Healing Touch Podcast

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 Episode #106 The Stroke of Death [32:28m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

The Stroke of Death
Genesis 23
Pastor Tom
7-21-10

Introduction: The special friends and favorites of heaven are not exempt from death.

I. Sarah’s death – vv. 1- 2

• Death parts those whom nothing else could part
• Abraham mourns and weeps
• Lawful and dutiful – Romans 12:15
• Sorrow not as without hope – I Thessalonians 4:13

II. A burying place – vv.3 – 15

• The danger of over-grieving
• More care for resting place for soul than burying place for body
• Reminder that we are sojourners
• Request, offer, refusal

III. Paid in full –vv. 16 – 20

• Business done openly
• Paid immediately – eternal inheritance does not entitle us to worldly possession

Consider:

1. A burying place was the first ground Abraham possessed in Canaan.
2. The only land Abraham ever owned
3. The sepulcher was at the end of a field
4. Still wandering in life Abraham secures a place for resurrection

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