Katie Worobec's Service

Internment

Katie Worobec was a woman that placed her faith in Jesus Christ as her Lord and Saviour. She loved her family and she loved her Lord.

Her favorite Scripture is found in Psalm 139, so I am going to read from most of it and share a few thoughts.

Psalm 139:1–18 NIV

You have searched me, Lord, and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord, know it completely. You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain. Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,” even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you. For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them! Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand— when I awake, I am still with you.

Psalm 139:23–24 NIV

Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

The Psalmist learned an important principle that Katie learned and that is beneficial to all of us.

There is no place where God isn’t and He loves us and is interested in our lives.

There is no place where God isn’t

You maybe have heard of the story of Jonah and the whale. The reason that Jonah ended up in a large fish or whale was that in his mind, he thought that he could run away from God, only to find out that God was there even when He was running away.

As children, we can try to hide, and think that if we shut our eyes, others can’t see us. Just as Jonah, we might think that if we run away, God can’t see us either. We can think that if we can’t see Him, or feel Him, He can’t see us, but there isn’t a place that we can go where God isn’t.

God loves us

Even when we were being formed in our mother’s womb, God saw us and made us really complex. Look at the human eye. Look at your circulatory system, our nervous system, and how they work in together.

He’s interested in us

He cares enough to know when we get up and when we go to bed. He notices when we dit or stand. He perceives our thoughts from afar. He knows what we are going to say even before we say it.

What blows me away is that even though He knows my good and my bad, He still loves me and loved me enough to send Jesus to die for my sins. Even though I have messed up and missed God’s target, He loved me.

It’s like going and ordering a meal, only to find out that I forgot my wallet, only to have somebody else pick up the tab, knowing that I can’t pay them back.

Jesus knows that we’ll never be able to pay Him back. He doesn’t want us to, because it’s a gift.

Romans 6:23 NLT

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.

Because the Psalmist knew that God loved Him so much, He wrote:

Psalm 139:23–24 NLT

Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life.

I believe this is what Katie did, and I want to encourage each of us to do the same. Let’s ask God to look deep inside of us to that part that nobody else can see, but we know is there. It’s where our conscience is, our heart and ask Him to take away anything that offends HIm and to lead us along the path of everlasting life.

HOW BIG IS JESUS???????? At the end of a worship service, a little girl came up to her Pastor and asked, "How big is Jesus?"

The puzzled pastor pondered and said, "I don’t know, sweetheart. The Bible doesn’t say. He was a carpenter, so I am sure he had big hands and strong shoulders. Maybe he was 6 feet tall. I just don’t know. Why do you ask that question?" The little girl looked down and said, "Welllllllll, Pastor, you said I had to ask Jesus into my heart. I am just a little girl.

If He is a big Savior and he comes into my heart.......won’t he STICK OUT?" Wow. (Larry Petton, SC)

In closing, my question is this, “If He is a big Savior and he comes into my heart.......won’t he STICK OUT?"

That’s the whole point. Will you let Jesus stick out so that others can see Him. Often we think that our faith is personal, it’s private. Nothing is farther from the truth. Let your light shine before men that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in Heaven.

Let’s pray.

Commital Service

Psalm 27:1

(NIV)

The Lord is my light and my salvation— whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life— of whom shall I be afraid?

Psalm 27:4 (NIV)

One thing I ask from the Lord, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple.

I believe that we need to live for eternity because only God knows our days.

“We brought nothing into this world and it is certain that we can take nothing out…The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.

1 Corinthians 15:50–58

(ESV)

I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.

Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.

For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.

When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”

“O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”

The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.

Just as it was God’s will to take Katie Worobec to Himself. We therefore commit his body to the ground, and we know that,

Philippians 3:20–21 NIV

But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.

The Lord’s prayer

Our Father, who art in heaven,

Hallowed by thy name,

Thy kingdom come,

Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread,

and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.

And lead us not into temptation,

but deliver us from evil.

For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory.

Forever and ever. Amen.

Benediction

Hebrews 13:20–21

(NIV)

Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep,

equip you with everything good for doing his will, and may he work in us what is pleasing to him, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.