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LaMont family, friends, brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus, may the risen Lord Jesus fill you with His comfort and strength today as we mourn together the calling home of His servant, your father, grandfather, brother, friend and fellow saint, Lyle.
The text that comforts us today is found in John’s Gospel, where Jesus is comforting His disciples after telling them that He must die at the hands of wicked men and be raised again on the third day. His disciples did not understand the reality of what was going to happen in the following days of His last meal with them. Prior to our text this morning, Jesus tells Peter that he will deny Him not once but three times, and Peter doesn’t believe Him. For that very night, Jesus would be betrayed into the hands of those who seek to kill Him by Judas, one of His own disciples.
Comfort, that is what this text is all about. His disciples are so concerned and worried about what has been foretold them. They have been loyal to Jesus for the past three years, walking with Him, seeing His miracles, participating in the expansion of the kingdom of God, and have had the inside scoop into Jesus’ teachings. And yet, their minds were veiled to what must take place for the salvation of not only themselves, but for the redemption of all humanity. Their minds were still set on earthly things. “How can the death of their Teacher be a good thing?” “Even though they had witnessed Jesus raising three people from the dead, once He dies, who will raise Him?” “What will happen to us once He dies?”
Lyle was a man of incredible faith. And yet his death has left us with questions that we may not have ever thought of, or could ever have the answer to. One thing i know for certain, Lyle loved his family. He loved Elsie with everything he had. And after the Lord called her home a few years ago, he suffered the loss of what God had joined together in marriage. I know that he longed to be with her, and couldn’t wait for the day when that would happen.
I also know that Lyle loved his children. He wanted nothing more than to provide for them and to try to be the best father he could. He has provided for you all, and especially these last several years, he has provided house and provisions for you Lorie and Jeff. But one thing he longed for the most was that every one of you have a loving relationship with Jesus. Yes, he provided for you in this life, but this life is so short, and everyone of us here today will meet the same end as Elsie and himself. Death is what is inevitable in life. It is something that none of us will escape. Question is, though, will we all make it out of death alive or not?
Jesus comforts His disciples with these words, “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. 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? 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.” (vv 1-3). It is a troubling time for Jesus’ disciples, and today it is a troubling time for you all as well. The death of a loved one is not a fun experience, never do families look forward to this cruel reality in life. Death rips apart things. It is violent, it is permanent in this life. It rips apart marriage, it rips apart families, and from what I have seen and experienced in the deaths of over fifty persons in this congregation, it tends to bring out the worse in people.
Do not let your hearts be troubled. This is what your father, Lyle, lived by. Not once since Elsie was called home did he ever get anxious or worried about seeing her again. It seemed as if, it was all he could speak about with me as the years passed by. It was the one thing he held on tight to even through his own battle with cancer. He knew for certain that he would see Elsie again, because Lyle held tight to the promise of Jesus, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” Jesus has always been Lyle’s life since I have known him. Lyle knew he could never get into God’s paradise on his own works, by living a perfect life, or through any other means. He knew he could not buy his way into heaven through his offerings. It had to be Jesus or else everything would be loss.
LaMont family, friends, brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus, may the risen Lord Jesus fill you with His comfort and strength today as we mourn together the calling home of His servant, your father, grandfather, brother, friend and fellow saint, Lyle.
The text that comforts us today is found in John’s Gospel, where Jesus is comforting His disciples after telling them that He must die at the hands of wicked men and be raised again on the third day. His disciples did not understand the reality of what was going to happen in the following days of His last meal with them.
What I find most interesting in this text, even in the original language, is the use of the definite article ‘the’. Jesus is not just a way to eternal life, as if all roads lead to the same destination, He is ‘THE’ way, the truth and the life. NO ONE, not anyone can get to the Father except through Him.
The devil has told our world this is a lie. He tries to convince us that every other religion on the face of this planet is ordained by God and therefore, adherents to these other religions, that deny Christ as the only Son of the Father who died for our sins on the cross, redeeming sinful mankind from themselves and from sin, will be greeted by God into His paradise. If this were true, than Jesus is a liar. Not only is Jesus a liar, but all that the Scriptures record of Him through prophecy, through the eye witness accounts and through actual historical documents are also lies, and that leaves you and me in a very pitiable position.
This is where sin comes to light. Paul reminds us all that the wages of sin is death. This is what is staring us in the face today. Death brought about by sin. Everyone of us has this nasty inherited disease. Sad part is, there is nothing that you and I can do about it at all. We are born with it. Just like being born with cancer, or heart defects, or any other terminal disease, sin is something we inherited from our parents, all the way back to our first parents, Adam and Eve.
Sin looks inward, it focuses our attention on ourselves. It teaches us that we are better than God, we know better than God, and so we can work out our own salvation through anything that tickles our fancy. Sin points us to and entices us to buy into the lie of Satan, that we are our own god and whatever we think, say or do is just fine. As our own god we get to make the rules, we get to set our own agendas for life, we get to control our own destiny and it doesn’t matter what we do, it is just fine, because we are our own authority. There is no such thing as objective truth, all truth is relative to our self and our boundaries. This is the lie that Satan told Adam and Eve in the garden, “you will not surely die, for when you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” He made them to doubt God’s word, “That when you eat of it you will surely die”. He made them feel as if God was not only a liar, but that He was withholding something from them: valuable knowledge that they could know and make their own decisions through.
Yes, each and everyone of us has the freedom in life to make the decisions that we make. However, with those decisions come consequences, both good and bad. When we make the decision that we know better than God and we can work our way into heaven or follow some other promise of redemption through another religion, the consequences of those decisions are eternal. There is no way out. Yes, God withheld information from us. But He did give Adam and Eve what they needed to know. They needed to know Him and Him only. He would provide for all their needs, especially when they did eat of the forbidden tree. They only needed to know Him and His plan for their redemption.
The text that comforts us today is found in John’s Gospel, where Jesus is comforting His disciples after telling them that He must die at the hands of wicked men and be raised again on the third day. His disciples did not understand the reality of what was going to happen in the following days of His last meal with them. Prior to our text this morning, Jesus tells Peter that he will deny Him not once but three times, and Peter doesn’t believe Him. For that very night, Jesus would be betrayed into the hands of those who seek to kill Him by Judas, one of His own disciples.
Comfort, that is what this text is all about. His disciples are so concerned and worried about what has been foretold them. They have been loyal to Jesus for the past three years, walking with Him, seeing His miracles, participating in the expansion of the kingdom of God, and have had the inside scoop into Jesus’ teachings. And yet, their minds were veiled to what must take place for the salvation of not only themselves, but for the redemption of all humanity. Their minds were still set on earthly things. “How can the death of their Teacher be a good thing?” “Even though they had witnessed Jesus raising three people from the dead, once He dies, who will raise Him?” “What will happen to us once He dies?”
Lyle knew this also. It may have taken him some time to trust in this fully, but he did. Lyle was not above or excluded from sin and the lie of the price of this world. He was a hard working man, and he lived his most of his life thinking that material possessions and wealth was all he needed, even at the expense of his relationship with his family. He was a very lucky man, winning almost every holiday raffle at his company. But he eventually felt that trying to fill that God shaped hole in his heart with materialism and wealth was not working. He was still missing something that all the alcohol in the world could not remedy. That is when He came face to face with Jesus, his crucified and risen Lord.
Comfort, that is what this text is all about. His disciples are so concerned and worried about what has been foretold them. They have been loyal to Jesus for the past three years, walking with Him, seeing His miracles, participating in the expansion of the kingdom of God, and have had the inside scoop into Jesus’ teachings. And yet, their minds were veiled to what must take place for the salvation of not only themselves, but for the redemption of all humanity. Their minds were still set on earthly things. “How can the death of their Teacher be a good thing?” “Even though they had witnessed Jesus raising three people from the dead, once He dies, who will raise Him?” “What will happen to us once He dies?”
Lyle was a man of incredible faith. And yet his death has left us with questions that we may not have ever thought of or could ever have the answer to. One thing I know for certain, Lyle loved his family. He loved Elsie with everything he had. And after the Lord called her home a few years ago, he suffered the loss of what God had joined together in marriage. I know how he longed to be with her and couldn’t wait for the day when that would happen.
This is what takes the sting out of today. Lyle was brought to faith in Jesus. And so the promise of Jesus to His disciples, “Do not let your hearts be troubled, believe in God and believe also in me.” stands true today for us here. We have no reason to be worried or troubled.
Lyle was a man of incredible faith. And yet his death has left us with questions that we may not have ever thought of or could ever have the answer to. One thing i know for certain, Lyle loved his family. He loved Elsie with everything he had. And after the Lord called her home a few years ago, he suffered the loss of what God had joined together in marriage. I know that he longed to be with her and couldn’t wait for the day when that would happen.
I also know that Lyle loved his children. He wanted nothing more than to provide for them and to try to be the best father he could. He has provided for you all, and especially these last several years, he has provided house and provisions for you Lorie and Jeff. But one thing he longed for the most was that every one of you have a loving relationship with Jesus. Yes, he provided for you in this life, but this life is so short, and every one of us here today will meet the same end as Elsie and Lyle. Death is what is inevitable in life. It is something that none of us will escape. Question is, however, “will we all make it out of death alive or not?”
There was a time that Jesus lost a good friend. Lazarus. The reading of that text is rather odd to us, because he was told by messengers that Lazarus was severely ill and yet he decided to wait a few days more before leaving to visit his friend Lazarus. Jesus’ friend died, and Mary and Martha, Lazarus’ sisters, were very upset with Jesus. “If you had been here my brother wouldn’t have died” (). By this time, Lazarus had been in the tomb already for four days. Jesus explains to them that their brother will live again, to which they agreed with Him that in the resurrection, Lazarus would rise again.
Jesus comforts His disciples with these words, “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. 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? 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.” (vv 1-3). It is a troubling time for Jesus’ disciples, and today is a troubling time for us all as well. The death of a loved one is not a fun experience, never do families look forward to this cruel reality in life. Death rips apart things. It is violent, it is permanent in this world. It rips apart marriage, it rips apart families, and from what I have seen and experienced in the deaths of over fifty persons in this congregation, it tends to bring out the worse in people.
I also know that Lyle loved his children. He wanted nothing more than to provide for them and to try to be the best father he could. He has provided for you all, and especially these last several years, he has provided house and provisions for you Lorie and Jeff. But one thing he longed for the most was that every one of you have a loving relationship with Jesus. Yes, he provided for you in this life, but this life is so short, and every one of us here today will meet the same end as Elsie and himself. Death is what is inevitable in life. It is something that none of us will escape. Question is, though, will we all make it out of death alive or not?
The astonishing thing is that not only does Jesus proclaim Himself to be the way, the truth and the life, but here in , Jesus also proclaims Himself to be the “resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?” Then with a simple word, Jesus calls Lazarus by name and tells him to come out of his tomb. And Lazarus does.
Jesus comforts His disciples with these words, “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. 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? 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.” (vv 1-3). It is a troubling time for Jesus’ disciples, and today it is a troubling time for you all as well. The death of a loved one is not a fun experience, never do families look forward to this cruel reality in life. Death rips apart things. It is violent, it is permanent in this life. It rips apart marriage, it rips apart families, and from what I have seen and experienced in the deaths of over fifty persons in this congregation, it tends to bring out the worse in people.
Do not let your hearts be troubled. This is what your father, Lyle, lived by. Not once since Elsie was called home did he ever get anxious or worried about seeing her again. It seemed as if, it was all he could speak about with me as the years passed by. It was the one thing he held on to even through his own battle with cancer. He knew for certain that he would see Elsie again, because Lyle held tight to the promise of Jesus, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” Jesus has always been Lyle’s life since I have known him. Lyle knew he could never get into God’s paradise on his own works, by trying to live a perfect life, or through any other means. He knew he could not buy his way into heaven through his offerings. It had to be Jesus or else everything would be loss.
Jesus is everything for us. He is the Way, the truth and the life, and has power over life and death itself. He calms the tumultuous sea with a Word. He cleanses lepers with a Word. He made the blind to see and the deaf to hear. With a Word, Jesus casts out demons, and with a Word, He makes the dead alive again. Not one of Jesus’ promises failed. He said that He would redeem the world with His innocent suffering and death on the cross. He told His disciples that He would rise again. He did all these things. And He leaves them with the promise that He gives to all His disciples, “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? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will com again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also” (vv 2-3).
What I find most interesting in this text, even in the original language, is the use of the definite article ‘the’. Jesus is not just a way to eternal life, as if all roads lead to the same destination, He is ‘THE’ way, the truth and the life. NO ONE, not anyone can get to the Father except through Him.
Do not let your hearts be troubled. This is what your father, Lyle, lived by. Not once since Elsie was called home did, he ever get anxious or worried about seeing her again. It seemed as if, it was all he could speak about with me as the years passed by. It was the one thing he held on tight to even through his own battle with cancer. He knew for certain that he would see Elsie again, because Lyle held tight to the promise of Jesus, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” Jesus has always been Lyle’s life since I have known him. Lyle knew he could never get into God’s paradise on his own works, by living a perfect life, or through any other means. He knew he could not buy his way into heaven through his offerings. It had to be Jesus or else everything would be loss.
Lyle banked on that promise. Therefore today, though we grieve his death, His Lord has fulfilled His promise to Lyle. Jesus finished Lyle’s room, and He called him home. Jesus kept His promise. Yet there is one promise to be fulfilled, Jesus’ return to raise all the dead and reunite their souls to their new resurrected body to live with Him in His paradise forever.
What I find most interesting in this text, even in the original language, is the use of the definite article ‘the’. Jesus is not just a way to eternal life, as if all roads lead to the same destination, He is ‘THE’ way, the truth and the life. NO ONE, not anyone can get to the Father except through Him.
The devil has told our world this is a lie. He tries to convince us that every other religion on the face of this planet is ordained by God and therefore, adherents to these other religions, even though denying Jesus, will be greeted by God into His paradise. If this were true, then Jesus is a liar. Not only is Jesus a liar, but that leaves you and me in a very pitiable position.
Jesus is the way, the truth, the life and the resurrection. All who live their lives holding tight to Him and His Word of promise will live again, they will make it out of death alive. As Jesus asked Mary and Martha that day when He raised Lazarus, I ask you today, “Do you believe this?” If you can answer yes to this question, and allow the Holy Spirit to continue to keep you in that faith in Christ and all He has done for you on the cross of Calvary, then you too shall live, your own death will be a remarkable homecoming reunion with Lyle, Elsie and all who have died in the faith.
This is where sin comes to light, denying God and His Word. Paul reminds us all that the wages of sin is death. That is what is staring us in the face today. Death brought about by sin. Every one of us has this nasty inherited disease. Sad part is, there is nothing that you and I can do about it at all. We are born with it. Just like being born with cancer, or heart defects, or any other terminal disease, sin is something we inherited from our parents, all the way back to our first parents, Adam and Eve.
The devil has told our world this is a lie. He tries to convince us that every other religion on the face of this planet is ordained by God and therefore, adherents to these other religions, even though denying Jesus, will be greeted by God into His paradise. If this were true, then Jesus is a liar. Not only is Jesus a liar, but all that the Scriptures record of Him through prophecy, through the eye witness accounts and through actual historical documents are also lies, and that leaves you and me in a very pitiable position.
There are no other options that will give you the same results. There is only one way. Jesus is that way! That is Lyle’s faith. That is Elsie’s faith. Is it yours?
Sin looks inward, it focuses our attention on ourselves. It teaches us that we are better than God, we know better than God, and so we can work out our own salvation through anything that tickles our fancy. Sin points us to and entices us to buy into the lie of Satan, that we are our own god and whatever we think, say or do is just fine. As our own god we get to make the rules, we get to set our own agendas for life, we get to control our own destiny and it doesn’t matter what we do, it is just fine, because we are our own authority. There is no such thing as objective truth, all truth is relative to our self and our desires. This is the lie that Satan told Adam and Eve in the garden, “…you will not surely die, for when you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” He made them to doubt God’s word, “That when you eat of it you will surely die.” He made them feel as if God was not only a liar, but that He was withholding something from them: valuable knowledge that they could know and make their own decisions through.
This is where sin comes to light, denying God and His Word. Paul reminds us all that the wages of sin is death. That is what is staring us in the face today. Death brought about by sin. Every one of us has this nasty inherited disease. Sad part is, there is nothing that you and I can do about it at all. We are born with it. Just like being born with cancer, or heart defects, or any other terminal disease, sin is something we inherited from our parents, all the way back to our first parents, Adam and Eve.
In the name of Jesus and for His eternal glory. Amen.
Sin looks inward, it focuses our attention on ourselves. It teaches us that we are better than God, we know better than God, and so we can work out our own salvation through anything that tickles our fancy. Sin points us to and entices us to buy into the lie of Satan, that we are our own god and whatever we think, say or do is just fine. As our own god we get to make the rules, we get to set our own agendas for life, we get to control our own destiny and it doesn’t matter what we do, it is just fine, because we are our own authority. There is no such thing as objective truth, all truth is relative to our self and our boundaries. This is the lie that Satan told Adam and Eve in the garden, “you will not surely die, for when you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” He made them to doubt God’s word, “That when you eat of it you will surely die”. He made them feel as if God was not only a liar, but that He was withholding something from them: valuable knowledge that they could know and make their own decisions through.
Yes, each and every one of us has the freedom in life to make the decisions that we want to make. However, with those decisions come consequences, both good and bad. When we make the decision that we know better than God and we can work our way into heaven or follow some other promise of redemption through some other religion, the consequences of those decisions are eternal. There is no way out.
Lyle knew this also. It may have taken him some time to trust in this fully, but he did. Lyle was not above nor excluded from sin and the lie of the price of this world. He was a hardworking man, and he lived his most of his life thinking that material possessions and wealth was all he needed, even at the expense of his relationship with his family from time to time. He was a very lucky man, winning almost every holiday raffle at his company. But he eventually felt that trying to fill that God shaped hole in his heart with materialism and wealth was not working. He was still missing something that all the stuff in the world could not fill. That is when He came face to face with Jesus, his crucified and risen Lord.
Yes, each and every one of us has the freedom in life to make the decisions that we make. However, with those decisions come consequences, both good and bad. When we make the decision that we know better than God and we can work our way into heaven or follow some other promise of redemption through another religion, the consequences of those decisions are eternal. There is no way out.
This is what takes the sting out of today. Lyle was brought to faith in Jesus. And so, the promise of Jesus to His disciples, “Do not let your hearts be troubled, believe in God and believe also in me.” stands true for us today. We have no reason to be worried or troubled.
Lyle knew this also. It may have taken him some time to trust in this fully, but he did. Lyle was not above or excluded from sin and the lie of the price of this world. He was a hardworking man, and he lived his most of his life thinking that material possessions and wealth was all he needed, even at the expense of his relationship with his family from time to time. He was a very lucky man, winning almost every holiday raffle at his company. But he eventually felt that trying to fill that God shaped hole in his heart with materialism and wealth was not working. He was still missing something that all the alcohol in the world could not remedy. That is when He came face to face with Jesus, his crucified and risen Lord.
There was a time that Jesus lost a good friend, Lazarus. The reading of that text is rather odd to us, because He was told by messengers that Lazarus was severely ill and yet He decided to wait a few days more before leaving to visit His friend. Lazarus died, and Mary and Martha, Lazarus’ sisters, were very upset with Jesus. “If you had been here my brother wouldn’t have died” (). By this time, Lazarus had been in the tomb already for four days. Jesus explains to them that their brother will live again, to which they agreed that in the resurrection, Lazarus would rise again.
This is what takes the sting out of today. Lyle was brought to faith in Jesus. And so the promise of Jesus to His disciples, “Do not let your hearts be troubled, believe in God and believe also in me.” stands true today for us here. We have no reason to be worried or troubled.
There was a time that Jesus lost a good friend. Lazarus. The reading of that text is rather odd to us, because he was told by messengers that Lazarus was severely ill and yet he decided to wait a few days more before leaving to visit his friend Lazarus. Jesus’ friend died, and Mary and Martha, Lazarus’ sisters, were very upset with Jesus. “If you had been here my brother wouldn’t have died” (). By this time, Lazarus had been in the tomb already for four days. Jesus explains to them that their brother will live again, to which they agreed with Him that in the resurrection, Lazarus would rise again.
The astonishing thing is that not only does Jesus proclaim Himself to be the way, the truth and the life, but here in , Jesus also proclaims Himself to be the “resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?” Then with a simple word, Jesus calls Lazarus by name and tells him to come out of his tomb. And Lazarus does.
The astonishing thing is that not only does Jesus proclaim Himself to be the way, the truth and the life, but here in , Jesus also proclaims Himself to be the “resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?” Then with a simple word, Jesus calls Lazarus by name and tells him to come out of his tomb. And Lazarus does.
Jesus is everything for us. He is the way, the truth and the life, and has power over life and death itself. He calms the tumultuous sea with a Word. He cleanses lepers with a Word. He made the blind to see and the deaf to hear. With a Word, Jesus casts out demons, and with a Word, He makes the dead alive again. Not one of Jesus’ promises failed. He said that He would redeem the world with His innocent suffering and death on the cross. He told His disciples that He would rise again. He did all these things. And He leaves them with the promise that He gives to all His disciples, “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? 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” (vv 2-3).
Lyle banked on that promise. Therefore today, even though we grieve his death, His Lord has fulfilled His promise to Lyle. Jesus finished Lyle’s room, and He called him home. Jesus kept His promise. There is yet one promise to be fulfilled, Jesus’ return to raise all the dead and reunite their souls to their new resurrected body to live with Him in His paradise forever.
Jesus is everything for us. He is the Way, the truth and the life, and has power over life and death itself. He calms the tumultuous sea with a Word. He cleanses lepers with a Word. He made the blind to see and the deaf to hear. With a Word, Jesus casts out demons, and with a Word, He makes the dead alive again. Not one of Jesus’ promises failed. He said that He would redeem the world with His innocent suffering and death on the cross. He told His disciples that He would rise again. He did all these things. And He leaves them with the promise that He gives to all His disciples, “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? 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” (vv 2-3).
Jesus is the way, the truth, the life and the resurrection. All who live their lives holding tight to Him and His Word of promise will live again, they will make it out of death alive. As Jesus asked Mary and Martha that day when He raised Lazarus, I ask you today, “Do you believe this?” If you can answer yes to this question, and allow the Holy Spirit to continue to keep you in that faith in Christ and all He has done for you on the cross of Calvary and the empty tomb, then you too shall live, your own death will be a remarkable homecoming reunion with Lyle, Elsie and all who have died in the faith.
Lyle banked on that promise. Therefore today, though we grieve his death, His Lord has fulfilled His promise to Lyle. Jesus finished Lyle’s room, and He called him home. Jesus kept His promise. Yet there is one promise to be fulfilled, Jesus’ return to raise all the dead and reunite their souls to their new resurrected body to live with Him in His paradise forever.
There are no other options that will give you the same results. There is only one way. Jesus is that way! That is Lyle’s faith. That is Elsie’s faith. Is it yours?
Jesus is the way, the truth, the life and the resurrection. All who live their lives holding tight to Him and His Word of promise will live again, they will make it out of death alive. As Jesus asked Mary and Martha that day when He raised Lazarus, I ask you today, “Do you believe this?” If you can answer yes to this question, and allow the Holy Spirit to continue to keep you in that faith in Christ and all He has done for you on the cross of Calvary, then you too shall live, your own death will be a remarkable homecoming reunion with Lyle, Elsie and all who have died in the faith.
In the name of Jesus and for His eternal glory. Amen.
There are no other options that will give you the same results. There is only one way. Jesus is that way! That is Lyle’s faith. That is Elsie’s faith. Is it yours?
In the name of Jesus and for His eternal glory. Amen.