e-Ministries   
   by Jon Justvig   
   April 15, 2014   
          
   Issue #: 28   
      
   Let us open our bibles...   
      
   Gen 23:1  And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were   
   the years of the life of Sarah.    
      
   It seems like one hundred and twenty seven years doesn't seem like a long time   
   back in the day.  You have to understand that life expectancy was cut short   
   because of    
      
   mans rebellion and disobedience towards God.  Sarah had been ninety years old   
   when she bore her son Isaac.  That would be a miracle theses days in the   
   twenty-forth    
      
   century.  If you recall in Genesis chapter six, verse three:   
       
   Gen 6:3  And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for   
   that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.    
      
   One hundred and twenty years is the longest man shall live.  That is a long   
   time, with the returning of our Lord from the cross, lets keep this in mind as   
   we    
      
   celebrate his life, death and resurrection.   
      
   Gen 23:2  And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same is Hebron in the land of   
   Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.    
      
   Abraham loved his wife Sarah and was sad to see her die.  God did not lie to   
   Abraham when he said his seed will be of the numbers of the stars and the   
   number of    
      
   grains of sand.   
      
   Gen 23:3  And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons   
   of Heth, saying,    
   Gen 23:4  I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a   
   buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.  Gen 23:5  And   
   the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him,  Gen 23:6  Hear us, my   
   lord: thou art a mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury   
   thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but    
      
   that thou mayest bury thy dead.    
   Gen 23:7  And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land,   
   even to the children of Heth.    
   Gen 23:8  And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I should   
   bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and intreat for me to Ephron the son of   
   Zohar,    
   Gen 23:9  That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which is   
   in the end of his field; for as much money as it is worth he shall give it me   
   for a    
      
   possession of a buryingplace amongst you.  Gen 23:10  And Ephron dwelt among   
   the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience   
   of the children of Heth, even of all that went in at    
      
   the gate of his city, saying,    
   Gen 23:11  Nay, my lord, hear me: the field give I thee, and the cave that is   
   therein, I give it thee; in the presence of the sons of my people give I it   
   thee: bury    
      
   thy dead.    
   Gen 23:12  And Abraham bowed down himself before the people of the land.  Gen   
   23:13  And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the land,   
   saying, But if thou wilt give it, I pray thee, hear me: I will give thee money   
   for the    
      
   field; take it of me, and I will bury my dead there.  Gen 23:14  And Ephron   
   answered Abraham, saying unto him,  Gen 23:15  My lord, hearken unto me: the   
   land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and   
   thee? bury therefore thy dead.  Gen 23:16  And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron;   
   and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience   
   of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels    
      
   of silver, current money with the merchant.  Gen 23:17  And the field of   
   Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, and the   
   cave which was therein, and all the trees that were in the    
      
   field, that were in all the borders round about, were made sure  Gen 23:18    
   Unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before   
   all that went in at the gate of his city.  Gen 23:19  And after this, Abraham   
   buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the   
   same is Hebron in the land of Canaan.  Gen 23:20  And the field, and the cave   
   that is therein, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a   
   buryingplace by the sons of Heth.    
      
   And, now Abraham has a burial place for his beloved wife Sarah, price paid in   
   full.  It will be a sight to see when we get to heaven and see all of our   
   loved ones    
      
   again and those that lived years before us, even in the very beginning.  There   
   will be no more pain, suffering and misery in our new bodies.  Let us live and   
   praise    
      
   the Lord and keep His word tight in our hearts as we continue to live our life.   
    Do the best you can with what you have.  Keep positive, keep believing for   
   good    
      
   things and the Lord will guide your steps.   
      
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