And it's Judah, not Rubin the oldest, but it's Judah who steps forward to speak. And his speech is

this long, heartfelt speech. It's actually one of the longest speeches in Genesis. And he recounts

Jacob's grief. He says, let your servant remain instead of the lad and let the lad go up with his

brothers. So he moves from being this callous self-centered kind of jerk of a man

to one who is offering himself up so that his brother and his father won't have to suffer anymore.

In part, probably knowing that he caused some of the suffering in the first place, right? He is

on this redemption path. And this is Judahah's moment of redemption he does what he failed

to do decades earlier he refuses to abandon his brother he refuses to break his father's heart he

refuses to repeat the sins of the past he has learned and grown his willingness to sacrifice himself

becomes the turning point that moves Joseph to break his resistance.

Joseph weeps openly when he hears this and he reveals his true identity.

And the family begins to heal.

This really, really broken, messed up family begins to heal.

Hello and welcome back to Fares. Come follow me for Old Testament year. I am Jennifer

Roach-Leese, and today we are going to be talking about Genesis 42 to 50.

It is one of the most beloved stories in the Old Testament.

You probably know this story.

If you don't, if you haven't read it, pause, go read 42 to 50 and come back, but I bet you're

already familiar with the story.

If you haven't read through it, you're in for a

treat, but I think you probably have. It's really good. So quick overview of what happens in

these passages. We're in the middle of a famine. Right. Last week, Joseph's brothers sold him into slavery,

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