Old Testament - Genesis 38:1-30 - (Judah & Tamar)
Channel: Calvary Chapel Windward
Date: 2016-02-06

Old Testament - Genesis 38:1-30 - (Judah & Tamar) - CC Windward - Pastor Tim

Old Testament - Genesis 38:1-30 - Judah & Tamar - Calvary Chapel Windward - OAHU, HAWAII - Pastor Tim Newman - From Local Olelo / Oceanic / Time Warner Cable show "A View from Calvary" - Episode #: - Original Air Date: 8/26/2012 A.D.

PASTOR TIM's NOTES:

Chapter 38:1-30
Judah and Tamar
1. Judah commits to fulfilling a DUTY to Tamar.
Vs. 1-11
1a. The DUTY or obligation is the results of Judah’s growing family.
Things to note about Judah’s family
1) He married a Canaanite
Gen. 24:3, 28:1
Judah is the fourth-born son,
He now occupied the place of birthright by virtue of his older three brothers’ sins
(cf. 35:22; chap. 34),

2 Cor 6:14, Acts 26:18
2) Judah gives the oldest of his 3 sons in marriage.
1b. The DUTY or obligation will result God’s judgments.
But Judah’s sons were “wicked” (vv. 6, 10).
That term is used in Deut. 17:2-5 of Idolatry
It is used in Gen. 13:13 of the men of Sodom
 Prov 15:26
1c. The DUTY or obligation is the marriage of Judah’s third son to Tamar.
2.Tamar will use a DISGUISE in order to deceive Judah.
Vs. 12-23
2a. The opportunity for this DISGUISE comes when Judah leaves for Timnah.
Tamar’s sees a window of opportunity.
 Her father-in-law Judah became a widower.
 Knowing Judah for the kind of man he was, she discerned that, he would be seeking
some female comfort.
 Tamar also knew that it was sheep shearing time and that he would be visiting his
old friend Hirah.
2b. Tamar DISGUISES herself as a harlot hoping to produce a son for her departed
husband.
2c. Tamar’s DISGUISE allows her to negotiate a price and a pledge.
—in modern terms, he is giving her his Visa Card and drivers license.
3. Judah is forced to acknowledge the reason for Tamar’s DECEPTION.
Vs. 24-26
3a. Judah does not know he has been DECEIVED, therefore he is ready to execute Tamar.
Our sin always looks worse on someone else.
3b. Judah is given his pledge and now acknowledges the reason for the DECEPTION.
I love her line, "Please determine whose these are. . . “
Hey, Judah, maybe you can help me out here?
Does this Visa card and drivers license look familiar?
And then came his declaration,
Vs. 26 So Judah acknowledged them and said, "She has been more righteous
than I, because I did not give her to Shelah my son." And he never knew her
again.
Tamar was exalted. Judah was humbled. And this becomes the turning point in
Judah’s life.
Titus 2:11-13
Has Judah really repented?
In chapter 44, where Judah would act as a righteous man before Joseph, pleading
for the welfare of Benjamin and offering his life as a pledge to save his little half
brother.
In chapter 49 Jacob would confirm Judah as the scepter-bearing tribe through
which would come the one to whom “shall be the obedience of the peoples”
(49:10b).


4. Tamar will DELIVER twin sons
Vs. 27-30
4a. The twins will be named based on their DELIVERY.
Just as the Jacob narrative began with the story of twins wrestling in
their mother’s womb, so now at the end of the Jacob narrative there is a similar
struggle.
4b. The DELIVERY of the twins finds a mention in the New Testament.
Matt 1:1-6
Tamar is the first of five women in the genealogy of Christ as we have it in Matthew
1.
Notably absent are the great mothers of Israel: Sarah, Rebekah, Leah, and Rachel.
Thus Tamar and company declare that in Christ there is hope for the Gentile
nations.

Luke 2:29-32



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