Aim: To learn how to handle all the main issues of life, with grace and faith.
Why God subjects His people to these things: because the fall forces us to face them, and because the resurrection redeems them.
Exegesis: The Church's attitude toward these experiences: living is shared blessing (v. 28); dying is corporate union and reunion (vv. 29-33); grief is social (and hopeful) sorrow (vv. 1-3); thriving is communal faithfulness (vv. 4-6).
Further application: How Jesus shepherds us through life, death, grief, and victory: by blazing the trail Himself, and by sanctifying all of this, for us.
Key verse: 50:5 ''My father made me swear, saying 'Behold, I am dying; in my grave which I dug for myself in the land of Canaan, there you shall bury me.' Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come back.''
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Rev. Mark Henninger received his Masters of Divinity from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, and he has been Pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Peoria, Illinois for more than 30 years.