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*Memorial Day-People Count Most Of All *
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1 Corinthians 1:21-1:24 (NIV, NIRV, TNIV, KJV)
Sermon Series: Memorial Day
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\\ MEMORIAL DAY-PEOPLE COUNT MOST OF ALL \\ \\ Ron was a fifteen-year-old teenager, a tenth-grade student at Granger High School.
It was game day, and he was the only sophomore suiting up with the varsity team.
Excitedly, he invited his mother to attend.
It was her very first football game, and she promised to be there with several of her friends.
\\ \\ The game finally ended, and she was waiting outside the locker room to drive Ron home.
\\ \\ "What did you think of the game, Mom? Did you see the three touchdown passes our team made and our tough defense, and the fumble on the kickoff return that we recovered?" he asked.
\\ \\ His mother replied, "Ron, you were magnificent.
You have such presence, and I was proud of the pride you took in the way you looked.
You pulled up your knee socks eleven times during the game, and I could tell you were perspiring in all those bulky pads because you got eight drinks and splashed water on your face twice.
\\ \\ “I really like how you went out of you way to pat number nineteen, number five and number ninety on the back every time they came off the field."
\\ \\ "Mom, how do you know all that?
And how can you say I was magnificent?
I didn’t even play in the game."
\\ \\ His mother smiled and hugged him.
"Ron, I don’t know anything about football.
I didn’t come here to watch the game.
I came here to watch you!" \\ \\ The moral of that story is: PEOPLE COUNT MOST OF ALL! Football is fine.
Football is fantastic for some people.
But people are supreme!
People are more important than football.
\\ \\ Here’s another way to look at it: \\ \\ One time the popular actress Sophia Loren sobbed to her Italian movie director, Vittorio De Sica, over the theft of some of her jewelry.
And he said to her, “Listen to me, Sophia.
I am much older than you and, if there is one great truth I have learned about life, it is this: NEVER CRY OVER ANYTHING THAT CAN’T CRY OVER YOU!” \\ \\ What a lesson!
Have you learned that lesson in life - People are more important than things!
People are more important than cars and computers.
People are more important than houses and furniture.
People are more important than all material things!
\\ \\ Tomorrow is Memorial Day, a time for remembering people who were important in our lives.
Since 1971 Memorial Day has been observed annually on the last Monday in May.
The purpose is to honor the nation’s military personnel killed in wartime.
\\ \\ The holiday was called Decoration Day at first, because people decorated soldiers’ graves with flowers and flags on that day.
Today it is also marked by parades, memorial speeches and ceremonies.
\\ \\ Waterloo, New York, was the birthplace of Memorial Day.
\\ \\ On May 5, 1866, the people of Waterloo placed flowers on the graves of northern soldiers who had died in the Civil War.
In 1868, Major General John Logan declared May 30 as a day for honoring soldiers who had died fighting for the North.
\\ \\ A lot of meaning is attached to decorating graves.
\\ \\ After World War I ended, in 1918, Decoration Day became a day to remember everyone who died fighting in U.S. wars - the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and World War I.
The observation now also includes World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.
\\ \\ And I remember rural churches that had a big event on what they called Decoration Day, a time to place flowers on the graves of loved ones and remember them.
\\ \\ Let us take a close look at lives that are most important to us today.
\\ \\ I. GLORIFY YOUR MEMORY OF JESUS, THE CHRIST.
\\ \\ Peter and John were arrested for healing a lame man at the temple.
At the trial, “Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, ‘Rulers and elders of our people, are we being questioned today because we’ve done a good deed for a crippled man?
Do you want to know how he was healed?
\\ \\ “’Let me clearly state to all of you and to all the people of Israel that he was healed by the powerful name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, the man you crucified but whom God raised from the dead.
\\ \\ “’There is salvation in no one else!
God has given no other name under heaven by which we must be saved’” (Acts 4:8-12 NLT).
\\ \\ Not everyone accepts the freedom offered in Christ, just as many do not properly use the freedom in this nation, which others died to provide for them.
Paul said: \\ \\ “Since God in his wisdom saw to it that the world would never know him through human wisdom, he has used our foolish preaching to save those who believe.
It is foolish to the Jews, who ask for signs from heaven.
And it is foolish to the Greeks, who seek human wisdom.
\\ \\ “So when we preach that Christ was crucified, the Jews are offended and the Gentiles say it’s all nonsense.
But to those called by God to salvation, both Jews and Gentiles, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God” (I Cor.
1:21-24 NLT).
\\ \\ But some value their spiritual life and liberty.
“Anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person.
The old life is gone; a new life has begun!
And all of this is a gift from God, who brought us back to himself through Christ.
And God has given us this task of reconciling people to him (II Cor.
5:17-18 NLT).
\\ \\ “For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them.
And he gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation.
So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us.
\\ \\ “We speak for Christ when we plead, ‘Come back to God!’ For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ” (II Cor.
5:17-21 NLT).
\\ \\ II.
CLARIFY YOUR MEMORY OF YOUR RELATIVES AND FRIENDS.
\\ \\ Many of us in this congregation have parents who are deceased.
Have you reflected and given thanks for the positive impact they had on your life?
One year we put flowers on the altar in memory of my wife’s parents.
Barbara wrote a tribute to them and shared it with you.
\\ \\ For the funerals of each of my parents I wrote a tribute, which was read during the service.
I thank God weekly for the influence of my parents in pointing me to Christ.
\\ \\ At the same time, have you faced up to the negative influence your parent(s) had on you?
I had some issues with my mother.
She had a servant spirit, but she administered that in a domineering and controlling manner.
I had to face that honestly in order to be emotionally strong and free of it.
I am healed of that, because I can remember it as historical fact without being disabled by it.
\\ \\ Most likely some of you here today need counseling about similar situations in order to forgive and to receive healing of the memories.
That would prevent your living in bondage, and perhaps negatively influencing your relationships with your spouses and other relatives and friends.
It would help to prevent your passing on those same errors to your children.
\\ \\ For some that process may involve deceased spouses.
Some should seek to rectify bad memories; others should rejoice and give thanks to God for loving, cherishing, spiritual, responsible spouses that were your strength and mainstay.
\\ \\ Jake Hess said his wife laughed at him the first time he asked her to marry him.
She explained how he asked her: “Would you like to be buried with my people?” (Certainly a unique proposal.)
I don’t spend a lot of time in cemeteries.
But when I have a funeral in Newbern and we bury in Fairview Cemetery, I will walk from section to section.
\\ \\ Papa’s family is buried in Poplar Grove Cemetery on another side of town.
But in Fairview I can walk to the section where my mother’s people, the Johnsons, are buried.
Then to the section where my grandmother’s people, the Lucases, are buried.
And I remember, and I’m grateful for having known those people.
\\ \\ I reflect on the memory of college and seminary classmates, and recall their influence on my life.
I think of my fathers in the faith – Ernest Cross, A.D. Saulsbury,Sr., E. R. Ladd, George McIlwain, L.C. Waddle..
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