Funeral

David Wimmer slipped into eternity peace September 16, 2024

Words of Grace & Greeting: Friends, we have gathered here to praise God and to witness to our faith as we celebrate the life of “David Wimmer”. We come together in grief, acknowledging our human loss.

May God grant us grace, that in pain we may find comfort, in sorrow hope, in death resurrection.

John 14:1-3, 6

Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

• Psalm 116:15Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.

1. Today I would like to say this “God never sees His children die; He simply sees them coming home.”

• It is said that when one of his church members was dying, John Watson, the Scottish preacher of Edinburgh, would kneel down and whisper in the person’s ear: “In my Father’s house are many rooms.”

• Then, with a contented sigh, the person would “slip away”—entirely unafraid.

• If you’re worried today about room in Heaven I assure there is plenty of room. “In my Father’s house are many rooms. Or mansions”

• There is something about this great portion of scripture which consoles us.

2. Even though David Wimmer is gone and he will be missed, there is something very appropriate about his departure, even as the author of Ecclesiastes indicated, “There is a time to be born, and a time to die (see Ecclesiastes 3:2).

• It is appropriate because he had lived out a full, complete, life.

• He has accepted and known the love of God and of family

• His earthly tabernacle or house was in order, he was ready to die he was a Christian and he loved God

3. The Bible refers to our bodies as tents, the old tent is slowly but surely fading away

• John Quincy Adams. When that remarkable American was turning four-score years, he was hobbling down the street one day in the city of Boston, leaning heavily on a cane. Suddenly a friend slapped him on the shoulder and said, “Well, how’s John Quincy Adams this morning?”

• The old man turned slowly, smiled, and said, “Fine, Sir, fine! But this old tenement that John Quincy lives in is not so good. The underpinning is about to fall away. The thatchor is all gone off the roof, and the windows are so dim John Quincy can hardly see out anymore.

• As a matter of fact, it wouldn’t surprise me if before winter’s over he had to move out. But as for John Quincy Adams, he never was better… never was better!”because I know Jesus and I have a mansion waiting

• He recognized that beyond the temporary physical man on the outside, there is a spiritual and eternal man on the inside. The flesh dies and is buried, but the spirit lives forever with God.

4. The Apostle Paul, to the folks in Corinth

• 2 Corinthians 5:1, 6-8 Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven. Therefore, we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord. We live by faith, not by sight. We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

• David lived in a body that was fading but he has an eternal soul he is in a land where the soul of man never dies

• David can sing this old gospel song To Canaan's land, I'm on my way

Where the soul of man never dies My darkest night will turn to day

• The rose is blooming there for me And I will spend eternity

Where the soul of man never dies

• No sad farewells (Dear friends there'll be no sad farewells)

No tear dimmed eyes (There'll be no tear dimmed eyes)

• Where all is love (Where all is peace and joy and love)

And the soul never dies (And the soul of man never dies)

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5. Friends and family consider the realities we have in Jesus Let not your heart be troubled,

• One reality we have is God’s love

• …the reality of forgiveness