Celebration Of Life For LaVar McCoy

Introduction to the service

On behalf of the family of LaVar I wish to thank each of you for being here today. Despite the immense difficulty of today, we have a promises found in Scripture to cling to.

OPENING PRAYER: Father, we are here today to remember the precious life of LeVar McCoy. We also gathered to say goodbye one last time to celebrate the life that he enjoyed here on earth and thank you father for each precious moment and memory that we have had with him.

His life has touched so many in so many different ways. We pray that your peace and presence will be upon us doing this time and we pray this in Jesus name amen. Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord. They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.

And the Bible also says:

In Romans 8:35-39 Who will separate you from the love of Christ, will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? But in all these things we overwhelmingly Concord through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything other created thing, Will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Eulogies

It is at this time that I would like to ask all those that would like to share something from The life of LaVar McCoys to come forward and do so at this time. Introduction to the message.

My story living next to Kathy Perry and family Was LaVar the one that worked at red robbin’s Kind, Listen, attentive great smile great dresser polite person gental Jason, LaVar, LeVel, Terrell, Justine As we gather here this morning to remember the life of Lavar McCoy, I know that many of you are dealing with mixed emotions. On the one hand, there are emotions of great sadness. Sadness not for LaVar, because LaVar is in a far better place, but sadness because we have lost a dear loved one.

But on the other hand, there is great joy knowing that because of the relationship that LeVar had with the Lord Jesus Christ that he has already been in his presence. For the Scripture says: 2nd Corinthians 5:6-8 6 So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. 7 For we walk by faith, not by sight. 8 We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with Christ.

And for the Christian there is no greater joy than to be in the presence of the one that loves them like no one else can.

So today is not a day of mourning but a day of celebration. It’s not a day of regret but truly a day of rejoicing. Today we come to remember the life of the bar, and reminisce over all the special moments that we had with him.

LaVar had a relationship that carried some wonderful promises found in John chapter 14:1–6. Let me read that portion of scripture to you.

John 14:1–6 ““Don’t let your heart 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 am going to prepare a place for you?

3 If I go away and prepare a place for you, I will come again and take you to myself, so that where I am you may be also.

4 You know the way to where I am going.

5“Lord,” Thomas said, “we don’t know where you’re going. How can we know the way?”

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

The first promise to Christian is that we don’t have to fear death.

1 JESUS PREVAILS OVER DEATH FOR BELIEVERS.

Jesus said don’t let your heart be troubled. We are troubled when we don’t know what is going to happen when we die, but Jesus has taken the fear out of dying.

He has conquered the grave and dead so there needs to be no fear in our eternal future.

Revelation 1:17–18 says 17 “When I saw him, I fell at his feet as if I were dead. But he laid his right hand on me and said, “Don’t be afraid! I am the First and the Last.

18 I am the living one. I died, but look—I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and the grave.”

Do you know what the Good News is this morning? Death has no hold on Christ nor does it have a hold on us.

Because Christ conquered death there should be no fear for the Christian because through Christ we also conquered death.

We are troubled when we view death as an in instead of a beginning.

2nd Corinthians 5:1 NLT says “For we know that when this earthly tent we live in is taken down (that is, when we die and leave this earthly body), we will have a house in heaven, an eternal body made for us by God himself and not by human hands.”

LaVar’s life is not over, as a matter of fact it’s just begun. LeVar has shed the temporary for the eternal

the tarnish for the spotless and the passing for the everlasting.

Yes our earthly bodies die, however our heavenly bodies endure for all eternity.

‭‭The second promise or another promise is Jesus prepares a place for believers in heaven.

What has he prepared?

Revelations 21:4 says “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.””‭

Heaven is a place With no more sorrow or crying. Heaven is a place where the hurts and the disappointment of this world have no more sting.

Where the frustration of life are replaced with unspeakable joy’s. With the pains of life or not permitted and the failures of life controls is no longer. A place with no more pain.

Heaven has no handicap parking places. There are no pharmacies and prescriptions to fill. Heaven doesn’t have hospitals, nursing homes, or rehabilitation centers. The days of aches and pains for LeVar are over, the trips to the doctors have ceased, and all his pain has ended.

Another promise found in John 14 is that he personally receives believers.

No I want you to imagine this, the moment that LeVar took his first breath in heaven the Lord was right there to welcome him.

The first image he saw was the Lord Jesus Christ. He was there with his arms wide open to receive LaVar into the great mansion that he has prepared for all His children. And for Levar he experienced a love that we cannot even understand.

A love that forgives every failure that LaVar had in his life. A love that means that hurts only he knew. A love that understood every feeling that he had.

It’s an unconditional love that completely satisfies the longing of his soul. One last promise is that Jesus is the only way to heaven.

Jesus answer Thomas question by saying to Thomas and the other disciples I am the way the truth and the life.

More than anything LeVar understood this. He understood that without a relationship with the Savior there was no hope of heaven. He understood that Christ came to take away the sins of the world and that included his. He believed in the greatest promise given to all of us found in three simple verses.

John 3:16-18 says

16 For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

17 God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him.

18 “There is no judgment against anyone who believes in him. But anyone who does not believe in him has already been judged for not believing in God’s one and only Son.”

‭‭LeVar‘s life revolved around this promise and because of his relationship with the Savior, he is in a place that we can imagine and is experience I love incomprehensible.

CONCLUSION

But how about you? Each of us are going to come to the end of our life one day. When that day comes, will you be ready for it?

If it were to come for you today, would you be ready? Because LaVar was a believer in Jesus Christ, we can know that he is in the arms of the loving Savior.

But do you know where you will be spending eternity?

Family and friends, as we mourn the loss of LeVar McCoy, we have the opportunity to consider what will become of us in life after death.

Think hard about what we just read in John chapter 3. If you believe in the Jesus, you have everlasting life.

If you don’t believe in the Jesus, you don’t have everlasting life and even now stand condemned.

Look to Jesus, the savior of the world. He is the only one that can save you and eyes from the penalty of our sin, which is eternal damnation. Trust in the sun, and you will be saved.

Altar call

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