Wk 32 Jesus is the Way: Wilma Brown's Celebration of Life

Pre-Service Songs

When the Roll is Called up Yonder—

I’ll be There!

When We all Get to Heaven

What a day of rejoicing that will be… When we all see Jesus...We will sing and shout the Victory!

Change My Heart Oh God

Make it ever True...Change my heart...May I be like You.

You are the Potter, I am the Clay...Mold me and make me...this is what I pray.

Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus

Look full in his wonderful face

and the things of earth will grow strangely dim

In the light of his glory and grace.

THUS WHAT ARE WE HEARING FROM WILLIE’S SELECTION OF SONGS?...

There will be a day when Father will Call Roll

There will be a glorious day of Joy in Heaven

Until we die we should want to be molded into the Fathers Way, and

If we keep our eyes on Jesus the pressures of this world and the temporal things of this world should grow dimmer each day, in the light of his glory and grace.

Obit

Wilma "Willie" Brown

SONG

Amazing Grace by Great-grand Daughter Lexi Huddleston

Pastoral Comment

C’cie Birch

FAMILY TO SHARE:

Mike Kellogg’s Brother Kelly Kellogg

Open Mic

Pastoral Lustration by Mickey

During a Sermon Series: My Story when we had been here for two or three years, I was trying to help our church family find confidence in telling their story.

Then...Wilma took the Mic and shared how she came to Christ.

How she came out of darkness and into His Marvelous Light

How that Jesus was her way to peace and joy

She sited a verse from:

John 14:6 NLT

6 Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.

Not through

wealth and riches

high society

recognition or fame

BUT ONLY through Jesus!

It is natural to pursue this world since we are born in it, but we have a citizenship that is OUT OF THE WORLD!

James ropes these worldly things into three categories:

“the lust of the eyes”

“the lust of the flesh” and

“the pride of life”

ONLY through Jesus do we find Life, and Life Evermore!

Well for Wilma LIFE has truly taken off… with her promotion to Glory.

NO MORE tears of sorrow, pain, or death...

Revelation 21:4 NLT

4 He will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain. All these things are gone forever.”

Eternal Life is only a breath away in finding Jesus as Your Way, Your Truth, and Your Life. NOT BY WORKS least anyone would boast, but ONLY by FAITH!

Sometimes, we don’t even have faith.

One might say, “I don’t even believe in God right now!”

That’s when you need to have friends who come alongside you and encourage you in your faith.

Job 6:14 MSG

14–23 “When desperate people give up on God Almighty, their friends, at least, should stick with them.

Galatians 6:2 MSG

Stoop down and reach out to those who are oppressed. Share their burdens, and so complete Christ’s law.

We need each other.

We are not to strive alone.

We were made for community, connection, and for following the Hope in Christ.

CLOSING

When the Roll is Called up Yonder

Words & Music: James M. Black, Copyright 1893

Mr. Black wrote nearly 1500 songs and was on the commission for the 1905 Methodist Hymnal  

Verse1 (to the saved on earth)

When the trumpet of the Lord shall sound, and time shall be no more, And the morning breaks, eternal, bright and fair; When the saved of earth shall gather over on the other shore, And the roll is called up yonder, I’ll be there.

Verse2 (to those dead in Christ)

On that bright and cloudless morning when the dead in Christ shall rise, And the glory of His resurrection share; When His chosen ones shall gather to their home beyond the skies, And the roll is called up yonder, I’ll be there.

Verse3 (to us until that time)

Let us labor for the Master from the dawn till setting sun, Let us talk of all His wondrous love and care; Then when all of life is over, and our work on earth is done, And the roll is called up yonder, I’ll be there.

Refrain

When the roll, is called up yon-der,

I’ll be there.

LET’S PRAYER

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GRAVESIDE NOTE

The song, When the Roll is Called Up Yonder, is one of the most popular Christian hymns of all time. The song was inspired by the idea of The Book of Life mentioned in the Bible, and by the absence of a child in Black's Sunday school class when the attendance was taken. 

The idea of someone's being not in attendance in heaven haunted Black, and after visiting the child's home and calling on a doctor to attend her for pneumonia, he went home and wrote the song after not finding one on a similar topic in his hymn collection.

It is taken from Paul’s writings in 1 Corinthians.

1 Corinthians 15:50–58 ESV

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.

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