Genesis 23 audio sermon4/14/2024 “By faith Sarah herself also received strength to conceive seed, and she bore a child when she was past the age, because she judged Him faithful who had promised. In Hebrews 11, she is noted for her life of faith – The patterns of the life of Sarah are deep and rich. Through her came the otherwise impossible birth of Isaac, who is a picture of Christ, and through both her and Mary came the Messiah Himself. From the Bible, we can infer other women who are in His line, but Sarah is explicitly mentioned as bearing the son of promise, through whom God’s plans would be realized.Īnd so from Sarah, there is a connection directly linking her to Mary, the mother of Jesus – both physically and spiritually. She is the first woman who is actually noted since Eve who was in the line of the Messiah. She lived to the age of 127 and died 37 years after Isaac was born. Sarah is the only woman in the Bible whose age at death and specific place of burial is recorded. Sarah lived one hundred and twenty-seven years these were the years of the life of Sarah. And so… May God speak to us through His word today and may His glorious name ever be praised. We have one chance to get things right in this life and so we should be attentive to the word of our God now while we have the chance. Some of us are faithful and some lack faith, but no matter what, we are still just flesh and we will all wither like the grass and fade like the flower. God is the Creator and we are His creatures. 8 The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever.” Isaiah 40:6-8 7 The grass withers, the flower fades, Because the breath of the Lord blows upon it Surely the people are grass. ( W) 20 So the field and the cave in it were deeded ( X) to Abraham by the Hittites as a burial site.Text Verse: The voice said, “Cry out!” And he said, “What shall I cry?” “All flesh is grass, And all its loveliness is like the flower of the field. 19 Afterward Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave in the field of Machpelah ( U) near Mamre (which is at Hebron ( V)) in the land of Canaan. ( O)ġ7 So Ephron’s field in Machpelah ( P) near Mamre ( Q)-both the field and the cave in it, and all the trees within the borders of the field-was deeded 18 to Abraham as his property ( R) in the presence of all the Hittites ( S) who had come to the gate ( T) of the city. Accept it from me so I can bury my dead there.”ġ4 Ephron answered Abraham, 15 “Listen to me, my lord the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver, ( M) but what is that between you and me? Bury your dead.”ġ6 Abraham agreed to Ephron’s terms and weighed out for him the price he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver, ( N) according to the weight current among the merchants. Bury your dead.”ġ2 Again Abraham bowed down before the people of the land 13 and he said to Ephron in their hearing, “Listen to me, if you will. I give it to you in the presence of my people. “Listen to me I give ( L) you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. Ask him to sell it to me for the full price as a burial site among you.”ġ0 Ephron the Hittite was sitting among his people and he replied to Abraham in the hearing of all the Hittites ( J) who had come to the gate ( K) of his city. 8 He said to them, “If you are willing to let me bury my dead, then listen to me and intercede with Ephron son of Zohar ( H) on my behalf 9 so he will sell me the cave of Machpelah, ( I) which belongs to him and is at the end of his field. None of us will refuse you his tomb for burying your dead.”ħ Then Abraham rose and bowed down before the people of the land, the Hittites. Bury your dead in the choicest of our tombs. ( F)”ĥ The Hittites replied to Abraham, 6 “Sir, listen to us. Sell me some property for a burial site here so I can bury my dead. ( D) He said, 4 “I am a foreigner and stranger ( E) among you. ( C)ģ Then Abraham rose from beside his dead wife and spoke to the Hittites. 2 She died at Kiriath Arba ( A) (that is, Hebron) ( B) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went to mourn for Sarah and to weep over her. 23 Sarah lived to be a hundred and twenty-seven years old.
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