MOVING DAY
2 CORN. 5:1-16
EULOGY;
WHEN DEATH COME AND REMOVES A LOVED ONE FROM OUR MIDIST, THERE ARE MANY RESOURCES AVAILABLE TO COMFORT THE HEARTS OF THOSE WHO HAVE FAITH. COMFORT COMES TO THE HEART BY RECALLING FOND MEMORIES AND THROUGH THE PRESENCE AND SYMPATHY OF FRIENDS. THE GIFTS OF FLOWERS SPEAKS OF THE BEAUTY OF THE LIFE AND THEIR FRAGRACE SPEAKS OF THE CONCERN OF FRIENDS FOR THE TIME OF NEED.
BUT THE GREATEST SOURCE OF COMFORT IS TO BE FOUND IN THE PROMIS OF GOD.LET NOT YOUR HEARTS BE TROUBLED I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS. WIPE TEARS FROM YOUR EYES.
MOVING CAN BE A HAPPY OCCASSION AND A SAD OCCASSION ALL WRAPED UP TOGETHER.
THERE IS THE ANTICIPATION OF GOING TO A NEW COMMUNITY, MEETING NEW PEOPLE, AND MAKING NEW FRIENDS.
BUT THERE IS SADDNESS BECAUSE OF LEAVING OLF FRIENDS AND AQUAINTANCES BEHIND. SO IT IS WITH DEATH. THERE IS SADDNESS TODAY BECAUSE SISTER BROWN HAS MOVED BUT THERE IS ALSO JOY IN THE BELIEVERS HEART, BECAUSE THEY KNOW SHE IS IN A BETTER PLACE.
THE TEXT READ
PAUL THE WRITER OF OUR TEXT IS PURSUING THE ARGUMENT OF CHAPTER 4 CONCERING THE GROUNDS OF COURAGE AND PATIENCE IN TIMES OF AFFLICITIONS.
HE IS SHOWING THE REASON WHY THE CHRISTIANS COMMUNITY THEN AND NOW SHOULD NOT MUST NOT GIVE UP UNDER THERE AFFLICITION. HE WAS SAYING ITS GOING TO GET HARD SOMETIMES, MY BROTHER AND SISTERS WE LIVE IN CLAY HOUSES.
JOB SAID IN 4:9 WE DWELL IN HOUSES OF CLAY WHOSE FOUNDATION IS IN THE DUST. THESE HOUSES, THESE MORTAL BODIES, CANNOT BE LIVED IN FOREVER, EVERYONE OF US ARE GOING TO ENCOUNTER A "MOVING DAY".
BUT WHEN YOU KNOW JESUS IN THE FORGIVENESS OF YOUR SINS. WHEN YOU HAVE CONFESSED WITH YOUR MOUTH AND BELIEVED IN YOUR HEART THAT GOD HAS RAISED JESUS FROM THE DEAD, WHEN YOU HAVE BEEN BORNED AGAIN. YOU CAN TESTIFY, IN LIFE, THAT WHEN MOVING DAY COMES EVERYTHING WILL BE ALRIGHT, BECAUSE IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL. PAUL WAS CONFIDENT ABOUT HIS SALVATION.
CLOSE:
VERSE - FOR WE KNOW THAT IF OUR EARTHY HOUSE OF THIS TABERNACLE WERE DISSOLVED, WE HAVE A BUILDING OF GOD, A HOUSE NOT MADE WITH HANDS, ETERNAL IN THE HEAVENS.
1-- A HOUSE --NOT MADE WITH HANDS.
2--A HABITATION
3--A DWELLING PLACE
4--A RESTING PLACE-A HIDING PLACE
5--OUR FATHER HOUSE WHERE THERE ARE MANSIONS -OUR EVERLASTING HOME.
WE CAN’T GET THERE UNTIL THIS EARTHLY HOUSE OF THIS TABERNANACLE IS DISSOLVED
