Sordid Sin and Stunning Grace

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0:20That is some passage, isn't it? For those who are new here, we're preaching through the Book of Genesis and we don't typically read such, uh, salacious texts, but it is our custom to preach through entire books of the Bible without skipping any chapters or passages that are controversial or unusual. We believe that all scripture is breathed out by God and is for our upbuilding, our edification, so that we might be encouraged and strengthened and made more like Jesus as a result of his word. It's good to be back in the pulpit this morning. Would you join me now as we pray and ask God for help?

1:06Father in heaven we come eager to receive your instruction, so instruct us with your word for our good. Give us eyes to see, and ears to hear your word rightly this morning and cause your word to have its intended effect upon our lives and live in our hearts to worship having seen more of your power and providence. And we pray this in Jesus' name. Amen.

1:40I can very confidently say that very few pulpits had that text read this morning. Genesis 38 is a strange passage, isn't it? It deviates a bit from the Joseph storyline that we saw last week in Genesis 37, if you'll remember last week, Genesis 37 ends on a bit of a cliffhanger. He's sold into slavery and we're kind of left with a question, what's going to happen with Joseph? Another kinda oddity of this passage is of its descriptions of things that polite people don't generally talk about around the dinner table. The Sunday school curriculum doesn't cover this chapter of Genesis. Thankfully, we have no flannel graphs of Genesis 38.

2:34My wife checked the action Bible. It's kind of like a illustrated, uh, like a comic book. And Genesis 38 is also left out of that one, thankfully. And so we might be tempted a little bit this morning to think that we have nothing to learn from such a messy story. One commentator wrote this, Genesis 38 is the most sexually explicit narrative in Genesis involving sexual intercourse, coitus, interruptus and prostitution. It's very clear that the Bible does not shy away from the good and the bad and the ugly of human nature, but the Bible isn't written to arouse us, but rather to be realistic in depicting human sin and it employs various euphemisms so that it can teach us without leading our minds astray.

3:29And so the big question for us this morning that we're all wondering is what are we then to make? What are we to learn from Genesis chapter 38? If you're new among us, maybe this is your very first time here. We're so glad you are here. At one level, it, it's a story about Tamar preserving the line of Judah. But if you go one level deeper, God is providentially preserving the tribe of Judah. And if we even look even more closely, the main point that I wanna argue for is that God reveals his stunning and amazing grace in this passage by using sinful people to accomplish his glorious divine purposes.

4:20God reveals his stunning grace by using sinful people to accomplish his divine purposes. Though Genesis 38 rivals the drama of daytime soap operas and the sleaziness of daytime talk shows, it reveals God's divine purposes despite the sin that we see so pervasive here in this text. So I originally, when I was writing the sermon I had written, my aim for you is to make Genesis 38, 1 of your favorite chapters of Genesis. But I think that's, uh, overshooting it. Uh, my aim this morning is that you would be awakened afresh to the wonder of God's grace in this passage that you would be awakened to the wonder of God's grace here in this passage.

5:11So the plan is this. We're we're gonna take this sermon in two parts. First we're gonna walk through and explain the passage. This is a narrative story that builds, reaches the climax and then concludes. And then second, I wanna spend significant amount of time drawing out three lessons or three main applications from this chapter. And so this first part is titled sorted sin sorted means wretched or debased or filthy sorted sin. So look with me at verse one. There, it says, it happened at that time that Judah went down from his brothers and turned aside. And so at what time? Well, last week, we saw in chapter 37, verse 26 to 28, that Judah is the mastermind behind selling Joseph into slavery verses one to five.

6:01Now in chapter 38 tell us that he leaves his father's house, leaves his brothers, goes down and marries a Canaanite woman he knows he's not supposed to do. So Abraham and Isaac had charged their sons not to marry the daughters of the Canaanites. This is in Genesis 24, verse 3 28, verse one. This was common knowledge, and yet Judah does not listen. And so his wife, only known as the daughter of Sheah, gives birth to three sons, er, Onan, and Sheila. Now if, if you'll remember, Judah is the fourth born son of Jacob. And at this point, it's likely that he actually occupied the place of birthright because of the failures of the other sons.

6:49I think this is what the narrators been trying to tell us. Back in Genesis 35, verse 22, Ruben, the firstborn had slept with Jacob's concubine, bil ha disqualifying him from the blessing. And then the second and third born sons, Simeon and Levi in chapter 34, brutally murder an entire city also disqualifying themselves. So what we're getting the story of Jacob's children. And now we come to the fourth born. So Genesis 38 gives us this insight or glimpse or window into what type of man is Judah. It covers about 20 years of his life. He leaves a single man, gets married, has three sons, and they grow up.

7:33And by the time he reappears in, in this narrative in Genesis 43 and 44, I think he's on the other side of this chapter of all of these events. Now, another thing that we'll notice is Genesis 38. If you've been reading, if you've read Genesis before, Genesis 37 ends with Joseph, Genesis 39 picks up with Joseph. And you could almost read it without Genesis 38 at all. And even some commentators would say it was a later insertion, but I don't think that's right. It's here for a very important purpose, which we'll see here at the end. So Genesis 38 is the origin story of Judah, and it's not pretty.

8:18So verses six to 10. Now Judah is a bit of a scoundrel and the tension continues to rise in our story. His firstborn er takes Tamar as his wife. The silence in the text suggests that she's also a Canaanite. But verse seven, God puts er to death. The text doesn't tell us why other than he was wicked in the sight of the Lord. It's very clear that God is at work in this text he's watching. No wickedness goes unseen, but this is the first time that we see God's judgment manifest in striking a man down dead. Like this next verse eight, Judah tells Onan to go into Tamar and to fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to raise up offspring for your brother.

9:14Now this is pretty unusual for us, but this wouldn't have been unusual in that day. It's called leveritt marriage. It comes from the Latin word vere, L-E-V-I-R, which means brother-in-law. The laws related to this are related in Deuteronomy 25 verses five to 10. And if you've read the book of Ruth, you'll, you'll kind of remember some of these different themes where there's a kinsman redeemer that has kind of first right of refusal in order to marry Ruth and then to also inherit the land. And later on in the New Testament in Matthew 22, 22 to 33, the Sadducees come to Jesus and they say, you know, there's this woman and she married this brother and he died, and then she married the next brother and he died.

9:59And the next brother and the next brother and, and like who's who, whose wife is she in heaven, you know? So they're asking questions related to Leverett marriage. Uh, the idea here of levert marriage is that if a husband dies before producing an heir before any children, the brother is to marry the widow and to produce an heir for the deceased. This was to provide for the widow who was without a male protector, a provider, and would otherwise be very vulnerable. But it was also to preserve the land and the family and to perpetuate the name. So in verse eight it says, Onin has a duty to marry Tamar to produce an heir that would belong to his deceased older brother.

10:43Now in the book of Ruth, when Naomi and her daughter-in-law, Ruth came back, there was someone else in line who had the right to marry Ruth and to inherit the land. And, and he declines, which allows Boaz to marry Ruth. And so this practice kept the land and the wealth within a family and perpetuated the family line. That's what's in view here in this text. And it's vitally important for the continuation of God's promises to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and to his children because there's promises that follow this family. Now things now go from bad to worse in verse nine. But Onin knew that the offspring would not be his.

11:28So he infamously spills his seed on the ground. He, he was willing to use Tamar sexually, but not willing to perpetuate offspring. And I think the, the thought is Onin would receive a larger inheritance. If the firstborn er has no air, then I'm the defacto firstborn and I get more of the inheritance. I get the land. This is kind of Jerry Springer level stuff. Onin is selfish and disobedient using Tamar for his pleasure. He wants to enjoy the physical act, but none of the responsibility and yet Allan's attitude I is not that unusual, is it? It's reflected in our own culture and attitudes towards sex, our own culture glorifies birth control and plan B, pills and abortion on demand and various hookup apps so that we can enjoy sexual intimacy, but avoid all of its responsibilities.

12:28And Genesis pulls no punches with the very heart of human nature. There's nothing new under the sun. Here comes God's verdict in verse 10. But what Onan did was wicked in the sight of the Lord, and he put him to death also. O so again, stunning judgment from God. And, and you can imagine putting yourself in Judah's shoes for a moment, his sandals. And you're thinking it's devastating for a parent not only to bury one child, but two. So the tensions initially resolved in verse 11. When Juda sends Tamar away, he relegates her to a life of widowhood widowhood and he relegates her, sends her back to her father's house.

13:19And, and he concludes, she's the common denominator. When she married er, ergot struck down and he died and then Onin. And she thinks she's the problem rather than the wickedness of his own children. And verse 11 says, for he feared that Sheila would die like his brother. So he has no intention of giving her to him as a wife, but rather stalling. So er acts wickedly, Onin acts wickedly. But now we get to see more clearly that Judah is also acting wickedly. He could give Sheila to Tamar or he could release Tamar from her obligation, but he keeps her in limbo in perpetual widowhood doesn't tell her the truth, keeps her without an air, without provision.

14:08And now Tamar is a victim of all the various men in her life. And things get even more seedy and sorted. Verses 12 to 19, describe how Tamar takes the problem into her own hands, or in fact the solution into her own hands. She figures out that Sheila was never going to be given to her in marriage. It says that in verse 14. There he's all grown up, she still hasn't been given to him. And so she sees this opportunity when Judah's wife dies, making him maybe more sexually vulnerable, and she disguises herself as a prostitute on the road to Timnah. And Judah initiates with her thinking she is indeed a prostitute.

14:51She negotiates to receive his signet cord and staff as a pledge of payment. So what, what, what's going on here? Well, she waits until Judah's wife dies, suspecting that he may be looking for fulfillment or intimacy. She takes off her widow's garments, meaning that she's been in those garments for several years now, still mourning her perpetual widowhood, she puts on other garments, disguises herself, covers herself with a veil so that judo would not recognize her. And she shrewdly very shrewdly bargains for Judah's signet cord and staff. Now what were these? The, the signet was probably like a ring that served as a seal for personal communication.

15:36Maybe it was worn around the neck and the cord was maybe the necklace, maybe it attached the signet to Judah. The staff was ones walking stick for protection and shepherding. So this is like handing over your driver's license, debit card and phone. Not a smart idea. This is very foolish. The, you know, immediately it, it, it's Judahs anyone would know. And the narrator tells us in verse 18 that she can conceived by him. And so again, we see God's providential, sovereign hand at work in the various details of this text. Now she changes back to her garments of widowhood and returns home undetected verses 20 to 23.

16:20Judas sends ra the dolomite to do his dirty work and to deliver the goat. And they figure out there's no woman there, there's no cult prostitute that's known to hang out in this region. And, and so I don't know what to do with the goat. There's no one here in a sense. Judah's like, well, I tried, I couldn't find her. Let, let's just leave, leave it behind us. Let's not get embarrassed anymore. It's like he, he left his phone and wallet in the CD motel off the Las Vegas strip. We're at the strip club and he is like, okay, let's just leave it rather than go back and get it. Verses 24 to 26 bring us to the climax of this story.

17:00Tamar is found to be immoral and pregnant. Judah is told this bit of news and responds with the harshest of judgment. Bring her out, verse 24, and let her be burned. The call for burning was considered even in Israel, an extreme form of capital punishment, usually reserved for the most heinous offenses. Doesn't interview her, doesn't find out anything about it. Tamar then says, please identify who's these are the signet and the cord and the staff. It's by that man I've been made pregnant. This is the mic drop moment in the story. This is like David King, David and Nathan. When Nathan comes to him and says, let, let me tell you a story.

17:45There's this rich man and this poor man, and this poor man had a little ew lamb and the rich man had all the wealth in the world and he takes the poor man's little eew lamb and kills it in order to serve it to his friends. And David's righteous anger in that moment is awakened. And he's like, that man deserves to die. And Nathan looks over at him and says, you are that man.

18:15Verse 26, Judah identified them. She is more righteous than I since I did not give her to my son Sheila. And he did not know her. Again, Judah recognizes his sin, his sin in not giving Tamar to Sheila as his wife. Not only mention not not, not only that, but sleeping with his daughter-in-law, thinking she was a prostitute. Judah's callousness is brought to the forefront. He, he's grown up hearing about God's blessing and these land promises and Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the traveling and all these promises and how God's gonna bless this family. And through this family, all the nations of the world are going to be blessed and there's gonna be blessing upon blessing.

19:07And and what does he do? He, he doesn't perpetuate offspring. Reuben disqualifies himself. Simeon Levi love violence. Judah marries outside of the family and refuses to enable to continuation of offspring for the tribe. Now, Judah's words here, she's more righteous than I are. Very surprising here in this story, we're kind of left wondering, that makes me a little uncomfortable. What she did is that excusing that like, do the ends justify the means here? Uh, I think what it's saying is comparatively Tamar was more upright than Judah. And Judah was more wrong. Her actions weren't necessarily approved or condoned by God.

19:54We don't get a divine decree of what we're supposed to think about that. But rather her motivation was right, namely to perpetuate a son for her to continue the tribe of Judah. And to his credit, Judah immediately recognizes his guilt and then the text says, and he did not know her again. Uh, I think this is pointing to this level of repentance that's taking place in Judah. And the point here is that Tamar's immorality in a sense was canceled out by Judah's greater sin. And what's front and center is Judah's sin and his failure to treat Tamar justly. And then we get to verses 27 to 30, Tamar gives birth to twins.

20:40This echoes the birth of Jacob and Esau that are also twins. And we see again, God's sovereign hand to choose the younger son over the older son. Zara gets his arm out. So in a sense, he's the firstborn. And yet Perez, whose name means breakthrough or breach, is the first to exit the birth canal. And we're left with two major questions. Why does the Bible give us this account? And second, what do we learn from it? How are we spiritually edified from this sorted chapter of human sin? Well, I said at the beginning of this count that I think this reveals the stunning grace of God by using sinful people to accomplish his glorious divine purposes.

21:31God uses sinful people to accomplish his purposes. And there's stunning grace all over this text. And so I wanna draw that out now in this second half with three lessons or three applications for us. The first is that we are to see God's long suffering and repent. See God's long suffering and repent. God is so patient in this text and with his people, is he not? He strikes down ER and Onan, but they're not the first ones to be wicked in the history of the world. And in the recording of Genesis, lots of people could have been struck down, Cain, IC, lot, Jacob, even Judah. Lots of people could have been struck down throughout this text.

22:20Judah should have been struck down for his sin, yet he spared. And when we look out into our world, we see multitudes of people where sometimes we think I, I just wish God would exact this type of judgment. Just kind of strike 'em down in the moment. Human traffickers, pornographers, rapists, murderers, those who would harm children. And yet we see that God graciously, patiently endures evil. Not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. Two Peter three, nine. What we see in this text is that God is so patient with scoundrels and knuckleheads like Judah. And God is so patient with knuckleheads like us.

23:06Our hearts wander, do they not? We sin, we judge, we covet, we love lesser things. And the fact that God has not struck us down for our sins, for acting or thinking wickedly is just grace. Upon grace. God patiently endures calling us to repent and to turn to him. Romans two, four, his kindness, his forbearance, his patience is meant to lead us to repentance. So this morning, brothers and sisters, is there bitterness? Is there sexual sin? Is there a pornography habit? Is there a wandering heart? Is there sinful anxiety? Is there manipulation? Is there unrighteous anger that you need to repent of this morning?

24:00Oh, that you would repent? And if you're not following Jesus, if you're here as a visitor and, and you're just kind of looking at what Christians talk about on a Sunday morning, we invite you to come and find what it looks like to repent of your sins and to trust in Jesus as your Lord and Savior. Today can be a day of salvation. The Bible says in one John one, nine, if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us of our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. That's the stunning grace of God at work. In this text, God forgives sorted sin and sinners that go astray. In fact, our culture preaches that what you do can stay hidden and that sin is worth it.

24:49And they find all sorts of creative ways to do that. You know, get this VPN so no one can watch your internet activity. Uh, that there used to be this online dating service marketed that marketed itself to married people. And it had the famous slogan, life is short, have an affair. Las Vegas has a similar slogan. What happens here stays here. And yet those are lies from the very pit of hell. A more accurate slogan is this, your sin will find you out. Your sin will find you out. Onin thought no one would know I'm going into my wife Tamar, no one would know. Judah hoped it would all just go away.

25:34Okay, we, we tried to deliver the goat couldn't find her. Let's just go. Let's just make it all go away. Your sinned will find you out. And so there is a call in this text. Repent, repent. This text is a wonderfully gracious wake up call from God to some of us this morning. Do not delay. Repent of your sin before it is too late. Flee evil. Turn away from wickedness. Stop cheating, flee that adulterous affair. Stop looking at pornography. Stop harboring sin and bitterness. Stop manipulating and run to Jesus. He extends his grace to you even now. So lesson one, see God's long suffering and repent.

26:25Lesson two, see God's power to, excuse me. See God's power to transform and walk by faith. We've noticed already Genesis 37 could seamlessly transition to Genesis 39 and you wouldn't miss a beat. And yet Genesis 38 comes in and we're supposed to see something and it's this glorious transformation of Judah. Look at his resume. So far, human trafficker marries a Canaanite, treats Tamar unjustly and sleeps with his daughter-in-law thinking she's a prostitute. That's what he's known for. And when we fast forward to Genesis 43, Judah is a changed man. It's when their family is starving to death, there's famine and they're like, we gotta go back to Egypt and get more food.

27:30And they say to Jacob, we gotta bring Benjamin that guy. He wanted our youngest brother. And Jacob's like, I can't send him. Joseph's already dead. I can't send Benjamin. And what does Judah say? This is Genesis 43 verse nine. I will be a pledge of his safety. Look at the transformation. Instead of pledging his sign, his cord and his staff in payment of a goat that is to come to a prostitute, he pledges his life for his brother from the same wife of a previous brother that he was willing to sell into slavery. Then in Genesis 44, when they're with Joseph and they don't know that it's Joseph and the cup is found in Benjamin's sack and they say, you guys can all go, Benjamin stays.

28:16Genesis 44 33. Now therefore this is Judah speaking again, takes the lead and he says, please let your servant remain instead of the boy as a servant to my Lord. And let the boy go back with his brothers for how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I fear to see the evil that would find my father. What an amazing transformation and change in his heart and in mind. What happened, Genesis 38 happened. Judah experiences what it feels like to lose a son, not just one son, but two. And now he can put himself in Jacob's shoes, having lost Joseph or believing that he has and the prospect of losing Benjamin as well.

29:09God gets his attention and he's changed and he undergoes this stunning, amazing, unlikely transformation so that in Genesis 43 and 44, he's an honorable and self-sacrificing man who takes the lead. It's just astounding. It's so astounding that some of you are named Judah here in this room this morning. Not a lot of Esau's or Onin, but some of you name your children Judah because you think he he's a good man. You. You don't mainly think of Genesis 38, you think of 43 and 44 and then of the tribe of Judah leading all the way to Jesus. I wanna point out one other thing that's just interesting to note here in this text.

29:59Judah is intentionally being contrasted with Joseph. They're both living in isolation that they're both away from their brothers and father. They're both informed places. Joseph's cloak is dipped in the blood of a goat before it's brought back to his father. And Judah pays for a prostitute with a goat. Jacob will identify Joseph's cloak as Joseph's Judah will identify his own signet cord and staff as his own. Joseph is gonna resist sexual temptation from Potiphar's wife and Judah is gonna succumb to sexual temptation. Joseph is the better man through and through it. It's just clear from this text.

30:40And yet amazingly, another gracious pointer in this text is that Judah is going to be the one who's gonna carry on the offspring and the covenant of grace that was first made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. That's amazing. God could have just said, put it through Joseph, put it through Benjamin. We just don't say much about him that that's the perfect guy to use. Just pick the youngest one. He puts it through Judah, not Ruben, the firstborn, not Joseph, not Benjamin. God's covenant of grace runs through the most unlikely of people, even the scoundrel Judah, God is going to use to bless the world.

31:22And here's the good news, if God can use Judah for his divine purposes, he can even use us. He can use each one of us no matter how messy your family tree is, and I've heard from some of you, some of you have messy family trees there. There's divorce and infidelity and abandonment and substance abuse and alcoholism and being born out of wedlock and just fill in the blank, God is doing a stunning work of transformation and of redemption in His people Walk by faith because God is transforming you into the likeness of his son. Jesus. If we just read Genesis 38, we think Judah is too far gone, disqualified, don't use that guy.

32:21Pick the next one. And God says, no, I'm gonna use him. I'm gonna put the covenant through this one, through this tribe, through this man. And and it's a reminder not only for us that God can use broken sinners who are weak, but that it's a reminder for us to extend grace to others. When we see others in their walk of faith and in their journey and they're broken, they're limping, they're stumbling along, they got all sorts of mess following them. It's like when you walk out of the bathroom, you got the trail of toilet paper sticking to your shoe and you're just like, you know you got something there.

33:03And when we see people like that spiritually extend grace, God can use broken, weak people for his glorious purposes. He turns beauty, turns ashes to beauty to remind us that the power lies not in us, but in him. We have a glorious savior. Amen. Amen. Lesson three, see God's gracious work of salvation and worship. See God's gracious work of salvation in this text and worship. Now, one question that leaves many ConFuzzled, which is confused and puzzled is, is whether Tamar, whether what Tamar did was good or bad, right? Is she a harlet or she a heroine? Is she the hero of this story or she just wasn't as bad as Judah?

33:56The biblical text doesn't say exactly whether she was justified or sinful, but w rather the focus of this text is that God is sovereignly at work amid sin and wickedness. God works even through the most broken things to bring about the greatest things. And the accent mark here in this text then is God's prevailing grace. That even when humanity makes a mess of everything God is going to bring about his divine glorious purposes. The lesson is to see God's gracious work of salvation. And you might say, well, where's salvation here in this text? Well, God's blessing is gonna flow through Judah and Tamar.

34:38They give birth to Perez, who's going to be the great, great, great grandfather of King David, who will be the great, great, great great grandfather of Jesus, the Messiah, the Lord of heaven and earth. From this family tree, Jesus is forever linked to the tribe of Judah. Hebrews seven 14 writes, for it is evident that our Lord was descended from Judah or Revelation five, five, we always sing it in. Is he worthy? Right? Weep. No more behold the lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David has conquered. This is none other than Jesus, the descendant of Judah and Tamar. This is just astounding, amazing in the genealogy of Jesus.

35:31In Matthew one, it tells us, and Judah, the father of Perez and Zara by Tamar and during reminder of Israel's checkered history, but of the grace of God, it, many of you know this, but in Jesus' genealogy, there's five women mentioned. Tamar is the first, then it's Rahab Ruth Bathsheba, who's called the wife of Uriah, and then Mary Jesus' mother, four of the five are not Jews. And we assume, well, we assume that Tamar was a Canaanite and all of them are embroiled in some sort of sexual scandal. And they're all mentioned in the genealogy of Jesus. Why? It's to show that the Messiah doesn't come from the perfect neat and tidy bloodline.

36:21Uh, the family tree. His family tree is messy and checkered. And it, what it reveals is our need for Jesus and all of humanity's need for Jesus. Jesus is not contaminated by his bloodline, but he comes and he cleanses all those who would be grafted into him, into Christ. He comes and he rescues us from our defilement to redeem barren wombs and incestuous scandals and adultery and murder and messiness. God redeems messy brokenness to display his power to save sinners so that we would come to not only look like Jesus, but that we would treasure Christ in all things. So this morning, I hope you see the stunning grace of God in Genesis 38.

37:21If you're broken and messy and far from perfect, you have come to the right place. You have come to the right savior. We have a glorious God who comes so that we might be redeemed and washed and don't, he's not surprised. He's not taken aback by our story whether there's, there's sorted sin in our past or in our story or in our ancestors, in our family tree. Jesus is leading his people to redemption and transformation. And he loves to extend his stunning and amazing grace. And he says, oh, come and receive this grace that you might walk by faith, that you might repent and that you might come and bask and worship in this glorious grace that cleanses us from all unrighteousness.

38:17Though our sins, they are many, his mercy is more. Let's pray. Father, we just marvel at how good you are in such a dark text. There's such stunning grace that though we are sinners that fall short sin with all sorts of baggage that we bring, we wanna marvel at who you are. Oh thank you Jesus, for your shed blood, for your forgiveness of sins. We pray that we would be a people that repents walks by faith and worships Jesus in all things. We pray it in his name. Amen.

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