The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; all those who practice it have a good understanding. His praise endures forever! (Psalm 111:10, ESV)

One temptation at funerals is to only say good things about the person who had died.  But believe me; they don’t care if we remember the bad stuff too.  In fact, Christians who die want you to remember that it is sin that brought them here.  In our church we confess our sins in our Sunday Worship.  We say that we are by nature sinful and unclean.  When death comes to us we know that we deserve it.  As much as we are loved by people, by family and friends, that doesn’t take away the fact that we’ll all end up here.  The most important reason we are here today is because we need to be told again that God has done something about this (death).  When Christians die they want you to remember sin, so that you remember that God himself became a human being in Jesus Christ to save sinful people from this.  They want you to remember that your sin will lead you here, but that Jesus Christ hung on a cross and died for you.  

Labels: Sermon, Worship