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Genesis 38:1-11 Click here for Bible Verses<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Genesis 38:1-11.\u00a0 Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

Genesis 38:1-11 (NIV)<\/em><\/strong>
\n1\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0At that time, Judah left his brothers and went down to stay with a man of Adullam named Hirah.
\n2\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0There Judah met the daughter of a Canaanite man named Shua. He married her and lay with her;
\n3\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0she became pregnant and gave birth to a son, who was named Er.
\n4\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0She conceived again and gave birth to a son and named him Onan.
\n5\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0She gave birth to still another son and named him Shelah. It was at Kezib that she gave birth to him.
\n6\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Judah got a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.
\n7\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0But Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the\u00a0LORD’s sight; so the\u00a0LORD\u00a0put him to death.
\n8\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Then 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.”
\n9\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0But 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.
\n10\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0What he did was wicked in the\u00a0LORD’s sight; so he put him to death also.
\n11\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Judah 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.<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 1-11:\u00a0\u00a0According to the customs of the time, if a man and woman were married and the husband passed away without leaving any children, the deceased man\u2019s closest brother would marry the deceased man\u2019s widow and procreate children with her.\u00a0\u00a0Those children would take on the name of the deceased man.\u00a0\u00a0That way the deceased man\u2019s line could continue and the widow could be provided for financially.\u00a0\u00a0This custom was known as the levirate law of marriage (\u201clevir\u201d in Latin means \u201chusband\u2019s brother\u201d).<\/p>\n

In this case Judah\u2019s firstborn Er was married to Tamar, but Er is struck down because he \u201cwas wicked in the Lord\u2019s sight\u201d (v7).\u00a0\u00a0Thus it was incumbent upon Er\u2019s brother Onan to marry Tamar and procreate children with her so that Er\u2019s line could continue.\u00a0\u00a0However, Onan refuses to fulfill his duty.\u00a0\u00a0Onan instead uses Tamar just for sex.\u00a0\u00a0The fact that he would keep spilling his semen on the ground suggests that he would repeatedly trick Tamar into having sex with him, making her think it was for the purpose of procreating children, only to remove each time the possibility of her getting pregnant.\u00a0\u00a0This was wicked in the Lord\u2019s sight and thus Onan is struck down and killed.\u00a0\u00a0Scared that he might lose his last remaining son Shelah if Shelah married Tamar, Judah refuses to let Shelah marry Tamar and instead sends her away back to her own family.<\/p>\n

Onan and his father Judah were irresponsible when it came to taking care of Tamar.\u00a0\u00a0They put their own selfish desires ahead of the need to protect Tamar and provide for her future.<\/p>\n

What can we learn from this?<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The fact that Judah\u2019s sons Er and Onan both died because they acted wickedly in God\u2019s sight is a reminder that the wages of our sin is death (Romans 6:23).\u00a0\u00a0Because of our sin, we all deserve to die and be separated from God.\u00a0\u00a0But many generations later, another descendant of Judah would be born.\u00a0\u00a0Instead of acting wickedly, this descendant would do what is pleasing in God\u2019s sight and make salvation possible for all of us.\u00a0\u00a0His name is Jesus.\u00a0\u00a0Because of Jesus we can say that \u201cthe wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord\u201d (Romans 6:23).<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0As we see in Onan\u2019s case, lust will cause us to act irresponsibly and selfishly, to forget about our duties and responsibilities and to think only about ourselves rather than the well being and needs of others.<\/p>\n

Father God, thank You that from Judah\u2019s line would come not just wicked sons who would die for their sins, but a Saviour who would come to rescue us from our sins.\u00a0\u00a0In Jesus\u2019 name, AMEN!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Genesis 38:1-11.\u00a0 Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

Genesis 38:1-11 (NIV)
\n1\u00a0\u00a0At that time, Judah left his brothers and went down to stay with a man of Adullam named Hirah.
\n2\u00a0\u00a0There Judah met the daughter of a Canaanite man named Shua. He married her and lay with her;
\n3\u00a0\u00a0she became pregnant and gave birth to a son, who was named Er.
\n4\u00a0\u00a0She conceived again and gave birth to a son and named him Onan.
\n5\u00a0\u00a0She gave birth to still another son and named him Shelah. It was at Kezib that she gave birth to him.
\n6\u00a0\u00a0Judah got a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar…….<\/p>\n

On verses 1-11:\u00a0\u00a0According to the customs of the time, if a man and woman were married and the husband passed away without leaving any children, the deceased man\u2019s closest brother would marry the deceased man\u2019s widow and procreate children with her.\u00a0\u00a0Those children would take on the name of the deceased man.\u00a0\u00a0That way the deceased man\u2019s line could continue and the widow could be provided for financially.\u00a0\u00a0This custom was known as the levirate law of marriage (\u201clevir\u201d in Latin means \u201chusband\u2019s brother\u201d).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gametime-sharing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16536"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16548,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16536\/revisions\/16548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}