You were Designed for Honor, but are you Destined for it? - Audio
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Good morning, how's everybody doing? All right, hey I had a wonderful letter sent to us this week and I asked Colleen to highlight it for me and I would read excerpts but instead as I looked over I just realized that no we're going to read all of it. This is a letter from Margot Ryan, wife of Ridge Ryan who went home to be with the Lord, our founding pastor and she sent this to us this week. She says, "Dear Pastor Neil and co-spiable church family, a passage from 2 Thessalonians chapter 1 verse 3 and 4, certainly applies to my feelings regarding the support you have given to me and my family over the past month since my dear Ridge went home to be with his Lord and Savior. Since Ridge taught me well, I will put in italics the special meaning of a Greek word in the text. It reads as follows, "We are bound obligated to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is fitting because your faith groweth exceedingly and the love of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth so that we ourselves glory in you. It is obvious that you have continued to be taught well in the Word of God which produces that love and care for one another and for those who are in need of such a special touch of comfort. On behalf of not only myself but also my family, thank you from the bottom of our hearts for preparing so wholeheartedly for the details of the memorial service. What an extra special touch. It was to view the unveiling of the new outdoor memorial courtesy of the leftover tree stump. I will look forward to seeing it on future visits. Interestingly, one lady was president of the memorial service who attended the very first co-spival church service in our living room along with her husband and two children. Her husband who was now with the Lord spoke to Ridge about her after a few weeks and said that he didn't think she understood the gospel. Ridge had the privilege of explaining it to her and the Holy Spirit did the rest when the new building was built. She was in line on the first Sunday of occupancy to be baptized. She asked the people in front of her if they minded if she went first. Thus Carolyn Lee was the earliest new believer at co-spival church and the earliest one baptized in the new baptistry and God continued to bless and use you in the coming days until he returns Margot Ryan and family. That's to you and to all those who helped make that service so special and what a privilege it has been to honor our founding pastor, his family, honor the Lord for his life, honor his wife and children. It was a great day and Margot was deeply touched. I want to thank you all for just your kindness to the family and as we see Margot and maybe the help comes come back from time to time, be sure to greet them. Let's open an order prayer, shall we? Heavenly Father, Lord, we thank you for this day. We thank you, Lord, because this is your day and we want to just honor you in it. We want to experience you today as the song we just heard said, "We want you, Lord, to be our everything." We want you to be on the tip of our tongue. We want you to be the first thought in our minds. And today, Lord, we want you to teach us, to speak to us by your Holy Spirit through your word. We pray that you would do this, Lord, in Jesus' name, amen.
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God has created us for honor. This honor was lost in Adam with the fall, but was restored in Christ. Degrees of honor await believers in Christ at the Bema seat judgment of Christ. How will we finish?