WHAT WILL PEOPLE SAY AT YOUR FUNERAL? (5 OF 12)
by Bob Ingle
Scripture: Philippians 1:19-26
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What Will People Say At Your Funeral? (5 of 12)
Series: Philippians
Bob Ingle
Philippians 1:19-26
We are back in Philippians 1 today, and title of the message is: ''What Will People Say at Your Funeral?'' You just saw what shouldn't be said at a funeral, but what will people say at your funeral?
Three guys were talking about this, and one guy asked, ''When you are laying there in your casket with all your friends and family gathered together, what would you like for them to say about you?''
The first guy said, ''I would like them to say that I was a brilliant doctor and a loving family man.''
The second guy said, ''I want them to say I was an outstanding schoolteacher and helped the less fortunate.''
The last guy said, ''I would love for them to look in the casket and say, ''LOOK, he's moving!''
One young lady said: ''When I die, I want to go like my Grandpa did, peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.''
What will be said when you're dead? What will people say at your funeral?
I have preached in the neighborhood of 150 funerals for all kinds of people. Young and old. Believers and unbelievers. Beloved saints and naughty rascals. People I knew well and people I had never met.
One thing is true: We all get to preach our own funerals by the way we live our life.
The Apostle Paul was a prisoner on death row in Rome because he refused to quit preaching about Jesus the Messiah and how the Gospel was the only way God saves people from sin. Though his freedom was gone and his future in question, he wrote this personal letter teeming with joy to his beloved church family 800 miles away in Philippi. They were grieved over his imprisonment. They were worried about his upcoming trial. And they are anxious about his future. Their greatest fear was the they would never see his face again this side of heaven.
Paul knows their fear and anxiety, and under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, pens one ...
Series: Philippians
Bob Ingle
Philippians 1:19-26
We are back in Philippians 1 today, and title of the message is: ''What Will People Say at Your Funeral?'' You just saw what shouldn't be said at a funeral, but what will people say at your funeral?
Three guys were talking about this, and one guy asked, ''When you are laying there in your casket with all your friends and family gathered together, what would you like for them to say about you?''
The first guy said, ''I would like them to say that I was a brilliant doctor and a loving family man.''
The second guy said, ''I want them to say I was an outstanding schoolteacher and helped the less fortunate.''
The last guy said, ''I would love for them to look in the casket and say, ''LOOK, he's moving!''
One young lady said: ''When I die, I want to go like my Grandpa did, peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.''
What will be said when you're dead? What will people say at your funeral?
I have preached in the neighborhood of 150 funerals for all kinds of people. Young and old. Believers and unbelievers. Beloved saints and naughty rascals. People I knew well and people I had never met.
One thing is true: We all get to preach our own funerals by the way we live our life.
The Apostle Paul was a prisoner on death row in Rome because he refused to quit preaching about Jesus the Messiah and how the Gospel was the only way God saves people from sin. Though his freedom was gone and his future in question, he wrote this personal letter teeming with joy to his beloved church family 800 miles away in Philippi. They were grieved over his imprisonment. They were worried about his upcoming trial. And they are anxious about his future. Their greatest fear was the they would never see his face again this side of heaven.
Paul knows their fear and anxiety, and under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, pens one ...
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