Bobby Bivens Memorial Service
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And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
In the place John saw, the effects of the fall had been reversed.
In the place John saw, the effects of the fall had been reversed.
Death, sorrow, crying and pain are natural in this life. They are a direct result of the fall.
Man that is born of a woman Is of few days, and full of trouble.
I think even Bro. Bobby would say this is true.
Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:
Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
That’s why Jesus tells us not to be anxious about these things.
Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
How do we get from this fallen condition to that beautiful place, as Bro. Bobby has done?
If we wanted to get from here to West Plains, we would travel on the road. The way has already been made.
Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.
Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Jesus is the way, and he is the Word.
NUN. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, And a light unto my path.
Bro. Bobby traveled that way. There may have been detours along the road, some side streets, but He followed the guide, which is the Holy Spirit and it led him to that place.
There is another way.
Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Robert Frost put it this way.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Another poet said:
To every man there openeth
A Way, and Ways, and a Way.
And the High Soul climbs the High way,
And the Low Soul gropes the Low,
And in between, on the misty flats,
The rest drift to and fro.
But to every man there openeth
A High Way, and a Low.
And every man decideth
The Way his soul shall go.
The place that Bro. Bobby’s road led to is beyond our comprehension.
Bro. Branham saw that place and described it to us:
There’s no word to speak it, friends. “It’s perfect,” wouldn’t touch it, “sublime.” There’s no English vocabulary that I know, no word at all, that could ever express what it is. It’s beyond anything that I know. There he was. There was no sickness, no sorrow. You couldn’t die. You couldn’t sin. It was just perfect, just perfect. Friends, you mustn’t, you mustn’t miss it.
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54 [I am more convinced than ever in my life that it will take perfect love to enter that place. There was no jealousy, no tiredness, no sickness, no old age, no death. Only supreme beauty and joy.]
55 [Whatever you do, lay aside everything else until you get perfect love! Get to where you can love everybody, even every enemy. No matter if the plane is rocking, the lightning is flashing, or the guns of the enemy are upon you, these things do not matter: get perfect love!]
56 [If you are not saved, accept Jesus Christ as your Saviour now! If you have not been baptized in water, be baptized now! If you have not received the Baptism in the Holy Spirit, receive it now! Press on to that perfect love which will take you to that beautiful and joyful place beyond the curtain of time!]
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I’m going to miss our brother, he was always smiling, teasing the kids. Always telling me stories of days gone by. I’m sure you will as well, but we have an opportunity to travel that same road, and end up in the same place.
Bro. Bobby’s Grandaughter Brittany was telling me that he had written a verse in his Bible from the song “On the Wings of a Snow White Dove”. It was the third verse, written by Bro. Branham, and goes like this:
Though I have suffered
In many a way,
I cried for healing
Both night and day;
But faith wasn’t forgotten
By the Father above,
He gave me His sign
On the wings of a dove.
On the wings of a snow-white dove,
God sent down His pure, sweet love,
Oh, a sign from above,
On the wings of a dove.
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Bro. Bobby has reached a place where all tears have been wiped away.
Let us Pray.