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First, I want to take a moment and say how honored I am to be here today with this lovely family, and on behalf of the family, I want to thank each and every person who has come out to show their love and support during this time.
I remember when I first came to Dowelltown Baptist.
I was relieved to see Joe & Brenda there.
It is always good to see familiar faces when you go to a new place.
It had been years since I had seen them, but in a sense, I grew up with them.
Mom and dad used to own the Cloverleaf Restaurant in Liberty and Joe & Brenda were regulars there.
By regulars, I mean they came in almost every day.
They would come in with several others around the same time every day and they would sit and drink coffee.
I used to think they lived off the stuff.
I remember one day that Joe was picking at me, like he always did, and he got up and went outside to the car.
Well I locked him outside.
The restaurant had a door on each side, so I ran to other side to lock that one too.
When I turned around to come back to other door, he was walking in.
I said, “Joe, how did you get in the door?
I locked it.”
He said I’m magic.
He was the first person to show me how to get into a door with a credit card.
Joe was a good man!
Any pastor knows that some of the most precious times you have is when you get those moments to set down with people one-on-one and have private conversations.
You know, the conversations to where complete honesty is on the table.
The conversations to where hearts are shared, tears are shed, and prayers go up.
That is the good stuff!!!
I am honored to say that Joe allowed me to do that with him.
If you knew Joe, Joe didn’t like sharing his feelings very often, but the last couple of years he started to do that with me, and I considered it an honor each time.
After Joe got sick, it got harder and harder for him to get around and do things for himself.
Mrs. Brenda always took good care of him, and didn’t mind doing any of it, but it bothered him nonetheless.
He hated having to ask someone to do things for him.
That bothered him a lot, and we had several conversations about it, but there was one conversation that stood out above all the rest.
Joe had asked that I come by and pray with him.
He said that he had been thinking a lot about where he stood with God, and he wanted to make sure that his heart was right.
He said that he wasn’t good at praying, and that he didn’t know what to say.
So, he asked if I would lead him in prayer to ask Jesus in his heart.
I knelt down by that couch that he was glued too for the last year of his life and we prayed together.
He asked forgiveness of sin and gave his heart to Christ that evening.
I believe with all of my heart that Joe is in heaven right now.
I believe he is having the best time ever!
Funerals are always hard.
It is a time that we mourn because someone is leaving us.
We mourn because physically, they are no longer with us.
But I want you to see today that is also a time of celebration.
For a child of God, it is a time of celebration, because they have claimed the victory over sin, death, and the separation they both cause.
That is what I want speak on tonight.
I want us to take a moment and try to see through Joe’s eyes.
If we can do that, I believe our tears of sorrow will be turned to tears of joy.
Victory Over Sin and Death(v.
55-56)
There is something that plagues all people on this earth, and it is sin.
It is something we all struggle with.
There is not a single person who has not sinned before God, and there is not a single person who has not felt the weight of that sin in their life.
We all know full well what it is like to battle sin.
As children of God, the last thing we want to do is sin against our God.
God is good to us.
God has blessed us.
God loves us.
We don’t want to sin against Him.
We want to please our Heavenly Father.
We want Him to be pleased with us.
We try to stay faithful to Him by seeking His face on a regular basis.
We read His Word to learn of Him.
We talk to Him through prayer so that we might build our relationship with Him.
We choose to separate ourselves from sinful things in this life so that we might walk in faith and be close to Him.
Despite our best efforts, we cannot do it perfectly.
Though we put much effort into living faithfully, we still fall from time to time.
We still fail God and come short of His glory.
God has decreed that the punishment of that sin in our life is death.
That is why we are here tonight.
We are here because Joe sinned in his life and the penalty of that sin is death.
It is the same reason that we all will face death at some point, for we all have sinned.
And at some point, we will all earn the same penalty that he has earned.
But because of a man named Jesus, that is not where the story ends.
Notice that the end of that verse said that the strength of sin is the law.
The law of God is God’s standard of living.
It is what determines whether something is sinful or not.
The law is God’s rules and regulations for life.
Though not a single person in this room has ever been able to live up to that law, there was one who walked the face of this earth some 2000 years ago that did.
Jesus lived a perfect life.
He never sinned against God.
Because He was able to do just that, He was also never deserving of death.
Even though He did not deserve to die, He decided to go to the cross of Calvary on our behalf anyway.
He died in our place.
This is what the scriptures mean when it says that Jesus was the propitiation for our sin.
That word propitiation means that Jesus was a substitutionary sacrifice for all of mankind.
He hung where we were meant to hang.
He suffered the death that we were deserving of.
He paid a debt He did not owe, because we owed a debt that we could not pay.
Because of what Christ has done, a new way has been made.
Instead of trying to live up to this impossible task of living a perfect life, now we place our faith in the one that did.
When we do place our faith in Jesus a process called imputation takes place.
The Bible says in the book of Romans, “Blessed is the man to whom sin is not imputed.”
That word impute means to charge to someone’s account.
In other words, we are blessed when the sin of our life is not charged to our account.
When I place my faith in Jesus, the process of imputation takes place.
What this means is that the penalty of my sin is now charged to the account of Christ.
It is like i went to the grocery store and bought $500.00
dollars worth of groceries and when I got to the register, I said, “please charge that to Bro.
Bobby’s account.”
I just charged my groceries to his account.
When I place my faith in Jesus, my sin is now imputed to Christ.
But that is not all.
Imputation is not a one-way street.
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