WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:04.340 We thank you for our pastor dear Lord. Please bless him as he preaches your word in Jesus name. We pray. Amen 00:07.300 --> 00:13.140 Amen. Okay, we're in Genesis chapter 38 here. This is a little interlude into the story of Joseph 00:13.140 --> 00:19.700 of course from chapter 37 and on we have essentially the chronology of Joseph's story 00:19.700 --> 00:26.100 going into Egypt but we have a little bit of a break here kind of focusing on Judah and his 00:26.100 --> 00:32.420 sons and I think one of the reasons why that is is because of the fact that we know Judah is 00:32.420 --> 00:34.860 essentially the one who's going to be producing the Messiah and 00:35.300 --> 00:40.700 And it wasn't originally intended, I don't believe, for Joseph to be the one who pictures the Messiah 00:40.700 --> 00:42.700 It probably should have been Judah, right? 00:42.700 --> 00:44.700 That's the tribe from which Jesus Christ comes from 00:44.700 --> 00:48.700 But of course, as we see here in the story, Judah is making a lot of mistakes 00:48.700 --> 00:50.700 He's sinning against the Lord 00:50.700 --> 00:55.700 And his sons and his descendants are doing wrong as well 00:55.700 --> 01:00.700 And so it's kind of like one of these things where, well, you know, you can't really use him as a good illustration 01:00.700 --> 01:03.300 And so God ends up using Joseph 01:03.300 --> 01:07.860 instead to really picture Jesus Christ and throughout his life we see a lot of 01:07.860 --> 01:14.160 typology of Jesus a lot of illustrations a lot of spiritual truths that point to 01:14.160 --> 01:19.220 the Lord Jesus Christ but let's look at chapter 38 here in this particular very 01:19.220 --> 01:26.180 bizarre story of Er-Onan and Shelah and Judah as well and here's some of the 01:26.180 --> 01:29.180 mistakes that Judah made first and foremost look at verse 1 says it came to 01:29.180 --> 01:31.300 pass at that time that Jews. 01:31.300 --> 01:37.660 Judah went down from his brethren and turned into a certain Adulamite whose name was Hira. 01:38.100 --> 01:43.900 Before we get into the other characters in this chapter, I want to talk about Hira for a second 01:43.900 --> 01:45.980 Okay, Hira is an Adulamite 01:45.980 --> 01:51.020 He lives in Canaan and the Bible seems to imply here that he's not necessarily an Israelite 01:51.020 --> 01:56.660 Of course, he's he's an Adulamite that will eventually become property of those of Judah 01:56.940 --> 02:01.220 But you know in my opinion Hira isn't really a good friend 02:01.220 --> 02:05.860 okay, and you can't really point to anything that Hira does that would 02:06.100 --> 02:10.580 essentially state that he is provoking Judah to do evil, 02:10.580 --> 02:12.880 to do wrong, to sin against the Lord. 02:12.880 --> 02:14.340 But the reason he's a bad friend, 02:14.340 --> 02:17.820 it's not because he is causing Judah to stumble, 02:17.820 --> 02:19.220 causing him to sin. 02:19.220 --> 02:21.940 He's a really bad friend because he's not keeping his friend 02:21.940 --> 02:25.780 from making bad decisions and sinning against the Lord 02:25.780 --> 02:27.080 and against others, okay? 02:27.200 --> 02:29.040 Now, you say, well how do you know that? 02:29.040 --> 02:31.640 Well, I feel like the Bible intentionally 02:31.640 --> 02:34.560 is naming Hirah the Adulamite in this passage 02:34.560 --> 02:38.960 in relation to Judah taking a wife of Canaan. 02:38.960 --> 02:41.840 And we obviously know that God's people were not 02:41.840 --> 02:43.880 to intermingle with the Canaanites. 02:43.880 --> 02:46.040 We could essentially look at this from a New Testament 02:46.040 --> 02:49.440 perspective and say, it would be wrong for a Christian 02:49.440 --> 02:52.720 to marry someone who's not a believer. 02:52.720 --> 02:55.080 That's what it means to be unequally yoked together. 02:55.200 --> 02:58.480 with unbelievers and in like manner God didn't want. 02:58.800 --> 03:05.920 his people to be marrying to taking wives or husbands of the heathen of the Canaanites especially 03:06.160 --> 03:11.080 Because we obviously know that eventually God wants to wipe out the Canaanites. They are a pagan people 03:11.300 --> 03:15.500 They worship false gods. They have all types of perverse practices and so forth 03:15.760 --> 03:20.080 but we see that Judah takes a certain wife, she's a Canaanite and 03:21.000 --> 03:26.560 You know, he ends up, you know having children with her and so forth, but I don't believe this is God's will but 03:26.800 --> 03:28.840 Hira is there with him. 03:28.840 --> 03:30.960 So obviously, Hira's not encouraging him 03:30.960 --> 03:35.440 to marry the Canaanite woman, but he's also not stopping him 03:35.440 --> 03:38.000 from making that decision either, right? 03:38.000 --> 03:39.560 Now, let's go a couple of verses ahead here. 03:39.560 --> 03:40.640 Look at verse 12. 03:40.640 --> 03:43.080 We'll come back to the beginning of the chapter in just a bit. 03:43.080 --> 03:47.160 It says, in the process of time, the daughter of Shuah, 03:47.160 --> 03:48.880 Judah's wife, died. 03:48.880 --> 03:52.360 And Judah was comforted and went up unto his sheep shears 03:52.360 --> 03:53.440 to Tibnath. 03:53.440 --> 03:54.720 He and his friend- 03:54.800 --> 04:01.800 the Adulamite, and it was told to him, saying, Behold thy father-in-law, goeth up to Timnath to shear a sheep. 04:01.800 --> 04:05.800 So it seems as though Hira is just always there when Judah is about to do wrong. 04:05.800 --> 04:12.800 He's up here with his sheep shearers, but we obviously know because of the narrative here that Judah is also seeking out a prostitute. 04:13.400 --> 04:21.400 Yet we find here his friend, Hira, not necessarily stopping him from looking for a prostitute. 04:21.400 --> 04:24.400 He's not trying to stop him from making this decision. 04:24.400 --> 04:29.400 Now after he goes into Tamar, his daughter-in-law, of course he doesn't know that it's his daughter-in-law, 04:29.400 --> 04:36.300 after he does that, he sends the pledges, or he sends the payment, excuse me, by the hand of who? 04:36.300 --> 04:39.660 Hira, okay, look down at verse number 20. 04:39.660 --> 04:42.500 And Judah sent the kid by the hand of his friend, 04:42.500 --> 04:45.980 the Adulamai, to receive his pledge from the woman's hand, 04:45.980 --> 04:47.340 but he found her not. 04:47.700 --> 04:53.620 What do we have here? We find here a guy who's not a good friend at all. Now it's easy for us 04:53.620 --> 04:59.780 to kind of say, well what constitutes a bad friend? We would say someone who tries to tempt you to 04:59.780 --> 05:06.020 sin. Someone who gets you out of church. Someone who tries to get you to fornicate. Someone who is 05:06.020 --> 05:11.220 wronging you, who is wronging the Lord. They're not spiritual people. They are constantly trying to 05:11.220 --> 05:15.620 bring you down spiritually and trying to cause you to douse your flame for the Lord. 05:15.700 --> 05:18.540 These are bad friends, right? 05:18.540 --> 05:20.560 A companion of fools shall be destroyed. 05:20.560 --> 05:23.740 You hang around with people who try to cause you to sin, 05:23.740 --> 05:27.460 you will eventually become a spiritual casualty. 05:27.460 --> 05:30.700 The Bible constantly warns us about these types of people 05:30.700 --> 05:35.020 who try to entice you to do evil, to shed blood, 05:35.020 --> 05:39.260 to fornicate, to steal, to do murder, and so forth. 05:39.260 --> 05:40.420 But you know what? 05:40.420 --> 05:42.500 That's not the only thing that constitutes a bad friend. 05:42.900 --> 05:48.100 A bad friend is also those who don't stop you or correct you when you're doing wrong. 05:48.740 --> 05:52.340 It's not necessarily just the person who's trying to provoke you to sin, 05:52.340 --> 05:56.580 it's also the individual who keeps his mouth shut when you're sinning and they just don't 05:56.580 --> 06:00.820 say anything about it. That's a horrible friend. You know, let me say this, we need to stay away 06:00.820 --> 06:05.380 from people who provoke us to sin, but we also need to stay away from people who don't say nothing 06:05.380 --> 06:06.340 when we do. 06:06.700 --> 06:09.860 who are just content, they're just happy with you sinning, 06:09.860 --> 06:11.020 they don't want to correct you 06:11.020 --> 06:12.420 because they don't want to hurt your feelings. 06:12.420 --> 06:13.420 Oh, he's a nice guy. 06:13.420 --> 06:16.660 Yeah, sometimes being nice is sinful though. 06:16.660 --> 06:19.260 Because a nice person is an individual 06:19.260 --> 06:21.700 who's unwilling to tell you the truth 06:21.700 --> 06:23.300 even though you need to hear it. 06:23.300 --> 06:24.140 Right? 06:24.140 --> 06:25.940 And like, oh, I don't want to say that it's wrong 06:25.940 --> 06:28.700 that he's fornicating because he's my friend 06:28.700 --> 06:31.180 and it's none of my business. 06:31.900 --> 06:36.900 Who am I to judge? Am I my brother's keeper or something? It's wicked. 06:37.600 --> 06:40.300 You know, get friends that are willing to correct you. 06:40.300 --> 06:45.680 The Bible tells us that, you know, open rebuke is better than secret love, that faithful 06:45.680 --> 06:48.360 are the wounds of a friend. 06:48.360 --> 06:51.720 You need people that will correct you when you're doing wrong. 06:51.720 --> 06:55.960 Not just when you're doing wrong, when you're thinking wrong, when you are behaving in an 06:55.960 --> 07:00.960 ungodly manner, or if you're just deviating from the path of God, you need someone to 07:00.960 --> 07:02.920 come up to you and say, hey, what are you doing? 07:02.920 --> 07:03.920 Like, hey, snap out of it. 07:03.920 --> 07:04.280 What are you doing? 07:04.700 --> 07:09.100 You're like sinning, you're not sinning, but you're on the path though 07:09.100 --> 07:14.060 And I'm just going to tell you right now, the people you're hanging out with, they're going to cause you to be destroyed 07:14.060 --> 07:16.700 You're making really stupid decisions right now 07:16.700 --> 07:20.300 And I'm just telling you as a friend, eventually you're going to get out of church 07:20.300 --> 07:21.900 Eventually you're going to stop reading your Bible 07:21.900 --> 07:23.980 Eventually you're going to fill in the blank and so forth 07:23.980 --> 07:24.700 That's a good friend 07:25.740 --> 07:27.260 Iron sharpens iron, right? 07:28.500 --> 07:32.260 And so we need friends who are willing to rebuke us, 07:32.260 --> 07:33.940 they're willing to correct us. 07:33.940 --> 07:36.020 And obviously don't overdo it either. 07:36.020 --> 07:39.140 We don't want to just destroy our friends 07:39.140 --> 07:41.980 just by purely correcting them or approving them, 07:41.980 --> 07:45.100 never exhorting them, never building them up. 07:45.100 --> 07:48.900 But we do need people to tell us when we've done wrong 07:48.900 --> 07:52.420 or when we are simply on the path to doing wrong. 07:52.420 --> 07:53.100 Okay. 07:53.200 --> 07:57.880 We need people to tell us like, hey, this guy is bad company for you. 07:57.880 --> 08:02.000 You know, hey, what are you doing liking stupid posts on Instagram? 08:02.000 --> 08:04.800 What are you doing liking Instagram thoughts? 08:04.800 --> 08:07.200 Why are you liking whores on Instagram? 08:07.200 --> 08:10.080 You know, why are you liking, you know, whatever? 08:10.080 --> 08:12.360 You know, why are you liking clavicular stuff on Instagram? 08:12.360 --> 08:17.040 I see you're liking, I see a little heart floating, you know, with your profile pic. 08:17.040 --> 08:19.280 I see your profile picture floating a little bit. 08:19.280 --> 08:20.480 What are you doing? 08:20.800 --> 08:23.760 And it's just like, well, you know, it's just what he does. 08:23.760 --> 08:25.360 It's what she does, you know. 08:25.360 --> 08:28.920 That's a horrible attitude to have towards a friend. 08:28.920 --> 08:29.840 Am I my brother's keeper? 08:29.840 --> 08:31.080 Yes, you are. 08:31.080 --> 08:32.320 You are your brother's keeper. 08:32.320 --> 08:32.960 What is a keeper? 08:32.960 --> 08:34.360 A guard. 08:34.360 --> 08:34.840 All right. 08:34.840 --> 08:35.440 That's what it is. 08:35.440 --> 08:36.880 A keeper is a guard. 08:36.880 --> 08:39.680 And we need to take it upon ourselves to be our friend's 08:39.680 --> 08:40.200 guard. 08:40.200 --> 08:40.300 you 08:40.500 --> 08:47.500 Okay, when he lets his guard down, when she lets her guard down, when she doesn't keep her heart with all diligence, 08:47.500 --> 08:54.500 when he doesn't keep his heart with all diligence, if we see that as a brother, it's our responsibility to be our brother's keeper, to be his guard. 08:54.500 --> 08:59.500 To defend him when he's too ignorant and blind to defend himself. 08:59.800 --> 09:05.820 When he can't see it, maybe he has a blind spot that he can't see something you need to go up to him and say 09:05.820 --> 09:11.240 Hey, brother, you know with all due respect and love and kindness and peace from our Lord 09:11.240 --> 09:13.940 Jesus Christ and grace be upon you. You're a retard 09:14.820 --> 09:16.660 You're acting retarded 09:16.660 --> 09:19.080 Okay, you're acting like an absolute idiot 09:20.100 --> 09:24.580 I'm just telling you right now. Don't be offended. It's just you know, have I become your enemy because I tell you the truth 09:26.200 --> 09:31.200 Now obviously it's not something you want to do just to get on your friend either. 09:31.200 --> 09:34.840 You know, you want to speak the truth in love, right? 09:34.840 --> 09:41.680 We need to make sure we have a balance and not become a hyra, the do-lamite, okay? 09:41.680 --> 09:46.040 This guy's hanging out with Judah and you know, he's going into the Canaanite, he's 09:46.040 --> 09:48.440 like, all right, if that's what you want, yeah, sure, okay, yeah. 09:49.000 --> 09:51.600 And then, you know, he's going down to the sheep shears. 09:51.600 --> 09:54.300 I'm sure Judah, I'm sure Hira sees 09:54.300 --> 09:56.900 when Judah's hiring the prostitute. 09:56.900 --> 09:58.800 All right, look, oh, all right. 09:58.800 --> 09:59.640 I'll just turn a blind eye. 09:59.640 --> 10:02.100 I'll just look over this way instead. 10:02.100 --> 10:03.200 And then, you know, Judah's like, 10:03.200 --> 10:05.300 hey, I need you to pay the prostitute off, 10:05.300 --> 10:07.100 if you could, send this little animal. 10:07.100 --> 10:08.400 All right, sure, you know. 10:08.400 --> 10:10.100 It's none of my business, you know. 10:10.100 --> 10:11.500 Whatever. 10:11.500 --> 10:13.000 Teach his own. 10:13.000 --> 10:14.200 When in Rome. 10:14.700 --> 10:16.300 Right? Just making excuses. 10:16.300 --> 10:19.580 And obviously I'm inferring what he's saying to the pastor, but there's a reason, like, 10:19.580 --> 10:25.660 Hira keeps coming up in the chapter, you know, associated with sin. 10:26.540 --> 10:29.900 And you say, well, nothing's being said. Yeah, that's the problem. 10:30.460 --> 10:33.340 There's nothing said about Hira because he's not saying anything. 10:33.340 --> 10:36.940 We just find him in these situations not saying anything at all. 10:38.400 --> 10:44.800 And so obviously we know that as friends we need to make sure that we watch our mouths, 10:44.800 --> 10:50.000 that we are kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, let all bitterness and wrath and anger 10:50.000 --> 10:54.640 and evil speaking be put away from you, make sure that no corrupt communication proceeds out of your 10:54.640 --> 10:58.800 mouth, that you sharpen your brother, but it needs to be balanced with correction as well. 11:01.040 --> 11:03.040 And not just correction, but just... 11:03.600 --> 11:07.600 You know, helping people to avoid making horrible mistakes. 11:07.600 --> 11:10.600 And I'll admit, there's been times when I've done this to church members, 11:10.600 --> 11:13.600 I've done this to close friends before I was even a pastor, 11:13.600 --> 11:18.600 even to the point where I kind of risked, like, offending them indefinitely. 11:18.600 --> 11:20.600 Because I felt like they were making such a bad decision, 11:20.600 --> 11:24.600 it's just worth just letting them have it. 11:25.600 --> 11:26.600 You know what I mean? 11:26.600 --> 11:30.240 Because it's just like the possibility of them ruining their lives is too great. 11:30.240 --> 11:34.280 I'd rather just tell them this and offend them, them never wanting to talk to me ever 11:34.280 --> 11:35.280 again. 11:35.280 --> 11:36.280 But at least I tried though. 11:36.280 --> 11:40.160 It's not always going to be the situation, but we need to be willing to do that for our 11:40.160 --> 11:41.160 friends. 11:41.160 --> 11:42.280 Out of a heart of love, by the way, right? 11:43.300 --> 11:48.500 So it's important not to be a hyra you tell your you tell your friends, you know 11:49.180 --> 11:54.880 When they're doing wrong, but also you know explain to them. Hey, this is a bad decision 11:54.880 --> 11:58.920 You're making this is not a good decision. It's gonna take you out of church. What do you mean? 11:58.920 --> 12:00.920 You're gonna miss church on Sunday night. Well, what is that? 12:01.640 --> 12:05.160 Why are you gonna miss church on Sunday night? You know, why are you starting gonna start missing church? 12:05.160 --> 12:08.540 Why are you not going slowly? Why not? Give me a good reason why you're not 12:09.100 --> 12:10.700 Well, you know, I gotta go do something. 12:10.700 --> 12:13.300 What is it that's something you gotta do? 12:13.300 --> 12:14.300 Well, that's none of your business. 12:14.300 --> 12:17.400 Well, then I guess we're not really close friends then, right? 12:17.400 --> 12:19.100 It's none of my business. 12:19.100 --> 12:21.200 I'm here to kind of sharpen you. 12:21.200 --> 12:24.100 I'm here to kind of be accountable to you and vice versa. 12:24.100 --> 12:25.000 You know what I mean? 12:25.000 --> 12:26.100 You know, you should let me know. 12:26.100 --> 12:28.100 Why is it? 12:28.100 --> 12:28.800 You know, I'm dying. 12:28.800 --> 12:30.300 All right, fine. 12:30.300 --> 12:33.000 I guess you get the day off or something. 12:33.000 --> 12:34.900 But, you know, it's important for us to do that. 12:35.300 --> 12:38.740 And you know, I think it's important to ask people questions and as 12:38.740 --> 12:43.380 somewhat detailed questions, instead of asking 10 questions, just ask one really detailed question. 12:44.180 --> 12:49.220 You know, explain to me why you're not doing that, just without all the fluff, you know. 12:49.860 --> 12:52.260 You need friends like that, okay. 12:52.700 --> 12:58.300 So, Chira is a horrible friend who's just not willing to tell Judah. 12:58.300 --> 13:02.260 And I've had Chira's ass friends, even before salvation. 13:02.260 --> 13:06.340 I had Chira's who just kind of looked the other way if I was making a dumb decision, 13:06.340 --> 13:07.340 if I was sinning, whatever. 13:07.340 --> 13:08.340 They didn't care. 13:08.340 --> 13:08.600 you 13:08.700 --> 13:11.700 And you know, you're like, well, you know, it's the kind of friends you want. 13:11.700 --> 13:12.700 You know what I mean? 13:12.700 --> 13:16.340 Kind of want the friends who just are not going to judge you for who you are. 13:16.340 --> 13:18.860 You know, just kind of, you know, ride or die or whatever. 13:18.860 --> 13:21.940 Yeah, but these people are not people of integrity though. 13:21.940 --> 13:22.940 They're not people of integrity. 13:22.940 --> 13:24.560 They don't have character. 13:24.560 --> 13:30.020 They have no legitimate, you know, loyalty because they're willing to see you do something 13:30.020 --> 13:33.220 really bad, super wicked and sinful and keep their mouth shut. 13:33.220 --> 13:34.220 That's horrible. 13:34.220 --> 13:35.100 Okay. 13:35.800 --> 13:39.480 A biblical friend is someone who corrects you, they sharpen you 13:39.480 --> 13:41.320 You know, by the way, when the Bible says 13:41.320 --> 13:46.440 You know, as iron sharpeneth iron, so a friend sharpeneth the countenance of his friend 13:46.440 --> 13:48.040 A man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend 13:48.040 --> 13:49.720 What is that referring to exactly? 13:49.720 --> 13:54.360 Well, you know, a lot of times we stick to that first part of the verse about iron sharpening iron 13:54.360 --> 13:56.840 And just kind of sharpening someone in the faith 13:56.840 --> 14:00.040 But it literally says to sharpen the countenance though 14:00.400 --> 14:07.640 Okay, what is the countenance? You know the facial expression? Okay in other words. You know if your friend has a RBF 14:09.120 --> 14:12.740 You got to sharpen that thing right like wipe that look off your face 14:14.520 --> 14:17.280 Right if someone's just kind of 14:20.600 --> 14:21.600 You know? 14:21.600 --> 14:25.600 Just kind of go up to them and be like, why are you looking like that? 14:25.600 --> 14:28.600 Well, it's just the way I look. 14:28.600 --> 14:30.600 Change it. 14:30.600 --> 14:32.600 Exercise those facial muscles. 14:32.600 --> 14:34.600 You look miserable. 14:34.600 --> 14:36.600 You look unapproachable. 14:36.600 --> 14:38.200 You look ugly. 14:38.800 --> 14:45.100 You just look discontent and like, unless you need to go to the corner, let's go talk about something if you're struggling or something. 14:45.100 --> 14:48.000 But if you're not struggling, then stop looking like that. 14:48.000 --> 14:50.800 You know, God is definitely concerned with our countenance, right? 14:51.400 --> 14:57.640 He wants us to have a cheerful countenance. He wants us to anoint our head, wash our face 14:58.200 --> 15:03.400 Okay, and I'm not saying be a fake and a phony and just smile from ear to ear 24-7 15:03.720 --> 15:07.000 But you know when you come to the house of God if you're in a social setting 15:07.320 --> 15:12.920 You should have a pleasant countenance and the bible says there, you know, a friend will sharpen your countenance 15:13.080 --> 15:16.120 Basically tell them like hey, yeah, uh, go ahead and uh, you know 15:16.680 --> 15:19.160 Put a smile right here and put another one right here 15:19.400 --> 15:21.160 and get rid of these wrinkles right here. 15:21.160 --> 15:22.800 Why are you looking all mad for? 15:22.800 --> 15:24.560 And stop looking annoyed. 15:24.560 --> 15:27.600 Stop looking like you're just a miserable Christian. 15:27.600 --> 15:29.680 Yeah, this look right here is not working. 15:29.680 --> 15:32.140 Now countenance has fallen, okay? 15:32.140 --> 15:34.260 That's what it means, right? 15:34.260 --> 15:36.600 And so, you know, you say, why are you mentioning that? 15:36.600 --> 15:38.240 Because I'm trying to correct your countenance right now. 15:38.240 --> 15:39.120 Amen. 15:39.120 --> 15:40.900 Fix your countenance. 15:40.900 --> 15:42.280 Hey, we need to tell our friends, 15:42.280 --> 15:45.120 you got a RBF face going on right now, okay? 15:45.300 --> 15:47.860 And you know, you need to like fix that face. 15:47.860 --> 15:50.700 Just nudge them and say, you're doing that thing with your face again. 15:53.600 --> 15:56.600 and so, don't be a high-rider, amen? 15:56.600 --> 16:01.600 we see here a bad friend but now we see that Judah obviously 16:01.900 --> 16:07.500 Regardless if he has a bad friend or not, he ultimately is the one responsible for making these bad decisions. 16:07.500 --> 16:09.300 What is the first bad decision that he makes? 16:09.300 --> 16:10.800 Marry a Canaanite. Says in verse 2, 16:10.800 --> 16:17.300 Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shuah, and he took her and went in unto her. 16:17.300 --> 16:22.100 He's obviously violating the principle of separation between believers and non-believers, 16:22.100 --> 16:25.600 something that I believe God has instituted from the very beginning, 16:25.600 --> 16:29.800 when he separated light from the darkness in Genesis chapter 1, but just throughout the- 16:29.900 --> 16:34.460 Bible. You know, the Israelites are different, separated from the Egyptians, separated from 16:34.460 --> 16:39.820 the Canaanites. And of course, in the New Testament, it's a spiritual separation that 16:39.820 --> 16:44.940 is more emphasized. And so he marries this Canaanite, but it's God's will. Now it becomes 16:44.940 --> 16:48.220 God's will once they're married, right? And they have children, says in verse three, and 16:48.220 --> 16:52.860 she conceived and bear a son. And he called his name Ur. 16:53.200 --> 16:59.280 she conceived again and bare a son and she called his name Onet. She conceived, she yet again 16:59.280 --> 17:06.800 conceived and bare a son and called his name Shelah and he was at Chesed when she bare him. 17:06.800 --> 17:11.920 And Judah took a wife for Ur, his firstborn, whose name was Tamar, and Ur, Judah's firstborn, 17:11.920 --> 17:16.960 was wicked in the sight of the Lord and the Lord slew him. So we obviously see that between verses 17:16.960 --> 17:20.460 two and seven, many years have passed. 17:21.300 --> 17:27.620 They bear three children, they grow up, Judah helps Ur find a wife who's a Canaanite as well 17:27.620 --> 17:31.940 And the Bible isn't really explicit as to why this is 17:31.940 --> 17:34.300 But verse 7 just kind of sums it up 17:34.300 --> 17:37.220 Ur was wicked in the sight of God and God killed him 17:37.220 --> 17:38.020 Okay 17:38.020 --> 17:40.020 Now what are some things that we can learn from this? 17:40.020 --> 17:44.100 Well first and foremost this demonstrates that God kills people, right? 17:44.100 --> 17:48.500 And it also demonstrates that God doesn't owe you an explanation when he does 17:49.300 --> 17:51.800 Because you know, we were kind of wondering like, man, I wonder what he did. 17:51.800 --> 17:52.300 Doesn't matter. 17:53.800 --> 17:58.540 If the Lord killed him, if the Lord slew him, if the Lord passed judgment on him, 17:58.540 --> 18:00.880 that he's wicked, then we just got to trust what the Lord says. 18:01.680 --> 18:02.280 You know what I mean? 18:02.540 --> 18:07.080 And you know, we're going to see this various times in the Bible where someone 18:07.080 --> 18:12.200 dies, God judges someone and he doesn't give us all the details as to why. 18:12.700 --> 18:17.820 And you know what? We don't need to be like these, you know, people, these so-called scholars, 18:17.820 --> 18:23.820 these critics of the Bible, who want to criticize the judgments of God and make excuses to, 18:23.820 --> 18:27.340 why did God kill the Canaanites? Why did he genocide the Canaanites? 18:27.340 --> 18:31.660 Why did he kill all the children? You know what? I don't know, but he did it. I'm fine with it. 18:33.100 --> 18:38.220 because everything that the Lord does is correct, is right, it's righteous 18:38.220 --> 18:41.900 and so when it says here that he slew Ur, it was the right thing to do 18:41.900 --> 18:44.620 he was wicked in the sight of God and he slew him 18:44.620 --> 18:46.220 this is in the Old Testament 18:46.900 --> 18:50.420 People often say well yeah, it's in the Old Testament. That's why that happened 18:50.420 --> 18:56.420 You know God is a God of judgment in the Old Testament, but in the New Testament. He's meek 18:56.420 --> 18:58.980 He's lowly he's very nice 18:59.500 --> 19:01.500 You know Jesus 19:01.540 --> 19:05.060 Yeah, but you got to read Revelation though, and you don't even have to go that far 19:05.060 --> 19:09.920 We can just go back to the book of Acts in chapter 5, and he's killing people. He's killing couples 19:11.800 --> 19:14.200 like mafia style, just dragging him out, right? 19:14.200 --> 19:16.000 Ananias and Sapphira. 19:16.000 --> 19:17.520 Bunch of people he killed in the New Testament. 19:17.520 --> 19:20.980 He kills a lot of them in the Book of Revelation as well, 19:20.980 --> 19:22.820 during God's wrath. 19:22.820 --> 19:25.880 And so we see here that God has the right to do so. 19:25.880 --> 19:30.200 Obviously, Ur must have been exceedingly wicked 19:30.200 --> 19:32.720 for the Lord to want to slay him 19:32.720 --> 19:34.560 in this supernatural manner. 19:34.560 --> 19:36.440 I would surmise that it's possible 19:36.440 --> 19:37.800 that Ur was just a reprobate. 19:38.000 --> 19:42.160 because anytime you find this phrase that God wants to kill someone or he would kill them 19:42.160 --> 19:49.280 it's often in context and in relation to some hater of God, some reprobate that God wants to destroy 19:50.240 --> 19:54.720 so we have here Err, he dies, verse 8 says, and Judah said unto Onan, 19:55.440 --> 20:01.920 go in unto thy brother's wife and marry her and raise up seed to thy brother 20:01.920 --> 20:05.360 now let's go to Deuteronomy chapter 25 if you will, Deuteronomy chapter 25 20:07.300 --> 20:13.940 Deuteronomy chapter 25 here. So what do we have here? We have a situation where a 20:16.420 --> 20:18.580 brother's wife passes away and 20:19.460 --> 20:25.520 She's she's a widow and of course, you know culturally they don't want his 20:26.460 --> 20:30.140 Lineage to die off. Okay, because obviously he didn't have any children 20:30.600 --> 20:42.840 So the custom in the book of Genesis is for the brother to marry his brother's wife, the widow, and raise up a child unto his brother's name. 20:42.840 --> 20:49.940 Essentially meaning that once he marries her and they have children, from a cultural perspective in the book of Genesis, 20:49.940 --> 20:55.940 that child is actually, they would view that child as being the son of the one who died. 20:57.200 --> 21:03.920 And I do believe that this is more of a cultural practice in Genesis, but it became somewhat of a law by the time we get to the book of Deuteronomy 25. 21:03.920 --> 21:05.920 Look at verse number 5 if you would. 21:05.920 --> 21:06.420 It says, 21:13.800 --> 21:20.360 her husband's brother shall go in unto her and take her to him to wife and perform the duty of 21:20.360 --> 21:25.960 a husband's brother unto her." So this is the responsibility of the brother. Now you and I 21:25.960 --> 21:29.800 look at this and I'm like, man, this is kind of weird. I don't know if I'm cool with that, right? 21:29.800 --> 21:33.960 Well, thankfully, you know, we're not under this law. Okay. So this is, uh, 21:34.520 --> 21:39.000 this went away. I don't believe this is, uh, required in the New Testament. 21:40.100 --> 21:44.800 This is just, in my opinion, more of a practical law 21:44.800 --> 21:45.800 Okay? 21:45.800 --> 21:50.600 And so this kind of ensures that the person who has died 21:50.600 --> 21:53.200 You know, the lineage just doesn't end with him 21:53.200 --> 21:56.800 He has descendants thereafter albeit by proxy 21:56.800 --> 21:58.900 It says in verse number 6 21:58.900 --> 22:04.500 And it shall be that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother 22:04.500 --> 22:07.800 Which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel 22:08.100 --> 22:10.500 And if the man liked not to take his brother's wife... 22:11.000 --> 22:15.400 Then let his brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders and say, 22:15.400 --> 22:20.600 My husband's brother refused it to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel. 22:20.600 --> 22:23.300 He will not perform the duty of my husband's brother. 22:23.300 --> 22:26.400 Then the elders of a city shall call him and speak unto him. 22:26.400 --> 22:29.800 And if he stand to it and say, I like not to take her, 22:29.800 --> 22:33.500 then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence of the elders, 22:33.500 --> 22:39.000 and lose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, 22:39.000 --> 22:46.000 So shall it be done unto that man that will not build up his brother's house and his name shall be called in Israel 22:46.000 --> 22:51.500 The house of him that hath his shoe loose go back to Genesis. So, you know we see here 22:52.120 --> 22:54.120 The protocol right? 22:54.440 --> 22:58.880 Someone dies if he has a brother don't let her go out to marry someone else keep it in the family 22:58.920 --> 23:03.520 Okay, the brother is supposed to raise up seat unto his brother if he doesn't want to 23:04.100 --> 23:09.460 Okay, let me explain something if he doesn't want to marry his brother's wife 23:10.180 --> 23:13.180 Okay, or if he doesn't want to raise up seed unto his brother's wife 23:13.920 --> 23:16.760 Then you know it doesn't say to spill it on the ground 23:18.500 --> 23:22.100 It says hey he goes to the people the gate says like I don't want to marry her 23:22.100 --> 23:29.460 I don't want to do this okay, and so obviously it's it was viewed as a very dishonorable thing 23:30.200 --> 23:33.520 in the eyes of Israel, which is why they would go through this whole 23:33.520 --> 23:37.160 entire rigmarole where she would take off his shoes, spit in his face, and just 23:37.160 --> 23:39.720 shame him in front of everyone. 23:39.720 --> 23:44.080 It's a horrible situation. Let's just keep the guy alive. 23:44.080 --> 23:48.440 You know what I mean? So he can just marry off and you don't have to go through this whole 23:48.440 --> 23:52.440 this whole thing here. But the point is, the point that I'm trying to make is that 23:53.000 --> 23:56.400 If the guy doesn't want to raise up C to his brother, then he just doesn't marry her. 23:56.400 --> 23:58.800 So what does this tell us about Onam? 23:58.800 --> 24:05.200 It tells us that all he wanted to do was have the physical relationship with his brother's wife. 24:05.200 --> 24:08.200 Okay? Look what it says in verse number 9. 24:09.100 --> 24:14.620 It says that Onan knew that the seed should not be his and it came to pass when he went into his brother's wife 24:14.740 --> 24:20.500 That he spilled it on the ground lest that he should give seed to his brother 24:20.700 --> 24:25.040 Now he didn't follow and I'm not expecting we're not expecting him to retroactively 24:25.640 --> 24:27.900 Practice what we see in Deuteronomy 25, right? 24:28.340 --> 24:32.700 But if he didn't want to raise up seed into his brother, then he could have just said I'm not marrying you 24:33.100 --> 24:34.640 You need to find someone else 24:34.640 --> 24:38.940 Go talk to my dad, but I don't want to have this situation on my hands 24:38.940 --> 24:40.800 And this is not really my son 24:40.800 --> 24:44.400 But obviously, he wanted that physical relationship 24:44.400 --> 24:47.600 He just didn't want to have children with this woman 24:47.600 --> 24:49.360 And therefore, he spilled it on the ground 24:49.360 --> 24:53.100 Now, this demonstrates, and it's the only passage of scripture that we have 24:53.100 --> 24:54.900 That this is wrong to do 24:56.900 --> 24:58.800 There's no way around it, my friends 24:58.800 --> 25:00.800 It's right there in the text 25:01.000 --> 25:07.000 God does not like it when people do this practice of spilling it on the ground 25:07.660 --> 25:13.080 Okay, so how do you know God doesn't like it verse 10 and the thing which he did displease the Lord, okay? 25:14.300 --> 25:17.360 Okay, wherefore he slew him also now 25:18.860 --> 25:20.900 You know this verse right here in verse 10 25:22.480 --> 25:27.340 Demonstrates that God is not pleased when you do it, but I can't necessarily say that you're gonna die if you do 25:28.100 --> 25:30.100 But it's possible. 25:30.100 --> 25:34.100 You know, he did slay Onan for doing so. 25:34.100 --> 25:40.100 But this is basically giving us what God's opinion is on this action. 25:40.100 --> 25:44.100 Why? Because God's will is for you to be able to just bear children. 25:44.100 --> 25:48.100 The physical act is meant, you know, obviously for pleasure, 25:48.100 --> 25:51.100 but it's also meant so that you can have children. 25:51.800 --> 25:55.200 And this guy, all he wanted was the physical relationship 25:55.200 --> 25:58.840 Now, for whatever reason, people are just obsessed with this topic right now 25:58.840 --> 26:01.600 And it's probably because the world is just perverse 26:01.600 --> 26:04.200 Okay? It's extremely perverse 26:04.200 --> 26:08.200 You know, it's a society that has been saturated by pornography 26:08.200 --> 26:11.400 Where podcasters, that's all they want to talk about 26:11.400 --> 26:14.600 You know, they want to talk about this, they want to talk about 26:14.600 --> 26:18.000 And I can't even say the other thing that people want to talk about, but you know what I'm talking about 26:18.200 --> 26:21.560 Those of you who are of age know exactly what I'm talking about. 26:21.560 --> 26:25.200 And you know, I don't like to talk about those things, especially from the pulpit. 26:25.200 --> 26:29.040 Because of the fact that it's just, you know, it's disgusting. 26:29.040 --> 26:30.040 It's nasty. 26:30.040 --> 26:33.440 Right? And the Bible does say it's a shame to speak of them, 26:33.440 --> 26:35.960 speak of those things which are done to them in secret. 26:35.960 --> 26:39.480 And obviously we often apply that to what people do in secret that are evil. 26:39.480 --> 26:44.120 But I do believe it just applies all across the board with what anybody does behind closed doors. 26:44.800 --> 26:47.520 I don't like to go into detail what people do behind closed doors. 26:47.520 --> 26:49.160 You say, what if someone wants to know? 26:49.160 --> 26:51.640 Let them figure it out when they get married. 26:51.640 --> 26:54.600 I mean, haven't people figured it out for thousands of years? 26:54.600 --> 26:58.320 I think people have done really well for thousands of years just figuring it out. 26:58.320 --> 27:00.240 You're like, but what if they're doing something wrong? 27:00.240 --> 27:02.640 Just leave it up to them and the Lord. 27:02.640 --> 27:06.960 If the Lord slays him, then there you go. 27:06.960 --> 27:09.360 If he doesn't slay him, then there you go. 27:09.360 --> 27:09.800 But you know what? 27:09.800 --> 27:12.240 It's none of your business what people do behind closed doors. 27:13.500 --> 27:17.660 You know, I'm responsible for what I do with my wife behind closed doors, 27:17.660 --> 27:23.180 whatever our preferences are, whatever our convictions are, and no, I'm not for that stuff 27:23.180 --> 27:28.700 that that stupid movie is claiming that I'm for. That, you know, I did that interview with the 27:28.700 --> 27:34.380 Hodge twins and they asked me that inappropriate question and I specifically said, you know, 27:34.380 --> 27:37.900 marriage is honorable in all things and the bed undefiled, right? 27:38.800 --> 27:45.140 Fornicators and whoremongers God will judge and I get it. You know it's not all things, but it says all though 27:45.620 --> 27:49.960 Okay, and quite frankly you could attach things to all and it means the same exact thing 27:50.420 --> 27:52.840 Look at it in the original language. It means the same exact thing 27:53.360 --> 27:59.820 You say well isn't that a justification no what I'm saying is that when you're married what you do behind closed doors is your business 28:00.760 --> 28:02.400 That's your business 28:02.600 --> 28:03.600 And you know what? 28:03.600 --> 28:05.960 You say, well, how do we know that what you're doing is right? 28:05.960 --> 28:08.900 You won't know, because you're not supposed to know. 28:11.300 --> 28:14.540 We're not supposed to be putting people's dirty laundry out there, 28:14.540 --> 28:17.040 you know, of what people do behind closed doors. 28:17.040 --> 28:19.040 It's wicked to do that. 28:19.040 --> 28:24.300 And you know what? You're like, well, how are you going to explain the birds and the bees to your kids? 28:24.300 --> 28:26.800 You know, I don't know yet. 28:26.800 --> 28:31.300 And quite frankly, I'm going to do it as very rudimentary as I possibly can. 28:31.300 --> 28:34.800 But I'll tell you this, if and when I explain the birds and the bees to my kids, 28:34.800 --> 28:36.800 which I don't necessarily even think you have to. 28:37.700 --> 28:41.300 I think you just marry them off and they'll figure it out. 28:43.100 --> 28:50.700 I think everyone in this world, God has just instilled within them these inhibitions, 28:50.700 --> 28:52.900 these natural desires. 28:52.900 --> 28:58.300 And when you get married, it's just like, God's like, alright, hit the switch and you know. 28:59.500 --> 29:01.900 What am I, how am I supposed to do this? Figure it out. 29:01.900 --> 29:03.900 Good thing the bed is undefiled. 29:05.200 --> 29:08.480 You know? Can I kiss her elbow? Sure. 29:12.100 --> 29:17.100 You know, if you want, I guess, just don't tell me about it. 29:19.900 --> 29:21.900 Because I don't want to know. 29:21.900 --> 29:23.900 Okay? 29:23.900 --> 29:25.900 And so, you know, you're like, 29:25.900 --> 29:29.900 well, what if someone in the church has a question about certain acts? 29:29.900 --> 29:32.900 You know, here's the thing is that when people ask me about these things, 29:32.900 --> 29:34.900 which people don't, by the way. 29:34.900 --> 29:37.900 The only people who really ask me about this are podcasters. 29:37.900 --> 29:39.900 That's just it. 29:39.900 --> 29:43.900 And let me explain to you why people in the secular world ask about these things 29:43.900 --> 29:45.900 is because they watch a lot of pornography. 29:47.400 --> 29:49.640 And so they want to bring that stuff into the bedroom 29:50.360 --> 29:57.320 Okay, it's defile their mind. It creates appetites and desires that are unnatural 29:57.720 --> 29:59.720 Okay, and it's not right 30:00.520 --> 30:06.120 But you know, here's the thing is that I don't want to know what practices you believe are right around now 30:06.120 --> 30:09.340 Here's one way here's here's the time that I would interfere 30:10.000 --> 30:14.000 when someone believes that it's right to do those kinds of things 30:14.000 --> 30:16.000 if they're teaching other people. 30:16.000 --> 30:18.000 Because again, I go back to the principle 30:18.000 --> 30:22.000 don't speak of those things which are done to them in secret. 30:22.000 --> 30:25.000 It's not appropriate to talk about these things in public, folks. 30:25.000 --> 30:27.000 It's just not. 30:27.000 --> 30:30.000 And don't be talking with your buddies about it either. 30:30.000 --> 30:35.000 You think it's okay? What do you think about Onan? 30:35.000 --> 30:36.600 He died, okay? 30:38.000 --> 30:41.200 Now look, I'm not trying to discourage you from coming to me and asking me questions 30:41.200 --> 30:47.080 if you're just super desperate to know or something, but let me just give you my opinion 30:47.080 --> 30:50.800 right now, and that is figure it out. 30:50.800 --> 30:53.080 You figure it out. 30:53.080 --> 30:57.000 And quite frankly, anytime someone's asked me about it, they ask me about it already 30:57.000 --> 30:58.000 knowing the answer. 30:58.000 --> 31:00.000 Already know the answer. 31:00.000 --> 31:01.000 Why? 31:01.000 --> 31:01.500 Why? 31:01.500 --> 31:03.100 Because it just takes a little bit of wisdom. 31:03.900 --> 31:08.400 And quite frankly, most people would even know about these things had it not been for pornography. 31:08.400 --> 31:11.900 So think about that for a second. Right? 31:11.900 --> 31:15.400 It's getting quiet here. It's true, it's a fact. 31:15.400 --> 31:19.400 And if you're like, I have no idea what you're talking about, good! It's good. 31:19.400 --> 31:25.400 Look, here's the goal. The goal is to get married and fulfill your God-given physical desires 31:25.400 --> 31:30.400 with that person until death do you part. And you know what? Keep it to yourself. 31:31.300 --> 31:35.460 I don't care what you do, I don't care what you did, keep it to yourself. 31:35.460 --> 31:39.220 Live happily ever after, rejoice with the wife of thy youth. 31:39.220 --> 31:44.980 And look folks, the Bible gives us detail without being explicit. 31:44.980 --> 31:48.740 This is as explicit as it gets right here. 31:48.740 --> 31:51.700 And most people are like, I still don't know what this means. What does this mean? 31:51.700 --> 31:55.380 Don't worry about it, just keep reading. Let's just talk about Joseph. 31:55.380 --> 31:58.180 Just keep reading until the next chapter. 32:01.200 --> 32:08.560 And so the point that I'm making here is that obviously, you know, Onan is getting judged because he wants this physical relationship 32:09.040 --> 32:11.840 And you know, but he doesn't want to have children 32:12.560 --> 32:17.920 And so this is kind of like an example to us that where the seed is supposed to go 32:19.280 --> 32:21.280 You understand? Amen 32:22.800 --> 32:28.400 So you said you have a rule in church about this stuff? Yeah, the rule is this don't speak of those things which are done to them in secret 32:29.000 --> 32:34.640 Okay, plain and simple. It's unsavory. It's unnecessary. It's inappropriate 32:35.360 --> 32:40.400 You know and especially don't talk about what you and your wife do behind closed doors 32:41.080 --> 32:43.920 Okay, no one has here by the way, okay? 32:44.120 --> 32:49.400 No one's done that you know they don't they're not just chatting away with other people regarding things like that 32:49.520 --> 32:52.680 If that's the case, then I do have to step in and just kind of stop that 32:53.200 --> 32:56.960 We want to have a wholesome environment here 32:57.960 --> 33:02.520 and not be comfortable talking about those things 33:02.520 --> 33:03.880 just in public like that. 33:03.880 --> 33:06.060 There should be a level of shame. 33:06.060 --> 33:07.220 You understand? 33:08.400 --> 33:13.160 And so you're like, yeah, but I really have questions. 33:13.160 --> 33:14.000 Well, let me just say this. 33:14.000 --> 33:16.080 If you're unmarried, I'm not answering 33:16.080 --> 33:17.500 any of your questions. 33:19.800 --> 33:21.800 I'm not answering any of it. 33:21.800 --> 33:30.800 You know, get married, stay married, you know, for a couple years, and then if you're still wondering, then come and talk to me. 33:30.800 --> 33:40.800 Okay? Do the married thing for like two to five years, and then if you're still wondering, if you're still struggling, 33:40.800 --> 33:45.800 if you still don't know what to do, then maybe I'll help you out in that area. 33:47.100 --> 33:49.100 But I don't think that's the case. 33:49.100 --> 33:50.100 Okay? 33:50.100 --> 33:52.100 I don't think you're going to need to come to me. 33:52.100 --> 33:56.100 I mean, we're talking about nomads here knowing what to do. 33:56.100 --> 34:01.100 People did not have a YouTube channel, they didn't have Instagram, 34:01.100 --> 34:05.100 they didn't have an instruction guide, they didn't have the written word of God, 34:05.100 --> 34:09.100 they didn't know about, you know, Onan, they didn't know about anything. 34:09.100 --> 34:13.100 But, you know, you got a lot of kids being born here though. 34:13.700 --> 34:15.900 A lot of children being born here. 34:15.900 --> 34:17.380 It sounds like they knew what they were doing. 34:19.700 --> 34:25.760 And so, you know, if you have a preference between you and your spouse, great, don't 34:25.760 --> 34:28.260 tell me about it. 34:28.260 --> 34:30.260 And don't tell others about it either. 34:30.260 --> 34:34.780 And look, there is something bad about people just wanting to just want to talk about it. 34:34.780 --> 34:35.780 Okay? 34:35.780 --> 34:37.780 Just wanting to be like, well, you know, what do you think? 34:37.780 --> 34:39.500 I don't want to know. 34:39.500 --> 34:42.020 Let's talk about wholesome things. 34:42.020 --> 34:43.140 Like Jews and stuff. 34:45.800 --> 34:50.000 Let's talk about who rules the world, you know. 34:50.000 --> 34:52.600 Things that really edify the brethren. 34:52.600 --> 35:00.880 Okay, let's talk about, you know, why a public execution isn't being made public. 35:00.880 --> 35:02.280 You know what I mean? 35:02.280 --> 35:06.080 Those are the topics we need to be talking about, the important things. 35:06.080 --> 35:07.080 Okay. 35:07.080 --> 35:07.200 you 35:08.100 --> 35:11.940 talk about going taking your wife on a date and you know whatever 35:11.940 --> 35:15.420 but keep those things behind closed doors the things that you do 35:15.420 --> 35:18.700 and look let me say this couples if someone comes to you and starts probing 35:18.700 --> 35:21.700 you first of all you should rebuke that person 35:21.700 --> 35:26.700 very loudly and then come and tell me and I'll rebuke that person 35:29.100 --> 35:31.100 because it's inappropriate. 35:31.100 --> 35:34.100 People figured it out for thousands of years. 35:34.100 --> 35:36.600 And it's interesting that God, you know, everything that we need, 35:36.600 --> 35:39.600 the instructions are right here as far as the basics are concerned. 35:39.600 --> 35:43.100 He gives us the instructions, and you know what He does? 35:43.100 --> 35:45.100 He wants us like, alright, I can figure this out. 35:45.100 --> 35:47.100 Alright, we got this verse, alright. 35:47.100 --> 35:49.100 And that's it. 35:49.100 --> 35:50.600 What if I'm doing it wrong? 35:50.600 --> 35:53.600 Well, I guess we'll never know, because you're just going to keep it to yourself. 35:53.600 --> 35:55.500 You get what I'm saying here? 35:57.100 --> 36:00.220 Alright, so Onan, bro's done 36:00.700 --> 36:06.780 Okay, and so you know, God did not like the fact that he was avoiding 36:06.780 --> 36:09.020 trying to avoid having children 36:09.020 --> 36:12.220 and so he just wanted to have this physical relationship 36:12.220 --> 36:14.700 with his brother's wife and so forth 36:14.700 --> 36:16.140 So, two down 36:16.140 --> 36:17.340 Okay 36:18.400 --> 36:19.840 These guys are bad, you know? 36:19.840 --> 36:20.480 Verse 11, 36:35.800 --> 36:43.480 Bible seems to imply here that judo isn't necessarily excited to allow his third son to marry 36:43.840 --> 36:47.560 You know his daughter-in-law in order to raise up seed and he's like well 36:47.560 --> 36:51.400 You know we got to wait till he's a little more grown and obviously we're not giving the specifics as far as age is concerned 36:51.800 --> 36:55.320 but it could be that he's just not really wanting them to get married and 36:55.760 --> 37:01.760 Obviously, this is a messed up situation. It kind of shows you what happens when you marry an unsafe person 37:02.400 --> 37:08.160 Okay, you're gonna have a home that's mixed with, you know, godly ideologies. 37:08.500 --> 37:10.500 and worldly philosophies 37:10.500 --> 37:14.500 and in this case, Judah doesn't even have godly ideologies 37:14.500 --> 37:19.500 so you have all of this mixture of bad practices 37:19.500 --> 37:22.500 sin, people are dying, the Lord is slaying people 37:22.500 --> 37:23.500 verse 12 37:23.500 --> 37:26.500 and in the process of time the daughter of Shua, Judah's wife died 37:26.500 --> 37:30.500 and Judah was comforted and went up unto his sheep Shears to Timnath 37:30.500 --> 37:32.500 he and his friend Hira the Adulimite 37:32.500 --> 37:35.500 and it was told to him, saying, Behold thy father-in-law goeth up 37:36.200 --> 37:42.520 to Timnath to shear his sheep. And she put her widow's garment off from her, and covered her with 37:42.520 --> 37:48.360 a veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which is by the way to Timnath, for she saw 37:48.360 --> 37:53.480 that Sheilah was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife. 37:53.700 --> 37:58.740 Judas saw her he thought her to be a harlot because she had covered her face 37:58.740 --> 38:04.100 So what is this woman doing? She is pretending to be a 38:04.620 --> 38:08.580 prostitute so that she can lay with her father-in-law and 38:09.540 --> 38:13.140 Basically have a child. This is weird stuff, okay 38:14.160 --> 38:17.740 Now the first thing I want to mention here is that prostitutes have come a long way 38:20.100 --> 38:23.340 Because back in the day they'd cover themselves. 38:23.340 --> 38:24.580 Now they don't. 38:24.580 --> 38:26.820 And in fact, you didn't have to be a prostitute. 38:26.820 --> 38:28.180 There's women who aren't prostitutes 38:28.180 --> 38:30.300 who don't cover themselves. 38:30.300 --> 38:31.980 It's like the prostitutes in the Bible 38:31.980 --> 38:39.580 have more decency than the women who are not for sale today. 38:39.580 --> 38:40.600 Think about that. 38:41.800 --> 38:47.360 It's like dude, she's covering her face people are over here taking off their clothes on Instagram on social media 38:47.360 --> 38:52.780 Take talk out in the streets. They just have no problem taking off their clothes and they're not even for sale 38:55.500 --> 38:57.820 So you know just a side note there 38:58.620 --> 39:00.620 Okay 39:01.300 --> 39:06.520 She wraps herself, you know it says verse 14. She covers herself with the veil 39:06.860 --> 39:12.540 She wraps herself and she sits in an open place back in the day. I guess you know this is the whore's garment 39:12.540 --> 39:19.100 This is what she's wearing in order to attract attention and so you know she can she can potentially get a buyer 39:19.800 --> 39:23.800 And she's actually hoping that that will be Judah, her father-in-law. 39:23.800 --> 39:24.800 It says in verse 16, 39:24.800 --> 39:26.800 And he turned unto her by the way, and said, 39:26.800 --> 39:29.800 Go to, I pray thee, let me come in unto thee, 39:29.800 --> 39:32.800 For he knew not that she was his daughter-in-law. 39:32.800 --> 39:35.800 And she said, What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come in unto me? 39:35.800 --> 39:37.800 And he said, I will send thee a kid from the flock. 39:37.800 --> 39:41.800 And she said, Wilt thou give me a pledge till thou send? 39:41.800 --> 39:43.800 So she's like, give me like a down payment first. 39:43.800 --> 39:44.800 Okay? 39:45.200 --> 39:50.320 essentially proving, confirming that you're actually going to make this purchase 39:50.320 --> 39:54.560 and that you're going to pay this. Verse 18, and he said, what pledge shall I give thee? 39:54.560 --> 39:57.840 And she said, thy signet, thy bracelets, and thy staff that is in thine hand. 39:57.840 --> 40:02.720 And he gave it her and came in unto her and she conceived by him. And she arose and went away 40:02.720 --> 40:06.240 and laid by her veil from her and put on the garment of her widowhood. 40:06.600 --> 40:13.000 And Judas sent the kid by the hand of his friend, the Adulamite, to receive his pledge from the woman's hand, but he found her not. 40:13.000 --> 40:18.200 So, you know, this essentially demonstrates also that it's not good for a man to be alone, right? 40:18.200 --> 40:23.800 You know, he lost his wife and the Bible says that he's comforted after she passed, 40:23.800 --> 40:28.200 but instead of actually seeking out another wife, he seeks out a prostitute. 40:28.900 --> 40:36.100 You know, we all have legitimate needs folks, but God wants us to fulfill those legitimate needs in righteous legitimate ways 40:36.980 --> 40:40.980 there's nothing wrong with him wanting to have that physical relationship again, but the 40:42.020 --> 40:47.000 Avenue by which he did so was wrong. Okay, and by doing so he ended up committing incest 40:47.800 --> 40:52.280 with his daughter-in-law, extremely wicked. Now you're like, how can this woman participate in 40:52.280 --> 40:59.480 this, conspire and be willing to lay with her father-in-law? It's because she's a Canaanite. 41:01.000 --> 41:04.680 Unsafe people do stupid stuff. The natural man is just wicked. 41:05.400 --> 41:09.880 And if they're not grounded, they don't have the principles of the Bible, the principles of God's 41:09.880 --> 41:14.200 Word to direct them. They don't really have any true moral convictions. 41:15.300 --> 41:18.480 So we can't be surprised when the wicked of this world do stuff like this. 41:18.480 --> 41:21.100 And look, folks, things like this still happen today. 41:22.220 --> 41:25.440 In America and different cultures, people do stuff like this. 41:25.440 --> 41:27.320 And you're like, how can someone do something like that? 41:27.480 --> 41:30.640 It's because they're void of the supernatural. 41:30.840 --> 41:32.620 They don't have the new man. 41:32.620 --> 41:34.480 They don't have the Bible directing them. 41:34.480 --> 41:38.880 Look, well, I know someone who doesn't have the Bible, but they're a moral person. 41:38.880 --> 41:40.380 Yeah, but in general, though. 41:40.900 --> 41:48.680 People who are unsaved do stupid stuff and I guarantee you even the person who's so called moral that person is wicked in other ways 41:49.780 --> 41:51.780 What is the common denominator the Bible? 41:52.360 --> 41:58.320 Having the Word of God to direct you to tell you what is right and what is wrong. Okay, and this is sick 41:59.540 --> 42:05.180 The fact that she was willing to do this just to have a child. It's weird. It's godless verse 20 42:05.900 --> 42:12.780 Verse 21. So, you know, he sends his friend to go make the payment, you know, hire is like, oh, you know, you guys, you know 42:13.300 --> 42:18.000 Looking for a prostitute here. I got to drop off this payment doesn't find her first 21 42:18.000 --> 42:21.940 Then he asked the men of that place saying where is the harlot that was openly by the wayside? 42:21.940 --> 42:25.000 And they said there was no harlot in this place 42:25.800 --> 42:28.860 And he returned to Judah and said, I cannot find her. 42:28.860 --> 42:32.100 And also the men of the place said that there was no harlan in this place. 42:32.100 --> 42:34.800 Now I'm surprised that Judah's heart didn't just sink at that point. 42:34.800 --> 42:37.900 Like, really? Oh man, what happened? 42:37.900 --> 42:41.440 But he's just thinking, oh great, I got away with it. 42:41.440 --> 42:46.140 Look at verse 23, and Judah said, let her take it to her, lest we be shamed. 42:46.140 --> 42:49.980 Behold, I sent the kid and thou hast not found her, and it came to pass, 42:49.980 --> 42:51.880 about three months after, 42:52.300 --> 42:55.820 That it was told Judas, saying, Tamar thy daughter-in-law 42:55.820 --> 42:58.380 hath played the harlot, and also behold, 42:58.380 --> 42:59.660 she is with child by hortum. 42:59.660 --> 43:04.620 And Judas said, bring her forth and let her be burned. 43:04.620 --> 43:08.940 So man, Tamar is just devious. 43:08.940 --> 43:10.420 She's conspiring. 43:10.420 --> 43:11.260 She did this act. 43:11.260 --> 43:13.420 And obviously, three months in, she's showing. 43:14.200 --> 43:20.840 So either she's announcing to people that she's with child or you know people just see it and they're like hey 43:21.080 --> 43:25.320 You know your daughter played the horror and your daughter-in-law played the horror in your house 43:25.800 --> 43:29.000 And what does judo do? He just has this excessive judgment 43:30.120 --> 43:32.120 Burn her with fire 43:33.080 --> 43:36.060 And it's just like bro, you're the it's like the whole david thing 43:37.000 --> 43:43.000 Right? When Nathan comes to him with the parable of the little you lamb, he's like, 43:43.000 --> 43:46.920 that person needs to be put to death. And it's like, thou art the man though. 43:47.800 --> 43:52.440 You're the one responsible for this. And you know what I've noticed is that people who are often 43:52.440 --> 43:58.840 the strongest in condemning someone or being excessively condemning, okay? Just excessive 43:58.840 --> 44:03.640 about it. They're often overcompensating for certain personal failures that they have. 44:04.600 --> 44:07.480 Now don't let this discourage you from condemning someone by the way 44:07.480 --> 44:10.360 because obviously we need to judge people amen 44:10.360 --> 44:13.560 I'm talking about this excessive condemnation 44:13.560 --> 44:17.720 it's often to kind of cover for some shortcoming that they have 44:17.720 --> 44:21.800 okay the shortcoming they're over competent because 44:21.800 --> 44:25.240 they have some personal sin in their life or whatever may be and they're 44:25.240 --> 44:27.200 trying to deter attention 44:27.200 --> 44:30.200 from their own sin so they have to be super hyper spiritual 44:30.600 --> 44:37.300 Holier than now and therefore is just like burn them burn them all the while. They're the ones responsible for 44:37.900 --> 44:40.220 Sleeping with the daughter-in-law. It's crazy 44:42.700 --> 44:44.700 Now what can we learn from this? 44:44.700 --> 44:47.700 Be sure your sin will find you out 44:47.700 --> 44:49.700 is what you can learn 44:49.700 --> 44:52.700 And you may think to yourself, well I sinned and I got away with it 44:54.700 --> 44:57.700 What's going to happen to me? Well it really depends 44:58.700 --> 45:00.700 If you sinned in the past 45:00.700 --> 45:02.700 and you feel like you got away with it 45:02.700 --> 45:04.700 here is the determining factor of what happens 45:04.700 --> 45:07.700 What is your attitude about it right now? 45:09.600 --> 45:11.600 That's the determining factor. 45:11.600 --> 45:12.400 So why so? 45:12.400 --> 45:14.400 Because if you're like, yeah, I sinned, but I'm like, 45:14.400 --> 45:15.840 I feel horrible about it. 45:15.840 --> 45:17.040 I've repented. 45:17.040 --> 45:18.480 I fear the Lord. 45:18.480 --> 45:21.120 And I know that God can judge me. 45:21.120 --> 45:24.800 If you have a humble heart, it's very likely that God will extend his mercy 45:24.800 --> 45:26.000 and his grace towards you. 45:26.000 --> 45:28.880 And he will not allow you to suffer the consequences of your actions. 45:28.880 --> 45:34.720 Or if you do suffer some consequences, it will not be as severe as if you're just 45:34.720 --> 45:37.040 a prideful, arrogant person who didn't care that they sinned. 45:38.100 --> 45:41.100 You know, obviously sometimes there's just consequences. 45:41.100 --> 45:43.300 And you're like, well, I did suffer consequences, 45:43.300 --> 45:44.860 so maybe I'm not getting mercy. 45:44.860 --> 45:46.500 But here's the thing though, maybe you're not 45:46.500 --> 45:48.460 getting the full payment though. 45:48.460 --> 45:50.260 You got to think about that. 45:50.260 --> 45:51.180 OK? 45:51.180 --> 45:53.700 So it really depends on what your attitude is right now. 45:53.700 --> 45:55.900 So if your attitude is like, yeah, I messed up. 45:56.000 --> 46:00.720 I've done things in the past and I feel like I feel like God hasn't really punished me for it 46:00.720 --> 46:06.960 and it makes me thankful it humbles me it provokes me unto love and to good works it makes me want to 46:06.960 --> 46:11.280 do right it makes me want to stay on the right path it's likely that God will extend his mercy 46:11.280 --> 46:15.920 towards you even more and be merciful to you because you've confessed that sin you repented 46:15.920 --> 46:20.160 of it you got it right but let me say this if you're the person who's just completely delusional 46:20.960 --> 46:23.600 and you think you've pulled a fast one on God 46:24.600 --> 46:29.000 You're just like yeah, nothing happened to me. Yeah, it's very likely. God will judge you if 46:29.560 --> 46:35.000 You're just prideful and arrogant and look folks. I've literally heard people online say stuff like this 46:35.520 --> 46:42.080 Where people have warned other individuals and be like hey, you know, aren't you afraid that you're doing this? Don't you fear God? 46:42.280 --> 46:46.120 Don't you think God's gonna do like that people keep telling me nothing's happened to me yet 46:47.120 --> 46:49.100 Nothing's really happened to me yet, you know 46:49.400 --> 46:51.400 I'm fine, you know? 46:51.400 --> 46:52.400 He's like, okay. 46:52.400 --> 46:56.400 You think like God's just gonna like dry through your judgment or something like that? 46:56.400 --> 46:58.560 He's just gonna give you a microwave judgment? 46:58.560 --> 46:59.760 He's gonna streamline your judgment? 46:59.760 --> 47:03.040 No, he's probably allowing you to treasure up wrath against the day of wrath. 47:05.100 --> 47:12.540 And if you just remain an arrogant, prideful, just a holier than now, unrepentant person, 47:12.540 --> 47:15.420 your judgment is going to be harsh and swift. 47:15.420 --> 47:18.460 Like, well, it's been years, nothing's ever happened to me. 47:19.020 --> 47:21.340 Yeah, God might not do it for 10 years. 47:22.220 --> 47:24.300 And at the 10th year, just take your legs. 47:25.900 --> 47:27.500 You might just get amputated. 47:28.700 --> 47:31.260 You might get a lobotomy or something. We just don't know. 47:32.700 --> 47:33.660 He's creative! 47:36.500 --> 47:41.300 So don't think like you know look folks. There's there's little there's literally serial killers 47:42.060 --> 47:44.620 Who committed you know murder? 47:45.500 --> 47:51.300 Decades ago, and they stopped they moved on they had families they had children 47:51.300 --> 47:55.020 They're living into their 70s and 80s, and they're probably thinking in their mind 47:55.020 --> 48:00.500 I got away with it, but they didn't because forensic forensics or whatever caught up, and then they end up getting caught 48:01.500 --> 48:06.540 And that's just like the world system. Just imagine God. You think God forgets these things? 48:09.400 --> 48:11.800 Be sure your sin will find you out. 48:11.800 --> 48:12.440 And you know what? 48:12.440 --> 48:16.160 I hope you fear in your heart right now, if that's the case. 48:16.160 --> 48:20.080 I hope to invoke the fear of God in your heart, 48:20.080 --> 48:22.880 that you would repent, that you would get right, 48:22.880 --> 48:25.000 that you would humble yourself before the Lord. 48:25.000 --> 48:25.640 And you know what? 48:25.640 --> 48:26.680 None of us are perfect. 48:26.680 --> 48:27.840 We've all made mistakes. 48:27.840 --> 48:32.480 But here's the important thing, is the posture of the heart. 48:32.480 --> 48:33.080 All right? 48:33.080 --> 48:33.600 Just like. 48:34.100 --> 48:38.100 Is your heart arrogant? Is it prideful towards this? Or is it just like, man, I fear God in my heart. 48:39.060 --> 48:43.780 I'm scared of God. I'm scared God can just strike me down right now. Good, keep that up. 48:44.420 --> 48:49.700 That's what you got to think, because he can. Am I supposed to live like this for the rest of my life? 48:49.700 --> 48:56.900 Yeah. Yeah, fear God. Your entire life. And you know what? When you fear God your entire life, 48:56.900 --> 49:00.500 you'll depart from evil. You'll obtain mercy of the Lord. 49:02.200 --> 49:06.280 But if you're like Judah, like, hey, I tried to pay her. 49:06.280 --> 49:07.900 Tried to pay the whore, she wasn't there. 49:10.000 --> 49:12.600 Got away with it. 49:12.600 --> 49:14.000 What were you doing in Timnath? 49:14.000 --> 49:16.720 Shearing my sheep. 49:16.720 --> 49:19.400 Like code word for like going with prostitutes. 49:24.360 --> 49:26.880 But then, you know, it's catching up to him 49:26.880 --> 49:28.840 because now he's being called out. 49:28.840 --> 49:29.520 OK. 49:29.520 --> 49:30.360 Look at verse 25. 49:30.360 --> 49:31.560 And when she was brought forth. 49:32.900 --> 49:34.900 She sent her father-in-law saying, 49:34.900 --> 49:39.660 by the man whose these are, am I with child. 49:39.660 --> 49:41.200 And she said to Sernah, pray thee, 49:41.200 --> 49:45.200 whose are these, the signet, bracelet and staff? 49:46.360 --> 49:48.700 You know, I'm not for Tamar, but that must have felt good. 49:48.700 --> 49:50.380 You know what I mean? 49:50.380 --> 49:53.540 Like, you know, it's by this man's stuff, you know? 49:53.540 --> 49:55.040 And then Judas was like, 49:57.180 --> 49:58.020 that's my bracelet. 50:00.100 --> 50:01.100 That's mine, bro. 50:01.100 --> 50:02.100 It's mine. 50:02.100 --> 50:03.100 Yeah, it's mine. 50:03.100 --> 50:03.600 It's like... 50:07.000 --> 50:09.000 Be sure your SIN will find you out. 50:09.000 --> 50:15.000 You know, and this is a good principle here that when you SIN you are putting a down payment. 50:15.000 --> 50:17.000 And the full price comes later. 50:17.000 --> 50:22.000 You are putting down your signet, your bracelet, and your staff. 50:22.000 --> 50:26.000 And you know what? Yeah, SIN is pleasurable for a season. 50:26.600 --> 50:31.640 for sure that's what the bible teaches us it is pleasurable for a season it's pleasurable for that 50:31.640 --> 50:37.080 brief period of time and you know what all sin requires of you is your bracelet your signet and 50:37.080 --> 50:43.320 your staff not much not very costly at all just those three things just give it up there yeah but 50:43.320 --> 50:49.560 in the long run thy mouth shall be filled with gravel though and judah acknowledged them verse 50:49.560 --> 50:53.720 26 and said she had been more righteous than i 50:54.500 --> 50:59.300 because I gave her not to Sheila my son and he knew her again no more 50:59.300 --> 51:02.260 now Judah obviously his judgment is skewed 51:02.260 --> 51:04.420 no she's not more righteous than you bro 51:04.420 --> 51:05.780 what do you mean? 51:05.780 --> 51:08.100 that's not a righteous thing that she did 51:08.100 --> 51:12.900 it's just her unrighteousness exposed your unrighteousness is what it is 51:12.900 --> 51:16.100 okay now what can we learn from this whole debacle here? 51:16.300 --> 51:18.060 You know, this is what we can learn. 51:18.060 --> 51:21.220 Stay away from conspiring to sin, 51:21.220 --> 51:23.460 being in the dark corners, 51:23.460 --> 51:25.740 putting yourself in a situation to be tempted, 51:25.740 --> 51:27.100 to commit fornication, 51:27.100 --> 51:28.500 to commit adultery, 51:28.500 --> 51:30.820 to do that which is not pleasing in the eyes of the Lord. 51:30.820 --> 51:31.460 And you know what? 51:31.460 --> 51:33.220 You may think that you can get away with it, 51:33.220 --> 51:35.420 but you're not, especially as a child of God. 51:36.300 --> 51:38.020 God's not going to let you get away with it. 51:38.020 --> 51:39.220 He'll always expose you. 51:39.220 --> 51:41.340 And look folks, you're like, well... 51:41.600 --> 51:46.600 You know, what if no one knows what I'm conspiring to do, 51:46.600 --> 51:48.600 and therefore no one is investigating? 51:48.600 --> 51:52.600 I'm just telling you right now, God will make it known no matter what. 51:52.600 --> 51:56.600 And look, I don't try to investigate people or members, 51:56.600 --> 51:59.600 like try to figure out who's sinning and who's not. 51:59.600 --> 52:01.600 That's, I don't, I'm not God. 52:01.600 --> 52:06.600 So I'm not like, hmm, what's Hike up to this week? 52:06.600 --> 52:07.600 Let me see if I can just catch him at home. 52:07.600 --> 52:09.400 What are you doing? You know? 52:10.400 --> 52:12.720 He's like, with this cat, you know. 52:12.720 --> 52:14.200 I'm not looking to try to, 52:14.200 --> 52:17.640 I'm not trying to catch people in the act of sinning. 52:17.640 --> 52:19.400 But I'm gonna tell you right now, 52:19.400 --> 52:22.320 these last 10 years of pastoring this church, 52:22.320 --> 52:23.420 it just comes to me. 52:24.800 --> 52:27.560 Like I just hear about it or someone slips up, 52:27.560 --> 52:30.920 they say something, or I'm just having a conversation, 52:30.920 --> 52:35.300 and then one word, and I feel like just the Lord directing me. 52:35.800 --> 52:40.120 to confront people about things and then boom it's just that's the situation that happens and 52:40.120 --> 52:44.120 it's not because i'm looking for it it's just the lord is just directing me to keep sin out of the 52:44.120 --> 52:50.760 church that's how it always is all you know i'm all that god has to work with right here as a 52:50.760 --> 52:55.000 pastor of this church so he has to kind of supernaturally put me in a situation 52:55.000 --> 52:58.280 and look i remember just years ago many years ago 52:58.800 --> 53:01.160 We have people in our church and you know, 53:01.160 --> 53:04.120 a very common sin that people struggle with 53:04.120 --> 53:07.560 even within Christianity is fornication, unfortunately. 53:07.560 --> 53:09.360 Fornication and drunkenness are like two things 53:09.360 --> 53:12.440 that people struggle with a lot, okay? 53:13.340 --> 53:16.340 And you know, these people were fornicating in our church. 53:16.340 --> 53:17.560 But I didn't know. 53:17.560 --> 53:18.760 You know, you assume when you see couples, 53:18.760 --> 53:21.260 they're just married, right? 53:21.800 --> 53:22.720 That's what I assume. 53:22.720 --> 53:24.720 I'm not just like, oh, poor indicators. 53:24.720 --> 53:26.760 And when people walk in, I'm just like, 53:26.760 --> 53:29.360 mm, I'll say, I'll say, extortion. 53:29.360 --> 53:33.120 I'm gonna guess Raylor, you know? 53:33.120 --> 53:34.960 I'm just assuming they're coming to look for the truth, 53:34.960 --> 53:35.920 whatever. 53:35.920 --> 53:37.440 So these people, they loved our church, 53:37.440 --> 53:41.080 they had a great time, they benefited from the preaching. 53:41.080 --> 53:44.780 And I was talking to him, 53:44.780 --> 53:47.060 and he just said something in passing. 53:47.900 --> 53:50.600 Like I think he said something to the degree of like, 53:50.600 --> 53:53.600 yeah sorry we didn't, we came late, 53:53.600 --> 53:55.100 but you know the reason we came late 53:55.100 --> 53:57.980 is because we woke up late. 53:57.980 --> 54:01.820 And it wasn't even anything like explicit. 54:01.820 --> 54:03.060 I'm like, you guys woke up late? 54:03.060 --> 54:04.820 He's like, yeah we both woke up late 54:04.820 --> 54:06.740 and then we saw the time. 54:06.740 --> 54:08.980 We're like, oh we gotta get ready for church. 54:08.980 --> 54:12.280 And I'm like, and then I kinda looked at his hand. 54:12.280 --> 54:14.580 I'm like, are you guys married? 54:14.580 --> 54:14.600 you 54:14.600 --> 54:16.440 And they're like, no. 54:16.440 --> 54:17.880 I'm like, do you guys live together? 54:17.880 --> 54:20.200 Like, yeah, we've been living together for a long time. 54:20.200 --> 54:22.600 Like, oh man. 54:22.600 --> 54:24.440 Well, gotta talk to you guys. 54:24.440 --> 54:27.200 You know, you gotta have that uncomfortable conversation. 54:27.200 --> 54:29.320 And unfortunately, you know, they just, 54:29.320 --> 54:31.480 they just ended up leaving our church 54:31.480 --> 54:34.440 because they weren't willing to come to groups with that. 54:34.440 --> 54:35.480 But you know, I'm not looking for, 54:35.480 --> 54:37.760 I'm just saying it just comes up sometimes, 54:37.760 --> 54:40.280 but I believe it's divine. 54:41.600 --> 54:47.600 Because I believe God wants the house of God to be clean. 54:47.600 --> 54:58.600 To not have just sin rampant throughout the church and people fornicating and being drunkers and railers and idolaters. 54:58.600 --> 55:05.600 So you know either I preach about it, you find out about it, or maybe I'm just talking about other things in church and then we end up just crossing paths. 55:05.600 --> 55:09.400 You mentioned something and then the axe has to come down. 55:09.900 --> 55:10.900 Okay? 55:10.900 --> 55:15.380 And so, you know, it's important for you to realize that as a Christian, you're not going 55:15.380 --> 55:17.020 to be able to get away with sin. 55:17.020 --> 55:20.020 It just doesn't happen. 55:20.020 --> 55:21.020 Okay? 55:21.020 --> 55:28.780 And don't interpret years and decades of no one finding out as, oh, that means I got away 55:28.780 --> 55:29.780 with it. 55:29.780 --> 55:31.780 It's just not the case. 55:31.780 --> 55:32.140 Okay? 55:32.900 --> 55:34.980 Look down at your Bibles at verse number 27. 55:53.800 --> 56:00.840 and said, How hast thou broken forth this breach be upon thee? Therefore his name was called 56:00.840 --> 56:06.760 Phares. And afterward came out his brother that had the scarlet thread upon his hand, 56:06.760 --> 56:12.120 and his name was called Zerah. Now let's go to Luke chapter 13. We'll finish in Luke chapter 13 56:12.680 --> 56:16.920 real quick. So she ends up having twins here. 56:18.800 --> 56:24.800 And we find this very interesting turn of events where the first child that comes out, he just kind of puts his hand out. 56:25.800 --> 56:30.800 And in order to determine who's the oldest and who's the youngest, a scarlet thread is placed around the hand. 56:30.800 --> 56:33.800 So they don't get mixed up, they're twins, do you want to mix them up? 56:33.800 --> 56:40.800 But then he puts his hand back in, and then the other brother breaches forth, he breaks forth basically, 56:40.800 --> 56:45.800 and he ends up coming essentially first, even though he was last. 56:47.200 --> 56:48.600 Now, what is this picture? 56:48.600 --> 56:52.880 Now, Pharaoh is the one who came first, even though he was last. 56:52.880 --> 56:57.800 And Pharaoh ends up being, according to Matthew chapter 1 verse 3, 56:57.800 --> 56:59.640 and according to Luke chapter 3 verse 33, 56:59.640 --> 57:04.080 he ends up being part of the lineage of Jesus Christ the Messiah. 57:04.080 --> 57:05.920 So he pictures that lineage. 57:05.920 --> 57:08.360 He pictures the New Testament. 57:08.360 --> 57:10.280 He pictures that new covenant. 57:10.600 --> 57:14.760 Look at Luke chapter 13 and verse 24. 57:14.760 --> 57:17.000 It says, Strive to enter in at the straight gate. 57:17.000 --> 57:19.840 For many I say unto you, will seek to enter in and shall not be able. 57:20.400 --> 57:23.840 When once the master of the house is risen up and hath shut the door 57:24.080 --> 57:27.600 Shut to the door and ye begin to stand without and to knock 57:28.160 --> 57:32.320 At the door saying lord lord open unto us and ye and he shall answer and say to you 57:32.800 --> 57:37.920 I know you not whence ye are then shall you begin to say we have eaten and drunk in the night presence 57:38.320 --> 57:40.320 And that was taught in our streets 57:40.320 --> 57:44.480 But ye shall say I tell you but he shall say I tell you I know you not 57:44.800 --> 57:47.860 Whence ye are depart from me all you workers of iniquity 57:48.300 --> 57:53.900 Verse 28, there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth when ye shall see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob 57:54.380 --> 58:00.540 And all the prophets in the kingdom of God and you yourselves thrust out 58:00.780 --> 58:07.340 So we can compare this with other portions of the gospel and he's addressing who the jews he's addressing israel, right? 58:07.740 --> 58:10.940 As he tells the roman centurion, you know, he has 58:11.500 --> 58:14.640 Great faith and he hasn't seen great faith like that. No, not in israel 58:14.800 --> 58:18.960 And he says that people from the east and the west shall come down and sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob 58:18.960 --> 58:23.920 and the children of the kingdom, referring to the Jews in Israel, shall be cast out into outer darkness 58:23.920 --> 58:24.960 Look at verse 29 58:24.960 --> 58:28.320 And they shall come from the east and from the west and from the north and from the south 58:28.320 --> 58:30.720 and shall sit down in the kingdom of God 58:30.720 --> 58:32.000 And I want you to notice verse 30 58:32.000 --> 58:38.640 And behold, there are last which shall be first and there are first which shall be last 58:38.640 --> 58:39.280 What is this? 58:39.280 --> 58:40.640 Zarah and Pharoah 58:41.300 --> 58:48.300 Why? Because technically the first one was who? Zerah. He's the one who came first, got the scarlet around his hand 58:48.300 --> 58:52.800 But then who kind of superseded him? His brother, Phareus 58:52.800 --> 58:56.300 Just as the New Testament supersedes the Old 58:56.300 --> 59:00.300 And even though Phareus was technically the younger brother 59:00.300 --> 59:05.300 Because he didn't reach his hand forth first, he still came first. Why? Because the last shall be first and the first 59:05.600 --> 59:11.680 shall be last. This is essentially picturing both Old and New Testament, Old and New Covenant, 59:11.680 --> 59:16.880 and so forth. So we see there a beautiful picture in the midst of a very weird chapter. 59:16.880 --> 59:21.440 Okay, still great. You know, you have the Old and New Covenant being mentioned there. Let's pray. 59:21.440 --> 59:25.840 Father, we thank you so much for your word. Thank you for these stories, Lord. Help us as your people 59:25.840 --> 59:29.440 to be holy as you're holy. We know that we're not perfect, Lord, and we fall short. 59:30.000 --> 59:35.200 But I pray that you'd help us to continuously on a day to day basis add to our faith virtue. 59:35.760 --> 59:42.160 And Lord help us to recognize the deception of sin. Part of the deception is that sometimes we 59:42.160 --> 59:47.840 can think as sinful man that we can get away with committing sin. And that is a deception, Lord. I 59:47.840 --> 59:56.880 pray that you'd help us to pull down the strongholds in our mind and recognize that Lord sin brings forth death. 59:57.100 --> 01:00:03.700 And Lord help us to repent of our sins, to keep ourselves away from temptation, and to 01:00:03.700 --> 01:00:07.060 live lives that are pleasing in your sight. 01:00:07.060 --> 01:00:08.380 In Jesus' name we pray, Amen.