Jeremy David Snyder Funeral
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Visitation: 5/18/2024: 9:00-10:00 AM (New Life Bible Fellowship Church)
Service: 5/18/2024: 10:00-11:00 AM (New Life Bible Fellowship Church)
Agenda of Main Funeral Service: (about 45 minutes)
1. Welcome & Prayer (Andrew Lintner)
2. Obituary (Andrew Lintner)
3. Congregation Singing:
10,000 Reason
He Will Hold Me Fast
4. First Scripture Reading (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18)
5. Eulogy: (Friend/Family Member)
6. Second Scripture Reading :(John 14:1-6)
7. Message of Hope: (1 Cor 15:50-58, Pastor Dick)
8. Song: “I Can Only Imagine”
9. Closing Prayer & Benediction: (Pastor Dick)
Main Funeral Service Detail:
1. Welcome & Prayer (Andrew John)
2. Obituary (Andrew John)
Jeremy David Snyder, born on September 3, 2004, in Lewes, DE, transitioned from this world on April 24, 2024. He was the beloved son of Joseph Eugene, Sr. and Annie Marie (Lecates) Snyder.
Jeremy found joy in the simple pleasures of life, with a passion for both tinkering with cars and expressing his creativity through drawing.
Jeremy dedicated his working hours alongside his dear friend and boss, Jason Rust, in the field of landscaping, where his hard work and commitment shone brightly.
He leaves behind a legacy of love and memories cherished by his parents, his siblings, Joseph E. Snyder, Jr., Matt Tharp, Kimberly Ann Snyder, and Mary Ann Snyder, as well as his grandfather, David Snyder, grandmother, Barbara Royer, and his best friend and brother from another mother, Brandon Hufnal.
He was preceded in death by his sister Lisa Marie Snyder.
3. Congregation Singing:
10,000 Reason
He Will Hold Me Fast
4. First Scripture Reading:
1 Thessalonians 4:13–18 (ESV)
13 But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. 14 For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. 15 For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore encourage one another with these words.
5. Eulogy (Friend/Family Member)
6. Second Scripture Reading:
John 14:1–6 (ESV)
14 “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. 2 In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. 4 And you know the way to where I am going.” 5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” 6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
7. Message of Hope: (1 Corinthians 15:50-58, Pastor Dick)
Introduction:
Introduction:
We are gathered here this morning for both a time of grieving and a time of rejoicing. Jeremy David Snyder, as a young person has met what many would call an untimely death. The difficulty is that though we know that all must die, the hope is that death would wait until we get older and have experienced life, both its joy and sorrows.
As a pastor who has done many funerals, one searching question displayed in the eyes of many mourners is this, “why did my loved one have to die?”, and in this case, “why does one so young have to die?”. which also brings to our minds our own mortality, and so even more personally, “Why death at all?” The scripture is very clear on this answer, and we shall briefly this afternoon, allow scripture to guide us in that answer.
The apostle Paul in writing to the church at Corinth, a church who had many problems, to which Paul addressed each one in detail, but before closing his letter, he declares to them the most profound, essential truth of Christianity, and that is the resurrection. For, Paul states:
17 And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. 18 Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. 19 If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied.
Christianity rises and falls on the resurrection. It is the reality the Christ is raised from the dead that brings us hope this morning, and is behind the answer to the question of why death?
Text: 1 Corinthians 15:50-58
Text: 1 Corinthians 15:50-58
50 I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. 51 Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52 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. 53 For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. 54 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.” 55 “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” 56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 58 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.
Main Idea: Because of the resurrection, those in Christ have hope in death.
Main Idea: Because of the resurrection, those in Christ have hope in death.
So because death is a reality that we all must experience, what hope is there in this reality?
I. Future Hope: So we can Live Eternally with Endless Joy (50-57) -
I. Future Hope: So we can Live Eternally with Endless Joy (50-57) -
A. Flesh and Blood are Part of our Perishable Earth (50)
A. Flesh and Blood are Part of our Perishable Earth (50)
(50) I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
1. Cursed by God because of Adam's sin Gen 3:17-19
1. Cursed by God because of Adam's sin Gen 3:17-19
17 And to Adam he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; 18 thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. 19 By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
2. Death continued from Adam to present day and has become part of the human existence (Rom 5:12)
2. Death continued from Adam to present day and has become part of the human existence (Rom 5:12)
12 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—
B. The Kingdom of God only Allows Perfect Beings (Rev 21:4,27)
B. The Kingdom of God only Allows Perfect Beings (Rev 21:4,27)
4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”
27 But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
Because this is so, there must be a change
(51) Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
When?
(52) 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.
in a moment (atomos - indivisible flash)
at the last trumpet
How?
(53) For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.
dead raised first, changed bodies join their souls
alive in Christ, bodies change
Who? (1 Thess 4:13-18)
13 But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. 14 For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. 15 For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore encourage one another with these words.
Dead in Christ
Alive in Christ
Key phrase: in Christ (2 Cor 5:17)
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
C. Death's sting is real (55-57)
C. Death's sting is real (55-57)
(55) “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”
(56) The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
1. Caused by sin
1. Caused by sin
2. Exposed by God's law
2. Exposed by God's law
(57) But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
3. Conquered by Jesus Christ (1 Cor 15:3-4 ) - which is the Gospel
3. Conquered by Jesus Christ (1 Cor 15:3-4 ) - which is the Gospel
3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,
The elements of the Gospel:
Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures
he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures:
20 But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. 21 For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. 22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.
Not our righteousness but Christ’s (Titus 3:5 )
5 he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,
We must repent and believe to be in Christ
9 because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.
13 For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
So, what are we to do while we await the reality of our own deaths? Paul closes this section with what we, who are still in our earthly bodies, are to do:
II. Present Hope: So we can live presently with persevering hope (58)
II. Present Hope: So we can live presently with persevering hope (58)
(58) 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.
Therefore, as a result of all that has been said, and the reality of our own mortality should cause us to:
Stand like a rock, persevere, abounding in the Lord's work
Because of the resurrection, all that we do for the Lord is not meaningless in this life
Jeremy David Snyder we believe has completed his earthly tasks and is now ushered into his rest, but what about us? There are only two ways to approach life, as a believer or as an unbeliever, there is nothing in between, each one of those approaches to life has its own resurrection. I want to leave you with…
One sobering Note:
One sobering Note:
There also will be another resurrection for the unbelievers (Rev 20:11-15)
11 Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. From his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them. 12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done. 13 And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done. 14 Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. 15 And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
Those whose name are not written in the lambs book of life will be judged at the great White Throne.
Is your name written in the lambs book of life? If not, you are not prepared to die.
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8. Song: “I Can Only Imagine”
9. Closing Prayer & Benediction: (Pastor Dick)
24 The Lord bless you and keep you; 25 the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; 26 the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.