A Walk through the Family Cemetery

Enjoying the Journey

Scott Pauley

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🗓️ 5 February 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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(Genesis 5:1-20) Spurgeon once said, "The way to make the most of your life is to meditate on your death." While keeping the end in mind, you cause yourself to live with clarity and urgency. Accept this episode's challenge of making every day count for Jesus! (0831240205) Join Scott Pauley's study through Scripture this year. Find resources for every book of the Bible by Dr. Pauley and Enjoying the Journey at enjoyingthejourney.org/journey-through-scripture/.Whether you're a new believer or have walked with the Lord for years, you'll find thousands of free devotionals, Bible studies, audio series, and Scripture tools designed to strengthen your faith, deepen your understanding of the Bible, and help you stay rooted in the Word of God. Explore now at EnjoyingTheJourney.org.Extend the Work Enjoying the Journey provides every resource for free worldwide. If you would like to help extend this Bible teaching, you may give at enjoyingthejourney.org/donations/

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0:00.0	The opening chapters of the Bible are the seedbed for the truth found throughout the rest of Scripture.
0:14.0	As we study the first 11 chapters of Genesis, we will discover principles that can guide us as we seek to have a new beginning with God.
0:23.1	Are you in need of a spiritual reset?
0:25.9	Good news.
0:27.3	Our God is the God of new beginnings.
0:30.1	Let's join Scott Pauley now.
0:44.8	You're going to think me strange, but one of my favorite things to do is walk through an old cemetery.
0:51.2	I love to walk through a memorial gardens and look at the epitaphs.
0:58.0	Read the markers, the names, the dates, the one-line inscription that seems to summarize, at least by family and friends' perspective, an entire life. When you walk through a
1:04.3	cemetery, it does something for you. Solomon talked about that. He talked about the day of death
1:09.5	being better than the day of one's birth. He talked about it being good to go to the house of mourning. Why is that? Because when you go
1:16.8	to the end, it clarifies everything. That's why when people get near death, they start thinking
1:23.6	differently. They start talking differently because some things don't matter and other things
1:28.1	truly do. Spurgeon said that the way to make the most of your life is to meditate on your death.
1:35.1	That's not a morbid thing. That's a sobering thing. It's good for us. It's good to go to a funeral.
1:42.5	It's good to visit a graveside. It's good to think to a funeral it's good to visit a graveside it's good to think about eternity
1:47.1	because that brings all of life into proper perspective so today we're going to take a walk
1:54.4	through the family cemetery now stay with me just a moment because it is a walk given to us in
2:00.2	genesis chapter number five.
2:02.5	Genesis 5 begins this way.
2:04.6	This is the book of the generations of Adam in the day that God created Adam and the
2:10.3	likeness of God made He Him, male and female created Him and blessed them and called
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