MEMORIAL DAY-OR DECORATION DAY
A MEMORIAL IS INSTITUTED SO THAT PEOPLE WILL REMEMBER
MEMORIAL DAY-DAY THAT WE HONOR SERVICEMEN AND ALSO OUR LOVED
ONES AND FRIENDS. A FLAG WILL BE PLACED ON THE SERVICEMEN'S
SERVICEWOMENS'S GRAVES AND MEMORIAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD
THROUGHOUT OUR GREAT COUNTRY, THANKING OUR GOD FOR THESE MEN
THAT SO THAT WE MIGHT HAVE FREEDOM THAT WE ENJOY TODAY. IT
IS A DAY THAT OUR NATION SHOULD BE TRULY THANKFUL FOR THESE
BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN THAT SERVED THEIR COUNTRY WELL. I
BELIEVE THAT THIS IS THE 50TH MEMORIAL DAY SINCE WORLD WAR II
ENDED. IT IS ALSO A DAY THAT WE HONOR OUR LOVED ONES BY
PLACING FLOWERS AND REMEMBRANCES UPON THEIR GRAVES.
GOD MADE MEN AND WOMEN TO BE FREE
1. PEOPLE HAVE ALWAYS SEARCHED AND LONGED FOR FREEDOM
A. FREEDOM OF RELIGION
B. FREEDOM OF SPEECH
C. FREEDOM OF CHOICE
2. ASK AMERICA WHAT THE COST OF FREEDOM IS:
A. SHE WILL TELL YOU ABOUT
1. FREEDOM BOUGHT BY BLOOD OF AMERICANS SHED IN MANY
WARS
2. FREEDOM SHOWM BY THE ANQUISH AND TEARS OF MOTHERS
3. FREEDOM REQUIRES THE PREPAREDNESS AND WATCHFULNESS
4. FREEDOM THAT DEMANDS RESPONSIBILITY
5. FREEDOM THAT REQUIRES HONESTY AND INTEGRITY
6. FREEDOM THAT COMES FROM A TRUST IN GOD
3. YOU CAN ASK GOD WHAT THE COST OF FREEDOM IS:
A: HE WILL TELL YOU
1. I GAVE MY ONLY BEGOTTEN SON SO THAT ALL OF YOU WHO
BELIEVE IN HIM WILL NOT PERISH BUT HAVE EVERLASTING
LIFE. JN 3:16
2. AND YOU SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH AND THE TRUTH SHALL
MAKE YOU FREE. JN 8:32.
3. JESUS SAID: I AM THE WAY THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE AND
NO ONE WILL COMES TO THE FATHER EXCEPT HE FIRST COME
THROUGH ME.
AS WE HONOR SERVICEMEN & SERVICEWOMEN THROUGHOUT OUR NATION
AND WORLD, OUR LOVED ONES HERE IT SHOULD CAUSE US TO STOP AND STUDY
THE VALUABLE LESSON THAT IS TAUGHT HERE.
EXAMPLE: CECIL B. DEMILLE'S TESTIMONY ABOUT THE DRAGONFLY
THE LESSON THAT SHOULD BE TAUGHT US BY ALL CEMETERY'S IS THAT
IN JESUS IS THE OHLY FREEDOM. JN 8:36 IF THE SON SHALL
THEREFORE SET YOU FREE YOU SHALL BE FREE INDEED
1. PROVERBS 24:30-32 SHOULD TELLS US SOMETHING
A. PASSED BY THE FIELD OF A MAN
1. TELL MUCH ABOUT A PERSON
2. TELL US SOMETHING AS WE PASSED BY THIS CEMETERY
OR ANY CEMETERY
B. SHOULD STOP AND CONSIDER IT WELL
1. IT WILL TELL US:
A. LIFE IS VERY SHORT
1. IT IS APPOINTED UNTO MAN ONCE TO DIE
AFTER THAT THE JUDGEMENT
DOESN'T MATTER AT ALL THE STATUS WE OBTAINED
IN LIFE, THE LEVEL OF ALL GRAVES ARE THE SAME.
2. SHOULD REMIND US THAT WE TOO SHALL DIE.
3. BIBLE SAYS OUR LIVES IS LIKE A VAPOR
4. SHOULD TEACH US OUR TIME IS SHORT
5. FIRST THING WE DO WHEN BORN IS CRY THE LAST
THING WE DO WHEN WE DIE IS MOAN
6. DEATH IS A CRUEL ENEMY
A. ROBS THE MOTHER OF HER BABY
B. THE WIFE OF HER HUSBAND
C. THE PARENTS OF HER CHILDREN
7. DEATH IS A RUDE ENEMY
A. HE UPSETS THE BEST PLANS WITHOUT APOLOGY
B. HE VISITS ALL NATIONS REGARDLESS OF COLOR
8. BUT THANK GOD DEATH IS AVANQUISHED ENEYMY.
A. JESUS CONQUERED DEATH ON THE CROSS
B. WE DIE BUT DOORWAY INTO ETERNAL LIFE
9. THANK GOD FOR THE RAINBOW OF HOPE THAT BENDS
ABOVE THE GRAVES OF OUR LOVED ONES
10.WE STAND ON THIS SIDE OF THE GRAVE AND MOURN
11.THEY STAND ON THE OTHER SIDE AND SHOUT FOR JOY
READY TO WELCOME US HOME
12.IF WE COULD GET A GLIMPSE OF HEAVEN WE WOULD
REJOICE WHEN OUR LOVED ONES DIE
B. SHOULD REMIND US OF GOD'S LOVE
1. THINK ABOUT THE LOVE YOU HAD FOR YOUR LOVED
ONES BURIED HERE. THAT SHOULD REMIND US OF
GOD'S LOVE AND GRACE TOWARD US.
2. GOD FIRST TAUGHT US HOW TO LOVE
A. FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE GAVE....
3. FOR GOD IS LOVE 1 JN 4:8
C. EVERYONE OF US LEAVES A TRAIL OR PATH
1. GOOD OR BAD
A. WE REMEMBER PEOPLE BURIED HERE
B. THEIR LIVES WHAT THEY DID
2. PEOPLE ARE LOOKING AT OUR LIVES
3. GOD IS LOOKING AT OUR LIVES
D. IT REMINDS US THAT THERE IS A HEAVEN
1. JESUS SAID: LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED
NEITHER LET IT BE AFRAID FOR IN MY FATHER'S
HOUSE ARE MANY MANSIONS IF IT WERE NOT SO I
WOULD HAVE TOLD YOU.
2. A VERY PERMANENT PLACE
3. A VERY BEAUTIFUL PLACE
3. LAND OF NO TEARS, NO SORROWS, NO DEATHS, NO
SICKNESS, NO WARS, NO PAIN, NO POVERTY, NO
ACHING HEARTS
4. BROKEN HEARTS MENDED, WOUNDS WILL BE HEALED,
ALL SORROWS ENDED
5. 10,000 YEARS
2. STUDYING THIS CEMETERY THEN SHOULD CAUSE US TO PREPARE
FOR THE COMING DEATH AND REJOICE
A. HOW DO WE PREPARE?
1. CAN'T GET THERE BY BEING GOOD PERSON
2. CAN'T GET THERE BY BELONGING TO A CHURCH
3. CAN'T GET THERE BY BATISM
4. CAN'T GET THERE BY BEING BORN INTO A CHURCH
B. YOU GET THERE GOD'S WAY
ROMANS 3:23 FOR ALL HAVE SINNED AND COME SHORT OF THE
GLORY OF GOD.
ROMANS 6:23 BUT THE GIFT OF GOD IS ETERNAL LIFE
THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD.
ROMANS 10:9,10,13 IF YOU WILL CONFESS WITH YOUR MOUTH
THE LORD JESUS AND BELIEVE IN YOUR HEART THAT GOD
RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD YOU SHALL BE SAVED. FOR
WITH THE HEART MAN BELIEVETH UNTO RIGHTEOUSNESS AND
WITH THE MOUTH CONFESSION IS MADE UNTO SALVATION.
FOR WHOSOEVER SHALL CALL UPON THE NAME OF THE LORD
SHALL BE SAVED. | 