Sermon
Service of Thanksgiving for the life of Elizabeth Scott
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We're gathered together this afternoon and the presence of
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God to do three things. Firstly we want to remember
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God's sovereignty and death as in life.
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Job, the patriarch said, the lord giveth and the lord taketh
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away. Blessed, be the name of the
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Lord. Yes, we're here.
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And we're sorrowful. Were heartbroken in a real sense
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at Elsie's death. But with submissive Hearts, we
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do acknowledge. The day that I gave us, Lord,
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has ended. The second reason we gather
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together here. Is to seek God's word of comfort
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for our hearts. The Lord Jesus said, I am the
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resurrection and the life. He that believeth in me, though.
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He were dead yet, shall he live and whosoever liveth and
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believeth in me shall never die. Believe as though, this he added
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blessed. Are they that mourn for they
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shall be comforted? It was a sigh of the prophet.
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Who said that he was appoint unto them that mourn in Zion
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beautiful, ashes. The oil of joy for mourning, the
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Garment of priya's for the spirit of heaviness that they
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might be clove dork. All the Trees of Righteousness.
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The planting of the Lord that he might be glorified.
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The third reason we have come together, this afternoon is of
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course to give thanks to the Lord for the life and testimony
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affiliate Elsie, Scott. L see, as many of, you know, I
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know passed away peaceably in the hospital on Friday morning,
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the 31st of May about 5:43 or their bites.
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She spent 11 weeks in the hospital.
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Under behalf of the carried off, free Presbyterian Church here,
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the Kirk session, and the congregation.
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I know that you would want to join with me in extending our
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sympathy to this Scott. The Huddle's and Family Circle
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out this time of bereavement today were especially thinking
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of Elsie's, nephews and nieces we think of Hubert.
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And we think of our own, who can't be here today.
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She did phone me yesterday. Wish to be remembered.
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We think of Samuel Del C, and Alan.
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And their families. We think of the stepsons, Paul,
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David, and Philip, and the Scott family.
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And I want you to be assured of our prayerful support at this
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time. And I say to you, you on behalf
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of the family, A big. Thank you for coming.
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Your presence here means so much to them today.
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I would also like and behalf of the family to say a big thank
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you to the staff of the Ulster Hospital of the various Wards in
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which else he was looked. After during those 11 weeks in
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the hospital. We appreciate their
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professionalism and their devotion and care and the family
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would also like to thank the Undertaker's today for assisting
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in the funeral arrangements and we appreciate their
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professionalism. Elsie was a wife.
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She was a stepmom. She was a mount.
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And she was a great aunt. And the Bible tells us that the
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memory of the just is blessed. And you who knew Elsie best even
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more than I did, you that she was a good Godly genuine
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gracious. Christian letting And she will
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be sorely missed. And the sense that our seat will
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be outing. It'll be empty.
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In this church. It'll be empty at home.
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Can I just point out before we go any further that there is a
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basket at the door of the church and that is for anyone that
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wants to give a donation in lieu of flowers.
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The money that's gathered will go in its entirety to the
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Revival movement has started. Of course, by the lead attorney
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Alan doing better as the every hunk associate and outs.
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He had a great love for the distribution of the word of God
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and wanted to support the cause of the distribution of the word
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of God and it was her desire that any donations in lieu of
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flowers would go to the Revival movement now there.
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Basket as I've said, if you haven't come prepared to worry
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about it. If you want to contact me
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personally and write on it in lieu of flowers for L.
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Say we will make sure that that goes to the appropriate Place.
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Could I just also mention at this stage that when we do go to
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ballet, gayane Park in the car, parked just directly opposite
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the church, and the get to the cemetery would be open and that
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will make ease of access for those who are going to the
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burial. Could I also Ask you to bring
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your sheet with you, for if you're ready, look down at,
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you'll notice that the third hem, at least a few verses will
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be sung at the gravesite. There was all these people
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Emery's that are necessary. We're going to Worship the Lord
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together and thank you to stand with me.
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We think of this lovely hem, the king of love.
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My shepherd is whose goodness feel it.
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Never and nothing like, if I am his and he is mine forever.
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And these Hemsworth, of course, were picked by L.
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Say how impact. And she loved to sing.
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Songs of Zion. So let's Stand Together As We
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Worship the Lord Place. Let's just unite together in
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prayer. Almighty.
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God and loving Heavenly Father. We gathering this house this
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afternoon and we're conscious that it is to us a house of
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mourning. We know that it's better to go
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to the house of mourning and in the house of feasting and we're
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conscious that even as we draw nigh unto thee in the name of
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our Lord and Savior. Jesus Christ approaching by fear
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than the grind of Fez precious shared blood were conscious, the
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dart the living and the true God.
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And besides the either is none. Other the high, our God.
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Alone, we're conscious that Arnie, we move and live and of
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being and that were at the God who gives us breath to breathe
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and strength to. And Joy are very Mobility is of
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thee. We thank you for every temporal
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material blessing. We acknowledge that these of all
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come from thy good hand. We do acknowledge that thou art,
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Sovereign not only in life, but also in death, and Lord with a
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ready even men. Mentioned the fact that the day
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that thou has given to else, a has ended and we thank thee for
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the day of her birth. We thank thee for her long life.
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We thank thee. O God for the many happy
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memories that, she enjoyed as she journeyed through life and
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we know that her greatest and most treasured memory was the
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time on the occasion when she put her faith and trust in the
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Lord. Jesus Christ, and we want to
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give the thanks. Not only that they were Aaron
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Baker that the our Sovereign that they were to Triune God,
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but we also worship thee this afternoon as the God and Father
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of the Lord Jesus Christ. And we thank thee for Manny who
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can speak of him like Thomas and say my Lord and my God who can
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also exclude him. I know like job that my redeemer
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liveth like else say this is my beloved and this is my friend.
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We thank thee that Christ indeed was her Redeemer.
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He was Lord and Savior that he was her best and most treasured
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friend. We thank thee indeed that she
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was amongst us as a Godly genuine gracious.
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Good Christian lady and we know that our family here, her
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nephew's and niece's can rise up and call her blessed and the
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Lord. And we know that each one in
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particular have special memories that they Treasure of the time
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that they spent with her and her company.
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Having conversation. And we know that many of those
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conversations did indeed Center in a round, the preciousness of
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Christ and they wonder of the word of God and Lord, we're
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conscious and life's journey, Elsie new, many trials, and
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troubles. We think of the passing of her
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late husband, David, we think of the death of her brother,
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Johnny. We think of the death of her
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nephew's, John and Robert and particular.
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The passing of her sisters, Margaret Andrew Bay.
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I mean, you're either these all took a toll, but we're thankful
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that the word of God who came and said even unto her.
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My Greece has sufficient with thee.
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And we thank thee for all the trials and temptations of life,
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and that LC learned, and prove to thrust.
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And the reality of him who said, I will never, leave thee, nor
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forsake thee, and, oh, God, we thank thee even for her dear
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family. Today, we think of her nephew's
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under nieces. Remember, Hubert remember?
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I'm who can't be with us and, you know, about her own illness
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and we pray your blaster and be with her.
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Do you remember Samuel? Remember L.
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See herself? We think of Alan here.
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We think of LC stepsons, Paul, and David and fellowship, what
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we think of their extended families.
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Lord. Remember them all at the stain?
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We thank thee. That thou Hearst I said, blessed
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are they that mourn for they shall be comforted?
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And we ask thee that even at this time of morning when a
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family has lost a loved one to death that you'll draw alongside
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and you'll help them or God to remember the great.
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Hope that Elsie had in Christ and that for her even and Friday
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morning after that 11 week in the hospital.
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We're glad Lord when she closed her eyes and death and breathed
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her last. It was absurd.
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The body and present with the Lord, we're thankful that she
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was gone and to the nearer presence of the Lord.
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Her eyes have seen the king for Elsie and Friday.
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It was sweeping through the needs of the New Jerusalem,
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washed in the blood of the lamb. And oh God, we know that her
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passing is not the end of Health.
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Say we know that her death was not goodbye, but a mere good
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night. I'll make you in the morning and
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we look forward to that day that day of Resurrection.
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Direction. Well when Christ will return and
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the people of God will be with Christ Body and Soul, and Spirit
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forever and ever, and we pray that will Comfort ourselves even
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without grit truth out this time, and we asked the, in the
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midst of all the change in the midst of all the tears and the
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memories that will spring up and the need for strength, Andre is
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that you'll imparted, even unto the Deer family at this time.
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And they love Her age and the be at Hope of the Gospel to look
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forward to meeting their dear loved ones.
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Once again, do you remember us now as we've gathered in this
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house as have sought thee for Comfort?
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We also seek me for counsel if there's any amongst us, a
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stranger to LCC. If you're, we call unto thee to
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open their eyes, their ears, their hearts and bring them to a
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sea of acknowledge of, Jesus Christ out this time.
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And in these days, we commit this whole service nigh unto
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thee we Crave thy presence shutters and Wealthy blesses
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help us come and minister to us and do us good in our hearts
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for. We ask it in Jesus name.
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Amen. How man it during those 11 weeks
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that Elsie was in the hospital, she had a number of visitors,
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not only myself but some from this church also visited her and
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she heard of course, her dear family and she always looked
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forward to two islands. Visit and Gigi told me, you
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know, he always reach the word of God to me.
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And that's such a blessing. And with asked, Alan this
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afternoon to come and read to us the word of God.
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Him. And I were with Elsie and
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Thursday night, and the hospital, and I invited him as a
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family, member to read from the scriptures, and he's going to
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come and read those two. Portions of scriptures to us.
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And I thank you all. So, Psalm 23, I'm going to read.
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I like to think that the if it had bought the Sheep through
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some danger and they're resting calmly on the grass.
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Lush. Green grass, freshwater in the
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Hillside and David thought themselves who looks after me.
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And he says, the Lord is my shepherd.
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I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in Green
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Pastures. He leads me beside Still Waters.
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He restores my soul. He leads me in the paths of
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righteousness for his namesake. Yea though, I walk through the
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valley of the shadow of death. I will fear no evil for thou art
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with me, thy rod, and thy staff. They Comfort Me by preparest a
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table before me in the presence of mine enemies, thou anointest
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my head with oil. My cup runneth over.
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Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my
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life. And I will dwell in the house of
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the Lord. Forever.
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Different saying this time and John trouble on the streets of
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Jerusalem. Jesus has healed lepers in the
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blind, to see the lame to work, raise the dead to life, and the
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Jews are plotting to kill him. And Jesus Comforts his disciples
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and John chapter 14. He says, let not your heart be
John 14 chapter mention
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troubled. Ye believe in God believe.
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Also in me and my father's house are many mansions.
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If it were not. So I would have told you I go to
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prepare a place for you and if I go and prepare a place for you,
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I will come again and receive you unto myself.
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That where I am, there you may be also.
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On further, I go, you know, and the way you know, Thomas says to
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him, Lord hike on Lord. We know not whither, thou goest
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and how can we know the way Jesus said unto him?
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I am the way, the truth and the life.
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No man. Cometh to the father.
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But by me and verse 27 says, peace, I leave with you.
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My peace. I give unto you not as the world
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giveth give I unto you, let not your heart, be troubled.
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Neither Let It Be Afraid. This is the Living Word of the
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Living God. Do you think?
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Holland very much for reading from the scriptures.
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I appreciate his help. I just want to read one other
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passage in 1st Thessalonians, 4:13 the Apostle Paul says, but
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I would not have you to be ignorant Brethren concerning
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them, which are asleep that you sorrow, not even as others which
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have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus
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died and rose again, even so them also, which sleep in Jesus,
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will God bring with him. For this, we say unto you by the
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word of the Lord. That we which are alive and
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remain unto the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent them,
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which are asleep. For the Lord.
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Himself shall descend from heaven with a shite.
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With the voice of the Archangel with the Trump of God, the dead
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in Christ shall rise first, then we which are alive and remain
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shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the
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Lord in the air. So shall we ever be with the
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Lord? Wherefore Comfort.
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One, another, with these words and we do pray, as I wanna say,
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it's the Living Word of God that the Lord will bless his word to
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her hearts. I have behalf of the family.
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It is my honor today. No need to conduct this funeral
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service for The Departed, Elizabeth Scott, but it's also
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my privilege to be able to bring a short tribute in memory of
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her. Elizabeth Scott was born in the
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8th of November 1924. He was born into the Huddleston
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family. Elsie is she was affectionately.
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Called was the third child born to William and Mary Ann.
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He'll say had two sisters and a brother, the eldest sister birds
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called Margaret followed by Johnny and her youngest sister
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was rubbing their oldest a Stan. You're familiar with that else.
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He's the last of a generation. So this is This is an end of an
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era in that sense. The family lived in Colombia.
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Callie and I have no doubt that life was hard.
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And remember, it wasn't long after World War 1.
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What about ten years or so. And I remember LC telling me
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that one Christmas. She got a lovely new door and
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she treasured that doll. And as a girl, she she loved
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playing with it as a young girl. She also learned to Raider,
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basica number, there was less cars and the road, And she did a
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10 count the Kelley school. She proved to be a bright
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intelligent pupil. She was always kind.
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She was considerate and her aim was to please and help other
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people. Nobody else.
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He was about 12. Tragedy struck.
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Her mother date. And I could identify with Elsie
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and not because of that young person.
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My mother date as well. When I was about five and the
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death of a, mother was a big blow to Al say she adored her
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mother and Tamar, father remarried.
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And else he struggled with the impact of that, the session and
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she ended up living with her older sister Margaret, took it
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upon herself to help rare the siblings and only last year
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during a visit and Egger boy court.
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And the we I'll call it the flat.
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She called it the apartment and she told me that her stepbrother
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wailmer had passed away. That was the first time she'd
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ever mentioned them. After lesions School else.
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He started working and Bale art. She was making children's
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clothes else. He was skilled in the use of a
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Singer sewing machine. And I'm told that she worked
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there a long time and she became a supervisor and Elsie, of
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course, in those days love to make things a skill.
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Perhaps maybe she inherited from her mother and maybe a skill of
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course that was inherited as well through herself.
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Start because I'm told at home Margaret and heard love to make
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lots of things to me, addresses and curtains, and throws for
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beds and blankets for babies and cushion covers, and you name it.
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If it could fit in the Singer sewing machine.
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It was me it. And I'm also told that when else
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he was a child and the attended carried off Presbyterian church
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and the Sunday school that all the Huddleston girls.
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They had a new dresses for children's day.
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No doubt made by Mom and no doubt me and on the Singer
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sewing machine. So else he put that talent to to
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good use and bail art and later on.
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She went to work in the sewing Department of the Belfast City
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hospital and I have no doubt if a record was to be known and
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maybe someone was to stand up and share it with a word that
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else he was probably one of the best Machinist.
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She had many friends growing up. and she had loads of sitters and
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I used to say to her L say That nobody ever Hass t-80 the dead.
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He'll say, no, we're never proposed to you.
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Be getting married and he says no, I was far too fussy.
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Mr. McLaughlin. Many suitors, but very fussy.
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I don't know exactly when L say could see it.
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But it's widely believed that she got saved and trusted Christ
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as our Lord and savior and Hurley attains in the early
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years else. He rode her bicycle all over the
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place to work, friends family. I'm told you even ruled over to
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clench a to else, sees Alexander's, father's house in
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clenching. And of course, you got a ride
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home in the back of the car. And the bicycle was in the boot
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for many years LC lodged and the home of a mrs.
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Patterson and carried off. I'm not sure if a many years, it
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could be as many as 20 could even be near 30.
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During this time. Elsie was a Sunday school
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teacher along with mrs. Patterson and carried off.
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Baptist Church, and she was very fearful and not rule and she
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loved teaching the children. And of course, our dear sister
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here Barbara who played the organ.
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When she was a young Barbara doorknob was taught by Juliet L.
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See Scott and Sunday school, maybe somewhere you were here.
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You were also taught by her and Sunday school and after leaving.
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Mrs. Patterson's homes. He moved end here.
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We flat and baver. I talk about a flat and Elsie
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talked a bit an apartment at Ended like something that wasn't
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were abroad and she learned to drive so that basically was
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ditched. And she got a wee, green money,
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and she gained their independence.
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Now, you who knew else, a better than I did knew.
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She loved her and dependents. And I remember what I said about
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suitors, 40 years ago when her nephew Alan and Denise got
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married. She is reported to have said
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that her last nephew is now you married.
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And she was still single and, but this time She's about 54 or
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are 55. But you know what romance was in
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the air? Going to tell you what happened,
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and the way flat and Devar. There was a problem with the
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glass-fronted fire and I'm told that there was a man across the
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road by the name of David Scott, who was a plumber, and he got
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the job of fixing the fire. No, a, I had the pleasure of
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meeting the late, David Scott. He was a lovely man.
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Good gracious Godly Man. Very kind and considered has
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wavered dead sometime before. He was probably a bit lonely.
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Probably. Get a bit hard to coat.
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Well, you know what? He got the fire going on romance
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blossomed in the flames. Because he was encouraged along
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with L. Say I Believe by another
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relative to start dealing and David and Elsie was eventually
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married and ebrill 1982 in done Donald Darkness.
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It was a quiet where she's told me just a few friends, but it
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was evident. If you've been ever in the home
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that they loved and adored each other.
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Now, I have to say here and I'm sure that the stepsons are not
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made me saying this that else he was very very well.
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Received treated with the utmost respect by David's family, and
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they know that I have first-hand witness of that.
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And the boys will tell you that after the death of their mother.
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The father was like a lost soul. He's like me couldn't boil water
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or an egg, and, and the sense meeting L.
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Say, was like, at sort of restored and revived and, and
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they loved each other and they were married, of course, for
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About 21, 22 years. Did we bomb?
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Blew their of Church Road? And at that time, they were
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attending melatonin Baptist. And then eventually, they joined
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the martyrs Memorial. And I remember one of the first
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visits to the home. Dr. P is Leo.
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I just come to carried off and he sent the around the area to
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do Pastor work on his behalf. And I remember, knocking on the
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door and I'll see you tonight. Run This Way dog, and the dog
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was called. I'll bite your nails with Bobby
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Bobby. Well, it was wet, Bobby.
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He decided to have a we run around the garden.
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And you know what? That was like a flu flower beds
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and on the bed of dirt and whatever.
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And then I thought, well, Bobby's going to grate the gate
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and I was certain Bobby Bobby and the next thing that we do
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crown with a gun, jumped up all over me, and the paws were dirty
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and the treasures were dirty, and it just didn't happen once
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because it happened that one Christmas.
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When I was also visiting the home at when the stepsons were
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there. And remember Elsie said, I don't
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worry about It must have gotten have a brush you off.
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It's not, it went to the dry cleaners.
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All right, L? See, you know, used to take
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Bobby for a walk somewhere. You seen her in the round
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carried off and she said to me one time, you know.
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I was reported. For the dog fold the pavement.
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The cheek of them. She says, imagine reporting me
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for what the dog had done. And it always stuck on her head.
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L say, and David long teach others have said they love life
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to the full of many lasting memories.
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How they had happy times. They laughed and they had bumped
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her with each other and Elsie, of course was in her element.
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It was we trips to Crown Fade to the static caravan else.
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He said the worst would go in the crown field was packing up
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and leaving it and they had trips abroad to Europe.
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Elsie told me about her trips to Vanna's with Paul and David and
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David they'd also trips to Scotland.
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You know, what 110 they went to Scotland and David's plumber's
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van and they spent the night in the van.
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I'm not sure where they partners is the else ever.
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Heard you sleep. Sit in the back of the farm.
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This is what all just even-handed in Madras.
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The back of the van. That was Helsing.
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Of course. She was fiercely loyal to David
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and hope the boys don't make me mention in this here.
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But David at one time got away TP and else had told me, don't
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you ever mention that to him? Of course, she told the see in
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the gym, Alexander when he was coming down to Korean failed to
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see them and don't mention it. Jim, don't look at it.
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Don't stare at them. Of course.
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What a gem do the very opposite. But but that was L saying
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there's a story told that David had a lovely wait Merc, you know
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and in the middle of LC and Gem Alexander's yard, there was a
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clothesline one of them worldly things and it was left it out.
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There was a bit of a poll stacking up in the yard David
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didn't see it. He drove over the top of it and
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the white Mark he then reversed back over it and you know, I
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don't think they ever told them. I'm talented nigh.
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Whenever David Dade. At head Elsie heart.
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Her late shorter, one date. She was a widow to all these
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years. She moved to Edgar Boyd Court,
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lovely apartment. She called it.
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I called it the flat, we had many cozy chats.
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We at a used to say to me come on a Thursday or a Friday, 4:00
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p.m. To 5:30.
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And then you go home for have to listen to the news.
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And during that time. Of course, she sold the we green
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money and she got a Volkswagen Lupo and she has to come up to
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the church here and the old building and first gear.
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And we could hear it almost from coming out of up, the Kelly
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narrowed and seriously great the gear in first gear.
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And I used to say to her. I'll see you know, we have to
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stop. Look, right.
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And then look laughs dancing. Yes.
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Mr. McLaughlin. First gear out the gate and down
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the road. Neither.
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Look NAFTA, right? We warned her of the danger of
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the Sith failed Road, of course, it was busy as you know, but she
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loved to get the Marks and Spencers and managed to tame.
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The Volkswagen Lupo went down the road.
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It was the highlight of her week to get her hair done.
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She loved a better Victoria sponge and even when she had no
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car. She looked forward to Elsie,
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Alexander her, niece common, and taking her out to be wrong and
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don't know Marks and Spencers. Of course, they went.
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And she really appreciated that and we talked on the phone.
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She always would have said or what else here think it was
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usually on a Friday. Sometimes it wasn't chasing, and
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I just want to let you all know that she was adored by all her
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nephews and nieces and their children and she talked fondly
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of your soul. Junu uranium's.
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I'm like, I'll tell you something else, she prayed for
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you. And she talked about her
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stepsons here, Paul and fell upon David, and about their ways
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Heller. And Jonathan, as I've said, I
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believe he'll see, was saved as a teenager.
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She told taught Sunday school as I've said and carried off
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Baptist. Many years, he attended Murphy's
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Law from the meetings were all with her dear friend, Pearl
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Shanks else. He loved the Lord and she loved
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the word of God. She loved hearing it.
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She loved reading it. She loved talking about it, you
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know, whenever she was sending a family card to someone maybe at
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Christmas, or a birthday, or some other event.
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And this was especially true your for Nissan.
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And when she was writing to her card.
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She always inserted the taxed proverbs.
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You five and six trust in the Lord, with all thine heart, and
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lean not unto thine own understanding in all, thy ways
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acknowledge. Him and He Shall direct thy
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path. She told me about the Christmas
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dinner and or the Boxing Day dinner, Diner at Philip and
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howlers, and she just appreciate the very fact that she was asked
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to give a word of thanks for the food.
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And she always felt that that was important and getting a wee
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word. And for the Lord, as I've said
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LC cope with Ella Health, perhaps, you didn't know that.
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In her early life, she did recover from a very serious
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stroke. And we're thankful to God,
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giving her grease to cope with illness.
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Not only our own, but the illness of loved ones have
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talked about, the death of her husband, the death of her
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sisters, the death of her brother, the death of her
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nephew, John, Robert, and many others had in the midst of the
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mold. You know what?
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She learned to trust Christ at all times.
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She was not a murmur and you knew that she was not a
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complainer. But she was a fiercely
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independent woman. She was a gracious suffer.
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But she was also a woman of Prayer.
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And her prayers will be mess than I knew.
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She prayed. I knew she was a Praying Woman
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and sadly, only a few months ago her health seemed to
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deteriorate. She was admitted to the
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hospital. I confess.
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I didn't think that you'd be into long wasn't serious.
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You'll be out again, but that wasn't to be slowly.
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Elsie went down and down every day.
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We went a visitor. She was doing a wee bit further.
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And in the last few days. She found it difficult.
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Her family and friends were often with her.
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As I've said, I was with her and the Tuesday.
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So was her brother Sammy. Weird on the Thursday night.
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I'll know me spent some time with her.
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And then on the Friday morning, it but 543 or their bites.
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She breathed her last. She went home to be with the
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Lord. Her eyes have seen the king.
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She was reunited with her family and friends.
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And the Bible says, as I've already quoted the memory of the
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just is blessed and the memory of the liat.
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Elizabeth Scott has blessed amongst us.
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Could I just leave a short message with you?
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In the Book of Proverbs may have put it in the order of Sir, our
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book of Psalms. We have it, put it in the order
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of service and Psalm 116 verse 15.
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We read precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his
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Saints. There's three things.
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I want to leave with you. I want you to think of the
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description of God's people here in the text has since God's
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people are described in a variety of ways using different
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metaphors. In the Bible.
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Where were called, Christians followers disciples even jewels.
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And here's another precious one has sins.
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The word science is a reference to Holiness of life.
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Pez, holy ones. Has speaks of someone in a
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relationship with him? The Bible tells us about a zig
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and Rebecca. She became Hess and that was
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true in the day that David and Elsie get married, but it was
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also true of the day that LC trusted Christ as Lord and
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Savior. She became his because she could
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talk about my redeemer. She could talk about my beloved.
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This is my friend. She could talk about my Lord and
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my God. It has since also as someone who
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has a regard for God who believes that God is, and of
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course, the Bible tells us the full of sadness, heart.
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There is no God. It's important that we recognize
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that God is that he's the true and the Living God has revealed
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himself in the pages of Holy Scripture, and Elsie, leaned
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hard on the fact that God has because the Bible tells us God
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is our refuge and strength, a very present help and The day of
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trouble. How and when your we World falls
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apart and crashes and round you. Who do you turn to for help?
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What will L say, always turn to the Lord reference to his scenes
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as a reference to someone who's a reference for God.
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The Bible tells us be though in the fear of the Lord, all the
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days of thy life. The Bible tells us there in the
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Book of Proverbs and Proverbs chapter 9 and in the verse 10
Proverbs 9 chapter mention
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that they fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and
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knowledge of the Holy as Understanding and Elsie had such
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a reverence for God that she knew and discovered that she was
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a sinner and that she had a soul and that she knew she needed a
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savior in the Lord. Jesus was the only savior.
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Neither. Is there salvation in any other?
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For there is no other name under Heaven, given among men whereby
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we must perceive and she knew she needed to be cleansed in the
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precious blood of Christ by trusting him and by fear of
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having application in that blood were by She was washed by faith
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and therefore she came to Christ and she cried out to him and and
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and and and she confessed him. Elsa was not only Washed by the
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blood of Christ, but she was walking by the Faith of Christ.
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I've already made reference at Elsie was a machinist a
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dressmaker and you know, the Bible is loads to say about
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garments in fact 170 references to the word garments.
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I'm one of those references of Song of Solomon, chapter 4 verse
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11. And this is what it says.
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And this is the bridegroom. Speaking of us prayed.
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Thy lips, all my spouse drop as the honeycomb.
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Honey and milk are under thy tongue and the smell of thy
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garments is like the smell of Lebanon.
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You see L say like the bride and the bridegroom had such a
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relationship with Christ that she Not only was washed in the
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blood of Christ. But she walked by the Faith of
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Christ. She could say like Paul to
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Timothy I know in whom I have believed and am persuaded that
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he is able to keep that which I've committed unto him against
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that day. And how do I know that Elsa was
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a good? Genuine Godly Christian woman.
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When I went under her home. She always was reading the Bible
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or Other Christian literature, whatever.
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I went to read a portion before I left the home L, say always
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got her own Babel and she said, I'll, I'll read it along with
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you. Mr. McLaughlin.
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She's, you couldn't hear at the end, the best.
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And in fact, one day, when I was in visitor, was there for about
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40 minutes and I was shouting, you could a heard me at, they
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bought a man to killing her and LC caps.
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An account here. You must have looked locked, and
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I can't hear you. And I'm showing them.
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Almost horse. You know what they end.
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She took the two bits of cotton wool out of her ears.
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She had got olive oil, and, and that was the reason why she
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couldn't hear me, but she did love reading her, baby.
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She always talked about the Lord Jesus, to everybody, that would
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lessen. She could say, this is my
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redeemer. This is my friend.
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This is my Lord. She proved her testimony by the
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life that she lived. When Trials and troubles come,
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the death of her husband, her sisters, John A Hurley at
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nephews. John and Robert and have
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mentioned, she didn't give up. She didn't pack in her life of
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faith. She trusted in the Lord to give
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her Greece to see her through Elsie Worship.
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The Lord of mentioned carried of Baptist.
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Donald Baptist Beltran about this they the martyrs Memorial
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and then she transferred membership here to carried off a
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description of God's people has since and we could talk
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literally that else say was a living sinned and of course if
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you're not a sin before you die, you'll never be one.
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We Believe and we totally reject that.
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You can become a saint after you die else.
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He was a scent before she died. Listen to the scripture.
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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his sins
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thing. No need a description of the
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people of God. We think about the death of the
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people of God. You know, else.
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He left her life and such a way that she knew that almost died.
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She knew that old people die. She knew that the young may die.
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An LLC lived, her life and later that you see even a good genuine
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Godly sincere, Christian days. Abraham Dade.
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David Esther, Hannah Moses Samuel, the New Testament
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apostles CLC. Knew that death was an
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appointment, not to be messed with the Bible tells us in
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Hebrews chapter 9 and 27 hours is appointed unto man once to
Hebrews 9 chapter mention
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die. And after this, the Judgment
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Elsie knew that God has set a boundary for her.
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Listen to what the Bible says in Acts 17 and hath made of one
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blood, all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the
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Earth, and have determined the times before appointed and the
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bounds of their habitation. You see, there's a time a place
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away for all men must die. Elsie, not only had a birthday.
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But you had a death day and maybe you're here, and you never
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think about that and you haven't realized it and it doesn't make
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any impact upon you. Who cares?
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You shrug it off with a shrug. Your shoulders head remains me.
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If the story that's told in The Chronicles of Narnia written by
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c.s. Lewis and one of the volumes.
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I think it was the Silver Chair or the silver throne, and it was
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a picture of a prince that have been captured by a wicked witch
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and held in the dungeon. And for almost 24 hours, he had
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access to food and all the Delicacies that you could think
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of and rest and relaxation. But at a time, Five Minutes to
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Midnight, the Wicked Witch's followers came and tied him to a
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silver chair and 45 minutes that Prince screamed out every moment
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of that. Five minutes.
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I'm a prisoner. Someone get me out of here.
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Despite having all of life's best the famous of clothes,
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Delicacies and fun, and happiness, 45 minutes of every
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day. He realized I'm a prisoner.
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I need someone to get me out of here.
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And you see everyone should know way we get a reality check and I
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believe coming into the house of mourning like this.
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We get a reality. Check that man is a prisoner to
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send that man is a fallen creature.
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And that death is not natural to man, and it's death was never
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intended to be part of God's world, but death has been in
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there just because of sin, Romans, 5 and 12.
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Wherefore, as by one man, sin entered into the world and death
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by sin and so death passed upon all men and All have sinned
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death occurs because of sin and God's judgment on sin and a
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funeral like this even at the death of a sinned, it can be a
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wake-up call to what is really going on.
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Because one day, death will come for you and come for me.
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There is life after death. Jesus said what shall it?
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Profit? A man, if he shall gain the
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whole world and lose his own soul, or what, shall a man give
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in exchange for his soul and there's two ways to die.
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You can die in Christ. And if you die in Christ, will
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be absent from the body and present with the Lord, and
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you'll enter into paradise, and you'll be with King Jesus.
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And you'll know the bless of half her.
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But if you die without Christ, this was the worst death of all.
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To die in your sins. Jesus said, if you die, in your
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sins, three times where I am, you cannot be and that should
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make you tremble and that should make you think on the Bible,
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urges us flee from the Wrath to come death is an anime death as
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unnatural. And yes, it's hard and yes,
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there's tears and yes, there's real grief and Pines and this
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family sorrow, but, but they don't sorrow without hope.
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because, What we're really doing.
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This afternoon is declaring the death of a cent.
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Listen to the taxed precious in the sight of the Lord is the
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death of his Saints. Don't need a description here of
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the people of God, and the death of the people of God, but a
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declaration about the people of God, precious in the sight of
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the Lord, is the death of his sins.
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Clc's death is precious because the price was already paid the
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price of the precious shed blood of the Lord Jesus shall see.
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Knew she was Redeemed by the precious blood of Christ.
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It was precious because of the police that God had prepared for
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her. And the island had already read
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that to you as the Lord. Jesus said in my father's house
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are many mansions. If it were not.
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So I would have told you, I go to prepare a place for you.
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And if I go, well, prepare, please feel come again.
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And receive you unto myself that where I am there you may be else
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and it was all so precious because of the prospect that are
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we at at her? Listen to these words, as we
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close from John's gospel. The Lord Jesus said in his
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prayer, father, I will that they also him now, I was given me be
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with me where I am that, they may behold my glory which thou
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Hast given me for thou lovest me before the foundation of the
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world. Elsie.
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Scott's Earthly day has ended. Her physical life is over all
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her sorrows and all her suffering suffering is over.
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Remember what the Bible tells us in the Book of Revelation and
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God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes and there shall
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be no more death. Neither sorrow nor crying.
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Neither. Shall there be any more Pian for
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the former things are passed away.
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Elsie, Scott has gone to a better please L.
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See Scott soon have him. And how do we know that was?
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Because she was a good woman because she was gracious,
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because she was Godly the answers not Elsie.
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Scott is in a better place because of her faith in the
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finished work of Jesus Christ, and Alan, read for us.
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Those words in John 14. Jesus said, I am the way, the
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truth, the life, no man comes unto the father. but by me, By
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Christ and resting on his finished work.
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And that's the grind and Elsie rested on, and put all her hope
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for eternity. And because of that growing, and
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God can say precious in the sight of the Lord, as the death
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of his sins and Earth, we mourn. But in heaven, there's
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Jubilation on almost like a party saying.
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Because another Soul has entered in to their Eternal reward on
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Eternal rest. Let me just ask this and
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closing. Will your death be precious?
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Or will it be perilous? And what you do with Jesus
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Christ and life's journey. If you reject him, refuse them,
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it'll be perilous. But if you receive him and rest
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and him alone. It'll be precious.
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I will you die. And Christ over Theta, precious
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in the sight of the Lord, is the death of has, since we're going
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to sing our closing, hymn or turning to the order of service
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face-to-face with Christ, my savior.
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Could I just ask that you remain standing, and we'll have a short
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prayer and benediction and then they found Ali will make their
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way out of the church along with the Earthly remains, as we had
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two polygons. As I've said to bring your
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coming to polygon. Do you bring your hem sheet
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with? You will have a very short
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service there and I'll be preaching very long.
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You'll be glad to hear that, and then it's into polygons Church
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hall for Refreshments on, you're all invited to come and we would
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love to have as many as possible.
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Let's Stand Together As we sing? It's just close in prayer.
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Lord. We thank thee for the sense of a
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presence with us. We thank you for these all.
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Hems of Zion were by, with praised and worshiped thee hems
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that he'll see. Loft and O God.
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We ask the noise, particularly from the house of God, and make
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her way to the final resting place down in ballet.
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Gayane afraid. I will give Journey Mercies
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remembers, ramit around the Open Grave.
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Braille be favorable as far as the weather is concerned.
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And for the short service they are we prayed Lord to undertake
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forests, especially undertake for this deer from these nephews
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and nieces else sees as stepsons under their family Circle and we
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know lord, they're all affected one way in another and we just
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pray Lord that you will grant grevious out this time, and we
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pray, Lord now is particularly from the house of God, that the
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grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love.
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Love of myself and the communion of the holy spirit will be upon
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us. Both not I and Evermore.
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Amen. Amen.