Peggy Ferguson
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As I talked to the Ferguson Family, they shared four truths about Ms. Peggy:
1. She was Blessed! And would tell everyone that she was.
1. She was Blessed! And would tell everyone that she was.
In fact if you listened, Ms. Peggy would tell you this too!
2. She wasn’t wealthy, but she was RICH in so many ways.
2. She wasn’t wealthy, but she was RICH in so many ways.
She had her children and her home. And she was happy.
3. She wasn’t big in stature, but she was the strongest person I’ve ever known.
3. She wasn’t big in stature, but she was the strongest person I’ve ever known.
4. Growing up, there were times us four may not have had certain things, but we always had our LOVE for one another.
4. Growing up, there were times us four may not have had certain things, but we always had our LOVE for one another.
Today we Mourn as Abraham Did
Today we Mourn as Abraham Did
We mourn by remembering her and honoring her. We Mourn but we look to the promises of God:
A Promise of an Eternal Home
A Promise of an Eternal Home
The patriarch could have doubted God when Sarah passed, for she died without seeing the divine promises fulfilled. Yet Abraham persevered, buying a burial plot as a sign of his confidence in the Lord’s blessing (v. 16). He and his wife would inherit Canaan after their deaths if need be. In the meantime, their bodies would lie in the ground not far from the place where Sarah first heard she would be a part of the promise by giving birth to Isaac (18:1–15). As one commentator has said, their bones bore witness to future generations of their hope that the Lord would do so much more for them at the resurrection than he did during their lives.
We too look to God’s promises, especially his promise of eternal life and a eternal home.
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.
And you know the way to where I am going.”
This is the promise of God, that we will have an eternal home.
Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.
A Promise of an Eternal Rest
A Promise of an Eternal Rest
For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol, or let your holy one see corruption.
You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.
We look to a home with eternal rest. A place of pleasures at the right hand of God
A Promise of Eternal Life
A Promise of Eternal Life
I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.
For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.
When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”
“O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.