2021-10-12, Ken Hutchens Memorial
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“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.
Prayer
Prayer
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. For as we share abundantly in Christ’s sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too. If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which you experience when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we suffer. Our hope for you is unshaken, for we know that as you share in our sufferings, you will also share in our comfort.
Obituary
Obituary
Kenneth Warren Hutchens of Mcloud was born April 23, 1937 to Klondus and Edna Hutchens in Oklahoma City Oklahoma.Kenneth passed this life October 9, 2021 at his home surrounded by his family at the age of 84. Kenneth enjoyed his long life playing solitare, watching his westerns and baseball. He enjoyed fishing bowling and working on cars. preceding him death are both his parents, brothers Klondus, William, John Calvin, Thomas. Aunts Mildred and Elizabeth and uncle Clarence. Left behind to mourn his passing is his wife Susan of the home. Five children; Jeffery and wife Keri Hutchens, Barbara Smith-Johnson, Bette Hutchens, Deanna and Braybrey Haines, and Gary Hutchens. Six grandchildren Melanie, Tyler, Hailey, Mercedes, Dante, and Faith. Three great grandchildren Rowen, Hendrix, and Cam. Kenneth's legacy will be remembered by a host of nieces, nephews, and friends.
Song #1, Victory in Jesus
Song #1, Victory in Jesus
Eulogy
Eulogy
Song #2, I Will Remember You, Amy Grant
Song #2, I Will Remember You, Amy Grant
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Message
The joy of hearing family talk about loved ones.
You think you know a guy...
Start of Life
Ken’s life started in OKC and he was raised in this area (Choctaw and McLoud)
Ken met the Lord Jesus Christ when he was an older boy (9-10 years) in a mission church
Something you’ll notice about Ken’s life is that he had a love for new works.
Ken served his country in the U.S. Navy. He was an electrician
Ken and Sue met at a revival in college and got married after school.
He was deployed for 6 months twice.
Ministry
Ken had a heart for minstry
Finished his BA at Dallas Baptist University
He received a Masters in Religious Education from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
He served as music & education director in churches
Bus ministry
Deacon
Liked to fix things
In fact, he was very involved in the process of FBCH starting Cornerstone BC at 102 and Britton.
Ken was a servant, liked to fix things for people (Sign that Jeff drove into; Ken just fixed it)
He stood up for his daughter Betty
Ken was full of grace for people
Ken and Sue were always accepting of people to come and stay with them for a while.
Long fuse
The Bible says that hope is a major part of the Christian faith.
To hope means to want something to happen. So obviously, there’s a connection between hope and good things.
The Bible says that our hope revolves around Jesus Christ, the gospel, and His promises. Jesus is the embodiment all the good things God has in store for us. They are in Christ.
11 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, 12 training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, 13 waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,
Jesus is called here our happy hope. The fulfillment of hope is wrapped up in His appearing. Either when we see Him in heaven when we die (Phil 1:23), or better yet, when we see Him when He returns in glory (Mt. 24:30).
We are going to talk about some of the things that we have to hope for. It’s important to understand that they are beyond great.
In fact, Paul says their quality is incomprehensible to us while we are here on earth.
9 But, as it is written,
“What no eye has seen, nor ear heard,
nor the heart of man imagined,
what God has prepared for those who love him”—
He says elsewhere, that they will be so great that we will see all our suffering as minor comparatively.
17 For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, 18 as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
One other thing to know before we get into the details of our hope is this.
Hope is only hope before we receive it. Once we receive it we have bliss and joy.
But today, we rejoice because we know that for Ken, the things Christians hope for have been realized, namely, he is in the presence of Christ and completely satisfied.
28 Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
There are three things we hope for as Christians. These are all found in Christ.
1. our mysteries will be cleared,
2. our infirmities will be healed,
3. and our redemption will be complete.
Mysteries cleared:
In Ephesians 3, Paul prays for the Ephesians that they we knowledge of the magnitude of the Love of God.
This passage tells us that there are a lot of incredible things to know from God, but for now so many of them are mysteries. These include His will and His wisdom.
We can add to this list a lot of things we do not understand.
Life is full of things we simply do not understand. Some people enjoy vigorous health all their lives, and some people are sick and frail from their youth. Some people die too soon, and some people live too long. Why good and innocent people suffer, yet the wicked seem to prosper.
Some people have their driver’s license taken away at an early age, and some people seem to keep them forever. Take a woman I heard of who said, “I turn 95 next week and I just had my driver’s license renewed for two more years.” How would you like to meet that woman on a narrow highway late one night?
For that matter, why is there cancer? Alzheimer’s? Parkinson’s? We simply do not know. Mysteries abound.
But one day in heaven the mysteries will be cleared. When we into the presence of Christ, we will know all that we can know.
Paul alluded to this with a metaphor:
12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
Yet, when we come to know the One who fills all things in everyway. He will fill us with knowledge. And we will marvel at the infinite wisdom, love, and justice of God.
We will also Infirmities Healed
I once heard a story about Richard Baxter. He was a famous preacher and pastor who spent years of his life in physical agony. His pain was intensified as he was in prison part of the time for preaching the gospel.
Baxter, on his deathbed, was visited by a friend, “Richard, how are you doing?” Baxter replied, “Friend, I am almost well.” And then he died.
Baxter knew what the Bible says about heaven and he put his hope in it with confidence.
The Bible says that Christ brings healing to the hurts and sorrows of sin. This means that He takes away out pain and suffering.
Certainly, this is the case when our bodies die and our souls go to heaven. We become separated from our bodies which are riddled with the harsh effects of sin in this fallen world.
Yet the Bible speaks of a greater future when Christ returns and our are raised and restored from the dead. They are made greater than they ever were on earth. The Bible speaks of our bodies and souls being united in the presence of Christ and that there...
He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”
This sounds pretty wonderful. Ken actually knows the first part of this at least, his soul being in the presence of Christ and no more suffering from the pain, the ailments, the difficulty to communicate.
I often wonder about our resurrection bodies.
Ken’s younger body
“Will sickness and sorrow ever go away? Yes, in heaven. There will be no blind eyes in heaven. No twisted limbs up there. No ambulances screaming down the streets of gold. No funeral wreathes hanging on mansion doors. There will be no deaths, no sorrow, no pain, and no tears. For former things will have passed away, and He will make all things new.”
Our infirmities will be healed.
Our Redemption complete
When sin entered the world, all of creation fell under its curse- both environmental nature and human nature. There is no part of creation that was untouched by the ravages of sin.
Today, though as Christians we have been forgiven of our sins and justified by the cross and resurrection of Christ, and have been healed spiritually,
When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “It is finished,” and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
Our justification is finished, yet our total restoration and redemtion will be completed by Christ later.
So, we still experience the effects of the curse of sin, for just a while longer.
Our infirmities and death; Tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, and hurricanes; malice and hatred from one person to another- these are all the effects of the curse.
But the good news is that creation will leave these behind as it follows Christ into the new heaven and new earth.
All of creation endures the pains of the curse and longs for this future when our redemption will be complete
We hope for it... The apostle Paul writes...
For in this tent we groan, longing to put on our heavenly dwelling,
He also tells us creation hopes for it...
22 For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now.
So we experience redemption in an Already, Not yet! kind of way.
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