Raise Up Seed For Your Brother

I. EXORDIUM:

Will you live a long life?

Yes. I'm raised with JESUS.

Proverbs 3:16 (Amplified Bible)

Length of days is in her right hand, and in her left hand are riches and honor.

Romans 8:11 (Amplified Bible)

And if the Spirit of Him Who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, [then] He Who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also restore to life your mortal (short-lived, perishable) bodies through His Spirit Who dwells in you.

1 Thessalonians 1:10 (Amplified Bible)

And [how you] look forward to and await the coming of His Son from heaven, Whom He raised from the dead—Jesus, Who personally rescues and delivers us out of and from the wrath [bringing punishment] which is coming [upon the impenitent] and draws us to Himself [investing us with all the privileges and rewards of the new life in Christ, the Messiah].

II. AUDIENCE PROFILE:

Believers

III. OBJECTIVES:

To show that every believer was raised up together with the Seed, the LORD JESUS and will never experience death anymore in this life and in the life to come.

Galatians 3:16 (Amplified Bible)

Now the promises (covenants, agreements) were decreed and made to Abraham and his Seed (his Offspring, his Heir). He [God] does not say, And to seeds (descendants, heirs), as if referring to many persons, but, And to your Seed (your Descendant, your Heir), obviously referring to one individual, Who is [none other than] Christ (the Messiah).

IV. TEXT:

Genesis 38:8 (Amplified Bible)

Then Judah told Onan, Marry your brother’s widow; live with her and raise offspring for your brother.

V. THESIS:

Praise, worship and thank You very much LORD JESUS for You raised us up together with the Seed, the LORD JESUS, and ALL Your promises and Abrahamic Covenant is at work and actively running and working in our raised lives today and in the ages to come.

Galatians 3:16 (Amplified Bible)

Now the promises (covenants, agreements) were decreed and made to Abraham and his Seed (his Offspring, his Heir). He [God] does not say, And to seeds (descendants, heirs), as if referring to many persons, but, And to your Seed (your Descendant, your Heir), obviously referring to one individual, Who is [none other than] Christ (the Messiah).

VI. TITLE:

Raise up seed for your brother

VII. EXPLICATION:

A. Author: Moses

B. Date written: 1450 - 1410 B.C.

C. Purpose: Book of Origins

D. To whom written: People of Israel

E. Main theme: Man's sin and initial steps for his redemption initiated by GOD.

F. Keyword: Beginning

G. Key verse: First Messianic Promise -

Genesis 3:15 (Amplified Bible)

And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her Offspring; He will bruise and tread your head underfoot, and you will lie in wait and bruise His heel.

VIII. MAIN BODY:

Genesis 38:8 (Amplified Bible)

Then Judah told Onan, Marry your brother’s widow; live with her and raise offspring for your brother.

Genesis 38:8 (New International Version)

Then 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."

A. Judah told Onan, second to Er, to marry brother's widow

"Then Judah told Onan, Marry your brother’s widow;"

Deuteronomy 25:5-6 (Amplified Bible)

If brothers live together and one of them dies and has no son, his wife shall not be married outside the family to a stranger [an excluded man]. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her and take her as his wife and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.

And the firstborn son shall succeed to the name of the dead brother, that his name may not be blotted out of Israel.

Onan has been commanded by his father Judah to perform the Mosaic code called Lex Leviratus as a recognized custom during those days. The existence of the practice has been traced in different frames among Indians, Persians, and other nations of Asia and Africa—and raise up seed to thy brother. (Source: The Pulpit Commentary) Purpose: to preserve the name of his deceased brother that died childless (Source: Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible)

According to Jamieson, Fausset & Brown Commentary, Lex Leviratus is "the first instance of a custom, which was afterwards incorporated among the laws of Moses, that when a husband died leaving a widow, his brother next of age was to marry her, and the issue, if any, was to be served heir to the deceased."

Onan was very conscious of his personality and personal dignity rather than conscious of GOD's Grace and Protection upon his life, disobeyed his father, Judah.

Psalms 97:11 (Amplified Bible)

Light is sown for the [uncompromisingly] righteous and strewn along their pathway, and joy for the upright in heart [the irrepressible joy which comes from consciousness of His favor and protection].