The "Most Improved" Patriarch
Outline
- Most Improved
- About Judah
- Fourth son of Jacob and Leah
- Selling Joseph
- "What will we gain by killing our brother? We'd have to cover up the crime. Instead of hrtin him, let's sell him to those Ishmaelite traders. After all, he is our brother - our own flesh and blood." Genesis 37:26-27
- Incest, violence, and hypocrisy
- Levirate Marriage
- Incest - Judah's family do not provide for Tamar
- Incest - burn her to death
- Incest - and signs of hope
- Appeals to Joseph
- My Lord, I cannot go back
- The blessing on Judah
- Key lessons from Judah
- People can grow
- We need to grow
- We need to let people grow
- We need to hep each other grow
- In the family
- We need to grow in the family
- For good marriages
- For parents and Kids
- Everywhere