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Hello there, friends. Welcome back to today's episode. We are in Genesis 25. We ended yesterday talking about Abraham being buried at Macpola.

And I think I failed to mention that that's significant because remember Abraham had purchased.

And that's specifically what it says in verse 10, the field which

Abraham purchased. And what's interesting about that is that God obviously had promised that land to

Abraham, but Abraham never really realized ownership of the land all of his days. He was a tent

dweller. And while he had that great promise,

and while the land eventually was occupied by the people, the sons of Abraham, he never really

had a part of that land except for that one little piece of ground that he bought, that he purchased. So there's ownership.

And I find in that story just a great parallel to our story as sons of Abraham, that God has

given us great promises, heaven and a future with no sorrow and no pain and new bodies and just all of the prospect of

what God has prepared for those that love him. And yet we only have a small portion of it today,

don't we? The earnest of the inheritance. So just as Abraham had things that were real, that were part of the blessings of God,

they were minuscule in light of what he would receive. And so he just walked by faith,

believing that there was something more. And that's what we do. And I just wanted to point that

out because it's a marvelous kind of exclamation point

on the life of Abraham.

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