TREVOR GRAHAM HALTERS | MEMORIAL SERVICE (12 AUGUST 2021)

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we will sanitize you i know sometimes it it takes long to get used to it but but that is the order that we will sanitize you and please please keep your mask on hallelujah so i'm gonna call pastor clarence pereira just to come and open for us in a word of pray so pastor clarence amen if you are here can you please come sir and open for us in a word of prayer hallelujah isn't the lord good amen hallelujah let's bow heads heavenly father we come to you because we are so desperate for you heavenly father just to show up in our midst this evening father in the midst of heartache and pain you come lord god and you embrace us with your warm love your care and father even oh god when we cry you heavenly father try the tears from our eyes and father even in our shattered hearts lord you come and you heal us lord father we pray for whatever will happen in the service that it will bring glory to you even as we reflect on the life and times of your dear servant lord father we thank you for trevor's life for his legacy we thank you god that you gifted him that he shared that gift with everyone who would want to listen to him and heavenly father god i pray that you will be with his wife his children lord god father that you will comfort them during this time lord we just know that whatever will happen [Music] that your word of god that your word of god will come and comfort the family will bring healing and lord god that it will find a place in every heart so that we may walk by your word bless the worship team father bless those who are playing the instruments lord i pray that you anoint them father that they will usher us into your presence and father that we will realize your holiness and revere you my god father i ask this in jesus name amen hallelujah you know before curt comes and do the welcoming i was thinking about om t amen and i was thinking if i can compare him to a sound it will obviously be the base amen so every time we hear the bass we hear three amen every time we hear the sound of the place or we see the place amen we are reminded of of um amen and it's gonna be like that for many many years when we look at the base amen we will see him amen and when i look at the base and always when i saw him play he will always remind me of minister fred him and amen are you afraid hey man amen so i'm gonna call radhakat amen phenter just to come and do the welcoming amen god bless you hallelujah hallelujah glory to god amen greetings in the wonderful name of our lord and savior jesus christ today we are gathered to remember and celebrate brother trevor graham halters a wonderful husband father a grandfather a brother to many and a very close friend to many many other people we will always remember the great musician he was and the great wisdom and love that he communicated to us so i would like to take this opportunity and express my heartfelt condolences to sister debbie and her children to the halters family and every extended family member that is affected by this let in this time i would also like to welcome every pastor evangelist apostle prophet and teacher in the house i'd like to welcome every colleague every friend every person that comes to celebrate this life and i want to say thank you god for giving us such a wonderful person and blessing us with such a wonderful person and today i want to encourage you every word spoken your every song saying here is in remembrance of a wonderful wonderful great man of god so let us participate and take heed of every moment we love the family we love each and every one of you and we pray that god's blessing and god's comfort be with each and every one of you god bless each and every one amen thank you minister kurt so one thing about about omti that i know is that he was a worshiper that's one thing about him he was a worshiper i used to see him lifting up his hands and just worshiping god that is what we knew him to be that he was a worshiper so tonight we are at a celebration service so tonight when you sing i need you to worship god like never before i need you to worship god like um tea would have worshipped god amen so tonight i'm going to give over to the worship team amen so that they can just bless our family amen over to the worship team and hallelujah [Music] how great is [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] me is great is [Music] [Music] let all the earth rejoice [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] is [Music] is [Music] his hands [Music] [Music] [Music] sing with me [Music] i'm [Music] is [Music] is [Music] [Music] and my heart will see how graceful [Music] is [Music] [Music] is [Music] our is [Music] [Music] oh hallelujah is thy faithfulness oh god my father [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] my father there is no shed [Music] [Music] is faithfulness [Music] is [Music] is [Music] faithfulness [Music] is [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] uh [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] me [Music] is [Music] [Music] new oh [Music] [Music] me [Music] [Music] is [Music] is [Music] is [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] compassion [Music] [Music] faithfulness [Music] you are my strength you are my hope you are my peace [Music] you are my strength [Music] rituals [Music] strength [Music] you are [Music] strength [Music] you are my strength you are [Music] me is [Music] me [Music] me [Music] oh [Music] [Music] oh [Music] the [Music] is [Music] [Music] you are my peace [Music] and it peace to me [Music] [Music] he's just [Music] is is [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] hallelujah wasn't that good amen can you put your hands together for jesus one more time amen the lord is good amen we declare like david that we will bless the lord at all times and his praise will continually be on our mouths amen if it was straight tonight he would say in god we live and in god we move and in god we have our being amen hallelujah just quick announcement if you are in need of the toilet facilities they are right at the passage even right at the back amen in the passage amen if you are in need of the toilet facilities amen before we do our first tribute amen there's something one day that mentioned actually we were he was hosting the voice of worship so so he had one of the speakers was amen that was his surname amen hey amen you were just laughing hallelujah so our first interview tonight amen it's every gay lupus amen abigail lopez amen if you can please come amen can you put your hands together one more time church hallelujah hallelujah amen greetings to everyone the fivefold ministry their spouses in the wonderful blessed and holy name of our lord and savior jesus christ i'd like to say a special greeting to the family um the altus family the kruger family and the extended family it's not an easy task but i am honored that i was given the opportunity to give tribute to such a wonderful man trevor was really one of a kind a man close to god's heart he lived for the glory of the lord we got done so well together because we spoke the same language and that was christ and christ alone you know and i can thank and praise the lord that i got to know such a wonderful man his life truly spoke volumes when trevor was introduced to the family i thought sure he looks very strict i must watch my p's and my cues but as i got to know him he was just a gentle giant you know trevor was humble he was soft spoken kind and yet his presence filled up the room you know he wasn't a man of many words but when he spoke it was always to be blessed you know and i thank and praise the lord that trevor was his child you know and everything he'd done and everything he said you could see where trevor's roots were he was a real reflection of a god-fearing man and his life leaves footprints in our family he left a legacy that we will always remember he was very family orientated and he aspired to always make known how important his family was his presence will be solely missed his chair where he used to sit or remain empty but we hold on knowing that we will see him again he's playing the base in heaven just enjoying the presence of the lord so if i can take a moment and reflect on trevor and debbie's love story i can truly say that first corinthians 13 4 to 8 comes to life love is patient love is kind it does not boast it's not proud it's not rude and it's not self-centered it's not easily angered and it keeps no record of wrong love does not delight in evil but rejoices in the truth the love that they shared was unique and i admired them as a couple i always thought that if i get married one day i would want my husband to look at me like trevor looks at me you know we'll sit in the room and everybody will be talking and he'll be in the corner watching her without even knowing it and that to me was truly remarkable you know the trevor truly adored tv and the girls it was really really really those were really special blessings from god you might feel that how do you carry on from your own steps but i want to tell you trevor prayed for this moment for you he was on his knees and he asked god to give you the strength to make it through to be strong and for the girls also that you might carry on with his legacy show the love to each other to the family and if ever you feel alone just know that god has blessed you with the best may trevor's love for family and friends continue on with each of each and every one of us that you might always remember the impact that he had in our lives he was truly truly a remarkable god i'm a remarkable man i thank god for giving such a wonderful man in our presence you know it just makes our standards quite as young ladies who makes the standard very high right amber so but i thank god that you know we were honored to have you in our lives may god strengthen us all through this time and may we all cherish the footprints rivers left in our lives god bless you hallelujah you know rightfully said one thing about about um is that as we we know him as um amen one thing about him is that he was full of a lot of things amen he was full of god's word and and this is one scripture that he loved amended that shook me isaiah 49 16 it says that we are engraved we are written in the palm of god's hand and you know god used that analogy simply because of the jews what they did they would write the cities and every sacred place they would write it in the palm of their hands as a reminder so when he said that the way he said it that day he just something just shook on the inside of me and it just made me feel that i am loved by god that god loves me this much that he even that i am written in the palm of his hand amen so that is the man that he was he was full of god's word and he had a heart for god amen and that is what i love about him and everything that he had in him he would pour it on us he would always cheer us on and tonight i personally want to take a moment and just thank god for that man amen that everything he had in him that he poured in us and on to us amen so tonight i'm gonna call amen i'm gonna call calm and amen and clint i mean just to come and just share something from the heart amen so can you put your hands together to tonight amen for common and clint as they come hallelujah good evening beloveds i greet you in that wonderful and unfailing name of our lord and savior jesus christ before i continue with anything else trunty debbie and the girls our deepest condolences losing someone like uncle trev just really leaves such a void in one's life i was saying uncle alistair earlier on you know last week we buried my other uncle and this week it's uncle chef it's just our family has been through too much but i want to focus on my relationship that i had with uncle trevor he was a wonderful man he he connected with me on my level it was never uncle and niece he would phone me and we'd have conversations for hours where he'd tell me the importance of me getting myself into a studio and recording he would tell me the gift that god has given me and why it's important because he says common when we leave this earth one day what is left of you and the talent that god has given you is it to me god gave you a talent my child use it and record so those are the fond memories that would have and the check-ins he just randomly sent messages oh you know i would keep in touch with him the last time we spoke was the 27th of june we just sent a message just to say hi and i said to him i love you my aum i'm missing you because we really i used to look forward to our family reunions once a year we all got together and uncle trev is just making jokes and he's just the guy and we loved that about him his passion and his love for music we could sit and talk about music for hours and you never got tired of having that conversation or even get tired of hearing him play or seeing him play because the passion that he did with was so phenomenal to my family from the pereira the roberts samson adams reynos we a huge family daniel's family our deepest deepest sympathy this is a great loss to our family and i pray that god will strengthen and comfort every one of you i mean uh before we we sing you know as you said uncle trevor was a gentle giant but he spoke volumes from the base guitar you know for me obviously the fondest memories are him playing and him just worshiping and enjoying it and i think for me it's the effortless playing on that guitar that was just so awesome to see and experience and i thank god that we were able to experience uncle trev in well not all of him because obviously i mean his family would have experienced much more than what we did but i thank god that you know at least from from our side from my side particular the music side of alcotra always looked up to him i always looked up to the robert's family you know to the halters family because of the you know the musicianship not to say that my father's family weren't musicians because they are but you know i think uh i always say that you know we we get a lot of the musicianship part of of the talents from the roberts halt this family so guys uh again from my side sincere condolences to the family you know god trevor was a great man and we will definitely miss him the song we're going to sing we've sung many times promise you we did not want to sing it um the musician part of the family uncle alistair said we must please sing it because uncle trevor actually loved us singing this song in fact he invited us to one of his fundraisers to sing it in particular so be blessed those i'm sure many of you heard this before but be blessed amen [Music] i [Music] and watch us where we go [Music] and help us be wise in times [Music] [Music] [Music] lead us to a place [Music] to a place [Music] i pray i didn't prepare speech speeches smack me a lot has been said about trevor already what i wanted to say has already been said so i'm just going to add my little penny to what they've said [Music] my dealings or rather my interaction with trevor started a very long time ago i know trevor for 40 years plus okay myself trevor and obviously the others as well we sang together in sunday school choir we yes that's right pastor we sing together in youth choir you know i came into joanna's book in 1978 that's when i met trevor my father was the pastor in afm church and pastor pereira will bear witness to that now trevor has been the same since i have met him right i've never seen trevor being cross the others may have seen him being crossed not me all right whenever i interacted with trevor it was always around music we used to play together in church while trevor was still in school and okay i was like little bit exiting school we here we were part of the church band now you will remember those that will remember that time there was no worship choirs there was no praise and worship teams you were just the guitar players and those players and one person leading the service so we were in the youth choir we sang together we play together in church and at some stage trevor became the choir master of the youth now pastor pereira you must help me out here during that time in the then transvaal district of the afm am i correct was one of the best choirs am i correct yes that was under the leadership that was under the leadership of trevor being the choir master so i'm just trying to to to say to you what the influence that trevor had okay it's because of trevor that i'm also the musician i would like to i hope i'm the musician that i am okay um you know it is because of trevor that i joined david and the i don't see the other members here neil and the rest of them okay it's because of trevor not because of my own doing um we were witness before and then finally we are now eurea but the bond that was created because trevor was the leader and whatever he had rubbed off onto the rest of the team and i can say with pride that that same bond that was said by trevor at the beginning of of of forming the team is still there yes we may not be operating but the bond is still there and the brothers will testify with me regarding that so trevor has a great influence in my life yes i am two three years older than him but um the influence area on my life is tremendous and and i i appreciate that so my final words to the halters family uh debbie and the girls um from myself jenny christian's family our deepest sympathy you have a great loss i also regard it as a loss from my side may god console you may the holy spirit be your guide and as you carry on in this life thank you very much good evening church five-fold ministry the halters family the kruger family the management and staff of agro the company that trevor worked for many many years i would also like to take this opportunity of greeting everyone that is viewing online from far and wide i know that you share in our grief and we thank you for that now this week has been a very very trying week for all of us especially we we lost lindsey lindy edmund's wife and then also hearing the passing of trevor it was such a huge shock for all of us um especially for david and myself because we've been talking to him all week we've been chatting to him in fact our last conversation with trevor was on friday we we literally confirmed an appointment for monday and we get a call on sunday morning to say that trevor is no longer with us we were filled with all sorts of emotions i cannot explain to you what went through our minds it was like everything just stopped and that's when we realized you know life is just so short but trevor lived a full life one thing about trevor he loved the lord with all his heart and with all his soul and looking back at um our first encounter and david and i were just talking we have known trevor since 1983 and that equates to 38 years so after 38 years it's no longer friendship you're actually family and we bonded through the years and we became good ministering partners as well trevor and i sang together we made music together we ministered we brought souls to the lord and trevor really loved the lord we i was fortunate and privileged to arrange concerts with trevor we arranged lots of concerts during that time gospel music and concerts was the order of the day and our favorite places of having these concerts were locally in our local communities and coming to mind was exactly what thanks eugene for reminding me of our favorite hangout place i would say was a church in el dorado park called faith temple we would have concerts at don mateman and he was instrumental in making things happen he was a marketing manager he was in finances you name it trevor was the you know trevor um was a gentle giant he wasn't militant in his leadership but just his presence alone commanded order and that's what i loved about him we could talk for hours about the goodness of god we could talk about just the word in general and then we also would move into different levels of music where we took gospel music on to another level we we sat on the board of an organization that was called push for excellence and this came about in 1990 we would have concerts in the city world and this was international music where we had international musicians like the clark sisters we would have andre crouch and we would be on the same stage with them and it was i must say that trevor truly lived a full life we could stand here and say you know gone too soon but really soon once your purpose has been fulfilled and i believe that that he lived that full life and at this point in time i just want to say trevor t-man he had so many names until we meet again let the music play on thank you please never thought that i would lost a brother like trevor trevor wesley my friend me trevor has made brew trevor was alice reviews for me he taught me lots and lots of things i can travel at hike midnight late night foreign [Laughter] [Music] our bases our base play in south africa and it was good that that mark is trevor gave the name witness good foreign [Music] yet welcome a foreign foreign [Laughter] we will meet one day amen thank you so much [Applause] hallelujah can you put your hands together one more time church hallelujah there's a lot that we can say about um amen there's a lot that we can say amen so tonight before i call amen our next guest speaker to do his tribute i i you know i think it was 11 months ago i think pastor was 11 months ago when pa done when an eta passed on and and um he did the eulogy and i took a copy of the eulogy you know why is because the way he did things he was an administrator so i always wanted to see the structure how he put things together because he had a way when he does something he always did that well amen so i always looked at him i always used to watch him and and when i got married and i invited him to come i didn't actually expect him to come because he didn't feel well at the time but still he came and he was there in us it's the same amen and he came up and he took the mighty man and he just encouraged us amen and he said hey amen amen so he encouraged us amen and so we're gonna miss him and image you know just standing here amen is so difficult just to stand here but we thank god and we we we trust that god will carry us through amen amen we trust that god will carry us through i'm gonna call pastor amen unless the constants just to come and just to pay tribute amen can you put your hands together oh my amen for pastor bless the constance as he comes hallelujah good evening everybody greetings in jesus name uh allow me to greet the angel of the house in his absence bishop freddie edwards whom i have a lot of respect for and i love very much and then i want to greet bust alistair walters and your beautiful wife thank you so much for allowing us to be here to pay respects to the tray and then to debs and the girls i want to say from the bottom of our hearts that we are so sorry for your loss it is not easy to lose your husband not easy to lose your dad um but i know the lord will strengthen you and the lord will be your guide amen i also want to say to the rest of the family brothers and sisters all the siblings of trevor um our deepest condolences we know what it is to lose siblings but the lord is our refuge and our strength and he'll lift you up i've got a a long history with this family in fact our family's got a long history with this family um i saw trey i saw the sisters in the studio we would never start the session before and i don't laugh for all their stuff we will first laugh for half an hour before we get started in the studio and uh there's nice man so me at obvious and then um trevor trevor um always used to say you know trevor's old school because and i used to download he made me do illegal stuff trevor because i said apple music then i had to go to a crack site and download all the music for him and then he'll send the messenger every month with this with the flash drive music man he loved music i was so excited when i saw [Music] [Music] no i've had many tears and sorrows i had questions for tomorrow there were times i didn't know right from wrong but in my situation god gave me blessed consolation told me my trials come only to make me strong [Music] i've been many places and i've seen millions of faces but there are times i felt so all alone but in those lonely hours those precious lonely hours jesus told me that i'm his very own the reason i can say through it all [Music] i've learned to trust in jesus and i've learned to trust in god [Music] i've learned to depend upon these word so i thank god for the mountains and i thank him for the valleys and i thank him for all the storms he's brought me through for if i never had any problem i wouldn't know that god could solve them i wouldn't know what faith in god's word can do the reason i say through it all he was with me through it all i've learned to trust in jesus and i've learned to trust in god [Music] is [Music] and i thank him for all the storms he's brought me through for if i never had a problem i wouldn't know that god could solve it i wouldn't know what faith in god's word [Music] through it all people learn to trust in jesus and we've learned to trust in god through it all god was with us [Music] [Music] yes i've learned to depend upon his words [Music] [Music] hallelujah can you put your hands together one more time amen through it all amen through it all amen through it all you know and then this is for antideps and and you know and and the girls you know psalms 20 say may god answer you when you are in distress may the name of the god of jacob protect you may god send you help from his sanctuary and grant you support and strength from zion amen so tonight i need you to fix your eyes on the screen as we get ready for a slight show amen god bless you [Music] here alone on the playground i was lost in my hometown when you left here they say time makes it better and i'll see [Music] you have no clue [Music] with nowhere [Music] i think of you all since [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] since you [Music] i just want to hold [Music] you have no clue [Music] i really miss [Music] [Applause] [Music] just um [Music] oh [Music] [Music] since you left here a great celebration jesus was waiting when you left [Music] when you put me [Music] oh [Music] [Music] i'm sure i must stay [Music] is [Music] oh [Music] when you put me [Music] all things considered i'm sure [Music] oh [Music] on my own [Music] my hallelujah can we put irons together for the beautiful slideshow amen hallelujah you know one thing about um the face from bbc amen i will only see him see i will saw him as the face of bbc and my name used to tell me always and i and i love those compliments and um he like altered so fly amen i used to love those compliments amen so i need you to put your hands together as we welcome are you hey man is it come just to bless us can you put your hands together one more time hallelujah [Music] you [Music] um [Music] foreign [Music] hmm [Music] foreign [Music] uh [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] do [Music] you may be wondering why playing this song tonight i lost somebody that was very important to me and we had the funeral it was like a father to me uncle paul and while i was asking questions one of the things that dropped my spirit was that in order for you to be with jesus you have to leave this place if you remain here you have no part with jesus either you live here by death and when rapture comes you go to him oh when he comes in his glory coming back you rapture but if you remain here you have no part with him [Music] and proverbs said the memory of the righteous is beautiful tonight we are not money like those that have no hope we are celebrating a life world i hear so many amazing things about the amazing man we are celebrating tonight and tonight we choose to worship the lion of judah the one who is weak and that you'll be with also [Music] [Applause] [Music] you [Music] uh [Music] [Music] uh [Music] ah [Music] ah [Music] hello [Music] can we stand tonight and let us be below the head of praise let us just worship the lord for a few minutes tonight in his presence hallelujah somebody bless the lord here tonight somebody make a joyful voice and worship me [Music] hallelujah trevor always said that his funeral his memorial service should be like a concert basically there should be a lot of singing there should be a lot of worshiping there should be a lot of praise and that is why tonight i know that we've taken some time but i trust and believe that you have enjoyed what has been presented tonight amen [Music] let's prepare our hearts tonight just as we sing it two or three times one of our dear friends and trevor's very good friends are here tonight to manage and share the word of the lord they they come a very long time a relationship of almost 40 years or more so i'm gonna release it tonight as we sing it about two times [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] you [Music] you [Music] love [Music] you [Music] it gives me great pleasure tonight after we celebrate the trevor's life gives me great joy it's a great privilege and an honor to welcome one of his very dear and good friends and a very great good friend of the family apostle eden constance that's going to come to minister the word of the lord tonight in short [Music] he knows trevor for 40 years plus i'm sure and we thank god for having him can we put our hands together for apostle hidden confidence [Music] let us pray spirit of the living god we thank you for this moment that we came to celebrate a giant in the spirit a servant of god and i praise spirit of the living god as we about to minister thy infallible word let your words sing deep within our hearts and in our spirit i pray that you will touch every single one that's listening to thy infallible word we ask this in the mighty name of jesus and we all say amen and amen you may be seated praise god first of all i would love to take this opportunity first to express my deepest condolences to you debbie and your beautiful daughters and um to the all this family and all the extended families pastor alistair thank you so much for entrusting me all the time i did it with your mom's memorial service and now with one of my great friends i was in contact with trav all the time we never lost con contact with one another spoke to pastor alistair still friday and we spoke about trev and i said i'm not gonna phone him myself i want to hear it from you because when use when i speak to trevor everything is okay this is his exact words alice is all right allah stressful need some so i thought to myself let me then do the following and [Music] then just speak to past alistair and that's how the conversation went all the time i was very concerned constantly calling pastor ellis and if he didn't reply then i would ask him please reply i need to know how is it with my friend um yes we're gonna miss him i thought to myself what do one minister at a close friend a person you love dearly what would you say by his memorial service there's so many messages one can minister on and just before i'm gonna forget the protocol i want to thank bishop edwards in his absence for allowing me behind this pulpit and we just want to say thank you so much so what do one say in times like this there's many things i can say dr jeff but something dawned on me and i thought to myself what would trevor say and what is it that he would say to me when we had our conversations and i used to say to him trev [Music] in the time that we are living in is perilous times serious times difficult times heavy times and i thought to myself today tonight i'm gonna be short trust me blessed are the short they'll always be invited to do more memories so i will be short and i will be to the point trust me i will advert on smoothitas for a secret just afford me this opportunity so i'm going to do a bit of injustice to my message but i want you to get the crux of the message and i thought to myself i'm gonna title my message very strange tonight maybe not a message that everybody would understand at a memorial service or at the passing of someone would one really choose to choose a subject like this that i'm about to speak on and i want to speak about life's shortness and vanity life's shortness and vanity if you have your bibles kindly turn with me to the book of first corinthians chapter seven we're gonna read only three verses from verse 29 to verse 31. and it reads as follows but this i say brethren the time is short so that from now on even those who have wives should be as though they had none [Music] those who weep as though they did not weep those who rejoice as though they did not rejoice [Music] those who buy as though they did not possess and those who use and those who use the this world as not misusing it for the form of this world is passing away you may ask me what does this have to do with trevor's life i came to speak to the audience here tonight and say life is surely short the bible describes life as a vapor you say it comes up and it disappears he also describes life as grass it's green today but it withers away tomorrow life is also like a flower it blooms and it blossoms just but for a season and it also withers away if one looks at the time that we are living in and the era that we are living in time is of the essence the bible declares in the book of amos the time will come where we will not be able to go up to the house of mourning he describes this very clearly the closer we get to the coming of the lord jesus christ the more perilous times would come i want to say today that why did you choose life is short because the bible declares it there's something that i want to bring to your attention and i want to read the second scripture in the book of ecclesiastes chapter one vanity of vanities says the preacher vanity of vanities all is vanity what prophet has a man from all his labor in which he toiled under the sun i discovered why i call this life is short and vanity we are living in a desperation or in the era where people think their achievements is great the beautiful house you live in the mansions we buy the beautiful vehicles that we drive [Music] the achievements of life all these things there's nothing wrong with it but according to scripture they all vanity all the beauty you possess all the greatness you have life is short why would you say so apostle eden let me take you through a few things that i think when one was born if i'm gonna ask anybody in this building to please reflect back to the day you were born you will not be able to tell me if i say do you know how did you grow up when you were little one you would not be able to tell me it was foreign [Music] but if i look at this and i reflect back and i i think of these type of things and while i was reading the word and preparing for this and then the holy spirit took me through some stuff he said there's certain things you can remember but there are certain things you cannot remember going back into your days when you started school i don't know how many of you here can remember that day because i can't i've tried to recall but i can't i don't know the first day when i went to school i don't know about it dr jeff i can't recall i can't remember i can remember yes when i came to stand at [Music] m [Music] and i thought to myself yes you say i am live for you [Music] [Music] give me why do you go down this road i'm taking you somewhere quickly and i'm gonna just be out of here life is short we recall that moments in standard five i want to date this girl but i don't know how to ask her out went over to standard six i will not tell you how did i get there but last this year i wrote out my own report because i failed and i thought no it's here you open it still you know and excrete my ear report and they're glad to show me that sign understood this is life i'm bringing you to something life is short because all of the sudden you discover you now a big boy you in high school and then all of a sudden you fall in love again because now it's becoming serious because you get to your first job and you get your first salary and you think now life has just begun before you know it you have to get married you have to walk down the aisles oh god life is short because you think this is going to be a roller coaster drive all the time but i discovered that life is only about vanity we inquire stuff we get to stuff we want to live in better houses we want to drive better cars um you want to have the best you want to see the best i travel the world god knows it i've been all over the world i've been preaching all over the world but can i tell you something all this that i'm talking about is vanity achievements beautiful certificates hanging richest money that you accumulated over the years on great achievements beautiful powerful great stuff i applaud you but come i tell you something that's not life [Music] how you live life is how you will end life because you can't take your beautiful house with you when you go down alone your money according to proverbs the bible is very clear you leave it for someone else to enjoy all the millions and i've got nothing against life policies i have it myself i have enough policies for my family to continue and i want them to continue but i discovered something when you just thought now i'm gonna enjoy life and dr jeff you can agree with me you already a pensioner and you can think for yourself and um you can say if i'm lying or not all that you want now you want to enjoy your children and your grandchildren i get grandchildren all that you want to enjoy is life but all of the sudden you discover that life have changes oh god major changes major stuff that's happening now that we are going to alsaca so [Music] but i discovered life is short past the list i discovered life is all vanity um if i sit back and my brother knows he's here he sang earlier on i think i've arrived somewhere where i think i'm comfortable but then all of the sudden you wake up one morning and you feel the pain and the next day you feel another pain and you feel you can run up the stairs up it's strange how life can curb you and now that you think you are coming to a place whereby you just want to enjoy life you discover that everything that you accumulated over the years and over time now became nothing to you it's of no value the only thing that you desire is souls if you preach a man all that you desire is to see how god changes people's lives around that's all you desire because you know that you are coming to the end of your journey you don't know how long you don't know how quick it's gonna be but one thing i can tell you nobody in this building can tell me i'm guaranteed about tomorrow morning why do you say life is short i'll explain to you dr jeff one minute we were still happy and smiling and laughing we were sitting at the table none of us knew that all of the sudden death will grip the family and you think you still mourning for the one then the other one goes again then you think you are mourning for the other one then the other one goes again you don't know who must you mourn at this time that we are living in life is short you can't live life the way you used to love it jesus is coming back again and he's coming back for a spotless pride you can't carry on the way you've carried on when you were a youngster no life has a way of curbing you i'll never forget last year we had our fair share it was my eldest sister then it was my brother two weeks after that and guess what it just continued it never stopped up till now last week it was my cousin denzel constance the same day his brother stephen constance the same day both died hours apart from each other in the same time all those guys with my uncle uncle ron that will be buried on saturday it's no tomorrow tomorrow will be better tomorrow it's strange this entire week i'm at the funeral every day i was by dr verne's funeral today i was by a funeral every day there's a funeral it's strange that our life has been altered instead of having loved us instead of having family gatherings we can't because guess what covert curbed us life is short life is no longer like it used to be life came and he taught us some disciplines there's certain stuff in life because trevor was okay now he was now all right and all of a sudden bang we didn't think he's gonna leave us um i see uh like his wife here and we just buried him now i mean really did you think you're gonna come to another memorial you're still weeping the death of your husband and guess what now you have to weep again the cycle never ends life is short there's no time for animosity any longer you can't live life now by pointing fingers and speaking about that one and speaking about that one guess what life taught us lessons life shaped us differently life started telling us the value of valuing people i value people differently i'm a pastor i have a congregation um ezra is one of our musicians i'm building a church beautiful church extremely beautiful i thought to myself now it's time for me to enjoy my building dr jeff i can't guess what i don't find no pleasure in celebrating anything did you ever feel like that did you ever feel like there's no time there's no time to celebrate some achievements it's strange how life came to kill us it's strange that the brother that you never spoke to all of a sudden your heart is beating a little bit faster and it's almost like something telling you get your life in order because you don't know who's next i thought i thought i thought listen man i'm i'm i'm healthy i'm i'm eating the right proteins [Music] the stuff that i thought i value i don't value anymore because i discovered life is short what i have to do i need to do it in a hurry because the bible say all this beautiful buildings beautiful chandeliers back screens we're leaving all this behind very soon the bible say there's a song break [Music] that time life was pleasant wasn't the day it was pleasant was it nice it was good stuff it was nice times to be around the guys is it the same now no foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] is um [Music] m [Music] philippians chapter 1 from verse 21 for to me to love is christ and to die is again i just want to pause there for me to love is christ and to die is gain but if i live on in the flesh this will mean fruit from my labor yet fruit from my labor yet what i shall choose i cannot tell philippians this great poll makes a very powerful statement here he say for me to love his christ and he continues to say to die is gain he said but if i live in the flesh if i live in the flesh listen carefully if i love in the flesh it will mean fruit from my labor yet what i shall choose i cannot tell for i am hard-pressed between two having a desire to depart and to be with christ which is far better nevertheless to remain in the flesh is more needful for me and being confident of this i know that i shall remain and continue with you and all for your progress and joy of the faith let me quickly explain this it's easy to say i will have eleventh hour according to what paul is speaking to i said it now you can leave i'm gonna start a series on eschatology which is the end time because i don't hear people preach about the end time any longer i need to prepare you guys for heaven because i'm not here forever i'm also journeying through and myself unless they had a conversation yesterday [Music] i say advance this is my conversation with lester yesterday time was guaranteed to nobody pastors are dying one by one quick fast forward whether is [Music] foreign so lastly [Music] [Music] i still remember we were fighting when did you make me so comfortable that's exactly what my trevor and this stewie and the fight [Music] [Music] foreign foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign and this is before god i don't want to i don't want to talk about achievements i don't want to because last year alice [Music] [Music] out foreign huh what does elite look for me somebody's got it look for me for i will be there goodbye for me to die is only gain if i live here by the flesh it's only a bonus it's only to advance others it's a bonus but i have to love for him listen to me you can't say again like you used to say is vanity god bless you [Music] me while ezra was playing and the preacher was preaching i just felt i i felt the spirit of the lord in this song i think we can all stand in the presence of the lord and we sing this together it won't be long [Music] soon we'll be leaving here [Music] it won't be long [Music] we'll be going home come on let's sing count the years as much [Music] and count the weeks as days any [Music] count [Music] [Music] [Applause] any day now we'll be going and you know what tonight he says we shall be like him [Music] will be going home [Music] we [Music] in the moment [Music] [Music] tonight we have come to the end of this come on let us give the lord a head of praise [Music] it is with so much joy and gratitude in our hearts that we want to thank bishop h f edwards my spiritual father and pastor for allowing us to use the facility and tonight as well as on saturday for the memorial and the burial of trevor graham halters we also want to thank our dear friend and a very dear friend of clever apostle eden constance for the word of the lord tonight can we give apostle eden a wonderful hand of appreciation [Music] i said thank you for mainly of dr jeff pereira and my cousin perry pereira and their children for blessing us tonight my cast claudia everybody that i hear tonight amen all our families both the halters family the rabbits family the kruger family the extended families for everything and all your contributions tonight to eugene and the friends that has blessed us on beautiful praise and worship to ayo solanke members of your odia thank you so much for everything that you have done and for all your contributions we thank god for everything that you have done for trevor and debbie and the children and everything that you continue to do tonight we want to especially thank debbie her family and mom my sister brothers we want to thank the children for taking good care of thank you for loving him thank you debs for everything we've called the girls these last days we call them the nurses for ashley especially she was she was running around and amber and them and we just thank you and we love you with everything that was within us for making sure that trevor wasn't spoke to trevor almost every day spoke to him on friday by video calling as apostle even says i updated him and trevor was fine and assured us he's fine and i gave them messages and on sunday morning when deb's phone and says trevor can't they're not getting him awake i rushed over there me and my wife and we got there and today we just laid there as he for sleeping because my wife i asked the paramedics i said are you sure this guy is are you sure he's gone isn't he just in a coma what is happening are you sure and trevor the previous night still spoke to us on the family chat and he was the one that said good night on saturday night not knowing that that good night is meaning that i'm leaving and i'm saying goodbye and tonight we want to tell trevor ted that we will see you in the morning we are looking forward to that beautiful day that we will reunite with him and with everyone else that went before us as apostle eden said we had we had a very difficult year my mom 11 months my father-in-law a month ago we buried him and just when you think you are getting on your feet again uncle aiki we married him last week friday just when you think your legs and your knees are strengthening and yeah trevor he just decided not to wake up on sunday but we thank god for his life we thank god for the beauty that he has shared with us and for everything that he imparted in our life thank you everybody that came thank you for making this night special answers no to be in trouble because we are over our our limit but we want to thank god that you came and everybody watching my live stream thank you so much for standing with us and supporting the family trevor's funeral will be on saturday we will meet here at 10 o'clock for those will join us on saturday morning at 10 o'clock here the service will start and we will have a few minutes of viewing and then 10 o'clock we will start sharply and we will lay travis model remains to rest on saturday i think it's the 14th of august thank you so much after the service please just take because of covert regulation just on my life on my left i think it's your right there in the vip lounge uh there's a small take away uh just if you can grab the take away just take away right through that door through the other door and again down the aisle please if we can make our way home i'm going to ask pastor chester if he's still here i saw him earlier pastor chester ramadan he's still here here you are please come and close the service for us [Music] father we thank you this evening that we could gather in your presence thank you for your word that went out tonight lord

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