The Significance of Christian Burial (Family Worship in Genesis 47:27–31)

What was so important to Jacob to have Joseph swear to him before his death? Pastor leads his family in today’s “Hopewell @Home” passage. Genesis 47:27–31 reviews for us yesterday’s morning sermon. In these five verses, we learn that even with all its blessings, this life is a short, hard sojourn by comparison to what we will have in the resurrection; that it should be important to us to be buried and that it be with believers; and that we ought to testify to the importance of this both before men and also in worship unto God.