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The death of a saint. The death of a saint. The Bible said in Psalm 116 verse 15, precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints. Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints. And the first point that I want to make this afternoon is that all believers are saints. Anyone who is a saved Christian, any believer is a saint. Look down at your Bible there in 1 Corinthians chapter 1 verse 1, Paul called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God and Sosthenes, our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of the Lord, or call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours. So right there in the scripture it says that this book is being written to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, which means to be made a saint, to be made holy. Saint means holy one, sanctified means that you are put in that condition. It says, called to be saints with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours. Call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours. So everyone in every place who calls upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ is a saint. Flip over to 1 Corinthians chapter 6, I'll prove it to you further just a few chapters later in the same book. 1 Corinthians 6, 1, Dare any of you having a matter against another go to law before the unjust and not before the saints? Do you not know that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Know ye not that we shall judge angels? How much more things that pertain to this life? If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church. So the Bible here says that we should not go to law before the unjust but before the saints. So there are the unjust, the unrighteous, the unsaved, the unbelievers, and then there are the saints and the Bible even tells us here that even the least esteemed in the church is still a saint because he says go to law before the saints which would be even the least esteemed in the church would be better than the unsaved world. So there's a false doctrine out there that says that only certain people are saints. Isn't that what the Roman Catholics believe? You know they pick a certain person and the Pope or whoever decides that they're going to be a saint. But according to the Bible, all of us who believe in Jesus Christ are saints. Grandma was a saint. Everyone who in every place calls upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior is a saint. Let me just give you a few more scriptures on this. If you would, just flip over to Hebrews chapter number 10. But while you're turning to Hebrews 10, the Bible says in 2 Thessalonians 1-10, when he shall come to be glorified in his saints and to be admired in all them that believe because our testimony among you was believed in that day. So notice that all them that believe is equivalent with the saints in that verse. In Hebrews 13-24, it says salute all them that have the rule over you and all the saints. They of Italy salute you. So you can see there that it's not just the leadership or the rulers or the top Christians or the men that are the saints. It's just the leaders and then everybody else that's saved, everybody else who's a Christian is all the saints. Look at Hebrews 10 verse 10. By the which will we are sanctified, how? Through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. That's how we become saints is through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. It's not by works of righteousness which we have done but according to his mercy, he saved us by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost and that's what makes us a saint today. And then of course Jude 1 verse 1. Jude the servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James to them that are sanctified by God the Father and preserved in Jesus Christ and called. That's what it means to be saved. That's what it means to be a believer. So number one, every believer is a saint. But number two, a saint goes immediately to heaven when they die. Go to Philippians chapter 1. So the title of the sermon this afternoon is the death of a saint. We said number one, that every believer on the Lord Jesus Christ, every saved Christian is a saint according to the Bible. That's not just certain people that some church chooses somewhere. But number two, when a saint dies, they immediately go to heaven. While you're turning to Philippians 1, I'll read for you from 2 Corinthians 5, therefore we are always confident knowing that while we are at home in the body, we're absent from the Lord. For we walk by faith, not by sight. We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord. He's saying, I'd rather be absent from the body. Not only am I confident that when I am absent from the body, I'm going to be present with the Lord. I mean, he knew he was going to heaven because he's saved by the blood of Jesus Christ through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. But he says, not only am I confident of that, I'm willing to do that. I mean, I'm ready to go. He said, I am willing rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord. I mean, it's better to be in heaven with the Lord than it is to be remaining on this earth. That's why he said in Philippians chapter 1 verse 21, for to me to live is Christ and to die is gain. It's not a step down when a saint dies, it's gain, the Bible says. It's an improvement. It's a step up. It's an upgrade. For to me to live is Christ and to die is gain. But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labor. Yet what I shall choose I want not, for I'm in a strait betwixt two. Having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better, nevertheless, to abide in the flesh is more needful for you. And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith. So in Philippians chapter 1 here, the apostle Paul is saying, look, the only reason that I'm on this earth, the reason why God leaves me here, the reason why even though I'm beaten and arrested, even stoned and they walked away thinking I was dead, the reason that God kept life in my body and kept me here was because I have work to do for the Lord. I have a mission to accomplish and to abide in the flesh is more needful for you. But he says, as far as I'm concerned, I'm willing to be absent from the body and be present with the Lord. To die is gain. But he said, I know I'm going to continue with you all because there's more work that needs to be done and I know God has a mission for me to complete on this earth. Go to 2 Timothy chapter 4, 2 Timothy chapter 4. You see, there's no such thing as soul sleep. When the Bible talks about the believer being asleep in Jesus, it's the body that's asleep, the body sleeps in the dust of the earth. But the moment that we die physically, we go to be with the Lord in heaven and grandma right now is in heaven with the Lord right now. She has departed her physical body and she is present with the Lord in a far better place, the Bible says, much better its gain unto her. Now obviously there's sadness for those that are left behind but we don't mourn like those who have no hope because we believe that if Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. He knows he's going to bring with him because they're in heaven with him at this time. Look at 2 Timothy chapter 4 verse 6, for I'm now ready to be offered and the time of my departure is at hand. What does he mean by departure there? What he means is his death is at hand. But for him death is not the end, death is just a departure. Going to the airport and getting in line for departures or taking a trip somewhere else, he said the time of my departure is at hand. He knows that he's going to be with the Lord in heaven. I fought a good fight, I finished my course, I've kept the faith, henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day and not to me only but unto all them also that love his appearing. So it's not just the apostle Paul that this verse applies to but unto all those who love and serve the Lord and grandma certainly fits that bill. She was a godly woman, she lived a full life, she was 96 years old when she passed away, she was faithful to the Lord, she made a huge impact on her family, friends, children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and now she's in a better place. She has crossed the finish line. She remained faithful all the way unto the end and so it's not a mourning like those who have no hope. The Bible says, oh death, where is thy sting? Oh grave, where is thy victory? She truly finished the course, she kept the faith and she finished the work that God gave her to do and now she's at home in heaven with him. Thirdly this, if you would flip over to Ecclesiastes chapter 7, we said number 1, every believer in Christ, every saved Christian is a saint not by their own merits but by the merits of our Lord Jesus Christ who saved us and sanctified us by the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. Number 2, a saint goes immediately to heaven when they die. So grandma is not just resting in the earth somewhere, her body is resting in that cemetery next to her husband's body in El Paso, Texas but her soul is in heaven right now. She is in heaven with the Lord Jesus Christ himself, present with him. And she sees him as he is and realizes that she was right about that picture that her friend had on the wall, that bogus picture, right? But number 3, this godly saints should be remembered by those whom they leave behind. We should remember those godly saints that go on to be with the Lord, those that have invested in us and have made an impact in our lives. We who are left behind should remember them. That's what this service is about. Why are we even having this service? Why take the time to invite everybody and have a big service and have dinner together, Mexican food, grandma's favorite. I remember I used to go out to Mexican food with grandma. She really liked to eat at Macayo's, who's ever been to Macayo's? And she would order not chips and salsa, just salsa. She would just say, give me three dishes of salsa. And she wouldn't even mess with the chips. She would just spoon three bowls of salsa into her mouth. So that was interesting. I asked her, I said, what was the secret to how she not only lived a long time, but I remember even in her 80s, she was very sharp. She was healthy, moving around, doing great. She just seemed like the way I'd always remembered her. She just seemed like she didn't even age. And I asked her, what's the secret to getting to this age? And she said, well, you know, I eat oatmeal for breakfast and dinner every day. Oatmeal for breakfast, oatmeal for dinner, and then she would eat lunch usually at Subway. And sometimes she would go to Macayo's and other things, but she would eat a normal lunch, but breakfast and dinner were oatmeal. And I was at her house and watched her make the oatmeal a few times and everything like that. And I told her, I said, well, you must have really honored your father and mother to have lived this long. And she said, oh, yeah, I definitely did that. And whenever she talked about her mother, she talked about her with the greatest respect and esteem. She really loved her mother, Rebecca, and would talk about her. And her dad died when she was young, but she had nothing but respect and good things to say about them. So she honored her father and mother plus oatmeal and lived to be 96 years old. Okay. But godly saints should be remembered by those whom they leave behind, and that's why we're having this service today. The Bible says in Proverbs 10, verse 7, the memory of the just is blessed, but the name of the wicked shall rot. The memory of the just is blessed, but the name of the wicked shall rot. Look at Ecclesiastes 7, verse 1. A good name is better than precious ointment and the day of death than the day of one's birth. You know, nothing better than to be known as a godly, righteous person, for that to be true about you. And grandma had a good name. The day of her death is greater than the day of her birth, according to scripture. Look at verse 8. Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof. And the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit. But flip back just one page to Ecclesiastes chapter 6, verse 3. Ecclesiastes chapter 6, verse 3, the Bible says if a man beget a hundred children and live many years so that the days of his years be many and his soul be not filled with good and also that he have no burial, I say that an untimely birth is better than he. So the Bible has something to say about a person who would go through their life and have all kinds of fun and good things happen to them, but he said if their soul isn't filled with good and if they don't have a burial, you know, you'd rather have just died in your mother's womb. You'd rather have just been a miscarriage, the Bible says. So that goes to show the importance of a burial, doesn't it? And the burial also implies having in remembrance, people honoring you and giving reverence at your passing. Now, if you would flip over to Jeremiah chapter 22, I'm going to show you the opposite of this because the Bible talks about in Ecclesiastes 6 the importance of being good and having a burial, having a good name and people remembering you as a righteous person. But look at Jeremiah 22 and we'll see a negative example of someone who would not be remembered well. It says in Jeremiah 22 verse 15, Shout thou rain, because thou closest thyself in cedar? Did not thy father eat and drink and do judgment and justice? And then it was well with him. Now that good king that did right and did justice and judgment was Josiah. And Josiah goes down in history as a godly, righteous man, he's remembered as such. But this was the son of Josiah. Now it says of Josiah in verse 16, he judged the cause of the poor and needy, then it was well with him. Was not this to know me, saith the Lord? Now he's speaking to the son in verse 17. But thine eyes and thy heart are not but for thy covetousness and for to shed innocent blood and for oppression and for violence to do it. Therefore, thus saith the Lord concerning Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah king of Judah, they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah, my brother, or Ah, sister. They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah, Lord, or Ah, his glory. He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem. What's he saying there? This man was an ungodly man. He lived for self. He lived for covetousness. He just lived to sin and do wrong things. He did not have a godly heritage. He did not have a godly remembrance. And the punishment was he was going to be given the burial of an animal, the burial of an ass, the burial of a donkey. And nobody's going to lament for him. Nobody's going to care. Nobody's going to remember him. Nobody's going to say, Ah, my brother, Ah, sister, Ah, Lord, Ah, his glory. They wouldn't even care. But the righteous is held in remembrance. The name of the wicked shall rot. But the just, their memory is blessed. You know, great leaders in the Bible were often mourned for a period of 30 days. Let me give you some examples of this. Numbers, chapter 20, verse 29, and when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, the high priest Aaron, brother of Moses, they mourned for Aaron 30 days. Then all the house of Israel. Deuteronomy, chapter 34, verse 8, and the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab 30 days. So the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended. And then earlier in the books of Moses, in Genesis, chapter 50, it talks about Joseph. And it says in verse 3, and 40 days were fulfilled for him. For so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed. Because they basically turned Joseph into a mummy. He was embalmed when he was buried. And that process took 40 days. And the Egyptians mourned for him 3 score and 10 days. So if you take the 3 score and 10, or 70 days, and you subtract the 40 days that was the mummification process, you'll see another 30 day period of mourning. 30 days to mourn Joseph, 30 days to mourn Aaron, 30 days to mourn Moses. Why? Because these men had left a godly heritage, a godly example. And they had played a significant role in the lives of those around them. So it's a biblical principle to remember godly saints that pass away, to give them honor, and to give them a burial, and not just a physical burial, because that could be the burial of an ass, right? But actually give them a burial where we honor them, where we memorialize them, where we mourn them, and where we celebrate their life, and give honor unto whom honor is due. So in conclusion, let me say this, grandma left us a godly heritage. So again, the sermon is called the death of a saint, and today we are truly celebrating the death of a saint. You say, you're celebrating? Well here's the thing, she's with the Lord. She lived 96 years. This isn't a tragic passing of a child or someone in their 20s. You know, this is a woman who had finished her course, she lived 96 years, she was ready to go home to be with the Lord. And she's where she belongs, she's with the Lord Jesus Christ, with the saints, reunited with loved ones in heaven. And so today we're celebrating the death of a saint. Number one, how do you know she was a saint? Did you check with the Pope? No, because we know that because she called upon the name of the Lord and believed on Jesus Christ, we know she was a saint. Number two, we know that a saint goes immediately to heaven when they die, to be absent from the bodies, to be present with the Lord. And number three, godly saints should be remembered by those whom they leave behind. Let me say that grandma left us a godly heritage. I can truly say with David in Psalm 16 verse 5, the Lord is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup, thou maintainest my lot. David said the Lord is the portion of my inheritance. You know, when you think of an inheritance, you typically think of money, right? The will is read and there's a certain amount of money coming to you. David's saying the thing I inherited was the Lord. That's the greatest thing you could ever inherit. That's greater than a piece of property or a sum of money or anything else. David said the Lord is my inheritance. So what did I inherit from my grandma? The Lord. I inherited the God of grandma. It says in Psalm 16 verse 6, the lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places. And again, when you think of an inheritance, mainly back then it was land, it was property. So the lines would be like on a map or something telling you, okay, this is your property and you want the line to put as much of the good stuff on your side of the border. So David said the lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places, yea, I have a goodly heritage. But he wasn't talking about land. He's talking about the Lord being his inheritance. His heritage. What does heritage mean? The dictionary says, number one, heritage is something that's handed down from the past, a tradition. Number two, heritage is something that comes or belongs to one by reason of birth, an inherited lot or portion. What is the heritage that grandma left us? She left us the Lord. Psalm 61 verse 4, I will abide in thy tabernacle forever. I will trust in the covert of thy wings, Selah, for thou, O God, has heard my vows. Thou has given me the heritage of those that fear thy name. We've received the heritage of grandma and grandpa, Duane and Helen Anderson. They feared the Lord and their heritage is our heritage. Psalm 119 verse 111, thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage forever, for they are the rejoicing of my heart. He said, thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage forever. This is what we inherited from grandma. We inherited the King James Bible. This is the Bible that grandma read from and I don't have as many memories of grandma as my sister Ronnie and my brother Clint have, but I definitely have memories of grandma and grandpa and one of the things that stands out to all of us is sitting at that breakfast table reading the Bible with grandma and grandpa and there was a lot of Bible reading that went on in that house. Every day you'd see grandma and grandpa just sitting there and just reading and reading and reading their Bible and then they would read the Bible to us. They would read the Bible silently. They loved the Bible. We inherited that Bible. We inherited grandma's love for the word of God. Her favorite book of the Bible was the Gospel of John. She would read the Gospel of John over and over again. Her Bible always, the Gospel of John was so marked up. More of it was marked than what was unmarked. The King James Bible, Jesus Christ our savior, being a Baptist, these are things that we inherited from grandma. We also inherited sound biblical doctrine from grandma and grandpa. There was a document that my grandpa left us when he died and it was a letter unto his descendants and I remember getting a copy of that letter and reading it and it was so encouraging to read it and see, wow, even though I didn't get to spend a lot of time with my grandpa, he passed away when I was 11 years old, just to read all the same beliefs that I had and that he had. Just to agree with everything he was writing and saying, wow, this is all straight out of the Bible. This is all scriptural. This is all great stuff. You know, he hated Calvinism. In the document he talked about how Calvinism was a false doctrine, amen. He talked about being a Baptist. He talked about the King James Bible and he talked about this stupid Nephilim doctrine, being the angels mating with humans doctrine. He hated that doctrine. He had a whole page rebuking that stupid doctrine and, you know, it was just encouraging to read what my grandpa had written that we had a godly heritage of saved Christians, yes, but also passing on to us good Bible doctrine, sound doctrine of being an independent Baptist. Let me just take a moment to talk about how my grandparents got saved. You know, my grandma mentioned in the video that I played earlier that she got saved as a result of her Aunt Lucy who was a great soul winner and would witness to a lot of the down and outers and she won my grandma to the Lord and when grandma got together with grandpa, he wasn't saved. He was actually from kind of a Jack Mormon household up in Idaho and he hopped on a freight train when he was 16 years old, came down to Los Angeles and worked there, went into the military and so forth. So he was raised in a Jack Mormon type of home and when he got together with grandma, he went to her church because, you know, he needed to learn about Christ and become saved and be a Christian, be Baptist. So he went to her Baptist church. Well the pastor of the Baptist church that her family was going to at that time was John MacArthur, but it was his dad, not the John MacArthur you're familiar with out at the Master's College out in Santa Clarita, California, but that John MacArthur Jr., this was his dad as the pastor of the church where she went. So grandpa goes with grandma to this church and at the invitation time, you know, they nudged him to go forward to receive Christ as Savior. So grandpa, Dwayne Anderson, he goes down to the front to receive Christ as Savior and the pastor, John MacArthur Sr., takes him off into a room to deal with him. So everything like, okay, you know, he's in there getting the gospel because lots of churches we've been to, that's what they do. You come to the altar, somebody takes you aside, they get you the gospel, they get you saved. Well, he takes him into the office and he asked my grandpa, he says, so, you know, what would you like to talk to me about today? And he said, well, you know, I'm here to get saved. I'm here to receive Christ as Savior. And the pastor said, well, did you hear my sermon today? And he said, yeah, I heard the sermon. Okay, well then you're saved. Okay, see you later. And he walked out of there thinking that he's saved, still totally unsaved. And the thought that came through his mind when he walked out of there is like, well, this guy has just pronounced me saved and I feel like I'm just as good and moral as Helen and her brothers are. You know, he's looking at her brothers and her parents and he decided that he's as good as they are. He didn't understand the gospel because that wicked pastor didn't give him the gospel, didn't present him the gospel. He just had this stupid Calvinist garbage of just, oh, well, you're either the chosen or you're not. I guess if you're here listening to me preach, you must be one of the elect. You must be saved. It's garbage. So he was on his way to hell as a result of that. So then they got married, you know, but Grandma thought he's saved. You know, he went into the room, he came out and said, I'm saved now. And so Grandma just assumed he's saved. But over the course of their marriage, it became apparent to Grandma that Grandpa wasn't saved. She realized after a while, wait a minute, you know, she thought she's marrying a saved man, but she realized, wait a minute, Grandpa's not saved. He wasn't grandpa back then. Okay. I'm just calling him that. But she said, wait a minute, my husband's not saved. So she began to pray for him. Now he was very prosperous at this time. He was financially prosperous. If you know anything about the history of Los Angeles, California, you know, after World War II, the late 40s, 50s was just a huge boom in Southern California where there was a lot of money to be made. And so my grandpa had some businesses. He had a Sherwin-Williams paint store. And then he also had teamed up with the guy who founded Hot Dog on a Stick. And he was making these trailers and selling them to the Hot Dog on a Stick guy and he was using them for his business. And so he's just making money hand over fist, just thousands and thousands of dollars a week back then. You know, thousands and thousands of dollars a week now is a lot of money. But he was making, how many thousands a week was he making? He made like $5,000 a week back then. So he's making tons of money and he got into drinking and grandma prayed for him and prayed and said, Lord, whatever it takes for him to get saved. She just wanted him to get saved. And obviously as his wife, she's enjoying the bounty of all this money that's coming in. But she prayed and said, Lord, if it will lead to him getting saved, I'm willing to lose everything. Take all the money away. Because she knew that it's easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to be saved. So she prayed that he would lose everything, that everything would be taken away if that's what it would take. And that's what happened. He ended up losing his businesses. He ended up losing it. And you know, after he lost all that and got saved, he never really became rich ever again in his life. I mean, he always did well. He always had $100 bills in his wallet. But he never really was rich like that again. Because God had to take that away from him in order to be saved. But that shows you the heart of grandma, that she was willing to give that stuff up. And she was instrumental in his salvation through her prayers. So here's how he actually ended up getting saved. A five-year-old boy came to him. They had just moved to a new area and they were going to look for a new church. So they had a list of churches that they were going to try. So they tried a bunch of churches, but they hadn't really settled on anything. Well there was a little boy who lived on their street. He was five years old. And he came up to grandpa and started preaching the Roman's road to grandpa and giving him the gospel. And my grandpa was so impressed by this little five-year-old boy just rattling off scriptures at him. Just hitting him with all these verses. He said, you know, let's go try this kid's church. He was impressed by that. And so they ended up trying that church. It was Faith Baptist Church in Canoga Park, Pastor Roland Rasmussen. And I wasn't one of the ones on their list, but because of this five-year-old boy, they ended up going there. They visited the church. And then a couple days later on a Tuesday evening, Pastor Rasmussen and one of the deacons came over to his house to do a follow-up visit on his visit to the church. And they won him to Christ in his living room. And my dad got saved, I believe, the same time, right? Or you got saved a few days later. Yeah, so, but just that same week, my dad and my grandpa got saved through the soul winning of that church, Faith Baptist Church in Canoga Park. But it also went back to that little five-year-old boy. And it also went back to the prayers of grandma. But it's certainly no thanks to John MacArthur, false prophet, lying devil that him and his son both are. And you know what, by the way, that's not the heritage that we inherited from grandma. We didn't inherit Calvinism. We didn't inherit being a Presbyterian. We didn't inherit John MacArthur and the Master's College. You know, we inherited the King James Version, salvation by grace through faith. We inherited soul winning and the Romans wrote. We inherited the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ as our only means of salvation. So there's a powerful story about how grandpa got saved. And of course he got saved, he got in church, began to grow. And one of the things that he struggled with was alcohol. And he went to a sermon one time where Pastor Rasmussen was preaching on the story of Belshazzar and the handwriting on the wall. And if you remember in that story, when Belshazzar drinks wine, he ends up getting bold and saying, hey, let's bring in all the gold and silver that we stole from God's house. And let's drink wine and let's give that to our girlfriends and everything else. Let's party with the vessels that we've stolen from God's house. And then of course God sends that handwriting on the wall of judgment. But grandpa, when he heard that sermon, he thought to himself, you know, that's how I get when I drink. I get arrogant. I get cocky. I get bold to do that which is wrong. And as a result of that sermon, he quit drinking. And he became a great soul winner. He became a deacon in that church. He actually founded a church that's still in existence in Southern California today. He was a great soul winner. And when you talk to people who knew him from that era, they'll tell you, boy, that guy won souls and how he would win the hard cases to Christ. And so he and grandma were godly people. They loved the Lord. They were independent, fundamental Baptists. And it's a great heritage. And you know what? Without them, there would be no Ray Anderson. Without Ray Anderson, there'd be no Steven Anderson. There'd be no Faith Ford Baptist Church. You know, this place wouldn't even be here, amen? You know, it goes back to grandma in many ways. So we're very thankful for everything that grandma taught us, for the time that we spent with her. We love her. We love grandpa. And we're looking forward to seeing them in heaven. And you know, it might seem like a long time, but before we know it, we're all going to be there. Life is just a vapor. And so praise God for the death of a saint. Grandma, you know what? I can see how some funerals would be depressing. But this is a memorial service where there's a lot of joy, too. Even with the tears, even with the farewell and we miss you, grandma, there's a lot of joy because of the fact that she's such a great example that we could look to and be motivated by. And she did so much for us. And we know we're going to see her again. No question about that. Let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer. Father, we thank you so much for the powerful testimony of grandma's life and grandpa's life. We thank you for everything that they taught us. We thank you for the godly heritage that we have, Lord. I pray that we would live up to that godly heritage and that we would make grandma and grandpa proud. But most importantly, that we'd make you proud, our Father, which is in heaven. Help us to leave a godly example for our children and grandchildren so that someday there could be a service where things are being said about us, that we passed on a godly heritage, that we were someone that is a Christian role model. Lord, help us to strive for that and live up to that to the best of our ability. And it's in Jesus' name we pray, amen.