Defiance and Grace: The Story of Tamar

White Horse Inn

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Christianity, History, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 1 December 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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While Tamar's story may seem out of place in the Christmas season, it beautifully illustrates how God’s grace intervenes in our lives, reaching broken families and uplifting those who suffer injustice. Michael Horton, Justin Holcomb, Walter Strickland, and Bob Hiller delve into Tamar's narrative in Genesis 38, uncovering why the hope of the gospel shines brightly even in our darkest and most uncomfortable stories.

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Featuring: Michael Horton, Justin Holcomb, Walter Strickland, and Bob Hiller.

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0:00.0	when we're talking about the people that God put on flesh to save. And so I think we do ourselves
0:11.4	a disservice by sterilizing the Christmas story. Because the reality is, is that if we would look
0:17.1	back on people even in this genealogy in Matthew, we want to cancel most of them
0:21.7	in today's culture. Yeah. Not incorporate them into the genealogy of the Messiah. Right. So I think
0:28.2	this actually gives us some hope because now we see, okay, even these people are justified by their
0:35.2	faith, despite their works that are just all over the place. And so now we, too,
0:41.1	because of this child king, can have hope. Applying the riches of the Reformation to the modern church.
1:00.1	This is Whitehorse's Inn, a weekly roundtable discussion about theology and culture. Welcome to White Horse Inn.
1:17.9	We are starting a new series called The Mothers of Jesus.
1:22.0	Five women are mentioned in Jesus' genealogy in Matthew.
1:25.8	Who are they?
1:26.9	Why are these women mentioned among the many men who connect Jesus to Abraham?
1:31.5	What lessons do they teach us even today? This series leading up to Christmas allows us to see Jesus through the eyes of his mothers, who all looked in faith for his appearing.
1:41.7	Jesus' genealogy in Matthew 1 recites 14 generations from Abraham to David,
1:47.0	14 more from David to the Babylonian exile, and 14 more from the exile to Christ. But Matthew's
1:53.2	symmetrical geology is much more subtle than one might think. For one thing, contrary to the patriarchal
2:00.2	mentality of the time, Matthew has inserted
2:02.5	five women, Gentile women, into the long list of men, which is a fascinating innovation.
2:08.5	None of these women's names, Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, Bashiba, and Mary are found in Luke's genealogy.
2:14.1	All but Mary are Gentiles. And this is done on purpose that they're mentioned.
2:18.3	And this should cause us to ask some questions. Who are these women? And why are they there?
2:23.5	Four of these women are included early in the genealogy. And Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, and the wife of
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