Funeral Patsy Ann Cundiff

• Scripture: Job 19:25-27 My Redeemer Lives and so will Patsy Ann Cundiff

Words of Grace & Greeting: Friends, we have gathered here to praise God and to witness to our faith as we celebrate the life of “Patsy Cundiff”. 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.

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• She was a graduate of Beaver High School, Class of 1955, and St. Luke's Radiology, Cass of 1957.

• Patsy was baptized at an early age at First Presbyterian Church in Danville, and she was a member of Ceres Baptist Church.

• In 1996, she received the first Humanitarian Award from St. Luke's Hospital.

1. My friends and family the day she departed into her eternal home was a day of sadness for us

• It was a day of sorrow, a day grief, a day of hurt, it’s a day you feel loss, feel pain

• These are normal feelings. God expects us to feel pain when something bad happens to us.

• He has made us that way.

• He has made us with the ability to have a relationship with Him and with one another. And when we lose someone we feel pain.

2. This feelings of hurt have been around for a long time, but so has the feeling of Hope and joy

• In The book of Job. If you know the story of Job you know that it is a story of pain and of sorrow. Job suffers a loss of his wealth, of his health and of his children. Yet in the midst of the pain – Job cries out a cry of hope.

• It says in Job 19:25-27: “I know that my Redeemer lives, And He shall stand at last on the earth; And after my skin is destroyed, this I know, That in my flesh I shall see God, Whom I shall see for myself, And my eyes shall behold (Him).” Job 19:25-27 (NKJV)

3. We learn some things in the book of Job The body is not permanent. My, My this family has encountered this with Virginia, Patricia, and David

• None of us here will disagree that our bodies are not permanent

• If you have lived any time on this earth you have seen the aging process.

• If you stick around very long here you will also experience it.

• We get older, we don’t see as well as we once did, or hear as well, or sleep as well. We don’t move as fast as we once did. Our hair changes color or leaves us.

• That is all a part of the aging process – because life on this earth is not permanent.

• Paul speaks of this fact in 2 Corinthians 4:16 when he says:“Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.”

2. Because there is a Redeemer there is life beyond the grave.

• Paul and Job knew life on this earth was not permanent yet they both had hope in the future.

• Patsy knew there is a redeemer Patsy was baptized at an early age at First Presbyterian Church in Danville, and she was a member of Ceres Baptist Church.

• Patsy knew the importance of the redeemer as did Job.

• We might say the Redeemer is one who pays a price. It is one who delivers from bondage. It is one who fixes things. It is one who sets things straight.

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3. We started out by saying, My friends and family the day she departed into her eternal home was a day of sadness for us but I would add this is a day also of hope, happiness, joy unspeakable, a day Patsy has longed for the day she died was the day she lived.

• She has encountered what Job said,

• “I know that my Redeemer lives, And He shall stand at last on the earth; And after my skin is destroyed, this I know,

• That in my flesh I shall see God, Whom I shall see for myself, And my eyes shall behold (Him).” Job 19:25-27 (NKJV)

4. Think about what Patsy eyes behold the day she departed August 25th

• She has beheld God wiping away tears from their eyes

• She has beheld no more sorrow,

• She beholds no more crying

• She beholds no more pain

• She beholds no more death

• She beholds the one who makes all thing new

• She knew Jesus as the redeemer the one who can fix stuff death “Whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:15 (NKJV)

• Lord you have given us a gift a treasure, a jewel it’s time to give back this treasure, this jewel, this gift back