bore a son. And he called his name Onan.
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  And she yet again conceived and bore a son, and called his name
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  Sheila. And he was at Chisholm when she
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  bore him. So here Judah has three sons.
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  Let's see how it goes. 6 And Judah took a wife for heir his
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  first born, whose name was Tamar. 7 And heir Judah's first
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  born was wicked in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord slew him.
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  We're not told here what the problem with air was.
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  We're just told that he was evil in the sight of God.
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  And so God slew him. And here you're going to see
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  this divine protection of the family of God, the covenant
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  family, the 12 tribes of Israel, and God is protecting them. 8
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  And Judah said to Onan, go into your brother's wife and marry
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  her and raise up seed to your brother.
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  So this is going to be outlined later on in the Old Testament
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  where it is a brother who is to make sure that the lineage
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  continues on. And it's the very same thing
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  that the Sadducees tried to make fun of whenever they were
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  talking to Jesus. And they were saying this one
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  had her and this one had her, and this one had her in the end,
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  whose wife is she? And they were trying to disprove
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  the resurrection of the dead because they did not believe in
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  it. But what did Jesus tell them?
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  He says that there is no marriage in heaven and that we
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  will be like the angels, Friends, we do not care anything
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  about those things. There's no procreation in
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  heaven, friends. It is just all about Jesus and
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  his glory. And I pray that you're looking
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  forward to it. I pray that you're not trying to
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  hold on to this life and the way that this world goes.
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  Pray that you look forward to your eternal abode with Him, and
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  if He is there, He is enough. 9 And Onan knew that his seed
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  should not be his, and it came to pass when he went into his
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  brother's wife that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he
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  should give seed to his brother. So here you need to understand
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  that this Onan was evil in the Lord's sight, because he was
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  supposed to continue on the line of his brother, but he did not.
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  And he would use her, but he would not fulfill his
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  responsibility. And God said that he should go
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  as well. And he did the thing which
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  displeased the Lord. Therefore he slew him also.
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  So God disposed of him. And this is divine protection
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  over the line of Judah, which the Savior of the entire world
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  would come through. And this is just like God.
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  God outlines things in the Bible that man, if he was to write it,
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  he would never put in there. Never forget that the Bible is a
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  book that man would not write if he could, and he could not write
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  even if he wanted to. This is divinely inspired.
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  This is the breath of God. This is the Holy Spirit pinning
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  these words down for us and this for our edification.
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  And there is so much here. This is gems and jewels that we
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  unearth throughout a lifetime. Friends, this is just a bird's
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  eye view. This is just a fly over.
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  Friends, we can spend an entire lifetime in the deep end and
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  we'll never touch the bottom 11 then said Judah to Tamar, his
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  daughter-in-law. Remain a widow at your father's
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  house until Sheila, my son be grown, for he said, lest
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  peradventure he'd die also as his brothers did.
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  And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.
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  So you need to know here that old Judah is trying to protect
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  his neck and he actually has the say over Tamar, since she was
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  married to his son and his other son.
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  You need to know that it's not her father who has to say, it's
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  actually Judah 12. And in the process of time the
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  daughter of Shua, Judah's wife, died, and Judah was comforted
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  and went up unto his sheepshears, to Timna, he and
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  his friend Hira the Abdullah Mite.
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  So here he's going, and he's going to shear some sheep, and
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  he's going into the land that Tamar lived. 13 And it was told
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  Tamar saying, Behold, your father-in-law goes up to 10 not
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  to shear sheep. 14 So she put her widow's garments off from
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  her, and covered her with a veil, and wrapped herself, and
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  sat in an open place, which is, by the way, to Timna, for she
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  saw that Sheila was grown, and she was not given to him to
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  wife. So here she's already seeing
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  that Judah was not going to be a man of his word that his
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  youngest son was of age. And he said when he became of
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  age he would give him to her because she was his
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  responsibility. And for her to be stuck at her
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  father's house as a widow meant that she could not marry anyone
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  else and she was destitute. And so here she does something
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  that is not very couth, and she goes and plays the harlot.
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  But we're going to see how it all ends up. 15 When Judah saw
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  her, he thought her to be a harlot, because she had covered
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  her face. So here he mistakes her for a
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  prostitute. 16 And he turned to her, by the way, and said, Go to
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  I pray, let me come in unto you. For he knew not that she was his
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  daughter-in-law. And she said, What will you give
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  me, that you may come in unto me.
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  So here she's outsmarting him. He just mistakes her for a
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  prostitute. She's saying, what will you give
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  me in payment? 17 He said, I will send you a
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  kid from the flock. And she said, will you give me a
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  pledge until you send it? So here she is.
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  She's playing her part. She's making sure she that she
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  gets some kind of proof of who he is. 18 And he said, what
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  pledge shall I give you? And she said your signet, your
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  bracelets, your staff that is in your hand.
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  And he gave it to her and he came into her and she conceived
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  by him. So she got pregnant by her
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  father-in-law. But in place before he sent the
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  payment, she got his ring, his bracelets, and his staff. 19 And
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  she arose and went away, and laid by her veil from her, and
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  put on the garments of her widowhood.
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  So she took off her costume and put back on her regular clothes.
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  20 And Judas sent the kid by the hand of his friend the Abdullah
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  might to receive his pledge from the woman's hand, but he found
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  her not. So here he he sends his friend
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  in there to pay her, but cannot find her. 21 Then he asked the
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  men of the place, saying, Where is the harlot that was openly by
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  the wayside? And they said There's no harlot
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  in this place. So he's saying, where is the
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  prostitute that was by the road? And he's saying there's no
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  prostitute here, friend. 22 So he returned to Judah and said, I
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  cannot find her. And also the men of the place
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  said that there was no harlot in that place. 23 And Judah said,
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  Let her take it to her, lest we be shamed.
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  Behold, I sent this kid and you have not found her.
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  So he's saying let her keep whatever I gave to her, the
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  staff and the ring and the bracelets.
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  I tried to pay her with the goat, but they're saying that
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  there's no prostitute in that land. 24 It came to pass about
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  three months later that it was told to Judah saying, Tamar,
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  your daughter-in-law has played the whore and also behold, she's
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  with child by whoredom. And Judah said, bring her forth
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  and let her be burned. So he's saying burner at the
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  stake for playing the whore. 25 And when she was brought forth,
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  she sent to her father-in-law, saying by the man whose these
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  are I am with child. And she said, discern, I pray
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  you, whose are these, the signet, the bracelets, the
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  staff. 26 And Judah acknowledged them and said she has been more
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  righteous than I because that I gave her not Sheila, my son.
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  And he knew her again no more. So he no longer had any
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  relations with her. He understood what this was
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  about. He understood that she
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  outplayed, outsmarted him, friends, and that he was the one
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  that was in the wrong, but not her. 27 And it came to pass, and
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  the time of her travail, that behold, twins were in her womb.
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  And it came to pass when she travailed, that the one put out
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  his hand, and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a
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  scarlet thread, saying, this came out first. 29 And it came
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  to pass, as he drew back his hand, behold, his brother came
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  out, And she said, How have you broken forth, this breach be
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  upon you? Therefore his name was called
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  Perez. 30 And afterward came out his brother that had the scarlet
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  thread upon his hand, and his name was called Zara.
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  So we know that Perez is in the genealogy of our Lord Jesus
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  Christ, and we see the scarlet thread placed on his brother,
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  and we see the scarlet thread all the way from Genesis to
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  Revelation pointing to our Lord Jesus Christ.
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  Follow that scarlet thread. Friends, I hope that you have
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  been blessed by this amazing chapter in God's Word.
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  I know I sure have. I'm praying for every single one
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  of you. I love you.
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  We'll see you back here tomorrow.
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  God bless you.