Death and the Christian - Genesis Part 56

Wearing a verse by verse study of the first book in the Bible, the book of Genesis and were ready to move on.

The chapter 23 were Abraham's beloved wife Sarah dies, and this is what we want to talk about today we want to talk about death and the Christian, so let's take him remember hearing Genesis 23. It has been over 20 years since Abraham went through the traumatic test the God putting through in chapter 22.

Regarding the sacrifice of his son Isaac as we open chapter 23 Sarah his wife is 127 years old.

And Abraham is 137 years old. So let's pick up verse one. Now Sarah lived to be 127 years old and died at Kiryat Arbaugh. That is, he Braun in the land of Canaan will show you a map so you get to see where he Braun is is just south of modern-day Jerusalem verse two and Abraham went in to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her that Abraham arose from beside his dead wife and said to the Hittites, they were the people group that were dominant in the land of Canaan. At this time I am an alien and a stranger among you, he said sell me some property for burial side that I may bury my dead here. Let me summarize what happens next. The Hittites were very amenable.

They were very kind and respectful.

They offered Abraham any piece of land he wanted and he chose the cave of mock the law right there in he Braun verse 11 and Efron who owned this cave said to Abraham know, my lord, listen to me. I give you this field and the cave dissented. Bury your dead and Abraham said to Efron.

I will pay the price of the field accepted for me so that I can bury my dead you understand what's going on your Efron wanted to give Abraham free of charge. This cave and Abraham said no no no I want to buy and the reason for that is because Abraham wanted to make sure that the ownership of this cave would never be disputed in the future and that's why he insisted on paying market value 400 pieces of silver along with getting a legal transfer of the title watch verse 17 so Efron's field and mock the law was deeded over to Abraham as his property and after this Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave of mock the law facing mom rail which is Hebron in the land of Canaan. So the field and the cave that is in it word deeded over to Abraham by the Hittites for burial site we should mention that not only is Sarah buried in this cave, but also Abraham. Her husband also Isaac, their son, also Rebecca Isaacs why.

Also, Jacob, one of Isaac Sullins and Leah.

One of Jacob's wives are all buried in this cave and so you can understand why down through the centuries, the Israelites memorialize this spot, and in fact in the time of Herod the great 37 BC to four BC. Just before the birth of Christ. They built an enormous mausoleum over the cave which still stands in he Braun to this very day. All right, now that the stars were going to go in our passage today because were going to stop now were going to ask our most important question so loud, Prince William, Bethesda on the Internet campus down to the edge community here Tyson's are we ready come on down nice and loud want to pray in no no no no no no, come on now ready one more time. Want to go through a much better is there. I lawn I am. I see the chapter.

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What difference does that make to me will let's talk about that because friends were all going to die, and the question is why. Why do people die. Well, to get that answer we got to go to the Bible and when we do, the Bible says, Romans chapter 5 verse 12, the apostle Paul writes therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world. Who was this one man, Adam, right, and the next three words death through sin. Say it again death through sin. The Bible teaches, my friends, that death was not a part of God's original creation. Rather, death is a penalty for Adam's sin that God allowed in the world. In fact, in Genesis chapter 2 verse 17 you'll remember that back in the garden of Eden. God said to Adam, if you eat from that tree. I told you not to you shall surely die. Adam ate, and indeed the penalty God promised came on him and the entire human race. You say when it was see that's the problem wanted to come on entire human race. I mean Adam was want to do that. Is this problem.

He should've died while the rest of us die all my friends listen to Romans chapter 5 verse 12 he goes on to say. Therefore, just as through one man, Adam sin entered the world, and death through sin watch so death spread to all men because all sin. Exhibit lawn. I didn't sin. I wasn't there I did not eat that fruit. Why is God holding me liable for what Adam did.

Well that's an excellent question, and by asking the question, it brings us to one of the bedrock principles of the word of God. One of the bedrock principles of God's plan of salvation.

If you and I understand this, God's entire plan of salvation makes perfect sense and the entire Bible makes perfect sense. So is the theological discussion I want to put your thinking Gautam Come on Norton We Go Stay with Me in God's Mind. The Bible Teaches, There Were Only Two Races of People in the World Spiritually. Adam's Race. And Jesus Christ's Race. This Is Why First Corinthians 1522 Says, for As One of the Next Two Words in Adam All Die, so in Christ All Will Be Made Alive. This Is It. These Are the Two Races. These Are Our Two Choices Every Body in This World and the Sight of God Is Either in Adam or They Are in Christ. Now the Bible Teaches That God Knows You and God Loves You and God Cares about You As an Individual but That Doesn't Change the Fact That First and Foremost, God Sees You and Me As Part of a Spiritual Raise and Treats Us Accordingly and Is a Member of the Race.

The Bible Says You and I Have a Union with the Head of Our Race. We Call This the Doctrine of Federal Headship Very Important. Adam Is the Federal Head of His Race.

Jesus Christ Is the Federal Head of His Race. Listen Carefully Now and Because of Our Union with the Head of Our Race.

What Ever They Done before God, Good or Bad, Is Automatically Imputed, It Is Automatically Passed on to Every Single Member of Their Race Is That I Don't Think Understand This. Yes You Do's and Think I Do. Yes, You Do Your American You Understand This Fact.

If You're British or You Understand This Effect to Become, for Most Countries, You Understand This, Let's Talk about America Here in America As American Citizens. The President Of The United States Is the Federal Head of America. Whatever He Promises Somebody Whatever He Agrees to with Somebody Whatever He Commits to with Somebody You and I As Americans We Live with the Consequences of What He Did or Said, Whether We like It or Not, Because He Is the Federal Head of Our Society of Our Nation. For Example, Two Years Ago the Federal Head of America, Pres. Jimmy Carter Decided to Give Away the Panama Canal. Now I Didn't Want to Give Away the Panama Canal.

I like the Panama Canal. I Wanted to Keep the Panama Canal for Ourselves Whether That's Right or Wrong Doesn't Matter. The Point Is, Once He Made That Commitment to the Nation of Panama All I Live with the Consequences of What He Did Because He's the Federal Head of America Body You Got That I so This Is the Principle Were Talking about Here. Adam Did More Than Leave behind a Bad Example As the Federal Head of Our Race Because Were All Born in Adam We Come into This World.

He Made Us All Sinners in the Side of God Because He's a Sinner in the Sight of God, He Gave Away Our Right to Standing before God by What He Did in the Garden and in Its Place. He Brought Judgment Condemnation Hello and Eternal Separation from God upon All of Sort in His Race Is It Wow This Whole Racing Is Really a Bummer in You Know It's Not a Bummer Because This Race Thing Is the Exact Mechanism God Used. To Create the Plan of Salvation Watch When Jesus Christ Came into the World, He Came in of the World.

The Bible Says to Establish a New Race We Call It in Christ, We Just Read about in a Moment Ago, over Which He Is the Federal Head and Praise the Lord. This Second Adam the Federal Head of This Second Phrase Had a Very Different Career Than the First Data, the Other for the Career of Our Second Adam Is Described in Hebrews 415 As Being without Sin. It Was His Life That He Lived Was a Life of Perfect Obedience to God. There Was No Condemnation in It. No Judgment before God in It of Any Kind, and This Is the Great News of the Bible. Don't Miss This Is the Great News of the Bible Is That As Believers in Jesus Because We Have a New Race That We Join. We Also Have a New Federal Head Who Is Righteous and Perfect and Un-Condemned and Worthy of Heaven and Worthy of Eternal Life, and Because of Our Union with Him. God Sees All of Us Who Are in His Race in the Very Same Way. We Understand That Praise Lord You Don't Believe Me. Let's Look at Some of the Bible by Romans Chapter 8 Verse One There Is Now the Bible Says No Condemnation to Those Who Are What in Christ.

When We Join the Race of Jesus Christ Because He Is the Federal Head of Our Race Enjoys No Condemnation from God. We in His Race Enjoy No Condemnation from God about This. First Corinthians 1522 for As in Adam All Die, so Lots in Christ All Will Be Made Alive.

Why Because He's Alive Forever Risen from the Dead Right so Every Body in His Race Is Alive Forever and Going to Be Risen from the Dead Tape Ephesians Chapter 1 Verse Three Says What the First Two Words in Christ, God Has Blessed Us with Every Spiritual Blessing in the Heavenly Realms Because Jesus, the Head of Our Race Enjoys Every Blessing That God Could Possibly Give Someone We Enjoy All of Those Blessings As Well. As Members of His Race. Second Corinthians 517 If Anyone Is in Christ, They Become a New Person Old Things Passed Away Behold All Things Become New Page Join a New Race, New Person Present All Our Yeah and One More and I Love This One. Ephesians 26 Says Next First Two Words Robin in Christ. That's Right, God Has Seated Us in the Heavenly Places with Jesus You Understand What This Essay Is the Saying That Is a Believer in Jesus Christ As a Member of Jesus Christ New Race As a Person Who Is in Christ in God's Mind. You and I Are Already Seated in Heaven with Jesus. God Is Just Waiting for You and Me to Finish Our Jobs down Here on Earth so We Can Go up to Heaven and Take Our Seat. Praise God for That Friend That Seed Is Already There and Got Your Name on It and Nobody Else Considered Waiting for You to Finish and Get Their This Is This Is Amazing. We Can Keep Going, but I Think You Got the Point. How Great Is It to Be in the Crimes Top. How Great Is That to Be in a New Race with a Union to a New Federal Head. Praise the Lord and Praise the Lord.

Praise the Lord Now, Let's Summarize and Say This Understood Properly. Salvation Is Essentially a Matter of Changing Races Spiritually. It's a Matter of Accepting God's Offer to Transfer Because Out Of Adam's Race with All of Its Sin and Judgment and into Jesus Christ Raise with All of Its Blessing and All of Its Holiness. Listen to Me Now Want to Appear This Is How God Saw All the Problem of Sin and Death and Hell.

He Solved the Problem by Creating a New Race for You and Me to Join.

You Got It All Right Now. The Question I Want to Close with Today Is so Heavy Chains Races.

My Friend Listen to Me You Dare Not Leave This Life Still in Abba.

You Dare Not Go Out Of This Life in Adam's Race. You Will Face the Full Wrath of God.

If You Do That against Your Sins and You Will End up in Hell for All of Eternity. Don't You Let Anybody Tell You Anything Different and What's More, Nobody Can Work Their Way Out Of Adam's Race. Nobody Can Earn Their Way Out Of Adam's Race. Nobody Can Be Good Enough to Get Out Of Adam's Race to Transfer You from Being in Adam to Being in Christ, God Has To Do That You Can't Do That, nor Can I and God Says He Will Do It for Anybody Who Will Renounce All of Their Human Effort to Try to Get into Heaven and Pay for Their Sins and Save Themselves and Instead Will Trust What Jesus Did on the Cross for Them Shedding His Blood to Pay for Their Sin. That's the Switch That We Flicked and When We Flicked That Switch by Putting Our Faith in Christ. God Immediately Transfers Us from Adam's Race to Christ.

Race Never Ever Ever Ever to Go Back Again. You Have Been Transferred and That for Its God and This Is What You're Really Offering People When You Go out and Share Christ.

Now You May Not Want to Explain All This to Them Right off the Bat Because of My People Much but When You Say to Somebody, We Want You to Receive Christ When You Say to Somebody, We Want You to Accept Christ. When You Silly Say to Somebody, We Want You to Asked Jesus in Your Life What You Are Really Asking Them to Do Is to Flip the Switch That Suddenly Allows God to Take Them Out Of Adam's Race and Put Them in Christ Race You Got That and That's How Salvation Works. Once We Are in Christ Race. We Are Seen by God As Benefiting from Everything the Head of Our Race Did and That's Why We Go to Heaven. And That's Why We Have Eternal Life, and That's Why We Have All the Blessings That We Get, and That's Why We Become God's Children and That's Why There's No Condemnation Ever to Us and on and on and on, Were Not in a Race. This Condemned Anymore Were Enough Race That Has Holiness in Beauty and Obedience.

Jesus Is Race and You Know I Gotta Tell You, for 44 Years. I've Enjoyed Being in Jesus's Race 44 Years.

I've Enjoyed All the Blessings That Come with Being in Jesus's Race 44 Years. I've Enjoyed the Privilege of Going into the Presence of God Is One of His Children and Telling Them What's on My Heart and Watching Them Intervene in My Life and Do Amazing Things Because I'm in Christ for 44 Years. I've Enjoyed the Privilege of Knowing That When I Die, I'm Going to Heaven Because of the Work of Christ Because of What My Federal Head Did and I'm Going There for a Gazillion and 44 You a Man and If You're in Christ All of That Belongs to You As Well. Now Let's Go Back to the Question I Asked You a Minute Ago Had You Transferred Changed Races.

If You're Hearing You Have Great We Should Rejoice in That Every Single Day That God Loved Us Enough to Make a New Racecourse, but If You Have Folks I Want to Warn You. You Are Very Dangerous Ground, but You Can Change That Today Right When You Said You Can Transfer Races Right We Sit Today. You Don't Have To Do Backflips You Don't Have To Do Anything except Flip the Switch by Renouncing Everything You've Ever Trusted to Save You and Put My Faith in Jesus Christ with Give You the Chance to Do That Right Now Let's Bow Our Heads Together with Our Heads Bowed in Our Eyes Close His What Were Going to Do Pray Little Short Prayer. I'm Gonna Pray, One Phrase at a Time.

Out Loud I Want You Then to Pray That Same Phrase Silently Going to Do Is Tell God That You're Here Today Flipping the Switch You Want Him to Transfer You into Christ. Let's Pray Lord Jesus, I Come to You Today Because I Want to Change Races. I Want to Leave Adam's Race with All of Its Condemnation and Judgment and I Want to Transfer into Jesus's Race with All of Its Holiness and Blessing.

And so Today in Obedience to Your Word.

I Pronounce Everything I've Ever Trust My Good Works by Religious Activity by Trying to Be a Good Person and I Embrace What Jesus Did for Me on the Cross, Shedding His Blood to Pay for My Soon Lord I Flip That Switch Today and so Lord I Ask You to Be True to Your Promise, Which I Know You Will and Transfer Me Today.

May My New Life in Christ Begin Today I Give You My Heart in My Life in Jesus Name I Pray, Amen Friends. If You Know the Lord. If You Are in Christ Race.

I Don't Care What Else Is Going Wrong on a Given Day, Man. You Got Something Going Right You Are in Christ, with All the Blessings That Come with It. That's Where We Need to Focus Because One of These Days All These Troubles Will Be behind Us and We Will Not Just Be in Christ, We Will Be with Christ, a Man in Heaven.

What a Day. That'll Be so in Christ Alone.

That's Our Safe Pl. in Christ alone. That's our entry into heaven in Christ alone. That's our strength from day-to-day.

As followers of Jesus, thank God that there's a place for peoples and in Adam's race to go or else we'd all be in big trouble but we have Christ men