Genesis 23 audio sermon2/19/2024 Genesis 23:8-9, “And he spoke with them, saying, ‘If it is your wish for me to bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and approach Ephron the son of Zohar for me that he may give me the cave of Machpelah which he owns, which is at the end of his field for the full price let him give it to me in your presence for a burial site.’” Genesis 23:7, “So Abraham rose and bowed to the people of the land, the sons of Heth.” Genesis 23:5-6, “The sons of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him, ‘Hear us, my lord, you are a mighty prince among us bury your dead in the choicest of our graves none of us will refuse you his grave for burying your dead.’” Genesis 23:3-4, “Then Abraham rose from before his dead, and spoke to the sons of Heth, saying, ‘I am a stranger and a sojourner among you give me a burial site among you that I may bury my dead out of my sight.’” Genesis 23:2, “Sarah died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan and Abraham went in to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.” Genesis 23:1, “Now Sarah lived one hundred and twenty-seven years these were the years of the life of Sarah.” This evening we will conclude our study of Genesis 23 by noting Genesis 23:12-20. Please turn in your Bibles to Genesis 23:1. This sermon calls all to ask, “do I believe? Have I forsaken any chance of understanding the world without Christ?” There is no more important question one can ask because it concerns not only their good in this life, but their eternal salvation.Genesis: Genesis 23:12-20-Abraham Closes Deal with Ephron for Burial Plot Only by repenting and believing in Jesus Christ can one return to true fellowship with God and be freed from the curse of sin. All must put their faith in God and in what He has done on the cross in Jesus Christ. True understanding only comes when one accepts that they are not God, but His creatures. This is utter folly because apart from God, no one can truly know themselves or the world. In their pride, people seek to understand and explain the world by their own reason and standards. This is still the fundamental problem of sin and evil: people do not accept that they are God’s creatures and subject to his law. He says the reason the first parents sinned is because they refused to acknowledge their own creature-hood and ignorance. Martyn Lloyd-Jones preaches on the fall and the first transgression of Adam and Eve. What is at the root of all of humanity’s problems? In this sermon on the fall of man from Genesis 3:22–24 titled “Man Ate of the Fruit,” Dr. 24So he drove out the man and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life. 22¶ And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: 23Therefore the LORD God sent him …Ģ2¶ And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: 23Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
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