Darrell Smith

John 10:10 ESV 10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

The greatest expression of life is found in Jesus. Nothing else in this world can compare....

The night before Jesus crucifixion, Jesus was with his disciples in the upper room and he knew death was coming, and He knew it would come to them as well one day. They didn’t have to be worried...Listen to what Jesus says to them...

John 14:1–6 ESV1 “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.

Things will change very fast in life, Jesus knew the disciples world was about to be turned upside down. This family, not even Darrell thought his life would change so drastically as it did the other day

.But we never know.... God’s ways are not our ways.... in fact Job said mans days are few and full of trouble.

But no matter Jesus tells his disciples … As you have believed in God through it all, believe also in me… Don’t give up in the hope I have promised you.

Life’s challenges make us question, it makes us fearful, it hurts us.... Jesus said keep on believing...

As my old pastor would say… here is where it gets gooder and gooder...

In my Fathers house are many mansions or rooms, ....If it were not true, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you. You see up to this point, God’s plan was not complete, it was not ready....

Jesus came to die so that we might have life. Jesus came to this world to live as we do, to be made like us that He might be our sacrifice for sin. Sin is that ugly word we dont like to talk about,.. oh but we better talk about it.

Leave it un dealt with and a person will split hell wide open.

And there is not need in it, Jesus came to take care of our sin problem.Just as the first Adam brought death, so the second Adam, Jesus brought life. He gave his life as a ransom for sin, paying the price to forgive us with his own blood. He made that sacrifice at the temple not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. And when God the righteous judge, saw that sacrifice He declared sins forgiven, for all those who put their faith and trust in Jesus.Jesus finished the Father’s house, the Father’s plans for the world.

He made the mansion complete so that we would have the hope of a future.. A future with Jesus.

Darrell knew Jesus… And on the moment Hi heart stopped Monday His life began there.

Paul reminds us to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. Darrell stepped into heaven. And that is where he is… well, healthy and whole.

This ole body, this shell it wore out, it gave out. It sleeps, we will lay it to rest. But one day, the eastern sky will break open, Jesus will come with the host of heaven and yes Darrell will be with the King, and his old body, it will raise…

I.What do we do till them.Jesus said it… life is tough… Believe in God, believe also in me. You see Jesus is the answer, the only answer about life after death. He is life. He has prepared a place for us, he ha told us the way so we know how to get there...Now some of us are like Thomas, in John 14:5, we say we do not know that way. But Jesus is the way.

John 14:5–6 ESV5 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.

Jesus tells us John 14:6… I am the way, the truth and the life. want to get to Heaven, there is no way except by me.

Nothing else matters today. The only thing that matters is that Darell knew Jesus, That we can hold in our hearts on.... You Jesus is everything… Jesus tells us in the gospel of John

“I AM”Bread of life, water of life, the true door, the good shepherd, the resurrection and the life, the true vine and the way , truth and the life.