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Graceful Aging
Toward a Biblical Re/rement Program

Our plan LESSONS FROM LEADERS WHO FOLLOWED GOD TO THE END

Theologically and Biblically Speaking . . . about Ge7ng Old in Genesis

1. Adam 930 2. Seth 912 3. Enosh 905 4. Cainan 910 5. Mahalel 895 6. Jared 962 7. Enoch 365 (walked with God) 8. Methuselah 969 9. Lamech 777 10. Noah 950 11. Shem 600 12. Arphaxad 438 13. Salah 433 14. Eber 464 15. Peleg 239 16. Reu 239 17. Serug 230 18. Nahor 148 19. Terah 205

We age because of the curse The long life3mes of the antediluvians

are not explained are no longer expected all end with and he died except Enoch

A>er the Flood

life3mes gradually declined Joseph dies at 110

The plot of Genesis traces the genera3ons of a family

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"Abraham's journey from Ur to Canaan by Hungarian ar9st Jozsef Molnar, 1850

Abrahams Lessons of Faith:

Trus9ng God requires ac9ng on His leading

By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. Hebrews 11:8

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Genesis 15:4-6

Abrahams Lessons of Faith:

Trus9ng God requires looking beyond this life

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off were assured of them, embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them. Hebrews 11:13,16

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The Sacrice of Isaac by Caravaggio

Abrahams Lessons of Faith:

Trus9ng God expects Him to fulll His promises

By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, of whom it was said, In Isaac your seed shall be called, concluding that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead, form which he also received him in a figurative sense. Hebrews 11:1719

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Ac9ng on Abraham
How should you and I act on Gods leading? How should you and I look beyond this life? What promises has God made to you and me that we should expect Him to fulll?

God is good all the 9me And all the 9me God is good