A background check

A background check is done by many companies now. Why is this done? How is it done? Is the information of the background check up to date.

What about the background check on Jesus? We might not see anything with him except a son of a carpenter. What if we go deeper into the linage of Jesus or his genealogy. What type of people was in is bloodline. A generation of people whom may have love God but yet did some things wrong.

Today we be looking at Judah. How it all started out of this tribe and the father of Jacob. Who is Judah and why this bloodline. Maybe there was something about this tribe of Isreal. A person was anointed to be king and later became the king. One thing we do know is Jesus is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

We all at one point or the other have a skeleton in the closet. We have done things we thought was right in the sight of men, yet in God’s eyes they were wrong. Judah, and others in this lineage or background of Jesus didn’t alway do the things God demanded from them. Yet we see God’s plan being manifested to bring the perfect savior. A list of people that was imperfect yet God use them to bring forth a mighty King to redeem each and everyone.

We see Judah and Reuben taking charge in the light of Joseph. His others brothers wanted to kill Joseph, but Judah and Reuben didn’t want to harm come to Joseph, meaning death. In Genesis 37:18‭-‬20‭, ‬26‭-‬28 KJV we see what happened.

But they saw him in the distance, and before he reached them, they plotted to kill him. “Here comes that dreamer!” they said to each other. “Come now, let’s kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns and say that a ferocious animal devoured him. Then we’ll see what comes of his dreams.” Judah said to his brothers, “What will we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood? Come, let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay our hands on him; after all, he is our brother, our own flesh and blood.” His brothers agreed. So when the Midianite merchants came by, his brothers pulled Joseph up out of the cistern and sold him for twenty shekels of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt.
Genesis 37:18‭-‬20‭, ‬26‭-‬28 KJV

What they did was wrong, yet God was able to work things out in that situation. They never knew what was going to take place in the future. By them not killing Joseph and selling him to the Ishmaelites lives was saved from the famine. We don’t know how God will work it out but he did in that situation.

We see the character of Judah standing against the killing of a human life. Selling him to others could have been wrong but yet it open the doors for people and spared lives of the entire region. Judah here showed love and compassion towards his brother in a sence if not killing but the other alternative. Judah also showed come at the time when Joseph was going to keep Benjamin in Egypt. Judah pleaded his case and told Joseph let him stay and send Benjamin back to his father.

He was willing to take the place an other person because he knew that it would only break the heart of his father if Benjamin didn’t come back. The word of Judah was heard and this is what was said.

“Now then, please let your servant remain here as my Lord’s slave in place of the boy, and let the boy return with his brothers. How can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? No! Do not let me see the misery that would come on my father.”
Genesis 44:33‭-‬34 KJV

What Judah said toched Joseph life until he couldn’t contain it. This is what Joseph said.

Then Joseph said to his brothers, “Come close to me.” When they had done so, he said, “I am your brother Joseph, the one you sold into Egypt! And now, do not be distressed and do not be angry with yourselves for selling me here, because it was to save lives that God sent me ahead of you. For two years now there has been famine in the land, and for the next five years there will be no plowing and reaping. But God sent me ahead of you to preserve for you a remnant on earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
Genesis 45:4‭-‬7 NIV

Judah background here is good. He knew by killing Joesph it wouldn’t solve anything. Maybe by selling to that band of people he could be able to make it. The band of people sold Joseph in Egypt. God was able to do wonderful things in Joseph life. The greatest point was God took a mess and turned it to a plus. Judah also was willing to stay there in the land as a slave, inorder that his father wouldn’t be heart broken

This showed love towards his father because he didn’t want no thing happen to him. The way Judah came across Joseph couldn’t take it no longer and he told his brother who he was. God planned played out well.

From there we can see loyalty and life that Judah showed to Joseph. Also we see he didn’t want his father to suffer another lost to his son. Judah wanted to send Benjamin back to his father and he will be the slave. Exchanging one life for the other.

Therefore Judah character speaks volume today, showing love, compassion, the good of a person, and much more. One this part of the background check all is looking well for Judah.

Tomorrow we be look into Judah background check it’s will be about his family life. What type of home life did he have.

Tribe of Judah a look at the good and bad part about the genealogy of Jesus.

Givinhope Evangelistic Ministry With founder Evangelist John Corum.