Comfort in Truth

Greg and Brian gave a great tribute to their dad. Not just in the words they say but in the way they want to raise their kids and be in their lives.

The closeness this family has is very special.

It is my desire to bring comfort to my friends. There are many ways friends and family comfort one another during these times. The most important way a friend can comfort another friend is in truth.

Brian speaking with his family after the passing of Tom

God is all knowing

Heaven in a real place

Jesus prepared a place for his dad

Tom made a profession of faith

Family can be reunited with him again

Psalm 139:1–7 (KJV 1900)

1 O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. 2 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, Thou understandest my thought afar off. 3 Thou compassest my path and my lying down, And art acquainted with all my ways. 4 For there is not a word in my tongue, But, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether. 5 Thou hast beset me behind and before, And laid thine hand upon me. 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; It is high, I cannot attain unto it. 7 Whither shall I go from thy spirit? Or whither shall I flee from thy presence?

We can take comfort that even when we are without the ability to speak God knows the words on our our heart.

As a friend let me help some words on your heart. These words. “God has provided.”

Story has been told how the family wanted to see Mr. Tom moved to Emory for care and to see his wife of nearly 48 years. The family worked very hard to make this happen and could not. But then it happened and the family responded with God has provided.

Great stories of the Bible can be summed up with God hath provided.

Abraham takes his son on the mountain top and believes he will have to sacrifice him but finds ram in the thickets. What is the word upon on tongue. God has provided.

Jesus Dealt with Death in such a decisive way that we should never come to a funeral with out discussing his death.

The great central truth of the gospel is that God sent his Son into the world to die and rise again, to overcome the problem of death.

1 Corinthians 15:55–57 (KJV 1900)

55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? 56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

If the law gives power to the sting of death, then you’ve got to have a law handler to free us from the sting of death. He handled it well. In him, we have fulfilled the law. It will not increase the sting of our death. The way he did it was by becoming a substitution.

1 Thessalonians 5:10 (KJV 1900)

10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

1 Peter 3:18 (KJV 1900)

18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:

1 Peter 2:24 (KJV 1900)

24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

Man on the middle cross said he could come.

Why could he come? God hath provided.

Christ Changed Death Forever

1. Grieving with Hope

He changed death from an experience of grieving without hope to grieving with hope.

1 Thessalonians 4:13 KJV 1900

13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.

5. A Happy Homecoming

He changed death from a hopeless curse to a happy homecoming.

2 Corinthians 5:6–8 KJV 1900

6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst 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, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.