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Boice, James - A Time to Weep

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A Time to Weep
by James Montgomery Boice
Text: Genesis 50:1-13
Topic: How Christians can properly respond to death.
Big Idea: Christians should both grieve and hope in the face of death.
Keywords: Death; Grief; Hope



Introduction:
  • Illustration: Baptist students, irritated with an ardent Presbyterian, drug him and put him in a coffin in a graveyard as a gag.
  • Genesis 50:1-13 can help Christians know how to respond to death.
  • There are three approaches to death, according to historian Franz Borkenau.
We deny death.
  • Illustration: Richard Doss’s book The Last Enemy says we deny death for three reasons.
  • Psychological: to avoid the reality of loss.
  • Cultural: We live in a youth-oriented society.
  • Religious: Our nation no longer has a Christian milieu
We can accept death.
  • Illustration: Socrates dies serenely because of his philosophy, as recorded in Plato’s dialogues Pheado and Crito.
We can “defy” death—like Joseph.
  • We can accept death’s loss, but recognize it’s not the end.
  • Joseph grieves for his father for several months, according to the customs of the day.
  • Illustration: A woman suddenly lost her husband to a plane crash, and it took her about a dozen years to deal fully with the grief.
  • Joseph cared for his father’s remains.
  • Joseph honored the promises he made to his father.
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