Join us again this week as we continue our sermon series in Genesis with chapter 38 verses 1-30.

This is one of the strangest interruptions in the Joseph story. You finish Genesis 37 with Joseph sold into slavery and then suddenly the Bible detours into a dark, uncomfortable chapter about Judah and Tamar.

And the question is unavoidable: Why is this here?

This chapter is messy. Sexual sin, hypocrisy, scandal, and humiliation. But it’s also one of the most important chapters in Genesis, because it reveals something stunning.

The Messiah doesn’t come through Joseph. He comes through Judah.

This chapter teaches that God’s plans don’t depend on human virtue, and it gives us a powerful principle.