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/*38*/ /At that time, Judah left his brothers and went down to stay with a man of Adullam named Hirah.

2 There Judah met the daughter of a Canaanite man named Shua.

He married her and lay with her; 3 she became pregnant and gave birth to a son, who was named Er.

4 She conceived again and gave birth to a son and named him Onan. 5 She gave birth to still another son and named him Shelah.

It was at Kezib that she gave birth to him.

6 Judah got a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.

7 But Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the Lord’s sight; so the Lord put him to death.

8 Then Judah said to Onan,/ /“Lie with your brother’s wife and fulfill your duty to her as a brother-in-law to produce offspring for your brother.”/

/9 But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his; so whenever he lay with his brother’s wife, he spilled his semen on the ground to keep from producing offspring for his brother.

10 What he did was wicked in the Lord’s sight; so he put him to death also.

11 Judah then said to his daughter-in-law Tamar,/ /“Live as a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up.”

For he thought, “He may die too, just like his brothers.”/

/So Tamar went to live in her father’s house.

12 After a long time Judah’s wife, the daughter of Shua, died.

When Judah had recovered from his grief, he went up to Timnah, to the men who were shearing his sheep, and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went with him./

/13 /When Tamar was told, /“Your father-in-law is on his way to Timnah to shear his sheep,”/ /14 she took off her widow’s clothes, covered herself with a veil to disguise herself, and then sat down at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah.

For she saw that, though Shelah had now grown up, she had not been given to him as his wife.

15 When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.

16 Not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her by the roadside and said,/ /“Come now, let me sleep with you.”/ /“And what will you give me to sleep with you?”/ she asked.

/17 /“I’ll send you a young goat from my flock,”/ he said./

/“Will you give me something as a pledge until you send it?”/

/she asked.

18 He said,/ /“What pledge should I give you?”/ /“Your seal and its cord, and the staff in your hand,”/ /she answered.

So he gave them to her and slept with her, and she became pregnant by him.

19 After she left, she took off her veil and put on her widow’s clothes again./

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/Tell The Story/

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Introduction

This morning I wanted to walk you through a story.

It's a true story.

A story of a man.

A story of a family.

It's a story full of sin!

A story full of wickedness, disobedience and a broken pledge.

One of the main characters in this story is a man by the name of Judah.

Judah forsook his godly family, he left the influence of his godly father.

His father's name was Jacob.

Jacob was a godly man.

In old testament times when people would pray; they would pray to the God of Abraham, Issac, and Jacob.

Even today we're still praying to the God of Abraham, Issac and Jacob.

So Judah came from a godly family, but everything wasn't long stem roses.

Everything wasn't squeaky clean.

The Bible begins this story telling us that Judah has departed from his brothers.

Now before this; in the 37th chapter we see that Judah convinced his brothers who wanted to kill their younger brother Joseph; to sell him to the Ishmaelites.

Now Judah may have been leaving or departing from his brothers partly because he was tired of the lies.

See Judah and his brothers made it look like Joseph had been devoured by some ferocious animal, when they really had sold him into slavery.

Now because of this Judah's father was mourning and grieving heavily and refused to be comforted.

It's possible that the guilt of Judah's sin of what he and his brothers had done was so heavy that it caused him to run.

Instead of confessing his sin.

Instead of being truthful and telling his father what really happed he decided to run.

And you know thats no different from what we do today.

Instead of confessing our sins we try to hide them.

We run away.

And we run away beacause we don't like correction.

When we have sinned the answer is not to run away.

The answer is to turn to God.

Because when we sin we turn away from God.

So if when we have sinned if we decide to run away all we are doing is running further into sin!

And if you run to far you'll run into a life of sin.

!! Explain The Story

So Judah left the godly influence of his father to dwell in Adullam.

Now Adullam was a Canannite Village.

A village of unbelievers.

So in other words he left a Godly influence to dwell in a land with worldly folk.

And I know Church sometime you get fed up with mess in here.

Noah must have been alittle fustrated with all of the animals on that ark.

It must have been a mess in there, and not only that but remember there was some kind of every animal on that ark.

I imagine they must have had problems like we do in the church today.

Dogs get to barking at everybody, monkeys swinging from this ministry to that ministry causing problems, giraffes sticking their necks in everybody’s business, but nevertheless they stayed in the are.

So church I beg of you stay in the ark.

Please, don’t go out and surround yourself with the world because when you do, you’ll be in a world of trouble.

That’s why GOD has called us to be holy to live a separated life.

Romans 12:2 /Do not be conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

/ 2Corinthians 6:17-18 /Therefore come out from them and be separate, says the Lord.

Touch no unclean thing and I will receive you.

I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty./

Look at your neighbor and tell them come out from among them.

Now watch this not only do the things you do affect you, but they also affect your family, they affect your offspring.

Some of us are the reason why our children won’t act right.

Look at this now Judah marry’s this Canannites woman named Shua.

They had three son’s Er, Onan, and Shelah.

Genesis 38:6,7 /Judah// got a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.

But Er Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the Lord’s sight; So the Lord put him to death.

/It doesn’t say what Er was doing that was so wicked that caused God to take his life, but I just believe that the Lord go fed up.

You know the LORD will get fed up.

Just ask Jeremiah, the Lord told Jeremiah to tell the house of Israel and Judah, that he would bring on them a disaster they cannot escape.

And although they cry out to Him.

He would not listen to them.

The LORD even went on to tell Jeremiah “Do not pray for this people nor offer any plea or petition for them.

It will be horrible thing for you if God turns you over to your own mind.

You don’t have a lot of time to be fooling around.

You can’t continue to stay in your same old wicked ways.

You don’t know when the LORD is going to get fed up with your wickedness.

That’s why you better call on the LORD NOW!  Seek the LORD while He may be found!

Look at somebody and tell to them you better find HIM!

And so because of Er’s wickedness the LORD put hi to death.

Genesis 38:8  /Then Judah said to Onan, “Lie with your brother’s wife and fulfill your duty to her as a brother-in-law to produce offspring for you brother./

Now in those days it was customary that if a man was married and he past away the next oldest brother would then take the wife of his brother and raise a family for his deceased brother.

This was called a levirate marriage.

Now Onan didn’t want to do this because he knew the child would not really be his, so when he layed with her he spilled his seed on the ground, to keep Tamar from producing a child for his brother.

What Onan did was flat out disobedient.