This week’s talk is a class by Brother Jared Schipper titled \u201cLife’s Hard Lessons\u201d from the series, “Judah – In His Family,” which he gave at the Sydney CYC Study Weekend in 2025.<\/p>\n
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\nHowdy. <\/p>\n
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\nThis week’s class is entitled
\nLearning Life’s Hard Lessons, <\/p>\n
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\ndelivered by Brother Jared
\nShipper from his series about <\/p>\n
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\nJudah given at the Sydney CYC in
\n2025. <\/p>\n
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\nRight off the bat, this is a
\nclass that you want to listen to<\/p>\n
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\nthe whole thing, and ideally in
\none sitting. <\/p>\n
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\nThe reason being is that Brother
\nJared provides a very good <\/p>\n
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\nexposition and walkthrough of
\nGenesis 38, providing in little <\/p>\n
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\nNuggets of exhortation here and
\nthere, but it all culminates in <\/p>\n
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\na super powerful and emotional
\nfull circle between Judah, his <\/p>\n
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\nfather Jacob, and the rest of
\nthe family of Israel. <\/p>\n
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\nA concept you may pick up on in
\nthis class is that of irony. <\/p>\n
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\nBrother Jared points out that
\nalmost everything that happens <\/p>\n
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\nto Judah when he’s away from
\nhome is so sadly ironic when <\/p>\n
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\ncomparing what happened in
\nGenesis 37. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd it can’t help but cause an
\nappreciation for how God employs<\/p>\n
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\nirony in all our lives as a
\nmechanism to humble and shape <\/p>\n
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\nus.
\nWhich is something that I had at<\/p>\n
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\nleast never thought of before,
\nthat God would use something so <\/p>\n
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\nconceptual to really ’cause us
\nto think about our actions. <\/p>\n
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\nThe entire Five Class series
\nwill be on the extended podcast,<\/p>\n
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\nand we’d recommend giving them a
\nlisten, especially if you’re <\/p>\n
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\nsomeone that struggles with
\nGod’s forgiveness. <\/p>\n
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\nWe all feel horrible over the
\nthings that we’ve done, and it <\/p>\n
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\nmay feel that there’s no way God
\ncould forgive us. <\/p>\n
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\nBut seeing the fall and rise of
\nJudah, seeing the heart of stone<\/p>\n
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\nmade the heart of flesh, gives
\nall of us confidence that there <\/p>\n
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\ntruly is nothing, no sin we
\ncould commit that will separate <\/p>\n
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\nus from the love of God, which
\nis in Christ Jesus our Lord. <\/p>\n
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\nSo here is Brother Jared Shipper
\nlearning life’s hard lessons. <\/p>\n
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\nAll right, awkward chapter.
\nSorry, more of the awkwardness. <\/p>\n
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\nI apologise again, but it’s
\nreal. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s God’s family, and there’s
\nsome real stuff in this that we <\/p>\n
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\nneed to think about.
\nWe came to this point where <\/p>\n
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\nJudah feels like he’s got to
\nleave the family home. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I want you to think for a
\nsecond what drove Judah to that <\/p>\n
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\npoint, how he felt when he’s
\nleaving the family home, because<\/p>\n
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\nno doubt Judah thought he was
\nbeing big, brave, bold, coming <\/p>\n
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\nout on his own, not hanging
\naround with that stupid family <\/p>\n
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\nthat keep moaning about the past
\nand all the dumb things that are<\/p>\n
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\ngoing on.
\nBitterness, usual resentment <\/p>\n
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\nthat builds up.
\nAnd that’s the perspective. <\/p>\n
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\nSo he’s going out to find
\nhimself. <\/p>\n
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\nHe’s going out on a journey in
\nlife to explore who he is. <\/p>\n
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\nCan you, can you feel that?
\nDo you hear people talk like <\/p>\n
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\nthat?
\nIf you hear people say that <\/p>\n
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\ntoday, they’re going out to find
\nwho they are. <\/p>\n
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\nThey’re going on some journey of
\nself discovery. <\/p>\n
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\nThey’re going to find themselves
\nout there in the world. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so they pack up their little
\nbag of bitterness and they go <\/p>\n
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\nout there looking for themselves
\nsomewhere out in the world. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd guess what?
\nThey find themselves out there <\/p>\n
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\nin the world because there’s
\nlots of people out there in the <\/p>\n
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\nworld that have that same bag of
\nbitterness and they can share <\/p>\n
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\ntheir bitterness and have a
\nlittle bitterness party. <\/p>\n
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\nIt doesn’t fix the problems.
\nAnd that’s what we’re going to <\/p>\n
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\nsee in this chapter, is that all
\nthese motives and resentment <\/p>\n
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\nthat built up in Judah’s life
\nwas actually not making him <\/p>\n
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\nthink straight.
\nIt was actually making him make <\/p>\n
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\ndumb decisions.
\nThat’s what was driving him. <\/p>\n
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\nSo he’s going to go out there
\njust like the prodigal son, but <\/p>\n
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\neventually he’s going to find
\nhimself back in his father’s <\/p>\n
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\nhouse because it’s just the best
\nplace. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s the ecclesia, that’s the
\nyouth group. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s just the best place to be.
\nAnd hopefully you’ll come to see<\/p>\n
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\nthat too in your life as you
\nrealize just how much we have <\/p>\n
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\nhere.
\nSuch a cool group of people to <\/p>\n
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\ngo and spend a long weekend
\nwith. <\/p>\n
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\nJust think about the people at
\nwork, uni, what are they doing <\/p>\n
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\nthis weekend?
\nThey might be doing something <\/p>\n
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\nexciting on their own or with a
\ncouple of friends. <\/p>\n
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\nYou got like 250 other people,
\ngood experiences. <\/p>\n
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\nWe have so much, but Judy’s
\ngoing to play the victim card. <\/p>\n
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\nLet’s read carefully.
\nWe’re going to spend our whole <\/p>\n
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\ntime this study in one chapter.
\nThat’s good. <\/p>\n
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\nBe a bit easier to work through
\nthe story. <\/p>\n
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\nSo let’s have a read of chapter
\n38, the first few verses, grab a<\/p>\n
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\npencil because there’s that
\nlittle phrase at that time. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat time?
\nOh, the time, you know, where <\/p>\n
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\nall that stuff happened to
\nJoseph, Complete contrast, <\/p>\n
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\ncomplete opposite.
\nAnd you don’t appreciate Joseph <\/p>\n
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\nwithout understanding where
\nJudah’s going because at that <\/p>\n
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\ntime, Judah left his brothers
\nand he turned into an adulimite <\/p>\n
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\nman whose name was Hira.
\nAnd Judah saw there. <\/p>\n
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\nOh, I missed a few things I
\nmeant to talk about. <\/p>\n
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\nSorry.
\nYou have this graphic here which<\/p>\n
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\npositions Judah at being in now
\nin his late 20s. <\/p>\n
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\nSo he’s made some dumb decisions
\nin his late 20s. <\/p>\n
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\nYou may not be at that point
\nyet, but it’s important for you <\/p>\n
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\nto think about the decisions
\nyou’re making now and the way <\/p>\n
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\nyou’re perceiving what’s
\nhappening in your family now and<\/p>\n
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\nthe way you’re framing your
\nunderstanding and the way you’re<\/p>\n
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\nchoosing to look at life because
\nthat’s what’s happened in <\/p>\n
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\nJudah’s life.
\nHe’s a grown man by the time <\/p>\n
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\nJoseph comes along, and all this
\nresentment starts to build over <\/p>\n
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\ntime.
\nBut he’s now going out in his <\/p>\n
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\nearly adult years to form his
\nown life. <\/p>\n
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\nSo let’s read again this.
\nWell, we read verse one, verse <\/p>\n
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\n2.
\nJudah saw the daughter of a <\/p>\n
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\nCanaanite man named Shua.
\nJudah acquired her as a wife and<\/p>\n
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\nhad marital relations with her.
\nI’m reading from the NET by the <\/p>\n
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\nway.
\nShe became pregnant and had a <\/p>\n
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\nson.
\nJudah named him, ER, she became <\/p>\n
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\npregnant again, had another son,
\nand she called him Onan. <\/p>\n
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\nThen she had yet another son,
\nwhom she named Sheila, and she <\/p>\n
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\ngave birth to him while Judah
\nwas in key. <\/p>\n
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\nZip.
\nAll right, What do you make of <\/p>\n
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\nthat?
\nYou’d probably read that and go,<\/p>\n
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\nyeah, well, that’s just a story.
\nThere’s some really weird things<\/p>\n
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\nin those verses.
\nThere’s some hidden names. <\/p>\n
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\nThere’s some names that we’re
\ntold that we don’t need to know.<\/p>\n
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\nThat’s really weird.
\nRead carefully. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat is in those first 5 verses?
\nAsk yourself the question, What <\/p>\n
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\nam I told that I don’t need to
\nknow? <\/p>\n
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\nAnd what am I not told that I
\nprobably should know? <\/p>\n
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\nI’ll give you a hint.
\nWhat was Judah’s wife’s name? <\/p>\n
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\nOh, we don’t know.
\nSome translations actually get <\/p>\n
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\nit wrong.
\nSo if you are seeing that where <\/p>\n
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\nit says that her name was sure,
\nthat is not her name. <\/p>\n
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\nWe can find that out later by
\nlooking in one of the later <\/p>\n
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\nverses.
\nIt’s not her name. <\/p>\n
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\nLet me highlight it to you this
\nway. <\/p>\n
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\nIt came to pass at that time
\nthat Judah went down from his <\/p>\n
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\nbrethren and he got distracted
\nor turned into a certain a <\/p>\n
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\nDulomite.
\nOh, whose name was and it means <\/p>\n
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\na noble family.
\nLet’s keep going. <\/p>\n
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\nI’ll explain this thing.
\nJudas saw there a no name of a <\/p>\n
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\ncertain Canaanite whose name was
\nand it means wealth. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd he took her and went into
\nher and she had a child. <\/p>\n
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\nNow let’s just deal with verse
\none and two because it gets too <\/p>\n
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\nfar down.
\nIt came to past. <\/p>\n
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\nThe Judah went down and he
\nturned to a certain Adalamite. <\/p>\n
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\nWhy are we told that phrase a
\ncertain Adalamite? <\/p>\n
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\nWhy is where he comes from more
\nimportant than his actual name? <\/p>\n
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\nHis name is Hara.
\nA dullam means justice, and he’s<\/p>\n
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\nfrom a noble family.
\nWe’ll just think about the irony<\/p>\n
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\nof this and we’re going to see
\nthis chapter is full of irony, <\/p>\n
\n00:09:55,800 –> 00:09:57,400
\nand that’s the way God works.
\nWe’re going to look at that at <\/p>\n
\n00:09:57,400 –> 00:09:58,000
\nthe end.
\nAll right? <\/p>\n
\n00:09:58,000 –> 00:09:59,560
\nI just want you to see this
\nirony. <\/p>\n
\n00:10:00,160 –> 00:10:03,440
\nJudah goes away because he’s
\nrunning away from his special <\/p>\n
\n00:10:03,440 –> 00:10:08,240
\nfamily, chosen family that’s
\nbeen given privilege and <\/p>\n
\n00:10:08,240 –> 00:10:11,760
\nblessings by God, and he joins
\nanother noble family. <\/p>\n
\n00:10:13,000 –> 00:10:14,760
\nWhy?
\nI’m going to suggest to you <\/p>\n
\n00:10:14,760 –> 00:10:16,640
\nbecause he wants a bit of
\njustice in your life because he <\/p>\n
\n00:10:16,640 –> 00:10:19,600
\nthinks he’s totally unfairly
\ntreated at his house and it’s <\/p>\n
\n00:10:19,600 –> 00:10:21,200
\nnot fair.
\nSo I’m going somewhere else. <\/p>\n
\n00:10:22,560 –> 00:10:24,480
\nAnd I think that’s why we’re
\ngiven these details. <\/p>\n
\n00:10:25,160 –> 00:10:33,040
\nJudas sees there a woman, I’m
\nnot even told her name of a <\/p>\n
\n00:10:33,040 –> 00:10:39,800
\ncertain Canaanite whose name was
\nShua, which means wealthy, and <\/p>\n
\n00:10:39,800 –> 00:10:42,040
\nhe took her and went in done to
\nher. <\/p>\n
\n00:10:42,440 –> 00:10:47,520
\nLet’s break down that verse.
\nWhat motivated Judah to sell his<\/p>\n
\n00:10:47,520 –> 00:10:56,200
\nbrother money.
\nThis man sounds like he has <\/p>\n
\n00:10:56,200 –> 00:11:02,400
\nmoney, doesn’t even know the
\nname of the girl, not even told.<\/p>\n
\n00:11:04,280 –> 00:11:07,480
\nWe told Tamer’s name later, so
\nit’s not as though we can’t know<\/p>\n
\n00:11:07,480 –> 00:11:13,560
\nthe names of the females.
\nWell, we told her name because <\/p>\n
\n00:11:13,560 –> 00:11:20,080
\nthe focus is that Judas saw and
\nhe took and he went into her. <\/p>\n
\n00:11:22,640 –> 00:11:25,000
\nDo you hear a bell ringing in
\nthe back of your mind of hearing<\/p>\n
\n00:11:25,000 –> 00:11:28,760
\nthat language before?
\nWho looked at something, saw it,<\/p>\n
\n00:11:28,800 –> 00:11:33,080
\ntook it and acted on it.
\nDon’t be scared. <\/p>\n
\n00:11:33,080 –> 00:11:34,640
\nThere’s only 200 people in the
\naudience. <\/p>\n
\n00:11:34,640 –> 00:11:36,960
\nIt’s OK.
\nShout out, Eve. <\/p>\n
\n00:11:36,960 –> 00:11:38,240
\nWonderful.
\nThank you. <\/p>\n
\n00:11:38,520 –> 00:11:39,560
\nAiken.
\nAwesome. <\/p>\n
\n00:11:39,560 –> 00:11:41,360
\nThis is really good.
\nI should ask my questions. <\/p>\n
\n00:11:41,560 –> 00:11:44,360
\nWho else?
\nDavid and Bathsheba. <\/p>\n
\n00:11:44,400 –> 00:11:46,080
\nExcellent.
\nMaybe you guys have done a study<\/p>\n
\n00:11:46,080 –> 00:11:47,320
\non this.
\nDo people know this story <\/p>\n
\n00:11:47,320 –> 00:11:49,280
\nalready?
\nThat’s awesome. <\/p>\n
\n00:11:49,720 –> 00:11:52,480
\nIf sore she took.
\nShe hates. <\/p>\n
\n00:11:52,480 –> 00:11:56,560
\nThere’s the principle.
\nLooked and thought looks good. <\/p>\n
\n00:11:57,240 –> 00:11:59,040
\nGina looked at her.
\nThought looks hot. <\/p>\n
\n00:11:59,400 –> 00:12:01,120
\nTook her.
\nGuess what? <\/p>\n
\n00:12:02,200 –> 00:12:08,400
\nThat’s exactly the same process
\nas what Shechem did with Dinah, <\/p>\n
\n00:12:09,520 –> 00:12:14,920
\nand he got angry.
\nHe did it, he repeated it, same <\/p>\n
\n00:12:14,920 –> 00:12:19,640
\nprocess, and we’re going to see
\nthese things come out in his <\/p>\n
\n00:12:19,640 –> 00:12:23,160
\nlife.
\nIt’s only highlighted by the <\/p>\n
\n00:12:23,160 –> 00:12:28,720
\nfact that her name doesn’t even
\nmatter in the whole chapter. <\/p>\n
\n00:12:30,240 –> 00:12:33,560
\nWhat matters is he wants to be
\nassociated with another special <\/p>\n
\n00:12:33,560 –> 00:12:38,480
\nfamily that has wealth.
\nNow, you’re not think I’m making<\/p>\n
\n00:12:38,480 –> 00:12:41,040
\ntoo much of it.
\nJust remember, what was the <\/p>\n
\n00:12:41,040 –> 00:12:44,280
\nwhole point of chapter 29 and
\nchapter 30 in the way that his <\/p>\n
\n00:12:44,280 –> 00:12:47,280
\nfamily was introduced?
\nIt was all about the meaning of <\/p>\n
\n00:12:47,480 –> 00:12:52,680
\nnames, right?
\nAnd we’re told it was. <\/p>\n
\n00:12:53,360 –> 00:12:55,720
\nThe Bible tells us, look at the
\nmeaning of these names. <\/p>\n
\n00:12:56,400 –> 00:12:58,640
\nSo when we come to this chapter,
\nwe’ve got to do the same thing <\/p>\n
\n00:12:59,080 –> 00:13:00,640
\nbecause it’s still Genesis, same
\nstory. <\/p>\n
\n00:13:02,320 –> 00:13:03,360
\nAll right, am I reading too
\nmuch? <\/p>\n
\n00:13:03,360 –> 00:13:05,200
\nLet’s have a look at verse 3,
\nverse four and five. <\/p>\n
\n00:13:05,600 –> 00:13:13,480
\nShe no name conceived and bear a
\nson And oh, he called his first <\/p>\n
\n00:13:13,480 –> 00:13:19,920
\nborn son, first born son’s name.
\nUh, Judah was, Oh, you assume he<\/p>\n
\n00:13:19,920 –> 00:13:24,560
\nwas there because he named the
\nchild, which is different to the<\/p>\n
\n00:13:24,560 –> 00:13:26,680
\nway he was born because mum
\nnamed him dad. <\/p>\n
\n00:13:26,680 –> 00:13:32,000
\nDidn’t Jacob only named one boy?
\nYou know, of all twelve of his <\/p>\n
\n00:13:32,000 –> 00:13:37,320
\nsons, she nameless names her
\nson. <\/p>\n
\n00:13:37,400 –> 00:13:41,600
\nSorry.
\nUh, she conceived again and bear<\/p>\n
\n00:13:41,600 –> 00:13:49,000
\na son and oh, she calls him this
\ntime Sheila. <\/p>\n
\n00:13:49,000 –> 00:13:52,560
\nWhat does that mean to us?
\nWell, what should we take away <\/p>\n
\n00:13:52,560 –> 00:13:56,760
\nfrom that?
\nLet’s hold on that verse 5. <\/p>\n
\n00:13:57,600 –> 00:14:04,080
\nShe has another child and bear a
\nson, and she calls his name <\/p>\n
\n00:14:04,360 –> 00:14:10,200
\nSheila.
\nAnd Judah was in Kizib, or a <\/p>\n
\n00:14:10,200 –> 00:14:17,920
\nplace that means denial and lies
\nwhen she gave birth. <\/p>\n
\n00:14:20,600 –> 00:14:31,720
\nOh, so Judah’s too busy living a
\nlife of denial, lying about what<\/p>\n
\n00:14:31,720 –> 00:14:35,160
\nhe’s really up to, to be at his
\nthird son’s birth. <\/p>\n
\n00:14:38,640 –> 00:14:40,480
\nCan you see a downward spiral
\ngoing on here? <\/p>\n
\n00:14:42,160 –> 00:14:46,960
\nHe was there for the beginning,
\nall excited, and called him that<\/p>\n
\n00:14:46,960 –> 00:14:50,760
\nmeans awake.
\nLet’s put in today’s language. <\/p>\n
\n00:14:51,160 –> 00:14:56,320
\nI’m living, I’m enjoying life, I
\ncan do my own thing now because <\/p>\n
\n00:14:56,320 –> 00:15:00,680
\nhe’s just gone free from the
\nfamily and he’s got his first <\/p>\n
\n00:15:00,680 –> 00:15:03,520
\nboy now and he’s living life the
\nway he wants to live it. <\/p>\n
\n00:15:05,920 –> 00:15:11,640
\nI’ve forgotten what Sheila is.
\nI’m coming to check mental blank<\/p>\n
\n00:15:11,920 –> 00:15:15,240
\nand I can’t see it.
\nSheila’s an interesting name, <\/p>\n
\n00:15:15,240 –> 00:15:18,920
\nbut not quite as strong.
\nThe last one is Sheila. <\/p>\n
\n00:15:19,800 –> 00:15:23,720
\nWhy does she call his name
\nSheila? <\/p>\n
\n00:15:26,080 –> 00:15:31,960
\nIt’s just like his mum was full
\nof bitterness, wanting <\/p>\n
\n00:15:31,960 –> 00:15:37,520
\nattention.
\nShe calls his name Sheila, which<\/p>\n
\n00:15:37,520 –> 00:15:39,560
\nI’m checking because I’m just
\nhaving a mental blank sorry this<\/p>\n
\n00:15:39,560 –> 00:15:47,480
\nmorning.
\nSheila means request requesting.<\/p>\n
\n00:15:47,960 –> 00:15:52,600
\nWhat do you think?
\nA woman who has no name, was <\/p>\n
\n00:15:52,600 –> 00:15:56,000
\nimportant, became less
\nimportant, and is so unimportant<\/p>\n
\n00:15:56,000 –> 00:15:58,640
\nthat she’s bearing her son as
\nJudah’s off, doing his own <\/p>\n
\n00:15:58,640 –> 00:16:00,280
\nthing.
\nBusy, maybe business, maybe <\/p>\n
\n00:16:00,280 –> 00:16:02,640
\nwhatever.
\nWe’ll talk about that later. <\/p>\n
\n00:16:03,760 –> 00:16:05,360
\nWhat do you think she’s
\nrequesting? <\/p>\n
\n00:16:08,200 –> 00:16:10,880
\nBit the same as Leah.
\nBit of time, attention, <\/p>\n
\n00:16:10,880 –> 00:16:17,320
\nappreciation, validation.
\nThat’s just the first 5 verses <\/p>\n
\n00:16:18,680 –> 00:16:23,600
\nof this story of Judah living
\nthe way Judah wants to live. <\/p>\n
\n00:16:26,160 –> 00:16:30,880
\nWhat’s he doing?
\nHe’s repeating his dad’s <\/p>\n
\n00:16:30,880 –> 00:16:33,920
\nmistakes.
\nHe’s repeating history. <\/p>\n
\n00:16:35,280 –> 00:16:40,640
\nDad was never around for Judah.
\nToo busy out there with the <\/p>\n
\n00:16:40,640 –> 00:16:43,800
\nsheep.
\nAnd so we see here the same <\/p>\n
\n00:16:43,800 –> 00:16:46,360
\nstory.
\nWe’re seeing a repeat of the <\/p>\n
\n00:16:46,360 –> 00:16:50,400
\nreality of the way he grew up
\nand consequences. <\/p>\n
\n00:16:50,720 –> 00:16:53,520
\nWell, the way we’re brought up
\nhas consequences on us. <\/p>\n
\n00:16:53,760 –> 00:16:56,280
\nIt has an impact on us.
\nAnd we have to think about that.<\/p>\n
\n00:16:57,600 –> 00:17:00,160
\nLet’s look at the way Judah’s
\nbringing up his children. <\/p>\n
\n00:17:00,520 –> 00:17:02,280
\nWe’ll have a look at verse 6-7
\nand eight. <\/p>\n
\n00:17:02,520 –> 00:17:09,680
\nWhat are we told?
\nJudah required a wife for, ER, <\/p>\n
\n00:17:09,680 –> 00:17:12,440
\nhis first born.
\nHer name’s Tamar. <\/p>\n
\n00:17:14,119 –> 00:17:20,920
\nBut ER, Judah’s first born was
\nso evil in the Lord’s sight that<\/p>\n
\n00:17:20,920 –> 00:17:25,079
\nGod actually had to step in and
\nkill him. <\/p>\n
\n00:17:26,680 –> 00:17:29,920
\nThat’s how bad he was.
\nIn fact, no, the next one went <\/p>\n
\n00:17:29,920 –> 00:17:32,320
\ndown the same process.
\nHe was asked to man up and be <\/p>\n
\n00:17:32,320 –> 00:17:35,440
\nresponsible for life, and God
\nkilled him too. <\/p>\n
\n00:17:35,600 –> 00:17:40,160
\nJust grasp that.
\nTwo sons that are so bad that <\/p>\n
\n00:17:40,160 –> 00:17:43,880
\nGod has to abruptly intervene in
\nthe situation and kill them. <\/p>\n
\n00:17:45,000 –> 00:17:48,200
\nThat’s wow on the scale of God
\ndoesn’t interrupt very often. <\/p>\n
\n00:17:48,240 –> 00:17:50,520
\nWe’re talking Coradathan and
\nByram kind of stuff. <\/p>\n
\n00:17:52,120 –> 00:17:55,600
\nGod kills those two boys.
\nDo we see any evidence of Judah <\/p>\n
\n00:17:55,600 –> 00:17:58,720
\ntrying to teach them about the
\ngodly life of the promises that <\/p>\n
\n00:17:58,720 –> 00:18:00,600
\nwere given to Abraham, Isaac,
\nand Jacob? <\/p>\n
\n00:18:01,160 –> 00:18:02,960
\nI’m not seeing anything in this
\nchapter about that. <\/p>\n
\n00:18:02,960 –> 00:18:10,440
\nAll right, verse 11.
\nThe reality is Judah is so blind<\/p>\n
\n00:18:10,440 –> 00:18:18,840
\nto the reality of his son’s evil
\nthat he blames this poor woman, <\/p>\n
\n00:18:18,840 –> 00:18:24,480
\nTamar, and makes her the
\nscapegoat as if she’s jinxed and<\/p>\n
\n00:18:24,480 –> 00:18:27,320
\nshe’s the problem why the boys
\nkeep dying. <\/p>\n
\n00:18:29,120 –> 00:18:33,640
\nThat’s where this man’s at.
\nHe can’t look honestly at the <\/p>\n
\n00:18:33,640 –> 00:18:39,600
\nsituation to make an honest
\ndecision knowing that God works <\/p>\n
\n00:18:39,600 –> 00:18:44,440
\nin his life.
\nThose boys are so focused on <\/p>\n
\n00:18:44,440 –> 00:18:49,080
\neverything that Judah has taught
\nthem about living life the way <\/p>\n
\n00:18:49,840 –> 00:18:52,600
\nthey want to live life, that
\nGod’s killed them. <\/p>\n
\n00:18:52,600 –> 00:18:53,960
\nHow do we know that?
\nWe’re actually told what, uh <\/p>\n
\n00:18:54,000 –> 00:18:55,640
\ndoes wrong.
\nWe’re told what Sheila does. <\/p>\n
\n00:18:56,880 –> 00:18:59,480
\nWe’re told the way he behaves.
\nAll right. <\/p>\n
\n00:18:59,840 –> 00:19:04,360
\nAll he was focused on was self
\ngratification and completely <\/p>\n
\n00:19:04,360 –> 00:19:07,720
\nunwilling to give us stuff about
\nanyone else but himself. <\/p>\n
\n00:19:10,280 –> 00:19:18,320
\nHe wasn’t willing to give his
\nbrother a family, but he’d take <\/p>\n
\n00:19:18,320 –> 00:19:22,720
\nadvantage of her.
\nNot once, not twice. <\/p>\n
\n00:19:23,200 –> 00:19:28,360
\nIt says whenever he went into
\nher, that’s repeat behaviour. <\/p>\n
\n00:19:29,920 –> 00:19:31,120
\nWhere did these boys learn that
\nfrom? <\/p>\n
\n00:19:37,160 –> 00:19:39,160
\nWe could continue on with the
\nstory, but I don’t want to get <\/p>\n
\n00:19:39,160 –> 00:19:42,400
\ninto too much detail about it.
\nIf we were to flick down then to<\/p>\n
\n00:19:42,400 –> 00:19:51,920
\nverse 12 and 13, we see that
\nJudah’s wife passes away. <\/p>\n
\n00:19:53,840 –> 00:19:57,200
\nSuddenly she’s off the scenes.
\nThis is the person that he did <\/p>\n
\n00:19:57,200 –> 00:20:02,760
\nactually at some point love.
\nDoes he distract himself in <\/p>\n
\n00:20:02,760 –> 00:20:05,440
\nverse 12 with business?
\nIs that what he’s doing? <\/p>\n
\n00:20:05,480 –> 00:20:13,440
\nVerse 12 says after some time.
\nJudah’s After some time, Judah’s<\/p>\n
\n00:20:13,440 –> 00:20:15,920
\nwife, the daughter of Shua,
\ndied. <\/p>\n
\n00:20:16,680 –> 00:20:18,600
\nSee how we get the emphasis on
\nShua again. <\/p>\n
\n00:20:20,160 –> 00:20:25,520
\nAfter Judah was consoled, he
\nleft for Timnath to visit his <\/p>\n
\n00:20:25,520 –> 00:20:27,680
\nship Shearer.
\nSo he went and made himself busy<\/p>\n
\n00:20:27,680 –> 00:20:32,680
\nwith work along with his friend
\nof his higher of the Dalamite. <\/p>\n
\n00:20:32,680 –> 00:20:34,200
\nHe’s one of those friends
\nthat’ll do anything. <\/p>\n
\n00:20:34,200 –> 00:20:37,040
\nGot no shame.
\nJust you know, we’ll do whatever<\/p>\n
\n00:20:37,040 –> 00:20:38,760
\nyou ask him to do.
\nThere’s people like that out <\/p>\n
\n00:20:38,760 –> 00:20:41,520
\nthere that facilitate bad
\ndecisions in our life. <\/p>\n
\n00:20:41,520 –> 00:20:43,680
\nDon’t be fooled by them, they’re
\nnot actually good friends. <\/p>\n
\n00:20:44,000 –> 00:20:47,520
\nIt’s interesting that Hara isn’t
\na part of Judah’s life later. <\/p>\n
\n00:20:48,480 –> 00:20:51,040
\nHe’s only there when Judah needs
\nThe Dirty work to be done. <\/p>\n
\n00:20:51,040 –> 00:20:52,640
\nJust an interesting detail of
\nthis chapter. <\/p>\n
\n00:20:55,520 –> 00:20:59,400
\nIt’s interesting that Tamar was
\ntold that Judah, her <\/p>\n
\n00:20:59,400 –> 00:21:03,240
\nfather-in-law, is going to
\nTinnath to shear the sheep. <\/p>\n
\n00:21:03,960 –> 00:21:08,760
\nWhy would she care?
\nWell, she cares because in <\/p>\n
\n00:21:08,760 –> 00:21:15,200
\nverses 8 or 9 and 10 she’s been
\npromised that she would have. <\/p>\n
\n00:21:15,440 –> 00:21:18,920
\nOh sorry, verse 11 Judah has
\npromised his daughter-in-law, <\/p>\n
\n00:21:18,920 –> 00:21:23,120
\nTamar, that she can have Sheila
\nwhen he grows up. <\/p>\n
\n00:21:24,080 –> 00:21:26,640
\nNow, when you read the story,
\nyou can only assume that there <\/p>\n
\n00:21:26,640 –> 00:21:33,800
\nwasn’t that long a gap because
\nthat’s quite quick in the way <\/p>\n
\n00:21:33,800 –> 00:21:36,040
\nwe’re told.
\nSo you can assume that that <\/p>\n
\n00:21:36,040 –> 00:21:39,520
\nstory didn’t buy Judah too much
\ntime to say that Tamar could <\/p>\n
\n00:21:39,520 –> 00:21:44,400
\nhave Sheila when he grows up.
\nAnd in verse 8, we’re told his <\/p>\n
\n00:21:44,400 –> 00:21:45,840
\nreal motive, not that he
\nactually said it. <\/p>\n
\n00:21:45,840 –> 00:21:48,120
\nHe thought he was planning.
\nHe was thinking, heck, I don’t <\/p>\n
\n00:21:48,120 –> 00:21:49,880
\nwant my third son to hang around
\nwith her. <\/p>\n
\n00:21:52,320 –> 00:21:59,920
\nSo Tamar goes back to picture
\nthis, her father’s house and <\/p>\n
\n00:21:59,920 –> 00:22:03,880
\nlives there like a widow.
\nWhy did she stay in Judah’s <\/p>\n
\n00:22:03,880 –> 00:22:08,360
\nhouse?
\nIf Judah’s going to provide for <\/p>\n
\n00:22:08,360 –> 00:22:13,120
\nher and she’s going to remain
\nconnected with Judah’s family as<\/p>\n
\n00:22:13,120 –> 00:22:17,040
\nshe does for the rest of the
\nbook of Genesis, why does Judah <\/p>\n
\n00:22:17,040 –> 00:22:18,480
\nsend the home?
\nClearly doesn’t want to have a <\/p>\n
\n00:22:18,480 –> 00:22:22,240
\nbar of her.
\nHe’s got no time for her, just <\/p>\n
\n00:22:22,240 –> 00:22:24,840
\nlike his son had no time for her
\neither. <\/p>\n
\n00:22:27,000 –> 00:22:29,960
\nYou see the way they were
\nbehaving, we can go into more <\/p>\n
\n00:22:29,960 –> 00:22:35,760
\ndetail, but it’s simply a
\ncareless for anybody else, a <\/p>\n
\n00:22:35,800 –> 00:22:40,000
\nself fulfilling, self satisfying
\nbehaviour. <\/p>\n
\n00:22:41,920 –> 00:22:48,680
\nAll right, verse 13 Tamas told,
\nLook, your father in law’s going<\/p>\n
\n00:22:48,680 –> 00:22:54,760
\nto Timnah to shear his sheep.
\nSo she removed her widow <\/p>\n
\n00:22:54,760 –> 00:23:00,360
\nclothes, which is the way she’s
\nbeen living faithfully, and she <\/p>\n
\n00:23:00,360 –> 00:23:04,480
\ncovers herself with a veil,
\nwhich makes her look like the <\/p>\n
\n00:23:04,480 –> 00:23:05,960
\nprostitute that she’s going to
\nplay. <\/p>\n
\n00:23:06,000 –> 00:23:10,160
\nThat’s not a normal behaviour.
\nShe wraps herself in that veil <\/p>\n
\n00:23:10,160 –> 00:23:13,800
\nand she sat in an open path at
\nthe entrance to and I am maybe <\/p>\n
\n00:23:13,800 –> 00:23:16,280
\nyour translation says, but
\nbasically what it says is she <\/p>\n
\n00:23:16,280 –> 00:23:20,600
\nsat in an open way on the way to
\nTimnath. <\/p>\n
\n00:23:20,600 –> 00:23:25,080
\nSo she sat in a place that she
\nknew that Judah would pass <\/p>\n
\n00:23:25,360 –> 00:23:29,760
\nthrough.
\nShe did this, we’re told, <\/p>\n
\n00:23:30,360 –> 00:23:34,520
\nbecause she saw that she had not
\nbeen given Sheila as a wife, <\/p>\n
\n00:23:35,240 –> 00:23:43,560
\neven though he’s now grown up.
\nThink about that story. <\/p>\n
\n00:23:44,880 –> 00:23:48,160
\nThink about what we’re not told
\nin that story. <\/p>\n
\n00:23:48,480 –> 00:23:52,040
\nWhat makes a woman who’s gone to
\nlive in her father’s house as a <\/p>\n
\n00:23:52,040 –> 00:23:56,480
\nwidow and faithfully doing that,
\nwaiting for the next son to grow<\/p>\n
\n00:23:56,520 –> 00:23:59,480
\nup?
\nWhat makes her change all of her<\/p>\n
\n00:23:59,480 –> 00:24:03,560
\nclothes and all of her behaviour
\nand go and sits in an open way <\/p>\n
\n00:24:03,800 –> 00:24:07,160
\nthat Judah’s going to pass
\nthrough as he goes up to his <\/p>\n
\n00:24:07,160 –> 00:24:14,440
\ndestination?
\nThe fact is, she knows Judah’s <\/p>\n
\n00:24:14,640 –> 00:24:18,760
\npersonality.
\nShe knows the way Judah behaves <\/p>\n
\n00:24:18,760 –> 00:24:24,440
\nin the dark.
\nJudah has a reputation because <\/p>\n
\n00:24:24,440 –> 00:24:27,040
\nshe knows that all she has to do
\nis sit in an open place and <\/p>\n
\n00:24:27,040 –> 00:24:30,720
\nJudah will pick her up.
\nShe doesn’t have to harass him, <\/p>\n
\n00:24:31,880 –> 00:24:34,880
\nshe doesn’t have to chase him.
\nShe just knows if I sit in an <\/p>\n
\n00:24:34,880 –> 00:24:37,640
\nopen path, Judah will find me
\nand he’ll take me in. <\/p>\n
\n00:24:38,480 –> 00:24:41,560
\nShe’s that confident.
\nThis is not her way of life. <\/p>\n
\n00:24:42,320 –> 00:24:45,280
\nAfter this event, she goes
\nstraight back home, changes back<\/p>\n
\n00:24:45,280 –> 00:24:47,560
\ninto her widow clothes.
\nThat’s her behaviour, that’s <\/p>\n
\n00:24:47,560 –> 00:24:51,840
\nher.
\nShe’s a truthful person, but <\/p>\n
\n00:24:51,840 –> 00:24:55,200
\nshe’s so clear in her
\nunderstanding of the type of man<\/p>\n
\n00:24:55,200 –> 00:24:58,600
\nthat Judah is and the reputation
\nthat he’s created. <\/p>\n
\n00:25:01,280 –> 00:25:08,040
\nIt’s like 99% confident that
\nJudah will do what Judah does. <\/p>\n
\n00:25:09,960 –> 00:25:14,840
\nThat’s quite a reputation.
\nAnd it was somebody else that <\/p>\n
\n00:25:14,840 –> 00:25:19,480
\ntold her that’s what her dad’s
\ndoing or her father in law’s <\/p>\n
\n00:25:19,480 –> 00:25:22,080
\ndoing.
\nSo you wonder what they thought <\/p>\n
\n00:25:22,080 –> 00:25:24,360
\ntoo.
\nAre we filling out the picture? <\/p>\n
\n00:25:25,160 –> 00:25:29,760
\nAre you getting an idea of what
\nJudah’s known for, what his <\/p>\n
\n00:25:29,760 –> 00:25:33,680
\npersonality is, what his
\nreputation is, and what he’s <\/p>\n
\n00:25:33,680 –> 00:25:38,920
\ngetting up to?
\nAll right, verse 16 then. <\/p>\n
\n00:25:41,720 –> 00:25:45,800
\nWell, verse 15, Judah saw her.
\nHe just made the assumption that<\/p>\n
\n00:25:45,800 –> 00:25:49,720
\nshe was a prostitute because she
\ncovered her face. <\/p>\n
\n00:25:51,120 –> 00:25:55,760
\nSo verse 16, he turned aside to
\nher along the road and said, I <\/p>\n
\n00:25:55,760 –> 00:26:01,640
\nwant to come in to you because
\nhe had no idea that she was his <\/p>\n
\n00:26:01,640 –> 00:26:04,680
\ndaughter-in-law.
\nI’ll put it up here on the <\/p>\n
\n00:26:04,680 –> 00:26:08,880
\nscreen.
\nHer response is, what will you <\/p>\n
\n00:26:10,200 –> 00:26:15,120
\ngive me?
\nThat’s incredibly ironic when <\/p>\n
\n00:26:15,120 –> 00:26:18,960
\nyou think about it, because if
\nonly Judah had given her what <\/p>\n
\n00:26:18,960 –> 00:26:22,920
\nJudah should have given her, the
\nwhole problem would have gone <\/p>\n
\n00:26:22,920 –> 00:26:27,840
\naway.
\nIf Judah had given her the son <\/p>\n
\n00:26:27,840 –> 00:26:31,640
\nthat he’d promised to her, she
\nwould have been happy and this <\/p>\n
\n00:26:31,640 –> 00:26:35,680
\nevent wouldn’t have happened.
\nYou see that? <\/p>\n
\n00:26:38,960 –> 00:26:41,280
\nAnd he says, ah, I’ll send you a
\nyoung goat from the flock. <\/p>\n
\n00:26:43,520 –> 00:26:48,760
\nAnd she says, no, I want a down
\npayment. <\/p>\n
\n00:26:49,040 –> 00:26:51,480
\nI want proof because I don’t
\ntrust you. <\/p>\n
\n00:26:53,080 –> 00:26:55,320
\nGive me a pledge.
\nProve it. <\/p>\n
\n00:26:56,200 –> 00:26:58,800
\nProve it that you’re a
\ntrustworthy person. <\/p>\n
\n00:26:58,800 –> 00:27:01,720
\nBecause clearly he wasn’t a
\ntrustworthy person that she had <\/p>\n
\n00:27:01,720 –> 00:27:07,000
\nto demand a pledge from him.
\nAnd he’s good with that because <\/p>\n
\n00:27:07,000 –> 00:27:08,800
\nhe knows what that means,
\nbecause he’s used to it. <\/p>\n
\n00:27:08,800 –> 00:27:10,920
\nHe says, all right, what sort of
\npledge do you want? <\/p>\n
\n00:27:11,720 –> 00:27:16,360
\nI don’t care.
\nThat’s life, She replies and <\/p>\n
\n00:27:16,360 –> 00:27:21,720
\nsays, I want your seal.
\nI want your cord and the staff <\/p>\n
\n00:27:21,720 –> 00:27:23,280
\nin your hand, and we might
\nunderstand that. <\/p>\n
\n00:27:24,200 –> 00:27:26,640
\nSo it’s saying I want your ring,
\nI want your mobile phone and I <\/p>\n
\n00:27:26,640 –> 00:27:36,720
\nwant your wallet.
\nThat means that Tamer now owns <\/p>\n
\n00:27:37,200 –> 00:27:42,040
\nJudah’s identity.
\nJust think about that. <\/p>\n
\n00:27:43,040 –> 00:27:48,280
\nYou can identify a person by
\ntheir phone, by their wallets, <\/p>\n
\n00:27:48,520 –> 00:27:50,960
\nor as they used a seal in those
\ndays, or a ring. <\/p>\n
\n00:27:52,720 –> 00:27:56,080
\nShe owns his personality, his
\nidentity. <\/p>\n
\n00:27:57,960 –> 00:28:01,320
\nHe’s happy to give it.
\nI want you to take particular <\/p>\n
\n00:28:01,320 –> 00:28:04,960
\nnotice of this word pledge.
\nShe asks for a pledge and he’s <\/p>\n
\n00:28:04,960 –> 00:28:08,080
\nquite happy to give a pledge.
\nThis is a man who’s quite happy <\/p>\n
\n00:28:08,080 –> 00:28:10,400
\nto sell his identity to a
\nprostitute. <\/p>\n
\n00:28:11,680 –> 00:28:16,640
\nAnd that’s where he’s at in a
\ncouple of chapters time, he’s <\/p>\n
\n00:28:16,640 –> 00:28:21,680
\ngoing to give a pledge to his
\ndad for completely the opposite <\/p>\n
\n00:28:21,680 –> 00:28:25,960
\nthing.
\nHe’s going to pledge his dad his<\/p>\n
\n00:28:25,960 –> 00:28:31,920
\nlife for his brother’s life.
\nAnd that’s the shift that we’re <\/p>\n
\n00:28:31,920 –> 00:28:35,320
\ngoing to see.
\nBut that’s the irony of this <\/p>\n
\n00:28:35,320 –> 00:28:38,880
\nstory.
\nYou know, The funny thing is, as<\/p>\n
\n00:28:39,120 –> 00:28:42,400
\npeople, when we make dumb
\ndecisions in life, we don’t <\/p>\n
\n00:28:42,400 –> 00:28:44,600
\nrealize how dumb the decisions
\nare. <\/p>\n
\n00:28:45,720 –> 00:28:48,600
\nEveryone around us can see us
\nand we’re getting a reputation, <\/p>\n
\n00:28:51,280 –> 00:28:56,920
\nbut we’re so obsessed because of
\nour bitterness with the <\/p>\n
\n00:28:56,920 –> 00:29:00,040
\ndecisions that we’re making.
\nWe can’t see the fool that we’re<\/p>\n
\n00:29:00,040 –> 00:29:05,360
\nmaking of ourselves.
\nJust remember that if you go <\/p>\n
\n00:29:05,360 –> 00:29:08,680
\nthrough a phase of wanting to
\nmake some dumb decisions, listen<\/p>\n
\n00:29:08,680 –> 00:29:12,760
\nwhen your friends say things to
\nyou because you probably don’t <\/p>\n
\n00:29:12,760 –> 00:29:15,040
\nrealize the way you’re being
\nperceived and seen and <\/p>\n
\n00:29:15,040 –> 00:29:19,240
\nunderstood.
\nWell, that’s where Jude is at. <\/p>\n
\n00:29:20,520 –> 00:29:25,760
\nHe has these reputation and he’s
\nwilling to barter his identity <\/p>\n
\n00:29:26,280 –> 00:29:28,520
\nfor a one night stand.
\nThere’s no commitment to this <\/p>\n
\n00:29:28,520 –> 00:29:36,120
\nman, but heck, it’s going to
\nchange in a matter of a couple <\/p>\n
\n00:29:36,120 –> 00:29:38,840
\nof chapters.
\nHow? <\/p>\n
\n00:29:40,280 –> 00:29:45,120
\nWhy?
\nWhat is it that changes Judah? <\/p>\n
\n00:29:47,680 –> 00:29:49,680
\nAnd that’s what I want you to
\nreally get your head around from<\/p>\n
\n00:29:49,680 –> 00:29:53,040
\nthis study is that what God
\nchanges in Judah is what the <\/p>\n
\n00:29:53,200 –> 00:29:55,640
\nsame thing that he does in your
\nlife and my life. <\/p>\n
\n00:29:56,960 –> 00:30:00,680
\nAnd he brings ironic situations
\nto bring the reality of our <\/p>\n
\n00:30:00,680 –> 00:30:05,520
\ndecisions back on ourselves.
\nAnd if we’re honest with <\/p>\n
\n00:30:05,520 –> 00:30:08,120
\nourselves, we see the way he’s
\nworking. <\/p>\n
\n00:30:08,240 –> 00:30:11,440
\nHave a look at it.
\nJudah has a level of conscience.<\/p>\n
\n00:30:11,440 –> 00:30:13,360
\nHe always does, always has,
\nright? <\/p>\n
\n00:30:13,360 –> 00:30:15,440
\nHe was a little bit
\nuncomfortable with killing his <\/p>\n
\n00:30:15,440 –> 00:30:16,800
\nbrother.
\nLet’s just tell him it’s not. <\/p>\n
\n00:30:16,800 –> 00:30:18,400
\nI don’t get bottom of fingers,
\nright? <\/p>\n
\n00:30:19,280 –> 00:30:23,680
\nJudah says to his daughter
\nTamar, grow up in your father’s <\/p>\n
\n00:30:23,680 –> 00:30:28,080
\nhouse because he thought he
\ndidn’t want Sheila to die like <\/p>\n
\n00:30:28,080 –> 00:30:32,240
\nhis brothers.
\nSorry, that was actually for <\/p>\n
\n00:30:32,240 –> 00:30:33,520
\nsomething different.
\nVerse 23. <\/p>\n
\n00:30:33,520 –> 00:30:34,560
\nI was meant to make a different
\npoint. <\/p>\n
\n00:30:34,560 –> 00:30:37,560
\nWe’re running out of time.
\nVerse 23, Judah said. <\/p>\n
\n00:30:37,600 –> 00:30:42,560
\nLet her keep these things for
\nherself, otherwise we’ll appear <\/p>\n
\n00:30:42,560 –> 00:30:44,840
\nto be dishonest.
\nWhat does that show us? <\/p>\n
\n00:30:44,840 –> 00:30:47,360
\nShows us a man who’s more
\nworried about the way he <\/p>\n
\n00:30:47,360 –> 00:30:51,840
\nappears, the way he thinks he
\nappears, than the facts are that<\/p>\n
\n00:30:51,840 –> 00:30:55,040
\nhe does or doesn’t get the goat
\nback to Tamar. <\/p>\n
\n00:30:56,920 –> 00:30:58,200
\nBut I want you to appreciate
\nthis. <\/p>\n
\n00:30:58,200 –> 00:31:05,840
\nIn verse 24, after three months,
\nJudah was told, Now if you ever <\/p>\n
\n00:31:05,840 –> 00:31:09,240
\ndo a study of Jacob, just take
\nnotice of how many things Jacob <\/p>\n
\n00:31:09,240 –> 00:31:13,520
\nis told but doesn’t hear about.
\nIt’s things like Reuben taking <\/p>\n
\n00:31:13,520 –> 00:31:15,840
\nadvantage of Bill Hart.
\nIt’s like what happened to <\/p>\n
\n00:31:15,840 –> 00:31:18,240
\nDinah.
\nIt’s like his family of Laban <\/p>\n
\n00:31:18,240 –> 00:31:21,840
\nwho hates him and he’s told they
\nhad Jacob hears lots of things, <\/p>\n
\n00:31:21,840 –> 00:31:24,280
\nnever sees it.
\nAnd this is what’s happening to <\/p>\n
\n00:31:24,280 –> 00:31:27,000
\nJudah.
\nJudah hears, he’s told that your<\/p>\n
\n00:31:27,000 –> 00:31:30,680
\ndaughter-in-law, Tamar, has
\nbecome a prostitute and as a <\/p>\n
\n00:31:30,680 –> 00:31:32,640
\nresult, she’s now pregnant.
\nAnd what does Judah do? <\/p>\n
\n00:31:33,280 –> 00:31:37,320
\nThe other hypocrite just says,
\nwell, bring her out, let her be <\/p>\n
\n00:31:37,320 –> 00:31:40,600
\nburnt.
\nHow hypocritical is that? <\/p>\n
\n00:31:41,880 –> 00:31:46,360
\nHe’s the other half of that, but
\nhe’s calling for her to be <\/p>\n
\n00:31:46,360 –> 00:31:49,400
\nbrought out and burnt.
\nDid he even ask a question? <\/p>\n
\n00:31:50,920 –> 00:31:55,640
\nDid he give her a trial, a fair,
\nopen opportunity to say how she <\/p>\n
\n00:31:55,640 –> 00:31:58,040
\ngot to this situation?
\nNothing. <\/p>\n
\n00:31:59,120 –> 00:32:02,280
\nWhy?
\nBecause Judy’s looking at the <\/p>\n
\n00:32:02,280 –> 00:32:07,240
\nsituation going good, I’m done.
\nI never wanted her to marry <\/p>\n
\n00:32:07,240 –> 00:32:09,840
\nSheila anyway.
\nI want her out of my life. <\/p>\n
\n00:32:10,920 –> 00:32:12,720
\nSo if I can burn her for this,
\ngreat. <\/p>\n
\n00:32:15,800 –> 00:32:17,720
\nNothing’s changed in this man so
\nfar, has it? <\/p>\n
\n00:32:18,840 –> 00:32:22,440
\nBut see how these things are all
\ncoming together and they’re <\/p>\n
\n00:32:22,440 –> 00:32:26,480
\ncoming to 1 enormous climactic
\nmoment in his life. <\/p>\n
\n00:32:26,760 –> 00:32:29,280
\nHe’s told her to go back and
\nlive in your father’s house, but<\/p>\n
\n00:32:29,280 –> 00:32:33,240
\nhe’s the one that can call the
\nshots and say bring her out of <\/p>\n
\n00:32:33,440 –> 00:32:36,680
\nher father’s house and we’re
\ngoing to burn it. <\/p>\n
\n00:32:38,520 –> 00:32:41,680
\nIt was a priest’s daughter that
\nwould be burnt, was the custom <\/p>\n
\n00:32:41,680 –> 00:32:44,680
\nat the time.
\nSo he thinks that he’s a <\/p>\n
\n00:32:44,680 –> 00:32:49,360
\npriestly family because he’s
\nassociated with a noble family. <\/p>\n
\n00:32:49,480 –> 00:32:54,600
\nRemember, Dom Harm, not Jacob
\nwhere he should be. <\/p>\n
\n00:32:54,640 –> 00:32:57,400
\nThere’s again the irony.
\nHe brings her out and says, <\/p>\n
\n00:32:57,400 –> 00:33:00,480
\nlet’s burn it.
\nNow I want you to think about <\/p>\n
\n00:33:00,480 –> 00:33:03,520
\nthis situation, just really
\ngrasp what this moment would <\/p>\n
\n00:33:03,520 –> 00:33:07,880
\nhave been like.
\nYou imagine everyone’s gathered <\/p>\n
\n00:33:07,880 –> 00:33:11,640
\naround and there’s Jacob’s
\nfamily here, there’s Tamar’s <\/p>\n
\n00:33:11,640 –> 00:33:15,720
\nfamily here, and there’s the
\nlocals from the town. <\/p>\n
\n00:33:16,760 –> 00:33:19,760
\nI can prove they’re all there,
\nbut just believe me, there’s a <\/p>\n
\n00:33:19,760 –> 00:33:24,760
\nwhole group of people because
\nthey are bringing her out. <\/p>\n
\n00:33:25,920 –> 00:33:28,040
\nWhat for?
\nTo burn it. <\/p>\n
\n00:33:29,440 –> 00:33:32,960
\nYou imagine they’re stocking the
\nfire, the fire big enough to <\/p>\n
\n00:33:32,960 –> 00:33:36,040
\nburn someone.
\nJust feel the drama of this <\/p>\n
\n00:33:36,040 –> 00:33:40,520
\nmoment.
\nAnd she sends a word. <\/p>\n
\n00:33:41,440 –> 00:33:46,920
\nShe sends a servant off with a
\nmessage to her father-in-law, <\/p>\n
\n00:33:48,200 –> 00:33:53,960
\nand the message is this, I’m
\npregnant by the man to whom <\/p>\n
\n00:33:53,960 –> 00:34:01,600
\nthese belong.
\nAs she’s walking out to be <\/p>\n
\n00:34:01,600 –> 00:34:07,080
\nburnt, the servant is taking the
\nmessage to Judah. <\/p>\n
\n00:34:11,600 –> 00:34:16,199
\nOh, Can you imagine Judah in
\nthat crowd? <\/p>\n
\n00:34:17,000 –> 00:34:23,719
\nWhere’s he sitting on the high
\nand mighty throne, deciding her <\/p>\n
\n00:34:23,719 –> 00:34:29,040
\nfuture, giving her verdict
\nwithout a voice, without an <\/p>\n
\n00:34:29,040 –> 00:34:33,320
\nopportunity to speak for
\nherself, and sitting up there <\/p>\n
\n00:34:33,320 –> 00:34:38,800
\ncalling the shots?
\nShe’s just ripped the carpet out<\/p>\n
\n00:34:38,800 –> 00:34:43,960
\nfrom under his feet.
\nMore than that, that’s the <\/p>\n
\n00:34:43,960 –> 00:34:48,960
\nmessage that was sent.
\nAnd Judah’s drawer would just <\/p>\n
\n00:34:48,960 –> 00:34:55,000
\ndrop.
\nThen says then there’s always a <\/p>\n
\n00:34:55,000 –> 00:34:56,679
\nbreak.
\nEvery translation has a break <\/p>\n
\n00:34:56,679 –> 00:34:59,360
\nhere.
\nSo she sent one message saying <\/p>\n
\n00:34:59,360 –> 00:35:03,000
\nthis to Judah.
\nAnd then she stands there in <\/p>\n
\n00:35:03,000 –> 00:35:07,640
\nfront of all these people and
\nshe goes, I want you to identify<\/p>\n
\n00:35:08,240 –> 00:35:11,640
\nwhose seal, cord and staff this
\nis. <\/p>\n
\n00:35:11,760 –> 00:35:16,280
\nShe says that publicly to who?
\nTo the guy that wishes he could <\/p>\n
\n00:35:16,280 –> 00:35:20,240
\nfall through the cracks in the
\nseat, that he’s on his high, <\/p>\n
\n00:35:20,240 –> 00:35:26,240
\nmighty pedestal.
\nBut she says, identify. <\/p>\n
\n00:35:26,240 –> 00:35:28,840
\nDo you know what that word
\nmeans? <\/p>\n
\n00:35:29,480 –> 00:35:32,680
\nNot that I mean to Hebrew words
\nin particular, but that is the <\/p>\n
\n00:35:32,680 –> 00:35:37,640
\nexact phrase that Judas said to
\nhis dad as he carried a coat <\/p>\n
\n00:35:37,640 –> 00:35:42,640
\ninto his dad and said, dad, do
\nyou think it’s your favorite <\/p>\n
\n00:35:42,640 –> 00:35:46,840
\nboy’s coat?
\nCan you identify the coat for <\/p>\n
\n00:35:46,840 –> 00:35:57,040
\nme?
\nAnd here he is exposed with <\/p>\n
\n00:35:57,040 –> 00:36:02,160
\nexactly the same behaviour,
\ncaught in that situation. <\/p>\n
\n00:36:02,360 –> 00:36:08,160
\nThis is the way God worked.
\nGod gives us opportunity to <\/p>\n
\n00:36:08,160 –> 00:36:14,120
\nlearn from our mistakes.
\nNow I want you to think about <\/p>\n
\n00:36:14,120 –> 00:36:21,240
\nthis.
\nJudah has a choice how to <\/p>\n
\n00:36:21,240 –> 00:36:26,640
\nrespond.
\nHe could deny that and push <\/p>\n
\n00:36:26,640 –> 00:36:33,240
\nahead with the burning.
\nOr he could face up to the facts<\/p>\n
\n00:36:33,360 –> 00:36:39,720
\nwith all that public humiliation
\nand goes, Yep, I’m wrong. <\/p>\n
\n00:36:42,800 –> 00:36:48,080
\nThose words don’t come easily.
\nAnd he said every bit of it. <\/p>\n
\n00:36:49,680 –> 00:36:55,960
\nShe is more righteous than me.
\nHe owned it. <\/p>\n
\n00:36:58,080 –> 00:37:03,360
\nHe called it what it is.
\nThey were both involved in this.<\/p>\n
\n00:37:03,360 –> 00:37:08,200
\nNo, she’s more righteous than he
\nwas. <\/p>\n
\n00:37:10,000 –> 00:37:12,880
\nAnd in that publicly
\nembarrassing moment where he <\/p>\n
\n00:37:12,880 –> 00:37:17,480
\nthought he was on his high and
\nmighty throne, he’s been pulled <\/p>\n
\n00:37:17,480 –> 00:37:21,240
\nright down to the ground.
\nAnd she’s been shown to be the <\/p>\n
\n00:37:21,240 –> 00:37:27,240
\nrighteous party who simply
\nwanted what his word to be <\/p>\n
\n00:37:27,600 –> 00:37:32,800
\nbecause he promised a child to
\nher and he was playing games and<\/p>\n
\n00:37:32,800 –> 00:37:39,320
\nnot giving her his third son.
\nAnd she just wanted what was <\/p>\n
\n00:37:39,320 –> 00:37:43,600
\nrightfully hers and she stuck to
\nit. <\/p>\n
\n00:37:45,400 –> 00:37:48,800
\nHe was the guy that was being
\nunrighteous. <\/p>\n
\n00:37:50,080 –> 00:37:57,840
\nCan you feel that?
\nJust imagine the moment for <\/p>\n
\n00:37:57,840 –> 00:38:07,600
\nJudah, not only realizing that
\nfirst statement that he’s about <\/p>\n
\n00:38:07,600 –> 00:38:13,720
\nto be exposed, but because he
\ndoesn’t act, she takes to that <\/p>\n
\n00:38:13,720 –> 00:38:20,960
\nnext level and says identify it.
\nAnd we have proof that Judah has<\/p>\n
\n00:38:20,960 –> 00:38:23,560
\nstruggling in his mind what he
\ndid to his dad. <\/p>\n
\n00:38:23,560 –> 00:38:25,360
\nHe knows that we’re going to see
\nthat in the next study. <\/p>\n
\n00:38:25,640 –> 00:38:28,560
\nIt’s playing in his mind.
\nIt’s affecting him. <\/p>\n
\n00:38:29,920 –> 00:38:33,240
\nAnd I think this moment had
\ndramatic impact on Judah. <\/p>\n
\n00:38:33,400 –> 00:38:37,720
\nHis conscience is just screaming
\nat him. <\/p>\n
\n00:38:41,760 –> 00:38:44,240
\nRemember, this is the guy that
\nwas hypocritical about we might <\/p>\n
\n00:38:44,240 –> 00:38:47,080
\nappear to have not delivered the
\ngoat to Tamer. <\/p>\n
\n00:38:48,920 –> 00:38:54,720
\nHow’s he appearing now?
\nIt’s a huge lesson here. <\/p>\n
\n00:38:54,720 –> 00:38:57,800
\nI want to make this point really
\nclearly. <\/p>\n
\n00:39:00,360 –> 00:39:04,960
\nWhen we get confronted with
\nsomething we’ve done wrong and <\/p>\n
\n00:39:04,960 –> 00:39:15,160
\nwe all do it, we all do things
\nwrong, own it, face up, call it <\/p>\n
\n00:39:15,160 –> 00:39:19,600
\nwhat it is.
\nBecause if Judah tried to lie in<\/p>\n
\n00:39:19,600 –> 00:39:22,520
\nthat situation, what do you
\nthink that whole crowd of people<\/p>\n
\n00:39:22,520 –> 00:39:26,560
\nwould have been thinking?
\nThey know what happened. <\/p>\n
\n00:39:27,880 –> 00:39:32,360
\nThey know that signet, that
\nstaff, that seal the cord, they <\/p>\n
\n00:39:32,360 –> 00:39:34,680
\nknow his identity is in her
\nhands. <\/p>\n
\n00:39:35,280 –> 00:39:36,960
\nThey know the truth of the
\nsituation. <\/p>\n
\n00:39:36,960 –> 00:39:41,360
\nThey know his reputation.
\nHe’s a fool to think he could <\/p>\n
\n00:39:41,360 –> 00:39:45,200
\nlie.
\nAnd so are we when we try to <\/p>\n
\n00:39:45,200 –> 00:39:50,280
\npull the wool over our brothers
\nand sisters of Rally People and <\/p>\n
\n00:39:50,280 –> 00:39:56,040
\nact as if we don’t do something
\nor haven’t done something when <\/p>\n
\n00:39:56,040 –> 00:39:58,440
\nwe’ve been caught out for it.
\nSo there’s a really important <\/p>\n
\n00:39:58,440 –> 00:39:59,640
\nlesson to learn.
\nOwn up. <\/p>\n
\n00:40:00,440 –> 00:40:04,320
\nTo your situation, face up to
\nwhat it is now. <\/p>\n
\n00:40:05,840 –> 00:40:07,160
\nI want to pull all that story
\ntogether. <\/p>\n
\n00:40:08,320 –> 00:40:13,680
\nWhat is Judah being taught?
\nIt’s one word and it’s empathy. <\/p>\n
\n00:40:15,440 –> 00:40:22,040
\nJust appreciate someone else’s
\nposition for a minute of your <\/p>\n
\n00:40:22,040 –> 00:40:24,560
\nlife, Judah.
\nJust grasp this. <\/p>\n
\n00:40:29,920 –> 00:40:35,200
\nLife has taken Judah down a path
\nthat led him to appreciate, and <\/p>\n
\n00:40:35,200 –> 00:40:37,720
\nI say appreciate in an
\nincredible way, his father’s <\/p>\n
\n00:40:37,720 –> 00:40:41,960
\nstory.
\nJust think, what’s it like Judah<\/p>\n
\n00:40:42,920 –> 00:40:48,880
\nto have lost a grown son or two
\nactually? <\/p>\n
\n00:40:50,640 –> 00:40:56,560
\nBecause at this point, Jacob has
\nlost a 17 year old son and he’s <\/p>\n
\n00:40:56,560 –> 00:41:01,920
\nabout to lose another son.
\nJudah’s lost two grown sons <\/p>\n
\n00:41:02,960 –> 00:41:09,920
\nkilled by God.
\nWhat’s it like, Judah, to be <\/p>\n
\n00:41:09,920 –> 00:41:16,800
\nprotecting yours youngest son?
\nBecause that’s what you’re angry<\/p>\n
\n00:41:16,800 –> 00:41:19,840
\nat your dad about protecting
\nJoseph? <\/p>\n
\n00:41:20,320 –> 00:41:25,080
\nYeah.
\nWhat’s it like to lose the wife <\/p>\n
\n00:41:25,080 –> 00:41:29,920
\nthat you live love and they’d be
\nleft with this woman, Tamar, <\/p>\n
\n00:41:29,920 –> 00:41:33,720
\nthat you never actually did
\nlove, but now you’ve got to live<\/p>\n
\n00:41:33,720 –> 00:41:41,640
\nwith her?
\nThat’s more than that. <\/p>\n
\n00:41:42,560 –> 00:41:50,360
\nWhat’s it like to have children
\nthat you didn’t want to have? <\/p>\n
\n00:41:52,360 –> 00:41:57,320
\nBecause Judo now has two twins
\nabout to be born. <\/p>\n
\n00:41:57,320 –> 00:42:02,400
\nHe doesn’t know that quite yet.
\nThat’s the final piece that will<\/p>\n
\n00:42:02,400 –> 00:42:08,480
\nfit into this puzzle.
\nWhat’s it like to be tricked by <\/p>\n
\n00:42:08,480 –> 00:42:11,040
\na veil that was over Tamar’s
\neyes? <\/p>\n
\n00:42:12,320 –> 00:42:14,440
\nBit like the coat that you gave
\nto your dad. <\/p>\n
\n00:42:16,120 –> 00:42:19,600
\nA bit like the coat that your
\ndad tricked your dad’s dad with.<\/p>\n
\n00:42:27,720 –> 00:42:34,520
\nJust stop and think about that
\nfor a minute and discern whether<\/p>\n
\n00:42:34,520 –> 00:42:50,740
\nyou’re an honest, truthful man.
\nIdentify this code and in that <\/p>\n
\n00:42:50,740 –> 00:43:02,120
\nmoment Judah is taught the value
\nof family, of relationships, of <\/p>\n
\n00:43:02,160 –> 00:43:07,040
\nall the things that he despised
\nand was bitter about and all got<\/p>\n
\n00:43:07,040 –> 00:43:09,400
\nturned around and put back on
\nhis head. <\/p>\n
\n00:43:11,520 –> 00:43:14,760
\nBut the most encouraging thing
\nis that is what is going to <\/p>\n
\n00:43:14,760 –> 00:43:18,480
\nrebuild him.
\nAnd in trials, we think that <\/p>\n
\n00:43:18,480 –> 00:43:22,080
\nthat breaks us, we give up.
\nAnd we think, I can’t recover <\/p>\n
\n00:43:22,080 –> 00:43:24,560
\nfrom this.
\nAnd Judah’s standing up there <\/p>\n
\n00:43:24,560 –> 00:43:27,000
\ncalling the shots on her.
\nHe’s now embarrassed. <\/p>\n
\n00:43:27,000 –> 00:43:29,240
\nHe could go out and go, I can’t
\nrecover. <\/p>\n
\n00:43:29,640 –> 00:43:35,880
\nI’m past it.
\nThat is what is going to rebuild<\/p>\n
\n00:43:35,880 –> 00:43:39,880
\nJudah and change him.
\nThose very experiences. <\/p>\n
\n00:43:40,880 –> 00:43:43,240
\nAnd that’s what I want you to
\ngrasp in your life, too. <\/p>\n
\n00:43:43,480 –> 00:43:46,960
\nThe mistakes are learning,
\nopportunities to become a better<\/p>\n
\n00:43:46,960 –> 00:43:50,400
\nperson, to grow.
\nI very much hope you don’t have <\/p>\n
\n00:43:50,400 –> 00:43:58,600
\nto go to the moral despair of
\nwhere Judah is brought, but <\/p>\n
\n00:43:58,600 –> 00:44:03,440
\nthat’s how we learnt.
\nI want to put it this way. <\/p>\n
\n00:44:03,800 –> 00:44:09,960
\nThe meals of God’s Providence
\nand the way God works in our <\/p>\n
\n00:44:09,960 –> 00:44:15,120
\nlife is through Providence.
\nAnd Providence grinds through <\/p>\n
\n00:44:15,120 –> 00:44:21,280
\nour life very, very slowly.
\nAnd this wheel has turned over <\/p>\n
\n00:44:21,280 –> 00:44:25,480
\n20 something years.
\nBut what it does is it grinds <\/p>\n
\n00:44:25,680 –> 00:44:30,800
\nincredibly precise because it’s
\nGod’s meal. <\/p>\n
\n00:44:31,720 –> 00:44:34,720
\nGod knows exactly what he’s
\ndoing in our life. <\/p>\n
\n00:44:36,680 –> 00:44:42,640
\nThe precision is incredible.
\nIt’s ironic, isn’t it? <\/p>\n
\n00:44:44,320 –> 00:44:46,240
\nIt’s the way God works.
\nJust think about this man. <\/p>\n
\n00:44:47,480 –> 00:44:52,400
\nSame problem.
\nAnd God ended his life in a <\/p>\n
\n00:44:52,400 –> 00:44:58,560
\nprison without his eyes, doing
\nthe job that was normally <\/p>\n
\n00:44:58,560 –> 00:45:07,040
\nallocated to the ladies so that
\nhe could learn truthfulness. <\/p>\n
\n00:45:12,040 –> 00:45:18,400
\nThat’s a huge lesson to learn.
\nIt’s called irony. <\/p>\n
\n00:45:20,720 –> 00:45:22,880
\nIrony is the kind of thing,
\nlet’s define it for a second. <\/p>\n
\n00:45:22,880 –> 00:45:25,720
\nIt’s like irony is like when the
\nambulance runs over and kills <\/p>\n
\n00:45:25,720 –> 00:45:27,120
\nyou.
\nYou know, the one that was <\/p>\n
\n00:45:27,120 –> 00:45:31,760
\ncoming to help you ambulance.
\nI’ll use that as an analogy. <\/p>\n
\n00:45:31,760 –> 00:45:37,240
\nMaybe irony is when the fire
\nengine burns up or the fire <\/p>\n
\n00:45:37,240 –> 00:45:42,640
\nstation burns up.
\nSee how there’s a similarity in <\/p>\n
\n00:45:42,640 –> 00:45:44,840
\nit?
\nIt’s like us drawing a tree on a<\/p>\n
\n00:45:44,840 –> 00:45:46,080
\npiece of paper.
\nThat’s irony. <\/p>\n
\n00:45:50,640 –> 00:45:57,160
\nIrony happens in your life too,
\nand God controls it. <\/p>\n
\n00:45:59,240 –> 00:46:09,440
\nHe allows it to occur by our own
\ndumb decisions that we are being<\/p>\n
\n00:46:09,440 –> 00:46:19,080
\nforced to have to own, man up to
\nand face the consequences of. <\/p>\n
\n00:46:22,240 –> 00:46:26,520
\nAnd that’s what makes a man a
\nman or a woman a woman. <\/p>\n
\n00:46:26,760 –> 00:46:35,040
\nWe’re picking on men in this
\nstory face up to the truth of <\/p>\n
\n00:46:35,040 –> 00:46:39,760
\nthe situation because our day is
\ncoming. <\/p>\n
\n00:46:40,680 –> 00:46:45,000
\nJesus says to us the judgement
\nthat you judge on other people, <\/p>\n
\n00:46:46,040 –> 00:46:48,880
\nbring her out and burn her.
\nThat’s how you’ll be judged. <\/p>\n
\n00:46:49,760 –> 00:46:52,320
\nThe measure that you meet on
\npeople is the way it’ll be <\/p>\n
\n00:46:52,320 –> 00:46:56,080
\nmeasured to you.
\nAgain at the judgement seat. <\/p>\n
\n00:46:58,760 –> 00:46:59,960
\nAnd young people, don’t be
\nfooled. <\/p>\n
\n00:47:01,480 –> 00:47:06,800
\nGod is not mocked.
\nWhat you sow in your life, <\/p>\n
\n00:47:07,720 –> 00:47:23,080
\nyou’re right.
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