Death Will Not Have the Last Word

In this sermon from Genesis 23, Pastor Chris Gordon walks through an entire chapter of Scripture devoted to Abraham facing the death of his wife, Sarah. After honoring Sarah as a woman of faith and reflecting on the gift of marriage and companionship, he shows that Abraham's weeping was a right and fitting response to death, the enemy that entered the world through sin. He also challenges a culture, and a church, that has sanitized death, moving from funerals to memorials to celebrations of life that look only to the past and never confront the realities of judgment, resurrection, and salvation.

Chapters:

00:00 - Introduction
03:36 - Helping People Die
05:28 - Why Genesis 23
08:05 - Sarah, Woman of Faith
11:24 - The Gift of Marriage
16:32 - Abraham Weeps
20:04 - Mourning Is Right
21:19 - A Sanitized View of Death
23:23 - Funerals to Celebrations
26:39 - Death No Obstacle
29:05 - Buying a Burial Plot
33:39 - Strangers and Exiles
36:02 - Carry My Bones
37:52 - The Resurrection and the Life
40:46 - Mourning with Hope