I have grown old

"I have grown old" - Genesis 25:8 He exhaled the spirit (pushed the spirit out of his body). Life was not taken from him by force, but he willingly left it, commending his spirit to the Father of spirits. He died in good old age, old and full of years; so, God had promised him. His death was like unloading the weight of his age. It was also the crown of glory of his old age. He did not live until the world was tired of him, "but until he was weary of the world," he had had enough of it and wanted no more.

I. And he was united with his people.

A. His body was joined to the congregation of the dead and 'his soul' to the congregation of those blessed by God."

1. "Death unites us with our people."

2. And joy for Abraham, his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him.

3. It was the last sign of respect to "their good father".

4. (Deuteronomy 5:16) God's commandment; Honor your father and mother.

5. God has commanded it.

6. Esteeming them through obedience, respect, admiration, and retribution = reward.

7. Longevity, life span.

8. The maximum age that humans could reach under optimal conditions.

9. Longevity starts as a child.

10. That reaches a very advanced age.

11. (Deuteronomy 34:7) Moses lived to a very old age, for he was 120 years old, and his life was thus divided into three groups of forty years: the first forty years he spent as a prince in Pharaoh's court; the second forty years he lived in the solitary trade of a poor shepherd of Midian; and the last forty years he lived as a king in Jeshurun, with a lot of honor and power, but also with great responsibility, with heavy "fatigue" (lack of strength to be able to rest) and continuous upsets.

12. He lived to old age very well, for "his eyes were never darkened, nor did he lose his vigor (strength, energy).

13. (Joshua 14:9-10) The promise God had made to him, through Moses, that he would possess this mountain.

14. (9) This was precisely the place from which, more than any other place in Canaan, the spies had "taken" (he was with them) the subject of their report, for it was here that they met the sons of Anach (Numbers 13:22), whose sight so frightened the other spies (Numbers 13:33).

15. (Joshua 14:11) We can suppose that Caleb, observing their emphasis on the difficulty of conquering Hebron, whose garrison was made up of giants, courageously desired that this city, which they considered invincible, should be assigned to him as an inheritance,

as if to say: "I will take charge of it, and if I cannot conquer it to be my inheritance, I will be left without an inheritance."

16. He chose this place only because it was the most difficult to conquer.

17. And to show that his spirit had not declined more than his body forty years later, he adheres to the choice he had made then and still retains the same state of mind.

18. (1 Chronicles 29:28) We have here the setting of the sun of David, the rising of that great man from the scene of the present life.

19. The Sacred Historian takes him to the end of his days, left him asleep and draws the curtains of the bedroom.

20. "He died in good old age, full of days, riches, and glory."

21. Honored by God and by men.

22. He had been a man of war from his youth, but he was preserved through "all the dangers" of military life, lived to a good old age (about seventy years) even as difficult as he was in as many wars as any other, and obtained the nation.

23. He died peacefully, on his bed, a bed of honor.

24. (Job 12:12) It affirms the inscrutable wisdom and irresistible power of God.

25. It is true that "age," with "experience," lends wisdom to many; but with age strength is lost, while God has, in an infinite degree, "wisdom and power": wisdom to plan His designs and power to carry out what He has planned.

26. (Isaiah 46:4) To gray hair, from the time they needed a nurse, because of their childish weakness, until they need every kind of support, because of "their senile weakness."

27. Israel was now growing old; "His sins," more than his punishments, "had made him age prematurely."

28. But Jehovah is still their God and will carry them in the same eternal arms that bore them in Moses' time. (Deuteronomy 33:27) The eternal God is your refuge and underneath are the eternal arms.

29. With eagle's wings He was now going to carry them from Babylon, as He carried them of old (antiquity) when He brought them out of Egypt.

30. And the promise made here to aged Israel is also applicable to every aged Israelite, whether according to the flesh or to the spirit.

31. We change, but God is always the same and His omnipotent arms always have the same strength. Amen