Class 1 from this series was used in GCT Episode 322.<\/p>\n
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\nSchool.
\nThis is Class 1, and our brother<\/p>\n
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\nBen Brinkerhoff is going to
\ndeliver the address. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the title of the address.
\nIs Judas Iscariot Destroyed by <\/p>\n
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\nresentment or overcoming
\nresentment? <\/p>\n
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\nNeither.
\nNeither. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s neither of those he will
\ntell you. <\/p>\n
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\nYeah, we’re going to talk about
\nJudah and the power of empathy. <\/p>\n
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\nJudah and the power of empathy.
\nBut what I’ll do is I’ll just <\/p>\n
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\npause while Nate Badger settles
\nhimself in. <\/p>\n
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\nYou ready?
\nYou ready now? <\/p>\n
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\nAll right, All right.
\nGood morning. <\/p>\n
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\nRocky Mountain Bible School.
\nIt’s a little bit sad. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s the last time I’m going
\nto be saying that this week. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s been a real.
\nPleasure to be with you and I do<\/p>\n
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\nhave the wonderful memories.
\nWas that the year? <\/p>\n
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\nThat my friend Josh Barrett
\nthrew up in someone’s suitcase. <\/p>\n
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\nYeah, yeah.
\nWho was that? <\/p>\n
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\nIt was that English brother.
\nAnd he was trying my friend <\/p>\n
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\nJosh, right?
\nHe got sick and it was the first<\/p>\n
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\nnight and we’d just come from
\nIdyllwild. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so he got out of the bunk
\nbed thinking he was going to go <\/p>\n
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\nto the door where the Idyllwild
\nbunk was. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd he couldn’t find the door
\nbecause the door wasn’t there <\/p>\n
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\nand he had to throw up.
\nSo what he did is he, is he <\/p>\n
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\nunzipped someone’s suitcase.
\nIt might have been Joe Palmer, <\/p>\n
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\nright?
\nAnd and then you can, I just <\/p>\n
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\nwant you to imagine a dealt
\nWelsh accent. <\/p>\n
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\nWhy did you unzip the suitcase,
\nright? <\/p>\n
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\nYou could have thrown up on top
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\nI don’t think Josh had an answer
\nright in his. <\/p>\n
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\nDelirium.
\nHe thought that was wise. <\/p>\n
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\nYeah, that was fun that week.
\nI remember seeing the the ants <\/p>\n
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\ngo marching for like 2 straight
\nhours. <\/p>\n
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\nThat was Joe Palmer.
\nThat was him. <\/p>\n
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\nOK now back to this week.
\nSo I have asked myself the <\/p>\n
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\nquestion many times and I hope
\nyou’re starting to ask yourself <\/p>\n
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\nthe question.
\nWhat turns Judah around? <\/p>\n
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\nHow does this man go from
\nselling his brother into <\/p>\n
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\nslavery, leaving the ecclesia,
\nmarrying out of the. <\/p>\n
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\nTruth seeing prostitutes.
\nBecause he resents his brother, <\/p>\n
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\nhe resents his father, he
\nresents his life to a point <\/p>\n
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\nwhere we see later where he’s in
\na position of leadership and <\/p>\n
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\ncourage and self sacrifice.
\nAnd the question I’m really <\/p>\n
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\nasking is, can I change like
\nthat too? <\/p>\n
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\nWhat’s required to make that
\ntype of change? <\/p>\n
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\nAnd if the problem begins with
\nself importance, the answer at <\/p>\n
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\nheart must be to deconstruct
\nthat attitude of self <\/p>\n
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\nimportance, of blame and
\njudgement, and move somehow some<\/p>\n
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\nway towards humility and
\nacceptance. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd this began the moment that
\nJudah was humbled by Tamar’s <\/p>\n
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\ngrace in light of his cruelty,
\nTamar’s unmerited kindness and <\/p>\n
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\nloyalty.
\nIt smashed through Judah’s whole<\/p>\n
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\ntit for tat, self justified get
\neven paradigm that he was living<\/p>\n
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\nin and swimming in and allowed
\nhim to see a certain inner <\/p>\n
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\ntruth.
\nAnd inner truth was that she is <\/p>\n
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\nmore righteous than I, That I am
\nwrong. <\/p>\n
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\nI’m Jude, I’m wrong, and I have
\nbeen wrong. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd living in wrong for a long
\ntime. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd if the truth was obvious
\nenough and powerful enough to <\/p>\n
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\nleave Judah without any excuse
\nor blame, then maybe we’re ready<\/p>\n
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\nto change.
\nYou know, I remember how my <\/p>\n
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\nparents hated excuses, right?
\nAnd I thought the excuses were <\/p>\n
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\nthe perfect justifier for all my
\nbehavior. <\/p>\n
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\nRemember, Dad, It was Tabby’s
\nfault, right? <\/p>\n
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\nAnd somehow you didn’t really
\nsee the wisdom of that, did you,<\/p>\n
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\nDad?
\nNo, right? <\/p>\n
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\nAnd And because as long as I had
\nan excuse, now I know this is <\/p>\n
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\napparent.
\nI didn’t know this growing up, <\/p>\n
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\nright?
\nBut as a parent, you, you know <\/p>\n
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\nwhen, when you’re disciplining a
\nchild and they say it’s their <\/p>\n
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\nsiblings fault, Do you know one
\nthing for certain? <\/p>\n
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\nThey’re not learning nothing.
\nThey’re not learning anything. <\/p>\n
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\nYou know that whatever mistake
\nthey just made, they will for <\/p>\n
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\nsure make it again.
\nIt’s not done. <\/p>\n
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\nAm I alone in that parental
\nexperience? <\/p>\n
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\nThat was true of me growing up.
\nAs long as I could blame Tabitha<\/p>\n
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\nor blame someone else, I was not
\ngoing to learn. <\/p>\n
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\nBlame was the shield in which I
\nwas immune to learning. <\/p>\n
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\nI could have been disciplined.
\nI could have been spanked or <\/p>\n
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\ngrounded or whatever it was.
\nI could have faced the <\/p>\n
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\nconsequence but didn’t learn
\nanything because really, I <\/p>\n
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\nwasn’t wrong.
\nThe other person was wrong. <\/p>\n
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\nJudah was not going to make any
\nprogress until he could see <\/p>\n
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\nclearly and absolutely that he
\nwas wrong. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd once he gave up false
\njustifications and once that <\/p>\n
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\nbegan, then restoration could
\nbegin to happen. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd Tamar’s grace was God’s
\ninstrument to get this message <\/p>\n
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\nthrough to Judah.
\nAnd one can only wonder if Judah<\/p>\n
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\nstarted finally started to see
\nsome truths about himself, that <\/p>\n
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\nmaybe then he was able to start
\nto see some truths about others.<\/p>\n
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\nAnd the 1st and most important
\nof these truths is that he was <\/p>\n
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\nnot different or better than the
\npeople he resented. <\/p>\n
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\nLet’s take Jacob for an example.
\nJudah may have had a pretty <\/p>\n
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\nterrible resentment against
\nJacob. <\/p>\n
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\nWe can understand why.
\nSee, Jacob married a wife he <\/p>\n
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\nfavor the children of the wife <\/p>\n
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\nhe loved more than the children
\nof the wives that he did not <\/p>\n
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\nBut now Judah could also see <\/p>\n
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\ndidn’t intend to. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd he had favored his son
\nSheila over Tamar, even when he <\/p>\n
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\nknew in himself that doing that
\nwas wrong. <\/p>\n
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\nHe wasn’t ignorant that it was
\nwrong. <\/p>\n
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\nHe was just afraid to do what
\nwas right. <\/p>\n
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\nSo was Judah really any better?
\nJudah may have further <\/p>\n
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\nrecognized that he wasn’t
\nexactly. <\/p>\n
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\nThe world’s greatest son.
\nHis resentful attitude had <\/p>\n
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\ncaused him to disrespect his
\nfather to fail and his <\/p>\n
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\nresponsibility to look after the
\nflocks and to and to lie. <\/p>\n
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\nSee, without the shield of
\nblame, Judah might have been <\/p>\n
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\nable to see some truths about
\nhimself. <\/p>\n
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\nLet’s take another example.
\nJudah probably had a pretty <\/p>\n
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\nterrible resentment against
\nRachel, and we can understand <\/p>\n
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\nwhy we’re told that Rachel
\nenvied and hater to Sister Leah.<\/p>\n
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\nWell, if, if Judah considered
\nfor a moment, he could relate. <\/p>\n
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\nHe had envied his brother Joseph
\nand hated him as well, even <\/p>\n
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\nthough Joseph really hadn’t done
\nanything to deserve it. <\/p>\n
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\nWas was Judah really better than
\nRachel? <\/p>\n
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\nAgain, without the shield of
\nblame, Judah might be able to <\/p>\n
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\nsee the truth about.
\nHimself. <\/p>\n
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\nIf Judah’s mind was open now to
\nsee the truth about himself, he <\/p>\n
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\nmight be open to seeing the
\ntruth about other people. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the truth was this.
\nJacob and Rachel and others, <\/p>\n
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\nthey weren’t really trying to
\nhurt Judah. <\/p>\n
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\nThey were spiritually sick.
\nAnd being sick, they did what <\/p>\n
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\nsick people do.
\nWhat do sick people do? <\/p>\n
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\nWell, they try to make
\nthemselves feel better. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd to do that, yes, they might
\nbe selfishly inconsiderate, they<\/p>\n
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\nmight step on some toes, but so
\ndid Judah. <\/p>\n
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\nHe was the same in favoritism
\nand envy and in hate. <\/p>\n
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\nWas Judah any better?
\nListen, if you want to stay <\/p>\n
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\nunwell spiritually and well,
\nthen please conclude that you’re<\/p>\n
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\nbetter.
\nIf you conclude that you’re <\/p>\n
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\nbetter, you’re better, you’re a
\nbetter Christadelphian, you’re a<\/p>\n
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\nbetter human being, then you
\nwill stay. <\/p>\n
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\nSick and you will stay.
\nAngry. <\/p>\n
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\nBut if you actually want to get
\nwell, you must see that other <\/p>\n
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\npeople are made of the same
\nstuff you are. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd if you were in their shoes,
\nwith their fears, with their <\/p>\n
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\nbackground, with the threats
\nthey’re facing, you couldn’t do <\/p>\n
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\nthat.
\nYou couldn’t act the way they <\/p>\n
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\nacted, you couldn’t or you
\ncouldn’t even understand how it <\/p>\n
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\ncould be that they’d act the way
\nthey did. <\/p>\n
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\nIf you conclude that you will
\nstay sick and they will stay the<\/p>\n
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\nblame and no healing will go
\nforward. <\/p>\n
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\nIf he’s truly.
\nChanging Judah’s going to be <\/p>\n
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\nable to do something pretty
\nimportant and the pretty <\/p>\n
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\nimportant.
\nThing is, he would be able to <\/p>\n
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\nunderstand what empathy.
\nIs empathy is created out of two<\/p>\n
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\nwords M which means with and
\npathos which means pain. <\/p>\n
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\nSo if you’re empathetic it means
\nyou’re able to understand the <\/p>\n
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\npain of others and Judah will be
\nable to understand that the ones<\/p>\n
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\nthat hurt him are human and
\nfrail too. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd when you understand that the
\npeople that hurt you are like <\/p>\n
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\nyou, then this this cold,
\nisolating, debilitating, self <\/p>\n
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\nimportant judgement.
\nIt starts to melt. <\/p>\n
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\nNow there’s verses that suggest
\nto us that empathy when combined<\/p>\n
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\nwith God’s will and
\nrighteousness is a very <\/p>\n
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\nscriptural idea.
\nOne of those verses is Matthew <\/p>\n
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\nChapter 7 verse 12 where we read
\ntherefore all things whatsoever <\/p>\n
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\nye would that men should do to
\nyou, do ye Even so to them, for <\/p>\n
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\nthis is the law and the
\nprophets. <\/p>\n
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\nNow behind this verse is a
\nsimple idea that will see Judah <\/p>\n
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\nembrace.
\nIt is enlightenment to <\/p>\n
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\nunderstand how our actions make
\nsomeone else feel. <\/p>\n
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\nYou can understand their
\nfeelings because people are not <\/p>\n
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\nreally that different from you,
\nand knowing this is the key to <\/p>\n
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\nloving them as you would love
\nyourself. <\/p>\n
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\nA point according to Paul.
\nEmpathy is a quality we’re in to<\/p>\n
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\ndevelop after we’ve been shown
\ngrace. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd Paul’s word for this is
\ntender hearted. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat’s this first we’ve looked
\nat earlier? <\/p>\n
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\nBe kind to one another.
\nTender hearted, forgiving one <\/p>\n
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\nanother, even as God for
\nChrist’s sake has forgiven you. <\/p>\n
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\nNow we’re told about Jesus and
\nempathy in Hebrews chapter 4, <\/p>\n
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\nverses 15 and 16.
\nWe’re told that we have a high <\/p>\n
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\npriest which we did not, a high
\npriest which cannot be touched <\/p>\n
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\nwith the feeling of our
\ninfirmities, but was in all <\/p>\n
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\npoints tempted like us, yet
\nwithout sin. <\/p>\n
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\nLet us therefore come boldly
\nunto the throne of grace, that <\/p>\n
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\nwe may obtain mercy and find
\nhelp in time of need. <\/p>\n
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\nNow we can.
\nUnderstand, brethren, so can’t <\/p>\n
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\nwe that Jesus is touched with
\nour infirmities. <\/p>\n
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\nWe can all, everyone understand
\nthat is that is that clear? <\/p>\n
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\nJesus is touched with our
\ninfirmities, whatever that <\/p>\n
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\ninfirmity is, that you may
\nstruggle with health or <\/p>\n
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\nemotional distress, but can you
\nunderstand that others are also <\/p>\n
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\ntouched with Jesus infirmities?
\nCan we see that that that it’s <\/p>\n
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\nnot just me and Jesus, It’s me
\nand you and Jesus. <\/p>\n
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\nWe all have the same infirmities
\nin common. <\/p>\n
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\nOr will you continue to isolate
\nyourself with the myth? <\/p>\n
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\nDo you know what the myth is?
\nI’m different. <\/p>\n
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\nNo one understands me.
\nAs long as you can continue to <\/p>\n
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\nsay I’m different, no one
\nunderstands me, then those are <\/p>\n
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\nthe lies at the at the heart of
\nself importance. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd you know what you get to do,
\nright? <\/p>\n
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\nIf you’re saying I’m different,
\nno one understands me right? <\/p>\n
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\nYou get to fold your arms and
\njudge and be better. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd be angry and be discontent.
\nAnd be broken inside. <\/p>\n
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\nYou get to be self important
\nbecause of your suffering. <\/p>\n
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\nYou are so important because of
\nyour suffering. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s clear that empathy is at
\nthe heart of Judas change of <\/p>\n
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\nheart.
\nWe see this empathy, right? <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s it’s got to be the empathy
\nis the way forward here. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd this is not just me making
\nthis thing up. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s got to be the empathy is at
\nthe heart of Judas change <\/p>\n
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\nbecause the moment the crescendo
\nof this whole story is one that <\/p>\n
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\nis full of empathy.
\nSo to jump straight to the end, <\/p>\n
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\nbut we’ll fill in the details
\nbefore. <\/p>\n
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\nJoseph not knowing it’s Joseph
\nand and with the consequence of <\/p>\n
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\nBenjamin being locked away in
\nEgyptian prison and going back <\/p>\n
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\nto his father empty handed,
\nJudah’s going to stand in front <\/p>\n
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\nof Joseph.
\nHe’s going to say for how shall <\/p>\n
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\nI go up to my father and the lad
\nbe not with me, lest per venture<\/p>\n
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\nI see the evil that shall come
\nupon my father. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s empathy.
\nThat’s what’s happening here. <\/p>\n
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\nYou see it?
\nDo you see it? <\/p>\n
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\nHe can feel his father’s pain.
\nHe couldn’t do that before. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s the change.
\nHow did you change? <\/p>\n
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\nRight there.
\nUnderline it. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s the change.
\nHe could feel someone else’s <\/p>\n
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\npain.
\nHe can understand how they would<\/p>\n
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\nfeel now.
\nHad had Jacob repented. <\/p>\n
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\nHad he?
\nHow do you repented? <\/p>\n
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\nA favoritism.
\nHe had not. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s the change.
\nHe was able to feel his father’s<\/p>\n
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\npain.
\nBut you think to yourself, I’m <\/p>\n
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\nhappy to do that.
\nBut they got to repent first. <\/p>\n
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\nEver thought that?
\nYeah. <\/p>\n
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\nI’ll show a bit of empathy when
\nthey come groveling on their <\/p>\n
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\nknees, Right?
\nWhat if that doesn’t happen? <\/p>\n
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\nHow long will you stay angry?
\nHow long will you stay hurt? <\/p>\n
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\nHow long will you stay bitter?
\nOf course, by feeling and acting<\/p>\n
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\non the pain of others, another
\nblow is inevitably dealt to the <\/p>\n
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\nfoundation of self importance,
\nand this had been the foundation<\/p>\n
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\nupon which Judah had formally
\nbuilt his life. <\/p>\n
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\nSo consider for a moment that
\nJudah can now empathize with his<\/p>\n
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\nfather’s pain at losing a son.
\nJudah could understand how fear <\/p>\n
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\nhad driven Jacob to show
\nfavoritism and concerning <\/p>\n
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\nBenjamin.
\nWhy? <\/p>\n
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\nBecause he had done those
\nthings, not those exact things. <\/p>\n
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\nBut things close enough where he
\ncould understand it. <\/p>\n
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\nJudah had withheld Sheila from
\nTamar. <\/p>\n
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\nWhy?
\nBecause he was scared. <\/p>\n
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\nOh, maybe my father was scared.
\nIn a sense, Judah can say, I get<\/p>\n
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\nyou, I’m like you, and surely
\nthis would have been a key by <\/p>\n
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\nwhich Judah got over himself and
\nreconciled with Jacob. <\/p>\n
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\nNow, what else besides Tamar’s
\ngrace brings Judah to the point <\/p>\n
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\nof acceptance and empathy and
\nforgiveness? <\/p>\n
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\nI believe trial played a key
\nrole to expand these feelings <\/p>\n
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\nand thoughts within Judah.
\nAnd when Judah comes home, he <\/p>\n
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\njumps straight into a trial.
\nAnd Judah finds upon his return <\/p>\n
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\nto the Jacob’s tents that
\nthey’re in disarray, see food as<\/p>\n
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\nscarce.
\nThere’s a vacuum in leadership. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd that is evident by the
\nfierceness of Jacob’s rebuke at <\/p>\n
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\nthe start of Genesis chapter 42.
\nTurn with me to Genesis chapter <\/p>\n
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\n42, and we’re going to look at
\nverses 1 and 2 now. <\/p>\n
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\nNow, when Jacob saw that there
\nwas corn in Egypt, Jacob said to<\/p>\n
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\nhis sons, why do you look upon
\none another? <\/p>\n
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\nNow?
\nOutside of a lack of leadership,<\/p>\n
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\nJudah would have found upon his
\nreturn some 22 years later after<\/p>\n
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\nhis left that not much had
\nchanged in regards to Jacob’s <\/p>\n
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\nfavoritism.
\nThis is why Judah and his <\/p>\n
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\nbrothers were not allowed
\ninitially to take Benjamin down <\/p>\n
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\ninto Egypt because verse 4 says
\nthere in Genesis chapter 42 it <\/p>\n
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\nsays lest peradventure mischief
\nbefall him. <\/p>\n
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\nSo not much a change.
\nJacob is still acting with fear <\/p>\n
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\nright and not sending Benjamin.
\nThis is why Jacob’s great act of<\/p>\n
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\nfaith, by the way, was blessing
\nEphraim over Manasseh, because <\/p>\n
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\nwho didn’t want him to do that?
\nBy the way, who did not want him<\/p>\n
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\nto bless Ephraim over Manasseh?
\nJoseph, who is the one person in<\/p>\n
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\nhis life, Jacob definitely
\ndidn’t want to disappoint <\/p>\n
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\nJoseph.
\nSo finally, by the end of his <\/p>\n
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\nlife, Jacob recognized Joseph.
\nIt doesn’t matter what you. <\/p>\n
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\nWant.
\nIt’s God’s will. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I will be obedient to it.
\nAnd the writer of the Hebrew he <\/p>\n
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\ngoes.
\nFaith, faith. <\/p>\n
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\nBut Jacob hadn’t yet learned
\nthat lesson at this point in <\/p>\n
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\ntime.
\nSo when they reach Egypt, they <\/p>\n
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\nsee Joseph.
\nBenjamin’s not there. <\/p>\n
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\nSo turn now to verse 15.
\nAnd there Joseph is going to <\/p>\n
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\ntest his brothers.
\nWe read there. <\/p>\n
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\nHereby ye shall be proved.
\nBy the life of Pharaoh you shall<\/p>\n
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\nnot go forth hence except your
\nyoungest brother. <\/p>\n
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\nCome, hit her, send one to you
\nand let him fetch your brother, <\/p>\n
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\nand you shall be kept in prison,
\nthat your words may be proved, <\/p>\n
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\nwhether there be any truth in
\nyou or else. <\/p>\n
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\nBy the life of Pharaoh, surely
\nye are spas. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd he put them all together in
\nward three days. <\/p>\n
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\nNow the brothers were in jail
\nfor three days, and they have <\/p>\n
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\nnowhere to run.
\nThey have nowhere to go. <\/p>\n
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\nAll they can do really is talk
\nto one another. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd So what do you think they do
\nright? <\/p>\n
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\nThey all seem to reflect on
\nJoseph. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd in verse 21 in prison they
\nsay to one another, we are <\/p>\n
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\nbarely guilty concerning our
\nbrother in that we saw the <\/p>\n
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\nanguish of his soul when he
\nbesought us, and we would not <\/p>\n
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\nhear.
\nTherefore is this distress come <\/p>\n
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\nupon us.
\nSo why do you think they would <\/p>\n
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\nthink of Joseph?
\nWell, it must be the similarity <\/p>\n
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\nof their current circumstance.
\nTo. <\/p>\n
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\nJosephs, See, they had been
\nunjustly bound in Egypt. <\/p>\n
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\nWell, guess who else was
\nunjustly bound in Egypt? <\/p>\n
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\nOh, and no one was willing to
\nlisten to their cries of <\/p>\n
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\ninnocence.
\nWell, guess what? <\/p>\n
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\nGuess name someone else who
\ncried? <\/p>\n
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\nThey’re innocent but yet wasn’t
\nlistened to. <\/p>\n
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\nRight?
\nAnd So what we see is now they <\/p>\n
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\ncan do what?
\nWhat can they do? <\/p>\n
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\nNow they can empathize with
\nJoseph. <\/p>\n
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\nOh, this is how it feels to be
\ninnocent and in jail and no one <\/p>\n
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\nlistening to how innocent you
\nare. <\/p>\n
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\nOh, that does not feel good so.
\nHere’s my point. <\/p>\n
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\nTrial develops empathy.
\nHowever, by the way that Judah <\/p>\n
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\nand by contrast Reuben respond
\nto this trial is very telling. <\/p>\n
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\nBefore we contrast Reuben and
\nJudah, because sometimes I see <\/p>\n
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\nthe progress in one person, it’s
\nhelpful to see them relative to <\/p>\n
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\na straw man who didn’t change.
\nAnd that straw man who didn’t <\/p>\n
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\nchange was Reuben, right?
\nAnd. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I just want you to observe
\nfor a moment. <\/p>\n
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\nYou know when Jake at the end of
\nJacob’s life, he blesses his <\/p>\n
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\nsons and, and this is what he
\nhas to say about Reuben in <\/p>\n
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\nGenesis chapter 49 verse four,
\nhe says Reuben is unstable as <\/p>\n
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\nwater.
\nThou shalt not excel because <\/p>\n
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\nthou wentest up into thy
\nfather’s bed. <\/p>\n
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\nNow Reuben’s not alone, by the
\nway, in receiving a rebuke <\/p>\n
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\nrather than a blessing really at
\nthe end of Jacob’s life in <\/p>\n
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\nGenesis chapter 49, because
\nthere for a moment Simeon and <\/p>\n
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\nLevi says about them their
\ninstruments of cruelty in are <\/p>\n
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\ntheir habitations.
\nSo now now considering. <\/p>\n
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\nReuben and his major sin and
\nwife, which was, you know, to <\/p>\n
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\nsleep with his father’s wife.
\nAnd we know that Simeon and Levi<\/p>\n
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\nand, and for them, it’s it’s the
\nthe murder and massacre at <\/p>\n
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\nShechem.
\nBut but consider Judah. <\/p>\n
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\nFor a moment he had a checkered.
\nPast he had sold Joseph, he had <\/p>\n
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\nleft the Collegia, he had
\nmarried a Canaanite, he had <\/p>\n
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\nslept with his daughter-in-law.
\nBut you know, a funny thing? <\/p>\n
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\nFunny thing, Jacob doesn’t
\nmention any of it in Genesis 49.<\/p>\n
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\nThat seems a bit unfair.
\nWhat? <\/p>\n
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\n00:24:04,400 –> 00:24:08,680
\nWhy is it that he mentions
\nReuben right in his bad big bad <\/p>\n
341
\n00:24:08,680 –> 00:24:12,160
\nsin and they mentions Levi and
\nSimeon their big bad sin and and<\/p>\n
342
\n00:24:12,160 –> 00:24:17,280
\nJudah nothing.
\nWhy do you suppose that is? <\/p>\n
343
\n00:24:19,080 –> 00:24:26,440
\nMy guess is because Judah
\nrepented and changed, but Reuben<\/p>\n
344
\n00:24:26,440 –> 00:24:30,800
\nremained unstable as water his
\nwhole life. <\/p>\n
345
\n00:24:34,120 –> 00:24:37,880
\nSo in regard to the benefits of
\ntrial which bring remorse, <\/p>\n
346
\n00:24:37,880 –> 00:24:41,520
\ndevelop empathy, encourage
\nchange, contrasting Reuben and <\/p>\n
347
\n00:24:41,520 –> 00:24:43,440
\nJudy Judah is pretty
\ninstructive. <\/p>\n
348
\n00:24:43,960 –> 00:24:48,320
\nSee, they were both under
\nsimilar trials in Egypt, but the<\/p>\n
349
\n00:24:48,320 –> 00:24:52,040
\ntrials were kind of the making
\nof Judah and they’re the undoing<\/p>\n
350
\n00:24:52,040 –> 00:24:53,360
\nof Reuben.
\nWhy? <\/p>\n
351
\n00:24:54,320 –> 00:24:58,160
\nWell, let’s listen to Reuben
\nexplain to himself why change <\/p>\n
352
\n00:24:58,160 –> 00:25:00,680
\nwas not happening for Reuben and
\nReuben’s going to give us some <\/p>\n
353
\n00:25:00,680 –> 00:25:04,920
\ninsight about this in Genesis
\nchapter 42 and verse 22. <\/p>\n
354
\n00:25:05,520 –> 00:25:07,600
\nAnd there we read together.
\nYou can follow along your <\/p>\n
355
\n00:25:07,600 –> 00:25:10,160
\nBibles.
\nAnd Reuben answered them, <\/p>\n
356
\n00:25:10,160 –> 00:25:12,920
\nsaying, this is to the brothers
\nin prison. <\/p>\n
357
\n00:25:13,120 –> 00:25:17,120
\nSpake I not unto you saying, do
\nnot sin against a child, and ye <\/p>\n
358
\n00:25:17,120 –> 00:25:21,280
\nwould not here behold, therefore
\nbehold also his blood is <\/p>\n
359
\n00:25:21,280 –> 00:25:23,480
\nrequired.
\nOK, there are a couple things <\/p>\n
360
\n00:25:23,480 –> 00:25:25,480
\nnotable about Reuben’s response
\nthere. <\/p>\n
361
\n00:25:26,960 –> 00:25:31,320
\nNow the first thing is that you
\nnotice that Reuben makes the <\/p>\n
362
\n00:25:31,320 –> 00:25:34,720
\nincident of selling Joseph
\nsomeone else’s fault. <\/p>\n
363
\n00:25:36,040 –> 00:25:38,600
\nHe blames.
\nNow maybe legitimately because I<\/p>\n
364
\n00:25:38,600 –> 00:25:43,280
\ndon’t think it was his idea, but
\none thing is is certain about <\/p>\n
365
\n00:25:43,280 –> 00:25:46,000
\nblaming.
\nAs long as you have blame, you <\/p>\n
366
\n00:25:46,000 –> 00:25:48,960
\nhave a free pass not to change
\nanything about yourself. <\/p>\n
367
\n00:25:50,040 –> 00:25:52,840
\nIt’s like my earlier example
\nregarding excuses. <\/p>\n
368
\n00:25:53,320 –> 00:25:56,840
\nMy parents knew as long as I had
\nan excuse, I would justify my <\/p>\n
369
\n00:25:56,840 –> 00:26:00,040
\nwrongdoing and change was
\nimpossible. <\/p>\n
370
\n00:26:00,040 –> 00:26:03,120
\nIt’s a sign that I’m back on
\nthis balance of childlike <\/p>\n
371
\n00:26:03,120 –> 00:26:06,920
\nreasoning, looking for false
\natonement, using blame, covering<\/p>\n
372
\n00:26:06,920 –> 00:26:08,880
\nmy sin with the sin of another
\nperson. <\/p>\n
373
\n00:26:10,680 –> 00:26:14,040
\nBlame prohibits acceptance, it
\nprohibits self reflection, or it<\/p>\n
374
\n00:26:14,160 –> 00:26:17,840
\nprohibits identification and
\nprohibits restoration. <\/p>\n
375
\n00:26:18,520 –> 00:26:22,440
\nYou cannot be restored.
\nFrom the sin you put on someone.<\/p>\n
376
\n00:26:22,440 –> 00:26:27,280
\nElse.
\nFurther, by blaming one other <\/p>\n
377
\n00:26:27,280 –> 00:26:29,720
\nthing that you do is you
\ncompletely abdicate leadership. <\/p>\n
378
\n00:26:31,520 –> 00:26:36,800
\nLeaders don’t blame.
\nLeaders accept responsibility, <\/p>\n
379
\n00:26:36,920 –> 00:26:39,520
\nwhich takes backbone.
\nRight. <\/p>\n
380
\n00:26:39,600 –> 00:26:40,640
\nWhat’s the thing if you’re
\nunstable? <\/p>\n
381
\n00:26:40,640 –> 00:26:42,960
\nAs water, right?
\nWater’s going to take the shape <\/p>\n
382
\n00:26:42,960 –> 00:26:46,480
\nof anything it’s in, right?
\nI put water in a cup. <\/p>\n
383
\n00:26:46,800 –> 00:26:48,080
\nIt’s going to take the shape of
\nthe cup. <\/p>\n
384
\n00:26:49,000 –> 00:26:50,800
\nI put water in a bowl.
\nIt’s going to take the shape. <\/p>\n
385
\n00:26:50,800 –> 00:26:54,120
\nOf a bowl, right?
\nThere’s no integrity, there’s no<\/p>\n
386
\n00:26:54,120 –> 00:26:57,520
\nbackbone.
\nThere’s no backbone with blame. <\/p>\n
387
\n00:26:58,120 –> 00:27:00,600
\nIf you’re on the AB and there’s
\na problem in Ecclesia and you <\/p>\n
388
\n00:27:00,600 –> 00:27:03,040
\nblame, then you’re not the
\nperson to fix the problem. <\/p>\n
389
\n00:27:03,200 –> 00:27:06,800
\nPeriod.
\nTell someone else to do it. <\/p>\n
390
\n00:27:09,120 –> 00:27:11,480
\nI can see some AB brothers.
\nLike they’re nodding right now, <\/p>\n
391
\n00:27:11,480 –> 00:27:12,560
\nright?
\nYeah. <\/p>\n
392
\n00:27:12,560 –> 00:27:15,400
\nYou know that’s true.
\nIf you have, if there’s someone <\/p>\n
393
\n00:27:15,400 –> 00:27:18,920
\non your AB and they’re blaming
\nthe ecclesia and there’s a <\/p>\n
394
\n00:27:18,920 –> 00:27:23,160
\nproblem, do not put the not do
\nnot have that brother lead the <\/p>\n
395
\n00:27:23,160 –> 00:27:30,200
\nchange for the problem.
\nI mean, contrast this with with <\/p>\n
396
\n00:27:30,280 –> 00:27:33,400
\nMoses.
\nMoses used we we have sinned. <\/p>\n
397
\n00:27:33,400 –> 00:27:37,160
\nMoses says that had Moses sinned
\nin Exodus 32? <\/p>\n
398
\n00:27:37,200 –> 00:27:41,440
\nNo, he hadn’t.
\nOr how about Daniel and Daniel <\/p>\n
399
\n00:27:41,440 –> 00:27:44,600
\nChapter 9 We have sinned.
\nHad Daniel sinned? <\/p>\n
400
\n00:27:44,600 –> 00:27:51,120
\nNo, he hadn’t.
\nThey identify. <\/p>\n
401
\n00:27:51,120 –> 00:27:55,600
\nThey are authentic leaders.
\nThey stand up there accountable.<\/p>\n
402
\n00:27:55,960 –> 00:27:58,080
\nDaniel and Moses were not
\nunstable as. <\/p>\n
403
\n00:27:58,080 –> 00:28:04,200
\nWater, but Reuben was The second
\nthing this verse tells us is <\/p>\n
404
\n00:28:04,200 –> 00:28:07,160
\nthat Reuben thought that
\nJoseph’s blood was required. <\/p>\n
405
\n00:28:07,760 –> 00:28:10,080
\nNow Reuben and all the other
\nbrothers believe that God was <\/p>\n
406
\n00:28:10,080 –> 00:28:14,600
\nprobably out to get them.
\nJoseph was likely dead, and so <\/p>\n
407
\n00:28:14,600 –> 00:28:18,600
\nGod required Joseph’s blood.
\nNow this is an idea going back <\/p>\n
408
\n00:28:18,600 –> 00:28:22,400
\nto the time of Noah where it
\nsays in Genesis 9 verse six that<\/p>\n
409
\n00:28:23,120 –> 00:28:26,760
\nwhoso shed man’s blood by man
\nshall his blood be shed. <\/p>\n
410
\n00:28:27,920 –> 00:28:30,120
\nAnd on this basis, the brothers
\nprobably believe they’re all <\/p>\n
411
\n00:28:30,120 –> 00:28:33,080
\nguilty and they’re all facing
\ninescapable punishment. <\/p>\n
412
\n00:28:34,840 –> 00:28:37,960
\nSo if if that’s your belief,
\nright, if you kind of think that<\/p>\n
413
\n00:28:38,040 –> 00:28:41,960
\nthat that God is this God of
\nrequirement and not that God is <\/p>\n
414
\n00:28:41,960 –> 00:28:45,720
\nin just, but if that’s your
\nframework for understanding God,<\/p>\n
415
\n00:28:46,880 –> 00:28:49,000
\nthen then you’re going to blame,
\nright? <\/p>\n
416
\n00:28:49,200 –> 00:28:51,640
\nBecause think about the
\nimplications of it being your <\/p>\n
417
\n00:28:51,640 –> 00:28:53,920
\nfault.
\nBecause of course, you know, <\/p>\n
418
\n00:28:54,200 –> 00:28:56,560
\nGod’s a God requirement.
\nSo he’s going to punish me. <\/p>\n
419
\n00:28:56,720 –> 00:28:58,360
\nI’m afraid of punishment, so I’m
\ngoing. <\/p>\n
420
\n00:28:58,360 –> 00:29:02,160
\nTo blame, right?
\nI’m going to try to shift that. <\/p>\n
421
\n00:29:02,160 –> 00:29:05,520
\nResponsibility to someone.
\nElse so that I don’t I don’t <\/p>\n
422
\n00:29:05,680 –> 00:29:09,320
\nbear the consequence of this
\nbecause I’m afraid. <\/p>\n
423
\n00:29:10,040 –> 00:29:13,320
\nNow it’s not that that God does
\ndoesn’t care about justice. <\/p>\n
424
\n00:29:13,320 –> 00:29:17,200
\nIt’s not that if man if man sins
\nor, or that there’s no <\/p>\n
425
\n00:29:17,440 –> 00:29:19,280
\nculpability or responsibility
\nfor that. <\/p>\n
426
\n00:29:19,480 –> 00:29:21,680
\nIt’s just that in that
\nframework, where’s the room for <\/p>\n
427
\n00:29:21,680 –> 00:29:23,560
\nmercy?
\nWhere’s the room for love? <\/p>\n
428
\n00:29:23,680 –> 00:29:26,600
\nWhere’s the room for grace?
\nWhere’s the room for patience, <\/p>\n
429
\n00:29:26,600 –> 00:29:29,480
\nthe long-suffering?
\nWhere’s the room for all the <\/p>\n
430
\n00:29:29,480 –> 00:29:31,920
\nmanifold aspects of God’s
\ncharacter? <\/p>\n
431
\n00:29:32,120 –> 00:29:34,200
\nLike I’m just focusing on one
\naspect. <\/p>\n
432
\n00:29:34,360 –> 00:29:37,280
\nI’m doing that in absence of the
\nothers. <\/p>\n
433
\n00:29:39,680 –> 00:29:42,000
\nBut an alternative way of
\nviewing trial is one of <\/p>\n
434
\n00:29:42,000 –> 00:29:45,320
\nrestoration.
\nIn this view, hardship is <\/p>\n
435
\n00:29:45,320 –> 00:29:46,720
\nrestorative.
\nIt’s corrective. <\/p>\n
436
\n00:29:46,880 –> 00:29:50,280
\nIt teaches you something useful
\nand puts you in a position to <\/p>\n
437
\n00:29:50,280 –> 00:29:53,800
\nhelp others in this world.
\nYou trust God even though it’s <\/p>\n
438
\n00:29:53,800 –> 00:29:56,240
\npainful, and you accept the
\ntrial. <\/p>\n
439
\n00:29:58,000 –> 00:30:01,160
\nNow, if your view of trial is
\nrequirement rather than <\/p>\n
440
\n00:30:01,160 –> 00:30:05,760
\nrestoration, if it’s rather than
\nGod shaping and molding and <\/p>\n
441
\n00:30:05,760 –> 00:30:08,200
\nmaking perfect, then you’re
\ngoing to defend yourself. <\/p>\n
442
\n00:30:10,440 –> 00:30:13,120
\nIt’s going to be very difficult
\nto reflect except identify or <\/p>\n
443
\n00:30:13,120 –> 00:30:15,640
\nlearn anything, right.
\nBut here’s what I want you to <\/p>\n
444
\n00:30:15,640 –> 00:30:19,840
\nsee about about Judah.
\nJudah had learned from the last <\/p>\n
445
\n00:30:19,840 –> 00:30:21,800
\nbig trial he’s in.
\nWhat did he learn from that <\/p>\n
446
\n00:30:21,800 –> 00:30:27,920
\ntrial?
\nHe’d learned so much, benefit <\/p>\n
447
\n00:30:27,920 –> 00:30:31,120
\nfrom it.
\nYes, it was a trial and. <\/p>\n
448
\n00:30:31,120 –> 00:30:32,280
\nYes, it was.
\nDifficult. <\/p>\n
449
\n00:30:33,560 –> 00:30:36,440
\nBut now he had two more young
\nsons. <\/p>\n
450
\n00:30:37,080 –> 00:30:39,760
\nNow his his sons had been
\nredeemed. <\/p>\n
451
\n00:30:39,920 –> 00:30:42,320
\nNow he could see that Tamar
\nwasn’t the Sinner he was paying <\/p>\n
452
\n00:30:42,320 –> 00:30:45,760
\nher out to be right now.
\nHe could see that Tamar accepted<\/p>\n
453
\n00:30:46,000 –> 00:30:50,360
\nhis God as her God and was
\nteaching her sons about his God.<\/p>\n
454
\n00:30:55,560 –> 00:31:00,400
\nSo he had learned that trial
\nhelps by experience. <\/p>\n
455
\n00:31:00,400 –> 00:31:06,040
\nHe’d learned that trial.
\nHelps so as we go through the <\/p>\n
456
\n00:31:06,040 –> 00:31:07,640
\nrest of the.
\nStory I want you to see if you <\/p>\n
457
\n00:31:07,640 –> 00:31:13,160
\ncan identify how Judah is is
\nhe’s insistent on avoiding <\/p>\n
458
\n00:31:13,160 –> 00:31:19,320
\nblame, avoiding blame, accepting
\ntrial and taking responsibility <\/p>\n
459
\n00:31:19,520 –> 00:31:22,200
\nand using empathy.
\nAvoiding blame, accepting trial,<\/p>\n
460
\n00:31:22,360 –> 00:31:24,480
\ntaking responsibility and using
\nempathy. <\/p>\n
461
\n00:31:24,480 –> 00:31:27,600
\nI want you to see if you can I
\nsee these things in the way that<\/p>\n
462
\n00:31:27,600 –> 00:31:30,080
\nJudah is now going to act and
\nbehave. <\/p>\n
463
\n00:31:30,080 –> 00:31:33,360
\nHe’s not going to repeat the old
\nmistakes again. <\/p>\n
464
\n00:31:35,280 –> 00:31:38,200
\nSo as the food ran out in
\nJacob’s tents, the brothers need<\/p>\n
465
\n00:31:38,200 –> 00:31:41,840
\nto go back to Egypt.
\nOf course, to do so, they would <\/p>\n
466
\n00:31:41,840 –> 00:31:45,200
\nneed to take Benjamin and Jacob
\nwas unwilling to send him. <\/p>\n
467
\n00:31:45,360 –> 00:31:49,200
\nSo continue on our story.
\nLook on your on your Bibles, <\/p>\n
468
\n00:31:49,200 –> 00:31:53,960
\nopen on your laps to Genesis
\nchapter 42 and verse 37 where <\/p>\n
469
\n00:31:53,960 –> 00:31:55,960
\nReuben gets his last chance to
\nspeak. <\/p>\n
470
\n00:31:58,720 –> 00:32:01,520
\nIt says there, Reuben, this is
\nReuben’s words, he says. <\/p>\n
471
\n00:32:01,720 –> 00:32:05,680
\nSlay MY2.
\nSons, if I bring Benjamin not <\/p>\n
472
\n00:32:05,680 –> 00:32:10,440
\nback to thee and deliver him
\ninto my hand, and I will bring <\/p>\n
473
\n00:32:10,440 –> 00:32:14,520
\nhim to you again.
\nNow, now look at the fierceness <\/p>\n
474
\n00:32:14,560 –> 00:32:19,520
\nof Jacob’s reply to Reuben at
\nthis time. <\/p>\n
475
\n00:32:20,280 –> 00:32:23,600
\nThat’s found in verse 38 of
\nchapter 42 in Genesis. <\/p>\n
476
\n00:32:23,600 –> 00:32:28,920
\nThis is Jacob’s reply to Reuben.
\nHe said, my son shall not go <\/p>\n
477
\n00:32:28,920 –> 00:32:33,680
\ndown with you for his brother is
\ndead and he is left alone. <\/p>\n
478
\n00:32:33,800 –> 00:32:37,240
\nBy the way, if you ever thought
\nthat Jacob had some suspicion <\/p>\n
479
\n00:32:37,480 –> 00:32:40,120
\nthat maybe the brothers were
\nbehind Joseph’s death, this is <\/p>\n
480
\n00:32:40,120 –> 00:32:43,280
\nwhere you, this is the evidence
\nyou’d go to, to, to conclude <\/p>\n
481
\n00:32:43,280 –> 00:32:45,400
\nthat.
\nNow we don’t know for sure, but <\/p>\n
482
\n00:32:45,400 –> 00:32:48,680
\nhe, he seems to think his
\nbrother’s dead, right? <\/p>\n
483
\n00:32:48,680 –> 00:32:52,840
\nWith your lack of responsibility
\nrather than maybe an evil beast,<\/p>\n
484
\n00:32:52,960 –> 00:32:54,000
\nright?
\nBut who knows? <\/p>\n
485
\n00:32:54,000 –> 00:32:55,720
\nI’m speculating a little, a
\nlittle bit there. <\/p>\n
486
\n00:32:56,960 –> 00:32:59,280
\nFor his brother is dead, and he
\nis left alone. <\/p>\n
487
\n00:32:59,480 –> 00:33:04,160
\nIf mischief befall him by the
\nway in which ye go, then ye <\/p>\n
488
\n00:33:04,400 –> 00:33:09,160
\nbring down my Gray hairs with
\nsorrow to the grave. <\/p>\n
489
\n00:33:10,080 –> 00:33:12,200
\nSo why did Jacob respond so
\nstrongly? <\/p>\n
490
\n00:33:13,040 –> 00:33:17,280
\nI suggest it’s this simple
\nreason, like Reuben promised <\/p>\n
491
\n00:33:18,080 –> 00:33:24,080
\nthat if he failed, someone else
\nwould pay the truly absurd price<\/p>\n
492
\n00:33:24,920 –> 00:33:27,160
\nand take the blame.
\nHe didn’t take personal <\/p>\n
493
\n00:33:27,160 –> 00:33:29,640
\nresponsibility.
\nAnd frankly, it’s as evident <\/p>\n
494
\n00:33:29,640 –> 00:33:33,640
\nfrom his blessing in Genesis 49.
\nJacob didn’t trust him. <\/p>\n
495
\n00:33:35,000 –> 00:33:39,000
\nSo now look at Judah now.
\nNow imagine Judah sitting there <\/p>\n
496
\n00:33:39,120 –> 00:33:44,080
\nand Judah’s hearing Reuben say,
\nslay my two sons. <\/p>\n
497
\n00:33:45,280 –> 00:33:49,280
\nNow what’s Judah thinking?
\nGod’s already slaying my two <\/p>\n
498
\n00:33:49,280 –> 00:33:52,320
\nsons.
\nThat’s not a good solution. <\/p>\n
499
\n00:33:55,040 –> 00:33:58,360
\nSo Judah now steps up into the
\nleadership role here. <\/p>\n
500
\n00:33:59,160 –> 00:34:02,320
\nAnd we read in Genesis chapter
\n43 and verse 3. <\/p>\n
501
\n00:34:03,600 –> 00:34:08,199
\nAnd Judah spake unto Jacob,
\nsaying, the man did solemnly <\/p>\n
502
\n00:34:08,199 –> 00:34:12,360
\nprotest unto us, saying, Ye
\nshall not see my face, except <\/p>\n
503
\n00:34:12,360 –> 00:34:16,440
\nyour brother be with you.
\nIf you will send our brother <\/p>\n
504
\n00:34:16,440 –> 00:34:18,040
\nwith us, we will go down and buy
\nthe. <\/p>\n
505
\n00:34:18,080 –> 00:34:21,159
\nFood.
\nBut if thou wilt not send him, <\/p>\n
506
\n00:34:21,239 –> 00:34:24,320
\nwe will not go down for the mad
\nman. <\/p>\n
507
\n00:34:24,320 –> 00:34:27,280
\nSend to us.
\nYou shall not see my face, <\/p>\n
508
\n00:34:27,320 –> 00:34:31,760
\nexcept your brother be with you.
\nSo Judy did something that I <\/p>\n
509
\n00:34:31,760 –> 00:34:33,560
\nthink would have been pretty
\nunique in his family. <\/p>\n
510
\n00:34:33,800 –> 00:34:36,040
\nHe dealt with the issues head
\non. <\/p>\n
511
\n00:34:37,199 –> 00:34:43,080
\nThere’s no attempt to dodge the
\nproblem, no attempt to shirk <\/p>\n
512
\n00:34:43,080 –> 00:34:47,840
\nresponsibility, no attempt to
\ndeceive, no attempt to find an <\/p>\n
513
\n00:34:47,840 –> 00:34:51,760
\neasier, softer way even when the
\nsituation was scary. <\/p>\n
514
\n00:34:52,920 –> 00:34:58,360
\nHe put it simply and clearly.
\nSo Jacob didn’t like the reality<\/p>\n
515
\n00:34:58,360 –> 00:35:02,600
\nof the situation though, right?
\nAnd Jacob protests and says, <\/p>\n
516
\n00:35:03,560 –> 00:35:07,000
\nwherefore tell ye so I’ll with
\nme as you tell the man whether <\/p>\n
517
\n00:35:07,000 –> 00:35:08,920
\nye had a brother.
\nThat’s verse 6. <\/p>\n
518
\n00:35:10,080 –> 00:35:12,880
\nNow notice the brother’s reply.
\nNow you can be sure this isn’t <\/p>\n
519
\n00:35:12,880 –> 00:35:16,640
\nJudas reply, because Judas reply
\nwill come next, right? <\/p>\n
520
\n00:35:16,800 –> 00:35:19,200
\nSo this is the brothers.
\nWho knows which of the brothers <\/p>\n
521
\n00:35:19,200 –> 00:35:22,240
\nit was right, but this was their
\nreply. <\/p>\n
522
\n00:35:22,400 –> 00:35:25,720
\nAnd notice what’s wrong about
\ntheir reply as I read it to you.<\/p>\n
523
\n00:35:26,200 –> 00:35:29,520
\nAnd they said the man asked us
\nstraightly of our state and of <\/p>\n
524
\n00:35:29,520 –> 00:35:32,040
\nour kindred saying, is your
\nfather yet alive? <\/p>\n
525
\n00:35:32,160 –> 00:35:34,720
\nHave you another brother?
\nAnd we told him, according to <\/p>\n
526
\n00:35:34,720 –> 00:35:38,720
\nthe tenor of these words, could
\nwe certainly know that he would <\/p>\n
527
\n00:35:38,720 –> 00:35:44,960
\nsay, bring your brother down.
\nSouth So what do you know about <\/p>\n
528
\n00:35:44,960 –> 00:35:48,840
\nwhat do you what do you observe
\nabout that that statement right <\/p>\n
529
\n00:35:49,000 –> 00:35:54,840
\nhere’s what I hear I hear an
\nexcuse it’s another failure to <\/p>\n
530
\n00:35:54,840 –> 00:35:57,600
\naccept responsibility now the
\nissue is not whether. <\/p>\n
531
\n00:35:57,600 –> 00:36:01,600
\nThe brothers were right or wrong
\nin terms of what they were <\/p>\n
532
\n00:36:01,600 –> 00:36:05,880
\nsaying and and the facts of it
\nthat in saying that they had <\/p>\n
533
\n00:36:05,880 –> 00:36:09,720
\nanother brother and saying that
\nto Joseph, although that’s the <\/p>\n
534
\n00:36:09,720 –> 00:36:13,280
\nquestion that Jacob asked.
\nThe real issue is what? <\/p>\n
535
\n00:36:14,400 –> 00:36:22,400
\nWhat’s the real issue?
\nJacob is scared, and he’s scared<\/p>\n
536
\n00:36:22,400 –> 00:36:28,160
\nto some Benjamin with them.
\nBut by defending themselves, the<\/p>\n
537
\n00:36:28,160 –> 00:36:31,680
\nbrothers reinforced within Jacob
\nthe same thought. <\/p>\n
538
\n00:36:32,240 –> 00:36:36,800
\nI can’t trust you.
\nWhen the chips are down, you <\/p>\n
539
\n00:36:37,200 –> 00:36:44,560
\ndefend yourself.
\nSo Judah now is going to have <\/p>\n
540
\n00:36:44,560 –> 00:36:50,880
\nanother chance to speak.
\nJudah has the empathy to see <\/p>\n
541
\n00:36:50,880 –> 00:36:57,680
\nthat Jacob’s real concern is
\nabout Benjamin’s safety, and he <\/p>\n
542
\n00:36:57,680 –> 00:36:59,720
\ndealt with the heart of his
\nfather’s fear. <\/p>\n
543
\n00:36:59,920 –> 00:37:07,120
\nVerses 8 to 10 of Genesis 43.
\nAnd Judah said unto Israel, his <\/p>\n
544
\n00:37:07,120 –> 00:37:11,800
\nfather, Send the lad with me,
\nand we will arise and go, that <\/p>\n
545
\n00:37:11,800 –> 00:37:15,280
\nwe may live and not die, both we
\nand thou, and also our little <\/p>\n
546
\n00:37:15,280 –> 00:37:19,160
\nones.
\nI will be surety for him of my <\/p>\n
547
\n00:37:19,160 –> 00:37:20,640
\nhand.
\nThou shalt require him if I <\/p>\n
548
\n00:37:20,640 –> 00:37:24,000
\nbring him not into thee, and set
\nhim before thee, and let me bear<\/p>\n
549
\n00:37:24,000 –> 00:37:26,960
\nthe blame forever.
\nFor except we had lingered, <\/p>\n
550
\n00:37:26,960 –> 00:37:28,960
\nsurely we had returned this
\nsecond time. <\/p>\n
551
\n00:37:30,160 –> 00:37:33,440
\nNow, I think Jacob now heard
\nsomething that he hadn’t really <\/p>\n
552
\n00:37:33,440 –> 00:37:35,360
\nheard in about 22 years.
\nEnjoy what? <\/p>\n
553
\n00:37:35,360 –> 00:37:39,320
\nThat was one of his.
\nBoys taking responsibility. <\/p>\n
554
\n00:37:43,200 –> 00:37:47,960
\nIn doing so, Judah was very
\nwise, because Judah quoted <\/p>\n
555
\n00:37:47,960 –> 00:37:51,080
\nsomeone in this passage.
\nYou know who he quotes? <\/p>\n
556
\n00:37:54,320 –> 00:38:02,360
\nYeah, he quotes Jacob, because
\nJacob had said, I’ve heard <\/p>\n
557
\n00:38:02,360 –> 00:38:07,400
\nthere’s corn, Egypt get you down
\nthither and buy for us that from<\/p>\n
558
\n00:38:07,400 –> 00:38:10,160
\nthence.
\nThat we may live and not die. <\/p>\n
559
\n00:38:11,040 –> 00:38:14,240
\nSo what does?
\nWhat does Judah do? <\/p>\n
560
\n00:38:14,800 –> 00:38:17,960
\nShowing that Judah was now
\nlistening rather than defending.<\/p>\n
561
\n00:38:19,040 –> 00:38:22,800
\nJudah says, Send the lad with
\nme, and we will rise and go. <\/p>\n
562
\n00:38:23,000 –> 00:38:27,640
\nThat we may live and not die,
\nboth we and thou. <\/p>\n
563
\n00:38:27,640 –> 00:38:39,960
\nAnd also our little ones.
\nSo Jacob listened. <\/p>\n
564
\n00:38:42,480 –> 00:38:47,000
\nWhy?
\nWell, Judah spoke of keeping the<\/p>\n
565
\n00:38:47,000 –> 00:38:50,360
\nlittle ones alive.
\nReuben spoke of killing his <\/p>\n
566
\n00:38:50,360 –> 00:38:54,080
\nsons.
\nJacob said he would be <\/p>\n
567
\n00:38:54,080 –> 00:38:56,960
\nresponsible.
\nJudah made someone else <\/p>\n
568
\n00:38:56,960 –> 00:38:59,320
\nresponsible.
\nSee, leaders take <\/p>\n
569
\n00:38:59,320 –> 00:39:01,520
\nresponsibility.
\nThat’s my point. <\/p>\n
570
\n00:39:02,680 –> 00:39:05,400
\nAnd by doing that, they bring
\ngroups together. <\/p>\n
571
\n00:39:06,320 –> 00:39:10,480
\nThey do that to preserve life.
\nAnd no matter what happens, <\/p>\n
572
\n00:39:11,520 –> 00:39:20,280
\nleaders don’t run away.
\nI’ve no time to develop chapter <\/p>\n
573
\n00:39:20,280 –> 00:39:23,000
\n43 further, primarily because
\nJudah has no more speaking <\/p>\n
574
\n00:39:23,000 –> 00:39:25,760
\nparts.
\nAlthough I’ll point this out in <\/p>\n
575
\n00:39:25,760 –> 00:39:30,360
\nverse 29 of chapter 43, Joseph
\ngreets Benjamin in a particular <\/p>\n
576
\n00:39:30,360 –> 00:39:35,480
\nway.
\nHe says, God be gracious unto <\/p>\n
577
\n00:39:35,480 –> 00:39:40,760
\nthee, my son.
\nAnd I think in that sentence we <\/p>\n
578
\n00:39:40,760 –> 00:39:42,800
\nhave the question and the answer
\nthe next chapter, and the <\/p>\n
579
\n00:39:42,800 –> 00:39:44,520
\nquestion, the answer to the next
\nchapter is what? <\/p>\n
580
\n00:39:46,000 –> 00:39:49,800
\nWho would God work with to show
\ngrace to Benjamin? <\/p>\n
581
\n00:39:50,080 –> 00:39:53,280
\nBecause you and Joseph knew he
\nsaid this. <\/p>\n
582
\n00:39:53,280 –> 00:39:57,520
\nTrial will not.
\nEnd until Benjamin sees grace. <\/p>\n
583
\n00:40:01,680 –> 00:40:05,920
\nSo how does he greet Benjamin?
\nGod be gracious unto thee. <\/p>\n
584
\n00:40:09,880 –> 00:40:13,040
\nSo we’re going to.
\nHave to see Judah having <\/p>\n
585
\n00:40:13,040 –> 00:40:19,480
\nreceived grace, show grace, so
\nJoseph’s going to employ another<\/p>\n
586
\n00:40:19,480 –> 00:40:22,560
\ntest.
\nHe orders his special cup to be <\/p>\n
587
\n00:40:22,560 –> 00:40:25,120
\nput in Benjamin’s sack and since
\nhis official to find it and <\/p>\n
588
\n00:40:25,120 –> 00:40:29,080
\naccuse Benjamin of theft.
\nAfter the cup is found, the <\/p>\n
589
\n00:40:29,080 –> 00:40:32,720
\nbrothers appear again before
\nJoseph, and Joseph gives all the<\/p>\n
590
\n00:40:32,720 –> 00:40:35,680
\nbrothers an easy way out.
\nAll right, He gives him an easy <\/p>\n
591
\n00:40:35,680 –> 00:40:36,960
\nway out.
\nHere’s here’s Joseph’s <\/p>\n
592
\n00:40:36,960 –> 00:40:39,840
\nproposition.
\nAbandoned Benjamin into slavery,<\/p>\n
593
\n00:40:40,160 –> 00:40:42,080
\nlike you abandoned me into
\nslavery. <\/p>\n
594
\n00:40:44,040 –> 00:40:45,600
\nAnd you can go in peace to your
\nfather. <\/p>\n
595
\n00:40:45,600 –> 00:40:50,760
\nAll right, that’s the test.
\nDo to Benjamin what you did to <\/p>\n
596
\n00:40:50,760 –> 00:40:52,240
\nme.
\nI’m going to create the <\/p>\n
597
\n00:40:52,240 –> 00:40:55,680
\nconditions where you can do to
\nhim what you did to me. <\/p>\n
598
\n00:40:58,600 –> 00:41:10,120
\nSo turnover Genesis 45 Now when
\nwe read this in verse 17, this <\/p>\n
599
\n00:41:10,120 –> 00:41:15,400
\nis now Joseph talking and he
\nsaid, God forbid that I should <\/p>\n
600
\n00:41:15,400 –> 00:41:19,440
\ndo so.
\nThe man in whose hand the cop is<\/p>\n
601
\n00:41:19,440 –> 00:41:22,000
\nfound.
\nIn other words, Benjamin shall <\/p>\n
602
\n00:41:22,000 –> 00:41:25,560
\nbe my servant.
\nAs for you, get you up in peace <\/p>\n
603
\n00:41:25,560 –> 00:41:28,800
\nto your father.
\nSo how would the brothers <\/p>\n
604
\n00:41:28,800 –> 00:41:34,360
\nrespond?
\nThe proposition now is they have<\/p>\n
605
\n00:41:34,360 –> 00:41:39,920
\nevery reason, every excuse,
\nevery opportunity to show the <\/p>\n
606
\n00:41:39,920 –> 00:41:44,720
\nnew favorite son the same
\ntreatment they showed Joseph. <\/p>\n
607
\n00:41:48,560 –> 00:41:51,720
\nAnd at this point, Judah is
\ngoing to come near. <\/p>\n
608
\n00:41:52,640 –> 00:41:57,080
\nCome near to the throne.
\nCome near boldly to the throne. <\/p>\n
609
\n00:41:57,520 –> 00:42:00,920
\nWe’re told that we can come
\nboldly before the throne because<\/p>\n
610
\n00:42:00,920 –> 00:42:03,520
\nwe understand that Jesus is
\ntouched with the feelings of our<\/p>\n
611
\n00:42:03,520 –> 00:42:08,560
\ninfirmity.
\nAnd now Judah, on the basis that<\/p>\n
612
\n00:42:09,360 –> 00:42:13,000
\nthat Joseph might be understand
\nthe infirmity of his Father. <\/p>\n
613
\n00:42:14,320 –> 00:42:17,360
\nAnd have some.
\nSympathy for that comes boldly <\/p>\n
614
\n00:42:17,600 –> 00:42:22,320
\nbefore the throne.
\nJudah will make no defense. <\/p>\n
615
\n00:42:25,120 –> 00:42:29,880
\nHe will proffer no blame.
\nHe will offer no justification. <\/p>\n
616
\n00:42:33,720 –> 00:42:37,120
\nNow, by that what I mean is, do
\nyou know what Judah could have <\/p>\n
617
\n00:42:37,120 –> 00:42:39,960
\ndone?
\nHe could have said Benjamin <\/p>\n
618
\n00:42:40,120 –> 00:42:42,720
\ndidn’t steal the cup.
\nAnd do you know what’s <\/p>\n
619
\n00:42:42,720 –> 00:42:46,360
\ninteresting about that?
\nIt would have been true. <\/p>\n
620
\n00:42:49,520 –> 00:42:52,440
\nWhy didn’t he make?
\nThat defense, it’s true. <\/p>\n
621
\n00:42:53,240 –> 00:42:55,280
\nEver wanted to defend yourself
\nwith the truth? <\/p>\n
622
\n00:42:59,080 –> 00:43:03,600
\nBut he doesn’t.
\nHe doesn’t defend himself with <\/p>\n
623
\n00:43:03,600 –> 00:43:09,400
\nthe truth.
\nAll he has is love for his <\/p>\n
624
\n00:43:09,400 –> 00:43:16,560
\nfather and a tender heart.
\nIn verse 433 of chapter 45, we <\/p>\n
625
\n00:43:16,560 –> 00:43:21,000
\nget to the climax, which we’ve
\nalready considered sacrificial <\/p>\n
626
\n00:43:21,000 –> 00:43:27,880
\nlove.
\nGenesis chapter 44, no 45 I <\/p>\n
627
\n00:43:27,880 –> 00:43:34,520
\nthink. 44 verses 44.
\nVerses 33 and 34 Now therefore, <\/p>\n
628
\n00:43:34,520 –> 00:43:38,920
\nI pray thee, let thy servant
\nabide, instead of the lad a bond<\/p>\n
629
\n00:43:38,920 –> 00:43:44,920
\nman to my Lord, and let the lad
\ngo up with his brethren, For how<\/p>\n
630
\n00:43:44,920 –> 00:43:50,840
\nshall I go up to my father, and
\nthe lad be not with me, lest <\/p>\n
631
\n00:43:50,840 –> 00:43:51,760
\nper.
\nVenture, I see the. <\/p>\n
632
\n00:43:51,760 –> 00:43:53,440
\nEvils I shall come upon my
\nfather. <\/p>\n
633
\n00:43:58,520 –> 00:44:01,280
\nThis is now evidence that Judah
\nis totally transformed. <\/p>\n
634
\n00:44:03,240 –> 00:44:07,120
\nHe’s gone from self-centered to
\nself sacrifice. <\/p>\n
635
\n00:44:08,200 –> 00:44:09,800
\nHe’s gone from resentment to
\nlove. <\/p>\n
636
\n00:44:10,280 –> 00:44:13,840
\nHe’s gone from lies to truth,
\nfrom running away to taking <\/p>\n
637
\n00:44:13,840 –> 00:44:19,680
\nresponsibility and leadership.
\nWe can see what has changed. <\/p>\n
638
\n00:44:21,720 –> 00:44:26,800
\nJudah is now able to feel the
\npain of his father. <\/p>\n
639
\n00:44:28,720 –> 00:44:32,800
\nHe has lost sons.
\nHe understands. <\/p>\n
640
\n00:44:33,640 –> 00:44:38,240
\nHe understands His father’s not
\ntrying to hurt him, not trying <\/p>\n
641
\n00:44:38,240 –> 00:44:43,480
\nto take away something from him
\nthat his father shared his <\/p>\n
642
\n00:44:43,480 –> 00:44:48,800
\ninfirmities.
\nJudah had hurt his father once. <\/p>\n
643
\n00:44:50,400 –> 00:44:53,480
\nHe had taken his position of
\ninfluence to sell his brother. <\/p>\n
644
\n00:44:53,640 –> 00:44:56,040
\nHe had lied about it.
\nHe had seen the terror and <\/p>\n
645
\n00:44:56,040 –> 00:45:00,600
\nsorrow on his father’s face.
\nHe could not see that again. <\/p>\n
646
\n00:45:00,640 –> 00:45:03,640
\nHe’s learned from his past.
\nHe has taken his responsibility <\/p>\n
647
\n00:45:03,640 –> 00:45:05,840
\nas a leader.
\nHe is a loud trial to change <\/p>\n
648
\n00:45:05,840 –> 00:45:07,560
\nhim.
\nHe is transformed. <\/p>\n
649
\n00:45:15,620 –> 00:45:21,980
\nSo I’ll now try to summarize
\nthis set of Bible classes. <\/p>\n
650
\n00:45:24,840 –> 00:45:29,320
\nHow did Judah?
\nOvercome resentment How did he <\/p>\n
651
\n00:45:29,320 –> 00:45:35,160
\nchange from a life based on self
\nimportance to 1 based on <\/p>\n
652
\n00:45:35,160 –> 00:45:38,440
\nsacrificial love for others how
\ndo we. <\/p>\n
653
\n00:45:42,880 –> 00:45:46,200
\nJudas changed when Tamar showed
\nhim grace. <\/p>\n
654
\n00:45:46,200 –> 00:45:54,680
\nAnd kindness he did not deserve.
\nJudah changed by overcoming his <\/p>\n
655
\n00:45:54,680 –> 00:45:58,200
\npride and openly acknowledging
\nhis sin. <\/p>\n
656
\n00:45:59,320 –> 00:46:03,080
\nCan you imagine how that went?
\nImagine how Judah how it went <\/p>\n
657
\n00:46:03,080 –> 00:46:05,240
\nwhen Judah introduced his father
\nto Tamar. <\/p>\n
658
\n00:46:06,920 –> 00:46:09,160
\nHi, Jacob.
\nThis is Tamar. <\/p>\n
659
\n00:46:09,920 –> 00:46:20,200
\nShe’s my.
\nIt’s a long story, but he would <\/p>\n
660
\n00:46:20,200 –> 00:46:26,840
\nhave had to do it, wouldn’t he?
\nJudah changed. <\/p>\n
661
\n00:46:28,120 –> 00:46:32,960
\nWe took responsibility for his
\nactions and started to right his<\/p>\n
662
\n00:46:32,960 –> 00:46:34,640
\nwrongs.
\nFirst he righted his wrongs to <\/p>\n
663
\n00:46:34,640 –> 00:46:39,760
\nTamar, and then he rejoined his
\nfamily and the ecclesia. <\/p>\n
664
\n00:46:42,800 –> 00:46:45,680
\nJudah changed when he
\nempathetically started to see <\/p>\n
665
\n00:46:45,680 –> 00:46:48,480
\nthe truth about others, that
\nthey weren’t demons. <\/p>\n
666
\n00:46:49,400 –> 00:46:52,280
\nThey were, perhaps.
\nJust spiritually sick. <\/p>\n
667
\n00:46:54,440 –> 00:46:58,920
\nJacob wasn’t evil, he was just
\nspiritually sick. <\/p>\n
668
\n00:47:00,200 –> 00:47:03,960
\nRachel wasn’t evil, she was just
\nspiritually sick. <\/p>\n
669
\n00:47:05,680 –> 00:47:08,880
\nJoseph wasn’t evil, he was just
\na kid that had dreams. <\/p>\n
670
\n00:47:13,520 –> 00:47:21,560
\nJudah changed when he stopped
\nblaming everyone else for his <\/p>\n
671
\n00:47:21,560 –> 00:47:25,400
\nwrongs without blame.
\nThe cycle of self important self<\/p>\n
672
\n00:47:25,400 –> 00:47:28,160
\njustification, self
\nrighteousness, self loathing <\/p>\n
673
\n00:47:30,320 –> 00:47:37,600
\ncease to have any fuel.
\nJudah responded to hard issues <\/p>\n
674
\n00:47:38,040 –> 00:47:41,200
\nwith truth and honesty.
\nHe no longer look for the easy <\/p>\n
675
\n00:47:41,200 –> 00:47:45,080
\nway when others blamed.
\nJudah took responsibility for <\/p>\n
676
\n00:47:45,080 –> 00:47:47,040
\nhis family, even at his own
\ncost. <\/p>\n
677
\n00:47:49,520 –> 00:47:53,640
\nJudah changed by showing grace
\nto his father and brother, <\/p>\n
678
\n00:47:53,840 –> 00:47:56,960
\nlearning from his past, and
\npaying forward the grace that <\/p>\n
679
\n00:47:56,960 –> 00:48:03,280
\nhad been shown to him by Tamar.
\nBut what about you? <\/p>\n
680
\n00:48:06,000 –> 00:48:10,920
\nWhat do you do?
\nHow do you change if you have a <\/p>\n
681
\n00:48:10,920 –> 00:48:16,280
\nheart full of resentment when
\nHead knowledge and certainly <\/p>\n
682
\n00:48:16,280 –> 00:48:19,440
\nfive classes at the 2023 Rocky
\nMountain Bible School is never <\/p>\n
683
\n00:48:19,440 –> 00:48:28,800
\ngoing to be enough, is it?
\nHere’s what was suggested to me.<\/p>\n
684
\n00:48:29,920 –> 00:48:37,920
\nI recommend it to you at night
\nbefore you go to sleep, get on <\/p>\n
685
\n00:48:37,920 –> 00:48:41,320
\nyour knees.
\nI don’t know if you pray on your<\/p>\n
686
\n00:48:41,320 –> 00:48:45,160
\nknees at night.
\nI’ve been taught to do that <\/p>\n
687
\n00:48:46,040 –> 00:48:49,520
\nbecause even if I’m not feeling
\nhumble, something about being on<\/p>\n
688
\n00:48:49,520 –> 00:48:53,280
\nyour knees puts you in a
\nphysical position to really <\/p>\n
689
\n00:48:53,280 –> 00:49:01,360
\nacknowledge God’s greatness.
\nAnd you pray for the person that<\/p>\n
690
\n00:49:01,360 –> 00:49:06,480
\nyou resent.
\nYou pray for what? <\/p>\n
691
\n00:49:08,080 –> 00:49:12,400
\nMaybe you pray for their health,
\nfor their prosperity. <\/p>\n
692
\n00:49:14,840 –> 00:49:20,200
\nYou pray for their happiness.
\nEven when you don’t really want <\/p>\n
693
\n00:49:20,200 –> 00:49:22,280
\nit, you know, are you going to
\nwant those things for them? <\/p>\n
694
\n00:49:22,280 –> 00:49:24,400
\nOf course not.
\nOf course you don’t want it for <\/p>\n
695
\n00:49:24,400 –> 00:49:27,400
\nthem.
\nAnd, and and you pray. <\/p>\n
696
\n00:49:27,400 –> 00:49:30,760
\nEven though your prayer feels
\nlike it’s just words, you say, <\/p>\n
697
\n00:49:30,760 –> 00:49:32,880
\nno, I can’t do that.
\nMy heart’s not in it. <\/p>\n
698
\n00:49:33,040 –> 00:49:36,160
\nWho cares about your heart?
\nYour heart’s been getting you in<\/p>\n
699
\n00:49:36,160 –> 00:49:40,280
\ntrouble.
\nYou wouldn’t be in this <\/p>\n
700
\n00:49:40,280 –> 00:49:42,960
\nsituation if you said stop
\nlistening to your heart a long <\/p>\n
701
\n00:49:42,960 –> 00:49:47,720
\ntime ago.
\nYou do it anyway. <\/p>\n
702
\n00:49:48,680 –> 00:49:52,720
\nYou do it for a month and what
\nwill happen after a month is <\/p>\n
703
\n00:49:52,720 –> 00:49:55,360
\nsomething that is very hard to
\nunderstand. <\/p>\n
704
\n00:49:58,360 –> 00:50:05,000
\nAfter a while, when you pray
\nthose words, you’ll actually. <\/p>\n
705
\n00:50:05,000 –> 00:50:08,080
\nWant those things?
\nFor that person. <\/p>\n
706
\n00:50:12,080 –> 00:50:20,960
\nYou realize that they are just
\nscared, just like you, and <\/p>\n
707
\n00:50:20,960 –> 00:50:26,880
\nthey’re hurting too, probably,
\nand where you used to feel some <\/p>\n
708
\n00:50:26,880 –> 00:50:30,280
\nbitterness and some resentment
\nand some hatred. <\/p>\n
709
\n00:50:31,160 –> 00:50:34,360
\nYou will begin.
\nTo feel compassion and <\/p>\n
710
\n00:50:34,360 –> 00:50:40,880
\nunderstanding and love.
\nSo you don’t wait to start <\/p>\n
711
\n00:50:40,960 –> 00:50:46,160
\nfeeling love, to show love.
\nAnd prayer is simply an active, <\/p>\n
712
\n00:50:46,160 –> 00:50:50,240
\nintentional outworking of the
\ncommand to love your neighbor as<\/p>\n
713
\n00:50:50,240 –> 00:50:53,560
\nyourself.
\nAnd prayer really is just that. <\/p>\n
714
\n00:50:54,240 –> 00:50:56,040
\nPrayer is an expression.
\nOf love. <\/p>\n
715
\n00:50:59,480 –> 00:51:03,520
\nNow do I know if if?
\nJudah prayed for Jacob, Joseph. <\/p>\n
716
\n00:51:04,680 –> 00:51:10,080
\nNo, I’m not sure he did.
\nBut I know this, that whatever <\/p>\n
717
\n00:51:10,080 –> 00:51:14,840
\nmistakes Judah had made before,
\nhe proceeded to do the opposite.<\/p>\n
718
\n00:51:16,320 –> 00:51:19,120
\nHe didn’t lie.
\nHe told the truth. <\/p>\n
719
\n00:51:19,120 –> 00:51:24,440
\nHe didn’t run away.
\nHe faced his problems. <\/p>\n
720
\n00:51:25,560 –> 00:51:29,480
\nHe didn’t sleep around.
\nHe refrained himself. <\/p>\n
721
\n00:51:30,520 –> 00:51:34,760
\nHe didn’t leave the family.
\nHe led the family. <\/p>\n
722
\n00:51:35,880 –> 00:51:39,680
\nSo what I suggest to you?
\nIs if to? <\/p>\n
723
\n00:51:39,680 –> 00:51:42,600
\nOvercome his resentment.
\nJudah had to do the opposite. <\/p>\n
724
\n00:51:44,760 –> 00:51:50,760
\nMaybe to overcome yours, you
\nhave to do the opposite. <\/p>\n
725
\n00:52:03,250 –> 00:52:05,850
\nAnd maybe if you haven’t been
\npraying for someone because you <\/p>\n
726
\n00:52:05,850 –> 00:52:11,010
\ndon’t really feel like you love
\nthem, maybe you need to pray for<\/p>\n
727
\n00:52:11,010 –> 00:52:18,210
\nthem and love them.
\nYou see, we started this study. <\/p>\n
728
\n00:52:18,520 –> 00:52:23,360
\nBy looking at this verse, you
\nshall not hate your brother in <\/p>\n
729
\n00:52:23,360 –> 00:52:25,640
\nyour heart, but you shall reason
\nwith your neighbour, lest you <\/p>\n
730
\n00:52:25,640 –> 00:52:28,920
\nbear sin because of him.
\nYou shall not take vengeance or <\/p>\n
731
\n00:52:28,920 –> 00:52:31,280
\nbear any grudge.
\nAgainst the sons of your own. <\/p>\n
732
\n00:52:31,280 –> 00:52:34,840
\nPeople, but you shall love your
\nneighbour as yourself. <\/p>\n
733
\n00:52:34,880 –> 00:52:38,120
\nI am the Lord.
\nSee, to overcome resentment, you<\/p>\n
734
\n00:52:38,120 –> 00:52:44,000
\ngot to do the opposite.
\nIt’s not that you simply stop <\/p>\n
735
\n00:52:44,920 –> 00:52:47,640
\nbearing a grudge.
\nYou need to love. <\/p>\n
736
\n00:52:52,680 –> 00:52:55,720
\nYou know what?
\nYou can’t wait till you feel <\/p>\n
737
\n00:52:55,720 –> 00:53:03,400
\nlike it, because to the extent
\nyou have resentment, you don’t <\/p>\n
738
\n00:53:03,400 –> 00:53:08,080
\nhave love.
\nAnd seems to be that the extent <\/p>\n
739
\n00:53:08,080 –> 00:53:11,400
\nyou have love, you don’t have
\nresentment. <\/p>\n
740
\n00:53:13,400 –> 00:53:15,200
\nWas there ever going to be any
\nother way? <\/p>\n
741
\n00:53:16,640 –> 00:53:19,320
\nWas there ever going to be any
\nother way than to love? <\/p>\n
742
\n00:53:21,600 –> 00:53:29,240
\nThere’s no other way.
\nSo in the end, to overcome <\/p>\n
743
\n00:53:29,240 –> 00:53:34,280
\nresentment, we love.
\nAnd you start with the simplest <\/p>\n
744
\n00:53:34,280 –> 00:53:37,000
\nform of love there is.
\nYou start with prayer. <\/p>\n
745
\n00:53:37,680 –> 00:53:40,040
\nIt’s not confrontational.
\nI like that. <\/p>\n
746
\n00:53:41,080 –> 00:53:43,440
\nIt’s not expensive.
\nI really like that. <\/p>\n
747
\n00:53:45,400 –> 00:53:47,840
\nIt does take a lot of time like
\nthat again, right? <\/p>\n
748
\n00:53:47,840 –> 00:53:50,040
\nThis is working for me this
\nright, right. <\/p>\n
749
\n00:53:52,080 –> 00:53:54,480
\nIt’s not complicated.
\nAgain, that’s a tick. <\/p>\n
750
\n00:53:54,640 –> 00:53:57,760
\nYou know, I can do this If you
\nif you said to me, Ben, I got a <\/p>\n
751
\n00:53:57,760 –> 00:54:01,160
\nsolution to your problem, right?
\nYou’re saying, oh really? <\/p>\n
752
\n00:54:01,160 –> 00:54:03,200
\nI like solutions.
\nYou say you’re going to love it.<\/p>\n
753
\n00:54:03,680 –> 00:54:07,360
\nThere’s no confrontation.
\nThere’s it’s not expensive, it <\/p>\n
754
\n00:54:07,360 –> 00:54:09,960
\ndoesn’t take a lot of time and
\nit’s not complicated. <\/p>\n
755
\n00:54:09,960 –> 00:54:15,720
\nYou’re like, lay it on me.
\nYes, I’d like you to pray for <\/p>\n
756
\n00:54:15,720 –> 00:54:17,360
\nthat person you’re really bitter
\nagainst. <\/p>\n
757
\n00:54:25,240 –> 00:54:32,480
\nYeah, it’s an expression of
\nlove, and love shoves out <\/p>\n
758
\n00:54:32,480 –> 00:54:38,400
\nresentment.
\nAnd as we close, just reflect <\/p>\n
759
\n00:54:38,760 –> 00:54:40,880
\none final time on what God has
\ndone. <\/p>\n
760
\n00:54:43,320 –> 00:54:49,880
\nGod gave Judah the one thing he
\nthought he’d never have. <\/p>\n
761
\n00:54:49,880 –> 00:54:55,040
\nDo you want?
\nGod gave him Joseph’s <\/p>\n
762
\n00:54:55,040 –> 00:54:59,120
\nforgiveness and affectionate
\nembrace. <\/p>\n
763
\n00:55:01,520 –> 00:55:06,400
\nSo Judah wept.
\nHe realized that one more time <\/p>\n
764
\n00:55:07,640 –> 00:55:12,600
\nhe’d been saved by grace through
\ngrace. <\/p>\n
765
\n00:55:15,240 –> 00:55:20,640
\nMay the God of grace restore you
\nto the affectionate embrace of <\/p>\n
766
\n00:55:20,640 –> 00:55:23,600
\nthe brother or sister that God
\nhas enabled you to forgive.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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