Brandon Payton Funeral
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Brandon Payton, 35, died Sunday, June 24, 2018. He was born on June 1, 1983 in Clark County to Janet Payton Hobbs. He worked as a roofer.
In addition to his mother he is survived by his stepfather Johnny Hobbs, Two sisters; Amie Danielle Payton and Johanna Nicole Payton. One brother Mathew Watts. Three uncles; Ronnie, Leonard and Randall Payton. Two cousins Christopher and Sabrina Payton and several other cousins.
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In addition to his mother he is survived by his stepfather Johnny Hobbs, Two sisters; Amie Danielle Payton and Johanna Nicole Payton. One brother Mathew Watts. Three uncles; Ronnie, Leonard and Randall Payton. Two cousins Christopher and Sabrina Payton and several other cousins.
I must begin by telling you that I never knew Brandon Payton. I first came to know about him through this horrific accident.
I found out through speaking to his mother and step father that Brandon was well loved by many. His uncle Ronnie loved him deeply, his step father Johnny Hobbs also loved him much. He had a whole host of friends who loved him also. I was told that he was a good son who loved his mother and his family and friends deeply. But none of what I was told prepares me to speak as one of authority at the Funeral of Brandon Payton.
I have preached funerals of someone murdered at a young age, the funeral of a small child only 9 years old, the funeral of a man that 1/2 the family wanted me to preach him into heaven and the other 1/2 wanted me to preach him into hell. I have preach the funerals of those I never knew and of those I knew and loved deeply. I even preached my own mothers funeral.
But none of that is what has prepared me for this day the day that I was chosen to preach Brandon Payton’s funeral. What has prepared me for this moment; this moment of grief and sorrow This moment of anger and confusion, this moment of doubt and fear is my relationship with my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
You see at all times on this earth there are two laws in effect and we were all born under this Law; The Law of Sin and Death. This law is focused on the flesh and keeps us in the bondage this flesh brings, the second law is the Law of Grace which came through Jesus Christ. The Law of Grace frees us from the bondage of sin
The Second Law is available to those who choose to receive Christ as their Savior .
When I met with Brandon’s Mother and Step Father I asked them did Brandon have a relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ? His mother told me in her response that when he was a child that she took him to church with her and that her and her husband were Christians.
I then began to speak the truth of God’s word unto her the words from the book of Philippians chapter 1 and verse 6.
For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.
I reminded her that God looks upon the heart and it is us (man) who looks on the flesh for judgement. Brandon Payton’s heart has been fully revealed to his creator the God of this world and His Word (Jesus Christ) in whom his judgement is found. No one in this room can say with 100% surety where Brandon’s
That Judgement will be just and true. The Lord God Jehovah is omnipotent (all Knowing) and see the thoughts of our heart.
You see because Brandon’s mother could not clearly say that she knew beyond a shadow of doubt that Brandon had excepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior, that he had confessed his sins with his mouth and believed with his life that Jesus died for him to pay the price for the sin in Brandon’s life, that Jesus rose again from the dead in 3 days after his death so that Brandon could have eternal life, all I could do is offer her hope from the Word of God. I offer you the same hope that if Brandon accepted Christ as his savior then his eternity will be spent with God in Heaven.
Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.
For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh,
so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.
For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace,
because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so,
and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.
If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness.
But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.
So then, brethren, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh—
for if you are living according to the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.
For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, “Abba! Father!”
The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God,
and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him.
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us.
For the anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God.
For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope
that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.
For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now.
And not only this, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body.
For in hope we have been saved, but hope that is seen is not hope; for who hopes for what he already sees?
But if we hope for what we do not see, with perseverance we wait eagerly for it.
Romans
I am here today to speak to those of you who are here today that also cannot say without a Shadow of a doubt that your eternity will be spent in heaven with God.
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