A Funeral Service for Randy Cox

Please be seated.

On behalf of the family, I want to tell you thank you for every kind word, every visit, the food, the cards, your presence last night at the funeral home and your presence here today, but most of all I want to thank you for the prayers that you have offered up over the past months and days as the family were faithful to stand by Mr. Randy’s side until he went home on Saturday. It is wonderful to know that during times of difficulties, we can lean on those around us to hold us up and to help bear our burdens. I want to also encourage you as friends and family to remember the family in coming days and weeks as well as they will continue to need our love and support.

I want to share with you from a passage of Scripture that I read to Randy over the past few weeks.

This particular passage is one that many have clung to in times of trouble an for good reason.

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I. Our Shepherd-King Provides For Us What We Need 23:1-3

1. He gives us nourishment 23:1-2

2. He gives us rest 23:3

3. He gives us guidance 23:3

II. Our Shepherd-King Protects Us Where We Are 23:4-5

1. He is with us when we face death 23:4

2. He is with us when we face the enemy 23:5

III. Our Shepherd-King Promises Us What We Will Have 23:6

1. We will always have His gracious love 2. We will someday enjoy His gracious acceptance

2. We will someday enjoy His gracious acceptance

2. We will someday enjoy His gracious acceptance

1 Corinthians 15:50–58 NASB95

Now I say this, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will 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 will be changed. For this perishable must put on the imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality. But when this perishable will have put on the imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come about 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 brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord.

We are promised, here in the Word of God, that death is not the end for believers.

Verse 56.

Jesus is our solution to the Sin.

He has fulfilled every aspect of the Law through his perfect life .

He has fulfilled the requirements of the Law through His death and resurrection.

And he has given us our marching orders in light of what he has done.