<TITLE>01. Par 1-5</TITLE>63-1118, I Am The Resurrection And Life, Lyon's Funeral Home, Campbellsville, KY, 49 min
L-1      ... I would not have you... ignorant, brethren, concerning those which are asleep, that you sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them... that sleep 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 that are asleep.
For the Lord himself shall descend from the heaven with a shout,... the voice of the archangel, and... the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together... in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air:... so shall we ever be with the Lord.
Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

L-2   I was reading from First Thessalonians, the 4th chapter. I shall read now from the Book of Job. The four-... The 14th chapter of Job.
Man that is born of a woman is of a few days, and full of trouble.
He cometh forth like a flower, he's cut down: and he fleeth away as a shadow, and continueth not.
... dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bring me into judgment with thee?
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou has appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
Turn from him, that he may rest, till he has accomplished, as an hireling, his days.
For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down,... it will sprout again, and that the tender branches thereof may not cease.
Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof dieth in the ground;
Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
But man dieth,... wasteth away: yea, giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
As the waters fail from the seas, and the floods decay and dry up:
So man lieth down, and he raises not: till... heavens be no more, then shall he not awake, nor be raised out of his sleep.
O that thou would hide me in the grave, that thou would appoint me a secret place, till thy wrath be past,... thou would appoint me a... time, and remember me!
If a man dies, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change comes.
Thou shall call,... I will answer thee: thou will have a desire to do a work of thine hand.
... now thou numberest my steps: does thou not watch over my sins?
My transgressions is sealed up in a bag,... thou sewest up my iniquity.
... surely the mountains fall and cometh to nought,... the rocks move out of their place.
The waters wear away the stone: thou wash away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.
Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passes: thou changes his countenances, and sends him away.
His sons come to honour him, and... knoweth it not;... they are brought low, but... perceive it not...
But his flesh upon him shall have pain, but his soul within him shall mourn.

L-3 ... -cluding the 14th chapter of the Book of Job.

L-4   We have here, this afternoon, something that's not welcome anywhere at any time. No matter how prepared we are for it, it's always an unwelcome guest that's sure to come to every home. And it's heartless. I'm sure if I had been a death, I don't think I would want to come to a home that this death has come to, this young Christian, that we have his body laying here before us, as we know him, as our Brother Garnett.

L-5 And we're here today, assembled, to pay the last respects to this young, gallant Christian. It's the last things that we can do for him upon earth, though he does not hear us. But we're thinking about those who has this before them, yet. It must be taken care of someday. We've got to meet it. Young or old, sooner or later, it will come to all of us.


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