GRIEF OVER DEATH (4 OF 6)
Scripture: Isaiah 38:12-14
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Grief over Death (4 of 6)
Series: Isaiah
Stephen Whitney
Isaiah 38:12-14
Death brings out our emotions because it is so final and we will not see the person again in this life. It is a final goodbye which makes it so emotional that we often shed tears.
Four days after Lazarus died Jesus came to see the family. He saw Lazarus's sister Mary and her friends weeping (John 11:33). She and her friends were grieving over the loss of her brother.
We naturally grieve over the death of a loved one because of our emotional attachment to them and our personal feelings for them. But we probably have not thought about our own feelings when we face death our self.
Hezekiah describes for us his emotions as he faced death. God had told him he would die as a result of his illness (:1) and he expresses his feelings of facing death in verses 12-14.
TEMPORARY DWELLING :12
Hezekiah is in effect saying, 'My life is about to end and the Lord is taking me to another place; I see that death is close and my time on earth is about to come to an end.'
Hezekiah gives us two pictures that his life was about to end.
1. Tent - a shepherd's tent was made of animal skins which were easily taken down, rolled up and moved from one place to another.
In the Middle East shepherds used tents during the hot summer for shade. Whenever they moved their flocks to new pasture they would simply take their tent down and move it to the next pasture.
Robert Bruce - ''There is nothing more unstable than human life here on earth; as long as we are in these bodies our lives are subject to uncertainty. The human body is like a tent, but tents were never intended to be fixed dwellings; they have no foundations as houses do; but are simply held down by wooden stakes in the ground.''
Future hope
Hebrews 11:9 By faith Abraham went to live in the land of promise as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and with Jacob.
1. Living in tents showed that they were not citize ...
Series: Isaiah
Stephen Whitney
Isaiah 38:12-14
Death brings out our emotions because it is so final and we will not see the person again in this life. It is a final goodbye which makes it so emotional that we often shed tears.
Four days after Lazarus died Jesus came to see the family. He saw Lazarus's sister Mary and her friends weeping (John 11:33). She and her friends were grieving over the loss of her brother.
We naturally grieve over the death of a loved one because of our emotional attachment to them and our personal feelings for them. But we probably have not thought about our own feelings when we face death our self.
Hezekiah describes for us his emotions as he faced death. God had told him he would die as a result of his illness (:1) and he expresses his feelings of facing death in verses 12-14.
TEMPORARY DWELLING :12
Hezekiah is in effect saying, 'My life is about to end and the Lord is taking me to another place; I see that death is close and my time on earth is about to come to an end.'
Hezekiah gives us two pictures that his life was about to end.
1. Tent - a shepherd's tent was made of animal skins which were easily taken down, rolled up and moved from one place to another.
In the Middle East shepherds used tents during the hot summer for shade. Whenever they moved their flocks to new pasture they would simply take their tent down and move it to the next pasture.
Robert Bruce - ''There is nothing more unstable than human life here on earth; as long as we are in these bodies our lives are subject to uncertainty. The human body is like a tent, but tents were never intended to be fixed dwellings; they have no foundations as houses do; but are simply held down by wooden stakes in the ground.''
Future hope
Hebrews 11:9 By faith Abraham went to live in the land of promise as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and with Jacob.
1. Living in tents showed that they were not citize ...
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