Celebration of Life for Bro. Terry Kelly

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mine enemies and my homes came upon me [Music] to eat of my flesh they stumbled and failed [Music] shall not fear the war should rise against me in this will i be confident one thing have i desired of the lord that will i seek out for the name that i may dwell in the house of the lord the days of my life [Music] to behold the beauty of the lord and to inquire in his temple for in time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion in the secret [Music] shall he hide me he shall set me up upon a rock and now shall my head be lifted up above my enemies round about me therefore will i offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy i will sing yea i will sing praises [Music] when i cry with my voice have mercy also upon me and answer me [Music] when thou sayest seek ye my face my heart said [Music] far from me put not thy servant away in anger save me great thou has been my hopes leave me not neither forsake me o god of my salvation when my father and my mother me seeing the lord will take me up teach me thy way o lord and lead me in a playing path because of mine enemies for first witnesses are risen up against me and such as breathe out cruelty [Music] i had fainted unless i had believed to see the goodness of the lord in the land of the living wait on the lord and be of good courage and he shall strengthen thine hearts wait i say mercy on the lord be of good courage [Music] and he shall strengthen [Music] wait on the lord i say and he shall strengthen thine hearts be of good [Music] wait on the lord [Music] wait i say on the lord and he shall strengthen thy heart [Music] i had fainted unless i had believed to see the goodness of the lord in the land of the living wait on the lord and be [Music] of good courage see and he shall strengthen his thine heart [Music] he shall strengthen thy heart wait i say god put on the lord and he shall strengthen how great [Applause] [Music] he shall strengthen [Music] and be of good courage and he shall strengthen [Music] glory be to god glory to god [Music] hallelujah [Music] [Music] have been provided please receive one from the ursha at this time if there are any senior pastors that would like to join us on the platform you may do so at this time any senior pastors if you'd like to join us on the platform you may do so at this time good morning we're here to celebrate the life of our dear faithful brother minister terry kelly glory be to god he was a faithful brother hallelujah glory be to god on behalf of the family to friends and associates who are here today please allow me to thank you for your presence today it is in times like these when you need friends it is in times like these that your presence means much more than words could ever say and to this family on behalf of our senior pastor dr irisha our founders apostle and pastor bridget hilliard please allow me to thank you for allowing us to serve you today it is our pleasure dr irisha promises to always provide the necessary staff to meet all of your spiritual needs and that is why we're here today and it's a pleasure to be here and serve you the program will proceed as following we will have our old testament scripture read by minister elmo sampson our new testament scripture will be read by minister grace davis and then we'll have our prayer offered by pastor james mitchell and then we will have a selection by new life christian center church minister elmo [Music] good morning old testament scripture will be coming out of isaiah the 40th chapter verse 28 29 30 and 31. verse 28 says has thou not known has i not heard that the everlasting god the lord the creators of the ends of the earth faints not neither is weary there is no searching of his understanding he gives power to the faint to them that have no might he increases strength even the you shall faint and be weary and the young men shall utterly fall but they that wait upon the lord shall renew their strength they shall mount up with wings as eagles they shall run and not be weary they shall walk and not faint may the lord bless the reading hearing and doers of his word amen [Music] do [Music] good morning the new testament scripture will be 2nd timothy 4 7 through 8. i am now ready to be offered the and the time of my departure is at hand i fought the good fight i finished the course i've kept the faith henceforth there's later for me a crown of righteousness which the lord the righteous judge should give me at that day and not me only but unto all them that also that love his appearing amen [Music] it's about iso clothes father in the precious name of jesus how we do thank and praise you for this day but this is the day that the lord has made we choose rejoice and be glad in it we thank you for your son jesus who has already carried our grief in our sorrow and father we thank you right now in the name of jesus that is you that causes us to triumph in every situation we thank you that your word it is always a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path where we neither stumble nor lose our way and father we thank you right now that we hear the good voice of the good shepherd and that his voice we will not know otherwise we will follow in the name of jesus and father we thank you that you causes us to rule and reign here in this earth realm thank you for what you have done thank you for the family father thank you for the life of brother terry in the name of jesus and father we thank you for your peace above all things your peace that surpasses all understanding that it guards our heart and our mind in christ jesus for in your word you have already declared that you will never leave us not forsake or calls us any home we thank you right now for the comforting ministry of the holy spirit the comfort right now the guide right now to strengthen right now in jesus name and we give you to praise and give you glory in jesus name [Music] is amen [Music] i got a stronger than any other i got his healer awesome in is is and if our god that stop is and if our god is stand against is [Music] praise the name of the lord our god is a great god hallelujah glory be to god thank you sister dixon for that selection glory be to god the program now calls for resolutions if there are any other resolutions outside of the resolution of new light church if you would please just raise it up at this time and we will have one of our urchins to receive it we will acknowledge all resolutions there are no other resolutions we'll have our resolution and acknowledgements by minister carolyn forbes [Music] good morning [Music] a resolution from harvest time church of god in christ pastor elder clifton turner a resolution received from mount talbor outreach pastor michael l turner first thessalonians 4 and 13 through 18 but i would not have you ignorant brethren concerning them which are asleep but ye sorrow not even as others which have no hope for if we believe that jesus died and rose again even so them also which sleeps in jesus will god bring with him for this we say unto you by the word of the lord that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the lord shall not prevent them which are asleep for the lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout with the voice of an archangel and with the trump of god and the dead in christ shall rise first then we which are alive will remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds we will meet the lord in the air and so shall we ever be with the lord wherefore comfort one another with these words whereas we the new like christian center church family desire to express our compassion and our love individually and collectively to the family and friends of our loving faithful member terry kelly may you rely for comfort and strength upon our gracious lord of heaven and earth be it further resolve that the comforting power of god will strengthen and keep you through this time because of his gracious spirit spirit he will be your keeper guide and support we more forever resolve that terry kelly was dearly loved and admired by family and friends we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved we have a building of god a house not made with hands eternal in the heavens therefore we know that while he is absent from the body he is present with the lord be it finally resolved that we the new life christian center church family recommend to you jesus who is able to comfort strengthen and keep you in this hour and forever may a copy of this resolution be given to the family and a copy retained in the church file unbelief submitted dr arisha v hilliard senior pastor new life church world outreach and worship centers houston texas acknowledgement the family would like to thank all of you for your thoughts and prayers during this time we are grateful for the prayers calls and other expressions of love and kindness shown a special thank you to memorial hermann hospital medical center doctors and nurses for the exceptional care that was provided to our father amen thank you minister carolyn glory be to god the program now calls for remarks and the family have acts that you keep your remarks within two minutes and so if you desire to have remarks we ask that you please come and form a line to my left against the wall you'll use the podium on the floor there if you'd like to have remarks we ask that everyone that would like to have remarks to come now and please line up against the wall the bible says that all things should be done decently and in order so in keeping with your two minutes time limit we have a countdown clock in the rear of the auditorium to assist you with your time and once it says 0-0 that just simply means your time is up glory be to god so anyone would like to have remarks would you please come at this time please remember that today our purpose is to uplift this family amen glory be to god so if you care to have remarks would you please come at this time praise god [Music] good morning everyone good morning we thank god for being here to celebrate the life of brother terry uh my name is ira dean i'm one of the team leaders of russia's at the south location and uh first of all i wanna on behalf of uh brother maurice and brother joe and the team leaders and all of the ushers that came out to help to celebrate tyria's life we thank you brothers for that because terry was a good one amen he was really a good one it's very easy to talk about him because he had no malice in his heart amen everything we asked him to do he would do it no ugly words no bad attitudes nothing i read his legacy and uh y'all already know that from his home because he was a good man terry and i had something in common we both had kidney transplants he had his about three years after me so terry and i had a lot in common and we talked about it and terry would kind of rely on me to give him encouragement but i guess he finally figured out that he was encouraging me as well and we thank god for that so terry gave a very good life to the world and it will never be forgotten we thank god for brother terry amen amen god bless you [Music] amen praise god i'm minister tammy waller and i was honored to be able to celebrate terry today and have this opportunity to know such a great man if i can say some words about him it would be honorable trustworthy encourager faithful loved his church our pastor had been talking about i make the difference and i can tell you this terry kelly made the difference in the life right here on earth and you called him minister terry but i called him tk because that was his basketball name and as we would minister together we would call ourselves tnt explosive we would go out to homes and minister to people we would do salvation deliverance of demonic spirits we would minister the holy spirit we had a great apartment great partnership and of course he would be missed today so if i can say anything it would be for the last time let's partner together terry and minister to the people like we've always done and if we can do that today i think the most important thing that he would want to do is minister to salvation so as salvation is ministered today you would honor him by lifting your hands when it's given you would honor him because that was his ministry and the people of god was most important to him so when salvation is ministered today raise your hand and honor the man of god as we all are here to do today thank you so much amen god bless you god bless you [Music] [Applause] [Music] amen amen amen i know if terry was here today he would say this is the day the lord has made i will rejoice i will rejoice no matter what's going on i will rejoice and be glad in here yeah so i knew terry kelly as a friend actually worked with my brother in the choir he sang in the car together we worked with ushers together we uh met up and exercised together i would say terry let's go exercise and terry i would ask him terry did you exercise the danny's terry was an athlete so he still believed in exercising and taking care of himself i love the brother he was he was a friend it was a guy that i could call you know when you when you need to call somebody and get some encouragement some direction he was a brother that you could call and i would call and i call him i call him minister and i call him billionaire materials believe in being y'all know terry he was believing for big so i'd call him and i teared answered the phone he'd say yellow [Music] and i said billionaire how you doing today he said another day another million dollars would be his response so terry was always an encourager he would uplift and he would pray and he would encourage so i i was encouraged he loved me and my family i know he loved his family i know he loved this church and i know more than anything that he loved god and he strived to live a life an example that was pleasing to god that's all he tried to do so i want to encourage the family i love you i'm praying for you my name is kenneth addison my wife is francine she's here with me today and we love you guys take care be encouraged amen [Applause] [Music] okay my brother uh in the black suit would be our last remarks praise the lord good morning good morning we want to give honor to god we want to give honor to this church and most of all we want to thank you for coming out today and honoring my brother minister terry kelly you know um my name is john robinson my wife is gloria we're over there and now we had an opportunity to develop a friendship with terry uh and i want to say it's a short time it was over a couple of years you know but i know terry as an overcomer and regardless of what was going on terry was going to find a light in it and he's going to look to god and he was going to pray and he was going to overcome and you know terry um you know we worked in business together and he was just getting his business going but more important than anything else he was always ready to minister the work so to the family we want like ken said we're praying for you we want the best for you i want you to know that you have friends in us that you can uh we'll make sure that we get in touch with you that you can reach out to us if you need us but we're praying for you and and terry's story hasn't even been told yet but it will be told because he's such a lot of lives and as the seeds he plants come to fruition his story would continue to be told so be encouraged you know he's promoted he's with the lord we miss him but he's left a lot of seeds with us he's left a lot of ministering with us he left a light that will keep burning forever god bless god bless you [Music] my name is elton taylor and i was a great friend of terry emma and i we did a lot of things together we we had lunch and everything together and terry and i had a love that god wanted us to have you know when he say everybody love their neighbors that's the type of love that tara and i had and it's gonna be something for me not to have that love again [Music] we did a lot of things together but one thing that we did we had lunch we went together in different places and we had went down on a friday and we had different places that we went to but one of our main places that we went to we had that on friday that was whataburger we went we went to whataburger all the time you know he had his chicken and i had my double meat whopper [Music] but it's it's down the sink of me now yeah and uh we pray to god everything for both of our families and we loved much and asked to teach us his love our brothers and sisters like the love we have for ourselves we would be perfect example of love toward each other as god wants us to love one another there was a good time we had it together terry i will miss you very much in the name of jesus christ amen amen god bless you [Music] i give honor to god our father amen to the lord jesus christ our redeemer to the holy spirit are confident to the angel of this church and to all the ministers that are here [Music] to terry i was big brother amen i was his pastor i was his friend yeah he was little big brother there's so much i could say about my brother i'd be here all day long one thing i could say is that he was a great man of god yes we didn't grow up together but we began a love relationship as brothers we were always brothers we didn't always talk we didn't always see each other that often but we knew we were brothers we love each other as i reflect back on terry i was talking with his coach on last week and he shared with me some things about terry he said terry was a great athlete he was a great player on and off the court and i can tell you he was a great player i always thought brothers that i was a great player but when my brother got on the court he was some kind of basketball player back in our hometown everybody knew him as not terry kelly but machine gun kelly he was just that good and i think that there are some players that are here some friends that are here that played with terry i'm gonna ask that if you're here and you you played with terry will you please stand amen [Music] thank you brothers i love my brother and i thank god for him i want to say to this church thank you all for welcoming him he was ambitious he was a person who had big dreams i heard a brother say he had big dreams he always had big dreams of being wealthy we worked together we played together we business partners together i'm gonna miss my brother i believe that my brother had gone to the nba he would have played professional basketball he was just that good [Music] he didn't win any nba championships he didn't get any hardware but the day that the lord called him home he got his hardware [Music] he got this trophy he was never on the dream team but he was on the redeemed team he was on team jesus yes i believe that that day the lord called him he didn't receive that mansion down here that he always looked forward to many of you know kelly he wanted to have a mansion he may not have received that mansion down here on earth but that day he left here he had his mansion he has his mansion right now i want to say to our family continue loving one another god is still good he has not made a mistake again i say thank you so very much for allowing me to share with you i love my brother family stick together love one another continue praying for one another because god knows what he's doing amen god bless you [Music] so good morning giving all honor to god to pastor irisha the great shepherd of this house to our new light church family and to brother kelly's family i sat in a chair for a few minutes kind of going back and forth on whether i wanted to get up and say anything for one because i'm a crier but i said no let me go ahead and get up and say something for one because brother terry was like a brother to me and my husband derek he touched a lot of people's lives while he was here on earth i also happened to be friends with his oldest daughter kelly but if i had to say anything about brother terry i tell my husband all the time i remember when i first met brother terry before i was blessed with my job at houston methodist i used to work at jack-in-the-box on the corner of 59 and west airport and that used to be brother terry's favorite place when i say favorite place every time i was on ship i think sometimes he would only come in when he knew i was on shift because he would come in he would order the same meal and i would always be the one that took the order and collected the money and brought the tray out to him so that was the first time that i met him and i and he would always talk always was in good spirits would ask how i was doing how was my day going just a very nice individual well when i started working at methodist and my husband and i started attending the south location we saw him there and i was like babe that man looks familiar i think i know him from jack-in-the-box and didn't realize it was the same individual but then when i started working at methodist and i became friends with his daughter kelly and he didn't know i was friends with her so we would see him at church all the time and he would talk about his kids he would talk about them all the time and how much they meant to him and when i said kelly i said what did she do he was like oh she's a security guard and i said well i know kelly he goes you know my daughter tish and i was like yeah i know your daughter so every sunday when i would see him tits you talked to kelly today how's kelly doing i'm like she's doing all right brother terry she's doing all right he said well just keep my family in prayer keep my family in prayer so i just want you guys to know thank you so much for allowing him to be in all of our lives for blessing new life for blessing those of us who attend new life who had a relationship with him and like tammy said just after this day he's gone he's in heaven but he's in a better place and he's shining down on all of y'all and if you want to see him again you got to have that same relationship that he had with god because we cry the tears but they're tears of joy because we're happy for the life that he lived and because we know that we're gonna see him again one day because we too have to pass through this way whether we want to or not is going to happen but i think he would want us all to just continue to live the life that christ would have us to live and just know that if you guys need us you can call us we'll always keep you in prayer we're always there amen amen glory [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] good morning good morning i'm giving honor to the poor pig guests family and friends all those in the body of christ and those who may not be i want to just let you all know we we're here for you i looked at the program and i noticed one thing it said uh it's a celebration of life now come on y'all i used to be a clubber let's wave your hands in there and do all the stuff you did when we back in the club days at least make it look like we got some kind of celebration going on because see terry deliver kind of like when you need to be torn up like you taught from the floor up get your head all hung down no he lit like well you could say hey i'm raising my hands in the air because i know what he did what he stood for and how he uplifted us i met terry back in the early 90s and i met him through my sister and i you know i hadn't didn't meet too many people she you know how brothers and sisters are but terry's one of those folks once he got to know him he just couldn't get away from even though for a few years we uh lost contact but uh through the year we kept finding each other kept fighting each other until we finally ended up right here in new life and i'm here to tell you he's an encouraging person he's a person who loves to laugh i mean i couldn't find anything any reason why we should be all torn up from the floor and look at it from the perspective he's still here with us he still lives on all the good things he did all the good times you share with him just remember those good times because those are going to help you to get through the rough times uh if we just sit down and think about the bad times the things we missed and like we're going to be kind of sad and blue but we we can look forward to living with him again later he just made a transition same transition all of us gonna have to make unless we get called up before that time we'll make the same transition so you'll get a chance to see him again so look at it from that perspective we're going to see him again hopefully on the good side and i'm going to leave it with this we all enter the race from the moment we were born we're all going to finish that race well you run fast or slow you're going to finish that race that race is the one that's going to take you to the end of time i'm going to take you to the point where you make this transition to the next stage you don't have to have a membership you don't have to pay any dues so what i say is live your life so that christ gets the glory god gets all the glory to honor and and we can our family can look up to us and hey that was a man or one with god who lived the life the way i wanted to live in life and they can follow your footsteps and i heard the life and say oh we're just computers well if you're a computer you think your computer be the best computer you can be so that somebody up in heaven i want to you know give somebody else to kind of comment in your footsteps and i'm just going to leave with that and say y'all have a wonderful day and think about the good times god bless you god bless you thank you all for those wonderful remarks minister kelly was one of the ministers alliance here at this church and he was such a faithful faithful minister anytime we would ask him to go do a funeral go to a hospital visit whatever we asked him to do he would always say yes he was such a faithful faithful i was talking to our senior pastor the other day and we were talking about brother kelly how faithful he was and she mentioned because of his faithfulness she's believing that god would bring seven more faithful just like him he was so faithful to our ministry and we thank god for that thank you all for those wonderful remarks and family we trust that you all will take those remarks and those memories of minister kelly and keep them in your heart and live off of those good memories amen the program now calls for the obituary to be read silently [Music] [Music] the program now calls for a selection and we'll have our selection by sister dixon after our selection we'll have our words of comfort from pastor robert [Music] you forbes my strength strength like no mother strength like no other reaches to me you are my strength reaching me you are my peace peace me me you are my strength strength reaches me [Music] let's thank god for that come on let's thank god he's our strength proud to be thank you praise god hallelujah [Music] amen thank you precious people for being here today and uh i'm pastor forbes and on behalf of our senior pastor thank you all for allowing us to serve you as uh dr laura said earlier senior pastor dr irish makes a promise to every member to always provide the necessary staff to meet your spiritual needs and that's why we're here today because we love you so thank you so much for allowing us to serve you on behalf of our senior pastor founders of this ministry apostle and lady bridget hilliard praise god and uh thank you dr lord outstanding job and minister samson mrs grace mitchell the musicians everybody thank you for doing your part praise the lord and you know it's people like this man of god been with us 12 years i'm part of this ministry [Music] that makes this ministry tick you know because it's faithful men like him praise god thank god for faithful men and women and a faithful man like minister terry kelly that allows this ministry to impact thank god for the vision he gave the founders years ago and not now president our senior pastor just helping people praise god that's what it's all about helping people and this man of god help people praise the lord and he's going on to his reward praise the lord so we thank god for that we're going to just talk to you briefly after i pray we're going to look at peace to the understanding of death questions people ask about death let's pray father we thank you for the precious person the holy spirit lord we thank you for he's the great comforter the great teacher i allow him to flow through me to teach reveal truths lord be glorified today thank you father for your this man of god minister terry kelly who's in your presence now hi lord we thank you for the 59 years you've given them on this planet but he yet still lives father oh yeah and we thank you father for the comforting ministry to continue to comfort this family and these friends who gathered here thank you father for allowing us to be a part of the family part of the great body of christ so don't be glorified i get out of the way so you can so so you can be glorified in jesus name amen peace to the understanding of death questions people ask about death foundation scriptures coming from the book of philippians the fourth chapter the fourth through the eighth verses the writer of this letter the apostle paul he's in jail and he's in jail for the sake of the gospel and it's not like the modern day jails today he's in the sale probably with chains on them and no ac no electricity i mean that's the way they had you know back in the day and uh he's there in jail he's writing a letter of encouragement to the philippian believers and he starts off now remember now he's got given a suggestion here he's not giving a request but as the apostle he's given the commandment and he's inspired by the spirit of god to write this family he says rejoice in the lord always and again i say rejoice and the other understanding joy is something that is on the inside of us those of us because he was right to believers here so joy is something on the inside of us but rejoicing is something that we do and so he tells them rejoice and it says it twice to show how important is rejoice in the lord always and again i say rejoice and he said let your moderation your self-restraint your self-control be known unto all men the lord is at hand and he says be careful for nothing but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto god one translation says don't worry about anything but pray about everything and then he says in the peace of god which passes all understanding shall keep your hearts and minds through christ jesus and then he says finally brother what sort of things are true what other things are honest whatsoever things adjust whatsoever things appear whichever things are lovely what's in the things of a good report if there be any virtue if there be any praise he says think on these things and this is a man writing to a group of believers and he's in jail himself and he's telling him how to activate that peace of god and how to activate that joy of the lord so i tell you family of god be encouraged today now our lesson objective today is to eliminate fear that you might have through an understanding of truth concerning death you know there was a survey given about eight years ago by dr uh glenn croston and he was talking about the two greatest fears minister tammy he said one of them is uh the fear of public speaking and the other one's physical death so we're gonna deal with that one on physical death praise the lord now many people today have a fear of death one of the reasons is a lack of understanding of death it's a natural reaction for women to fear when one does not understand hosea the prophet god spoke to the prophet jose through the prophet hosea and he told the people of israel his people back in the day says my people perish for a lack of knowledge or they're destroyed destroyed for a lack of knowledge so god or a lack of knowing a lack of knowing so not only he was talking to the jewish nation but he talked to us today that we can be destroyed for a lack of knowing a lack of knowledge paul told the thessalonican believers in first corinthians 4 13 which minister carolyn read earlier he says but i would not have you to be ignorant brethren concerning them which are asleep because the believers back in the day thought jesus was going to come in their lifetime and believers were dying and they were and they would say what's going on what's going on so he encouraged himself brethren don't be ignorant concerning them but you are asleep as those who sorrow not even as others which have no hope they have a hope you don't have a hope praise the lord colossians 1 9 says that we should be filled with the knowledge of god's will the knowing of god's will and all wisdom and spiritual aesthetic god wants us in the know he didn't want us to be ignorant about this thing of death so we're going to use six we'll look at six questions that will guide our course or our of course of our lesson number one what is death why do we experience death why do people die for does god kill people how about five how do i handle the death of a loved one and number six how do i intelligently prepare for death what is death well first of all death is not a friend let that be known the bible says the last enemy to be destroyed is death in first corinthians 15 26 god said the last enemy to be destroyed is death so god himself calls death the enemy now there are three kinds of death that the word of god speaks about physical death which is to cease from resistance in the earth it is the separation of the spirit and soul from the body now i have an egg here if you all give me a quick moment here and in this egg there's the shell but inside the egg is the egg yolk in the egg white that's sort of like eye makeup in one sense here's the shell there's the shell but the real part of me on the inside the real part of minnesota inside like the egg yolk and the egg white the spirit and the soul the spirit is the part of you that is me looking around my eyes at you all is the part of you all looking at your eyes at me the bible calls it the inward man or the hidden man of the heart the soul is composes the mind the will the emotions the intellect the imagination this body can shell cause compose of the smelling tasting hearing seeing and feeling man is a spirit we have a soul we live in the body so physical death is to cease resistance it's the separation of the spirit and soul from the physical body then there's two spiritual death which is to be alienated or cut off from the life of god so you can be alive physically yet dead spiritually so you need to be connected with god in a relationship and fellowshipping with him now then this here's the mother of all death the second death i call it the mother of all deaths is eternal death or well it's the second death and it's eternal separation from god in the lake of fire where spiritual life is inaccessible and unattainable to humankind in other words you can't get if you once they're catching the naked fight you can't get the life of god anymore you can't receive god three depths physical spiritual and the second death this revelation says like this in 20th chapter verses 14 15 and spiritual and physical death and hell were cast into the lake of fire this is the second death and whosoever name was was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire thank god minister terry kelly's name is in that book of life praise the lord hallelujah now we want to make sure everybody in here's names in that book praise the lord well i like to say this that your name don't get blotted out of the book praise god now let's look at point number two why do we experience death it was never the plan of god for mankind to experience death because of one man's sin his high treason the ultimate betrayal death entered the world that was adam my forefather he disobeyed god he particularly forbidden tree or forbidden fruit and phys immediately he was separated from god spiritually and then later on 93 930 said he died physically so we experienced death because of sin but god has a plan praise the lord to redeem man from death he sent his son jesus to be the substitute the perpetration to appease the wrath of god for us so we can be reconciled back to god for our sins first john 2 1 2 1 2 jesus paid for our sin and death on the cross when he died and the first corinthians the 15th chapter says therefore we have victory over sin and death through the through our lord and savior jesus christ let's look at point number three now why do people die if we have victory over sin and death then why do people die people die when their body can no longer exist and sustain life on reserve so you see we are tripartite beings i told you the egg with spirit soul and body now so we are spirit beings living the earthly experience of planet earth praise god now let's look at seven reasons why death can occur number one sickness and disease the bible says king asa was diseased in his feet and over a two year period he eventually died sickness and disease why does death well you know why does death occur why do people die that's what i'm trying to say traumatic accident occurrence car plane bus boat train crash inclement weather typhoons mudslides forest fires earthquakes anomalies tornadoes hurricanes tropical storms volcano eruptions even terrorist bombings why why people why don't why did we why see the body just wears out see in the beginning before adam disobeyed god these bodies were made to live forever but when he took of that forbidden fruit then death set in so now the body just wears out whether the bible talks about abraham isaac and jacob and even joel they moved 175 137 180 147 but then they came to the point where their heart just stopped beating and they just checked out body wears out and then this fourth reason which i want you to hear me closely the believer's right to be with the lord after he or she has finished their course philippians 1 23-26 the apostle paul same guy in jail and uh he's writing the believers from rome and he's writing the philippian believers he says fellas i'm in a struggle between two part of myself part of me wants to just just say let's go be with the lord which is far better but another part says i just need to stay here and continue to mentor you all to continue to encourage you all so that i can be a blessing in your life and then hopefully you can see my face again and be encouraged he said he was in the struggle but two or three years down the line and then he and he said hey i think i'm gonna stay here a little while longer but then two or three years down the line he writes his protege this young uh pastor matt by the name of timothy and he says timothy he's in jail again looks like he's always in jail for the sake of christ though he says timothy i am now ready to be offered up he said the time of my departure is ahead he says timothy i fought a good fight i finished my course my assignment i've kept the faith he says i kept the faith that there's only one way one truth one life and no man coming to the father but by jesus i kept the faith that there's neither no name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saying about the name of jesus he said timothy i kept that in spite of all the challenges i went through the fact that he says i'm getting ready to get out of here but he says his there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness which the lord the righteous judge shall give me on that day and not to be holy but unto all them that look and love look for his appearing praise god let's look at point number four does god kill people absolutely not he doesn't kill people praise the lord not only this dispensation not since jesus came on the scene and died went to hell rose again from the dead went back and seated the father's right hand nope jesus said like this in john 10 10. he said the thief talk about the devil he comes to steal kill and destroy but he says i'm come that you might have life and have it more abundantly so god did not kill this man of god now he did receive him into his presence as the pastor said he didn't kill him though dr luke said it like this he said how god anointed his son jesus with the holy ghost and with power god the father god the son god the holy ghost jesus who went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil so we see god the father god the son of god the holy one's broken together to do good healing those who've been oppressed at the devil so god does not kill people ah all right let's jump down to point number five we're getting we move along pretty quick how do i handle the death of a loved one you know how this dad down here this is my brother this is my uncle and my grandpa my my cold labor and the gospel how do we handle his death how do we handle the death of a loved one first of all let's talk about what we're not going to do okay before we look at what we're going to do what we're not going to do see we're in the faith fight and so in this fight we're not going to play the blame game what's the blame game first of all you blame god i just showed you that god did not do this the scripture declares that number two you're not going to blame yourself you know because the devil tried to say you are the one no no no you're not going to blame yourself you're not even going to blame doctors and family members well if you would have did this or if you would have did that if the doctor would i think that i heard the uh and the acknowledgement about thanking the doctors at memorial hermann thank god but we're all in this together so we're not going to blame god we're not going to blame myself we're not gonna blame others or doctors or family and we're not gonna break break our fellowship with other believers praise god we're gonna stay connected praise the lord to the church to the family and if i can give you this fifth one here now i'm gonna say this one lightly but you can choose to notice i said choose you can choose not to grieve oh my god what you coming from no no through the law of identification two thousand years ago when jesus made sense sickness and disease he bore our grace and he brought our sorrows so that you in 2021 wouldn't have to bear it now let me kind of give you a definition of grief distress miserable dejection depression regret gloom or cheerlessness no jesus brought all that like this represents grief jesus bought 2 000 years ago so you could be free in 2021 praise the lord so you don't have to i like to say you you know no he said what up i cried yesterday i'm crying to them i cried them all that's part of your makeup tear box that's why you gotta have that because you missed the fellowship you missed the relationship but you don't have to grieve if you choose not to praise the lord hallelujah so since we're not going to grieve we're not going to blame god we're not going to blame ourselves we're not going to blame others and we're not going to make our fellowship preaching what are we going to do you're going to trust god's representative jesus representative in the earth today called god the holy spirit he's unseen to the natural eye but he's yet real yes he is matter of fact jesus said like this family he told his disciples back in the day he says fellas it's necessary that i go away for if i don't go away the comforter can't come and he's co-equal with the father with me and he says um i can only be at one place at one time if i'm in jerusalem i can't be in judea during this earth walk he said if i'm in samaria i can't be in jerusalem but he said but when the comforters come he says if you're from louisiana he goes back with you if you stay here in houston he's here with you if you go to california he's there with you if you're going to korea he's there with you because that's the that's the magnitude of the ministry of the holy spirit and what is he there for he's there to comfort you to counsel you to strengthen you to help you to stand by and stand within you to intercede and advocate for you the holy spirit and he's not just there as a hotel guest for the weekend he's there as a permanent resident on the inside of you 365 days a year 24 hours a day seven days a week the holy spirit whether it's 12 in the morning six in the morning 12 noon seven even the holy spirit's there to do that to minister to help you jesus said these things so you're going to trust the fathers and the lord jesus representative in the earth called the holy spirit jesus said like this in john 14 26 but the comforter which is the holy ghost whom the father will send in my name he shall teach you all things and bring all things to your remembrance whatsoever i have said unto you what else you're gonna do you're gonna use your faith this man of god here was a man of faith his pastor senior pastor is a man is a word of faith praise the lord founders of this church uh a man and woman of faith but see faith simply is acting and trusting this word and acting like it's so acting like it's real letting the government alive john said minister addison he said to the believers he says well it says whatsoever but i like to say whosoever because we're somebody he said whosoever is the born of god in other words accepts jesus christ as the lord and savior he says whosoever is born of god overcometh this world system and this is the victory this is how we overcome the world system trust in this word through our faith acting like this word is so praise god doing the opposite what the world does they worry they as brother was saying uh was that the terminology my brother was using about to the floor from the floor up or whatever he said uh from the floor thank you very much okay yeah we're listening okay they do that but we don't have to we can be calm we can have peace we can have joy because we trust this word of god here praise the lord also the prayers of the righteous you're going to trust and rely on the president righteous people are praying for you james said like this the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man or woman a vain of much praise the lord i like the way the amplified says it says the heartfelt persistent prayer of a righteous man and woman a believer can accomplish much when put into action made affected by god it is dynamic minister samson and can have tremendous power prayer the secret pastor of this house is praying the founders of this house are praying for you the minister alliance the pastoral staff the minister ministerial staff the church body the excellent team they're praying for other pastors other leaders other churches they're praying for this family so you're gonna make it as you lean to the prayers of the righteous ah and then we're going to trust father for wisdom i'm telling you sons and daughters family trust god for wisdom james said that any man left wisdom let him ask of god and he'd give it liberally freely and then paul said the revelation given to him he says in christ jesus because you're in christ jesus he's made wisdom on the inside of you praise god so you just use your mouth use your voice and activate that wisdom of god to help you today tomorrow next week as the lord jesus delays is coming next year praise god until he comes so you go see him face to face but the wisdom of god ah and then lastly the power of focus we read this earlier this text earlier in this message and talked about thinking on the right things we're not going to think on the box here we're not going to think on the internet louisiana we're gonna go through the process but we're not gonna that's not what our thoughts are gonna be that's not what our meditation is gonna be we're gonna think of things that are true honest just pure lovely of good report if there be any version of any praise that's what we're going to think on see because you got to understand what military minister terry kelly is he's in that place of royalty praise god magnificent splendor gates of pearl streets of gold walls of jasper all manner of precious stones a river of water of life clear as crystal the throne of god is there the lamb jesus there minister kelly is there no sin no sickness no death no political upheaval no racial division no division of any kind sister delilah no division praise the lord no taxes no bad news no bad thoughts no fear no william no walls or threats of wars no nuclear bombs perfection perfect weather where he's at right now and if i can close with this one everything is f-r-e-e free praise the lord he there his mother and father are there i think he had a sibling there correctly john is there paul is their penis their marriage their mothers their life is there ah that's what he's at saints and he's enjoying every minute of it he might still be in that wild woman wow my lord jesus last point how do i intelligently prepare for death intelligently prepare for death well by getting saved and living your life committed to god john 3 16 says for god so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son the lord jesus but the hour that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but receive what eternal life the life of god this represents this water here in my illustration god's life his nature when you believe on jesus and you accept him as your messiah as your savior lord god takes what he is zoe the greek word means the life is god would have it the life of god he pours it on the inside of you brother jonathan and you have god's life on the inside of you and when we talk about what your sins forgive you that's that's part of the package but no you get god's nature his life on the inside of you whether you're in the shower the bath riding the bus riding the car on the plane on the train you take god's life with you praise god you and god jesus john said it like this he said and this is life eternal that they might know thee the only true god in jesus christ whom thou has sent ah so what god wants to give you his life for his nature so you can get to know him intimately through relationship and fellowship that's what eternal life is all about getting to know god intimacy now i did i came now the greatest decision that you'll ever make is to give your life to jesus this man lived for that causing people to come to make a decision for jesus christ i know a lot of you have already done that and that's a good thing i made that most important decision years ago as a young kid and that's the greatest decision i ever made regardless what i do from this po what i've done in the past what i'm doing presently or whatever i do in the future is when i say jesus i accept you as my savior i receive you as my messiah my lord come into my life change me now now here's a beautiful thing i wasn't even there well it happened two thousand years ago i wasn't there i didn't see him die i didn't see him on the cross i didn't see the open tomb there's now nothing in it but i believe what this word says here because it said he died he was buried went to hell he rose again he see that now the father right here because i believe that god calls that faith that excites him and he says now you're part of my family son and that's what we're gonna give you opportunity to do today praise the lord it's almost like jesus told thomas thomas when he was told by the disciples jesus has appeared man but he wasn't there and said until i see the nail prints in his hand and the room inside he said i'm not gonna believe that i don't care what y'all say because i know the man died and i don't know what y'all say i don't know what y'all want some drugs i've been drinking or what but i'm not gonna believe eight days later jesus appeared to him and he said behold thomas look at my hands put your finger in there look at the moon on my side stick your hand in there and thomas got real religious thank god for him he said my lord my god probably fell this saying my lord my god and jesus wasn't too impressed he said now thomas you believe because you saw and you felt but it said blessed is that group in 2021 who believed that i died and i rose again and they haven't seen me they haven't felt me but they believe it says it bless the lord let's pray say oh god without jesus i'm lost i'll die and i'll go to hell but i don't want to go to hell i want to go to heaven so father i believe jesus christ died for me and rose again from the dead according to the scriptures now say this like you say say devil get out of my life you're not my lord you're not my god the god of abraham isaac and jacob he is my father he is my god jesus christ he's my messiah he's my lord he's my savior he's the head of the church he misses my heart is my home i'm saved i'm loved i have god's life on the inside of me now jesus filled me with the precious person the holy spirit and i receive him right now by faith in jesus name give yourself a hate clap praise the lord hallelujah to jesus thank you father praise the name of the lord thank god for that wonderful word hallelujah hallelujah i'm gonna have pastors to go down and do the committal pastor forbes and pastor mitchell if you all would go forth and and minister samson go down and do the committal [Music] me [Music] it's about father in the precious name of jesus how we thank you right now for your word they have already gone forth today to bless this people and father we thank you right now that you never leave them nor forsake them or cause them any harm thank you for the comfort the ministry of the holy spirit not only for this day but for the days to come in jesus name amen amen well see this please our lord to receive into his presence our dear brother minister terry kelly we now commit his body to the earth earth to earth ashes to ashes that's the dust until we're all caught up in the clouds to meet the lord in the air and so shall we ever be with the lord amen minister sanders is going to read the plaque in loving memory of a loving faithful member terry kelly membership date november 15 2009. revelations 14 13 says and i heard a voice from heaven saying unto me right blessed are the dead are the dead who die in the lord from henceforth yea said the spirit that they may rest from their labors and work in their works to do to to do follow them revelations 14 13. dr arisha v hilliard senior pastor new life christian center church amen amen praise the lord praise the lord directors you may come all of the information that pastor forbes went over could be found in the book that we normally would pass out but because of covet regulations we now have it where you can download it so if you would take out your phones and text q p a d to 71441 you could have all of the information that he went over in this book our apostle wrote this book years ago on questions people ask about death so if you'd like to have that information that's q p a d 2 7 1 4 four one q p a d two seven one four four one would you please stand [Music] when we all [Music] get to heaven a day of rejoicing it will be [Music] when we all see jesus [Applause] [Music] what a day [Music] [Music] the victory will be [Music] to lie down [Music] [Music] and yeah we shall sing and shout the victory [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] it's when we see jesus [Music] [Applause] see jesus [Music] [Music] jesus will sing and shout the victory when we [Music] [Applause] victory [Music] when we see jesus we'll sing and shout the victory [Music]

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