In verse 2, we have this statement,
and Sarah died. That's what I was thinking about
this evening as I've studied on this for the last several
days and meditated upon it. Sarah died, and Sarah died. And I had not much to say about
this, but I thought what a great lady this is. What a blessed
woman this is to pass over this. almost be rude. But the Lord
had so honored this woman, and you may not have known this before,
but she's the only woman in the Scriptures that ever had her
age recorded. In all the Scripture that I'm
aware of, and the commentators say that she's the only one that
ever had her age recorded. And we learn from Sarah's death
here how we're to treat our dead. And we'll see that when we get
there in a minute. But we often talk about Abraham. We speak highly of him. But sometimes
we forget Sarah. We don't hear very much of her.
We talk about Abraham, the father of the believer, the father of
the faithful. Know ye therefore that they which
be of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. And we deal
with those scriptures a lot, but sometimes we forget that
Sarah, the free woman, is the mother of us all. When the Lord
told the children of Israel to look into Abraham, your father,
He went right on to say, and look to Sarah, that bar thee. So much is said of Sarah being
our mother, and you sisters who believe the gospel this evening,
you have a relationship with Sarah that no man could ever
have with her, not even most believing brothers could ever
have. You sisters are called daughters of Sarah. Sarah called Abraham Lord, whose
daughters you are. You're the daughters of Sarah.
We're all children of Abraham by faith in Christ, but you ladies
are children of Sarah. And Sarah's got abundance of
children actually. Abundance of children. And we
often talk of Abraham's faith, and much is said of it in the
Scriptures. Abraham believed God. Abraham believed in the
Lord, and it was counted to him for righteousness. You know,
Sarah believed the Lord too. Hebrews chapter 11 and verse
11 says, Through faith, Sarah herself received strength to
conceive seed. And she was delivered of a child
when she was past age, because she judged him faithful, who
promised. And there sprang of one, and
him as good as dead, as the stars in the heaven for multitude,
the sands which on the seashore is a number. But Sarah believed.
She believed just like Abraham did. Abraham patiently endeared,
and the scripture says he obtained the promise, but so did Sarah.
She did too. And we read of Abraham finding
out the way of righteousness. Remember in Romans chapter 4,
Abraham found out the way that God justifies sinners. It's by
an imputed righteousness. What shall we say that Abraham,
our father, as pertaining to the flesh, has found? If Abraham
was justified by works, he hath world to glory. But he found
out that God didn't justify men by works. It's by faith. It's
by faith. Abraham believed God, and it
was counted to him for righteousness. He believed that. He understood
law and grace, didn't he? But you know, there was a time
when Sarah understood it better than he did. Cast out this bondwoman
and her son, because the son of this bondwoman is not going
to be heirs with Isaac. Who said that? Abraham? No, Sarah
said that. Abraham was green, but the Lord
came to Abraham and said, Abraham, she understands more God and
grace than you do. You listen to her voice. She
knows that I'm not going to save men by the law. But the children
of promise are counted for the sick. So she is a woman not only
of faith, but I tell you, she understood the gospel, didn't
she? She understood the gospel. And Sarah was a very gracious
woman, a very charitable woman. She wanted everybody to share
in her joy and her excitement. She wanted everybody to share
it. She said, the Lord has made me to laugh, and everybody that
hears me is going to laugh with me. And I do. Every time I quote that scripture
and every time I think about Sarah laughing, I can't keep
from laughing. And she desires for us to laugh
with her. She's a very charitable woman,
isn't she? Very gracious and very charitable. And apart from
Mary, the mother of our Lord, Sarah was probably the most blessed
woman as far as the birth of their children is concerned than
any other woman in all the ages. Sarah and Mary, both of them
realized this, that their sons was going to have a profound
and positive effect upon multitudes of people. And Mary pondered
these things in her heart. And I think Sarah did too, when she thought
about her son. Mary said, all nations shall
call me blessed. And Sarah said, all nations are
going to laugh at me. They understood something, didn't
they? Blessed women, blessed women. Another thing concerning
Sarah, before her death she received some good news concerning her
dear son. You see that, I didn't read it
to you, but there in the 22nd chapter, before Sarah died, in
verse 20, It came to pass, after these things, that it was told
Abraham, saying, Behold, Malchah, she hath also borne children
unto thy brother Nahar, Huzzah's firstborn, and Buzzah's brother,
and Kenuel the father of Aram, and Shished, and Hazor, and Philadesh,
and Jephthah, and Bethuel, and Bethuel hath begotten Rebekah. Now that was told Abraham, and
no doubt Abraham told Sarah. He wouldn't hold such good news
as that. Now why do you say that's good
news? Well, it's good news for this reason. Sarah knew, as Abraham
did, that Isaac wasn't going to take a wife from the land
of Canaan. Look over here in the 24th chapter,
and I'm not going to comment on this. We'll get to this in
the days ahead. But here in the 24th chapter,
Look what Abraham said to his servant. He was going to send
his servant to get Isaac a wife in verse 3. And here is what
he said to his servant. I will make thee swear by the
Lord, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that thou shalt
not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites
among whom I dwell, but thou shalt go unto my country and
unto my kindred and take a wife unto my son Isaac. And you know
the story as he went there, and he prayed, Lord, lead me to the
one that you've appointed to be Isaac's wife. And look down
in verse 15, he was rehearsing this, and what it came to pass,
before he had done speaking, that behold, Rebekah, who was
born to Bethuel, the son of Malchah, the wife of Nahar, she came out.
See that? Sarah, who loved her son Isaac,
and was concerned about him just as Abraham was. And she got this
good news before she died, that Abraham's great niece, about
the age of Isaac, is born. You say, Bruce, that ain't much
good news. Well, it don't take very much. It don't take much. If you love your children as
she loved Isaac, And you want the best for them and you're
hoping God's best for them. It don't take much to encourage
you. Just a little word from the Lord. Just a hint of a promise. God's going to fulfill His promise
in Isaac. He's going to multiply your seed
in Isaac. I'm going to give him a wife
and their children's going to be as the stars of heaven for
multitude. And then you hear that that may
be his future wife. Wouldn't that be enough to encourage
her before she died? Those who love their children, they long for just some encouragement
from God that it's going to be well with their children. Jeremiah,
through his book, we're told about him prophesying destruction
of his people, called them his children. He loved the children
of Israel. And he knew what was going to
take place with them. Babylon was coming in to carry
them off into captivity, ripping up some of the women with child,
tearing down the walls and the gates of Jerusalem, destroying
the temple. It was an awful time. And Jeremiah
knew it was coming. But right in the midst of all
that, here's what the Lord appeared to Jeremiah and said, There is
hope in thine end, saith the Lord, that thy children shall
come again to their own border. Ain't that a wonderful promise?
Wonderful promise. Thy children shall come again
to their border. I wish the Lord would speak that
to my heart. Some of you are not old enough yet to worry about
your children. But you will. If the Lord don't keep His hand
on them, you will. And boy, you'll seek for any
encouragement. And I imagine, as Sarah heard
this rumor, that a great niece had been born. She probably pondered
that in her heart, don't you think? I bet she did. Good news. One more thing here concerning
Sarah is this, her death. Her death. In verse 2, and Sarah
died. And you know she died well. She
died well. I am just as sure tonight that
Sarah is in heaven as I am that I'm standing here before you.
I'm just as sure that she's there as the thief is there, as Abraham
is there, as Paul the apostle is there. That's how sure that
you and I can be that she's in heaven. This very day that you
and I are here worshiping the Lord, Sarah is in heaven beholding
His face. She's resting from her labors.
She's seeing things, and she's hearing things, and she's understanding
things that you and I can never grasp in this world. She's holy,
she's happy, she has the presence of God and of Christ, the spirits
of just men made perfect, and the presence of those heavenly
angels. You say, Bruce, how can you be
so sure about that? You know what the scripture says
about her? She died in the faith. She died in the faith. And you
die in the faith, it's well with you. It's well with you. She's
in heaven as you and I sat here this evening and worshiped. She
died in the faith. By faith she left her homeland,
she left her loved ones, she left her relatives, she left
her friends and her neighbors, and she wandered in the land
of Canaan with Abraham as a pilgrim and a stranger. By faith she
endured hardships just like Abraham did. She endured the hardship
of travel. She knew what it was to go through
a war. She went through an awful famine. She saw the destruction
of the cities of those plains. Countless thousands of people
consumed. She endured that and through
faith she received strength to conceive seed through faith.
Through faith. She was a woman of faith. She
was called. She believed God. She believed
in the Son of God. She believed the gospel and she
continued in that faith and she died in that faith. And now it's
well with Sarah. She's in heaven as we speak.
And you know this is not just written for her sake alone. This
is written for all the children of promise. It'll be well with
them too when they die. Everybody that dies in the faith,
he'll be well with them. Everybody that can say, I've
kept the faith, he'll be well with you. There's laid up a crown
of righteousness. And that's what the Lord gave
her at that day. And now, Sarah dies. I tell you,
believing won't stop you from dying, will it? All of us are
going to die. And Sarah died. Loving Sarah. Tender Sarah. Faithful Sarah. Believing Sarah. And she died. And now when she dies, our attentions
change. Do you notice that? Now we shift
from Sarah and her life We see up to her husband that's left
behind. And for the first time in the
Scripture, we see something. We don't see it before, but now
we see something. We see these two things. One,
how we're to treat the dead. But first of all, what's our
attitude towards our departed loved ones? That's what we see
established here. We don't see that anywhere else.
When Abel was slain, when Adam and Eve lost their son, What
was their attitude about that? When Noah's sons lost their dad,
what was their attitude? What was the attitude of moms
and dads and neighbors and loved ones all the way back through
before this? What was their attitude when their loved ones died? We
don't know, but here we know. Here we know. What was Abraham's
reaction? Well, it was said here that he
came to mourn and weep. for Sarah. Sarah, his wife. You know, that's not only what's
expected of people, but it's natural. And it's almost, and
I guess we could really call it, a duty. A duty. And I know there are some exceptions. I know there are some exceptions
to this. There are people who never shed a tear for their departed
loved ones. And there's reasons for that.
They feel no sorrow at all for that. Out of sickness, that person
had been so weak and sick for so long, it was a blessing to
see them go, especially knowing they died in the faith. But that's
an exception, ain't it? Here's the rule that you and
I see within ourselves and we see all around us. When we lose
a loved one, it's natural for us to do just what Abraham did.
To mourn and weep. To sorrow. And I bet you this
sorrow was no false show. This was a heartfelt
sorrow and true tears. They used to horror people to
come when the dead was laid out to weep and they'd cut themselves
and groan. How silly that was. But this
wasn't like that. Abraham mourned and he wept. And I want to speculate on some
things here. And maybe I say speculation because
this is what we experience. But you can't say Abraham experienced
this, but you can say this, that Abraham was a man of like passions
as the rest of us. And what we experienced, you're
just almost certain Abraham experienced. And the first thing I want to
give you is this. Can we think of these reasons
why Abraham would mourn and weep? First of all, let's think of
the negative thing. Why would he sorrow over the
loss of his wife? And first of all is this, I wonder
if he had any regrets. You know there was twice that
you and I have read of in this book that Abraham put Sarah's
safety at risk. to save his own skin. Remember
that? Ask her to lie for him to save
his own skin. And I just wonder, I just wonder
if Abraham didn't think about that at this time. I wonder how Sarah felt, really,
about that. Here she was in the tent, her
and Abraham, and here comes King Gerah's servants, King of Gerah,
servants and got her out of the tent. And then Pharaoh sent his servants
and took her out of the tent and brought her to his own house.
He was going to take her for his wife. I wonder how she felt
when that happened. I wonder what kind of look she
gave Abraham when they took her by the hand and let her. I wonder
if he saw some fear in her eyes. How would you ladies have felt? And I wonder if Abraham began
to think about that at this time. I wonder even when it happened,
if he began to think, how is she doing tonight? Is she safe
tonight? I wonder if he didn't pour his
heart out in prayer. that she had gave her safety
to protect his skin. I just wonder if he didn't think
about this now, and it produced a degree, at least, of sorrow
in his heart. I say that because I bet you
something happens to my wife. The rest of you fellas probably
can't say this, but when something happens to my wife, I'm probably
going to remember some hateful looks. I'm probably going to
remember some unkind words. I'm probably going to remember
some times I've lost my temper. I'm probably going to remember
some times when I was too stubborn. I waited too long to apologize. And that may cause some sorrow
and some tears in my heart. My dad had lost one of his close
relatives. I was down there with him and
while we were sitting there talking about I think it was his mother
at that time, his stepmother, and we got a phone call and I
answered it, and this other woman, and she was weeping profusely,
I couldn't even understand, and finally she hung up, and I said,
Dad, what's the matter? He said, her and my mother was
feuding, and now my mother's dead, and she's gonna carry this. She's gonna carry this. I carry
things in my heart today. Some things I've said to my mother
and my attitude towards her that caused me a lot of grief when
I finally came to my senses. I just wonder, I don't know,
but I just wonder if Abraham had a degree of this. I'll tell
you this much. They have that old saying, give
me my flowers while I'm living. It's now when we better be good
to people. Now when we better love and respect
and apologize and be gentle and kind. If I'm going to weep, I
don't want it to be because I mistreated my wife and mistreated my brother
and mistreated my dad and mistreated my mom. Abraham come to weep. But I think probably second,
and this is more to the point, and it's this, because Abraham
lost his chief friend. Abraham lost his dear friend. Sixty-two years at least, Abraham
and Sarah had been married. They had wept together. They
had laughed together. They had feared together. They
had endured together. And Abraham had lost the presence
of this bosom wife, faithful, loving wife. He would never hear
her laugh again. He would never see her smile
again. He would never feel her touch
anymore. Wouldn't this be enough to make
a person sorrow and mourn and shed tears? My best friend. Earth is my best friend in this
world. Boy, you hate to lose them, don't
you? So he came to mourn and he came to weep. How natural
that was for Abraham to do that. And thirdly, Sarah's death severed
a relationship that Abraham and Sarah would
never enjoy again. This union of husband and wife,
it's severed now. It's gone. They enjoyed it while
it was here in this world, but now it's severed and they'll
never enjoy it again. I told Shane and Stacy just the
other day at the wedding, I said it would get better. I don't
know what they thought I meant when I said that. Probably felt,
boy, you must think it's bad now. But I said, it'll get better. Marriage gets better, darling.
It just gets better. You start out as young, you don't
have any sense, and you just fuss, and you find out what buttons
to push to make the other mad. But you get through that. You
work through that, hopefully. But it gets better, darling.
It gets sweeter. But death ends that union. It
ends it. In heaven there's no such thing
as husband and wife. That's for this world. But in
heaven they neither marry nor are given in marriage. They're
like the angels of God. You say, Bruce, that's wonderful.
That's wonderful. That is wonderful. And I'm sure
the wife's never been told. But you know something? We're
not in heaven. We're in this world. And in this
world, we have our loves, we have our appetites, we have our
desires, we have our needs, and one of the things we need, and
God knew it from the very beginning, we need union. We need a partner. A man needs a wife and a wife
needs a woman. A wife needs a husband. But you know something? Death
severs that. We enjoy it here, but it ends. It's a temporary relationship
as valuable as it is. And when we leave here, that's
it. I'll never know her again as
my wife. You'll never know her again as your wife. You'll never
know him again as your husband. Ain't that enough to make you
sad? I even look, sometimes I look at Barb, I mean Barb and Joseph
and talking, and it's sad that I don't see Jim with Barb anymore.
You've grown so accustomed. Look at that man and his wife.
And when they're severed, it fills my heart with sorrow. But that's the way it is. That's
the way it is. And Abraham realized this. And
he mourned. What a loss. And he wept. And
fourthly, I think this probably made Abraham weep, is when he
looked at the effects that death had had upon Sarah's beautiful
body, immediate. I doubt if they had the means
back then to embalm and preserve the body that we have today.
They had to bury the dead out of their side immediately. And I imagine Sarah's beautiful
body, And it was beautiful. Some have thought, and I think
it's probably so, that when the Scripture says Sarah, when she
was right at 90 years old, received strength to conceive. And when
she was 90 years old is when Abraham said about her, you're
a beautiful woman. If those folks down there in
Egypt see you, if Pharaoh's servant sees you, they're going to take
you because you're a beautiful woman. 90 years old. She received
strength. And I bet she was beautiful when
she died. But boy, when she died, that
beautiful skin began to turn. Delicate skin, white skin became
discolored, began to swell. And Abraham realized immediately,
we're going to have to bury her. It won't be long until she'll
begin to stink and become repulsive. And he looked upon that body
that was so beautiful, it didn't have the light in the eyes anymore.
There was no smile on her face anymore. There was no warmth
in her body anymore. And he looked at that and he
thought, oh death, you enemy. What have you done to my dear
wife? Now I've got to put her down out of sight. We can't see
her anymore. You know death is still our enemy.
Our Lord Jesus overcame it by His death and resurrection. But
you know, we still see the effects of it. And we're going to see
it until He destroys it. It's the very last enemy that
He's going to put down and destroy. But until He does, you're not
going to see the effects of it. And that's what Abraham saw.
And it made him mourn. It made him weep. But something
else we see here, The past memories and the present loss was no doubt
reason for Abraham to mourn and weep. But why did he show such
respect to Sarah's body? Why did he show such dignity?
How he cared for it and sought a resting place for it that he
may secure it out of his sight? I think it can be summed up this
way by saying this. Abraham believed in a resurrection. And he believed that the Son
of God had purchased the body as well as the soul. And this
made him value this body. He knew it was a purchase of
God, so he treated it with dignity and respect and said, I'm going
to bury it. I'm going to put it away. But
I'm going to cure for it and love it and treat it with dignity.
I know there's coming a day when the Lord is going to make it
new. Paul said this, "...Ye are bought with a price.
Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which
are God's." which are God's. You're bought with a price? Abraham
said, that's my dead. Ain't that what he said about
Sarah? That's my dead. But he knew, really, it was God's
dead. Sarah had been purchased. That's
why he respected her. You and I don't like this practice
of cremation. I hope you don't. There was a
time when I did not understand this business of cremation, burning
people's bodies. And I never said very much about
it, because I didn't understand it. But you know, in the practice
in the Old Testament, the heathens sometimes burned the bodies of
their loved ones, but Israel never did. They had the practice
of burying their dead. And this is one of the reasons
why. They believed in a resurrection. They believed the body was the
purchase of the Lord Jesus Christ. Don't burn them to ashes, don't
pitch them off in the ditch, that their bodies may decay in
the open, but bury thy dead out of thy sight. And one more thing concerning
Sarah. If you read here of this conversation
in verses 3 through verse 20 concerning Abraham and These
landowners, the children of Heath, you wonder what it's all about.
If you read that slowly, you probably wonder, you know, was
Abraham just trying to prove that he is an independent fellow?
They offered him twice, we'll give you a plot of this cave,
just take it, we'll give it to you. Abraham said no. Abraham
said no. Any of us will give you a cave.
Take any of you want. No, no. I want this one over
here. And Ephraim stood up and said,
My Lord, you can have it. He said, No. I'm going to buy
it. I'm going to buy it. Was Abraham
doing that just to show his independence? I don't want your charity. I've
got the money to pay for it. Was that what that was all about?
I don't think that's what that was all about. I think it is. Let me explain it to you like
this. God had promised Abraham all of this land, the whole land
of Canaan. He said, This is yours. and your
seeds forever. But he hadn't gave so much as
one square foot of this land to Abraham. Stephen said not
so much as to set his foot on it. Did he own it? And it seems
to me that Abraham, upon the death of his spouse, seized upon
this opportunity to purchase this small plot of land, and
a small plot it was. But he purchased this as an earnest, and it reminded him and probably
all those fellows around him, I'm the rightful owner of this
country. It's mine by promise. And I bought this little plot
here, it ain't very big, just a field with a cave in one end
of it, and a few trees out in the field, and a few trees around
the field. And it's just a small plot compared
to the whole of the land of Canaan, but it's just an earnest. It's
just an earnest. And you know something about
this earnest? He bought it. It wouldn't give to him. He purchased
it. And you know he made a big deal
about this. He said, you know, what do you want for it? And
he said, what was it, 200 shekels? And Abraham counted right after.
And it said it was good money. The merchants recognized it.
And Abraham, he took security of it. He made it sure. I want
a deed to this place. See how careful the Holy Spirit
recorded all that? You fellas ain't going to give
it to me because you can come back and say, well, we give this
to you and we want it back. No, I'm buying it. And I've got
the deed right here to show. This is mine. It's just a small
earnest, but it is an earnest that there's coming a day in
God's own time that He's already promised me and I'm going to
possess this land, me and my seed. Me and my seed. And God the Father – listen to
this now – God the Father had promised His dear Son, Jesus
Christ, everything and everybody. And in Psalms 2, upon the occasion
of the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus, here's what
the Father said to Him. My Son, ask of me. and I'll give you the heathen
for thy inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth
for thy possession." Why did God say that to him upon
his death and upon God raising him from the dead? Because in
Sarah's death and Abraham's purchase of this field and a cave, we
see not only the death of Jesus Christ, but in his death we see
the purchase price for everything that God had promised him. You
know who owns this world? And everything in it? And everybody
in it? Jesus of Nazareth. But He not
only owns it by promise, He owns it by purchase. By His life laid
down, He owns every man. And old Barnard used to say,
no man rises or wiggles. but at His rule because He owns
it. And that's what Paul said. No
man lives to himself. No man dies to himself. Whether
we live or die, we're the Lord's. To this end, Christ both died,
revived, and rose again that He might be Lord both of the
dead and the living. Then he went right on to the
next verse to say, As I live, saith the Lord, to me every knee
is going to bow. Why? Because everybody belongs
to Him. And the world belongs to Him.
By promise and His death, in His death, He secured that. Now,
it don't seem like much today, does it? We look around us and
it don't seem like He owns everything. The devil goes bragging to people,
if you'll fall down and worship me, I'll give you this kingdom,
I'll give you that kingdom. And we got our politicians, that
have taken to themselves so much power anymore, they rule like
little dictators. And they've grown so proud. They
think that everything's theirs. And you've got men exalting themselves
over whole countries to rule. This is mine. This is mine. You know who it all belongs to?
Jesus Christ. It don't seem like it now, does
it? You've got a heathen standing up over here and saying, And
you've got a heathen standing up over here saying, I'm the
Lord! And it's just like a little earnest. But that's what it is, an earnest.
And it's proof. This earnest, if it's nothing
else, is proof that Jesus Christ has been promised and He shall
possess heaven and earth and everything and everybody in it.
It's His. By promise and He's got the deed
right there in His hands. He's got the deed in His hands
ain't He? And think of this. Just as Abraham purchased for
his spouse a sure resting place, Jesus Christ has purchased for
his spouse a sure resting place. Why would Abraham, why would
he purchase this burial for his wife? Well, she wouldn't be safe
anyplace else, would she? If they give, we're going to
give you this plot of land and you can take Sarah over there
and put her in it, but you know next year I may change my mind
and we'll just come over and get her body and move it out
somewhere. Or throw it out somewhere. We don't care that much about
her, really, really. So Abraham purchased this place
and he says, there's where I'm going to put my dad and she's
safe. She's safer. I got the deed to this place
and I don't want to catch any of you on there messing around
with my dead wife's body. I got the deed to it. Don't you
trust that stuff. And what did Jesus Christ do
by His purchase price? He secured for His wife a resting
place. A safe place. Come unto me all
you that labor and are heavy laden. I'll give you rest. Don't
you feel secure resting in Jesus? Hey, did you find out a safe
place to rest? Who can get to you there resting
in Him? He owns you. To get to you, the
devil's got to come through Him. And this purchase price, He's
bought you. He's put away your sins. And
you come to Him and you rest. And boy, when the trials of this
life and family trials, friendships are severed, and temptations
and long valleys and hills of difficulty come, and you're weary
in your soul, and you're tired, you come to Him and find a sure
resting place. One that He's purchased for you
Himself. Rest in the Lord. and wait patiently
for Him. Rest in the Lord. Don't fret
yourself. Rest in the Lord. Cease from
anger. Forsake wrath and rest in the
Lord. Be content with the things you
have and rest in the Lord. Why? Because He's purchased that
for you. And He's a safe place to rest.
The curse of the law can't touch you. The wrath of God can't touch
you. Death can't touch you. It can't even make you afraid. A sure resting place. When it
comes time that it's said of you as it was said of Sarah,
and Sarah died, you can lay your head down and rest from your
labors, knowing that your husband has secured for you a safe resting
place. Until the resurrection. Ain't
that wonderful? Ain't that wonderful? They say, I don't know if this
is sure or not, but they say Sarah's still there in that cave.
I don't know. But I know this much. That field
and that cave still belongs to Abraham. And if somebody's touched
that body, they're going to be in a whole heap of trouble. God's
going to get up for trespassing. Because that belongs to Abraham.
He paid for it. And don't you touch one of Christ's little
people. And the devil better not do it. And Moses better not
do it. And the wrath of God better not do it. Because Christ has
purchased them a safe resting place. Blessed thought. What a wonderful thought.