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Forwarded this email?\u00a0Subscribe here<\/a>\u00a0for more <\/a>HOW TO LIVE AND DIE WELL<\/a> \u201cAbraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.\u201d\u2014Genesis 25:8 CHARLES CURTMAN<\/a> Aug 29, 2025<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There are three take-a-ways in Genesis 25:8 relative to Abraham\u2019s death; things that should give us all good, wholesome and profitable pause for reflection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IN THE FIRST PLACE, NOTICE THE RESIGNATION ABRAHAM EXPRESSED relative to his death. The Bible says that he, \u201cgave up the ghost.\u201d Death didn\u2019t worry him. He\u2019d lived with a strong faith in the wisdom and goodness of God, and with the reality that , \u201cIt is appointed unto men once to die\u201d (Heb. 9:27).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Most importantly, Abraham lived and died with a forward-looking faith in the Messiah that God had promised would come. He is called \u201cthe father of all them that believe\u201d (Rom 4:17) because he had, without reservation, placed his faith in the One (Jesus) who would come and purchase his salvation through His own death and His own victorious resurrection from the dead (1 Cor. 15:3-4; Rom. 10:9-13).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abraham \u201cgave up the ghost.\u201d He was resigned<\/em> to death, and ready<\/em> to leave this world and enter another one where God had a place prepared for him (Heb. 1 John 14:3; Rom. 4:1-5). How about you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SECONDLY, NOTICE THE REPUTATION ABRAHAM HAD EARNED while he lived. He wasn\u2019t a perfect man, even after he trusted in Christ, But, in the eyes of God, the \u201cfruit of the Spirit\u201d was overridingly characteristic of Abraham\u2019s life (Gal. 5:22, 23; 2 Cor. 5:17). Abraham had this testimony: Genesis 25:8 says, he \u201cdied in a good<\/em> old age.\u201d And, he died having lived a full and fruitful life\u2014 an \u201cold man, full of years.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abraham was an imperfect man who lived with the consciousness that he had received the gift of a perfect and permanent salvation. And this consciousness made him strive for practical, personal perfection in life for the sake of Him Who had loved Him and would come to wash away his sins with His own blood ((Eph. 2:8, 9; Rev. 1:5; John 8:56; Matt. 5:48).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What matters aren\u2019t the years in our lives that can be counted, but the life in our years that we make count in bringing glory to God, and good to others. God\u2019s people who die as peacefully as Abraham died, are those who live as purposefully as Abraham lived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LASTLY, NOTICE THE REUNION THAT ABRAHAM ENJOYED after he died. He \u201cwas gathered to his people.\u201d Someone has written: \u201cDeath gathers us to our<\/em> people<\/em>. Those that are our people<\/em> while we live, whether the people of God or the children of this world, are the people to whom death will gather us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u201cpeople of God\u201d are those who have accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. The people of this world are those who have not done so. Who are your people\u2014the people to whom you will be gathered at last and for forever?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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